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Jim Hampton wrote:
Hello, Kim Dang, top post or bottom post, but who cares? Reality is that they changed the rules and it cut my pension by around $300 per month! I was lucky, however. A few folks were just shy off 55 (one guy was 2 weeks short of 55) and they get no health coverage nor life insurance. They pulled the plug a bit late on me. Although not big, I'm looking at over $300 per week after taxes. After working a contract job at $13.00 per hour (what a whack in pay!) and we all were let go after 3 months, I've decided to heck with it. I can live on the $300 to $350 per week. I've only a few years before Social Insecurity and I have health insurance. I have to make adjustments, but I can pay my taxes. I'm certain that changes will occur when enough folks get hurt. I'm just tired of banging my head into a brick wall. I read the same old tired threads and the claims that the left-wing groups lied when they reported stories. Certainly mistakes have been made, but I cannot help but note that as time goes by and more stories leak out, it would appear that some folks will just not let go of the official stance. Whether amateur radio or the current administration. I did have a laugh. Years ago, I wrote a program which generated ladder code for a programmable ladder controller. I could do the work of 8 hours of tool engineering time in 15 minutes. A lot of credit was given to other folks. Amazingly, the program "disappeared". I had left and then went back to that company some 7 years later. When our department was getting ready to close, I spoke with one supervisor about the fact that the programming in the controllers was terrible and I could increase production about 20% (I proved a 50% increase back in 1982). When he suggested we approach the manager I told him the truth. It wouldn't save his job nor mine. I let it go. I honestly don't care and after the requisite two years I will e-mail the code to a competitor. A foreign competitor. I generally avoid confrontation and tend to not be nasty, but in this case .... ) Make my day. I have generally found that the well educated are either labeled as "geeks" or "left-wing radicals". The self-righteous folks haven't seen real flack. It is about time that they did. So you noticed that education is a "bad thing" too, eh, Jim? I've seen good old "Dave" talking about "old timers". He's off by a mile, but anyone with a ticket should be welcomed and accepted with none of the B.S. concerning license classes. There are codeless techs that can run rings around me, and I can run rings around most of the extras. I'm not talking Morse, but I could there too. Superiority based on either Morse code or the contents of the new or old tests is shallow superiority indeed. Thinking that such things impart superiority is even shallower. I can assure you, anyone with a "holier than thou" attitude on one group I co-own will be gone in a heartbeat. We all have enough troubles without some idiot adding to the garbage. Yeah! - Mike KB3EIA - |
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"Mike Coslo" wrote in message ... Jim Hampton wrote: Hello, Kim Dang, top post or bottom post, but who cares? Reality is that they changed the rules and it cut my pension by around $300 per month! I was lucky, however. A few folks were just shy off 55 (one guy was 2 weeks short of 55) and they get no health coverage nor life insurance. They pulled the plug a bit late on me. Although not big, I'm looking at over $300 per week after taxes. After working a contract job at $13.00 per hour (what a whack in pay!) and we all were let go after 3 months, I've decided to heck with it. I can live on the $300 to $350 per week. I've only a few years before Social Insecurity and I have health insurance. I have to make adjustments, but I can pay my taxes. I'm certain that changes will occur when enough folks get hurt. I'm just tired of banging my head into a brick wall. I read the same old tired threads and the claims that the left-wing groups lied when they reported stories. Certainly mistakes have been made, but I cannot help but note that as time goes by and more stories leak out, it would appear that some folks will just not let go of the official stance. Whether amateur radio or the current administration. I did have a laugh. Years ago, I wrote a program which generated ladder code for a programmable ladder controller. I could do the work of 8 hours of tool engineering time in 15 minutes. A lot of credit was given to other folks. Amazingly, the program "disappeared". I had left and then went back to that company some 7 years later. When our department was getting ready to close, I spoke with one supervisor about the fact that the programming in the controllers was terrible and I could increase production about 20% (I proved a 50% increase back in 1982). When he suggested we approach the manager I told him the truth. It wouldn't save his job nor mine. I let it go. I honestly don't care and after the requisite two years I will e-mail the code to a competitor. A foreign competitor. I generally avoid confrontation and tend to not be nasty, but in this case .... ) Make my day. I have generally found that the well educated are either labeled as "geeks" or "left-wing radicals". The self-righteous folks haven't seen real flack. It is about time that they did. So you noticed that education is a "bad thing" too, eh, Jim? I've seen good old "Dave" talking about "old timers". He's off by a mile, but anyone with a ticket should be welcomed and accepted with none of the B.S. concerning license classes. There are codeless techs that can run rings around me, and I can run rings around most of the extras. I'm not talking Morse, but I could there too. Superiority based on either Morse code or the contents of the new or old tests is shallow superiority indeed. Thinking that such things impart superiority is even shallower. I can assure you, anyone with a "holier than thou" attitude on one group I co-own will be gone in a heartbeat. We all have enough troubles without some idiot adding to the garbage. Yeah! - Mike KB3EIA - Hello, Mike True enough. Interestingly, although I had some problems with The Calculus, I've overcome much of it in the past 3 months simply because I suddenly found it "interesting". As to education, I'm surprised at the number of folks with "associates" or "baccalaureate" degrees that are totally lacking in the sciences. They do seem proficient, however, at "cut and paste". Most interesting. 73 from Rochester, NY Jim AA2QA |
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Jim Hampton wrote:
"Mike Coslo" wrote in message ... Jim Hampton wrote: Hello, Kim Dang, top post or bottom post, but who cares? Reality is that they changed the rules and it cut my pension by around $300 per month! I was lucky, however. A few folks were just shy off 55 (one guy was 2 weeks short of 55) and they get no health coverage nor life insurance. They pulled the plug a bit late on me. Although not big, I'm looking at over $300 per week after taxes. After working a contract job at $13.00 per hour (what a whack in pay!) and we all were let go after 3 months, I've decided to heck with it. I can live on the $300 to $350 per week. I've only a few years before Social Insecurity and I have health insurance. I have to make adjustments, but I can pay my taxes. I'm certain that changes will occur when enough folks get hurt. I'm just tired of banging my head into a brick wall. I read the same old tired threads and the claims that the left-wing groups lied when they reported stories. Certainly mistakes have been made, but I cannot help but note that as time goes by and more stories leak out, it would appear that some folks will just not let go of the official stance. Whether amateur radio or the current administration. I did have a laugh. Years ago, I wrote a program which generated ladder code for a programmable ladder controller. I could do the work of 8 hours of tool engineering time in 15 minutes. A lot of credit was given to other folks. Amazingly, the program "disappeared". I had left and then went back to that company some 7 years later. When our department was getting ready to close, I spoke with one supervisor about the fact that the programming in the controllers was terrible and I could increase production about 20% (I proved a 50% increase back in 1982). When he suggested we approach the manager I told him the truth. It wouldn't save his job nor mine. I let it go. I honestly don't care and after the requisite two years I will e-mail the code to a competitor. A foreign competitor. I generally avoid confrontation and tend to not be nasty, but in this case .... ) Make my day. I have generally found that the well educated are either labeled as "geeks" or "left-wing radicals". The self-righteous folks haven't seen real flack. It is about time that they did. So you noticed that education is a "bad thing" too, eh, Jim? I've seen good old "Dave" talking about "old timers". He's off by a mile, but anyone with a ticket should be welcomed and accepted with none of the B.S. concerning license classes. There are codeless techs that can run rings around me, and I can run rings around most of the extras. I'm not talking Morse, but I could there too. Superiority based on either Morse code or the contents of the new or old tests is shallow superiority indeed. Thinking that such things impart superiority is even shallower. I can assure you, anyone with a "holier than thou" attitude on one group I co-own will be gone in a heartbeat. We all have enough troubles without some idiot adding to the garbage. Yeah! - Mike KB3EIA - Hello, Mike True enough. Interestingly, although I had some problems with The Calculus, I've overcome much of it in the past 3 months simply because I suddenly found it "interesting". As to education, I'm surprised at the number of folks with "associates" or "baccalaureate" degrees that are totally lacking in the sciences. They do seem proficient, however, at "cut and paste". Science is troublesome for "modern" humans. While so many enjoy technology, they get rapidly uncomfortable with the underlying science. Don't worry though, we're moving to "Faith Based Science". The pilot program is going on right now in Kansas. - Mike KB3EIA - |
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Mike Coslo wrote:
Science is troublesome for "modern" humans. Well, at least some of them. A very vocal group, though. While so many enjoy technology, they get rapidly uncomfortable with the underlying science. "Inherit The Wind" all over again. Don't worry though, we're moving to "Faith Based Science". An oxymoron if there ever was one! The pilot program is going on right now in Kansas. The surreal thing about it is that it comes down to trying to understand a complex Book, not science. In fact, it's all about just the first few chapters of that Book. Yet one wonders if those who are most adamant about said Book have actually read it, because in its first few chapters, it tells two different creation stories that contradict each other. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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