I was never more miserable than when our son needed to be fed in the middle of the night (it was demand feeding, not scheduled). Very tired in the morning and low energy during the day.
I still feel that way if I have to get up in the middle of the night. I'm only 44 but I can't even tolerate staying up past midnight anymore -- I still wake at my usual time but feel awful from lack of sleep.
That being said, the problem with "Segmented Sleep" is making it work with the normal chronological rhythms of modern life. Paleos didn't have kids in school, jobs or other morning commitments besides deciding if they wanted to eat off the carcass from the day before or whether they should go out and hunt that afternoon.
I probably could wake at 2:30 AM and work for a couple of hours and then sleep again, but I need to get my son to school by 7:50 AM, and my boss kind of wants me working by 8:30, so I can't really go back to bed at 4 AM and sleep until 8 AM and start my day at 10.
why this kind of blatant anti-democratic is allowed by the Russian people with little protest
I don't know, 70 plus years of living in a police state where protestors were shipped off to prisons, mental health facilities or killed outright, many of those years as part of the first hand experience of roughly half the population?
Then there's the last 10 years experience with protest, investigatory journalism, corruption..
Could any of it be attributed to the dealership/maintenance experience?
Just a guess, but maybe the Mitsubishi dealership had an edge in maintenance and repair, which improved the "reliability" of the car in some way, even if they had similar problems.
The Mitsubishi dealership probably had an inherent interest in Mitsubishi cars, and as a newer dealership was perhaps more highly motivated to see the product line succeed (ie, remembering the guys who got in on the ground floor of Toyota or Honda). Its mechanics and service managers were focused on the Mitsubishi cars. Even improved dealer prep (checking known dodgy bits) may have helped.
Whereas Chrysler dealers may have been weary of "corporate", tired of selling rebadges they didn't think would stick around. Their mechanics were old school guys who didn't like newfangled Mitsubishi engines or designs and focused less on knowing them well. The end result being a car "built the same" but missing that magic fairy dust.
Interesting that you mention that, i don't see any ipads with 10/100 Ethernet, USB (which the Air has) or any DVD drive support at all much less the kind of storage space that even a Macbook Air comes with, if those are indeed your requirements then an ipad is most definitely not an alternative.
If I have to use a clamshell laptop, it's competing against the pool of all possible clamshell laptops, which include laptops with more flexible storage and networking options.
IMHO the Air fits a narrow niche for people who want a full computer experience, including the clamshell form factor, but for whom their computing experience won't extend past the hardware limits of the device.
IIRC, they had problems with emission odor complaints which also caused some shutdowns.
I also seem to remember that they had some problems with the turkey processor either raising the price of turkey guts to the point that the plant wasn't economical or they had another buyer and thus cut the supply.
Wasn't the plant net energy positive, too? Although that would be just the process and its hard to know if the larger system (involving delivery) was net energy positive or if it only really works to have a continuous source of close raw materials.
Anyone, we often tend to forget that doctors are not experts in medication. The only know so much. Pharmacist and pharmacologist are the reference in this field... they are the one we should ask question regarding medical interaction.
I don't take a bunch of medicines, but my experience has been pretty consistent that doctors don't spend a lot of time talking about medication or dose, but pharmacists are very reluctant to question prescription-related decisions by doctors (eg, this medicine vs. another, dosage, etc) unless its an outright, PDR-printed contraindication.
Pharmacy in the US, at the level most people are exposed to it, seems to be one of those occupations that exists because of laws regulating controlled substances -- ie, you have to be a licensed pharmacist to dispense them. The pharmacy board and the professional associations make sure enough laws are processed that no company can dispense medication without having one on site, even though pharmacy techs seem to do the bulk of the work.
You almost wonder if the system wouldn't be better if a doctor's office employed a pharmacist; you meet with them after the doctor if a drug is prescribed. The pharmacy would just be a place to physically obtain the medicine.
It might cut costs, too, since a pharmacy open 14 hours a day could probably shave $200,000 a year in salary and benefits. That's an easy billion a year for walgreens alone.
if you're in such a cramped space that you can't open your laptop then a smartphone is probably a better choice than a tablet anyway.
I disagree. In coach these days, you can't easily open the clamshell of any laptop if the guy behind you leans back at all, but you can easily use an iPad and it's a far better viewing experience than an iPhone.
You are aware we are talking about the Macbook Air, which is a laptop?
Yes, but crippled to wifi only or 10/100 USB ethernet, clumsy external DVD drive and limited storage space, it's kind of handicapped than a traditional laptop.
Remembering my days supporting field offices, the disk space and no gigabit ethernet would be annoying handicaps but perhaps worth the trade off if I had a lot of multipoint travel.
I used to travel with my laptop, but it's so much easier with an iPad for basic communications tasks and as a stand-in entertainment device for video and audio. It's vastly lighter and thinner than a laptop and much easier to use on a plane or other cramped spaces and has far better battery runtime.
Netbooks are junk -- they make a much worse tablet than an iPad makes a laptop.
If I was on an airplane a lot for work, I'd probably have an Air as a laptop replacement and maybe not travel with my iPad. But it still doesn't make the Air into an iPad as far as form factor and convenience go.
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Do you mean to limit them by programming languages or the internal resources on a 2600 system?
Theoretically, newer languages and better tool chains might possibly result in something as good or better than what 2600 developers produced at the time. There may have been coding techniques that were known or attempted but just proved prohibitive with the tool chains of the the 2600 era.
On the other hand, 2600 developers weren't distracted with the web and were razor-focused hand -coded and -debugged assembler.
The biggest feature lacking on the iPad for remote desktop goodness is Apple's lack of support for bluetooth mice.
A bluetooth keyboard helps for keyboard intensive tasks, but even with GUIs that are very keyboard friendly the combination of BT + Wifi + RDP lag makes rapid tabbing or GUI widget manipulation frustrating on the iPad. Even at best, I find that a BT keyboard only adds about 25% additional ease of function on the iPad.
With a mouse, though, it would be a pretty appealing platform for RDP work, particularly if the iPad 3 display resolution rumors are correct.
I think if anyone is serious about building a nuke plant they really should consider providing discounted power to some N mile radius around the plant.
This would get them political support at the local and state levels, providing leverage for the federal approvals.
How much suffering is the DEA willing to inflict for the, pardon the metaphor, pipe dream of a drug-free America?
You can't swing a dead cat without hearing about under-medicating pain and how that one of the primary drivers of that is physician fear of a DEA investigation or worse, losing their license to prescribe.
Now it's this -- and while I'm sure there's some pharma holdback for brand-name drugs, that wouldn't matter if the DEA wasn't so restrictive of the chemistry.
So now we have another group of people at minimum inconvenienced at at maximum with negative health consequences because of the relentless pursuit of an unobtainable moral goal.
What the doctors should do is require the parents who refuse immunizations is to sit down with the doctor and review and sign off on a worst case treatment and care plan for their children for every specific disease their children might get when they refuse the vaccine.
Ask them if their house is multi-level and will they be able to convert a lower-level room to a bedroom if their child needs a wheel chair? Have the parents discussed the care needs should their child develop a more severe form of polio which may leave them a quadriplegic? Will their insurance cover the cost and use of a ventilator?
I think for a lot of these parents the realities of caring for their children -- in many cases, forever -- would be enough to convince them that whatever risk they believe they are avoiding by refusing a vaccine just isn't as bad as the disease itself.
I frankly don't blame the doctors for doing this and I would not be opposed to insurance carriers refusing to reimburse parents for dependent care caused by their refusal to immunize their children (I would, however, require parents to seek treatment and hospitals to treat them).
I work for a small SMB IT consulting company and this is a tough argument to make to the owners.
We have recurring service plans for most regular customers -- this works out best for most people as they get a discount, lose most trip charges and consistent support from the same person. We get familiar with their systems and people and can head off most problems before they become problems.
What's maddening, though, are a handful of clients who only use our services as a last-minute emergency service when they screw something up themselves. A couple of these clients don't even buy hardware from us -- they buy online, used or whatever. Yet management wants us to prioritize their calls, often over other scheduled work that our better customers participate in.
I've suggested a seperate pricing tier for short notice service requests from non-plan customers, but the owners believe they will "lose" the business yet don't acknowledge the opportunity cost from chasing after bad customers and the potential damage to relationships from good customers who are put aside to serve the bad customers.
Clearly they're taking a bunch of effort to play classical music at that station because there are no problems and they want to alleviate the concerns of rich, white suburbanites who never ride light rail.
Or, maybe, just maybe, "it hasn't happened to me" means that it hasn't happened to you, not "it isn't happening."
Someone (perhaps plural) will write some kick-ass theses on this Republican primary and the role of the media.
It's been a unique situation since for most of the primary/caucus "season" dating back to last fall, Obama has had high negative numbers and little media focus, so the Republicans have been the only show in town.
My sense is that the modern media doesn't handle multi-player competition well. At the start of the primary season, there were as many as 8 candidates with similar ideologies -- that doesn't work in an era of 30 second sound bites, but a horse race between two people does, and the media began -- with the scantest of evidence -- to promote individual candidates to "contender" status so that they could have a race between them and Romney and thus frame the contest in quick and easy to digest soundbites.
But as each candidate's actual popularity and viability was exposed through increased scrutiny, they fell away, to be replaced by the next in line. Pawlenty, Bachmann, Perry, Cain, Paul, Gingrich, and now Santorum.
Paul is an anomaly in more than one way -- he ran before, so he has familiarity. He also has a sort of hard floor as to how low his support goes due to his previous campaign and dedicated following. Because of this he tends to bob a little in the media, and they never quite write him off like the others.
Santorum I think is the one of the least electable of all of them, but since he's the last man standing Romney has to wrap up the nomination to get rid of him permanently, and the media likes the story of Romney's lack of conservatism and Santorum plays into this beautifully (for the media -- I find him terribly shrill).
At the end of it all, though, it will be Romney v. Obama for president. If the economy keeps pace, Obama will probably win, but only because of Romney's persistent crisis of charisma and many of the born-again bloc voters rejecting him on the grounds he's a Mormon. I don't think it will be any kind of Obama "mandate".
It's great PR and a neat concept, but what statistical construct do they use to define them?
Given that the per capita GDP is on the same level as any other third world country, is a middle class as defined by some poverty-skewed average, or is based on something more comparable, such as disposable income (income after food, clothing, housing & utilities)?
And given that the half-billion people in the US and Europe traded control over their lives for iPhones and big screen TV, I'm not sure that the CPC's materialism plan won't keep working, although the rural poor in Western China may give them pause, especially if there are enough bodies and sympathy within the military leadership.
It'd sure be nice to have some kind of an implementation of it built into OpenSSH and a client like Putty, and robust enough to work through a firewall proxy.
I'm sure it belongs as some standalone proxy, but having it integrated would make it easier and less painful to use from a client perspective, although I would imagine it would have to be a pretty simplistic implementation (wrap SSL in HTTP, base64 encoded only) and not delve to far into actual steganography.
In other words, useful for evading very aggressive firewalling and HTTP proxying.
Wouldn't content analysis just be a case of monitoring a stream and looking for the presence of English or local language text over a period of time? Of course, I'm probably grossly overestimating the number of HTTP streams that are used for binary data for applications and never include the kind of human/machine readable English or local language text.
Or doing a file(1) type analysis of the decoded content to see if it matched?
You could probably use a couple of heuristics in combination and then use some kind of "probability" value to tune whether or not you thought it was fishy.
On the CDC Cyber series of mainframes you could fit more text in some applications in all uppercase than you could in mixed case or lowercase.
IIRC, lower case letters were escaped and required double the storage (12 bits vs. 6).
In one of the chat applications, it was occasionally necessary to type in all caps to fit the maximum message length in the input. Typing in mixed case would cut your message length roughly in half.
It sounds like it wouldn't matter, but if you were on a TTY 33 at 110 baud and had to wait for not only your text to go through but for the TTY to print all the other users messages before you could send the next line, it did matter, often to the tune of a minute or more.
I wonder if you still get the full benefits of "good pedigree," even if the culture of learning isn't facilitated or cultivated.
Intelligence isn't the same thing as being well-educated or having an academic background or disposition.
I would imagine that successful criminals, for example, are likely above average in intelligence but due to their socioeconomic status they get involved in crime. But due to their intelligence, they are less likely to get caught and are more successful than "common criminals".
Then there are "blue collar" guys. I've known a couple of commercial electricians that were unbelievable smart and probably could have been electrical engineers.
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I was never more miserable than when our son needed to be fed in the middle of the night (it was demand feeding, not scheduled). Very tired in the morning and low energy during the day.
I still feel that way if I have to get up in the middle of the night. I'm only 44 but I can't even tolerate staying up past midnight anymore -- I still wake at my usual time but feel awful from lack of sleep.
That being said, the problem with "Segmented Sleep" is making it work with the normal chronological rhythms of modern life. Paleos didn't have kids in school, jobs or other morning commitments besides deciding if they wanted to eat off the carcass from the day before or whether they should go out and hunt that afternoon.
I probably could wake at 2:30 AM and work for a couple of hours and then sleep again, but I need to get my son to school by 7:50 AM, and my boss kind of wants me working by 8:30, so I can't really go back to bed at 4 AM and sleep until 8 AM and start my day at 10.
why this kind of blatant anti-democratic is allowed by the Russian people with little protest
I don't know, 70 plus years of living in a police state where protestors were shipped off to prisons, mental health facilities or killed outright, many of those years as part of the first hand experience of roughly half the population?
Then there's the last 10 years experience with protest, investigatory journalism, corruption..
Could any of it be attributed to the dealership/maintenance experience?
Just a guess, but maybe the Mitsubishi dealership had an edge in maintenance and repair, which improved the "reliability" of the car in some way, even if they had similar problems.
The Mitsubishi dealership probably had an inherent interest in Mitsubishi cars, and as a newer dealership was perhaps more highly motivated to see the product line succeed (ie, remembering the guys who got in on the ground floor of Toyota or Honda). Its mechanics and service managers were focused on the Mitsubishi cars. Even improved dealer prep (checking known dodgy bits) may have helped.
Whereas Chrysler dealers may have been weary of "corporate", tired of selling rebadges they didn't think would stick around. Their mechanics were old school guys who didn't like newfangled Mitsubishi engines or designs and focused less on knowing them well. The end result being a car "built the same" but missing that magic fairy dust.
Interesting that you mention that, i don't see any ipads with 10/100 Ethernet, USB (which the Air has) or any DVD drive support at all much less the kind of storage space that even a Macbook Air comes with, if those are indeed your requirements then an ipad is most definitely not an alternative.
If I have to use a clamshell laptop, it's competing against the pool of all possible clamshell laptops, which include laptops with more flexible storage and networking options.
IMHO the Air fits a narrow niche for people who want a full computer experience, including the clamshell form factor, but for whom their computing experience won't extend past the hardware limits of the device.
I remember that site.
IIRC, they had problems with emission odor complaints which also caused some shutdowns.
I also seem to remember that they had some problems with the turkey processor either raising the price of turkey guts to the point that the plant wasn't economical or they had another buyer and thus cut the supply.
Wasn't the plant net energy positive, too? Although that would be just the process and its hard to know if the larger system (involving delivery) was net energy positive or if it only really works to have a continuous source of close raw materials.
To re-establish the aristocracy and it's permanent claims on resources. Family dynasty money.
Anyone, we often tend to forget that doctors are not experts in medication. The only know so much. Pharmacist and pharmacologist are the reference in this field... they are the one we should ask question regarding medical interaction.
I don't take a bunch of medicines, but my experience has been pretty consistent that doctors don't spend a lot of time talking about medication or dose, but pharmacists are very reluctant to question prescription-related decisions by doctors (eg, this medicine vs. another, dosage, etc) unless its an outright, PDR-printed contraindication.
Pharmacy in the US, at the level most people are exposed to it, seems to be one of those occupations that exists because of laws regulating controlled substances -- ie, you have to be a licensed pharmacist to dispense them. The pharmacy board and the professional associations make sure enough laws are processed that no company can dispense medication without having one on site, even though pharmacy techs seem to do the bulk of the work.
You almost wonder if the system wouldn't be better if a doctor's office employed a pharmacist; you meet with them after the doctor if a drug is prescribed. The pharmacy would just be a place to physically obtain the medicine.
It might cut costs, too, since a pharmacy open 14 hours a day could probably shave $200,000 a year in salary and benefits. That's an easy billion a year for walgreens alone.
if you're in such a cramped space that you can't open your laptop then a smartphone is probably a better choice than a tablet anyway.
I disagree. In coach these days, you can't easily open the clamshell of any laptop if the guy behind you leans back at all, but you can easily use an iPad and it's a far better viewing experience than an iPhone.
You are aware we are talking about the Macbook Air, which is a laptop?
Yes, but crippled to wifi only or 10/100 USB ethernet, clumsy external DVD drive and limited storage space, it's kind of handicapped than a traditional laptop.
Remembering my days supporting field offices, the disk space and no gigabit ethernet would be annoying handicaps but perhaps worth the trade off if I had a lot of multipoint travel.
I used to travel with my laptop, but it's so much easier with an iPad for basic communications tasks and as a stand-in entertainment device for video and audio. It's vastly lighter and thinner than a laptop and much easier to use on a plane or other cramped spaces and has far better battery runtime.
Netbooks are junk -- they make a much worse tablet than an iPad makes a laptop.
If I was on an airplane a lot for work, I'd probably have an Air as a laptop replacement and maybe not travel with my iPad. But it still doesn't make the Air into an iPad as far as form factor and convenience go.
Do you mean to limit them by programming languages or the internal resources on a 2600 system?
Theoretically, newer languages and better tool chains might possibly result in something as good or better than what 2600 developers produced at the time. There may have been coding techniques that were known or attempted but just proved prohibitive with the tool chains of the the 2600 era.
On the other hand, 2600 developers weren't distracted with the web and were razor-focused hand -coded and -debugged assembler.
The biggest feature lacking on the iPad for remote desktop goodness is Apple's lack of support for bluetooth mice.
A bluetooth keyboard helps for keyboard intensive tasks, but even with GUIs that are very keyboard friendly the combination of BT + Wifi + RDP lag makes rapid tabbing or GUI widget manipulation frustrating on the iPad. Even at best, I find that a BT keyboard only adds about 25% additional ease of function on the iPad.
With a mouse, though, it would be a pretty appealing platform for RDP work, particularly if the iPad 3 display resolution rumors are correct.
I think if anyone is serious about building a nuke plant they really should consider providing discounted power to some N mile radius around the plant.
This would get them political support at the local and state levels, providing leverage for the federal approvals.
How much suffering is the DEA willing to inflict for the, pardon the metaphor, pipe dream of a drug-free America?
You can't swing a dead cat without hearing about under-medicating pain and how that one of the primary drivers of that is physician fear of a DEA investigation or worse, losing their license to prescribe.
Now it's this -- and while I'm sure there's some pharma holdback for brand-name drugs, that wouldn't matter if the DEA wasn't so restrictive of the chemistry.
So now we have another group of people at minimum inconvenienced at at maximum with negative health consequences because of the relentless pursuit of an unobtainable moral goal.
Thanks, DEA.
What the doctors should do is require the parents who refuse immunizations is to sit down with the doctor and review and sign off on a worst case treatment and care plan for their children for every specific disease their children might get when they refuse the vaccine.
Ask them if their house is multi-level and will they be able to convert a lower-level room to a bedroom if their child needs a wheel chair? Have the parents discussed the care needs should their child develop a more severe form of polio which may leave them a quadriplegic? Will their insurance cover the cost and use of a ventilator?
I think for a lot of these parents the realities of caring for their children -- in many cases, forever -- would be enough to convince them that whatever risk they believe they are avoiding by refusing a vaccine just isn't as bad as the disease itself.
I frankly don't blame the doctors for doing this and I would not be opposed to insurance carriers refusing to reimburse parents for dependent care caused by their refusal to immunize their children (I would, however, require parents to seek treatment and hospitals to treat them).
I agree.
I work for a small SMB IT consulting company and this is a tough argument to make to the owners.
We have recurring service plans for most regular customers -- this works out best for most people as they get a discount, lose most trip charges and consistent support from the same person. We get familiar with their systems and people and can head off most problems before they become problems.
What's maddening, though, are a handful of clients who only use our services as a last-minute emergency service when they screw something up themselves. A couple of these clients don't even buy hardware from us -- they buy online, used or whatever. Yet management wants us to prioritize their calls, often over other scheduled work that our better customers participate in.
I've suggested a seperate pricing tier for short notice service requests from non-plan customers, but the owners believe they will "lose" the business yet don't acknowledge the opportunity cost from chasing after bad customers and the potential damage to relationships from good customers who are put aside to serve the bad customers.
Since the risk of car accidents generally is pretty high, was the Pinto really a risk, or was it more media perception?
Clearly they're taking a bunch of effort to play classical music at that station because there are no problems and they want to alleviate the concerns of rich, white suburbanites who never ride light rail.
Or, maybe, just maybe, "it hasn't happened to me" means that it hasn't happened to you, not "it isn't happening."
At the Lake Street station in Minneapolis, there are few "law abiding" youth. It's the usual urban despair.
Someone (perhaps plural) will write some kick-ass theses on this Republican primary and the role of the media.
It's been a unique situation since for most of the primary/caucus "season" dating back to last fall, Obama has had high negative numbers and little media focus, so the Republicans have been the only show in town.
My sense is that the modern media doesn't handle multi-player competition well. At the start of the primary season, there were as many as 8 candidates with similar ideologies -- that doesn't work in an era of 30 second sound bites, but a horse race between two people does, and the media began -- with the scantest of evidence -- to promote individual candidates to "contender" status so that they could have a race between them and Romney and thus frame the contest in quick and easy to digest soundbites.
But as each candidate's actual popularity and viability was exposed through increased scrutiny, they fell away, to be replaced by the next in line. Pawlenty, Bachmann, Perry, Cain, Paul, Gingrich, and now Santorum.
Paul is an anomaly in more than one way -- he ran before, so he has familiarity. He also has a sort of hard floor as to how low his support goes due to his previous campaign and dedicated following. Because of this he tends to bob a little in the media, and they never quite write him off like the others.
Santorum I think is the one of the least electable of all of them, but since he's the last man standing Romney has to wrap up the nomination to get rid of him permanently, and the media likes the story of Romney's lack of conservatism and Santorum plays into this beautifully (for the media -- I find him terribly shrill).
At the end of it all, though, it will be Romney v. Obama for president. If the economy keeps pace, Obama will probably win, but only because of Romney's persistent crisis of charisma and many of the born-again bloc voters rejecting him on the grounds he's a Mormon. I don't think it will be any kind of Obama "mandate".
I don't see myself necessarily accepting the statistical insight of our business entities as quite as readily as I once did.
How is that "middle class" defined?
It's great PR and a neat concept, but what statistical construct do they use to define them?
Given that the per capita GDP is on the same level as any other third world country, is a middle class as defined by some poverty-skewed average, or is based on something more comparable, such as disposable income (income after food, clothing, housing & utilities)?
And given that the half-billion people in the US and Europe traded control over their lives for iPhones and big screen TV, I'm not sure that the CPC's materialism plan won't keep working, although the rural poor in Western China may give them pause, especially if there are enough bodies and sympathy within the military leadership.
Has anyone done this?
It'd sure be nice to have some kind of an implementation of it built into OpenSSH and a client like Putty, and robust enough to work through a firewall proxy.
I'm sure it belongs as some standalone proxy, but having it integrated would make it easier and less painful to use from a client perspective, although I would imagine it would have to be a pretty simplistic implementation (wrap SSL in HTTP, base64 encoded only) and not delve to far into actual steganography.
In other words, useful for evading very aggressive firewalling and HTTP proxying.
Wouldn't content analysis just be a case of monitoring a stream and looking for the presence of English or local language text over a period of time? Of course, I'm probably grossly overestimating the number of HTTP streams that are used for binary data for applications and never include the kind of human/machine readable English or local language text.
Or doing a file(1) type analysis of the decoded content to see if it matched?
You could probably use a couple of heuristics in combination and then use some kind of "probability" value to tune whether or not you thought it was fishy.
On the CDC Cyber series of mainframes you could fit more text in some applications in all uppercase than you could in mixed case or lowercase.
IIRC, lower case letters were escaped and required double the storage (12 bits vs. 6).
In one of the chat applications, it was occasionally necessary to type in all caps to fit the maximum message length in the input. Typing in mixed case would cut your message length roughly in half.
It sounds like it wouldn't matter, but if you were on a TTY 33 at 110 baud and had to wait for not only your text to go through but for the TTY to print all the other users messages before you could send the next line, it did matter, often to the tune of a minute or more.
I wonder if you still get the full benefits of "good pedigree," even if the culture of learning isn't facilitated or cultivated.
Intelligence isn't the same thing as being well-educated or having an academic background or disposition.
I would imagine that successful criminals, for example, are likely above average in intelligence but due to their socioeconomic status they get involved in crime. But due to their intelligence, they are less likely to get caught and are more successful than "common criminals".
Then there are "blue collar" guys. I've known a couple of commercial electricians that were unbelievable smart and probably could have been electrical engineers.
Is the issue Foxconn or is it China, with its corrupt government?