The problem is most women just aren't interested in engineering type roles. I know 1 female engineer out of the 40+ women I know, all the rest can't stand doing math, physic's or even intense thinking. I think part of the problem is that when kids grow up boys are taught to build and women are taught to be pretty, when a boy plays with Lego or other similar products in a sense he's engineering. On the other hand girls are given a barbie and a easy bake oven and told to have fun, how is that going to lead to a career in engineering. I think the problem needs to be fixed at the child level.
Have you considered the fact that there are innate sex differences? Little girls gravitate towards playing a certain way, and little boys do to. To say "girls are given barbie and an easy bake" is disingenuous. These are the toys girls would naturally choose...subject to a normal distribution (before you drop the "not all girls are like that" tripe).
It is generally not that complicated... when women complain about how they are being treated, listen and adjust. Unfortunately the typical response in the industry is to tell them to stop complaining.
Because that's what we tell the men too. So actually, listening to the women and adjusting is being sexist...because nobody affords the men the same treatment.
I follow this closely. It's true. It's unfortunate because natural gas has the potential to be key player in reducing CO2 emissions. See this for how we can leverage today's, existing technology into an effective response to global warming.
We need to speak with ONE voice- "fracking" needs to be the most tightly regulated industry in the history of humankind- all but nationalized in fact. No secret formulas. No fracking without studies on everything from earth quakes to CO2 emissions to groundwater contamination and constant detail monitoring. The companies will make their profit, but there is NO room for laissez-faire jack shit.
If you're into exciting unregulated industries with 1000% profit margins, fuck you, go invest in next year's Xmas toy fad. This industry needs to have all the excitement of a yearly WD-40 shareholder stock dividend event.
There's some good, even essential, baby in that bathwater - don't throw it out; regulate the holy fuck out of the entire industry.
So what is it, exactly, that you follow closely? Cuz so far you've demonstrated very little knowledge of the O&G industry. Well, beyond environmentalist boilerplate. So is that what you follow closely?
If China could do such a thing they would not waste it on winning swimming medals if so doing meant tipping off their likely future enemies. Swimming medals are just not that important. Isn't it far more likely that this girl is an exceptionally good swimmer, has trained for years, and the US can't handle losing without making up oddball stories.
East Germany thought it was important enough 40 years ago...
Yes it does, quite obviously. Most killing sprees are done with legally owned firearms.
define "killing spree," and then see if you can come up with a percentage of firearm homicides that can be attributed to a "killing spree." I think you'll find that most firearm deaths are a single person being killed by such a large majority that discussing the "killing spree" either in number of occurences or number of deaths is trumping up a statistically insignificant event.
Feminism's now time-honored shaming of all things masculine has caused this. Men used to take pride in their ability to do manual things, and part of the reason they did so was because women found those abilities desirable. Now that women can pay a laborer with their own wages to do all those things a husband used to do, they're not skills anyone bothers to develop.
So people are supposed to know that your assault rifle that you're carrying in a mall is unloaded?
That's right, I forgot, all firearms owners are well-intentioned angels.
Your inability/unwillingness to familiarize yourself with lawful activities is NOT the fault of the individual participating in those lawful activities. Its a travesty that because YOU have an irrational fear of something based on a complete lack of knowledge that SOMEONE ELSE needs to be barred from their constitutional rights to give you a false sense of security.
Looks like they left off steel penis extensions, which also cause fires. This fire caused by a gun also had 9000 people running for their lives.
Boo-frickety-hoo. Maybe the problem of this desperate need to extend ones' penis will solve itself . . . when people get sick of grown men acting like 12-year-olds with their guns.
Attempting to shame people who hold a different point of view stopped working 20 years ago after the feminist movement used it for the eleventy thousandth time. The fact that you still think insulting someone's manhood is still a viable coercion technique is a sad commentary on the success it once had. However, its now easily recognized as the shriek of the sackless, leftist, we-don't-need-liberties-the-government-will-take-care-of-us babble that it is, and has no effect.
is the same business model that is going to eventually kill BB. Circuit City used to have commisioned, knowledgeable employees. However, they were slightly pushy, and after CC went non-commisioned, expensive. BB had anyrandomteenager who didn't know anything, BUT they didn't pay them diddly so had better prices. People learned to use the internet to research products, and then would go to BB for purchases. This left CC in the lurch. Now, people do their research on the internet...and then just buy their too.
Fry's is the only shop that might come out unscathed, and that's only because they still sell components. However, that didn't exactly save CompUSA so we shall see.
You do realize the universe doesn't give a flying fuck about liberal vs conservative, your way of life or the price of tea in China. This idiotic obsession with trying to turn any science you don't like into some ideological position is bizarre. Not everyone in this world is motivated by simplistic dogmatic positions.
By that notion the universe doesn't give a flying fuck about the entirety of human existence and what we may or may not be doing to the planet. So why get butthurt enough to make your comment?
Actual damages caused by the defendant? The US federal government is out there in the artic with hair dryers melting polar ice to raise sea level which explicitly injured the plaintiff?
Several hundred thousand women in the United States suffer from anorexia and ~20% of them will die of anorexia-related symptoms. Being 30 pounds underweight is a lot worse than being 30 pounds overweight, or even 100 pounds overweight. Comprehensive anorexia treatment has rather low success rates and costs around $10k/month, and your health insurance premiums are funding it.
Approximately 75 million women in the US are overweight. Which do you think is a bigger problem?
While Ubuntu might have some issues that people are going to moan loudly about, remember, it's first job is to bring people into the Linux sphere, once they're accustomed to it, they can migrate out to other options if they feel they want to. Funding a parallel-but-different version is just encouraging the confusion. If there's one thing Linux suffers from in the eyes of the newcomer, it's too much choice, leading to confusion, subsequent frustration (with support) and returning to their hated-but-known Windows.
If Ubuntu's purpose is to bring in new people, wouldn't the wisest choice be to make the interface as similar to the "hated-but-known" Windows interface? Because unity is a total mindblast to anyone who has spent the better part of their careers working in windows. I actually see it as pushing people back to Windows because people don't want to have to learn a new operating system AND a new gui all at the same time.
The whole U.S. is established on the idea of God and religion. It's everywhere in the U.S. culture.
Apparently you and I live in two entirely different US'es. Oh, and I live in Texas which many consider to be backwater, bible-thumperville, and I STILL don't see this pervasive godliness. There's a lot of engineering going on outside of America's mega-churches.
For the love of god is ANYONE going to actually bother learning what frac'ing actually is before they start passing laws on it? I have yet to read a single article from any news outlet or any anti-frac'ing website that has given the public a real definition of what frac'ing is. Its utterly terrible, and must be on purpose. Anyone who thinks this technology is new knows nothing about the oil & gas industry. Companies were frac'ing wells decades before it ""suddenly"" started causing problems.
the truth is this merger is a bad idea, at many levels.
If this is true, why did the FCC feel the need to (in AT&T's opinion, and I agree) make shit up to show that it was a bad idea? If it was, in fact, a bad idea the evidence supporting this should have been pretty easy to find.
I lived in Oklahoma and worked in the natural gas industry circa 2005. At that point we were already frac'ing every single natural gas well we drilled, and probably had been for a decade prior. Why NOW is it suddenly a problem? Oh that's right...because its a politcal issue. If there was any real science to support this frac=quake BS siesmologists would have been screaming about it a decade ago.
Had it been a water well they homeowner might not have the resources to do that.
Had it been a water well, it would have been the most expensive and useless water well known to the history of water wells as it would have been pumping salty, gassy water from a depth that would have cost $500k+ (US) to drill. Fresh water wells are normally drilled no deeper than 1000 feet. Natural Gas wells are dilled, sometimes, 20,000 feet. So if the soap they were injecting into one well was coming up at other natural gas wells it was doing so SO FAR BELOW the fresh water table that it essentially couldn't have been a water well.
Who's to say what's a useable skill? Go to the Nobel Prize web site and look at the biographies of the winners in biology and chemistry. Many of them were liberal arts majors, like Eric Kandel who studied history and literature http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Kandel#Early_years [wikipedia.org]
The scientists and techies who made this country great in post-WWII America were often Europeans who had a strong tradition of a well-rounded education, including English/art/history, and taught it to their students. It basically teaches you how to think. Scientists have to know how to think. You want to prepare yourself for a world in which there is no security and people always have to find new careers? A liberal arts background is what you need to face that brave new world. Of course it also helps to know how to think when you have to decide who you and your fellow citizens should vote for in the next election.
OTOH there are engineers who can't get jobs when the industry of their engineering specialty goes into a down cycle. There are accountants who can't get jobs.
Here's a prospective I never thought anyone would be dumb enough to voice: liberal arts teaches you how to think, while engineering is so narrow that all you learn how to do is this one particular thing that may or may not be employable depending on that particular industry's business cycles. If........and only if......that were actually true then the tech/engineering related programs would STILL have a leg up as one employable skill is still better than none. The last I checked, there aren't too many positions open in fortune 500 companies to really put those art history skills to good use. However, this is NOT the case.
Engineering programs are nowhere near as narrowly focused as you seem to believe they are. Engineers are capable of working in many different disciplines. In fact, it happens all the time: mechanical engineers become drilling engineers for oil companies, civil engineers become field engineers for oilfield service companies, computer scientists become electrical engineers. These are but a small sample of people working outside their expertise that I've experienced in my career. None of this would be possible, all "techies" would be stuck in a rut, if education worked how you've suggested. So from a person with a BS in computer science working as a petroleum engineer...I proudly say you're wrong.
It used to be that PvP was a secondary thing in WoW, PvE was the main draw. These days if you check out just about any WoW it seems to be a lot more about PvP than PvE for a lot of the active players.
If PvP is the main draw now, and I'm not convinced it is, its pretty easy to see why: time commitment. As an end-game PvP character you can log on, queue for a random battleground, be in the battleground in under 5 minutes, and generally be out of the battleground in an additional 25. So you only have to invest 30 minutes to accomplish something. Arena is even faster. On my 1400 ranked arena tram (crappy, but I don't want to try any harder) I can cap points for the week in a total of about 80 minutes of play, and that assumes I lose half of my arena battles.
To get into a random raid group.................you're probably spending that same 30 minutes you'd spend to actually complete a battleground sitting in a capital city watching trade chat hoping that some half-made group needs your class. WoW is old now, and the players that started playing in late '04/early '05 when the game dropped are still playing, but have significantly more demands on their time thus their focus has shifted away from the 6 hour raids that used to dominate end-game content.
I am sure you did not mean it that way, but it sounds as if the beating happens at the precinct in
an interrogation room then the officer has expectation of privacy. Quite the opposite.
All police actions should be filmed to protect the rights of ALL parties involved.
What was meant was that you can't call what happens in public, where you have no expectation of privacy, "wiretapping."
You know fracking is bad when you can put a lighter up to a running facet in your kitchen and a fireball erupts.
Except for the part where the people raising a stink are not accurately conveying (probably on purpose) what a frac actually is. Every site I've seen that carries the "say no to frac'ing" banner has incorrectly highlighted all of the "bad" things about the entire drilling/completing/producing process of any and all wells......and labelled it frac'ing.
So is it the frac'ing that's so bad? Or is it some other part of the process? No one that needs to know ever will because the politically active people around this topic are feeding the public what they want them to hear instead of the truth.
I for one support imperial units, especially the Fahrenheit system-- it covers daily temps without going into negative numbers-- world average temp is apx 50 degrees, 75 is comfortable and 0 is very cold.
I agree. the range 0-100F pretty much covers 90% of the temps you'll ever expose your body too. Yes it gets colder and hotter in some extreme places, but its a good ballpark. Not to mention the granularity of Fahrenheit is better.
I also support speed limits in mph as 0-100 (well 80 really) covers all the sane speeds you're likely to travel.
So in that respect, I've always kinda looked at the two measurements as "percentages." That probably doesn't make sense to most, though.
Indeed, 6-figure public salaries are an outrage! Kids graduating college with MBAs earn 6-figure salaries in their first jobs, and how DARE police chiefs, city planners and those people responsible for the safety and well-being of entire cities even consider themselves to be worth even a small fraction of the worth of an 22-year-old with an MBA! It is not enough that public employees are paid significantly less than their corporate counterparts, but they should be publicly flogged, each and every day, to punish them for being willing to work for the good of the citizens of this fine country!
What fantasy world do you live in where a zero-experience college graduate armed with an MBA makes 6 figures. Cuz....I'd LOVE to live there!
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The problem is most women just aren't interested in engineering type roles. I know 1 female engineer out of the 40+ women I know, all the rest can't stand doing math, physic's or even intense thinking. I think part of the problem is that when kids grow up boys are taught to build and women are taught to be pretty, when a boy plays with Lego or other similar products in a sense he's engineering. On the other hand girls are given a barbie and a easy bake oven and told to have fun, how is that going to lead to a career in engineering. I think the problem needs to be fixed at the child level.
Have you considered the fact that there are innate sex differences? Little girls gravitate towards playing a certain way, and little boys do to. To say "girls are given barbie and an easy bake" is disingenuous. These are the toys girls would naturally choose...subject to a normal distribution (before you drop the "not all girls are like that" tripe).
It is generally not that complicated... when women complain about how they are being treated, listen and adjust. Unfortunately the typical response in the industry is to tell them to stop complaining.
Because that's what we tell the men too. So actually, listening to the women and adjusting is being sexist...because nobody affords the men the same treatment.
I follow this closely. It's true. It's unfortunate because natural gas has the potential to be key player in reducing CO2 emissions. See this for how we can leverage today's, existing technology into an effective response to global warming.
http://cmi.princeton.edu/wedges/
We need to speak with ONE voice- "fracking" needs to be the most tightly regulated industry in the history of humankind- all but nationalized in fact. No secret formulas. No fracking without studies on everything from earth quakes to CO2 emissions to groundwater contamination and constant detail monitoring. The companies will make their profit, but there is NO room for laissez-faire jack shit.
If you're into exciting unregulated industries with 1000% profit margins, fuck you, go invest in next year's Xmas toy fad. This industry needs to have all the excitement of a yearly WD-40 shareholder stock dividend event.
There's some good, even essential, baby in that bathwater - don't throw it out; regulate the holy fuck out of the entire industry.
So what is it, exactly, that you follow closely? Cuz so far you've demonstrated very little knowledge of the O&G industry. Well, beyond environmentalist boilerplate. So is that what you follow closely?
If China could do such a thing they would not waste it on winning swimming medals if so doing meant tipping off their likely future enemies. Swimming medals are just not that important. Isn't it far more likely that this girl is an exceptionally good swimmer, has trained for years, and the US can't handle losing without making up oddball stories.
East Germany thought it was important enough 40 years ago. ..
Yes it does, quite obviously. Most killing sprees are done with legally owned firearms.
define "killing spree," and then see if you can come up with a percentage of firearm homicides that can be attributed to a "killing spree." I think you'll find that most firearm deaths are a single person being killed by such a large majority that discussing the "killing spree" either in number of occurences or number of deaths is trumping up a statistically insignificant event.
Feminism's now time-honored shaming of all things masculine has caused this. Men used to take pride in their ability to do manual things, and part of the reason they did so was because women found those abilities desirable. Now that women can pay a laborer with their own wages to do all those things a husband used to do, they're not skills anyone bothers to develop.
So people are supposed to know that your assault rifle that you're carrying in a mall is unloaded?
That's right, I forgot, all firearms owners are well-intentioned angels.
Your inability/unwillingness to familiarize yourself with lawful activities is NOT the fault of the individual participating in those lawful activities. Its a travesty that because YOU have an irrational fear of something based on a complete lack of knowledge that SOMEONE ELSE needs to be barred from their constitutional rights to give you a false sense of security.
Looks like they left off steel penis extensions, which also cause fires. This fire caused by a gun also had 9000 people running for their lives. Boo-frickety-hoo. Maybe the problem of this desperate need to extend ones' penis will solve itself . . . when people get sick of grown men acting like 12-year-olds with their guns.
Attempting to shame people who hold a different point of view stopped working 20 years ago after the feminist movement used it for the eleventy thousandth time. The fact that you still think insulting someone's manhood is still a viable coercion technique is a sad commentary on the success it once had. However, its now easily recognized as the shriek of the sackless, leftist, we-don't-need-liberties-the-government-will-take-care-of-us babble that it is, and has no effect.
is the same business model that is going to eventually kill BB. Circuit City used to have commisioned, knowledgeable employees. However, they were slightly pushy, and after CC went non-commisioned, expensive. BB had anyrandomteenager who didn't know anything, BUT they didn't pay them diddly so had better prices. People learned to use the internet to research products, and then would go to BB for purchases. This left CC in the lurch. Now, people do their research on the internet...and then just buy their too. Fry's is the only shop that might come out unscathed, and that's only because they still sell components. However, that didn't exactly save CompUSA so we shall see.
You do realize the universe doesn't give a flying fuck about liberal vs conservative, your way of life or the price of tea in China. This idiotic obsession with trying to turn any science you don't like into some ideological position is bizarre. Not everyone in this world is motivated by simplistic dogmatic positions.
By that notion the universe doesn't give a flying fuck about the entirety of human existence and what we may or may not be doing to the planet. So why get butthurt enough to make your comment?
and there are actual damages that can be sued for
Actual damages caused by the defendant? The US federal government is out there in the artic with hair dryers melting polar ice to raise sea level which explicitly injured the plaintiff?
Several hundred thousand women in the United States suffer from anorexia and ~20% of them will die of anorexia-related symptoms. Being 30 pounds underweight is a lot worse than being 30 pounds overweight, or even 100 pounds overweight. Comprehensive anorexia treatment has rather low success rates and costs around $10k/month, and your health insurance premiums are funding it.
Approximately 75 million women in the US are overweight. Which do you think is a bigger problem?
While Ubuntu might have some issues that people are going to moan loudly about, remember, it's first job is to bring people into the Linux sphere, once they're accustomed to it, they can migrate out to other options if they feel they want to. Funding a parallel-but-different version is just encouraging the confusion. If there's one thing Linux suffers from in the eyes of the newcomer, it's too much choice, leading to confusion, subsequent frustration (with support) and returning to their hated-but-known Windows.
If Ubuntu's purpose is to bring in new people, wouldn't the wisest choice be to make the interface as similar to the "hated-but-known" Windows interface? Because unity is a total mindblast to anyone who has spent the better part of their careers working in windows. I actually see it as pushing people back to Windows because people don't want to have to learn a new operating system AND a new gui all at the same time.
The whole U.S. is established on the idea of God and religion. It's everywhere in the U.S. culture.
Apparently you and I live in two entirely different US'es. Oh, and I live in Texas which many consider to be backwater, bible-thumperville, and I STILL don't see this pervasive godliness. There's a lot of engineering going on outside of America's mega-churches.
For the love of god is ANYONE going to actually bother learning what frac'ing actually is before they start passing laws on it? I have yet to read a single article from any news outlet or any anti-frac'ing website that has given the public a real definition of what frac'ing is. Its utterly terrible, and must be on purpose. Anyone who thinks this technology is new knows nothing about the oil & gas industry. Companies were frac'ing wells decades before it ""suddenly"" started causing problems.
the truth is this merger is a bad idea, at many levels.
If this is true, why did the FCC feel the need to (in AT&T's opinion, and I agree) make shit up to show that it was a bad idea? If it was, in fact, a bad idea the evidence supporting this should have been pretty easy to find.
I lived in Oklahoma and worked in the natural gas industry circa 2005. At that point we were already frac'ing every single natural gas well we drilled, and probably had been for a decade prior. Why NOW is it suddenly a problem? Oh that's right...because its a politcal issue. If there was any real science to support this frac=quake BS siesmologists would have been screaming about it a decade ago.
Had it been a water well they homeowner might not have the resources to do that.
Had it been a water well, it would have been the most expensive and useless water well known to the history of water wells as it would have been pumping salty, gassy water from a depth that would have cost $500k+ (US) to drill. Fresh water wells are normally drilled no deeper than 1000 feet. Natural Gas wells are dilled, sometimes, 20,000 feet. So if the soap they were injecting into one well was coming up at other natural gas wells it was doing so SO FAR BELOW the fresh water table that it essentially couldn't have been a water well.
Who's to say what's a useable skill? Go to the Nobel Prize web site and look at the biographies of the winners in biology and chemistry. Many of them were liberal arts majors, like Eric Kandel who studied history and literature http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Kandel#Early_years [wikipedia.org] The scientists and techies who made this country great in post-WWII America were often Europeans who had a strong tradition of a well-rounded education, including English/art/history, and taught it to their students. It basically teaches you how to think. Scientists have to know how to think. You want to prepare yourself for a world in which there is no security and people always have to find new careers? A liberal arts background is what you need to face that brave new world. Of course it also helps to know how to think when you have to decide who you and your fellow citizens should vote for in the next election. OTOH there are engineers who can't get jobs when the industry of their engineering specialty goes into a down cycle. There are accountants who can't get jobs.
Here's a prospective I never thought anyone would be dumb enough to voice: liberal arts teaches you how to think, while engineering is so narrow that all you learn how to do is this one particular thing that may or may not be employable depending on that particular industry's business cycles. If........and only if......that were actually true then the tech/engineering related programs would STILL have a leg up as one employable skill is still better than none. The last I checked, there aren't too many positions open in fortune 500 companies to really put those art history skills to good use. However, this is NOT the case.
Engineering programs are nowhere near as narrowly focused as you seem to believe they are. Engineers are capable of working in many different disciplines. In fact, it happens all the time: mechanical engineers become drilling engineers for oil companies, civil engineers become field engineers for oilfield service companies, computer scientists become electrical engineers. These are but a small sample of people working outside their expertise that I've experienced in my career. None of this would be possible, all "techies" would be stuck in a rut, if education worked how you've suggested. So from a person with a BS in computer science working as a petroleum engineer...I proudly say you're wrong.
It used to be that PvP was a secondary thing in WoW, PvE was the main draw. These days if you check out just about any WoW it seems to be a lot more about PvP than PvE for a lot of the active players.
If PvP is the main draw now, and I'm not convinced it is, its pretty easy to see why: time commitment. As an end-game PvP character you can log on, queue for a random battleground, be in the battleground in under 5 minutes, and generally be out of the battleground in an additional 25. So you only have to invest 30 minutes to accomplish something. Arena is even faster. On my 1400 ranked arena tram (crappy, but I don't want to try any harder) I can cap points for the week in a total of about 80 minutes of play, and that assumes I lose half of my arena battles.
To get into a random raid group.................you're probably spending that same 30 minutes you'd spend to actually complete a battleground sitting in a capital city watching trade chat hoping that some half-made group needs your class. WoW is old now, and the players that started playing in late '04/early '05 when the game dropped are still playing, but have significantly more demands on their time thus their focus has shifted away from the 6 hour raids that used to dominate end-game content.
I'll just start calling my kids "morons" any time they don't get an A.
That method seems to work well in Asian families.... Its kinda racist, but by and large Asian families push their kids harder for better grades.
I am sure you did not mean it that way, but it sounds as if the beating happens at the precinct in an interrogation room then the officer has expectation of privacy. Quite the opposite. All police actions should be filmed to protect the rights of ALL parties involved.
What was meant was that you can't call what happens in public, where you have no expectation of privacy, "wiretapping."
You know fracking is bad when you can put a lighter up to a running facet in your kitchen and a fireball erupts.
Except for the part where the people raising a stink are not accurately conveying (probably on purpose) what a frac actually is. Every site I've seen that carries the "say no to frac'ing" banner has incorrectly highlighted all of the "bad" things about the entire drilling/completing/producing process of any and all wells......and labelled it frac'ing.
So is it the frac'ing that's so bad? Or is it some other part of the process? No one that needs to know ever will because the politically active people around this topic are feeding the public what they want them to hear instead of the truth.
I for one support imperial units, especially the Fahrenheit system-- it covers daily temps without going into negative numbers-- world average temp is apx 50 degrees, 75 is comfortable and 0 is very cold.
I agree. the range 0-100F pretty much covers 90% of the temps you'll ever expose your body too. Yes it gets colder and hotter in some extreme places, but its a good ballpark. Not to mention the granularity of Fahrenheit is better. I also support speed limits in mph as 0-100 (well 80 really) covers all the sane speeds you're likely to travel. So in that respect, I've always kinda looked at the two measurements as "percentages." That probably doesn't make sense to most, though.
Indeed, 6-figure public salaries are an outrage! Kids graduating college with MBAs earn 6-figure salaries in their first jobs, and how DARE police chiefs, city planners and those people responsible for the safety and well-being of entire cities even consider themselves to be worth even a small fraction of the worth of an 22-year-old with an MBA! It is not enough that public employees are paid significantly less than their corporate counterparts, but they should be publicly flogged, each and every day, to punish them for being willing to work for the good of the citizens of this fine country!
What fantasy world do you live in where a zero-experience college graduate armed with an MBA makes 6 figures. Cuz....I'd LOVE to live there!