Sorry the only reason such a job is demeaning to many people is because they have an exaggerated estimate of their own worth.
Look, when push comes to shove, when your children need to be fed, there is no job demeaning in THEIR eyes.
To be up front, I have more respect for the men and women at McDonalds than I have for the majority of government employees, especially elected officials. The fact that some people see those jobs as demeaning only shows that society has its values screwed up.
Work is better than no work, and illegal anything is never work. Its just an excuse to cover a fragile ego. That same ego is probably the whole reason they cannot do better. You cannot improve until your willing to accept where you are.
Quit whining about budgets and work on cutting edge projects?
HELLOOOO
Why do you think they are not? Simple because their budget isn't there. They can't pie in the sky because they aren't getting money. They don't generate enough votes.
Politicians look for votes. Our money buys them votes. As such they will put the money to where it gets the most votes for the least investment. NASA is a large investment for a small return, 10 billion spent at NASA doesn't cover nearly as many votes as 10 billion on a new bridge or entitlement program. I am quite sure they have lots of CE projects on file, they just know they will not even get a hearing because the politicians are more concerned about feeding the greed of America's new looter class because that class keeps them in power.
Science and Math will become a priority when they generate votes. Just like your child's education, when those kids can vote then education will become a priority, they don't worry about the parents because every parent thinks their school is fine - its just those other schools. Hence education gets dumbed down, kids don't learn, instead of wanting to become a scientist they want to play ball and space sits out there waiting for a nation driven by pride and hard work will be the one to exploit it.
About halfway down the page is some discussion of the quote and Majel's appearance on B5.
# Was Morella's speech about greatness intended as a tribute to Gene Roddenberry? There's probably a fair amount there that could apply to Gene, yes...
# If a word comes out of a character's mouth, it's usually mine. The bit about greatness was one of them; had a number of different subtexts going on behind it.
If anything I would say that while there might have been some rivalry among the crews the people who create are more likely to be friendly than anything else. It is a small world when it comes to finding truly creative people.
the Algae farmers did not comprise a big enough voting bloc for the US Congress to consider their viability in saving the current environment, of course by environment I mean keeping one's seat.
Corn Ethanol/Switchgrass etc was more about who was who than what was what
Still I figure after the magic has worn off Obama will have just as low ratings as Bush does now, I don't think it will take him as many years to get there. We just cannot afford to continue using the US Taxpayer as an unlimited source of money for failed institutions and failed people.
This could also be defined as a envy tax. Tax things people are buying because they have money and vilify them should they complain as it will benefit the children/poor/insert pc group here.
Instead of really cutting their budgets they just invented new taxes. NY will just be a model for what is going to happen in Washington, just don't expect it to be so direct. Instead we will get taxes under the guise of trading credits or some other lie.
look, this is just like the bailouts. Instead of fixing the problem (too much spending) we are enforcing the idea that more government is better even when no one can afford having more of it.
too get you to go along they will of course threaten to cut vital services (read: fire, police, schools) and never all the bullshit non-vital jobs but happen to go to cronies and the like. Ever notice that when school funding is cut that class room sizes go up but administrative positions don't go down?
15 to 1 their pensions will get an increase or whatever retirement system you are paying for but not aware of; note it is probably better than what many executives get.
15 to 1 they will use class envy if it comes down to a fight over these taxes. It is easy to prey on the jealously of others having more stuff than you.
15 to 1 they will not cut wasteful spending because of the previous point, its just rich people trying to keep their money instead of benefiting the public
Sorry, read Atlas Shrugged to see a mini version of what is going on now. It will only get sillier as the months. New York will simply drive those who can cross the border to make purchases there which means the poorest of the poor will suffer. Because the end result is, if you make it too expensive for people to buy and do stuff the jobs which were provided by that spending will be gone as well.
Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) - naming things for exactly what they are not? It was like the Travelers X act, where it codified the ability of border agents to keep your stuff for a few days when before it may not have been legal.
This act should be called "Employee Intimidation Act" because it means shops can now be unionized through simple intimidation. Hopefully if it ever passes the Supreme Court will get it fast and nuke it just as fast.
Why intimidation? Simple, the intent to form requires a signature,during which the people who want it can stand over you till you sign it, take note if you don't, and imply what they want. This is how the formation process works now. The safety net has always been the secret ballot (secret from both union and corporation) so that people who were intimidated one way or another (more so by the pro union people) can vote how they truly feel. Hence unions lose a majority of attempts and needed a "legal" way to circumvent freedom of choice that too them was "freely making the wrong choice"
Sorry, I know its PC to not like places like Wal-Mart and such; this bill is more targeted at them than anywhere but the simply fact is that the poor will suffer more from higher prices if such crap goes through. Worse you will see no benefit actually filter down to low wage employees because it is always the union leadership which benefits from unionizing a shop.
Been there, been through it, it wasn't pretty. Lost an hour wages per week to dues that got me no more benefit or safety, but did let me see our rep's nice Mercedes convertible
but the problem is we already have it. We have numerous toll roads operated by the government, pseudo-government agencies, or private entities, and we will get more. There are always talks in Atlanta about turning portions of existing interstates into toll roads in order to fund road improvements. If they would stop wasting the collected money on items other than roads it would not be an issue but one local toll road's account was found to have been raided multiple times for things other than itself, something that was promised would never happen.
The simple fact is we can no longer trust just handing off anything we decide is infrastructure to the government because we have lost the ability to guarantee it will not be used to political favors, a new revenue system beyond the item itself, or even be maintained properly.
The old bogeyman "Global Warming" is thrown in because it can MEAN ANYTHING.
Sorry, this whole thing reads as "We wanted this answer so we kept adding variables" till we got it.
Lets see, solar and wind. Both are non base load power sources. The later is very finicky and we already have so many NIMBYS with wind its beyond silly, especially certain rich east coasters. Solar, well its all well and such provided you can store power efficiently for night usage.
That is crux of the issue. What about when grapes were grown in Great Britain? Was that an optimal climate? Who decides? Those with the most money or the loudest voices? It obviously was warmer then for a good part of the world, so when was it right?
Plus nature has always been a harsh mistress. It has wiped out more species than we will ever know about. We find examples all the time of species that existed but are gone now. We can have one volcano explode and affect the environment more than man can in a year yet who do we think has the power to change the environment? Ourselves, boy do we kid ourselves or what!
We don't know and anyone suggesting that twenty years ago was more right than one hundred is nothing but a religious nutcase. Yes religious because this has taken on every facet of a radical religion.
how much of this inefficiency is exposed to us because our press is in no shape or form afraid of the government... yet.
Now when they start lining up for bailout money (and they will) some of our press might become more beholden to the government. There is one thing I have always noted about foreign press, they will dig more into US dirt than dirt on their home turf.
all that National Guard service stuff and Bush eh?
Sorry, the land of whackos is the most equal opportunity non discriminatory place on this planet.
Still, I do have to give credit to the op for linking the Governor of Illinois with the Birth Certificate story in order to neutralize the one. Sorry but there are many of us who still want true campaign reform and such. The only reason its not a big deal now to the Democrats is because it worked for them this time, before this they were always crying it wasn't fair that privately funded campaigns had such an advantage...
As for the economy, the same fools who created it are making it worse. Bailout is code for "reward friends" and will only sink the economy further into a pit making it even harder to get out of. The only correction needed is to sweep the current Congress out of power but that ain't going to happen because people vote them back in regardless. After all, its never their Senator/Representative that is the bad one.
Icecrown. Which is Mordor under ice. Even has an eye, though with the new phase system you do remove it from existence in your copy. Still I got the distinct impression of Mordor from the archietecture. Throw in the cinematic from Wrath Gate quest line and this area just screams Lord of the Rings, but with dragons. The cinematic even does a good Sauron like view from over shoulder view for when the Lich King first appears. Instead of a ring its a sword this time. Still impressive.
The areas are much larger feeling than before, if anything it encourages you to spend time flying through the zones when you can just so you don't miss out on any of it.
The only real problem, no one developer can keep up with players anymore. It simply isn't possible. Players are too organized and will make sacrifices the developers cannot cope with. Instead the game has to be aimed at the casual. However with this expansion and the race to 80 it seems they either expect to have one expansion per year or have a lot of raid content waiting in the wings.
So how long before Anime is child porn down there? Oversexed adolescents are the typical fare so it probably is fodder for these guys. It really sounds similar to the case involving the suicide we had recently, the law just HAD to do something because it was "OBVIOUSLY" wrong to begin with. In other words, law based on the whim of a government employee.
It is a cartoon, no one real was harmed, so now inanimate objects have rights or is that entirely dependent on what they represent? I mean, can you get busted for making a parody where the statue shits on the bird? After all its "naughty bits" might be showing.
Who would have thought the real prudes wouldn't be over zealous religious players and instead dowdy old government goons
The real problem is that too many members in the press are looking for that "ONE BIG STORY" and vilifying a major corporation, especially a drug company as health care can be expensive, is like having their cake and eating it too. They then will attach similar data and find names of scare monger groups with official sounding names to bolster their story. They are preying on the ignorant portion of their readership. They know they can load up an article with all sorts of buzzwords, throw in the official sounding but really just a representative of group X "research group name", and suddenly they have something which passes as credible to the majority of their readers who usually just skim anyways.
Parents would not have such a hard time if they weren't constantly being berated for being what used to constitute a good parent. Throw in the fact that we get so much tripe like this from the papers and how can you not excuse people from thinking "another boy cried wolf story".
If anything the papers and certain members of their staff are doing a great disservice because they are making us doubt every little thing they print and when something does come along many will probably ignore it.
China continued to be world's worst jailer of journalists, a dishonor it has held for 10 consecutive years. Cuba, Burma, Eritrea, and Uzbekistan round out the top five jailers from among the 29 nations that imprison journalists. Each of the top five nations has persistently placed among the world's worst in detaining journalists.
Uh, aren't they also like the worse for real human rights anyway regardless of their own internal propaganda? Well at least Cuba has good health care so their jailed journalist should be getting some good care.
As for the US and Iraq, well if your in a war zone your just as lucky to get arrested as shot. Seems we forgot all the horrors of real war. Sometimes getting arrested or detained may save their life as some of the other forces over there aren't so nice to the press.
Then again we like to exaggerate things today to make ourselves feel as if we are suffering, cue all the calls for Depression 2. If ours isn't the wimpiest generation I don't know whose was.
Since when is there an "Office of the President Elect" let alone a seal. Whose ego is driving this anyway?
First, he isn't even the President elect until the 15th (or whenever the electors cast their vote) though the vote is not in doubt, it just is factual to declare the title is not applicable yet.
Second, there is no office of the President Elect, there is no authority other than what the current President grants; I doubt it is even legal for the sitting President to do so.
I don't want to sound like part of the tinfoil hat crowd but all this wrapping oneself in an air of authority/royalty really is marketing gone amok or an ego gone amok. I hope its the marketing side because if its the later we are not in for a good four years.
1. They need to feel the victim, never wanting to believe anything that goes wrong in their life is the fault of their choices
2. They usually exhibit the worst stereotypes attributed to their race
3. They are so full of hatred (both self and towards others) there is no other reaction they can have
4. They just seek attention or favors by making public scenes knowing that it is far easier to embarrass people than prove an occurrence.
The problem today is that the term is applied to too many instances when bigotry is the real term that needs to be applied if at all. Any slight can be perceived in any manner and the press has this tendency to blow things out of proportion because too many in the press think they are societies protectors and it is up to them to identify what is wrong.
Actually finding Zero Punctuation is about the only thing I will thank Digg for, but having read that Atari is going to bring that game to the consoles reminded me of the review that hooked me on Yahtzee's style. While it isn't for everyone he does make it fun.
In other words, there rarely are reviewers who say what we want to say let alone so publically
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Sorry the only reason such a job is demeaning to many people is because they have an exaggerated estimate of their own worth.
Look, when push comes to shove, when your children need to be fed, there is no job demeaning in THEIR eyes.
To be up front, I have more respect for the men and women at McDonalds than I have for the majority of government employees, especially elected officials. The fact that some people see those jobs as demeaning only shows that society has its values screwed up.
Work is better than no work, and illegal anything is never work. Its just an excuse to cover a fragile ego. That same ego is probably the whole reason they cannot do better. You cannot improve until your willing to accept where you are.
Quit whining about budgets and work on cutting edge projects?
HELLOOOO
Why do you think they are not? Simple because their budget isn't there. They can't pie in the sky because they aren't getting money. They don't generate enough votes.
Politicians look for votes. Our money buys them votes. As such they will put the money to where it gets the most votes for the least investment. NASA is a large investment for a small return, 10 billion spent at NASA doesn't cover nearly as many votes as 10 billion on a new bridge or entitlement program. I am quite sure they have lots of CE projects on file, they just know they will not even get a hearing because the politicians are more concerned about feeding the greed of America's new looter class because that class keeps them in power.
Science and Math will become a priority when they generate votes. Just like your child's education, when those kids can vote then education will become a priority, they don't worry about the parents because every parent thinks their school is fine - its just those other schools. Hence education gets dumbed down, kids don't learn, instead of wanting to become a scientist they want to play ball and space sits out there waiting for a nation driven by pride and hard work will be the one to exploit it.
http://www.ntua.gr/lurk/countries/co/guide/053.html
About halfway down the page is some discussion of the quote and Majel's appearance on B5.
# Was Morella's speech about greatness intended as a tribute to Gene Roddenberry?
There's probably a fair amount there that could apply to Gene, yes...
# If a word comes out of a character's mouth, it's usually mine. The bit about greatness was one of them; had a number of different subtexts going on behind it.
If anything I would say that while there might have been some rivalry among the crews the people who create are more likely to be friendly than anything else. It is a small world when it comes to finding truly creative people.
Thank you for the list of good solid quotes.
isn't suicide by definition a voluntary act?
the Algae farmers did not comprise a big enough voting bloc for the US Congress to consider their viability in saving the current environment, of course by environment I mean keeping one's seat.
Corn Ethanol/Switchgrass etc was more about who was who than what was what
the looters have won.
Still I figure after the magic has worn off Obama will have just as low ratings as Bush does now, I don't think it will take him as many years to get there. We just cannot afford to continue using the US Taxpayer as an unlimited source of money for failed institutions and failed people.
Zero, zilch, nada, nil.
This could also be defined as a envy tax. Tax things people are buying because they have money and vilify them should they complain as it will benefit the children/poor/insert pc group here.
Instead of really cutting their budgets they just invented new taxes. NY will just be a model for what is going to happen in Washington, just don't expect it to be so direct. Instead we will get taxes under the guise of trading credits or some other lie.
look, this is just like the bailouts. Instead of fixing the problem (too much spending) we are enforcing the idea that more government is better even when no one can afford having more of it.
too get you to go along they will of course threaten to cut vital services (read: fire, police, schools) and never all the bullshit non-vital jobs but happen to go to cronies and the like. Ever notice that when school funding is cut that class room sizes go up but administrative positions don't go down?
15 to 1 their pensions will get an increase or whatever retirement system you are paying for but not aware of; note it is probably better than what many executives get.
15 to 1 they will use class envy if it comes down to a fight over these taxes. It is easy to prey on the jealously of others having more stuff than you.
15 to 1 they will not cut wasteful spending because of the previous point, its just rich people trying to keep their money instead of benefiting the public
Sorry, read Atlas Shrugged to see a mini version of what is going on now. It will only get sillier as the months. New York will simply drive those who can cross the border to make purchases there which means the poorest of the poor will suffer. Because the end result is, if you make it too expensive for people to buy and do stuff the jobs which were provided by that spending will be gone as well.
Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) - naming things for exactly what they are not? It was like the Travelers X act, where it codified the ability of border agents to keep your stuff for a few days when before it may not have been legal.
This act should be called "Employee Intimidation Act" because it means shops can now be unionized through simple intimidation. Hopefully if it ever passes the Supreme Court will get it fast and nuke it just as fast.
Why intimidation? Simple, the intent to form requires a signature,during which the people who want it can stand over you till you sign it, take note if you don't, and imply what they want. This is how the formation process works now. The safety net has always been the secret ballot (secret from both union and corporation) so that people who were intimidated one way or another (more so by the pro union people) can vote how they truly feel. Hence unions lose a majority of attempts and needed a "legal" way to circumvent freedom of choice that too them was "freely making the wrong choice"
Sorry, I know its PC to not like places like Wal-Mart and such; this bill is more targeted at them than anywhere but the simply fact is that the poor will suffer more from higher prices if such crap goes through. Worse you will see no benefit actually filter down to low wage employees because it is always the union leadership which benefits from unionizing a shop.
Been there, been through it, it wasn't pretty. Lost an hour wages per week to dues that got me no more benefit or safety, but did let me see our rep's nice Mercedes convertible
but the problem is we already have it. We have numerous toll roads operated by the government, pseudo-government agencies, or private entities, and we will get more. There are always talks in Atlanta about turning portions of existing interstates into toll roads in order to fund road improvements. If they would stop wasting the collected money on items other than roads it would not be an issue but one local toll road's account was found to have been raided multiple times for things other than itself, something that was promised would never happen.
The simple fact is we can no longer trust just handing off anything we decide is infrastructure to the government because we have lost the ability to guarantee it will not be used to political favors, a new revenue system beyond the item itself, or even be maintained properly.
want seems to be the key to this study.
The old bogeyman "Global Warming" is thrown in because it can MEAN ANYTHING.
Sorry, this whole thing reads as "We wanted this answer so we kept adding variables" till we got it.
Lets see, solar and wind. Both are non base load power sources. The later is very finicky and we already have so many NIMBYS with wind its beyond silly, especially certain rich east coasters. Solar, well its all well and such provided you can store power efficiently for night usage.
That is crux of the issue. What about when grapes were grown in Great Britain? Was that an optimal climate? Who decides? Those with the most money or the loudest voices? It obviously was warmer then for a good part of the world, so when was it right?
Plus nature has always been a harsh mistress. It has wiped out more species than we will ever know about. We find examples all the time of species that existed but are gone now. We can have one volcano explode and affect the environment more than man can in a year yet who do we think has the power to change the environment? Ourselves, boy do we kid ourselves or what!
We don't know and anyone suggesting that twenty years ago was more right than one hundred is nothing but a religious nutcase. Yes religious because this has taken on every facet of a radical religion.
how much of this inefficiency is exposed to us because our press is in no shape or form afraid of the government... yet.
Now when they start lining up for bailout money (and they will) some of our press might become more beholden to the government. There is one thing I have always noted about foreign press, they will dig more into US dirt than dirt on their home turf.
I don't have to wonder why.
all that National Guard service stuff and Bush eh?
Sorry, the land of whackos is the most equal opportunity non discriminatory place on this planet.
Still, I do have to give credit to the op for linking the Governor of Illinois with the Birth Certificate story in order to neutralize the one. Sorry but there are many of us who still want true campaign reform and such. The only reason its not a big deal now to the Democrats is because it worked for them this time, before this they were always crying it wasn't fair that privately funded campaigns had such an advantage...
As for the economy, the same fools who created it are making it worse. Bailout is code for "reward friends" and will only sink the economy further into a pit making it even harder to get out of. The only correction needed is to sweep the current Congress out of power but that ain't going to happen because people vote them back in regardless. After all, its never their Senator/Representative that is the bad one.
She would be the two button mouse, after all god gave the other button to her.
Icecrown. Which is Mordor under ice. Even has an eye, though with the new phase system you do remove it from existence in your copy. Still I got the distinct impression of Mordor from the archietecture. Throw in the cinematic from Wrath Gate quest line and this area just screams Lord of the Rings, but with dragons. The cinematic even does a good Sauron like view from over shoulder view for when the Lich King first appears. Instead of a ring its a sword this time. Still impressive.
The areas are much larger feeling than before, if anything it encourages you to spend time flying through the zones when you can just so you don't miss out on any of it.
The only real problem, no one developer can keep up with players anymore. It simply isn't possible. Players are too organized and will make sacrifices the developers cannot cope with. Instead the game has to be aimed at the casual. However with this expansion and the race to 80 it seems they either expect to have one expansion per year or have a lot of raid content waiting in the wings.
So how long before Anime is child porn down there? Oversexed adolescents are the typical fare so it probably is fodder for these guys. It really sounds similar to the case involving the suicide we had recently, the law just HAD to do something because it was "OBVIOUSLY" wrong to begin with. In other words, law based on the whim of a government employee.
It is a cartoon, no one real was harmed, so now inanimate objects have rights or is that entirely dependent on what they represent? I mean, can you get busted for making a parody where the statue shits on the bird? After all its "naughty bits" might be showing.
Who would have thought the real prudes wouldn't be over zealous religious players and instead dowdy old government goons
The real problem is that too many members in the press are looking for that "ONE BIG STORY" and vilifying a major corporation, especially a drug company as health care can be expensive, is like having their cake and eating it too. They then will attach similar data and find names of scare monger groups with official sounding names to bolster their story. They are preying on the ignorant portion of their readership. They know they can load up an article with all sorts of buzzwords, throw in the official sounding but really just a representative of group X "research group name", and suddenly they have something which passes as credible to the majority of their readers who usually just skim anyways.
Parents would not have such a hard time if they weren't constantly being berated for being what used to constitute a good parent. Throw in the fact that we get so much tripe like this from the papers and how can you not excuse people from thinking "another boy cried wolf story".
If anything the papers and certain members of their staff are doing a great disservice because they are making us doubt every little thing they print and when something does come along many will probably ignore it.
China continued to be world's worst jailer of journalists, a dishonor it has held for 10 consecutive years. Cuba, Burma, Eritrea, and Uzbekistan round out the top five jailers from among the 29 nations that imprison journalists. Each of the top five nations has persistently placed among the world's worst in detaining journalists.
Uh, aren't they also like the worse for real human rights anyway regardless of their own internal propaganda? Well at least Cuba has good health care so their jailed journalist should be getting some good care.
As for the US and Iraq, well if your in a war zone your just as lucky to get arrested as shot. Seems we forgot all the horrors of real war. Sometimes getting arrested or detained may save their life as some of the other forces over there aren't so nice to the press.
Then again we like to exaggerate things today to make ourselves feel as if we are suffering, cue all the calls for Depression 2. If ours isn't the wimpiest generation I don't know whose was.
You register an authenticator with your account and every time you go to log on you have to key in the number the authenticator shows you.
Much easier than anything needing to be plug in and as such it can work with any device that could access the login page.
it will be hard to determine if the coolant is leaking or the Sony battery, unless the later only occurs with added smoke.
I can see a good use for more power on the pro line but Apple still needs to get a laptop in the $500 to $600 range too introduce more people to X
Since when is there an "Office of the President Elect" let alone a seal. Whose ego is driving this anyway?
First, he isn't even the President elect until the 15th (or whenever the electors cast their vote) though the vote is not in doubt, it just is factual to declare the title is not applicable yet.
Second, there is no office of the President Elect, there is no authority other than what the current President grants; I doubt it is even legal for the sitting President to do so.
I don't want to sound like part of the tinfoil hat crowd but all this wrapping oneself in an air of authority/royalty really is marketing gone amok or an ego gone amok. I hope its the marketing side because if its the later we are not in for a good four years.
I would be interested too see if sites which report negatively about this new adventure suddenly find themselves on the list.
around usually fall into the falling categories
1. They need to feel the victim, never wanting to believe anything that goes wrong in their life is the fault of their choices
2. They usually exhibit the worst stereotypes attributed to their race
3. They are so full of hatred (both self and towards others) there is no other reaction they can have
4. They just seek attention or favors by making public scenes knowing that it is far easier to embarrass people than prove an occurrence.
The problem today is that the term is applied to too many instances when bigotry is the real term that needs to be applied if at all. Any slight can be perceived in any manner and the press has this tendency to blow things out of proportion because too many in the press think they are societies protectors and it is up to them to identify what is wrong.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/22-The-Witcher
Actually finding Zero Punctuation is about the only thing I will thank Digg for, but having read that Atari is going to bring that game to the consoles reminded me of the review that hooked me on Yahtzee's style. While it isn't for everyone he does make it fun.
In other words, there rarely are reviewers who say what we want to say let alone so publically