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I am certainly not claiming, as a starving artiste myself, that there isn't value to an enriching and ennobling field in pottery. However, Ian is claiming that such ennobling and enriching fields have an equal monetary value as professions like doctor and lawyer - professions WHICH GENERATE ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF MONEY, which in turn used to pay doctors and lawyers their high salaries. Ian seems to think that on the other hand, a school superintendent has some natural, moral right to make an enormous amount of money by virtue of having a longer education than some other professionals, which I believe is flat-out bullshit. Now, I will state that I'd happily support a salary cap on CEOs and industrialists - say, a ceiling of 2 million dollars per year. But to try and say that superintendents should be paid beyond the value they generate because of some moral right disgusts me as much as any other form of robbery.
Posted on: 2010/11/4 19:30
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I realize you're probably knocked senseless by the "shellacking." Would you like to continue this in a few days when the concussion fades?
Posted on: 2010/11/4 19:08
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Posted on: 2010/11/4 18:23
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1. You do realize that some definitions for the same word can be mutually exclusive, or have different... values, no? 2. The idea that you deride my public education is just too delicious. Thank you! I, for one, blame my grossly overpaid Superintendent. To your misapprehension of definitions - 3. 1 the regard that something is held to deserve; the importance or preciousness of something In the context of the SALARIES OF SUPERINTENDENTS, we are obviously talking about the MONETARY WORTH OF SOMETHING. In this case, labor vis a vis its effect on generating education that society deems to be worthwhile. In our society, for better or for worse, the typical way we define the success of education is future employment in a high-paying job, or in some capacity that benefits society as a whole. The vast majority of people leaving school will be seeking the former, and not the latter. As such, any fair (or fare, ha!) assessing of a Superintendent of schools job would be their success in fostering a learning environment which results in the most successful placement of graduates in positions that will allow them to earn the most money. 4. ? the usefulness of something considered in respect of a particular purpose In this case, since WE ARE TALKING ABOUT VALUE VIS A VIS IT'S DIRECT MANIFESTATION AS A SALARY, we could rewrite the sentence as "monetary value is the usefulness of a superintendent, considered in respect of its worthwhile superintending." Notice how at no time can the qualifier "monetary" be extricated from the sentence, since we are having the discussion regarding the SALARIES OF SUPERINTENDENTS. Please, if you have some way to define the monetary value of a superintendent independent of the monetary value of a superintendent, please do share.
Posted on: 2010/11/4 18:22
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1 - the material or monetary worth of something : prints seldom rise in value | equipment is included up to a total value of $500. From my Mac built-in dictionary, you sicko.
Posted on: 2010/11/4 17:38
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That's the actual literal definition of value - you know, what something is worth monetarily. If you and superintendents would like to somehow extricate yourself from this system, I suggest giving me all your money and material possessions so you can live free from the enslavement of basic, universal economic facts.
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1. Goodbye and good riddance. The crooked cops will be less dangerous as civilian criminals than as officially sanctioned criminals. 2. People who rent pay property taxes in the form of rent, duh.
Posted on: 2010/11/4 9:31
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The difference being of course that lawyers and business people generate wealth whereas superintendents generate future a-hole parents.
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Hmm. Seems to me only a closet pedophile would be able to come up with the image you've so lovingly crafted.
Posted on: 2010/11/3 21:06
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So unionistas went out in full force for "yes," and everybody else stayed home.
Awesome New Jersey!
Posted on: 2010/11/3 12:16
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But raising personal and business taxes doesn't drive wealthy people to other states? BTW - Where is the evidence for any of your claims?
Posted on: 2010/11/2 17:02
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Perfectly stated!
Posted on: 2010/10/31 20:56
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STOP TELLING TEA PARTY LIES!!!!!!!!!
Posted on: 2010/10/31 15:54
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What I find amazing is that people who can accurately assess the awful intentions of the majority of elected Republican are incapable of doing the same for Democrats, and vice-versa.
Posted on: 2010/10/30 20:51
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Yeah, not-blowing billions on a politically-motivated boondoggle is the exact equivalent of f-ing up Katrina.
Posted on: 2010/10/30 15:45
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Dude, it's gonna be a rough couple weeks for you. I suggest booking double-time at your shrink.
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Although thwarted by the evil developer Hyman, the Embankment Liberation Front kept their spirits high via an impromptu drum circle.
Posted on: 2010/10/26 22:32
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If Hyman is breaking the law, then the city should fine him and maintain the property as cited above. However, the Embankment Coalition is not the city, and they have no rights, moral or otherwise, to get on his property. And you can certainly define who may or may not enter your property. We all agree, by our social contract, that in the city, people may pass over each other's private property via the sidewalk. What I find so interesting here is that the no government agency ever saw fit to provide a sidewalk for citizens when they owned the land. The right to travel via sidewalk does not apply to other activities - especially not having a social gathering. I don't understand why it's so hard for people to understand the difference between what's theirs and what's other peoples. Perhaps we all need to rewatch Sesame Street and go back to kindy garten.
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1. I think Hyman is a douche. 2. It's still his property. He doesn't have to be consistent, and he doesn't have to accommodate his sworn hippie enemies. It's his property, to do what he wants with, within reason. And it is entirely reasonable to bar people he doesn't like and who don't like him from gettin' up on his grass. Or do you think Hyman should be able to barge into YOUR house and start cleaning YOUR toilet?
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Because it's not their property, and in the United States we have something called property rights.
Posted on: 2010/10/26 16:52
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I was in favor of saving the embankment until I read all the self-righteous crap in this thread and saw the picture of the doofy litter crew up above.
The only worry I have is that douche Hyman is going to build some ugly, Bayonne-style buildings. He should be forced to build stuff like the neat, contemporary row-houses in Liberty Harbor. Tear down that wall, Mr. Healy! And the parking deck at Newport while you're at it! And most of C Columbus and Newark Avenues! And Greenville, and the Heights, and Marion! And Borinquen Gardens! Thanks! That will be all! Maybe they can move the stones from the embankment and just sort of drop them from helicopters all over the city, like our very own Easter Island Stonehenge.
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If you Jersey City originals are such scrappy bare-knuckle defenders of this great city, then why did downtown degenerate under your watch, and only become livable with the emigration of "out of towners?" Did you guys just abandon it?
Posted on: 2010/10/20 21:52
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These are interesting, but don't necessarily prove anything. The crime rates in Newark versus New York show, for instance, that population size doesn't proportionally increase crime rates. I'd be interested in also knowing the demographics of the perpetrators and the victims in Houston and Dallas. Is it MS-13 vs migrant worker? Black gangstar versus Hank and Bobby Hill? Ross Perot versus Ron Paul? What are the rates throughout Texas, proportional to rates in New Jersey?
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I agree. Here's an idea - maybe we can leave out bags of doughnuts or lines of coke on our stoops - so that while the boys in blue are grazing they might stop a crime once in awhile. Also, neighborhood watch. Open your windows, turn on your lights. The street is the community, the public square. Own it.
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Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but I think the point is that the fact that the person you want to mug is probably carrying a gun acts as a deterrent.
Posted on: 2010/10/20 15:56
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Not that I am a fan of guns, but bullshit: http://hnn.us/articles/871.html
Posted on: 2010/10/20 15:47
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We have third-world cops to address third-world crimes in a city striving to be cosmopolitan.
The election cannot come soon enough. It's time for JC to grow up.
Posted on: 2010/10/20 0:33
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6:30!?!?!
Time to move to Hoboken!
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I walked by and it looked pretty neat.
Haters probably can't dance is all.
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