That universities, even taxpayer-supported ones, are really out to take your money and give as little as possible in return.
Out one side of the mouth: "Come apy us for a degree from here, and you'll get a great job!"
Out of the other side: "Errrmmm.... don't hire our students, but we'll take your money for research!"
I've never found this to be true. Marriage and Children are both "life stage gaps" that segregate the population. Ergo: single people tend to spend time with single people, married people without children tend to spend time with married people without children, and parents tend to spend time with parents. This is because, in addition to having built-in conversation topics, these groups schedules and lists of "acceptable activities" are fairly similar.
A general car driver WILL say "the engine is broken" if the engine, drive-train or ANY other mechanical part between engine and wheels seems to malfunction. That goes about many of you computer experts as well.
So car "users" will refer to the whole of the operating device when pointing to problems (I.E. a bad injector means something is wrong with the engine), but why does the exact OPPOSITE happen with computers?
The car example makes sense, the computer one doesn't.
I could easily predict what titles will only sell a few hundred thousand copies just by reading design proposals.
What special ability do you possess that makes you more capable of doing this than the people design studios have already hired? There's no gaurantees just from reading a design proposal that people will like your game.
That's not really true... Using Biodiesel can result in 75% less CO2 emissions, at the exhaust pipe.
Bolded for emphasis. Creating biofuels, especially enathol from corn, requires burning lots of something. In the US this something is, in large part, natural gas. This burning releases CO2. Also, the distillation process releases CO2 as a bypdoduct. Its insanely pure C02. So pure that some ethanol plants are actually able to sell it in large enough volumes that oil companies are buying it to use in tertiary recovery processes (they inject CO2 into oil wells, and oil bubbles back to the surface with the CO2....kind of like opening a shook up can of coke). So sure each car going down the road releases less CO2, but the plants that make the biofuels are MORE than making up for it.
What amendment changed "government of the people, by the people, for the people" to "government of the politicians, by the politicians, for the corporations.?"
Mammoths? Correct me if I'm wrong, but you still need a live animal in order to clone a dead one. I guess they can grow them in an elephant or another close cousin, is that the idea?
Does it really matter? Do younger gymnasts have a significant advantage over gymnasts a couple of years older?
In fact it DOES matter. Younger gymnasts do in fact have an advantage. Not to be crude, but puberty is death for an olympic gymnast. Growing boobs and a butt completely throws off the body's center of gravity necessary to do a lot of the tumbling. Thats why you almost never see an olympic gymnast over 21.
you and everyone else in this thread are making some MASSIVE assumptions. Assumptions that are completely wrong.
Assumption #1: Everyone would be armed.
horseshit. Many many many people would still choose not to carry even if they were allowed. So this clusterfuck of crossfire scenario is very far-fetched.
Assumption #2: If you make it harder to get guns, this couldn't happen.
Horseshit. Unless you exhaustively round up EVERY SINGLE FIREARM in the United States, there will still be guns. So what you manage to accomplish is not to take the guns out of a criminal's hands (because lets be honest, criminals don't follow laws hence the reason they're criminals), but take the guns out of everyone BUT the criminals hands. Which room of people would you rather shoot up? A room full of priests or a room full of police? The obvious answer is the priests because you can make a decent assumption that no one is going to shoot back. So stricter gun control empowers criminals.
Assumption #3: everyone would run around wetting themselves. People do this because.....thats all they can do. A few select individuals would have the good sense to reach for the firearm. All it takes is one.
My take on gun control: make the punishments for violent crimes much more severe, and make it easier for law abiding citizens to carry (I'm all for background checks, citizenship checks, credit checks, etc).Just so we're clear, I don't own a single firearm.
They didn't get a sweet deal, you just got screwed. You should've been making hourly plus commission. Don't blame the salesmen, blame Circuit City for lowering their wages. I didn't think I was getting screwed at all. The job was only WORTH $9.50 an hour. I mean....in the grand scope of things I really didn't do much. I feel that $19 an hour was overpayment for the job. The problem is these guys that got that $19 had no incentive to accel. They had pretty much exceeded the salary cap for their position, and the only motivation left was to simply not get fired because they weren't going to make that kind of money anywhere else. Thats right, the only motivation these massive salaries gave was the BARE MINIMUM necessary to keep the job.
If you want a pay scale based on merit, return it to commission. Then the people who actually move product will make the most money. What Circuit City just did pushes down everyone's wages. A lot of people have offered this as a solution, but it is absolutely not a solution. Why? Because commissioned sales don't work. As several people in this very thread have stated, they refuse to shop at CC because of the commissioned salesman. They're STILL saying this even though CC has been non-commissioned for almost 5 years.
If 5 years after going non-commission people still have a bad taste in their mouth, how is going back going to solve anything?
Why they don't just restructure sales staff's pay to be mostly commission-only.quote?
Have you ever been into a store where the employees are paid like this? They employees are terribly pushy, and terribly annoying. Circuit City used to be commissioned sales, but they were losing business because no one wanted to deal with pushy salesman.
During my time in college I worked for both Circuit City and Best Buy in the same town. Overall I think CC treated their employees better. Everyone wants to boycott CC for screwing their employees over but they're missing a few important bits of information on how things work there. I'll see if I can shed some light. When CC went from commission to non-commissoned sales they gave their old employees one HELL of a deal. They tallied up everything the employee had made in the previous year (including comissions) and made that their new hourly wage. We had people at our store making $19 dollars an hour because of this. $19 an hour........selling digital cameras. Compare this to the $9.50 an hour that someone who came in after the commission/non-commision switch, and you can easily see that there were a lot of SERIOUSLY overpaid sales staff. These people weren't necessarily the best salesman they were just the ones that had happened to have been around at the right time. So this is not a killer of the american dream. This is not a case of canning people who have worked their way up the sales ladder. This is merely cutting some bloat, getting the labor prices back down to reasonable levels. Having been an employee (one of the $9.50 ones) I can say: good for them! Some of the $19 an hour people were WORSE salesman than I was. Now they can possibly get to a situation where people get raises based on merit as opposed to not being able to afford to give ANYONE raises because you have emplyoees being paid twice what they're worth.
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Errrmmm.....the coke gets on the money, mostly, from the money buying used as a straw to snort with.....
That universities, even taxpayer-supported ones, are really out to take your money and give as little as possible in return. Out one side of the mouth: "Come apy us for a degree from here, and you'll get a great job!" Out of the other side: "Errrmmm.... don't hire our students, but we'll take your money for research!"
If I show the cops were the bank robbers are stashing the money, I'm guilty of robbing the bank?
Married co-workers' wives have single friends.
I've never found this to be true. Marriage and Children are both "life stage gaps" that segregate the population. Ergo: single people tend to spend time with single people, married people without children tend to spend time with married people without children, and parents tend to spend time with parents. This is because, in addition to having built-in conversation topics, these groups schedules and lists of "acceptable activities" are fairly similar.
A general car driver WILL say "the engine is broken" if the engine, drive-train or ANY other mechanical part between engine and wheels seems to malfunction. That goes about many of you computer experts as well.
So car "users" will refer to the whole of the operating device when pointing to problems (I.E. a bad injector means something is wrong with the engine), but why does the exact OPPOSITE happen with computers? The car example makes sense, the computer one doesn't.
I could easily predict what titles will only sell a few hundred thousand copies just by reading design proposals.
What special ability do you possess that makes you more capable of doing this than the people design studios have already hired? There's no gaurantees just from reading a design proposal that people will like your game.
That's not really true... Using Biodiesel can result in 75% less CO2 emissions, at the exhaust pipe.
Bolded for emphasis. Creating biofuels, especially enathol from corn, requires burning lots of something. In the US this something is, in large part, natural gas. This burning releases CO2. Also, the distillation process releases CO2 as a bypdoduct. Its insanely pure C02. So pure that some ethanol plants are actually able to sell it in large enough volumes that oil companies are buying it to use in tertiary recovery processes (they inject CO2 into oil wells, and oil bubbles back to the surface with the CO2....kind of like opening a shook up can of coke). So sure each car going down the road releases less CO2, but the plants that make the biofuels are MORE than making up for it.
Please correct my logic
This is the part where you fail. You erroneously assume that logic comes into play in the English government.
What amendment changed "government of the people, by the people, for the people" to "government of the politicians, by the politicians, for the corporations.?"
Mammoths? Correct me if I'm wrong, but you still need a live animal in order to clone a dead one. I guess they can grow them in an elephant or another close cousin, is that the idea?
Nah, we can just grow them in the matrix.
Does it really matter? Do younger gymnasts have a significant advantage over gymnasts a couple of years older?
In fact it DOES matter. Younger gymnasts do in fact have an advantage. Not to be crude, but puberty is death for an olympic gymnast. Growing boobs and a butt completely throws off the body's center of gravity necessary to do a lot of the tumbling. Thats why you almost never see an olympic gymnast over 21.
Step 5) Reassign all those nerds recruited in step 2 to the front lines of Iraq and Afghanistan now that the cyber command is gone...
Step 6) Wonder why troop casualties have incresed 20 fold in a weeks time even though no one has set foot off base.
you and everyone else in this thread are making some MASSIVE assumptions. Assumptions that are completely wrong.
Assumption #1: Everyone would be armed.
horseshit. Many many many people would still choose not to carry even if they were allowed. So this clusterfuck of crossfire scenario is very far-fetched.
Assumption #2: If you make it harder to get guns, this couldn't happen.
Horseshit. Unless you exhaustively round up EVERY SINGLE FIREARM in the United States, there will still be guns. So what you manage to accomplish is not to take the guns out of a criminal's hands (because lets be honest, criminals don't follow laws hence the reason they're criminals), but take the guns out of everyone BUT the criminals hands. Which room of people would you rather shoot up? A room full of priests or a room full of police? The obvious answer is the priests because you can make a decent assumption that no one is going to shoot back. So stricter gun control empowers criminals.
Assumption #3: everyone would run around wetting themselves. People do this because.....thats all they can do. A few select individuals would have the good sense to reach for the firearm. All it takes is one.
My take on gun control: make the punishments for violent crimes much more severe, and make it easier for law abiding citizens to carry (I'm all for background checks, citizenship checks, credit checks, etc).Just so we're clear, I don't own a single firearm.
During my time in college I worked for both Circuit City and Best Buy in the same town. Overall I think CC treated their employees better. Everyone wants to boycott CC for screwing their employees over but they're missing a few important bits of information on how things work there. I'll see if I can shed some light. When CC went from commission to non-commissoned sales they gave their old employees one HELL of a deal. They tallied up everything the employee had made in the previous year (including comissions) and made that their new hourly wage. We had people at our store making $19 dollars an hour because of this. $19 an hour........selling digital cameras. Compare this to the $9.50 an hour that someone who came in after the commission/non-commision switch, and you can easily see that there were a lot of SERIOUSLY overpaid sales staff. These people weren't necessarily the best salesman they were just the ones that had happened to have been around at the right time. So this is not a killer of the american dream. This is not a case of canning people who have worked their way up the sales ladder. This is merely cutting some bloat, getting the labor prices back down to reasonable levels. Having been an employee (one of the $9.50 ones) I can say: good for them! Some of the $19 an hour people were WORSE salesman than I was. Now they can possibly get to a situation where people get raises based on merit as opposed to not being able to afford to give ANYONE raises because you have emplyoees being paid twice what they're worth.