Mr_Phil
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To quote Winter:
The picture you paint is far too simplistic.
The $200k Microsoft programmer argument is a strawman, so I'm not going to bite.
The gas pump jockey is a better analogy. When the price of gas doubled from $1.50 to $3.00 recently, did people cut their fuel usage in half? I don't think so. If the minimum wage is bumped up, then the gas station will simply bump up the cost of gasoline a few cents and customers will pay. Since a number of customers are minimum wage folks, they can afford it. $200k programmers at Microsoft won't notice. The pump jockey can't be off shored, since he is in the service industry. This doesn't target a single company, since all gas stations will have to pay higher wages.
I still don't understand why your hybrid system (minimum wage + Gov't subsidy = living income) is a better solution.
As Phelps said:
To earn one's own way - to meet a decent living standard, afford children, and share in community life - is essential to one's sense of self-worth. To know the satisfactions of employment - its challenges and learning experiences, and the personal development that comes with mastering jobs - is also one of life's basic goods.
We should not deny this to the large number of folks who pick our crops, pump our gas, or clean our toilets.
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Jay,
Is there the implicit assumption in your arguments that increasing the minimum wage will significantly increase unemployment?
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The costs associated with fixing the price of labor above the real value of the said labor ... are also disproportionately borne by the poorest and least educated people in society.
Explain. [i'm assuming I cleared the clutter accurately.]
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Then what is the benefit to your plan?
Either set the minimum wage to achieve the "minimum income" level, or have no minimum wage.
No minimum wage means no regulation. No?
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Since the real issue here is income, rather than wages, stipulate what you think the minimum income for anyone working a full-time job should be. Instead of forcing employers to pay higher wages, establish a minimum income, and have the government kick-in the difference between the minimum income and what the people who earn the lowest wages actually make.
Then businesses will start paying low end workers $1 per year.
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There is so much shit that IS NOT CLIMBING RELATED on the “ticks thread” Better put is on its own thread!
And you're reading it!
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Does Rossi/Gregoire ring a bell? How long did Rossi and the Republicans bitch?
But as we all know, Gregoire started it.
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Are you hinting that weight lifting has no place in climbing?
Here's what Will Gadd has to say on the topic:
Climbing Movement Theory
The Big Concept: Climbing is a movement sport, not a strength sport. The best climbers are good at climbing; strength matters far less than the combination of the climber’s motion skills, attitude and mind. The best way to become a better climber is develop better movement; strength will develop specifically for climbing movement as fast as it is needed. Most climbs are combinations of movements; the better the climber is at those movements, the better he or she will climb the route. Strength is not even secondary, it’s about last on the list of needed skills. My goal is to teach the MOVES outlined below as best I can to students.
Example: In 1992 I became convinced that good climbers were strong climbers, hence I needed to be strong. After spending months in the weight room I could do a one-arm pull up with 25 pounds in the other hand and many other stunts that definitely made me very strong. My climbing improved perhaps a letter grade or two, which was positive. I then went to France, where I won several pull-up contests, often by miles. Some of these climbers were pathetic, barely able to do ten pull-ups, and these were the best in the world! Then I noticed that I was getting my ass kicked in the competitions, finishing low in the field despite being stronger than most anyone there. At the crags the French were climbing much harder routes onsight than I was capable of climbing with a lot of falls. Something was not right. One night in a bar a top euro climber was expounding on why the French were so good: "We have the best rock in the world. We climb more than anyone else. And we have the best wine." In one sentence he restructured my entire world view of climbing: To become a better climber you simply must climb more. A week later I watched Francois LeGrande onsight a route harder than anything I had ever climbed. Francois had never touched a weight, but god could he move. I resolved to learn how to move. After six months of doing nothing but climbing and studying climbing movement, I onsighted a route harder than anything I’d ever redpointed. So forget weights, strength, supplements, learn how to move and your body will develop the strength necessary for the movements.
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Get a room.
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She started into a story about how the previous week, some other climbers had told her to shut up. In her loud, irritating, nasal voice she related how she told them that they couldn't tell HER to shut up. On and on. I started to mutter under my breath, "here are a couple more climbers who are going to tell you to shut the fuck up". My partner stopped me from making a scene. I wanted to so badly.
A number of folks feel the same way about you, CBS.
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kevbone lacks backbone.
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And the Democrats would have a little credibility if they clean up their act first.
A moron weighs in with yet another unsupported sound bite.
Attack the messenger, not the message.
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And the Democrats would have a little credibility if they clean up their act first.
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I've rapped on an 8mm with a grigri.
How'd it go? I've used mine on a 9mm. It worked, but the lever action was "sporty".
"Very sporty."
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I've rapped on an 8mm with a grigri.
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Actually, I first saw the 'new larger pot' at REI and thought it would make an intriguing snow melting machine when 'mounted' to a simmerlite. The fins on the bottom lock into the supports with no chance of slippage.
The down side is that the Jetboil pot is twice as heavy (with both top and bottom lids) as my Ti pot (12 oz. vs. 6 oz). Still, the weight penalty might be worth the faster melt times.
And as Ride said, more sleep.
Not sheep.
(Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
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So that people like Phil don't go insulting REI employees (we all know that anyone wearing a green vest is smarter than me), can you be clearer?
I compared you to the average green vest.
Not the person wearing said vest.
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I think that you are reacting to some of your own preconceptions and seizing an opportunity to do a bit of grandstanding instead of actually reading what I am writing. I am not arguing against gay marriage. I am saying that people who want gays to be able to marry should frame their arguments carefully so that people who are opposed to the idea understand that what they want is a very limited and tightly constructed extension of the existing rules, and any argument that includes something along the lines of "I don't think it's any of the government's business to..." or "Anything that involves consenting adults..." etc tend to give people the wrong idea.
The sociocultural evolution of the West has resulted in a state of affairs where one type of consensual relationship has been granted a legal status above all others. Since this didn't come about as the result of any abstract logic or analysis - things just evolved in this manner - it's pretty hard to come up with a logically bulletproof defense of this arrangement. It's something that we've inherited because it worked as part of social evolution. Given that that you can't defend this state of affairs in the way that you defend a geometric proof, trying to argue on behalf of gay marriage using a purely logical proposition isn't going to work, because once you start asking why a consensual relationship between a man and a woman should be given a legal status and a set of privileges that's not granted to a man and two consenting women or two consenting women and a man, it's rather difficult to make a logically consistent argument to the contrary, which is probably why I have never heard one. Instead people veer off into empiricism or practicality, and while I accept these and they are compelling - they fall way short of a logical refutation of the idea.
The institution of marriage is an arbitrary construct that we've inherited through social evolution. That's just the way it is. People who support changing the arbitrary rules that we've inherited are making a mistake to claim otherwise, or to base their advocacy on logical arguments because, like it or not, the arguments employed in this fashion do not exclude any relationship between consenting adults. A strategy which emphasizes that the goal is not to overturn this arbitrary arrangement, but simply expand it's scope to include two persons of the same sex gives a much clearer idea of what I think most gay people's objectives are, and helps people understand that no one is talking about substantially modifying the arbitrary rules that we've inherited to include any consensual relationship between adults, nor getting the government out of the role of determining which relationships get this special status.
Gay marriage. Great idea. Less suffering, fewer women investing their lives in conflicted closet cases like Haggard, hopefully more stable and healthier relationships amongst gay people - sounds great to me, but anyone that wants to see it happen is going to have to convince lots of people who are uncomfortable with the idea, and bad arguments aren't going to help.
Brevity works, too.
Not always. Live isn't always simple. Too bad some people can only think in Sound Bites.
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'Mount'? He's not screwing a sheep here. Set pot on stove.
Also freak, did you comprehend the description 'the new larger pots'?
The average REI employee would recognize that he's talking about the new larger pot
not the old smaller cup
But, of course, you're smarter than the average green vest.
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Go to the thriftstore and buy a nylon windbreaker. Anything else is just a waste of money.
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models sure have skinny arms
bet they can't climb v3
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Global warming
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Climbing is dumb.
So are
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Why I don't like liquified gas stoves
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