I guess thinking isn't your strong suit? Just because prosecutors decided not to indict officials (for committing a crime where they would happily send you, Joe Shmoe, to a federal pound-me-in-the-ass penitentiary) doesn't mean a crime wasn't committed. See: Wall Street fraud. See: Bushco torture.
That's the first thing I thought of too, though I couldn't remember the guys name. Unbelievable that they took 14 years to release him, when no investigator was ever able to prove there was any money to turn over.
The UK has NEVER been a model for any "freedom" as we think of it here. Remember that whole revolutionary war thing? The one we had to fight TWICE just to be free of the King?
Fun times: after saving Europe from the tyranny from the Nazis, Britain went right back to their own tyranny in holding on to the dying embers of the British Empire. Churchill in fact bragged of shooting "savages" in places like South Africa (i.e., he shot black people) in his young days, before his government tortured Barack Obama's paternal grandfather in the 50's during Churchill's second stint as Prime Minister. Which makes it even more awesome when Obama pushes forward in the military trial of a 16 year old child soldier - who's confession was given under....wait for it....torture.
I suppose you could see it that way, if you were dumber than pond scum. I'm amazed you have enough brain power to keep your lungs functioning with that level of FAIL.
Question: is there any reason in particular that you keep your head lodged deep inside your ass? Is that a comfortable position for you, or is it for the warmth, or what?
In case the sarcasm is lost, you're an ankle-grabbing fuckwit.
This was true 100 (literally) years ago, but is it really true now?
Yes, because executive greed died out around the turn of the century. See: the financial masters of the universe crashing the world economy. See: the clusterfucks at the Big Branch Coal Mine and at BP's well in the Gulf of Mexico because management decided to save a few bucks on safety.
Shorter version: you're a Whiney Assed Titty Bitch egotist. The only reason your pet issues got a hearing, at all, and the only way you were able to try and keep your job, at all were because of unions.
My father owned a tin smith shop. He employed approximately 30ish tradesmen. One day a few of them got together and decided that it was time that the shop become a union shop. Sometimes you have to wonder about the intelligence of some people. The end result was, Dad lowered their wages to the union rates. took away the perks like taking the company trucks home. A couple of them lost vacation time. The guys then started to grumble, and this was then the final excuse dad needed to retire. He sold the shop to a new owner that new nothing about the business. In two years, he ran it to the ground. The shop closed, and everyone became unemployed. The union really helped out here:)
Apple not fall far from tree. Nowhere did you mention any actual cost to your father - he just closed up in a fit of pique.
There was a time unions had a place, but all I have seen most do is protect the lazy worker, collect dues (take away from my salary), ensure I can only obtain an "average" (at best) salary, and occasionally give up all of my income for a few months when people want to strike for issues that I could care less about.
Would you be interested in investing in some prime Arizona beachfront property? I ask because you're obviously susceptible to weak sauce propaganda. There is nothing about unions that prevent workers from being fired with cause or being paid based on ability - nothing. And union workers make more than non-union workers. If you pulled your head out of your...ego for two seconds, you might actually realize that you have far more bargaining power as part of a larger labor force as a young gun. Your anti-union stance doesn't make you special - it makes you expendable.
The age progression is bad. In the regular game that I played, you simply didn't have enough time to improve your cities and build armies. It was one or the other. Building a knight takes 10 turns, building a Temple takes 10 turns. You either have to choose to build armies or one or two city improvements. If you are next to a hostile civilization, you have no choice but to build armies, and ignore your city improvements. It's hard to explain, but you never felt like you had enough time to get anything done. By the time you could build something, it was obsolete. I mean, you could research your way through an age in 40 turns, but it would take 100 turns just to build 1 item from everything in the age.
In Civ 3 I would give Granaries a large production bonus and reduce the cost of all but modern buildings, and increase the minimum number of turns for tech advance to 7. This way you could build your cities quickly and make use of your special units before they become obsolete.
The trouble is - people. If people can get something for nothing, they will.
It's only "free" if your time is "worthless". In reality, it's not about price, it's about convenience. Paying for Netflix is convenient because you can start instantly streaming their videos - no hunting for torrents, no spending hours to download rars from alt.binaries.movies.h264...
I thought Wikileaks was pretty cool until it published names of Afgan informants which is certainly not cool for many reasons.
Nevermind that he asked the Pentagon to assist in redacting any such information. Nevermind that the Pentagon can't point to a single person being harmed because of the leaked documents.
Did they verify that the documents didn't have stuff in them that would get people put on hit lists? No, they just threw up names and places willy-nilly and to hell if anyone died from it.
They asked the Pentagon to help redact any such information. The Pentagon declined the offer. Your next spittle, poutraged-filled excuse?
Do you have the same Concerns for other sources of media? Not saying you don't, I honestly don't know. But I have no idea why you are asking when the rest of the media payed no consequences for their coverage of the Iraq invasion, and the NYTimes is still in business after sitting on the NSA warrantless wiretapping through a presidential election.
Nope. It also complete ignores how challenging a teacher is, and how tough they are on grading. Conservatives are always complaining about how teachers shouldn't coddle those who want to be in class - but a teacher that hands out lots of homework, no extra credit and no curves will have lower scores than a teacher that does the opposite.
Unions reward based on seniority, not performance.
Right, that's why Lebron James (players union) makes many times as much money as a player that's been in the league for twice as long. And Steven Spielberg (director's union) was held back for so much of his career to make way for older directors that he's only worth $3 billion today.
There is nothing about unions that prevents people from being paid based on results, or preventing bad employees from being fired. Nothing. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either lying or owns a large number of shares in various bridges.
Disclaimer: I work in an industry that is forced to hire union labor. They are not concerned with how much work they have to do, just how many hours they are allowed to work. Some of them make more than 10x my salary.
The teacher pension systems set up around the country are rediculous.
Nice crab mentality. A middle class worker got a better retirement plan than you (probably in lieu of pay now), so you gotta tear them down to your level.
Because merit pay is the wrong cure for the disease. By introducing a profit motive, you're also introducing a large incentive to dumb down the material, teach to the test, and be verrrry generous with the grading. Merit pay does. not. work.
Only relevant if it tracks the same students through school. So Johnny, Amy, Billy and Bobby have have an average grade of B in English in grades 1-7....except for 4th grade with Mrs. Klaushammer, where they went down to D.
It wasn't Dick Cheney that out'ed Valerie Plame to Robert Novak.
Not for lack of trying. There was a group of people in the Bush Administration who were tying to leak Plame's identity - just because Armitage's leak is the one that got published does nothing whatsoever to change the fact that others were trying to out her identity to the press at the same time.
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I guess thinking isn't your strong suit? Just because prosecutors decided not to indict officials (for committing a crime where they would happily send you, Joe Shmoe, to a federal pound-me-in-the-ass penitentiary) doesn't mean a crime wasn't committed. See: Wall Street fraud. See: Bushco torture.
pulled the rug out from under
You keep using that phrase, but it doesn't mean whatever it is you think it means when you have ten years warning that Carbon is going away.
That's the first thing I thought of too, though I couldn't remember the guys name. Unbelievable that they took 14 years to release him, when no investigator was ever able to prove there was any money to turn over.
The UK has NEVER been a model for any "freedom" as we think of it here. Remember that whole revolutionary war thing? The one we had to fight TWICE just to be free of the King?
Fun times: after saving Europe from the tyranny from the Nazis, Britain went right back to their own tyranny in holding on to the dying embers of the British Empire. Churchill in fact bragged of shooting "savages" in places like South Africa (i.e., he shot black people) in his young days, before his government tortured Barack Obama's paternal grandfather in the 50's during Churchill's second stint as Prime Minister. Which makes it even more awesome when Obama pushes forward in the military trial of a 16 year old child soldier - who's confession was given under....wait for it....torture.
Seriously mine make as much sense as yours
I suppose you could see it that way, if you were dumber than pond scum. I'm amazed you have enough brain power to keep your lungs functioning with that level of FAIL.
Question: is there any reason in particular that you keep your head lodged deep inside your ass? Is that a comfortable position for you, or is it for the warmth, or what?
In case the sarcasm is lost, you're an ankle-grabbing fuckwit.
This was true 100 (literally) years ago, but is it really true now?
Yes, because executive greed died out around the turn of the century. See: the financial masters of the universe crashing the world economy. See: the clusterfucks at the Big Branch Coal Mine and at BP's well in the Gulf of Mexico because management decided to save a few bucks on safety.
unions aren't noble anymore, when they fight for the perks of the upper middle class fat guy
On what planet?
Shorter version: you're a Whiney Assed Titty Bitch egotist. The only reason your pet issues got a hearing, at all, and the only way you were able to try and keep your job, at all were because of unions.
Apple not fall far from tree. Nowhere did you mention any actual cost to your father - he just closed up in a fit of pique.
Would you be interested in investing in some prime Arizona beachfront property? I ask because you're obviously susceptible to weak sauce propaganda. There is nothing about unions that prevent workers from being fired with cause or being paid based on ability - nothing. And union workers make more than non-union workers. If you pulled your head out of your...ego for two seconds, you might actually realize that you have far more bargaining power as part of a larger labor force as a young gun. Your anti-union stance doesn't make you special - it makes you expendable.
In Civ 3 I would give Granaries a large production bonus and reduce the cost of all but modern buildings, and increase the minimum number of turns for tech advance to 7. This way you could build your cities quickly and make use of your special units before they become obsolete.
It was sarcasm (apparently I failed).
No, your sarcasm was just fine. The problem is that the wingnut worldview long ago lapped any and all sarcasm.
It would give consumers cheaper products.
Not on this planet - any cost savings go directly into the pockets of company executives and shareholders.
The trouble is - people. If people can get something for nothing, they will.
It's only "free" if your time is "worthless". In reality, it's not about price, it's about convenience. Paying for Netflix is convenient because you can start instantly streaming their videos - no hunting for torrents, no spending hours to download rars from alt.binaries.movies.h264...
I thought Wikileaks was pretty cool until it published names of Afgan informants which is certainly not cool for many reasons.
Nevermind that he asked the Pentagon to assist in redacting any such information. Nevermind that the Pentagon can't point to a single person being harmed because of the leaked documents.
They asked the Pentagon to help redact any such information. The Pentagon declined the offer. Your next spittle, poutraged-filled excuse?
Do you have the same Concerns for other sources of media? Not saying you don't, I honestly don't know. But I have no idea why you are asking when the rest of the media payed no consequences for their coverage of the Iraq invasion, and the NYTimes is still in business after sitting on the NSA warrantless wiretapping through a presidential election.
6) Russia wins the cold war after the U.S. goes bankrupt by staying in Vietnam for another 9 years.
Nope. It also complete ignores how challenging a teacher is, and how tough they are on grading. Conservatives are always complaining about how teachers shouldn't coddle those who want to be in class - but a teacher that hands out lots of homework, no extra credit and no curves will have lower scores than a teacher that does the opposite.
Right, that's why Lebron James (players union) makes many times as much money as a player that's been in the league for twice as long. And Steven Spielberg (director's union) was held back for so much of his career to make way for older directors that he's only worth $3 billion today.
There is nothing about unions that prevents people from being paid based on results, or preventing bad employees from being fired. Nothing. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either lying or owns a large number of shares in various bridges.
Shorter version: you have crab mentality.
The teacher pension systems set up around the country are rediculous.
Nice crab mentality. A middle class worker got a better retirement plan than you (probably in lieu of pay now), so you gotta tear them down to your level.
No wonder our country is so awesome.
Because merit pay is the wrong cure for the disease. By introducing a profit motive, you're also introducing a large incentive to dumb down the material, teach to the test, and be verrrry generous with the grading. Merit pay does. not. work.
Only relevant if it tracks the same students through school. So Johnny, Amy, Billy and Bobby have have an average grade of B in English in grades 1-7....except for 4th grade with Mrs. Klaushammer, where they went down to D.
Fortunately, even the feminists agreed that this was demeaning to women (not being deemed capable of saying yes and no is pretty demeaning).
So innocent men were being sent to jail, yet the law was changed because it was "demeaning" to women?
It's just as true in Saudi Arabia or Japan as it is in Sweden or US.
Except when it's not, of course - at least in the U.S., immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than natives. Even illegal immigrants.
It wasn't Dick Cheney that out'ed Valerie Plame to Robert Novak.
Not for lack of trying. There was a group of people in the Bush Administration who were tying to leak Plame's identity - just because Armitage's leak is the one that got published does nothing whatsoever to change the fact that others were trying to out her identity to the press at the same time.