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Human behavior always reveals the underlying realities. Your boss is in fact “keeping” this girl. Paying rent, and the like is always expected to be reciprocated. This girl is no moron, she is playing it for all it’s worth. You know this girl but you don’t know this girl. What you love about her is her persona and the way she interacts with you.

The reason she acted as if she knew nothing about it is she is playing you as well. She doesn’t want you butting in and upsetting the apple cart as they say. Her next move will be to tell him the things you asked her and in the process she will in fact complain that you are getting in her business and she feels offended. He will then in turn be her night in shining armor and come to you.

When he comes to you, he will be demanding towards you and protective of her. You will lose your friendship with him and your job. She will not care. I call people like her “Chameleons.” They leave a great deal of devastation in their wake.

You will as always, be entangled in drama but in the end lose out. She won’t care, your boss will feel like a big macho man, and she will continue to play him until he is no longer useful to her and she will then move on like a shark to her next “meal.”

Not pretty but accurate….

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In fact I am an Israelite and as Jewish as they come. There stereotype of Jews being cheap were created by Euro-trash prior to WW I. Jewish people give more money to charity than per capita than any other people on earth. If you are Torah observant you could understand that spending on oneself is an act of idolatry, but spending on the needs of others is a blessing.

Never be a slave to the created, but obey the Laws & Teachings of the Creator. Pope John Paul made a belated apology to the Jewish people for the way we were treated and stereotyped by Anti-Semitic church leaders during WW I & WW II. If anyone is cheap it’s the Germans and other like minded Europeans and not the Jews.

On Christian holidays, as is my experience, Jews work in the place of Christians in a myriad of jobs. We work so they can have the holidays off for their families. In modern day Israel again it is the Jews who provide more humanitarian aid to the so called Palestinians than do their own governing Authorities and we do it with private funds.

These are simply facts. Yassar Arafat and his wife stole 9 billion dollars from the Palestinian Authority and moved it to banks in France and no one raised an eyebrow. 89% of all foreign aid sent to the Palestinian occupied territories is stolen and used to purchase weapons to kill Israelis or allow Islamic leaders to fuel hatred while living in lavish lifestyles. There are some Jewish people (Meeshpookah) who are a bit thrifty and won’t spend very much at all on themselves but give tons of money to Jewish charity and they do so quietly so as not to glorify themselves.

Hope this helped….

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I mostly agree, and it influences whose questions I attempt to answer here.

But this notion, if taken to extremes, misses the fact that a great deal of problem-solving is learning technique, and most of our technical expertise is learned from others. I don’t see anything wrong with seeking help when you don’t see the correct approach to a problem. In fact, I think it should be encouraged; a student who wastes time on useless approaches may not learn what he needs to learn, and unless he is led to the correct technique, he may waste his instructor’s time, too.

But the point of seeking help is to learn the technique, not simply to have the problem “done” for you. That is why I typically skip questions when someone has simply “dumped” their homework out here for someone else to do. If I do it, the sheer number of questions they asked practically guarantees that they will not learn, and they are likely to hand in the homework and convince their instructor they know the material, leading to a very bad situation for both when they are tested later.

I once had a student job helping other students in a computer lab. I ran into people who simply wanted the work done for them–including one classmate who had fished a pre-debugging copy of my own program out of the recycling bin and copied it, then expected me to supply the fixes for the bugs from my finished version. I also ran into someone who asked me a question only every few weeks, and was always far more advanced before he came back with another question.

My favorite was someone who kept seeking me out because I was so nasty to her. She’d made it clear that she really wanted to understand, not just get the answers, and I got into the habit of leading her to the answers by asking her questions. (Socrates must have been pretty hard to take as a teacher.) Anyway, we both enjoyed the exchanges; she learned a lot, and so did I.

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Not really all that weird. It is happening more and more as the younger people get out of High school and get jobs etc, it is a proven fact they can’t support a family. If they go off to college they may do better, but the job market isn’t to good even with a college degree. So serious minded women are realizing an older more established man (Not Boy) treats them better in all departments. My wife is 13 years younger than me, we are getting a divorce, she is just to immature and not very intelligent. So her intelligence and maturity was beneath me, and the stupid stuff we argue over is outrageous. It’s not the age that’s the problem but the generation gap in our upbringings. We the older generation had a harder life and you kids today you have no idea. The older generation gets blamed for not taking care of the earth, but it is really you kids today that are contaminating it. We used to take the glass bottles back to the store for a deposit, a big family passed down hand me down clothes, if we sent something fragile we packed it in newspaper not bubble wrap or Styrofoam, we drank water from the fountain not a plastic bottle that has to be recycled, we used cloth diapers and washed them out and reused them, not disposable diapers that clutter the city dumps.We used newspaper and scrap wood to start the fire in the stove. We didn’t have cloth diapers, plastic bottles, styrofoam cups, wax milk cartons, etc. If the girl and the older man can get on the same page they have it made. If she thinks everything the guy does is old fashioned there may be problems. However, an older guy can take care of the girl a lot better than most of these young guys that don’t have a clue. Age doesn’t matter, your mind set will make it or break it. Wouldn’t it be better to have 10 or 12 years of happiness rather than 40+ years of fighting and struggling marrying a younger guy who is not established and not ready for the responsibility of being a husband and a father?

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In answer to your question, I doubt that anyone would think that the Federal minimum wage is enough to live on. In fact 17 states doubt it too and have minimum wages higher than the federal one.
Having said that, there are a good number of people who have no choice but to live on minimum wage, until their situation improves. There are ways to do it. If you look at the current poverty guidelines set by the Federal government, you’ll notice that the rate for a family of 1 is $9,800 – below the annual income ($10,712, assuming a 40 hour work week with no overtime). How convenient. I think it would be almost impossible to do without subsidized housing – public housing or Section 8. People, including households where they want one of the parents to stay home and home school the kids, have come up with all kinds of ways to live frugally. These methods include cooking all the meals once a month, clipping coupons and joining coupon orgainzations for trading coupons, recycling cans and bottles, making and selling things, shopping at the thrift store, and on and on, not to mention that people often work 1 1/2 – 2 jobs and/or overtime to make ends meet.
I’ll just leave you with a mental picture; a true story from my property management days at the Housing Authority in NYC. I once rented an appartment to an applicant who was a single man making the minimum wage pumping gas ($100 a week at the time). He came in neat and clean and with a letter of recommendation from his employer. His living arrangement and employment had already been verified and inspected (in person) by the Applications Unit. THE MAN LIVED IN A CARDBOARD BOX. He was so greatful to get an apartment in a housing project. I have to admit, I had to tear around and pretend to fiddle with papers so he wouldn’t see the tears welling up in my eyes – and it’s not that I’m overly soft (I’ve had to evict seniors, children, and invalids). That’s a person trying to live on the Federal minimum wage.

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Some people mistakenly think that “going green” is expensive. In fact, I’ve saved a ton of money by living a green lifestyle for the last 40 years.

Some people think “going green” will cost jobs. It may. But then, buggy whip makers lost their jobs as the world around them changed. NEW jobs will be created.

Some people argue that “going green” is simply a marketing ploy with little practical effect. For SOME products and companies, that is true, but not for all. Shaklee products I used back in the 70’s have always been “green.” “Green” labels can be misleading, so actually reading the labels or doing a little research on the product can be required. Some may object that it is “too difficult.” I disagree, and think that living in a polluted and depleted world would be much MORE difficult.

Going green can be inconvenient if your community does not make recycling readily available. Our little town offers only paper recycling. I have to haul the recyclables to another town when I am going that way anyway, which means that quite a bit accumulates and it can be a storage problem. I still do it, but many simply do not.

I’m hard pressed to find reasons to support the “opposite” side. Good luck.

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Clean energy alternatives, recycling and other programs to improve the environment are all very worth while and have merit.

The problem lies not with local government or even nations. But, all nations. The United Nations should make the environment a primary concern to include a unified global program.

Too often when a global program is attempted, the cry of jobs and economics comes into play.. But, that doesn’t excuse or obscure the fact a global program regarding the environment is needed, to work in and include the economics, of every nation. ASAP…

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Remember that these are all my views, so there may be better ones or unaddressed details:
1. Stop having babies for a while
I wouldn’t say that the problem is people having babies. I think people lack a general respect for sex or the process of having children itself. Unwanted children are plentiful across the world.

2. Stop raping which is still wrong,
The problem with rape laws is that rape is hard to define. Everyone understands that rape is unacceptable, but interpretation defines what is and isn’t convicted.

3. Recycle a lot more,
I can’t argue with that, though some places don’t have the availability to recycle. Recycling costs money which in many places is more scarce.

4. Save energy for an hour at night,
It would definitely help a lot, more than anyone can imagine. I personally have gotten into the habit of turning things off when I don’t use them. It’s somewhat of a discipline, although, it takes an extra effort, which many are a bit selfish to put forth, are tired from work, or many other potential reasons.

5. Stop making new cars and cell phones,
Truly it would help, but we know that that’s not going to happen. We would be better off going into research to create more efficient cars to roam the streets. Cell phones, honestly, I don’t know as much about, so I won’t try to make something up.

6. Be a little careful when drinking too much water,
It is true what they say about needing to drink a lot of water per day. What most don’t think as much about though, is using water efficiently. Combining laundry into larger loads, taking shorter showers, and not watering your lawn on a rainy day are a few examples of how to conserve water. It’s hard to drink too much water. It’s easy to drink too much soda, though. 🙂

7. Eat only when its usual,
This could most notably stabilize ones metabolism. The body itself has a general rhythm that it appreciates, and a regular, sufficient set of meals each day would most likely make it happier. Who knows? Maybe happier people would put more thought into recycling or conserving water or even saving energy!

8. Stop moving to different areas unless that’s part of your job,
This can be good or bad. When a person is single and if they are sociable, it might be very pleasant to move from place to place, meeting new people and experiencing new things. Once one begins to build a family, though, it’s not a bad idea to find a place to settle down. I, personally, love meeting new people, but even so, I don’t think I would have appreciated moving constantly throughout grade school.

9. Stop cutting down trees,
There’s no argument to this. I believe in the concept of global warming, and even though loggers are supposed to plant new trees for each and every old one, I believe that they should plant more and leave more standing. Interesting Fact: Some of the largest trees in the world (I forget the type) have such small wood fiber that they would only be good for toothpicks! Some trees are saved due to their own nature.

10. Use recycled paper for school and work,
While it is an ideal thought, the amount of loss between initial paper and recycled paper is actually quite high. The output of recycling in general is not as high as you would think, so for the world to continue to use paper as it does, more trees will need to be cut down. Many things are becoming digital these days, though. The infinite masses of papers and files are becoming computer archives, so less paper will be necessary.

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Yes. In fact the semi-major-axis would be “only” about 240 astronomical units (for a period of 3700 years). This would place the aphelion(furthest point in its orbit) well within the outer solar system, albeit much further than any observed member of the system.

Of course, if such a planet really existed, none of the inner planets would have the nice, almost-circular orbits we now enjoy.

The inner solar system would be totally disrupted by now.

Earth would not be habitable.

So, even though such a planet is “possible”, the existence of Mars and Earth, in their present, low-eccentricity orbits is good evidence that it does not exist.

In any event, it would have been found a long time ago. Remember that Pluto is smaller than our Moon (1/6 the mass) and it is at 40 astronomical units. Yet it was found almost 80 years ago by a guy comparing photos two at a time.

We now have automated observatories that discover asteroids less than 100 feet across (not even dangerous enough to worry about) years before they come close to us.

According to the hoax (and to Zechariah’s story, for Nibiru), Planet X is a full-sized planet and it should be less than 5 astronomical units from us by now.

It should be visible even without telescopes. In fact, it should be at least as bright as the stars of the Big Dipper. Millions of amateur astronomers would have found it years ago.

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However, we know who invented Nibiru and we know who invented Planet X (they are two very distinct fake planets, invented at different times, for different purposes).

Planet X was invented for the 2003 end-of-the-world hoax. Nancy claimed that aliens warned her that this rogue planet (rogue = not in orbit around our Sun) was going to pass too close to Earth in May-June 2003 and cause all kinds of problems (these were the original doomsday predictions: tsunami, pole flip, blocking the sunlight…).

Nancy’s “friends” were selling a book on how to survive. The aliens were going to send spacecraft to save a small portion of the human population. For a suitable donation, you could get your name on the aliens’ rescue list, if you happened to know who, on Earth, was in contact with the aliens…

After June 2003, the hoax had to be recycled.

By that time, it was difficult for people to accept that a rogue planet keeps coming back for more. The charlatans needed a more regular fake planet. So they stole one.

Nibiru was created by Zechariah Sitchin back in the late 1960s for a book he was writing. In this book, we humans had been created by the inhabitants of the planet Nibiru. They need gold for their survival. Nibiru has no gold, but Earth does. So they use ape DNA to create us (half a million years ago) and we are their slaves.

Every 3700 years, when Nibiru comes close to Earth, they come and collect their gold. In the original story, Nibiru does not harm Earth when it comes close (after all, they need our help or they die).

In the original story, Nibiru cannot return before the year 2085.

When the charlatans stole stuff from his story, Zechariah tried to complain. But the charlatans were already rich enough, so no one listened to poor Zechariah.

Nibiru, ‘his’ fake planet, was hijacked and forced to participate in the Big 2012 Hoax.

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Nibiru was a very old name (Babylonians, over 3000 years ago) for the planet we call Jupiter. When Zechariah was writing his story, his job was to translate old documents from that era. That is where he got his ideas for names.