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2005.08.16 4:57

I finished working at 2:30 am tonight. On my way back home I dropped in at the 24 hour supermarket called 'Sunny', I came here to buy a bottle of red wine, abruptly I recalled I have no whiskeys left so instead of buying a red wine, I bought Johnnie Walker. I mean it's not a black label but a red label, cheaper one.
When I was late 20's I would often enjoy the black label, Johnnie Walker, now I'm in the middle of forties, I am supposed to enjoy more expensive one, not a cheaper one. But the fact is I enjoy the red label.
Ah, cheap, cheaper, cheapest my life is! Not limited in the case of Johnnie Walker, but also Four Roses too, I used to enjoy higher class than now I have. Ah, the days are gone.
I haven't fallen into having 'toris' which is the cheapest whiskey made in Japan.
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The problem with this equation(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@seeberfamily.org> on 2005.08.16 5:36 (#13324642) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2005.09.28 6:49)
Is that you often pay in other ways. In the case of wine, the cheaper the wine the lower the fermentation, the more sugar is left and the bigger chance it will cause a hangover. In the case of foreign imports, it's amazing where the money goes for the cheapest stuff- and the reasons why those imports are so cheap.--Two chances to become a Dictator- and Bush blew them both!
A Matter of Poverty(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.08.17 0:23 (#13330544) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.01 16:45)
One of my colleageus, age 38, is going to leave our office soon. He's married and got two kids aged 5 or 6. He has to move to another section in another premises in a different town. This is a substansial work cut.
This is a restructuring of the company, but it is for him a restructuring of his life. He is not the only one. One after another, a worker is leaving our workplace with a little hope to spend money a lot for wine.--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters [ Parent ]
Re:A Matter of Poverty(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@seeberfamily.org> on 2005.08.17 1:25 (#13331089) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2005.09.28 6:49)
And that's only the latest- the ripple effect of the race to the bottom has been going on for 40 years now. It started in the vinyards where your cheap wine is grown- and was fought by Ceaser Chaverez, the great migrant worker union maker. His unions were quickly busted by the US Government ending any sort of border and immigration enforcement on the southern border- hoards of illegal immigrants streamed in to pick the crops whenever a union tried to strike. That was the begining of the end of unionized labor in the United States- and in the world. Downsizing was soon to follow in related industries- and on up the supply chain. "Restructuring" is just another name for throwing people out on the street with no loyalty whatsoever.--Two chances to become a Dictator- and Bush blew them both! [ Parent ]
Re:A Matter of Poverty(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.08.18 10:15 (#13344269) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.01 16:45)
First of all, I am in favour of restructuring, lay-off, work cut, sucking whatever the term for it, many people includig me tend to describe the restructuring as something ending up to the personal mishap, workers with a lot of expertises lose way to go once they were forced to get out of their job. It is true and sometimes it is cruel for them who were restuctured to start seeking for another position or another job one day all at once.
Luddite is based on the term who started destroying machines in the wake of industry revolution. Nowadays industrial strucure has been changing even dramatically, if we say we can't catch up with this latest change, we ought to start another luddite? Striking etc. are nothing but a destruction of advancement of the system itself. Really backward and stupit act, those acts only delay further develoment of our society and only take it backwards. We are subject to firing, transferring to another position, another job, but it is a healthy sign capitalism is working properly. Like me many times fired, if we were fired, we ought not to try to rehold our position, we ought to seek for another chance to work somewhere else. If a woman said good bye to me, I would be unable to say 'wait' to her.
Unfortunately restructuring is not up to us but up to them who hired us, we have to accept it for my matter and it is required for us to start *restructuring ourselves* in order to catch up with the restructuring of the company and society by and large.
Apart from that, 'Wrath of the Grapes', that was a great movie.--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters [ Parent ]
Re:A Matter of Poverty(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@seeberfamily.org> on 2005.08.19 2:22 (#13348926) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2005.09.28 6:49)
I'm not so sure that the restructuring is an advancement, especially when it sacrifices long-term progress in favor of short term profit. In fact, if anything, it's a luddite act in and of itself- destroying what is proven to work in hopes of creating something that will only work for a very short term.The answer, should you choose to accept it and if you're elected, is regulation of the stock markets. There should be a 3 year ban on selling stock once purchased. This is enough to keep investors looking at long term, rather than short term, profit, and can even avoid some of the pain of the natural business cycle, since you won't have as much panic selling at the end of the cycle.The down side is liquidity- and responsiveness. But what it encourages is a long term view that is missing from both government "stick the next guy with these problems" bureaucracy, and the worst parts of speculative investment privatization.--Two chances to become a Dictator- and Bush blew them both! [ Parent ]
ooo(Score:2)
by FidelCatsro (861135) <fidelcatsro.gmail@com> on 2005.08.16 6:26 (#13325250) (Last Journal: 2005.09.30 16:03)
I was about to mention , that I wouldn't touch a bottle of Johnny Walkers heh , but then I have to have either a Highland or Speyside 12 year single malt at the leastAs for wine , Cheap white is OK , Cheap red is a death sentence carried out every morning after drinking it.I do enjoy a good Merlot or Chianti , but i avoid the cheap less well produced wines nowadays, as I'm fed up of awful hangovers . After a half bottle of Chianti I generally wake up the next morning feeling great (possibly to do with the anti-coagulant nature of the wine lowering my blood pressure , not that its very high but it can always be better)I was at an Italian restaurant this evening , We know the folks who run it . Now I have a feeling that I may have a slight hangover tomorrow , Great wine but i broke a golden rule .. never mix your drinks . I had a glass of white a glass of red and a couple of beers (and an amarreto ) ;) quite lethal to your morning . Thankfully I'm off work tomorrow . I am sober as a bean though (unless the bean is drunk ... but i know very few beans who are dipso)--Non illigitamus carborundum, Graviora manent
Cheap Wine(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2005.08.16 23:56 (#13330302) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.10.01 16:45)
Black label itself is not a expensive one -$25, red label costs $15. 'Toris' is $7. That's why I titled 'cheap, cheaper, cheapest.'
I never tasted expensive one -Old Parr or the whiskies you mentioned above though they must be good, when I got rich enough to buy these high class whiskies, I would like to taste them.
About five years ago, I had been relationship with a rich woman, whose age was four year senior to me. Our relationship lasted for two years. For me it was exceptionally long and I wanted to marry her. One day she had a high class brandy -Napoleon, probably costs $200~300 from one of her boyfriends. We enjoyed it and I remember it was so tasty.
While still we were in a good and intimate relation -we lived together, she had to go to USA to attend the graduate ceremony of her daughter. I was asked by her to take her to the USA, I declined. I had to take a two-weeks leave from work, that oftentimes automatically means I have to quit the job. After the ceremony, she went to France to see her ex-boyfriend in Lyon, there she spent almost two months.
After she came back from her vacance, we resumed our relationship, but she was not what she used to be two months before. Our relatoinship started to be unwell.
She refused to accept my marriage proposal saying 'what merit I have to marry you? Once I tasted a high class wine, I cannot have the cheaper one any more.' For her the French guy was a high class wine, and I was a chepar one. ' If you really wanted me to marry you, you were supposed to take me to the graduation ceremony in USA and were not supposed to let me go to France to see one of my ex-boyfriend. You were supposed to take me back to Japan after I finished attending a graduate ceremony. Once you let go of a woman in love with you, the woman would not return to what she used to be.'
'Once I tasted a high class wine, I cannot have the cheaper one any more.' I was unable to decide to separate from her so easily for the same reason - like tasting Napoleon with her.
The time was nigh -soon after we separated.
Bitter memory with a good memory of Napoleon.--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters