[Shalom Israel]

You wait by the phone for your claims adjuster to call, obviously, which he will do as soon as he determines that it's cheaper to fight a war than it is to eat the cost of the sunken ships ;)

Many a truth said in jest. The reason a billion chinese live in relative slavery today, is that their slavery is less miserable than their lives would be if they revolted tomorrow. We all perform this calculation. I worked for two years for the company from hell, on the doomed project from hell, because I preferred my sufferings (and salary) to the uncertainties of a job hunt in a down market.

[tacticalogic]

I worked for two years for the company from hell, on the doomed project from hell, because I preferred my sufferings (and salary) to the uncertainties of a job hunt in a down market.

Just think how inefficient it is to have people going out looking for thier own jobs. Surely there must be a better way.

[Senator Bedfellow]

We all perform this calculation.

How far we've come from the days of Teddy Roosevelt, who demanded the return of an American, alive, or the man who grabbed him, dead.