Unions protect themselves, not employees. A long time ago they did actually protect employees. Now they are all about self preservation and big fat checks to union operatives. A friend of mine is in a union shop, she pays the equivalent of ONE HOUR PER WEEK in dues. What does it get her? She gets to watch lazy good for nothings keep a job they don't deserve or work for. Is that the kind of place you want to work?
Professional and Union do not belong in the same sentence. If your worried about overtime then don't switch to a job that doesn't have real responsibilities and real deadlines. The people who put the most "overtime" in are already exempt, they are the small businessmen who provide the majority of jobs across the country.
If you think your employer is being unfair THEN LEAVE! The economy is no where near as bad as when the tech sector crashed. If your immediate skills are not valued then LEARN SOMETHING ELSE. No one is going to get you a job, especially a president or contender.
Its your responsibility to act. Do it and quit whining. Whining just makes you miserable and annoys the others who are having to put up with you.
If we attempt to lock down the out sourcing of jobs from this country what do you think other countries will do?
Duh! They will not allow the same to us. They will send the work to countries that reciprocate.
Sorry, but to whine about outsourcing just doesn't make sense. The benefits are real and the costs are truly minimal if any.
Finally, the number one issue. Most jobs outsourced are done so by large companies who employ less than 20% of the workforce. Small companies create more jobs and do so on a much more regular basis.
Be very wary of those claims that they are not teaching lessons by teaching tests. A couple of coworkers have teachers as S.O. and they will tell you that is how they were "hinted too, told too, etc" to relay this new requirement.
The NCLB program requires schools to PROVE the money the receive is actually producing results and if not it provides a STICK to actually make changes occur. For 30+ years we have been pouring money down the rat hole only to see the separation of test scores stay the same or increase.
No one wanted proof that the schools were failing the students and the last people who wanted that are those that run the education establishment.
Hint: Those running it are not the same ones teaching the kids. (granted you excuse the lifers who can't even pass accreditation tests but keep their jobs because of the union - and you would be surprised at just how many of them are there!)
Manned spaceflight is essentially over as the shuttles survived and will further suck money and life out of NASA. As for losing the shuttles being the end of the space program I would disagree. Sure having them means we have "manned missions" but they also put us at an increased risk of having NO MORE. If one more shuttle goes, then what???
It is an amazingly engineered vehicle, over engineered. It also is nothing more than a jobs program for NASA and a bunch of support companies who all are based in areas with important Congressmen shoveling money for votes.
Kill the shuttle, I just wish nature had so an accident didn't. It would be better to have 3 orbiters for display around than the country than 2 or less.
Big corporations, the ones doing the outsourcing, do not provide the bulk of the jobs. For geeks, which to some implies having more intelligence than the common worker, some of you are dumber than the proverbial doorknob.
The primary job creation engine of the economy is the small businessman (or woman). Big corporations get the headlines because they usually affect people in larger numbers at one time. However their numbers are really not that meaningful when you look at the number of people employed in this country. There are 138 MILLION people working in the US.
How many jobs were outsourced? Now, looking back on history shouldn't we consider the 70s the age of outsourcing automobile workers? The 80s textile workers?
As for the job creation. The capital gains tax cuts and similar equalizing of the percentage of income tax benefit the small business greatly. I know, I have four relatives with small businesses who have grosses from as low as 500k to nearly 5 million. Guess what, they have more money and they did exactly what was expected, they hired to grow even bigger.
Now what will stop this? Simple, raising the taxes on the "evil rich". Sorry, the proposed plans will smack down more small businesses than anyone. The ones with the millions and billions have relatively no income and have the means to dodge nearly most forms of taxes.
In the end the only proper way to deal with taxation is by consumption. The rich consume in a very big fashion and the fairtax will accomplish that. http://www.fairtax.org
Yes the Russians had a lot of firsts. The trouble was they stayed with the "easy" game and that is LEO.
Whats worse is that the shuttle has put us into the LEO trap. Yeah it is easy to get there, but it is also to get stuck there. The ISS was just a compounding of that same error.
To truly advance in space including both exploration and research we need to leave orbit. That means the moon first and then out from there.
It turned into a jobs program. Why do you think it has been so hard to kill? The only remaining task the shuttle provides the BDBs don't is the ability to recover and return small satellites - and they don't do that because of the danger from those satellites.
Perhaps the hurricane would help end this waste of taxpayer money. If anything the shuttle program set the US space program back TWENTY years.
The phone companies go out of their way to stifle competition. Then to top it off they side with anyone who wants CABLE companies to share those lines.
Force the phone companies to open their lines at competitive rates and PAY the cable companies for their investment of the lines so that making them share is fair.
While I like the idea behind iMacs I would like to be able to swap out certain elements at my leisure.
So, if paying a premium to lose flexibility is your boat then so be it. Me, I would like the option of upgrading the monitor without throwing away the machine behind it.
Comparing overall value is what the previous poster was getting at. That is one hell of a premium your willing to pay to have it in a design which looks like but offers less flexibilty.
The issue is, don't rely on these so called experts until time enough has elapsed to determine whether or not it is a success.
As far as I am concerned it is a success. It will save hundreds if not thousands of lives, possibly hundreds of thousands, and for very little cost compared to other wars.
The only problem I have is that everyone is too busy jumping up and down about Iraq and ignoring the stench from Africa. UN and US alike are all ignoring a tragedy in Sudan. Honestly we should go there as well but alas there isn't that much slack in American military right now. Hopefully some other country will step up to bat.
My real concern for the future, what will the ayatollah's in Iran do to stay in power? Wars are a great way of focusing one's own people...
Back to the story in question. My boss's son has been there 3 times and will go back when asked. He has wired schools and hospitals. He says the difference is easily noted. One thing he made clear, press people don't want to talk to soldiers with a good outcome story, they just walk away.
California has courts that are friendlier to lawsuits. The lawyers know very well how to use public opinion to get what would otherwise be frivolous lawsuits to work.
Essentially Ms was successfully portrayed as using their marketshare to "thwart" the will of the people. Since no one has taken Microsoft's place as number 1 in PC software Microsoft is automatically guilty AGAIN.
In other words,
Lawyers need new duds. The people get nothing more than a voucher if they are lucky, and everyone who buys a Microsoft product or does buisness with someone who does now pays a "lawyer" tax.
It is the same as the smoking lawsuits. Done under the guise of the "public good", where the public recieves some good and the states and lawyers receive the cash. Call it an embedded tax.
I don't believe it reduces prices but it does delay some price increases. The market is pretty competitive across the board and pressures on this market prevent any real changes in the costs of most goods. So what is a company to do? Try to do the same for less. This allows some, not all, companies to be able to forgo raising their prices.
Of course its all a vicous circle. Eventually one of the companies succumbs to the fact it will have to raise prices... and they lose a little marketshare but it evens out usually as others end up with the same issue.
However it is just as outrageous to not believe that using cheaper resources doesn't result in lower costs.
Seems to me that too many people can justify the milkman losing his job to technology, the seamstress to technology, and even the gas attendants to technolongy. Yet threaten the geeks and they act as if its the coming of the end.
Face. The economy churns through jobs all the time. Some of these go overseas which does result in lower costs for people here. Just as the cost of clothing is less when it comes from China so can the cost of tech.
Like that nice PC you got there? Cheap memory eh? Where is the crying over the person whose job was lost to a PC?
Sorry but the world maturing does suck at times for those caught up on the wrong side of it. Getting emotional and claiming its all a lie won't make it stop.
Remember 138 million jobs exist in this country and compare that to the number outsourced. Also remember that the number of people who are employable will decrease over the next 10 to 15 years... so...
The only crisis we face is that of having too many special interest groups whose livelihood relies on someone believing their is a crisis!
I would prefer to see alternative fuels and systesm created before I want to see a flying car. Until a new engine type is created I figure flying cars would make hummers palatble to environmentalist!
Sorry but Microsoft was just a scapegoat. On their own Turbine has shown that they were the bulk of the problem. Turbine proves many times over their disregard for the players. From leaving game economy breaking bugs in for a full month to having to hot fix every patch they release.
Their new expansion caters to the very worst players of AC1, the macro users, xp-chainers, and griefers. These same players who break the COC are at most banned for days and if really bad a month or two. Turbine constantly provides new means for them to gain XP as Turbine has totally ditched the lore aspect of the game, the same aspect which appealed to the real players.
AC2 didn't stand a chance. Read the original Developer writings and message board entries and you will see a development team wrapped up in themselves and not feeling the least bit responsible to the players. They got their just rewards, a dead game. Cities of buildings that could not be entered were testament to developer egos.
I don't trust Turbine with any game after what they crafted with AC2 and let alone with whats gone down in AC1 since they took over.
1. Actually most of his numbers are guesses. The majority of these companies DON'T publish their numbers. Some may hint at them but most don't tell you what they are.
2. That is primary an issue with Korean games. It is not an issue for US based games as that type of gaming community does not yet exist here, or in any real numbers.
3. Again as most of these companies don't give real numbers to begin with!
FWIW, AC2 numbers can be gleaned from the frontpage of www.fallenkingdoms.com They peak at around 2K at night across the US servers with less than that number on their Euro servers. Horizons is considating from 8 to 2 servers, mostly because of population issues but also their bankruptcy ain't helping.
DAOC numbers can be obtained from their own site I believe. I don't think you have to subscribe to see them
Hence all this is just a shouting/boasting game depending on which side of the coin you are. Too many of these companies do not publish numbers and I don't believe the old rule of 5xpeak online is really relevant much.
Take Horizons, their subscriber base in the US is probably less than 10K, but that is in essence a seperate game from the European operations under GN. Artifact Entertainment is in Chapter 11 as we type, they have a big show down with their provider at the end of the month, a provider whom they basically defrauded for many months. Their bankruptcy documents provided a lot of insight into these groups.
As for AC/AC2. Who knows, they won't tell as their numbers have never been good. A company proud of its numbers will tell you. A company with something to hide from players and investors tells a whole different story.
Then why shame Real for trying to compete with Apple if Apple is essentially behaving the same way? The end result is the same, less choice for the consumer.
In other words, both of them are acting like school yard bullies.
I thought they were strictly water/evaporation based when it came to large scale building cooling? Hence I don't see the claim of reducing refrigerants. Now where are they determining reduction of CO2 into the air? Is this from the power savings?
I know that "real" portable cooling units have no refrigerants (the corp I work for resells some).
I can see the savings from power, but I still don't like the idea of sucking cold water from the bottom of a lake. It would seem to me you could upset the balance and possibly cause the lake to flip thereby releasing tons on CO2 - something which happened in Africa, which did kill a lot of people.
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Unions protect themselves, not employees. A long time ago they did actually protect employees. Now they are all about self preservation and big fat checks to union operatives. A friend of mine is in a union shop, she pays the equivalent of ONE HOUR PER WEEK in dues. What does it get her? She gets to watch lazy good for nothings keep a job they don't deserve or work for. Is that the kind of place you want to work?
Professional and Union do not belong in the same sentence. If your worried about overtime then don't switch to a job that doesn't have real responsibilities and real deadlines. The people who put the most "overtime" in are already exempt, they are the small businessmen who provide the majority of jobs across the country.
If you think your employer is being unfair THEN LEAVE! The economy is no where near as bad as when the tech sector crashed. If your immediate skills are not valued then LEARN SOMETHING ELSE. No one is going to get you a job, especially a president or contender.
Its your responsibility to act. Do it and quit whining. Whining just makes you miserable and annoys the others who are having to put up with you.
Approximately 4.7m to 2.8m
If we attempt to lock down the out sourcing of jobs from this country what do you think other countries will do?
Duh! They will not allow the same to us. They will send the work to countries that reciprocate.
Sorry, but to whine about outsourcing just doesn't make sense. The benefits are real and the costs are truly minimal if any.
Finally, the number one issue. Most jobs outsourced are done so by large companies who employ less than 20% of the workforce. Small companies create more jobs and do so on a much more regular basis.
Be very wary of those claims that they are not teaching lessons by teaching tests. A couple of coworkers have teachers as S.O. and they will tell you that is how they were "hinted too, told too, etc" to relay this new requirement.
The NCLB program requires schools to PROVE the money the receive is actually producing results and if not it provides a STICK to actually make changes occur. For 30+ years we have been pouring money down the rat hole only to see the separation of test scores stay the same or increase.
No one wanted proof that the schools were failing the students and the last people who wanted that are those that run the education establishment.
Hint: Those running it are not the same ones teaching the kids. (granted you excuse the lifers who can't even pass accreditation tests but keep their jobs because of the union - and you would be surprised at just how many of them are there!)
Second step, don't allow people to have stupid names and ban the ones who do it more than once. Let them buy another box if they want to try again.
However I don't believe the haxor speech is prevalent in MMOGs but I do see it a lot on MMOG message boards, especially those that are PVP.
Manned spaceflight is essentially over as the shuttles survived and will further suck money and life out of NASA. As for losing the shuttles being the end of the space program I would disagree. Sure having them means we have "manned missions" but they also put us at an increased risk of having NO MORE. If one more shuttle goes, then what???
It is an amazingly engineered vehicle, over engineered. It also is nothing more than a jobs program for NASA and a bunch of support companies who all are based in areas with important Congressmen shoveling money for votes.
Kill the shuttle, I just wish nature had so an accident didn't. It would be better to have 3 orbiters for display around than the country than 2 or less.
Package anyway you want it comes down to my not owning something I paid for.
Big corporations, the ones doing the outsourcing, do not provide the bulk of the jobs. For geeks, which to some implies having more intelligence than the common worker, some of you are dumber than the proverbial doorknob.
The primary job creation engine of the economy is the small businessman (or woman). Big corporations get the headlines because they usually affect people in larger numbers at one time. However their numbers are really not that meaningful when you look at the number of people employed in this country. There are 138 MILLION people working in the US.
How many jobs were outsourced? Now, looking back on history shouldn't we consider the 70s the age of outsourcing automobile workers? The 80s textile workers?
As for the job creation. The capital gains tax cuts and similar equalizing of the percentage of income tax benefit the small business greatly. I know, I have four relatives with small businesses who have grosses from as low as 500k to nearly 5 million. Guess what, they have more money and they did exactly what was expected, they hired to grow even bigger.
Now what will stop this? Simple, raising the taxes on the "evil rich". Sorry, the proposed plans will smack down more small businesses than anyone. The ones with the millions and billions have relatively no income and have the means to dodge nearly most forms of taxes.
In the end the only proper way to deal with taxation is by consumption. The rich consume in a very big fashion and the fairtax will accomplish that. http://www.fairtax.org
Yes the Russians had a lot of firsts. The trouble was they stayed with the "easy" game and that is LEO.
Whats worse is that the shuttle has put us into the LEO trap. Yeah it is easy to get there, but it is also to get stuck there. The ISS was just a compounding of that same error.
To truly advance in space including both exploration and research we need to leave orbit. That means the moon first and then out from there.
LEO is no better than kicking the dirt down here.
Who really aspires to LEO other than tourist?
It turned into a jobs program. Why do you think it has been so hard to kill? The only remaining task the shuttle provides the BDBs don't is the ability to recover and return small satellites - and they don't do that because of the danger from those satellites.
Perhaps the hurricane would help end this waste of taxpayer money. If anything the shuttle program set the US space program back TWENTY years.
The phone companies go out of their way to stifle competition. Then to top it off they side with anyone who wants CABLE companies to share those lines.
Force the phone companies to open their lines at competitive rates and PAY the cable companies for their investment of the lines so that making them share is fair.
While I like the idea behind iMacs I would like to be able to swap out certain elements at my leisure.
So, if paying a premium to lose flexibility is your boat then so be it. Me, I would like the option of upgrading the monitor without throwing away the machine behind it.
Comparing overall value is what the previous poster was getting at. That is one hell of a premium your willing to pay to have it in a design which looks like but offers less flexibilty.
The issue is, don't rely on these so called experts until time enough has elapsed to determine whether or not it is a success.
As far as I am concerned it is a success. It will save hundreds if not thousands of lives, possibly hundreds of thousands, and for very little cost compared to other wars.
The only problem I have is that everyone is too busy jumping up and down about Iraq and ignoring the stench from Africa. UN and US alike are all ignoring a tragedy in Sudan. Honestly we should go there as well but alas there isn't that much slack in American military right now. Hopefully some other country will step up to bat.
My real concern for the future, what will the ayatollah's in Iran do to stay in power? Wars are a great way of focusing one's own people...
Back to the story in question. My boss's son has been there 3 times and will go back when asked. He has wired schools and hospitals. He says the difference is easily noted. One thing he made clear, press people don't want to talk to soldiers with a good outcome story, they just walk away.
California has courts that are friendlier to lawsuits. The lawyers know very well how to use public opinion to get what would otherwise be frivolous lawsuits to work.
Essentially Ms was successfully portrayed as using their marketshare to "thwart" the will of the people. Since no one has taken Microsoft's place as number 1 in PC software Microsoft is automatically guilty AGAIN.
In other words,
Lawyers need new duds. The people get nothing more than a voucher if they are lucky, and everyone who buys a Microsoft product or does buisness with someone who does now pays a "lawyer" tax.
It is the same as the smoking lawsuits. Done under the guise of the "public good", where the public recieves some good and the states and lawyers receive the cash. Call it an embedded tax.
Out of curiosity what gets banned overseas? I would figure most NAZI related material isn't permitted in France, Germany, or similar countries.
I don't believe it reduces prices but it does delay some price increases. The market is pretty competitive across the board and pressures on this market prevent any real changes in the costs of most goods. So what is a company to do? Try to do the same for less. This allows some, not all, companies to be able to forgo raising their prices.
Of course its all a vicous circle. Eventually one of the companies succumbs to the fact it will have to raise prices... and they lose a little marketshare but it evens out usually as others end up with the same issue.
However it is just as outrageous to not believe that using cheaper resources doesn't result in lower costs.
Seems to me that too many people can justify the milkman losing his job to technology, the seamstress to technology, and even the gas attendants to technolongy. Yet threaten the geeks and they act as if its the coming of the end.
Face. The economy churns through jobs all the time. Some of these go overseas which does result in lower costs for people here. Just as the cost of clothing is less when it comes from China so can the cost of tech.
Like that nice PC you got there? Cheap memory eh? Where is the crying over the person whose job was lost to a PC?
Sorry but the world maturing does suck at times for those caught up on the wrong side of it. Getting emotional and claiming its all a lie won't make it stop.
Remember 138 million jobs exist in this country and compare that to the number outsourced. Also remember that the number of people who are employable will decrease over the next 10 to 15 years... so...
Been that way for many years. Is rock stable and secure.
Granted it is on a mini, but we have enjoyed 64bit computing for nearly nearly 10 years. Even have some power5s in production.
There are great OSes other than the ones used on PC hardware... too many "geeks" forget that.
Where is this mythical oil crisis?
The only crisis we face is that of having too many special interest groups whose livelihood relies on someone believing their is a crisis!
I would prefer to see alternative fuels and systesm created before I want to see a flying car. Until a new engine type is created I figure flying cars would make hummers palatble to environmentalist!
Sorry but Microsoft was just a scapegoat. On their own Turbine has shown that they were the bulk of the problem. Turbine proves many times over their disregard for the players. From leaving game economy breaking bugs in for a full month to having to hot fix every patch they release.
Their new expansion caters to the very worst players of AC1, the macro users, xp-chainers, and griefers. These same players who break the COC are at most banned for days and if really bad a month or two. Turbine constantly provides new means for them to gain XP as Turbine has totally ditched the lore aspect of the game, the same aspect which appealed to the real players.
AC2 didn't stand a chance. Read the original Developer writings and message board entries and you will see a development team wrapped up in themselves and not feeling the least bit responsible to the players. They got their just rewards, a dead game. Cities of buildings that could not be entered were testament to developer egos.
I don't trust Turbine with any game after what they crafted with AC2 and let alone with whats gone down in AC1 since they took over.
Bill Clinton was impeached BECAUSE HE LIED UNDER OATH.
It does not matter what he lied about, the key issue was that he LIED UNDER OATH.
Dismissing it because of the reason for his lie dilutes the respect for law. It is a dangerous path to follow.
Simply put, if we can excuse lieing under oath because on one reason who is to decide that the next reason used is any less valid?
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Please mirror this item, it is 770k and I doubt my rented web server can handle the strain.
Contains publically available documents on their declaration in PDF format.
1. Actually most of his numbers are guesses. The majority of these companies DON'T publish their numbers. Some may hint at them but most don't tell you what they are.
2. That is primary an issue with Korean games. It is not an issue for US based games as that type of gaming community does not yet exist here, or in any real numbers.
3. Again as most of these companies don't give real numbers to begin with!
FWIW, AC2 numbers can be gleaned from the frontpage of www.fallenkingdoms.com They peak at around 2K at night across the US servers with less than that number on their Euro servers. Horizons is considating from 8 to 2 servers, mostly because of population issues but also their bankruptcy ain't helping.
DAOC numbers can be obtained from their own site I believe. I don't think you have to subscribe to see them
Hence all this is just a shouting/boasting game depending on which side of the coin you are. Too many of these companies do not publish numbers and I don't believe the old rule of 5xpeak online is really relevant much.
Take Horizons, their subscriber base in the US is probably less than 10K, but that is in essence a seperate game from the European operations under GN. Artifact Entertainment is in Chapter 11 as we type, they have a big show down with their provider at the end of the month, a provider whom they basically defrauded for many months. Their bankruptcy documents provided a lot of insight into these groups.
As for AC/AC2. Who knows, they won't tell as their numbers have never been good. A company proud of its numbers will tell you. A company with something to hide from players and investors tells a whole different story.
Got it.
Then why shame Real for trying to compete with Apple if Apple is essentially behaving the same way? The end result is the same, less choice for the consumer.
In other words, both of them are acting like school yard bullies.
To whom are they allowing incorporation of it in a music service or device?
HP? They are just another reseller and in HPs case desperately looking for ways to hide from their botched merger.
I thought they were strictly water/evaporation based when it came to large scale building cooling? Hence I don't see the claim of reducing refrigerants. Now where are they determining reduction of CO2 into the air? Is this from the power savings?
I know that "real" portable cooling units have no refrigerants (the corp I work for resells some).
I can see the savings from power, but I still don't like the idea of sucking cold water from the bottom of a lake. It would seem to me you could upset the balance and possibly cause the lake to flip thereby releasing tons on CO2 - something which happened in Africa, which did kill a lot of people.