"Due to the socialist nature of France and Europe in general, it's very difficult and expensive to fire someone. So the rule is "Don't hire anyone if you don't absolutely have to.""
Actually, it's not that difficult or expensive - it happens all the time. The laws are made against frivolous and wrongful terminations. Nothing wrong there.
"Yes. Ignorance IS bliss. You know what else they don't have? Dentists. Doctors that will keep your wife from dying in labor. Birth control. Peniclin (Boy that wound looks infected. Sucks to be you.) Alchohol. And that's just the medical stuff."
Actually a lot of bushmen don't even need dentists that much, because they don't have cavities nearly as much as westerners do. They don't eat sugar or candies, or drink soda even remotely like we do.
They know the natural curatives and make medicine from them. They are their own doctors and yet somehow they manage to survive in circumstances where a westerner would be dead in days. What does that say about us?
"Heh. Do you realize you're suggesting that people get paid no matter how productive they are?"
This may come as a surprise to you, but that's EXACTLY how it goes. Quite often the workforce is underworked under normal circumstances, so that when the proverbial hits the fan, the overhead can be put to use.
"I work 12 hours a day. Would that be maxi-minimizes?"
No, that would be either stupid or inefficient. You really need to say "stop" at some point. What is the point of working, if you never get to enjoy life outside work?
"It's called "The Weekend". That's it. You get two days to have your fun, I suggest you spend your weekdays doing chores.
If you want to spend more than 2 days having fun, man, you're making good money to be able to afford it."
I've said this in other forums before: What the hell is with the notion of "making it"? I barely work 8 hours a day, don't make a fortune, and chill the rest of the time. I have a roof over my head. I have a kick-ass home theater. I have a bicycle for excercise. What else would I need? I don't have to "make it". I have to enjoy life while I'm still young and relatively healthy to appreciate it.
If you need more than 8 hours a day to do your job, you're not doing it right. If a doctor does 24-hour shifts in the ER, that's not only stupid, that's reckless endangerement and should be penalized.
"You can't prove anything w/ statistics, however, given that there hasn't been a species ending event in at least the last 3.5 million years, you can say that it is statisticly unlikely that there is a 1/455 chance of one happening in the next 100 years."
Oh? I guess the ice age didn't do that much, then? How about extinction of Neanderthals, woolly mammoths, sabretooth tigers? All this in the last 20.000 years. Just because you don't know about an extinction event, doesn't mean there wasn't one.
"It's true that the large dinosaurs were wiped out, but the large mammals also disappeared 65 million years ago."
You have a reasonably informed argument, but I must disagree on this. There still are very large mammals about: the elephant the giraffe and the whales.
If you meant land-based mammal, then you would also be incorrect. The woolly mammoth died out only about 20 000 years ago. The North-American giant beaver also died out at approximately the same time. There were a lot of giant mammals around not that long ago.
Yes, and since the atmosphere in Venus consists partly of gaseous metals, it would be pretty much impossible without being quite a bit warmer and therefore closer to the sun.
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This is why people think the open source "zealots" are so disconnected from reality. They break out the dictionary to nitpick "free". How's that going to help me run my business??
But that is exactly the point of semantics. How can anyone have any meaningful discussion about various subjects, if they use different definitions? If someone was talking about bauds when they really meant bits-per-second, then the discussion would be completely meaningless.
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"Due to the socialist nature of France and Europe in general, it's very difficult and expensive to fire someone. So the rule is "Don't hire anyone if you don't absolutely have to.""
Actually, it's not that difficult or expensive - it happens all the time. The laws are made against frivolous and wrongful terminations. Nothing wrong there.
"Yes. Ignorance IS bliss. You know what else they don't have? Dentists. Doctors that will keep your wife from dying in labor. Birth control. Peniclin (Boy that wound looks infected. Sucks to be you.) Alchohol. And that's just the medical stuff."
Actually a lot of bushmen don't even need dentists that much, because they don't have cavities nearly as much as westerners do. They don't eat sugar or candies, or drink soda even remotely like we do.
They know the natural curatives and make medicine from them. They are their own doctors and yet somehow they manage to survive in circumstances where a westerner would be dead in days. What does that say about us?
"Heh. Do you realize you're suggesting that people get paid no matter how productive they are?"
This may come as a surprise to you, but that's EXACTLY how it goes. Quite often the workforce is underworked under normal circumstances, so that when the proverbial hits the fan, the overhead can be put to use.
"I work 12 hours a day. Would that be maxi-minimizes?"
No, that would be either stupid or inefficient. You really need to say "stop" at some point. What is the point of working, if you never get to enjoy life outside work?
"It's called "The Weekend". That's it. You get two days to have your fun, I suggest you spend your weekdays doing chores.
If you want to spend more than 2 days having fun, man, you're making good money to be able to afford it."
I've said this in other forums before: What the hell is with the notion of "making it"? I barely work 8 hours a day, don't make a fortune, and chill the rest of the time. I have a roof over my head. I have a kick-ass home theater. I have a bicycle for excercise. What else would I need? I don't have to "make it". I have to enjoy life while I'm still young and relatively healthy to appreciate it.
If you need more than 8 hours a day to do your job, you're not doing it right. If a doctor does 24-hour shifts in the ER, that's not only stupid, that's reckless endangerement and should be penalized.
Of course, that's just me. I could be wrong.
Holy cow, that's steep! I get a similar connection in Finland for 58 Euros. Maybe that's because I get the 'no pot' discount.
"You can't prove anything w/ statistics, however, given that there hasn't been a species ending event in at least the last 3.5 million years, you can say that it is statisticly unlikely that there is a 1/455 chance of one happening in the next 100 years."
Oh? I guess the ice age didn't do that much, then? How about extinction of Neanderthals, woolly mammoths, sabretooth tigers? All this in the last 20.000 years. Just because you don't know about an extinction event, doesn't mean there wasn't one.
"It's true that the large dinosaurs were wiped out, but the large mammals also disappeared 65 million years ago." You have a reasonably informed argument, but I must disagree on this. There still are very large mammals about: the elephant the giraffe and the whales. If you meant land-based mammal, then you would also be incorrect. The woolly mammoth died out only about 20 000 years ago. The North-American giant beaver also died out at approximately the same time. There were a lot of giant mammals around not that long ago.
Yes, and since the atmosphere in Venus consists partly of gaseous metals, it would be pretty much impossible without being quite a bit warmer and therefore closer to the sun.
"Counter-Strike - Simply because it *is* so old-school, even if it's not that great of a game"
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Old-scool? I remember fondly the times we played 4-way M.U.L.E. on a C-64. Is that paleo-school?
Also, Mech Force on Amiga was great, as well as Worms.
... the Penguin screws you! Hold on a moment...
Yeah, I've got one: Don't Quit Your Day Job
AC wrote: This is why people think the open source "zealots" are so disconnected from reality. They break out the dictionary to nitpick "free". How's that going to help me run my business?? But that is exactly the point of semantics. How can anyone have any meaningful discussion about various subjects, if they use different definitions? If someone was talking about bauds when they really meant bits-per-second, then the discussion would be completely meaningless.
Oh, and don't forget the meercat! My favorite. Mmm... tasty.
Actually, it's not. There already is an international Morse code for that: .-.-
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Maybe they should stream Drive Music instead of cassette audio. That was a masterpiece.