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No wonder Hellmutt is such a happy guy.

I'm still of the opinion that if you were asked to take a wage cut when you knew the upper mgmt wasn't willing to take the same and in fact increased their wages, I would rather force the business into liquidation than to sit there and take it from upper mgmt. Yea, I'll take my unemployment and find a different job in the interim, but I sure as hell aren't going to make life easy for the management who agreed to the contract in the first place. Just like the bank doesn't care if I get laid off or business if bad (assuming I'm self-employed), my contract w/ them still says I owe them mortgage each month. If the CEOs agreed to the union contract, then they should be obligated to pay... and if that means increasing the price of Twinkies to $5 a box instead of $4/box then that's what it takes... it's a failure on mgmts part to agree to the contract and not see the market would not bear $5/box for Twinkies. But, that's fine... blame the union workers, scapegoat them for not working with management... just like how you blame the bank for not working with homeowners when they can't pay their mortgage. Oh wait, no, it's still the little guys fault for entering an agreement where he should've known it was unsustainable. It's ALWAYS the little guys' fault for not working with the "job creators" / fatcats.

Seriuosly poser.... They still sell the s//t outta those things along a with a biggy called wonder bread. Ever heard of it....... The union IS what drove it into the ground, just like GM. They are nothing more than an exstortion racket anymore..... More money for less work. Why the hell do ya think everything gets built over seas anymore....... DUH Heres a kick in the balls.... That same union is in dannon minster where my wife works.

The Teamsters Union thinks the Bakers Union just shot themselves in the foot. Actually, also shot the Teamsters Union in the foot. Shot everyone in the foot. Salary employees took an 8% cut. Teamsters took a cut. Bakers said no, and now 18,000+ employees looking for work. And no twinkies for you...

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I know there are many among us who are entrepreneurs. I have decided to say fuck looking for a job and I'm starting a business. I'll spare the details but it's going to be a sustainable apparel and accessories storefront. Gonna be some incredible stuff but Im making this thread to get any advice as far as lawyering up and getting an accountant and shit like that. I know you can never prepare for the challenges of running a business but any advice would be greatly appreciated. Forming the business with someone else so advice on partnerships or how to register would help. Thanks guys,

Night vision is always over-spec'd. Take this image: This is a panvigor camera that claims 50' night vision. The concrete pad is 20' long and if it wasn't for the 200' rated IR emitter (size of a laptop monitor) you wouldn't see anything past the pad. The 200' emitter can only really "see" about 75-100'. Rather than spending $ on night vision, spend that money on traditional motion sensor lights. The better lighting will give you a better image, in color, and you get the deterrent effect on anyone who approaches the property. The cat5 thing... There's two ways to connect an analog camera. 1) coaxial cable, and 2) cat5 cable. In coax you would run rg59 siamese (power and video molded into in a "single" cable - the power cable is molded onto the side) and put BNC ends on the cable. you'll need a crimper that can do BNC and someone to show you how to crimp then - or use twist-on BNC connectors, but experts frown on that for professional installs. If you are better with F-type crimps (the screw-in connector used for antennas, cable tv and satellite) then use them and but f-type to BNC adapters. They're a few bucks each but easier to use. You would meausure, run and cut a length of rg59 siamese cable from the dvr to the camera, then at each end you would attach a BNC connector on the big coax cable, then the power connection would be conencted to you power supply next to the DVR, and to the camera on the far end. For cat5 you would run a cat5 cable in place of the rg59, and you would use one twisted pair (MUST be a pair that is twisted together!) for the video signal - that pair of wires is conencted to a "balun" whuch is a connector that has two screw terminals on one side and a BNC connecter on the other side. Simple as that. Then you would to TWO or THREE pairs for power (three if running IR) and they connect just like a normal power conenction. POWER SUPPLY at the DVR is very important. Put a UPS on it and your cameras will all survive a power outage. They are cheap, like $30-40. They plug into a 110v outlet and have a door (looks like an ADT alarm box) . Behind the door there is a row of screw terminals, one pair per camera, + and -. Easy. On the camera side you will either have a pair of screw terminals (follow polarity because cheap cameras proetect themselves by shorting out the terminals if you hook them up backwards - I burned out the pass-thru camera power feature a brand new DVR doing this.). The power supply will have individual circuit breakers so a short on one camera won't affect the others. Don't get hung on on TVL. At your price range you're going to have to make up for cheap cameras with good placement. Choke points. Put the camera where someone must be close to it. A camera that shows your entire front garden will not provide a good image of someone standing 30' away. Get the camera close, like these: This is too far away... About 60' You want to catch license plates? This ain't CSI, that shit is TOUGH. Firstly - you HAVE to get THIS CLOSE: Any further out and you just can't read them at NTSC quality. Infra-red cannot see PRINTED plates: You have to have a visible-light backup: In fact I wouldn't try to catch plates with a regular camera - I use a fast shutter-speed wide dynamic range infra-red camera with a high-powered emitter to tag plates at up to 30mph from 100' - but still only when the car is in the right place (the choke point). That video feed is looped through 3 channels, either with different bright/cont setting to ensure that regardless of light level at least one of the cameras can read the text. It helps you keep an eye out for the po-po so you can escape through your underground tunnel to the doomsday bunker: Oh, and watch out for long-legged aliens that will come to eat you.

We should make it a rule to needlessly ostracize 1 person every week. You know... to keep things lively.

I'm not trying to choose sides here, and in the interest of full disclosure, I am a dues paying member and official in a Union, but it sounds to me like the ship was already sunk, management came out with a last ditch effort to keep things rolling. The concessions they asked for were unacceptable, so the company folded. Now it looks like the union was to blame because they were the last ones to say "No." I'm not saying they were right or wrong, but to say it was the union's fault when the company was already doomed seems a bit near sighted. If my work was to tell me my insurance was going up dramatically coupled with a cut in hours and a decrease in pay, I'd be looking for a new job. I honestly don't think there are many rank and file Americans that can afford this type of cut - most of us are more or less living paycheck to paycheck, stashing a little when times are good and having to dip in when times are bad. Union or not. And not to get all "union" on you, but for those of you that are pissing and moaning about unions, keep in mind that overtime and the forty hour work week, most benefits you may enjoy, most work-place safety programs and most company ethics watchdogs are the results of the unions. And there are still some industries where the unions are not only still there, but are absolutely necessary. If you don't think so, come walk the ballast with me at 3 am on Thanksgiving Day. We'll have a nice talk about it...

I always volunteer for deep cavity searches, and always get turned down. I did like flying into Zurich and seeing 2 guys my age with their MP5, finger on the trigger guard. He actualyl walked into the rest room when I did, switched hands to left on the trigger guard, basically never not having the trigger covered. Oh and he had a huge johnson, not that I looked.

Sold and delivered. tyvm to the buyer for a hassle free transaction.

Ask scruit he is the camera guy..

what about the HoHos? I prefer snow balls...i love the pink balls.

Where's their freaking bailout!? Wonder Bread is too big to fail! All those people without jobs! I will miss Twinkies much more than I would've missed GM.

what are we gonna do when the world ends? I always planned on hiding out in the twinkie factory since those things last forever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05SxWzfFiUQ