I'm actually a Human Development and Family Studies major, and no, I didn't pay much creedence to the paper (hence the quotes around "paper" in my post). And as food for thought, I'll give you another profession that is meant to cross those class barriers - law - which is what I'm ultimately going for.
I was originally planning on being an EE, but hard science be damned - it's too cut and dry!
You know, this paper could be extended into many different areas.
As this paper says, class is very hard to define in America - in the United States, class can be more about culture and lifestyle than income or job description.
I'll give you an anecdotal example. I'm a college student, but during summers, I work in factories as a laborer. In the cafeteria, I look more like a supervisor than a laborer. My car is old, but perfectly clean, inside and out. I keep my clothes as clean as the work allows, and my shirts are usually ironed and tucked in, my boots clean, my hard hat clean. Most of the laborers, who are living on a HIGHER wage than I because I'm usually a temp worker, do not. What is important to them is not their aesthetics - especially at work. What is important to them is enjoying their lives. Work is secondary, and not really enjoyable. I'll agree with them on the second part, but where the division is in the importance of work. They have a job, not a career.
This "paper" hits on this. If your work is important to you, you have to follow that work. I haven't read the book by Paul Willis that the paper sums up, but it's true. I am a high school dropout, I planned on joining the military as an enlistee, not as an officer candidate. But his summary is quite correct in my case. I made that "class jump" - I'm not made to do mundane labor 60 hours a week, I have a brain and I need to use it.
Now, when I DO go to my hometown, my old friends are, well, not my friends anymore. They don't understand how I can value paying 250% of my yearly income to go to SCHOOL, how I can spend months preparing for a fifteen minute presentation, much less fathom seven years of training for the ability, not the guarantee of a job. They don't see the point in dedicating oneself fully to the "system" because they think it will stick them in some sort of hierarchy and force them to follow rules. What they unfortunately miss is that the blue collar circle sticks them in an even more restrictive hierarchy. You don't do consulting work as a press operator!
This certainly fits with the division seen between MySpace and Facebook. MySpace allows one to do whatever they want with their page - conventions be damned. Facebook, on the other hand, has a set style and layout (or did. The applications are slowly changing that). But when push comes to shove, the "hierarchy" and layout of Facebook gives users a bit more useful information - try finding someone's AOL s/n on MySpace if you've never seen their page before, and then try the same on Facebook!
Well, when it was first enacted, pot wasn't illegal. However, after pot WAS made illegal (and before the Controlled Substances Act), you'd get slapped with possession AND not paying the tax (Timothy Leary fought this in the USC, and won.). However, to this day, some states, such as North Carolina, require that you purchase and affix a tax stamp to your illegal drugs, or else you'll pay an additional fine, however, according to NORML, this was ruled unconstitutional by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. I don't know if this still stands, but I do know it was by people that share my last name, woo! (Lynn v. West, 134 F.3d 582)
I used to have an internship in high school at PENNDOT. I had to meet with the District Engineer over surfing the state-wide SMB share during my downtime. It was very, VERY frowned upon. Why would a high school intern need to be looking at what was really Harrisburg (our capital)'s share?
From then on, I continued to do so, making sure my "mentor" didn't see me. Why? I learned more there than my mentor could have ever taught me. Even though I was in the Construction Unit, every once in a while I would have to field calls from the truck permits unit. My mentor also worked there when one of the ladies was out sick or on personal leave. But, what's this? An out of state, federal government driver needs a permit to haul environmental wastes over our highways? She didn't know what to do. It took me thirty seconds to find him the form, and find her the instructions to enter it into the automated permit software.
She then asked me how I knew that, and I obliged. Guess who was browsing G: Drive later that afternoon?
This pattern has followed me at other jobs - I get yelled at for being nosy, but eventually it turns around to bite them in the ass. I'm a leasing consultant and resident assistant at the off campus housing project I work at, and since I was nosy and went through some of the building specs when I first started, I've got a nice, 8.5x11 sheet with the floor plan and all the dimensions on it. I wasn't really supposed to be going through those binders, but whaddaya know, every time I hand one of those to a parent on a tour, I end up handing them a lease too by the end of the tour.
But then again, I'm a blond white male, so I can't see anyone ever calling the spooks on me for it, I'll just continue to get yelled at by underachiever bosses - until Europe gets pissed off at each other again.
I sure hope not the state. I live in PA and pay taxes here, and when I got arrested on charges just to have them go "oh, whoops" later and drop them, nobody handed me a fat check, so this 18 year old doesn't deserve it either.
I'd believe that. For a while, I used to have this metal plate that someone left behind at my apartment. I ate off of it probably once a week, and then ran it through a dishwasher full of my dishes.
It took me about 3 months to discover the sticker on the back:
On the LSATs, they'll give you a passage and ask you to analyze some analogies and determine which one comes closest to representing the passage.
You cannot be TAUGHT which one is correct - it's all up to your head figuring it out. So, on a test like that, guessing sure helps you out. But does that mean it should be scored differently? Well, no, I don't think so. Why should I be penalized more for picking an answer that is right (its multiple choice - one is completely off base, and 3 are all so damn close, with one doing just a little better job with its language), but not 100% than for getting it completely wrong?
You mean they updated their forecast - of the future - which they can only predict based on the present - to say it was going to be rainy when it changed, instead of sunny?
Ah, so you mean it made the predictions/so accurate/ that they feel the need to change it more often than normal?
Did you actually check and see if they were correct when that day fell as of their last forecast or did you just decide that they must be wrong because they kept changing their mind?
They said that a motorist had driven her car right into a tree during the day, they said that the only reason that did occur was because she was not paying attention, she wasn't talking on the cell, nobody on her car with her, it was during the day in a low traffic road. She was just day dreaming.
As someone who's, uh, a "highly functional multitasker" - AKA someone who's a bit ADD and refuses to take the amps for it - I'd see the truth in that. From my own anecdotal point of view, that's not really hard to do. Give me a good CD and a nice stereo system in a car, and maple trees everywhere are fucked.
Thanks for the laugh! The attorneys for the RIAA goof it up before they even get started:
MR. OPPENHEIM: Good morning, your Honor. THE COURT: Good afternoon. MR. OPPENHEIM: Good afternoon, that's right.
Its as if they woke up on somebody's carpet, ran into a tailor's store, grabbed a suit, and walked in to sue someone, but that's to be expected from RIAA.
Well, I'm a fellow PA resident, and I love that one fact about our Code, but does this really have to record anything? I'm allowed to write a TRANSCRIPT of a phone call without the callers permission, and I would assume this doesn't do much more (in fact, I'd say it would be less detailed - I can recall who called me last quite easily, but the entire conversation? Hardly. It takes much less brain processing power to remember that much, I would assume the same of a computer program.)
tis funny, because the colors are the same here: Green means go, red means no. Red diesel isn't taxed, the only use I've ever had for it is when the boiler ran out of fuel in the middle of the night!
I work in real estate, the same situation as you - in a satellite site, away from the corporate office.
The company I work for manages the property, but does not own it. One day, I went in - on rent day - and the phones were ringing off the hook. Nobody could pay online - it said we no longer supported that "amenity" at our location.
For about 20 calls, I just directed people to try again a little later, until I tried to get our maintenance reports for the day, and found that our property's login had been disabled. Turns out that the property itself had been sold, and the new owner told our management company that he did not intend to pay for online credit card and maintenance request transactions. In the mess, probably 150 or so of our residents ended up being charged late fees, that the managers later had to go in and waive due to the change.
Never, EVER underestimate the power of a large corporate entity to forget to inform its own employees of a policy change. Where I work, you simply have to roll with the changes - you never know what a customer is going to say to you on the phone.
I'd be willing to bet that at Honda's American factories, the UAW isn't there. Unions served a purpose... in 1880. Now they have a bit TOO much influence.
That was back before Ford actually used the plant! They now build the new Mustangs there.
And as for the Mazda 626? I had one, a 1998 ES-V6. It had 305,000 miles on it when I sold it, and I sold it because I got hit. The car was still in absolutely perfect mechanical and cosmetic condition except that the pedals had no tread left, the shift knob's seams had burst, and the driver's seat leather had fallen apart. I was amazed. Good oil, good filters, and being on your way to the lube shop as your car clicks over to 3000 miles go a long way
(Yes, I know Mazda said the oil was good for 7500 miles. I don't think they expected 30,000+ miles a year.)
If Choice 2 is more/convenient/ than Choice 1, guess who wins? When I download a torrent, I click on the torrent file, pick a folder, and in a few hours, BAM, there's my AVI file. I can then:
- Copy the file to my XBOX to watch in my living room. - Play on my Windows PC on my second VGA monitor in full resolution. - Play on my Linux PC without breaking the law. - Transcode it to my cell phone - Transcode it to my friend's iPod - Burn it on a DVD so I can watch it at a friends house
What, of the above, can I do with a paid for version of a movie? iTunes is about the most flexible, but you can nix all of those except playing it on my second VGA monitor - I couldn't even give it to a friend on his iPod if I wanted!
Now when I can pay $5 or $10 to download a MPEG4 AVI of a movie, I won't be copying them. Until then isohunt is more convenient!
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I'm actually a Human Development and Family Studies major, and no, I didn't pay much creedence to the paper (hence the quotes around "paper" in my post). And as food for thought, I'll give you another profession that is meant to cross those class barriers - law - which is what I'm ultimately going for.
I was originally planning on being an EE, but hard science be damned - it's too cut and dry!
You know, this paper could be extended into many different areas.
As this paper says, class is very hard to define in America - in the United States, class can be more about culture and lifestyle than income or job description.
I'll give you an anecdotal example. I'm a college student, but during summers, I work in factories as a laborer. In the cafeteria, I look more like a supervisor than a laborer. My car is old, but perfectly clean, inside and out. I keep my clothes as clean as the work allows, and my shirts are usually ironed and tucked in, my boots clean, my hard hat clean. Most of the laborers, who are living on a HIGHER wage than I because I'm usually a temp worker, do not. What is important to them is not their aesthetics - especially at work. What is important to them is enjoying their lives. Work is secondary, and not really enjoyable. I'll agree with them on the second part, but where the division is in the importance of work. They have a job, not a career.
This "paper" hits on this. If your work is important to you, you have to follow that work. I haven't read the book by Paul Willis that the paper sums up, but it's true. I am a high school dropout, I planned on joining the military as an enlistee, not as an officer candidate. But his summary is quite correct in my case. I made that "class jump" - I'm not made to do mundane labor 60 hours a week, I have a brain and I need to use it.
Now, when I DO go to my hometown, my old friends are, well, not my friends anymore. They don't understand how I can value paying 250% of my yearly income to go to SCHOOL, how I can spend months preparing for a fifteen minute presentation, much less fathom seven years of training for the ability, not the guarantee of a job. They don't see the point in dedicating oneself fully to the "system" because they think it will stick them in some sort of hierarchy and force them to follow rules. What they unfortunately miss is that the blue collar circle sticks them in an even more restrictive hierarchy. You don't do consulting work as a press operator!
This certainly fits with the division seen between MySpace and Facebook. MySpace allows one to do whatever they want with their page - conventions be damned. Facebook, on the other hand, has a set style and layout (or did. The applications are slowly changing that). But when push comes to shove, the "hierarchy" and layout of Facebook gives users a bit more useful information - try finding someone's AOL s/n on MySpace if you've never seen their page before, and then try the same on Facebook!
Well, when it was first enacted, pot wasn't illegal. However, after pot WAS made illegal (and before the Controlled Substances Act), you'd get slapped with possession AND not paying the tax (Timothy Leary fought this in the USC, and won.). However, to this day, some states, such as North Carolina, require that you purchase and affix a tax stamp to your illegal drugs, or else you'll pay an additional fine, however, according to NORML, this was ruled unconstitutional by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. I don't know if this still stands, but I do know it was by people that share my last name, woo! (Lynn v. West, 134 F.3d 582)
I used to have an internship in high school at PENNDOT. I had to meet with the District Engineer over surfing the state-wide SMB share during my downtime. It was very, VERY frowned upon. Why would a high school intern need to be looking at what was really Harrisburg (our capital)'s share?
From then on, I continued to do so, making sure my "mentor" didn't see me. Why? I learned more there than my mentor could have ever taught me. Even though I was in the Construction Unit, every once in a while I would have to field calls from the truck permits unit. My mentor also worked there when one of the ladies was out sick or on personal leave. But, what's this? An out of state, federal government driver needs a permit to haul environmental wastes over our highways? She didn't know what to do. It took me thirty seconds to find him the form, and find her the instructions to enter it into the automated permit software.
She then asked me how I knew that, and I obliged. Guess who was browsing G: Drive later that afternoon?
This pattern has followed me at other jobs - I get yelled at for being nosy, but eventually it turns around to bite them in the ass. I'm a leasing consultant and resident assistant at the off campus housing project I work at, and since I was nosy and went through some of the building specs when I first started, I've got a nice, 8.5x11 sheet with the floor plan and all the dimensions on it. I wasn't really supposed to be going through those binders, but whaddaya know, every time I hand one of those to a parent on a tour, I end up handing them a lease too by the end of the tour.
But then again, I'm a blond white male, so I can't see anyone ever calling the spooks on me for it, I'll just continue to get yelled at by underachiever bosses - until Europe gets pissed off at each other again.
Ever heard of the Marihuana Tax Act? Leary vs. United States?
They'll tax something illegal if they want to.
I sure hope not the state. I live in PA and pay taxes here, and when I got arrested on charges just to have them go "oh, whoops" later and drop them, nobody handed me a fat check, so this 18 year old doesn't deserve it either.
haha. Camel sells "99's" now. Guess it works both ways!
I'd believe that. For a while, I used to have this metal plate that someone left behind at my apartment. I ate off of it probably once a week, and then ran it through a dishwasher full of my dishes.
It took me about 3 months to discover the sticker on the back:
"CONTAINS LEAD. DO NOT USE FOR FOOD"
Who the fuck makes a plate for not-food?
I'm not sure what he counts a guessing.
On the LSATs, they'll give you a passage and ask you to analyze some analogies and determine which one comes closest to representing the passage.
You cannot be TAUGHT which one is correct - it's all up to your head figuring it out. So, on a test like that, guessing sure helps you out. But does that mean it should be scored differently? Well, no, I don't think so. Why should I be penalized more for picking an answer that is right (its multiple choice - one is completely off base, and 3 are all so damn close, with one doing just a little better job with its language), but not 100% than for getting it completely wrong?
165 on the Practice LSAT, btw. =)
Wait. The forecast changed?
/so accurate/ that they feel the need to change it more often than normal?
You mean they updated their forecast - of the future - which they can only predict based on the present - to say it was going to be rainy when it changed, instead of sunny?
Ah, so you mean it made the predictions
Did you actually check and see if they were correct when that day fell as of their last forecast or did you just decide that they must be wrong because they kept changing their mind?
As someone who's, uh, a "highly functional multitasker" - AKA someone who's a bit ADD and refuses to take the amps for it - I'd see the truth in that. From my own anecdotal point of view, that's not really hard to do. Give me a good CD and a nice stereo system in a car, and maple trees everywhere are fucked.
You do realize that "crystal" glass is made with lead, and so are a lot of the glazes used on ceramic dishes, right?
Antique doesn't always mean 100 years :P
In PA, it's 25 years for a car (you can get a permanent-registration antique car plate then)
Thanks for the laugh! The attorneys for the RIAA goof it up before they even get started:
MR. OPPENHEIM: Good morning, your Honor.
THE COURT: Good afternoon.
MR. OPPENHEIM: Good afternoon, that's right.
Its as if they woke up on somebody's carpet, ran into a tailor's store, grabbed a suit, and walked in to sue someone, but that's to be expected from RIAA.
Well, I'm a fellow PA resident, and I love that one fact about our Code, but does this really have to record anything? I'm allowed to write a TRANSCRIPT of a phone call without the callers permission, and I would assume this doesn't do much more (in fact, I'd say it would be less detailed - I can recall who called me last quite easily, but the entire conversation? Hardly. It takes much less brain processing power to remember that much, I would assume the same of a computer program.)
So you just bend over and take it?
Yeah, that one works great.
tis funny, because the colors are the same here: Green means go, red means no. Red diesel isn't taxed, the only use I've ever had for it is when the boiler ran out of fuel in the middle of the night!
But just yesterday the foreign exchange kids were mad that none of us Americans knew what Orkut was!
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I work in real estate, the same situation as you - in a satellite site, away from the corporate office.
The company I work for manages the property, but does not own it. One day, I went in - on rent day - and the phones were ringing off the hook. Nobody could pay online - it said we no longer supported that "amenity" at our location.
For about 20 calls, I just directed people to try again a little later, until I tried to get our maintenance reports for the day, and found that our property's login had been disabled. Turns out that the property itself had been sold, and the new owner told our management company that he did not intend to pay for online credit card and maintenance request transactions. In the mess, probably 150 or so of our residents ended up being charged late fees, that the managers later had to go in and waive due to the change.
Never, EVER underestimate the power of a large corporate entity to forget to inform its own employees of a policy change. Where I work, you simply have to roll with the changes - you never know what a customer is going to say to you on the phone.
I'd be willing to bet that at Honda's American factories, the UAW isn't there. Unions served a purpose... in 1880. Now they have a bit TOO much influence.
That was back before Ford actually used the plant! They now build the new Mustangs there.
And as for the Mazda 626? I had one, a 1998 ES-V6. It had 305,000 miles on it when I sold it, and I sold it because I got hit. The car was still in absolutely perfect mechanical and cosmetic condition except that the pedals had no tread left, the shift knob's seams had burst, and the driver's seat leather had fallen apart. I was amazed. Good oil, good filters, and being on your way to the lube shop as your car clicks over to 3000 miles go a long way
(Yes, I know Mazda said the oil was good for 7500 miles. I don't think they expected 30,000+ miles a year.)
You go to a party. You introduce yourself to a few people.
Eventually, someone you DIDN'T introduce yourself to comes up and already knows your name.
No, you don't have a right to privacy when you talk to someone else.
No, no. I think you're wrong.
/convenient/ than Choice 1, guess who wins? When I download a torrent, I click on the torrent file, pick a folder, and in a few hours, BAM, there's my AVI file. I can then:
If Choice 2 is more
- Copy the file to my XBOX to watch in my living room.
- Play on my Windows PC on my second VGA monitor in full resolution.
- Play on my Linux PC without breaking the law.
- Transcode it to my cell phone
- Transcode it to my friend's iPod
- Burn it on a DVD so I can watch it at a friends house
What, of the above, can I do with a paid for version of a movie? iTunes is about the most flexible, but you can nix all of those except playing it on my second VGA monitor - I couldn't even give it to a friend on his iPod if I wanted!
Now when I can pay $5 or $10 to download a MPEG4 AVI of a movie, I won't be copying them. Until then isohunt is more convenient!
You're right. If it was a ClearChannel station, RATM is on the list of banned artists/songs.
Guess they don't want people fed up with THE MAN, dude!