Do you remember in middle school when the teacher was discussing a concept called "compound interest"? Probably not. You see, you start buying some stock now...not a lot, just a few shares...and you leave it in an account. At the end of the year the company pays dividends, which you also leave in the account. At the end of the second year, you'll have two years of stock that you bought, plus stock that was bought with last years dividend, and you'll get dividends on ALL OF IT...which you leave in the account.
Now, this is the hard part, but do try to keep up. YOU KEEP DOING THE SAME THING. Year in. Year out. In a decade, with a reasonable contribution $80,000 will be a fraction of the account.
The problems with Americans is that they don't understand the math of compound interest and they "want it now"...which means they're never going to have it.
Do you really think that GM makes their own tooling and keeps the machinist expertise in house? Do you think Apple has a huge janitorial service on contract to send someone out to clean the bathrooms at its rural data-center, when a smaller local company would do it cheaper because they don't have the overhead? I happen to know that WalMart keeps extreme control over all their IT, so I doubt they outsource any of it (but I don't know it); however, I do know that they outsource parking lot cleaning to a small local company with five trucks.
In our grandfather's day, if their employer had brought in illegals or foreigners to work their line, paying them less in order to pad their own paychecks, there would have been a shit storm. They would have been shunned in the community, their products boycotted, and they likely would have had investigations into their business practices. But more importantly, most of those employers wouldn't have done it anyway, because they cared just as much about their country as their employees. That's something we lost in the drive for globalization and ever increasing profit margins.
There would have been a shitstorm....that quickly blew over as people ignored it to stand in line at WalMart.
For incontrovertible proof and to head off the obligatory "citation required", read the summary.
No ones saying anything about their right to protest. The issue is their claim of right to come in and set up an encampment where camping is specifically prohibited. One of the Tea Party organizations tried to have a rally in Greensboro, NC. The city required them to have liability insurance, required them to rent a large number of port-a-poties, and then was going to charge them $700 to rent the park for a day. The rally had to be moved to a much less desirable location. For an OWS group, the liability and port-a-potty requirements were waved, and the rent was "discounted" to $200. This is the sort of things the right wing nut jobs complain about, and we want our guns to protect us from you left wing nut jobs until the police can get to us.
I think the fact that homeless people have found OWS encampments does not mean that the entire OWS movement should be defined by the actions of largely mentally ill people.
I won't be. It'll be defined by people like Ketchup in the Stephen Colbert interview. Goofy hand signals instead of Robert's Rules of Order. Now ain't that quaint.
It'll be defined by the people that couldn't be bothered to pick up a job application from the recruiting desk set up at the Zuccotti park gate.
It'll be defined by people like the "drama majorette" that wants the government to give her a job as a director.
Taking a dump on a cop car is just a summation of all of those.
Can I tell someone to stop protesting when their incessant noise completely destroys my ability to use my property? At what point does your right to protest meet might right to get some sleep in my bed?
A handful of cops. A much larger group of protestors. You spray them to subdue them. Once you start hauling people off, the likely hood of violence escalates very quickly. The pepper spray removes some of the tendencies toward violent reactions and actually improves the chances that no one gets injured.
Don't forget that it works the other way around to. Protestors can do the provoking off camera. There was an issue with the NYPD being upset that they couldn't film the protests in order to provide a fuller context to their actions.
In all the unjustified violence against OWS protesters,
So, when they show up to shut down my place of business for a few days, and I'm unable to meet the bank note because I'm on the teetering edge already, am I not allowed to call the police to restore order so that I may freely conduct my business? Do I not have any rights after someone decides they are going to "protest"? Can I camp out on anyone's land I choose, so long as I use the Magic marker to write on the cardboard?
They knew that they were going to have to physically drag the people from the sight, so they follow SOP by using a compliance tool to subdue them first.
Mobs are dangerous. Saying, "We're peaceful", only means that you're peaceful right now. Not five minutes from now when we start dragging you off in handcuffs.
That's a convenient statement, considering they all claim to be a leaderless, loose conglomeration of whoever wants to show up. Makes it easy to say, "We're people. All that violence is caused by someone else."
So if I come by tomorrow morning and park my car such that you can't get yours out of the driveway, would the police be unlawful in using force to remove me and my car? Would it make a difference if I carried a sign that says I'm some percentage of something?
But then you'd have jails full of ACTUAL criminals...and those blokes are downright VIOLENT. Dealing with all that violence would cut into the company profits.
And that is why Portugal's approach to drugs, treating it as a medical and mental health issue, is working and ours isn't.
After all the money spent on the War on Drugs, the US still has the addiction rates that we had at the turn of the 19th century. If we only had as many freedoms.
Necessity is the mother of invention.... and paradoxically, being stranded is the father of getting up off you lazy butt and figuring out how a car works 8*)
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Welcome to "Idiocracy". (Reference the diagnostician who can determine which lead goes in the mouth and which goes up the butt.)
If you can be replaced by a shell script, you should be looking for more training.
We discussed on a Reddit thread
That right there explains quite a bit.
Do you remember in middle school when the teacher was discussing a concept called "compound interest"? Probably not. You see, you start buying some stock now...not a lot, just a few shares...and you leave it in an account. At the end of the year the company pays dividends, which you also leave in the account. At the end of the second year, you'll have two years of stock that you bought, plus stock that was bought with last years dividend, and you'll get dividends on ALL OF IT...which you leave in the account.
Now, this is the hard part, but do try to keep up. YOU KEEP DOING THE SAME THING. Year in. Year out. In a decade, with a reasonable contribution $80,000 will be a fraction of the account.
The problems with Americans is that they don't understand the math of compound interest and they "want it now"...which means they're never going to have it.
And the weavers! Think about the WEAVERS. Let's break out the sticks and break all the looms!
(He says as he finishes a project that turns a weak long QA test run into a 3-minute image submission process 8*(
Really? I thought I heard the garage was getting foreclosed on.
Do you really think that GM makes their own tooling and keeps the machinist expertise in house?
Do you think Apple has a huge janitorial service on contract to send someone out to clean the bathrooms at its rural data-center, when a smaller local company would do it cheaper because they don't have the overhead?
I happen to know that WalMart keeps extreme control over all their IT, so I doubt they outsource any of it (but I don't know it); however, I do know that they outsource parking lot cleaning to a small local company with five trucks.
In our grandfather's day, if their employer had brought in illegals or foreigners to work their line, paying them less in order to pad their own paychecks, there would have been a shit storm. They would have been shunned in the community, their products boycotted, and they likely would have had investigations into their business practices. But more importantly, most of those employers wouldn't have done it anyway, because they cared just as much about their country as their employees. That's something we lost in the drive for globalization and ever increasing profit margins.
There would have been a shitstorm....that quickly blew over as people ignored it to stand in line at WalMart.
For incontrovertible proof and to head off the obligatory "citation required", read the summary.
No ones saying anything about their right to protest. The issue is their claim of right to come in and set up an encampment where camping is specifically prohibited. One of the Tea Party organizations tried to have a rally in Greensboro, NC. The city required them to have liability insurance, required them to rent a large number of port-a-poties, and then was going to charge them $700 to rent the park for a day. The rally had to be moved to a much less desirable location. For an OWS group, the liability and port-a-potty requirements were waved, and the rent was "discounted" to $200. This is the sort of things the right wing nut jobs complain about, and we want our guns to protect us from you left wing nut jobs until the police can get to us.
I think the fact that homeless people have found OWS encampments does not mean that the entire OWS movement should be defined by the actions of largely mentally ill people.
I won't be. It'll be defined by people like Ketchup in the Stephen Colbert interview. Goofy hand signals instead of Robert's Rules of Order. Now ain't that quaint.
It'll be defined by the people that couldn't be bothered to pick up a job application from the recruiting desk set up at the Zuccotti park gate.
It'll be defined by people like the "drama majorette" that wants the government to give her a job as a director.
Taking a dump on a cop car is just a summation of all of those.
Can I tell someone to stop protesting when their incessant noise completely destroys my ability to use my property? At what point does your right to protest meet might right to get some sleep in my bed?
A handful of cops. A much larger group of protestors. You spray them to subdue them. Once you start hauling people off, the likely hood of violence escalates very quickly. The pepper spray removes some of the tendencies toward violent reactions and actually improves the chances that no one gets injured.
And all of those countries are as large and expansive as the US. Right? No. They are much closer in size and population to a single US State.
The point was to move the government back to the people. That isn't libertarian. That is having the people involved in their government.
You could, I don't know, try to, like..um..., not borrow money from them. You know, live off what you've got.
The video only show the end of the protests. And blocking right of ways is most definitely a provocation.
Don't forget that it works the other way around to. Protestors can do the provoking off camera. There was an issue with the NYPD being upset that they couldn't film the protests in order to provide a fuller context to their actions.
When you're sitting in order to block the policemen from doing their prescribed duties in carrying out the law, yes, you are provoking him.
In all the unjustified violence against OWS protesters,
So, when they show up to shut down my place of business for a few days, and I'm unable to meet the bank note because I'm on the teetering edge already, am I not allowed to call the police to restore order so that I may freely conduct my business? Do I not have any rights after someone decides they are going to "protest"? Can I camp out on anyone's land I choose, so long as I use the Magic marker to write on the cardboard?
...or...
They knew that they were going to have to physically drag the people from the sight, so they follow SOP by using a compliance tool to subdue them first.
Mobs are dangerous. Saying, "We're peaceful", only means that you're peaceful right now. Not five minutes from now when we start dragging you off in handcuffs.
That's a convenient statement, considering they all claim to be a leaderless, loose conglomeration of whoever wants to show up. Makes it easy to say, "We're people. All that violence is caused by someone else."
So if I come by tomorrow morning and park my car such that you can't get yours out of the driveway, would the police be unlawful in using force to remove me and my car? Would it make a difference if I carried a sign that says I'm some percentage of something?
But then you'd have jails full of ACTUAL criminals...and those blokes are downright VIOLENT. Dealing with all that violence would cut into the company profits.
And that is why Portugal's approach to drugs, treating it as a medical and mental health issue, is working and ours isn't.
After all the money spent on the War on Drugs, the US still has the addiction rates that we had at the turn of the 19th century. If we only had as many freedoms.
The patents may not have been all that Microsoft was offering to fight over.
"Challenge our patents, and some other services you're looking for may get VERY expensive."
Necessity is the mother of invention....
and paradoxically, being stranded is the father of getting up off you lazy butt and figuring out how a car works 8*)
I agree to your terms. You can pick up your check at the mine depot office, where they will gladly sell you the fuel for the return trip home.