Aleksey, i really want Volt to be successful, but i don't think it has a chance.. it's a novelty item, which will give it 10-20, 000 sales at at price.. however i think it's grossly miss-priced..
As about walmart health insurance plan - it WAY ahead of what most grocery/department stores offer to their employees.
Again, the only reason there are so many walmart haters is that
1) they are the most successful
2) they don't allow unions
( maybe (2) is the reason for (1) )

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Ira?
Does it describe you? I would not know…

Although, I am quite familiar with Wayne state.

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Ira,
Why don’t you post your resume and references from your students….

You can check my personal page, if you are so interested.

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The question comes from the fact that I do not like big schools and did my Bachelor in the small local private university, which is not listed on my page, because Odnoklassniki do have a group from it.

Yet, my wife and my brother graduated from Wayne with their masters… so I know what the lectures over there looks and feel like…

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What you are calling RIGHT – is basically Center. Because I am not an extremist, but a constitutionalist.

My political views are result of my education and experience. And by the way – most of my political education came from the 10 years of soviet school.

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Everything...

Don't you remeber, we had read a buch books and were indoctrinated by the Coomunist party and the best ever system in the world!

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… and today, thank you very much, the processes in this country are:
- Nationalizing the private industries
- Promising to take over even more
- Indoctrinating children in schools
- Inventing coming end of the world through Climate Change hoax
- Giving the enemy combatants the stage for propaganda
- Spending like drunken sailors and having an enormous debt to Communist China…
All of this and more … taking us toward the same end….

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and college professors who don't give a damn about helping grown men with their homework.

Are you one of those professors who lecture to 300 students and don't give a damn about helping them with homework?
Detoit downtown - would not be my preferred location for a fun lunch.

Gera, was this your idea of insulting me?

It makes me sad to see that people in my Department (including myself) trying to bust our asses off to teach the students properly -- introducing computer-based teaching methods, having open-door policy instead of the office hours (so that students can always stop by and discuss their problems with the professor and not a teaching assistant), etc. -- only to get such a reaction from people.

You are welcome to check my University website to see my credentials (as well as my teaching and research awards). However, I don't think now that I would like to have a lunch with you, though.