Oil prices davastating to rogue nations

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by BeamOn

That's good enough for me.

More official?

What about your independent assessment?

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by BeamOn

Chavez did refer to President Bush as the Devil.........

Venezuela is a rogue state?

We're going to have to chip in and send you back to Pol Pot's Vacation Camp for a refresher course Rajoo.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Venezuela is a rogue state?

We're going to have to chip in and send you back to Pol Pot's Vacation Camp for a refresher course Rajoo.

I was quoting your hero Bronco Bama.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by BeamOn

My Gen-Y comment stands.

Can you please give me 25 words or so on what Gen-Y means, when you use the term? I assume it's something more than 'people born from 1980-1999.'

Then, please state why it's fair to draw conclusions about the motives of a specific person based on broad generalizations about a generational cohort? Are you assuming 80 million people or so are 'all the same?'

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Can you please give me 25 words or so on what Gen-Y means, when you use the term? I assume it's something more than 'people born from 1980-1999.'

Then, please state why it's fair to draw conclusions about the motives of a specific person based on broad generalizations about a generational cohort? Are you assuming 80 million people or so are 'all the same?'

It's a comment, not a clinical evaluation. Take it or leave it.

[donquixote99]

Can't you even give me a hint? I get the idea you don't like Gen-Y, but howcome?

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Boreas

That's fine but it doesn't justify your characterization of them as rogue states.

Not that it's true one way or the other (it was an opinion piece, after all), rogue behavior was asserted in the OP linked piece. If you have a beef with it, take it up with the Post or Jackson Diehl who entitled the op-ed piece "Rogue States Feel the Pinch."

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Can't you even give me a hint? I get the idea you don't like Gen-Y, but howcome?

I don't dislike them. They are who they are and for the most part products of our environment. Suffice to say that we have and will have quite a few of them working for us and it can be a challenge unless one understands how they think. Very self absorbed and only looking out for themselves (I have come to realize that they don't know any better and really not their fault but they are not militant). In a small company such as ours, it becomes difficult to manage when employees are so self absorbed and most of their actions are based on self interest. Of course there are exceptions and we do have a couple of them.

My opinion is that Snowden could have cared less about the NSA eavesdropping and was trying to sell his information to the highest bidder. Did not work out and he tried to cover his original intentions by selective leaking. This is what I believe.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Not that it's true one way or the other (it was an opinion piece, after all), rogue behavior was asserted in the OP linked piece. If you have a beef with it, take it up with the Post or Jackson Diehl who entitled the op-ed piece "Rogue States Feel the Pinch."

There is a dearth of quality opinion/analysts.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

There is a dearth of quality opinion/analysts.

Too true. The journalism marketplace doesn't want 'em.