I was trying to imply that some other twisted view of sexuality (from porn or similar) wasn't going to be 'damaging' them anymore than they were already damaged.
I'm all for open discussion on sex and sexuality, but so many law makers aren't because we have to many warped people who think sex==bad.
Well as with all examples, they are never perfect.
The blender is something that a large number of people own and isn't terribly expensive. I could have made it a microwave or any number of other things, but those are all more expensive.
No one offers 'real' (aka in fashion business attire) clothes locally. Or if so they've managed to hide themselves so well no one would no they offer such services. I work with my local CAG (Community Action Committee) which acts as a clearing house for such services and they no of no one offering such a thing. Plenty offer basic clothing, but not the sort of stuff that someone trying to become a administrative assistant would be expected to wear.
You (& myself) are exceptions... A lot of guys (especially around her age) write her off as being to 'needy'. Not for money per se, but in requiring a lot of things a single woman her age or younger without kids wouldn't. She is hardly unique in examples I could give, but she is a good example of the types I see. Normally they aren't considered 'desirable' in the community they are from for any of several reasons and are thwarted in leaving that same community.
It however would apply to almost every school library that isn't completely privately funded. The charter school I work for, for example, would be required to enforce this through the current wording as it receives funding from the federal government with regard to certain programs.
by the time their bodies function well enough sexually kids know about sex... I happened to be in a 8th grade class room the other day and overheard a class discussion including who was knocking up who and why one girl in particular (in 8th grade) wanted to get pregnant (she thought she'd look cuter pregnant).
We seriously don't need to teach them anything on the subject, I'm sure some of these kids no more than a lot of adults from a generation ago...
Since I work with low income families all the time I can tell you were the money goes (so we don't need to argue over what they spend their money on). Numbers from largest portion to smallest:
Rent Utilities (not normally included in rent) Food Misc Materials (dishes, utensils, chairs, couches, beds, pillows, etc...) Clothes Children's Toys/Amenities Extras (Cable TV, Internet access, etc)
Rent normally avoids most taxes, however utilities do have fees including phones, water, electricity, and gas. Low income families may or may not qualify for discount programs and it's still one of the largest chunks of money per month.
Depending on program and work status food may or may not be offset somewhat by 'food stamps' or similar programs. However often if the person/family is low income and working, these benefits are reduced to levels insufficient to actually feed a family.
Misc Materials is hard to classify, but they are the things richer families buy on credit. The poor however often cannot do that. Things like a bed for their child can easily cost $500 which is more than they can get with their limited credit and so instead are 'rent to own'. The same goes for anything over $50. I know a family where the mom has dreamed for 6 years of owning a blender (~$30 from Walmart), but hasn't been able to afford it. Do you even think of a blender as an amenity?
From personal experience most states do tax clothing, however their are tons of low cost alternatives as long as you don't require something fancy. In the family from the above example: the mother has had a entry level mail room job at a good company for ages, but she can't afford nice 'business' style clothing and so she has been repeatedly passed over for real jobs she's trained and qualified for because they feel she doesn't project a 'business image' they want. All because she can't afford to buy blouses and pants from even JC Penny's let alone 'Old Navy' or something like that.
The children's needs often come before theirs... Why? They feel guilty they can't provide more for their kids. So instead they spend money they should save to appease their conscious. Companies love them for it. They may not own an iPod (in fact they probably don't), but if Jane or Tyrom wants an iPod for christmas they will try their hardest to get it for them... They want better for their kids than themselves...
After that come extras they feel they need (because they've always had it and everyone they know has it). Cable TV comes in here, and the amount of internet access is growing here as well. Every rental place is more than willing to offer dozens of PC's to 'rent to own' just for them. It's the ghetto version of keeping up with the neighbors.
It's also a cycle that doesn't including ever owning a house, effects even fairly well educated women, and begets more people who will end up in the same cycle unless those better equipped to deal with things help them out. The family I've used above is a mom and 2 kids, the father died after the second child was born and left them no money (no life insurance of note). She was 21 years old then, with no family able to help her out. She has a associates degree in business which should let her get a job as a administrative assistant or other office lady, but no one wants to hire her for that. So she works in a mail room making $7/hr to feed herself and 2 kids.
She also is unlikely to ever get a better paying job and never end the cycle without marrying someone who could support her. However how many men would really want a wife that has 2 kids and is close to 30 years old? How many men that age are still unmarried if they wanted a family...? How many could afford to support her even if they meet criteria 1 & 2? I'll keep the answer short: Not many.
Walmart is the most influential of all competitors. Anyone who has tried to compete with them directly (Kmart, etc) has failed. The biggest difference between Walmart and most other companies is that they cover nearly every type of store in one spot. Need Food? Wlamrt has it. Need a faucet? Walmart has it? Need clothes? Walmart has them. Need new tires? Walamrt has it. Etc, Etc, Etc...
It has become the place to go because they carry everything your liekly to need.
I (as I'm on call) am required to be to my office (or other required location) within 30 minutes of getting a call. Seeing as how buses run locally every 30 minutes (and last time I visited one of the few cities that have them, the subway cycled every 10 minutes). Obviously the bus rider would be screwed and even the subway rider would have to be a fairly short walk from either endpoint (and realistically it can take 10 minutes to walk 4 blocks here where I live downtown).
If you look at the numbers I tossed up driving could be the better solution. In fact for me it is as the whole trip is 20 minutes by car (and then foot, driveway to office door).
Actually the Unreal 3 Engine is used in a variety of games, not just FPS titles. It's previous incarnations have done everything from MMORPG's to puzzle games and I'm going to assume this version can as well (it already does side scrollers and strategy games besides FPS's).
Then you have people like myself who listen to music, but don't remember artist names or song titles... Or movies I liked... Hmm... It's weird I have a girlfriend and we talk about all sorts of things, but music and movies are the least talked about things (unless we have just watched a movie or just heard a song one of us likes)...
Dell spent years refusing (the then better performing and equally compatible) AMD CPU's for it's various PC's... It is only recently that AMD has gotten a fair chance with Dell. I'm assuming by this article that Intel stopped paying and that's why the finally relented last year and introduced AMD based systems.
True, however where I live this tends to be used as a weapon by companies due to a bad job market (having to move 100+ miles to get a better market doesn't help if you can't afford to move either because those better markets have higher costs of living and they have no need to pay moving expenses of a new employee as the market is strong with about as much demand as availability as is).
Piss off the wrong upper up? Goodbye... I knew someone who had one manager who visited the office he worked in decide he was 'not nice enough', he got unemployment from that company. However what a way to go...
Do something that the business takes note of (negatively)? Goodbye... Knew another guy who was involved in a young professionals group who got involved (publicly) in a split of said group and his employer didn't want to get any press over it so he was tossed out...
I could go on and on really... I personally feel a better balance has to be made than 'At Will'. It shouldn't really be such a weapon for either party.
There is also the possibility that he lives in an 'At Will' state, with a company that has a 'At Will' working agreement. In both cases without notice you can be terminated for anything or even nothing. This is supposed to be useful for an employee (so you can leave employment at any time without needing to give prior notice), but mostly is just a big axe over your head for whatever company you work for...
My state and employer are both that way, so I'm quite aware of how that works...
Now the problem if he is in such a situation... Is that he won't be able to counter sue for wrongful termination (it doesn't exist in states like that).
What they really lack is Bishojou games (or Ero games depending on what name you choose to use to describe them), such things are common in japan on consoles (even the 'family friendly' wii), but no japanese console maker allows those games to be brought out in other countries... Those games however make up a very large market in Japan (with good Bishojou games making the top 10 games list and even being the number one game at times). I can't see MS gaining any marketshare in that market however...
Among my many responsibilities as Network admin has been the task of 'webmaster', though the site is physically run by another company... So some level of people skills was required for my job...
It's considered a gift and so is something falling under 'gift taxes', if you were to actually report the gift they'd probably be owing the state for that ticket as well...
It is avoidable in very specific situations... Like if your able to live on less than $9k in a single year without having your own house, property, or savings... I did that once...
My parents allowed me to stay in a house they own (without charging me anything for it that year and they couldn't claim 'rent' was a gift as the house has been sitting vacant for almost a decade) when I first went on my own as a consultant... And then that year I only made about $9k... Come tax time I owed nothing to the IRS, but I wouldn't want to live like that to long...
That sum happens to be my entire pre-tax salary in a year (and I'm a network admin)... I'm betting however his cost of living is fairly high from what little I read and so even if he makes 3 times what I do $25k might be one heck of a stretch...
it's not that strange when compteting car companies are some of the biggest backers of satellite radio... I currently have XM, but the car I'm looking at getting this christmas includes a 1 year Sirrius radio subscription in it's sticker price... So I really do have to decide if I want to give up on XM with my new car (cause I'm so not replacing the factory zetup on a brand new car, expecially when it comes with a fancy digital GPS display) or hold off and hope my current car doesn't crap out in the next coupel fo years til the war between them ends...?
That so reminds me how my GF refuses to listen to anything outside of top 20 statiosn on my XM radio... Even if their are 5 or 6 different top 20 stations I'd rather not here any of them... I'd take some rock, dance, or talk first... But love does funny things to you... Like allowing you to put up with the 5 or 6 channels of nearly 200 with commercials...
Now I just got a 'new' cellphone around christmas, but voice dialing is one of the things I like... It works everytime for me (so far at least) and is awfully handy when I need my hands for other things...
Really though the iPhone doesn't interest me at all, but I don't see how it's so overwhelmingly better than any other phone available right now... The only sort of nice thing is the non-stylus touch screen. Even that however has issues without touching on reliability that would keep it from being my choice...
That's nice when you can communicate... But Radio Jamming is awfully easy these days and as effective as ever... So they Jam all communications over a few miles and your proposed device just stops working... Uni-directional communications can cut through the jamming (normally), but that doesn't help much for the average foot soldier...
Well yes it's not exactly a normal school... Though it's not a school for special education... It just seems the common masters choice for the teachers. The charter school however was designed to aid inner city kids where the normal schools tend to fail them. Their are a few 'bad' classes for really needing remedial help (one class does actually have 8 special ed students out of 20), but really most of the kids are just normal 'poorer' city kids (about a 50/50 black/white split btw as this is the third largest city in PA we are talking about) that need more dicipline because their vision of the future is commiting a crime so they can spend the rest of their lives in jail because they believe their are no real jobs for them...
As strange as it sounds though I don't feel that's all that strange... My rural high school had alot of masters degree holders (including my HS english teacher having a masters in literature), maybe not quite as many... But It was a graduating class of ~100 when I graduated, that's not such a big school so you'd think it wouldnt' attract skilled people... Well then again it is only a few miles away from Edinboro university, I guess that may make it handy when the school needed teachers...
Well having spent 8 years getting my two degrees, it feels worse than it is... I know really I'm at least as smart (and in a couple cases msot definately smarter), but I guess my girlfriends inferiority complex is getting to me... She had a anxiety attack when she thought of having to meet a room full (or a couple rooms full as the case may be) of 'attractive, smart, well to do people' as she put it... She strangely has never beleived me when I tell her she is incredibly beatiful and smart (she has 2 associates degrees, and at one point was working on her bachelor's)... Though she hasn't managed to get a job she likes... But I've gotten way off the subject...;)
I don't have access to the stats off the top of my head, but a good 60% of the original 90% with masters at my school have masters in special education, another 10% have masters in linguistics education, another 10% have psychology degrees, and the last 20% have assorted masters (often in specialties I'd never heard of). Now I'm not saying that every teacher there is the brightest pee in the pod, but a significant number are in fact smart... I'm also not saying that this is the norm... I work at a charter school after all, it's not quite your 'standard public school'... Not that all public schools are created equal anyways... Some suck and others do a good job...
All that said I'd never meet so many people with masters degrees before starting to work for the school... I have an associates and a bachelor's and while a masters was an option I knew very very few people trying for their masters degree during my education... Since then I've meet mostly people with a variety of education, but not masters degrees for the most part... Now I feel under educated since only 10% of the entire school staff lack a masters degree in something...
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So you somehow think I like the idea? Uh No.
I was trying to imply that some other twisted view of sexuality (from porn or similar) wasn't going to be 'damaging' them anymore than they were already damaged.
I'm all for open discussion on sex and sexuality, but so many law makers aren't because we have to many warped people who think sex==bad.
Well as with all examples, they are never perfect.
The blender is something that a large number of people own and isn't terribly expensive. I could have made it a microwave or any number of other things, but those are all more expensive.
No one offers 'real' (aka in fashion business attire) clothes locally. Or if so they've managed to hide themselves so well no one would no they offer such services. I work with my local CAG (Community Action Committee) which acts as a clearing house for such services and they no of no one offering such a thing. Plenty offer basic clothing, but not the sort of stuff that someone trying to become a administrative assistant would be expected to wear.
You (& myself) are exceptions... A lot of guys (especially around her age) write her off as being to 'needy'. Not for money per se, but in requiring a lot of things a single woman her age or younger without kids wouldn't. She is hardly unique in examples I could give, but she is a good example of the types I see. Normally they aren't considered 'desirable' in the community they are from for any of several reasons and are thwarted in leaving that same community.
It however would apply to almost every school library that isn't completely privately funded. The charter school I work for, for example, would be required to enforce this through the current wording as it receives funding from the federal government with regard to certain programs.
by the time their bodies function well enough sexually kids know about sex... I happened to be in a 8th grade class room the other day and overheard a class discussion including who was knocking up who and why one girl in particular (in 8th grade) wanted to get pregnant (she thought she'd look cuter pregnant).
We seriously don't need to teach them anything on the subject, I'm sure some of these kids no more than a lot of adults from a generation ago...
Since I work with low income families all the time I can tell you were the money goes (so we don't need to argue over what they spend their money on). Numbers from largest portion to smallest:
Rent
Utilities (not normally included in rent)
Food
Misc Materials (dishes, utensils, chairs, couches, beds, pillows, etc...)
Clothes
Children's Toys/Amenities
Extras (Cable TV, Internet access, etc)
Rent normally avoids most taxes, however utilities do have fees including phones, water, electricity, and gas. Low income families may or may not qualify for discount programs and it's still one of the largest chunks of money per month.
Depending on program and work status food may or may not be offset somewhat by 'food stamps' or similar programs. However often if the person/family is low income and working, these benefits are reduced to levels insufficient to actually feed a family.
Misc Materials is hard to classify, but they are the things richer families buy on credit. The poor however often cannot do that. Things like a bed for their child can easily cost $500 which is more than they can get with their limited credit and so instead are 'rent to own'. The same goes for anything over $50. I know a family where the mom has dreamed for 6 years of owning a blender (~$30 from Walmart), but hasn't been able to afford it. Do you even think of a blender as an amenity?
From personal experience most states do tax clothing, however their are tons of low cost alternatives as long as you don't require something fancy. In the family from the above example: the mother has had a entry level mail room job at a good company for ages, but she can't afford nice 'business' style clothing and so she has been repeatedly passed over for real jobs she's trained and qualified for because they feel she doesn't project a 'business image' they want. All because she can't afford to buy blouses and pants from even JC Penny's let alone 'Old Navy' or something like that.
The children's needs often come before theirs... Why? They feel guilty they can't provide more for their kids. So instead they spend money they should save to appease their conscious. Companies love them for it. They may not own an iPod (in fact they probably don't), but if Jane or Tyrom wants an iPod for christmas they will try their hardest to get it for them... They want better for their kids than themselves...
After that come extras they feel they need (because they've always had it and everyone they know has it). Cable TV comes in here, and the amount of internet access is growing here as well. Every rental place is more than willing to offer dozens of PC's to 'rent to own' just for them. It's the ghetto version of keeping up with the neighbors.
It's also a cycle that doesn't including ever owning a house, effects even fairly well educated women, and begets more people who will end up in the same cycle unless those better equipped to deal with things help them out. The family I've used above is a mom and 2 kids, the father died after the second child was born and left them no money (no life insurance of note). She was 21 years old then, with no family able to help her out. She has a associates degree in business which should let her get a job as a administrative assistant or other office lady, but no one wants to hire her for that. So she works in a mail room making $7/hr to feed herself and 2 kids.
She also is unlikely to ever get a better paying job and never end the cycle without marrying someone who could support her. However how many men would really want a wife that has 2 kids and is close to 30 years old? How many men that age are still unmarried if they wanted a family...? How many could afford to support her even if they meet criteria 1 & 2? I'll keep the answer short: Not many.
Walmart is the most influential of all competitors. Anyone who has tried to compete with them directly (Kmart, etc) has failed. The biggest difference between Walmart and most other companies is that they cover nearly every type of store in one spot. Need Food? Wlamrt has it. Need a faucet? Walmart has it? Need clothes? Walmart has them. Need new tires? Walamrt has it. Etc, Etc, Etc...
It has become the place to go because they carry everything your liekly to need.
I (as I'm on call) am required to be to my office (or other required location) within 30 minutes of getting a call. Seeing as how buses run locally every 30 minutes (and last time I visited one of the few cities that have them, the subway cycled every 10 minutes). Obviously the bus rider would be screwed and even the subway rider would have to be a fairly short walk from either endpoint (and realistically it can take 10 minutes to walk 4 blocks here where I live downtown).
If you look at the numbers I tossed up driving could be the better solution. In fact for me it is as the whole trip is 20 minutes by car (and then foot, driveway to office door).
Actually the Unreal 3 Engine is used in a variety of games, not just FPS titles. It's previous incarnations have done everything from MMORPG's to puzzle games and I'm going to assume this version can as well (it already does side scrollers and strategy games besides FPS's).
Reason number 1: On call people. Waiting for a train/subway or worse a bus to take you into work is unacceptable to most companies.
Reason number 2: Some people like to drive.
I can't think of anymore off the top of my head, however those are at least a couple reasons some people in the city have cars...
Then you have people like myself who listen to music, but don't remember artist names or song titles... Or movies I liked... Hmm... It's weird I have a girlfriend and we talk about all sorts of things, but music and movies are the least talked about things (unless we have just watched a movie or just heard a song one of us likes)...
Dell spent years refusing (the then better performing and equally compatible) AMD CPU's for it's various PC's... It is only recently that AMD has gotten a fair chance with Dell. I'm assuming by this article that Intel stopped paying and that's why the finally relented last year and introduced AMD based systems.
True, however where I live this tends to be used as a weapon by companies due to a bad job market (having to move 100+ miles to get a better market doesn't help if you can't afford to move either because those better markets have higher costs of living and they have no need to pay moving expenses of a new employee as the market is strong with about as much demand as availability as is).
Piss off the wrong upper up? Goodbye... I knew someone who had one manager who visited the office he worked in decide he was 'not nice enough', he got unemployment from that company. However what a way to go...
Do something that the business takes note of (negatively)? Goodbye... Knew another guy who was involved in a young professionals group who got involved (publicly) in a split of said group and his employer didn't want to get any press over it so he was tossed out...
I could go on and on really... I personally feel a better balance has to be made than 'At Will'. It shouldn't really be such a weapon for either party.
There is also the possibility that he lives in an 'At Will' state, with a company that has a 'At Will' working agreement. In both cases without notice you can be terminated for anything or even nothing. This is supposed to be useful for an employee (so you can leave employment at any time without needing to give prior notice), but mostly is just a big axe over your head for whatever company you work for...
My state and employer are both that way, so I'm quite aware of how that works...
Now the problem if he is in such a situation... Is that he won't be able to counter sue for wrongful termination (it doesn't exist in states like that).
What they really lack is Bishojou games (or Ero games depending on what name you choose to use to describe them), such things are common in japan on consoles (even the 'family friendly' wii), but no japanese console maker allows those games to be brought out in other countries... Those games however make up a very large market in Japan (with good Bishojou games making the top 10 games list and even being the number one game at times). I can't see MS gaining any marketshare in that market however...
Among my many responsibilities as Network admin has been the task of 'webmaster', though the site is physically run by another company... So some level of people skills was required for my job...
It's considered a gift and so is something falling under 'gift taxes', if you were to actually report the gift they'd probably be owing the state for that ticket as well...
It is avoidable in very specific situations... Like if your able to live on less than $9k in a single year without having your own house, property, or savings... I did that once...
My parents allowed me to stay in a house they own (without charging me anything for it that year and they couldn't claim 'rent' was a gift as the house has been sitting vacant for almost a decade) when I first went on my own as a consultant... And then that year I only made about $9k... Come tax time I owed nothing to the IRS, but I wouldn't want to live like that to long...
That sum happens to be my entire pre-tax salary in a year (and I'm a network admin)... I'm betting however his cost of living is fairly high from what little I read and so even if he makes 3 times what I do $25k might be one heck of a stretch...
Life just sucks...
But it's worse to be dead...
it's not that strange when compteting car companies are some of the biggest backers of satellite radio... I currently have XM, but the car I'm looking at getting this christmas includes a 1 year Sirrius radio subscription in it's sticker price... So I really do have to decide if I want to give up on XM with my new car (cause I'm so not replacing the factory zetup on a brand new car, expecially when it comes with a fancy digital GPS display) or hold off and hope my current car doesn't crap out in the next coupel fo years til the war between them ends...?
That so reminds me how my GF refuses to listen to anything outside of top 20 statiosn on my XM radio... Even if their are 5 or 6 different top 20 stations I'd rather not here any of them... I'd take some rock, dance, or talk first... But love does funny things to you... Like allowing you to put up with the 5 or 6 channels of nearly 200 with commercials...
Now I just got a 'new' cellphone around christmas, but voice dialing is one of the things I like... It works everytime for me (so far at least) and is awfully handy when I need my hands for other things...
Really though the iPhone doesn't interest me at all, but I don't see how it's so overwhelmingly better than any other phone available right now... The only sort of nice thing is the non-stylus touch screen. Even that however has issues without touching on reliability that would keep it from being my choice...
That's nice when you can communicate... But Radio Jamming is awfully easy these days and as effective as ever... So they Jam all communications over a few miles and your proposed device just stops working... Uni-directional communications can cut through the jamming (normally), but that doesn't help much for the average foot soldier...
Well yes it's not exactly a normal school... Though it's not a school for special education... It just seems the common masters choice for the teachers. The charter school however was designed to aid inner city kids where the normal schools tend to fail them. Their are a few 'bad' classes for really needing remedial help (one class does actually have 8 special ed students out of 20), but really most of the kids are just normal 'poorer' city kids (about a 50/50 black/white split btw as this is the third largest city in PA we are talking about) that need more dicipline because their vision of the future is commiting a crime so they can spend the rest of their lives in jail because they believe their are no real jobs for them...
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As strange as it sounds though I don't feel that's all that strange... My rural high school had alot of masters degree holders (including my HS english teacher having a masters in literature), maybe not quite as many... But It was a graduating class of ~100 when I graduated, that's not such a big school so you'd think it wouldnt' attract skilled people... Well then again it is only a few miles away from Edinboro university, I guess that may make it handy when the school needed teachers...
Well having spent 8 years getting my two degrees, it feels worse than it is... I know really I'm at least as smart (and in a couple cases msot definately smarter), but I guess my girlfriends inferiority complex is getting to me... She had a anxiety attack when she thought of having to meet a room full (or a couple rooms full as the case may be) of 'attractive, smart, well to do people' as she put it... She strangely has never beleived me when I tell her she is incredibly beatiful and smart (she has 2 associates degrees, and at one point was working on her bachelor's)... Though she hasn't managed to get a job she likes... But I've gotten way off the subject...
I don't have access to the stats off the top of my head, but a good 60% of the original 90% with masters at my school have masters in special education, another 10% have masters in linguistics education, another 10% have psychology degrees, and the last 20% have assorted masters (often in specialties I'd never heard of). Now I'm not saying that every teacher there is the brightest pee in the pod, but a significant number are in fact smart... I'm also not saying that this is the norm... I work at a charter school after all, it's not quite your 'standard public school'... Not that all public schools are created equal anyways... Some suck and others do a good job...
All that said I'd never meet so many people with masters degrees before starting to work for the school... I have an associates and a bachelor's and while a masters was an option I knew very very few people trying for their masters degree during my education... Since then I've meet mostly people with a variety of education, but not masters degrees for the most part... Now I feel under educated since only 10% of the entire school staff lack a masters degree in something...