but then get all fucking communist when it affects THEIR jobs
India isn't too bad but a lot of the jobs will be going to China, which IS all fucking communist. When I lived in China I applied to the local IBM to do business intelligence / data warehousing. They wanted to pay me a Chinese wage which would be OK there in China. But IBM wanted to send me to the USA on an L visa which lets them continue to pay the China wage the whole time. I made it through three levels of interviews before I found this out. When I said that as a US citizen I'd have to make at least US minimum wage (which would NOT be cool at all) they hung up and stopped responding to my calls. If you have an IBM consultant in the USA who is Chinese - he (she) is getting paid about $1,000/month while you're getting billed $120/hr from Blue.
I've been to the UK once for a couple of weeks and you can't fool me with this lowball number; there was a pub every couple of hundred feet.
I further observed, as a public service to fellow travellers, that the more animals in the name, the better the food in an English pub. A place called, for example, "The Wild Hound" would be just OK, "The Wild Hound and The Running Stag", pretty good, and "The Wild Hound, The Running Stag, and the Crazed Boar" will amaze!
new pub glass design in the UK that uses resin to prevent a shattering effect is hoped to decrease the number of dangerous cuts caused by people breaking glasses over someone's head
Sounds like people in the UK need cut back on what's in those glasses if this is such a serious problem.
Limiting salt levels in foods, rather than an outright ban, might make sense
Instead of having the info available to diners who are concerned about their salt intake and letting them make their own decisions? Yeah, better that the government employees tell us what to do. I know they know best; they've told me so!
you can bet I will have to pay quite a bit for iKeys every time I need a new one
And even when you go to pay the huge amount for a replacement key, the central servers will be having issues and the shop won't be able to verify your iDentity to give you a new iKey until the problems are resolved. But don't worry, they've got the 4 hour trouble ticket response time contract from the server vendor so it'll be fixed soon. Have a seat.
we spend the money on Education and higher salaries so we can attract better people to teaching
This sounds great on the surface; after all, one gets what one pays for, right? Sorry, here's a collection of links to browse that will VERY quickly dispell that notion:
Now, IF the hiring and firing of teachers worked like going to work at a private company then the spend more get better results method would not only work, it would have worked already. Unfortunately, teaching is a political hot potato. It's nearly impossible to fire underperforming teachers. Just look at the hubbub in Rhoad Island a few weeks ago. At the worst performing school in the state, the superintendent directed the teachers to work 20 minutes per day more. They refused and threw a stink and the teachers' union is litigating the hell out of the district when the superintendent said they'd be laid off at the end of the year. Here in Denver, where the city schools are wretched, a whopping total of 0.4 percent of teachers were not only bad enough but also behaved badly enough to get fired last year. How many people in private sector jobs god laid off in a TYPICAL year, nevermind the crappy economic conditions like last year? 0.4% indicates just how hard it is to get rid of bad ones. And you can't have any performance based pay at all - the union threatens to have a fit every time that's seriously suggested.
The only way to force the teachers to get better at the public schools is to open up more competition. This means vouchers for private schooling, Everywhere this gets tried seriously, the public schools are forced to improve or go out of business. The public teachers' union HATES vouchers though, so it's really hard to get such systems implemented.
You've missed an important point - Please re-read The Wealth of Nations. Wealth can only be created at the intersection of three factors: Land (resources), Labor, and Capital. All three providers earn a share of the results. Without capital (to build the factory in your example) or the resources to make something therein, the laborer can do nothing. So the capital provider definitely earns a share of the created wealth. To say they don't earn it is to say their part is unneeded, but it clearly is. But that doesn't mean the laborer doesn't also earn a part. All three providers earn part of a positive total sum.
The people conducting that study were completely confused:
The study takes the American view of liberal vs. conservative. It defines "liberal" in terms of concern for genetically nonrelated people and support for private resources that help those people
Liberals in America think *public* resources should be used to help others. Conservatives think that private resources should be used.
Tha alternative plan MS is arguing against has only two (one each way) lanes for general car use - no wonder they don't want it. Light rail and long range buses are only good if lots of people want to use them. HOV lanes are only good if people can be convinced to carpool. Apparently MS management feels the employees want to drive their own cars to work by themselves. If that's the case, making them idle in the traffic snarls created by the one general lane each way bridge will not only make everyone late to work but also really exacerbate the smog problem.
If you do 'go it alone' and you don't make a ton of money (well into six figures) then you might as well just skip to the end, flush your cash down the toilet and file for Medicaid. You will end up there eventually
What a load of crap - a nice HMO in my area wants all of $333/mo for a family of 4 in a health savings deductible plan that covers all preventive care with no co-pay. This is not some vast fortune. What are you smoking; "6 figure salaray or go on Medicaid"? Stop fear mongering.
Whoa there; in international treaties "spies" are people pretending to be innocent while stealing secrets at night. The uniformed military personnel who crash landed on Hainan Island were certainly conducting military surveillance but there wasn't anything clandestine about what they were doing. They weren't "spies" except in sensationalist media reports. Heck, the day after they were released the Navy started re-flying that exact same route with jets the Chinese couldn't intercept.
leave my pro camera in my car so I would stuff it inside a crumpled fast food bag
I know a fellow who leaves his cameras in his car unlocked and the windows down all the time - he has several dozen NRA stickers plastered all over the car.
The owners don't understand the concept of pride in their own possessions
I spent the past year in Beijing and can tell you it is not because of lack of pride in their possessions. It's a case of Chinese common sense: everyone knows the omnipresent theives want to steal shiny new ones, so the owner who wants to keep his has a ratty looking one.
A 'fact' is not official info - a fact is a statement about some physical event or status. Examples: 'the door is closed', 'my cpu is faster than your cpu'. Now, whether or not a statement is correct or verifiable doesn't stop it from being a fact.
One can complain someone else's facts are incorrect, but don't claim they're not facts. That's just silly.
the first payload to the moon in the new launcher will be the entire Congress. One way
Let's make it a little more instructive: The congresscritters who submitted the top 50% of earmark spending amendments. Repeat annually until none are selected.
It would simply draw the next few hundreds of meters of your route on your windshield over what you see through your windshield
I can just imagine the brilliant uses people would put this to: Look at me, no need for headights! *runs over pedestrians crossing the street at night* Wow, I can keep going 65 on the highway when it's zero visibility fog! *creates 200 car pileup*
we're talking about the same agency that forbids videography of the screening processes
The PDF says they are to allow photographs and video of the screening as long as it doesn't get in the way of the people working and you don't get the camera on the xray machines' screens.
Good grief - the point is: plug it into your voltage adapter
I travel without a voltage adapter since the things are heavy and only have one socket. Laptop, shaver, toothbrush, phone charger, etc, are all already universal voltage so there's no need to convert the power first. A short extention cord with 4 grounded outlets on the end from the hardware store combined with just one socket adapter is just as useful if not more useful and not as heavy as a voltage adapter that you probably don't need.
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but then get all fucking communist when it affects THEIR jobs
India isn't too bad but a lot of the jobs will be going to China, which IS all fucking communist. When I lived in China I applied to the local IBM to do business intelligence / data warehousing. They wanted to pay me a Chinese wage which would be OK there in China. But IBM wanted to send me to the USA on an L visa which lets them continue to pay the China wage the whole time. I made it through three levels of interviews before I found this out. When I said that as a US citizen I'd have to make at least US minimum wage (which would NOT be cool at all) they hung up and stopped responding to my calls. If you have an IBM consultant in the USA who is Chinese - he (she) is getting paid about $1,000/month while you're getting billed $120/hr from Blue.
fewer than 60,000 pubs in the UK
I've been to the UK once for a couple of weeks and you can't fool me with this lowball number; there was a pub every couple of hundred feet.
I further observed, as a public service to fellow travellers, that the more animals in the name, the better the food in an English pub. A place called, for example, "The Wild Hound" would be just OK, "The Wild Hound and The Running Stag", pretty good, and "The Wild Hound, The Running Stag, and the Crazed Boar" will amaze!
Don't worry, the flicker rate is so fast not even Bobby Fischer would complain about it.
new pub glass design in the UK that uses resin to prevent a shattering effect is hoped to decrease the number of dangerous cuts caused by people breaking glasses over someone's head
Sounds like people in the UK need cut back on what's in those glasses if this is such a serious problem.
Limiting salt levels in foods, rather than an outright ban, might make sense
Instead of having the info available to diners who are concerned about their salt intake and letting them make their own decisions? Yeah, better that the government employees tell us what to do. I know they know best; they've told me so!
religious people in the far flung future, seriously?
Yeah, it's not like they ever put religion in sci-fi, young padawan
GP did say *future*. Star Wars was a long time ago.
you can bet I will have to pay quite a bit for iKeys every time I need a new one
And even when you go to pay the huge amount for a replacement key, the central servers will be having issues and the shop won't be able to verify your iDentity to give you a new iKey until the problems are resolved. But don't worry, they've got the 4 hour trouble ticket response time contract from the server vendor so it'll be fixed soon. Have a seat.
we spend the money on Education and higher salaries so we can attract better people to teaching
This sounds great on the surface; after all, one gets what one pays for, right? Sorry, here's a collection of links to browse that will VERY quickly dispell that notion:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/edu_spe_per_pri_sch_stu-spending-per-primary-school-student
http://www.epodunk.com/top10/per_pupil/
http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=66
http://www.heritage.org/research/Education/bg2179.cfm
Now, IF the hiring and firing of teachers worked like going to work at a private company then the spend more get better results method would not only work, it would have worked already. Unfortunately, teaching is a political hot potato. It's nearly impossible to fire underperforming teachers. Just look at the hubbub in Rhoad Island a few weeks ago. At the worst performing school in the state, the superintendent directed the teachers to work 20 minutes per day more. They refused and threw a stink and the teachers' union is litigating the hell out of the district when the superintendent said they'd be laid off at the end of the year. Here in Denver, where the city schools are wretched, a whopping total of 0.4 percent of teachers were not only bad enough but also behaved badly enough to get fired last year. How many people in private sector jobs god laid off in a TYPICAL year, nevermind the crappy economic conditions like last year? 0.4% indicates just how hard it is to get rid of bad ones. And you can't have any performance based pay at all - the union threatens to have a fit every time that's seriously suggested.
The only way to force the teachers to get better at the public schools is to open up more competition. This means vouchers for private schooling, Everywhere this gets tried seriously, the public schools are forced to improve or go out of business. The public teachers' union HATES vouchers though, so it's really hard to get such systems implemented.
The guy on the factory floor creates the wealth
You've missed an important point - Please re-read The Wealth of Nations. Wealth can only be created at the intersection of three factors: Land (resources), Labor, and Capital. All three providers earn a share of the results. Without capital (to build the factory in your example) or the resources to make something therein, the laborer can do nothing. So the capital provider definitely earns a share of the created wealth. To say they don't earn it is to say their part is unneeded, but it clearly is. But that doesn't mean the laborer doesn't also earn a part. All three providers earn part of a positive total sum.
The people conducting that study were completely confused:
The study takes the American view of liberal vs. conservative. It defines "liberal" in terms of concern for genetically nonrelated people and support for private resources that help those people
Liberals in America think *public* resources should be used to help others. Conservatives think that private resources should be used.
Tha alternative plan MS is arguing against has only two (one each way) lanes for general car use - no wonder they don't want it. Light rail and long range buses are only good if lots of people want to use them. HOV lanes are only good if people can be convinced to carpool. Apparently MS management feels the employees want to drive their own cars to work by themselves. If that's the case, making them idle in the traffic snarls created by the one general lane each way bridge will not only make everyone late to work but also really exacerbate the smog problem.
If you do 'go it alone' and you don't make a ton of money (well into six figures) then you might as well just skip to the end, flush your cash down the toilet and file for Medicaid. You will end up there eventually
What a load of crap - a nice HMO in my area wants all of $333/mo for a family of 4 in a health savings deductible plan that covers all preventive care with no co-pay. This is not some vast fortune. What are you smoking; "6 figure salaray or go on Medicaid"? Stop fear mongering.
This type of system is usually implemented due to former employees punching in for each other. This is a way that makes that more difficult
That's silly. All you have to do is loan the other person your finger.
I think that just leaves Tang, actually
Tang is already for sale Walmarts all over China.
The PRC don't execute all American spies they catch...See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident
Whoa there; in international treaties "spies" are people pretending to be innocent while stealing secrets at night. The uniformed military personnel who crash landed on Hainan Island were certainly conducting military surveillance but there wasn't anything clandestine about what they were doing. They weren't "spies" except in sensationalist media reports. Heck, the day after they were released the Navy started re-flying that exact same route with jets the Chinese couldn't intercept.
Toxic waste could be dumped in the garbage
In China they already dump the toxic waste from manufacturing the legit products straight into the town storm drains.
leave my pro camera in my car so I would stuff it inside a crumpled fast food bag
I know a fellow who leaves his cameras in his car unlocked and the windows down all the time - he has several dozen NRA stickers plastered all over the car.
The owners don't understand the concept of pride in their own possessions
I spent the past year in Beijing and can tell you it is not because of lack of pride in their possessions. It's a case of Chinese common sense: everyone knows the omnipresent theives want to steal shiny new ones, so the owner who wants to keep his has a ratty looking one.
Oh! the facts!
Fact is: no official info
A 'fact' is not official info - a fact is a statement about some physical event or status. Examples: 'the door is closed', 'my cpu is faster than your cpu'. Now, whether or not a statement is correct or verifiable doesn't stop it from being a fact.
One can complain someone else's facts are incorrect, but don't claim they're not facts. That's just silly.
As cool as Saabs are, a Klingon coming to Earth would have to drive one of these.
A Minbari might drive a Saab, though,
Sorry, is it OK to cross compare SF universes like that?
the first payload to the moon in the new launcher will be the entire Congress. One way
Let's make it a little more instructive: The congresscritters who submitted the top 50% of earmark spending amendments. Repeat annually until none are selected.
It would simply draw the next few hundreds of meters of your route on your windshield over what you see through your windshield
I can just imagine the brilliant uses people would put this to: Look at me, no need for headights! *runs over pedestrians crossing the street at night* Wow, I can keep going 65 on the highway when it's zero visibility fog! *creates 200 car pileup*
we're talking about the same agency that forbids videography of the screening processes
The PDF says they are to allow photographs and video of the screening as long as it doesn't get in the way of the people working and you don't get the camera on the xray machines' screens.
That's what your neighbor's open WAP is for.
Good grief - the point is: plug it into your voltage adapter
I travel without a voltage adapter since the things are heavy and only have one socket. Laptop, shaver, toothbrush, phone charger, etc, are all already universal voltage so there's no need to convert the power first. A short extention cord with 4 grounded outlets on the end from the hardware store combined with just one socket adapter is just as useful if not more useful and not as heavy as a voltage adapter that you probably don't need.