Notice how those French places are not a total ruin.

This’ll be closer to the collapse of the Soviet Union, when living in said union.

So that makes him a classic useful idiot.

Measure once, pay twice?

Garbage in, garbage out. These logos represent the latter.

Lactose for me. No more cheese or ice cream or it’s also back to 6/day. Luckily there is medicine for the occasional treat.

We see that the system of checks and balances is more of a theatre that only appeared to be working

Seems it was rather based on a gentlemen’s agreement, which is fine as long as gentlemen get in power, or at least someone believing in the rules of the game. As soon as someone gets behind the controls who clearly dislikes the rules, that’s a huge issue.

¨Sir, you are scaring the banks, and if banks get scared they kill presidents. They hire professionals, not some kid on a roof.¨

¨Oh¨

… while the rich exploit what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

Well, often they know it´s hard to estimate, but the entire corporate system is built around having things done by a certain date, your time costs money and payments are usually linked to those dates. They don´t really have a choice but to make a planning based on the estimates you give and monitor the progress so they can give the proper level of panic to their bosses. Of course, software has always been a disaster with estimates and attempts to tame the chaos haven´t been that successful.

I usually make a ridiculously detailed list of all tasks. ¨Add button A on screen. Discuss details: 2 hours. Interface work: 0.5 hour. Code work: 2 hours. Database work: 2 hours. Testing: 2 hours. FAT: 2 hours. Changes after FAT: 1 hour. SAT: 2 hour. Test script: 1 hour. Update documentation: 2 hours. Add button B … ¨ Put it all in an excel sheet and summarize. Most PMs don´t even want to start arguing a list like that, and it seems to make a reasonably good estimate for me.

Sorry, you are cursed to live in interesting times.

Unless USA does become a hereditary monarchy and the whole circus continues with Queen Ivanka.

And if everyone is moving to the USA at the same time, the existing supply lines get overburdened immediately, causing prices of all raw materials to explode until new supply can be developed.

It’s an attempt to get a handle on things and trying to avoid situations such as:

“Oh, I was struck on that point for the last 3 months. I reinvented the wheel 2 times and now it works.”

“And now we’re 3 months behind schedule. Why didn’t you ask anybody?”

“Yeah, I didn’t want to bother anyone. But I did put in on the timesheets.”

“It says ‘working on project’.”

And that’s how regular project update meetings get scheduled, and a bunch of messages asking for updates.

Seems cops think they’re MaxTac already.

Trump will of course say that this is not fair and he was supposed to divide and conquer, not get them to unite and retaliate.

Idiots with bone spurs didn’t make it through the first challenge for leadership.

No, but the plan is floating around to tax EU used data for foreign companies right into unprofitablily.

Freude, schöner Götterfunken!

(Joy, thou shining spark of God)