I'll say the working poor in the US whine too much. The people living in the projects are on average better off than 90% of the world. A car, a couple of TV's better medical care and food. In virtually all areas the poor in the US have it better than the majority of the world. There are warlords in Afganistan who would improve their quality of life by moving to the projects in the US. The US poor think their bad off because they have no frame of refrence to put it in perspective.
If somebody is stuck with minimum wage at Wal-Mart it isn't because the evil company is screwing them. It is because they made bad decisions in life. If someone decides to be a felon, high school drop out, drug user or any of the myriad other reasons that will max your job potential at Wal-Mart it is your own fault. Every one can develop marketable skills if they are willing to put forth the effort.
Also if someone is a perfectionist they can always ask to work on a project or with customers that demand or need that level of service. If someone is that good then managment shouldn't have any problem sending them out to the top level customers
I have a problem with this in the areas where union membership is required by law. Unions are political organizations. I believe it is wrong to tell me I have to spend my paycheck to support a political agenda that I may not agree with.
I worked 2 1/2 years at McDonalds while in high school. I count those as some of my most enjoyable work expierences. Of course I didn't want to work their forever. So I learned computers, when to college and continue to work on improving my skills that I think are marketable. If you don't think your job is treating you right get up and get yourself a better job. Learn a new skill, start you own business if you think you have a good idea. It's not my problem that somebody is stuck in a dead end job. They accepted the position. They took no action to improve themselves. It's not imcumbent on me to make someone eleses life better if they won't help themselves.
Almost everybody works for somebody. The CEO works for the sharholders. Almost all of them have a job where they work to pay the bills and demand preformance from the CEO so they can retire off the 401K or mutual fund. The only people who don't work for others are owners of private(not traded on a stock market) companies. They generally put up their own money and time to try and make it work. Don't forget that Bill Gates started in his own home and busted his butt to build his company into what it is today. Most of us here don't like his companies policies but nobody can say he didn't build it with his own long hours.
If someone is breaking into your house he is a threat to you, your family, and the good order of society around in the area. Your home is your most private refuge. Shoot the bastard. Dead thieves don't repeat the crime. That and it only takes one or two for the rest to go eleswhere.
What I don't get is the unions that go on strike when their employer is losing money. Ok, company is losing money so we will go on strike and make it lose more money? If I'm looking around and some people are being laid off I think that is a hell of a lot better than all of us being out of a job when the company goes under. I know about it, I'm sending my pops half my paycheck to keep him afloat while he's out.
Having unions also means your wasting your time doing anything more than the bare minimum. It doesn't matter how hard you work, how good you are you will not get a single thing more than if you were on the edge of getting fired. The policies remove incentive for personal improvment and personal achievment. I get my raises because my boss looks at me and thinks that he needs to do something so I don't think about leaving.
This would be a good analogy except that you have to pay for a powerball ticket. The options here are A)buy a new drive B)use some free firmware so I might not spend any money. If the firmware fries the drive then I'm not spending any more than I had initially planned. Thus major possible gain with no significant possible loss. Assuming you are planning to upgrade your drive anyway.
I'll point out that the industrial spying from the US is done by the private companies that are going after contracts. The US government is not in on the spying and is not feeding them data. Unlike France the US government doesn't own significant portions of supposed private companies.
This happened before the NSA existed. It was in the 1930's and caused the US to be caught with their pants down on a couple of major developments. I can't remember which ones off the top of my head.
Every country is spying on every other country. The French spy on the US, UK, Germans and anybody else who might influence French intrests. Every country much bigger than Bermuda spys just the same(I'm sure Bermuda does as much as they can afford). Everybody needs as much information as they can get about the people they are dealing with, and the people dealing with the people they are dealing with. I never did understand the big outrage from Europe when it came out that the US was spying at the UN. Guess what, your country is to! It is standard diplomacy. Has been for as long as man has been around.
Using ZA on my w2k box is how I found out that Windows Media Player was trying to send a short bit of data to microsoft every time I started playing a file.
It is most probably NT. Most of the computers in the US navy are still on NT also. In within the last month they required a unit to have NT with service pack 3 on a unit from my company.
This really depends on the state. In Alabama if you go wandering around on somebodys land you run a pretty good risk of being shot. I the presumption is that if you had an innocent reason to be there then you would have walked up to their front door and asked permission to be on the land. If you didn't then the person has every reason to assume the worst and act accordingly untill shown otherwise. Really is some unknown person is wandering around on your land you don't know if they are some rapist. Odds are probably not. But odds are you won't need your seatbelt on the drive to work. Still best to take that action just in case. By the time you know for sure it's to late.
Are you talking about the portion of the cost that the individual pays, or are you talking about the total cost? When you talk about the total cost the US is the cheapest.
Now what is this trend of Canadians bitching about republicans? Why do they care? Thats like me complaing about the liberals in England. Not my country, not my problem.
Alabama has 93 at every station, and if you go to one near a race track they will have 110(no kid with a great car ever ever would convieve of putting this in their car for some illicit drag racing. Never. Absolutly not. Just doesn't happen:)
Damn, We bitch an complain here in Alabama about 8%. Of course virtually all tax increases at city, county, or state level must be voted on by the legeslator, signed by the gov and then passed by the people. The first two have a habit of passing them and the 3rd has a habit of saying no. We then promptly replace those in the first 2 catagories who tried to take more of out money. Bob Riley beware.
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I'll say the working poor in the US whine too much. The people living in the projects are on average better off than 90% of the world. A car, a couple of TV's better medical care and food. In virtually all areas the poor in the US have it better than the majority of the world. There are warlords in Afganistan who would improve their quality of life by moving to the projects in the US. The US poor think their bad off because they have no frame of refrence to put it in perspective.
If somebody is stuck with minimum wage at Wal-Mart it isn't because the evil company is screwing them. It is because they made bad decisions in life. If someone decides to be a felon, high school drop out, drug user or any of the myriad other reasons that will max your job potential at Wal-Mart it is your own fault. Every one can develop marketable skills if they are willing to put forth the effort.
Also if someone is a perfectionist they can always ask to work on a project or with customers that demand or need that level of service. If someone is that good then managment shouldn't have any problem sending them out to the top level customers
I have a problem with this in the areas where union membership is required by law. Unions are political organizations. I believe it is wrong to tell me I have to spend my paycheck to support a political agenda that I may not agree with.
I worked 2 1/2 years at McDonalds while in high school. I count those as some of my most enjoyable work expierences. Of course I didn't want to work their forever. So I learned computers, when to college and continue to work on improving my skills that I think are marketable. If you don't think your job is treating you right get up and get yourself a better job. Learn a new skill, start you own business if you think you have a good idea. It's not my problem that somebody is stuck in a dead end job. They accepted the position. They took no action to improve themselves. It's not imcumbent on me to make someone eleses life better if they won't help themselves.
Almost everybody works for somebody. The CEO works for the sharholders. Almost all of them have a job where they work to pay the bills and demand preformance from the CEO so they can retire off the 401K or mutual fund. The only people who don't work for others are owners of private(not traded on a stock market) companies. They generally put up their own money and time to try and make it work. Don't forget that Bill Gates started in his own home and busted his butt to build his company into what it is today. Most of us here don't like his companies policies but nobody can say he didn't build it with his own long hours.
Of course the unions only have their power due to government protection. Why can't the company fire people who don't show up for work?
If someone is breaking into your house he is a threat to you, your family, and the good order of society around in the area. Your home is your most private refuge. Shoot the bastard. Dead thieves don't repeat the crime. That and it only takes one or two for the rest to go eleswhere.
What I don't get is the unions that go on strike when their employer is losing money. Ok, company is losing money so we will go on strike and make it lose more money? If I'm looking around and some people are being laid off I think that is a hell of a lot better than all of us being out of a job when the company goes under. I know about it, I'm sending my pops half my paycheck to keep him afloat while he's out.
Having unions also means your wasting your time doing anything more than the bare minimum. It doesn't matter how hard you work, how good you are you will not get a single thing more than if you were on the edge of getting fired. The policies remove incentive for personal improvment and personal achievment. I get my raises because my boss looks at me and thinks that he needs to do something so I don't think about leaving.
Sleep!! without the comforting whirring of my computer fans? The pain, the agony! I can't stand to think of such a thing any longer.
This would be a good analogy except that you have to pay for a powerball ticket. The options here are A)buy a new drive B)use some free firmware so I might not spend any money. If the firmware fries the drive then I'm not spending any more than I had initially planned. Thus major possible gain with no significant possible loss. Assuming you are planning to upgrade your drive anyway.
I'll point out that the industrial spying from the US is done by the private companies that are going after contracts. The US government is not in on the spying and is not feeding them data. Unlike France the US government doesn't own significant portions of supposed private companies.
This happened before the NSA existed. It was in the 1930's and caused the US to be caught with their pants down on a couple of major developments. I can't remember which ones off the top of my head.
Every country is spying on every other country. The French spy on the US, UK, Germans and anybody else who might influence French intrests. Every country much bigger than Bermuda spys just the same(I'm sure Bermuda does as much as they can afford). Everybody needs as much information as they can get about the people they are dealing with, and the people dealing with the people they are dealing with. I never did understand the big outrage from Europe when it came out that the US was spying at the UN. Guess what, your country is to! It is standard diplomacy. Has been for as long as man has been around.
Using ZA on my w2k box is how I found out that Windows Media Player was trying to send a short bit of data to microsoft every time I started playing a file.
If ya'll had a couple more guns I might consider moving there.
It is most probably NT. Most of the computers in the US navy are still on NT also. In within the last month they required a unit to have NT with service pack 3 on a unit from my company.
This really depends on the state. In Alabama if you go wandering around on somebodys land you run a pretty good risk of being shot. I the presumption is that if you had an innocent reason to be there then you would have walked up to their front door and asked permission to be on the land. If you didn't then the person has every reason to assume the worst and act accordingly untill shown otherwise. Really is some unknown person is wandering around on your land you don't know if they are some rapist. Odds are probably not. But odds are you won't need your seatbelt on the drive to work. Still best to take that action just in case. By the time you know for sure it's to late.
Are you talking about the portion of the cost that the individual pays, or are you talking about the total cost? When you talk about the total cost the US is the cheapest.
Congrats.
Now what is this trend of Canadians bitching about republicans? Why do they care? Thats like me complaing about the liberals in England. Not my country, not my problem.
For now, with some work mabey for a long while.
Alabama has 93 at every station, and if you go to one near a race track they will have 110(no kid with a great car ever ever would convieve of putting this in their car for some illicit drag racing. Never. Absolutly not. Just doesn't happen :)
Damn, We bitch an complain here in Alabama about 8%. Of course virtually all tax increases at city, county, or state level must be voted on by the legeslator, signed by the gov and then passed by the people. The first two have a habit of passing them and the 3rd has a habit of saying no. We then promptly replace those in the first 2 catagories who tried to take more of out money. Bob Riley beware.