Worse than that. The taxpayers of new york paid the salaries and benefits of a bunch of people in the AG's office, who failed to produce a result, but got reimbursed for their efforts. Is that money being returned to the taxpayers? Yeah, I didnt think so. Nothing like a nice double dip, with a boatload of incompetence to show for it.
How about this? The AG's office returns the money to the taxpayers, the people who worked on this all get fired because they start lawsuits they dont win against a company that was probably doing nothing more than exercising good capitalism, and everyone lives happily ever after.
No. It must be lured into a factory where there are huge vats of molten metals, frozen by a truck full of liquid nitrogen, shot into smithereens, and then eventually dropped into the molten metal. I know, it sounds like a lot of work but trust me, its cool to watch. Well worth the effort.
I guess if the easy to acquire americans who can do the job were as smart and cheap as the h1b people, we'd still be hiring them. So theres a reason why companies want them. Protectionism always does nicely for a little while, but its not a long term strategy. What a waste of time fighting the visa process, why dont we just figure out why companies would rather hire Bob from India than Jack from Nebraska and fix that problem, let the rest fall in behind?
"So if you're an employer who can hire a worker fresh out of college who is making $60,000 versus an older worker who is making $150,000, and the younger worker has skills that are fresher, who would you hire?"
The one with the work and business experience and a developed work ethic, who can handle politics and corporate idiots, wont make a million dollar mistake because he doesnt know any better, and offers the ability to teach his younger peers about the 95% of work stuff that isnt taught in college. I dont give a shit about 'fresh' skills, I can hire contractors for cheap money to do 'fresh skill' stuff when I need it.
Oh, by the way, thats not the $60,000 guy. I used to hire kids out of college and they werent worth a damn until I spent a year teaching them. In my last department, I had to hire a couple of 50's something guys to prevent the 20-somethings from wasting half a week on something they'd already know if they had any time on the job.
One problem with your argument is that a lot of the climate change skeptics *are* hicks or flat earth type Christians. But that wasnt even my point. My point is that most anti climate change folks dont really understand climate change or the science, but since a liberal brought it up, it must be fought. The humor is found in watching people contort themselves to avoid the facts and data.
But do carry on with that misanthropy, the feeling might be mutual.
"The study only included girls who responded to a survey in Discovery Girls magazine, but results should apply to boys, too, Clifford Nass, a Stanford professor of communications who worked on the study, said in a phone interview. Boys' emotional development is more difficult to analyze because male social development varies widely and over a longer time period, he said."
I'm pretty sure that there is absolutely no correlation between the emotional development of young girls and young boys. Having been a young boy and being the father of a ridiculous number of young boys and girls, I can say with considerable authority that what one gender does and how they respond has nothing to do with the other gender.
Isnt it funny that whenever you do even a few minutes of research into who are the famous names behind something, or who funded it, or you read the paper/study in detail how everything is really completely made up BS?
Its not easy for them to do so. I think it starts off in the brain as "Some liberals said this, so it must be wrong". The brain then has to wash all of this actual data and supported information until anything that rejects the "some liberals said this, so it must be wrong" thesis. At that point, with a considerable absence of most of the original data and the presence of a fair sized can of bullshit, you can assuredly feel that this global warming stuff is all crap.
The folks that go through this process have absolutely no idea how our global climate works, and neither do the people supplying them with their own set of facts. In fact, I'd go so far out on a limb as to say that 95% of them just dont care one way or the other, but them there librals need someone to tell them off.
They've also said that google tv will be in half the tv sets made by some time this year. I'm going out on a limb and saying that if half the tv's sold have gtv in it and the networks dont figure out how to deliver their content to that at a profit then they're a bunch of idiots.
Oh wait, they ARE a bunch of idiots. Well, stay tuned. Something is going to happen.
See, I find the gtv box to be the easiest and simplest. You type in the name of a show and it figures out where you can get it. With the roku, you have to check netflix, h+, youtube or any other source one at a time.
Plus directv and comcast wont authorize a roku player to use hbo go. But the revue and sony gtv boxes are fine.
Sports arent there, and isnt there a network or two that doesnt work with hulu plus or netflix or have youtube videos? Is sci-fi and the food network available? How about hgtv?
No kidding. I remember going to the doctors office sometime in late 2000 or early 2001 and they still had some of the financial porn rags kicking around from the late 90's touting Worldcom and Enron as 'stocks you must own at any price' and also giving two thumbs up to Tyco, Lucent, AIG. Plus the raft of technology and internet stocks.
Tivo is a pretty funny company. Good user interface and their patents have prevented anyone else from using their innovations without license. Between what Dish network and at&t have had to pay and the licensing/royalty income, its almost hidden the fact that their entire corporate management team combined couldnt take Forrest Gump in a fair intellectual fight.
I think the OP should have a look at the hundreds of tablets selling for under $99 and realize that this touchpad would be a good long ways away from being the cheapest tablet on the market. Maybe if you kick out all of the chinatabs, the cheapies sold at toysrus and so forth.
I have some news for you: the businesses are charging those fees to everyone, whether they're using a credit card or not. Unless they offer a special "x% off for cash", like some gas stations do.
Get rid of the credit cards and they'd still charge the same amount.
So you can get your 1%-3% cash back or not. You wont get a discount for cash from most companies.
Stupid move by verizon. I suspect they're going to be processing a lot of checks and paper stuff. The California DMV tried the same crap a few years ago, charging for online renewals. After almost nobody paid the fees and used the system, the DMV head was replaced and they stopped charging the fees. Now almost everyone renews online.
After seeing a series of things like the netflix price hike and this move, its become clear to me that senior management at most companies consists of complete morons who became CEO by chance or happenstance, not because they actually know how to run a business.
You should meet my wife. Whether I'm talking to her in person or on a cell phone, I still have to imagine that "other world" she's in.
I've logged about 250,000 miles in the car, most of it on the phone with an earbud. I've experienced two accidents but never caused one. One was in 1986, a kid was checking his hair in the mirror and let up on the brake a little and rolled into me, doing about $500 worth of damage. One was in 2009 when a guy wasnt paying attention and couldnt stop in time before bumping me from behind, doing about $50 worth of damage.
That second guy might have had a phone as his distraction. The first guy definitely didnt.
I think the reason for my lack of accidents is that when I'm talking to someone, I'm paying attention. If I'm sitting in the car alone and I'm not on the phone, I get bored, start looking around, daydream. Thats still distraction.
The vast majority of the drives I own fail within the warranty period. You can then either throw it out, or go through a pita warranty return process that includes downloading and running diagnostics that dont work part of the time, printing out their results, strenuous packaging and shipping requirements, etc. If you manage all of that, they send you back a used 'recertified' drive of basically unknown origin. Are you really going to put that drive into regular service as a replacement? Yeah, me neither. I stick them in external cases and use them for extra backup or travel drives for non critical information.
After my last three multi-hour procedures to get a replacement for a failed hard drive, I've decided to just throw them out when they fail. So warranty terms no longer have meaning to me.
...why we have all of these electronic items these days, but the accident rate is actually lower than it was 15-20 years ago when we didnt really have anything except a radio, a cheeseburger, a cigarette, a 128oz drink, the kids screaming in the back seat and the hot chick on the sidewalk.
I guess we just replaced some distractions with different ones. And if we take away the electronics devices, we'll just go back to those old ones and still drive like crap.
People were idiots behind the wheel when I learned how to drive in the 70's, and back then the fanciest electronic thing you could fool with was either your AM radio or your cassettes and 8 track players.
I'm also quite amazed at the range of bullshoot that gets thrown around in the excitement of getting rid of driving while using a phone. The study that proves that cell phone usage is worse than drunk driving? If you actually read the farking thing it says that neither actually affects driving response time in a significant manner. How about the state of California insisting on putting a law on the books even though the CHP did a full study that established ZERO correlation between accidents and cell phones?
Really? I worked there for a long time and aside from a few handfuls of people in the architecture labs, there are few companies I've been involved with that had such a low understanding and weak efforts involving software design. I cant think of a single vice president or anyone who reported to a VP who had much of an inkling about software.
Heck, one look at the long running issues with integrated graphics device driver development is a pretty good indicator.
Yeah, they look absolutely awesome. Cant make money. Cant compete on performance or power utilization. Latest offerings combine piss poor cpu's with mediocre gpu's and expensive high end cpu's that arent as good as intels high end.
Then of course, theres that whole problem of taking on a company with a ton of cash in their pocket that has pretty much the best manufacturing business around...and AMD has to sub all of theirs out...
Its simply been a case of how long AMD can lose money and how long idiots will keep giving them cash to light on fire. Not one iota of 'good looking future'....
Ehhh...I dont want my phone reading my mind. It could get rather awkward in business meetings.
"Hold on, I'm looking through databases to see if Bob is the stupidest person on earth, and also checking to see if that redhead has any nude pics on the internet..."
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Worse than that. The taxpayers of new york paid the salaries and benefits of a bunch of people in the AG's office, who failed to produce a result, but got reimbursed for their efforts. Is that money being returned to the taxpayers? Yeah, I didnt think so. Nothing like a nice double dip, with a boatload of incompetence to show for it.
How about this? The AG's office returns the money to the taxpayers, the people who worked on this all get fired because they start lawsuits they dont win against a company that was probably doing nothing more than exercising good capitalism, and everyone lives happily ever after.
No. It must be lured into a factory where there are huge vats of molten metals, frozen by a truck full of liquid nitrogen, shot into smithereens, and then eventually dropped into the molten metal. I know, it sounds like a lot of work but trust me, its cool to watch. Well worth the effort.
I guess if the easy to acquire americans who can do the job were as smart and cheap as the h1b people, we'd still be hiring them. So theres a reason why companies want them. Protectionism always does nicely for a little while, but its not a long term strategy. What a waste of time fighting the visa process, why dont we just figure out why companies would rather hire Bob from India than Jack from Nebraska and fix that problem, let the rest fall in behind?
"So if you're an employer who can hire a worker fresh out of college who is making $60,000 versus an older worker who is making $150,000, and the younger worker has skills that are fresher, who would you hire?"
The one with the work and business experience and a developed work ethic, who can handle politics and corporate idiots, wont make a million dollar mistake because he doesnt know any better, and offers the ability to teach his younger peers about the 95% of work stuff that isnt taught in college. I dont give a shit about 'fresh' skills, I can hire contractors for cheap money to do 'fresh skill' stuff when I need it.
Oh, by the way, thats not the $60,000 guy. I used to hire kids out of college and they werent worth a damn until I spent a year teaching them. In my last department, I had to hire a couple of 50's something guys to prevent the 20-somethings from wasting half a week on something they'd already know if they had any time on the job.
One problem with your argument is that a lot of the climate change skeptics *are* hicks or flat earth type Christians. But that wasnt even my point. My point is that most anti climate change folks dont really understand climate change or the science, but since a liberal brought it up, it must be fought. The humor is found in watching people contort themselves to avoid the facts and data.
But do carry on with that misanthropy, the feeling might be mutual.
"The study only included girls who responded to a survey in Discovery Girls magazine, but results should apply to boys, too, Clifford Nass, a Stanford professor of communications who worked on the study, said in a phone interview. Boys' emotional development is more difficult to analyze because male social development varies widely and over a longer time period, he said."
I'm pretty sure that there is absolutely no correlation between the emotional development of young girls and young boys. Having been a young boy and being the father of a ridiculous number of young boys and girls, I can say with considerable authority that what one gender does and how they respond has nothing to do with the other gender.
Isnt it funny that whenever you do even a few minutes of research into who are the famous names behind something, or who funded it, or you read the paper/study in detail how everything is really completely made up BS?
...that all sit around downtown and tell me that I'm going to go to hell if I dont give them my spare change. So far they're wrong too.
Its not easy for them to do so. I think it starts off in the brain as "Some liberals said this, so it must be wrong". The brain then has to wash all of this actual data and supported information until anything that rejects the "some liberals said this, so it must be wrong" thesis. At that point, with a considerable absence of most of the original data and the presence of a fair sized can of bullshit, you can assuredly feel that this global warming stuff is all crap.
The folks that go through this process have absolutely no idea how our global climate works, and neither do the people supplying them with their own set of facts. In fact, I'd go so far out on a limb as to say that 95% of them just dont care one way or the other, but them there librals need someone to tell them off.
They've also said that google tv will be in half the tv sets made by some time this year. I'm going out on a limb and saying that if half the tv's sold have gtv in it and the networks dont figure out how to deliver their content to that at a profit then they're a bunch of idiots.
Oh wait, they ARE a bunch of idiots. Well, stay tuned. Something is going to happen.
See, I find the gtv box to be the easiest and simplest. You type in the name of a show and it figures out where you can get it. With the roku, you have to check netflix, h+, youtube or any other source one at a time.
Plus directv and comcast wont authorize a roku player to use hbo go. But the revue and sony gtv boxes are fine.
Sports arent there, and isnt there a network or two that doesnt work with hulu plus or netflix or have youtube videos? Is sci-fi and the food network available? How about hgtv?
No kidding. I remember going to the doctors office sometime in late 2000 or early 2001 and they still had some of the financial porn rags kicking around from the late 90's touting Worldcom and Enron as 'stocks you must own at any price' and also giving two thumbs up to Tyco, Lucent, AIG. Plus the raft of technology and internet stocks.
Tivo is a pretty funny company. Good user interface and their patents have prevented anyone else from using their innovations without license. Between what Dish network and at&t have had to pay and the licensing/royalty income, its almost hidden the fact that their entire corporate management team combined couldnt take Forrest Gump in a fair intellectual fight.
I think the OP should have a look at the hundreds of tablets selling for under $99 and realize that this touchpad would be a good long ways away from being the cheapest tablet on the market. Maybe if you kick out all of the chinatabs, the cheapies sold at toysrus and so forth.
I have some news for you: the businesses are charging those fees to everyone, whether they're using a credit card or not. Unless they offer a special "x% off for cash", like some gas stations do.
Get rid of the credit cards and they'd still charge the same amount.
So you can get your 1%-3% cash back or not. You wont get a discount for cash from most companies.
Stupid move by verizon. I suspect they're going to be processing a lot of checks and paper stuff. The California DMV tried the same crap a few years ago, charging for online renewals. After almost nobody paid the fees and used the system, the DMV head was replaced and they stopped charging the fees. Now almost everyone renews online.
After seeing a series of things like the netflix price hike and this move, its become clear to me that senior management at most companies consists of complete morons who became CEO by chance or happenstance, not because they actually know how to run a business.
I'm sure some of it is done without any requirements for compensation.
Dont you just hate it when the sheeple talk?
I dont want to read my email, so I dont need encryption. If anyone wants to read 37 pointless missives per day, help yourself.
You should meet my wife. Whether I'm talking to her in person or on a cell phone, I still have to imagine that "other world" she's in.
I've logged about 250,000 miles in the car, most of it on the phone with an earbud. I've experienced two accidents but never caused one. One was in 1986, a kid was checking his hair in the mirror and let up on the brake a little and rolled into me, doing about $500 worth of damage. One was in 2009 when a guy wasnt paying attention and couldnt stop in time before bumping me from behind, doing about $50 worth of damage.
That second guy might have had a phone as his distraction. The first guy definitely didnt.
I think the reason for my lack of accidents is that when I'm talking to someone, I'm paying attention. If I'm sitting in the car alone and I'm not on the phone, I get bored, start looking around, daydream. Thats still distraction.
The vast majority of the drives I own fail within the warranty period. You can then either throw it out, or go through a pita warranty return process that includes downloading and running diagnostics that dont work part of the time, printing out their results, strenuous packaging and shipping requirements, etc. If you manage all of that, they send you back a used 'recertified' drive of basically unknown origin. Are you really going to put that drive into regular service as a replacement? Yeah, me neither. I stick them in external cases and use them for extra backup or travel drives for non critical information.
After my last three multi-hour procedures to get a replacement for a failed hard drive, I've decided to just throw them out when they fail. So warranty terms no longer have meaning to me.
...why we have all of these electronic items these days, but the accident rate is actually lower than it was 15-20 years ago when we didnt really have anything except a radio, a cheeseburger, a cigarette, a 128oz drink, the kids screaming in the back seat and the hot chick on the sidewalk.
I guess we just replaced some distractions with different ones. And if we take away the electronics devices, we'll just go back to those old ones and still drive like crap.
People were idiots behind the wheel when I learned how to drive in the 70's, and back then the fanciest electronic thing you could fool with was either your AM radio or your cassettes and 8 track players.
I'm also quite amazed at the range of bullshoot that gets thrown around in the excitement of getting rid of driving while using a phone. The study that proves that cell phone usage is worse than drunk driving? If you actually read the farking thing it says that neither actually affects driving response time in a significant manner. How about the state of California insisting on putting a law on the books even though the CHP did a full study that established ZERO correlation between accidents and cell phones?
...I rubbed them on the router for a while...
Really? I worked there for a long time and aside from a few handfuls of people in the architecture labs, there are few companies I've been involved with that had such a low understanding and weak efforts involving software design. I cant think of a single vice president or anyone who reported to a VP who had much of an inkling about software.
Heck, one look at the long running issues with integrated graphics device driver development is a pretty good indicator.
Yeah, they look absolutely awesome. Cant make money. Cant compete on performance or power utilization. Latest offerings combine piss poor cpu's with mediocre gpu's and expensive high end cpu's that arent as good as intels high end.
Then of course, theres that whole problem of taking on a company with a ton of cash in their pocket that has pretty much the best manufacturing business around...and AMD has to sub all of theirs out...
Its simply been a case of how long AMD can lose money and how long idiots will keep giving them cash to light on fire. Not one iota of 'good looking future'....
Ehhh...I dont want my phone reading my mind. It could get rather awkward in business meetings.
"Hold on, I'm looking through databases to see if Bob is the stupidest person on earth, and also checking to see if that redhead has any nude pics on the internet..."