He's hourly, not salaried, which sort of helps out. The business is seasonal so come the end of summer he'll probably drop off to working 30-35 hour weeks, maybe take a long weekend here and there, a couple of weeks off, etc. That's pretty easy to do when you just spent 8-10 weeks making 2x more than you typically do.
Plus he gets a couple of weeks paid vacation, as all the other full time employees.
It's not a bad gig. Unfortunately I don't find it interesting enough to keep me there. That, and IT has proved to pay me much better.
Your father may have pulled over a hundred hours a week now and then, but chances are your mom wasn't doing the same thing.
Nope, she was doing the same thing. They started the business when I was 2 and my next brother was an infant. She remembers not so fondly trying to keep an eye on me, my brother on her hip, and working with her free hand.
Note that both parents of Seung Hui Cho, the mass murderer at Virginia Tech, worked 14+ hours per day. Neoconservatives applaud this situation: with glee, they self-servingly "praise" the hardworking nature of the Korean parents are. The consequence is that his parents were just too busy at work to give Seung Hui Cho the proper care that he needed. They never even noticed his rapid mental degeneration.
I'm pretty solidly in the conservative camp and voted for Bush in 2004 but I have issues with working long hours dumping somebody into the neocon camp. I detest the neocon thinking as it is not conservative. I regret my vote for Dubya.
In my junior year of high school I pulled 60+ hour work weeks while still attending high school. My senior year I pulled 40+ hour work weeks while still attending school and competing in Track. I left the family busines but I'm the only one that has.
My father has clocked up to 106 hours a week at the family business. My brother considers it a day off when he only works 7.5 hours there this time of year. Still works 7 days a week though.
We're not immigrants. My great grandfather floated over here from the Old Country on a boat when he was 4, and at 18 set out as a share cropper. He tilled his first field with a borrowed shovel as he didn't have enough money to buy a damned shovel. He died in 2002 at the age of 86 and I went back to work after his funeral that day because that was how I was raised: You do your job.
They allow normal people to get news and ideas out without having to spend many years in college or attaching themselves to a newspaper or television station. These people may not get wide exposure, but the good ones tend to stand on their own, while the rest of the crap gets drowned out.
That may be true, and it's what is often touted as the manner in which the "Main Stream Media" will be kept in check, but what I'm seeing more and more of is that blogs morph into domain experts in certain areas. As they do this they become highly ranked in search engines relevant to the topic at hand and provide great breadth in searches.
I see this a lot when I pop search terms into Google related to programming. I'm picking up ASP.Net 2.0 right now having been away from.Net for upwards of 4 years now. I run into blog entries discussing my newbie issues multiple times per day, and the information is just as relevant as if it had come from a big name publisher.
Cool.
However, that hasn't taught me anything new about the blog world. I learned the power of them years ago in publishing my own.
I'm the local "gun nut" if you will. There isn't a circle that I run in where I'm not labled that way. I even take a little pride knowing that I'm found when you search for "gun toting fucktards".
Guess what my blog is about? Yep, a lot of gun talk. A bunch of politics and some tech, but about the only thing that's consistent is guns. That's the reason I write it at this point. I've found, through my associates in the physical world, that more than once they've ran into my blog when searching about a gun they were going to buy, or had just bought, or wanted to know more about.
I had a former co-worker query me on shotguns once. I asked him what it was for, gave him the top 2 choices in that area, and he set to the web in digging up more info them. Ended right back up at my place.
A co-worker called me up from the gun-shop one day after he bought a Saiga rifle. He came over to my place that weekend and we took it for a spin. On Monday he went looking for more info on it and read a review of it... then realized it was me writing about his rifle.
I even run into my own blog when I'm trying to find more info on something I'm interested in.
In the end I think such paid-for-blogging will be drowned out by the real domain "experts" based on search engine ranking. While I occasionally write about programming, an LCD TV, or the Wii, there are bloggers that write on those subjects all the time, and their search rankings reflect that.
My response is that this is what you get when you have a monopoly: they can offer whatever they wish -- or, to not put too fine a point on it, choose to NOT offer whatever they wish -- and charge however many limbs they want for it.
Sorry, but MS didn't make this mess. A bunch of dickbags in Washington DC did.
This has forced them develop software outside of their expectations. Hence, they have to charge their customers more for it.
Frankly, I think MS should be given kudos for making this a financially painful event. It's going to hurt every software project out there that deals with times across time-zone boundaries, financially, unless they pass it on to their customers.
The populace of the USA just got a huge bill shifted to them but they'll likely never see it directly.
1. The blog states the vaccine only decreases the chance--that's wrong. If you have not been previously infected with HPV then there is a 100% effective rate.
Do you have a source for that? Last I heard it worked on the two strains of HPV that cause 70% of cervical cancer.
Many people have fought and died for over the last 200+ years so that YOU have the priviledge of participating in our democracy.
That's a pretty big stretch, and I'm sick of seeing it all the time. The Revolutionary War established the Republic, the War of 1812 kept us sovereign, and the Civil War played a role in getting the right to vote to those of African decent, but the others? They really didn't have anything to do with the right to vote.
Amendments 19 (women's right to vote) and 26 (voting age of 18) did more to open up voting privledges than any war.
Just from observing here in Tennessee, when I was young (30 years ago) I remember getting 4-5 good snows every winter.
Oddly enough, it was 30 years ago that the "Global Cooling" banner was being waived. We we're all gonna die from that. Now we're all gonna die from Global Warming.
Why Youtube was ever worth $1.6 billion is beyond me.
Because when a friend of mine captured video of a guy using a double-ended dong for nun-chucks everybody in the vicinity said, "That's gotta go on YouTube!" Not Google Video, not MetaFile, not any of the other video hosting sites.
Now, I don't know if that's worth 1.6 BILLION, but the name is definately worth something.
The images from the camera, including the woman without her clothes on, were shown on a large plasma screen in the council's CCTV control room in November 2004, Liverpool Crown Court heard.
Over several hours, she was filmed cuddling her boyfriend before undressing, using the toilet, having a bath and watching television dressed only in a towel.
Oh yeah? Will the Bill of Rights magically regenerate before or after the magic unicorns come down to make everything happy?
Likely.. at least it will restore itself to some degree. The magic unicorns came down and magically got rid of internment camps which were put in place under FDR, a Democrat, so why wouldn't things restore themselves back to normal after the current Asshat In Charge evacuates the office?
Let's not get on the "my party is better than your party with regards to civil liberties" high horse here.
Both major parties really suck at them. They pander to them when they're in the minority. It's a freaking GAME to them. They play for votes.
You dont like Bush. That's fine. I dont either and I actually voted for the guy the last time around. I admit my mistakes. However, the yahoo will, thank God, be gone come Jan. 20th 2009.
I beleive we will recover from this.
If not, well, to be honest we've got about 280 million guns in this nation. I've got a good chunk myself. I'll toss them out to Republicans, Democrats, whatever, if we feel the need to go and fix it ourselves.
Do you really think a man like Bush has the intellect to decieve an entire nation?
In a land where American Idol is a success and NASCAR is the most popular sport?
Ayup!
Hell, I listen to classical music, read plenty, follow political news like a heroin junkie, discuss politics daily, and watch a half an our of television a month. Even I voted for the guy the last time around.
I've made better decisions than that under the influence of illegal substances.
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He's hourly, not salaried, which sort of helps out. The business is seasonal so come the end of summer he'll probably drop off to working 30-35 hour weeks, maybe take a long weekend here and there, a couple of weeks off, etc. That's pretty easy to do when you just spent 8-10 weeks making 2x more than you typically do.
Plus he gets a couple of weeks paid vacation, as all the other full time employees.
It's not a bad gig. Unfortunately I don't find it interesting enough to keep me there. That, and IT has proved to pay me much better.
The Netherlands.
Myself, I'm a mutt. Half dutch, quarter Irish, and one quarter inbred hillbilly.
Note that both parents of Seung Hui Cho, the mass murderer at Virginia Tech, worked 14+ hours per day. Neoconservatives applaud this situation: with glee, they self-servingly "praise" the hardworking nature of the Korean parents are. The consequence is that his parents were just too busy at work to give Seung Hui Cho the proper care that he needed. They never even noticed his rapid mental degeneration.
I'm pretty solidly in the conservative camp and voted for Bush in 2004 but I have issues with working long hours dumping somebody into the neocon camp. I detest the neocon thinking as it is not conservative. I regret my vote for Dubya.
In my junior year of high school I pulled 60+ hour work weeks while still attending high school. My senior year I pulled 40+ hour work weeks while still attending school and competing in Track. I left the family busines but I'm the only one that has.
My father has clocked up to 106 hours a week at the family business. My brother considers it a day off when he only works 7.5 hours there this time of year. Still works 7 days a week though.
We're not immigrants. My great grandfather floated over here from the Old Country on a boat when he was 4, and at 18 set out as a share cropper. He tilled his first field with a borrowed shovel as he didn't have enough money to buy a damned shovel. He died in 2002 at the age of 86 and I went back to work after his funeral that day because that was how I was raised: You do your job.
He also turned water into wine, and any college kid that cold do that would be the most popular SOB on campus!
Also, 100% of people who eat pickles die.
STAY AWAY FROM THE PICKLE!
That's why they make pocket holsters for the things. Sticking a pistol or revolver into your pants pocket without one is dangerous.
A good pocket holster will keep the handgun oriented properly, fit snuggly, but stay in the pocket when you attempt to draw.
I wonder if I can get a leather guy to make me one for my LG chocolate....
That may be true, and it's what is often touted as the manner in which the "Main Stream Media" will be kept in check, but what I'm seeing more and more of is that blogs morph into domain experts in certain areas. As they do this they become highly ranked in search engines relevant to the topic at hand and provide great breadth in searches.
I see this a lot when I pop search terms into Google related to programming. I'm picking up ASP.Net 2.0 right now having been away from
Cool.
However, that hasn't taught me anything new about the blog world. I learned the power of them years ago in publishing my own.
I'm the local "gun nut" if you will. There isn't a circle that I run in where I'm not labled that way. I even take a little pride knowing that I'm found when you search for "gun toting fucktards".
Guess what my blog is about? Yep, a lot of gun talk. A bunch of politics and some tech, but about the only thing that's consistent is guns. That's the reason I write it at this point. I've found, through my associates in the physical world, that more than once they've ran into my blog when searching about a gun they were going to buy, or had just bought, or wanted to know more about.
I had a former co-worker query me on shotguns once. I asked him what it was for, gave him the top 2 choices in that area, and he set to the web in digging up more info them. Ended right back up at my place.
A co-worker called me up from the gun-shop one day after he bought a Saiga rifle. He came over to my place that weekend and we took it for a spin. On Monday he went looking for more info on it and read a review of it... then realized it was me writing about his rifle.
I even run into my own blog when I'm trying to find more info on something I'm interested in.
In the end I think such paid-for-blogging will be drowned out by the real domain "experts" based on search engine ranking. While I occasionally write about programming, an LCD TV, or the Wii, there are bloggers that write on those subjects all the time, and their search rankings reflect that.
This has forced them develop software outside of their expectations. Hence, they have to charge their customers more for it.
Frankly, I think MS should be given kudos for making this a financially painful event. It's going to hurt every software project out there that deals with times across time-zone boundaries, financially, unless they pass it on to their customers.
The populace of the USA just got a huge bill shifted to them but they'll likely never see it directly.
When you're a little kid you look up to your parents -- they are your creators.
You learn that your grandparents were the creators of your parents, and you think they're pretty cool too.
If you go back far enough you must accept one of two conclusions:
Human kind was started by a great all-knowing being, or, by two monkeys fucking and producing some genetically mutated offspring.
The former is a little less of a blow to your ego.
Do you have a source for that? Last I heard it worked on the two strains of HPV that cause 70% of cervical cancer.
That doesn't sound like 100% to me.
It's right here (PDF).
Do the Slashdot editors not know how to find stuff on Al Gore's Tubes of Internets?
It's always easy to spot a Farker...
Many people have fought and died for over the last 200+ years so that YOU have the priviledge of participating in our democracy.
That's a pretty big stretch, and I'm sick of seeing it all the time. The Revolutionary War established the Republic, the War of 1812 kept us sovereign, and the Civil War played a role in getting the right to vote to those of African decent, but the others? They really didn't have anything to do with the right to vote.
Amendments 19 (women's right to vote) and 26 (voting age of 18) did more to open up voting privledges than any war.
You could also just vote for the/a challenger. Odds are they've done less to screw with you than the yahoo already in office!
Just from observing here in Tennessee, when I was young (30 years ago) I remember getting 4-5 good snows every winter.
Oddly enough, it was 30 years ago that the "Global Cooling" banner was being waived. We we're all gonna die from that. Now we're all gonna die from Global Warming.
Could you please cite that portion? I can't find it.
Why Youtube was ever worth $1.6 billion is beyond me.
Because when a friend of mine captured video of a guy using a double-ended dong for nun-chucks everybody in the vicinity said, "That's gotta go on YouTube!" Not Google Video, not MetaFile, not any of the other video hosting sites.
Now, I don't know if that's worth 1.6 BILLION, but the name is definately worth something.
if anything, the game has the potential to have a strong message of empowerment for all those kids who spend recess stuffed into lockers.
Well, once they come out with the PSP version.
OK!
Peeping tom CCTV workers jailed
Creeped out yet?
Likely.. at least it will restore itself to some degree. The magic unicorns came down and magically got rid of internment camps which were put in place under FDR, a Democrat, so why wouldn't things restore themselves back to normal after the current Asshat In Charge evacuates the office?
Let's not get on the "my party is better than your party with regards to civil liberties" high horse here.
Both major parties really suck at them. They pander to them when they're in the minority. It's a freaking GAME to them. They play for votes.
You dont like Bush. That's fine. I dont either and I actually voted for the guy the last time around. I admit my mistakes. However, the yahoo will, thank God, be gone come Jan. 20th 2009.
I beleive we will recover from this.
If not, well, to be honest we've got about 280 million guns in this nation. I've got a good chunk myself. I'll toss them out to Republicans, Democrats, whatever, if we feel the need to go and fix it ourselves.
There, there, Skippy.
The bad man will go away on Janurary 20, 2009.
Do you really think a man like Bush has the intellect to decieve an entire nation?
In a land where American Idol is a success and NASCAR is the most popular sport?
Ayup!
Hell, I listen to classical music, read plenty, follow political news like a heroin junkie, discuss politics daily, and watch a half an our of television a month. Even I voted for the guy the last time around.
I've made better decisions than that under the influence of illegal substances.