No...your first priority for your public official is all about you. And what you see. WHich is not to say you're any different from any others in America.
A minor correction: He's not different from any other American who voted for George Bush. There are still multiple millions of us who would like to make this great country a better place for everyone - not just the millionaires.
So it is an easy fix. Where ever your internet-based store is, is where the tax money goes.
I think your definition of "easy" is different from mine. How do you determine where an internet-based store is located? Where the servers are located? Where the administrative offices are? Where the goods are shipped from? All of these can be in multiple locations.
Bah - I laugh at these foreign scientists. Just wait until the first wave of creationists start graduating from our high schools. Then we'll show them what scientific advancement is all aboout.
I would dare say in the longterm, the two upcoming new Justices (whoever they may be) will impact us more than any elected politician short of President ever will.
At the risk of dragging this thread off-topic, I will say that you couldn't be more wrong. In our government, the people that affect our lives the most are the ones that the fewest people vote for. The locally elected officials: county supervisors, city council members, mayors, school board members, etc will affect our lives more directly and regularly than anyone at the federal level.
Well, I am Mr anti-corporation and I am guaranteeing record progits from the oil and gas industry in the next quarter. They paid good money to own the US Congress and President and they expect to profit from it. Although you may be a simple, backwoods farmer, it's very easy to understand finance and big business: Maximize profits no matter what. You are beyond the reach of any moral obligations and cannot be held personally liable for the most egregious of behavior. Whatever profits you made last quarter must be increased next quarter. Pretty simple.
I find it very ironic to be flamed by anyone who thinks I'm an idiot for not believing in a theory that's never been proven by scientific process.
In actuality, I believe you're an idiot because you don't understand that the theory of evolution does not attempt to be a proof. That's just more propaganda from the radical right. Science attempts to explain why things are and, by extrapolation and interpolation, why they might change. Evolution does this very well. It does not require you to "believe". It simply states what is. You are still free to believe in God in any form you care to, just don't expect to be able to predict what will come next with any accuracy.
I've had the exact opposite experience. Granted, I am not a big moviegoer but I can't recall ever having any trouble at the Metreon. The last few movies I've seen were a pretty wide variety (War of the Worlds, Sin City and Spongebob Squarepants) and people were quiet and well-behaved through the entire showing.
At any rate, you are probably right that these things won't ever become mandatory-- in the United States.
Don't bet on it. Of course the first people to be tagged won't be Republicans. It will start with convicted felons. Then it will be required for other types of disenfranchised people, such as retarded citizens, "for their own good". Then it will be required for airline travel "for our own safety". Then there will be a knock on the door....
You never realize you're on the slippery slope until you've stepped on it.
Not even a little bit. While the company may certainly want people to act a certain way while in their uniform, where do they derive the legal authority to REQUIRE them to act a certain way?
More and more I see companies trying to solve every problem or perceived problem by putting a policy in place. Usually, this solves the problem at the expense of morale and productivity. A once simple task is now a complicated nightmare. It's a mistake to put a policy into place as a knee-jerk, first response. Instead, hire good people, train them well, treat them well and let them be your first defense against problems. Policies are to clarify ambiguities and apply standardization - not as a cure-all for every situation.
Since when does a collection of non-commital answers to vague questions qualify as an 'in-depth interview'.
Since the begining of journalism. There have always been lazy reporters who will take a press release, slap their name on it, and call it a news story. Anyone want to bet that the so-called reporter and the interviewee never even met?
I completely agree. I've also needed to look up old information except I burn a CD to archive my emails. I may regret that someday but for now it works.
The failure in our schools is NOT the fault of teachers or administrators or school boards. It's our fault. We oen this one fair and square. Schools need cash. Teachers buy supplies out of their own pockets and many schools are crumbling down around student's ears. Schools need to be funded - maybe even overfunded. Republicans need to be thrown out of office until they learn we want our tax money spent on something that doesn't killl people. We put them in office and approved of their miserly ways.
He would ask me a question, and sit and roll his eyes as I was answering and check his email - basically communicating clearly to me that he didn't like me, want me there or want to be talking to me.
I had an interview like that once. The guy asked me of my degree was from a "real school or one of those diploma-by-mail outfits". Many years later I got to sit on a committee that was going to evaluate a purchase of a product his company had built. This was a major purchase and I made damn sure he knew who I was and I made him sweat blood. Damn - that felt good!!!!!
Compare this to gasoline and hydrogen and you've got yourself a real article.
A real article? Obviously you didn't read the original post. It's an article from the San Francisco Chronicle. For those of you outside of San Francisco, the Chron is a collection of press releases and marketing hype punctuated by the occasional column about some guy's cats. "Real" articles will only be found in real newspapers.
With a paper trail, it's pretty certain that you were the one doing the installs. Without it, they will have to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that you were the person who did the install in every instance which they claim is a violation. That's not an easy get. It'll be much easier for them to prove malfeasance on the part of the corporation than to prove it on the part of a single person.
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No...your first priority for your public official is all about you. And what you see. WHich is not to say you're any different from any others in America.
A minor correction: He's not different from any other American who voted for George Bush. There are still multiple millions of us who would like to make this great country a better place for everyone - not just the millionaires.
So it is an easy fix. Where ever your internet-based store is, is where the tax money goes.
I think your definition of "easy" is different from mine. How do you determine where an internet-based store is located? Where the servers are located? Where the administrative offices are? Where the goods are shipped from? All of these can be in multiple locations.
But the only way we "won" the cold war was not by our hand.
Apparently, you don't listen to talk radio. Don't you know that Ronald Reagan was the reason we won the cold war?
The US needs a financial planner or at least a debt councilor.
Actually, I think we just need to quit electing rich boys who've never had to balance a checkbook.
Bah - I laugh at these foreign scientists. Just wait until the first wave of creationists start graduating from our high schools. Then we'll show them what scientific advancement is all aboout.
I would dare say in the longterm, the two upcoming new Justices (whoever they may be) will impact us more than any elected politician short of President ever will.
At the risk of dragging this thread off-topic, I will say that you couldn't be more wrong. In our government, the people that affect our lives the most are the ones that the fewest people vote for. The locally elected officials: county supervisors, city council members, mayors, school board members, etc will affect our lives more directly and regularly than anyone at the federal level.
I'm not Mr. anti-corporation or anything...
Well, I am Mr anti-corporation and I am guaranteeing record progits from the oil and gas industry in the next quarter. They paid good money to own the US Congress and President and they expect to profit from it.
Although you may be a simple, backwoods farmer, it's very easy to understand finance and big business:
Maximize profits no matter what. You are beyond the reach of any moral obligations and cannot be held personally liable for the most egregious of behavior. Whatever profits you made last quarter must be increased next quarter. Pretty simple.
I find it very ironic to be flamed by anyone who thinks I'm an idiot for not believing in a theory that's never been proven by scientific process.
In actuality, I believe you're an idiot because you don't understand that the theory of evolution does not attempt to be a proof. That's just more propaganda from the radical right.
Science attempts to explain why things are and, by extrapolation and interpolation, why they might change. Evolution does this very well. It does not require you to "believe". It simply states what is. You are still free to believe in God in any form you care to, just don't expect to be able to predict what will come next with any accuracy.
I've had the exact opposite experience. Granted, I am not a big moviegoer but I can't recall ever having any trouble at the Metreon. The last few movies I've seen were a pretty wide variety (War of the Worlds, Sin City and Spongebob Squarepants) and people were quiet and well-behaved through the entire showing.
YMMV, I guess.
And yet somehow over the last 200 years America was at the fore front of science and technology.
Not actually. American dominance started circa 1900 and reached a peak after WWII.
"Belief" has no place here. Leave that to the creationists.
At any rate, you are probably right that these things won't ever become mandatory-- in the United States.
Don't bet on it. Of course the first people to be tagged won't be Republicans. It will start with convicted felons. Then it will be required for other types of disenfranchised people, such as retarded citizens, "for their own good". Then it will be required for airline travel "for our own safety". Then there will be a knock on the door....
You never realize you're on the slippery slope until you've stepped on it.
In January, the Salt Lake City-based company changed the monitoring responsibilities to its marketing team.
Whew - now I feel much better. We all know what paragons of truthfulness the marketing people are.
That help?
Not even a little bit.
While the company may certainly want people to act a certain way while in their uniform, where do they derive the legal authority to REQUIRE them to act a certain way?
The ruling does not universally allow employers to ban any and all off-duty interaction.
Nicely spun!!
Now can you explain how an employers has ANY right whatsoever to tell us what to do when we are off the clock?
More and more I see companies trying to solve every problem or perceived problem by putting a policy in place. Usually, this solves the problem at the expense of morale and productivity. A once simple task is now a complicated nightmare.
It's a mistake to put a policy into place as a knee-jerk, first response. Instead, hire good people, train them well, treat them well and let them be your first defense against problems. Policies are to clarify ambiguities and apply standardization - not as a cure-all for every situation.
Since when does a collection of non-commital answers to vague questions qualify as an 'in-depth interview'.
Since the begining of journalism. There have always been lazy reporters who will take a press release, slap their name on it, and call it a news story.
Anyone want to bet that the so-called reporter and the interviewee never even met?
I completely agree. I've also needed to look up old information except I burn a CD to archive my emails. I may regret that someday but for now it works.
If that's what stops NASA from salvaging that data, somebody needs to be fired there...
Somebody DOES need to be fired but not at NASA. Unfortunately, the elections are over a year away.
First world was (roughly) the NATO group, Second world was (roughly) Warsaw Pact, Third world was everybody else.
That should come as surprising news to the dozens of countries in the Middle East and Asia.
What kind of a country is this where you can get a knee-jerk reaction against anything by calling it "American-style"?
In the USA we do the same thing but use France for the predictable knee-jerk response.
The failure in our schools is NOT the fault of teachers or administrators or school boards. It's our fault. We oen this one fair and square.
Schools need cash. Teachers buy supplies out of their own pockets and many schools are crumbling down around student's ears. Schools need to be funded - maybe even overfunded. Republicans need to be thrown out of office until they learn we want our tax money spent on something that doesn't killl people. We put them in office and approved of their miserly ways.
He would ask me a question, and sit and roll his eyes as I was answering and check his email - basically communicating clearly to me that he didn't like me, want me there or want to be talking to me.
I had an interview like that once. The guy asked me of my degree was from a "real school or one of those diploma-by-mail outfits".
Many years later I got to sit on a committee that was going to evaluate a purchase of a product his company had built. This was a major purchase and I made damn sure he knew who I was and I made him sweat blood.
Damn - that felt good!!!!!
Compare this to gasoline and hydrogen and you've got yourself a real article.
A real article? Obviously you didn't read the original post. It's an article from the San Francisco Chronicle. For those of you outside of San Francisco, the Chron is a collection of press releases and marketing hype punctuated by the occasional column about some guy's cats. "Real" articles will only be found in real newspapers.
With a paper trail, it's pretty certain that you were the one doing the installs. Without it, they will have to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that you were the person who did the install in every instance which they claim is a violation. That's not an easy get. It'll be much easier for them to prove malfeasance on the part of the corporation than to prove it on the part of a single person.