One of the assets of a company is its endowment or its retirement fund. In principle, it’s money that has been set aside for employees’ pensions when they retire.
One of the assets of a company is its endowment or its retirement fund. In principle, it’s money that has been set aside for employees’ pensions when they retire.
US citizen Otto Warmbier died after 17 months in North Korea, during which he was abused, ignored, exposed to cold and not fed.
It’s necessary to have people out there to help collect information about what’s happening in the world; ideally they then report on it reasonably honestly.
Score yourself based on honor system.
Mind-boggling surrealism is the order of the day.
Trying to make sense of the story of Maj. Mathew L. Golsteyn is hard; trying to look for the angles in the media’s reporting of the story is worse.
The Trump Administration is swirling around the drain, but they’re probably too chunky and stubborn to flush. Instead, we’re going to wind up with nasty-water all over the place and blocked political plumbing. The republicans are playing the “blocked toilet” strategy in every state where they still have enough power to cling to, why would anyone in their right mind expect a party of power-hungry authoritarian goons to let go and walk away nicely?
2019 looks like it’s going to be a good year for drinking games.
In my recent posting about Glamour Bees[stderr], I mentioned that it’s a good idea to plan for what happens if your free photo hosting service decides to change their business model, as photobucket did. Astute Commentariat(tm) member Jenna K. pointed out that I appear prescient.
As you probably recall, I am not a fan of Psychology. It too often relies on naming things and passing the name off as an explanation for the thing. It’s simple appellomancy [oglaf] – names have power.