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  1. I don't think the point was about adequate investment, though on that issue we are hugely over invested.  The point concerned the worshipful attitude that is now normatively enforced in this society regarding military, first responders, cops in general.  Without meaning to criticize any of these practitioners, for society this is not a healthy attitude.  Of course, health of society is not the aim of those leading this promotion.

  2. Well put.  If slinging language like this around as a "management consultant" is one's life long desire, metier, etc, well, of course get that MBA.  But, simply to "get noticed"?  There are more reliable ways:  work harder than anyone, learn more than anyone, help your clients more than anyone, help your co-workers more than anyone.

  3. On 3/2/2019 at 5:40 AM, slorch said:

    Remove financial cushioning and stop removing consequences for financial missteps and things are better for everybody( allegedly.).

    But socially, there should not be consequences for anything. Accountability for personal conduct/ behavior is just way too destructive( allegedly.)

    I get what you are saying, of course, and the normal system of accountability based motivation works for most reasonably intelligent or better people, assuming they are also mentally healthy.  But, 40% of the population are way short of normal intelligence or have mental health issues that make competing, in the way you and I hold dear, very difficult.  This hard ass boomer is very much in favor of much more help for this group.

  4. Congrats to you guys that are into this young.  By way of positive feedback I can tell you the payoff, that is, when you can retire and live the life your reasonably want to live, is a beautiful thing.

    Once the paycheck stops coming, budgeting skills and living within a budget are at a premium.  Make sure that among your investment etc skills you are building that you become expert at this.  Extra points for achieving this expert level while staying married.

  5. I saw Muldaur in Anchorage, at some shitty bar, around 1981.  She was by then a complete wreck.  Abused the audience, etc.    

    Strangely, I don't remember the warmup band.  I'm sure I was in altered states by then. I wouldn't have shown up til about 9, with homework and whatnot.

    Show I remember the most:  Brian Auger and Oblivion Express.  Blew the freaking roof off that place.  I didn't stop moving to the beat for a couple of days.

     

  6. Wow.  I was at that 74 Armadillo show.  Pretty sure my mouth was open and tongue hanging out the whole time.  Well, I was 19.

    Such a great collection of shows there during my time.  This is pretty much way up there.

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  7. Ha.  When I was working on a gang truck out of Kilgore back in 74, we would play 42 each day at lunch.  2 tables, one of which had we two college boys against old timers, the other table all old timers.  Whatever their ages.  We college boys did not win a single one of these lunch games.  Not even close.

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  8. Just finished, for the second time in a few years, John Kenneth Galbrath's "The Culture of Contentment".  Written in 1992, still brilliantly clarifying, vicously satirical, and prescient.  Incredibly, features early Trump.  Message:  no happy endings.  

  9. What is Bernies beef with the fossil fuel industry?  Isn't he woke?  Its the johns who are the bad guys, not the slaves.  And the johns in this case are every energy user in the USA (and the  world).  Poor roughnecks and PE's are the slaves.  We'll exclude the Hamms of the world from this pretty allegory. 

    No one is perfect, I'm ok with Bernie.  Seriously, getting usage down is the key, that will directly and quickly reduce production.  

  10. 6 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


    And I think that the point of mentioning trafficking is to create moral and social pressure on Johns.

    Having sex with an independent woman who chooses to engage in sex for money is one thing, lots of folks may agree that two consenting adults should be able to engage in whatever transaction they want to.

    Now, if that woman is actually a slave with no agency, who is engaging in the trade because she was tricked/fears for her safety or the safety of her family....most folks would steer clear of that.

    Telling men that when you patronize certain places, you’re more likely to be using the services of a slave instead of a consenting adult, may cause men to limit their visits to such places.

    I’ve been in presentations by members of human trafficking task forces, and that’s absolutely one of their messages and goals.

    And there is the logic of busting child porno home viewers:  their actions are driving a terrible trade.  Not saying the johns are equivalent in moral crime, but that the logic of being in the market driving the bad thing is already established as a juriprudent logic.  (Layman view).

  11. 14 minutes ago, Tex Long said:

    Try to do a better job of conflating adjectives and numbers. Three ppg derives from 42 points, which results from six touchdowns/xps . I'm not sure many surly folks will agree with you that six is "a lot more than several", even assuming that all six misses were on separate drives.

     

    EDIT: Could also be fourteen field goals, to be fair. 

    And... anyone who tells you there will be no maths is lying to you. There are always maths, always.

    Just sayin, any more points last year would be good points to have.  And, those were quite a few bad misses.  And, yes, I was figuring on about 6 td's over multiple drives and games, spread over the season, so as to not be too specific about which games could have been won last year, which would be a diversion of the main point.  Lots of misses of that type.  

    That's not math, that's arithmetic.  :)

     

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