Social Comments Archives - Garbage In Garbage Out https://gigoblog.com/category/social-comments/ Tech tips & other words Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:13:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 How We Fail: Middle America’s Inability to Gauge Wealth https://gigoblog.com/2011/04/14/how-we-fail-middle-americas-inability-to-gauge-wealth/ https://gigoblog.com/2011/04/14/how-we-fail-middle-americas-inability-to-gauge-wealth/#respond Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:12:26 +0000 http://www.gigoblog.com/?p=283 We’re taught to think of wealth in absolute terms. But doing so prevents us from understanding the relative difference in the costs of living between ourselves and the fantastically over compensated. Instead, we’ve got to think of wealth in relative terms. You know what stuff costs you relative to your salary. What you don’t know […]

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]]> https://gigoblog.com/2011/04/14/how-we-fail-middle-americas-inability-to-gauge-wealth/feed/ 0 Now You Can Be a War Profiteer https://gigoblog.com/2006/09/21/now-you-can-be-a-war-profiteer/ https://gigoblog.com/2006/09/21/now-you-can-be-a-war-profiteer/#respond Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:42:18 +0000 http://www.gigoblog.com/2006/09/21/now-you-can-be-a-war-profiteer/ The 2003 invasion of Iraq, termed "Operation Iraqi Freedom" by the US administration, began on March 20. Halliburton Co. (NYSE: HAL), the now infamous (though apparently not infamous enough) firm formerly run by our Vice President, DIck Cheney, closed that day at $10.06/share (split adjusted). Apparently investors, excited at the prospect of war, bid up the stock that day, because it closed nearly 10% higher than the week prior. Hooray for you, Hooray for Me, Hooray for War! Yay!

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]]> https://gigoblog.com/2006/09/21/now-you-can-be-a-war-profiteer/feed/ 0 Surrogate Parenting: Too many games and not enough socialization https://gigoblog.com/2006/09/18/surrogate-parenting-too-many-games-and-not-enough-socialization/ https://gigoblog.com/2006/09/18/surrogate-parenting-too-many-games-and-not-enough-socialization/#respond Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:23:18 +0000 http://www.gigoblog.com/2006/09/18/surrogate-parenting-too-many-games-and-not-enough-socialization/ This kid is in desperate need of a new computer. Or counseling. Or both.

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]]> https://gigoblog.com/2006/09/18/surrogate-parenting-too-many-games-and-not-enough-socialization/feed/ 0 U.S. Army Pays $400 per Gallon for Gas https://gigoblog.com/2006/09/15/us-army-pays-400-per-gallon-for-gas/ https://gigoblog.com/2006/09/15/us-army-pays-400-per-gallon-for-gas/#respond Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:41:17 +0000 http://www.gigoblog.com/2006/09/15/us-army-pays-400-per-gallon-for-gas/ Four hundred dollars for a gallon of gas. Crazy, right? Not if you're war profiteering!

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]]> https://gigoblog.com/2006/09/15/us-army-pays-400-per-gallon-for-gas/feed/ 0 Why profiling is such a bad idea https://gigoblog.com/2006/08/17/why-profiling-is-such-a-bad-idea/ https://gigoblog.com/2006/08/17/why-profiling-is-such-a-bad-idea/#comments Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:57:59 +0000 http://www.gigoblog.com/2006/08/17/why-profiling-is-such-a-bad-idea/ An email purporting to show why we should embrace profiling in order to combat terrorism just got my dander up. Let's just call a spade a spade, shall we?

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]]> https://gigoblog.com/2006/08/17/why-profiling-is-such-a-bad-idea/feed/ 2 Somebody heard, but is anyone listening? https://gigoblog.com/2005/12/16/somebody-heard-but-is-anyone-listening/ https://gigoblog.com/2005/12/16/somebody-heard-but-is-anyone-listening/#respond Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:01:44 +0000 http://www.gigoblog.com/2005/12/16/somebody-heard-but-is-anyone-listening/ Wow, the professor in BUAD400 just told me he wants to present my course reflection letter to the Chancellor of the university. Cool. Several of us in the class agonized over whether to submit papers that honestly reflected how we felt about the course. Kudos to the instructor for taking the heat and stepping up […]

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]]> https://gigoblog.com/2005/12/16/somebody-heard-but-is-anyone-listening/feed/ 0 Business Ethics at UCCS https://gigoblog.com/2005/12/12/business-ethics-at-uccs/ https://gigoblog.com/2005/12/12/business-ethics-at-uccs/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2005 01:38:41 +0000 http://www.gigoblog.com/2006/12/12/business-ethics-at-uccs/ I wrote and submitted the following paper as my final assignment in a course on Business Ethics. The assignment was to write a paper, in the form of a letter to someone who didn’t attend the class, discussing what we got out of the course. For the most part, I detest this sort of assignment […]

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