From: Mxsmanic on 2 Aug 2006 04:30 Tchiowa writes: > You're assuming that the job change frequency stays the same regardless > of age and the stats show otherwise. WHICH stats? -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 2 Aug 2006 04:31 Tchiowa writes: > Jim Ley posted them. Go read them. I don't want Jim Ley's stats. I want a third-party reference. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 2 Aug 2006 04:32 Tchiowa writes: > ???? Who are you trying to kid. The majority of people never go on > unemployment. I only mentioned being unemployed, not going on unemployment. > And your calculation of 19 times is roughly double what the posted > statistics said because your assumptions were wrong. But you said only once, which would therefore be nine times smaller. So I was closer to the "correct" number. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Dave Frightens Me on 2 Aug 2006 04:34 On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:22:02 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Dave Frightens Me writes: > >> What makes you think there's a threshhold? > >If there were not, then "the money you can demand" would not be a >distinguishing criterion. Your logic is broken. Again. It's a relative thing, not absolute. Professionals can demand more money, because they are professionals. >> Professionals can demand more than non-professionals. > >So there must be a dividing line between what non-professionals can >demand and what professionals can demand. What is that dividing line? Why must there be a dividing line? It's a free economy. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: Dave Frightens Me on 2 Aug 2006 04:36
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:52:21 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Dave Frightens Me writes: > >> With an excellent public health system and welfare. Aren't these the >> earmarks of a socialist nation? > >No. What is then? >> Flat? So far from failing then. > >If it is flat, then _any_ negative change could count as "failing." Not if it's merely transient. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |