here's the problem with that: Illegal immigrants working in the US are really a business subsidy. Here's how it works: Illegal immigrants come over here, they work for say 4$ an hour (I have no idea what an illegal immigrant actually makes). However -- this isn't enought to live on, pay taxes, and pay medical, etc. They use government services (ever gone to an emergency room in california? its a 24 - 48 hour WAIT if you're not trauma) which cost taxpayers a fortune.
If you don't believe me, a recent study showed that Walmart *COSTS* the state of california 80 million a year in services consumed by walmart employees (welfare, medical care for uninsured, etc). And walmart pays a HELL of a lot better then picking fruit or day labor.
So basically, tax payers are subsidizing the cost of labor for companies which employ illegal aliens...
And the crux of the situation is it sucks all around. The aliens are trying to escape a horrible situation in mexico, but they're making a horrible situation here. Most Californians feel at this point that we've already been *WAY* too generous and its time to look out for ourselves.
You don't know how right you are. I have a friend who suffers from several mental disorder and is incapable of holding a job. He basically has OCD and panic attacks relating to a fear of any responsibility. He's pretty smart, he had a *GREAT* job fixing computers in a computer shop here in town, but the owner wanted to step him up to running the shop on fridays (big deal -- just sell some mice and some video cards!) and he couldn't handle it. He flipped out and was unreliable and they fired him.
Long story short, he's applied for SSI (disability benefits) and he coudln't get them. But a guy he knew in a similiar situation was hastled by the police a bit one day, and he was able to get SSI because he had a police record! So my friend spent a few months TRYING to get hastled by the police but was not successful. Eventually he got a lawyer who won him the benefits... but now he can't get *ANY* income on paper and keep his benefits (like 800$/month -- that would about pay your rent in our particular town in california and thats it). So he's prevented from helping himself... what an odd world
Whats the name of that effect that says that for every electron in top spin there is a mate in down spin somewhere? And if you change the spin of one, the other mysteriously changes? Why doesn't my cell phone have this and will this get us any closer?
Your logic is incorrect, and you are the reason I hate the world. You can justify *ANY* unethical action by claiming that someone is nobly trying to "maximize shareholder value."
A Lawsuit over things you know to be false is illegal, unethical, and in the complete absense of ethics in our country -- illegal. Defrauding investors with false claims? Fraud. Need I continue?
I could be wrong, but in IE, if you put your mouse over an image with an ALT tag and leave it perfectly still (take your hand off the mouse), doesn't it display the alt tag ater a few seconds?
The basis of authority for Social Security is not morality. It's a recognition that we are not willing to let old people simply starve and die in the streets.
Except here's the problem: The whole thing is a scam. Previous generations voted themselves a pie in the sky, SPENT the money they were supposed to be saving, and now are depending on *ME* to pay draconian taxes to provide their retirement and health care? Oh, and how am I supposed to save for my OWN retirement and health care when I'm paying for someone elses? I found it ironic that when I work -- most of the taxes I pay are medicare/social security. I didn't have health care, I didn't have a retirement plan... but I am funding someone elses.
I'll say it, and I'll say it again. The baby boomers generation is *THE MOST RAPACIOUS* generation in history. They've screwed up the world for generations to come -- they've spent their children into crushing debt -- LITERALLY spending the prosperity of future generations. Frankly, if a few of them died in the streets, I really wouldn't care.
What we are in here is a race to the bottom. As a college graduate who has been employed for 3 days (yes 3 days) total in my field in the two years since I graduated -- I can tell you we are getting far closer to the bottom then anyone wants to admit. We've lost manufacturing jobs, and by all signs we are going to loose technical, and then research. *THERE WILL BE NO JOBS* left to tax.
You can pick your own nickname, it just backfires terribly:) I write music, and the "stage name" I thought up was "Omegadan". Back in college, I started using my band website email for all my business. Pretty soon my friends, professors and my employer were all calling me "Omegadan" or "OD".
Ok, so fast forward two years. I'm at a good friends wedding reception, a lavish affair with about 300 people in an upscale resturant which has been rented in its entirety. After dinner they do the boquet toss, and then the MC begins the garter toss. I really have no desire to participate so I'm slinking around in the background...the MC says, "Ok, I want everyone to look around. Look for your friends and whoever you came here with today, and make sure *EVERY* bachelor is on the stage." ---I'm still slinking around-- MC says, "Ok is anybody missing?" One of my buddies yells, "The OMEGADAN!" MC says, "Ok everyone, we have to find the omegadan!" So here I am trying to not get noticed, and the *ENTIRE* wedding party of 300 people is looking for "the omegadan." Needless to say my plan backfired almost perfectly, and I was quite emberrassed:)
Caig makes a variety of industrial cleaners for both metal and electronics, some of which I'm sure would eliminate the smell. I suspect the "deox it" prouct would work on electronics, they have a product for cleaning aluminum as well that I don't recall. The best part is: its cheap to find out. Simply order a bottle (around 8$), and if it works -- order enough for all your servers.
Hollywood has *NEVER* had problems creating great computer graphics. It *HAS* had problems creating compelling stories and characters with depth and emotion.
I'll be waiting to hear the plot is terrible, like Catwoman -- another movie that "looked" great but was utter trash.
Yep. Most of the places I have worked have the policy "We do not pay overtime." It's just a reality of EMPLOYMENT at this point. I love the few people who are doing fantastically well who seem to think all of us wage slaves have this magical ability to negotiate a contract in a terrible job market.
Um, what if your boss, and all the other bosses, say, "work overtime for free." Or, what if, companies like walmart LOCK THEIR EMPLOYEES IN to get them to work overtime for free?
Happened to a friend of mines brother. They offered him a *NICE* salary in a town about a hundred miles away. He moved his family out there, BOUGHT A HOUSE, and they only gave him about 70% of what they had offered him. Problem was he took the job on a handshake so there was *NO* proof.
yea but let me ask you something? Do you loose files that often? I sure don't. The last time I used the finder was to find where XP kept the hosts file -- and guess what, I didn't need a special FS to do that.
With each new OS -- microsoft says its going to revolutionize everything. People get the OS, its exactly like normal, and life goes ON!
Because in the 90's a bunch of fucking IDIOTS thought they could make 80k a year by getting a CS degree and for awhile, they were right.
Now real experts, real people like me who are in CS because thats what we were meant to do, are suffering. The last time I took a programming test I took it for DSR (defense company) and got 100%, and I was the only person *EVER* to get a perfect score -- and they didn't hire me:)
Tech market is very bad, especially for guys like me who have pretty good resumes (I've been a sysadmin, programmer, consultant... people see my resume and they're like shit, we only need a programmer, not this other stuff). I was working at walmart, 12:00am to 9:00am 5 days a week. Worst schedule you can imagine. I used to work like a dog to "bust my freight" before like 4:00am. I'd clock out at 3:00 but keep working, clock in at 4:00am, then goto lunch for 3 hours -- of course at walmart they ILLEGALLY lock you into the building, so I would slip out the loading dock (no I don't feel bad about ripping off a company that locks its employees in).
The worst thing I did... I worked in the shoe department (the worst department there is, even the janitors pitty you), this *HOT* girl is standing back towards me, looking at some shoes. As I walk by the says without looking at me, "What do you think of these ones?" to which I reply, "I'm sorry mam, for what occassion?" then it dawns on me she's probably flirting, and she says, "oh I thought you were my father, I'm sorry!" to which I reply, "Well, you never know;-)"... just as these words leave my lips a grumpy 50 year old man in overalls and a half shaved beard walks up behind me and says "I DON'T THINK SO SON!" Then it occurs to me the girl is more like 17 instead of 21. but oh well.
Oh, topic... um, so how I quit was, well nevermind it wasn't nearly as funny as that story.
You hit the nail on the head there. The real problem is parents and expectations.
We have this ideal that "all children are equal, all children can learn." The problem is, it just isn't true. The truth is, 75% of a childs performance will be determined by their parents. Crappy parents generally makes a crappy student.
So when some drug baby kid can't do his math, his fathers in jail, his mother pays him no attention...Somehow that blame is laid at *YOUR* door as a teacher.
Case in point: almost my whole family is teachers. I can't count 6 teachers in my immediate family. A friend of mine teaches 2nd and 3rd mixed (a travesty on its own). Gives an assignment to her 3rd graders: two weeks to prepare a *HALF PAGE* essay on an assigned topic. A little black girl happens to be assigned the topic "Apples." Said teacher sends a note home to the parents explaining the assignment. Two weeks later, the girl in question hasn't turned in her essay, so a call is placed to her mother. The mother comes down to the school screaming "racism, I'll sue!!" Now this is an exact quote from the mother, "That assignment is racist! Thats why my daughter didn't do it. Apples is white people food, if the assignment had been on sweet potatos she would have done it!."
Now I ask you, what can a teacher do in a situation where even the girls *PARENTS* are telling her not to participate.
Another family member teaches at a local community college. The county mental health facility has taken to using the community college as a *babysitting* facility. They sign up functional students for a few courses, its dirt cheap, and it keeps them out of trouble. The problem is, these students recieve special treatment, which uses up vast ammounts of a professors time. Also, they are using finite resources and seats in a class which (theoretically) could be better used by people capable of benefiting from an education. Most recently: a *DEAF* student wanted to enter the audio engineering program at this community college. It's a very sticky legal situtaion, the college was terrified. They can't kick a person out of a class because they're deaf, but at the same time they *CAN'T* issue a certification saying this person is qualified to be a studio engineer! It would destroy their credibility.
Eh, the irony of making a 20 year old (at the time) contribute 7% of his income to a retirement plan when he's already paying draconian social security and medicare taxes, and is starving and nearly homeless *RIGHT NOW*, is not lost on me.
It's not the retirement program thats the problem -- it's the fact that it is mandatory.
I worked for a university for quite some time... Universities are constantly looking for ways to raise fee's which they feel enhances their power/importance.
For instance: At the university I was employed at (and was a student at) there was a *MANDATORY* reitrement plan. 7% of your income, GONE. The last year I was there they institutied mandatory student health care, at a cost of around $1000 a year. This is on top of the 30 - 40% of our tuition which was already for non tuition things. 80$ a quarter for the student activities center, which I was never even sure where it was. 25$ fee so the school could compete in some kind of sports league I don't care about. Went on and ON.:)
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If you don't believe me, a recent study showed that Walmart *COSTS* the state of california 80 million a year in services consumed by walmart employees (welfare, medical care for uninsured, etc). And walmart pays a HELL of a lot better then picking fruit or day labor.
So basically, tax payers are subsidizing the cost of labor for companies which employ illegal aliens...
And the crux of the situation is it sucks all around. The aliens are trying to escape a horrible situation in mexico, but they're making a horrible situation here. Most Californians feel at this point that we've already been *WAY* too generous and its time to look out for ourselves.
Long story short, he's applied for SSI (disability benefits) and he coudln't get them. But a guy he knew in a similiar situation was hastled by the police a bit one day, and he was able to get SSI because he had a police record! So my friend spent a few months TRYING to get hastled by the police but was not successful. Eventually he got a lawyer who won him the benefits... but now he can't get *ANY* income on paper and keep his benefits (like 800$/month -- that would about pay your rent in our particular town in california and thats it). So he's prevented from helping himself ... what an odd world
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people.
Whats the name of that effect that says that for every electron in top spin there is a mate in down spin somewhere? And if you change the spin of one, the other mysteriously changes? Why doesn't my cell phone have this and will this get us any closer?
A Lawsuit over things you know to be false is illegal, unethical, and in the complete absense of ethics in our country -- illegal. Defrauding investors with false claims? Fraud. Need I continue?
I could be wrong, but in IE, if you put your mouse over an image with an ALT tag and leave it perfectly still (take your hand off the mouse), doesn't it display the alt tag ater a few seconds?
No "empty vitamins" just pure sugar goodness.
I became a type2 when a sports injury resulted in a broken leg, herniated disc, and 75lbs weight gain :)
I am quite certain -- the last thing I need is an excuse to play more videogames. They need to attach this glucose meter to a friggin stairmaster.
Except here's the problem: The whole thing is a scam. Previous generations voted themselves a pie in the sky, SPENT the money they were supposed to be saving, and now are depending on *ME* to pay draconian taxes to provide their retirement and health care? Oh, and how am I supposed to save for my OWN retirement and health care when I'm paying for someone elses? I found it ironic that when I work -- most of the taxes I pay are medicare/social security. I didn't have health care, I didn't have a retirement plan ... but I am funding someone elses.
I'll say it, and I'll say it again. The baby boomers generation is *THE MOST RAPACIOUS* generation in history. They've screwed up the world for generations to come -- they've spent their children into crushing debt -- LITERALLY spending the prosperity of future generations. Frankly, if a few of them died in the streets, I really wouldn't care.
What we are in here is a race to the bottom. As a college graduate who has been employed for 3 days (yes 3 days) total in my field in the two years since I graduated -- I can tell you we are getting far closer to the bottom then anyone wants to admit. We've lost manufacturing jobs, and by all signs we are going to loose technical, and then research. *THERE WILL BE NO JOBS* left to tax.
Thats the future you're being sold
see: extortion.
Ok, so fast forward two years. I'm at a good friends wedding reception, a lavish affair with about 300 people in an upscale resturant which has been rented in its entirety. After dinner they do the boquet toss, and then the MC begins the garter toss. I really have no desire to participate so I'm slinking around in the background...the MC says, "Ok, I want everyone to look around. Look for your friends and whoever you came here with today, and make sure *EVERY* bachelor is on the stage." ---I'm still slinking around-- MC says, "Ok is anybody missing?" One of my buddies yells, "The OMEGADAN!" MC says, "Ok everyone, we have to find the omegadan!" So here I am trying to not get noticed, and the *ENTIRE* wedding party of 300 people is looking for "the omegadan." Needless to say my plan backfired almost perfectly, and I was quite emberrassed :)
Caig makes a variety of industrial cleaners for both metal and electronics, some of which I'm sure would eliminate the smell. I suspect the "deox it" prouct would work on electronics, they have a product for cleaning aluminum as well that I don't recall. The best part is: its cheap to find out. Simply order a bottle (around 8$), and if it works -- order enough for all your servers.
I'll be waiting to hear the plot is terrible, like Catwoman -- another movie that "looked" great but was utter trash.
Yep. Most of the places I have worked have the policy "We do not pay overtime." It's just a reality of EMPLOYMENT at this point. I love the few people who are doing fantastically well who seem to think all of us wage slaves have this magical ability to negotiate a contract in a terrible job market.
Um, what if your boss, and all the other bosses, say, "work overtime for free." Or, what if, companies like walmart LOCK THEIR EMPLOYEES IN to get them to work overtime for free?
Happened to a friend of mines brother. They offered him a *NICE* salary in a town about a hundred miles away. He moved his family out there, BOUGHT A HOUSE, and they only gave him about 70% of what they had offered him. Problem was he took the job on a handshake so there was *NO* proof.
With each new OS -- microsoft says its going to revolutionize everything. People get the OS, its exactly like normal, and life goes ON!
Can you suggest one? Seriously. Programmers in Califronia are going for between 40 - 55 a year and THOSE jobs are very hard to come by.
Now real experts, real people like me who are in CS because thats what we were meant to do, are suffering. The last time I took a programming test I took it for DSR (defense company) and got 100%, and I was the only person *EVER* to get a perfect score -- and they didn't hire me :)
The worst thing I did... I worked in the shoe department (the worst department there is, even the janitors pitty you), this *HOT* girl is standing back towards me, looking at some shoes. As I walk by the says without looking at me, "What do you think of these ones?" to which I reply, "I'm sorry mam, for what occassion?" then it dawns on me she's probably flirting, and she says, "oh I thought you were my father, I'm sorry!" to which I reply, "Well, you never know ;-)" ... just as these words leave my lips a grumpy 50 year old man in overalls and a half shaved beard walks up behind me and says "I DON'T THINK SO SON!" Then it occurs to me the girl is more like 17 instead of 21. but oh well.
Oh, topic ... um, so how I quit was, well nevermind it wasn't nearly as funny as that story.
We have this ideal that "all children are equal, all children can learn." The problem is, it just isn't true. The truth is, 75% of a childs performance will be determined by their parents. Crappy parents generally makes a crappy student.
So when some drug baby kid can't do his math, his fathers in jail, his mother pays him no attention...Somehow that blame is laid at *YOUR* door as a teacher.
Case in point: almost my whole family is teachers. I can't count 6 teachers in my immediate family. A friend of mine teaches 2nd and 3rd mixed (a travesty on its own). Gives an assignment to her 3rd graders: two weeks to prepare a *HALF PAGE* essay on an assigned topic. A little black girl happens to be assigned the topic "Apples." Said teacher sends a note home to the parents explaining the assignment. Two weeks later, the girl in question hasn't turned in her essay, so a call is placed to her mother. The mother comes down to the school screaming "racism, I'll sue!!" Now this is an exact quote from the mother, "That assignment is racist! Thats why my daughter didn't do it. Apples is white people food, if the assignment had been on sweet potatos she would have done it!."
Now I ask you, what can a teacher do in a situation where even the girls *PARENTS* are telling her not to participate.
Another family member teaches at a local community college. The county mental health facility has taken to using the community college as a *babysitting* facility. They sign up functional students for a few courses, its dirt cheap, and it keeps them out of trouble. The problem is, these students recieve special treatment, which uses up vast ammounts of a professors time. Also, they are using finite resources and seats in a class which (theoretically) could be better used by people capable of benefiting from an education. Most recently: a *DEAF* student wanted to enter the audio engineering program at this community college. It's a very sticky legal situtaion, the college was terrified. They can't kick a person out of a class because they're deaf, but at the same time they *CAN'T* issue a certification saying this person is qualified to be a studio engineer! It would destroy their credibility.
I agree, it was a travesty... but kennedy did it in the 60's and the world didn't end :(
It's not the retirement program thats the problem -- it's the fact that it is mandatory.
For instance: At the university I was employed at (and was a student at) there was a *MANDATORY* reitrement plan. 7% of your income, GONE. The last year I was there they institutied mandatory student health care, at a cost of around $1000 a year. This is on top of the 30 - 40% of our tuition which was already for non tuition things. 80$ a quarter for the student activities center, which I was never even sure where it was. 25$ fee so the school could compete in some kind of sports league I don't care about. Went on and ON. :)