I can see how a guy who can't understand the shift key would want that to be true. But actively inserting an apostrophe where one doesn't even belong isn't a sign of laziness - laziness would involve leaving OUT an apostrophe where one ought to have been. Dropping them in where they don't belong is signs of a cognitive issue, and brings into question the meaningfulness of the entire post.
So you'd really play change-the-spelling games with SMS when the local government has a habit of locking up people for saying the word out loud, and killing people who say it several times?
I replied to the GP, who connected his brother's liberal arts education with his brother's employment sweeping floors. To the extent that he concludes that his brother's education was a poor fit for the available jobs, I'm pointing out who is really to blame.
I'm sorry but state colleges give garbage degrees. My brother just graduated from the University of Maine degree with a liberal arts degree and is sweeping floors at a gas station.
No, your brother chose a garbage major, and chose to spend a lot of money on an education that doesn't align with a career doing anything but sweeping floors at that gas station. It's not the state college's responsibility to make your brother face reality and study something that's actually challenging. If he wants to take on debt so he can spend four years on poetry or Russian literature or on women's studies, that's his business, and HIS debt. Quit whining - yourself, and on his behalf. You're as bad as he is, if you're blaming anyone other than him for his absurd choices.
So, how do you address the overhead spent on people like janitors? I'm guessing you'll say that the cost of having nobody clean the toilets or of making every engineer, sales rep, and IT person haul their own trash out is that you'd quickly lose most of your employees. But that's also true of everyone who processes payroll, handles A/R, A/P and the rest. All necessary jobs or the place grinds to a halt - but there's no billable numbers to look at there, and no "if we don't have accounting staff, the costs would be too high..." because the cost would be no company left alive.
Everyone working for a company has to generate as much revenue as he costs, at the very least.
Really? So, if you have a large office building that employs janitorial staff - those maintenance people should actually be billable and generate more than they cost? How does that work, exactly? How about the security guards - should they be focused on somehow being billable instead of on securing the building and its occupants?
Lots of positions are pure cost at the individual level - those people are necessary in order to help the billable/sales people generate the revenue that pays everyone in the company.
You don't think that an absurd assertion about "the banks" being actual criminal operations is snide? Or are you doing along with that, while also not having any interest in backing up such a ridiculous thing to say? Nope. You just toss some lazy ad hominem at the person who points that out. Carry on, of course, if that's what makes you feel good about your world view.
I know! And we can always count on you to not only post without any sort of detail or backing up of your drive-by assertions, but to make double sure that you never provide that sort of substance in any of your follow-up comments, either.
And, are you really going to pretend that pointing out how absurd your assertion is is a case of trolling? Or are you one of those people who calls any request to back up your characterizations trolling, as an attempt to distract from the fact that you really have nothing to offer?
Hey, look! Vague, hand-wavy Occupy tantrum style assertions about the 6,700+ banks that operate in the United States. Are you keeping a secret dossier on each of them, which you are for special secret reasons hiding from the thousands of law enforcement officers and entities who would like to know which laws all of The Banks are breaking, until you can sell you story? It must be exhausting keep track of all of that crime being committed by hundreds of thousands of people.
They don't draw a salary, the money gets spent on causes they feel it should be spent on.
They spend (at most) 10% of the foundations huge cash flow on actual charities/causes. The rest is all "administrative" fees and costs, including large salaries for cronies who "consult" with the foundation, and a huge parade of paid-for amenities for the the foundation's star attractions: Bill, Hillary, and their daughter. Do you really think that one dollar out of ten spent on "causes" is the sign of a proper charitable foundation? It means they are either corrupt, or incredibly incompetent - just like everything else they run.
Their personal wealth is because - amazing as it may sound - organizations are willing to spend big bucks for the prestige of a former President giving a speech at their events.
No, they were willing to spend big bucks because it gets them access to the Secretary of State, where they had other business pending. Do you REALLY think that some brokerage in NY is handing Hillary Clinton hundreds of thousands of dollars at a time for a closed-door, in-house-only appearance lasting under 30 minutes, with everyone involved signing non disclosure agreements so that the press can never learn what it was she said that was worth making her rich? Are you even listening to yourself?
But neither she nor her IT folks will be found guilty or go to jail, as nobody wants to pursue the matter.
No... the Obama administration and the Clinton machine don't want anybody to pursue the matter. See the difference? PLENTY of people would like to see her prosecuted for her deliberate law breaking.
What are the Left's success-stories exactly, again?
Well, obviously places like peaceful, socialist Norway. You know, a place that would NEVER do anything a Trump-like person would like. Except, you know, realize they ALSO need to build a wall to keep illegal immigrants out:
Cheny and Libby talking about who Plame was, between themselves, in completely irrelevant. Her name was inadvertently confirmed to a journalist by US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage. You know this, everyone knows this. It's public record and he's been very clear on how it came to pass. Why lie about it? What's that achieve? Who are you hoping falls for that? Please, do tell.
Things will be horrible shit for just about everyone if Trump is elected.
Because things are going SO well thanks to Clinton's policies and advice when she was Secretary of State? I wonder how a couple million Syrian refugees feel about that. Or the people now living in that shining bastion of liberty and peace, Lybia. No doubt you're thinking of the nice people in Crimea or Ukraine who are just thrilled to living where USSR 2.0 is testing the waters. Or are you thinking of the people in Pacific Rim nations who ware watching China take over international waters? Or maybe your contemplating the sterling success of economies in Central and South America, where pandered-to lefty kleptocracies are causing more than their usual share of suffering? Yes, definitely - we need the US to do its level best to ensure there's more of the same. Great idea.
Really? Thousands of vendors and contractors and thousands of employees for decade after decade and he's never paid a single one of them? Why do they keep going out of their way to compete to do more work for him? Really. Be specific.
Just google. You know google, right? Immediate results include operations like Arthur Anderson... formerly one of the biggest corporations of its kind in the world. Now essentially dead after the corporation was found criminally guilty in the Enron mess.
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I can see how a guy who can't understand the shift key would want that to be true. But actively inserting an apostrophe where one doesn't even belong isn't a sign of laziness - laziness would involve leaving OUT an apostrophe where one ought to have been. Dropping them in where they don't belong is signs of a cognitive issue, and brings into question the meaningfulness of the entire post.
CS = lot's of theory and little hands on at state schools
Apparently CS also means skipping that class where they talked about using apostrophes (unless it's used to remark out a line in a script).
I'm referring to the highly user-identifying nature of SMS.
So you'd really play change-the-spelling games with SMS when the local government has a habit of locking up people for saying the word out loud, and killing people who say it several times?
The sure sign of a treasured system of government and a joyous society: you're not allowed to talk about other people's way of life. Or leave.
Yes, but how would that have worked out if you'd chosen to pursue Medieval Philosophy at the same school? See how that works?
I replied to the GP, who connected his brother's liberal arts education with his brother's employment sweeping floors. To the extent that he concludes that his brother's education was a poor fit for the available jobs, I'm pointing out who is really to blame.
I'm sorry but state colleges give garbage degrees. My brother just graduated from the University of Maine degree with a liberal arts degree and is sweeping floors at a gas station.
No, your brother chose a garbage major, and chose to spend a lot of money on an education that doesn't align with a career doing anything but sweeping floors at that gas station. It's not the state college's responsibility to make your brother face reality and study something that's actually challenging. If he wants to take on debt so he can spend four years on poetry or Russian literature or on women's studies, that's his business, and HIS debt. Quit whining - yourself, and on his behalf. You're as bad as he is, if you're blaming anyone other than him for his absurd choices.
You're not addressing the fact that such positions don't generate revenue to cover their costs, as you said that every employee must.
So, how do you address the overhead spent on people like janitors? I'm guessing you'll say that the cost of having nobody clean the toilets or of making every engineer, sales rep, and IT person haul their own trash out is that you'd quickly lose most of your employees. But that's also true of everyone who processes payroll, handles A/R, A/P and the rest. All necessary jobs or the place grinds to a halt - but there's no billable numbers to look at there, and no "if we don't have accounting staff, the costs would be too high..." because the cost would be no company left alive.
Everyone working for a company has to generate as much revenue as he costs, at the very least.
Really? So, if you have a large office building that employs janitorial staff - those maintenance people should actually be billable and generate more than they cost? How does that work, exactly? How about the security guards - should they be focused on somehow being billable instead of on securing the building and its occupants?
Lots of positions are pure cost at the individual level - those people are necessary in order to help the billable/sales people generate the revenue that pays everyone in the company.
So when you use words, you just don't actually MEAN the ones you use. Got it.
the banks
Which means what, then? Specifically? Other than your usual broad innuendo.
a snide remark from a contrarian
You don't think that an absurd assertion about "the banks" being actual criminal operations is snide? Or are you doing along with that, while also not having any interest in backing up such a ridiculous thing to say? Nope. You just toss some lazy ad hominem at the person who points that out. Carry on, of course, if that's what makes you feel good about your world view.
I know! And we can always count on you to not only post without any sort of detail or backing up of your drive-by assertions, but to make double sure that you never provide that sort of substance in any of your follow-up comments, either.
And, are you really going to pretend that pointing out how absurd your assertion is is a case of trolling? Or are you one of those people who calls any request to back up your characterizations trolling, as an attempt to distract from the fact that you really have nothing to offer?
Hey, look! Vague, hand-wavy Occupy tantrum style assertions about the 6,700+ banks that operate in the United States. Are you keeping a secret dossier on each of them, which you are for special secret reasons hiding from the thousands of law enforcement officers and entities who would like to know which laws all of The Banks are breaking, until you can sell you story? It must be exhausting keep track of all of that crime being committed by hundreds of thousands of people.
They don't draw a salary, the money gets spent on causes they feel it should be spent on.
They spend (at most) 10% of the foundations huge cash flow on actual charities/causes. The rest is all "administrative" fees and costs, including large salaries for cronies who "consult" with the foundation, and a huge parade of paid-for amenities for the the foundation's star attractions: Bill, Hillary, and their daughter. Do you really think that one dollar out of ten spent on "causes" is the sign of a proper charitable foundation? It means they are either corrupt, or incredibly incompetent - just like everything else they run.
Their personal wealth is because - amazing as it may sound - organizations are willing to spend big bucks for the prestige of a former President giving a speech at their events.
No, they were willing to spend big bucks because it gets them access to the Secretary of State, where they had other business pending. Do you REALLY think that some brokerage in NY is handing Hillary Clinton hundreds of thousands of dollars at a time for a closed-door, in-house-only appearance lasting under 30 minutes, with everyone involved signing non disclosure agreements so that the press can never learn what it was she said that was worth making her rich? Are you even listening to yourself?
The entire US governments runs on "taking money ... while granting favors"
You're confusing campaign funding with putting millions of dollars directly in the Clinton family pockets, making them personally wealthy.
Health comments is Faux News BS
No, he's referring to the FBI's own notes from the interview. I know, you don't want that to have happened, but it did.
But neither she nor her IT folks will be found guilty or go to jail, as nobody wants to pursue the matter.
No ... the Obama administration and the Clinton machine don't want anybody to pursue the matter. See the difference? PLENTY of people would like to see her prosecuted for her deliberate law breaking.
What are the Left's success-stories exactly, again?
Well, obviously places like peaceful, socialist Norway. You know, a place that would NEVER do anything a Trump-like person would like. Except, you know, realize they ALSO need to build a wall to keep illegal immigrants out:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08...
Cheny and Libby talking about who Plame was, between themselves, in completely irrelevant. Her name was inadvertently confirmed to a journalist by US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage. You know this, everyone knows this. It's public record and he's been very clear on how it came to pass. Why lie about it? What's that achieve? Who are you hoping falls for that? Please, do tell.
Things will be horrible shit for just about everyone if Trump is elected.
Because things are going SO well thanks to Clinton's policies and advice when she was Secretary of State? I wonder how a couple million Syrian refugees feel about that. Or the people now living in that shining bastion of liberty and peace, Lybia. No doubt you're thinking of the nice people in Crimea or Ukraine who are just thrilled to living where USSR 2.0 is testing the waters. Or are you thinking of the people in Pacific Rim nations who ware watching China take over international waters? Or maybe your contemplating the sterling success of economies in Central and South America, where pandered-to lefty kleptocracies are causing more than their usual share of suffering? Yes, definitely - we need the US to do its level best to ensure there's more of the same. Great idea.
won't pay anybody what he owes them
Really? Thousands of vendors and contractors and thousands of employees for decade after decade and he's never paid a single one of them? Why do they keep going out of their way to compete to do more work for him? Really. Be specific.
I have never heard of it happening
Just google. You know google, right? Immediate results include operations like Arthur Anderson ... formerly one of the biggest corporations of its kind in the world. Now essentially dead after the corporation was found criminally guilty in the Enron mess.
Come on, editors, really? Shall I say to my friends, "Today I saw an interesting news on slashdot."