If your comments on Facebook, etc, ever caused such an employer to pass you by, then those comments did you a favor. Trust me. It is better to not get the job than to have to replace it because you're not ideologically compatible.
For the most part I agree with you, but sometimes you need to plan for the worst. You don't always have your pick of jobs, and I'd rather have a shitty job than foreclose on my house.
FOX hopes everybody believes them when they say voters are anti-incumbent, because then Republicans will win.
Republicans trying to push an anti-incumbent agenda are more likely to hurt themselves than help. Midterm elections tend very strongly to go against the President's party. 2002 in the post-9/11 wake and 1998 in the Lewinski backlash are recent exceptions. The Roosevelts (Teddy and FDR) are the only other post Civil War exceptions. Left to its own, the upcoming elections in November are quite likely to go well for the Republicans. Pushing an overall anti-incumbent agenda means they are also urging people to vote against sitting Republicans.
Too complicated. The best analogy is simply to say that GS, etc al are filled with shallow crooks who can and will trick and con everyone they meet out of every cent they have.
And for completeness, they're all driving in cars.
Does that still hold true in terms of traffic? It doesn't matter how many sites have malware, it matters how often those sites are visited. One high volume site with malware does more damage than a thousand sites that no one visits.
So in this thread, we say the words 'president' and 'California' and then link to a page about Reagan? You guys already covered the top two google hits, so here's #3
It's early yet. The Republicans just had their primary whereas Reid hasn't started campaigning yet. If he's still trailing in September then I'd say he's at risk.
My first read of the headline thought of Genital Recognition in the same way that Facial Recognition (there's some prime joke material right there) is used. Basically, trying to ID people by their genitalia. So when I got to the bit about male genitalia, I thought "Who'd want to do that???"
First, you'd need Chinese rates rather than Canadian ones, as there are non-trivial cultural differences in play.
Second, you'd need rates for the specific demographics that are employed at the factory, and not just ones for the population as a whole. In the US, the elderly have a higher rate than the population as a whole, but the elderly are less likely to be employed in a factory.
Last, as I understand it, they've had 9 suicides at the factory, not just 9 suicides by people employed by the factory. The article isn't clear on whether Foxconn paid benefits for any suicide by an employee or just ones that happen on Foxconn property, but if it's the latter it's certainly a motivator.
Re-reply? As in, reply to the guy who replied to your comment? How dare you try to have a conversation! This is slashdot!
That's such an odd comment that I keep listening for a whooshing sound, but every time I re-read it I can't shake the feeling that you really meant it.
nobody has a 10mpg car and a 33mpg car and needs to know if they'll save more going from 10->20mpg or 33->50mpg
I have a compact and a minivan. I drive the compact to work, my wife lugs a small army of children around in the minivan. While the numbers aren't quite 10 and 33 (the minivan is better than 10, the compact isn't up to 33), the stated scenario isn't absurd. And I don't believe I'm particularly rare.
But I have yet to be dissuaded from my opinion that in the US image is everything. It is not who you are that is important, but who you portray yourself to be.
I'll grant that it plays far more of a role than it should, but I'd stop short of saying it's everything. People who can't deliver are still regarded poorly.
As a European, I never understood the big thing about the US spelling contests.
As a foreigner living in the US I am coming to the conclusion that society here prefers pageantry and spectacle over form and substance. It also embraces parochialism (not sure if that is the best word for it) at a low level so that there always has to be an "us vs. them" mentality (this also works IMHO at multiple levels of their society - city vs country, state vs state and country vs country). And throw in a dose of parents living vicariously through their children. So to me the spelling bees are just a manifestation of the pathological state of the society as a whole.
You're not completely wrong, but I think you overstate it. We appreciate someone who has put in the effort to be the absolute best at something, though it can often (Scripps bee as an example) get to a point where we celebrate expertise that has gone to a level far beyond usefulness and real utility.
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I'd love to see what your post would look like if you had 5 or 6 more points to iterate.
If your comments on Facebook, etc, ever caused such an employer to pass you by, then those comments did you a favor. Trust me. It is better to not get the job than to have to replace it because you're not ideologically compatible.
For the most part I agree with you, but sometimes you need to plan for the worst. You don't always have your pick of jobs, and I'd rather have a shitty job than foreclose on my house.
FOX hopes everybody believes them when they say voters are anti-incumbent, because then Republicans will win.
Republicans trying to push an anti-incumbent agenda are more likely to hurt themselves than help. Midterm elections tend very strongly to go against the President's party. 2002 in the post-9/11 wake and 1998 in the Lewinski backlash are recent exceptions. The Roosevelts (Teddy and FDR) are the only other post Civil War exceptions. Left to its own, the upcoming elections in November are quite likely to go well for the Republicans. Pushing an overall anti-incumbent agenda means they are also urging people to vote against sitting Republicans.
Too complicated. The best analogy is simply to say that GS, etc al are filled with shallow crooks who can and will trick and con everyone they meet out of every cent they have.
And for completeness, they're all driving in cars.
Snicker.
So fat woman == lower self esteem == easier to convince her to ditch the rubber?
Does that still hold true in terms of traffic? It doesn't matter how many sites have malware, it matters how often those sites are visited. One high volume site with malware does more damage than a thousand sites that no one visits.
Obama could have nominated an aardvark and it would have been a communist, fascist, death-panel-craving aardvark.
My friends in the ant community assure me that this is typical of most aardvarks.
Seriously, if Obama is Hitler and Bush is Hitler, what does that make Hitler?
Delicious with hot sauce?
I came to the comments here with the thought that I might find the one solitary comment that tells me what the REAL scope of this is.
Just a question to naysayers: how is this different from the state wanting to know where you live, or wanting your name on record?
If I get a cut and bleed somewhere, having my name or address on file doesn't tell you I was there. Having my DNA does.
So in this thread, we say the words 'president' and 'California' and then link to a page about Reagan? You guys already covered the top two google hits, so here's #3
Conversely, I think the death penalty is a delicious ice-cream flavour.
Cookie Dough is better.
Prostitution is illegal in Clark County, NV, where Las Vegas is located.
And yet there are billboard advertisements for it in Vegas.
It's early yet. The Republicans just had their primary whereas Reid hasn't started campaigning yet. If he's still trailing in September then I'd say he's at risk.
My first read of the headline thought of Genital Recognition in the same way that Facial Recognition (there's some prime joke material right there) is used. Basically, trying to ID people by their genitalia. So when I got to the bit about male genitalia, I thought "Who'd want to do that???"
beluga caviar with dodo eggs spread on the backs of beautiful hookers by chimp butlers don't come cheap!
Clearly you and I have different Beluga Caviar with Dodo eggs spread on the backs of beautiful hookers by chimp butler dealers.
What you fail to understand is that all lived in free dormitories at the factory, and all died at the dormitory during their free time.
Do you have a link for that? I haven't stumbled across that tidbit in any of the reading I've done so far.
First, you'd need Chinese rates rather than Canadian ones, as there are non-trivial cultural differences in play.
Second, you'd need rates for the specific demographics that are employed at the factory, and not just ones for the population as a whole. In the US, the elderly have a higher rate than the population as a whole, but the elderly are less likely to be employed in a factory.
Last, as I understand it, they've had 9 suicides at the factory, not just 9 suicides by people employed by the factory. The article isn't clear on whether Foxconn paid benefits for any suicide by an employee or just ones that happen on Foxconn property, but if it's the latter it's certainly a motivator.
I know it's off-form to re-reply,
Re-reply? As in, reply to the guy who replied to your comment? How dare you try to have a conversation! This is slashdot!
That's such an odd comment that I keep listening for a whooshing sound, but every time I re-read it I can't shake the feeling that you really meant it.
nobody has a 10mpg car and a 33mpg car and needs to know if they'll save more going from 10->20mpg or 33->50mpg
I have a compact and a minivan. I drive the compact to work, my wife lugs a small army of children around in the minivan. While the numbers aren't quite 10 and 33 (the minivan is better than 10, the compact isn't up to 33), the stated scenario isn't absurd. And I don't believe I'm particularly rare.
people forget that a Thermo Electron Niton XRF testing gun now comes in every Happy Meal.
Which would really suck when my kids get annoyed that I want to play with their Happy Meal toy.
Come on, in terms of usefulness and real utility, Scripps is far ahead of any professional sports/events.
I know which one pays better.
But I have yet to be dissuaded from my opinion that in the US image is everything. It is not who you are that is important, but who you portray yourself to be.
I'll grant that it plays far more of a role than it should, but I'd stop short of saying it's everything. People who can't deliver are still regarded poorly.
As a European, I never understood the big thing about the US spelling contests.
As a foreigner living in the US I am coming to the conclusion that society here prefers pageantry and spectacle over form and substance. It also embraces parochialism (not sure if that is the best word for it) at a low level so that there always has to be an "us vs. them" mentality (this also works IMHO at multiple levels of their society - city vs country, state vs state and country vs country). And throw in a dose of parents living vicariously through their children. So to me the spelling bees are just a manifestation of the pathological state of the society as a whole.
You're not completely wrong, but I think you overstate it. We appreciate someone who has put in the effort to be the absolute best at something, though it can often (Scripps bee as an example) get to a point where we celebrate expertise that has gone to a level far beyond usefulness and real utility.
And I'm curious to see if any of the commentators for Scripps would comment on the fact that many of the contestants are Indian.