And I suppose the competing business model to your "underpaid revolving door" employee model would be the "properly paid, retention" plan where you build a good core of strong workers, properly compensated, and instead of having to constantly loose skilled workers to better jobs or have to replace ones that don't make the grade you could simply have a dedicated group of people who know what's expected of them and take pride not only in in the work that they do but the job that they have.
I've worked under both models, and I'd agree that theformer probably has a better profit margin, but there's not a day I go to the new job that I'm not infinitely greatful I'm out of there.
Now if I have to work late or come in extra I do it because I like my boss and I like my work, not becasue I need to pick up the 15 hours of overtime to compensate for low wages. Now when I come home and relax on the couch instead of wondering why my employer expects me to be loyal to them when they're taking every opportunity to sodomize me. I have to agree with my sibling posters that both as an employee and employer you'd probably be better off treating your workers well.
It's intersting to see the changes between the DoI and the Constitution. For example the DoI declares it not only our right, but our duty to overthrow a tyranous government, the constitution however expressly labels this treason, one of the highest crimes in existance. The things that got lost in translation between the two are few from few and far between.
As much as I'm glad the American Revolution happened, it's nobler aspects cannot be viewed in a vaccuum. For ever George Washington asking his troops not to rebel against the new political leaders and Admiral Nelson refusing to giver up the fight there are colonial mobs that burned customs houses and killed colonial officials who did nothing more than enforce the laws that it was their job to enforce. There's this impression that it was the drive and will of the American People that called for this, it was only a third of the population who was willing to fight and to support the war. As someone had said is another thread, if the revolution had had the same news coverage that Vietnam or Iraq has we'd all be drinking tea.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
One could say that simply highlighting a different set of terms makes what Bush is doing morally right.
I don't think so, but it's soemthing to consider when selectively choosing words.
THat's the Declaration of Independence which hold no legal power what so ever. You might want to make reference to the 14th Amendment instead, which says much less quotably, that the governemtn will pass no laws abridging personal rights and will offer all citizens equal protection under the law.
Only if they think you'll pay it back, and if you pay it back, you can afford it. Some people can't, and they wont get a loan the next time. Credit card debt is a whole other story.
Japan is a good point. DVDs and CDs of Japanese material are easily 2-3 times more expensive than equivilent American products, and you know what? Taiwanese piracy of Japanese movies and music has never been more popular. It's not hard to see why someone would rather pay $10 for a Taiwanese professional quality bootleg than $40 for a Japanese original.It's gotten to the point where many musicians (I know of NIN specifically) have started including extra tracks in their Japanese releases to help them seem less overpriced.
Prices viewed as too high breed the black market economy, as both Japan and America show us, not that that's the only reason but it certainly doesn't help.
I don't know that I would have bothered. I know at least in Wisconsin not displaying the front plate is only a $75 fine, and it's only something you'd get charged for it was relevent to why you were stopped of if the officer was really in a mood to ruin your day. On the otherhand if one of then had been stolen it might be worth it to get the new number just to avoid any possible suspicious from whatever the theives did with it.
That's interesting, I have a 4GB drive that's spent time in 3 differnt computers, more time in a storage space than on a desk and it boots like a charm every time. This is even after we found it while scrounging for other spare parts in my friends basement.
I don't think people would pay money to have their harddrives whiped or shredded, or the government would bother firing rifle bullets through harddrives if all you had to do protect yourself was leave them sit on a shelf for a year.
For the cost of 30 DVDs and a private server you could just buy yourself another 60GB harddrive, copy everything to it and throw it on a shelf. It's not like they go bad, at least not in my lifetime.
Must be a California thing, in Wisconsin if you ignore letters from the court after about the 3rd notice they issue a warrent for your arrest for failure to comply with the courts.
Hp did that to me many years back, of course they didn't inform me that that's what they'd done until I'd already broken Windows beyond recognition and formatted the harddrive. Imagine my surprise when tech support informed me that they wouldn't ship me a CD becasue I already had a partition with a hidden backup that was not listed in any of the literature that came with the system.
Truly the creativity he invisioned has been wasted on finding new and bizarre fetish porn or downloading the new 50 cent album? That's the tragedy of life I guess.
While that may be the case one cannot dispute the postive impact that the WWW has had on exposing people to others viewpoints and giving even the most awkward of fringe views a home to be expressed.
I did some volounteer service this summer for the local State Historical Society and one of my duties was to sift through and file all the mail that one particular department head had recieved during the past year. Most of it was just superfluous, letters between states, letters to magizines and replies, billing and the like. The one intereting piece that I came accross was notifications from the overseers of account numbers for trust funds and expenditure accounts with money stored in them in the hundreds of thousands of dollars as well as employee social securiity numbers and personal information.
I'm not a dishonest person, but asking someone to sort though information like that unsupervised with absolutely no background check or even proof of identity may one day come back to haunt them.
I think they were referring more to the poor service that would be overpriced even if it worked, the landfills filled with 500 free hour CDs, and the annoying impression that they've given to an entire generation of their users that AOL is the Internet.
Bill Gates donates vast sums of money to fight decease in the third world and he's the spawn of Satan, but AOL funds Tivo and they're off the hook?
The study says that almost 300,000 graduate from U.S. Universities but it doesn't say how many of them are U.S. citizens with plans on staying in the U.S. and how many of them are just in on student visas. Although I don't think this makes up the entire gap between the two sets of findings it may explain at least some of the difference.
Furthermore, the problem, as stated by a sibling post, is not that these engineers exist in great numbers, it's that they are availible at lower prices than the typical American engineer.
What's a tenth of a foot? 1.2 inches, any moron could tell you that.
What is 1/3 centimeter? Three and a third millimeters?
How is your example any more definitive than his? If you're going to come off like an arrogant prick (which is what happens any time you talk down to someone, even if their idea wasn't formulated as well as it could have been) you may as well use examples that don't fail for the exact same reason.
His statement was that people in the car are more likely to cause you to look away from the road than a cell phone is, you called bullshit, and I said to test it for yourself.
I don't know which is more distracting, it probably varies from person to person. I know that if I drive and talk on my cellphone I can miss half the conversation because I'm paying attention to traffic, there are other people who sadly do things the other way around.
I am agreeing on the head swivel though.
I was simply saying that comparing Yahoo and MSN to the Microsoft corperate homepage doesn't give you any kind of meaningful comparison. They perform two different functions as is evident by the fact that Microsoft and MSN exist as different sites.
Get in your car and try it. If your significant other is yelling at you from the side or your nerdy freind is over there teling you how awesome this picture that he found is I know I have a tendancy to look over.
Do you constantly spin your head to look at your phone?
Calling bullshit is all well and good, but I'm pretty sure you could test this one out for yourself instead being a dick online.
I think their definition of portal site is being a little overly broad considering who Yahoo is competing with. Yahoo is a better portal site than microsoft.com? Who would have thought it? At first glace every single one of those sites fulfills a slightly smaller role than Yahoo and does a much better job of it. Yahoo might be getting the hits, but I don't know that it's representive of quality or even of perceived quality, just of offering a trillion services through one site. That attitude of quantity over quality is why I haven't been to Yahoo since I was 14.
Unless, like me, you open cards by tipping them over and create a pile of checks, gift cards, and cash to be dealt with later.
I'm only hard to shop for becasue I really wish people would stop getting me anything.
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And I suppose the competing business model to your "underpaid revolving door" employee model would be the "properly paid, retention" plan where you build a good core of strong workers, properly compensated, and instead of having to constantly loose skilled workers to better jobs or have to replace ones that don't make the grade you could simply have a dedicated group of people who know what's expected of them and take pride not only in in the work that they do but the job that they have.
I've worked under both models, and I'd agree that theformer probably has a better profit margin, but there's not a day I go to the new job that I'm not infinitely greatful I'm out of there.
Now if I have to work late or come in extra I do it because I like my boss and I like my work, not becasue I need to pick up the 15 hours of overtime to compensate for low wages. Now when I come home and relax on the couch instead of wondering why my employer expects me to be loyal to them when they're taking every opportunity to sodomize me. I have to agree with my sibling posters that both as an employee and employer you'd probably be better off treating your workers well.
It's intersting to see the changes between the DoI and the Constitution. For example the DoI declares it not only our right, but our duty to overthrow a tyranous government, the constitution however expressly labels this treason, one of the highest crimes in existance. The things that got lost in translation between the two are few from few and far between.
And then burned his house, the Tory scum.
As much as I'm glad the American Revolution happened, it's nobler aspects cannot be viewed in a vaccuum. For ever George Washington asking his troops not to rebel against the new political leaders and Admiral Nelson refusing to giver up the fight there are colonial mobs that burned customs houses and killed colonial officials who did nothing more than enforce the laws that it was their job to enforce. There's this impression that it was the drive and will of the American People that called for this, it was only a third of the population who was willing to fight and to support the war. As someone had said is another thread, if the revolution had had the same news coverage that Vietnam or Iraq has we'd all be drinking tea.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
One could say that simply highlighting a different set of terms makes what Bush is doing morally right.
I don't think so, but it's soemthing to consider when selectively choosing words.
THat's the Declaration of Independence which hold no legal power what so ever. You might want to make reference to the 14th Amendment instead, which says much less quotably, that the governemtn will pass no laws abridging personal rights and will offer all citizens equal protection under the law.
Only if they think you'll pay it back, and if you pay it back, you can afford it. Some people can't, and they wont get a loan the next time. Credit card debt is a whole other story.
Anything released by the Criterion Collection, including Rushmore as well as a number of other semi-mainstream movies cost about $35-$40.
Japan is a good point. DVDs and CDs of Japanese material are easily 2-3 times more expensive than equivilent American products, and you know what? Taiwanese piracy of Japanese movies and music has never been more popular. It's not hard to see why someone would rather pay $10 for a Taiwanese professional quality bootleg than $40 for a Japanese original.It's gotten to the point where many musicians (I know of NIN specifically) have started including extra tracks in their Japanese releases to help them seem less overpriced.
Prices viewed as too high breed the black market economy, as both Japan and America show us, not that that's the only reason but it certainly doesn't help.
I don't know that I would have bothered. I know at least in Wisconsin not displaying the front plate is only a $75 fine, and it's only something you'd get charged for it was relevent to why you were stopped of if the officer was really in a mood to ruin your day. On the otherhand if one of then had been stolen it might be worth it to get the new number just to avoid any possible suspicious from whatever the theives did with it.
That's interesting, I have a 4GB drive that's spent time in 3 differnt computers, more time in a storage space than on a desk and it boots like a charm every time. This is even after we found it while scrounging for other spare parts in my friends basement. I don't think people would pay money to have their harddrives whiped or shredded, or the government would bother firing rifle bullets through harddrives if all you had to do protect yourself was leave them sit on a shelf for a year.
For the cost of 30 DVDs and a private server you could just buy yourself another 60GB harddrive, copy everything to it and throw it on a shelf. It's not like they go bad, at least not in my lifetime.
Must be a California thing, in Wisconsin if you ignore letters from the court after about the 3rd notice they issue a warrent for your arrest for failure to comply with the courts.
Hp did that to me many years back, of course they didn't inform me that that's what they'd done until I'd already broken Windows beyond recognition and formatted the harddrive. Imagine my surprise when tech support informed me that they wouldn't ship me a CD becasue I already had a partition with a hidden backup that was not listed in any of the literature that came with the system.
Truly the creativity he invisioned has been wasted on finding new and bizarre fetish porn or downloading the new 50 cent album? That's the tragedy of life I guess.
While that may be the case one cannot dispute the postive impact that the WWW has had on exposing people to others viewpoints and giving even the most awkward of fringe views a home to be expressed.
I did some volounteer service this summer for the local State Historical Society and one of my duties was to sift through and file all the mail that one particular department head had recieved during the past year. Most of it was just superfluous, letters between states, letters to magizines and replies, billing and the like. The one intereting piece that I came accross was notifications from the overseers of account numbers for trust funds and expenditure accounts with money stored in them in the hundreds of thousands of dollars as well as employee social securiity numbers and personal information.
I'm not a dishonest person, but asking someone to sort though information like that unsupervised with absolutely no background check or even proof of identity may one day come back to haunt them.
I think they were referring more to the poor service that would be overpriced even if it worked, the landfills filled with 500 free hour CDs, and the annoying impression that they've given to an entire generation of their users that AOL is the Internet.
Bill Gates donates vast sums of money to fight decease in the third world and he's the spawn of Satan, but AOL funds Tivo and they're off the hook?
Only with Slashdot moderators could the the fourth post, part of which makes some reference to the second post, be redundent.
The study says that almost 300,000 graduate from U.S. Universities but it doesn't say how many of them are U.S. citizens with plans on staying in the U.S. and how many of them are just in on student visas. Although I don't think this makes up the entire gap between the two sets of findings it may explain at least some of the difference.
Furthermore, the problem, as stated by a sibling post, is not that these engineers exist in great numbers, it's that they are availible at lower prices than the typical American engineer.
What's a tenth of a foot? 1.2 inches, any moron could tell you that.
What is 1/3 centimeter? Three and a third millimeters?
How is your example any more definitive than his? If you're going to come off like an arrogant prick (which is what happens any time you talk down to someone, even if their idea wasn't formulated as well as it could have been) you may as well use examples that don't fail for the exact same reason.
Wisconsin does the same thing as part of a larger set of restrictions for the first six months after someone gets their licence or until they're 18.
His statement was that people in the car are more likely to cause you to look away from the road than a cell phone is, you called bullshit, and I said to test it for yourself.
I don't know which is more distracting, it probably varies from person to person. I know that if I drive and talk on my cellphone I can miss half the conversation because I'm paying attention to traffic, there are other people who sadly do things the other way around.
I am agreeing on the head swivel though.
I was simply saying that comparing Yahoo and MSN to the Microsoft corperate homepage doesn't give you any kind of meaningful comparison. They perform two different functions as is evident by the fact that Microsoft and MSN exist as different sites.
Get in your car and try it.
If your significant other is yelling at you from the side or your nerdy freind is over there teling you how awesome this picture that he found is I know I have a tendancy to look over.
Do you constantly spin your head to look at your phone?
Calling bullshit is all well and good, but I'm pretty sure you could test this one out for yourself instead being a dick online.
I think their definition of portal site is being a little overly broad considering who Yahoo is competing with. Yahoo is a better portal site than microsoft.com? Who would have thought it? At first glace every single one of those sites fulfills a slightly smaller role than Yahoo and does a much better job of it. Yahoo might be getting the hits, but I don't know that it's representive of quality or even of perceived quality, just of offering a trillion services through one site. That attitude of quantity over quality is why I haven't been to Yahoo since I was 14.
Unless, like me, you open cards by tipping them over and create a pile of checks, gift cards, and cash to be dealt with later. I'm only hard to shop for becasue I really wish people would stop getting me anything.