Contracting isn't for everyone. Matter of fact, I'd say it isn't for most people. The average person will lose out contracting rather than having a full time benefited job. They won't have the proper drive or personality to find and compete for that next contract. They also won't have the know how to properly manage their income and taxes in order to come out ahead in the tax game.
Why just sit back and let these new Robber Barons screw the hell out of you just so they can improve their profit margin?
How about refuse to work for anyone who doesn't offer you a full time job with benefits?
This is so cynical that it hurts and it is obvious that you are someone with almost no knowledge of what teaching entails or what most teachers have to go through in order to do their jobs. You seem to just be following the same conservative talking point that "Unions are bad and thus so are most teachers". And the last time I checked it's EVERYONE's desire to "remain employed with the highest salary and best benefits they can get". Honestly, have you thought through what you are saying?
The best way to get people to excel at their jobs is to treat them with respect, pay them what they deserve, and establish expectations. Unions exist to protect workers in situations where they could be taken advantage of. And when you work a profession that relies on the whims of a political body, you need all the protections you can get.
The needs of the teacher leads to the needs of the student. Not the other way around. This isn't charity work they are doing. If cities paid teachers appropriately and then negotiate the standards (how teachers can be fired or disciplined and what qualifications they require) off of that then there wouldn't be any issues with the unions. But cities and other municipalities always look at teachers salaries as negotiable and expendable which is a shitty way to look at the people educating your children.
Except maybe people still using Hotmail or Yahoo Mail. I use Gmail exclusively and the only time I see spam is when I check the spam folder for emails accidentally getting put in there.
Somebody already mentioned the donors. But I have to imagine the money Murdoch is paying for the media portion is significant enough to keep them solvent.
Can someone verify this? I read somewhere last night (can't find the link) that he only bought the media portion of NatGeo. The non-profit part that runs the museum in DC and gives out research grants is still under the control of the NatGeo non-profit. They basically sold the media segment so that they could still continue operating as a research non-profit. But I could be wrong.
Oooooh, you're an arrogant dick who thinks he knows what he is speaking of. The fact that you just jump to this conclusion that I'm a denialist shows it. I'm nothing of the sort and you seem to be jumping at shadows.
Look son I am loath to even offer up this explanation because you frankly don't deserve one, but I was merely admitting that I looked at the Maunder Minimum as the "Little Ice Age". That is specifically centered around 1600-1750ish. But yes, most scientists point to the the Little Ice age as starting around 1350. My bad.
I suggest next time you tone down the hostility. You'll have much more interesting conversations that way.
Ah, I see what you're saying. You start at the beginning of the downward trend in the solar cycle and not during the sharp decline that is the century and a half of the Maunder Minimum.
I'm glad you found something that works for you. But regardless of all your babbel, you offer no room for sympathy and thus I offer no room for you or your ideas.
Ugh, then you are the worst kind of clinical depression sufferer. You found an out and you still don't have empathy for the others who haven't. Well bully for you. Do you think you're the only one who busts his/her ass to overcome this? Do you think everyone else is just wallowing in self-pity? I for one have been fighting my whole life. Sometimes I win a battle, sometimes it wins a battle. But the war is perpetual and it sounds just as perpetual for you. We all suffer from the same symptoms but we all react differently to treatment because each and every brain is unique. That's what makes mental disorders so difficult to treat.
"Humans enjoy making themselves helpless."
Bullshit. Some do, others detest feeling helpless. I think this is a mantra you tell yourself to enhance your own self worth. Your long as hell response detailing your triumph over your depression just reinforces this thought. But again, you lack empathy which greatly takes away the laudable accomplishment of escaping depression. They mean nothing because instead of saying "Hey this is the way folks, anyone can do it", you denigrate those who can't muscle their way out of depression like you did. Thus you enhance your own self worth by comparison.
Yup, that's usually what people who don't suffer from clinical depression usually say...."GET OVER IT". It's just purely academic isn't it? Because in the real world we can all just "retrain" our thought processes and mentally force our bodies to produce the normal chemical cocktail that will make us happy. You think you have knowledge and it seems so logical to you. "It works for me so why not them?"
But you are correct in some things you said. You can absolutely train your body and mind to correct day to day anxiety and depression. But for most people with clinical depression it's a constant battle. Training the brain and drugs only temporarily correct these problems and so it's a constant struggle to maintain a level of happiness that most people feel day to day.
So please stop talking like you have the answers. You clearly only understand the problem on a superficial level and spreading your poor understanding off as informed opinion only makes it worse for those of us who can't just follow your simple solutions.
You are right about one thing. Humans are ill equipped to care about the welfare of those beyond their small tribe. But that's why we form governments and appoint leaders. They are supposed to look out for the greater whole.
As for your Climate Change alarmists, I take great exception to that and consider it a great fallacy. It is easier to sow doubt than to convince someone of a fact and that is what deniers have preyed upon. If you don't think we are all going to be fucked as a species in the next 100 years then you sir or madam are part of the problem.
And there is no overstating. The facts are the facts regardless if those facts take 25 years, 100 years, or 200 years to catch up to us. It's going to happen. We are putting BILLIONS of metric tons of a greenhouse gas into the atmosphere every year for damn near a century now. The ONLY way you don't draw the same conclusions that 99% of scientists do is because a) Your basic knowledge of how greenhouse gases work is deficient or b) you clearly have an agenda and purposely adopt an ignorant position.
The reason alarms are raised is because there is a huge lag when it comes to the effects on the atmosphere and the climate. So if we wait until shit is so obviously wrong that even the Koch's admit it then nothing we do will ever reverse the damage.
Back in the 20s and 30s in the US, the mob ran roughshod over the land. The only way devised to corral them-- because of massive corruption on local, state, and federal levels-- was to invoke tax laws.
The statement is largely true but the libertarian in me wishes to suggest that stopping the mob was the WRONG priority. The mob was doing plenty of things they could have been prosecuted for besides tax evasion, etc. The actual crimes like assaulting people should have put them away. Society would have been better served then as now, had 'we' gone after those corrupt officials protecting the criminals at all levels.
I'd feel safer having got one crooked cop off the street than I would removing 10 guys who sell a little weed and untaxed liquor now and then.
Finally private property, emphasis private is the very corner stone of all other freedoms. Interfering and spying on with reporting requirements with the exchange of money between individuals threatens that most basic freedom. Is a tool that can be used to detect crimes sure, but there are other ways to do that, and much like mass phone record collection I don't believe its one that is justified.
The reasons they went after the mob on tax purposes was because there was never any direct evidence of violence by the bosses against their victims. But there was plenty of financial paper trails leading directly to said bosses.
Totally agree and I honestly don't get all the love and good reviews. I mean there were definitely some awesome Mad Max moments. But the story was really awkward and it ran about 30 minutes too long.
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So you're gonna call me names and hope that I care? Would it interest you to know that I am made of rubber?
Contracting isn't for everyone. Matter of fact, I'd say it isn't for most people. The average person will lose out contracting rather than having a full time benefited job. They won't have the proper drive or personality to find and compete for that next contract. They also won't have the know how to properly manage their income and taxes in order to come out ahead in the tax game.
Why just sit back and let these new Robber Barons screw the hell out of you just so they can improve their profit margin? How about refuse to work for anyone who doesn't offer you a full time job with benefits?
This is so cynical that it hurts and it is obvious that you are someone with almost no knowledge of what teaching entails or what most teachers have to go through in order to do their jobs. You seem to just be following the same conservative talking point that "Unions are bad and thus so are most teachers". And the last time I checked it's EVERYONE's desire to "remain employed with the highest salary and best benefits they can get". Honestly, have you thought through what you are saying?
The best way to get people to excel at their jobs is to treat them with respect, pay them what they deserve, and establish expectations. Unions exist to protect workers in situations where they could be taken advantage of. And when you work a profession that relies on the whims of a political body, you need all the protections you can get.
The needs of the teacher leads to the needs of the student. Not the other way around. This isn't charity work they are doing. If cities paid teachers appropriately and then negotiate the standards (how teachers can be fired or disciplined and what qualifications they require) off of that then there wouldn't be any issues with the unions. But cities and other municipalities always look at teachers salaries as negotiable and expendable which is a shitty way to look at the people educating your children.
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Because doesn't the definition of disruption have a negative connotation?
Except maybe people still using Hotmail or Yahoo Mail. I use Gmail exclusively and the only time I see spam is when I check the spam folder for emails accidentally getting put in there.
A smart phone != an automobile, much less an electric one.
Because it's not a game console first. It's a media streaming device that happens to have gaming capabilities.
Somebody already mentioned the donors. But I have to imagine the money Murdoch is paying for the media portion is significant enough to keep them solvent.
Can someone verify this? I read somewhere last night (can't find the link) that he only bought the media portion of NatGeo. The non-profit part that runs the museum in DC and gives out research grants is still under the control of the NatGeo non-profit. They basically sold the media segment so that they could still continue operating as a research non-profit. But I could be wrong.
Oooooh, you're an arrogant dick who thinks he knows what he is speaking of. The fact that you just jump to this conclusion that I'm a denialist shows it. I'm nothing of the sort and you seem to be jumping at shadows. Look son I am loath to even offer up this explanation because you frankly don't deserve one, but I was merely admitting that I looked at the Maunder Minimum as the "Little Ice Age". That is specifically centered around 1600-1750ish. But yes, most scientists point to the the Little Ice age as starting around 1350. My bad. I suggest next time you tone down the hostility. You'll have much more interesting conversations that way.
Oh I see, you're just a dick.
Ah, I see what you're saying. You start at the beginning of the downward trend in the solar cycle and not during the sharp decline that is the century and a half of the Maunder Minimum.
You mean this wikipedia?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum
I don't see anything about it starting in the 1300's
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I'm glad you found something that works for you. But regardless of all your babbel, you offer no room for sympathy and thus I offer no room for you or your ideas.
Ugh, then you are the worst kind of clinical depression sufferer. You found an out and you still don't have empathy for the others who haven't. Well bully for you. Do you think you're the only one who busts his/her ass to overcome this? Do you think everyone else is just wallowing in self-pity? I for one have been fighting my whole life. Sometimes I win a battle, sometimes it wins a battle. But the war is perpetual and it sounds just as perpetual for you. We all suffer from the same symptoms but we all react differently to treatment because each and every brain is unique. That's what makes mental disorders so difficult to treat.
"Humans enjoy making themselves helpless."
Bullshit. Some do, others detest feeling helpless. I think this is a mantra you tell yourself to enhance your own self worth. Your long as hell response detailing your triumph over your depression just reinforces this thought. But again, you lack empathy which greatly takes away the laudable accomplishment of escaping depression. They mean nothing because instead of saying "Hey this is the way folks, anyone can do it", you denigrate those who can't muscle their way out of depression like you did. Thus you enhance your own self worth by comparison.
Yup, that's usually what people who don't suffer from clinical depression usually say...."GET OVER IT". It's just purely academic isn't it? Because in the real world we can all just "retrain" our thought processes and mentally force our bodies to produce the normal chemical cocktail that will make us happy. You think you have knowledge and it seems so logical to you. "It works for me so why not them?"
But you are correct in some things you said. You can absolutely train your body and mind to correct day to day anxiety and depression. But for most people with clinical depression it's a constant battle. Training the brain and drugs only temporarily correct these problems and so it's a constant struggle to maintain a level of happiness that most people feel day to day.
So please stop talking like you have the answers. You clearly only understand the problem on a superficial level and spreading your poor understanding off as informed opinion only makes it worse for those of us who can't just follow your simple solutions.
This is why depression is so misunderstood.
You are right about one thing. Humans are ill equipped to care about the welfare of those beyond their small tribe. But that's why we form governments and appoint leaders. They are supposed to look out for the greater whole.
As for your Climate Change alarmists, I take great exception to that and consider it a great fallacy. It is easier to sow doubt than to convince someone of a fact and that is what deniers have preyed upon. If you don't think we are all going to be fucked as a species in the next 100 years then you sir or madam are part of the problem.
And there is no overstating. The facts are the facts regardless if those facts take 25 years, 100 years, or 200 years to catch up to us. It's going to happen. We are putting BILLIONS of metric tons of a greenhouse gas into the atmosphere every year for damn near a century now. The ONLY way you don't draw the same conclusions that 99% of scientists do is because a) Your basic knowledge of how greenhouse gases work is deficient or b) you clearly have an agenda and purposely adopt an ignorant position.
The reason alarms are raised is because there is a huge lag when it comes to the effects on the atmosphere and the climate. So if we wait until shit is so obviously wrong that even the Koch's admit it then nothing we do will ever reverse the damage.
Sigh.....I honestly don't know how you people operate on a day to day basis.
Folks, I submit to you evidence #1
Back in the 20s and 30s in the US, the mob ran roughshod over the land. The only way devised to corral them-- because of massive corruption on local, state, and federal levels-- was to invoke tax laws.
The statement is largely true but the libertarian in me wishes to suggest that stopping the mob was the WRONG priority. The mob was doing plenty of things they could have been prosecuted for besides tax evasion, etc. The actual crimes like assaulting people should have put them away. Society would have been better served then as now, had 'we' gone after those corrupt officials protecting the criminals at all levels.
I'd feel safer having got one crooked cop off the street than I would removing 10 guys who sell a little weed and untaxed liquor now and then.
Finally private property, emphasis private is the very corner stone of all other freedoms. Interfering and spying on with reporting requirements with the exchange of money between individuals threatens that most basic freedom. Is a tool that can be used to detect crimes sure, but there are other ways to do that, and much like mass phone record collection I don't believe its one that is justified.
The reasons they went after the mob on tax purposes was because there was never any direct evidence of violence by the bosses against their victims. But there was plenty of financial paper trails leading directly to said bosses.
Totally agree and I honestly don't get all the love and good reviews. I mean there were definitely some awesome Mad Max moments. But the story was really awkward and it ran about 30 minutes too long.