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In your dreams babe... Your Immigration Services gave me all the papers I need to stay here and get all your dollars! OUTSOURCING is the magic word. THANKS AMERICA! |
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| With US wages dropping so much, outsourcing for low scale jobs may be "downsizing." Companies are starting to bring jobs back to the US because immigrants have pulled down wages so much, that US workers will now work much less. Agree that US continues to need educated immigrants because US schools really don't teach math and science because they are too hard for the coddled children in most parts of the US. When was the last time you saw a scientist, mathematician or medical researcher begging for "contract" work like all unemployed lawyers on this forum. As a math teacher, I get sick of parents lambasting me for giving their dear ones too much homework and having expectations that they can actually prove a math problem. Our standard joke is: How do you get children to pass the SOLs? Give them Asian parents..... |
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Lets get back on track, as in things I don't know but should know. I like where this thread was originally going by OP. Here are things that I should know, but don't:
the rules of football How a plane stays in the air how in NYC you can build enormous buildings and just one flight down is a massive subway system, and all of this is on an island and it doesn't sink who any of my representatives are at the local and state level who the PM of Canada is. and what their actual relationship is with the United Kingdom/monarchy how to get anywhere in N. Virginia without getting lost the first time and inevitably ending up at a security booth at the pentagon currency rates and how that works (I knew it once but forgot) types of wine |
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First of all, islands don't float, they're still connected to the rest of the land around them. It's just that the land around the island is lower and thus covered by water. |
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So true!!! 
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I don't know how the state capitals PP posted that link and picture into her post.
If no one has answered it by the time I get home tonight, I will post about what a stock is, how they are created and how they get listed on the stock exchanges. We need a stock trader to tell us how the market actually prices anything, because from where I sit most of the time it looks like lemming behavior based on fear or euphoria most of the time. And I have lived here for 13 years and I still get lost in NoVA. Going to Costco in Pentagon City is always fraught for me. |
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Mickey Mouse's dog, of course! |
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Not exactly the three professions you name but engineering is taking a major hit in this economy. People with many years of experience are their losing jobs and entry level folks can't get a foot in the door. I've heard that companies are eager to sponsor foreigners and pay them abysmally low salaries. |
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That was me, and its super easy! It's called embedding. First you need the link to the video you want to embed. Here's one about something the OP doesn't know, Stephen Hawkins on Black Holes and Richard Gott talking about String Theory. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOi0xA9GvX8 On Youtube, if scroll down under the video and it's description you'll see a button that says Share. If you click it, it will display a highlighted url. Copy that url and then you surrond it with youtube tags thusly (just make sure to leave out the * when you type the tags): [*youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOi0xA9GvX8[*/youtube] and you get this: Or to make it even simpler, get your url, click the Reply Post button and it will take you to the full Reply to "Name of Thread You've Been Reading" form. Across the type are a list of assorted text editing tags like Bold Underline the Image and hotlinking tags, and the Youtube tag. The best thing IMO about using the Reply to Post button is that you can preview what you're about to post to make sure that you did it right. Every forum is different. Some places allow the use HTML code for embedding, and for places like that you just copy the lengthy code that clicking the Embed button under a video will display for you. |
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So glad to know I'm not alone. For the PP who doesn't know about wine types, it's pretty simple. There are 3 main types of reds and 3 main whites Reds: Pinot Noir (light body style) Merlot (medium) Cabernet Sauvignon (full) Whites: Riesling (light) Sauvignon Blanc (medium) Chardonnay (full) |
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i am 33 years old and cannot tie my shoes. i still do bunny ears. 
couponing tricks and tips basic organizational skills anything about cars, other than how to drive, where the gas goes and how the stereo works |
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There are two basic types of stock, common and preferred. When you hear on the news about such and such's stock price (say, BP's) dropping 50%, people are talking about the company's common stock, so that is what I will discuss here. The best way of thinking about stock is that it represents an ownership interest in a company. The rights and preferences of a company's stock will be governed by the relevant state law of the state of incorporation of the company (often Delaware, regardless of where the company is actually headquartered) and by the company's organizational documents, such as its certificate of incorporation. Companies issue stock when they need more capital (money) for certain activities and do not, for whatever reason, want to borrow the money by issuing debt securities or arranging other financing. Public companies in the US may have millions or even billions of shares. Sometimes there are restrictions on when a company can issue new stock, and sometimes there are not. Obviously, if you own stock and the company issues more, your ownership interest just got a little smaller. Common stock usually grants the holders rights to vote for the members of the company's board of directors and certain other corporate matters. State law usually guarantees the right to vote on certain extraordinary matters, such as the decision to merge the company with another company. Although common stock represents an ownership interest in the company, in the event of a company's bankruptcy, common stock investors are paid last, after everyone else and are usually wiped out (worthless) in a bankruptcy. Common stock investors buy common stock because they expect the company's stock price to go up (over the short term or the long term) because they think the company will become more valuable and/or because they expect the company to pay dividends on its stock. Common stock investors are not entitled to dividends except when declared by a company's directors. Some companies do not pay dividends and instead roll excess profits into business activities such as expansion, research and development, etc. Most of the stocks you hear about on the news are listed on the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq. Companies that issue stock or sell other equity or debt securities to the public in the US must file reports with the SEC. If you want to find out more about a particular company, you can read its public reports on the SEC's website (and often the company's own website) by going to www.sec.gov and searching for company filings. A US company's annual report is filed on a Form 10-K and its quarterly reports will be filed on a Form 10-Q, with interim developments being reported on a Form 8-K. You can also track a stock either through Yahoo Financial or by going to the NYSE's website (www.nyse.com) or the Nasdaq's website, as well as any number of other websites. Hope that answers your question, OP! |
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| I don't know how to operate venetian blinds properly. I struggle with them forever like an idiot. |
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When it stays on topic, this is one of the best threads ever! More things I should know, but just don't:
.How the internet works. .The difference between socialism and communism. .Whatever happened to the hole in the ozone layer -- is this still a problem? I seem to remember it being THE big environmental issue in the '80s. .And speaking of the '80s -- why was Central America so turbulent then? Has the situation actually gotten better or did it just fall off of our collective radar? |