Probationary workers are, by definition, new hires. Doesn’t that make Musk’s kiddie brigade a bunch of probationary workers?
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
https://apnews.com/article/doge-faa-air-traffic-firings-safety-67981aec33b6ee72cbad8dcee31f3437
Let’s lighten up with a delightful ditty from the ever lovely Lennon Sisters.
From Black Legion, 1937.
From Black Legion, 1937.
The Logitech streaming radios are working okay. I’m flummoxed why there was a problem, because knowing the G3100 wouldn’t honor IP addresses it didn’t allocate, I had reset the IOGEAR Ethernet-to-WiFi adapters (with a paperclip) to clear their original IP addresses. Then for each of them I went through the WPS process with the new router.
They ran for days without a problem, but when it hit, all of the streamers exhibited a recurring loss of connection from their adapters. Which is why I’m on the lookout for the failures returning.
Another good backgrounder from CNBC. This one is about privatizing Freddie and Fannie, returning them to the way they were in the lead-up to the 2008 Financial Crisis. It’s a solution in search of a problem — a problem that privatizing would seem likely to create.
Listen to the hedge fund manager who’s looking forward to the “most pro-growth, pro-business, pro-American” administration. He’s expressing the same mindset that brought the financial markets to their interconnected knees in 2008.
The two biggest mistakes Obama made were at the very start of his first term. One of them was his failure to punish the investment banks. The other was the industrial policy called the HITECH Act, that artificially stimulated the market for medical information software.
