No you are considered employed because you are employed. Which you are.
There is so much ignorance in regards to how unemployment is tabulated on Slashdot it's pretty astounding (generally, the ignorance of Slashdot is pretty astounding altogether).
But anywho, yes if you're a 90k executive and you get layed off and get a 10/hour cashier job, you're considered employed. However, that doesn't mean that your drop in pay won't be noted. The BLS does other surveys, such as wage and salary survey, and monthly they put out a wage gain/loss statistic along with unemployment.
The president is only one branch of government, it's the legislature which by design has more impact on policies.
There are so many external factors when it comes to employment and the economy that trying to draw a correlation between any two pretty much just shows your own ignorance.
Craigslist has pretty much made moving to a new city bearable, and I didn't have to put up with the commericial bullshit on other sites. If Craigslist dies (which it would were this to happen), I would be willing to invest my time in creating a new non-commercial craigslist-ian type site so I could give back what it gave to me.
I'm not kidding either, I got my current job through Craigslist and my apartment. I didn't get any responses from any of the crappy commercial job posting sites and the apartment results sucked from other sites.
Anyone willing to make a new craigslist when (it's only a matter of time, let's be realistic) craigslist either dies or kills itself (IPO).
I dunno about anyone else, but I got pretty worried when they expanded to new cities, I figured the more exposure it got, the chances of it becoming commercial became greater and greater.
It doesn't matter, when has the US ever asked our stations to carry "US-only" content??? It's still protectionist.
And despite all our "protectionism" the US still has a trade deficit with Canada and Canada exports like 80% of all it makes to the US. So get back in your igloo and stop complaining.
In reality all Linux is doing is putting the commercial Unices out of business... I mean Microsoft's pricing keeps getting more and more outrageous and Linux is *free* for Godsakes.
Build more highways, they're more advanced than train technology.
I heard a great idea on the road newsgroups about a super-superhighway. It's a highers which has entrance/exit ramps only near major cities, so it bypasses all the exits and onramps that cause quite a bit of the congestion of most highways.
The only real detriment to remaining in the US that I can see if the legal culture... lawsuit heavy and intellectual property quagmires.
Yeah but this is what the dimwitted slashdot hivemind doesn't get, intellectual property protections are an asset, not a detriment. Don't base your opinions on silly Slashdot headlines alone.
You should be proud to be lumped in with China and India, those are up and coming countries.
Actually this whole post pretty much shows the provincialism and racism that underlies Slashdot. Instead of congradulating Indians on their success, Slashdot denigrates them.
This is just one of the many reason why I rarely post to this idiotic site anymore (relative to how much I used to).
Oh c'mon, give up your hideous Canadian/Torontonian inferiority complex. Truth is that only a nitwit considers "foriegn born" to be equal to "culturally diverse".
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Why post an economics/investment article here? Nobody here has any clue about such things (myself excluded of course).
There is an underlying latent racism and sexism on this site. Not all Americans are like that, so don't generalize.
No you are considered employed because you are employed. Which you are.
There is so much ignorance in regards to how unemployment is tabulated on Slashdot it's pretty astounding (generally, the ignorance of Slashdot is pretty astounding altogether).
But anywho, yes if you're a 90k executive and you get layed off and get a 10/hour cashier job, you're considered employed. However, that doesn't mean that your drop in pay won't be noted. The BLS does other surveys, such as wage and salary survey, and monthly they put out a wage gain/loss statistic along with unemployment.
The president is only one branch of government, it's the legislature which by design has more impact on policies.
There are so many external factors when it comes to employment and the economy that trying to draw a correlation between any two pretty much just shows your own ignorance.
Craigslist has pretty much made moving to a new city bearable, and I didn't have to put up with the commericial bullshit on other sites. If Craigslist dies (which it would were this to happen), I would be willing to invest my time in creating a new non-commercial craigslist-ian type site so I could give back what it gave to me.
I'm not kidding either, I got my current job through Craigslist and my apartment. I didn't get any responses from any of the crappy commercial job posting sites and the apartment results sucked from other sites.
Anyone willing to make a new craigslist when (it's only a matter of time, let's be realistic) craigslist either dies or kills itself (IPO).
I dunno about anyone else, but I got pretty worried when they expanded to new cities, I figured the more exposure it got, the chances of it becoming commercial became greater and greater.
Nonsense, it was a little jab and we make fun of people from the south here all the time.
Well... at least you've pretty much achieved the reading comprehension levels of the average (asinine) slashdot reader. Congradulations.
Well you sure threw a hissy fit because of a goddamn puppet dog. ;)
It doesn't matter, when has the US ever asked our stations to carry "US-only" content??? It's still protectionist.
And despite all our "protectionism" the US still has a trade deficit with Canada and Canada exports like 80% of all it makes to the US. So get back in your igloo and stop complaining.
Eh? And Canadians spend all day, unable to reign in their massive inferiority complexes and ignorance about their southern neighborhood.
THe latter seems to happen on this hive-mind website from hell on a daily... hell hourly basis.
Canada is just as protectionist actually, ever wonder why you have "Canadian Content" laws? It's protectionism my friend.
One of the best ideas I've ever seen on Slashdot... thanks, I'll have to use that one.
RTFC (Read The Fucking Contract).
He signed the contract... he shouldn't have done that. Sorry.
Uhhhhh, because he signed a contract saying exactly what the company is claiming, that it owns all ideas invented during it's tenure.
Two morals to this store: 1) RTFA 2) RTFC (read the fucking contract).
Sure they do. People quote copyrighted works and article excerpts all the time in Slashdot, and that is considered fair use for example.
Man you guys got the worst inferiority complexes I've ever seen. Chill out this is about space and not some damned pissing contest.
Oh yeah, the US rules j00r country!
In reality all Linux is doing is putting the commercial Unices out of business... I mean Microsoft's pricing keeps getting more and more outrageous and Linux is *free* for Godsakes.
Build more highways, they're more advanced than train technology.
I heard a great idea on the road newsgroups about a super-superhighway. It's a highers which has entrance/exit ramps only near major cities, so it bypasses all the exits and onramps that cause quite a bit of the congestion of most highways.
Haha, "more" is what I meant. :)
Bah... just like it's been said on this forum: you'd be paid more if you lived in LA.
I live in the US, I know of noone who wants to go to Canada here. If you look at statistics, most Canadians are coming here.
Or move to LA, which has a better climate than either of them.
You're *North* American. Not American. We're Americans, you're North American (norteamericanos to our latino friends).
You should be proud to be lumped in with China and India, those are up and coming countries.
Actually this whole post pretty much shows the provincialism and racism that underlies Slashdot. Instead of congradulating Indians on their success, Slashdot denigrates them.
This is just one of the many reason why I rarely post to this idiotic site anymore (relative to how much I used to).
Oh c'mon, give up your hideous Canadian/Torontonian inferiority complex. Truth is that only a nitwit considers "foriegn born" to be equal to "culturally diverse".