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Wednesday, October 20, 2010 8:23:50 PM
online comedy, online economics classes, amateur economics, educational articles
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I come up with theories in my spare time...keeps the mind sharp and it's a love of mine. I have developed a theory on cell phones and I figure i'll run it by you because we've been talking for a few and...I mean whatever. What are you going to do even if it's not funny? Get up and leave? Not in poor taste or vulgar, but ...I mean you know?
Anyhow, forget it. Thank you for visiting and hope this blog brings attention to things you [probably] already are aware of or at least makes you laugh for a few.
Friday, September 9, 2011 4:13:11 PM
player's association, sports agents, NFL strike, Deion Sanders
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I will reiterate the above subtitle. Not everyone watches football I realize: Keep them amused by pictures of celebrities and gossip columns along with reality shows and dating contests.
Americans dissatisfied with their own lives take such interest in nonsense because they do not take advantage of or creative more fascinating interests and way to spend time for themselves. If Americans spent as much time bettering serving their own and those of loves ones as they do following strangers on talent shows and gossip magazines, maybe they would be healthier, happier, and nicer to others in daily life.
Still with me?
A ten second overview of the NFL strike scare a few months ago:
Athletes (Unionized Employees)
Team Owners (Employers/Wage Payers)
Sports Agents (Representatives of Athletes - Union Delegates)
Everyday people like you and me (stop, wait. I didn't mean that). Everyday people like you watch the NFL on television, attend games, and buy sports merchandise. Team owners and the league itself rake in uber-billions from ad revenues, merchandise, and ticket sales.
They have to pay the entertainers well for performing, but still want to keep as much of the profits as possible as with any other industry.
Athletes and their agents wake up one day and say, "We'd prefer more leverage in this equation. After all, we are doing all the work. Without us passing and scoring, stadiums are empty".
So they strike in hopes of owners being petrified of not making any profits if no players play and no stadiums and television stations are empty at 1 and 4 every Sunday.
Why did they not have a stand-off? Most NFL owners are wealthy companies or families. If football ceased to exist, many would still be wealthy and their lifestyle would likely change little. Au contraire, enter the athlete side of the table. What could the New York Jets offensive line do for a living? What about that one cornerback with ten children from five wives? Deion Sanders runs a church, but I think probably with his own money he makes from his playing days, endorsement contracts, and the like. He probably does not (hopefully) make lots of money preaching.
At the end of the day, it is capitalism at its finest.
Owners, athletes, and educated agents in navy blue suits want their cut of the profits football creates too much to actually strike. It just sounds good and gets attention.
Americans like watching modern day gladiators fight lions in the coliseum the way Romans did ages ago. Only today it is a little more civilized and they are paid along with their agents. Nevertheless, guess where all the profits stem from?
The everyday American who likely does not make millions of dollars. Think about the images of fans you see at games. They are all in tuxedos and are shooting over to the plaza for dinner afterwards? Take a look at the Dog Pound in Cleveland and you tell me, generally speaking, who finances the NFL. And I'm not speaking about corporate press boxes either. Those are the minority.
Someone should have called the bluff on the NFL strike. Go on national television and tell people to go to the library on Sundays or take an adult education class instead. Once NFL players weren't paid for a few months and agents couldn't collect their fees, you would see how fast their demands subsided.
It's true. What I say usually is.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 10:22:23 PM
employee turnover expertise, operational strategy, telephone company, national account marketing and delivery cycle time
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Let employees do the lifting; they love it and are good at it often times; more so than a third-party staffing agency motivated by compensation and filling job requisitions.
I worked at a local phone company as a university student. In 1999, when I was hired after responding to a newspaper want ad, internal turnover was bleeding the operation. Management's biggest problem was having the caliber of call center professionals to successfully handle a substantial national account our marketing department bent over backwards to hang on to.
By spring of 2001, turnover was all but vanished.
By empowering and encouraging employee referrals and collective cultural compatibility with technical job requirements/skill sets, $11 an hour phone company employees were responsible for for solving a pressing issue.
How?
Human nature says that anyone who vouches for someone else cannot stand to embarrass him/herself with poor judgment. A close knit team of call center operators, in this case, are no different. Train and develop employees to think and act like achievers...leads to a team of proud, astute and productive achievers.
Same principle military forces employ during war time: Platoons during World War II were comprised predominantly of soldiers from the same neighborhoods, even streets. Rationale is a man will fight with more passion and think of his "team" out of loyalty much more so than strangers he met a month ago in basic training.
Saturday, February 26, 2011 4:24:18 AM
russia, ussr, china trade, g-8
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I discussed the following subject and veered off on a 45 minute diatribe on the phone with a good friend earlier today and can articulate my claims over the next few pages providing all the facts justifying these accusations. Instead I will spare readers the inconvenience and get to the point in 30 seconds (if you can read at high school level) right here:
One of the cardinal rules of executing a military campaign is to divide and conquer one's enemy. Combine that with Sun Tzu's Art of War as it pertains to fighting a superior enemy and behold: China, Russia and the consortium of Middle Eastern nation-states are at war with the United States. It is not a Bruce Willis movie with gunfire and lots of swearing. None of them can stand in a metaphoric boxing ring and trade punches. Instead they methodically bleed us so succinctly most Americans fail to realize.
China owns so much US debt in bonds and mortgage-backed securities as our exports versus imports continue to be inferior.
President Putin boasts to Larry King about Russia's sovereignty and their self-image as a world power like the old days during the Cold War, however, when the president is at G8 summits opposing our policies, he has no shame in requesting financial aid from Americans. Russia is like a 12-year-old telling his parents he hates them and, in the same breath, asking for an allowance to go to the movies.
A number of Middle Eastern societies are nonsecular and disagree with Western culture on many levels. They might blow up some buildings and detain hostages with guerrilla warfare tactics, however what they are best at is not the direct assassination of an enemy. Instead, they bleed American resources economically in the form of a war that has dragged on for years. Instead of walking up and shooting their target, it is more like feeding them glass in little pieces with dinner for six months and watching an enemy keel over and die unexpectedly. These individuals have AK-47s, cynical attitudes and do not have to win the war; they simply have to not lose.
Attackers do not come with mean faces, guns blazing or scary uniforms and threats like in the movies. They smile, wear nice suits as we do and discuss interest rates and world peace in very sophisticated way. They produce jeans, cheap electronics and $2 items for Wal-Mart to sell to your parents.
Divide and conquer, right?
Political figures in this country are so distracted by civil unrest, economic woes and idealogical differences domestically, no one is paying attention to external threats. We remain so divided amongst ourselves trying to make a living, retain wealth or remain in political office, vulnerability grows on us like cancer cells...slow but lethal.
Americans should consider it their duty to pay attention to what is going on in the world, namely potential threats like those I have just summarized. Uploading photographs and chatting with friends about buying organic milk, sports and your new smart phone features on Facebook is not cutting it. Want to manipulate the masses? Keep them distracted, imprisoned or ignorant (or dead if you are Stalin, hang out in Rwanda, the Khmer Rouge, Milosevic, or Qaddafi, of course). In this country, that translates to cell phone commercials every two minutes, reality television and discounts on pedicures on the Internet.
For the sharpest, most innovative nation on earth, we sometimes act like high school students in this country. Please reflect on this. If anyone reading disagrees, has their own opinion or would like to examine potential solutions, I am available at all times by telephone, e-mail or game for martini if you're in the area. If you plan to argue I am mistaken, bring a wise friend, your favorite professor and pack a lunch and some notes. C
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Thursday, February 24, 2011 9:22:57 PM
the hague, pol pot, cambodian communist party, international court
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And my parents want to know why I never went to law school. Here is a prime example:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10757320
The point is...I tend to take things very personally. In the movies, the good guys make the case and grab that star witness and Colonel Jessup admits to code red orders. Real life tends to be less cut and dry.
After 30 years of delaying standing trial, this former Khmer Rouge top dog continues to finagle reduced sentences. He and his friends killed more of their own people than cancer and he is complaining about appeals to time already served.
Everything I am saying is historically documented and accurate by the way. Americans hated President Nixon's secret bombing campaign into Cambodia towards the end of the Vietnam War. I think he and Henry Kissinger should have launched military forces there and destroyed the Khmer Rouge.
What kills me as a young American present day...Red China backed up the Soviets during the Cold War, Communist Korea and North Vietnam. Fast forward decades to present day and my fellow Americans love to buy consumer goods made in China. They wear suits now instead of full military dress like Chairman Mao. They speak perfect English and discuss interest rates like businessmen. But do not ever forget, this is the same nation-state responsible for protecting absolutely savage military juntas in southeast Asia, namely the miserable Khmer Rouge.
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