Recent content by daftandbarmy

1982 says 'Big Whoop' ;) https://www.statista.com/statistics/298527/defense-spending-as-share-of-gdp-united-kingdom-uk/

It's OK, he only tortured people a little bit ;) Peel police chief met Sri Lankan officer a court says ‘participated’ in torture The head of one of Canada’s largest police forces met with a Sri Lankan inspector general of police who two weeks earlier had been found by the South Asian...

Meanwhile: if living the Class B dream was a .gif ;)

Props to the Washington State law enforcement folks who were out scouring the area for these two unfortunate kayakers, as well as Coast Guard and CAF SAR resources who were out in some pretty crummy weather during the search ... U.S. authorities recover 2 bodies amid search for B.C. kayakers...

No. Friggin. Way. ;)

Amen to that...

Welcome to the age of the 'urban doom loop': How a ‘Golden Era for Large Cities’ Might Be Turning Into an ‘Urban Doom Loop’ Scholars are increasingly voicing concern that the shift to working from home, spurred by the Covid pandemic, will bring the three-decade renaissance of major cities to a...

Apparently he got alot of his recruit training material from watching the Canadians train at Ft Lewis, Washington, for the Korean War a.k.a. 'Camp Currie'.

Correct! You can add in the private sector too... ;) The Psychopathic CEO “He is a charismatic leader who inspires people to follow him. A strategic thinker who can master the details. A tireless worker with incredible focus and problem-solving skills. He is well-liked by his employees but is...

I know a guy in a big organization who reckons that about 50% of his staff, most of them WFH, have 'gone dark' as he calls it. They are beyond managing in an effective way to realize meaningful outputs. And he can't fire them, or force them to return to the office, because of corporate policies...

So productivity should improve then? ;) The Productivity Problem With Remote Work The debates about remote work, hybrid work and in-office work are (still) raging—and they mostly center around productivity, performance and employee motivation. A quintessential new example of the discussion...

And the businesses pass that on to their customers. ;)