How is any of that useful to the average person? I found solving inclined plane problems and the like to be interesting. But I'm also an engineer and long ago realized that most people are baffled at what I find interesting.
I did say most people and there have already been a few fair rebutals to my original comment. I am not aware of many 15 year old kids going to schools with "technology" in the name. I believe it would be fair to teach the basics of calculating angles and side lengths on a triangle at the tail end of a geometry class. I don't think most high school students need a whole year of it. I definitely don't think most high school students need to worry about plastic injection molding!
To be fair, trigonometry is largely pointless for the vast majority of people. Algebra and geometry sure, but trig doesn't even make sense until you learn about phasors.
It's telling that my wife's last CT scan (in an attempt to diagnose appendicitis) got us a bill for $10,000. After the insurance processed, there was a magical 90% discount (plus what the insurance paid). And someone wants to try and tell me that the hospital would accept that agreement from the insurance provider if they weren't making money on it?! It's telling that my insurance provider now tells me how much to pay the doctor when they process a claim to make sure the doctor isn't double dipping.
I worked at a company that had 3 CEOs in the course of a single year. All had golden parachutes, all had stupid high salaries, all of them were from the same social club (IMPORTANT!), and all of them ran the company further into the ground.
How is this any different than it has always been? At the end of the day, only cold hard real world experience is going to make anything you learned in college make any sense. Even when and experienced person changes jobs, it usually takes a good year before they really become useful. This is why I always tell people to take a co-op if they want to go into industry. It annoys me to no end that employers claim they can't find people with with the skills they need. However, this was never really a problem until the Silicon Valley startup trend of hiring only people who have the exact background that they need. Before that, companies had to invest in their workforce. Not only did they expect to train new hires, they also had to keep their veterans current.
Seriously. Regardless of what your working situation is, it's as simple exercise and diet. Take your lunch to work and be active on weekends. This makes a huge difference. If you're lucky enough to have a gym at work, use it.
Oh to be young an idealistic again. Someday you'll understand that the world just isn't so simple. For example, while I do not condone Obama's actions in the Middle East conflicts, Romney would have been far more agressive and openly so. I actually believe he would start a war with Iran. So who am I to vote for in such a tightly contested race? Gary Johnson? We all know that he won't win because America won't even vote Libertarians into low level local offices. So it would be irresponsible for me to not vote for and support Obama.
Did you ever consider that maybe he didn't hold his wife dear? Maybe he got married when he was young and stupid and is now trapped because if he says married, he's depressed, if he has an affair then it's a scandle, and if he gets a divorce it's still a scandle. He might have been screwed by our ass backwards ideas about love and marriage.
Your family's pallet is probably dead. The saddest thing is that they will never be able to tell the difference from the taste of that every day roma tomato and the dark red juicy sweet organic tomatos.
I don't even really care about the pesticides. All I know is that when I cut open a conventional industrially grown greenhouse tomato and compare it to the tomatoes I get from the organic farm stand, the organic tomato is redder, smells better, and is a lot tastier. This is really all that matters to a foodie like me.
I'm not saying that profit sharing is the only solution, but the spirit of it is.
First, for companies who are not making a profit, they can provide stock options. Many startups retain competent talent for bargain wages by offering this gamble. I used to work for a rather large company who did this when they fell on hard times for a number of years. In the end, those who stayed on board made out like bandits when the company turned itself back around. After that, the company started profit sharing. When I was there, most people were very interested in the quarterly meetings that went over company performance.
Non-profts would obviously need a solution other than profit sharing. None come to my mind, but I'm sure that many creative executives could figure out a way to tie whole organization performance to everyone's yearly bonus without putting a drain on the organization's mission. They're a challenge by their very nature that any bonus is going to eat into their mission. Generally non-profits pay less.
If a company can't put aside it's greed enough to make a fair profit sharing program, then it can kiss employee moral goodbye. Employees are the single most valuable asset that a company has. If they can't recognize that, then they will be doomed to mediocrity. They might even be a phenominally profitable company. But if they can't respect their employees who make them that way, then they are throwing away millions of dollars in lost efficiency. I'm not saying that profit sharing is the only solution, but all incentive programs will be a complete failure if the company can't put their greed behind them enough to have a basic respect for all the people they hired. Tieing incentives for everyone into whole company performace at least guarentees that everyone (managers included) has to share in the success and the pain together on a broad based metric.
Profit sharing only works if it's implemented correctly. That's a given for any incentive. If you're management doesn't give a shit, then no incentive is going to work. It's like Ford's "Quality is Job One" campaign from the 80s.
Profit sharing based on a broad range of metrics in the company (profit, efficiency, quality goals, etc) along with quarterly meeting to go over the status of those metrics. This quite litterally ties everyone's efforts together.
This is going to cost money no matter how you go about it. The DMCA was tried and failed. You could try again. Submit further detail to Youtube, but they have a mostly automated system. The next cheapest option is to hire a lawyer to send a warning letter to both the infringer and to Youtube. This is usually a pretty reasonable cost. While you're at it, inquire how much an injunction would probably run you.
Not even a corporation formed for the purpose of practicing a religion, such as the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the Southern Baptist Convention, the Vatican, etc.?
No, not even them. The members practice religion. Not the corporation itself.
What you require of a corporation you require of its directors.
Well then I guess they're free to get a different job if they don't like it.
What does this even have to do with the law? The Constitution only states that the government cannot establish a religion or restrict the free exercise thereof. Corporations cannot logically practice religion. There is no place in heaven, hell, or Valhala for a corporation. Only their executors can be religious. So requiring corporations, which only exist at the mercy of the state, to provide certain benefits to their employees inorder to exist has no impact on anyone's religious freedoms.
I never said anything about not having an issue with the Fed, but seeing as how the money is already in the system, the Fed simply "forgiving" the debt would have no impact on inflation at all. It would simply prevent a decrease in the current money supply. Since all money is debt anyways, you would have to be crazy to advocate paying off all of the debt. There would be no more money.
The interesting thing about this is that the largest chunk of our debt comes from the Fed inventing more money and causing inflation. The amusing/sad thing about that is that to pay it off would cause mass deflation, which is almost as bad. Really we should just write off the debt to the Fed since it's all bogus anyways and leave it as a permanent increase in the money supply.
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How is any of that useful to the average person? I found solving inclined plane problems and the like to be interesting. But I'm also an engineer and long ago realized that most people are baffled at what I find interesting.
I did say most people and there have already been a few fair rebutals to my original comment. I am not aware of many 15 year old kids going to schools with "technology" in the name. I believe it would be fair to teach the basics of calculating angles and side lengths on a triangle at the tail end of a geometry class. I don't think most high school students need a whole year of it. I definitely don't think most high school students need to worry about plastic injection molding!
To be fair, trigonometry is largely pointless for the vast majority of people. Algebra and geometry sure, but trig doesn't even make sense until you learn about phasors.
It's telling that my wife's last CT scan (in an attempt to diagnose appendicitis) got us a bill for $10,000. After the insurance processed, there was a magical 90% discount (plus what the insurance paid). And someone wants to try and tell me that the hospital would accept that agreement from the insurance provider if they weren't making money on it?! It's telling that my insurance provider now tells me how much to pay the doctor when they process a claim to make sure the doctor isn't double dipping.
I worked at a company that had 3 CEOs in the course of a single year. All had golden parachutes, all had stupid high salaries, all of them were from the same social club (IMPORTANT!), and all of them ran the company further into the ground.
How is this any different than it has always been? At the end of the day, only cold hard real world experience is going to make anything you learned in college make any sense. Even when and experienced person changes jobs, it usually takes a good year before they really become useful. This is why I always tell people to take a co-op if they want to go into industry. It annoys me to no end that employers claim they can't find people with with the skills they need. However, this was never really a problem until the Silicon Valley startup trend of hiring only people who have the exact background that they need. Before that, companies had to invest in their workforce. Not only did they expect to train new hires, they also had to keep their veterans current.
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Seriously. Regardless of what your working situation is, it's as simple exercise and diet. Take your lunch to work and be active on weekends. This makes a huge difference. If you're lucky enough to have a gym at work, use it.
For contrast, one of the most popular brand name white breads in the USA (Wonder Bread) has this list of ingredients.
Whole wheat flour, water, wheat gluten, high fructose corn syrup, contains 2% of less of: soybean oil, salt, molasses, yeast, mono and diglycerides, exthoxylated mono and diglycerides, dough conditioners (sodium stearoyl lactylate, calcium iodate, calcium dioxide), datem, calcium sulfate, vinegar, yeast nutrient (ammonium sulfate), extracts of malted barley and corn, dicalcium phosphate, diammonium phosphate, calcium propionate (to retain freshness).
I don't know what half of that crap is.
As a devout Heathen, I find the comparison of Calvinists to my kin highly offensive.
Oh to be young an idealistic again. Someday you'll understand that the world just isn't so simple. For example, while I do not condone Obama's actions in the Middle East conflicts, Romney would have been far more agressive and openly so. I actually believe he would start a war with Iran. So who am I to vote for in such a tightly contested race? Gary Johnson? We all know that he won't win because America won't even vote Libertarians into low level local offices. So it would be irresponsible for me to not vote for and support Obama.
Did you ever consider that maybe he didn't hold his wife dear? Maybe he got married when he was young and stupid and is now trapped because if he says married, he's depressed, if he has an affair then it's a scandle, and if he gets a divorce it's still a scandle. He might have been screwed by our ass backwards ideas about love and marriage.
Your family's pallet is probably dead. The saddest thing is that they will never be able to tell the difference from the taste of that every day roma tomato and the dark red juicy sweet organic tomatos.
I don't even really care about the pesticides. All I know is that when I cut open a conventional industrially grown greenhouse tomato and compare it to the tomatoes I get from the organic farm stand, the organic tomato is redder, smells better, and is a lot tastier. This is really all that matters to a foodie like me.
I'm not saying that profit sharing is the only solution, but the spirit of it is.
First, for companies who are not making a profit, they can provide stock options. Many startups retain competent talent for bargain wages by offering this gamble. I used to work for a rather large company who did this when they fell on hard times for a number of years. In the end, those who stayed on board made out like bandits when the company turned itself back around. After that, the company started profit sharing. When I was there, most people were very interested in the quarterly meetings that went over company performance.
Non-profts would obviously need a solution other than profit sharing. None come to my mind, but I'm sure that many creative executives could figure out a way to tie whole organization performance to everyone's yearly bonus without putting a drain on the organization's mission. They're a challenge by their very nature that any bonus is going to eat into their mission. Generally non-profits pay less.
If a company can't put aside it's greed enough to make a fair profit sharing program, then it can kiss employee moral goodbye. Employees are the single most valuable asset that a company has. If they can't recognize that, then they will be doomed to mediocrity. They might even be a phenominally profitable company. But if they can't respect their employees who make them that way, then they are throwing away millions of dollars in lost efficiency. I'm not saying that profit sharing is the only solution, but all incentive programs will be a complete failure if the company can't put their greed behind them enough to have a basic respect for all the people they hired. Tieing incentives for everyone into whole company performace at least guarentees that everyone (managers included) has to share in the success and the pain together on a broad based metric.
Profit sharing only works if it's implemented correctly. That's a given for any incentive. If you're management doesn't give a shit, then no incentive is going to work. It's like Ford's "Quality is Job One" campaign from the 80s.
Profit sharing does require management to care. If they don't, then you can't boost moral by any means.
Profit sharing based on a broad range of metrics in the company (profit, efficiency, quality goals, etc) along with quarterly meeting to go over the status of those metrics. This quite litterally ties everyone's efforts together.
This is going to cost money no matter how you go about it. The DMCA was tried and failed. You could try again. Submit further detail to Youtube, but they have a mostly automated system. The next cheapest option is to hire a lawyer to send a warning letter to both the infringer and to Youtube. This is usually a pretty reasonable cost. While you're at it, inquire how much an injunction would probably run you.
Not even a corporation formed for the purpose of practicing a religion, such as the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the Southern Baptist Convention, the Vatican, etc.?
No, not even them. The members practice religion. Not the corporation itself.
What you require of a corporation you require of its directors.
Well then I guess they're free to get a different job if they don't like it.
What does this even have to do with the law? The Constitution only states that the government cannot establish a religion or restrict the free exercise thereof. Corporations cannot logically practice religion. There is no place in heaven, hell, or Valhala for a corporation. Only their executors can be religious. So requiring corporations, which only exist at the mercy of the state, to provide certain benefits to their employees inorder to exist has no impact on anyone's religious freedoms.
I never said anything about not having an issue with the Fed, but seeing as how the money is already in the system, the Fed simply "forgiving" the debt would have no impact on inflation at all. It would simply prevent a decrease in the current money supply. Since all money is debt anyways, you would have to be crazy to advocate paying off all of the debt. There would be no more money.
The interesting thing about this is that the largest chunk of our debt comes from the Fed inventing more money and causing inflation. The amusing/sad thing about that is that to pay it off would cause mass deflation, which is almost as bad. Really we should just write off the debt to the Fed since it's all bogus anyways and leave it as a permanent increase in the money supply.
Not really. People will be people.