What are you talking about? Don't you know we just have the executive branch and a few groups of whiners? It's like the courts, congress, and states actually think there's some founding document which gives them relevance in our government.
TX might be the one state which buys the most books, but put together enough other states who are interested in accuracy and Texas' market share begins to lose relevance.
Texas is only 2nd in population so coordination between some of the other populous states would crush the market share issue. For example, CA, NY, IL, and PA amount to a quarter of the US population (compared to TX's 7.81%). Even with differences in birth rates, that would blow TX out of the water market share wise.
have a high school diploma from over 20 years ago.
I was thinking to myself, "geez, what a geezer", till I did the math on my HS Diploma (I graduated almost 23 years ago). Now I don't think you're such a geezer.;-)
Typically, it also comes with the provision that you cannot sue your employer for negligence, so business gets an enormous perk, and workers get fixed up so they continue to be productive for themselves and their families. Anyway, only complete retard would say that it would be better to be able to sue a company for millions, than pay $300 for a Wii.
Totally agree. Perhaps part of the reason people are so ticked off about this, is because they've come to believe the lies that effort is uber-important. In real life, effort is important only insofar as it enables one to achieve results. Effort, on its own and by itself, is worthless -- it's like having fuel but no engine in which to burn it and convert the fuel to work.
To put this in a bad car analogy -- given two mechanics, one who tries earnestly to do a good job but is actually terrible and who could barely change a tire correctly, and another who sleepwalks through his day but solves problems effortlessy and quickly, most people would chose the second guy(*) because when all is said and done, it is the end result that actually matters.
(*) Assuming the second guy has just enough motivation to drag his butt out of bed and show up at work.
The problem with that is that grades are incredibly abstract. Explaining to 14yo that grades affect college choices and thus earning potential is simply not going to make sense to that 14yo till he's 30. So you adopt a solution tailored to the short-term thinking potential of young kids so they don't shoot themselves in the foot.
Adults have all kinds of motivation to work. Being hungry, cold, rained on -- these are pretty strong motivators (not for all people, but for most, they're powerful).
Kids generally have food and a place to live without worrying about it -- they expect it. Kids also generally have a pretty short term outlook. Remember when you felt like summer vacation would last forever or the school year would never end? At 14, it's hard to think realistically about what one's life will be like at 35. So you give short term motivators to kids, they do well, and life at 35 is all that much easier because somewhere along the way, they picked up long-term thinking skills without being hampered by blowing off homework and playing video games.
However, as an intentionally child-free taxpayer, I really do hate paying for other people's sprogs.
Personally, I hope they all die in painful single car auto accidents in which no passengers are injured. In any event, next thing is to ID the voices and make sure these pansies (notice how they can't do their killing of innocents in person but have to do it from miles away like real "heros"?) never ever get a job beyond min wage. Seriously, anything short of prison or death is too good for them.
You are presuming that people have a voice in our government. The only people heard by the government, are the extremely wealthy, and the extremely violent. The rest of us can get bent for all they care.
Come on -- these "brave", and I say that with the most acid sarcasm, soldiers aren't man enough to kill innocents up close and personal. They have to do all their killing of innocents from miles away and based on grainy photos. Bunch of scumbags, poor or not. I mean, do we forgive the liquor store stickup artist for being poor? No. Should I forgive immoral behavior merely because Colonel Tampon ordered someone to do it? No. I have deep respect for all personnel who have refused to go to Iraq -- all those that went are totally and utterly despicable.
To be able to follow an order to attack, a soldier has to be able to think it isn't bad.
I hope the pussy sociopaths who aren't brave enough to pull the trigger at less than a two mile range get killed while "serving" in Iraq. Seriously, who needs the kind of walking garbage who'd commit such immoral acts. From the video, it is really clear that our soldiers are a bunch of immoral wuss sociopaths who like killing people from a distance. I really truly honestly hope they don't get back here alive, because after spending tons of my taxes over there, it'll all get spent again on more prisons to house these evil sons-of-bitches once they pull the same bullshit here.
Troll this -- the fucking pussies are in the US Army who aren't brave enough to get anything but grainy photos and think that gives them the right to kill anyone who might have a two-pixel shadow on them from miles away. I mean, what kind wimpy ass bitch can consider himself brave for shooting unarmed people from miles away? Personally, I hope these scumbucket army dudes, who are running around burning up my money and killing innocent people for no fucking good reason -- die in awful bloody painful accidents. If only karma really existed.
Google is "free" so to speak, but not exactly. I recently got a Google MyTouch and while entering all my contact information, I got to thinking what google has with this -- it has the ability to cross reference and correlate the contacts of millions of people, even with mug shots of them. And there is nothing you can really do about it if someone you know puts you in their contact list. A person can try to protect their own privacy online, but that person has no control over what their acquaintances do with that person's personal information.
So Cannonical probably wants a piece of that action. It'll have access to the interconnections between a lot of people skewed toward those in a certain technological niche. Anyway, nothing is free and sometimes you can't even stop others from costing you privacy.
As if a tax cut matters for offshoring. What next, mandate that all MS workers should be paid no more than $1/hr, and forbid that they quit in reaction, as recognition of the fact that the going rate in Indonesia is about that?
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Very good argument: everyone else is doing it so why shouldn't I?
Mature, reasonable, moral, and an excellent way to get a reputation for being the light of the world. I feel so much better now.
This is a perfect example of the old adage that bad facts make bad law.
What are you talking about? Don't you know we just have the executive branch and a few groups of whiners? It's like the courts, congress, and states actually think there's some founding document which gives them relevance in our government.
TX might be the one state which buys the most books, but put together enough other states who are interested in accuracy and Texas' market share begins to lose relevance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population
Texas is only 2nd in population so coordination between some of the other populous states would crush the market share issue. For example, CA, NY, IL, and PA amount to a quarter of the US population (compared to TX's 7.81%). Even with differences in birth rates, that would blow TX out of the water market share wise.
I was thinking to myself, "geez, what a geezer", till I did the math on my HS Diploma (I graduated almost 23 years ago). Now I don't think you're such a geezer. ;-)
Abso-frelling-correct.
If you get two friends, I'm buying stock in ALCOA.
Crap. I came here to read about the oil spill. How far do I need to scroll? Where are the mods to mark this whole thread offtopic??
Worker's comp is a form of insurance.
Typically, it also comes with the provision that you cannot sue your employer for negligence, so business gets an enormous perk, and workers get fixed up so they continue to be productive for themselves and their families. Anyway, only complete retard would say that it would be better to be able to sue a company for millions, than pay $300 for a Wii.
Hey, give 'em time. Our cops and government are still learning the ropes.
Totally agree. Perhaps part of the reason people are so ticked off about this, is because they've come to believe the lies that effort is uber-important. In real life, effort is important only insofar as it enables one to achieve results. Effort, on its own and by itself, is worthless -- it's like having fuel but no engine in which to burn it and convert the fuel to work.
To put this in a bad car analogy -- given two mechanics, one who tries earnestly to do a good job but is actually terrible and who could barely change a tire correctly, and another who sleepwalks through his day but solves problems effortlessy and quickly, most people would chose the second guy(*) because when all is said and done, it is the end result that actually matters.
(*) Assuming the second guy has just enough motivation to drag his butt out of bed and show up at work.
The problem with that is that grades are incredibly abstract. Explaining to 14yo that grades affect college choices and thus earning potential is simply not going to make sense to that 14yo till he's 30. So you adopt a solution tailored to the short-term thinking potential of young kids so they don't shoot themselves in the foot.
Adults have all kinds of motivation to work. Being hungry, cold, rained on -- these are pretty strong motivators (not for all people, but for most, they're powerful).
Kids generally have food and a place to live without worrying about it -- they expect it. Kids also generally have a pretty short term outlook. Remember when you felt like summer vacation would last forever or the school year would never end? At 14, it's hard to think realistically about what one's life will be like at 35. So you give short term motivators to kids, they do well, and life at 35 is all that much easier because somewhere along the way, they picked up long-term thinking skills without being hampered by blowing off homework and playing video games.
However, as an intentionally child-free taxpayer, I really do hate paying for other people's sprogs.
Jocks.
Personally, I hope they all die in painful single car auto accidents in which no passengers are injured. In any event, next thing is to ID the voices and make sure these pansies (notice how they can't do their killing of innocents in person but have to do it from miles away like real "heros"?) never ever get a job beyond min wage. Seriously, anything short of prison or death is too good for them.
You are presuming that people have a voice in our government. The only people heard by the government, are the extremely wealthy, and the extremely violent. The rest of us can get bent for all they care.
Lt Watada is a true hero. You are not alone in your thinking, even if only army-junk has mod points right now.
Come on -- these "brave", and I say that with the most acid sarcasm, soldiers aren't man enough to kill innocents up close and personal. They have to do all their killing of innocents from miles away and based on grainy photos. Bunch of scumbags, poor or not. I mean, do we forgive the liquor store stickup artist for being poor? No. Should I forgive immoral behavior merely because Colonel Tampon ordered someone to do it? No. I have deep respect for all personnel who have refused to go to Iraq -- all those that went are totally and utterly despicable.
I hope the pussy sociopaths who aren't brave enough to pull the trigger at less than a two mile range get killed while "serving" in Iraq. Seriously, who needs the kind of walking garbage who'd commit such immoral acts. From the video, it is really clear that our soldiers are a bunch of immoral wuss sociopaths who like killing people from a distance. I really truly honestly hope they don't get back here alive, because after spending tons of my taxes over there, it'll all get spent again on more prisons to house these evil sons-of-bitches once they pull the same bullshit here.
Troll this -- the fucking pussies are in the US Army who aren't brave enough to get anything but grainy photos and think that gives them the right to kill anyone who might have a two-pixel shadow on them from miles away. I mean, what kind wimpy ass bitch can consider himself brave for shooting unarmed people from miles away? Personally, I hope these scumbucket army dudes, who are running around burning up my money and killing innocent people for no fucking good reason -- die in awful bloody painful accidents. If only karma really existed.
Google is "free" so to speak, but not exactly. I recently got a Google MyTouch and while entering all my contact information, I got to thinking what google has with this -- it has the ability to cross reference and correlate the contacts of millions of people, even with mug shots of them. And there is nothing you can really do about it if someone you know puts you in their contact list. A person can try to protect their own privacy online, but that person has no control over what their acquaintances do with that person's personal information.
So Cannonical probably wants a piece of that action. It'll have access to the interconnections between a lot of people skewed toward those in a certain technological niche. Anyway, nothing is free and sometimes you can't even stop others from costing you privacy.
I read that as "big" modifying both "tax" and "spend" for Dems. Your analogy rocks though.
Don't forget the state B&O tax.
As if a tax cut matters for offshoring. What next, mandate that all MS workers should be paid no more than $1/hr, and forbid that they quit in reaction, as recognition of the fact that the going rate in Indonesia is about that?
In fact, sales tax has almost nothing to do with this entire issue. It's a Business and Occupation tax is at the core.