A couple clients who are higher up in MMI told me about this just before the google buyout. I guess I can say something now?

This has been planned from the get-go, and it will weed out some inefficiency and bring in more of the "Google Culture" and clear out what most know is by-now pretty broken model at Motorola. On the whole, it sounds like a LOT of people are happy about this (from what I've heard). The people leaving will get some pretty good buyout packages, if I understand it right.

So, no need to panic. I'm interested in hearing other opinions, though.

The TSA does a good job AT WHAT?
Pollseter: "Do you think the TSA does a good job raping people's rights?"
Gomer Pyle: "Why yes ah do!"
Pollseter: "TSA does a good job...."

Seriously, does anyone believe these polls? I haven't talked to a SINGLE person who thinks the TSA is anything but bloated and useless.

I think they made this poll up, personally, and it's also statistics. I suspect either the poll is rigged or they're lying/twisting the truth....

Clearly the answer is "No"

You know what? LET them do what they want. I'm tired of trying to think that the whole world should conform to some stupid moral standard.
If they want to stone women to death, let them! If they want to stay in the dark ages, let them! They're not here, they're half way across the damned world and it's not morals and womens' rights taking us there, it's resources (like the rare earths there).

Seriously, come off the "This culture should shape up" mentality. It's a dead horse.

Funny.... couldn't have anything to do with the *prevalence* of guns there, could it? Also, I find it interesting that most of those incidents all occurred in The South.

I always chuckle when people say that guns end gun violence... when if there weren't so many guns in the first place there would be very little gun violence (as has been repeatedly shown in societies over the years)

"Armed Citizen?" Are you kidding me?

So you're implying someone would have had time to take out their ammunition and gun from the case they took into the theater with them, load them up, and then shoot this attacker?

Or are you suggesting we all be allowed to walk around with loaded guns?

The first is the current problem, the second has been banned because it creates a LOT more problems than the first... am I right?

In my experience, those who get to deem who is and who is not a pig are what make the system broken...

I agree with you that perhaps that person should not have been there, but they should be given a chance to rise and learn. It might not be that he's stupid, he might not have ever had decent teachers or the ability to develop a work ethic. This idea that by college kids should somehow have all their worldly affairs in order and ready to tackle everything seems a bit warped to me, but I know there are other schools of thought on that as well.

You may not *need* those things to teach, but the idea is that they give us ideas and points of view that can be of use to us to be better citizens and people who can contribute more to society as a whole.

Sure, I learned a lot of things in college I may never use, but I also learned a lot of things that are useful on a less immediate-to-my-job way. I met people who really inspired me to be more than I was.

You're using *2009* as an example for average new home size?

You're nuts.

I'm sure average home size was huge around then because only the rich who had no worry of job loss could afford a new home, and so few were being built that your stat is in no way representative of an average year.

You know what's immature? The fact that we as a culture seem ok with glorifying violence against people, killing and maiming them, but when you use the word "penis" then OMG! horrible! It's not natural Bullshit.

The world would be a happier, healthier place if we just stood up against this nonsense and admit that sex is fine, fun, and healthy. Seriously, who made that headline? Other than a stupid song with some dumb lyrics, who cares? Sure, it doesn't really get across what MS wants, but a "PR Nightmare"? Give me a break.

It's headlines like these that keep perpetuating the controlling and immature notion that sexuality is a sin, punishable by censure or banishment from society. If MS had used a video of the paperclip smacking around then crushing an apple that oozes blood it wouldn't be appropriate but would it be a "PR Nightmare"?

Just showed the "Fuck Me Ray Bradbury" video to my girlfriend this morning. What an eerie coincidence...

That is NOT informative enough. Isn't it in their best interest (in the short term) to show how little pay they get so they can push for more?
I want to see the total amount of money given to teachers as pay AND benefits. this is very common mistake people make when looking at their salary. It's one reason benefits have eroded so badly over the years, people want a basic number to look at and don't have the financial education to realize there's much more to that number.

As I mentioned earlier, those teachers are probably getting wonderful health care benefits and a pension that end up boosting their ACTUAL pay to something like a starting salary of 40-45K+ up to a high end of 80-90K, which isn't half bad at all.

Couldn't agree less.

While the teachers I know make a lower amount of pay than, say, an engineer, if you add in health care benefits and their sizable pensions you get a very salary.

Every teacher client I've shown the numbers to is shocked. Maybe it's that I only interact with well-off teachers, but even the ones who aren't doing as well still get some very handsome benefits that most people would envy and, frankly, boosts their actual pay by probably 15-20% overall.

Funny you should say that. I talked to the guy who fixed our freezer a few weeks ago. Doing alright for himself, all things considered. We talked about heat pumps (freezer) and he said physics was his favorite subject. He said that math was never his thing but loved the application of it all.

So, there should be a place for everyone. It's not just either/or here, people. The people who get their hands dirty have just as much place in accomplishing things as those who sit at a design table or behind a monitor.

Unsafe? We did this in 5th grade as a class (each built a rocket) science project. It was *awesome*. We had so much fun shooting these off... Estes rockets are indeed safe as can be.