Damn.. it's an epidemic all right.

While everyone here, grokking to fullness the many similar tales over the years:
fully realizes that MBAs have neither Class (nor the capacity, any longer to feel..) shame, each new incident always comes like a slap-in-face, to one's sensibilities.
Bizness Itself has devolved to something much worse than Winner-Take-All; the corollary now appears standard: the Loser must be humiliated, herded into a paneled-cage and escorted-Out, lest the slightest ripple of sub-rosa Discontent interfere with the daily dose of Soma in the water-cooler, by which the inmates are kept reasonably docile.
While awaiting similar Escort Services processing, after the next coin-flip turns into a blackball.

I would hope that you can apply obv. analytical talents next, towards one of the (uncountable) New Fields which this depression shall necessarily spawn as it approaches Official Full-race Depression magnitude (~~when, worldwide, people notice that Muricans no longer Know How to 'make' anything but specious unparseable paperwork?
They spin-not, neither do they sew (except in sewing-up the Art of the spurious Deal.)

IT appears to be the perfect whipping boy, alas -- the Suits can't even balance their checkbooks, need calculators to do anything beyond simple arithmetic, thus have no idea how onerous to complete -- are their grandiose coding 'plans'. (I gather this is often the case; it's been reported in so many metaphorical ways all-along.)

May this unplanned nastiness catalyze a few Hmmms, an escape from the hamster wheel of Boolean expectations (I know that I am, in retrospect exceeding-grateful that for me/then: The Fortran Course™ managed silently to kill-off any remaining youthful exuberance about such prestidigitations.) Always there was physics, and no MBA-Suit can fuck with That, even in PowerPunt. ymmv.

Simply, there just Has To Be a renaissance for those with the imagination to do the creative stuff which formerly characterized Americans, before they surrendered to the thrall of MBAs (those who looked at the Hard=Real courses in the catalog and picked, unerringly the fluff-filled specious fantasy of bizness-Econ and its perpetually failed Formulas-for-Excess.)
We, collectively either begin to use that once-brainpower, For Real ... or ... (pick your favorite doom: whimper or Bang.)

Luck in transition,


Ashton

Usually only a Repo would debate F=MA, right after evolution; apparently NASA was infiltrated with a few failed-MBAs from that free-marketing thing.
Dick Feynman + a glass of (ice-water and O-ring) cut through the bafflegab about launch temps in about 15 seconds. Wonder if that clip is on YouTube.

And yes too, PowerPunt (burying the ISSUE about 7 levels down) worked again.. as only a Redmond product can 'work'.
Is 'synergy' really the right word ... when two Awfuls compound into a Horror?


Next week the USSC shall discuss, Is Murica Ready for Self-government?
... right after they dispose of a case involving some sort of plywood memorial cross, stuck out in the desert on US property.
(Are they planning to neutralize the little grey cells of the new Justice via terminal boredom through trivia?)