>and don't actually make decisions over employees.
Guess again, AC.
>Firing someone for one failed performance review is a great way to cost your company a shitload of money in court.
I hope you don't rely on that mistaken belief instead of doing your job. I can always fire someone for non-performance, and failing to do so is a breach of my obligations to other employees, customers, and investors.
Fuck that. I'll buy from the vendors offering the products I want at prices I agree to. This "buy local" horseshit is nothing but guilt-tripping. Customers aren't property, and if local retailers can't compete, then they shouldn't be in business.
I was fired from my job because I'm 50+ and failed several performance reviews.
Uh... You failed more than one performance review? Sounds to me like they were cutting you some slack. I'd have let you go the first time, whatever age you are.
This isn't even a feminism issue, it's a human rights issue. Only tyrannies interfere with the right of anyone who hasn't committed a crime to leave the country.
Congratulations on identifying half of the problem. When you realize that the other brand of the Ruling Party pursues the very same policies, you may become part of the solution.
Great, shining a light on this got the asshole to withdraw his latest attempt to violate his oath of office, but it is NOT ENOUGH. Until and unless Ruling Party politicians can expect to get their asses bounced off the public teat for this kind of behavior, they'll try again and again. It's long past time to end Leahy's career of public disservice.
They're still not trying to be everything to everybody. Apple walked away from the storage business, for example, despite the fact that with the Xserve RAID, they were already the third-largest storage vendor in the world.
Would you then say that England during WWI or WWII took the wrong action by taking those three steps?
Yes.
Markets are not magic, they work extremely well in the appropriate domain ...but when the chips are down, there's always someone like you ready to rationalize violence to make things worse.
But if it were (price gouging) expensive, then it would be EVEN MORE SCARCE.
Wrong.
The high price is the signal to 1) reduce consumption and 2) increase supply. If gasoline is selling for 2x in the disaster area, then it's worthwhile for vendors to divert supplies to that area. If some pinhead politician is preventing a vendor from charging more than the price before the disaster, then why would they bother?
People needed these supplies.
Which is EXACTLY why imposing a price limit was a brain-dead thing to do.
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>Either you've never worked wite-collar at a organization of any significant size or you're a terminal dumbass.
At the risk of damning myself with faint praise, I'm far smarter than you.
-jcr
>and don't actually make decisions over employees.
Guess again, AC.
>Firing someone for one failed performance review is a great way to cost your company a shitload of money in court.
I hope you don't rely on that mistaken belief instead of doing your job. I can always fire someone for non-performance, and failing to do so is a breach of my obligations to other employees, customers, and investors.
-jcr
Fuck that. I'll buy from the vendors offering the products I want at prices I agree to. This "buy local" horseshit is nothing but guilt-tripping. Customers aren't property, and if local retailers can't compete, then they shouldn't be in business.
-jcr
I was fired from my job because I'm 50+ and failed several performance reviews.
Uh... You failed more than one performance review? Sounds to me like they were cutting you some slack. I'd have let you go the first time, whatever age you are.
-jcr
most of the palestos have been kicked out.
This turns out not to be the case:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citizens_of_Israel
-jcr
Bullshit. If Israel were as evil as the Arab propagandists claim, there wouldn't have been any palestinians left by 1950.
-jcr
This isn't even a feminism issue, it's a human rights issue. Only tyrannies interfere with the right of anyone who hasn't committed a crime to leave the country.
-jcr
Congratulations on identifying half of the problem. When you realize that the other brand of the Ruling Party pursues the very same policies, you may become part of the solution.
-jcr
Schools tracking attendance is a violation of human rights now?
Ooh, clever attempt to trivialize the matter at hand, but you know full well that she's not objecting to answering a roll call.
-jcr
I believe the AC was alluding to the difference between a voluntary and an involuntary transaction.
-jcr
She's not asking for special consideration, she's asking for the court to order the government to stop violating her human rights.
-jcr
Sorry, I'm not buying your excuse, here. If her parents required her to wear an RFID tag at all times, they'd be flaming assholes, too.
-jcr
...is that so many others complied.
Government schools have degenerated into starter-prisions.
-jcr
Great, shining a light on this got the asshole to withdraw his latest attempt to violate his oath of office, but it is NOT ENOUGH. Until and unless Ruling Party politicians can expect to get their asses bounced off the public teat for this kind of behavior, they'll try again and again. It's long past time to end Leahy's career of public disservice.
-jcr
That's a very harsh indictment of software engineers.
-jcr
It didn't start with Bush.
-jcr
So, who can point me to an e-mail vendor that keeps all messages encrypted?
-jcr
Looks to me like Elop beats Carly by quite a wide margin.
-jcr
They're still not trying to be everything to everybody. Apple walked away from the storage business, for example, despite the fact that with the Xserve RAID, they were already the third-largest storage vendor in the world.
-jcr
Would you then say that England during WWI or WWII took the wrong action by taking those three steps?
Yes.
Markets are not magic, they work extremely well in the appropriate domain ...but when the chips are down, there's always someone like you ready to rationalize violence to make things worse.
-jcr
Yeah, after all we know that the Soviets never had any gasoline shortages, since they'd outlawed the profit motive.
-jcr
But if it were (price gouging) expensive, then it would be EVEN MORE SCARCE.
Wrong.
The high price is the signal to 1) reduce consumption and 2) increase supply. If gasoline is selling for 2x in the disaster area, then it's worthwhile for vendors to divert supplies to that area. If some pinhead politician is preventing a vendor from charging more than the price before the disaster, then why would they bother?
People needed these supplies.
Which is EXACTLY why imposing a price limit was a brain-dead thing to do.
-jcr
Well, it's one of those things that they can pile on if they're busting someone with a charge that won't stick.
-jcr
If one person resists, they're probably screwed. If tens of thousands resist, it's a whole different ball game.
-jcr
I knew a Ruling Party douchebag was going to get the figurehead gig. It doesn't really matter which one it was.
-jcr