Well, let's see... that was a really constructive post. Do you feel better?
I hit the job boards every day. In an area of several million, do you know how many new IT jobs were posted in the last week (as opposed to reposting the same job with ridiculous requirements)? Zero. None. Nada. Zip. Null. Locally, IT lost way more than 10% of it's jobs so far this year, and the trend is expected to continue.
How bad is it? The place I used to work at has laid off 2/3 of their staff, and all but one programmer. I was too expensive to keep on the books, unless I wanted to take both a 50% pay cut and a 50% cut in hours (that's a 75% pay cut) on top of a previous 20% cut (gross total cut of 80%). They had to cut back because the previous team screwed up so bad, that by the time I had fixed most of their mistakes (at least the ones that I was *allowed* to fix - the design is still crap, but at least it works), they were in trouble, having lost some of their biggest clients - including some household names.
I also have ads out looking for work. All that comes back is people who don't know what they want, and don't want to explain what they want because I can then "steal their great idea", or scams along the lines of "I'll give you a share of the revenues" or equally unrealistic garbage. Why do you think I need to relocate? Why do you think that half my family already has? Or that this month another friend left the country to work elsewhere?
So why shouldn't I put some of my time into coming up with a way to make things simpler? Who knows, it might lead to something better elsewhere in the world. And why not be honest about the underlying causes of the 3-decades-long under-performance of the local economy cause by successive governments chasing away business by discriminating against the English minority? Ignoring it won't make it go away - it just makes it easier to think "Oh, it's like this everywhere." It's not.
Finally, Sobon suggests that you ignore his clothes - apparently "most geeks don't wear pants,"
Ummm... those aren't geeks - that's just guys sitting around looking at porn. Do NOTtouch their mouse or keyboard - you KNOW where their hands have been.
and women should "get over it and wait for the ring to diversify his wardrobe."
Like that's ever worked for anyone of either sex in a relationship - "Oh, they'll change when they're married." Not!
If you're going to take off your top to take off your bra, why nut just do like everyone already does - lift up the front of your top to cover your nose and mouth instead? Quicker, larger filter area, etc.
I've had idiots threaten me with bogus DMCA requests 3 times in the last couple of years when I wrote exposes about them - nothing ever came of them (and one idiot sent the notice to an American ISP).
But your point is right - "not yet". Hopefully it will stay that way, because illegitimate requests are such a hassle.
They needed it for another customer's car. And this way, you had to buy a new tire. See, they're working to stimulate the economy. It's only theft if you or I do it - not when Congress or WalMart do it.
She ate more than 8 pounds of sausage in 10 minutes, 8.4 pounds of baked beans in less than 3 minutes, 11 pounds of cheesecake in 9 minutes, and so many more records that I'm not even going to list them.
Note that Europe made this list 6 times, and North America not at all. Bunch'a prudes.:-(
Or maybe everyone in North America is getting some, and don't have to lie about it? After all, you're not going to be hungy if you just ate a 120 ounce steak.
I never heard about them until the publicity stunt either. And you know something? The stunt makes me disinclined to trust anything they say. Maybe they got some last-minute cash from an investor on condition that they claim it was just a publicity stunt so they can prep it for a sale? Who knows?
the smallest small businesses won't be hurt by it - and they're the most fragile. Not all small business is mom and pops - a 20-partner law firm billing $20 million a year is still a "small business." They can afford to pay an increase. Ditto a 10-doctor plastic surgery clinic with 15 support staff. The ones that have sufficient income are the ones that will be hit, so to say it will hurt small business is a lie, because it lumps those small businesses that can afford more taxes with those who need a tax break so they can hire someone.
It's the echo chamber effect. Same as the FBI hears about some subversive activity on campus. and puts 10 agents undercover, and so does the CIA, and so does DHS. Sure enough, they each separately report back that - wow - there seems to be some subversives on campus, so they each get 100 agents undercover. "The place is CRAWLING with subversives!" Next thing you know, "You can't walk 5 feet without seeing someone or something suspicious - people who don't fit in, blah blah blah".
All these people who got iPads so they can review them, or they can develop the "next big thing"... and they're going to be obsolete in 3 months because everything we said about them was true.
I know - anyone who's followed me knows that I almost always end up firing the lawyers and doing the dirty work myself. (Good help is *so* hard to find!:-)
... except that time probably doesn't flow the same way under those conditions, and even the smallest asymmetry makes a difference (and since we're seeing it through the lens of our own perception and current state of time, it's inaccurate at best). Or do we now want to have people claim that time is not (a manifestation of) one (or more) of the dimensions?
It's not like you can get milk, eggs, meds, etc. through Amazon - or that they'll ship something you need NOW. Got poison ivy? Do you really want to wait 2 to 4 days to get that lotion? Scratch that!
It's because you omitted the fact that it's also, as I originally pointed out in my first post, a tax cut for smaller businesses:
Under I-1098, 118,000 businesses will be newly exempt from paying the B&O tax. This long overdue reform will help protect jobs and get Washington's economy moving again.
It's not "just" for social services and education.
The article is inaccurate - like usual. I actually went to both web sites - the pro and con - to get both sides. If you had actually READ the article, instead of just skimming it, you would have too.
"You can't tell the business side an idea is nonsense if they're the ones who came up with it," she says
If you can't then:
you lack the necessary credentials in their eyes. Your team is not even the "B" team;
you lack integrity in your teams eyes. They will not back you up, and with reason.
"It's not a good idea to piss off someone who can have you declared dead on every computer system on the planet," says Kadrich. "You're looking for people with the ability to break into systems and do things to people but who choose to use their powers for justice."
Again, this is just stupid. Fire that person, and fire the person who hired them. Most project fail because of people conflicts and poor communications, not technical skills.
"A lot of guys who know security really well can make something so secure nobody else can use it," he says. "You need somebody who knows where to draw the line."
If you can't follow what they've done, you are not fit to lead, and you've already let the whole ball of wax get even more out of control.
You want someone who's always trying out new things, that superuser who knows more about Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace
MySpace? Are you for real? MySpace? Oh, silly me - it's Troll Tuesday. "new things", "superuser" and "MySpace" are only found together on Troll Tuesday in this universe.
I'm sorry, but how does taxing people have anything to do with Henry Ford or the economy? Is the state going to give the money to corporations to hire more people and pay more to their mid level employees?
Yes - they are earmarking part of the funds to reduce taxes to smaller businesses so they can hire more people, or keep the ones they already have. Too bad you didn't actually follow the links and see what the fuss was about.
You have to include both veterans affairs (pensions, benefits, etc) and much of the DOE budget (nuclear research, etc) in that figure. That bumps war to # 1. Also, war doesn't even pretend to pay taxes into the system, whereas social security recipients paid something into the pot.
They say "we're taxing cigarettes to help people quit", but not only has it proven to not again and again, but the money just goes to the general state coffers instead of helping smokers; the "poor" do not benefit.
That's strange, because we taxed the crap out of it here, and studies show that the much higher cost was the biggest influence in keeping teenagers from taking up the habit in the first place. At over $10 a pack, kids think twice. We also raised the fines for selling to kids ($3,000 to $50,000 makes retailers think twice), and banned advertising, smoking in the workplace (including private offices), in public buildings, restaurants, etc. This was not to generate revenue, but to postpone future costs to the health-care system.
Unsurprisingly, it's been shown repeatedly that a government giving its poor free things does not end well for anyone: government costs go up to placate the poor, and the poor remain placated with full stomachs and not much motivation to get off their asses.
When half the poor were once middle-class, your argument fails. See the stats about how for the first time ever, more of the recipients of food stamps live in the suburbs than the urban ghettos. People who have lost their jobs didn't set out to be poor. People who are the victims of ageism don't get older intentionally. Women don't ask to be discriminated in both employment opportunities and wage parity.
And about those urban ghettos? Most people would love to leave them. But the jobs simply aren't there. Look at where all the manufacturing jobs have gone. All the service jobs that went to support those manufacturing jobs are also gone. China strictly controls foreign investment (must be majority-chinese owned) and the exchange rate on their currency, as well as having strict forex controls (Chinese companies are required to convert their dollar income to chinese currency).
The only way to compete with that is to do the same. Otherwise, it's a rush to the global bottom. It's taken 40 years to ruin the economy, and it's going to take 40 years to rebuild it.
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I hit the job boards every day. In an area of several million, do you know how many new IT jobs were posted in the last week (as opposed to reposting the same job with ridiculous requirements)? Zero. None. Nada. Zip. Null. Locally, IT lost way more than 10% of it's jobs so far this year, and the trend is expected to continue.
How bad is it? The place I used to work at has laid off 2/3 of their staff, and all but one programmer. I was too expensive to keep on the books, unless I wanted to take both a 50% pay cut and a 50% cut in hours (that's a 75% pay cut) on top of a previous 20% cut (gross total cut of 80%). They had to cut back because the previous team screwed up so bad, that by the time I had fixed most of their mistakes (at least the ones that I was *allowed* to fix - the design is still crap, but at least it works), they were in trouble, having lost some of their biggest clients - including some household names.
I also have ads out looking for work. All that comes back is people who don't know what they want, and don't want to explain what they want because I can then "steal their great idea", or scams along the lines of "I'll give you a share of the revenues" or equally unrealistic garbage. Why do you think I need to relocate? Why do you think that half my family already has? Or that this month another friend left the country to work elsewhere?
So why shouldn't I put some of my time into coming up with a way to make things simpler? Who knows, it might lead to something better elsewhere in the world. And why not be honest about the underlying causes of the 3-decades-long under-performance of the local economy cause by successive governments chasing away business by discriminating against the English minority? Ignoring it won't make it go away - it just makes it easier to think "Oh, it's like this everywhere." It's not.
There ... I feel better already :-)
Ummm ... those aren't geeks - that's just guys sitting around looking at porn. Do NOTtouch their mouse or keyboard - you KNOW where their hands have been.
Like that's ever worked for anyone of either sex in a relationship - "Oh, they'll change when they're married." Not!
If you're going to take off your top to take off your bra, why nut just do like everyone already does - lift up the front of your top to cover your nose and mouth instead? Quicker, larger filter area, etc.
But your point is right - "not yet". Hopefully it will stay that way, because illegitimate requests are such a hassle.
Or just move the files to Canada. No DMCA.
They needed it for another customer's car. And this way, you had to buy a new tire. See, they're working to stimulate the economy. It's only theft if you or I do it - not when Congress or WalMart do it.
Look at this guy - the first on the list. He weighs 132 pounds,
Come on - a 132 pound guy ate 6 pounds of spam in 12 minutes.
Or this 105-pound woman
She ate more than 8 pounds of sausage in 10 minutes, 8.4 pounds of baked beans in less than 3 minutes, 11 pounds of cheesecake in 9 minutes, and so many more records that I'm not even going to list them.
Or this guy drinking a 22-ounce slurpee in 9 seconds, 13 pounds of poutine, more than 15 pounds of strawberry shrotcake, and many other records.
None of them are obese 300-pound tubs of lard.
Or maybe everyone in North America is getting some, and don't have to lie about it? After all, you're not going to be hungy if you just ate a 120 ounce steak.
I never heard about them until the publicity stunt either. And you know something? The stunt makes me disinclined to trust anything they say. Maybe they got some last-minute cash from an investor on condition that they claim it was just a publicity stunt so they can prep it for a sale? Who knows?
the smallest small businesses won't be hurt by it - and they're the most fragile. Not all small business is mom and pops - a 20-partner law firm billing $20 million a year is still a "small business." They can afford to pay an increase. Ditto a 10-doctor plastic surgery clinic with 15 support staff. The ones that have sufficient income are the ones that will be hit, so to say it will hurt small business is a lie, because it lumps those small businesses that can afford more taxes with those who need a tax break so they can hire someone.
And how would you do it? It's the same as GDP per capita or any other stat.
You just proved my point. Trust me, that is NOT the correct answer.
What's so hard? Total military personnel - 1.4 million. Total military spending 1.4 trillion. 1 million per soldier.
It costs $1,000,000.00 per year per soldier. They don't pay anywhere near that in taxes.
All these people who got iPads so they can review them, or they can develop the "next big thing" ... and they're going to be obsolete in 3 months because everything we said about them was true.
I know - anyone who's followed me knows that I almost always end up firing the lawyers and doing the dirty work myself. (Good help is *so* hard to find! :-)
I know - I'll just go back in time and find o ...
It's not like you can get milk, eggs, meds, etc. through Amazon - or that they'll ship something you need NOW. Got poison ivy? Do you really want to wait 2 to 4 days to get that lotion? Scratch that!
It's not "just" for social services and education.
The article is inaccurate - like usual. I actually went to both web sites - the pro and con - to get both sides. If you had actually READ the article, instead of just skimming it, you would have too.
If you can't then:
Again, this is just stupid. Fire that person, and fire the person who hired them. Most project fail because of people conflicts and poor communications, not technical skills.
If you can't follow what they've done, you are not fit to lead, and you've already let the whole ball of wax get even more out of control.
MySpace? Are you for real? MySpace? Oh, silly me - it's Troll Tuesday. "new things", "superuser" and "MySpace" are only found together on Troll Tuesday in this universe.
Yes - they are earmarking part of the funds to reduce taxes to smaller businesses so they can hire more people, or keep the ones they already have. Too bad you didn't actually follow the links and see what the fuss was about.
You have to include both veterans affairs (pensions, benefits, etc) and much of the DOE budget (nuclear research, etc) in that figure. That bumps war to # 1. Also, war doesn't even pretend to pay taxes into the system, whereas social security recipients paid something into the pot.
That's strange, because we taxed the crap out of it here, and studies show that the much higher cost was the biggest influence in keeping teenagers from taking up the habit in the first place. At over $10 a pack, kids think twice. We also raised the fines for selling to kids ($3,000 to $50,000 makes retailers think twice), and banned advertising, smoking in the workplace (including private offices), in public buildings, restaurants, etc. This was not to generate revenue, but to postpone future costs to the health-care system.
When half the poor were once middle-class, your argument fails. See the stats about how for the first time ever, more of the recipients of food stamps live in the suburbs than the urban ghettos. People who have lost their jobs didn't set out to be poor. People who are the victims of ageism don't get older intentionally. Women don't ask to be discriminated in both employment opportunities and wage parity.
And about those urban ghettos? Most people would love to leave them. But the jobs simply aren't there. Look at where all the manufacturing jobs have gone. All the service jobs that went to support those manufacturing jobs are also gone. China strictly controls foreign investment (must be majority-chinese owned) and the exchange rate on their currency, as well as having strict forex controls (Chinese companies are required to convert their dollar income to chinese currency).
The only way to compete with that is to do the same. Otherwise, it's a rush to the global bottom. It's taken 40 years to ruin the economy, and it's going to take 40 years to rebuild it.
The #1 use of your taxes is war and it's consequences, or here, or the interactive chart.