[Rich Toscano]

[quote=kev374]well, since the Obama administration…[/quote]

This is bordering on political threadjack territory… it seems like a gratuitous shot at the “Obama administration” considering that Bernanke (the head of the organization that actually prints the money) was appointed by Bush.

[Rich Toscano]

This thread has become major spam-bait… I am closing the comments so I don’t have to delete any more spam replies.

[Rich Toscano]

[quote=Essbee]I think that if your kid has aspirations to be in fields such as medicine, law, or Wall Street, he should go to the best school possible. Resumes really matter in these fields.

I’m in medicine and I have never met anyone who has come thru the community college route. I’m sure it could be done, but I think it’s much better to go to “at minimum” a UC school. Preferably an Ivy. I wouldn’t even recommend a CSU school, much less a community college.

Now maybe this is because Ivy/UC kids have better MCATs than CSU kids, and that if someone from a CSU got a 36+ on the MCAT, they could get into med school just as easily… but I wouldn’t want to risk it.

I’m sure I’ll get haters for this message but I’m simply telling you how it is.[/quote]

That’s interesting. In my prior industry, software tech, it was the opposite… in my experience schooling didn’t matter much if at all (where you went, or even if you went). All that mattered was how talented, smart, experienced, and reliable you were (plus personality, to a varying degree depending on the company).

That was my experience, anyway (as both a programmer and a person who did a lot of hiring/resume reviews of other programmers). I am not denying at all that it is probably different in other fields, as Essbee suggests.

Rich

PS – Yes, as scaredy suggested, I think that if you get a long term fixed rate loan, inflation will take care of a lot of it. Of course, no loan is even better than that.

[Rich Toscano]

[quote=JohnAlt91941]
Wasn’t the point of the thread to question whether the numbers were faked in order to help with Obama’s re-election ?
[/quote]

Exactly. This thread is about the job numbers and the veracity thereof. That’s a different topic from Ye Olde “[Romney or Obama] Is Better For All Of The Following Reasons” debate.

[Rich Toscano]

[quote=ctr70]I loved Jack Welch (former CEO of GE) tweet on Twitter: “…can’t debate so gotta fix the job numbers”.

Obama got his tail kicked in the debate no question. Romney made him look clueless. Romney sounded so much more knowledgeable on economics and business. Very refreshing vs. the same old same old tax the rich wealth re-distribution message from the Obama admin. And I’m a guy who voted for Obama in 2008. Obama can’t get away as much with the “soaring rhetoric” like he did in 2008, b/c now there are 4 years of a record to point to.[/quote]

Threadjack alert…

If you want to discuss the virtues of Romney vs. Obama, by all means feel free — but please don’t insert it into an existing discussion on a different topic… rather create a new thread. Thanks…

Rich

[Rich Toscano]

[quote=Apeman]
In spite of Brutus’ harsh words and attitude, he does have the facts about obesity on his side. If only he could have expressed them in a more civilized manner:
http://win.niddk.nih.gov/publications/health_risks.htm

http://kidshealth.org/teen/food_fitness/dieting/obesity.html

http://heartdisease.about.com/od/dietandobesity/a/obesity_bad.htm

I think the only way to fight this epidemic of obesity is through education. As people became more educated about the health risks of smoking, they began to quit or not start at all. But some people are still going to smoke no matter what, and I think the same will apply to overeating.
I would hate to think that overeating may someday be regulated out of existence by government fiat. We have enough regulations to guide our lives already.
Apeman[/quote]

First of all, “Apeman,” it is obvious from your IP address that you are the same person as Brutus. As a result of your name-calling and overly combative demeanor, you aren’t welcome here any more. Creating a new account doesn’t change that.

Second, I like how you linked to a bunch of articles explaining that there are health risks associated with obesity. Thank you, Captain Obvious. That’s not what the argument was about at all; it was about how to approach the obesity epidemic*. Typical strawman approach employed by people who like to fight rather than discuss.

* – I believe your proposal was along the lines of repeatedly calling people “fatty fat fat,” and the problem would work itself out from there.

Please, go away now, and don’t bother creating more accounts.

[Rich Toscano]

[quote=ocrenter]
Brian/Brutus are now on my ignore list.[/quote]

No need. I already warned Brutus to stop the name-calling once, and he went on to reply to an argument with this:

“Spoken like a fatty. Fat fat fatty fat. You are fat.”

Something tells me Brutus never made it onto the high school debate team.

(Ironically, I know the person he was replying to, and that person is very fit).

For the lawyers among you — I am not invoking the political threadjacking rule for this ban. Rather, I invoke the unspoken rule that applies to all of life: don’t act like an jerk.

Rich

PS – Despite their shared disdain for adipose tissue, Brutus and Brian sure seem like different people to me.

[Rich Toscano]

That’s 5% on an annual basis (as of August), to be clear…

[Rich Toscano]

[quote=urbanrealtor]
I really like the Voice.
Except for the Brit.
And the Canadian.
And that Hispanic Italian guy with the charts.[/quote]

Ha! 🙂

[Rich Toscano]

[quote=Brutus]

I would expect no less of a Liberal.[/quote]

Brutus, please knock off the name calling and abide by the spirit of this:

http://piggington.com/threadjackers_will_be_persecuted_maybe_even_prosecuted

or find somewhere else to post.

[Rich Toscano]

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Do those all have the same effect on you?

[Rich Toscano]

OK, I added a “report spam” link, which will flag things for review. It’s a little clunky but maybe it helps. I’ll get in there and review the list once in a while, and delete all spam…

[Rich Toscano]

I do appreciate when people report spam… even if it doesn’t bother people that much, I like to delete it if only out of spite. Pigg user ucodegen, btw, deserves a shout out as being the all time king of spam reportage.

For now you can PM me or email me at rich @ pig. I like the idea of having a link to report spam, though… I will look into that.

Thanks all.

[Rich Toscano]

[quote=gregw9898]Rich – I thought there were no political cheerleading threads allowed here?[/quote]

You know, markmax, I was about to re-explain what I had written to you, and to explain why the above quote completely missed the point of what I wrote… but why bother.

BTW I find it hilarious that you thought anyone would be fooled into thinking that gregw9898 was an entirely different person who argued in the same way, about exactly the same stuff, and repeatedly used the word “GOV.”

[Rich Toscano]

Haha… I actually like RP. Just not markmax.

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