The European Parliament responded by focusing on corporate governance. If corporations wanted to be legal citizens they could damned well shoulder the responsibilities of good citizenship as well as t...
One does not simply walk into Mordor these days; one drives a rented Cadillac Escalade the size of a county, shiny black and chrome, with a fake walnut dash, and enough black leather to clothe a batta...
Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface...
It’s the kind of outfit one wears in the hope of meeting someone who’ll help you out of it
If you’re a humble believer set on doing your deity’s will, then what are you doing spending the take on Lamborghinis and single malt?
I've suffered for what I know, so I'm not going to let you off the hook with a simple one-liner. I think you deserve a detailed explanation.
I picked you for this task, Colonel, precisely because you won’t do it lightly.
I am the Eschaton. I am not your God.I am descended from you, and exist in your future.Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else.
He shrugs, an aw-shucks gesture quite at odds with the rest of his mannerisms, and produces a grin from wherever he keeps his spare faces when he isn’t wearing them.
Death is really no more than the voluntary liquidation of an economy of microscopic free agents, the redemption of the debt of structured life.
Crawling eldritch horrors don’t get planning permission unless they’re Trump’s hairpiece.)
Crawling eldritch horrors don’t get planning permission unless they’re Trump’s hairpiece.) That
Compliance with the mile-high stack of social expectations you grow up with as a girl turns out to be mandatory if you want to get ahead in business. Be blonde, be skinny, and don’t forget to smile, b...
Basically it’s a velociraptor with a fur coat and an outsize sense of entitlement. Right now it has convinced Pete that it is harmless, but I know better: just give them thumbs and in no time at all t...
April 5th. You know what that means to me? That means the budget for the project expired at the end of financial year 1968 and was not renewed. (Yes, British government budgets—and the tax year—start...
And now my blood ran cold. Because if there’s one thing worse than an IT manager who’s feeling the chill wind of obsolescence blowing down his neck and consequently trying to contribute code to the re...
And he’s maneuvered Old George into a position where the only way to safety lies through the New Annex. Things are about to get very messy indeed, for blood-on-the-walls values of messy.
Although now that I'm in middle management I'm supposed to call it refactoring the strategic value proposition in real time with agile implementation, or, if I’m being honest, making it up as I go alo...
All life is based on the destruction of other life, even on tremendous scales of space and time... Our ancestors understood that right back to the Ice Age, and venerated the animals they had to kill.
The glass isn't half-empty or half-full. What you're looking at is half a pint of depreciable assets sitting in a pint of capital infrastructure that can be amortized over two accounting periods....Is...