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Re: Sustainability and Employee Engagement: Anything Goes

Jim — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:47:58 -0000

http://www.dilbert.com/2009-11-25/

Re: Quick-Hit Ideas to Cut Costs and Increase Cash Flow

Jim — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:38:57 -0000

Why not outsource all of your executive and upper-management positions to India and/or China?

I would not be at all surprised to find that an Indian or Chinese worker, paid pennies per day (and with no stock options, or massive undeserved year-end bonuses), could drive your company into the ground just as well as (if not better than) the people you have currently.

Re: Dell Ends Sales of Mini 12 Netbook

Jim — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:26:39 -0000

The Dell 12 netbook had two problems - one insurmountable, one annoying.
1 - Battery life was just unacceptable. Anything under 8 hours of actual use just isn't going to cut it.
2 - PATA ZIF interface for the 1.8-inch hard drive. This is all FAIL. At some point, I'm going to swap the drive - and if the netbook doesn't accept a SATA 2.5-inch drive, I'm not going to buy it.

Re: New Generation of Netbooks: $199 and $299, Eight Hour Battery & Sexy Design

Jim — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:59:39 -0000

Can it play movies with VLC? The i.MX515 is supposed to have pretty good video capabilities, but if I can't watch mp4 movies, I'm not going to buy one.

Re: Pelosi: Jailing people who don’t buy health insurance is “fair”

Jim — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:25:33 -0000

Can we imprison corporate whore legislators for failing to pass a real health care reform bill - like a single-payer system? Because I'd totally support that.

Re: Kunstler Continues to Push Peak Oil Issues

Jim — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:08:10 -0000

Kunster said we are caught in the "previous investment trap" and now Katrina clean up will prove him right.

Re: Don’t Ever Argue Again About The Pronunciation Of Linux

Jim — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:00:35 -0000

Why should we listen to Linus? He's got a Finnish accent.

I don't pronounce "Microsoft" with an American accent just because the guys who started it are American, and I don't pronounce "Linux" with a Finnish accent just because the guy who started it is Finnish.

Re: Advice from Krugman: "Don’t trust the insurance industry"

Jim — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:08:56 -0000

The drug and insurance companies have no 'place at the table' in the health care reform discussion. They deserve to go to prison. Forever. An awful prison, like in really old movies.

Mandatory "insurance" feels more like forcible rape than help.

The solution is a National Health Service for the United States, like what they have in the UK. At present, the US wastes about $7200 per person per year on a health care system that is largely illusory. The British NHS spends about $2900 (USD equivalent) per person per year to actually provide medical care (including dental care and vision services).

How to pay for the US National Health Service? Easy: a Federal 15% Value Added Tax. In 2008 consumer expenditures totaled $9953 billion; if 90% of these expenditures were subjected to a 15% VAT, the Federal government would have collected about $1340 billion from the VAT alone.

If this 15% VAT was combined with the elimination of all Federal income taxes on the bottom 95% of incomes, and the top 5% of incomes were subject to a 50% Federal income tax, we would have ended up with about $1693 billion in additional tax revenue in 2008. More than enough to cover the estimated $918 billion dollar cost to fully fund the US National Health Service, and provide an additional $775 billion for other uses.

Re: Explainer: What is a "Nice Guy®?"

Jim — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:08:30 -0000

> so why did you come? why did you comment? what did you want?

Why did you write it if you don't want people to read it? Why do you allow comments when you don't want them?

Re: Explainer: What is a "Nice Guy®?"

Jim — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:02:22 -0000

I assumed you were the author because... well, how on earth can you complain about others dropping by, showing interest and commenting when you are doing exactly that?

Why did *you* come? Why did *you* comment? What did *you* want?

Are you stuck in some kind of time warp where it's a two month old post for the rest of us, but a new post for you? No? Then why the puzzlement at people commenting on a two month old post? In fact, why aren't you criticising Jeff for writing an article about something that has been knocking around for a lot longer than two months?

Re: Beginner Web Design Resources

Jim — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:03:46 -0000

> W3C School

It's "W3 Schools", not "W3C School". They have absolutely nothing to do with the W3C, they just picked a name to con people into thinking they are somehow more official than the other crappy tutorial sites.

Re: Don’t Ever Argue Again About The Pronunciation Of Linux

Jim — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:00:35 -0000

Re: Problogger LiewCF? What a Joke?!

Jim — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 01:47:20 -0000

working hard <strike>toward</strike> towards it.

Actually, that was right the first time. I think the first form is rarely used in American English, but it's still correct and widely used here in the UK. Of course, the second form is also correct.

Re: Quick-Hit Ideas to Cut Costs and Increase Cash Flow

Jim — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:38:57 -0000

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Re: Sustainability and Employee Engagement: Anything Goes

Re: Quick-Hit Ideas to Cut Costs and Increase Cash Flow

Re: Dell Ends Sales of Mini 12 Netbook

Re: New Generation of Netbooks: $199 and $299, Eight Hour Battery & Sexy Design

Re: Pelosi: Jailing people who don’t buy health insurance is “fair”

Re: Kunstler Continues to Push Peak Oil Issues

Re: Don’t *Ever* Argue Again About The Pronunciation Of Linux

Re: Advice from Krugman: "Don’t trust the insurance industry"

Re: Explainer: What is a "Nice Guy®?"

Re: Explainer: What is a "Nice Guy®?"

Re: Beginner Web Design Resources

Re: Don’t *Ever* Argue Again About The Pronunciation Of Linux

Re: Problogger LiewCF? What a Joke?!

Re: Quick-Hit Ideas to Cut Costs and Increase Cash Flow

Re: Don’t Ever Argue Again About The Pronunciation Of Linux

Re: Don’t Ever Argue Again About The Pronunciation Of Linux