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Well. That didn't take long. Rather like watching a gambling addict play craps with my investment portfolio.

 
A staunch christian and defender. The sick liberals are happy

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So he is shitting on zelensky again for simply saying the facts....and threatening putin with sanctions yet again, when he never applied any the last time he said he would....can see putin pissing himself that the Donald "isn't happy."....needs to get his act together ...but :E Shrug:

 
Heck, a few years ago I had a project in the UK. I needed 11 engineers over there for a year. I offered a 25% salary increase, trips back home every 3 months for a week, all expenses and use of a car to my employees. I sweetened the pot saying I'd also fly their family there as well.

ONE person took me up on it. Rest, I had to hire consultants to fill the slots. Our engineers are prima donnas; I see that daily in the younger generation especially.
I think we need to ask what motivates people to work. Why would be someone in sunny California be willing to move to cold and wet UK? The weather is terrible, the food is worse and while the Brits are mostly nice their guest are not so. I think we can put down motivation to work to two main types, the need to earn enough and then when you have earned enough, to get satisfaction. Satisfaction may include everything from wielding power over a lot of people, getting social status or just to design something beautiful. Both are very person dependent, and I do not think we can quantify them.

A Chinese or an Indian engineer will typically come from a less advantaged background than an American and our opportunities fewer. Our main need initially is to earn. Simply put if I am not willing to work 12+ hours a day there are others lined up to take up my place. Life is a competition for us, work and earnings first, enjoyment second. As a result, we work harder, longer and cheaper; and in some professions I think we tend to do better than Americans and Europeans just because we are willing to miss the family dinner to get some work done. However, I know some dollar millionaires here in India who do not need to work, but they do. Some to control a few thousand people, some just to teach the young ones. When it comes to it, I would actually say that the European and American IT consultants I have worked with are better problem solvers in general, but we get more of the mundane stuff done on the same days.

I remember coming across the concept of summer hours when I moved to US. Basically, every Friday after lunch the employees from my customer were gone. I negotiated this for my team also with the client, keeping a couple of folks on rotation in the office and releasing the rest for an early day off on Friday. Some of my folks declined this offer, worried about people taking them for slackers.
 
I would caution Trump that when you only stand for profit; then you stand for nothing

Your adversaries couldn’t give a twig for profit

They want power and control

Trump and his vice president strike me as checkers players at a chess tournament

Great at bullying 3rd world leaders and total pillocks like the grovelling Starmer

Not, though, up to the challenge that is confronting them
 
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Does Trump have the ability to recognise when he is being patronised by Putin?

I hope so

Because he is !

I don't believe his hubris allows him to consider it to be a possibility he could be patronized or played. That requires a modicum of introspection.
 
I would caution Trump that when you only stand for profit; then you stand for nothing

Your adversaries couldn’t give a twig for profit

They want power and control

Trump and his vice president strike me as checkers players at a chess tournament

Great at bullying 3rd world leaders and total pillocks like the grovelling Starmer

Not, though, up to the challenge that is confronting them

Draughts please....checkers... :E Shrug: :E Nono::E Doh:
 
Funny how "DEADBEATS" and CROOKS freeloading off America get upset when their thievery is exposed!! LMAO--- NOW you freeloaders are begging to be included in the "GOLDEN DOME"----maybe we'll just stop the protection and the US BORDERS!! Let the Russia and and the Chinese have you!

ITS BEING DONE TODAY!!! AND LONG OVERDUE!!
Ok buddy crawl back under your bridge and wait I’m sure there will be three goats along for you to terrorize shortly.
 
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I don't believe his hubris allows him to consider it to be a possibility he could be patronized or played. That requires a modicum of introspection.
To the point I made earlier...

I was watching Fox News, with footage of Trump reacting to Russia's most recent drone strikes. He seems genuinely surprised that Putin is continuing his attacks. His comments about 'I used to have a good relationship with him/he's changed' sound incredibly dense to me: Putin has never changed. He is who he is. He's not going to change, certainly not because Donald told him to. Also, telling Zelensky to be quiet about it seems petty and asinine. Introspection is not in Trump's mental arsenal, IMHO.
 
Contrary to popular belief it is not just cheap Chinese labor. We just do not have the skilled labor base to produce the iPhones in the quantities required.

Also, people paying would be the customers, not Apple. Apple or any company for that matter, is not going to sell their products below cost. And I thought you were a capitalist and could understand that. :unsure:

PS: Since when selling reasonably priced products is screwing America? Truth
 

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