Ah- and luck must have been with you on that last. I've never been allowed to complete a private-sector project while earning a salary- the project either gets cut or the business goes bankrupt before I can finish, usually by spending millions on food and liquour for potential investors.
They should end that practice- and replace it with a single meal at McDonald's and spiking the coke with oxycotin....
I renember reading how wrong it was to lie on your resume. You could get fired and forced to pay back what wages were earned when you were caught.
You could- but chance are you either won't get hired in the first place or nobody will take another look at your resume after you're hired ever again.
I can't belive I bought that shit. You are right. You are just plain right.
I don't like being right about this- Entrepreneurs should be able to start businesses without compromising all of their personal values. But the sad fact of the day is, unless you are willing to lie, cheat, steal, and sell out your neighbors for a low wage country, you won't even be able to obtain basic venture capital anymore.
And lie about your age and diploma. If you really want the experience that will make you a successfull entrepreneur in 21st century America, then this process will get you an internship at the type of company where you will be able to learn the most; both mistakes and solutions through bending the truth when it is profitable to do so.
My earning power is about 30% greater in the U.S. (after accounting for the cost of living).
I can believe it was about 5 years ago- but is it still today? I look at your skills list on your resume and I think "Any Indian in Bangalore working for $2.50/hr and no benefits can do that". I'm kind of surprised you still get health insurance at your employer- most of the private sector jobs around me in Oregon have cut that benefit. How have you hung on when so many others have lost out in recent years?
The point you miss is that Americans have the OPTION of selecting what health care they have.
I haven't since Bush's bad managment crashed the.com bubble in 2001- once I was laid off, I lost all my choices on health care. That's the last time I make a choice between an idiot and a hypocrite and choose the idiot. This last time- I ended up voting for a third party candidate because I couldn't stand either the hypocrite or the idiot. And NOTHING has really changed for my economic strata.
Most people employed in the U.S. have their medical insurance provided as a subsidized benefit by their employer
Not anymore they don't- this subsidy is by and large getting removed from the US Workforce- and nothing is replacing it.
-- their out of pocket expense is around $200-$250 a month for family coverage.
Lucky them- hope they can hold on to it- I supposedly have the same benefit but family coverage would be $700/month for my portion. Consequently we have private insurance on the 2-year-old; and no insurance for my wife and I at all.
In my case, it is all covered by my employer, and the benefit is non-taxable. But, I presumed "worst case" and that insurance would have to be purchased privately.
Worse case- private insurance on a family will run you between $700-$1200 a month in the US, depending on your age. At this point, I'd take Canada's waiting period if I could just have *reasonable* UDHR Article 25-28 human rights here.
In Oregon, we call the continental shelf "Highway 101". In many places, the cliff at the side of the road goes STRAIGHT DOWN a couple of hundred feet below the water.
On the plus side, if you're ever visiting the Oregon Coast and hear the Tsunami Warning, it's a good rule of thumb that if you can climb the cliff on the other side of Highway 101, you'll be above the generally-accepted tsunami safe line.
An inner smaller one, containing the seawater and made out of some sort of highly conductive, non-corrosive metal. An outer one, much larger, with holes punched in it, open at the ends of the field, to draw in air and condense water out of the air. Maybe even a small electric fan to blow more air through the system. Bury the large pipe in the middle, and put your grapes on top of it.
Even if global warming is primarily caused by human activity, we're at least 4 years too late to stop it at this point, and more likely 20....and it is a uniquely American crime ending research into biofuels in the late 1970s.
The real communist state is the New York Stock Exchange. Party members, also called brokers, tell people to invest their money there for a safe retirement- only to steal it all for the Party. Just like Stalin used to. Just like Mao. It's the same old line "Private accounts to save Social Security" - "Give all your wages to the Party and we will take care of you". It didn't work for farmers in the Ukraine and it won't work today- and my generation will be stuck trying to feed the starving millions in 2018 when the Republicans default on the Treasury Bonds in the so-called "Trust Fund".
I agree with everything you said except for: FYI, the USA has been a fascist country for over 50 years. It doesn't mean we don't have a democracy; it's still just barely hanging on.
No, actually at this point we effectively no longer have a democracy. We have a secret oligarchy of corporations that plays at being a democracy by making sure they have bought and paid for the campaigns of all plurality party candidates. You have no choice whatsoever- you will either vote for a company man or you will vote for the loser, in any race that requires basic advertising at all. There are no honest politicians- and the only difference between the parties are what they are dishonest about. They'll never tell you the truth- that corporations pay for everything, and that this country has been living on the international equivalent of credit cards for longer than half the population has been alive.
The real mistake came in calling money a form of speech- effectively giving the corporations superior first ammendment rights compared to the individual. And the end result is slavery.
Looks to me from the story that what the kudzu really does is increase the body's ability to absorb alcohol from the stomach into the blood stream- like they said, both groups got equally intoxicated even though one group drank half as much.
For first run, and not at midnight, yes- Sci-fi channel is only on cable or sattelite, not broadcast. I'd also point out that I said NETWORK broadcast- syndication is another matter and usually isn't going to be run across by a bored kid trying to find something other than what his parents are watching- that was the magic of entry-level space operas like Star Trek.
If you haven't figured it out: 1. Wikipedia is shared ignorance- it's as much about myth as reality because individual users who THINK they know something can edit the entries. 2. Corporations came from exactly that ideal- putting the good of the group ahead of the good of the individual- just like communism.
BROADCAST NETWORK TV- both Andromeda and Earth Final Conflict were syndicated. Syndicated shows have a tendency towards low ratings due to not being on in prime time and being moved around to different time slots a lot.
Andromeda is a good example- only one broadcast station in my area carries it and has it on at, oddly enough, 3:00pm on Saturday Afternoons.
erm. wasn't battlestar galactica cancelled in part due to legal troubles?
What are you talking about- the new one comes back with Season 2 in July.
It would seem that ST is the microsoft of Sci Fi. A lot of good shows are relegated to the fringes (Stargate, Farscape, Bab5) because ST is eating up all the Scifi mindshare. At least it must in the minds of the network execs. They seem to have a formula: something% sci fi, 40% cynical lawyer/cop show, 30% sappy sitcom, 5% unwatchable spy show, etc. It changes a little, but most of the scifi offerings on major networks seem laughably poorly done. (Knight rider 2000? Cleopatra 2525?) Why were these shows even on the air? Even your vaunted ST:TNG was really The Young and the Restless in Space. (TNG was absolutely the worst ST ever. Despite the concentration of full episodes to some whining loser with feeelings, the characters were surprisingly static and remarkeably incompetant at:35 past the hour.)
I'll grant you that- but we're not talking about sophisticated viewers like you and Mr. Card. We're talking about the kid whose parents discourage any kind of creative thinking, who look at even Star Trek and judge it on how ugly the aliens are. The point is to have a point of entry into sci-fi for even those kids.
I remember long games of tackle smear the queer and being body checked into the wall of bushes that surrounded the lawn of our meeting place.
Exactly- standard 1950s morality training. Why do you think they call it "smear the queer" anyway? It's using violence to enforce the heterosexual status quo.
I learned in my years as a boy scout if you ratted someone out you would pay later and keep your friends close but your enemies closer. So Boy Scouts did pretty much prepare me for life.
I was a cub scout for all of two years- then my family hit a poor stretch and we could no longer afford the uniforms.
All the scout troops in Oregon are sponsored by churches- and have a tendency to teach the morals of those churches. There were plenty of altruistic people around me- if you could call it that. I did notice that the grand majority of what they teach moral wise is not to upset the status quo....
There is that- but you're educated and relatively well off. If we are going to grow the Sci-Fi fan base, then we need something that you don't have to pay a whole lot for and/or have a broadband connection to the net to get. Which leaves Broadcast Network TV for now....
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Ah- and luck must have been with you on that last. I've never been allowed to complete a private-sector project while earning a salary- the project either gets cut or the business goes bankrupt before I can finish, usually by spending millions on food and liquour for potential investors.
They should end that practice- and replace it with a single meal at McDonald's and spiking the coke with oxycotin....
I renember reading how wrong it was to lie on your resume. You could get fired and forced to pay back what wages were earned when you were caught.
You could- but chance are you either won't get hired in the first place or nobody will take another look at your resume after you're hired ever again.
I can't belive I bought that shit. You are right. You are just plain right.
I don't like being right about this- Entrepreneurs should be able to start businesses without compromising all of their personal values. But the sad fact of the day is, unless you are willing to lie, cheat, steal, and sell out your neighbors for a low wage country, you won't even be able to obtain basic venture capital anymore.
And lie about your age and diploma. If you really want the experience that will make you a successfull entrepreneur in 21st century America, then this process will get you an internship at the type of company where you will be able to learn the most; both mistakes and solutions through bending the truth when it is profitable to do so.
My earning power is about 30% greater in the U.S. (after accounting for the cost of living).
I can believe it was about 5 years ago- but is it still today? I look at your skills list on your resume and I think "Any Indian in Bangalore working for $2.50/hr and no benefits can do that". I'm kind of surprised you still get health insurance at your employer- most of the private sector jobs around me in Oregon have cut that benefit. How have you hung on when so many others have lost out in recent years?
The point you miss is that Americans have the OPTION of selecting what health care they have.
.com bubble in 2001- once I was laid off, I lost all my choices on health care. That's the last time I make a choice between an idiot and a hypocrite and choose the idiot. This last time- I ended up voting for a third party candidate because I couldn't stand either the hypocrite or the idiot. And NOTHING has really changed for my economic strata.
I haven't since Bush's bad managment crashed the
Most people employed in the U.S. have their medical insurance provided as a subsidized benefit by their employer
Not anymore they don't- this subsidy is by and large getting removed from the US Workforce- and nothing is replacing it.
-- their out of pocket expense is around $200-$250 a month for family coverage.
Lucky them- hope they can hold on to it- I supposedly have the same benefit but family coverage would be $700/month for my portion. Consequently we have private insurance on the 2-year-old; and no insurance for my wife and I at all.
In my case, it is all covered by my employer, and the benefit is non-taxable. But, I presumed "worst case" and that insurance would have to be purchased privately.
Worse case- private insurance on a family will run you between $700-$1200 a month in the US, depending on your age. At this point, I'd take Canada's waiting period if I could just have *reasonable* UDHR Article 25-28 human rights here.
In Oregon, we call the continental shelf "Highway 101". In many places, the cliff at the side of the road goes STRAIGHT DOWN a couple of hundred feet below the water.
On the plus side, if you're ever visiting the Oregon Coast and hear the Tsunami Warning, it's a good rule of thumb that if you can climb the cliff on the other side of Highway 101, you'll be above the generally-accepted tsunami safe line.
Last I looked, Boston was on the coast- a major deepwater harbor at that. What are you talking about?
An inner smaller one, containing the seawater and made out of some sort of highly conductive, non-corrosive metal. An outer one, much larger, with holes punched in it, open at the ends of the field, to draw in air and condense water out of the air. Maybe even a small electric fan to blow more air through the system. Bury the large pipe in the middle, and put your grapes on top of it.
Even if global warming is primarily caused by human activity, we're at least 4 years too late to stop it at this point, and more likely 20....and it is a uniquely American crime ending research into biofuels in the late 1970s.
The real communist state is the New York Stock Exchange. Party members, also called brokers, tell people to invest their money there for a safe retirement- only to steal it all for the Party. Just like Stalin used to. Just like Mao. It's the same old line "Private accounts to save Social Security" - "Give all your wages to the Party and we will take care of you". It didn't work for farmers in the Ukraine and it won't work today- and my generation will be stuck trying to feed the starving millions in 2018 when the Republicans default on the Treasury Bonds in the so-called "Trust Fund".
I agree with everything you said except for:
FYI, the USA has been a fascist country for over 50 years. It doesn't mean we don't have a democracy; it's still just barely hanging on.
No, actually at this point we effectively no longer have a democracy. We have a secret oligarchy of corporations that plays at being a democracy by making sure they have bought and paid for the campaigns of all plurality party candidates. You have no choice whatsoever- you will either vote for a company man or you will vote for the loser, in any race that requires basic advertising at all. There are no honest politicians- and the only difference between the parties are what they are dishonest about. They'll never tell you the truth- that corporations pay for everything, and that this country has been living on the international equivalent of credit cards for longer than half the population has been alive.
The real mistake came in calling money a form of speech- effectively giving the corporations superior first ammendment rights compared to the individual. And the end result is slavery.
I resemble that remark. And I do have (multiple) something wrong with me, from Asperger's syndrome to just plain over-30 lowered brain space.
And then, at the end, your last job gets replaced by outsourcing and wham- you're useless.
Looks to me from the story that what the kudzu really does is increase the body's ability to absorb alcohol from the stomach into the blood stream- like they said, both groups got equally intoxicated even though one group drank half as much.
Which, when it comes to ease-of-use, is equivalent...after all, it won't be very long before all the HD tuners will be less than $50 with DRM....
For first run, and not at midnight, yes- Sci-fi channel is only on cable or sattelite, not broadcast. I'd also point out that I said NETWORK broadcast- syndication is another matter and usually isn't going to be run across by a bored kid trying to find something other than what his parents are watching- that was the magic of entry-level space operas like Star Trek.
If you haven't figured it out:
1. Wikipedia is shared ignorance- it's as much about myth as reality because individual users who THINK they know something can edit the entries.
2. Corporations came from exactly that ideal- putting the good of the group ahead of the good of the individual- just like communism.
BROADCAST NETWORK TV- both Andromeda and Earth Final Conflict were syndicated. Syndicated shows have a tendency towards low ratings due to not being on in prime time and being moved around to different time slots a lot.
Andromeda is a good example- only one broadcast station in my area carries it and has it on at, oddly enough, 3:00pm on Saturday Afternoons.
erm. wasn't battlestar galactica cancelled in part due to legal troubles?
:35 past the hour.)
What are you talking about- the new one comes back with Season 2 in July.
It would seem that ST is the microsoft of Sci Fi. A lot of good shows are relegated to the fringes (Stargate, Farscape, Bab5) because ST is eating up all the Scifi mindshare. At least it must in the minds of the network execs. They seem to have a formula: something% sci fi, 40% cynical lawyer/cop show, 30% sappy sitcom, 5% unwatchable spy show, etc. It changes a little, but most of the scifi offerings on major networks seem laughably poorly done. (Knight rider 2000? Cleopatra 2525?) Why were these shows even on the air? Even your vaunted ST:TNG was really The Young and the Restless in Space. (TNG was absolutely the worst ST ever. Despite the concentration of full episodes to some whining loser with feeelings, the characters were surprisingly static and remarkeably incompetant at
I'll grant you that- but we're not talking about sophisticated viewers like you and Mr. Card. We're talking about the kid whose parents discourage any kind of creative thinking, who look at even Star Trek and judge it on how ugly the aliens are. The point is to have a point of entry into sci-fi for even those kids.
I remember long games of tackle smear the queer and being body checked into the wall of bushes that surrounded the lawn of our meeting place.
Exactly- standard 1950s morality training. Why do you think they call it "smear the queer" anyway? It's using violence to enforce the heterosexual status quo.
I learned in my years as a boy scout if you ratted someone out you would pay later and keep your friends close but your enemies closer. So Boy Scouts did pretty much prepare me for life.
Sounds like standard corporate morality to me....
I was a cub scout for all of two years- then my family hit a poor stretch and we could no longer afford the uniforms.
All the scout troops in Oregon are sponsored by churches- and have a tendency to teach the morals of those churches. There were plenty of altruistic people around me- if you could call it that. I did notice that the grand majority of what they teach moral wise is not to upset the status quo....
Sci-fi still is a big risk and it will be until general fan base for sci fi grows. It hasn't for years and won't for a long time.
And if we don't have any entry-level space operas on Network TV, the fan base is going to shrink, not grow.
There is that- but you're educated and relatively well off. If we are going to grow the Sci-Fi fan base, then we need something that you don't have to pay a whole lot for and/or have a broadband connection to the net to get. Which leaves Broadcast Network TV for now....
It stopped at all? My Boy Scout Troop in the 1970s was all lily white, and still had the overpriced copyrighted uniforms...