The Goat Pen

Nobody is ever sure of the point IB is making. That's what makes it fun. Try & follow the crazy guy is fun sometimes.

eCat wrote:I'm not entirely sure of the point being made by IB.

Point I was making is that the senior citizen HAD a point to make. I'm guessing (I wasn't there, just taking a guess) that he wasn't just ranting/venting the way you portrayed him.

eCat wrote:Its 2012. In 1986, entry level salary for an IT professional was 23K, now its 65K.

That difference in income for entry level techies was driven by market forces, not by government intervension or by the tenure based collective bargaining of a civil servant union. We are in the information age and (because of the market needs) that is what is compensated the most for the least amount of education/training. No company wants an IT department because it is expensive. They have them because they can not survive without them.

eCat wrote:The difference is old men on fixed incomes don't have to pay their salary I guess

Old men on fixed incomes don't mind paying taxes for good educators. But when you are older, you are more sensitive to the realities of the world because you have less time left in this real world. He doesn't want to be taken advantage of and he doesn't care if what he is saying hurts the feelings of others.

Old men on fixed incomes don't mind paying taxes for good educators

yea they do.

Only in China??

Man Sues Wife—and Wins!—For Birthing Ugly Baby

http://firsttoknow.com/man-sues-wife-an ... esuglywife


Feng’s wife admitted that before she met her husband-to-be she had $100,000 worth of cosmetic surgery performed in South Korea. This backed up Feng’s claim of “false pretenses” that by not revealing her plastic surgery to him before the marriage, she tricked him. The judge sided with Feng and ordered the wife to pay him $120,000.

I think they start out about $23K around here.

"But when you are older, you are more sensitive to the realities of the world because you have less time left in this real world."

I would think that would make you less sensitive to the so-called "realities" of the world. The only reality they should be sensitive to is that they'll be dead soon...

“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” - Samuel Johnson

IB, if you are such a goddamned genius and expert on every fucking thing imaginable, why the fuck are you wasting away in Arizona? It seems that someone with such intelligence and knowledge would have been scooped up by a major corporation or government entity, correct?

Hmmm....

DooKSucks wrote:IB, if you are such a goddamned genius and expert on every fucking thing imaginable, why the fuck are you wasting away in Arizona? It seems that someone with such intelligence and knowledge would have been scooped up by a major corporation or government entity, correct?

Hmmm....

I am not a genius. I am nothing special. I'm just Joe average.

Exactly. Now, stop acting like you're a fucking expert on every fucking subject. Hell, just stop posting.

I don't mind IB posting.

We need this perspective on the board. It brings balance.

but I also enjoy Goldenbear

Ditto and ditto.

DooKSucks wrote:Exactly. Now, stop acting like you're a fucking expert on every fucking subject. Hell, just stop posting.

I am not an expert on ANY subject. I just read a lot.

I don't think IB brings any balance, but I do like making fun of idiots...

I don't mind any poster (save a couple that don't really post inside The Pen anyway), but sometimes IB makes real sense. Sometimes he doesn't, but I just don't have the time or energy to copy/paste his questionable statements and rebut them that often. I used to do it in my WX days with posters, but I realized it doesn't matter for some people. So, unless I have some personal interest in working on my argument skills wrt a topic, I sit silent.

So, I welcome IB's posts...and yes, he's an average joe. I don't know if we have geniuses here.

Ahem....

Its is genius to be afraid to pee off your deck at night because you think a spider will jump off the rail and bite you on the weenie?

If so I'm a regular Einstein

I mean I do it anyway, but if I think about it while I'm doing it I get one of those chills that's makes you shake all over and twitch your eye. Usually makes me pee on my hand too.

I'm a genius. I have papers and everything!

I pee off the front porch from sundown to sunup. It only smells like pee when it rains.

I move around so as not to raise suspicion

My neighbors start walking their dogs at 5am. Sun comes up at 7.