The jobs growing in the US are services jobs. Lower wages, lesser skills.
Service jobs such as lawyer, marketing consultant, SOX commpliancy officer and did I mention lawyer? I wouldn't mind being a few bob poorer than most of them. But re the lower skills, you're probably right on that front.
If you could build bridges like software, a 4 lane expressway would mostly involve deciding where the supports should go.
I can answer that question easily - the exact same place they did on the old bridge. Yes, I know it was a triple span arch and this one is a single span subvention... surtension... whatever... can't you, umm, adapt it? Anyway, just get on with it, mmmmmkay?
No, there's nothing else you can help me with today, but if you could just give me the balance of my current account - like I originally asked 20 minutes ago - that would be totally fine and dandy. Oh, that fake geordie accent isn't fooling anyone.
PayPal is not a registered financial institution (bank, savings/loan, credit union or any similar) and therefore unable to collect "float" interest on deposited monies.
This is just factually wrong. Any business that knows it has cash lying around surplus to immediate needs is perfectly at liberty to deposit it where it will get the best return. It's usually referred to as corporate treasury or cash management. Any accounting or ERP system worthy of the name will have a capability for it.
You mean the "reforms" where they made it easier to fire somebody based on their age alone?
While in a way that's true, it's not the whole truth. The reforms were in fact an exception to a ludicrous law which made it nearly impossible to fire anyone at all.
About the only thing distinctly French I saw there was the fact that they protested
What's distinctly French about it is that only France had such a crazy law to start with - though Belgium & Germany run a close second, at least in the public sector.
the established company is either insanely profitable (thus suggseting that there is room for another market entrant), insanely inefficient / bloated despite its success, or geographically underserves some markets.
In this case, #1 and #3 apply pretty well.
I'm sure anything created by Eurocrats will also fill #2 nicely.
it's OK to use magnets to secure the floppy disks to the fridge door?
Credit people with some common sense. Everyone knows that magnets erase floppy discs. So, in the event that it's necessary to attach a disk to a fridge, it should be secured with a nail - preferably made of non-ferrous metal.
But what if someone reads that label and concludes that it's OK to sharpen a fountain pen? You have to draw the line somewhere - for me, that line should run close to the border of common sense.
We may talk funny in olde England town, but we're not entirely stupid. We've had a law on the books for some time now about "driving without due care and attention". Yes, it's vague. Yes, it's a catch all. Yes, it requires some element of judgement from 1) the driver 2) the police and 3) the justice system. And we can't be having any of that now, can we?
No no no, much better that the law tries to define exactly and explicity what you can't do while driving a motor vehicle. Let's see, item 2647a - watercolour painting, 2647b sketching with a pencil... 2648a playing a trombone...
My client was, in fact, doing a landscape in oils and playing the clarinet when he ploughed through a red light and killed 23 people. He is innocent!
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If you can get an interest free loan and/or there's no other use you could have put the money to.
At least two of the things the GP mentioned are true in some European countries.
What's distinctly French about it is that only France had such a crazy law to start with - though Belgium & Germany run a close second, at least in the public sector.
Maybe they import the equipment from Soviet Russia?
But what if someone reads that label and concludes that it's OK to sharpen a fountain pen? You have to draw the line somewhere - for me, that line should run close to the border of common sense.
Baltimore isn't the whole US. Speaking only as a vistor, Boston's system seems to work well enough, as does NYC's.
No no no, much better that the law tries to define exactly and explicity what you can't do while driving a motor vehicle. Let's see, item 2647a - watercolour painting, 2647b sketching with a pencil
My client was, in fact, doing a landscape in oils and playing the clarinet when he ploughed through a red light and killed 23 people. He is innocent!
Except there's nothing wrong with beef on the bone - provided the animal isn't infected. And if it is infected, you shouldn't be eating any of it.
I thought they sneaked them through by pencilling them in at the botton of the 238th page of something about whether herrings are a fruit or not?
I would like to add that neither is it "sha la la la la".
How about a top ten list of those, too? Maybe divided into 2.0 groups of five...