southsider2k5

I thought that $40 voicemail charge on my bill was a little high...

After 8 years of Clinton, no one cares. This will be a nonissue.

The problem is that is cannot go on indefinately because the productivity of such work cannot be sustained. People breakdown, feel they are underpaid, pout, find higher paying work that pays them what they are due, etc. I am sure much of the short term productivity gains are due to that, but long term technology is the pusher of gains. More and more companies are turning to machines, computers, robots, etc to do human jobs. Those productivity gains are constant and sustainable, putting twice as much work on a human isn't.

Honestly I think they need to ditch the instigator rule, and allow the fighting to take care of business legimately, instead of through cheap shots. That way justice is fair instead of injuring people.

According to Greeny it is the rises in productivity outpacing production, making it unnecesary for hiring to take place. According to me, the focus on stock price has led to hiring to be less and less of an investment priority because you want to keep costs as low and flexible as possible to keep good earnings reports flowing out. I wish one of these pretencious assholes would ask Greenspan an intelligent question like my theory so that I could hear what he thinks, instead of putting on a show for their constituents. You have the premier economic mind of the 20th century sitting and answering questions, and they are too busy trying to trash/reelect Bush to ask an insightful question.

Looks like Johan pitched in winterball according to this profile http://excite.rototimes.com/index.php?spor...ofile&name=3768

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4244988/

I'd hardly call it leftist hysteria. When it comes to economy I am about as conservative as they come, and this jobless recovery has really had me worried. This has been one of the slowest coming recoveries since the great derpression. It just seems the phsycology of recovery has taken hold enough, that investment and hiring might actually be starting to happen.

These are his prepared remarks, I can't find a transcript that you don't have to pay for. Greenspan prepared remarks

When the puck goes into the offensive zone and someone is offsides the puck physically has to come out of the zone, as do all of the players, and then it gets reentered. Where as if it is just tag up, the player(s) that were offsides only have to exit the zone, (tag up in effect) and then reenter the zone for the play to be considered onsides.

Yeah. That guy was the victim of some good ones. We stole the guys ID and cut it up into a million pieces and mailed it back to him. There was the CD that he used to play over and over and over, we stole it from him, had everyone made copies of it, and had the whole side of the hallway play it all at once. Drove him nuts like an alarm to a dogs ears. My best prank of lately was our desk always takes stuff from the other desks, so because all of the order desks have 2 people facing each other, I went through and switched everyones mouse's so that they were plugged into the persons CPU accross from them. They thought all of their computers weren't working and had to call tech support up to figure it out. The funny thing was they didn't take anything from our desk for like 6 months.

It was pretty interesting to watch personally. I am sure to most it was like watching paint dry. But some of the highlights were as follows -Called Bush's figure of 2.6 million new jobs in 2004 feasible, but it depends on sustained higher growth rates. Also quoted the figure that 1 million people are hired for jobs every week, and an almost equal number either quit or lose their jobs. That saids a lot about the volitility of the job market. He also addressed the issue of foreign outsourcing of jobs saying it was inevitable happening, but that the US economy has always found a way to replace those jobs with higher paying work, because US income has continued to rise. -Said that foreign capital flight isn't as much of an issue as I personally thought it would be. Because most of the US debt held by foreign central banks is in shorter term notes that the affect on interest rates would be minimal, and that foreign capital was still a net huge inflow even with the depreciation of the US dollar abroad. -He actually addressed full employment for the first time I can ever remember, and the chair of my econ department was wrong Greenspan said that this economy could move to an unemployment rate of about 4% without seeing inflation. Because of that and higher than formerly projected growth rates, he sees no need for raise in the interest rates in the short term. -He said that the deficit isn't a big issue short term, but it has to be addressed long term, and that he supports the reinstituition of spending caps (as do I, as no one seems to be able to do it themselves) That is what I remember right now... I am trying to find a transcript so that I can pull out somemore info, if anyone else is interested.

That'll end as soon as Zhamnov is traded.

The other thing going against Purdue is the selection committee will take a hot team over a slumping team. Plus they can also leave a team out because of injuries, which two strikes against the Boilers.

Rex whenever you get a chance, you have seen Kris pitch right? Give us your impressions of him, and compare him to the other prospects we have now, in your opinion.

I did. This is the contest board after all. I gave them a few days on the mainboard, then moved them to where they should be.

Cujo goes down to a twisted ankle... The DeadWings lose $16million in goalies in two days http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news?slug=ap-r...ov=ap&type=lgns

What are some of the best practical jokes or pranks you have played on people?

Actually you guys just gave me an idea for a new thread...

NW still is holding out hope of sneaking into the NCAA tourney... Remember if it happens you heard it here first. If not, nevermind

Nice. Ah to be in HS again

Oh yeah... well you both are wrong

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story...artnersite=espn

The specifics of Title 9 are basically that for every mens sport, you have to have a womens sport. And because of the money losing nature of certian mens sports, such as wrestling, many mens sports have been cut, instead of adding womens sports, to achieve the balance. According to title 9 revenue has no bearing on how many womens sports should be fielded at the collgeiate level, just an equal # as men's.

Honel never was about velocity. That Knuckle-Curve was supposed to be his pitch..