And whose fault will that be? The dumb populace, or the wise council which turned out to be wrong in the 10,000 other cases where their warnings turned out to be baseless?
That's odd. Just about every body I know is Christians, and none of them are out there trying to use up all of the world's resources because they think Jesus is coming back soon. Every single one of them is simply using resources in order to survive, just like all of the non-Christians. I don't see Christians wasting any more resources than anybody else. But nice troll anyway.
That's supposed to be the point of a pawn shop, but I don't know if anybody uses them for that anymore. They mostly tend to be used to fence stolen property. As a victim of crime (as are probably most people on here), I REFUSE to buy an item from a pawn shop, I know I as an individual don't matter, but I want to do my part in making the illegitimate business not be worthwhile.
A copper thief was killed in my town while trying to steal copper from a live circuit breaker box at a condemned apartment complex. His survivors sued the electric company, the apartment complex and the city because as the lawyers determined afterward, the box was not SUPPOSED to be live. Nevermind that the thief had no way of knowing whether it was supposed to be live or not. He played the odds and he lost. His family lost the lawsuit, but the "winners", ie the defendants, also lost lots of money defending themselves in a case that should have never been brought before a judge. The city then instituted sweeping changes to tenancy laws in the city which are unprecedented in the U.S. Every house has to go through a rigorous inspection process before any new owner or tenant can move in. If the house is not up to code (even if it was built before that code went into affect), it must be brought up to code, even if the cost of doing so exceeds the worth of the house. If you do not do it, the house will be demolished by the city and you will be presented with a bill for the demolition. The city expected this to get rid of absentee landlords and deadbeats and raise property values, but all it has done is lower house values because nobody can afford to fix all the things in a house that are no longer up to code since they were built 60 years ago.
I agree. The only way news sites will be able to make money is if they adopt the cell phone model, where the user is not really aware that what they are doing is costing them money until it is far too late.
That's okay, after estimating that it has the right temperature and climate to support life, they forget the fact that life doesn't necessarily have to conform to the standards that happen to have come to be on Earth.
No wonder they have to have a generator. 40 miles is not enough to use as a commuter car otherwise. The average commute is 32 miles round trip. Take into account the fact that a lot of that is stop and go traffic with climate control running, and you don't have enough buffer. My commute is higher than average, pretty close to 40 miles per day. It certainly wouldn't work for me without a generator. In fact, it wouldn't work for me even if with the generator, for various reasons.
I think grandparent was referring to the United States, where the Volt is made and marketed. 67% of electric energy in the U.S. comes from coal or natural gas.Hydroelectric is a whopping 7%. Nuclear power is 20% and hopefully rising if the same people who hate using fossil fuels weren't also terrified of nuclear power.
In fact it will require MORE maintenance than a normal car. Smaller engines tend to have a lot more trouble dealing with the mazola that they sell at gas stations these days. A car engine can usually deal with it, but small engines like lawnmower and generator engines tend to get clogged up if the gas is not used quickly (within about 9 weeks). You will need to run it regularly to empty or drain and dispose of the gasoline if you don't intend to run it.
Well, I would think that a large percentage of employers probably would implement smoking or drinking tests if they felt that it was pretty likely to affect job performance. They obviously feel that marijuana does affect job performance.
I think if people have drinking problems that leads to them coming in with hangovers or coming to work drunk, they SHOULD be fired, or otherwise dealt with. I am kind of surprised that they do put up with the smokers as much as they do. In most places where I have worked, smokers spent at least 10% and sometimes as much as 35% of their day out smoking.
If they wanted to pay smokers less, or people who post on slashdot, I am fine with that. People should be paid based on their performance, not on some made up number that corresponds to their job title.
Employers where I live clearly hold the view that drugs impair job performance as almost all of them have something to the affect of "If you do drugs, don't waste your time or ours" on their applications and posted prominently in their entry ways. I have had to take drug tests at my last several employers. It seems to me that
workplaces think that as a class, people who use drugs are not conducive to their bottom line.
I don't think that they should be forced to hire someone who they have some reason to believe will not be able to perform the job.
Of course, I am a crazy guy who also thinks that companies should be allowed to hire the most qualified applicant, regardless of race, age, religion, family status, etc.
No, I am not, I am only about 1/8th native American. But that is not at issue. Whether I am Native American or not does not determine whether I am illegal. I was born in the United States from two citizens of the United States and am descended from immigrants who legally immigrated from Europe. However, even the people who came here and took the land from the Indians were not illegal because there was no law. A lot of what happened was morally wrong, but not illegal.
It would be comical to watch if he chose his words correctly.
"Has anyone tampered with your luggage?"
"Yes. Absolutely. A member of the FBI, but I don't know which one."
you're ALL descended from illegals.
Well, I'M not, and most everyone else in the U.S. is not, but otherwise your point stands.
Remember kiddies, if there is no law against it, it is not illegal.
For as long as I have been in the market, the company you are at will not give you a significant pay raise. They may give you 3 or 4%, but to get a significant pay raise, you have to go to another company. Then your company will have to hire somebody else (at much more than your current salary, else why would they leave wherever they are now?), and then spend a lot of money to train them. Instead of paying another $10 grand a year on someone who knows their system, they now have to spend another $20 grand plus another $10 grand in one time cost to train someone who is not familiar with the system.
The cost of living does tend to increase an average of something like three percent.
No, that is the governments consumer price index (which is supposed to indicate the cost of living) you are thinking of. The cost of living actually increases at about 20% per year.
Actually according to the link you provided, the INFLATION ADJUSTED minimum wage is $2 more than it was in 1990, meaning that minimum wage has outpaced what the government thinks the inflation rate is.
In terms of real dollars, the minimum wage is twice what it was in 1990, meaning a a $30 game should cost $60 now, if you used minimum wage as a metric.
The answer is simple. Find the person in your class who is smarter than you (you should recognize him/her. You were that person when you were in school), and give him the chance to shine that the a-hole professor never gave you.
And now we have mandatory insurance (which is higher than when it was optional) AND we have to pay uninsured motorists coverage. I'll bet we will have a similar corollary in the medical insurance world when we are forced to buy medical insurance. I guess that is the tax we will have to pay for those who can't afford to pay for their mandatory insurance (ie, anyone who makes under $150,000 a year, and yes, I am included in this statistic. VERY included).
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And whose fault will that be? The dumb populace, or the wise council which turned out to be wrong in the 10,000 other cases where their warnings turned out to be baseless?
That's odd. Just about every body I know is Christians, and none of them are out there trying to use up all of the world's resources because they think Jesus is coming back soon. Every single one of them is simply using resources in order to survive, just like all of the non-Christians. I don't see Christians wasting any more resources than anybody else. But nice troll anyway.
Restaurants are always hiring, they pay better, and are less likely to get you killed then stealing copper.
That's supposed to be the point of a pawn shop, but I don't know if anybody uses them for that anymore. They mostly tend to be used to fence stolen property. As a victim of crime (as are probably most people on here), I REFUSE to buy an item from a pawn shop, I know I as an individual don't matter, but I want to do my part in making the illegitimate business not be worthwhile.
A copper thief was killed in my town while trying to steal copper from a live circuit breaker box at a condemned apartment complex. His survivors sued the electric company, the apartment complex and the city because as the lawyers determined afterward, the box was not SUPPOSED to be live. Nevermind that the thief had no way of knowing whether it was supposed to be live or not. He played the odds and he lost. His family lost the lawsuit, but the "winners", ie the defendants, also lost lots of money defending themselves in a case that should have never been brought before a judge. The city then instituted sweeping changes to tenancy laws in the city which are unprecedented in the U.S. Every house has to go through a rigorous inspection process before any new owner or tenant can move in. If the house is not up to code (even if it was built before that code went into affect), it must be brought up to code, even if the cost of doing so exceeds the worth of the house. If you do not do it, the house will be demolished by the city and you will be presented with a bill for the demolition. The city expected this to get rid of absentee landlords and deadbeats and raise property values, but all it has done is lower house values because nobody can afford to fix all the things in a house that are no longer up to code since they were built 60 years ago.
I agree. The only way news sites will be able to make money is if they adopt the cell phone model, where the user is not really aware that what they are doing is costing them money until it is far too late.
That's okay, after estimating that it has the right temperature and climate to support life, they forget the fact that life doesn't necessarily have to conform to the standards that happen to have come to be on Earth.
No wonder they have to have a generator. 40 miles is not enough to use as a commuter car otherwise. The average commute is 32 miles round trip. Take into account the fact that a lot of that is stop and go traffic with climate control running, and you don't have enough buffer. My commute is higher than average, pretty close to 40 miles per day. It certainly wouldn't work for me without a generator. In fact, it wouldn't work for me even if with the generator, for various reasons.
I think grandparent was referring to the United States, where the Volt is made and marketed. 67% of electric energy in the U.S. comes from coal or natural gas.Hydroelectric is a whopping 7%. Nuclear power is 20% and hopefully rising if the same people who hate using fossil fuels weren't also terrified of nuclear power.
In fact it will require MORE maintenance than a normal car. Smaller engines tend to have a lot more trouble dealing with the mazola that they sell at gas stations these days. A car engine can usually deal with it, but small engines like lawnmower and generator engines tend to get clogged up if the gas is not used quickly (within about 9 weeks). You will need to run it regularly to empty or drain and dispose of the gasoline if you don't intend to run it.
Well, I would think that a large percentage of employers probably would implement smoking or drinking tests if they felt that it was pretty likely to affect job performance. They obviously feel that marijuana does affect job performance.
I think if people have drinking problems that leads to them coming in with hangovers or coming to work drunk, they SHOULD be fired, or otherwise dealt with. I am kind of surprised that they do put up with the smokers as much as they do. In most places where I have worked, smokers spent at least 10% and sometimes as much as 35% of their day out smoking.
If they wanted to pay smokers less, or people who post on slashdot, I am fine with that. People should be paid based on their performance, not on some made up number that corresponds to their job title.
Employers where I live clearly hold the view that drugs impair job performance as almost all of them have something to the affect of "If you do drugs, don't waste your time or ours" on their applications and posted prominently in their entry ways. I have had to take drug tests at my last several employers. It seems to me that workplaces think that as a class, people who use drugs are not conducive to their bottom line.
I don't think that they should be forced to hire someone who they have some reason to believe will not be able to perform the job.
Of course, I am a crazy guy who also thinks that companies should be allowed to hire the most qualified applicant, regardless of race, age, religion, family status, etc.
No, I am not, I am only about 1/8th native American. But that is not at issue. Whether I am Native American or not does not determine whether I am illegal. I was born in the United States from two citizens of the United States and am descended from immigrants who legally immigrated from Europe. However, even the people who came here and took the land from the Indians were not illegal because there was no law. A lot of what happened was morally wrong, but not illegal.
It would be comical to watch if he chose his words correctly.
"Has anyone tampered with your luggage?"
"Yes. Absolutely. A member of the FBI, but I don't know which one."
If they wanted it, they shouldn't have illegally put it on someone's car.
you're ALL descended from illegals.
Well, I'M not, and most everyone else in the U.S. is not, but otherwise your point stands.
Remember kiddies, if there is no law against it, it is not illegal.
For as long as I have been in the market, the company you are at will not give you a significant pay raise. They may give you 3 or 4%, but to get a significant pay raise, you have to go to another company. Then your company will have to hire somebody else (at much more than your current salary, else why would they leave wherever they are now?), and then spend a lot of money to train them. Instead of paying another $10 grand a year on someone who knows their system, they now have to spend another $20 grand plus another $10 grand in one time cost to train someone who is not familiar with the system.
I include myself in that statistic.
The cost of living does tend to increase an average of something like three percent.
No, that is the governments consumer price index (which is supposed to indicate the cost of living) you are thinking of. The cost of living actually increases at about 20% per year.
You forgot 5 years of experience in a product that the company you are applying for makes and only uses internally.
Actually according to the link you provided, the INFLATION ADJUSTED minimum wage is $2 more than it was in 1990, meaning that minimum wage has outpaced what the government thinks the inflation rate is.
In terms of real dollars, the minimum wage is twice what it was in 1990, meaning a a $30 game should cost $60 now, if you used minimum wage as a metric.
Whoosh yourself, look up Han's outfit and Lando on the Googles.
The answer is simple. Find the person in your class who is smarter than you (you should recognize him/her. You were that person when you were in school), and give him the chance to shine that the a-hole professor never gave you.
It was labeled "Pilot's space suit" and Chewbacca happened to be the pilot for that trip. That was why he was wearing it.
And now we have mandatory insurance (which is higher than when it was optional) AND we have to pay uninsured motorists coverage. I'll bet we will have a similar corollary in the medical insurance world when we are forced to buy medical insurance. I guess that is the tax we will have to pay for those who can't afford to pay for their mandatory insurance (ie, anyone who makes under $150,000 a year, and yes, I am included in this statistic. VERY included).