It's as if Mother Gaia is giving us arrogant humans a lesson about overreaching our abilities.
Oh yeah? Well, your mother's so fat, her belt size is Equator!
Windows is actually mostly OK w/o mouse. Most MSFT applications are quite keyboard friendly.
Yes, and thank goodness for the keyboard shortcuts. When MSFT made all of their applications with the "Windows 7" look, they managed to add an extra mouse click to everything you want to do, and also managed to hide most of the common features that you might use in Word or Excel. Fortunately, the keyboard shortcuts are still the same.
As another blackberry owner, I would also have to say that I have downloaded all of two apps. One was some expense reporting software from work that allows you to take a picture of your receipt and send it straight to your report in only 10 times the amount of time it would take to scan it in and fill out your report back at the office (but you get to tell all your lunch partners who are impatiently waiting for you to finish about your oh-so-cool expense report application), and the other was a trial version of a game. Apps are definitely not something I have any interest in, be they blackberry, android or iphone.
Perhaps hundreds of years of western imperialism has something to do with it. Maybe if we stop fucking around in their affairs they will leave us alone.
Hundreds of years? The U.S. government has only been in business for a little over 200 years, and up until the middle of World War I, the U.S. was considered isolationist. It was only after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor that the U.S. sat up and started getting involved.
I do agree with you that we should butt out in general, I would prefer the U.S. to be isolationist as well. Unfortunately, being isolationist doesn't always stop people from messing with you, ie Japan.
However, if we were to stop messing around in middle east affairs, people would still hate us. Only this time for NOT getting involved. Part of Osama's beef with us was that after our objective of ending the cold war, we stopped being involved in Afghanistan's affairs.
I worked for a company that used another means to force employees to stay. They paid 25% of your income as bonus. Every quarter, your bonus was as regular as clockwork, except they would vary it by a dollar or two, probably because it would be legally considered part of the paycheck if they paid you the same amount. The hook was that they paid it once a quarter. This meant you couldn't count it as income, so you couldn't qualify for the home loans, or other things that you might have if it was all salary. Also, since it was bonus, apparently most lamebrain accountants think that means you need to withhold taxes at the single white rich dude percentage, which means that 40% of the dollars that you earn on January 1st of this year won't be available for your use for another 18 months. But the final coffin nail was that if you quit, at any time, you could guarantee that they weren't going to pay you your bonus for the quarter, so at least for your last quarter you ended up working for 75% of industry standard wage.
The owners of the company sold out to a large corporation for a huge sum of money, and didn't bother to negotiate any kind of retention bonuses for the employees. In fact, everyone had to redo the paperwork as if they were just starting with a new company, vested profit sharing was lost, vacation days were set back to zero.
The company was built on the labor of hundreds of employees who put in many, many hours of overtime with the promise of being rewarded with a piece of the pie when the company became profitable, but it was all a lie.
My advice, tell them thank you for the generous stock options and other benefits, value them at zero (because that is what they are worth) and ask for whatever compensation you are desiring all in salary.
It is not even necessary for the suit to be won for this kind of ridiculous stuff. They could settle with no fault admitted. A pharmacy whose owner I know once received a prescription for codeine that looked suspicious. They called the doctor who supposedly had filled the prescription and he said no, he hadn't written a prescription to that person. The police were called and the woman hauled off. She sued the pharmacy for embarassing her and causing her mental trauma. The pharmacy consulted a lawyer and said that they would certainly win the case, but it would probably cost upwards of $50,000 in legal and court fess and advised them to settle for $30,000. Which they did.
As a side note, this is also the pharmacy where an employee shot and killed a robber, saving the lives of three people, and his reward for this heroic act is life in prison and the loss of everything he had acquired in his life which was all put toward his legal defense.
This is the same pharmacy that had been robbed twice before and one time the employees had been tied up in the back room, pistol whipped, and left with not a care whether they lived or died by the criminals.
That may be the case for Apatosaurus, but most dinosaur species were less than two feet tall, so they probably did not generate much body heat. The environment itself was significantly warmer back then, though.
if your salary is $50K...hate to say it...you are not UPPER middle class...that is at the middle maybe of middle class...maybe a touch lower in todays economy. $100K and up is more upper middle class....it sure ain't rich like it used to be in the old days.
Well, median income for the US for 2007 was 31,000, so I would think that that was considered middle class, and that roughly twice that would be upper middle class. However, that may not be the case. it could be that median income is solidly lower class, which pretty much means our country is all kinds of screwed up.
In fact, I just looked at the poverty levels as described by the federal government, and there are several categories of families where the median income earned in the U.S. falls below the poverty line.
I had an '88 Lotus Esprit Turbo that I bought for neighborhood of $17k and sold for about the same 4 years later. I would definitely do that again rather than spend $30k+ on a low end new car. Plus it got more looks than a brand new car.
More importantly, at $50k-$70k, it's much more affordable than the $100k+ roadster.
MORE affordable, I agree. But affordable? Not by half. Honestly, I don't see how anyone can afford the price of the average new car these days. Maybe I am just in the wrong line of work, but with the price of the average new car approaching half my salary (and me being in the supposedly upper middle class), it is no small wonder to me that the auto industry is failing. How about building a car that a mere upper middle class wage earner can afford?
I'm not saying he should just violate the sentence, but the sentence itself is unconstitutional and in violation of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness".
In this day and age, there is no "wrongfully fired". The only reason given for firing is "no reason". You would have to go up against expensive company lawyers to try to prove that they DID have a reason for firing you AND that that reason was a bad one.
If you're female or a minority, you may have a case, but otherwise, even if you know they fired you because you refused to perform oral sex for the CEO, there is not much you can do about it.
Karma doesn't work. Doing a good deed is its own punishment. Nice guys finish last. Pick your quote. Trust me, if you do your best to treat people right and try to be a nice guy/gal, you WILL get screwed over at every possible opportunity.
His probation forbids posession of software "enabing remote access and monitoring of other computers." He can't work out of his home.
Fortunately for us and contrary to what every PHB that ever made you sign a non-compete clause thinks, neither the government nor anyone else can tell us that we can no longer work in the industry that we have invested untold tens of thousands of dollars and untold amounts of personal and professional time learning how to do. I'm sure a quick lawsuit will fix the whole situation.
Doubtful. A lot of prices end in.99 not because that's the store's actual cost, but because apparently many customers think 4.99 is $4, not $5.
You mean $6. You forgot the tax.
some small shops try to enforce minimum to use the credit card for a transaction.
I usually like to point out to them that that is against their merchant agreement. I also enjoy telling various businesses that it is in violation of their merchant agreement to charge extra charges for using a credit card. However, since most of the businesses that do that are actually state agencies, they don't care.
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Yeah, next they'll be running around screaming that the largest reactor in our solar system has caught fire.
People who brag about Texas being so big should well consider that if Alaska were divided in two, Texas would be the THIRD biggest state.
It's as if Mother Gaia is giving us arrogant humans a lesson about overreaching our abilities.
Oh yeah? Well, your mother's so fat, her belt size is Equator!
No, this fundamentalist wacko is going to blame it on careless smokers.
I will not own another wireless keyboard or mouse again. Ever.
Windows is actually mostly OK w/o mouse. Most MSFT applications are quite keyboard friendly.
Yes, and thank goodness for the keyboard shortcuts. When MSFT made all of their applications with the "Windows 7" look, they managed to add an extra mouse click to everything you want to do, and also managed to hide most of the common features that you might use in Word or Excel. Fortunately, the keyboard shortcuts are still the same.
As another blackberry owner, I would also have to say that I have downloaded all of two apps. One was some expense reporting software from work that allows you to take a picture of your receipt and send it straight to your report in only 10 times the amount of time it would take to scan it in and fill out your report back at the office (but you get to tell all your lunch partners who are impatiently waiting for you to finish about your oh-so-cool expense report application), and the other was a trial version of a game. Apps are definitely not something I have any interest in, be they blackberry, android or iphone.
Perhaps hundreds of years of western imperialism has something to do with it. Maybe if we stop fucking around in their affairs they will leave us alone.
Hundreds of years? The U.S. government has only been in business for a little over 200 years, and up until the middle of World War I, the U.S. was considered isolationist. It was only after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor that the U.S. sat up and started getting involved. I do agree with you that we should butt out in general, I would prefer the U.S. to be isolationist as well. Unfortunately, being isolationist doesn't always stop people from messing with you, ie Japan.
However, if we were to stop messing around in middle east affairs, people would still hate us. Only this time for NOT getting involved. Part of Osama's beef with us was that after our objective of ending the cold war, we stopped being involved in Afghanistan's affairs.
we all know how much Washington fears AARP
Well, of course they do. Most of them are in AARP.
I worked for a company that used another means to force employees to stay. They paid 25% of your income as bonus. Every quarter, your bonus was as regular as clockwork, except they would vary it by a dollar or two, probably because it would be legally considered part of the paycheck if they paid you the same amount. The hook was that they paid it once a quarter. This meant you couldn't count it as income, so you couldn't qualify for the home loans, or other things that you might have if it was all salary. Also, since it was bonus, apparently most lamebrain accountants think that means you need to withhold taxes at the single white rich dude percentage, which means that 40% of the dollars that you earn on January 1st of this year won't be available for your use for another 18 months. But the final coffin nail was that if you quit, at any time, you could guarantee that they weren't going to pay you your bonus for the quarter, so at least for your last quarter you ended up working for 75% of industry standard wage.
The owners of the company sold out to a large corporation for a huge sum of money, and didn't bother to negotiate any kind of retention bonuses for the employees. In fact, everyone had to redo the paperwork as if they were just starting with a new company, vested profit sharing was lost, vacation days were set back to zero. The company was built on the labor of hundreds of employees who put in many, many hours of overtime with the promise of being rewarded with a piece of the pie when the company became profitable, but it was all a lie.
My advice, tell them thank you for the generous stock options and other benefits, value them at zero (because that is what they are worth) and ask for whatever compensation you are desiring all in salary.
It is not even necessary for the suit to be won for this kind of ridiculous stuff. They could settle with no fault admitted. A pharmacy whose owner I know once received a prescription for codeine that looked suspicious. They called the doctor who supposedly had filled the prescription and he said no, he hadn't written a prescription to that person. The police were called and the woman hauled off. She sued the pharmacy for embarassing her and causing her mental trauma. The pharmacy consulted a lawyer and said that they would certainly win the case, but it would probably cost upwards of $50,000 in legal and court fess and advised them to settle for $30,000. Which they did.
As a side note, this is also the pharmacy where an employee shot and killed a robber, saving the lives of three people, and his reward for this heroic act is life in prison and the loss of everything he had acquired in his life which was all put toward his legal defense.
This is the same pharmacy that had been robbed twice before and one time the employees had been tied up in the back room, pistol whipped, and left with not a care whether they lived or died by the criminals.
That may be the case for Apatosaurus, but most dinosaur species were less than two feet tall, so they probably did not generate much body heat. The environment itself was significantly warmer back then, though.
if your salary is $50K...hate to say it...you are not UPPER middle class...that is at the middle maybe of middle class...maybe a touch lower in todays economy. $100K and up is more upper middle class....it sure ain't rich like it used to be in the old days.
Well, median income for the US for 2007 was 31,000, so I would think that that was considered middle class, and that roughly twice that would be upper middle class. However, that may not be the case. it could be that median income is solidly lower class, which pretty much means our country is all kinds of screwed up.
In fact, I just looked at the poverty levels as described by the federal government, and there are several categories of families where the median income earned in the U.S. falls below the poverty line.
I had an '88 Lotus Esprit Turbo that I bought for neighborhood of $17k and sold for about the same 4 years later. I would definitely do that again rather than spend $30k+ on a low end new car. Plus it got more looks than a brand new car.
More importantly, at $50k-$70k, it's much more affordable than the $100k+ roadster.
MORE affordable, I agree. But affordable? Not by half. Honestly, I don't see how anyone can afford the price of the average new car these days. Maybe I am just in the wrong line of work, but with the price of the average new car approaching half my salary (and me being in the supposedly upper middle class), it is no small wonder to me that the auto industry is failing. How about building a car that a mere upper middle class wage earner can afford?
I'm not saying he should just violate the sentence, but the sentence itself is unconstitutional and in violation of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness".
That is a cruel punishment to perform on an undeserving automobile. It's not the cars fault that it is parked there.
In this day and age, there is no "wrongfully fired". The only reason given for firing is "no reason". You would have to go up against expensive company lawyers to try to prove that they DID have a reason for firing you AND that that reason was a bad one.
If you're female or a minority, you may have a case, but otherwise, even if you know they fired you because you refused to perform oral sex for the CEO, there is not much you can do about it.
So in other words, he apparently hadn't been doing a good job in IT. Maybe that is why he got fired.
Karma doesn't work. Doing a good deed is its own punishment. Nice guys finish last. Pick your quote. Trust me, if you do your best to treat people right and try to be a nice guy/gal, you WILL get screwed over at every possible opportunity.
His probation forbids posession of software "enabing remote access and monitoring of other computers." He can't work out of his home.
Fortunately for us and contrary to what every PHB that ever made you sign a non-compete clause thinks, neither the government nor anyone else can tell us that we can no longer work in the industry that we have invested untold tens of thousands of dollars and untold amounts of personal and professional time learning how to do. I'm sure a quick lawsuit will fix the whole situation.
But if the vendors did that, then we could compare prices and products on an equal footing and what fun would that be?
It's going to revolutionize transportation just as much as the mega-hyped Segway did in the 20th century.
Doubtful. A lot of prices end in .99 not because that's the store's actual cost, but because apparently many customers think 4.99 is $4, not $5.
You mean $6. You forgot the tax.
some small shops try to enforce minimum to use the credit card for a transaction.
I usually like to point out to them that that is against their merchant agreement. I also enjoy telling various businesses that it is in violation of their merchant agreement to charge extra charges for using a credit card. However, since most of the businesses that do that are actually state agencies, they don't care.