Professionalism is just lies told to those who can't handle the truth. It's beneath the dignity of any intelligent person, just like tact. If you can't tell the truth, or can't handle hearing the truth, you shouldn't have your job to begin with.
Sometimes you just have to destroy everything to get people to listen. If your bosses are being "unprofessional" towards you, then you have the right, nay, the DUTY to retaliate.
But yes.. physical access to a device trumps all. It's probably something like they only have -one- guy that knows what he's doing.. and he just went from being fired to Fed-pound-you-Penn
Very likely correct- in which case I say, given the number of KNOWLEDGEABLE people who are out of work right now, the politicians get what they deserve for their stupidity.
This is the reason why you need leaders who know more than the people they are leading. Or at the very least, leaders who know not to kill the golden goose.
What I'm saying is that I strongly doubt the data- especially when used to malign unions and American workmanship. I've got my doubts as to the veracity even of consumer reports- for that reason I always buy as locally as possible. And always will- I simply don't trust what I don't see with my own eyes anymore when it comes to attacks on America's middle class. the world has lied about free trade once too often for me to believe that crap any longer.
My experience has been that ford interiors last for 20-30 years; but that Japanese cars use inferior plastics that crack under UV light sources, like the sun.
In other words, the racism of the industry is not held up by my experience- so why should I believe YOU or the industry over my own eyes?
None of my Escorts, Anglias, or F150s have shown any such problems. Some are more than 30 years old. You can't go on "resale value" in a situation where base anti-American racism has affected the statistics; of course those who like cheap labor will ignore the problems that cheap labor produces in favor of getting more cheap labor. Sometimes efficiency just isn't worth it.
Yep, that's what I'd call it when Americans have to take out home loans to buy foreign food, fuel, and consumer goods. Especially when those home loans are coming from the same countries that the goods are coming from. Sell the entire country into debt slavery.
Since when is the small minority a "slave" to the whims of the people they've been exploiting for decades?
When they become so dependent upon that exploitation that they cannot survive without the exploitation.
Was Ramses a "slave" to the Jews' interests when he sent his army after them into the red sea?
Ramses sent his army after them into the Red Sea *because* he was a slave to the interests of the Hebrews- he couldn't make his economy work without the slavery. We have the same problem today with trade with China- if it went away tomorrow, the United States no longer has the manufacturing capacity left to survive.
The only thing this society is a SLAVE to is the reality of how economics works. You HAVE to play fair with the community of the world to get a fair trade. If you exploit them, you will get inferior goods out of your deals.
Partially right- but it's worse than that. You also lose the ability to create goods yourself, thus giving the countries you were exploiting an absolute advantage over your own citizens.
It's all linked. One basic problem: the failure to manage chaos in the economic sector. Global warming? No problem if you've got a command economy, just pay some people to do everything possible to remediate it, and move your farmlands north. Terrorism and illegal immigrants? Invade Mexico and start offering countries with failed economies statehood to join our economy, booming with jobs in changing the world over to ambient energy sources. President Hillary might just be the solution- considering that the problem is business as usual, and President Hillary would certainly be the end of business as usual.
I'm just not going to live my life believing in worst-case scenarios just around the corner. I've lived in tension and fear for several days the early part of this week, and I didn't like the feeling. So, while it's worth being cognizant of potentially threatening issues, I'm not going to assume cataclysmic changes (such as an economic change of the magnitude you're talking about) are imminent and near. I'd be a nervous wreck.
Not enough people are nervous wrecks today. Thus we continue to ignore the problems instead of actively fixing them.
But seriously, I think you've missed the entire point of gloom and doom predicting. NOBODY makes such predictions lightly or to be correct- rather such predictions are made to give negative cases to avoid in our engineering, that is, specifically to be proved wrong, and in so doing, encourage others to do the right thing by proving us wrong.
Perception and reality are often quite different things. I've driven Fords, VWs, and Datsuns in my life- and it was the Datsuns that would always fall apart. So no, I don't hold with your racist implications that the Japanese are good at engineering.
And if a family of four needs $80k to be livable, well, that still sounds extreme--but in that case your statement of "with two adult earners" is unnecessary since all you need to specify is how much a family of four needs to "live." Whether one or two adult earners is necessary to earn that much money is a question of their individual earning capacities.
For the grand majority of salaried and hourly workers out there, they will never come close to $80k/year. Only executives make that kind of green. But yes, I'm talking about combined family income- and yes, I do think that is pretty extreme. It's a sign of a first world country sinking to third world status, with all of the inflation that would require.
Amazing the number of people that missed the fact that I'm not talking about today, but a prediction a year from now when China is dumping the dollar wholesale and food prices have doubled or tripled. And of course, education costs have gone up to cover THOSE costs.
The true tech master understands that like Marvin, his brains will never be used to their full capacity, and thus he's going to need to take a job far beneath his skill level to keep body and soul together.
I'd argue that interstate corporations, let alone international ones, violate Article 2 Section 8. But looking at the Bush Administration, I'd have to say that document is invalid when talking about the US Government anyway.
I live on a foreign economy and my 120k USD is not so great in Europe. Back home it was fine. I think salaries calculated in the US, on the US economy, take imports into consideration.
But do they take the cost of food into consideration? We're looking at potential triple digit inflation in food and fuel here in the next few years. do you really think we'll be getting triple digit raises to keep up?
But all out of parts from China. Do you American manufacturer of alternators? Of course not, because alternators require magnets, and China currently has a world monopoly as the sole supplier of magnets.
This is another area where I doubt the numbers strongly. the reason why? I live in a state which was once defined by agriculture and lumber. Ask any Oregon farmer why they don't raise strawberries anymore, you'll get Chilian imports as the answer. Same, but with different countries, for beef, chickens, wheat, apples...it just keeps going and going.
Housing is the biggest cost for most people, and it is not offshored.
Yeah, right. Once again, this is the difference between manufacturing and assembly. Canadian Lumber, Mexican pre-formed concrete block, chinese nails and tools. At best, you can say that American houses were disassembled for shipping...
If all of the parts were built using the global free market that America helped create, then it's American, dammit.
Only if you believe a bunch of tax evaders should still retain their citizenship. I don't. I consider such people to be traitors, worthy only of execution. If it doesn't create middle class jobs RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN CITY, I refuse to invest in it either as a stockholder or a consumer. What Japan learned after WWII is that economics is a form of warfare.
So don't act like it's not 100% made in America. if it were, we wouldn't be living in a free country.
As long as we don't have the right to be protectionist, we're not living in a free country. We're living in a slave society to international interests.
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Professionalism is just lies told to those who can't handle the truth. It's beneath the dignity of any intelligent person, just like tact. If you can't tell the truth, or can't handle hearing the truth, you shouldn't have your job to begin with.
Sometimes you just have to destroy everything to get people to listen. If your bosses are being "unprofessional" towards you, then you have the right, nay, the DUTY to retaliate.
But yes.. physical access to a device trumps all. It's probably something like they only have -one- guy that knows what he's doing.. and he just went from being fired to Fed-pound-you-Penn
Very likely correct- in which case I say, given the number of KNOWLEDGEABLE people who are out of work right now, the politicians get what they deserve for their stupidity.
This is the reason why you need leaders who know more than the people they are leading. Or at the very least, leaders who know not to kill the golden goose.
Which is a damn good reason not to piss off the people who actually know how the technology works.
All government policy wonks should take note of the inevitable reaction to stupidity.
Those who can't do- Manage.
I don't think I clicked on "Post Anonymously". Am I logged in?
What I'm saying is that I strongly doubt the data- especially when used to malign unions and American workmanship. I've got my doubts as to the veracity even of consumer reports- for that reason I always buy as locally as possible. And always will- I simply don't trust what I don't see with my own eyes anymore when it comes to attacks on America's middle class. the world has lied about free trade once too often for me to believe that crap any longer.
Worse yet- it's amazing how many proles have never read the Constitution to begin with.
My experience has been that ford interiors last for 20-30 years; but that Japanese cars use inferior plastics that crack under UV light sources, like the sun.
In other words, the racism of the industry is not held up by my experience- so why should I believe YOU or the industry over my own eyes?
None of my Escorts, Anglias, or F150s have shown any such problems. Some are more than 30 years old. You can't go on "resale value" in a situation where base anti-American racism has affected the statistics; of course those who like cheap labor will ignore the problems that cheap labor produces in favor of getting more cheap labor. Sometimes efficiency just isn't worth it.
slave society to international interests?
Yep, that's what I'd call it when Americans have to take out home loans to buy foreign food, fuel, and consumer goods. Especially when those home loans are coming from the same countries that the goods are coming from. Sell the entire country into debt slavery.
Since when is the small minority a "slave" to the whims of the people they've been exploiting for decades?
When they become so dependent upon that exploitation that they cannot survive without the exploitation.
Was Ramses a "slave" to the Jews' interests when he sent his army after them into the red sea?
Ramses sent his army after them into the Red Sea *because* he was a slave to the interests of the Hebrews- he couldn't make his economy work without the slavery. We have the same problem today with trade with China- if it went away tomorrow, the United States no longer has the manufacturing capacity left to survive.
The only thing this society is a SLAVE to is the reality of how economics works. You HAVE to play fair with the community of the world to get a fair trade. If you exploit them, you will get inferior goods out of your deals.
Partially right- but it's worse than that. You also lose the ability to create goods yourself, thus giving the countries you were exploiting an absolute advantage over your own citizens.
It's all linked. One basic problem: the failure to manage chaos in the economic sector. Global warming? No problem if you've got a command economy, just pay some people to do everything possible to remediate it, and move your farmlands north. Terrorism and illegal immigrants? Invade Mexico and start offering countries with failed economies statehood to join our economy, booming with jobs in changing the world over to ambient energy sources. President Hillary might just be the solution- considering that the problem is business as usual, and President Hillary would certainly be the end of business as usual.
I'm just not going to live my life believing in worst-case scenarios just around the corner. I've lived in tension and fear for several days the early part of this week, and I didn't like the feeling. So, while it's worth being cognizant of potentially threatening issues, I'm not going to assume cataclysmic changes (such as an economic change of the magnitude you're talking about) are imminent and near. I'd be a nervous wreck.
Not enough people are nervous wrecks today. Thus we continue to ignore the problems instead of actively fixing them.
When oil runs out :-)
But seriously, I think you've missed the entire point of gloom and doom predicting. NOBODY makes such predictions lightly or to be correct- rather such predictions are made to give negative cases to avoid in our engineering, that is, specifically to be proved wrong, and in so doing, encourage others to do the right thing by proving us wrong.
Perception and reality are often quite different things. I've driven Fords, VWs, and Datsuns in my life- and it was the Datsuns that would always fall apart. So no, I don't hold with your racist implications that the Japanese are good at engineering.
And if a family of four needs $80k to be livable, well, that still sounds extreme--but in that case your statement of "with two adult earners" is unnecessary since all you need to specify is how much a family of four needs to "live." Whether one or two adult earners is necessary to earn that much money is a question of their individual earning capacities.
For the grand majority of salaried and hourly workers out there, they will never come close to $80k/year. Only executives make that kind of green. But yes, I'm talking about combined family income- and yes, I do think that is pretty extreme. It's a sign of a first world country sinking to third world status, with all of the inflation that would require.
Amazing the number of people that missed the fact that I'm not talking about today, but a prediction a year from now when China is dumping the dollar wholesale and food prices have doubled or tripled. And of course, education costs have gone up to cover THOSE costs.
The true tech master understands that like Marvin, his brains will never be used to their full capacity, and thus he's going to need to take a job far beneath his skill level to keep body and soul together.
Otherwise you end up like this guy
FICA is capped, I don't remember offhand but above a certain income level you don't pay in at all.
Try a little thing called the US Constitution.
I'd argue that interstate corporations, let alone international ones, violate Article 2 Section 8. But looking at the Bush Administration, I'd have to say that document is invalid when talking about the US Government anyway.
Funny, I actually find union made parts to be of superior quality- due to the fact that they weren't created by people who were starving.
Apparently the definition of the word "unlimited". the ISPs must be using some strange definition of which I have not previously been aware of.
I live on a foreign economy and my 120k USD is not so great in Europe. Back home it was fine. I think salaries calculated in the US, on the US economy, take imports into consideration.
But do they take the cost of food into consideration? We're looking at potential triple digit inflation in food and fuel here in the next few years. do you really think we'll be getting triple digit raises to keep up?
But all out of parts from China. Do you American manufacturer of alternators? Of course not, because alternators require magnets, and China currently has a world monopoly as the sole supplier of magnets.
This is another area where I doubt the numbers strongly. the reason why? I live in a state which was once defined by agriculture and lumber. Ask any Oregon farmer why they don't raise strawberries anymore, you'll get Chilian imports as the answer. Same, but with different countries, for beef, chickens, wheat, apples...it just keeps going and going.
Housing is the biggest cost for most people, and it is not offshored.
Yeah, right. Once again, this is the difference between manufacturing and assembly. Canadian Lumber, Mexican pre-formed concrete block, chinese nails and tools. At best, you can say that American houses were disassembled for shipping...
If all of the parts were built using the global free market that America helped create, then it's American, dammit.
Only if you believe a bunch of tax evaders should still retain their citizenship. I don't. I consider such people to be traitors, worthy only of execution. If it doesn't create middle class jobs RIGHT HERE IN OUR OWN CITY, I refuse to invest in it either as a stockholder or a consumer. What Japan learned after WWII is that economics is a form of warfare.
So don't act like it's not 100% made in America. if it were, we wouldn't be living in a free country.
As long as we don't have the right to be protectionist, we're not living in a free country. We're living in a slave society to international interests.