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| Quickie Article -- 2007-01-30
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| Today I have a quick article in the White Collar Slavery section with valuable management tips. Make sure to email the link to your boss, he'll thank you. -- sector24 | The Battleground of the Next Decade -- 2007-01-29
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I have finally finished my article on Intellectual Property and Selling Virtual Items. It is a topic that holds a great deal of interest for me, and hopefully the article will pique your curiosity as well. I also have plans for two more White Collar Slavery articles as soon as I find the time to write them.
Currently my focus is on designing a new crafting game, where the player runs a smithy and makes weapons and armor for adventurers. It's coming along nicely, I think it's a big step up from the overly simplistic crafting system in World of Warcraft. I guess you will have to wait and see for yourselves.
-- sector24 | Dodging Bullets -- 2007-01-10
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Our Manager of Quality Assurance is awesome. She pays more attention to detail than any two people at my company, which is often frustrating when you are submitting documents and have to reprint them due to a single comma or quotation mark. But days like today make it all worth it.
One of our clients schedules an audit of our company every 2 years per their corporate policy. However, this year our Manager of Quality Assurance was shrewd enough to notice that this was not covered in the contract. She politely reminded them that they would be billed for every hour that every employee participated in the audit, and they politely cancelled this year's audit.
Corporate policy: 0
Not wasting everyone's time: 1
-- sector24 | Why Outsourcing is Bad -- 2007-01-05
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We take things for granted in the United States, especially when it comes to pharmaceutical drugs. In particular, people don't understand why drugs manufactured in the United States are so expensive, when drugs from Canada, Mexico and other countries are so cheap. Here is an excerpt from one of our audit reports for a facility in India:
Inadequate and/or outdated physical security measures including:
1. Data backup and recovery appears cumbersome and outdated.
2. No automatic user log off for unattended computerized systems.
3. Auditors were not required to sign in and/or obtain visitor's badges to access secured facilities.
4. Women's restroom has a large hole in the wall leading directly to the outside of the building.
You would hope that a "secure" facility would be slightly more secure than that. But to be perfectly honest, this is nothing compared to some of the stories I've heard about other facilities. Some sites in Mexico manufacture drugs in buildings infested with pigeons that frequently defecate on the equipment. Other sites pour medical waste products such as raw Benzene directly into the soil outside their manufacturing plants.
Undeniably, you can save some money by purchasing generic drugs. But the Food and Drug Administration is here to make sure that there's no pigeon crap in your heart medicine, and if that costs a little extra then so be it.
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