These guys know the deal when they get in the game. They do it because they think it's an awesome job, or the uniform gets them pussy, or that they'll be able to stick it out
until they make captain in the majors pulling in 6 figures.
It would be one thing if this was a dirty secret that got pulled on these guys last minute. But pretty much from the time they started, they've known the deal. Shit, before you can even _START_ at one of these "shitty" jobs you're going to be out tens of thousands (if not $100K) in up-front training costs. About the only guys that can actually
make a living at this job are the ones that got their training and their thousands of hours from flying Uncle Sam's airplanes. Of course, it helps to have that half-pay pension too...
any smaller planes and older planes are not fully fly-by-wire, so they would require a serious retrofit to make them capable of full autoland
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
The 747-400, 757, and 767 are not fly-by-wire aircraft, and yet all three have Cat3 autoland capability (737NG as well, outside of AA's pig-headed move of being different). Fly-by-wire just means there is no physical connection between the controls and the control surfaces.
The average American house is more than twice as large as it was in the 50s. (A single family home in 1956 would have been less than 1000 square feet). Americans eat ~ 40% more read meat, 200% more poultry and 50% more seafood than the 50s.
Food, clothing, and housing budgets for the decade of the 50s was between 70 and 65% (65% in 1960). Today those same items account for 50%.
Tell me, in 1956, how well off would your average single mom be? What about a family of Hispanics or African-Americans?
You mean my friends will be able to find out I bought Starland Vocal Band's Greatest Hits, a Billy Squire's "The Stroke", and Taco's cover of "Putting on the Ritz"?
Fuck that noise!
The last time I was someplace that was subject to SOX, the rule was "segregation of duties". I, as a developer, could have access to the development version of a system OR the production version of a system, but not both. I could (and did) have mixed access where I had access to prod versions of system A and B, but dev access to systems X and Z. In general, the way it worked was that I had dev access to those systems I was developing, and I had prod access for systems that were in my group but not my primary responsibility.
Development on what became the IA64 started in 1989 by HP and Intel was brought in in 1994 and the first implementation was in 1998 - hell it is the reason we don't see Alpha's anymore.
The reason we don't see Alpha anymore is that Intel coerced HP to buy up Compaq and kill it off by offering to assist HP in porting HP-UX to Itanic.
Teaching is 25% the teacher, 50% the student, 25% the parents.
If this is truly the proportion then why the fuck would we ever consider paying teachers more money?
I shouldn't bag on you personally, but in general, when teachers (or their apologists) want to deflect blame, it goes to the parents. However, if they're fishing for more money (which seems like 99.9% of the time) they complain that we can't hire "good" teachers because the profession doesn't pay enough.
I'd have to dig to find the links, so I'll throw this out knowing that some snarky SOB will just reply with "[Citation needed]"
Sweden didn't always have cradle-to-grave health insurance. In fact, they only got it some years after the US instituted Medicare/Medicaid. The longevity delta from that point in history to today is (IIRC) within one month: Swedes lived longer before social medicine, and they live longer now too.
I would also note that it's asinine to point to "every other first world country" as if they all hew to the same social medicine model. You've got full on single payer, nationalized health industries, price controlled private insurance, and nationalized health-insurance with public and private providers.*
For extra credit, please compare cohorts sharing a national origin: If the US system is so shitty, why do Americans of Japanese descent live to to the same age as Japanese living in Japan? You could also compare Scandinavians in the north central US to those in Europe. One dollar will get you ten that there's not a significant difference in longevity.
*I'm thinking of France, but maybe that's not the best way to describe it: They pay a significant tax that is what I would consider premiums, and then they get reimbursed at some percentage of the government mandated charge for services performed.
Kos hired R2K to poll the "scary Republican base" and got numbers that:
1) Reinforced his belief that Republicans were scary, scary, crazy people
2) Didn't match up all that well with other polls (e.g. gays in the military)
Kos then turned said poll results into a book. At one point he crowed about how much data R2K had given him,
and now that the cat's out, he's done nothing more than scrub their name from the book because "the index is already done."
South Carolina is also the state that has the hijinx going on with candidates for governor. Why would Republicans cross over to vote in Dem primaries in large numbers when either Dem candidate is likely to lose to DeMint when there's a very good chance that they would then lose out on their opportunity to pick the appropriate candidate for governor?
IMO, the explanation that fits best is that the Dems, knowing they would lose, set up Greene so that they could steal momentum from DeMint and/or the SC GOP organization right before the election. Perhaps they don't give a shit about replacing DeMint, but they really want the governor's seat. Maybe they thought the could get the Governor _and_ replace DeMint, at which point they could replace Greene with someone else.
On a whim, I grabbed the latest SEC 10-Q for Stillwater Mining (a random NYSE listed company with mining in the title) from Edgar:
http://yahoo.brand.edgar-online.com/displayfilinginfo.aspx?FilingID=7231384-7767-169530&type=sect&dcn=0000950123-10-044558
For the last quarter:
Revenue: 95,199,000
General & Administrative: 6,421,000
Total operating costs for mining*: 38,741,000
Employee count: 1273
Mining employee salaries are paid out of mining operating costs, CxO compensation comes out of G&A.
Let's assume that all 6% of the G&A is CxO compensation. For your assertion to be correct, employees must
make no more than $8700/year.
*Excludes depreciation on mining equipment.
Having struggled mightily to compile allegedly portable code using GCC on both Solaris/SPARC and IRIX, I guess that would mean there's a dearth of well written code.
Amazingly, this has been present on appliances sold in the US for at least 15 years: It gives the kWh/year, annual energy cost (using a US average for $/kWh), and where the particular appliance you're looking at falls in a range of operating expenses according to size.
Don't let facts get in the way of feeling smug about your country. $DIETY knows you need every opportunity you can get.
I'm not sure why you want to hate on the Sony reader.
The reader platform is one of the few places where Sony consistently does the right thing (tm).
When they wanted to move from a proprietary format to ePub for their online bookstore, they offered a better-than-free firmware upgrade for my out-of-support PRS-500. (Better than free because they paid for overnight express mail to and from the Sony service center. It was out of my hands for 5 days). In addition to ePub, it added mass storage mode which in turn made the device accessible from x64 machines.
When the firmware update turned out to have some consequences for battery life, they again paid for overnight express mail to and from the service center. When I got it back, included in the box was a $10 credit for the Sony bookstore.
Sony has complied with the GPL from day one on the PRS series, offering up the code without any bullshit like you might see from other large name vendors. Not only that, but they created a fairly "hack" friendly device.
Finally, Sony uses ePub without any proprietary extensions, which means I can download DRM'ed ePubs from my local library and read them on my Sony reader. Or I can buy books from the Sony store and read them in ADE on my PC. And they're fairly lenient in allowing multiple devices to have access to the same account.
ISTR that not every track sold out of ITMS is DRM free. And even if every new purchase isn't, there's still the consumer's previous purchases.
Apple did me the "favor" of "letting" me "upgrade" to DRM free for an additional $.30/track, but only where the publisher allows them to sell DRM free tracks.
I've got a bunch of tracks that predate Amazon having anything I wanted to buy that are still stuck with Apple DRM. Every time someone comes up with a crack, Apple
makes a point release of iTunes and it goes through my library and "fixes" my music so I can't strip the DRM. Of course, I could cheat and burn 'em all to audio CDs
and re-rip them, or exploit the analog hole, but it's a PITA.
What color is the sky on your planet?
BP is subject to the federal Oil Pollution Act, which has an infinite limit for cleanup damages:
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/usc.cgi?ACTION=RETRIEVE&FILE=$$xa$$busc33.wais&start=4683182&SIZE=13816&TYPE=TEXT
What is limited by the OPA is Federal claims: The $75M is the easy money where plaintiffs don't have to prove that BP was
careless or negligent in order to collect their money.
The OPA DOES NOT preempt state laws, where there is no limit to what BP will have to pay. The only bar for plaintiffs in state
court is that they have to prove that BP was careless or negligent.
True. It probably has nothing to do with the HUGE decrease in aggregate demand and absolutely nothing to do with
large drop in the price of a barrel of oil ($85/bbl @ the end of April, under $75/bbl today, and has even been down around $70).
Shredding the cars is the cheapest manner of terminating their legal liability.
GM routinely shredded concept cars and one-offs. The only exception I'm aware of is the Buick Y-Job, which GM allowed Harley Earl to drive for a few years.
GM could have required buyers to sign a liability waiver* in order to turn their lease into a purchase. But that waiver cannot constrain future buyers.
So they sell it to Jim Bob, who then sells it to Susie Lou. Susie Lou, sitting at a stop sign on a freeway offramp, is rear-ended by a drunk driver in a 280Z and
suffers horrific burns. Do you really think Susie Lou's personal injury attorney is going to ignore the deep pockets of GM? That they won't subpoena every fucking memo
ever written about electric cars and turn a single out-of-context admission in a memo into a vast conspiracy to rape consumers and sell their organ meat to zoos?
*Given California's consumer protection laws, such a waiver is worth less than used toilet paper.
Those who blame financial deregulation for the breakdown of U.S. markets should note that Canada shed its version of Glass-Steagall more than 20 years ago. Major banks thereafter rapidly bought and absorbed investment banks.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124165325829393691.html
The reality is that Canada's entire banking system is much more conservative than the US: The bank can always go after you if you walk away from your mortgage, mortgage interest is required up to 20% down, etc.
One of the provisions of Glass-Steagall was a prohibition on bank nationalization: Canada never had that restriction.
Placing the blame on Glass-Steagall is as simple-minded and partisan as those Glen Beck fanbois who blame the entire meltdown on CRA loans.
I'm confused by your statement. Pretty much by definition, you'll find K-12 schools in any metro area where there aren't tumbleweeds rolling down Main street.
Other than a few very high cost metro areas, teachers make enough to actually live where they work.
However, it's pretty slim pickings when it comes to finding places that can support computer techs making 90K/year. Off the top of my head I'd say you're looking at companies
larger than 100, and possibly even larger than 500. The former puts it outside the US definition of "small", and the latter puts it outside the definition of "medium".
Employers under 100 employees are 6 times more numerous than 100-499, which in turn are 5 times more numerous than 500+ employee gigs.
To put it another way, there are 30 employers with fewer than 100 employees for every employer with 500+ employees.
http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/smallbus.html
BeNeLux numbers are skewed by small(er) populations and concentrations of large amounts of money transiting through those countries in tax avoidance schemes. Ireland is in a similar boat.
Of course, one might add that up until 2007 there was a similar skewing effect in the US due to the housing bubble.
It will be interesting to see what those numbers look like for 2008 and 2009.
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These guys know the deal when they get in the game. They do it because they think it's an awesome job, or the uniform gets them pussy, or that they'll be able to stick it out until they make captain in the majors pulling in 6 figures. It would be one thing if this was a dirty secret that got pulled on these guys last minute. But pretty much from the time they started, they've known the deal. Shit, before you can even _START_ at one of these "shitty" jobs you're going to be out tens of thousands (if not $100K) in up-front training costs. About the only guys that can actually make a living at this job are the ones that got their training and their thousands of hours from flying Uncle Sam's airplanes. Of course, it helps to have that half-pay pension too...
any smaller planes and older planes are not fully fly-by-wire, so they would require a serious retrofit to make them capable of full autoland
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
The 747-400, 757, and 767 are not fly-by-wire aircraft, and yet all three have Cat3 autoland capability (737NG as well, outside of AA's pig-headed move of being different).
Fly-by-wire just means there is no physical connection between the controls and the control surfaces.
The average American house is more than twice as large as it was in the 50s. (A single family home in 1956 would have been less than 1000 square feet).
Americans eat ~ 40% more read meat, 200% more poultry and 50% more seafood than the 50s.
Food, clothing, and housing budgets for the decade of the 50s was between 70 and 65% (65% in 1960). Today those
same items account for 50%.
Tell me, in 1956, how well off would your average single mom be? What about a family of Hispanics or African-Americans?
Nice infographic: http://www.womansday.com/wd2/Content/Family-Lifestyle/Evolution-of-the-Household
Real information:
http://www.usda.gov/factbook/chapter2.htm
http://www.bls.gov/opub/uscs/reflections.pdf
You mean my friends will be able to find out I bought Starland Vocal Band's Greatest Hits, a Billy Squire's "The Stroke", and Taco's cover of "Putting on the Ritz"? Fuck that noise!
The last time I was someplace that was subject to SOX, the rule was "segregation of duties". I, as a developer, could have access to the development version of a system OR the production version of a system, but not both. I could (and did) have mixed access where I had access to prod versions of system A and B, but dev access to systems X and Z. In general, the way it worked was that I had dev access to those systems I was developing, and I had prod access for systems that were in my group but not my primary responsibility.
Development on what became the IA64 started in 1989 by HP and Intel was brought in in 1994 and the first implementation was in 1998 - hell it is the reason we don't see Alpha's anymore.
The reason we don't see Alpha anymore is that Intel coerced HP to buy up Compaq and kill it off by offering to assist HP in porting HP-UX to Itanic.
Teaching is 25% the teacher, 50% the student, 25% the parents.
If this is truly the proportion then why the fuck would we ever consider paying teachers more money?
I shouldn't bag on you personally, but in general, when teachers (or their apologists) want to deflect blame, it goes to the parents.
However, if they're fishing for more money (which seems like 99.9% of the time) they complain that we can't hire "good" teachers because the profession doesn't pay enough.
I'd have to dig to find the links, so I'll throw this out knowing that some snarky SOB will just reply with "[Citation needed]"
Sweden didn't always have cradle-to-grave health insurance. In fact, they only got it some years after the US instituted Medicare/Medicaid.
The longevity delta from that point in history to today is (IIRC) within one month: Swedes lived longer before social medicine, and they live longer now too.
I would also note that it's asinine to point to "every other first world country" as if they all hew to the same social medicine model. You've got full on single payer,
nationalized health industries, price controlled private insurance, and nationalized health-insurance with public and private providers.*
For extra credit, please compare cohorts sharing a national origin: If the US system is so shitty, why do Americans of Japanese descent live to to the same age as Japanese living in Japan? You could also compare Scandinavians in the north central US to those in Europe. One dollar will get you ten that there's not a significant difference in longevity.
*I'm thinking of France, but maybe that's not the best way to describe it: They pay a significant tax that is what I would consider premiums, and then they
get reimbursed at some percentage of the government mandated charge for services performed.
Kos hired R2K to poll the "scary Republican base" and got numbers that: 1) Reinforced his belief that Republicans were scary, scary, crazy people 2) Didn't match up all that well with other polls (e.g. gays in the military) Kos then turned said poll results into a book. At one point he crowed about how much data R2K had given him, and now that the cat's out, he's done nothing more than scrub their name from the book because "the index is already done."
This!
South Carolina is also the state that has the hijinx going on with candidates for governor. Why would Republicans cross over
to vote in Dem primaries in large numbers when either Dem candidate is likely to lose to DeMint when there's a very good chance
that they would then lose out on their opportunity to pick the appropriate candidate for governor?
IMO, the explanation that fits best is that the Dems, knowing they would lose, set up Greene so that they could steal momentum from DeMint and/or the SC GOP organization right before the election. Perhaps they don't give a shit about replacing DeMint, but they really want the governor's seat. Maybe they thought the could get the Governor _and_ replace DeMint, at which point they could replace Greene with someone else.
On a whim, I grabbed the latest SEC 10-Q for Stillwater Mining (a random NYSE listed company with mining in the title) from Edgar: http://yahoo.brand.edgar-online.com/displayfilinginfo.aspx?FilingID=7231384-7767-169530&type=sect&dcn=0000950123-10-044558 For the last quarter: Revenue: 95,199,000 General & Administrative: 6,421,000 Total operating costs for mining*: 38,741,000 Employee count: 1273 Mining employee salaries are paid out of mining operating costs, CxO compensation comes out of G&A. Let's assume that all 6% of the G&A is CxO compensation. For your assertion to be correct, employees must make no more than $8700/year. *Excludes depreciation on mining equipment.
This seems to be the poor man's answer to Sun's Niagra/CMT kit.
Not entirely true. Some of the Atoms have VT support and some have AMD64 support, but I don't think any have both.
http://ark.intel.com/ProductCollection.aspx?familyId=29035 (Doesn't show AMD64 support on the main page, but you can drill down to find 'em).
Having struggled mightily to compile allegedly portable code using GCC on both Solaris/SPARC and IRIX, I guess that would
mean there's a dearth of well written code.
Amazingly, this has been present on appliances sold in the US for at least 15 years: It gives the kWh/year, annual energy cost (using a US average for $/kWh), and where the
particular appliance you're looking at falls in a range of operating expenses according to size.
Don't let facts get in the way of feeling smug about your country. $DIETY knows you need every opportunity you can get.
I'm not sure why you want to hate on the Sony reader.
The reader platform is one of the few places where Sony consistently does the right thing (tm).
When they wanted to move from a proprietary format to ePub for their online bookstore, they offered a better-than-free firmware upgrade for my out-of-support PRS-500. (Better than free because they paid for overnight express mail to and from the Sony service center. It was out of my hands for 5 days). In addition to ePub, it added mass storage mode which in turn made the device accessible from x64 machines.
When the firmware update turned out to have some consequences for battery life, they again paid for overnight express mail to and from the service center. When I got it back, included in the box was a $10 credit for the Sony bookstore.
Sony has complied with the GPL from day one on the PRS series, offering up the code without any bullshit like you might see from other large name vendors. Not only that, but they created a fairly "hack" friendly device.
Finally, Sony uses ePub without any proprietary extensions, which means I can download DRM'ed ePubs from my local library and read them on my Sony reader. Or I can buy books from the Sony store and read them in ADE on my PC. And they're fairly lenient in allowing multiple devices to have access to the same account.
ISTR that not every track sold out of ITMS is DRM free. And even if every new purchase isn't, there's still the consumer's previous purchases. Apple did me the "favor" of "letting" me "upgrade" to DRM free for an additional $.30/track, but only where the publisher allows them to sell DRM free tracks. I've got a bunch of tracks that predate Amazon having anything I wanted to buy that are still stuck with Apple DRM. Every time someone comes up with a crack, Apple makes a point release of iTunes and it goes through my library and "fixes" my music so I can't strip the DRM. Of course, I could cheat and burn 'em all to audio CDs and re-rip them, or exploit the analog hole, but it's a PITA.
If only I hadn't negated my mod points in this thread...
What color is the sky on your planet? BP is subject to the federal Oil Pollution Act, which has an infinite limit for cleanup damages: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/usc.cgi?ACTION=RETRIEVE&FILE=$$xa$$busc33.wais&start=4683182&SIZE=13816&TYPE=TEXT What is limited by the OPA is Federal claims: The $75M is the easy money where plaintiffs don't have to prove that BP was careless or negligent in order to collect their money. The OPA DOES NOT preempt state laws, where there is no limit to what BP will have to pay. The only bar for plaintiffs in state court is that they have to prove that BP was careless or negligent.
True. It probably has nothing to do with the HUGE decrease in aggregate demand and absolutely nothing to do with large drop in the price of a barrel of oil ($85/bbl @ the end of April, under $75/bbl today, and has even been down around $70).
Shredding the cars is the cheapest manner of terminating their legal liability. GM routinely shredded concept cars and one-offs. The only exception I'm aware of is the Buick Y-Job, which GM allowed Harley Earl to drive for a few years. GM could have required buyers to sign a liability waiver* in order to turn their lease into a purchase. But that waiver cannot constrain future buyers. So they sell it to Jim Bob, who then sells it to Susie Lou. Susie Lou, sitting at a stop sign on a freeway offramp, is rear-ended by a drunk driver in a 280Z and suffers horrific burns. Do you really think Susie Lou's personal injury attorney is going to ignore the deep pockets of GM? That they won't subpoena every fucking memo ever written about electric cars and turn a single out-of-context admission in a memo into a vast conspiracy to rape consumers and sell their organ meat to zoos? *Given California's consumer protection laws, such a waiver is worth less than used toilet paper.
Chinese exports are $1.2T, US exports are $1.057T. According to Wikipedia, the US is third: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_exports #179 is Antigua and Barbuda @ just over $84M. Way to fuck up dude!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124165325829393691.html The reality is that Canada's entire banking system is much more conservative than the US: The bank can always go after you if you walk away from your mortgage, mortgage interest is required up to 20% down, etc. One of the provisions of Glass-Steagall was a prohibition on bank nationalization: Canada never had that restriction. Placing the blame on Glass-Steagall is as simple-minded and partisan as those Glen Beck fanbois who blame the entire meltdown on CRA loans.
I'm confused by your statement. Pretty much by definition, you'll find K-12 schools in any metro area where there aren't tumbleweeds rolling down Main street. Other than a few very high cost metro areas, teachers make enough to actually live where they work. However, it's pretty slim pickings when it comes to finding places that can support computer techs making 90K/year. Off the top of my head I'd say you're looking at companies larger than 100, and possibly even larger than 500. The former puts it outside the US definition of "small", and the latter puts it outside the definition of "medium". Employers under 100 employees are 6 times more numerous than 100-499, which in turn are 5 times more numerous than 500+ employee gigs. To put it another way, there are 30 employers with fewer than 100 employees for every employer with 500+ employees. http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/smallbus.html
BeNeLux numbers are skewed by small(er) populations and concentrations of large amounts of money transiting through those countries in tax avoidance schemes.
Ireland is in a similar boat.
Of course, one might add that up until 2007 there was a similar skewing effect in the US due to the housing bubble.
It will be interesting to see what those numbers look like for 2008 and 2009.