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For those who don't know, US Air bought the airline that used to paint huge smiles on the front of their planes: PSA. Too bad they don't do that anymore.As for the causes of long-term unemployment, there's the obvious answer: there simply aren't enough jobs. Before the Great Recession, there were 1.5 workers in the U.S. for every job slot; today, that ratio is 4.8 to one. Put another way, with normal growth instead of a recession, we'd have 10 million more jobs than we currently do. Closing that gap would require adding 300,000 jobs every month for the next five years. In August 2010, the economy shed 54,000 jobs. You do the math.
via tomdispatch.com
If you have a good paying job right now, be very thankful. 5 people for every open job does not sound like particularly good odds.
I think I like this better than the Virgin America safety information video…
My philosophy, Objectivism, holds that:
Reality exists as an objective absolute—facts are facts, independent ofman's feelings, wishes, hopes or fears.
Reason (the faculty which identifies and integrates the material provided byman's senses) is man's only means of perceiving reality, his only source ofknowledge, his only guide to action, and his basic means of survival.
Man—every man—is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others.He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others norsacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his own rational self-interestand of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.
The ideal political-economic system is laissez-faire capitalism. It is asystem where men deal with one another, not as victims and executioners, nor asmasters and slaves, but as traders, by free, voluntary exchange to mutualbenefit. It is a system where no man may obtain any values from others byresorting to physical force, and no man may initiate the use of physical forceagainst others. The government acts only as a policeman that protects man'srights; it uses physical force only in retaliation and only against those whoinitiate its use, such as criminals or foreign invaders. In a system of fullcapitalism, there should be (but, historically, has not yet been) a completeseparation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons asthe separation of state and church.
via oldcomputers.net
I remember my dad buying me one of these along with the 16k expansion module and the printer (which printed on thermal paper in 32 columns!). I would borrow the Basic Computer Games book from the library and type away, hand-entering the programs and tweaking them. I saved programs on a Cassette player so I could play them later.
Ah, those were the days. Before the Internet.
via theoatmeal.com
There are plenty of examples of bad email. I've gotten every single one of them at one time or another.
This message gets to the heart of something very important. The conservative right likes to wrap itself in the flag and paint opposition to its values as un-patriotic and un-American. But tolerance is also an American value. And what is more craven than the fear that the American way of life will be undermined by the exercise of such a value -- by our welcoming of difference, our openness to that which threatens us?
via salon.com
Whoever came up with this is absolutely spot-on.
