One point not made. It may not be you. In an effort to be 'fair', we have created a workplace where bosses are scared to death to hire anyone except young white, asian, or Euro males. All others, older, female (especially of childbearing age), or any protected minority are to be avoided.
Reason? It is a major liability if you need them to perform and they cannot. 'Surprise' pregnancies, 'sudden' discrimination ('someone in the parking lot has a Confederate Flag on their truck') or stubbornness to 'change the way I have write code for 20 years ' will delay products and programs. Bosses cannot just replace people, and get no slack from the management to the issues.
Why would any front line manager hire anyone but young, white/Asian/Euro males?
I am not defending this attitude, but stating it is the way the world is now. We have pushed discrimination to the point where it hurts the very people that the laws were designed to help. Your Government at work.
Occupy Wall Street?
Oh, you mean the STREET PARTIES where sons and daughter of 'rich' people hung out and got stoned while feasting on 'organic' food. To bad those pesky homeless type invaded. Ate OUR food, stole OUR iPhones, raped OUR women. Got to move them to a different venue next time. We are in solidarity with the homeless, as long as we do not have to be near their smelly bodies.....
And it was SO much fun trashing public infrastructure! Yes, tearing up parks and preventing the citizens from using them. How dare they complain! Just because they pay taxes and we don't doesn't mean we cannot take over their parks!
Want a laugh? Visit YouTube, type in OWS and listen to the rantings of stoned, drunk, and stupid college grads trying to explain what they were 'protesting'. OWS, the Monty Python of this generation.
Did you actually WORK for a Japanese company? I did, at a high level. What you will NOT read in Mother Jones..
High level execs are not 'paid' as much as in other countries. BUT, those same execs pay for virtually nothing. Their vacations are 'business trips'. Their children's education is expensed. Wife goes on business trip with exec to San Francisco, buys $2000 worth of shoes on the company paid credit card. All means, insurance, much of the rent/mortgage etc. is buried.
“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.”
– H. L. Mencken
Socialist Feel Good reaction.
If the proponents of this are serious and consistent, then they should also cap salaries of Rock Stars, Community Organizers (like Michele Obama's US$330,000 salary for not showing up to work at a hospital), Sport heroes, Actors, Producers, Hedge Fund managers (What! No Soros? Who will fund MoveON?), Union bosses, Al Gore's Trust (from Occidental Petroleum holdings) and on and on.
Or, do you JUST want to cap CEOs?
Sadaam is out of power (dead). We are not spending $20-30B a year, for an estimated 30 years, to monitor Iraq and prevent attacks on the Kurds. We do not have worry about Iraq harboring terrorism as they were (Gore and Berger acknowledged). And the WMDs we didn't find? Yep, we found them... in Syria.
You can argue all day about the Iraq war, but to say it was stupid and wasteful is a simpleton and typically MS/MBC parroting of selected information.
In retrospect, ALL wars are preventable. ALL military conflicts are avoidable. ALL leaders acted without all the information.
More than that. It is a fight for campaign dollars. Big Utilities and Big Unions have a lot to lose. Blame the GOP or Rand Paul! Yes, that is it!
Obama and his ilk are for sale. The high bidders now are entrenched government-like entities and big Unions.
But, it is all Bush's fault after all...
Somehow, she ends up in all these types of stories. Maybe there is a reason.
But, don't expect those who grew up in a bubble of the virtues of Socialism or Collectivism to understand. Their last original thought was right before they were indoctrinated by their Socialist Professors.
BTW, Ayn's best book was The Fountainhead. Go into any independent book store and ask for it.
Never happen in California. The Prison Guard Unions bought the Democratic Party and installed Gov. Davis. They are now amoung the highest paid law enforcement officers in the US. Oh, and lots of prisoners for minor drug offenses. Didn't help Davis, as he was thrown out, but DID help the Union. Demos for sale, just not cheap.
"t's a bit disingenuous to say the whole law is broken because of the website. "
The product IS the website! It is the way you get healthcare.
In any private company, the CEO would be gone if the products screwed up this bad....excepting maybe Microsoft. But, Obama still has a job. That is the advantage of having given away so many free t-shirts.
News Flash! NHS has had to offer PRIVATE healthcare coverage in order to recruit Doctors for PUBLIC healthcare services.
What does that tell you about what the doctors think of public healthcare in the UK?
The Android/Windows worlds are awash with hardware of every type and quality. Common thread is that all vendors are in a race to the bottom in terms of margins. No one can make money. Intel has bought into this insanity, and is pushing ARM -killer chips. They are the next to get sucked in.
Apple has moved from selling 'stuff' to selling lifestyle... quality products that work well (generally), look great, and are easy to use. The customers who still have money aspire to own Apple, and will pay for it. The techies are battling each other over Android/Linux/Unix-like nits and specs and attract customers with no money or no willingness to part with it.
Microsoft has failed on so many levels in the PC and tablet space. Their numbers are only useful to the real estate agents, trying to figure out how big of a lot is needed to bury the inventories of pads, phones, and Win8 media.
The large majority of people ARE reading text while driving.. See it every day here. Damn near got rear ended by a well quaffed lady in a massive SUV the other day. I saw her coming fast in my rear view mirror. I let off the brake and held on tight....been rear ended before.
She stopped literally 1inch from my bumper. Thank goodness for anti-lock brakes, because she smoked them tires. Then, she sped past as the light turned green. Had to laugh at the bumper stickers on the beast she was driving Guess the 'Earth Goddess' WAS watching over here. 'Hope and Change' apparently worked for once....
These posts are amusing.
I have two boys in college. Raising kids is simple in theory, very difficult in practice. Sort of like basic social skills that many on these boards lack. Too bad you can get a PhD without basic life skills...
Love the kids. Spend time with them while they will still let you. Let go as they enter teenage years, but stay as close as possible. Their world is much different than yours was. Cutting off technology is like not having a TV when I was young. Sounds great in theory, but is simply another way of saying 'I don't want to help you grow up, so I will just cut you off from things that could possibly make MY life difficult.' In other words, cutting off kids from their peers to avoid having to monitor them.
What kids, especially boys, DO notice is that you care. You ask how they are, you make it a point to have one nice dinner as a family each weekend, no matter how busy everyone is. Don't try to understand their music, their Facebook life, their clothes.
In other word, let them grow to be their own people.
And, don't nitpik the grammar. The world has REAL problems.
The whole 'climate change' culture exists so that the lonely academics can be hip and cool with their huge NSF grants and invites to Al Gore's latest shindig.
God help you if you use your education and position to do critical analysis. No party with Bono for you!
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In other word, your matra is "help! the paranoids are chasing me"
One point not made. It may not be you. In an effort to be 'fair', we have created a workplace where bosses are scared to death to hire anyone except young white, asian, or Euro males. All others, older, female (especially of childbearing age), or any protected minority are to be avoided. Reason? It is a major liability if you need them to perform and they cannot. 'Surprise' pregnancies, 'sudden' discrimination ('someone in the parking lot has a Confederate Flag on their truck') or stubbornness to 'change the way I have write code for 20 years ' will delay products and programs. Bosses cannot just replace people, and get no slack from the management to the issues. Why would any front line manager hire anyone but young, white/Asian/Euro males? I am not defending this attitude, but stating it is the way the world is now. We have pushed discrimination to the point where it hurts the very people that the laws were designed to help. Your Government at work.
Occupy Wall Street? Oh, you mean the STREET PARTIES where sons and daughter of 'rich' people hung out and got stoned while feasting on 'organic' food. To bad those pesky homeless type invaded. Ate OUR food, stole OUR iPhones, raped OUR women. Got to move them to a different venue next time. We are in solidarity with the homeless, as long as we do not have to be near their smelly bodies..... And it was SO much fun trashing public infrastructure! Yes, tearing up parks and preventing the citizens from using them. How dare they complain! Just because they pay taxes and we don't doesn't mean we cannot take over their parks! Want a laugh? Visit YouTube, type in OWS and listen to the rantings of stoned, drunk, and stupid college grads trying to explain what they were 'protesting'. OWS, the Monty Python of this generation.
And, economies never grow when the government takes over control of business. Read the current news.
Who is the Greed Police? Would you sic them on your favorite sports star, rock hero, model, actress? Probably not. But, hey CEO are fair game.
Did you actually WORK for a Japanese company? I did, at a high level. What you will NOT read in Mother Jones.. High level execs are not 'paid' as much as in other countries. BUT, those same execs pay for virtually nothing. Their vacations are 'business trips'. Their children's education is expensed. Wife goes on business trip with exec to San Francisco, buys $2000 worth of shoes on the company paid credit card. All means, insurance, much of the rent/mortgage etc. is buried. “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.” – H. L. Mencken
Socialist Feel Good reaction. If the proponents of this are serious and consistent, then they should also cap salaries of Rock Stars, Community Organizers (like Michele Obama's US$330,000 salary for not showing up to work at a hospital), Sport heroes, Actors, Producers, Hedge Fund managers (What! No Soros? Who will fund MoveON?), Union bosses, Al Gore's Trust (from Occidental Petroleum holdings) and on and on. Or, do you JUST want to cap CEOs?
Sadaam is out of power (dead). We are not spending $20-30B a year, for an estimated 30 years, to monitor Iraq and prevent attacks on the Kurds. We do not have worry about Iraq harboring terrorism as they were (Gore and Berger acknowledged). And the WMDs we didn't find? Yep, we found them... in Syria. You can argue all day about the Iraq war, but to say it was stupid and wasteful is a simpleton and typically MS/MBC parroting of selected information. In retrospect, ALL wars are preventable. ALL military conflicts are avoidable. ALL leaders acted without all the information.
More than that. It is a fight for campaign dollars. Big Utilities and Big Unions have a lot to lose. Blame the GOP or Rand Paul! Yes, that is it! Obama and his ilk are for sale. The high bidders now are entrenched government-like entities and big Unions. But, it is all Bush's fault after all...
"left is the path of collectivist fascism" Ayn Rand was right.
Somehow, she ends up in all these types of stories. Maybe there is a reason. But, don't expect those who grew up in a bubble of the virtues of Socialism or Collectivism to understand. Their last original thought was right before they were indoctrinated by their Socialist Professors. BTW, Ayn's best book was The Fountainhead. Go into any independent book store and ask for it.
Never happen in California. The Prison Guard Unions bought the Democratic Party and installed Gov. Davis. They are now amoung the highest paid law enforcement officers in the US. Oh, and lots of prisoners for minor drug offenses. Didn't help Davis, as he was thrown out, but DID help the Union. Demos for sale, just not cheap.
Proves that most film critics need to get real jobs. A week following a police gang task force will cure their lust for violent movies.
"t's a bit disingenuous to say the whole law is broken because of the website. " The product IS the website! It is the way you get healthcare. In any private company, the CEO would be gone if the products screwed up this bad....excepting maybe Microsoft. But, Obama still has a job. That is the advantage of having given away so many free t-shirts.
Obvious solution- Get political oriented funding out. There is no 'independent' research if Politicians are involved, period.
News Flash! NHS has had to offer PRIVATE healthcare coverage in order to recruit Doctors for PUBLIC healthcare services. What does that tell you about what the doctors think of public healthcare in the UK?
Where the 'free market' is ACTUALLY in use in Health Care, you have lower costs and better care.
The Android/Windows worlds are awash with hardware of every type and quality. Common thread is that all vendors are in a race to the bottom in terms of margins. No one can make money. Intel has bought into this insanity, and is pushing ARM -killer chips. They are the next to get sucked in. Apple has moved from selling 'stuff' to selling lifestyle... quality products that work well (generally), look great, and are easy to use. The customers who still have money aspire to own Apple, and will pay for it. The techies are battling each other over Android/Linux/Unix-like nits and specs and attract customers with no money or no willingness to part with it.
Microsoft has failed on so many levels in the PC and tablet space. Their numbers are only useful to the real estate agents, trying to figure out how big of a lot is needed to bury the inventories of pads, phones, and Win8 media.
"Or wide-spread robbery of public funds by the financial sector." Or politicians who extort campaign funds from the said sector.
The large majority of people ARE reading text while driving.. See it every day here. Damn near got rear ended by a well quaffed lady in a massive SUV the other day. I saw her coming fast in my rear view mirror. I let off the brake and held on tight....been rear ended before. She stopped literally 1inch from my bumper. Thank goodness for anti-lock brakes, because she smoked them tires. Then, she sped past as the light turned green. Had to laugh at the bumper stickers on the beast she was driving Guess the 'Earth Goddess' WAS watching over here. 'Hope and Change' apparently worked for once....
"this bears no relation to any reality I've ever been in contact with." Makes sense... you seem to be at Stanford. ;-)
These posts are amusing. I have two boys in college. Raising kids is simple in theory, very difficult in practice. Sort of like basic social skills that many on these boards lack. Too bad you can get a PhD without basic life skills... Love the kids. Spend time with them while they will still let you. Let go as they enter teenage years, but stay as close as possible. Their world is much different than yours was. Cutting off technology is like not having a TV when I was young. Sounds great in theory, but is simply another way of saying 'I don't want to help you grow up, so I will just cut you off from things that could possibly make MY life difficult.' In other words, cutting off kids from their peers to avoid having to monitor them. What kids, especially boys, DO notice is that you care. You ask how they are, you make it a point to have one nice dinner as a family each weekend, no matter how busy everyone is. Don't try to understand their music, their Facebook life, their clothes. In other word, let them grow to be their own people. And, don't nitpik the grammar. The world has REAL problems.
Correct. Why, this guy still wears his 'Hope and Change' T-Shirt in public
The whole 'climate change' culture exists so that the lonely academics can be hip and cool with their huge NSF grants and invites to Al Gore's latest shindig. God help you if you use your education and position to do critical analysis. No party with Bono for you!