Aluvus

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  1. as much as I hate to say it...am I the only one that can see why all our compaines are moving overseas? why is detroit failing? it's hard to say that unions are killing their selves. $30 an hours to put 2 hubcaps on a car? for years I have worked my butt off building houses for $7 an hour. the last time I checked the nissan plant in tennessee was still non union.

    American labor is increasingly expensive, though unions are only a part of that. But the core reason that companies are outsourcing is that other countries with large, cheap labor supplies (China) are now developing the infrastructure and relations to make it possible to outsource there.

    On average, cheap non-union American labor is nowhere near as cheap as cheap non-union Chinese labor. It's a side effect of having a dramatically stronger economy and higher standard of living. I wouldn't trade it.

  2. Savings account?

    One of my friends told me that, with a savings account, you cant really spend money as you please. It uhh, saves :)

    You have to go to the bank to make a withdrawal. It's not locked up where you can't touch it.

    Savings accounts typically offer better interest rates than checking, but are less convenient to take money out of.

    If you have any local credit unions, they sometimes offer better rates.

  3. Hi Brian_Holiday. We used to have one, I wrote most of it. However, whoever makes decisions there decided that it should be taken down. There was a big vote over it, but we lost. :(

    Edit: here's some info on what happened.

    The people that use the site are the ones that make decisions there, most of the time. Most of the voters were ordinary editors.

    Talk about patently unfair. Can I assume sock puppets are multiple accounts used to skew a vote?

    BH

    Yes. Sock puppets in general refers to one user creating multiple accounts, to skew a vote or discussion. Meat puppets are somewhat different: the term usually refers to different people brought in by one user to skew a vote on an issue.

    The logic being, that if the site were popular enough to warrant an article there would have been a decent number of established users that came out in support.

    Sucks to have your article deleted, but that's Wikipedia.

  4. Son uses Dogpile and Google for homework, ahem I mean searching (what happened to the old fashioned library research??).

    Google Scholar happened.

    I find I get best results having a short list of specialized sites to search first (IMDB, Acronym Finder, etc.) and then Google for the remainder.

    I use Google mainly for search features like "site:", dictionary definitions, the calculator, and its ability to provide some things directly with the results (example, example). Their ranking algorithm usually doesn't disappoint.

    MSN's ranking system seems to be one of the more dysfunctional out there. For a few days, I was the number one hit for "summer of 69" (the Bryan Adams song), presumably because they give a lot of weight to .edu domains.

  5. By the way my Belkin instructions say not to put the printer on battery side but on the separate surge control only plugs. I'd have to check wherever I put the info as to why...to much current draw when in use I think...can't quite remember

    Printers, mainly laser printers, have very large inrush currents when they first fire up. If the UPS's inverter is asked to power that, it may not survive the experience.