Anyone else feel like this when the "door nazi" at BestBuy/other chain steps in front of you and demands to see your receipt? Treating your customers like they're potential criminals is no way to gain loyalty.
I bought a VCR there a year ago and they tried that on me. I complained, then got an immediate refund and bought the same thing for $25 less at a competing store. I haven't been in BestBuy since.
I wonder what you have to do to win at Crap Booth... Get to the toilet paper on the other side of the river? Flush the toilet to avoid the evil crap monster? Or is it like whack-a-mole, but with turds? What's the objective?
Please follow this link for a Western version of this classic Soviet-era game, comrade.
Outrageous! Isn't it bad enough that the Chinese have been stereotyped for doing the laundry of others? Now we find out they can remove dirt from documents, too.
Also, please note, payrolls, unlike unemployment, doesn't involved discouraged workers. It's determined by a straight up survey of employers by the BLS. Do you know of any better source for data than those I have quoted?
A SURVEY? Survey questions can be loaded any way you want to get whatever result you want. I have an idea: Why doesn't the BLS survey the unemployed as a source of data? Two of my friends held good-paying, full time manufacturing jobs until they got the axe in 2001 and since then they both have only had part-time, food service jobs. Ever take a look at who's working at McDonalds these days? It's not the young and old as much anymore, it's the displayed manufacturing/tech workers in their prime. It took me nine months in 2002 to find another job, during which I depleted my $26,000 I had in my 401k plan.
How do you explain the fact that president Bush is going to be the first president since Herbert Hoover (ala Great Depression) to reside over a four year term in office during which there was a net decrease in jobs? A job is a job to the BLS; part time McDonalds work is the same as $20 per hour factory work to them, and you swallow and cite their "statistics" bullshit. Barf. (And no, I'm not a Bush-hater--I voted for him in 2000, but never again!)
...since 1983 we've added 40 million jobs and seen a 40-50% increase in the median wage in real dollars. No matter how you slice it that means there are more American jobs today, and they pay more than they did 20 years ago. How do your theories account for those two facts?
Are these the same government statistics that say that unemployment is currently less than 6% when in fact it is over 10% because the "discouraged" workers whose unemployment benefits have run out are not counted?
Of course there are more jobs today, but not enough to keep up with the employment needs of the country. And they may technically pay more, but not in real dollars. The loss of a good-paying, manufacturing job is being replaced by lower-paying service jobs and all the government statistics in the world is not going to cover that up. These are the fruits of "free trade." The "free trade" espoused by the economic priesthood is not what is going on in the real world. The U.S. is transferring its wealth to third-world countries because companies are interested in short-term profit, not in giving Americans jobs. If what you say is true, show me the job growth statistics for the past 2 1/2 years since the "recovery" began.
"For more than half a century, vacant TV channels (which represent some of the most valuable spectrum available) have been underutilized," Gelsinger said in a statement.
With all the daytime talk shows and nighttime reality shows on now, I'd say that all channels are vacant.
...the truth is the US has always been in competition with Europe, we've also been in competition with Japan for 30 years, and the standards of living of both of those places has risen dramatically, as well as that of the US. Now it is the turn of India and China. There will be some displacements of certain industries, but overall everyone will get richer and we all will be better off.
Compare apples to apples and not oranges. China and India are oranges. You can't benefit if you're a first-world country and you're playing this game of job outsourcing to a third-world country. Don't confuse business competition with shipping jobs overseas. You export products when you compete. You export jobs when you want short-term profit and don't give a sh*t about the country and its citizens that made your company big in the first place. Products flowing out of sovereign nations is good; jobs flowing out of sovereign nations is bad.
In real dollars, we had about $840 Billion in Industrial production in 1983. In 2003 we had about $1.3 Trillion dollars in industrial output.
Fewer people working harder can account for some of that, if true. Also, does the output of a U.S. company that has a manufacturing plant in Mexico that ships the final product to France count as part of these dollar amounts? What good is industrial output if it doesn't translate to American jobs?
Makes me wonder just what products we're counting on for future economic growth?
Industrial biotechnology - Medical technology - Nanotechnology - Telecommunication - we have only seen the tip of the iceberg.
A few questions: Where will this research be done, in the U.S. or another country? Where will the products be manufactured, in the U.S. or another country? Who will be hired, American workers or foreigners?
I'm betting that the tip of the iceberg is all we'll ever see in these areas.
Slashdot Mirror
My Computer -> Computer
My Documents -> Documents
My Monitor -> Our Monitor!
Seriously, who didn't see this coming?
I didn't see this feature arriving on Longhair. Apparently, I was too busy looking at My Pictures while listening to My Music.
They will have to deal with Al Gore's patent on the Internet itself, first.
Three words: Senator Paul Wellstone.
Winks should work. But then you might have to have sex with your computer.
Curious. I read about the $200 laptop, but the article didn't mention the submarine...
I bought a VCR there a year ago and they tried that on me. I complained, then got an immediate refund and bought the same thing for $25 less at a competing store. I haven't been in BestBuy since.
Maybe we can also start a website that blacklists Communists, too.
Please follow this link for a Western version of this classic Soviet-era game, comrade.
Or you're having a near-death experience.
This would have upset me deeply had I read the article before posting.
May I mamoo dogface to the banana patch?
Finally, a reduction in illegal aliens!
Now my friends' e-mail filters will send my e-mails directly to the trash bin. Thanks a lot FTC!
I, for one, am tired of seeing that guy's ASCII.
Outrageous! Isn't it bad enough that the Chinese have been stereotyped for doing the laundry of others? Now we find out they can remove dirt from documents, too.
You'll know you're in trouble when you find a penis enlarger or a bottle of Viagra pills on your pillow.
At last, something we can agree on! :D
The world is now a much happier place...
A SURVEY? Survey questions can be loaded any way you want to get whatever result you want. I have an idea: Why doesn't the BLS survey the unemployed as a source of data? Two of my friends held good-paying, full time manufacturing jobs until they got the axe in 2001 and since then they both have only had part-time, food service jobs. Ever take a look at who's working at McDonalds these days? It's not the young and old as much anymore, it's the displayed manufacturing/tech workers in their prime. It took me nine months in 2002 to find another job, during which I depleted my $26,000 I had in my 401k plan.
How do you explain the fact that president Bush is going to be the first president since Herbert Hoover (ala Great Depression) to reside over a four year term in office during which there was a net decrease in jobs? A job is a job to the BLS; part time McDonalds work is the same as $20 per hour factory work to them, and you swallow and cite their "statistics" bullshit. Barf. (And no, I'm not a Bush-hater--I voted for him in 2000, but never again!)
Are these the same government statistics that say that unemployment is currently less than 6% when in fact it is over 10% because the "discouraged" workers whose unemployment benefits have run out are not counted?
Of course there are more jobs today, but not enough to keep up with the employment needs of the country. And they may technically pay more, but not in real dollars. The loss of a good-paying, manufacturing job is being replaced by lower-paying service jobs and all the government statistics in the world is not going to cover that up. These are the fruits of "free trade." The "free trade" espoused by the economic priesthood is not what is going on in the real world. The U.S. is transferring its wealth to third-world countries because companies are interested in short-term profit, not in giving Americans jobs. If what you say is true, show me the job growth statistics for the past 2 1/2 years since the "recovery" began.
With all the daytime talk shows and nighttime reality shows on now, I'd say that all channels are vacant.
Compare apples to apples and not oranges. China and India are oranges. You can't benefit if you're a first-world country and you're playing this game of job outsourcing to a third-world country. Don't confuse business competition with shipping jobs overseas. You export products when you compete. You export jobs when you want short-term profit and don't give a sh*t about the country and its citizens that made your company big in the first place. Products flowing out of sovereign nations is good; jobs flowing out of sovereign nations is bad.
Fewer people working harder can account for some of that, if true. Also, does the output of a U.S. company that has a manufacturing plant in Mexico that ships the final product to France count as part of these dollar amounts? What good is industrial output if it doesn't translate to American jobs?
...outsourced the handling of his campaign to American campaign experts, one of the few areas where we Americans still have a comparative advantage.
...for the 2004 presidential election! Free power for all for most of this year!
Industrial biotechnology - Medical technology - Nanotechnology - Telecommunication - we have only seen the tip of the iceberg.
A few questions: Where will this research be done, in the U.S. or another country? Where will the products be manufactured, in the U.S. or another country? Who will be hired, American workers or foreigners?
I'm betting that the tip of the iceberg is all we'll ever see in these areas.