Exactly. Basic Supply and demand. Eventually people will either move away or wages will rise enough to keep them around.
The problem is that people don't want to move. I understand that mentality entirely, but if you don't OWN your property, you have to realize that moving is always a strong possibility.
I bought property far outside a growing city 20 years ago and built my house. Now the city is MUCH closer and the property is worth about 10 times what I paid for it. That's how you live somewhere expensive and don't have to move.
Austin traffic is okay as long as you don't have to drive north-south. Those routes have not changed since the late 70's, and you will eventually go into a murderous rampage if you do it every day.
Or you'll drink more and/or take more drugs. That's how most people deal with it.
It's a good feeling to have a roll of $100's in a sock drawer next to my passport. Not that I ever think I'd need it for an emergency, but a good feeling nonetheless.
I HAVE used it before, though. A friend said "My wife left me and I already paid for a trip to Cozumel this weekend. I can change the ticket to your name for $25. You want to go with me?" Much drinking and snorkeling ensued.
" so Congress made broadband expansion a national priority, and it offers subsidies, mostly in rural areas, to help providers expand their offerings"
As someone who lives in a rural area, I can tell you this is COMPLETE BULLSHIT.
NO ONE I know in any rural area has any decent broadband. I have a choice of about 1 -2 mbps from a radio link, or spotty 4G from a cell booster, and we had to put up a tower and pay for the towers, antennas, boosters, cabling, etc. And I live only 30 miles from the center of a fairly large and high-tech city.
Telecom companies are just lying sacks of shit when they talk about using those subsidies for rural areas. They pocket the money and don't do a damn thing with it.
But oddly you don't seem to be protesting spending trillions of your hard-earned tax dollars to bomb people in other lands.
I would rather my tax dollars go to helping people, INCLUDING those who don't work. I have friends who had jobs that have been replaced by automation. Hell, I'm an automation specialist and I probably helped put them there. The fact that my company makes scads more money because of it shouldn't mean they have to suffer.
And you know what? Some day my job may get replaced by a particularly clever bit of code. So I have no problem with Universal Basic Income.
Except they've taken away our right to privacy and haven't done shit in the past 14 years. So I think we have a perfect right to complain that these "operatives" cant find their ass with two hands.
This has nothing to do with competitiveness. It has to do with cheapness. If labor can be exploited at 1/10 the cost, who cares if it takes 4x as many overseas employees to do the job of 1 US employee?
Worker efficiency and competitiveness never enter the equation. Exploitation of cheap wages does.
What I find amazing is how much we still DON'T know about the brain.
I had non-invasive brain surgery about a decade ago. About a third of my thalamus had to be destroyed (with a proton beam!) to stop a serious hemorrhage in my brain. I asked the various neurologists and neurosurgeons beforehand if this would cause any issues. They all answered "We don't think so, but we really don't know."
So now I get to pretend to forget about anything I don't want to remember before that time. And did I lose any functions or memories? Who knows?
I find January a great time to buy. Dealers have to unload inventory by EOM to keep it from being included in yearly totals. Deals abound, as long as you don't mind a brand new "last year's" model.
Almost anything that increases worker retention and job satisfaction will be good for business.
So many companies have forgotten this. Including the one I now work for. I am retiring in a few years. So to be a good employee, I hired a new college grad and spent the last 3 years training them as my replacement in a very complex semiconductor manufacturing data system.
Well, profits were good, but slightly lower than wall street expected this quarter...so they laid off my replacement (among others).
I am not going to spend my last three years here training another replacement. It takes years for a really intelligent person to learn this stuff. When I leave here there will be no one to do my job. Fuck 'em. I did what a good employee was supposed to do, in fact, had they laid me off I would have been fine. Happy even. But no, they had to screw over a bunch of young folks that should be the next wave of employees. I'm paid well, but I don't give a shit about this company any more. They don't seem to care about their future, so neither do I.
IRS investigators also watch the "tax protesters" who regularly file returns claiming they owe no taxes due to the sixteenth amendment not being properly ratified and other random conspiracy theories. When I worked at the IRS I got these returns all the time. We forwarded them to the criminal investigation unit.
I did get to see a few tax returns AFTER they went to CI; they were fairly interesting. Everything you would ever want to know about these people was attached in a report, sometimes hundreds of pages long. Where they hung out, who they were seen with, their entire family history, how much they drank, how their co-workers viewed them, etc. It was weird. And this was in pre-internet days (1980's) so there was actual investigation taking place, not just googling.
Having been a male teacher I cannot recommend any males to go into this field. I'm not saying it's not rewarding, it is very emotionally rewarding. Nothing beats the feeling that you inspired some young person in their life that day, and the feeling that you may have turned someone's thoughts from suicide to a brighter future keeps you feeling great for weeks.
But the parents looking for ANY excuse to blame the teacher for their child's problems are a major minefield. And being a male teacher you are ripe for any accusations of improper conduct. After all, you are a man in what is perceived as a woman's job by many, so there MUST be something wrong with you. Why aren't you out making good money doing something else? Why do YOU want to work with CHILDREN? What are you, a pervert? And the administration will gladly throw you overboard at the slightest suggestion that you might have had the possible opportunity to do something improper. You were alone with that child for five whole minutes! Can you prove you didn't touch them?
Yes, I know female teachers who got the same crap, but it seemed the males got it five times as much.
I couldn't take it after a couple years. I loved helping the kids. I loved setting them on the path of knowledge. I hated the administration and the parents who wanted to blame you for their shortcomings in any way they could.
And don't get me started on navigating the minefield of kids getting crushes on the teacher. I taught some Jr. High and High school for a while and it was very easy compared to elementary (you can reason with older kids better), but also the most dangerous with respect to girls getting crushes on you. You REALLY have to watch what you say to them. You have to be kind of a jerk. It's rough.
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Exactly. Basic Supply and demand. Eventually people will either move away or wages will rise enough to keep them around.
The problem is that people don't want to move. I understand that mentality entirely, but if you don't OWN your property, you have to realize that moving is always a strong possibility.
I bought property far outside a growing city 20 years ago and built my house. Now the city is MUCH closer and the property is worth about 10 times what I paid for it. That's how you live somewhere expensive and don't have to move.
Austin traffic is okay as long as you don't have to drive north-south. Those routes have not changed since the late 70's, and you will eventually go into a murderous rampage if you do it every day.
Or you'll drink more and/or take more drugs. That's how most people deal with it.
I wish I could get more than 4 Mbps out in the boonies where I live.
It's a good feeling to have a roll of $100's in a sock drawer next to my passport. Not that I ever think I'd need it for an emergency, but a good feeling nonetheless.
I HAVE used it before, though. A friend said "My wife left me and I already paid for a trip to Cozumel this weekend. I can change the ticket to your name for $25. You want to go with me?" Much drinking and snorkeling ensued.
Does MS brick any products if you repair them?
I have never heard of this.
Amen, brother.
" so Congress made broadband expansion a national priority, and it offers subsidies, mostly in rural areas, to help providers expand their offerings"
As someone who lives in a rural area, I can tell you this is COMPLETE BULLSHIT.
NO ONE I know in any rural area has any decent broadband. I have a choice of about 1 -2 mbps from a radio link, or spotty 4G from a cell booster, and we had to put up a tower and pay for the towers, antennas, boosters, cabling, etc. And I live only 30 miles from the center of a fairly large and high-tech city.
Telecom companies are just lying sacks of shit when they talk about using those subsidies for rural areas. They pocket the money and don't do a damn thing with it.
But oddly you don't seem to be protesting spending trillions of your hard-earned tax dollars to bomb people in other lands.
I would rather my tax dollars go to helping people, INCLUDING those who don't work. I have friends who had jobs that have been replaced by automation. Hell, I'm an automation specialist and I probably helped put them there. The fact that my company makes scads more money because of it shouldn't mean they have to suffer.
And you know what? Some day my job may get replaced by a particularly clever bit of code. So I have no problem with Universal Basic Income.
Found the paranoid schizophrenic.
Well, the "Baby Boomers" didn't name themselves. The previous generation did. But that generation named themselves "The Greatest Generation."
Or a Pu-238 space modulator.
Citizens are important? How naïve. They are just gasoline for the engine to get important people where they need to be.
Kind of like the $9 billion they took in the 00's to provide rural broadband to the country.
They just pocketed it and did basically nothing.
Death penalty for parking violations.
My wife complained when I got one of those "high frequency" pest prevention devices to help with a mouse problem.
She said that it gave her headaches.
I had left it on the counter and hadn't plugged it in yet.
Except they've taken away our right to privacy and haven't done shit in the past 14 years. So I think we have a perfect right to complain that these "operatives" cant find their ass with two hands.
Except other car companies are not known for this. Excellent customer service AND marketing all rolled into one.
Yeah, my first thought on seeing that monster chunk of silicon: "Defectivity is going to make that thing expensive as hell."
This has nothing to do with competitiveness. It has to do with cheapness. If labor can be exploited at 1/10 the cost, who cares if it takes 4x as many overseas employees to do the job of 1 US employee?
Worker efficiency and competitiveness never enter the equation. Exploitation of cheap wages does.
What I find amazing is how much we still DON'T know about the brain.
I had non-invasive brain surgery about a decade ago. About a third of my thalamus had to be destroyed (with a proton beam!) to stop a serious hemorrhage in my brain. I asked the various neurologists and neurosurgeons beforehand if this would cause any issues. They all answered "We don't think so, but we really don't know."
So now I get to pretend to forget about anything I don't want to remember before that time. And did I lose any functions or memories? Who knows?
So all conversations will sound like someone playing Eliza far too long?
I find January a great time to buy. Dealers have to unload inventory by EOM to keep it from being included in yearly totals. Deals abound, as long as you don't mind a brand new "last year's" model.
Almost anything that increases worker retention and job satisfaction will be good for business.
So many companies have forgotten this. Including the one I now work for.
I am retiring in a few years. So to be a good employee, I hired a new college grad and spent the last 3 years training them as my replacement in a very complex semiconductor manufacturing data system.
Well, profits were good, but slightly lower than wall street expected this quarter...so they laid off my replacement (among others).
I am not going to spend my last three years here training another replacement. It takes years for a really intelligent person to learn this stuff. When I leave here there will be no one to do my job. Fuck 'em. I did what a good employee was supposed to do, in fact, had they laid me off I would have been fine. Happy even. But no, they had to screw over a bunch of young folks that should be the next wave of employees. I'm paid well, but I don't give a shit about this company any more. They don't seem to care about their future, so neither do I.
IRS investigators also watch the "tax protesters" who regularly file returns claiming they owe no taxes due to the sixteenth amendment not being properly ratified and other random conspiracy theories. When I worked at the IRS I got these returns all the time. We forwarded them to the criminal investigation unit.
I did get to see a few tax returns AFTER they went to CI; they were fairly interesting. Everything you would ever want to know about these people was attached in a report, sometimes hundreds of pages long. Where they hung out, who they were seen with, their entire family history, how much they drank, how their co-workers viewed them, etc. It was weird. And this was in pre-internet days (1980's) so there was actual investigation taking place, not just googling.
So yeah, this surprises me about 0%.
Having been a male teacher I cannot recommend any males to go into this field. I'm not saying it's not rewarding, it is very emotionally rewarding. Nothing beats the feeling that you inspired some young person in their life that day, and the feeling that you may have turned someone's thoughts from suicide to a brighter future keeps you feeling great for weeks.
But the parents looking for ANY excuse to blame the teacher for their child's problems are a major minefield. And being a male teacher you are ripe for any accusations of improper conduct. After all, you are a man in what is perceived as a woman's job by many, so there MUST be something wrong with you. Why aren't you out making good money doing something else? Why do YOU want to work with CHILDREN? What are you, a pervert? And the administration will gladly throw you overboard at the slightest suggestion that you might have had the possible opportunity to do something improper. You were alone with that child for five whole minutes! Can you prove you didn't touch them?
Yes, I know female teachers who got the same crap, but it seemed the males got it five times as much.
I couldn't take it after a couple years. I loved helping the kids. I loved setting them on the path of knowledge. I hated the administration and the parents who wanted to blame you for their shortcomings in any way they could.
And don't get me started on navigating the minefield of kids getting crushes on the teacher. I taught some Jr. High and High school for a while and it was very easy compared to elementary (you can reason with older kids better), but also the most dangerous with respect to girls getting crushes on you. You REALLY have to watch what you say to them. You have to be kind of a jerk. It's rough.