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[quote=bullishgurl]

We hired a recruiting agency to hire contractors, and one of the buffoon contractors cold called people at my company asking if they would like to be a contractor to work on a project at my company. Lol.

Market look pretty good in San Diego imho.[/quote]

FWIW – When hiring for a position, I would have someone (or more than one) person in your company submit a fake resume through the online system that is reasonably like the person you are looking for and see if the recruiting agency picks it up. I have talked to a number of people in HR and the screening software is not great. It assumes that people will use the buzzwords in the posting and use them in the right context. Especially when it comes to engineers/CS types (and I have read a lot of stuff written by engineers . . .) their writing skills can be a little non-standard. (Not always – I know I am going to hear about that one.) Add to that the issue of a lot of your applicants being people for whom English is not their first language . . . It seems like it’s not a great system – some smart CS person on this board should think about coming up with something better.

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[quote=Hobie]Definitely not imported wood. Just #2 pine.

I would be very concerned with the fold up legs they advertise. Can’t see that large table being stable with that feature. Normally, legs are bolted for easy removal.

Good call about having it custom made for you.[/quote]

If you look at that Yelp review I linked to above there seemed to have been a big problem with the legs – it seems like the same or a similar table. So – interesting you would mention that.

Years ago there was a short lived store called House to Home where the Walmart is now in Kearney Mesa. We got a heavy wooden kitchen table and 6 chairs there for less than $1000. Almost 20 years of glitter glue, daily cleaning, sharpie marks (don’t ask), school projects, 2 cross country moves and being used as a saw horse occasionally, and it still looks almost new. I don’t know what the finish is, but I wish I did. It doesn’t really work in our current kitchen but we’ve become attached to it.

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[quote=FlyerInHi]Yeah, knock yourself out and vote for anyone you want.

But saying “I won’t vote” means one doesn’t care not only about the presidential but also about all the local and state races where votes very much matter.[/quote]

Brian, you are continuing to address a false premise. No one said they don’t vote. No point in arguing about it.

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Hmm. I might look at the review of Eric R. here: https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-corner-store-ocean-beach

Chairs really are the expensive part.

The kind of wood (which they don’t mention) matters a lot. My sister had a beautiful French farm table but the slightest thing could make marks in the surface. It looked sad pretty quickly.

You might be able to get one made for a similar price and know a lot more about it, and also be able to determine the dimensions.

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[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=SK in CV][quote=mixxalot]If you call having the Demoncraps in power and constantly taking our constitutional rights away good then I have a bridge to sell you at a discount.[/quote]

What right did you have 8 years ago that you don’t have now?[/quote]

The right to not provide health insurance.
The right to discriminate against gays, etc….[/quote]

Almost every time a law is passed some right is taken away, regardless of who’s in power. That’s what laws do. And once a law is in place, those rights are likely gone for good. Most of the time, new laws provide some societal benefit. But there’s a lot that goes along – and a lot of unintended consequences.

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[quote=harvey][quote=njtosd]No one in this thread has said that they don’t vote.[/quote]

I never claimed anyone said that here.

[quote]That was a conclusion that you jumped to.[/quote]

Really, where?

I said I disagree with people who don’t vote because they believe it doesn’t matter. I never claimed any specific person does not vote.

[quote]There is a difference between not voting and having firm belief that your vote won’t affect the outcome.[/quote]

Good, I agree. In fact I already said as much.

[quote]You haven’t cornered the market on patriotism.[/quote]

LOL! No kidding!

Thanks for the lame attempt at a personal attack in a post that had no substance whatsoever.[/quote]

You’re such a charmer.

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[quote=harvey]People confound the rules with how the process plays out in any particular situation. The rules are that every vote does count. Sometimes the process plays out such that at any point in time a vote cast cannot influence the outcome. The process can be longer than a single election.

If a sports team is eliminated from the playoffs halfway through the season because they lost every game, the rest of the games may not “count.” But that does not mean the rules are unfair or should be changed. And the honorable thing to do is play with heart the rest of the season.[/quote]

No one in this thread has said that they don’t vote. That was a conclusion that you jumped to. There is a difference between not voting and having firm belief that your vote won’t affect the outcome. You haven’t cornered the market on patriotism.

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[quote=joec]Seems like supporting any of them is bad…Good thing in CA, our prez vote won’t be close…

I just tell people I don’t like either of them and not being in a swing state, if Trump or Hillary wins, not like anything I can do about it.

I hope they both drop out.[/quote]

+1.

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[quote=harvey]OMG Joe Biden said a few awkward things during his nearly half-century career as a national leader!

Jesus Christ …. you actually brought his dead wife and kid into it? That’s a Rush Limbaugh kinda classy!

Sad that you took the time to tee up that list.

So njtosd thinks Palin and Biden are political equals.

Here’s your gal! http://www.sarahpac.com[/quote%5D

I think Palin and Biden (and you) are equally stupid. Make of that what you will.

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[quote=harvey]Biden has has one of the most impressive resumes in politics today. The guy has accomplished a lot.

If he did it all while being as stupid as Sarah Palin, I’m even more impressed.[/quote]

Biden: not too bright, admitted plagiarist, prevaricator about his academic record and slanderer:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/28826/9-presidential-candidates-who-werent-great-students

In addition, he baselessly accused the truck driver involved in the crash that killed his wife and daughter of doing so while intoxicated (accusing him of “drinking his lunch”). In fact, the truck driver was found to have been faultless in the crash, no alcohol involved and there was no basis for a prosecution – http://www.cbsnews.com/news/driver-in-biden-crash-wanted-name-cleared/

Before you say he made as mistake, Biden is an attorney and knows the rules about slander. He’s an embarrassment no matter how you slice it.

As I’ve said to Brian, simply identifying as one party or the other doesn’t make someone good or bad. Obama doesn’t seem to love him, but you do, so you must have the inside track :). Favorite Biden quote from 2007:

In the article published Wednesday, Biden is quoted evaluating presidential rivals Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, former Sen. John Edwards, D-North Carolina, and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois. His remarks about Obama, the only African-American serving in the Senate, drew the most scrutiny.

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” Biden said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

Of course, there was significant backlash over those words and he backpedaled mightily : http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/31/biden.obama/

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[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=njtosd]

This gets back to my point above. These are 5-6 of the million little Hitlers. There is no way the Republican Party had enough influence to create those people. There are LOTS of them and Trump is what they want.
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The Republicans party embraced the little Hitlers and enabled them by talking to them in code for decades. Those Hitlers used to in the Democratic Party which disavowed them before they moved over to the GOP.

Don’t you think that Sarah Palin enabled them to go mainstream in the GOP? She elevated the culture of the ignorants.[/quote]

I know of a pharmaceutical company who had a Viagra-like compound long before Viagra. The marketing people didn’t think it would sell …. Pfizer clearly proved them wrong. Marketing types (such as political parties) often get this stuff wrong. They view the US through a their own lenses. There are a lot of people In this country that are not interesting to the media, they are not popularized through the media and they have a different viewpoint. They may well have related to Sarah Palin (although she is no more stupid than Biden). In my opinion, like Jed Clampett, Trump has stumbled update upon an oil well.

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[quote=svelte][quote=njtosd] Why can’t we find candidates who haven’t made suspicious amounts of money in real estate (or trading cattle), who don’t say racist things or stupid things like “I short circuited” and who don’t set my teeth on edge. I am hoping someday for a candidate that I am excited about . . .[/quote]

We do get good candidates sometimes. Problem is there are plenty of people like this that get to help pick our candidates:

Watch these Trump supporters agree that putting shock collars on Mexicans is a great idea

We could make a similar video on idiot Democrats too.

I’m not sure what the solution is. Education is a part of it, but no matter how many classes you send some folks too, they’re still going to be a few eggs short of a dozen.[/quote]

This gets back to my point above. These are 5-6 of the million little Hitlers. There is no way the Republican Party had enough influence to create those people. There are LOTS of them and Trump is what they want.

What I found interesting outside of the obvious was (1) they liked the fact that he wasn’t a typical politician, and (2) they saw it as an opportunity for “change” ( much like Obamas campaign). As I said, Americans don’t like what the establishment is offering.

And scaredy is right – no matter how much you educate people, we have a lot of Americans who are idiots. And their votes count. You don’t need that video – there are all kinds of examples of man on the street quizzes where random people say New England is a state or who don’t know where Canada is on a map.

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[quote=scaredyclassic]trump is literally the biggest douchebag ever in the history of mankind.[/quote]

Ok, I’ll admit it. I saw Sausage Party and one of the characters was, literally, a douche. Now I see a little animated character in my head when you say that.

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[quote=farbet]Lack of Trump yard signs in the 92078 zip.
Any reason why?[/quote]

I don’t see any yard signs anywhere. Why is this such a big issue? You started another thread about it . . . this seems a little like thread jacking. Is this Brian under another name??

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[quote=SK in CV][quote=njtosd]No – it’s worse than that. It shows that there is a relatively large, angry group of Americans who rejected the candidates presented by the party in favor of a crazy person because they do not feel represented by the GOP. God forbid that these people split off to become a separate party. The Republican Party did not support (and actively opposed) Trump just as the Democratic Party did not support (and actively opposed) Bernie Sanders. They are two sides of the same coin (although I like Bernie Sanders better). This election has proven that the main stream candidates do not represent what the people want…..[/quote]

The election, so far at least, proves no such thing. Trump won. Trump won because he represents exactly what the Republican party has been selling for the last 3 1/2 decades. They’ve been selling that government is the problem. That the government is broken. That the government can’t solve problems. And the solution is to get rid of the government. Now they have a candidate who is promising to do just that. That the party elite now run from him is really incidental. The only difference between Trump and at least 1/2 of the other Republican candidates that he beat is subtlety. He says what they’ve only hinted at. They have plausible deniability. He doesn’t. That’s the only difference.

And Sanders didn’t win. Clinton did. Clearly there is support within the Democratic party for significant change. But that support did not extend to the majority of those that voted.[/quote]

In terms of your opinion about how Trump won, you might be right. However, there are (at least) two ways to sell something (1) sell people something that they already want; and (2) convince people that they want something and then offer it to them. Which works better? My sister was an EVP at a huge ad agency. They spent inordinate amounts of time figuring out what people wanted and then purported to give it to them. In my opinion, and it frightens me, Trump is what a lot of people want. I don’t think people had to be convinced (now or during the previous 35 or more years). My father in law used to say that there are million little Hitlers out there waiting for their chance – I think Trump just gave them their chance. I think a lot of my fellow Americans inexplicably want Trump and like the ridiculous things he says. A lot wanted Bernie, too. Based on his finances, he did outstandingly well.

I have said in other threads that I am disappointed in the quality of both of the candidates, although I would have to chose Clinton over Trump. Why can’t we find candidates who haven’t made suspicious amounts of money in real estate (or trading cattle), who don’t say racist things or stupid things like “I short circuited” and who don’t set my teeth on edge. I am hoping someday for a candidate that I am excited about . . .

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