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I don’t know Hillary’s experience. She’s never run a city. She’s never run a state. She’s never run a business. She’s never met a payroll. She’s never been responsible for the safety and security of millions of people, much less even hundreds of people. So I’m trying to figure out where the experience is here. It would seem to me that in a time of difficult problems and war, we don’t want on-the-job training for an executive. The reality is that these are areas in which — maybe there are some areas in which she has experience, but the areas of having the responsibility of the safety and security of millions of people on your shoulders, is not something that Hillary has ever had any experience with

No. Hillary has more experience in her little finger than Bush had in his empty head when he ran for President. I suggest you look up Hillary’s long list of accomplishments, education is the key to asking relevant questions.

Isn’t it really fear of female outrage (and the resulting loss of advertising revenue) that encourages (male) media executives to portray women as know-all, do-all types and men as abject retards?

No conspiracy here – just the reality of 21st century media. I accept it, but can you admit it?
You forgot the astronomical price of gasoline.

…all those women in their Godforsaken SUVs
It just hit me!

fraxinuts26, how the heck are ya?

long time, eh?

There is something deeply wrong with television these days.

like this

Employers added 162,000 jobs last month, and employment numbers in the previous two months were revised upward.

GDP growth is a POSITIVE 5.6% (the highest growth in 6 years), after falling to NEGATIVE 6.4% under Bush.

IHS Global Insight says the economy has about 1.7 million more jobs today than it would have had without the stimulus.

The Conference Board Index of Leading Economic Indicators is up for the ELEVENTH consecutive month.

The manufacturing sector expanded in March at its strongest pace since July 2004. The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing executives, said that its gauge of industrial companies rose to 59.6 in March from 56.5 in February. It is the EIGHTH straight month of expansion.

Americans killed on US soil by terrorists:

Under Bush……..3,000
Under Obama………..0

Is it because he is a lying liberal?

Because like most liberals, they dont have proof to back anything up

I would like to try out directing outside of my country. I have ten years of experience as Director. I am currently directing drama shows in ABS-CBN Channel 2, the largest television network in the Philippines. I have directed musical variety programs, comedy shows, reality programs and talk shows. Prior to directing, I have been an Executive Producer of some shows in ABS-CBN for five years. If there will be opportunities for me, I would like to direct drama shows, musical variety programs, talk shows.

You’d need to check with HR at the networks.

Just trying to think of really lame TV to get a singing gig?

Imagine, I mean, play school is so benial and uncool I would have to get my gear off with the executive producer to win hearts and you aint gonna ever wanna see me like id yucko!!!

So given the love boat is also benial but its got LLLLoooooveee? To people still want those silly love songs aboard or are we up for some all night drinking and rock and rolll the kind the Osmonds would sing coz I am a member or Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints too?

Or is the Rocky Horror picture show music more sedate and maybe I could employ Alexander Downer to fashion fishnets for the show, wish I’d thought of him before I went on Australia’s Got Talent.

Yeah a week is a long time in politics, where is he now? Dunno, Awe yea der I know Adelaide but does he still write for that trashy Labor paper victimising him whatever it was called?

What would be the worst show you could put me in, has to be really lame but not totally uncool, and think up an improbable outcome, like full volume rock and roll at 3am in the morning, coz in the middle of the ocean Jaws is the only one that can hear you? EEEkk doesnt sound good menacing Oboes hope a better gig exists and remember, not movies TV series wanna get more than one Titanic Gig???

Glub Blurb, well gentlmen and ladies its been a pleasure playing with you? "For goodness sake!!!! Stop moving that deck chair!!!!" Cant, get a job anywhere!!! Oh, its okay, its Rudd, or Guillard? Nah they all look the same to me??? Beadie eyed pink eyes????!

Commodies welcome, remember!!! IT cant be Aunty Jack, coz unlike John Cleese? Bite you off at the knee caps???

I never was a huge fan of The Love Boat during it’s original run but a few years ago I started watching reruns and got a kick out of it mostly because it was so deliciously bad. It was fun to pick it apart with other family members when it came to bad hair and fashions and the constant parade of has been stars. There was an attempted remake of the show . UPN cable network tried to revive the series with Robert Urich as captain in The Love Boat: The Next Wave but the series only 22 episodes.
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Who wants to be a superhero on Sci-fi? I understand that ALL reality TV is scripted, and that the winners and losers were all chosen long ago by network executives (as in any reality contest type show)….but Iron Enforcer’s stupid answer to the "steroids" question, purposely abrasive attitude, and his giving up on the dog challenge all seemed to be WAY too obvious. If a girl 1/3 his size can make it to the door, so could he (in fact he did, all he had to do was lean forward, he gave up with no excuse or explination). I know he was to be the "guy we all love to hate" from day one, but does anyone else feel cheated by this blatant insult of the viewer’s intelligence?
I totally agree with MS Fortune….They really picked the wrong challenge for him to fail (or at least the wrong reason for him to fail that challenge). He made it to the door, stopped, yelled uncle…it’s like he almost forgot he was suposed to loose. I expected better acting/writing.

yeah… I thought it was ridiculous that he yelled uncle so close to the door, had no explanation for it and never denied the steroids usage…no doubt this was at least somewhat planned…. but it was a bit amusing the way they offered him the bad guy role… and it will be a good role for him…… as oppose to a super hero… in the end it’s just a TV show… good for a chuckle.. but not to be taken that seriously…it’s the only way not to feel offended with anything on TV…

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A meaningless awards show was canceled, and all the good shows are written by the executive producers. People are still going to watch TV regardless. Will this just strengthen the grip reality TV has?
Productions company’s are part ofHollywood
The good shows with plots (like LOST) are written by the executive producers.
"The Executive Producers who are also writers are members of the WGA" Thats simply not true some are some are not.

yes, the production companies

Moves to clone and genetically modify farm livestock have opened the door to the creation of "Farmyard Freaks", experts have warned.

News that the daughter of a US clone cow has been born on a British farm has moved the issue from science fiction to consumer reality.

A former government adviser has painted a nightmarish picture of "zombie" and fast-growing supersize animals.

Professor Ben Mepham, of Nottingham University, said the impact of bio-engineering, creating GM and cloned animals, is huge.

Factory farming techniques, most commonly used with pigs and chicken, often involve keeping animals confined in cramped conditions.

For pigs, who are highly intelligent, these conditions can lead to stress and aggression.

However, GM scientists are actively investigating ways to remove the stress and aggression gene from animals, effectively turning them into complacent zombies.

The professor said it might become technically possible to produce "animal vegetables" – beasts which are "highly prolific and oblivious to their physical and mental status".

However, he argued that while this could reduce the pain and stress of factory farming, this did not mean it should be allowed to develop without question.

The professor of applied bioethics warned that many of the GM experiments on animals have resulted in cruelty, producing mutants or animals which grow so large in the womb that they can only be surgically removed.

He said: "The question of whether humanity should take it upon ourselves to alter animals by GM, involving in many cases mixing the genes of different species – and sometimes those of human origin – is undoubtedly critical for many people."

The professor said that religious groups would see it as "an attempt to usurp God’s role" while others would be unhappy about "so fundamentally altering the natural order".

Prof Mepham, is a former member of the Government’s Agriculture, Environment Biotechnology Commission.(AEBC)

In 2002, the Commission called on the government to set up a regulatory body to police developments such as GM and clone farming.

However, this was ignored by ministers, who subsequently scrapped the AEBC after it issued a number of reports challenging government policy in areas such as GM crops and food.

The AEBC called for a ban on the creation of "intrinsically objectionable" creatures – such as pigs and cows modified not to feel stress in factory farming conditions.

And it demanded separate farming and labelling of food from these creatures to allow consumers to make a choice about what they are eating.

In 2002, the AEBC said the need to have in place a regulatory regime in place was "urgent" in order to prevent a repeat of the GM crop debacle.

In that case GM plants were already in British shops before there had been sufficient research about the impact on human health or the environment.

Despite these clear warnings, the government’s food and farming department, DEFRA, refused to set up any kind of watchdog.

The result is that meat and milk from GM or cloned animals could be arriving on dinner plates in as little as two years.

The executive director of the Food Ethics Council, Dr Tom MacMillan, said: "Cloning raise animal welfare concerns, both for the clones and for their parents.

"It also underlines how far removed industrial food production is from what consumers actually want."
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it is sick, disgusting, and incredibly sad. i don’t know what some people think gives them the right to do this. thank god i’m a vegetarian.

The reality of software development in a huge company like Microsoft (it employs more than 48,000 people) is that a substantial portion of your work involves days of boredom punctuated by hours of tedium. You basically spend your time in an isolated office writing code and sitting in meetings during which you participate in looking for and evaluating hundreds of bugs and potential bugs. Yet Microsoft has no problem in finding and retaining software programmers. Their programmers work horrendously long hours and obsess on the goal of shipping product.
From the day new employees begin work at Microsoft; they know they are special and that their employer is special. New hires all have one thing in common—they are smart. The company prides itself on putting all recruits through a grueling “interview loop,” during which they confront a barrage of brain-teasers by future colleagues to see how well they think. Only the best and the brightest survive to become employees. The company does this because Microsofties truly believe that their company is special. For instance, it has a high tolerance for nonconformity. Would you believe that one software tester comes to work every day dressed in extravagant Victorian outfits? But the underlying theme that unites Microsofties is the belief that the firm has a manifest destiny to change the world. The least consequential decision by a programmer can have an outsized importance when it can affect a new release that might be used by 50 million people.
Microsoft employees are famous for putting in long hours. One program manager said, “In my first five years, I was the Microsoft stereotype. I lived on caffeine and vending-machine hamburgers and free beer and 20-hour workdays. . . . I had no life. . . . I considered everything outside the building as a necessary evil.” More recently, things have changed. There are still a number of people, who put in 80-hour weeks, but 60- and 70-hour weeks are more typical and some even are doing their jobs in only 40 hours.
No discussion of employee life at Microsoft would be complete without mentioning the company’s lucrative stock option program. Microsoft created more millionaire employees, faster, than any company in American history—more than 10,000 by the late-1990s. While the company is certainly more than a place to get rich, executives still realize that money matters. One former manager claims that the human resources’ department actually kept a running chart of employee satisfaction versus the company’s stock price. “When the stock was up, human resources could turn off the ventilation and everybody would say they were happy. When the stock was down, we could give people massages and they would tell us that the massages were too hard.” In the go-go 1990s, when Microsoft stock was doubling every few months and yearly stock splits were predictable, employees not only got to participate in Microsoft’s manifest destiny, but they could get rich in the process. By the spring of 2002, with the world in a recession, stock prices down, and the growth for Microsoft products slowing, it was not so clear what was driving its employees to continue the company’s dominance of the software industry.
Questions:
1. If you were a programmer, would you want to work at Microsoft? Why or why not?
2. How many activities in this case can you tie into specific motivation theories? List the activities, the motivation theories, and how they apply.
3. What will be some important implications for management to motivate employees, according to Masllow’s theory? Also give some general suggestions to improve the motivation level of employees.
4. Other than stock option program as mentioned in case what can be the other opportunities for compensating employees.

MSFT employees are perverts that enjoy obscene pickles shoved up their collective orifices. I’m not kidding!