But what if you're an average middle class person trying to scrape by
Middle class != scraping by. I know nobody in America wants to admit to being working class (although I have no idea why; people in other countries have no problem with admitting they work for a living), but if you're scraping by, you are most definitely not middle class.
OK I responded above asking what was meant, but now I know what you were getting at. I have a friend who worked there, made very good money, but said that every now and then, THINGS happenned. Like, an indigenous woman would scream at you for being in front of you in the queue in a shop, and you simply accepted it and moved behind her. And above all else, you did not try to talk to her. You accept you are second class and get paid for it. Thats how things worked for people who came from countries that dont have a shitload of oil, but are, apart from having obscene amounts of oil cash, better off on average (socially, educationally, etc) than the average oil selling 1 family in charge of a nation abomination that seems to happen a lot in the middle east. When I think about it rationally in those terms, yes I can see how I would hate to be from a country BELOW them in the pecking order.
I'm not sure where you're getting your "slave wages" thing from. From what I've heard, from people who have gone over there to work, and not always in traditionally high paying jobs, foreigners in Dubai get a very very good deal. They have a shitload of oil money just sloshing around and aren't quite sure what to do with it, which is why you see them doing weird, wonderful, and sometimes outright stupid things, trying to make sure that Dubai is a place rich people will still call into on holidays after the oil runs out.
I'm pretty sure I read years ago, that they did indeed have to face something we actually benefited from, global warming. Neanderthals were apparently so well adapted to the cold that post glacial europe may have been harder for them to survive in as they would constantly overheat if involved in strenuous activity.
Everyone knows baldness is caused by your heading banging on the headboard during sex. I've been trying hard to work on a shiny patch on top of my head, but I seem to be in the wrong company here for that.
The public enacts laws that apply in different ways to the general population vs law enforcement.
Law enforcement is also given responsibilities, along with the legislature, executive and judiciary. These are also supposed to apply differently to the public, but when the public must take upon itself the responsibilities it has given to others, should it continue to extend to those others the rights and privileges that come with their shirked duties?
Don't worry, your not the only ones... USA, 400 Mil population, 700Bn$ bailout. Ireland, 4Mil population, 400Bn Euro bailout. Guess who's gonna feel the pinch more:(
As I stated in a different post, the idea that Ireland has been given freebies by the European Union is complete rubbish, we have always been net contributers, just not in terms of hard cash. But that has changed now too. So we have gone from being a nation that was raped of resources for several centuries by England and in dire need of direct cash investment for infrastructural development, but still a net contributer to Europe, to being just a net contributer to Europe. As said in my other post, a review will be had but probably not within the next 10 years.
I don't think its a case of Ireland being SMART, just short term pragmatic, thats how we work over here (I'm Irish). We got an enormous and much needed kickstart to our economy from the EU in large donations of cash, in return for billions upon billions more in fishing rights given to other EU nations (Ireland has the most expansive territorial waters in Europe, about 10 times the actual land size of the country). Our maritime industry was completely snuffed out by the English several centuries ago, because it was in direct competition with the whole "britannia rules the waves" thing, which could have been seriously threatened by what was once the largest seafaring industry, and pirating base, in Europe. So we gave Europe something they needed, for something we wanted. This will come under review eventually. For shorebound business, we simply charge people less tax. They cry foul but we dont care. We are a part of a single currency block comprised of about 400 million people. We make up 1% of that population, we are cut off from direct land shipping routes, we can't compete on equal terms, we are subject to the whims of the French and German governments and the interest rates they decide to set to keep their own economies in order, (completely screwing up ours), so, do we give a flying fuck if they don't like our tax policies? Nope. Screw em.
Nicely of course, we're all friends in the Eu.
1st guy: Interesting accent. Kind of a cross between british and dutch, might say something about the origins of certain parts of current american society.
2nd guy: Some say he's "condescending" about black people but what I find interesting is that he A) is a republican and B) sounds like he genuinely cares. When did this change?
How about a permanent link in exchange for some of their merchandise? Costs you nothing, costs them very little, and your wife will love the designer shoes.
I have no idea why going to college is even mentioned in a discussion of minimum wage. I would take it for granted that an educated person who did not study something utterly worthless (like archeology and biblical studies... Indiana Jones wannabes can start flaming now) would be better employed than that. I would however expect someone who left school at 16 years of age to take up a trade apprenticeship to earn more than minimum wage. I fact, I would expect anyone with any skills whatsoever to earn more than minimum wage. Minimum wage is for people who really do not have a clue how to do anything. People of that sort are not plentiful in any normal society. I am certainly not in favour of forcing everyone to go to college in order to be allowed to earn a living. The fact is, there is a large percentage of people in this world who do not see any need for formal education, and they are quite correct in that, because they know what they want to do, what they are interested in, and will learn what they need to know in order to do what they want to do. They do not need to be like the average person on slashdot, who wants to know a bit about everything out of sheer curiosity. They do not need to go to college. And they should not require a rubber-stamped piece of paper from the likes of you in order to qualify for a decent quality of life.
Global warming exists, and it's a figment of some loony leftwing person's imagination. The world is overpopulated, and thats why we need more children to pay for our pensions. Pollution is rife, and we need industries to combat it.
But this natural source of energy, it defies us... we must shoot those who would take it's energy and nuke the source. Only then will we be safe...
Ok enough bullshit. I've read the comments here and the only ones that rise above the radar are "funny", or pointlessy but "informatively" pointing out obvious facts without pointing out the enourmous potential. Who gives a shit about funny or the fact that boiling point is higher at higher pressures. If you're reading this you should bloody well know that. I expected a discussion of how this can exploited for the benefit of mankind. A massive source of heat nicely placed right bang in the middle of the most humongous heatsink on the planet... Anyone have more constructive comments about this phenomenon?
Ok, I really don't know a whole lot about prices in America, I haven't lived there for 24 years, and I know Ireland is one of the most expensive countries in the world to live in, given that a substantial percentage of the actual profit made in our over-inflated economy goes abroad to American and other investors (who provide us with jobs, I'm not complainging too much about that), but... is it possible to live on $6.55 an hour in California? Here, the minimum wage is â8.65 (thats euros,/. doesnt seem to want to display the euro symbol), or $13.36, and I know for a fact that that will not provide a terribly comfortable standard of living here. But that is the wage given to the Indian student behind the till in the local offlicence, the Chinese girl that makes your sandwich at lunchtime, the Polish builder whose lack of english allows him to be exploited by employers until his friends introduce him to the unions.
Government workers over here, apart from the always overworked and underpaid nurses and schoolteachers, on the otherhand are lazy, incompetent, jobs for life with inflationary-indexed pensions, and highly overpaid bastards. And civil servants usually are like that everywhere. For them to be getting paid that wage..... are things really that bad over there?
Mobile networks in Europe (or at least here in Ireland) have had this as long as I can remember. You dial the network code, 5, then the number and get through to the persons voicemail, eg. Tel. number 085 1234567, you dial 085 51234567. I'm kinda surprised this is new over there.
There is a slow but undeniable exodus underway. To Ubuntu and Fedora go the more technically focused, to MacOS go the more user-focused. Unfortunately for me, I'm idiot focused, and it means I will be sticking with windows for the foreseeable future. The company I work for has managed to steer most of our customers away from the appalling vista of M$'s current offering, but I'm sure I'm gonna end up supporting it, most of our customers are just too daft to be allowed near anything they don't have on their home PC. Most of them have trouble when I tell them to use the right mouse button, I have had to tell many of them to closely examine the thing they hold in their hands all day before they realise there IS a second button. I thought things were starting to go my way when SCO went down the tubes and we started replacing old SCO (and AIX) servers with Redhat, but then some bright spark in the main software company we work with to provide hardware & system support decided to start using.NET. Personally, I wouldnt let any of our customers within 10 miles of a mac, it would just confuse them too much. That might be a hangup from my introduction to computers, after brief contact with Commodores and 286's, when I found macs the most annoying machines on my college network, and would only use one after first looking for a dumb/X terminal, then a windows 3.x machine. Granted, they look pretty nice these days, and its probably extremely telling that our top MS engineer recently dumped his old laptop for a new mac notebook. But I will only do it myself when I am forced to, not because I don't think Apple make good hardware/software, but because my customers are not ready for them, and I really can't be bothered with any more information overload when I already have to know 6-7 OS's and a myriad of software applications, both common and bespoke, inside out, on top of general hardware and network support.
"If your partner has a signed order from a customer, you shouldn't try to sell in such a way as to break up the contract. You can bid for the next contract, of course."
Fixed it for you.
I dunno, I'm not a geologist, but as far as I know geological processes are enormously slow (millions of years to make mountains, shift continental plates, etc.) A massive amount of volcanic activity in the 300,000 or so years after the planet being hit by a dirty big chunk of space rock might be something you would expect, with all the extra stress fractures it would cause in the earths mantle, which would take a long long time to heal.
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But what if you're an average middle class person trying to scrape by
Middle class != scraping by. I know nobody in America wants to admit to being working class (although I have no idea why; people in other countries have no problem with admitting they work for a living), but if you're scraping by, you are most definitely not middle class.
OK I responded above asking what was meant, but now I know what you were getting at. I have a friend who worked there, made very good money, but said that every now and then, THINGS happenned. Like, an indigenous woman would scream at you for being in front of you in the queue in a shop, and you simply accepted it and moved behind her. And above all else, you did not try to talk to her. You accept you are second class and get paid for it. Thats how things worked for people who came from countries that dont have a shitload of oil, but are, apart from having obscene amounts of oil cash, better off on average (socially, educationally, etc) than the average oil selling 1 family in charge of a nation abomination that seems to happen a lot in the middle east. When I think about it rationally in those terms, yes I can see how I would hate to be from a country BELOW them in the pecking order.
I'm not sure where you're getting your "slave wages" thing from. From what I've heard, from people who have gone over there to work, and not always in traditionally high paying jobs, foreigners in Dubai get a very very good deal. They have a shitload of oil money just sloshing around and aren't quite sure what to do with it, which is why you see them doing weird, wonderful, and sometimes outright stupid things, trying to make sure that Dubai is a place rich people will still call into on holidays after the oil runs out.
I'm pretty sure I read years ago, that they did indeed have to face something we actually benefited from, global warming. Neanderthals were apparently so well adapted to the cold that post glacial europe may have been harder for them to survive in as they would constantly overheat if involved in strenuous activity.
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Astonishing. According to this map, there are approximately 4.3 billion people living in China.
This flamebait gets insightful and the vaguely funny parent troll?
Everyone knows baldness is caused by your heading banging on the headboard during sex. I've been trying hard to work on a shiny patch on top of my head, but I seem to be in the wrong company here for that.
The public enacts laws that apply in different ways to the general population vs law enforcement.
Law enforcement is also given responsibilities, along with the legislature, executive and judiciary. These are also supposed to apply differently to the public, but when the public must take upon itself the responsibilities it has given to others, should it continue to extend to those others the rights and privileges that come with their shirked duties?
Don't worry, your not the only ones... USA, 400 Mil population, 700Bn$ bailout. Ireland, 4Mil population, 400Bn Euro bailout. Guess who's gonna feel the pinch more :(
As I stated in a different post, the idea that Ireland has been given freebies by the European Union is complete rubbish, we have always been net contributers, just not in terms of hard cash. But that has changed now too. So we have gone from being a nation that was raped of resources for several centuries by England and in dire need of direct cash investment for infrastructural development, but still a net contributer to Europe, to being just a net contributer to Europe. As said in my other post, a review will be had but probably not within the next 10 years.
I don't think its a case of Ireland being SMART, just short term pragmatic, thats how we work over here (I'm Irish). We got an enormous and much needed kickstart to our economy from the EU in large donations of cash, in return for billions upon billions more in fishing rights given to other EU nations (Ireland has the most expansive territorial waters in Europe, about 10 times the actual land size of the country). Our maritime industry was completely snuffed out by the English several centuries ago, because it was in direct competition with the whole "britannia rules the waves" thing, which could have been seriously threatened by what was once the largest seafaring industry, and pirating base, in Europe. So we gave Europe something they needed, for something we wanted. This will come under review eventually. For shorebound business, we simply charge people less tax. They cry foul but we dont care. We are a part of a single currency block comprised of about 400 million people. We make up 1% of that population, we are cut off from direct land shipping routes, we can't compete on equal terms, we are subject to the whims of the French and German governments and the interest rates they decide to set to keep their own economies in order, (completely screwing up ours), so, do we give a flying fuck if they don't like our tax policies? Nope. Screw em. Nicely of course, we're all friends in the Eu.
1st guy: Interesting accent. Kind of a cross between british and dutch, might say something about the origins of certain parts of current american society. 2nd guy: Some say he's "condescending" about black people but what I find interesting is that he A) is a republican and B) sounds like he genuinely cares. When did this change?
How about a permanent link in exchange for some of their merchandise? Costs you nothing, costs them very little, and your wife will love the designer shoes.
I have no idea why going to college is even mentioned in a discussion of minimum wage. I would take it for granted that an educated person who did not study something utterly worthless (like archeology and biblical studies... Indiana Jones wannabes can start flaming now) would be better employed than that. I would however expect someone who left school at 16 years of age to take up a trade apprenticeship to earn more than minimum wage. I fact, I would expect anyone with any skills whatsoever to earn more than minimum wage. Minimum wage is for people who really do not have a clue how to do anything. People of that sort are not plentiful in any normal society. I am certainly not in favour of forcing everyone to go to college in order to be allowed to earn a living. The fact is, there is a large percentage of people in this world who do not see any need for formal education, and they are quite correct in that, because they know what they want to do, what they are interested in, and will learn what they need to know in order to do what they want to do. They do not need to be like the average person on slashdot, who wants to know a bit about everything out of sheer curiosity. They do not need to go to college. And they should not require a rubber-stamped piece of paper from the likes of you in order to qualify for a decent quality of life.
Global warming exists, and it's a figment of some loony leftwing person's imagination. The world is overpopulated, and thats why we need more children to pay for our pensions. Pollution is rife, and we need industries to combat it. But this natural source of energy, it defies us... we must shoot those who would take it's energy and nuke the source. Only then will we be safe... Ok enough bullshit. I've read the comments here and the only ones that rise above the radar are "funny", or pointlessy but "informatively" pointing out obvious facts without pointing out the enourmous potential. Who gives a shit about funny or the fact that boiling point is higher at higher pressures. If you're reading this you should bloody well know that. I expected a discussion of how this can exploited for the benefit of mankind. A massive source of heat nicely placed right bang in the middle of the most humongous heatsink on the planet... Anyone have more constructive comments about this phenomenon?
Ok, I really don't know a whole lot about prices in America, I haven't lived there for 24 years, and I know Ireland is one of the most expensive countries in the world to live in, given that a substantial percentage of the actual profit made in our over-inflated economy goes abroad to American and other investors (who provide us with jobs, I'm not complainging too much about that), but... is it possible to live on $6.55 an hour in California? Here, the minimum wage is â8.65 (thats euros, /. doesnt seem to want to display the euro symbol), or $13.36, and I know for a fact that that will not provide a terribly comfortable standard of living here. But that is the wage given to the Indian student behind the till in the local offlicence, the Chinese girl that makes your sandwich at lunchtime, the Polish builder whose lack of english allows him to be exploited by employers until his friends introduce him to the unions.
Government workers over here, apart from the always overworked and underpaid nurses and schoolteachers, on the otherhand are lazy, incompetent, jobs for life with inflationary-indexed pensions, and highly overpaid bastards. And civil servants usually are like that everywhere. For them to be getting paid that wage..... are things really that bad over there?
Mobile networks in Europe (or at least here in Ireland) have had this as long as I can remember. You dial the network code, 5, then the number and get through to the persons voicemail, eg. Tel. number 085 1234567, you dial 085 51234567. I'm kinda surprised this is new over there.
"If your partner has a signed order from a customer, you shouldn't try to sell in such a way as to break up the contract. You can bid for the next contract, of course." Fixed it for you.
I dunno, I'm not a geologist, but as far as I know geological processes are enormously slow (millions of years to make mountains, shift continental plates, etc.) A massive amount of volcanic activity in the 300,000 or so years after the planet being hit by a dirty big chunk of space rock might be something you would expect, with all the extra stress fractures it would cause in the earths mantle, which would take a long long time to heal.