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nadnerB

@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6664843/Man-wants-sue-parents-giving-birth-without-consent.html

A boy named Sue?
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dafyre

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

And now his parents are wishing that they had never.

You mean they're wishing that they hadn't even.

scottalanmiller

Why GM is laying off more workers amid healthy profits

GM says layoffs are needed to prepare for big industry changes.

GM is laying off another 4,000 workers, the company acknowledged on Monday. The cuts are on top of thousands of job cuts the company announced last November.

Those earlier cuts were concentrated on the factory floor, with GM shuttering five manufacturing plants in the United States and Canada. The new cuts, by contrast, are to salaried white-collar jobs. Individual workers will be notified over the next two weeks, the company said.

GM has reported billions of dollars of profits over the last three quarters. But CEO Mary Barra argues that GM still needs to cut its costs to prepare for the dramatic changes facing the automotive industry in the coming years.

scottalanmiller

NASA “still working toward” 2020 launch of massive SLS rocket

Multiple concerns remain: cost, schedule, management, delayed upper stage.

NASA has continued to make progress with the development of its large Space Launch System (SLS) rocket as work continued on its critical core stage throughout the partial government shutdown, and the agency is nearing critical hardware tests. However, it now seems all but certain that NASA will miss its latest launch date for the first flight of the rocket, June 2020.

Multiple sources have told Ars that while NASA is still targeting sometime later in 2020 for a test launch of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft, known as Exploration Mission-1, this flight is likely to slip into 2021.

This week, in response to a query about potential delays, a spokeswoman for the agency's exploration program, Kathryn Hambleton, said the agency is not ready to discuss a new schedule yet. "NASA is still assessing impacts as a result of the shutdown, but we are still working toward a launch in 2020," she told Ars.

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Why GM is laying off more workers amid healthy profits

GM says layoffs are needed to prepare for big industry changes.

GM is laying off another 4,000 workers, the company acknowledged on Monday. The cuts are on top of thousands of job cuts the company announced last November.

Those earlier cuts were concentrated on the factory floor, with GM shuttering five manufacturing plants in the United States and Canada. The new cuts, by contrast, are to salaried white-collar jobs. Individual workers will be notified over the next two weeks, the company said.

GM has reported billions of dollars of profits over the last three quarters. But CEO Mary Barra argues that GM still needs to cut its costs to prepare for the dramatic changes facing the automotive industry in the coming years.

I couldn't resist and clicked into the comments... So much stupid.. #tabclosed

scottalanmiller

Infamous pharma company declares bankruptcy after 3,900% price hike

Cream prices "led to public scrutiny" and "increased prescription rejection rates."

While the bankruptcy may seem like a victory in the battle to drag down soaring drug prices, Craig Garthwaite, director of healthcare at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, did not have such an optimistic view. “I think we're seeing companies sensitive to announcing these price changes. I don't think we're seeing a wholesale change in behavior,” he told the Tribune.

mlnews

2018 ranks as fourth-warmest year for globe

With US government shutdown over, the data finally gets released.

It’s that time of year again… or at least it was. NASA and NOAA normally release the final global temperature data for the previous year around January 18, but the government shutdown delayed that release. It finally happened on Wednesday, with both agencies finding that 2018 ranks at number four on the ever-changing list of the warmest years on record.

DustinB3403

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

2018 ranks as fourth-warmest year for globe

With US government shutdown over, the data finally gets released.

It’s that time of year again… or at least it was. NASA and NOAA normally release the final global temperature data for the previous year around January 18, but the government shutdown delayed that release. It finally happened on Wednesday, with both agencies finding that 2018 ranks at number four on the ever-changing list of the warmest years on record.

What are you talking about, it's just the weather.

scottalanmiller

Coal production may have reached a point of no return, per projections

EIA's projections show that even without the Clean Power Plan, coal is on the decline.

Just one year ago, in his 2018 State of the Union address, the president claimed that his administration "ended the war on beautiful, clean coal."

If the war on coal is over, peace for coal is a curious-looking thing.

scottalanmiller

Dan Mallory: Best-selling author lied about having cancer

Dan Mallory, author of the best-selling The Woman in the Window, has admitted to lying about having brain cancer.

scottalanmiller

French auditor says Ariane 6 rocket too conventional to compete with SpaceX

"This new launcher does not constitute a sustainable response."

France's independent state auditor, the Cour des comptes, has raised concerns about the viability of Europe's new rocket, the Ariane 6 launcher. In its 2019 annual report, the auditor said the France-based launch company Arianespace is also being too cautious as it grapples with competitors like the US-based SpaceX.

"In 2017, Arianespace lost global leadership in the commercial market to the American company SpaceX," the report finds. "This competitor's business model is based on the breakthrough model of reusable rockets."