A US politician's job, especially at the national level, is mostly managing staff, some political strategy, and making speeches. All the nuts and bolts work is done by staff. Does manipulating people and public speaking really sound like work for an engineer?
Also, it makes a sort of sense that legislators are largely lawyers. Their core job function is creating laws after all. Doing so well ought to involve a thorough understanding of the legal principles used in their interpretation.
Yes they are. Sometimes this is unfair in that married individuals and individuals with families will be treated preferentially in events like layoffs. Nobody wants to put an entire household on the street. But a single kid who could just move in with his parents? Ok. Likewise married people are given preference in promotions for similarly qualified candidates.
But generally? It is not unfair. Marriage provides substantial benefits to the couple be combining important expenses like housing and food. In return married couples generally require public assistance much less than singles do especially when families and children are taken into account.
"Social Security gets automatic cost of living adjustments. AND you can’t be fired, downsized, etc. by social security!"
Anyone who retires on just a social security check is an idiot or in an unfortunate state of affairs. Most pensions do not index on cost of living and are based on the salary you retired with, so you're gradually losing income to inflation. 401ks are similar in that you're probably eating up the interest on your savings as income instead if you aren't having to spend it down.
Bare chested? No, I'm pretty sure they'd break the skin and be no fun. With a plywood shield, a decent helm, and maybe simple cloth armor on my legs? Sure.
I realized part of why she's so fast. You can't shoot that way with the traditional English 3 finger release. The way she releases with the back of her hand towards her face (instead of the palm) means she has a much easier time putting the arrow on the string without shifting her hand. Cuts out a lot of wasted motion. Neat.
Her draw and nock technique is good, but I can't see how she's anchoring her release hand. Which means that once the range creeps up, she's not going to have accuracy shooting like that. Although that might be the point of this exercise: how fast can she draw, nock, and loose. She could obviously change her release technique for longer but slower shots.
It's not just about labor costs in chinese factories. It's also that the Chinese government is totalitarian. They can operate by fiat and set up factories on demand without any concern for things like the environment, zoning, or people who are already living there or using that land. You can't do that in the US where we have things like rights and private property.
It's interesting how some of those habits are also why you grew up poor, like the short term focus on money and inability to save.
I personally like number 6: "Never throw anything out." My parents both grew up poor. Both parents are pre-boomers from working class families who actually remember the war years and, in my dad's case, the Depression. They never throw anything out. Our garage was full of leaky garden hoses, old carpet remnants, and wooden pallets that came into the house and never left.
"If she punched out then she is working off the clock. She can do whatever she wants with her break."
There are generally rules about working off the clock as well. I'm a federal employee and it's literally against the law for me to do work without pay. Her company will have rules concerning what she can do with her computer on a break. If she's on her own time then she may ought not view confidential client information, etc.
Yeah, corrections are good. Corrections made with the same prominence as the original story are better. The longstanding newspaper tradition is to print the incorrect story prominently and then bury the corrections in some back corner of the paper.
Camp YoLiJWa at Doublin Gap Pa had a picture like that in their lobby. Except it was a portrait of Jesus and text they used was the entire New Testament. Walked past it for the better part of a week before I noticed.
Chuckles was kind of stupid, but he had a working shoulder holster and pistol that he wore over the stupid Hawaiian shirt. That was pretty sweet. Of course me only memory of him showing up the TV show was that he was the mentally retarded Joe.
Also, it makes a sort of sense that legislators are largely lawyers. Their core job function is creating laws after all. Doing so well ought to involve a thorough understanding of the legal principles used in their interpretation.
But generally? It is not unfair. Marriage provides substantial benefits to the couple be combining important expenses like housing and food. In return married couples generally require public assistance much less than singles do especially when families and children are taken into account.
Anyone who retires on just a social security check is an idiot or in an unfortunate state of affairs. Most pensions do not index on cost of living and are based on the salary you retired with, so you're gradually losing income to inflation. 401ks are similar in that you're probably eating up the interest on your savings as income instead if you aren't having to spend it down.
I realized part of why she's so fast. You can't shoot that way with the traditional English 3 finger release. The way she releases with the back of her hand towards her face (instead of the palm) means she has a much easier time putting the arrow on the string without shifting her hand. Cuts out a lot of wasted motion. Neat.
I personally like number 6: "Never throw anything out." My parents both grew up poor. Both parents are pre-boomers from working class families who actually remember the war years and, in my dad's case, the Depression. They never throw anything out. Our garage was full of leaky garden hoses, old carpet remnants, and wooden pallets that came into the house and never left.
There are generally rules about working off the clock as well. I'm a federal employee and it's literally against the law for me to do work without pay. Her company will have rules concerning what she can do with her computer on a break. If she's on her own time then she may ought not view confidential client information, etc.