Free market, remember? I can get the same for x or for 5x... humm, what should I take?
Well, if you can get someone at 5X, then that is the prevailing wage. On the other hand, if you get someone for 1X offshore, then you have illegally hired someone from offshore at lower than the prevailing wage.
And if you had paid $120k instead of $80k, you would have gotten someone quite happy to call themselves "entry level", while at the same time, having third tier level skills. Because the prevailing wage is the wage at which you are able to get people to work for you.
But it doesn't surprise me to hear that your company would spend $200k just to avoid paying someone over $100k.
The entire society can't sustain it's population now, so adding another billion hungry mouths over 20 years is just going to fuck things up even more.
That probably depends a lot on whether they go out and become producers or sit in their parents basements sending 3,000 texts a day and spending the 12 hours a day that they are not sleeping playing World of Warfare.
Besides, I hardly think anyone actually thinks that the media portrayal of these idiots is actually such that they would want to go out and have 20 kids themselves. Well, maybe a few would, but unfortunately for us, those are the people we would prefer not to reproduce at all.
Unfortunately, in the world we live in, the ones least able to support a family are the ones having the most children.
The vast majority are not arrested for the SAME violent offense.
So almost half commit another violent crime, but at least it is not the same one? Forgive me if I find very little comfort in that.
I'm on my non-smoking break. Why should only smokers get breaks?
Also, exerpted from the Department of Labor:
785.18 Rest.
Rest periods of short duration, running from 5 minutes to about 20 minutes, are common in industry. They promote the efficiency of the employee and are customarily paid for as working time. They must be counted as hours worked. Compensable time of rest periods may not be offset against other working time such as compensable waiting time or on-call time. ( Mitchell v. Greinetz, 235 F. 2d 621, 13 W.H. Cases 3 (C.A. 10, 1956); Ballard v. Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd., 61 F. Supp. 996 (S.D. Cal. 1945))
I only know three, but every "tea partier" I personally know is an older white person who harbors what I would call..."ethnic animosity".
Well, I know a lot more than three, and I don't consider them old, but maybe that is because I am getting old. They are between 35 and 55.
As far as ethnic animosity, I suppose one could argue that it appears there is some of that, but I think the more common stereotype that republicans only care about money is the real culprit. It is not so much prejudice against the Mexicans, as it is against the illegal immigrants which are hitting them in the wallet. It is not so much the blacks, as the cycle of welfare abuse which hits them in the wallet. If it was white folks illegally crossing the border illegally, I think the republicans would be just as against it. I know I would. Off the subject, my wife is an immigrant. She came here on a valid visa, and she has become a United States citizen.
All of the leadership at my Church use Mac products and they are almost certainly all Republicans. I, on the other hand, have nothing whatsoever with a Mac brand on it, and am also a Republican.
Same problem with the Sears Tower. I took my kids up there, on a weekday. The line was out the door and out onto the sidewalk. We waited in line for about 45 minutes before getting to the front and the elevator took us down to line number two, the line to get tickets. That was another 45 minutes. The ticket prices were outrageous, too. Then after that line, there was about a 45 minute line to wait for the elevator to take us up to the top. By the time we actually got up there, the kids were in no mood to look around and I don't blame them. I had to force them to spend about 15 minutes up there looking around.
We had planned to spend the day in Chicago visiting multiple sites like Navy Pier, Water Tower Place, and other stuff, but instead we spent 3 hours waiting in line at the Sears Tower, ate a late lunch, and went home.
This bill forces them to get insurance.
Yes, and us right-wingers will still complain about healthcare reform, because forcing people to buy insurance doesn't reform the healthcare industry, it gives money to the insurance companies. For a lot of people, the cost of healthcare insurance is so high, that it is crippling. Before I cancelled my policy at work, I was paying $800 a month for insurance. Of course, with copayments and coinsurance, if we went to the doctor, we would still owe another hundred dollars or more still. So we cancelled the insurance, and just pay for the doctor out of pocket. When you look at the cost of paying out of pocket versus paying the premiums and the coinsurances and copayments, it is cheaper to pay out of pocket. Unless you are a genuinely unhealthy person who has a lot of doctors bills, of course. But that is not what insurance is for. Insurance is for "what if", not the unfortunate reality of a health condition.
I think when 6% of your population (between the ages of 18 and 24, anyway) can't find their own country on a map, that's still pretty sad.
Well, to be fair, it WAS a map of Europe.
But seriously, it is not at all surprising to me. There are huge numbers of people who see no point in education, and resent every moment of it until eventually they are allowed to drop out. Some studies estimate dropout rates in the U.S. averaging 26-29%. It is not surprising that these people would have no idea where to find their country on a map. Frankly, I think we need to think of something different to do with these people, other than what we currently do, which is to spend a disproportionate amount of money to continue their lifestyle choice of doing as little as possible and raising another generation up in that fine tradition.
Seriously, PowerPoint just plain sucks.
I disagree. I think Powerpoint, like all of Microsoft's products, does an excellent job of making someone who is not very good at a task, look at least competent. Microsoft seems utterly devoted to form over function. If it were not for Microsoft products, 90% of people in the computer industry today would be exposed for the incompetent boobs that they are.
Which just goes to show that it doesn't matter what party they are in, anyone who gets high enough in politics in Illinois must certainly be corrupt and not trustworthy.
Anyone want to take a stab at what state Obama was from?
Rape is felt by the victim as an act of dominance and control.
I'm not sure if even that is true. I think that this is just what counselors tell the victims so they feel better about themselves. Nobody wants to be seen as just as sexual object. Much better to think that were just a random person that the assailant wanted to feel power over. Strangely though it seems that men statistically seem to want to have power over young, sexually attractive women. I mean if it was about power, what difference would age or beauty have to do with it?
Once again the solution is to vote with your wallet. Nobody NEEDS and e-book and nobody NEEDS to send text messages. The problem is that the number of people who would actually refrain from buying these services pales in comparison with the idiots who have too much money to care, or who are too fixated on having the latest gadget regardless of whether it is overpriced or full of adware.
I don't know if it will be any good or not, but I sure hope it is. I have had Flight Simulator ever since it was Sublogic Flight Simulator, and there is such a dedicated following of people developing third party scenery, airplanes, flight plans and the like. I enjoy flying around in the virtual world with planes in current livery's and on current flight schedules flying around with me. Every generation has gotten better in terms of graphics and functionality. I don't know what to expect for this next iteration, especially if it is basically a restart, but I have at least hope for even better than FSX.
Will the default airport still be meigs field?
It hasn't been Meigs field ever since a terrorist in Chicago, under cover of darkness, illegally bulldozed large Xs in the runways of the real Meigs Field, trapping many planes that were based there, closing an important reliever to Midway and O'Hare airport, and causing airspace safety issues due to the closing of the traffic control facility based there, in violation of contractual agreements in which the FAA gave the city money (money which came from all U.S. Taxpayers) for development and upkeep of the airport. As a result, hundreds of jobs were lost, and the millions of dollars of income for the city each year from the airport is now gone.
The criminal has yet to be apprehended and charged with his heinous crimes, however, his whereabouts are well known, but he holds the police force in the palm of his hand, as he is the current mayor of Chicago.,
I can't help but take customer contact info, when my superiors gave out my personal phone number to customers against company policy, and now the customers call me because I am the one that can fix their issues.
If my employment contract is no longer in force, then the non-compete clause which was part of that contract is no longer in force. If you would like me to not work for the competition, then you need to keep my contract in force. I will happily do that for my previous salary for the length of the desired non-compete period. Don't expect me to show up for work though.
I find Han shooting first to be consistent with Han's character at the beginning of the trilogy. He was just in this thing for the money. Later, his character changes. With Greedo shooting first, it makes Han's character inconsistent with him being in it for the money, and also detracts from his character changing to become more compassionate to the rebel cause in the later parts of the trilogy. That and the aforementioned fact that he would be dead already if he waited to get shot at before shooting,
Not that I really care. The most important thing is that you don't lay something down and then change it.
say you get fired from a job as a bus driver or something after your boss sees the accusation and you are later found innocent
Can you even be found innocent on a charge of drunken driving? I know many crimes you can not be found innocent, only "not guilty", which is decidedly not the same thing. Although everyone always says we are "innocent until proven guilty", then why do you have to sit in a jail cell or post bail? That doesn't sound like something an innocent person would do. Then if they are unable to prove your crime, you are found "not guilty". Does anyone compensate you for the bail you posted or the time you spent in the slammer for a crime they couldn't prove you committed? Innocent until proven guilty is a fallacy. I'm not just being bitter. I've never even been arrested. But the legal system just seems remarkably unfair to me, and the system seems to come down on the easy targets (mostly law abiding citizens who commit a minor infraction) rather than hardcore criminals.
how do you not have the right to sue for lost earnings etc?
You do have the right to sue for lost earnings. If I lost my job today, I could sue YOU for lost earnings. Whether I will when or not is another matter.
I get treated with far greater respect in the gas hog. People don't cut off me in traffic, people don't always presume they have the right of way at four way stops, etc.
I wonder why they respect you in a Silverado, but they don't respect 18 wheelers or 20,000 pound RVs, and will still happily cu them off in traffic, and occasionally wind up squished for their trouble.
Anyone who spends $30K on a car either has money falling out of their pockets or spends beyond their means.
The average new car price in 2009 was $28,400. This means that the according to you, almost 50% of the people who buy a new car have money falling out their pockets. Not that I disagree with you. I make about twice the median household income in the U.S., and a $28400 car is far beyond my means.
Even if they report correctly, there are enough games out there to skew the statistics. How many out there have been made into a manager with no one reporting to them and they still do their same old duties, all because the HR department has set an artificial limit on the salary for Title X. So now you are a title Manager of X, but doing job X all because they are trying to keep the salary of Title X artificially low, while in reality, people who DO X are making more than that.
As an example, I am a Director. No one reports to me. I write programs and support production. I make more than a person with the title of programmer or production support. Now, what is the average salary? The average of people whose title is X or the average of people who perform the task of X? Which is reported to the government?
This is why I won't buy music, books, or software of any sort that has to "phone home" to verify that I am allowed to use it. My CDs don't phone home, and neither do my hundreds of paper books, and I will continue to be able to use them regardless of what happens to the store that I purchased them from. Now, they could be ruined in a fire or flood, but I have insurance against that.
So according to Wikipedia, approximately 7.3% of electric power in the United States comes from renewable energy. According to this article, approximately 7.4% of the total subsidies were allocated to renewable energy.
Oh, and let's not forget that they are including bogus "subsidies" such as military costs in the equation.
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Free market, remember? I can get the same for x or for 5x... humm, what should I take?
Well, if you can get someone at 5X, then that is the prevailing wage. On the other hand, if you get someone for 1X offshore, then you have illegally hired someone from offshore at lower than the prevailing wage.
And if you had paid $120k instead of $80k, you would have gotten someone quite happy to call themselves "entry level", while at the same time, having third tier level skills. Because the prevailing wage is the wage at which you are able to get people to work for you.
But it doesn't surprise me to hear that your company would spend $200k just to avoid paying someone over $100k.
The entire society can't sustain it's population now, so adding another billion hungry mouths over 20 years is just going to fuck things up even more.
That probably depends a lot on whether they go out and become producers or sit in their parents basements sending 3,000 texts a day and spending the 12 hours a day that they are not sleeping playing World of Warfare.
Besides, I hardly think anyone actually thinks that the media portrayal of these idiots is actually such that they would want to go out and have 20 kids themselves. Well, maybe a few would, but unfortunately for us, those are the people we would prefer not to reproduce at all.
Unfortunately, in the world we live in, the ones least able to support a family are the ones having the most children.
The vast majority are not arrested for the SAME violent offense.
So almost half commit another violent crime, but at least it is not the same one? Forgive me if I find very little comfort in that.
I'm on my non-smoking break. Why should only smokers get breaks?
Also, exerpted from the Department of Labor:
785.18 Rest.
Rest periods of short duration, running from 5 minutes to about 20 minutes, are common in industry. They promote the efficiency of the employee and are customarily paid for as working time. They must be counted as hours worked. Compensable time of rest periods may not be offset against other working time such as compensable waiting time or on-call time. ( Mitchell v. Greinetz, 235 F. 2d 621, 13 W.H. Cases 3 (C.A. 10, 1956); Ballard v. Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd., 61 F. Supp. 996 (S.D. Cal. 1945))
I only know three, but every "tea partier" I personally know is an older white person who harbors what I would call..."ethnic animosity".
Well, I know a lot more than three, and I don't consider them old, but maybe that is because I am getting old. They are between 35 and 55.
As far as ethnic animosity, I suppose one could argue that it appears there is some of that, but I think the more common stereotype that republicans only care about money is the real culprit. It is not so much prejudice against the Mexicans, as it is against the illegal immigrants which are hitting them in the wallet. It is not so much the blacks, as the cycle of welfare abuse which hits them in the wallet. If it was white folks illegally crossing the border illegally, I think the republicans would be just as against it. I know I would. Off the subject, my wife is an immigrant. She came here on a valid visa, and she has become a United States citizen.
All of the leadership at my Church use Mac products and they are almost certainly all Republicans. I, on the other hand, have nothing whatsoever with a Mac brand on it, and am also a Republican.
Same problem with the Sears Tower. I took my kids up there, on a weekday. The line was out the door and out onto the sidewalk. We waited in line for about 45 minutes before getting to the front and the elevator took us down to line number two, the line to get tickets. That was another 45 minutes. The ticket prices were outrageous, too. Then after that line, there was about a 45 minute line to wait for the elevator to take us up to the top. By the time we actually got up there, the kids were in no mood to look around and I don't blame them. I had to force them to spend about 15 minutes up there looking around.
We had planned to spend the day in Chicago visiting multiple sites like Navy Pier, Water Tower Place, and other stuff, but instead we spent 3 hours waiting in line at the Sears Tower, ate a late lunch, and went home.
This bill forces them to get insurance.
Yes, and us right-wingers will still complain about healthcare reform, because forcing people to buy insurance doesn't reform the healthcare industry, it gives money to the insurance companies. For a lot of people, the cost of healthcare insurance is so high, that it is crippling. Before I cancelled my policy at work, I was paying $800 a month for insurance. Of course, with copayments and coinsurance, if we went to the doctor, we would still owe another hundred dollars or more still. So we cancelled the insurance, and just pay for the doctor out of pocket. When you look at the cost of paying out of pocket versus paying the premiums and the coinsurances and copayments, it is cheaper to pay out of pocket. Unless you are a genuinely unhealthy person who has a lot of doctors bills, of course. But that is not what insurance is for. Insurance is for "what if", not the unfortunate reality of a health condition.
I think when 6% of your population (between the ages of 18 and 24, anyway) can't find their own country on a map, that's still pretty sad. Well, to be fair, it WAS a map of Europe.
But seriously, it is not at all surprising to me. There are huge numbers of people who see no point in education, and resent every moment of it until eventually they are allowed to drop out. Some studies estimate dropout rates in the U.S. averaging 26-29%. It is not surprising that these people would have no idea where to find their country on a map. Frankly, I think we need to think of something different to do with these people, other than what we currently do, which is to spend a disproportionate amount of money to continue their lifestyle choice of doing as little as possible and raising another generation up in that fine tradition.
Seriously, PowerPoint just plain sucks.
I disagree. I think Powerpoint, like all of Microsoft's products, does an excellent job of making someone who is not very good at a task, look at least competent. Microsoft seems utterly devoted to form over function. If it were not for Microsoft products, 90% of people in the computer industry today would be exposed for the incompetent boobs that they are.
Which just goes to show that it doesn't matter what party they are in, anyone who gets high enough in politics in Illinois must certainly be corrupt and not trustworthy.
Anyone want to take a stab at what state Obama was from?
Rape is felt by the victim as an act of dominance and control.
I'm not sure if even that is true. I think that this is just what counselors tell the victims so they feel better about themselves. Nobody wants to be seen as just as sexual object. Much better to think that were just a random person that the assailant wanted to feel power over. Strangely though it seems that men statistically seem to want to have power over young, sexually attractive women. I mean if it was about power, what difference would age or beauty have to do with it?
Once again the solution is to vote with your wallet. Nobody NEEDS and e-book and nobody NEEDS to send text messages. The problem is that the number of people who would actually refrain from buying these services pales in comparison with the idiots who have too much money to care, or who are too fixated on having the latest gadget regardless of whether it is overpriced or full of adware.
I don't know if it will be any good or not, but I sure hope it is. I have had Flight Simulator ever since it was Sublogic Flight Simulator, and there is such a dedicated following of people developing third party scenery, airplanes, flight plans and the like. I enjoy flying around in the virtual world with planes in current livery's and on current flight schedules flying around with me. Every generation has gotten better in terms of graphics and functionality. I don't know what to expect for this next iteration, especially if it is basically a restart, but I have at least hope for even better than FSX.
Will the default airport still be meigs field?
It hasn't been Meigs field ever since a terrorist in Chicago, under cover of darkness, illegally bulldozed large Xs in the runways of the real Meigs Field, trapping many planes that were based there, closing an important reliever to Midway and O'Hare airport, and causing airspace safety issues due to the closing of the traffic control facility based there, in violation of contractual agreements in which the FAA gave the city money (money which came from all U.S. Taxpayers) for development and upkeep of the airport. As a result, hundreds of jobs were lost, and the millions of dollars of income for the city each year from the airport is now gone.
The criminal has yet to be apprehended and charged with his heinous crimes, however, his whereabouts are well known, but he holds the police force in the palm of his hand, as he is the current mayor of Chicago.,
I can't help but take customer contact info, when my superiors gave out my personal phone number to customers against company policy, and now the customers call me because I am the one that can fix their issues.
If my employment contract is no longer in force, then the non-compete clause which was part of that contract is no longer in force. If you would like me to not work for the competition, then you need to keep my contract in force. I will happily do that for my previous salary for the length of the desired non-compete period. Don't expect me to show up for work though.
I find Han shooting first to be consistent with Han's character at the beginning of the trilogy. He was just in this thing for the money. Later, his character changes. With Greedo shooting first, it makes Han's character inconsistent with him being in it for the money, and also detracts from his character changing to become more compassionate to the rebel cause in the later parts of the trilogy. That and the aforementioned fact that he would be dead already if he waited to get shot at before shooting,
Not that I really care. The most important thing is that you don't lay something down and then change it.
say you get fired from a job as a bus driver or something after your boss sees the accusation and you are later found innocent
Can you even be found innocent on a charge of drunken driving? I know many crimes you can not be found innocent, only "not guilty", which is decidedly not the same thing. Although everyone always says we are "innocent until proven guilty", then why do you have to sit in a jail cell or post bail? That doesn't sound like something an innocent person would do. Then if they are unable to prove your crime, you are found "not guilty". Does anyone compensate you for the bail you posted or the time you spent in the slammer for a crime they couldn't prove you committed? Innocent until proven guilty is a fallacy. I'm not just being bitter. I've never even been arrested. But the legal system just seems remarkably unfair to me, and the system seems to come down on the easy targets (mostly law abiding citizens who commit a minor infraction) rather than hardcore criminals.
how do you not have the right to sue for lost earnings etc?
You do have the right to sue for lost earnings. If I lost my job today, I could sue YOU for lost earnings. Whether I will when or not is another matter.
I get treated with far greater respect in the gas hog. People don't cut off me in traffic, people don't always presume they have the right of way at four way stops, etc.
I wonder why they respect you in a Silverado, but they don't respect 18 wheelers or 20,000 pound RVs, and will still happily cu them off in traffic, and occasionally wind up squished for their trouble.
Anyone who spends $30K on a car either has money falling out of their pockets or spends beyond their means.
The average new car price in 2009 was $28,400. This means that the according to you, almost 50% of the people who buy a new car have money falling out their pockets. Not that I disagree with you. I make about twice the median household income in the U.S., and a $28400 car is far beyond my means.
Even if they report correctly, there are enough games out there to skew the statistics. How many out there have been made into a manager with no one reporting to them and they still do their same old duties, all because the HR department has set an artificial limit on the salary for Title X. So now you are a title Manager of X, but doing job X all because they are trying to keep the salary of Title X artificially low, while in reality, people who DO X are making more than that.
As an example, I am a Director. No one reports to me. I write programs and support production. I make more than a person with the title of programmer or production support. Now, what is the average salary? The average of people whose title is X or the average of people who perform the task of X? Which is reported to the government?
This is why I won't buy music, books, or software of any sort that has to "phone home" to verify that I am allowed to use it. My CDs don't phone home, and neither do my hundreds of paper books, and I will continue to be able to use them regardless of what happens to the store that I purchased them from. Now, they could be ruined in a fire or flood, but I have insurance against that.
So according to Wikipedia, approximately 7.3% of electric power in the United States comes from renewable energy. According to this article, approximately 7.4% of the total subsidies were allocated to renewable energy.
Oh, and let's not forget that they are including bogus "subsidies" such as military costs in the equation.