In fact, they'd be happy if there were more among them.
My experience as a female Magic player in high school is, while anecdotal, not entirely supportive of this. It wasn't that I didn't feel like I belonged in the group, only that my gender was not relevant, a non-issue. It was simply ignored. Often I was the only female there, and was never treated as anything other than just another opponent in game. Which, I'll admit, was nice, because being dismissed as a girl in other activities is/was common and annoying. No one ever told me I played like a girl, for example (it probably helped that I was as good as they were). But there was a definite lack of ability to interact with the males there on any level other than player-vs-player. Maybe they would have been happier with more girls there, but they certainly didn't show it.
Basically, I found the Magic geeks to be far more egalitarian than any other group in high school.
Call me a sell-out, but I disagree. Static ads that don't move or play sound or (try to) infect my computer are acceptable, and when I've identified a site I like that polices their ads for crap like that, I will allow ads.
The way I got around that is by signing up for business class service. No cable required, and (at least here in KC) it costs the same as their consumer internet plan. You also get a static IP and no data caps, if that matters to you. You don't need a company, though they'll ask you for a company name. Just make something up.
If you like Catan but don't like setting up the board, check this out. There are still a few rules that aren't implemented yet, but the game is playable.
And they were all kind of odd and I don't mean because they were obviously bright and skilled, but they'd been hanging around older people so much they were like awkwardly premature adults. They saw kids their own age much like an older teen would see a bunch of brats and at the same time they didn't really fit in with the older ones either.
That was me. They held me back academically because I couldn't relate to my peers, and I didn't fit in with the older kids either. I also spoke to adults on their level (and sometimes with a better vocabulary), which caused its own set of problems.
If I knew I had a really bright kid I think I'd worry less about reaching his full genius potential and more on not raising a Sheldon.
This is the key. Socialize your kids, even if they don't want it. They don't want to eat veggies either, but it's still good for them.
But they aren't buying a product, they are providing one-- the output of their labor.
That depends on whose point of view you're looking at. From the employee's point of view, yes. From the employer's point of view, they are the one paying money for something, which makes them the consumer. Therefore, labor (or you could argue skills and time) is the product employees are selling.
If one feels that their labor is worth more than what their employer is paying, they are free to move within the market and see if they can find another purchaser of their labor at their preferred price.
And if the purchase of their labor can be arranged through a third party, is that third party not also a market force?
all the union does is distort the price for labor
If indeed the union is a market force, then its price for labor is not a distortion--unless the union is the only market force on that side of the equation, i.e., a monopoly. If it is not a monopoly, it is simply another competing provider of the product. The union can charge more for their product because it has been upgraded (much like a staffing company) by a guarantee of a certain skillset.
Now take all of the above with one caveat: I'm talking about laboratory conditions. In the real world, unions get monopolies, they're corrupt, they protect the lazy and unskilled, distort the job market, yada yada yada. But employers aren't any better. Before unions, they abused and distorted the market. Child labor laws, the 40 hour work week, minimum wage, and safety standards all come from union efforts. Until unions began asserting some power in the marketplace, employers were the monopoly, and the market value of labor was low wages for long days and shitty working conditions. Even with all the progress made, to this day employers will still find a way to screw you over if it's good for the bottom line and legal, or if not legal, the penalties cheap enough.
Unions are like any other group of people in that they can easily become corrupt. However, corporations are groups of people too. I'm not saying fighting corruption with corruption is the way to go, but you can at least level the playing field, as TheGratefulNet said.
I've never understood the free market argument against unions. Unions are a *function* of the free market. They fit in the role of consumers (of employment) who want to have some control over the product they buy (the work they do). If the free market provided everything the employees need/want, no one would want to unionize.
For the record, a) I purchase a $5/yr plan from Google for extra storage space (not sure if that makes a difference); and b) if you upload using Picasa rather than going to the website (inefficient at best), goto Tools>Options>Web Albums and choose "Original size" in the Default size dropdown menu.
I realize I'm still a n00b (I read/. for the educational value) and it's possible I'm wrong here, but I don't believe they do. I use Picasa to backup my digital pics, so I just downloaded a photo I archived there, and compared it to the original. The md5sums match. That's close enough to original for me:
goo.gl/GKgs9
Okay. But you should know that sudden serious brain injury causes the victim to bite down. Hard. In fact, I understand the bite-reflex is so strong the victim's jaws have to be pried open with a crowbar.
I'd suggest cutting corn and ethanol subsidies before NSF funding. Specifically those going to Nebraska. It's bad juju to use food for fuel, and just as bad to use food acreage to grow fuel.
Because right and wrong DO exist, despite your value judgment that they do not. Yes, it is difficult to establish absolute values of right and wrong from the morass that are "culture" and "value judgments," but that doesn't change the fact that they exist.
My typing teacher would go into the supply closet and spike her bourbon after assigning the day's lesson. But you would too if you spent 6 hours a day listening to 30 IBM Selectric IIs hard at work.
A lot of the sedatives they give you often cause partial amnesia as well. My last conscious procedure was a flexible sigmoidoscopy. I asked them if I could watch the monitor as they worked, and I know I did, but damned if I can remember any of it. So they sent me home with snapshots.
What is missing from this discussion is the major difference in procedures. In female circumcision, the orgasm-producing nerves are removed in an extremely non-clinical setting. No anaesthetic, no sanitation, and the after care often involves rubbing ash or dirt into the wounds. In the other, the head of the penis is left intact, there may be anaesthetic during the procedure, and after care is sanitary. Even for non-clinical male circumcisions, a mohel's kit is generally cleaner than the knife used for female circumcisions.
Circumcision of males, I think, somewhat robs us of the fullest sexual experiences, as is similarly argued on female circumcision.
I will not discount the possibility that a male circumcision results in decreased sexual enjoyment, but female circumcision results in little to no sexual enjoyment.
Also, if the employee's only life insurance is through his company, he would not have life insurance for a couple of weeks. PROBABLY no big deal, but there are no guarantees.
Check with the benefits administrator for your employer. Many life policies offered through your employer have "portability" or "conversion" options. Portability is cheapest, but either one will keep you covered. There's usually a very small window of opportunity to exercise those options though, so talk to them before your last day of employment.
No, it is singular, in the same way army or pride (of lions) or murder (of crows) are singular, referring to a group. You can talk about batteries, armies, prides, and murders, all of which refer to multiple groups of multiple items.
I'm going to have to back Mistshadow2k4's statement. 98% of the reason I did the fairy tale wedding was because as an only child and daughter, my mother wouldn't have been happy any other way. I wouldn't be honest if I didn't say part of me did want the whole shebang, but I would have been much happier with a pair of plane tickets to Vegas.
I have to agree with the bit about Average Joe and Ubuntu. While I skim/. daily, I am in no way technically inclined, and I just installed Ubuntu on my XP box. It did take me over a week to get it right (working in 2 hour increments due to my crummy schedule), but we are talking remedial level here. And what I was not able to figure out on my own, the community stepped in to fill the gaps for me.
Ahem. "You should have" instead. The "should of" sound you are looking for is the contraction, "should've." Check your own before you check anyone else's.
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In fact, they'd be happy if there were more among them.
My experience as a female Magic player in high school is, while anecdotal, not entirely supportive of this. It wasn't that I didn't feel like I belonged in the group, only that my gender was not relevant, a non-issue. It was simply ignored. Often I was the only female there, and was never treated as anything other than just another opponent in game. Which, I'll admit, was nice, because being dismissed as a girl in other activities is/was common and annoying. No one ever told me I played like a girl, for example (it probably helped that I was as good as they were). But there was a definite lack of ability to interact with the males there on any level other than player-vs-player. Maybe they would have been happier with more girls there, but they certainly didn't show it.
Basically, I found the Magic geeks to be far more egalitarian than any other group in high school.
Hah! My mother's reply was, "Do you think they can get to you before I can?"
Call me a sell-out, but I disagree. Static ads that don't move or play sound or (try to) infect my computer are acceptable, and when I've identified a site I like that polices their ads for crap like that, I will allow ads.
"I'd drop them but they're bundled with my cable"
The way I got around that is by signing up for business class service. No cable required, and (at least here in KC) it costs the same as their consumer internet plan. You also get a static IP and no data caps, if that matters to you. You don't need a company, though they'll ask you for a company name. Just make something up.
If you like Catan but don't like setting up the board, check this out. There are still a few rules that aren't implemented yet, but the game is playable.
http://www.colonists-of-tacan.com/
If you want progress reports on the coding:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/94373105547/
Here ya go:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/
Here ya go:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/
And they were all kind of odd and I don't mean because they were obviously bright and skilled, but they'd been hanging around older people so much they were like awkwardly premature adults. They saw kids their own age much like an older teen would see a bunch of brats and at the same time they didn't really fit in with the older ones either.
That was me. They held me back academically because I couldn't relate to my peers, and I didn't fit in with the older kids either. I also spoke to adults on their level (and sometimes with a better vocabulary), which caused its own set of problems.
If I knew I had a really bright kid I think I'd worry less about reaching his full genius potential and more on not raising a Sheldon.
This is the key. Socialize your kids, even if they don't want it. They don't want to eat veggies either, but it's still good for them.
But they aren't buying a product, they are providing one-- the output of their labor.
That depends on whose point of view you're looking at. From the employee's point of view, yes. From the employer's point of view, they are the one paying money for something, which makes them the consumer. Therefore, labor (or you could argue skills and time) is the product employees are selling.
If one feels that their labor is worth more than what their employer is paying, they are free to move within the market and see if they can find another purchaser of their labor at their preferred price.
And if the purchase of their labor can be arranged through a third party, is that third party not also a market force?
all the union does is distort the price for labor
If indeed the union is a market force, then its price for labor is not a distortion--unless the union is the only market force on that side of the equation, i.e., a monopoly. If it is not a monopoly, it is simply another competing provider of the product. The union can charge more for their product because it has been upgraded (much like a staffing company) by a guarantee of a certain skillset.
Now take all of the above with one caveat: I'm talking about laboratory conditions. In the real world, unions get monopolies, they're corrupt, they protect the lazy and unskilled, distort the job market, yada yada yada. But employers aren't any better. Before unions, they abused and distorted the market. Child labor laws, the 40 hour work week, minimum wage, and safety standards all come from union efforts. Until unions began asserting some power in the marketplace, employers were the monopoly, and the market value of labor was low wages for long days and shitty working conditions. Even with all the progress made, to this day employers will still find a way to screw you over if it's good for the bottom line and legal, or if not legal, the penalties cheap enough.
Unions are like any other group of people in that they can easily become corrupt. However, corporations are groups of people too. I'm not saying fighting corruption with corruption is the way to go, but you can at least level the playing field, as TheGratefulNet said.
I've never understood the free market argument against unions. Unions are a *function* of the free market. They fit in the role of consumers (of employment) who want to have some control over the product they buy (the work they do). If the free market provided everything the employees need/want, no one would want to unionize.
For the record, a) I purchase a $5/yr plan from Google for extra storage space (not sure if that makes a difference); and b) if you upload using Picasa rather than going to the website (inefficient at best), goto Tools>Options>Web Albums and choose "Original size" in the Default size dropdown menu.
Except that they downgrade your photos.
I realize I'm still a n00b (I read /. for the educational value) and it's possible I'm wrong here, but I don't believe they do. I use Picasa to backup my digital pics, so I just downloaded a photo I archived there, and compared it to the original. The md5sums match. That's close enough to original for me:
goo.gl/GKgs9
Okay. But you should know that sudden serious brain injury causes the victim to bite down. Hard. In fact, I understand the bite-reflex is so strong the victim's jaws have to be pried open with a crowbar.
I'd suggest cutting corn and ethanol subsidies before NSF funding. Specifically those going to Nebraska. It's bad juju to use food for fuel, and just as bad to use food acreage to grow fuel.
Because right and wrong DO exist, despite your value judgment that they do not. Yes, it is difficult to establish absolute values of right and wrong from the morass that are "culture" and "value judgments," but that doesn't change the fact that they exist.
My typing teacher would go into the supply closet and spike her bourbon after assigning the day's lesson. But you would too if you spent 6 hours a day listening to 30 IBM Selectric IIs hard at work.
A lot of the sedatives they give you often cause partial amnesia as well. My last conscious procedure was a flexible sigmoidoscopy. I asked them if I could watch the monitor as they worked, and I know I did, but damned if I can remember any of it. So they sent me home with snapshots.
What is missing from this discussion is the major difference in procedures. In female circumcision, the orgasm-producing nerves are removed in an extremely non-clinical setting. No anaesthetic, no sanitation, and the after care often involves rubbing ash or dirt into the wounds. In the other, the head of the penis is left intact, there may be anaesthetic during the procedure, and after care is sanitary. Even for non-clinical male circumcisions, a mohel's kit is generally cleaner than the knife used for female circumcisions.
Circumcision of males, I think, somewhat robs us of the fullest sexual experiences, as is similarly argued on female circumcision.
I will not discount the possibility that a male circumcision results in decreased sexual enjoyment, but female circumcision results in little to no sexual enjoyment.
Also, if the employee's only life insurance is through his company, he would not have life insurance for a couple of weeks. PROBABLY no big deal, but there are no guarantees.
Check with the benefits administrator for your employer. Many life policies offered through your employer have "portability" or "conversion" options. Portability is cheapest, but either one will keep you covered. There's usually a very small window of opportunity to exercise those options though, so talk to them before your last day of employment.
No, it is singular, in the same way army or pride (of lions) or murder (of crows) are singular, referring to a group. You can talk about batteries, armies, prides, and murders, all of which refer to multiple groups of multiple items.
I'm going to have to back Mistshadow2k4's statement. 98% of the reason I did the fairy tale wedding was because as an only child and daughter, my mother wouldn't have been happy any other way. I wouldn't be honest if I didn't say part of me did want the whole shebang, but I would have been much happier with a pair of plane tickets to Vegas.
I have to agree with the bit about Average Joe and Ubuntu. While I skim /. daily, I am in no way technically inclined, and I just installed Ubuntu on my XP box. It did take me over a week to get it right (working in 2 hour increments due to my crummy schedule), but we are talking remedial level here. And what I was not able to figure out on my own, the community stepped in to fill the gaps for me.
for all intensive purposes I'm sorry, I can't stop myself, you're making me giggle.
you should of come to the conclusion
;)
Ahem. "You should have" instead. The "should of" sound you are looking for is the contraction, "should've." Check your own before you check anyone else's.