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12/03/2010 11:46 AM

Stanley Black & Decker

http://www.courant.com/business/hc-stanley-work-black-and-decker-0312,0,4550948.story


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bR

[email protected] (Robert Bonomi)

in reply to [email protected] on 12/03/2010 11:46 AM

12/03/2010 6:39 PM

In article <[email protected]>,
Swingman <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 3/12/2010 1:05 PM, LSMFT wrote:
>> On 03/12/2010 11:46 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>>>
>http://www.courant.com/business/hc-stanley-work-black-and-decker-0312,0,4550948.story
>>
>> WHAT A CRAP! SENSORED NEWSGROUP THIS! HAS BECOME!
>
>WTF, looking all around and still don't see any sensors??

Right. They're covered by SawStop's patents. <*snicker*>


RR

Rob

in reply to [email protected] on 12/03/2010 11:46 AM

12/03/2010 9:20 PM

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:39:23 -0600, "HeyBub" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>DGDevin wrote:

>> As for health care reform being *unnecessary" that can be
>> true only if one in six Americans being uninsured is no problem, and
>> if the cost of health insurance doubling in the past 15 years is no
>> problem, and if a fifth of what we pay for insurance being shifted to
>> cover the cost of treating uninsured patients is no problem, and if
>> the insurance industry absorbing another fifth of what we pay in
>> administrative overhead is no problem, and so on. Certainly the
>> clowns in Washington can always make things worse, but that doesn't
>> mean there is no problem to begin with.

>* "one in six Americans being uninsured" - Why is that a problem? There are,
>it is claimed, 40 million uninsured. Twelve million are illegal aliens, 20
>million are eligible for Medicare and will get it as soon as they apply in
>the emergency room, seven-plus million are between jobs, a few object for
>religious reasons, and several are self-insured. Doing the arithmetic
>results in a total of EIGHT people who don't have insurance that need and
>want it. To serve EIGHT people, the government risks screwing up the
>insurance scheme of 300 million Americans.

So there are only eight people in the USA who are uninsured? Good
luck getting anyone will believe that. You also missed Mr. Devin's
point about those you claim are covered because they can go to an
emergency room. That situation is forced, and it is very costly and
inefficient. Guess who pays for that.

LM

"Lee Michaels"

in reply to [email protected] on 12/03/2010 11:46 AM

12/03/2010 8:30 PM


"Swingman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On 3/12/2010 1:05 PM, LSMFT wrote:
>> On 03/12/2010 11:46 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>>> http://www.courant.com/business/hc-stanley-work-black-and-decker-0312,0,4550948.story
>>
>> WHAT A CRAP! SENSORED NEWSGROUP THIS! HAS BECOME!
>
> WTF, looking all around and still don't see any sensors??
>
Look, very carefully, out of your window.

Try not to be seen.


Jj

Joe

in reply to [email protected] on 12/03/2010 11:46 AM

12/03/2010 10:20 AM

On Mar 12, 10:57=A0am, Morris Dovey <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3/12/2010 10:46 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> >http://www.courant.com/business/hc-stanley-work-black-and-decker-0312...
>
> "But a larger portion of shareholders disagreed with a bonus plan that
> includes a $45 million reward to Black & Decker CEO Nolan D. Archibald
> if the combined company sheds $350 million in costs."
>
> Of course, the $350,000,000 cost reduction will have no effect on
> availability of repair/replacement parts, customer service
> responsiveness, ability to innovate, retail prices, and/or quality of
> products...

>snip<

Another American icon down the tubes, victim of the quasi-legal
rapacious financial clowns that answer to no one, and typified by
George Soros. Methinks the Washington weenies have simply concocted
their big unnecessary health care debacle as a way of avoiding dealing
with this real and far more serious problem.

Joe

MH

"Martin H. Eastburn"

in reply to [email protected] on 12/03/2010 11:46 AM

12/03/2010 11:54 PM

Shed costs ? close a couple of product lines, close a couple of plants and
wham a cool $45 Mil in the pocket!

Martin

Morris Dovey wrote:
> On 3/12/2010 10:46 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>> http://www.courant.com/business/hc-stanley-work-black-and-decker-0312,0,4550948.story
>>
>
> "But a larger portion of shareholders disagreed with a bonus plan that
> includes a $45 million reward to Black & Decker CEO Nolan D. Archibald
> if the combined company sheds $350 million in costs."
>
> Of course, the $350,000,000 cost reduction will have no effect on
> availability of repair/replacement parts, customer service
> responsiveness, ability to innovate, retail prices, and/or quality of
> products...
>
> <sigh>
>

Dd

"DGDevin"

in reply to [email protected] on 12/03/2010 11:46 AM

12/03/2010 10:46 AM


"Joe" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:996f4fbd-496b-4bb1-8e18-f6b5cc4d73e6@b30g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...

> Another American icon down the tubes, victim of the quasi-legal
> rapacious financial clowns that answer to no one, and typified by
> George Soros. Methinks the Washington weenies have simply concocted
> their big unnecessary health care debacle as a way of avoiding dealing
> with this real and far more serious problem.

What color is the sky on your planet? Businesses move jobs overseas in
search of greater profits, they cut employee health care benefits for the
same reason--meanwhile the people running those companies vote themselves
huge bonuses for actions that throw millions of Americans out of work and
send the company sliding into a lowest-cost sewer. As for health care
reform being *unnecessary" that can be true only if one in six Americans
being uninsured is no problem, and if the cost of health insurance doubling
in the past 15 years is no problem, and if a fifth of what we pay for
insurance being shifted to cover the cost of treating uninsured patients is
no problem, and if the insurance industry absorbing another fifth of what we
pay in administrative overhead is no problem, and so on. Certainly the
clowns in Washington can always make things worse, but that doesn't mean
there is no problem to begin with.

Hh

"HeyBub"

in reply to [email protected] on 12/03/2010 11:46 AM

12/03/2010 3:39 PM

DGDevin wrote:
> "Joe" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:996f4fbd-496b-4bb1-8e18-f6b5cc4d73e6@b30g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
>
>> Another American icon down the tubes, victim of the quasi-legal
>> rapacious financial clowns that answer to no one, and typified by
>> George Soros. Methinks the Washington weenies have simply concocted
>> their big unnecessary health care debacle as a way of avoiding
>> dealing with this real and far more serious problem.
>
> What color is the sky on your planet? Businesses move jobs overseas
> in search of greater profits, they cut employee health care benefits
> for the same reason--meanwhile the people running those companies
> vote themselves huge bonuses for actions that throw millions of
> Americans out of work and send the company sliding into a lowest-cost
> sewer.

It's the way of the world. In a recent study (if you can believe it)
* The most intelligent people become entrepreneurs
* The next stratum become politicians (obvious exceptions)
* The lowest rung are the workers

> As for health care reform being *unnecessary" that can be
> true only if one in six Americans being uninsured is no problem, and
> if the cost of health insurance doubling in the past 15 years is no
> problem, and if a fifth of what we pay for insurance being shifted to
> cover the cost of treating uninsured patients is no problem, and if
> the insurance industry absorbing another fifth of what we pay in
> administrative overhead is no problem, and so on. Certainly the
> clowns in Washington can always make things worse, but that doesn't
> mean there is no problem to begin with.

You start to talk about HEALTH CARE reform then demonstrate all the things
you thing are wrong with health care INSURANCE. "Insurance" and "health
care" are NOT the same thing. Let's examine some of your concerns:

* "one in six Americans being uninsured" - Why is that a problem? There are,
it is claimed, 40 million uninsured. Twelve million are illegal aliens, 20
million are eligible for Medicare and will get it as soon as they apply in
the emergency room, seven-plus million are between jobs, a few object for
religious reasons, and several are self-insured. Doing the arithmetic
results in a total of EIGHT people who don't have insurance that need and
want it. To serve EIGHT people, the government risks screwing up the
insurance scheme of 300 million Americans.

* "insurance costs have doubled in the past 15 years" - Everything has
doubled in fifteen years, even my waist. At 7%, your savings double in only
TEN years.

* "a fifth... pays for the uninsured" - So insurance costs go up 20% under
the government scheme. What's the diff? And yes it will. Currently, 12% of
the public does not pay for insurance. Under government plans they will.
That's a big increase in overall revenue right there.

I agree with you there are big problems. But there ARE simple solutions.
Outlawing chiropractic, naturopathy, aroma therapy, and Christian Science
could be done with the stroke of a pen. You don't have to radically reform
tort claims, just make sure all the punative damages go to the state health
system instead of the plaintiff (plaintiff still gets economic and pain &
suffering damages - lawyers get bupkas).


Lb

LSMFT

in reply to [email protected] on 12/03/2010 11:46 AM

12/03/2010 2:05 PM

On 03/12/2010 11:46 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> http://www.courant.com/business/hc-stanley-work-black-and-decker-0312,0,4550948.story

WHAT A CRAP! SENSORED NEWSGROUP THIS! HAS BECOME!

--
LSFT

LJ

Larry Jaques

in reply to [email protected] on 12/03/2010 11:46 AM

12/03/2010 9:04 PM

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:47:07 -0600, the infamous Swingman
<[email protected]> scrawled the following:

>On 3/12/2010 1:05 PM, LSMFT wrote:
>> On 03/12/2010 11:46 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>>> http://www.courant.com/business/hc-stanley-work-black-and-decker-0312,0,4550948.story
>>
>> WHAT A CRAP! SENSORED NEWSGROUP THIS! HAS BECOME!
>
>WTF, looking all around and still don't see any sensors??

Weren't some of you repliers just agreeing to NOT reply to trolls?

--
There is no such thing as limits to growth, because there are no limits
to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
--Ronald Reagan

MD

Morris Dovey

in reply to [email protected] on 12/03/2010 11:46 AM

12/03/2010 10:57 AM

On 3/12/2010 10:46 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> http://www.courant.com/business/hc-stanley-work-black-and-decker-0312,0,4550948.story

"But a larger portion of shareholders disagreed with a bonus plan that
includes a $45 million reward to Black & Decker CEO Nolan D. Archibald
if the combined company sheds $350 million in costs."

Of course, the $350,000,000 cost reduction will have no effect on
availability of repair/replacement parts, customer service
responsiveness, ability to innovate, retail prices, and/or quality of
products...

<sigh>

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/

BB

"Bill"

in reply to [email protected] on 12/03/2010 11:46 AM

12/03/2010 3:26 PM


"LSMFT" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:agwmn.1363$%[email protected]...
> On 03/12/2010 11:46 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>> http://www.courant.com/business/hc-stanley-work-black-and-decker-0312,0,4550948.story
>
> WHAT A CRAP! SENSORED NEWSGROUP THIS! HAS BECOME!
>
> --
> LSFT

You have something against Stanley Black? Generations are bound to ask about
him... I hope this doesn't get sensored!

JC

"J. Clarke"

in reply to [email protected] on 12/03/2010 11:46 AM

12/03/2010 3:00 PM

On 3/12/2010 2:05 PM, LSMFT wrote:
> On 03/12/2010 11:46 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>> http://www.courant.com/business/hc-stanley-work-black-and-decker-0312,0,4550948.story
>
> WHAT A CRAP! SENSORED NEWSGROUP THIS! HAS BECOME!

Yep, my crap sensor just went off.

<plonk>

SM

"Stormin Mormon"

in reply to [email protected] on 12/03/2010 11:46 AM

12/03/2010 8:48 PM

Hmm. Does any want to consult his Sensei? Maybe the Sensei
would know how to stop a sensor?

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
.


>>
>> WHAT A CRAP! SENSORED NEWSGROUP THIS! HAS BECOME!
>
> WTF, looking all around and still don't see any sensors??
>
Look, very carefully, out of your window.

Try not to be seen.



TD

The Daring Dufas

in reply to [email protected] on 12/03/2010 11:46 AM

12/03/2010 10:05 PM

Swingman wrote:
> On 3/12/2010 1:05 PM, LSMFT wrote:
>> On 03/12/2010 11:46 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>>> http://www.courant.com/business/hc-stanley-work-black-and-decker-0312,0,4550948.story
>>>
>>
>> WHAT A CRAP! SENSORED NEWSGROUP THIS! HAS BECOME!
>
> WTF, looking all around and still don't see any sensors??
>

Perhaps he was referring to sensations?

TDD

SM

"Stormin Mormon"

in reply to [email protected] on 12/03/2010 11:46 AM

13/03/2010 7:48 AM

Hmm. Not sure how I feel about this post.

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
.


"The Daring Dufas" <[email protected]> wrote
in message news:[email protected]...
Swingman wrote:
>> WHAT A CRAP! SENSORED NEWSGROUP THIS! HAS BECOME!
>
> WTF, looking all around and still don't see any sensors??
>

Perhaps he was referring to sensations?

TDD

Dd

"DGDevin"

in reply to [email protected] on 12/03/2010 11:46 AM

12/03/2010 9:08 PM


"Rob" <Rob@no_mail_.com> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

> So there are only eight people in the USA who are uninsured? Good
> luck getting anyone will believe that. You also missed Mr. Devin's
> point about those you claim are covered because they can go to an
> emergency room. That situation is forced, and it is very costly and
> inefficient. Guess who pays for that.

That's what cracks me up, they're paying for the most expensive kind of
treatment for the uninsured *now* but they're either ignorant of that or
they're happy to pretend otherwise so they aren't distracted from waving
their placards and chanting their slogans about how they don't want to have
to pay for medical treatment for the uninsured. Talk about Bizarro World.

Hh

"HeyBub"

in reply to [email protected] on 12/03/2010 11:46 AM

13/03/2010 6:51 AM

Rob wrote:
>
>> * "one in six Americans being uninsured" - Why is that a problem?
>> There are, it is claimed, 40 million uninsured. Twelve million are
>> illegal aliens, 20 million are eligible for Medicare and will get it
>> as soon as they apply in the emergency room, seven-plus million are
>> between jobs, a few object for religious reasons, and several are
>> self-insured. Doing the arithmetic results in a total of EIGHT
>> people who don't have insurance that need and want it. To serve
>> EIGHT people, the government risks screwing up the insurance scheme
>> of 300 million Americans.
>
> So there are only eight people in the USA who are uninsured? Good
> luck getting anyone will believe that.

No, I said there are only eight people who don't have insurance that need
and want it. Sure, I was exaggerating, but so are those who claim there are
40 million people who can't get necessary care. My number is admittedly
ludicrous; but so is the 40 million. The actual number is somewhere between
the two - maybe a dozen or twenty.

> You also missed Mr. Devin's
> point about those you claim are covered because they can go to an
> emergency room.

I didn't say that either. I said they will be covered via Medicaid - all
they have to do is apply. They apply when they show up at the emergency room
(or other health-care facility).

> That situation is forced, and it is very costly and
> inefficient. Guess who pays for that.

Are you talking about the new government-run proposal?

ww

willshak

in reply to [email protected] on 12/03/2010 11:46 AM

12/03/2010 5:20 PM

Swingman wrote the following:
> On 3/12/2010 1:05 PM, LSMFT wrote:
>> On 03/12/2010 11:46 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>>> http://www.courant.com/business/hc-stanley-work-black-and-decker-0312,0,4550948.story
>>>
>>
>> WHAT A CRAP! SENSORED NEWSGROUP THIS! HAS BECOME!
>
> WTF, looking all around and still don't see any sensors??
>
There was a thread some time back about heat sensors, but I don't
remember if there were extraneous exclamation marks in it.

--

Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
To email, remove the double zeroes after @

Dd

"DGDevin"

in reply to [email protected] on 12/03/2010 11:46 AM

12/03/2010 2:53 PM


"HeyBub" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

> You start to talk about HEALTH CARE reform then demonstrate all the things
> you thing are wrong with health care INSURANCE. "Insurance" and "health
> care" are NOT the same thing. Let's examine some of your concerns:


What I like about your posts is you're considerate enough to make it clear
that nobody should take them seriously, saves lots of time.

Cc

Chasgroh

in reply to [email protected] on 12/03/2010 11:46 AM

12/03/2010 11:55 AM

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:05:21 -0500, LSMFT <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 03/12/2010 11:46 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>> http://www.courant.com/business/hc-stanley-work-black-and-decker-0312,0,4550948.story
>
>WHAT A CRAP! SENSORED NEWSGROUP THIS! HAS BECOME!

...hey, a photographic post!

cg

Sk

Swingman

in reply to [email protected] on 12/03/2010 11:46 AM

12/03/2010 1:42 PM

On 3/12/2010 12:46 PM, DGDevin wrote:

> Certainly the
> clowns in Washington can always make things worse, but that doesn't mean
> there is no problem to begin with.

When have the clowns in Washington not made things worse?

There are other ways, than the currently proposed, to "fix" health care
in this country ... hell, just give us the same health care plan
Congress has.

Or, short of that, make it mandatory that the fucking "clowns" eat the
same dog food they are trying to feed us.

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Sk

Swingman

in reply to [email protected] on 12/03/2010 11:46 AM

12/03/2010 1:47 PM

On 3/12/2010 1:05 PM, LSMFT wrote:
> On 03/12/2010 11:46 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>> http://www.courant.com/business/hc-stanley-work-black-and-decker-0312,0,4550948.story
>
> WHAT A CRAP! SENSORED NEWSGROUP THIS! HAS BECOME!

WTF, looking all around and still don't see any sensors??

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Last update: 10/22/08
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