Here is a possible reason for the disparity in income:

A relative of mine is a Veterinarian.

When he graduated in the '80s 80% of Vets were male. They worked from 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM or longer - often six days a week.

Today, 80% of Vets are female. Rather than working long hours, they often choose to have a family and work part-time. The net result is that 4-5 female vets do the job of one male vet.

This is not a bad thing. They get to have both a career and be at home for their families.

The net result though, it that their incomes are substantially lower than a male vet's would be.

Is this wrong? No. Is this a new way of having a work-life balance? Yes.

More like... Ali Boo-Boo ..and it's Veterans Day in the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Day

Insensitive clods.

NEVER tell a kid that they are smart. ALWAYS encourage them when they apply themselves.

If they are told that they are smart, they will get a mind-set that says: "I'm smart, I don't need to work at this."

A wealthy friend of the family once told me: "There are two ways to become wealthy: out smart the other guy. The rest of us out work him."

When a product sucks, people stop buying it.

We pay a fortune in taxes for government agencies: INTERPOL, FBI, RCMP, NSA, CSIS, CIA etc. etc.

It is disgraceful that a consortium of PRIVATE companies has to tackle this issue when there is clear violation of any number of laws at stake.

Get to work, you government agencies, and, instead of spying on your fellow countrymen, do your job.

1 Million monkeys at typewriters don't finish writing Shakespeare either!

When someone has plans to point a nuclear missile at you in your back yard, you do what you can to protect yourself. The net result of the Cuban 'experiment' is a large number of well-educated people who have little or no resources to use that educational wealth.

I chatted with a 50 yr old 'pool boy' in Veradero. I asked him his occupation. He said: "Economist". He was earning 300 times as much cleaning hotel pools in the special tourist area than he would have in his profession.

In Trinidad, Cuba, there are extremely well-trained doctors and nurses at clinics... except that there is a real dearth of medicine available.

Cubans are crushed by their so-called government. It is heinous and loathsome.

"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." Churchill

The update crashed 100% on re-boot stopping at 10% install. Fortunately, I was able to disable UEFI, boot to my Ubuntu Linux partition, go online and figure out what to do... then go back and bang away 'till it booted. I ended up going back to a good install point and adding updates incrementally.

Note to self: Always, always put a Linux partition on EVERY Windoze machine!

Yeah, yeah, I could carry a bootable USB around, but this way, it's always IN the machine.

My problem is this: WHO is going to PAY me for my time? Isn't it time that a consumer watchdog agency said: "Enough is enough, Microsoft. You have cost users countless BILLIONS of hours and money. If this were a car, Ford or GM or Toyota would be BANKRUPTED by the recalls."

This is so stupid. What is the staffing profile of, say, Glamour Magazine? Would you, as a stockholder, want white, straight males as staffers at Glamour? Not in a million years!

Each staff member is a profit centre. If you hire someone who's return on investment is 20% less but their ethnicity fits your company's profile, your competitors will eat you for breakfast - while hiring the best staff away from you.

If you really want to effect change, create a double-blind hiring system so that race and gender become non-issues - and you end up with the best staff. Period.

Here's the upside: Linux users are the 1% ers!!

Dial: 1-800-Go2-Hell and you'll a direct line to Comcast's tech support - 'cause that's what they are living in - the poor bastards.

It is long overdue that government surveillance becomes a major political issue. Yet, we are no longer represented by our elected officials who have been bought off by the oligarchy. Moreover, if you talk to 99% of citizens, they will simply shrug off news items like this and go back to the latest Kardashian wardrobe malfunction intrigue.

This isn't about paranoia, it's about the fact that our personal rights are being completely abrogated by governments that are out of our control.

Our true freedom is doomed until we demand action so that due process takes place - legally and by the rules.

It's time to use the system to give itself back to us: with court challenges and by voting out non-supportive elected officials.

Exposure of incompetence and malfeasance with articles such as this are where to begin.

Job Candidate: "Thank you for seeing me."

Interviewer [Hacking into yet another security-flawed MS Smartband product.]: "Thank you for coming. Could you tell me why you left your last employ?"

Job Candidate: "I was ... asked to perform duties that were beyond the scope of my employment contract."

Interviewer [Noting elevated heart rate of interviewee]: "What did these duties consists of?"

Job Candidate: "I am not at liberty to discuss them."

Interviewer [Seeing Smartband perspiration levels soar.]: "Was there a problem with your performance?"

Job Candidate: "None whatsoever."

Interviewer [Running lie detector against heartbeat data.]: "I am afraid that this interview is over."

Job Candidate: "But I was being sexually molested and am involved in a court case that I cannot discuss!!"

Interviewer [Noting extreme blood pressure levels.] "SECURITY!!"

I was speaking with a nuclear engineer just this past weekend. The reason that Chernobyl happened was that an unauthorized test took place over the direct objections of senior management. It was like taking the oil out of a car engine and seeing how long it would run. What did they expect would happen? In any event, after the disaster, the existing cover is/was inadequate at best.

Whether the new design is adequate or not is moot: when Putin takes over the country, he will completely shut down any real news and everything will be fine.