MAKING OUTSOURCING WORK A Verizon risk team, looking for data breaches on a client’s computers, discovered that one company software developer was basically idle for many months, yet remained productive–because he had outsourced his projects to a Chinese software developer who would do all the work and send it back. The employee earned several hundred thousand dollars a year, … [Read more...] about Outsourcing And Intelligent Design And Least Competent Dogs
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Fun With Science And Least Competent People And Steve Jobs Seems Well Now
RESEARCHERS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN Scientists from the Primate Research Institute at Japan’s Kyoto University reported in an August journal article that they had given helium gas to apes (gibbons), which, predictably, made their voices goofily high-pitched. But it was not a fraternity prank or lab assistant’s initiation–it was a way for the scientists to determine whether the … [Read more...] about Fun With Science And Least Competent People And Steve Jobs Seems Well Now
Ice Cream Wars and Challenging Business Models and The Latest Orangutan News
CHALLENGING BUSINESS MODEL Short-stay “love hotels” proliferate in Brazil, but in July in the city of Belo Horizonte, Fabiano Lourdes and his sister Daniela were about to open Animalle Mundo Pet, which they described as a love hotel for dogs. Owners would bring their mating-ready canines to rooms that feature the dim lighting and heart-shaped ceiling mirrors traditional in love … [Read more...] about Ice Cream Wars and Challenging Business Models and The Latest Orangutan News
Representative Joe Souki May Become House Speaker Again while Maui Resorts Go Through Tough Times
SPEAKER EMERITUS SOUKI TO BE SPEAKER SOUKI AGAIN? Seems there’s a chance that a group of “dissidents” in the state House of Representatives are attempting to replace Speaker Calvin Say with Maui’s own beloved Speaker Emeritus Joe Souki, says the Aug. 31 Maui News. And Souki is taking it at least somewhat seriously: “I think it depends at this point on how much I really want … [Read more...] about Representative Joe Souki May Become House Speaker Again while Maui Resorts Go Through Tough Times
Odd Divorces and Crazy Officials and the Least Competent Terrorists Ever
IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH All U.S. states have forms of no-fault divorce, but not England, which requires that couples prove adultery or abandonment or “unreasonable behavior,” which leads to sometimes-epic weirdness, according to an April New York Times dispatch from London. For instance, one woman’s petition blamed her husband’s insistence that she speak and dress only in … [Read more...] about Odd Divorces and Crazy Officials and the Least Competent Terrorists Ever