That's just it, we don't have capitalism. We have corporatism; companies with money control congress who, in turn, write laws that control competition. Communities have voted against allowing Wal Mart into...

My family and I refuse to shop at Wal-Mart because of what they have done to small local businesses. They bring in a new store to a community and undercut...

Google says that "You can make money without doing evil." That's only going half way though. Looking the other way while others to do evil is not acceptable either. The Globalists...

This is fantastic. I have a client who is having fragmentation problems in a heavily used medical records database and this could be just what I need to measure just...

Maybe I am missing something but this solution sounds a little bit like reinvention of the wheel. I typically bypass the XML in my applications by using typed datasets. Technically,...

Hey, all this discussion made me realize something. If the management stinks in the company you work for and they are not doing anything to help the company then it's a safe bet...

I first heard this in around 1986. It's popular to say, it's conventional wisdom, and like much conventional wisdom, as they say in the markets, short it. - John...

There is only one person on the team that needs good team skills: the team leader or manager.  Everyone else on the team should be a highly skilled heads-down...

I thought Sean's article was fine and I made it a point to subscribe to both of his blogs after reading it; however, some things may have been misstated and, as...

I can't believe I read 108 messages in this thread. I also can't believe that the majority of them opposed the article so strongly. I can certainly tell by the...

That's an interesting take on the use of language. I hadn't thought about that angle much but when I read your article it made me think about the language I...

This is so true Steve. It not only costs a lot to replace a person, a company can create a lot of backlash for employee "abuse". Additionally, companies need to...

I've seen those here in NE Tennessee and many other places in my meager travels. I just thought they were to improve visibility since they are not subject to the...

We've switched to mostly low-power lightbulbs. We have run into some cheap ones though so be careful. Some of the ones we got actually need to warm up before they...

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