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Ted K. The former host of ABC's Nightline said it best when he described the difference between facts and truth. The presenting of facts is the job of the journalist and determining whether the facts are true or false is the responsibility of the reader.
Politics is defined as the often internally conflicting interrelationships among people in a society. A political strategy is to defeat an idea that cannot be defeated using facts by discrediting the source of the idea. When this happens it is proof that the idea is a good one and the flamer is unable to defeat the idea.
In regards to outsourcing manufacturing, the people that benefit the most from that is the company management. This is how it works...labor costs are divided up between everyone from the CEO to the new-hire. There is a line drawn between management and "unskilled" workers (or in right to fire states these are called disposable workers). The less management has to pay the disposable workers then the more management makes. One would think that the shareholders gain as well but really the share holders are at the mercy of management, especially when the biggest share holder is also the CEO. When a company is being ripped off they use that as an excuse to raise the cost of the product. Managers make money no matter how much market share the company losses. In fact, managers even make money by putting a company into bankruptcy. I would guess that factory management even goes so far as to run production off-the-record just so that they don't have to share with the rest of the company.
Detroit is no longer the capital of the automobile manufacturing universe.
Jason Vines - Chrysler Group Vice President of Communications
"Okay..let's try this one more time. There is no Big Three. The Chrysler Group is a unit of a company based in Germany. That leaves two auto companies with headquarters in the U.S., and none of them is us. I've been pounding away at this for a year and yet some publications can't seem to purge this outdated term from their vocabularies. In today's Detroit Free Press, the lead story contained a sub-headline shouting "Ford, Chrysler and GM skid toward a 50 percent market share."
Sure. If you lump us all together it's technically accurate, but unfair. The fact is, only GM and Ford have lost market share this year. The Chrysler Group's U.S. share has actually increased a full half-point in November. While the other guys are cutting plants and jobs, we've secured the future of plants in Belvidere, Ill., Sterling Heights, Mich., and Toledo, Ohio, while opening a new joint venture global engine plant in Dundee, Mich. Are we becoming leaner at the same time? Yup. But that only adds to our profitability and productivity.
Should we be mentioned as a member of group to which we don't belong? Nope. Now let's look at the nonsense splashed across the pages of the Chicago Tribune. That paper's headline screams "Big Three's Pain Ripples Across the Midwest." Pain? The only pain here is the extra effort it might have taken to get it right. In all fairness, the headline writer had no choice but to use the lazy, unfair shortcut since the story's two writers took well advantage of using it five times in the body of the story.
Now ditto to everything I said above regarding the Free Press's transgression, but I should point out to the Trib you might want to take a look about an hour up the road from your Michigan Avenue newsroom--the Belvidere Assembly is right in your backyard. The workers there who will enjoy continued employment building great products might be wondering exactly what pain you're speaking of.
So what's it going to take to erase the term from the lexicon? The Men in Black are way too busy to neuralize everyone, so I'll just have to trust you."
Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.
What if i want to own that near earth object and make it into a refueling station for other spacecraft? As long as i don't go waving a national flag around out there; then is it OK?
Going from 45 hours (worked and paid) a week to paid for 40 while still working 45 is actually a 12% decrease in pay, not 8%.
it must be some kind of psychological safety mechanism that reduces stress from the realization that one is getting financially raped by the company they keep.
Those problems you listed with unions are the problems that company management wants the consumers (which are also workers - union or not) to believe. Ask yourself why anyone with seniority in a unionized shop that makes middle income wages and benefits would want to harm the company they depend on for their pensions.
The problem with unions are that unions represent the physical labor and not the management of the physical labor in any company. The company has X amount of revenue dollars to spend on all labor in the company. This would include management personnel. When it is time to split the money allocated to the cost of labor, union and management negotiate how the pay and benefits are distributed between them. In short, a company can be managed to death and then the unions are blamed, Joe Blow, who only wishes was making prevailing wage, buys the company line that 'unions are corrupt'. What they don't tell is that they gave themselves a few million dollars in advance before they wrecked the company. Meanwhile, prevailing wages get hacked down by bankruptcy courts, Joe Blow never gets his wish, thousands more honest workers and consumers go to the poor house, and when it is all done and said, the workers destroy their physical health making less money so that company managers can make even more money.
The answer to your question of what is to organize - labor, all of it.
Now, many unions are out to do no less than screw the company. It is no long about fair treatment. It is about padding pockets, political power, and greed.
Sort of like the 21 executives that drove Delphi into bankruptcy for millions of dollars severance pay? Or how about the airline company managers that drove their companies into the dirt while collecting millions? There is an article coming out in Time magazine that details how to profit from managing a company into bankruptcy which might satisfy your desire to destroy unions.
How about driving your 2-miles-to-the-gallon SUV to the coffee shop, spending 15 minutes in line for a 5 dollar cup of coffee while you complain how your tax dollars are going to a cause in which thousands of college graduates are employed? What? You think this is all so that one or maybe two guys can go to the moon and have fun for a week at the expense of your child not being able to go to college and socialize for a week?
I have to pay for everyones kid to go to school but i don't get any tax breaks because i don't have any kids. How fair is that?
Colonizing the moon is a conservative program. Fighting over who dominates Earth is a socialist program.
Research is the study of things known. Search is the study for things unknown.
Note this doesn't mean all intelligence is increasing, but the kinds of things they test for.
The kind of thing tested for is intelligence quotient (IQ).
intelligence quotient = The ratio of tested mental age to chronological age, usually expressed as a quotient multiplied by 100.
"floyd effect" - more evidence that human intelligence is evolving with each new generation. It's not the intelligence that one has that is tested. It's the rate at which one learns.
Does that mean he's not as bright as an economist from the 1950s? Is he smarter? The answer is probably "no" on both counts. He traded one skill for another. Computer skills make him far more efficient and allow him to present more accurate--more intelligent--information. And without them, he'd have a tough time doing his job. But drop him into the Federal Reserve 40 years ago, and a lack of skill with the slide rule could put an equal crimp on his career.
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Does that mean he's not as bright as an economist from the 1950s? Is he smarter? The answer is probably "no" and "yes" respectively. The modern intelligence worker has built his/her intelligence on top of the intelligence level of the pre-modern intelligence workers. Computer skills make him far more efficient and allow him to present more accurate--more intelligent--information. And without them, he'd just have to use his fundamental math skills with the less complicated tools, such as slide rulers, pencil and paper. Drop him into the Federal Reserve 40 years ago and it would be just like learning to ride a bicycle again. His career would only take him to the top as he would have even better skills to apply his knowledge of math
Furthermore, the pre-modern intelligence worker would use his current skills to learn computer skills and so would become more intelligent as he picked up more intelligent skills.
humans have evolved intelligence and it just keeps on evolving
So why not make a positive film showing how free information exchange could improve everyone around the globes' access to vital information?
I would like to be the first to legally have my personal cell phone # prominently displayed on my automobile. Tell me everything and start from the beginning.
So... they want to give all of the kids a chance to experience it themselves?
Seems like the market for creative and strategic ideas from U.K. just got an order.
[i]This always confuses me. I've yet to find a human who wasn't guilty of something, and I see no reason to assume that animals are inherently more law-abiding.[/i]
I'm still confused about what is proof.
Starting three years from now, if you live or work in the United States, you'll need a federally approved ID card to travel on an airplane, open a bank account, collect Social Security payments, or take advantage of nearly any government service.
Do any of these things get used by all those poor illegal immigrants who have come to steal jobs from the unemployed Americans? BTW, in America, even sympathy is capitalized on.
While I agree that the land of opportunity's international borders should be locked to all invaders I think it would be easier and more beneficial to simply take over the world.
IMO, this is not so much about the American government and more about American business. The "media" is a business which gets most of its funding from commercial business. Everything from an employer testing employees for cigarette smoking to knowing as much about each consumer as possible primarily serves the interest of American businesses.
I recieved this email on jan 15, 2004 and i guess this is as good as time as any to share
laugh but i can see this in the near future!
Operator: "Thank you for calling Pizza Hut. May I have your national ID number?"
Customer: "Hi, I'd like to place an order."
Operator: "I must have your NIDN first, sir?"
Customer: "My National ID Number, yeah, hold on, eh, it's 6102049998-45-54610."
Operator: "Thank you, Mr. Sheehan. I see you live at 1742 Meadowland Drive, and the phone number's 494-2366. Your office number over at Lincoln Insurance is 745-2302 and your cell number's 266-2566. Email address is sheehan@ home.net Which number are you calling from, sir?"
Customer: "Huh? I'm at home. Where d'ya get all this information?"
Operator: "We're wired into the HSS, sir."
Customer: "The HSS, what is that?"
Operator: "We're wired into the Homeland Security System, sir. This will add only 15 seconds to your ordering time"
Customer: (Sighs) "Oh, well, I'd like to order a couple of your All-Meat Special pizzas."
Operator: "I don't think that's a good idea, Sir."
Customer: "Whaddya mean?"
Operator: "Sir, your medical records and commode sensors indicate that you've got very high blood pressure and extremely high cholesterol. Your National Health Care provider won't allow such an unhealthy choice."
Customer: "What makes you think I'd like something like that?"
Operator: "Well, you checked out 'Gourmet Soybean Recipes' from your local library last week, sir. That's why I made the suggestion."
Customer: "All right, all right. Give me two family-sized ones, then."
Operator: "That should be plenty for you, your wife and your four kids, and your 2 dogs can finish the crusts, sir. Your total is $49.99."
Customer: "Lemme give you my credit card number."
Operator: "I'm sorry sir, but I'm afraid you'll have to pay in cash. Your credit card balance is over its limit."
Customer: "I'll run over to the ATM and get some cash before your driver gets here."
Operator: "That won't work either, sir. Your checking account's overdrawn also."
Customer: "Never mind! Just send the pizzas. I'll have the cash ready. How long will it take?"
Operator: "We're running a little behind, sir. It'll be about 45 minutes, sir. If you're in a hurry you might want to pick 'em up while you're out getting the cash, but then, carrying pizzas on a motorcycle can be a little awkward."
Customer: "Wait! How do you know I ride a scooter?"
Operator: "It says here you're in arrears on your car payments, so your car got repo'ed. But your Harley's paid for and you just filled the tank yesterday"
Customer: Well I'll be a "@#%/$@&?#!"
Operator: "I'd advise watching your language, sir. You've already got a July 4, 2006 conviction for cussing out a cop and another one I see here on September for contempt at your hearing for cussing at a judge." "Oh yes I see here that you just got out from a 90 day stay in the State Correctional Facility. Is this your first pizza since your return to society?
Customer: (Speechless)
Operator: "Will there be anything else, sir?"
Customer: "Yes, I have a coupon for a free 2 liter of Coke".
Operator: "I'm sorry sir, but our ad's exclusionary clause prevents us from offering free soda to diabetics. The New Constitution prohibits this.
Debunking this myth is PR to make LINUX OS in particular and in general the free open source development programs it allows look professionally developed (as opposed to the nasty myth that LINUX and friends is developed by evil hackers) just like the Microsoft Enterprise, only better because it employs a wider range of developers.
There is no shortage of skilled workers in the United States; however, there is a huge shortage of cheap skilled workers in the United States. American companies like the idea that if the employee gets any selfish ideas like "retirement" or "pension" they can always pull the VISA. No danger of having to pay unemployment. Politicians like the idea of the H1-B visas because that can be turned into allot of free and favorable PR. The only ones who don't like it are the millions of tech workers born and raised in the United States that could not afford to go to school, learned to learn on their own (schools hate that and do everything they can to discredit the practice), and had to start work as a dishwasher because some H1-B visa DuDeS can take their place.
I think NASA has lost confidence in the design. I have. The smaller (and cheaper) SpaceShipOne type design is good for people. If NASA wants to launch some gear into space then assemble for use in space then launch the people separately from the equipment.
Speaking of vibrations, the launch of a spacecraft may damage computer hard drives. There is some capability of dampening. Spacecraft can experience vibration just from being exposed to solar radiation.
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Treat the good submission as you would treat any other good submission and without regard to the submitters reputation. Reputations are illusionary. Especially reputations attached to login user names. For example, my score is '1'. So what?
Ted K. The former host of ABC's Nightline said it best when he described the difference between facts and truth. The presenting of facts is the job of the journalist and determining whether the facts are true or false is the responsibility of the reader.
Politics is defined as the often internally conflicting interrelationships among people in a society. A political strategy is to defeat an idea that cannot be defeated using facts by discrediting the source of the idea. When this happens it is proof that the idea is a good one and the flamer is unable to defeat the idea.
In regards to outsourcing manufacturing, the people that benefit the most from that is the company management. This is how it works...labor costs are divided up between everyone from the CEO to the new-hire. There is a line drawn between management and "unskilled" workers (or in right to fire states these are called disposable workers). The less management has to pay the disposable workers then the more management makes. One would think that the shareholders gain as well but really the share holders are at the mercy of management, especially when the biggest share holder is also the CEO. When a company is being ripped off they use that as an excuse to raise the cost of the product. Managers make money no matter how much market share the company losses. In fact, managers even make money by putting a company into bankruptcy. I would guess that factory management even goes so far as to run production off-the-record just so that they don't have to share with the rest of the company.
One way of ruining the competition is by counterfeiting the competitions products and building defects into them.
Detroit is no longer the capital of the automobile manufacturing universe.
Jason Vines - Chrysler Group Vice President of Communications
"Okay..let's try this one more time. There is no Big Three. The Chrysler Group is a unit of a company based in Germany. That leaves two auto companies with headquarters in the U.S., and none of them is us. I've been pounding away at this for a year and yet some publications can't seem to purge this outdated term from their vocabularies.
In today's Detroit Free Press, the lead story contained a sub-headline shouting "Ford, Chrysler and GM skid toward a 50 percent market share."
Sure. If you lump us all together it's technically accurate, but unfair. The fact is, only GM and Ford have lost market share this year. The Chrysler Group's U.S. share has actually increased a full half-point in November. While the other guys are cutting plants and jobs, we've secured the future of plants in Belvidere, Ill., Sterling Heights, Mich., and Toledo, Ohio, while opening a new joint venture global engine plant in Dundee, Mich. Are we becoming leaner at the same time? Yup. But that only adds to our profitability and productivity.
Should we be mentioned as a member of group to which we don't belong? Nope. Now let's look at the nonsense splashed across the pages of the Chicago Tribune. That paper's headline screams "Big Three's Pain Ripples Across the Midwest."
Pain? The only pain here is the extra effort it might have taken to get it right. In all fairness, the headline writer had no choice but to use the lazy, unfair shortcut since the story's two writers took well advantage of using it five times in the body of the story.
Now ditto to everything I said above regarding the Free Press's transgression, but I should point out to the Trib you might want to take a look about an hour up the road from your Michigan Avenue newsroom--the Belvidere Assembly is right in your backyard. The workers there who will enjoy continued employment building great products might be wondering exactly what pain you're speaking of.
So what's it going to take to erase the term from the lexicon? The Men in Black are way too busy to neuralize everyone, so I'll just have to trust you."
The politics will soon follow the economic. it would be wise to stay ahead of things in this regard.
What if i want to own that near earth object and make it into a refueling station for other spacecraft? As long as i don't go waving a national flag around out there; then is it OK?
Know where i can find anything on ownership of orbits and positions that are empty(read: space) around earth? What ever happened to squatter laws?
it must be some kind of psychological safety mechanism that reduces stress from the realization that one is getting financially raped by the company they keep.
The problem with unions are that unions represent the physical labor and not the management of the physical labor in any company. The company has X amount of revenue dollars to spend on all labor in the company. This would include management personnel. When it is time to split the money allocated to the cost of labor, union and management negotiate how the pay and benefits are distributed between them. In short, a company can be managed to death and then the unions are blamed, Joe Blow, who only wishes was making prevailing wage, buys the company line that 'unions are corrupt'. What they don't tell is that they gave themselves a few million dollars in advance before they wrecked the company. Meanwhile, prevailing wages get hacked down by bankruptcy courts, Joe Blow never gets his wish, thousands more honest workers and consumers go to the poor house, and when it is all done and said, the workers destroy their physical health making less money so that company managers can make even more money.
The answer to your question of what is to organize - labor, all of it.
Sort of like the 21 executives that drove Delphi into bankruptcy for millions of dollars severance pay? Or how about the airline company managers that drove their companies into the dirt while collecting millions? There is an article coming out in Time magazine that details how to profit from managing a company into bankruptcy which might satisfy your desire to destroy unions.
I have to pay for everyones kid to go to school but i don't get any tax breaks because i don't have any kids. How fair is that?
Colonizing the moon is a conservative program. Fighting over who dominates Earth is a socialist program.
Research is the study of things known. Search is the study for things unknown.
The kind of thing tested for is intelligence quotient (IQ).
intelligence quotient = The ratio of tested mental age to chronological age, usually expressed as a quotient multiplied by 100.
"floyd effect" - more evidence that human intelligence is evolving with each new generation. It's not the intelligence that one has that is tested. It's the rate at which one learns.
This should read:
Does that mean he's not as bright as an economist from the 1950s? Is he smarter? The answer is probably "no" and "yes" respectively. The modern intelligence worker has built his/her intelligence on top of the intelligence level of the pre-modern intelligence workers. Computer skills make him far more efficient and allow him to present more accurate--more intelligent--information. And without them, he'd just have to use his fundamental math skills with the less complicated tools, such as slide rulers, pencil and paper. Drop him into the Federal Reserve 40 years ago and it would be just like learning to ride a bicycle again. His career would only take him to the top as he would have even better skills to apply his knowledge of math
Furthermore, the pre-modern intelligence worker would use his current skills to learn computer skills and so would become more intelligent as he picked up more intelligent skills.
humans have evolved intelligence and it just keeps on evolving
Everyone thinks it's a great idea but no one wants to pay for it.
The problem right now is global cooperation. The technology is there, the power is there, not enough agreement.
I would like to be the first to legally have my personal cell phone # prominently displayed on my automobile. Tell me everything and start from the beginning.
So... they want to give all of the kids a chance to experience it themselves? Seems like the market for creative and strategic ideas from U.K. just got an order.
Guilty of unmanslaughter?
I think the term used in court is 'not guilty' because no one is really innocent.
[i]This always confuses me. I've yet to find a human who wasn't guilty of something, and I see no reason to assume that animals are inherently more law-abiding.[/i] I'm still confused about what is proof.
Do any of these things get used by all those poor illegal immigrants who have come to steal jobs from the unemployed Americans? BTW, in America, even sympathy is capitalized on.
While I agree that the land of opportunity's international borders should be locked to all invaders I think it would be easier and more beneficial to simply take over the world.
IMO, this is not so much about the American government and more about American business. The "media" is a business which gets most of its funding from commercial business. Everything from an employer testing employees for cigarette smoking to knowing as much about each consumer as possible primarily serves the interest of American businesses.
I recieved this email on jan 15, 2004 and i guess this is as good as time as any to share
laugh but i can see this in the near future!
Operator: "Thank you for calling Pizza Hut. May I have your national ID number?"
Customer: "Hi, I'd like to place an order."
Operator: "I must have your NIDN first, sir?"
Customer: "My National ID Number, yeah, hold on, eh, it's 6102049998-45-54610."
Operator: "Thank you, Mr. Sheehan. I see you live at 1742 Meadowland Drive, and the phone number's 494-2366. Your office number over at Lincoln Insurance is 745-2302 and your cell number's 266-2566. Email address is sheehan@ home.net Which number are you calling from, sir?"
Customer: "Huh? I'm at home. Where d'ya get all this information?"
Operator: "We're wired into the HSS, sir."
Customer: "The HSS, what is that?"
Operator: "We're wired into the Homeland Security System, sir. This will add only 15 seconds to your ordering time"
Customer: (Sighs) "Oh, well, I'd like to order a couple of your All-Meat Special pizzas."
Operator: "I don't think that's a good idea, Sir."
Customer: "Whaddya mean?"
Operator: "Sir, your medical records and commode sensors indicate that you've got very high blood pressure and extremely high cholesterol. Your National Health Care provider won't allow such an unhealthy choice."
Customer: "What?!?! What do you recommend, then?"
Operator: "You might try our low-fat Soybean Pizza. I'm sure you'll like it."
Customer: "What makes you think I'd like something like that?"
Operator: "Well, you checked out 'Gourmet Soybean Recipes' from your local library last week, sir. That's why I made the suggestion."
Customer: "All right, all right. Give me two family-sized ones, then."
Operator: "That should be plenty for you, your wife and your four kids, and your 2 dogs can finish the crusts, sir. Your total is $49.99."
Customer: "Lemme give you my credit card number."
Operator: "I'm sorry sir, but I'm afraid you'll have to pay in cash. Your credit card balance is over its limit."
Customer: "I'll run over to the ATM and get some cash before your driver gets here."
Operator: "That won't work either, sir. Your checking account's overdrawn also."
Customer: "Never mind! Just send the pizzas. I'll have the cash ready. How long will it take?"
Operator: "We're running a little behind, sir. It'll be about 45 minutes, sir. If you're in a hurry you might want to pick 'em up while you're out getting the cash, but then, carrying pizzas on a motorcycle can be a little awkward."
Customer: "Wait! How do you know I ride a scooter?"
Operator: "It says here you're in arrears on your car payments, so your car got repo'ed. But your Harley's paid for and you just filled the tank yesterday"
Customer: Well I'll be a "@#%/$@&?#!"
Operator: "I'd advise watching your language, sir. You've already got a July 4, 2006 conviction for cussing out a cop and another one I see here on September for contempt at your hearing for cussing at a judge." "Oh yes I see here that you just got out from a 90 day stay in the State Correctional Facility. Is this your first pizza since your return to society?
Customer: (Speechless)
Operator: "Will there be anything else, sir?"
Customer: "Yes, I have a coupon for a free 2 liter of Coke".
Operator: "I'm sorry sir, but our ad's exclusionary clause prevents us from offering free soda to diabetics. The New Constitution prohibits this.
Thank you for calling Pizza Hut!"
Debunking this myth is PR to make LINUX OS in particular and in general the free open source development programs it allows look professionally developed (as opposed to the nasty myth that LINUX and friends is developed by evil hackers) just like the Microsoft Enterprise, only better because it employs a wider range of developers.
There is no shortage of skilled workers in the United States; however, there is a huge shortage of cheap skilled workers in the United States. American companies like the idea that if the employee gets any selfish ideas like "retirement" or "pension" they can always pull the VISA. No danger of having to pay unemployment. Politicians like the idea of the H1-B visas because that can be turned into allot of free and favorable PR. The only ones who don't like it are the millions of tech workers born and raised in the United States that could not afford to go to school, learned to learn on their own (schools hate that and do everything they can to discredit the practice), and had to start work as a dishwasher because some H1-B visa DuDeS can take their place.
I think NASA has lost confidence in the design. I have. The smaller (and cheaper) SpaceShipOne type design is good for people. If NASA wants to launch some gear into space then assemble for use in space then launch the people separately from the equipment.
Speaking of vibrations, the launch of a spacecraft may damage computer hard drives. There is some capability of dampening. Spacecraft can experience vibration just from being exposed to solar radiation.