My favorite series is the HalfLife series. Right now (since I am spending most of my time on a lap-top) I am playing turn-based games, currently Jagged Alliance 2. I like it but I think I am going to get FalOut3 - then all will be lost.
The average American worker employed by Honda, Nissan and Toyota makes $45 an hour in wages and benefits, which translates to $80K a year.
But each UAW worker earns $75 an hour in wages and benefits, or roughly $130K a year.
Man! You really can screw up statistics can't you. Sometimes, I can't tell when you are trolling and when you screw up. I gotta go with "you screwed up the statistics" on this one.
Firstly, if you want to translate hourly to yearly, multiply the hourly by 2000 and that will get you close to yearly.
Secondly, the $75 per house in wages and benefits is actually wages, benefits, and legacy. I hope I do not have to explain the difference between benefits and legacy benefits. If you are going to compare 'stuff' compare 'stuff' accurately.
Thirdly, labor costs are still under 11% of the cost of a car.
I read that part, all it said is that if you did not pay us, your screwed. The point of SOX was to protect the public - it was gutted by Bushies; it did not do the due diligence it was mandated to do. The Madoff children knew that it was a scam and did not allow their dad to touch any of THEIR money for years but did not say anything until it looked like the scam was going to be uncovered.
The free market says 'screw you' unless you pay me. Why did those 'due diligence' firms not notify the public? The free market paid Moodies and S&P to honestly rate the credit-worthiness and they lied and cheated and brought about the current crash. How does the Free Market handle that?
SOX was set up to try and protect the public from the Free Market.
Let's have a little more from the Free Market: The Madoff family has long standing ties to SIFMA, which represents many of the country’s biggest brokerage houses, banks and financial services companies. Bernard Madoff sat of the board of directors of the Securities Industry Association, an advocacy group that merged with the Bond Market Association in 2006 to form SIFMA. His brother, Peter Madoff, the senior managing director of the firm, served two terms as a member of SIFMA’s board of directors.
Politico reported Tuesday that Shana Madoff Swanson, who’s the niece of Bernard Madoff and a compliance attorney at …
In the paragraph immediately above the one you quoted.
I read that part, all it said is that if you did not pay us, your screwed. The point of SOX was to protect the public - it was gutted by Bushies; it did not do the due diligence it was mandated to do. The Madoff children knew that it was a scam and did not allow their dad to touch any of THEIR money for years but did not say anything until it looked like the scam was going to be uncovered.
The free market says 'screw you' unless you pay me. Why did those 'due diligence' firms not notify the public? The free market paid Moodies and S&P to honestly rate the credit-worthiness and they lied and cheated and brought about the current crash. How does the Free Market handle that?
SOX was set up to try and protect the public from the Free Market.
This is a perfect case study showing that the SEC is incapable of protecting investors as well as free-market institutions can. The SEC is becoming increasingly irrelevant and people are beginning to take notice. It failed to save investors from the house of cards made up of mortgage-backed securities, credit default swaps, and collateralized debt obligations that resulted from the housing bubble. Now it has failed to protect thousands more individuals and charities from something as simple and old as a Ponzi scheme!
Er, where does it show us that the free market can protect us? Bushie free-marketeers running the SEC were what screwed us. Gutting the SEC, then blaming the SEC for not catching the problem does not show the success of the free market system nor does saying that the free market saw it - neither stopped it from happening.
I think this song better represents our country. It brings tears to my eyes and a lump to my throat. I am an atheist (surprise,surprise) and love my country for what it is, not for what theists think it is and yet, I love this song.
Then there is Phil Ochs (the 50 of us are thousands strong).
Oops! - I got side-tracked by Phil into re-living some of what i remember of the '70s
My first time online was connecting to a CRAY supercomputer located in CO. I was working for NOAA (1984-87) and managed to find a game of trek (I knew the geeks had one on it - it just took a lot of snooping to find it). It was funnier than hell - I was working on a state-of-the-art computer that was so fast that they timed it by the length of the wires through the core... and when a mistake was made, it returned "bad card". Someone had not bothered to upgrade the system messages, heh, heh.
I remember my first c-64, for some reason - I sold mine when I bought an Amiga 1000.
The fish is found in Ujung Kulon - there was a long PBS special on too-using animals, it included mention of the fish. I think it sees the predator birds as silhouettes - they laughingly thought that the next evolutionary step is for the bird to realize the leaf is floating up-stream and look for the fish beneath it.
The US Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) mandates what is effectively a systems engineering solution to the problem of how to control theft from the inside. Reliability is achieved not by human oversight alone, but by a set of information and control systems that ensures information quality and management accountability. Executive officers are required to sign the accounts and are criminally liable for any inaccuracy. The act also mandates near-real-time disclosure of any material events.
In the past, reliability was equated with the moral character of the directors and auditors. Nowadays, reliability must be seen as an engineering problem.
Cursing SOX for not being perfect or not catching crimes that the stupid SEC had been warned about for years is pointless - just like my pointing out how well the Libertarian philosophy is supported by the current meltdown. I am sure that deregulation would have done a much better job of stopping the embezzlement.
With all the wealth flowing around the world, no one notices the skim - it is only in bad times that it is missed:
The economist J.K Gailbraith used the term "bezzle" to denote the amount of money siphoned (or "embezzled") from the system. In good times, he remarked, the bezzle rises sharply, because everyone feels good and nobody notices. "In [economic] depression, all this is reversed. Money is watched with a narrow, suspicious eye. The man who handles it is assumed to be dishonest until he proves himself otherwise. Audits are penetrating and meticulous. Commercial morality is enormously improved. The bezzle shrinks."
This happens all the time - the last big one was the tech bubble. The current one has been magnified because it is getting 'caught' in multiple sectors at the same time: the housing market, the finance market, stocks in general, - all have been both expanded beyond their true value but embezzlers have been sucking out the center.
I always thought that Climate Change Deniers were a little odd but look what the Coal Industry has come up with - cute, singing lumps of coal. You can't make this stuff up.
I think it would be okay to ask if he knows how YOU can track back but, unless the offensive e-mailer actually does something that brings him into your uncle's attention officially, I would really be not ask your uncle to do something unethical (possibly even illegal).
You dont get group policy support on the home editions, as they cant join a domain, so it would be kind of redundant to have the group policy editor snapin.
d'Oh!
Go to services under admin tools and simply disable the QOS service.
Looked there but did not find QOS - dug around a bit I vaguely remember seeing it under XP but I can't find it under Vista.
Sometimes, when I think I might know something about the local scene, I go here. I begin to vaguely remember my promise to myself "I will never be as lame as my 'rents - I will always keep up with the latest music" - heh,heh; when I was growing up there were probably at most 7 different flavors of music. Now you get to choose between crust punk, "crossover/metal/punk/thrash/grindcore", thrash, nardcore(?), skatepunk, then there is the whole Indie scene.
I stand corrected, not even Arizona's J. Fife WhiteGuy (Symington III) would have been stupid enough to do what Blago did; in New Jersey, Blago would have been to dumb to survive.
I have been trying to find out more information on the actual shooting but there is not much - mostly what I see is the rioting. I did find some history on the subject of police/youth conflicts. I am unable to form an opinion on this particular situation but agree that, if the student was about to firebomb the officer, he was justified in shooting.
Heh,heh - here is a match made in hell: "The American Civil Liberties Union and the libertarian Cato Institute are troubled by what they consider an expansion of executive authority."
What really bothers me is that we already have the National Guard - heck, we also have the well-trained reserve forces for use as Posse Comitatus. I wonder how deeply Cheney tunneled into arpanet? And what his activation code is?
It is interesting! Similar things happen all over Europe - entire apartment buildings are taken over by squatters. It is what happens in an ownership society - no one is using the buildings but the owners do not want anyone using them. There is always going to be conflict between the haves and the have-nots.
Before the invention of the thermometer, brewers used to check the temperature by dipping their thumb into the still warm extract, to find whether it was appropriate for adding yeast. Too hot, the yeast would die. This is where we get the phrase " The Rule of the Thumb".
There are many different, WRONG derivations of this; yours is one I have never heard before - never the less it is probably wrong. The phrase was first used in print in 1692 in the sentence "What he doth, he doth by rule of Thumb, and not by Art." in Sir William Hope's training manual for aspiring swordsmen, The Compleat Fencing-master.
The origin remains unknown, although it is likely that it refers to one of the numerous ways that thumbs have been used to estimate things - judging the alignment or distance of an object by holding the thumb in one's eye-line, the temperature of brews of beer, measurement of an inch from the joint to the nail to the tip, or across the thumb, etc. The phrase joins the whole nine yards as one that probably derives from some form of measurement but which is unlikely ever to be definitively pinned down.
The thumb is so important in human affairs, it is no wonder it plays a big role in rules, and has application to all our different endeavors.
Ob-Elephant: Having put "A flea in his ear" means many different but similar things in various languages …
Backup what you want to save. From your description, it is the hard drive - see this. Click on the lower left icon which will bring up the bottom; hovering will tell you what is where.
There is a lot of mis-information around about disk drive life - most of it hidden in the mean-time-to-failure babble. Buy yourself a new drive - you meant to upgrade anyway. There is a nice 200 gig drive available for that model.
He writes deeper stuff; I dug around on his differing sites and like what I found. I found his ideas intriguing - and when translated into cyberpunk ideas, I can visualize the cyber-structures with the zaibatsu living on top, controlling WWW3+ and razor-girls/boys populating the alleys and hidden byway of WWW1.
Back to the article - it is old (2004) and with the improvement in spam-guards and FireFox, many of his complaints are already addressed.
It is why hotels now have non-smoking rooms - the smell of stale smoke is nasty. We used to smuggle Cuban cigars down from Canada but I started inhaling them like cigarettes and realized that that was a slippery slope.
I have promised myself that I can start smoking again when I turn 98 - will have to smuggle more Cubans down for the wife.
Production can be increased and decreased - sometimes it's a matter of how much effort companies want to put into it (that is, cost of extraction.) I think "oil reserves" is a figure that's more important. That's a measure of what's believed to be in the oil fields that are being exploited. There's always more out there waiting to be found - under the ocean, deeper down, in places that haven't been investigated. Seems we keep having 50-150 years of oil still in the ground, year after year.
Is the amount of oil underground/undersea a finite quantity? Most likely. Are we likely to exhaust the economically recoverable portion of that in our/our kids/our grandkids/our greatgrandkids' lifetimes? Probably not. Should we be looking for means to reduce oil use, or at least slow the growth of its use? Certainly.
But not for Al Bore's reasons.
'Proven Reserves' are stated by interested parties with reasons to overstate them. These are unaudited claims that <mysteriously> increased by 50% from 1985-87 (from your link). What I am talking about is Peak oil production which is different than that; POP is currently 85 million barrels per day. Current world oil consumption is 80.290 million barrels per day. India is ramping up production of a cheap car; China is ramping up production of a cheap car - world consumption is going to outstrip POP very soon. It does not matter how much oil is under the ground if it can not be …
I just did a little research and am aghast at what I did not know: For a little idea of scale - one barrel of oil is the energy equivalent of 25,000 man hours (the output of 12 people for one year). In Saudi Arabia, it cost one or two dollars to get one barrel of oil out of the ground. One barrel of oil produces 19.5 gallons of gasoline - the rest is tar, oils and the stuff of asphalt. In a process called 'cracking'(catalytic and thermal cracking, hydrocracking, catalytic reforming, alkylation, and polymerization), more gasoline can be processed from the barrel (42 US gallons).
Not all oil is the same: Venezuelan crude produces about 5% gasoline whereas Texas and Arabian oil produces about 30%.
So one dollar invested in getting oil out of the ground returns 25,000 person hours of labor. This is the densest energy content available.
Production of one calorie of food requires 10 calories of petroleum.
Not sure what it means but it does not look good if 'peak oil production' happens anytime soon. If we do not figure out a way to supplement oil, can we even maintain our current lifestyle w/o oil. If we do not remember 1973, we will be doomed to repeat it.
