I guess that's a third option, but like the doormat option, its just stupid. You have every right to defend yourself and using violence is ok if that's what you're doing. This nonsense of non-volience is just an attempt to ignore human nature.
Well it does vary from state to state. Here's its $20, only if you pass, and there's no emissions test. In PA, its around $75 I think, inclding an emmissions test, but pass or fail.
The point is that I feel that if the inspection amount is too much of a burden, that person should give up the car. A car is one of my biggest expenses, and I would gladly not have one or use it infrequently if I didn't have to.
The metric is based on what is expected in the job, not how others are doing. They meet all requirements, but do nothing more. They aren't failing to perform functions, nor are they making any improvements.
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!".
Your anecdote is just that, so its useless.
And yes, when you've lost 75% of your sales, laying off 5 figures worth of people is entirely feasible.
Perhaps you're not aware how much our economy fell?
You mean like a Wii, which is I believe $0.02 cheaper? That's what ends up happening for anything that might approach quality. And then at that point, why bother with walmart, which seems to attract white trash and hires retards for checkout?
Its a standard prompt, and thus supports it for entering deposits (checks can contain cents) and transfers (think of using the atm to transfer money from your checking to your mortgage account, where its not likely to be flat dollars).
Well that, in language commas are used in lists to group things, or parts of a sentence... so it makes more sense to use a comma to group otherwise insignificant digits.
However, when my tire went flat on a Fourth of July weekend, it wasn't the mom-and-pop tire stores that were open. It was Wal*Mart.
Which is one of the things M&P are doing to shoot themselves in the foot. Walmart though sacrafices so much quality for so little price difference that I won't shop there ever (well unless you're talking about something like diapers), and I certainly wouldn't risk my life on a tire from walmart.
Evaluations should be objective, and NOT based on the performance of other employees. Its entirely possible to have a department full of people who are "above average," meaning that they go beyond what the company expects for the position in question.
As far as your comment that management is not its job removing those that aren't performing, I've already addressed that. The company can do without so many people suddnely because demand for products / services offered by the company have disappeared, thus there is extra capacity.
Which backs up what I was saying; companies aren't "waiting for a recessoin to clear dead weight," they're letting people go because of the recession, not because the recession provided an oppurtune time to get rid of them anyway.
If they want to see the pictures, yup. Its easier for me to upload them once than clog my email trying to send them, and I can pull them if I want. Nevermind that most people are signing up on their own anyway.
To prevent this, the card issuers tend to disallow this in their agreements, because the service they offer to customers is increased convenience, and implies the same price.
Technically yes, but argeements always allow the offering of a "cash discount" if the merchant chooses. Most do not though, and those that pay with cash are suckers for not using something more convient that they're paying for anyway.
No, that's not the reason. Live had the same advantage, and had lower marketshare. now bing is rising. Its not just live rebranded, it really is different, and while I still use google mostly, bing gives me an alternative I didn't have before.
I dunno, hovering over the link to see more context without having to click seems pretty helpful. Plain means the interface does less, meaning I have to do more.
If your allegations were true, why wait for a recession. You yourself claim they're getting rid of anyone average or below? Why would a company NOT get rid of someone below average? The only reason to get rid of average people now is because the company actually is making less money.
Bullshit. Plenty are there on merits, on with large loans to pay the bill. You may not have made it yet, but don't be angry with those who have (and no, I have not either)
pay little rent/property tax
And you base this off of what? We didn't get a discount on rent being students, if anything we had to pay more, and have our parents co-sign. Paying rent BTW is how property owners pay property tax. Oh, and students often work and thus pay income tax, and buy quite a bit in the area and pay sales and restraunt taxes. There's a reason cities and towns WANT a college there, because it does bring in quite a bit of money.
and use a lot of services.
Like what exactly? Do you honestly believe that college is nothing but a non-stop drinking party? Its not, and as I've stated before, the college and their students, and the families of students bring a great deal of income into the city, and I doubt they use any more "services" than a typical resident. Many may in fact use far less.
For poor students borrowing hundreds of $K to attend Carnegie Mellon - your bad decisions cannot drive policy.
Ah yes, lets actively try to set up barriers on those who are actually trying to work and improve their lot in life.
Listen, I know you feel cheated because you didn't get to go to college, and that you're angry and jealous, but that's your problem, and you shouldn't be actively trying to make it more difficult for others to do so.
If inpections are too heavy a burden on people, those people should not have cars then. As far as getting stuck with "repairs" you don't want, either you're not going to someone trustworthy and should find another mechanic, or you should do the inspection yourself upfront so you can call their BS. Most inspections are just quick checks on belts, brake wear, etc, it should be trivial to do it yourself.
As far as the cost of the inspection, tell that to the state; here its only $20, and only if you pass.
Um, are you not doing any maintence on the car either? Does it have the same oil, oil filter, air filter, belts, radiator fluid, etc? Updates are maintence, and its a lot easier to update browsers than change your oil. And its free.
So did you grew up here? I can't really believe we're still arguing this point. If police were truly useless then the jails would be empty. They aren't. Maybe the police aren't as effective as you feel they should be. Maybe you truly think that everyone can actually defend themselves from everything ranging from murder to fraud. I'm pretty sure you will never change your mind no matter what anyone says. It doesn't really matter, though, since most of the rest of the world throughout human history disagrees with you. So the police will still be around to give us speeding tickets and take our police reports before promptly ignoring them.
Nope, I grew up in PA. We were told, no matter what, that we'd have to call state police, who were an hour away to the nearest barracks. Even if out family was being murdered... the local town police only patroled the town, we relied on staties. They aren't really effective, when something of 80% of murders for example, go unsolved. Only the dumbest criminals actually get caught. Then there's abuse of police power. I don't disagree that most won't see it my way, but I think most are unwilling to admit that their lives really aren't safe and that someone could harm them pretty much without consequence.
There was wealth centralization in post-industrialized Britain where the government took a very hands off approach. It's not caused by big government corrupted by big money. It's big money being corrupted and wanting more big money. Ok, here's an example of what you're saying. Big money corrupts the government and forces them to get rid of the BBB. So you say wouldn't it have been better if we got rid of the BBB so that Big money isn't able to corrupt the government and remove it?
I will say I'm all for regulating businesses; corportations are a legal fiction, and so have no rights (no matter how misguided our courts are regarding that point). Business regulation is one of the few areas I do think we need to keep government around for. I don't want NO government, I want small, limited government that largaly stays out of social issues and we need much more personal responsiblity.
As for the rest of your posts, I'm fairly certain that nothing will change your mind on anything and so I'm just going to give up.
Well I'm fairly certain I won't be changing your mind either... but that's ok, at least we can discuss our ideas and hopefully give some serious thought to the other's arguments.
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I guess that's a third option, but like the doormat option, its just stupid. You have every right to defend yourself and using violence is ok if that's what you're doing. This nonsense of non-volience is just an attempt to ignore human nature.
Or they do it because XSS screws up their ad-revenue system.
Well it does vary from state to state. Here's its $20, only if you pass, and there's no emissions test. In PA, its around $75 I think, inclding an emmissions test, but pass or fail.
The point is that I feel that if the inspection amount is too much of a burden, that person should give up the car. A car is one of my biggest expenses, and I would gladly not have one or use it infrequently if I didn't have to.
If so, why talk about "average"?
The metric is based on what is expected in the job, not how others are doing. They meet all requirements, but do nothing more. They aren't failing to perform functions, nor are they making any improvements.
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!".
Your anecdote is just that, so its useless.
And yes, when you've lost 75% of your sales, laying off 5 figures worth of people is entirely feasible.
Perhaps you're not aware how much our economy fell?
You mean like a Wii, which is I believe $0.02 cheaper? That's what ends up happening for anything that might approach quality. And then at that point, why bother with walmart, which seems to attract white trash and hires retards for checkout?
Its a standard prompt, and thus supports it for entering deposits (checks can contain cents) and transfers (think of using the atm to transfer money from your checking to your mortgage account, where its not likely to be flat dollars).
ATMs do more than just give out money.
Well that, in language commas are used in lists to group things, or parts of a sentence... so it makes more sense to use a comma to group otherwise insignificant digits.
Well its cheap junk, so who cares if it ends up on the floor?
However, when my tire went flat on a Fourth of July weekend, it wasn't the mom-and-pop tire stores that were open. It was Wal*Mart.
Which is one of the things M&P are doing to shoot themselves in the foot. Walmart though sacrafices so much quality for so little price difference that I won't shop there ever (well unless you're talking about something like diapers), and I certainly wouldn't risk my life on a tire from walmart.
Except that its 3/4 of the price, and lasts 1/10 of the time.
You go ahead and pay less for the cheap junk that normally wouldn't make it past QC, I don't mind.
So in other words, once you've factored in the depressed wages, its a net loss.
So somehow MS determined you had just installed chrome, and within seconds changed the default. Really, get a grip.
Evaluations should be objective, and NOT based on the performance of other employees. Its entirely possible to have a department full of people who are "above average," meaning that they go beyond what the company expects for the position in question.
As far as your comment that management is not its job removing those that aren't performing, I've already addressed that. The company can do without so many people suddnely because demand for products / services offered by the company have disappeared, thus there is extra capacity.
Which backs up what I was saying; companies aren't "waiting for a recessoin to clear dead weight," they're letting people go because of the recession, not because the recession provided an oppurtune time to get rid of them anyway.
If they want to see the pictures, yup. Its easier for me to upload them once than clog my email trying to send them, and I can pull them if I want. Nevermind that most people are signing up on their own anyway.
To prevent this, the card issuers tend to disallow this in their agreements, because the service they offer to customers is increased convenience, and implies the same price.
Technically yes, but argeements always allow the offering of a "cash discount" if the merchant chooses. Most do not though, and those that pay with cash are suckers for not using something more convient that they're paying for anyway.
No, that's not the reason. Live had the same advantage, and had lower marketshare. now bing is rising. Its not just live rebranded, it really is different, and while I still use google mostly, bing gives me an alternative I didn't have before.
I dunno, hovering over the link to see more context without having to click seems pretty helpful. Plain means the interface does less, meaning I have to do more.
If your allegations were true, why wait for a recession. You yourself claim they're getting rid of anyone average or below? Why would a company NOT get rid of someone below average? The only reason to get rid of average people now is because the company actually is making less money.
Because for me, IE does the trick (and prior to 8, FF did). Its a browser, kind of a "so what" thing, as long as it works.
Actually that's one of the main reasons i use facebook...
University students are (on average) priveleged
Bullshit. Plenty are there on merits, on with large loans to pay the bill. You may not have made it yet, but don't be angry with those who have (and no, I have not either)
pay little rent/property tax
And you base this off of what? We didn't get a discount on rent being students, if anything we had to pay more, and have our parents co-sign. Paying rent BTW is how property owners pay property tax. Oh, and students often work and thus pay income tax, and buy quite a bit in the area and pay sales and restraunt taxes. There's a reason cities and towns WANT a college there, because it does bring in quite a bit of money.
and use a lot of services.
Like what exactly? Do you honestly believe that college is nothing but a non-stop drinking party? Its not, and as I've stated before, the college and their students, and the families of students bring a great deal of income into the city, and I doubt they use any more "services" than a typical resident. Many may in fact use far less.
For poor students borrowing hundreds of $K to attend Carnegie Mellon - your bad decisions cannot drive policy.
Ah yes, lets actively try to set up barriers on those who are actually trying to work and improve their lot in life.
Listen, I know you feel cheated because you didn't get to go to college, and that you're angry and jealous, but that's your problem, and you shouldn't be actively trying to make it more difficult for others to do so.
If inpections are too heavy a burden on people, those people should not have cars then. As far as getting stuck with "repairs" you don't want, either you're not going to someone trustworthy and should find another mechanic, or you should do the inspection yourself upfront so you can call their BS. Most inspections are just quick checks on belts, brake wear, etc, it should be trivial to do it yourself.
As far as the cost of the inspection, tell that to the state; here its only $20, and only if you pass.
Um, are you not doing any maintence on the car either? Does it have the same oil, oil filter, air filter, belts, radiator fluid, etc? Updates are maintence, and its a lot easier to update browsers than change your oil. And its free.
So did you grew up here? I can't really believe we're still arguing this point. If police were truly useless then the jails would be empty. They aren't. Maybe the police aren't as effective as you feel they should be. Maybe you truly think that everyone can actually defend themselves from everything ranging from murder to fraud. I'm pretty sure you will never change your mind no matter what anyone says. It doesn't really matter, though, since most of the rest of the world throughout human history disagrees with you. So the police will still be around to give us speeding tickets and take our police reports before promptly ignoring them.
Nope, I grew up in PA. We were told, no matter what, that we'd have to call state police, who were an hour away to the nearest barracks. Even if out family was being murdered... the local town police only patroled the town, we relied on staties. They aren't really effective, when something of 80% of murders for example, go unsolved. Only the dumbest criminals actually get caught. Then there's abuse of police power. I don't disagree that most won't see it my way, but I think most are unwilling to admit that their lives really aren't safe and that someone could harm them pretty much without consequence.
There was wealth centralization in post-industrialized Britain where the government took a very hands off approach. It's not caused by big government corrupted by big money. It's big money being corrupted and wanting more big money. Ok, here's an example of what you're saying. Big money corrupts the government and forces them to get rid of the BBB. So you say wouldn't it have been better if we got rid of the BBB so that Big money isn't able to corrupt the government and remove it?
I will say I'm all for regulating businesses; corportations are a legal fiction, and so have no rights (no matter how misguided our courts are regarding that point). Business regulation is one of the few areas I do think we need to keep government around for. I don't want NO government, I want small, limited government that largaly stays out of social issues and we need much more personal responsiblity.
As for the rest of your posts, I'm fairly certain that nothing will change your mind on anything and so I'm just going to give up.
Well I'm fairly certain I won't be changing your mind either... but that's ok, at least we can discuss our ideas and hopefully give some serious thought to the other's arguments.