Did you ask your manager why they wanted you there? It is a perfectly reasonable thing to ask, and will result in you at least understanding your role. Failing to do this shows as much initiative as meekly complying when someone tells you to stand in the corner.
Now it may be that the manager just needs you as backup in case a curved ball comes his/her way. It may even be just to make up the numbers so that the manager is not outnumbered by the 'opposition'. Regardless, understanding the reasons will allow you to fulfill your role in the meeting.
Ultimately when you work for someone you should decide whether you are going to support them or leave them (or stab them if you are that sort of person).
And if you think a meeting is a waste of time, ask the person calling it for an agenda and expected outcomes.
The money is actually being transfered from the wealthy to the poor in terms of tax credits, entitlements, etc. The wealthy are getting richer.../p>
So the poor are getting richer. And the wealthy are getting richer. And this is a problem how?
If you are comparing Australia to the US and think the latter comes out on top, well, quite frankly keep smoking whatever you are smoking and stay right where you are. We don't need you gun toting heavy tipping poverty wage inflicting god squading country invading bigots here. We have enough of our own in a place called Queensland.
To be fair the majority (68%) of Australians DO live in major metropolitan areas (http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4102.0Chapter3002008). And many of those that don't work locally. And the latter group more than make up in cheap housing what the former save in petrol costs.
I don't see a reason in English to stick a seemingly-random apostrophe in the middle of the word.
What, like you just did with don't?
The apostrophe appears in shortened forms of words and was very common a couple of hundred years ago. It can also be seen in O'clock (of the clock) and cat o'nine tails.
I have long thought that the best model would be exactly like the electricity network. I pay for power I use. If I generate power (through solar for example) I get the wholesale rate for it. I also pay a connection fee.
In the data world I should pay retail for data I download and get paid wholesale for data I upload. The ISP would keep the margin between the wholesale/retail price and the owner of the infrastructure gets the connection fee.
Australia has also forced Telstra, the owner of the infrastructure, to allow the competition access to its infrastructure (at a wholesale price) to deliver said services. That is why competition is strong.
Ideally Telstra should have been stripped of its infrastructure before being privatised by the government, as now you have a stock market listed business being forced to open its infrastructure to others. That's a bit like forcing an airline to allow others to sell seats on its plane.
Regardless, it sounds like the US has a big anti-competitive problem with infrastructure owned by specific telcos.
Dunno why this was labelled troll. If I had mod points I would mod up rather than down. I guess the mods are just not feeling terribly objective today.
"and the first designed and printed outside of NASA"
How do you know? I am thinking a lot of countries out there are not so open about the goings on in their research labs. Same goes for the US military. My guess is that if NASA is already on the public record for X, quite a few organisations in the world have done Y, where Y > X.
Like all products in a capitalist world, firearms are manufactured and distributed to make profit for those doing so. Anyone doing otherwise is betraying their shareholders. And they way certain firearms are marketed is NOT for personal protection.
And as far as I know the background check doesn't apply in a private sale.
And you don't need assault weapons or high velocity rifles for preventing crime.
Not sure where you are going with your jaywalking 'punk in a street in which he doesn't belong'. Doesn't belong how exactly?
If the police were consistent in their arse-hattedness then the laws would be changed pretty damn quick. The fact that they are not gives the police leeway to be selective about such matters, which is bound to lead to persecution of those said police do not like in many cases.
Depends on how they market them. Just like cars. You sell a car by hyping its acceleration and top speed you should bear some responsibility for the deaths when idiots buy your product and kill themselves and/or others. You make a dangerous product and market it irresponsibly, then sure, accept some of the blame.
Or are you the type that doesn't blame heroin pushers for the damage they cause?
I don't actually have a problem with advertising in general.
I do. At least the billboard / banner headline compete for eyeballs sort of stuff. Pre-Internet I can see that it had its place in letting people know that products existed. But now there are a plethora of ways that people can get their product known, so it is just one of those pointless activities that the rest of us have to pay for wrapped up in the product we buy, for no added value.
Which is why I block the hell out off all advertising. When I want to buy something, I research and make my choice. When I am not buying I want products to keep the fuck out of my face.
Teachers? Really. Of all the people in the world that could be called this (drug dealers, arms merchants, derivatives traders, merchant bankers, marketing consultants) it is a very sad state of affairs when people think this. There are lots of children in this world crying out for education.
No-one has any idea how many people this disaster has, or will, cause. Just as the exact number of deaths and disabilities from the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan, or for that matter from the use of agent orange in Vietnam.
All I know is that I will NEVER trust people to run fission power stations as people cut corners and lie. They do so when government owned, and they do so when owned by a company.
TEPCO have consistently lied about the details of this problem, including denying leakage into the ocean, and denying that there had been meltdown (or two). Two years later there is still unexplained steam rising from parts of the plant. At one stage they were pumping in huge amounts of seawater to cool the thing down. Where do you think it went?
So, they may have a 'radius of 20km' from the plant closed off, which by the way is 600 square kilometers (assuming a half circle), but would you trust that statement with your life?
Reading the letter I can't help wondering why the ISPs in question didn't just respond with a:
Thanks for your email, however before responding to this can you please tell us which law this pertains to. Because otherwise you are wasting our time and energy which should be put into providing a service to our customers, and a profit to our shareholders.
You make out as if the media does not have an agenda. They do. They are owned by the rich who want to maintain the status quo. This includes creating as many circuses as required to keep the great unwashed from questioning why they don't live in the big house with servants.
Thus it has been since civilisation got big enough to divorce the people from the ruling classes.
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Did you ask your manager why they wanted you there? It is a perfectly reasonable thing to ask, and will result in you at least understanding your role. Failing to do this shows as much initiative as meekly complying when someone tells you to stand in the corner.
Now it may be that the manager just needs you as backup in case a curved ball comes his/her way. It may even be just to make up the numbers so that the manager is not outnumbered by the 'opposition'. Regardless, understanding the reasons will allow you to fulfill your role in the meeting.
Ultimately when you work for someone you should decide whether you are going to support them or leave them (or stab them if you are that sort of person).
And if you think a meeting is a waste of time, ask the person calling it for an agenda and expected outcomes.
The money is actually being transfered from the wealthy to the poor in terms of tax credits, entitlements, etc. The wealthy are getting richer... /p>
So the poor are getting richer. And the wealthy are getting richer. And this is a problem how?
If you are comparing Australia to the US and think the latter comes out on top, well, quite frankly keep smoking whatever you are smoking and stay right where you are. We don't need you gun toting heavy tipping poverty wage inflicting god squading country invading bigots here. We have enough of our own in a place called Queensland.
Median != average
Average weekly wages:
ABS states Australian average weekly wage is AUD1105
BLS states US non-farm average weekly wage is US830
That makes Australian wages around 25% higher given the current exchange rates. Of course net income after tax is a different story.
Yes, many of them are FAR from comfortable.
To be fair the majority (68%) of Australians DO live in major metropolitan areas (http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4102.0Chapter3002008). And many of those that don't work locally. And the latter group more than make up in cheap housing what the former save in petrol costs.
How do you know his relatives?
I don't see a reason in English to stick a seemingly-random apostrophe in the middle of the word.
What, like you just did with don't?
The apostrophe appears in shortened forms of words and was very common a couple of hundred years ago. It can also be seen in O'clock (of the clock) and cat o'nine tails.
I have long thought that the best model would be exactly like the electricity network. I pay for power I use. If I generate power (through solar for example) I get the wholesale rate for it. I also pay a connection fee.
In the data world I should pay retail for data I download and get paid wholesale for data I upload. The ISP would keep the margin between the wholesale/retail price and the owner of the infrastructure gets the connection fee.
Australia has also forced Telstra, the owner of the infrastructure, to allow the competition access to its infrastructure (at a wholesale price) to deliver said services. That is why competition is strong.
Ideally Telstra should have been stripped of its infrastructure before being privatised by the government, as now you have a stock market listed business being forced to open its infrastructure to others. That's a bit like forcing an airline to allow others to sell seats on its plane.
Regardless, it sounds like the US has a big anti-competitive problem with infrastructure owned by specific telcos.
Dunno why this was labelled troll. If I had mod points I would mod up rather than down. I guess the mods are just not feeling terribly objective today.
"and the first designed and printed outside of NASA"
How do you know? I am thinking a lot of countries out there are not so open about the goings on in their research labs. Same goes for the US military. My guess is that if NASA is already on the public record for X, quite a few organisations in the world have done Y, where Y > X.
Like all products in a capitalist world, firearms are manufactured and distributed to make profit for those doing so. Anyone doing otherwise is betraying their shareholders. And they way certain firearms are marketed is NOT for personal protection.
And as far as I know the background check doesn't apply in a private sale.
And you don't need assault weapons or high velocity rifles for preventing crime.
Not sure where you are going with your jaywalking 'punk in a street in which he doesn't belong'. Doesn't belong how exactly?
You need to go and look up the meaning of the word intuitive.
If the police were consistent in their arse-hattedness then the laws would be changed pretty damn quick. The fact that they are not gives the police leeway to be selective about such matters, which is bound to lead to persecution of those said police do not like in many cases.
Depends on how they market them. Just like cars. You sell a car by hyping its acceleration and top speed you should bear some responsibility for the deaths when idiots buy your product and kill themselves and/or others. You make a dangerous product and market it irresponsibly, then sure, accept some of the blame.
Or are you the type that doesn't blame heroin pushers for the damage they cause?
I don't actually have a problem with advertising in general.
I do. At least the billboard / banner headline compete for eyeballs sort of stuff. Pre-Internet I can see that it had its place in letting people know that products existed. But now there are a plethora of ways that people can get their product known, so it is just one of those pointless activities that the rest of us have to pay for wrapped up in the product we buy, for no added value.
Which is why I block the hell out off all advertising. When I want to buy something, I research and make my choice. When I am not buying I want products to keep the fuck out of my face.
"they're boring leeches on society"
Teachers? Really. Of all the people in the world that could be called this (drug dealers, arms merchants, derivatives traders, merchant bankers, marketing consultants) it is a very sad state of affairs when people think this. There are lots of children in this world crying out for education.
Alternatively if Google are that concerned they could relocate their operations to Iceland and other countries they think might be more reasonable.
The US government would probably get the message if US tech companies starting migrating with all the smart people that they employ.
That's their problem right there. They should send them to the Birmingham University. The English one. They'll be dying to get back home.
No, I'm Spartacus.
Just sayin'
No-one has any idea how many people this disaster has, or will, cause. Just as the exact number of deaths and disabilities from the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan, or for that matter from the use of agent orange in Vietnam.
All I know is that I will NEVER trust people to run fission power stations as people cut corners and lie. They do so when government owned, and they do so when owned by a company.
TEPCO have consistently lied about the details of this problem, including denying leakage into the ocean, and denying that there had been meltdown (or two). Two years later there is still unexplained steam rising from parts of the plant. At one stage they were pumping in huge amounts of seawater to cool the thing down. Where do you think it went?
So, they may have a 'radius of 20km' from the plant closed off, which by the way is 600 square kilometers (assuming a half circle), but would you trust that statement with your life?
Reading the letter I can't help wondering why the ISPs in question didn't just respond with a:
Thanks for your email, however before responding to this can you please tell us which law this pertains to. Because otherwise you are wasting our time and energy which should be put into providing a service to our customers, and a profit to our shareholders.
And CC a copy to all subscribers.
Says the murderer. Who followed and challenged the person who is supposed to have did this to him.
Without a gun he was a dickhead. With a gun he was a murderous dickhead.
You really have a criminal code where it is illegal to shoot warning shots without intended those shots to penetrate the person you are warning?
If this makes sense to you I am glad I live elsewhere.
You make out as if the media does not have an agenda. They do. They are owned by the rich who want to maintain the status quo. This includes creating as many circuses as required to keep the great unwashed from questioning why they don't live in the big house with servants.
Thus it has been since civilisation got big enough to divorce the people from the ruling classes.