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Hello everyone!
I am facing one problem using Ativ S now.
Actually what happened was that when I bought my Ativ S, I am noticed way too big dark spots on my screen when I looked on black color when there was no light and was completely dark around me. (which turned out was the common problem om AMOLEDs).
I went to Samsung Service, replaced the screen under warranty without problems, I have received a much better screen in terms of black spots, but instead got another problem with it.
The screen just have this ridiculous pinkish tint now (which turned out was also a common AMOLED problem people may get). It's almost unnoticeable, but your eyes start to notice it when you read something like wiki, or search for something in Google
I went back to service, claimed the screen was defective, compared the screen with Galaxy s III for them, where they could clearly see issue with my display and then I asked for another warranty replacement. (because according to Samsung's policy you have to repair phone 3 times before getting money back)
Guess what, they refused fixing it second time, because what they said was "It's normal, it actually was also normal for the first time, we just replaced it for you too look how it's gonna be, we just can't replace it all the time".............
Now let's get to the point, has anyone ever discovered the way to tune colors on Ativ S yet?
I know that Nokias received "Color profile tool" where you could adjust temperature and saturation.
Just can't replace my device now, don't know what else to do
Samsung Voice of customer didn't help me either....
Thanks in advice!
P.S. Whoever is a Samsung fan, please go for other devices, as Samsung customer service is the worst service I have ever seen and to most of people customer service is a 50% of the product, cuz there is no point of buying a device you re not happy with and then also not knowing about's it's possible defects before you buy it, later when discovering them, you get kicked in the bottom by the Service instead of seeing their will to really help you...
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I think there's no way to modify colors on our ATIV S for now.
The best hope comes from the work from the hacking community on xda that may help us find a way to do this or even use the nokia app.
Or Samsung may release the same kind of app, that will be the best solution.
Anyway, I do see dark spots and dark lines on the screen of my ativ S if I use it in the dark and when the screen is dimmed, but as soon as something is displayed, I can't see them at all and the image is perfect. No pink tint on it either.
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Thanks for your reply Mirakle, we ll wait for it then
BTW, I used Fiddle and changed some config file, to make Marketplace assume I am using Nokia, not Samsung, I got this Nokia display app installed, just to check, but unfortunately it didn't work (((
The dark spots thing is actually most common issue in AMOLEDs, as I said, I got my screen replaced, I still have spots, but not as much and not as big ones as I had before, but instead I got another problem, which is pink tint... So yeah, you will pretty much gamble if you will replace.... AMOLED technology is kind of lame yet in terms of quality (((
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The Millimeter Revolution
By Elizabeth Rubin
Published: April 6, 2003
In the winter of 1979, one day after the Iranian revolution extinguished the reign of the shahs, the gates to the notorious Evin prison in northern Tehran were thrown open, and Emadeddin Baghi went in to have a look.
All around him, people in cars, on motorbikes and on bicycles were touring the stone compounds of the hillside prison. They inspected the emptied cellblocks where the tales of cruelty they had grown up on had unfolded. Baghi, who was 17, knew that his religious and political mentor, Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, had been locked up and tortured at Evin, along with other opponents of the shah.
It was a thrilling moment for Baghi. Just three days earlier, he left his home in southern Tehran with a group of friends to join the army of thousands moving east toward the headquarters of the Iranian Air Force. The shah's guards fired at air force personnel inside their air base for flaunting their loyalty to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Outside the air force headquarters, people were piling up sandbags and digging trenches. Baghi and his friends made Molotov cocktails. In the afternoon, motorcycles swung by with placards announcing Imam Khomeini's request to the people: stay in the streets and ignore martial law. They stayed all night.
Stocks of weapons and ammunition were looted from the air base. Baghi touched his first gun nervously. It was heavier than he expected. But when his friend test-fired a bullet, Baghi's hesitation vanished. For the next two days, they were armed Islamic revolutionaries, assaulting garrisons and firing upon police stations. ''We imagined ourselves Islamic Che Guevaras,'' one former revolutionary reminisced. The shah's army put up little defense and surrendered after two days. When Baghi finally returned home, his mother, who had thought he was dead, fell to the floor and cried. His father jested: ''You have come back! Why weren't you martyred?''
Wandering through Evin prison was the culmination of those febrile revolutionary days. ''The symbol of the shah's power was under the feet of the people,'' Baghi recalled recently when I met him in Tehran. ''I was wondering, What will they do with the place, turn it into a park?''
Smiling in his earnest, affable way, he went on: ''Of course, I never imagined I'd end up in the same cell where Ayatollah Montazeri and the others were imprisoned under the shah.''
After the shah's ouster, Baghi devoted his life's energies to studying Islamic thought and practice, and to realizing the dream he and so many young revolutionary ideologues had of creating the first free and just Islamic republic on earth. Instead, more than two decades after the revolution, Baghi has only recently stepped out of Evin prison, where he was locked up for three years, accused by the ruling clerics of apostasy and endangering the security of the Islamic state.
The Iranian revolution is nearly a quarter-century old. Its children, now in their 20's, are discontented, impatiently awaiting the day the ruling clerics will go back behind their seminary walls and let the people breathe freely. Most Iranians want the same thing. They just haven't figured out how to get there.
Iranians are living under the surreal rule of two parallel governments, locked together in a battle that has paralyzed the country's political development. One is the popular government that was elected in 1997 by an overwhelming majority of Iranians. It is led by President Mohammad Khatami and the reformist Parliament. It has no real power. The other is led by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has absolute power, holds his position for life and disdains the voice of the people. He controls the judiciary, the revolutionary guards, the Information Ministry and the Council of Guardians, who must approve all candidates for election and any amendments to the Constitution.
Baghi belongs to the ''religious intellectuals,'' a circle of former revolutionary ideologues whose ideas inspired the country's fledgling reformist movement and brought the moderate President Khatami to power. Despite the unrelenting persecution these reformists have suffered over the last five years at the hands of the ruling clerics, they are continuing to try to resurrect the original ideals the revolution aspired to, before it swerved down the path of religious dictatorship.
Some reformists have swung radically away from Islam as an organizing principle in public life. They are believers in Gandhi-inspired civil disobedience who want a brand-new constitution. Others are religious and politically more moderate. They are resistant to the idea that political Islam is incompatible with democracy. Baghi is somewhere in between.
A few days after Baghi's release from Evin in February, I joined a flurry of visitors at his mother-in-law's apartment, all of whom came with flowers and cakes, eager to welcome him home and hear his prison tales. His eyes and cheeks were flushed with the feverish energy of his first days out of prison. Now 41, Baghi still has a full helmet of black hair, dusted only at the back with a white bloom of prison stress. He is a short man with a warm, easy manner and boundless enthusiasm, laughing, popping up to answer the door, narrating stories with anger, tears and agitation. He is convinced that he is just on a temporary vacation, that soon he'll be sleeping back in Evin prison.


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I'm trying to get post title to be added automatically inside of form textarea.
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I've added extra button to TinyMCE Advanced which adds feedback form to the post. So admin can add feedback form to the post when he wants to. It works well if you don't count problem explained here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/192658?replies=1
Now I have a different problem. With that feedback form customers can ask more information about the subject the post deals with. When they send the feedback to the website administrator, the administrator should know (based on the feedback) which post is in question. So I need to get some kind of info (preferably post title) inside of the form automatically.
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Air Strats
Changes to Air.
Fighters toned down.
This was done in several ways and the changes appear at different time zones. First off, the T3 rush with a follow up of fighters to raid the enemy got two serious shots against it. While this may sound upsetting to folks, what was really done was balance the ability to strike mech raid with fighter raiding. Prior to the expansion, fighter raids were really the only way to go for a couple of reasons:
When you hit T3, the resource that is most precious is carbon. It allows you to (a) drop a new command center (b) build military structures (c) build farms, which you will need to produce food. Fighters cost only nova/food, which is relatively easy to come by. Strike mechs on the other hand require a great deal carbon (100C) so it is hard to get any decent force together quickly.
Fighters do significantly more damage to villagers than strike mechs do. In the old version of the game, fighters did a whopping 15 points of damage vs a worker with basic training, whereas strikes did a meager 3pts of dmg to a worker with basic training. In the expansion, figthers now do 9pts and strikes to 5pts, which balances the units out a LOT more.
While the damage ratios of the two units are not equal, they are now about equal in terms of their ability to be used as early T3 raiding units as fighters are a bit easier to counter than strikes are. So while fighters are slightly more effective as raiding units because they can be massed easier, traverse distance quicker, and do more damage to workers, anti-air troops do a better job of killing fighters than grenade troopers do of knocking down strike mechs. This is even more true now that AA troopers move faster.
Fighters took a second knock down in their ability to be an effective massed fighting force by increasing the strength of their counters. As mentioned previously, AA troopers move faster which is a large boon to stopping the hit and run early strikes, but not as powerful in topping a massed group of fighters. The AA Mobile on the other hand was a fairly effective counter to air based armies in BattleGrounds. In Clone Campaigns, they are even more effective for three reasons:
Decreased Build Time Mobile AA now build in :30 rather than :36
Lower Cost - Mobile AA now cost 100C/50N rather than 150C/50N
Able to absorb more damage - fighters now do 4pts of damage to Mobile AA, whereas in BG, they did Xpts. Although this is a small change, it really adds up when you are facing 20+ fighters with a slow fire rate. While all of them are relatively small, they add up significantly when combined. They still however pale compared to the defensive power of the AA turret. Even with a slightly increased cost (150ore/20C rather than .), this is still the unit of choice to stop large hordes of fighters.
The cost issue is really marginal as you can generally use the market to purchase whatever ore you need at the stage of the game when massed air is on the field. This is why I have by in large been opposed to balancing late game by altering unit costs.
Fortresses also got a boost against air units, but more on fortresses later.
Bombers Enchanced.
Bombers generally played a role in late game, but were by and large ignored in the early game which is a shame. They are extremely effective in tactical runs against powercores which can cripple an opponent early; preventing them from massing units quickly. The real problem with bombers was not the bomber, but rather with the extreme effectiveness of the fighter. Due to the immense power of the fighter as an early raiding unit, top players kept their airbases busy cranking out fighters. By the time they would build bombers, they were often ready to build a transport and drop a pummel on the enemy instead. With the recent changes to the power of the fighter though, a window may open for bomber production in airbases. This will certainly be aided by the decreased build time for the bomber which was reduced from :40 to :35 in Clone Campaigns.
I personally wonder if we will be seeing T3 armies of strike mechs and bombers in Clone Campaigns. At first glance, they appear to be a strong combination of units. Time will tell though.
Aerial Techs.
A number of players (myself included) were always a bit puzzled by Flight School. Much like so many parents who send their children off to Universities, we figured it did something, we just weren't quite sure what once our shiny fighters came out with that diploma. Likewise, we often spent the resources to send them to Advanced Flight School with similar puzzlement on exactly what they were getting out of it. Lucas has now made it a bit clearer for us, by increasing the line of sight by +1 for each "degree" that our fighters earn at Flight School. To make it even more pleasant, the cost of "tuition" just dropped by X%. Now if only Universities were that clear .
The Wookies were one of the more powerful civs in Battlegrounds and as such one of the more popular picks for players. One of the key components to the Wookie strength was their powerful Air Force, which when combined with a powerful infantry line and very powerful artillery line was a bit too much. To balance this, the Wookies have lost Efficient Manufacturing - a key technology given the large cost of building an Air Force.
The Empire had a strange oddity with their air units where they had a decreased build time. That has now been rectified as Empire Air units now build at the same rate as other civs. They cost 5% less, but that amounts to about 3F/3N and is in my opinion fairly negligible. You would have to mass 20 fighters before you really see much, and quite honestly the Empire should be massing mechs not fighters.
RE: Air Strats
I find air units weak because they are easily destroyed. A small anti-airforce will easily do the job. I would recommend Air Warfare to very advanced players, but even then someone who knows what they are doing will easily shoot your fighters down.
well what i use fighters for is mainly to sneak in and kill his workers, wether they be carbon, farmers, nove, or ore. and if they have a troop center out in the open easily kill his troops. And I usually build 8-10 fighters, sorry can't remeber how much it costs to do this, but it works to put a major blow in their economy. Man, if i had a dime for every time i laughed at his dying workers, id be .....well i wouldn't be talking to guys :)
You can't have a strong military without and airforce of sometype. Fighters are great support craft. They are great for scouting, defense and attack. Bombers are great for attacking bases and slow moving targets. But the best of all are the air cruisers!!! My how do I love them. When I can, I will put together a group of about 20 +/- air cruisers with some fighters for support and attack the snot out of a base. I love 'em.:)
I find that using jedi or sith are really good against almost anything. Some units cannot be turned. I love them very much. otherwise i use a combo of troopers and bounty hunters.
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Capablanca had not lost a game in 11 years
I have not lost a game since last evening ...
Here is a match I lost last night that I had been doing okay in, but my middle and end game ruined it (and my start wasn't very strong either):
I looked at your game from Feb.8 and thought I'd give you some pointers:
7.0-0 ? Castling is a mistake at this point. Black's last move, 6...d5 set up the threat 7...d4, forking the White knight and bishop, winning a piece. You needed to play 7.exd5 here to eliminate this threat. This fork remains possible for several moves but luckily Black never saw it.
11.Nb5? Your knight on e5 is hanging and can be captured by the Black queen. Your move, attacking the black queen almost forces Black to capture your knight. Luckily Black didn't see it.
15.Qa6? Sadly you missed a mate in two here. 15.Qa7+! Kc8 16.Qa8#. At the very least you could've also simply taken Black's knight on a2 with your queen.
16.Bxb6? Here you missed a mate in one. 16.Nxc6#
17.Qa5? Your knight on b5 is attacked by a pawn, so moving your queen just leaves it up for grabs. Better was to continue the attack with 17.Nxc6+, if then 17...Qxc6 it's mate in two 18.Ba7+ Ka8 19.Qxc6#. Also better would have been trading queens with 17.Qxb7+ Kxb7 and then taking his rook with 18.Bxd8
18.Qxb5? Better would have been to win the black rook with 18.Bxd8. Up until now you were winning, but now the tide is beginning to turn.
20.Nxf7? Trying to fork the two black rooks. You should have taken the Black knight on a2 with your queen instead. Now you're losing.
21.d4? The Black knight on a2 is still up for grabs! 21.Qxa2 should've been played.
22...Qxb2?? Your opponent commits a fatal blunder with this pawn grab. His queen and king are on the same open file. You can now skewer them with 23.Rb3, winning the queen. Sadly you missed it.
I will stop the analysis at this point. The rest of the game no longer presented you with any opportunities to save the game.
This is hardly an in-depth analysis of your game, I merely pointed out the most obvious tactics. I would recommend you look at this game again and again until everything I pointed out to you pops right out at you.
Were the first two games against this guy?
I think it's around 1100.
I think he's related to Ali G. Hope that helps.
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Buddy Luv, a Mastiff/Boxer mix, was in trouble. For a dog that should weigh 90-plus pounds he was skin and bones. His big brown eyes were full of pain. He could only eat very little at a time and had diarrhea. To make matters worse, Buddy's family gave him up after more than eight weeks of watching his health decline.
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Next, abdominal X-rays were taken and revealed that Buddy's intestines were greatly distended and full of gas which indicated that Buddy had ingested something that was causing an obstruction. Dogs eat all kinds of foreign objects from rocks to raquetballs, underwear to diapers. Buddy needed surgery to remove the obstruction, but what the veterinarian would find was anybody's guess.
To help pay for the surgery, the Boxer Luv Rescue Board quickly raised funds. "When we heard about Buddy, we immediately sent out a plea online to over 200 volunteers, and over $1,000 was raised overnight to help pay for this poor dog's emergency surgery," said Dona Miller, medical coordinator of the rescue.
Early the next morning, Dr. Pullen took more X-rays to pinpoint the object as best he could; then Buddy was prepped for gastric foreign body removal surgery.
Soon after, the mystery was solved.
Buddy had chewed, pulverized and ultimately swallowed a leather, regulation-size baseball and the largest part of it had worked its way all the way through his intestines, causing damage to the bowel, and was stuck where the intestines meet the colon. The interior strings of the baseball had unraveled along the way. Dr. Pullen cut apart the intestine and removed the ball, pulled out the yards of string and then sewed the two large incisions back together. The dog's intestines, which are normally as wide as a man's fingers, were stretched out and inflamed to the width of a vacuum cleaner hose. It was no wonder Buddy was in such pain.
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Federal authorities have charged a California man with drug distribution after a state trooper found more than a gallon of liquid of methamphetamine inside the man's vehicle during a Carson County traffic stop last month.
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WESTMINSTER, Colo. -- A 16-year-old boy set himself on fire at a suburban Denver high school on Monday in an apparent suicide attempt that left him critically injured, authorities said.
The boy didn't make any threats before starting the fire in the cafeteria at Standley Lake High School at about 7:15 a.m., Westminster Police Department spokeswoman Cheri Spottke said.
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As I go to bed tonight 3 of the Chilean miners have been rescued after being underground for nearly 70 days. I know I'm not a news site but this story has brought so many people of the world together to help bring these men to the surface and back with their families it's impossible to ignore.
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Skip to comments.The Wisconsin Lie ExposedTaxpayers Actually Contribute Nothing To Public Employee Pensions
Posted on 02/25/2011 8:10:46 PM PST by tcrlaf
Pulitzer Prize winning tax reporter, David Cay Johnston, has written a brilliant piece for tax.com exposing the truth about who really pays for the pension and benefits for public employees in Wisconsin. Gov. Scott Walker says he wants state workers covered by collective bargaining agreements to contribute more to their pension and health insurance plans.
Accepting Gov. Walker s assertions as fact, and failing to check, creates the impression that somehow the workers are getting something extra, a gift from taxpayers. They are not. Out of every dollar that funds Wisconsin s pension and health insurance plans for state workers, 100 cents comes from the state workers.
How can this be possible? Simple. The pension plan is the direct result of deferred compensation- money that employees would have been paid as cash salary but choose, instead, to have placed in the state operated pension fund where the money can be professionally invested (at a lower cost of management) for the future.
Many of us are familiar with the concept of deferred compensation from reading about the latest multi-million dollar deal with some professional athlete.
A review of the states collective bargaining agreements many of which are available for review at the Wisconsin Office of State Employees web site - bears out that it is no different for state employees. The numbers are just lower.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.forbes.com ...
There is some truth in this but not as much as many seem to think. Because the pension plan is a defined benefit plan requiring the state to pay the agreed benefit for however long the employee may live in retirement- if the employee lives longer than the actuarial plan anticipated, the taxpayer is on the hook for the pay-outs during the longer life.
But is this the fault of the state employees? The pension agreements are the result of collective bargaining. That means that the state has every opportunity to properly calculate the anticipated lifespan and then add on some margin for error. Whats more, the losses taken by the pension funds over the past few years can hardly be blamed on the employees.
Take a look at what Sue Urahn, an expert on the subject at the Pew Center on the States, has to say about this when describing the $1 trillion gap that existed between the $2.35 trillion states had set aside to pay for employees retirement benefits and the $3.35 trillion price tag of those promises.at the end of 2008-
To a significant degree, the $1 trillion reflects states own policy choices and lack of discipline:
* failing to make annual payments for pension systems at the levels recommended by their own actuaries; * expanding benefits and offering cost-of-living increases without fully considering their long-term price tag or determining how to pay for them; and * providing retiree health care without adequately funding it
Via Pew Center on the States
That is the point. While the governor of Wisconsin is busy trying to shift the blame to the workers in an effort to put an end to collective bargaining, the reality is that it was the state who punted on this not the employees.
Further, by the state employee unions agreeing to the deal proposed by Walker on their benefits (as they have despite Walkers refusal to accept it) they are taking on much - and possibly all of the obligation out of their own pockets.
As a result, the taxpayers do not contribute to the public employee pension programs so much as serve as insurers. If their elected officials have been sloppy , the taxpayers must stand behind it. But if the market continues to perform as it has been performing this past year, dont be surprised if the funding crisis begins to recede. If it does, what will you say then?
Who pays their compensation?
Taxpayers, now or later.
Forbes is full of crpp on this one.
Ok folks, have at this.
Explain to me how deferred compensation, especially deferred compensation that is never paid, and never budgeted for, is not paid by the taxpayers???
This is making big rounds on the Leftist internet websites, aspecially Daily Kos...
How much do public employees pay toward their health insurance?
Well, it's here - but this still is an appropriate picture.
Forbes is a Global Bankster -
I guess I'm missing something here. The insurance is paid for as part of compensation, just as their salaries are paid for. Taxpayers pay both to the teachers.
The only "lie" would be if the benefits were paid for by teachers out of their own pockets separately—i.e. if salaries were the ONLY compensation the teachers received from the state.
I must be missing something.
The Unions donate to the Democrats who in turn use the taxpayers money to fulfill the state's unsustainable obligation. When we reach the point that the state can no longer fulfill the obligation then the system goes bankrupt and "poof" go the obligations into bankruptcy. This doesn't seem very moral to me.
I learned something new ... deferred compensation appears magically out of nowhere! It's magic found money that came out of no one's pocket and magically appears on the books like money from the tooth fairy.
OK..so part of the paycheck goes to the employee and part to retirement, but at the end of the day..with a defined benefit plan the shortfall must be made up by the taxpayer with additional taxes. That is the perfect argument for a defined contribution plan. That is the only thing that protects the employee and the taxpayer from evil doing by the politicians who have underfunded the retirements funds.
Every cent paid to a public employee is paid by the taxpayers or those who pay fees for specific services. How can an outfit like FORBES fail to understand this?
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This is pure sophistry.
And this is why there needs to be some focus on total compensation (and how its 2x private sector jobs), because public union workers are financially pampered from hire date to grave, and then some.
And just where does "their pay" come from??? The taxpayers! State to not generate anything, or make anything. Their only source of funds to pay state employees, deferred or not, comes from tax revenue that comes from tax payers.
Someone get the popcorn!!!!
Heads are going to explode!!!!
As I understand it, there is no provision for states to actually go into bankruptcy.
However, at some point their checks will just start bouncing and suppliers will stop doing business with them.
I believe IL is very near this point now.
Today, Flee Levin had a Maryland caller who would not identify himself. He said some folks are collecting on their retirement fund prior to retirement. The loot gets dumped electronically into accounts.
One is a legal definition and the other is a literal definition. But both are basically the same thing. WE IS BROKE!
Where does that 100 cents come from?
The paycheck fairy?
And two plus two equals five, we all know that.
The writer keeps saying this over and over in the comments section: "characterizing the contribution to the state pension fund as some additional gift is false."
I have yet to see anyone besides him refer to the non-salary compensation as a gift.
This guy is just trying to find an angle to push his position; he's not looking at the facts and coming to a conclusion, but trying to make facts support his already-arrived at conclusion.
Other than his own article, I have NEVER seen these benefits called a 'gift' as he keeps saying.
And this writer believes SS Benes are totally funded by employees contributions. (I mean forced contributions)
Taxpayers don't pay for Public Employees?
Learn a new thing everyday - well, slap me silly......
I think reading FORBES may be on the defer list too...
"Who pays their compensation?
Taxpayers, now or later."
I agree....
"Walkers refusal to accept it) they are taking on much - and possibly all of the obligation out of their own pockets."
What difference does it make if the benefits are being paid
from the workers pocket, when it is the taxpayer filling the pocket?
"the taxpayers must stand behind it"?
Au contraire mon ami. What government promiseth, government can taketh away. And guess what you bunch of overpaid government slackers, take it away we will.
What we have is widespread lack of knowledge about how companies, and governments, and individuals, arrive at what we all call "pension plans".
Right now I'm retired ~ I benefit from 5, or maybe 6, different pension plans. A couple of them were established by Congress ~ but even there you find only superficial similarities. The way they work is dramatically different.
Fur Shur, along the way toward retirement Congress changed the terms several times, and even changed the contribution requirements.
The Wisconsin system bears only the slightest similarity to any of the plans that pay me, but ALL of them have one definite rule ~ if a benefit was promised the court requires that it be paid.
Essentially Walker is proposing a NEW SYSTEM, not really a revision to the existing system. He'll win. And the union won't know what hit them.
They why are the union members so mad at Walker if taxpayers pay nothing? What a bunch of croc.
states should just require workers to stay at their jobs longer before their pensions are fully vested.
"Which is why I am wondering why you're posting this bullcrap here?"
So that leftist crap propaganda can be countered by intelligent minds???
For the same reason we post anything else--so we can be informed as to what the other side is doing. I for one am glad this was posted. Otherwise when some lefty brought it up I wouldn't know what he was talking about, and would assume it was the meds talking, because this is ludicrous.
When I first saw the headline I thought it was another chain e-mail someone saw.
It just illustrates why Governor Walker is right to reform public unions bargaining rights to limit them to wages only. So that no more "deferred compensation" punting can occur.
Lets not pretend that union leadership wasn't sitting on both sides of the bargaining table, buying politicians with fat campaign contributions to get these golden parachutes worth far more than the compensation they were giving up in exchange.
We're broke, the party is over.
100% of simple servants wages are extracted from the taxpayers!
what happens here is that the market went south or the funds lose money then the workers lost a lot of their money and they want the tax payers to make up the difference.
Just like all that free, clean electricity that's in our homes' walls to power all our electric cars!
The article is not true:
My 401k dropped by huge amounts over the past few years. I expect Wisconsin government employees to send me checks to make up the shortfall.
We must know what the other side, even our enemies are saying so that we don't get caught by surprise and end up with egg or shit on our faces.
What the article left out was "WHO" was in charge of Wisconsin - Governors, State Legislature, etc when the terms of the public employees contracts were written (i.e into law).
It has fallen to the Republicans to at least call attention to the fiscal disasters their predecessors have left for the state and new Governor/Legislature to try and fix.
Another issue the article avoided is the use of union dues to pay off Democratic politicans in return for jobs and perks. THIS IS WHERE THE SCANDAL LIES.
Seems that FORBES missed a couple of important things. WHY?
"To a significant degree, the $1 trillion reflects states own policy choices and lack of discipline:
* failing to make annual payments for pension systems at the levels recommended by their own actuaries; * expanding benefits and offering cost-of-living increases without fully considering their long-term price tag or determining how to pay for them; and * providing retiree health care without adequately funding it"
Um, how do benefits expand and cost-of-living increases occur? Oh yeah, through collective bargaining. The unions got the benefits without upping the amount employees contributed, and the taxpayer picks up the rest.
Sounds like deliberate fraud to me.
I think he is assuming that the pension funds make money in the stock market and elsewhere. Fact is, though, that local boards put money into the fund. Of course it is deferred compensation, but that benefit is denied to most in the private sector. Then there is the undeniable fact that taxpayer/teacher money passes on to the unions, and that the unions continually work on politicians to funnel money into the public schools—large amounts of which goes to school administrators. Which is one reason why administrators—despite their protests—like unions.
And most of the time this seems to happen when governments get union "concessions". Give them only a little bit now since the economy is in the tank, but guarantee payments to their dogs 20 years later.
State employees are paid from TAX money - regardless of how the pie is divided up - it is still TAX money - paid by tax paying citizens... differed this or that ... it is still tax money - paid by citizens of that state...
So this Forbes article is lunacy
How stupid do they think we are? Their compensation, immediate or deferred, is provided by taxpayers. So the taxpayers are, indeed, funding their pensions.
I looked around on the site and it seems this is just a blog. One guy's opinion but since it is connected to Forbes, it gives leftists cover. I just read a story, a real story, not a blog, on Forbes' site about how non-union states are eating the lunch of union states.
Anytime I see the word "blog" in a title or url, I take it with a grain of salt.
I have no idea who Rick Ungar is but he seems to be Forbes' token liberal.
OK - start paying income tax on all the health insurance if it is just salary in a different form.
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I'm writing a plugin that needs to query the database, and I'm using the
$wpdb class of functions to do it.
I'm finding that if I don't declare
global $wpdb at the beginning of the function, I get an error:
Call to a member function query() on a non-object in ...
It works perfectly with the global declaration, but I was wondering whether declaring
$wpdb global was the best idea. The codex documentation seems just to assume that it should work straight off, which is why I'm concerned.