You'd be surprised how little it costs to get by. And if you're married, you can divide the labor between you two.
"Getting by" is OK when you're single or married without kids is one thing. It's not when you have kids, and have to consider their expenses, health care, college, what happens if you die, etc.
They're probably the last bastion of American computer assembly - I believe you can actually get an option code that certifies that an IBM POWER machine is made in the US of US components, even, intended for national security applications.
Interesting. Does that extends down to the source of all the raw materials?
Try to avoid misogynistic language.
Nowhere do the OP even remotely imply hating women. You are taking an extreme term and using it in an inappropriate context.
Ted Bundy was a misogynist. Someone who says it's manly to stand up for your beliefs is not. Someone who says such a person is a misogynist is either an idiot or trying to impress feminists in freshmen Women's Studies discussion sessions. Given the time to acclimate, I would guess second half of the year...like, say, February
She thought $400 a month (in a culture where there are no tips) was excellent money.
I don't know why people always quote things in dollars-per-month. That is meaningless. When I was in Russia in the late 90s, bus fare was less than 5 cents in the city I was in. At the same time it was $2 in the U.S. I took a family of 8 out to dinner with four courses, vodka, champagne, the works - $25. That would have been $200 in the U.S. Of course, the head of household was only making $300/month - but what did his $300 equate to? Hard to say, given the difference in socialization, piracy, etc. Want a new laptop in Russia (then)? Expensive. Want a pound of beef? Very cheap.
You can't compare dollar incomes to living standards like that.
um, no. You might want to look at the history of corporate behavior in unregulated/low regulated societies through out all of history.
All of history? I think you'll find the first 6,000 years or so of human existence to be a very fast read on this subject, since corporations didn't exist until the Romans and arguably not in an identifiable form comparable to modern corporations until well after the Renaissance.
So as geekoid would say, "um, no."
That 5% is a pure guess. It could be 50% for all you know.
There's also a difference between shutting down and finding the sales prospects - as prices go up, fewer people can buy - make that line of business unattractive to the point where they get out of it. Consolidation, monopoloy...
Economics is fiendishly difficult to control.
Except that alternative is worse for the workers, who already have the option of not working at those factories and, funnily enough, they don't actually prefer it.
Your solution helps your moral guilty at their expense. For shame.
There is tremendous irony here. The Chinese threw out the old ruling class for the communists and end up exploited by the capitalists.
The hard part is going without shoes.
Low-tech goods can still be found "made in the USA" (assuming you're in the USA, but probably true elsewhere). A Google, for example, turned up this site for shoes. There are lots of things where, if you're willing to pay more and take a more traditional approach (e.g., leather instead of high-tech fabrics), you can buy local. For example, it is easy to buy all your furniture from a local craftsman/woodworker - but the price will not even be remotely like what you'd find at Wal-mart.
On the other hand, for most if not all high-tech consumer goods, there simply is no other choice.
Seriously - you want to be a disease vector for hideous diseases that are easily preventable. Go live somewhere else.
The sole evidence presented is the statement "I mean, it costs $40,000 to put up a patch – we can’t afford that!". The second article simply refers to the first.
What is this $40K? Are developers literally getting an invoice for $40K from Microsoft, or is that one of those "that's X number of hours @ so much per developer hour" kind of multiplications? If it's an invoice, is it really a flat fee in that nice round number or is he just pulling this number out of the air?
For a bunch of people who allegedly are alternative non-mainstream revolutionary wannabes, Slashdotters sure take everything they read in blogs at face value.
Legislator uses hyperbole to make his point.
Immediately, 300 posts on Slashdot about McCarthyism, the destruction of civil liberties, dogs and cats living together, etc.
People here are so lame and predictable.
Nice add, too, about parliamentary privilege, which is utterly irrelevant.
This summary reads like it was written by a 14-year-old who went to an ACLU rally and came away foaming at the mouth, pumping his fist in the air, eager to find an evil politician.
You could look at services like ShoeBoxed, where you mail them a stack of documents or receipts and they send you scans back. They're one I happened to hear about - I'm sure there are competitors. Just using them as an example, not an endorsement - I haven't personally tried them.
A politician DOES support rape if he supports the prison-industrial complex. Period, the end.
Or put another way:
Logic? You fail it.
The job is probably somewhere between these extremes:
If they didn't say "we're looking for someone with GronkTest 3 experience" it's more likely to be nearer the latter than the former.
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion
