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2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

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I have no idea where else to put this. But did anyone else see what CNN did to their website? Holy **** someone should be fired.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
I have no idea where else to put this. But did anyone else see what CNN did to their website? Holy **** someone should be fired.
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This is the same company that is fighting with Fark.com over the use of their logo for links to their own site. They're idiots.
 
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unofan said:
This is the same company that is fighting with Fark.com over the use of their logo for links to their own site. They're idiots.
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I knew the editorial staff was comical, but I figured management was probably saying, "**** it. If we're making money, who cares?"

Now I'm convinced from top to bottom that entire company is diseased.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
I have no idea where else to put this. But did anyone else see what CNN did to their website? Holy **** someone should be fired.
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Once I get into the section menus to see the story lists the left portion of the screen is not visible. Maybe 5% of the total viewable space looks like I should have an air extension on that side of my monitor. A few people have complained about it, and they did it all so that it would look and work better with tablet PCs. Horrible design for a traditional PC - laptop or desktop.
 
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Tablets and touchscreens have done more to damage website design than anything else I've ever seen. And I grew up in the era of Hamster Dance...
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Tablets and touchscreens have done more to damage website design than anything else I've ever seen. And I grew up in the era of Hamster Dance...
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Well, that's where everything is headed so you'll probably have to jump on board.
 
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Damm that Obama!

In the lead-up to the 2012 presidential election, David Siegel, billionaire chief of Florida timeshare company Westgate Resorts, sent an email to all employees. “Of course, as your employer, I can’t tell you whom to vote for,” Siegel wrote, but offered “a few facts that might help you decide what is in your best interest.” These included that re-electing Obama would “threaten your job” and result in “less benefits and certainly less opportunity for everyone.”

Just over two years after penning that company-wide email, Siegel informed Westgate employees that instead of layoffs, he would boost their minimum wage to $10 per hour beginning in 2015. In fact, according to Siegel, 2014 was a banner year. “We’re experiencing the best year in our history and I wanted to do something to show my gratitude for the employees who make that possible,” Siegel said in announcing the wage hike. He also recently told the Orlando Business Journal that “things have never been better.”

Westgate currently employees about 12,000 people. Though the minimum wage increase won’t impact all workers, including those who receive tips, commissions, or work under a collective bargaining agreement, a company spokesman told Vegas Inc. that thousands of employees will receive a raise because of the move.

Despite writing in 2012 that any tax increases on the wealthy would mean job losses — “Rather than grow this company I will be forced to cut back,” he said at the time — Siegel has been extraordinarily successful growing Westgate in the two years since taxes were modestly increased on the wealthy. In 2014 alone, Siegel and Westgate bought a hotel in Las Vegas for $180 million, began constructing a new $11 million retail center in Orlando, and purchased the Cocoa Beach Pier. Siegel also acquired the Orlando Predators Arena Football team and continued constructing his 90,000 square-foot mansion, which will be the biggest in America once completed.
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Imagine that.
 
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I'd be OK with that if there was a national cap on tuition, a national cap on endowments before they were taxed or forced to use on student tuition, an acceptable list of degrees such as science or technology or a certificate program in a vocational skill. Things like that. Absolutely no interpretive basket weaving or artsy fartsy stuff. You know, things where people don't end up starving because their degree didn't take them anywhere.
 
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I know. I was half joking, half serious.

Big education is the next big evil we need to tackle.
 
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So was I :)

Education prices are nuts these days...
 
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Yeah, especially when endowments are so well-endowed. I remember reading that Harvard could provide tuition for every student on campus for decades using their endowment. Or something like that. Just outrageous.

Now, granted, that's a private, so whatever. If someone wants to pay 50k a year for an education that is a shell of its former self. :)
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Yeah, especially when endowments are so well-endowed. I remember reading that Harvard could provide tuition for every student on campus for decades using their endowment. Or something like that. Just outrageous.

Now, granted, that's a private, so whatever. If someone wants to pay 50k a year for an education that is a shell of its former self. :)
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Could be worse...could pay that price to get a degree from SUNY-Ithaca like Kepler did ;)

(joking)
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Yeah, especially when endowments are so well-endowed. I remember reading that Harvard could provide tuition for every student on campus for decades using their endowment. Or something like that. Just outrageous.

Now, granted, that's a private, so whatever. If someone wants to pay 50k a year for an education that is a shell of its former self. :)
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$50K? That's SO 20th Century.
 
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Obama comes to Phoenix yesterday to make a speech at a high school, takes the time to also visit a housing development, but declines an invitation to visit the VA in Phoenix, ground zero for the VA mess. I really shouldn't have been surprised, but I still was.
 
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