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For the fat bag of loot. Someone remind me, in Bloodrayne the protaganist meets up with another woman who had hands grafted where her feet used to be, right? I think that was where I switched off my brain and settled in for just staring at her latex covered body for the rest of the movie.

Your birthday just pass HK?

Happy Birthday!!!! Is he even around anymore?

Ill probably get SoZ at some point but right now Im burning my way through Northrend (WoW). AND AS GOD AS MY WITNESS, I WILL LEARN 3.5E!!!11! Just in time to learn 4E.

Well, you have to admit, breaking conventions that have stood for 20 previous films is more then a slight departure.

Wasnt SoZ billed as being "like IWD"? Meaning, no VO or party banter at all? Just a traveling party of mutes.

Why would one need to edit poll results? Editing the poll question or some posts, sure, but the results?

Ah, makes sense.

Whats the difference between a normal moderator and a global moderator. Global mods lord over the regular mods?

I put a lot of energy into my staff too. hurhur.

I defer to your experience but according to this chart they arent doing too bad. Of course Im not sure what youre referring to by "working counterparts".

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*sigh* I guess I sould have seen this degenerating into niggling over hours. My 280 hours estimate was based on a 9 month working year for teachers which Hurlshot has corrected to a 10 month working year.

Thats not the point. A "working year" is 2080 hours (52 weeks x 40 hours per week). Whether you take work home, work longer hours because your job requires it, get an extra day off, call in sick, take vacation, etc... is all immaterial. If you are on a salary you pay doesnt change no matter how much or little you work. So with that in mind, a teachers "working year" is approximately 1440 hours due to the fact they have the summer break off. AFAIK, any teaching, coaching, etc... that occurs over the summer is voluntary and compensated with additional monies because, well, its a second job.

Yes, and for those that cant count, thats still 280 hours less per year then the rest of the country. I think maybe my terminology of "they only work 9 months" may be being unintentionally abrasive. Im strictly looking at salary / hours worked per year. I personally think teachers have the second most important job in the country right behind the police force.

Teachers only work 9 months per year. Unless your position is that those nine months are so packed with hours they make up for the 480 working hours of the remaining 3 months?

According to this Wall Street Journal article from 2007, your assumtion is wrong. Teachers salaries are based on a nine month contract so the average is based on that. Any additional work is above and beyond that. Incorrect, see link in this post.

But if you compare teachers to other highly educated fields, they are way behind the average. Teaching requires a four year degree and at least a year of graduate work. It also requires continuing education units in order to maintain a teaching credential. As for taks and Aristes, I'm really not disagreeing with you. It's not a perfect system, there are major flaws. I'm just not sure what the alternative is. I'm not a big fan of my union, but I'm also not a big fan of my district office. It's basically fighting fire with fire, but the alternative of no unions is much worse in my opinion. I have to disagree. If you look further down the "Personal income" link it states: Persons, age 25+, employed full time, with a Bachelors, average $50,944.00. So, only an average of $2,400.00 more than a teachers average. Im really not trying to bash you or any other teacher, I just dont get it. I mean, I get we all want more, more, more (see unionized autoworkers) but I dont get how acting underpaid in relation to others of the same level helps when it doesnt seem to bear out to the facts.

You know, I just dont understand where teachers are coming from wrt the incessant bitching about their pay. If we look at the average income of full time adults in the U.S. we see that number comes to $39,336.00. Now lets look at the average U.S. teachers salary and we see that number is $47,602.00 and that was two years ago. So, not only do they earn vastly more per year then the average U.S. citizen but they also only work 9 months per year! If they want more how about they get a part time job during their break to suppliment their income instead of sitting on the couth scratching their nuts for 3 months?

^Im curious, how would you justify the examples of people ridiculously overpaid. You honestly feel an autoworker is worth 89/hour? Unions were necessary years ago before laws and regulations were mandated to set an hours per week limit / benefits / etc..., now they are just an anchor around the neck of any employer that has to deal with them.

I hate scorpions. They freak me out and every one Ive ever seen has ended in a pulpy mess. Im cool with spider and will let them freely roam as long as they dont come below eye level. I call that my "eye level rule". Clever huh?

Isnt that the very concept Kaftan Barlast and his group are working on?

speak for yourself: i'm still using a cassette tape drive. I hear SoZ comes in a 4096 cassette tapes version. Lol. I wound up snagging a portable DVD from work to install WotLK. I was going to buy a new DVD since they are fairly cheap but in the end I figured why waste the money, especially since WotLK is a one-time install that doesnt require the disk to play.

Then let me introduce you to Scanners.

I dont have anything to add, I just felt left out of the group without adding: ~G1