Don't tell this to the alliance of East Coast liberals who fought the building of the largest wind farm in the world outside of Martha's Vinyard. I guess clean energy is good as long as only poor people have to put up with the effects.
Newsflash: All politicians and people that appear on TV use teleprompters... Deal with it; it's not news.
I seem to remember a couple of years ago a story people tried to bring up about Bush in a press conference had a bulge in the back of his jacket and it was a device that allowed Rove to tell him what to say. If Bush relied on teleprompters as much as Obama does, he would have been raked over the coals for it. When Obama does it, it is a smart move on his part and not news.
I use Antivirus2009, which is GREAT!!! I didn't even have to install it, it just appeared on my PC after being hit by 20 viruses my other antivirus software missed.
Nowadays, however, we send our Johnnies off to fight on behalf of the oil companies, and then reduce or eliminate their VA benefits when they return home physically and/or psychologically injured. (I'm hoping this improves under Obama.)
Um, put down the Kool-Aide....
This was proposed BY the Obama administration!
Hope and Change....... You better Hope you can afford the Change we're making to your benefits.
The French naval involvment in the American revolution was pretty much irrevelant.
The French made the British send more ships (and reserve troops) to the Caribbean, preventing a complete blockade. This was not done to help the Americans as much as it was done to hurt their enemy.
The Obama campaign was helped (and made "hip") by Hollywood & Co.
What did you expect?
Hope and Change. That is what was promised. Remember, no lobbyist, no more being in the pocket of big corporations, no same old government.
Maybe the man behind the teleprompter changed his mind!
I guess we can add this to the long list of let downs provided so far.
what the fuck is the liberal media and where can I find it?
MSNBC or CBS News is the best place to start.
Want an example, last night on the Rachael Maddow show, what were they going over... AIG, TOTUS (Teleprompter of the United States) making fun of mentally challenged kids, Tim "TurboTax" Geithner lying about "what he knew and when he knew it", Chris Dodd lying about adding the provision that let AIG give the bonuses.... NO, how deregulation from 8-10 years ago created this mess (read in "8 years of failed Bush policies")*. It is as if nothing else even happened. *Actually happened before Bush was elected, but they weren't going to let the facts get in the way of this one.
Don't forget to...
4. Show up at the job with your stapled Xerox copies of official courseware books that you got in your "class"
5. Reference them all day, every day
6. Be sure to sign up on every forum you can find, after all someone needs to answer those hard questions. Remember, to put as much comapny condfidential information out there, you want the questions answered correctly, right?*
7. And as a nice touch, if you're a woman, please make sure to tell EVERYONE that "My {male relative}** told me to get into computers because it pays good."
* Don't ever take the time to look up any answers yourself. There is always somebody there that is willing to do the work for you, even if it means going outside your group or department.
** Father, brother, husband, etc.
I have literally seen people call up their husbands, or friends to get help with problems. Some have even gone as far as doing session sharing to show them what was wrong.
Google helps to find the employees that A) use their real names B) real comapny name and C) company information on forums to get help to answers. It can be scary to see what some people put out there.
Agreed, As Americans, we have the right to do ANYTHING and laws are put into place to restrict that. It is not the reverse where we have no rights and are granted permissions.
Most of the insurance companies people use because they "HAVE TO" never pay out any claims. This happened to me. I was rear ended at a red light and the guy first started yelling at me for stopping (funny because the 2 cars stopped at the light in front of me were still there). Then he gave me bad insurance card for another vehicle (a car instead of the truck he was driving). Then once the cops were there his tone changed. I told the cop and his response, "What do you want me to do about it?" I called his insurance company and they said it was not a valid account and they could not look it up without his customer ID number. There was **NO** way they could look him up in the system, not by name, address, or even policy number. I copied everything off the card (I damn near could have created a fake if need since I copied so much information). Customer ID number was nowhere on the card. Weeks later I stopped by their office again and out of frustration I told them I was they policy holder and needed to check my account. Funny thing is all I needed was the name (not even an ID) to find all the information on the guy. They were pissed when I told them who I really was on the way out.
Another nice tactic used is to require the policy holder to pay every month, then hold the check until 2-3 days before the coverage period ends. If you get in an accident, they claim you were not covered due to lack of payment (must have been lost in the mail). I friend said her insurance company did this to her.
So no, I don't think everyone having to get insurance is even remotely helpful. This just makes people feel they are covered.
This brings to mind the rule of 3.
Good, Fast and Cheap - you can only have 2 of the 3. So IE is cheap (well, free with the OS) and fast. That tells me it is NOT good.
What pissed me off the most about the HP deal is the way they did it. They did not ask for a vote, they sent out an email (after business hours of course) informing all US employees. Then they scaled back the 401K matching to a floating scale. Then, to add insult to injury, the very next day HP sends out the financial report from the last quarter and they met their goals and barely missed their stretch objective. This has happened the last 5 quarters, but still they take away from the employees.
This seems to be the HP way..... Two years ago, we had a record quarter (Q2, I think) for sales but at the end of the year we were told we would not get bonuses because the numbers were a little lower than expected in another quarter.
Regarding why she'd want to run... from up here I'd heard some rumblings about how Palin might have some executive experience, but a stunning lack of information about the rest of the country.
This is a load of crap started by the Democrates when Palin started to add energy to the McCain campaign. Then, the McCain camp came out after he lost and picked up on this theme to put her down for one reason. They lost after running the worst campaign and wanted a fall guy. After all, they want to be employed for the next round of elections and after seeing how they handled this last one, it might be pretty hard to find a job.
As far as her running in 2 years, that would be perfect. Obama, was elected to the senate and right away started running for President. She should do the same.
I understand that people would be mad, I for one would throw my device away and go to their competitor, but can Google sue them? This is basically theft of services or some other fancy legal term.
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Organize, and dust off Madame Guillotine.
Knowing the French government, they would surrender long before it came to this....
Don't tell this to the alliance of East Coast liberals who fought the building of the largest wind farm in the world outside of Martha's Vinyard. I guess clean energy is good as long as only poor people have to put up with the effects.
Newsflash: All politicians and people that appear on TV use teleprompters... Deal with it; it's not news.
I seem to remember a couple of years ago a story people tried to bring up about Bush in a press conference had a bulge in the back of his jacket and it was a device that allowed Rove to tell him what to say. If Bush relied on teleprompters as much as Obama does, he would have been raked over the coals for it. When Obama does it, it is a smart move on his part and not news.
Me too. First thing I did was disable that crap.
And I have not called in sick at work for about 25 years!
I would have called in sick every day!
Here in Texas a 20 mile bike ride is not the way to start out the work day, unless you are in the shower business.
I use Antivirus2009, which is GREAT!!! I didn't even have to install it, it just appeared on my PC after being hit by 20 viruses my other antivirus software missed.
Citigroup....
That belongs to the tax payers now, right? That means we will ALL own RedHat!
Nowadays, however, we send our Johnnies off to fight on behalf of the oil companies, and then reduce or eliminate their VA benefits when they return home physically and/or psychologically injured. (I'm hoping this improves under Obama.)
Um, put down the Kool-Aide....
This was proposed BY the Obama administration!
Hope and Change....... You better Hope you can afford the Change we're making to your benefits.
The French naval involvment in the American revolution was pretty much irrevelant.
The French made the British send more ships (and reserve troops) to the Caribbean, preventing a complete blockade. This was not done to help the Americans as much as it was done to hurt their enemy.
The Obama campaign was helped (and made "hip") by Hollywood & Co. What did you expect?
Hope and Change. That is what was promised. Remember, no lobbyist, no more being in the pocket of big corporations, no same old government.
Maybe the man behind the teleprompter changed his mind!
I guess we can add this to the long list of let downs provided so far.
what the fuck is the liberal media and where can I find it?
MSNBC or CBS News is the best place to start.
Want an example, last night on the Rachael Maddow show, what were they going over... AIG, TOTUS (Teleprompter of the United States) making fun of mentally challenged kids, Tim "TurboTax" Geithner lying about "what he knew and when he knew it", Chris Dodd lying about adding the provision that let AIG give the bonuses.... NO, how deregulation from 8-10 years ago created this mess (read in "8 years of failed Bush policies")*. It is as if nothing else even happened.
*Actually happened before Bush was elected, but they weren't going to let the facts get in the way of this one.
I seem to also remember the Wasington Post coming out and saying that the media during the campiagn was far more favorable to Obama. Here is one example http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081101/COLUMNIST14/811010373/-1/COLUMNIST
Don't forget to...
4. Show up at the job with your stapled Xerox copies of official courseware books that you got in your "class"
5. Reference them all day, every day
6. Be sure to sign up on every forum you can find, after all someone needs to answer those hard questions. Remember, to put as much comapny condfidential information out there, you want the questions answered correctly, right?*
7. And as a nice touch, if you're a woman, please make sure to tell EVERYONE that "My {male relative}** told me to get into computers because it pays good."
* Don't ever take the time to look up any answers yourself. There is always somebody there that is willing to do the work for you, even if it means going outside your group or department.
** Father, brother, husband, etc.
I have literally seen people call up their husbands, or friends to get help with problems. Some have even gone as far as doing session sharing to show them what was wrong.
Google helps to find the employees that A) use their real names B) real comapny name and C) company information on forums to get help to answers. It can be scary to see what some people put out there.
If you don't lie during your interview, chances are you will be the only they interview that doesn't.
Just look at the HP/Compaq train wreck...
You mean HP/(Compaq/DEC).
Agreed, As Americans, we have the right to do ANYTHING and laws are put into place to restrict that. It is not the reverse where we have no rights and are granted permissions.
Most of the insurance companies people use because they "HAVE TO" never pay out any claims. This happened to me. I was rear ended at a red light and the guy first started yelling at me for stopping (funny because the 2 cars stopped at the light in front of me were still there). Then he gave me bad insurance card for another vehicle (a car instead of the truck he was driving). Then once the cops were there his tone changed. I told the cop and his response, "What do you want me to do about it?" I called his insurance company and they said it was not a valid account and they could not look it up without his customer ID number. There was **NO** way they could look him up in the system, not by name, address, or even policy number. I copied everything off the card (I damn near could have created a fake if need since I copied so much information). Customer ID number was nowhere on the card. Weeks later I stopped by their office again and out of frustration I told them I was they policy holder and needed to check my account. Funny thing is all I needed was the name (not even an ID) to find all the information on the guy. They were pissed when I told them who I really was on the way out.
Another nice tactic used is to require the policy holder to pay every month, then hold the check until 2-3 days before the coverage period ends. If you get in an accident, they claim you were not covered due to lack of payment (must have been lost in the mail). I friend said her insurance company did this to her.
So no, I don't think everyone having to get insurance is even remotely helpful. This just makes people feel they are covered.
Security always adds a little overhead.
This brings to mind the rule of 3.
Good, Fast and Cheap - you can only have 2 of the 3.
So IE is cheap (well, free with the OS) and fast. That tells me it is NOT good.
I realize there's a required minimum number of posts before becoming real - for the moment, I can only aspire to be real with post #2 here.
There is also a 2 car analogy minimum.
I don't have a problem with future hires getting 50% of the current pay. If they agree to that when hired, it is their fault.
What pissed me off the most about the HP deal is the way they did it. They did not ask for a vote, they sent out an email (after business hours of course) informing all US employees. Then they scaled back the 401K matching to a floating scale. Then, to add insult to injury, the very next day HP sends out the financial report from the last quarter and they met their goals and barely missed their stretch objective. This has happened the last 5 quarters, but still they take away from the employees.
This seems to be the HP way..... Two years ago, we had a record quarter (Q2, I think) for sales but at the end of the year we were told we would not get bonuses because the numbers were a little lower than expected in another quarter.
Would you actually be willing to walk out of work and picket to get that? Even if it takes 6 months, with out pay?
Certs are usless to work your way up in a company. They are only good to get another job.
Regarding why she'd want to run... from up here I'd heard some rumblings about how Palin might have some executive experience, but a stunning lack of information about the rest of the country.
This is a load of crap started by the Democrates when Palin started to add energy to the McCain campaign. Then, the McCain camp came out after he lost and picked up on this theme to put her down for one reason. They lost after running the worst campaign and wanted a fall guy. After all, they want to be employed for the next round of elections and after seeing how they handled this last one, it might be pretty hard to find a job.
As far as her running in 2 years, that would be perfect. Obama, was elected to the senate and right away started running for President. She should do the same.
I don't see anything in the Constitution which forbids the government from giving out college tuition credits for any reason.
What about the "Seperation of Church and State" line people bring up all the time. What if it is for a church run school?
I understand that people would be mad, I for one would throw my device away and go to their competitor, but can Google sue them? This is basically theft of services or some other fancy legal term.