Your suggestion only works for people who are actually paid employees. Most of the wealthiest people in America are not paid by anyone, they are business owners. And after the numerous deductions and write-offs that can be done, many of them come in well under $40,000, and often under $0, despite actually pulling in quite a lot of money. Although there is plenty of underhanded dealings in the business world, there are plenty of LEGITIMATE BUSINESS DEDUCTIONS which make it easy to show a much lower income or even a loss. This is IN the tax law, and is done ON PURPOSE to encourage people to start and run businesses, which employee people, which feeds the economy. This, in my opinion is A Good Thing (TM). Especially since I own several businesses (which employ several people, who all make more money than me).
Actually the article itself says "Outsourcing is good for you", not the country. Which is just plain wrong no matter how you look at it. Outsourcing was horrible for me. I lost my house my cars, nearly my marriage and almost decided to declare bankruptcy. I ran my credit cards up to the hilt to survive, and ended up settling with them once I did finally get a job. So now my credit is ruined.
Luckily, by working hard and doing a much better job than someone 7000 miles away could possibly do, I have been given several raises and now make nearly 40% of my previous wage.
Clearly, outsourcing is not good for ME. Nor is it good for YOU, nor for HIM, nor for HER, nor for THEM. But somehow, it is supposed to be good for US.
Another of the security features was to ground General Aviation airplanes for much longer than commercial airlines and to institute new "temporary" no-fly zones that are still in effect, but only for small planes. They have also mandated increased security for small planes. All this despite the fact that it was huge commercial jets involved in 9/11.
Your typical General Aviation airplane has perhaps a 400 pound payload with full fuel. You could deliver much more ordinance much more precisely with a minivan, at about the same speed.
I will be doing so with the full consent of the public authorities, and I have been determined by the insurance companies to be LESS of a risk than most of the other people on the road.
I admit that he probably had stricter standards to meet (like dual chase cars), but I believe I have had more training for driving vehicles in traffic.
What does using brights have to do with the color
of your dashboard lights?
I almost never use my brights either. I find at night, if your regular lamps can't illuminate a hazard in the road in time for you to react, it is probably better to slow down, then to try to see further.
If it works alright on the moon, we'll take the consumers to it!
How many permanent moon colonies did those campy 50's newsreels estimate we would have by now?
You want insensitive? How about this:
Did he have a waiver to drive a non-street legal vehicle on public thoroughfares or not?
In other words, was he endangering his own life and the lives of others with the consent of public authorities, or at his his own discretion?
That would suck because you know as well as I do that you would not be allowed to go home after completing your full days quota of work in 3 hours. Instead, they would just fire three other people, and make you go on overdrive for the full 9 hours.
Someone should do a followup study to see if those monkey's die at half the age of regular monkeys due to stress.
Hear! Hear!
I could pay my bills now, and then do whatever I want for the remainder of the month. Or I could do whatever I want for the entire month minus a cushion that I have to estimate for the amount of time that it will take to do bills (which had better be larger than the actual time it takes). And all during the month, I will be worried about remembering to do the bills.
This won't work in the workplace, however. Because if you DON'T procrastinate and DO get your work done immediately, you are not rewarded with more stress-free free time, but are punished with more work.
That sounds like my job. I am supposedly going to receive some unknown amount of extra incentive at some unknown point when my current project reaches an unspecified milestone.
Ironically, unlike the monkeys, this makes me want to work LESS.
I could accept evolution, except that I don't believe billions of years would be enough of a timespan to allow for some of our more complex systems to develop. I mean, our visual and auditory systems all have multiple components that are useless without each other.
I can accept that some random assortment of molecules would combine to form an iris, but the chances of that happening are not one in a billion, but one in billions upon billions upon billions. And it would have to happen to a statistically significant number of specimens in a generation in order for it to be genetically passed on to the next.
Mind you, I don't go around reading books on evolution. I have heard about theories of evolutionary leaps where a creature will do something bizarre like grow an extra horn, and find that it is good. But I have a hard time believing that a creature would just sprout an eyeball.
My stepson shows many of the characteristics of ADD. However, I believe it was actually learned behaviour from living in the same house with his uncle (who in turn lived with his parents). His uncle was taking medicien for ADD, but to me just appeared to be a slacker. Get up at 2 P.M. Can't hold a job, stay out and party and come home at 6 in the morning.
My stepson lived in that environment for about 3 years, but it will probably take a lifetime of good example to cure him of what he observed.
My kid MUST have ADD then because despite having access to a playstation, a PC, the internet, a bicycle and a swimming pool, he can still say with a straight face "I'm bored".
I, on the other hand would love to do nothing but play playstation for the next 8 hours straight.
Actually, researching some sites, they say that the magnetic field is getting weaker at a rate that would cause it to get to zero at the earliest by the year 3,000 and more likely closer to 4,000. So our grandkids will not be affected.
Maybe it's not the use of magnets. Maybe it's all the electrons we are using. Normally, they congregate at the north pole of the earth, but we are redistributing them around the earth, thus weakening the magnetic field.
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Then my recommendation is not to steal someone's identity.
But maybe I am just bitter over the several hundred spam e-mails that were sent out last year with my e-mail adress forged as the "to" line.
Well, if one of them has AIDs and has no insurance, then his treatment would effectively steal from society. But by the same token, cigarettes and obesity would also have to be made illegal.
Although I disapprove of the jail system because it makes the lawabiding pay for the upkeep of those who choose not to be lawabiding, I still think that theft is theft. People who steal aren't fit to live in society.
Actually, 6.2% paid by you, 6.2% paid by your employer, up to $87,900.
Yes, if you invested that yourself, you would be rich by the time you retire. Of course, the corporate tax structure incents companies to match 401-k contirbutions up to 6%, so that idea is still in there, but there are only so many 6 percents in 100%, and you have to live on something in the mean time.
The job market for programmers will even out when the standard of living evens out between India and the United States. Unfortunately, with their costs of living being two orders of magnitude lower and the number of people being nearly an order of magnitude higher, the average would put all of us IT folks living in caves. Upscale caves, but still caves.
Amen, Amen and Amen. I've been saying this for years to anyone who will listen.
U.S. companies don't give a crap about long term anymore. U.S. companies (and the gov't) used to pour billions into research. Look at the products that came out of Bell Laboratories in the last century. Where are all those people now? Some of them died, but most of them were forced into early retirement. Several of them work for me now, thank God.
U.S. Companies cut back or cut out research altogether and forgot about long term strategies. After all, the CEO and top execs are only going to be there 5 years or so. Long enough to take all the money, run the company unto the ground, and then be hired on somewhere else for even more money.
But the companies are just doing what AverageGuy wants them to do. AverageGuy can now invest in the stock market, and his voice can be heard in the shareholders meeting, and AverageGuy wants a dollar now and to hell with getting $1000 in ten years.
The U.S. is already losing out in a big way to Japan, but Japan still pours billions into research. They will continue to come out with fundamental breakthroughs, just like the U.S. used to do back in the 50's, 60's and 70's. But the best the U.S. will be able to do is to add peicemeal technology to the groundbreaking innovations of the Japanese.
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Your suggestion only works for people who are actually paid employees. Most of the wealthiest people in America are not paid by anyone, they are business owners. And after the numerous deductions and write-offs that can be done, many of them come in well under $40,000, and often under $0, despite actually pulling in quite a lot of money. Although there is plenty of underhanded dealings in the business world, there are plenty of LEGITIMATE BUSINESS DEDUCTIONS which make it easy to show a much lower income or even a loss. This is IN the tax law, and is done ON PURPOSE to encourage people to start and run businesses, which employee people, which feeds the economy. This, in my opinion is A Good Thing (TM). Especially since I own several businesses (which employ several people, who all make more money than me).
Actually the article itself says "Outsourcing is good for you", not the country. Which is just plain wrong no matter how you look at it. Outsourcing was horrible for me. I lost my house my cars, nearly my marriage and almost decided to declare bankruptcy. I ran my credit cards up to the hilt to survive, and ended up settling with them once I did finally get a job. So now my credit is ruined. Luckily, by working hard and doing a much better job than someone 7000 miles away could possibly do, I have been given several raises and now make nearly 40% of my previous wage. Clearly, outsourcing is not good for ME. Nor is it good for YOU, nor for HIM, nor for HER, nor for THEM. But somehow, it is supposed to be good for US.
>the whole point of the HOV lane was to promote conservation.
Close. It was to promote conversation.
I think I will get confused when they start rating your fuel economy in miles per acre.
Another of the security features was to ground General Aviation airplanes for much longer than commercial airlines and to institute new "temporary" no-fly zones that are still in effect, but only for small planes. They have also mandated increased security for small planes. All this despite the fact that it was huge commercial jets involved in 9/11.
Your typical General Aviation airplane has perhaps a 400 pound payload with full fuel. You could deliver much more ordinance much more precisely with a minivan, at about the same speed.
I will be doing so with the full consent of the public authorities, and I have been determined by the insurance companies to be LESS of a risk than most of the other people on the road.
I admit that he probably had stricter standards to meet (like dual chase cars), but I believe I have had more training for driving vehicles in traffic.
What does using brights have to do with the color of your dashboard lights?
I almost never use my brights either. I find at night, if your regular lamps can't illuminate a hazard in the road in time for you to react, it is probably better to slow down, then to try to see further.
If it works alright on the moon, we'll take the consumers to it!
How many permanent moon colonies did those campy 50's newsreels estimate we would have by now?
You want insensitive? How about this:
Did he have a waiver to drive a non-street legal vehicle on public thoroughfares or not? In other words, was he endangering his own life and the lives of others with the consent of public authorities, or at his his own discretion?
That would suck because you know as well as I do that you would not be allowed to go home after completing your full days quota of work in 3 hours. Instead, they would just fire three other people, and make you go on overdrive for the full 9 hours.
Someone should do a followup study to see if those monkey's die at half the age of regular monkeys due to stress.
Hear! Hear! I could pay my bills now, and then do whatever I want for the remainder of the month. Or I could do whatever I want for the entire month minus a cushion that I have to estimate for the amount of time that it will take to do bills (which had better be larger than the actual time it takes). And all during the month, I will be worried about remembering to do the bills.
This won't work in the workplace, however. Because if you DON'T procrastinate and DO get your work done immediately, you are not rewarded with more stress-free free time, but are punished with more work.
That sounds like my job. I am supposedly going to receive some unknown amount of extra incentive at some unknown point when my current project reaches an unspecified milestone. Ironically, unlike the monkeys, this makes me want to work LESS.
I could accept evolution, except that I don't believe billions of years would be enough of a timespan to allow for some of our more complex systems to develop. I mean, our visual and auditory systems all have multiple components that are useless without each other. I can accept that some random assortment of molecules would combine to form an iris, but the chances of that happening are not one in a billion, but one in billions upon billions upon billions. And it would have to happen to a statistically significant number of specimens in a generation in order for it to be genetically passed on to the next. Mind you, I don't go around reading books on evolution. I have heard about theories of evolutionary leaps where a creature will do something bizarre like grow an extra horn, and find that it is good. But I have a hard time believing that a creature would just sprout an eyeball.
My stepson shows many of the characteristics of ADD. However, I believe it was actually learned behaviour from living in the same house with his uncle (who in turn lived with his parents). His uncle was taking medicien for ADD, but to me just appeared to be a slacker. Get up at 2 P.M. Can't hold a job, stay out and party and come home at 6 in the morning. My stepson lived in that environment for about 3 years, but it will probably take a lifetime of good example to cure him of what he observed.
My kid MUST have ADD then because despite having access to a playstation, a PC, the internet, a bicycle and a swimming pool, he can still say with a straight face "I'm bored". I, on the other hand would love to do nothing but play playstation for the next 8 hours straight.
Actually, researching some sites, they say that the magnetic field is getting weaker at a rate that would cause it to get to zero at the earliest by the year 3,000 and more likely closer to 4,000. So our grandkids will not be affected.
Since the two poles of the Earth are opposite in charge, one of the hemispheres is obviously safer at the expense of the other. Which is it?
Maybe it's not the use of magnets. Maybe it's all the electrons we are using. Normally, they congregate at the north pole of the earth, but we are redistributing them around the earth, thus weakening the magnetic field. Caution: Not to be taken seriously
>How about three years... but he has to opt out >of every ass-raping.
Of course, he should only be able to opt out after having received one already. And the opt out list is really a verification of valid candidates.
Then my recommendation is not to steal someone's identity. But maybe I am just bitter over the several hundred spam e-mails that were sent out last year with my e-mail adress forged as the "to" line.
Well, if one of them has AIDs and has no insurance, then his treatment would effectively steal from society. But by the same token, cigarettes and obesity would also have to be made illegal.
Although I disapprove of the jail system because it makes the lawabiding pay for the upkeep of those who choose not to be lawabiding, I still think that theft is theft. People who steal aren't fit to live in society.
Actually, 6.2% paid by you, 6.2% paid by your employer, up to $87,900. Yes, if you invested that yourself, you would be rich by the time you retire. Of course, the corporate tax structure incents companies to match 401-k contirbutions up to 6%, so that idea is still in there, but there are only so many 6 percents in 100%, and you have to live on something in the mean time.
The job market for programmers will even out when the standard of living evens out between India and the United States. Unfortunately, with their costs of living being two orders of magnitude lower and the number of people being nearly an order of magnitude higher, the average would put all of us IT folks living in caves. Upscale caves, but still caves.
Amen, Amen and Amen. I've been saying this for years to anyone who will listen. U.S. companies don't give a crap about long term anymore. U.S. companies (and the gov't) used to pour billions into research. Look at the products that came out of Bell Laboratories in the last century. Where are all those people now? Some of them died, but most of them were forced into early retirement. Several of them work for me now, thank God. U.S. Companies cut back or cut out research altogether and forgot about long term strategies. After all, the CEO and top execs are only going to be there 5 years or so. Long enough to take all the money, run the company unto the ground, and then be hired on somewhere else for even more money. But the companies are just doing what AverageGuy wants them to do. AverageGuy can now invest in the stock market, and his voice can be heard in the shareholders meeting, and AverageGuy wants a dollar now and to hell with getting $1000 in ten years. The U.S. is already losing out in a big way to Japan, but Japan still pours billions into research. They will continue to come out with fundamental breakthroughs, just like the U.S. used to do back in the 50's, 60's and 70's. But the best the U.S. will be able to do is to add peicemeal technology to the groundbreaking innovations of the Japanese.