This is more of an overly well mannered squirrel with low self esteem.

Really I should just take the peanut, oh golly, why don't I just. Oh nevermind I'll just. Hmmm, take the peanut? If only I were squirrel enough to take. Take the peanut? Oh my, oh Yes, I'll just. Take. The. PEANUT! ALLLL MIIINE.

There are a lot of companies out there who could learn from this.
Many more that turn a way better profit than a company like WestJet.

I'm looking at some of the Large Retail Department stores - You know who you are!!

Random giving back to communities is the best way to win their hearts. We are all connected, Companies today need to realize that business isn't all about take take take. It is a symbiotic relationship. They can't survive without communities and consumers, while we can't live without their good and services. It's a nice feeling when a company takes some of their profits and puts it back into the sysem in a way that is pure giving.

I know Continental Portuguese, not Brazilian Portuguese, but here goes:

- Unintelligible.
- Come... Not gonna get any closer, gonna wait.
- No, you go (Unintelligible again, the guy speaks too fast for me to understand).
- Take, take, take the money, damnit... I'm not going below, man.
Hey kid! Hey kid! (Expression like Oh shit!)
The bug is coming! The bug is coming, dude! The bug is coming...
And he charges, son of a whore... And he charges... How do I duck?
- No ducking, he just runs.
- Is the bug coming or not? The bug ran away, man. Is the bug coming or not?
- Unintelligible.
- The bug is coming! Oh no... Killed me, man, tore my head off.
- You have to take revenge.
- Eh, take revenge...
- Awesome.
- Take revenge, man.
- You take it for me.

@blankfist

Eventually we could all be working for the big corporations, and with less competition they could lessen benefits such as health or vacation pay, they could easily lower wages, and they could then extend the expected work week from 40 hours to something like 100 hours. If that sounds farfetched, I can tell you from first hand experience I've seen this exact thing happen to an industry I know very well. And when I say big corporations, I mean major parent companies that buy large businesses. For instance, let's take the advertising industry. One parent company could own almost all of the major companies in that industry, so if you complain about the 100 hour work week and loss of vacation benefits, your chances of receiving another job in that industry are cut to almost zero. I've seen it. And they do illegal shit like tell women not to get pregnant.

That is exactly what's happening. Wages began stagnating in the 70's. At the time, women were moving into the work force so the impact on families was offset by an extra income. And today, it's out of control. It's been researched and it's been documented. And it's visible if you look at all the personal debt families have. Americans take less vacation time than other industrialized nation. The US is also the only industrialized nation who does not mandate vacation time. I read something the other day (disclaimer: i don't have a good grasp on economics, it was a complicated paper and i'm a bit dyslexic/dyscalculic so I've got to reread it a few times before I'm totally confident I understand it, and then research it for accuracy) and the idea of it just fascinated me. It was something like, wages used to increase as labor's productivity increased.. like it was inherently built into the market. So maybe technology eliminated the need for as many people, but the remaining workers were more productive, so their wages should have been going up. But the mid 70's saw an abandonment of this principle in favor of higher profits and the consequences of that have been devastating for working people ever since. Like, they broke a rule of the market and it's sent tremors through almost 40 years and now everything is fucked up and the worker is more and more screwed everyday.

now, regulation: we've been peeling back regulations for decades. and it seems to have worked antithetically to your hypothesized outcome. why do you think that is? which regulations are you talking about, specifically?
I don't disagree that it should be fairly simple to start your own new business. And I don't like or trust government either, but I want some kind of assurance that this new business is not polluting my air, water, community, that its employees are not being exploited and are paid a living wage and that sanitary practices are being followed. What sort of system do you propose to keep new restaurants from serving rat poo infested soups made by 5 year olds? ..... maybe, eventually, the free market would take care of this sort of violation but after how many people eat there and get sick? And after how many child chefs burn their little fingers on hot stoves?

And when people feel they pay into a nanny system, they feel less generous to help those in front of them. I know, I see it every damn day in LA.

this statement is a motherfucking cop-out. i'm not saying that you dont "see" it.. i'm just saying people should know better. The "nanny-system" obviously, isn't taking take care of those in front of them. This is where i see a major downfall in individualism. "I would help, but something else is already helping you. I'm looking out for #1!! I already gave to charity this week.. see where my pay stub says 'FICA'?"... And "someone else is already doing it" has become the operative ethic of the gen-x yuppie class. It is an excuse for petulance and cold heartedness and snobbery. If we lived in nomadic, tribal hunter/gatherer communities, they would be the first kicked out of the clan. ... and John Winthrop would have thrown them off the arabella. Shame on them.

I spend a great deal of time with the "nanny-system"... personally, professionally and academically. There are atrocious disparities. My most functionally impaired clients also happen to my poorest clients. At first, I thought this was a coincidence. It isn't. Not at all. Diagnosis doesn't have as much to do with prognosis as the financial and social status of the person living with the disability. (e.g. parents can't afford to make the home handicap accessible, so the wheelchair can't make it through the front door, so person with the disability spends 30 years crawling around on the floor, which solves the problem of moving from room to room, but creates 100 other problems in its place. the body is so malformed at this point, employment placement for the disabled adult is impossible, i could give you 500 other examples) This is a sin.

In a lot of ways, I agree... government is too bulky and convoluted here to be as effective as it needs to be. The apparatus is too cumbersome and the funding and political/community support for such services is far too small. It doesn't have to be this way. Nationally, we've tabled charity and efficiency as a virtue, in favor of strength and might and greed and pride. Social Services could be reworked, in a vastly more effective and efficient way if only we had the political and social will to do it. We could do it for a lot cheaper as well, I think. I won't go on my diatribe about how disability services needs to function, mostly because its full of jargon and boring.

But, I think we mostly agree on a lot of things, namely, corporations are fucking us all and the government is providing the reach around. every 4 years half of us orgasm when our candidate is elected by popular vote. only for the pounding to commence again the following January.

Naw, Just laugh at the guy - who thinks he is Mr. Joe Cool!
Honestly, We had guys that had the attitude this guy does, they just didn't take take it to the same level of confidence this guy has in themselves!

Naw, Just laugh at the guy - who thinks he is Mr. Joe Cool!
Honestly, We had guys that had the attitude this guy does, they just didn't take take it to the same level of confidence this guy has in themselves!

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Did I miss something here? Like a point, or a punchline?

I'm so sorry to hear that nibiyabi, my Grandfather passed away last March. He had been sick for a while beforehand as well, it was still a shock to us all and very hard to take.

Take care of yourself and we'll look forward to seeing you soon.

You Can't, You Won't And You Don't Stop
Mike D Come On And Rock The Sure Shot

I've Got The Brand New Doo-Doo Guaranteed
Like Yoo Hoo
I'm On Like Dr John, Yea Mr Zu Zu
I'm A Newlywed, Not A Divorcee
And Everything I Do Is Funky Like Lee Dorsey
Well, It's The Taking of Pelham, One, Two, Three
If You Want A Doodoo Rhyme Then Come See Me
I've Got The Savoir Faire With The Unique Rhyme
And
I Keep It On And On, It's Never Quitting Time And
Strictly Hand Held Is The Style I Go
Never Rock The Mic With The Panty Hose
I Strap On My Ear Goggles And I'm Ready To Go
'Cause At The Boards Is The Man They Call The
Mario
Pull Up At The Function And You Know I Kojak
To All The Party People That Are On My Bozak
I've Got More Action Than My Man John Woo
And I've Got Mad Hits Like I Was Rod Carew


You Can't, You Won't And You Don't Stop
Ad Rock Come And Rock The Sure Shot


Hurricane Will Cross Fade On Your Ass And
Bust Your Ear Drums
Listen Everybody 'Cause I'm Shifting Gears I'm
Fresh Like Dougie When I Set My Specs And
On The Microphone I Come Correct
Timing Like A Clock When I Rock The Hip Hop
Top Notch Is My Stock On The Soap Box
I've Got More Rhymes Than I've Got Grey Hairs
And That's A Lot Because I've Got My Share
I've Got A Hole In My Head And There's No One
To Fix It
Got To Straighten My Thoughts, I'm Thinking Too
Much Sick Shit
Everyone Just Takes and Takes, Takes, Takes,
Takes
I've Got To Step Back, I've Got To Contemplate
I'm Like Lee Perry, I'm Very
On Rock The Microphone And Then I'm Gone
I'm Like Vaughn bode, I'm a Cheech Wizard
Never Quitting, So Won't You Listen


Oh Yes Indeed, It's Fun Time
'Cause You Can't, You Won't And You Don't Stop
MCA Come And Rock The Sure Shot


I Want To Say a Little Something That's Long
Overdue
The Disrespect To Women Has Got To Be Through
To All The Mothers And Sisters A And The
Wives And Friends
I Want To Offer My Love And Respect To The
End
Well You Say I'm Twenty Something And Should
Be Slacking
But I'm Working Harder Than Ever And You Could
Call It Macking
So I'm Supposed To Sit Upon My Couch Watching My
T.V.
I'm Still Listening To Wax, I'm Not Using The CD
I'm That Kid In The Corner
All Fucked Up And I Wanna So I'm Gonna
Take A Piece Of The Pie, Why Not, I'm Not Quitting
Think I'm Gonna Change Up My Style Just To Fit In
I Keep My Underwear Up With A Piece Of Elastic
I Use A Bullshit Mic That's Made Out Of Plastic
To Send My Rhymes Out To All Nations
Like Ma Bell, I've Got The Ill Communications

>> ^asynchronice:
And I'm sorry it's flat out irresponsible to imply that " Doctors LOVE to use the term 'baby in distress' to force people into have a caesar or force things along with drugs, or using suction or forceps or the like... because they know that without any other knowledge, if you suggest to parent's to be that their unborn baby might be in danger, you'll leap." Great idea, let's cause everyone to second guess their doctor on the assumption they want you OUT of the hospital more than they want a safe birth. That will end great. (on that note, anyone who works at a hospital knows what happens when a nurse tries to correct a doctor)

But experience with us, and many, many other mothers that we know and have read about time and time again here in Australia and overseas bears this to be true in far, far too many cases. It's not something you can just do if you have no support... you don't have the medical training to know otherwise, and they DO prey on that, we have many friends who have been forced down the path of intervention for no good, sound, medical reason. These types of doctors may think that they are doing what's best, but they're coming from the point of view of putting intervention being preferable to nature. Midwives take take the point of view of letter nature do its best, and ONLY if necessary intervene.

Absolutely there are cases that require intervention, but the figures bear out that intervention is far, far higher than it needs to be, ESPECIALLY in the private medical sector. In Australia we have public and private hospitals, and intervention and caesar rates are FAR higher in the private sector... just as an example, vaginal birth for public patients 72.6%, in private 49.7%, both numbers are far, far lower than they should be, but this study tried to remove all factors to do with actual risk (they were low risk births) and yet, look at that whopping difference in figures. There is NO NEED for so many interventions, it's bad for the mother, it's bad for the baby, but it's what doctors schooled in a particular way want because it's predictable. Not better, just predictable, they don't like the uncertain wait, it's more effort.


However, it doesn't take a whole lot of imagination to see the options laid out in front of you. C-section is less painful; is it right ? Well, up to you, the long term effects are minimally debatable. And my wife can attest the VAST majority of women who want no drugs and to have a natural birth are SCREAMING for drugs and threatening lawsuits if they don't get them come push-time.
Ahh, but you're looking at things in the wrong way, far too much the current society is moving towards 'why have pain if you don't have to'? Well, because it's not pointless pain, it's pain which women are built for, and as much as you'll probably scoff, it's amazingly empowering for a woman to give birth with no medical assistance. The feeling of power to be able to do that, to push through the pain, to give birth ALL ON THEIR own is something which stays with women for life. Take that away from them, repeatedly offer them drugs or an operation and deprive them of that experience is such a horribly narrow/short sighted vision on childbirth. The women who start on the natural path and opt for the drugs in almost all cases have a number of things against them:
* Ill prepared for the pain: My wife and I went to natural childbirthing classes where the pain is explained in full is not shied away from, but also prepared for. You are really shown how to get through it and grow from it (I almost guarantee you're rolling your eyes at this point at the 'new ageness' of all this).
* Ill prepared for the medical system: During our first birth which wasn't in a family birth centre (who are more geared towards natural births) due to the nature of our first born's heart condition, we had a doctor who would continually pop his head in and ask if she wanted an epidural. This constant dangling of 'you want the pain to go away' is enough to wear down the most ardent of natural birth advocates if you don't have others who instead of offering the drug relief offer other ways such as walking around, hot showers, back rubs, ice... etc. etc. Yes it hurts, yes it's excruciating, but after three natural births with no drugs, my wife for one wouldn't have had it any other way.
Poor support team: If you have people around you who aren't prepared to see you in pain and support you through it and help you, but are getting more worked up than you and are suggesting you take the easy way out, it's just such a hard battle. You need people who are in it with you who are there to support the natural method.

It shouldn't be that hard to have a natural birth, but unfortunately you need to come so, so forearmed these days because of how against it the medical system is, and that's a sad, sad indictment on the system as it stands.


And the health care system, ya it's flawed, but that's a whole other documentary. And besides, isn't a midwife working for profit in this system as well ? Does making less than a doctor make them more noble or even better ?

The midwife is working for profit in this model, well in our model because we had an independent one, but that's only because the vast majority of the free midwives provided in the free system are far too pro drugs, pro intervention. In New Zealand for example, you can claim the cost of your independent midwife and home birth costs, and they have much, much lower intervention rates than Australia. If the system provided training with natural being the first and best option over intervention instead of the other way round, then people like us wouldn't have to pay for a good midwife.

The bottom line is that intervention rates in countries like Australia and the US are far, far above what they should be, and countries where natural birth has a higher focus bear this out to be true. If a woman can give birth with NO intervention (not drugs, not surgery, not forceps or suction) then she should be given ALL and EVERY opportunity to do so, for if she does it will make her a much, much stronger woman. To be able to know that you, alone, gave birth to your children, rather than having that taken away from you and given to the doctors is the way it should be, and sadly isn't for so many women...

Religious bigotry. The secular Europeans are terrible. The Religious terrorists picked the wrong god.

And what's this deal about Democrats surrendering to terror? Terrorism just isn't worth talking about it because all reasonable politicians will take steps to prevent it. Although actually engaging in diplomacy is a step that not all administrations will take.

Taking troops out of Iraq doesn't mean surrendering to terror. Taking troops that should be in Afghanistan hunting down Bin Laden and sending them to a country with no significant ties to Al Qaeda, no connection to 9/11, and no weapons of mass destructions would be more of a surrender to terror.

I just can't believe that the Republicans talk like they have some kind of high-ground on national security. Just like they have some high ground about fiscal responsibility? It's absurd.

In reply to your comment:
“I like how about 3.35, he says that a test plan took off 10 times, and landed 13 times???? something about that doesn't add up.. just like the rest of the b******t in this documentary.”

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Yes, a plane can take take off only once, yet via "touch-and-go" landings I can land it 50 times and it would still be considered that I took off only once yet landed it 50 times. In your pilot log book it would be recorded as 1 takeoff and 50 landings.

Everything is not as black and white as you would believe it is.

"I like how about 3.35, he says that a test plan[e] took off 10 times, and landed 13 times???? something about that doesn't add up.. just like the rest of the b******t in this documentary. "

Yes, a plane can take take off only once, yet via "touch-and-go" landings I can land it 50 times and it would still be considered that I took off only once yet landed it 50 times. In your pilot log book it would be recorded as 1 takeoff and 50 landings.

Everything is not as black and white as you would believe it is.