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  1. The cranky thread

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    Heh. Are we talking "because she pays for it; she makes one and a half times as much as you do", too?

     

    I've caught up somewhat, she used to make double my salary, but the big car company that's name begins with G and ends with M hasn't given pay raises to it's salaried employees for years.

     

    Man that's a sweet gig.

     

    or are we talking "because everything in the universe revolves around her" like She Who Should Not Be Named.

     

    Brrr.

     

    D

    The universe revolves around her, but in a good way. In a paradoxical way, while everything in the house revolves around her, she manges to give back even more than she receives.

    Kinda cool.:D

  9. The cranky thread

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    Ah.

     

    It wouldn't be the first idiotic thing the Democrats did. But isn't that what politicians are for? Attempting to pass idiotic legislation that gets them noticed by their voting population?

     

    I think the water in government buildings in Washington DC kills brain cells and the air shrinks the heart.

  11. The cranky thread

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    I can see it now.

     

    Congress will pass a law requiring all citizens to buy their stuff from boutiques where everybody makes over the living wage and has 90/10 health insurance. When customers cease to shop because they can't afford the higher prices and start mail ordering and online purchasing everything, tarriffs are erected to protect the people's living wage, 90/10 boutiques. Since that will mean most consumers can only buy a fraction of their previous level of consumption, boutique stamps will be issured to the poor to enable them to shop at the living wage, 90/10 health insurance people's boutiques. This requires a tax increase to fund, of course, which makes the average people's boutique living wage 90/10 health insurance program employee unable to afford to shop at the people's boutiques with the living wage and 90/10 health insurance.

     

    Or the government can teach (and perhaps learn) economics.

  13. The cranky thread

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    What the Hell is it about techno geeks. Try and get real comparative information about competing system concepts and they lose their minds. People complain that you are too intrusive, opinionated and arrogant when you actually give an opinion that relates to their immortal soul or that a threat to Western civilization exists but fail to pay obesience to their OS or hardware platform and all nuance and relativity depart.

     

    Mac vs. PC?

     

    "Die, die, slave of Bill Gates!!"

    "Stick with cartoons and music and leave computing to the experts you Hollywood capitalist pansies!"

    "The annointed cyber elite only use open source like Linux. Acolyte, take the stranger up to the altar so that he may be made a sacrifice that we Linux users continue to be free of viruses. No novices belong in computing."

     

    Palm vs. Blackberry?

     

    "Klingon lover!"

    "Sith lover!"

    "Centauri lover!"

     

    *Multiple nuclear detonations*

     

    Frikkin' dorks.

  15. Musings on Random Musings

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    If I understand you correctly, you ackowledge that free will may be a myth, but that it is an acceptable myth, in that we have thus far accepted it. But couldn't we just as easily (by free will or the more Newtonian action-reaction model) abondon the concept of free will? It might be hard to persuade everyone else to go along with it, but could you give up on free will as being completely and utterly unsupported by anything other than wishful thinking?

     

    IIRC you are deeply agnostic, so maybe you can't, but could someone? As for me, I'm in the agnostic camp on this one, too. But I still can't see how you can have materialism and free will together.

     

    And by the way, have you considered The Universal Church Triumphant of the Apathetic Agnostic?

    Wow, A Pascal's Wager for nonbelievers.;)

  16. The cranky thread

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    I still don't get it' date=' but at least it sounds less like a scam the way you describe it. ;) I probably should've asked: is this for hourly employees, salaried, or both?[/quote']

     

    Any full time employee whether hourly or salaried who has been employed for a year gets a week. After five years they get two weeks. We don't have part time employees so that is everyone who is not a subcontractor.

  17. The cranky thread

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    Commonplace in what industry? I've certainly never heard of it' date=' but I've been pretty isolated in the IT and/or Healthcare fields for quite some time. I've worked places that didn't give me any vacation, but never a place that just paid me for the vacation days in one check per year.[/quote']

     

    We have been doing it for about two years. In my case it is the building supply industry, but it is HR office policy suggetsions in general from which the idea was first presented to us. We have never had any complaints from our employees, most of whom like knowing exactly when the checkm is coming every year. Paid vacation, BTW is a benefit, not an entitlement.

  18. Character: Admiral Dame Honor Harrington

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    Re: Character: Admiral Dame Honor Harrington

     

    Its a nice write up - I like it. Others have commented on her HTH, SPD, and empathic fripperies.

     

    I can one make the following observation: she needs "Deep Cover: Mary Sue Harrington." :D

     

    I must respectfully disagree given her own concerns and regrets about her violent temper and propensity toward mayhem in carrying out that results of said temper, as the character is written.

  19. The cranky thread

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    Annnnnnd I've just learned that they're changing the way vacation time works. Instead of being able to take one day at a time, the rumor is that they'll cut a single check for ALL of the vacation/sick time one is entitled to, once per year. :mad:

     

    If this goes through, I have all the impetus I need to seek employment elsewhere. Buncha shortsighted morons . . .

     

    OK, I'll be the bad guy here.

     

    In order to save the time needed for HR to manually input vacation days for every employee as they take it, it is now commonplace to pay vacation on the employee's anniversary and they are entitled to take the days off as the choose throughout the year or work them, as they so choose. It is not illegal or unethical as the days taken for vacation are in fact compensated.

     

    Sick time is a different issue as these are not guaranteed days but emergency days which should only be used for illness or doctor appointments of the employee, or in the case of our company, a family member or some other emergency. Thus, sick time is not nor should it be viewed as additional paid vacation since it isn't.

  20. Character: Tarzan

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    Re: Character: Tarzan

     

    I just skimmed the character sheet, so I could have missed it:

     

    IIRC he should also have life support, slow aging. as I remember it, In one of the books he is in WWII, about to parachute into the jungle with some American troops, and talks about how, though he looks like his is iirc in his early 30s, he is closer to 60. A witch doctor performed a ritual on him that was supposed to make him extremely long lived.

     

     

    I could see giving him a couple of melee skill levels too, but that might be gilding the lily

     

    Good work as usual!

    :thumbup:

    Correct. In Tarzan and the Foreign Legion he revealed his immunity to aging to the world.;)

  23. I GOT IT!!! Thrilling Places

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    Re: I GOT IT!!! Thrilling Places

     

    Read it. Loved it. Ghost Angel's review as posted by The Question Man covered the high points really well. The only thing I would add to the part about being able to run a whole campiagin based out of Thrilling Places is that any mix of characters, from the free wheeling wilderness adventurer to the citified hard bitten detective can thrive and be challenged by the locations and backgrounds presented.

     

    Terrific job, DOJ!

  25. The cranky thread

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    See. That's what I was expecting. I'm happier at a different bank anyway. I don't have to deal with the guy now. The guys at Citibank are much nicer than the drone at Nevada State. I'm sure it had something to do with it being a State Bank, but if he had just told me up front, I wouldn't of wasted time. (Oh the debit card didn't count because it wasn't one of theirs. Can you say Catch 22?)

    Thankfully, it's a small portion of what needs to be done and I'll be able to just move everything at once when it comes time to do so.

    "Why are you closing all the accounts and moving them Sir?"

    "Because your manager is an idiotic donkey's rear. Next question."

    They should give you a free parting gift just for improving their stupidity based customer service policy.

     

    Still, sorry you had to go through that crap, lemming.

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