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[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Paramount: Amen to that, and well said. Your comments got me to thinking about the interviews with the parents of the Columbine shooters. All were upwardly mobile and upper-middle class and, in each and every instance, both parents worked. Not because they needed to, but because they wanted the BMW and the nice house and all the trappings of “success”.

Problem is, they spent no time with their kids and failed to recognize (in one instance) that their son was building bombs in the basement! How the f**k do you miss that?

These kids were ignored by their parents, who were so completely consumed by the consumer culture that they failed to notice what was happening in their own homes.

Screw the lifestyle. Your family is always more important. And I think, societally speaking, that we’re about to discover that again. Along with our values.[/quote]
Allan,

If the other parents line up in front of school with their shiny Beemers, you want Piggs to show up in a minivan?? That is pure child abuse, trauma for life. The kid could end up sky jumping with Marines.

Many moons ago I was with group of Marines who got me to jump at 13,000ft, but then they upped the ante and wanted me to cliff jump into a pond on north coast of oahu. Just as well I balked as owner chased us out due to Five 0 on his tail for allowing kids getting hurt in said pond. Damn, I got kicked out of boot camp in 2 hrs! Makes no sense, I walked home from school in Chicago, in blinding snowstorm across the frozen tundra. Chilly 65 degrees can turn anyone into a wuss.

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Had the water audit few months back and guy said to take out part of lawn cause water rates will go up every year. Avg Water bill is more than electric/gas bill and we do use a little heat/AC!!

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Had the water audit few months back and guy said to take out part of lawn cause water rates will go up every year. Avg Water bill is more than electric/gas bill and we do use a little heat/AC!!

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Had the water audit few months back and guy said to take out part of lawn cause water rates will go up every year. Avg Water bill is more than electric/gas bill and we do use a little heat/AC!!

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Had the water audit few months back and guy said to take out part of lawn cause water rates will go up every year. Avg Water bill is more than electric/gas bill and we do use a little heat/AC!!

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Had the water audit few months back and guy said to take out part of lawn cause water rates will go up every year. Avg Water bill is more than electric/gas bill and we do use a little heat/AC!!

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PW,

That does like look like an interesting book. Here’s another one that I haven’t read but has good reviews: Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions.”

http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?page_id=9

Do you know why we so often promise ourselves to diet and exercise, only to have the thought vanish when the dessert cart rolls by?

Do you know why we sometimes find ourselves excitedly buying things we don’t really need?

Do you know why we still have a headache after taking a five-cent aspirin, but why that same headache vanishes when the aspirin costs 50 cents?

Or why honor codes actually do reduce dishonesty in the workplace?

By the end of this book, you’ll know the answers to these and many other questions that have implications for your personal life, for your business life, and for the way you look at the world. As a bonus you will also learn how much fun social science can be, and how to see more clearly the causes for our everyday behaviors, including the many cases in which we are predictably irrational.

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PW,

That does like look like an interesting book. Here’s another one that I haven’t read but has good reviews: Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions.”

http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?page_id=9

Do you know why we so often promise ourselves to diet and exercise, only to have the thought vanish when the dessert cart rolls by?

Do you know why we sometimes find ourselves excitedly buying things we don’t really need?

Do you know why we still have a headache after taking a five-cent aspirin, but why that same headache vanishes when the aspirin costs 50 cents?

Or why honor codes actually do reduce dishonesty in the workplace?

By the end of this book, you’ll know the answers to these and many other questions that have implications for your personal life, for your business life, and for the way you look at the world. As a bonus you will also learn how much fun social science can be, and how to see more clearly the causes for our everyday behaviors, including the many cases in which we are predictably irrational.

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PW,

That does like look like an interesting book. Here’s another one that I haven’t read but has good reviews: Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions.”

http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?page_id=9

Do you know why we so often promise ourselves to diet and exercise, only to have the thought vanish when the dessert cart rolls by?

Do you know why we sometimes find ourselves excitedly buying things we don’t really need?

Do you know why we still have a headache after taking a five-cent aspirin, but why that same headache vanishes when the aspirin costs 50 cents?

Or why honor codes actually do reduce dishonesty in the workplace?

By the end of this book, you’ll know the answers to these and many other questions that have implications for your personal life, for your business life, and for the way you look at the world. As a bonus you will also learn how much fun social science can be, and how to see more clearly the causes for our everyday behaviors, including the many cases in which we are predictably irrational.

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PW,

That does like look like an interesting book. Here’s another one that I haven’t read but has good reviews: Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions.”

http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?page_id=9

Do you know why we so often promise ourselves to diet and exercise, only to have the thought vanish when the dessert cart rolls by?

Do you know why we sometimes find ourselves excitedly buying things we don’t really need?

Do you know why we still have a headache after taking a five-cent aspirin, but why that same headache vanishes when the aspirin costs 50 cents?

Or why honor codes actually do reduce dishonesty in the workplace?

By the end of this book, you’ll know the answers to these and many other questions that have implications for your personal life, for your business life, and for the way you look at the world. As a bonus you will also learn how much fun social science can be, and how to see more clearly the causes for our everyday behaviors, including the many cases in which we are predictably irrational.

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PW,

That does like look like an interesting book. Here’s another one that I haven’t read but has good reviews: Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions.”

http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?page_id=9

Do you know why we so often promise ourselves to diet and exercise, only to have the thought vanish when the dessert cart rolls by?

Do you know why we sometimes find ourselves excitedly buying things we don’t really need?

Do you know why we still have a headache after taking a five-cent aspirin, but why that same headache vanishes when the aspirin costs 50 cents?

Or why honor codes actually do reduce dishonesty in the workplace?

By the end of this book, you’ll know the answers to these and many other questions that have implications for your personal life, for your business life, and for the way you look at the world. As a bonus you will also learn how much fun social science can be, and how to see more clearly the causes for our everyday behaviors, including the many cases in which we are predictably irrational.

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A sad day for capitalism. Greed and envy has poisoned this country, including Piggs. Mr. Thain has accomplished so much in his career. And the common people decry him for some nice rugs in his office? Work harder people so you can get your own corner office.

It is people like him that built the bridges of money that allowed money to flow from stupid people to smart people like Thain and his smart friends. And he was brilliant enough to award bonuses to MER people before that commies at BOFA took over and stopped payments.

The people at MER work 70-80 hours a week to take money from stupid people and the jealous people of America wanted to deny them bonuses, which are used to pay millions in taxes for you lazy people. What incentive would they have to work??

Anybody would be proud to have just one one of these items on their resume.

Thain was a brilliant whiz kid who received his MIT degree at 22 and his Harvard MBA at 24. Mind you, they dont let stupid people anywhere on the MIT campus, unlike HBS who takes in C students.

He is a member of The MIT Corporation, the Dean’s Advisory Council – MIT/Sloan School of Management, INSEAD – U.S. National Advisory Board, the James Madison Council of the Library of Congress and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s International Capital Markets Advisory Committee. He is also a member of the French-American Foundation, and The Trilateral Commission, as well as a governor of the New York-Presbyterian Foundation, Inc., a trustee of New York-Presbyterian Hospital and a General Trustee of Howard University.

A former top executive at Goldman Sachs, Thain is considered to be an expert on technology systems and an astute manager of operations. When John A. Thain, was an executive at Goldman Sachs, he was successful enough in the firm to amass $300 million in stock.

Since taking over the N.Y.S.E. in January 2004, Thain has transformed the the world’s largest stock market. He inherited an institution still reeling from the scandal and ill will over the ouster of Richard Grasso as its chief executive. Thain led the exchange through its evolution from a clubby, not-for-profit organization to a publicly traded corporation. He engineered deals with Archipelago and with Euronext, which have made the New York exchange a more electronic, global platform for trading stocks and other products.

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A sad day for capitalism. Greed and envy has poisoned this country, including Piggs. Mr. Thain has accomplished so much in his career. And the common people decry him for some nice rugs in his office? Work harder people so you can get your own corner office.

It is people like him that built the bridges of money that allowed money to flow from stupid people to smart people like Thain and his smart friends. And he was brilliant enough to award bonuses to MER people before that commies at BOFA took over and stopped payments.

The people at MER work 70-80 hours a week to take money from stupid people and the jealous people of America wanted to deny them bonuses, which are used to pay millions in taxes for you lazy people. What incentive would they have to work??

Anybody would be proud to have just one one of these items on their resume.

Thain was a brilliant whiz kid who received his MIT degree at 22 and his Harvard MBA at 24. Mind you, they dont let stupid people anywhere on the MIT campus, unlike HBS who takes in C students.

He is a member of The MIT Corporation, the Dean’s Advisory Council – MIT/Sloan School of Management, INSEAD – U.S. National Advisory Board, the James Madison Council of the Library of Congress and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s International Capital Markets Advisory Committee. He is also a member of the French-American Foundation, and The Trilateral Commission, as well as a governor of the New York-Presbyterian Foundation, Inc., a trustee of New York-Presbyterian Hospital and a General Trustee of Howard University.

A former top executive at Goldman Sachs, Thain is considered to be an expert on technology systems and an astute manager of operations. When John A. Thain, was an executive at Goldman Sachs, he was successful enough in the firm to amass $300 million in stock.

Since taking over the N.Y.S.E. in January 2004, Thain has transformed the the world’s largest stock market. He inherited an institution still reeling from the scandal and ill will over the ouster of Richard Grasso as its chief executive. Thain led the exchange through its evolution from a clubby, not-for-profit organization to a publicly traded corporation. He engineered deals with Archipelago and with Euronext, which have made the New York exchange a more electronic, global platform for trading stocks and other products.

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A sad day for capitalism. Greed and envy has poisoned this country, including Piggs. Mr. Thain has accomplished so much in his career. And the common people decry him for some nice rugs in his office? Work harder people so you can get your own corner office.

It is people like him that built the bridges of money that allowed money to flow from stupid people to smart people like Thain and his smart friends. And he was brilliant enough to award bonuses to MER people before that commies at BOFA took over and stopped payments.

The people at MER work 70-80 hours a week to take money from stupid people and the jealous people of America wanted to deny them bonuses, which are used to pay millions in taxes for you lazy people. What incentive would they have to work??

Anybody would be proud to have just one one of these items on their resume.

Thain was a brilliant whiz kid who received his MIT degree at 22 and his Harvard MBA at 24. Mind you, they dont let stupid people anywhere on the MIT campus, unlike HBS who takes in C students.

He is a member of The MIT Corporation, the Dean’s Advisory Council – MIT/Sloan School of Management, INSEAD – U.S. National Advisory Board, the James Madison Council of the Library of Congress and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s International Capital Markets Advisory Committee. He is also a member of the French-American Foundation, and The Trilateral Commission, as well as a governor of the New York-Presbyterian Foundation, Inc., a trustee of New York-Presbyterian Hospital and a General Trustee of Howard University.

A former top executive at Goldman Sachs, Thain is considered to be an expert on technology systems and an astute manager of operations. When John A. Thain, was an executive at Goldman Sachs, he was successful enough in the firm to amass $300 million in stock.

Since taking over the N.Y.S.E. in January 2004, Thain has transformed the the world’s largest stock market. He inherited an institution still reeling from the scandal and ill will over the ouster of Richard Grasso as its chief executive. Thain led the exchange through its evolution from a clubby, not-for-profit organization to a publicly traded corporation. He engineered deals with Archipelago and with Euronext, which have made the New York exchange a more electronic, global platform for trading stocks and other products.

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A sad day for capitalism. Greed and envy has poisoned this country, including Piggs. Mr. Thain has accomplished so much in his career. And the common people decry him for some nice rugs in his office? Work harder people so you can get your own corner office.

It is people like him that built the bridges of money that allowed money to flow from stupid people to smart people like Thain and his smart friends. And he was brilliant enough to award bonuses to MER people before that commies at BOFA took over and stopped payments.

The people at MER work 70-80 hours a week to take money from stupid people and the jealous people of America wanted to deny them bonuses, which are used to pay millions in taxes for you lazy people. What incentive would they have to work??

Anybody would be proud to have just one one of these items on their resume.

Thain was a brilliant whiz kid who received his MIT degree at 22 and his Harvard MBA at 24. Mind you, they dont let stupid people anywhere on the MIT campus, unlike HBS who takes in C students.

He is a member of The MIT Corporation, the Dean’s Advisory Council – MIT/Sloan School of Management, INSEAD – U.S. National Advisory Board, the James Madison Council of the Library of Congress and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s International Capital Markets Advisory Committee. He is also a member of the French-American Foundation, and The Trilateral Commission, as well as a governor of the New York-Presbyterian Foundation, Inc., a trustee of New York-Presbyterian Hospital and a General Trustee of Howard University.

A former top executive at Goldman Sachs, Thain is considered to be an expert on technology systems and an astute manager of operations. When John A. Thain, was an executive at Goldman Sachs, he was successful enough in the firm to amass $300 million in stock.

Since taking over the N.Y.S.E. in January 2004, Thain has transformed the the world’s largest stock market. He inherited an institution still reeling from the scandal and ill will over the ouster of Richard Grasso as its chief executive. Thain led the exchange through its evolution from a clubby, not-for-profit organization to a publicly traded corporation. He engineered deals with Archipelago and with Euronext, which have made the New York exchange a more electronic, global platform for trading stocks and other products.

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