No no, thats not what I said. It's a powderpuff major in college. Requires no skills. Getting ahead with in anything requires skills.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrone Bigguns
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No no, thats not what I said. It's a powderpuff major in college. Requires no skills. Getting ahead with in anything requires skills.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrone Bigguns
Ah, contract labor..and you don't think they pay more for a contractor then a normal employee. You think they just double your contract wage when you start. Oh, lord.Quote:
Originally Posted by Partial
Why do you use your parents health...BECAUSE YOU WOULD HAVE TO PAY FOR YOUR BENEFITS.
Wrong, idiot. Writing is a skill. Analyzing is a skill. Comprehension is a skill..one that can be refined.Quote:
Originally Posted by Partial
If it was a powderpuff major..do you think law school's would accept so many of them? It is just too easy.
Sure wish you wouldn't make these comments.Quote:
Originally Posted by Partial
To me it means either you are terribly jaded by your youth...or maybe you discriminate based on gender. I don't think you would ever make these comments toward a woman that is staying home with her children while they are small. Having a parent (either gender)at home to take care of children before they get in school is priceless!!
I really don't care what Skin does nor do I have any prejudice against anyone who chooses this path. I like to give him crap.Quote:
Originally Posted by GrnBay007
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Originally Posted by GrnBay007
I wish I could have stayed home with mine.
Partial hasn't figured out that life isn't a destination to be "gotten anywhere" it is a journey.Quote:
Originally Posted by GrnBay007
Yeah, my contract will get increased. Who says anything about double? Again, another implication and assumption on your part. I will be expecting a 10 grand raise after college to 50+, and will be shooting to get a 60+ job.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrone Bigguns
Are you implying that you don't have to pay for health care within your company? Most people in block plans still have to pay. It's a benefit in that my company covers a significant portion of the cost.
Me too!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott Campbell
Well, in a way I did but it was by us working opposite shifts...that's a whole other story.
High GPA. Amazing how most law schools won't touch you if you're a history or english major and have close to a 4.0 yet 3.4-3.6 in enginering and you're golden.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrone Bigguns
Writing is a skill, but with grade inflation it is very easy I would imagine to pull off a B for writing any paper that has an opinion and is written half-way well. If you don't nail your math exams, you fail the class.
Assumption...you said it yourself. LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by Partial
You think because you graduate this company is going to give you a 10 grand raise. Oh, lord.
BTW, you aren't an employee if you are a contractor. You are not a contract laborer..you have a contract, but you are an hourly employee. If you are a contractor..who is your employer?
Health care. Wow, you are rocket scientist. No, i dont' pay for health care. Not one single penny.
Oh, lord..you are talking out of your ass again. BTW,you sentence doesn't make a sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by Partial
You are completely wrong about majors and gpa. What else is new.
Grade inflation. Wow, another strawman. As if grade inflation only effects liberal arts. But, the key word in your sentence is "imagine." That is something you are very good at..imagining you know something.
Don't nail your math exams. LOL. Math is a subject where you are graded on a curve. I've seen many classes where a 60 out of 100 was an A.
Keep it up, you just keep inserting your foot in your mouth.
There is some truth to what you say. I pretty much got A's in math and physics, and when I took eletrical engineering classes I got B's. They grade very hard in engineering. Engineering tends to be a tad robotic, they emphasize repetition in problem solving, you have to become so proficient that you can complete exams very quickly. That's painful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Partial
You'd be surprised at how hard English majors work, though. They are expected to read & digest for one class a long Shakespeare play in one week. Ridiculous. Or a long novel in two weeks. They do a horrendous amount of reading and writing. I expect you would be a C student if you attempted a semester of English classes. It is not easy to wrap your brain around poetry written hundreds of years ago.
I highly doubt Partial makes it out of the weedout class that has you reading Milton, Spenser, Chaucer, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harlan Huckleby
Shakespeare play..that is light reading. Try reading Tom Jones in a week.
No. You like to be ignorant in everything you say and do. You're one of those guys who high-fives himself in the mirror as self-affirmation. In short, you are a douchebag. And a pussy to boot, since you always back off your original statements, claiming you were only "stirring the pot" or "giving someone crap."Quote:
Originally Posted by Partial
Partial, you sure seem to know a lot about majoring in English, law school admission, being a parent, not living with your mom, and attending a real university for not having any experience in any of those fields. Where does all of this wisdom come from? Is it the same mega-server that holds all of the college football film that guides your vast and omnipotent football knowledge? You still haven't told me where I can find this infinite well of wisdom. It would be very much appreciated. I long to be as smart as you.
What do you call those religious freaks who like to flog themselves? I'm starting to think this thread is Partial's flog.
You mean flagellation? Or the "English vice"?Quote:
Originally Posted by SkinBasket
http://www.corpun.com/books2.htm
Those freaks are called catholics.Quote:
Originally Posted by hoosier
Well, really, devout subsection. You are most likely referring to Opus Dei.
They use the doctine of mortification..the voluntary offering of discomfort of pain.
Tyrone isn't a member, but he enjoys wearing a cilice.
Tyrone is like a black Silas?
How do you know Silas wasn't black.Quote:
Originally Posted by BallHawk
I guarantee jesus isn't like those pics hanging in churches..no blue eyed, blond haired jews hanging aroung galilee.
I've always imagined that Jesus looked like Gary Glitter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrone Bigguns
Silas was an albino caucasian. Albino African-Americans became extinct in the 1600s.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrone Bigguns
And, he liked young boys as well?Quote:
Originally Posted by BallHawk
I have to confess to not reading all 28 or so pages of this thread or going to the What's For Dinner or whatever thread that was mentioned.Quote:
Originally Posted by LL2
I see that somewhere along the line, the thread departed from the original title, so I quoted the above from page 1, as it seems on point, if not entirely correct.
As LL2 said, there is a clear economic definition of recession, which has not even come close to being met. The talk of recession is primarily demagoguery by the anti-Bush Adminstration leftist mainstream media.
Where I differ from LL2 is the talk about "stagflation". This is a term coined during the Carter years to denote something which had basically never happened before, and which went against all textbook economic principals.
Students learn in Econ 101 that there is a "tradeoff" between inflation and unemployment. In the Carter years, we had extreme inflation AND very high unemployment resulting from a stagnating economy--lack of economic growth.
THAT scenario is absolutely NOT what we see today. Unemployment is about 4.5%--lower than any time in nearly a half century. Growth has slowed down from the economic boom brought on by the Bush tax cuts, but it still exists. And inflation is still low--up just barely from the extraordinarily low rate a few years ago. True, oil/gasoline prices are up, and that has raised a lot of other things due to higher transportation cost, etc., but statistically, inflation is NOT alarmingly high.
Likewise, the mortgage "crisis" is a "tempest in a teapot" promoted by the degenerate and biased media. Defaults are under 1%; Actual foreclosures are well under that. Some demagogues have actually compared this to the Depression when foreclosures reached 50% of mortgages. They were 2-3% for several years in the late70s/early 80s.
To a great extent, this is all election year politics more than anything else, as the leftist media tries to generate trouble--at America's expense--to try and influence the election in favor of one of the leftist candidates.
Good to see you Tex!
Our prayers have been answered.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott Campbell
Thank you, Scott. BallHawk, I haven't been around here long enough to know where you stand--and whether you were being sarcastic or not ...... thanks--I think.
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Originally Posted by texaspackerbacker
I believe defaults are way up. And credit has certainly tightened because of it. And I know some ridiculous lending practices were allowed that the industry never would have considered even 15 years ago.
But I'm not aware of the increase in defaults historical perspective.
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Originally Posted by texaspackerbacker
Hell, I'm glad to see you. Now well probably argue like all hell on many subjects. But that's ok.
Yeah, like I had as my signature one year, politics is the most fun thing going in the off-season. As I recall, I agreed with you more often than not in the old FYI days.
As for the mortgage "crisis", there are actually two separate but related situations: the slight downturn in real estate values AND the idea that a fairly large number of people are in default, and some actually getting foreclosed on.
The "downturn" thing is mostly confined to a few areas where the real estate "boom" was the most extreme--California, Florida, and a few (far from all) big cities. Most of the country is experiencing decent growth as usual. Even the areas of downturn will undoubtedly bounce back fairly quick.
The mortgage thing, as I said in the other post, is greatly exaggerated. It was worse in the late 70s/early 80s and horribly worse in the Depression. The thing is, interest is still extremely low--5.5-6% fixed rate, which means affordability--house payments way less than what rent would be for the same house. That contrasts with the horrendous interest rates of 12 to a high of 17.5% in the late 70s/early 80s.
Credit may be a little tighter, but only in comparison to the easy money of the last few years which some people blame for the current minor problems. With interest still as low as it is, it is still a great time to be a buyer and not too bad a time to be a seller in most of the country.
The fact that a lot of the crap from the media seems to indicate otherwise is just stirring up trouble to help the Dems and to make Bush, McCain, and other Republicans look bad.
No sarcasm involved. I was referring to a few threads on here where the statement was uttered "If Tex was here....."Quote:
Originally Posted by texaspackerbacker
Good to have you on board.