Ever hear of the Transsiberian Orchestra? I believe that they would qualify as a cluster of guitarists. something like 7 at one point I know for a fact.
WHAT? Y'all had sticks? All we had were the fingers that weren't ripped off my the huge machines at work, and we used those fingers to PRETEND like we had sticks. We didn't even have real sand. We just had the dust on the cupboard shelves where there was no food to write on.
Yeah, maybe there are a few millionares in NJ, but there is a higher percentage of them in Mississippi. How does that make you feel. We have the highest percentage of millionares in the country. Of course we are also one of the poorest states in the country...
Have you thought of just taking the money which would go twards a party and handing that money over to your employees? Or at least giving them the option of the two?
Personaly, I think that by taking them all in (either ay once, or seperate, I don't think if would really matter), and telling them that times are tough, and that the company cannot afford to give both bonuses and have a party, so they can all vote on which to have.
A: X ammount of money spent on a christmas party
B: Their share of the money which would have been spent on the party given as a bonus.
Personally, I think I'd probably leave the room with a smile on my face if my boss actually gave me the option, and was honest with me no matter what the outcome of the vote was.
I don't need to read his words. I have my own families words to read.
You say slaves were beaten? When your car runs out of gas, do you break the engine? No! Why not? Because you paid alot of money for your car, and tearing up the engine won't help it run. Same with slaves. You didn't beat a slave or he couldn't work. If he didn't work, you didn't get paid.
You make a point about slaves running away. Unfortunatly that point has been misconstrued by time. Not nearly as many slaves tried to escape as you may think. In the last count before the war (1860) the Battley Plantation (the largest in Mississippi, and second largest in the states), had a whopping 106 slaves. These slaves were freed, and many of them went on to fight in the war for either the north, or the south. After the war, there were only 12 slaves who did not return to the plantation to work the fields as shareroppers. Now if their former master had beaten them so much, do you think that they would have returned and worked for him as free men and women? I doubt it.
You speak of books written on slavery. I don't need these books. I have my families journals and accounts. As the decentent of plantation owners, I have access to other accounts and journals from other local plantations of that time.
As the decentent of some of the largest and most wealthy plantation owners in the south, I have done my fair share of research into the subject. Mostly with the papers which have been handed down in my family.
Slaves were not treated as poorly as you may think. Slaves were the property of their owner. Very expensive property. You could purchase nearly 5 strong horses for the same ammount of money as one good slave. They were not traded widely. When you had one, you kept him. If he got out of line, he was punished. Never beaten, just punished.
I have seen movies which show a slaves ankles being crushed as punishment for trying to run away, and that was just not accurate. These slaves were needed to work. If you broke his ankle, he couldn't work.
They were given housing, food, and clothing. When they were sick, they had medical attention. They were actually given wages that were usualy matching or exceding those of white sharecroppers.
We think slaves had it bad, but it wasn't really so. The only thing that they lacked was freedom. In all other aspects they were better off than a white sharecropper. They were given a halfway decent wage, a house, free food, clothing, and healthcare. If you look at it that way, most slaves were better off than most blacks today.
You seem to think that blacks acheaved equality in the north immedatly following the Civil War? That is just not the case.
You also seem to know very little about slavery, and the rise of the southern states aginst the northern nation. My family once owned the second largest plantation in the south, located in what became Ridgeland Mississippi. It was known at the time as the Battley Plantation, then the Battley-Redmont house, and then the Greenwood Plantation. I have done studies on the papers of that house which are some of the only surviving historical documents kept on slaves due to the burning of all of our houses in the March to the Sea.
I have journal entries which describe the southern plantation owner's point of view leading up to the civil war. From what these men and women wrote (they wouldn't have had reason to lie now would they?), the reason for the uprising was taxation and tarrifs. Last time I checked, that was also the same reason we left English rule in the 1770's.
And you are any better? You seem to be predijuced aginst southerners yourself. I am what you would call a "southern redneck", as I am from Jackson MS, and drive a large truck. I hunt, and fish, and even have a deer's head mounted on my wall. Does that make me a bad person? I wouldn't say so. Does it make me stupid, or slow? I hardly doubt it. What it does mean though, is you should watch your words more cloesly, and realize that when you judge others, you yourself are open for judgement.
I know what you're going through. My doctors have never been able to find a name for what I have come to know as cronic vertigo. I've had whatever I've had for as long as anyone can remember.
Vertigo, for anyone who has never had it, is usualy an inner ear problem, which can leave you off balance and dizzy for days on end. The dizzyness can range from a slight light headedness to virtual blindness (like when you stand up too fast, and you get dizzy and your sight goes black for a few seconds.). On many ocasions it has caused me to black out completely.
Thankfully this only happens 3 or 4 times a year, though it has lasted for more than 3 weeks once. My usual year involves two minor occurences (I can still function, but I try not to drive myself just to be safe), and one short, but intence occurence, (usualy so bad I can't stand to get out of bed) that lasts a day or so.
I never said that ripping them was "wrong", I just said that I thought stopping them from expiring would be a waste of time if you could just go buy one that wouldn't expire.
I rip most of my dvd's the second I get them home, and store them on my laptop (actually a portable computer I built from a case at casedepot.com. I tend to travel alot at times, so my main computer is a laptop with a REALLY big hard drive.).
Wouldn't it just be cheaper to buy the NON-degrading DVD? I'm sure that if a company has spent that much time making a DVD that they will sell a copy of it that will not destroy itself.
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Actually, to "google" is "to find on google.com". You can also "yahoo", "slashdot", or "ebay".
Ever hear of the Transsiberian Orchestra? I believe that they would qualify as a cluster of guitarists. something like 7 at one point I know for a fact.
Wouldn't that be called a band?
Stock, not products, just stock...
Another excuse not to do the dishes. I can just say I'm waiting for them to start making computers...
WHAT? Y'all had sticks? All we had were the fingers that weren't ripped off my the huge machines at work, and we used those fingers to PRETEND like we had sticks. We didn't even have real sand. We just had the dust on the cupboard shelves where there was no food to write on.
Maybe the Linux-houses will have their problems, but with my Knoppix-House, I can always be in a Linux-House no matter where I am.
Ever hear of a laptop?
Yeah, maybe there are a few millionares in NJ, but there is a higher percentage of them in Mississippi. How does that make you feel. We have the highest percentage of millionares in the country. Of course we are also one of the poorest states in the country ...
New at WorldCom?
And which position would that be?
There isn't DNA in feces. Feces is waste product of what you eat, nothing is added.
Personaly, I think that by taking them all in (either ay once, or seperate, I don't think if would really matter), and telling them that times are tough, and that the company cannot afford to give both bonuses and have a party, so they can all vote on which to have.
A: X ammount of money spent on a christmas party
B: Their share of the money which would have been spent on the party given as a bonus.
Personally, I think I'd probably leave the room with a smile on my face if my boss actually gave me the option, and was honest with me no matter what the outcome of the vote was.
You say slaves were beaten? When your car runs out of gas, do you break the engine? No! Why not? Because you paid alot of money for your car, and tearing up the engine won't help it run. Same with slaves. You didn't beat a slave or he couldn't work. If he didn't work, you didn't get paid.
You make a point about slaves running away. Unfortunatly that point has been misconstrued by time. Not nearly as many slaves tried to escape as you may think. In the last count before the war (1860) the Battley Plantation (the largest in Mississippi, and second largest in the states), had a whopping 106 slaves. These slaves were freed, and many of them went on to fight in the war for either the north, or the south. After the war, there were only 12 slaves who did not return to the plantation to work the fields as shareroppers. Now if their former master had beaten them so much, do you think that they would have returned and worked for him as free men and women? I doubt it.
You speak of books written on slavery. I don't need these books. I have my families journals and accounts. As the decentent of plantation owners, I have access to other accounts and journals from other local plantations of that time.
You need to do more reasearch.
As the decentent of some of the largest and most wealthy plantation owners in the south, I have done my fair share of research into the subject. Mostly with the papers which have been handed down in my family.
Slaves were not treated as poorly as you may think. Slaves were the property of their owner. Very expensive property. You could purchase nearly 5 strong horses for the same ammount of money as one good slave. They were not traded widely. When you had one, you kept him. If he got out of line, he was punished. Never beaten, just punished.
I have seen movies which show a slaves ankles being crushed as punishment for trying to run away, and that was just not accurate. These slaves were needed to work. If you broke his ankle, he couldn't work.
They were given housing, food, and clothing. When they were sick, they had medical attention. They were actually given wages that were usualy matching or exceding those of white sharecroppers.
We think slaves had it bad, but it wasn't really so. The only thing that they lacked was freedom. In all other aspects they were better off than a white sharecropper. They were given a halfway decent wage, a house, free food, clothing, and healthcare. If you look at it that way, most slaves were better off than most blacks today.
You also seem to know very little about slavery, and the rise of the southern states aginst the northern nation. My family once owned the second largest plantation in the south, located in what became Ridgeland Mississippi. It was known at the time as the Battley Plantation, then the Battley-Redmont house, and then the Greenwood Plantation. I have done studies on the papers of that house which are some of the only surviving historical documents kept on slaves due to the burning of all of our houses in the March to the Sea.
I have journal entries which describe the southern plantation owner's point of view leading up to the civil war. From what these men and women wrote (they wouldn't have had reason to lie now would they?), the reason for the uprising was taxation and tarrifs. Last time I checked, that was also the same reason we left English rule in the 1770's.
And you are any better? You seem to be predijuced aginst southerners yourself. I am what you would call a "southern redneck", as I am from Jackson MS, and drive a large truck. I hunt, and fish, and even have a deer's head mounted on my wall. Does that make me a bad person? I wouldn't say so. Does it make me stupid, or slow? I hardly doubt it. What it does mean though, is you should watch your words more cloesly, and realize that when you judge others, you yourself are open for judgement.
Vertigo, for anyone who has never had it, is usualy an inner ear problem, which can leave you off balance and dizzy for days on end. The dizzyness can range from a slight light headedness to virtual blindness (like when you stand up too fast, and you get dizzy and your sight goes black for a few seconds.). On many ocasions it has caused me to black out completely.
Thankfully this only happens 3 or 4 times a year, though it has lasted for more than 3 weeks once. My usual year involves two minor occurences (I can still function, but I try not to drive myself just to be safe), and one short, but intence occurence, (usualy so bad I can't stand to get out of bed) that lasts a day or so.
I rip most of my dvd's the second I get them home, and store them on my laptop (actually a portable computer I built from a case at casedepot.com. I tend to travel alot at times, so my main computer is a laptop with a REALLY big hard drive.).
um, social security number perhaps?
Wouldn't it just be cheaper to buy the NON-degrading DVD? I'm sure that if a company has spent that much time making a DVD that they will sell a copy of it that will not destroy itself.
By the time you've gotten the fingernail polish onto the disk wouldn't air have already gotten to it?
No No No, you don't get it, you don't actually throw the tupperware away after yo use it. You just laugh because it's CHEAP tupperware.
-1 for being kinky? +4 kinky is more like it
His passwors was 5 letters?
Um, just a stab in the dark here, but maybe "NUKES"?