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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24913 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24913 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
What a sense of humour You gotta love her spirit as well. :-) But, she knows that as a mixed-race couple, her parents had a tough time raising a family in 1970s Britain.It brings to mind a question I've asked for decades... ...of both males & females. Got many an answer - all wrong. So far never got a correct reply. The Question: Ignoring 5 parameters, what makes one female different from another? |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31014 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
oh I love it. story on the radio about how restaurants are now having to job poach to get staff. guy from a competitor came in and began poaching by offering $19.00/hr plus tips and benefits to any server who would quit on the spot and work for him. Federal minimum for a server is $2.35/hr. Think about that for a second. Think about how the place must be making enough to pay $19.00/hr and benefits. And the GOP wants to end unemployment so they can force you to work for $2.35/hr. You think maybe the customer is looking for a different owner? Is that why places are failing? Sweetness! |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21241 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
For a brief reminder of one part of world politics, conquests, greed, and slavery: American Revolutionary War wrote: The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or the American War of Independence, was initiated by delegates from thirteen American colonies of British America in Congress against Great Britain over their objection to Parliament's taxation policies and lack of colonial representation. From their founding in the 1600s, the colonies were largely left to govern themselves. The cost of victory in the 1754 to 1763 French and Indian War and the 1756 to 1763 Seven Years' War left the British government deeply in debt; the colonies where the war was fought equipped and populated the British forces there, at the cost of millions of their own funds... American Civil War wrote: The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States from 1861 to 1865, fought between northern states loyal to the Union and southern states that had seceded to form the Confederate States of America. The principal cause of the war was the status [and profitability] of slavery in the United States, especially in the territories... Hopefully we have evolved and moved onwards to fairer kinder times. Our world is what we make it, Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31014 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Hopefully we have evolved and moved onwards to fairer kinder times. Unfortunately not https://www.uschamber.com/press-release/us-chamber-calls-ending-300-weekly-supplemental-unemployment-benefits-address-labor |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21241 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Hopefully we have evolved and moved onwards to fairer kinder times. Wow... Sadly wow: "... one in four recipients taking home more in unemployment than they earned working." Modern day slavery and sweatshops continue... Only in the USA? Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 |
Way to Go Nance. She Drops dA Easy Catch for dA usual DEMError. https://nypost.com/2021/05/08/pelosi-shares-photo-of-wrong-player-in-botched-willie-mays-tweet/ Pitiful Yep May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! |
MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 |
Got to LOVE Golf. Last hole at this weekends Tourney. Winner sinks dA Final Putt. Happiness Abounds ALL OVER dA Place. Been a Long Time since I've seen So Many SMILING FACES; HUGs; HANDSHAKEs; SLAPPIN' Backs; and ALL AROUND CLOSENESS. BEAUTIFULLness of LIFE is BACK BABY! Sweetness Yep May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! |
MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 |
So, Gas Stations with LONG Lines. Some have closed due lack of product. etc etc etc - A BUMMERMan Situation. C'mon Man!!!!!! WHY!!!!!! 'cause a few MoneyHungries decide to 'ShutDown' Computer-Controlled; Electro-Mechanical Pumps and Valves. C'MON MAN!!!!!!! Send da Mechs andTechs out and 'Manually' Open Valves and 'Manually' Start Pumps. Okay Okay. They may need to bring Along Back up GENs And Do a little 'Hot Wiring' well 'Cold'. Man O Live. A Valve; A Pump can be Opened and Started without dA Computerization and MechElectro working. Start dA FLOW!!!!! Geez O Flip!!!!! Some BULLSHAT goin' on with this. I KNOW dA FLOW can GO. Hack be Damned. Yep Found this on Fox News Online: On Monday night, Line 4, which runs from Greensboro, North Carolina, to Woodbine, Maryland, was temporarily operating under manual control while existing inventory is available, the company said. DAMN STRAIGHT. Manual Control. Wat a CONCEPT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31014 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21241 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Wah Hoo manual control Ouch! ... huge explosion ... ruptured gas pipe ... 60 to 90 minutes to shut off the gas ... explosion and resulting fire leveled 35 houses and damaged many more ... eight deaths ... That one rates as a good (bad) example for the Profits 1st threads... We really do need to move forwards to insist that ALL safety critical equipment that is in operation MUST comply with PRESENT DAY STANDARDS. Anything non-compliant with the standards today must be upgraded into compliance or be scrapped. It is the only way... Stay safe folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31014 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Martin, The legal payouts for this is the reason PG&E didn't have the money to trim trees and Paradise California burned to the ground a decade later. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21241 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
The legal payouts for this is the reason PG&E didn't have the money to trim trees and Paradise California burned to the ground a decade later. Or is it more a problem of the payouts to the execs?... We really need to bring in personal responsibility rather than suffering the criminally greedy hiding behind the facade of a Company... All in our deadly greedy world?... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31014 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
The legal payouts for this is the reason PG&E didn't have the money to trim trees and Paradise California burned to the ground a decade later. Utility rates in California are regulated. The total paid to the execs is order of magnitude less than the legal judgements. The second problem is there is only one power line that goes by your house. There is only one gas pipe that goes by your house. They go bankrupt and you are dark and cold. So what's your solution, have incompetent government run it? |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21241 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
So what's your solution, have incompetent government run it? For essential public services such as medical, power, local roads, telecoms, my solution is not to have greedy incompetents running such services... Instead, can there be an independent charitable organization set up that is publicly reviewed? The hard part there is to maintain some motivation and dedication yet avoid the corporate greed and politics for how all that is done and run... Any ideas?? What examples are there of what works well? Or at least, least bad? All in our deadly greedy world, Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31014 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
The hard part there is to maintain some motivation and dedication yet avoid the corporate greed and politics for how all that is done and run... As long as human beings are involved the above is impossible. Greed is hardwired into the brain as a survival strategy. As to holding people responsible, when you hold management personally responsible some greedy low level will find a way to cut corners and make his numbers better so he gets a raise/promotion/bonus/profit share and he will also find a way to hide his shoddy corner cutting from internal controls. So now the people who understand the risks will refuse to take the job because they understand human nature and won't go to jail for other people, so that leaves the incompetent who don't understand the risks and greedy in charge. |
MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 |
........PG&E didn't have the money to trim trees...... Kali wif 75 BILLION SURPLUS can't cut a Few Trees? ROTFLMMFAO I Say: Again. ROTFLMMFAO Make DEM EXCUSES Kali. NO WORRIES Kali. You have a 'Friend' in dA House. White House. ROTFLMMFAO Yep May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31014 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
California, unlike shrub, doesn't bail out private companies. |
MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 |
Dry Underbrush; Dry Trees; Hot DryWeather is a Clear and Present Danger to Kali Citizens and Non-Citizens and Visitors. Da Peoples Money Needs to be Used to Prevent FIRES. Yep May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11416 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
Dry Underbrush; Dry Trees; Hot DryWeather is a Clear and Present Danger to Kali Citizens and Non-Citizens and Visitors. It's called infrastructure |
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