KaskadskyjKozak

Powell is the de facto Secretary of State until Rice is confirmed. The facts speak for themselves - pressure IS being applied. You'll need to find a new theory to justify your Bush hatred. I will also note that those who speak the loudest about the race of this or that person - or the supposed racism of this or that person - are usually the racists themselves. Put that it in your pipe and smoke it.

Yep. That's why they refused to hold a recount - they knew 3-4 million votes were falsfied in the eastern regions and they would lose the recount. So, they will hold a "new" election runoff instead, and in the meantime try these shenanigans...

ACTUALLY the US has turned up the heat on Putin, and he is livid. Powell just appeared in the UN and administered a verbal beating. The European nations and Canada are doing their part as well... Meanwhile Putin just got a victory at home - regional Russian Governers will no longer be elected but *appointed*.

He'll probably sue the city, the cop, and the people who trained the dog and get a couple million... As for the injuries, too bad both testicles weren't severed - that would be evolution in action!

Yushchenko's doctors in Vienna have not been able to identify the poison, but have cited "a chemical agent that does not occur naturally in food". One hypothesis that is consistent with the symptoms is Dioxin poisoning.

According to their web sites, Crystal Mountain is opening Sat. Snoqualmie Summit West and Stevens may as well. We're finally turning the corner!

One last comment: I think some overtime can raise productivity in the short term, but does not work over the long haul. People burn out and tend to be less efficient in their work. I think you may have a point in that some of the countries you cite in general probably have a better attitude about this than we have in a lot of our corporations (especially the bigger ones). I'm also a big believer in vacation, and always have negotiated for a minimum of 3 weeks paid time off. Not quite the Euro standard, but better than the measly 2 weeks that is common. :-)

There are many ways to make such an employer pay. Intentionally reducing productivity is the best, and easiest way to do so. Unless you are billing clients, this is feasible and I see nothing unethical about it. You have to work 50 hours - fine, but only actually *do* 40 hours of work, and, if possible, do something else during those 10 hours. Employers who treat their employees like shit deserve neither the respect, nor the full cooperation of their employees, IMNSHO.

Having worked at an employer that mandated 50hr weeks, bullshit. I've never worked at a company that "mandated" overtime. If I had, I'd have changed jobs.

Umnichali samozvani mudraki, Nastoyashchie mudaki, Propali skoro vsye oni bez znaka, Pered siloj slov Kaskadskogo Kozaka!

Ne znayu... mozhet byt' oni poshli na tri veselye bukvy.

The important thing to keep in mind is freedom and the choices regarding quality of life issues. Americans earn enough to choose to eat like pigs and have weight-related problems (and have the money and health care to subsequently treat the problems). Some choose otherwise - buying expensive gear and taking time to go climbing, for example. In contrast, recall the posting from the polish guy who could not afford climbing gear. Another example - Americans can and DO choose to buy cars in lieu of supporting large public-transportation infrastructures. They get congested freeways, wasted time commuting, and pollution as a result. They also are able to travel at will to any destination - like the cascade mountains to hike, bike, ski, and climb, for example.

I've seen these types of statistics before. What US city is the best place to live? What country? When you dig deeper, you quickly find that the statistics are biased according the criteria set by the person who designed the study. Weights are arbitrarily assigned to factors that are selected and scored arbitrarily.

vous avez raison!

Salaried, high-paid employees work longer hours - of their own accord. These people are often the most motivated to excel. University professors, graduate students, and scientists also work long hours - because they love what they do. This yields to breakthroughs in research, patents, and inventions. Where are the bulk of all these fruits of hard-work found? Socialist countries tax labor at a higher rate, reducing the desire to excel. People work less because the marginal gains - personal, economic, etc are less. Why work 50 hours a week for little benefit? Now, can you say thread drift?

Proof's in the pudding bitches! The issue was education . . I'm not going to even bother to look at your unreferenced abstract from a 2 page artcile published FOUR YEARS ago by in a small bulletin . . . Scott you ever study economics, you know the part whereby a larger country has a higher production of goods? Seems your Canuck education has failed you - the posting cited *per capita* productivity. Perhaps you should expand your lexicon to include common Latin phrases, or work on your reading comprehension skills.

And yet every Canadian I have met is a dim-witted product of group-think, socialist mentality. Imagine that. And where are the majority of the world's greatest universities located, pray tell? The best and brightest all want to come to the US to study at schools like Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and Berkeley. They also want to immigrate to work in the US - the land of opportunity and freedom. Canada is a far inferior, second choice. Take off - hosers.

Some ROI - a socialist shithole, filled with secularist, boring, white-bread fuckheads who think their shit don't stink. You rival the French in your baseless pride.

All that Canadian education has done is produce a bunch of mind-numbed socialist drones, with delusions of grandeur concerning their own supposed sophistication and erudition.

I just bought a Takamine steel-string acoustic (AN10S). It plays sweeeet.

One small flaw. We can work on it. I'm sure Christina smokes hog... that's what you get for trying to step up from skank.

She recently opened her big mouth about politics. She should STFU and just look pretty.

Die with Your Boots On!

Probably a .com-mer that jumped on the bandwagon and was not very skilled at what she does. There's a lot of dead weight and incompetence in software dev. Good luck to her finding software development work in the People's Republic of Canuckistan!