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divide et impera -- The modus operandi after the Occupy Wall Street protests.
The comment on BITOG that provided me great hope this week “turning rotors”.
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An individual can own 100 percent of the shares of a corporation, but can't own the corporation itself, a corporation is its own entity.
Additionaly, if someone states they are the "owner" of a corporation, the protections a indiviual has against liability are lost. That is why a corporation has officers such as a CEO, instead of a owner.
Corporate charter determines if it needs a CEO and other stuff. Lots of states do have a certain template for corporation formats though.
I think we are getting into semantics.
I think we are getting into semantics.
I wish that was the case. I know a lot of manufacturers legitimately paying $22-25 an hour starting - no experience needed. Air conditioned - lift maybe 20 lbs. Most can’t pass the drug test. Most don’t want to work shifts.
There are quote a few "younger people" who quite frankly don't know how to work.
The younger people not wanting to work is not just an American problem. Ever heard of "laying flat" or "quiet quitting"? It's quite a popular trend in Asian countries where young people do just bare minimum to live.
Maybe they're on to something, the best way to fight the rate race is to refuse participation.
Maybe they're on to something, the best way to fight the rate race is to refuse participation.
"Tang Ping" or as you say "laying flat" in Mandarin - Chinese children not wanting to replicate the life their parents have - 6 day / 12 hour work week. Its a large movement in China.
I think the big issue here beyond all the others is high schools are actually graded by the state and dept of ed on what percentage of kids go on to college. So they convince all the kids they should go to college. Now I paid for my kids to get Engineering Degrees, and am a big believe in higher education. But if your going to get a "General" degree, don't waste your money in today's world. Its not the ticket it used to be.
And involve the stakeholders. You can't make a cake without all the ingredients. If baking powder became unobtainable, the rest of the ingredients in cakes would have no purpose. You could substitute a different product but a lot of recipes will be crippled by missing a handful of ingredients. Then since noone's baking, the price of flour would plummet, some mills would go out of business, and supply/demand would keep oscillating so noone would be able to plan accurately and efficiently.
Ford F150s were being stored on giant lots, incomplete, for want of a circuit board to run the windshield wipers during covid. That was a natural supply chain disruption. This current thing is an artificial one, created in haste, by AI that decided islands only inhabited by penguins deserved a certain percentage of taxation. We actually worked with Ford with the CHIPS act, which is now being unravelled, to bring more manufacturing inside the US.
There are other strategic items that we depend on world trade for... fertilizer is a biggie.
This brings up a good point, making quality cast iron parts is not particularly difficult. American car companies have been doing it for more than a century. Brake rotors are child's play for modern casting facilities.
Imported brake rotors are often made from recycled materials with such poor quality control that hard and soft spots create braking problems. Many of us have this idea that cast iron is a high tech process, it is not necessarily so. In fact, fairly good quality cast iron parts are often cast directly in the soil. Decorative gates and railings come to mind. Along with slow speed engine flywheels and crankcases.
Imported brake rotors are often made from recycled materials with such poor quality control that hard and soft spots create braking problems. Many of us have this idea that cast iron is a high tech process, it is not necessarily so. In fact, fairly good quality cast iron parts are often cast directly in the soil. Decorative gates and railings come to mind. Along with slow speed engine flywheels and crankcases.
I live in a highly educated area - just outside Worcester which is a university city sitting right outside one of the biggest university cities in the US, Boston. I have lots of friends in town with MDs, DMDs, JDs, MBAs, and a ton of people with PhDs. Out of my oldest's friend group of 6, he is the only one who went to college, and that's probably because I'm paying for it. That said, he has a friend whose father has an MBA and owns a very successful multi-tens of millions dollar company and he is an apprentice for an electrician.
When my oldest first went away, he'd come back home and hear from all his friends about how awesome their apprenticeships were going and how much money they were making and it made him really question his choice. Almost three years later, his friend's attitudes have changed. One kid has been to the ED three times for on the job injuries. Their days are starting to turn into grinds. They're realizing the money isn't all that much once they moved out of mom and dad's house and to really make some cash they are going to need to start a business - not a problem for the kid whose father has an MBA but the other kids parents don't have the knowhow.
My oldest actually came to the conclusion that you can grind at school or you can grind on the job but if you want to get anywhere you'd better be ready to grind. Then there are the intangibles like he took a course on terrorism and it was pretty awesome to sit and just chat with him about what he had learned and see how this knowledge has changed the way he thinks about terrorism and the world. When he was doubting his decision I reminded him it is costing him very little and if he wants to go into a trade he can always go into a trade but go into the trade knowing calculus, because why not?
Apparently my auto incorrect went haywire.
Infant, not infect! And as, not are.
As far as drums and rotors, depends on P&A.
Some drums are NLA. And rotors can get into the $300-500 each.
The rotors on the Toyota Cambery that are $40 each, yeah, toss the old and replace.
The rotors on an F550, I'm going to reuse if they are in spec.
This kind of thinking is how one person can be responsible for ⅓ of the total national debt in just 4 years.
Moving away from politics, my just-turned 19 part-time college student employee complained to me today that he didn't get to do anything compared to my baby boomer teens where I started working at 13 (neighborhood lawn mowing). That's somewhat a wake up call for me. 3 of his teen years were during Covid. Is he crying out for help? I've been wrestling to break him of his cell phone addiction (every 15 minutes) even when we are out logging! (drives me nuts, and that's a short drive)
Instead of fighting his "addiction", I now feel somewhat motivated to give him the opportunity that he is seeking. Maybe I'll make him my protege! But, maybe sans my OCD stuff, lol.
I think we underestimate the effect of the Covid shutdown on our young adults.
Instead of fighting his "addiction", I now feel somewhat motivated to give him the opportunity that he is seeking. Maybe I'll make him my protege! But, maybe sans my OCD stuff, lol.
I think we underestimate the effect of the Covid shutdown on our young adults.
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YES! There are many routes to success, but most involve "grind", one way or another.
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The phone thing is global. They just gave us a new engineer from the ME. Supposed to be a trainee assignment from a stake holder - so does not really report to me, Ok …
#alldayonphone - talking, texting, surfing …
The flow of illegal drugs, including fentanyl, cocaine, and meth, is significantly higher from the US to Canada. It’s a large difference. There is also a large illegal movement of firearms across the border and into Canada.
Canada can always do more to secure the border but it’s illegal goods moving the other way that are the problem. The same applies to illegal migrants…..Canada is seeing a lot of them come North now.
The demands from the Trump administration on these issues were just designed to try to force a better deal and have a justification, of sorts, for their bullying behaviour. It’s not based in reality. The appropriate way to deal with these sort of issues would be for both governments to work together.
You’ve just made my point, Canadian border is pretty much open both ways. Whose responsibility do you think it is to stop the illegal traffic into Canada? If you secure it one way, you’ll secure it the other way as well.
And after seeing the Mexico border being secured in a matter of weeks, I don’t understand how a rational person would think the ask of the Canadian government was not based in reality.
Long bonds are getting absolutely crushed.
