"Did you forget about all the colonial powers engaging in an economics and military race to control the Americas from about 1492 to 1900?"
A good point, but I don't think the situations are much alike. Columbus's first voyage was private ( albeit government financed ) versus governmental. We have not seen a first private trip to the moon.
I used to work in bicycle shops doing repair and sales. We *never* sold WD-40, and always recommended against it's use ( at least as a chain oil ). It was not very good for that. Technically, it may be a lubricant, but it is not a very good one. It was designed to displace water ( WD - Water Displacer ). It you want something like a penetrating oil, something to drive out water, to clean, WD-40 is probably very good at those. Light lubrication? Maybe. I wouldn't, myself.
I had the TiVo DVR as well, and it worked pretty well. Only issues I had with it where a couple times when it rained ( San Diego, CA, so not a big problem ).
"Ever since DirecTV have been bombarding me with mails begging me to come back"
I quit DirecTV when my ( now ex ) wife moved out on me. We had gotten it so she could watch 49ers football. It was hard to cancel, they kept trying to "save" the account. In any given week I get at least one mailing from them asking me to come back.
In the last couple weeks, they have started calling again. Thank God for caller ID.
1: If it were all about them, sure, but what about being able to look oneself in the mirror?
2: The team he is on will be negatively affected by this. A: it would not be good for them, and B: they may be in a position to recommend him somewhere else in a few years time, non-professional behaviour may come back to haunt him later.
4 guys in a lifeboat, just enough provisions to make landfall, managed carefully. One of the guys wants to use the water to soak his aching feet, and to entertain himself by splashing it around.
The other guys should clearly put up with this, as "that is his choice".
Their product offerings imply you should do things graphically, in CLR, etc, etc. Their internal experience is that these things are not all they are advertised as.
"Evaluations should be objective, and NOT based on the performance of other employees"
If so, why talk about "average"?
"As far as your comment that management is not its job removing those that aren't performing, I've already addressed that"
As it happens, I don't agree with that assessment. My anecdotal observation is that they do not do so. Does a company suddenly wake up and say "wow, I have such a huge downturn in revenues that I need to lay off 5 figures worth of people!".
"You can't criticize a business for planning in advance so that they'll have the resources to weather the recession and save some jobs"
Sure we can. Companies think they see something coming, even though there is no data to back it up. They lay off. The laid off maybe dont pay their bills, and dont buy much more than the absolute minimum to survive. This affects the companies that used to get the money from those transactions, be they bills being paid or items being bought. So, their revenues fall off, perhaps causing them to have to lay off. Lather rinse, repeat.
Basically, they cause the situation they deplore.
( note, I know there are many times when a company has no better choice. There is a balance. )
Average? What if they are below average, but still productive?
1$: When you get rid of that below average person, what happens to the average? Dont you then have another person who was average, but since he/she is the "low performer" is now "below average"? Don't you now have to fire them?
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You have a point, if I can paraphrase it as "if employees are not performing, they should be gotten rid of". But (mostly) management does not make that analysis, it would involve them doing their job and working at knowing what their people are doing.
Otherwise, why are there always so many people that the company can suddenly do without?
The escaping the father, and wanting to have the child in America seem sufficient motivation to me for her desiring to leave Kenya for America. I cant say why she was not deterred by airport personnel. Maybe they tried and were unsuccessful. Maybe they did not see the risks of flying as being as large as the risk for her to stay. Or, maybe there may be something wrong there.
I do want to thank you for a reasonable discussion on the matter.
"And to the best of my knowledge he has not done so. THAT's my problem with it."
OK, but no one notified me of Bush presenting his evidence to any election officials. It does not seem to be an event with a lot of hoopla around it. As Nixon can attest, it is hard to keep secrets, especially in Washington. If you believe a misdeed has been done here, figure out how to show it.
"And no, the governor of Hawaii, AFTER the election, doesn't count. He's neither a federal, nor a state, election official."
I agree with you there. He can state his opinion, but it would only be very meaningful to me if he came down on the other side of the issue.
"Everyone keeps responding saying "What he did was sufficient.""
I cant prove that what he did was or was not sufficient, so all I can say is that with the opposition to his presidency, if there were a good standing to this, I would think it would have been offered before now. My "first approximation", based on what I know at this point. I ( I cant speak for others ) am open to being convinced. But I can see that he and his staff are not going to get wrapped up in visiting every citizen and showing the documentation.
"But when I point out that it would not be sufficient if I did it,"
It is necessary for you to produce documentation to officials. This may or may not have happened ( in either case ). Your neighbor can allege that you did not show whatever proof was required, but you are not required to prove to *them* anything.
"the name calling starts. Why?"
On both side of the aisle are people who have "picked their team", and they are fans, come heck or high water. If you speak against that, expect them to get upset.
When there were questions about the election that got Bush II his second term, what was the one thing said by "conservatives"? Get over it, wasnt it? No "lets get to the bottom of this and prove it nonsense". Just shut up and get over it.
Also, *I* have not seen proof that Bush Jr. is a citizen of the US. Where is the proof?
Obama is required to present evidence *to the election officials*. Not to you. If you have a serious belief that that was not done, produce your proof. Or go look for it. Get to the bottom of it. Investigate. Back up your assertions. Until you have something more than allegations, hush.
And I think what they other guy is saying is that the system was not always at peak load, and this *should not* be a surprise to them, they should have seen it coming, and reacted better and sooner.
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"Did you forget about all the colonial powers engaging in an economics and military race to control the Americas from about 1492 to 1900?"
A good point, but I don't think the situations are much alike.
Columbus's first voyage was private ( albeit government financed ) versus governmental. We have not seen a first private trip to the moon.
"Unless someone can make an as-yet unknown value proposition for going back to the moon, it's a waste of resources."
Much the same was said about sailing across the Atlantic.
Not if we hold all your emails for about 3 weeks to check before actually delivering them.
I like it!
IT will be the one and only profit center, everything else will be a cost center.
I'm seeing a business opportunity.
I will sell you an "oscilloscope" ( wink wink ). :-)
All the "oscilloscopes" you and your team needs.
They have nothing to hide except all the "I have nothing to hide" posts.
This American is also.
Because they want the sales?
I used to work in bicycle shops doing repair and sales. We *never* sold WD-40, and always recommended against it's use ( at least as a chain oil ). It was not very good for that. Technically, it may be a lubricant, but it is not a very good one. It was designed to displace water ( WD - Water Displacer ). It you want something like a penetrating oil, something to drive out water, to clean, WD-40 is probably very good at those. Light lubrication? Maybe. I wouldn't, myself.
I had the TiVo DVR as well, and it worked pretty well. Only issues I had with it where a couple times when it rained ( San Diego, CA, so not a big problem ).
"Ever since DirecTV have been bombarding me with mails begging me to come back"
I quit DirecTV when my ( now ex ) wife moved out on me. We had gotten it so she could watch 49ers football. It was hard to cancel, they kept trying to "save" the account. In any given week I get at least one mailing from them asking me to come back.
In the last couple weeks, they have started calling again. Thank God for caller ID.
"Sounds like the ideal shape for spaceships will be spherical, like the one in the Hitchhiker's Guide movie"
Or maybe like Doc Smith predicted in the Lensman Series?
Do those studies show the giving broken down as a % of income, rather than just total amount of money?
"do NOT give any notice."
I would recommend against that advice.
1: If it were all about them, sure, but what about being able to look oneself in the mirror?
2: The team he is on will be negatively affected by this. A: it would not be good for them, and B: they may be in a position to recommend him somewhere else in a few years time, non-professional behaviour may come back to haunt him later.
4 guys in a lifeboat, just enough provisions to make landfall, managed carefully. One of the guys wants to use the water to soak his aching feet, and to entertain himself by splashing it around.
The other guys should clearly put up with this, as "that is his choice".
So, think critically.
Their product offerings imply you should do things graphically, in CLR, etc, etc. Their internal experience is that these things are not all they are advertised as.
BCD is an option.
"Evaluations should be objective, and NOT based on the performance of other employees"
If so, why talk about "average"?
"As far as your comment that management is not its job removing those that aren't performing, I've already addressed that"
As it happens, I don't agree with that assessment. My anecdotal observation is that they do not do so. Does a company suddenly wake up and say "wow, I have such a huge downturn in revenues that I need to lay off 5 figures worth of people!".
"There may be a recession coming" == "we just want to get rid of some people"?
I cant imagine too many people not making that translation.
Well put.
"You can't criticize a business for planning in advance so that they'll have the resources to weather the recession and save some jobs"
Sure we can. Companies think they see something coming, even though there is no data to back it up. They lay off. The laid off maybe dont pay their bills, and dont buy much more than the absolute minimum to survive. This affects the companies that used to get the money from those transactions, be they bills being paid or items being bought. So, their revenues fall off, perhaps causing them to have to lay off. Lather rinse, repeat.
Basically, they cause the situation they deplore.
( note, I know there are many times when a company has no better choice. There is a balance. )
Average? What if they are below average, but still productive?
1$:
When you get rid of that below average person, what happens to the average?
Dont you then have another person who was average, but since he/she is the "low performer" is now "below average"?
Don't you now have to fire them?
br 1$
You have a point, if I can paraphrase it as "if employees are not performing, they should be gotten rid of". But (mostly) management does not make that analysis, it would involve them doing their job and working at knowing what their people are doing.
Otherwise, why are there always so many people that the company can suddenly do without?
That is interesting.
The escaping the father, and wanting to have the child in America seem sufficient motivation to me for her desiring to leave Kenya for America. I cant say why she was not deterred by airport personnel. Maybe they tried and were unsuccessful. Maybe they did not see the risks of flying as being as large as the risk for her to stay. Or, maybe there may be something wrong there.
I do want to thank you for a reasonable discussion on the matter.
"And to the best of my knowledge he has not done so. THAT's my problem with it."
OK, but no one notified me of Bush presenting his evidence to any election officials. It does not seem to be an event with a lot of hoopla around it. As Nixon can attest, it is hard to keep secrets, especially in Washington. If you believe a misdeed has been done here, figure out how to show it.
"And no, the governor of Hawaii, AFTER the election, doesn't count. He's neither a federal, nor a state, election official."
I agree with you there. He can state his opinion, but it would only be very meaningful to me if he came down on the other side of the issue.
"Everyone keeps responding saying "What he did was sufficient.""
I cant prove that what he did was or was not sufficient, so all I can say is that with the opposition to his presidency, if there were a good standing to this, I would think it would have been offered before now. My "first approximation", based on what I know at this point. I ( I cant speak for others ) am open to being convinced. But I can see that he and his staff are not going to get wrapped up in visiting every citizen and showing the documentation.
"But when I point out that it would not be sufficient if I did it,"
It is necessary for you to produce documentation to officials. This may or may not have happened ( in either case ). Your neighbor can allege that you did not show whatever proof was required, but you are not required to prove to *them* anything.
"the name calling starts. Why?"
On both side of the aisle are people who have "picked their team", and they are fans, come heck or high water. If you speak against that, expect them to get upset.
Funny.
When there were questions about the election that got Bush II his second term, what was the one thing said by "conservatives"? Get over it, wasnt it? No "lets get to the bottom of this and prove it nonsense". Just shut up and get over it.
Also, *I* have not seen proof that Bush Jr. is a citizen of the US. Where is the proof?
Obama is required to present evidence *to the election officials*. Not to you. If you have a serious belief that that was not done, produce your proof. Or go look for it. Get to the bottom of it. Investigate. Back up your assertions. Until you have something more than allegations, hush.
And I think what they other guy is saying is that the system was not always at peak load, and this *should not* be a surprise to them, they should have seen it coming, and reacted better and sooner.