I don't mind, I guess having three of their campuses in the top 50 in the world makes them "middle of the pack" (#36 and #42). I know this, they are top tier in India, and presumably their top students made it to UCLA, thus they were more than competitive. Interestingly UCLA placed #16, which is nice considering we suck so bad at the football. This data was 2008 which is ok since I graduated almost two decades ago and so am talking about students in the past though not this exact year, obviously. https://www.iitbombay.org/news...
They appear to have slid significantly since then, now coming in at 103rd. And according to this article http://blogs.wsj.com/indiareal... they suffer from factors not having to do with the quality of their graduates or education offered.
When I was at community college otoh, they weren't quite so ranking as a whole.
So, you are saying that these big banks were unwilling to maintain adequate staff and due to decisions made at the beancounter level, you were left having to staff and destaff continuously. You talk as if these decisions were forces of nature but are in fact perfect examples of why US corporations are fundamentally evil. What they needed to do was staff up adequately and then phase the work in so the necessary crew got to the work when they scheduled it.
Your now small team is made up of work visa holders because (it sounds like) you are choosing to staff through these same kind of H1B types of staffing companies. Hire in a more "standard" manner and you will start to get normal hires.
Maybe in general that is true, but when I was at UCLA, the Indians were the most badass as far as grades and ability to learn. It probably helped them that they came largely (exclusively?) from their top universities like IIT. US born Indian guys were more-or-less like everyone else, largely slackers:-). Yeah, I said guys, I can't recall any Indian females either native or Indian born in any of my classes.
If that part of the mandate is true and enforced (including all "externalities") then it forces no ethanol to be used as none of it meets that target when costs of production as listed by queazocotal are included.
There are actually more jobs than qualified employees there, at least in OKC. There are at least three aerospace companies having a difficult time with staffing up because, well, because a lot of people aren't willing to uproot their family and move to OKC from the popular/populous coastal areas. No doubt you are right about the lack of jobs in the rural areas, maybe those are nice to move to when you have a nice stash of cash and can float yourself till you can live off the fat of the land.
hmm, it sounds like your friend really went through some tough shit while he was there. What race is your friend? I didn't go to any churches cause I'm not the type so maybe that's how I avoided some of the less desirable types? Other than that, I was up-town, down-town, mid-town, bricktown,... The strip club girls were friendly, not racist at all.
Where in my comments did you get that I stayed in my yard? I get that you feel angry about whatever happened to your friend but don't forget about confirmation bias and the fact that hateful behavior breeds more of the same. I'm suggesting that maybe your friend was spoiling for a fight, though don't take it personally, I don't know your friend so am not judging him/her/ personally.
Well, in this case, the liberal bastion would be the OKC metro area which is quite a large area containing 1.3 million people. You are suggesting it is not a reasonably random statistical sample of the state, well you might be right but it is a good 34% of the state. So I was in a fairly large cocoon I would say. I went to all sorts of areas and never felt ill at ease. I suppose I stayed out of really rough neighborhoods where I'd stand out like a bleached thumb but then again, I had no business to conduct there.
Given how much we pay for housing, when in OKC, I really wondered who was smarter. My conclusion was that we're all idiots for living in Cali. Yet, here I am.
Did you forget that I mentioned I spent a year there? I have no dog in this fight but I can tell you that I saw nothing of the racism that you're talking about. I was also not living under a rock, being out and about quite a bit. The most insane thing I saw was that some white kid who was the son of a major newspaper owner killed his whole family. Guess he wanted to get his inheritance pronto, didn't work well for him. The city is segregated to some extent with black living in one part of town mainly but I think that is by choice, their choice. I lived in a mixed city, my neighbors were different races and I never saw any racism.
Maybe things are different out in the country, I mostly was in OKC and the surrounding cities.
Thanks for the offer of citations but I was there, for reals.
I think we could find 3.8 million Californians willing to move so long as they give it a fair shake. What's not to like given that you can find a nice 2000 Sq Ft house in a decent neighborhood for under $200K? A very nice house much larger house in a very nice neighborhood would come in for less than $500K. Here in Southern Cali, you'd be lucky to find an empty lot in that price range.
It isn't a shit-show, it's a great city with lots to offer. Of course few cities can provide what Los Angeles and the surrounding areas can but, hey, it's not Siberia.
I was. Spent slightly over a year there. Met a lot of intelligent, really nice open-minded people. OKC is a great city and I would really enjoy living there long-term. Except for the lack of avocados and fresh vegetables, there is almost nothing bad about it. It is clean and has lots of room if you're looking for that. I wasn't too into the fracking so I turned tail and headed back to Cali.
The thing is, they can already do creative stuff. Like discover mathematical laws, write music, create and critique their own art, etc... So, we're already there, now what?
hmm, I'm not sure, are they fun to have around? I'd pay to have some funny people around me. Stoned people might also be creative, if they're at the right level of stoned.
Thanks for your response. I am sick of the vegans and vegetarians pushing their religion and absurd phony data at ever opportunity. We do have a problem though when it comes to the CAFOs which are terribly bad for the environment and I think we'd rather they keep their nasty effluent on their factory (it can't be called a farm or ranch by any reasonable definition).
They should consider the much more tasty religion of Ketogenic. We eat bacon!
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I don't mind, I guess having three of their campuses in the top 50 in the world makes them "middle of the pack" (#36 and #42). I know this, they are top tier in India, and presumably their top students made it to UCLA, thus they were more than competitive. Interestingly UCLA placed #16, which is nice considering we suck so bad at the football. This data was 2008 which is ok since I graduated almost two decades ago and so am talking about students in the past though not this exact year, obviously.
https://www.iitbombay.org/news...
They appear to have slid significantly since then, now coming in at 103rd. And according to this article http://blogs.wsj.com/indiareal...
they suffer from factors not having to do with the quality of their graduates or education offered.
When I was at community college otoh, they weren't quite so ranking as a whole.
So, you are saying that these big banks were unwilling to maintain adequate staff and due to decisions made at the beancounter level, you were left having to staff and destaff continuously. You talk as if these decisions were forces of nature but are in fact perfect examples of why US corporations are fundamentally evil. What they needed to do was staff up adequately and then phase the work in so the necessary crew got to the work when they scheduled it.
Your now small team is made up of work visa holders because (it sounds like) you are choosing to staff through these same kind of H1B types of staffing companies. Hire in a more "standard" manner and you will start to get normal hires.
Is this the kind of text that sets off a bot-net that has been lying in wait somewhere?
Maybe in general that is true, but when I was at UCLA, the Indians were the most badass as far as grades and ability to learn. It probably helped them that they came largely (exclusively?) from their top universities like IIT. US born Indian guys were more-or-less like everyone else, largely slackers :-). Yeah, I said guys, I can't recall any Indian females either native or Indian born in any of my classes.
You mean the stuff that should be plowed back in or allowed to decompose in place in to become next year's fertilizer?
I agree, roman_mir is a moron.
If that part of the mandate is true and enforced (including all "externalities") then it forces no ethanol to be used as none of it meets that target when costs of production as listed by queazocotal are included.
lol
There are actually more jobs than qualified employees there, at least in OKC. There are at least three aerospace companies having a difficult time with staffing up because, well, because a lot of people aren't willing to uproot their family and move to OKC from the popular/populous coastal areas. No doubt you are right about the lack of jobs in the rural areas, maybe those are nice to move to when you have a nice stash of cash and can float yourself till you can live off the fat of the land.
That's the option I'm going with, financing them rather than leasing them.
So years 11+ are free? Where do I buy one?
Call Solar City, tell them I sent you, we both get a free month and I get $100
Did you actually math this out?
hmm, it sounds like your friend really went through some tough shit while he was there. What race is your friend? I didn't go to any churches cause I'm not the type so maybe that's how I avoided some of the less desirable types? Other than that, I was up-town, down-town, mid-town, bricktown,... The strip club girls were friendly, not racist at all.
Where in my comments did you get that I stayed in my yard? I get that you feel angry about whatever happened to your friend but don't forget about confirmation bias and the fact that hateful behavior breeds more of the same. I'm suggesting that maybe your friend was spoiling for a fight, though don't take it personally, I don't know your friend so am not judging him/her/ personally.
Well, in this case, the liberal bastion would be the OKC metro area which is quite a large area containing 1.3 million people. You are suggesting it is not a reasonably random statistical sample of the state, well you might be right but it is a good 34% of the state. So I was in a fairly large cocoon I would say. I went to all sorts of areas and never felt ill at ease. I suppose I stayed out of really rough neighborhoods where I'd stand out like a bleached thumb but then again, I had no business to conduct there.
Given how much we pay for housing, when in OKC, I really wondered who was smarter. My conclusion was that we're all idiots for living in Cali. Yet, here I am.
Did you forget that I mentioned I spent a year there? I have no dog in this fight but I can tell you that I saw nothing of the racism that you're talking about. I was also not living under a rock, being out and about quite a bit. The most insane thing I saw was that some white kid who was the son of a major newspaper owner killed his whole family. Guess he wanted to get his inheritance pronto, didn't work well for him. The city is segregated to some extent with black living in one part of town mainly but I think that is by choice, their choice. I lived in a mixed city, my neighbors were different races and I never saw any racism.
Maybe things are different out in the country, I mostly was in OKC and the surrounding cities.
Thanks for the offer of citations but I was there, for reals.
I think we could find 3.8 million Californians willing to move so long as they give it a fair shake. What's not to like given that you can find a nice 2000 Sq Ft house in a decent neighborhood for under $200K? A very nice house much larger house in a very nice neighborhood would come in for less than $500K. Here in Southern Cali, you'd be lucky to find an empty lot in that price range.
It isn't a shit-show, it's a great city with lots to offer. Of course few cities can provide what Los Angeles and the surrounding areas can but, hey, it's not Siberia.
Maybe so, but we've been in a drought condition since at least 2007.
I was. Spent slightly over a year there. Met a lot of intelligent, really nice open-minded people. OKC is a great city and I would really enjoy living there long-term. Except for the lack of avocados and fresh vegetables, there is almost nothing bad about it. It is clean and has lots of room if you're looking for that. I wasn't too into the fracking so I turned tail and headed back to Cali.
The thing is, they can already do creative stuff. Like discover mathematical laws, write music, create and critique their own art, etc... So, we're already there, now what?
so these emigrants, where did they go off to?
hmm, I'm not sure, are they fun to have around? I'd pay to have some funny people around me. Stoned people might also be creative, if they're at the right level of stoned.
that would be because heat-stressed trees are much more vulnerable to bark-beetle infestation
Thanks for your response. I am sick of the vegans and vegetarians pushing their religion and absurd phony data at ever opportunity.
We do have a problem though when it comes to the CAFOs which are terribly bad for the environment and I think we'd rather they keep their nasty effluent on their factory (it can't be called a farm or ranch by any reasonable definition).
They should consider the much more tasty religion of Ketogenic. We eat bacon!
Those insects are taking root strongly because the trees have been under significant stress for years due to...
you guessed it: drought!