Go to a couple of track days and you will not want to speed on the road. Building these skills up (even if it is merely time on a skidpad) should be required for a license.
I am a NASA member (national autosport association member) and NASA has hyped it up a bit on their own website/emails to members along with advertisments in Grassroots Motorsport.
People who actually race at an amatuer level, or do HPDE have the cash to spend on such a sim (a track weekend runs at least 400+ when you consider at least access fees plus tyres/brakes etc).
The typical examiner starts around $65k and hits 100k in 3-4 years. Thats not including the current $10,000 bonus per year for 4 years in certain fields.
The problem is that they can't keep people around (attrition amongst new people is rather high). There has been a fairly large salary increase in the past 5 years (and a ton of benefits) to keep people in the office and to have closer pay to what the average patent agent/attorney makes. Problem is, that money and benefits aren't enough to keep people around due to the nature of the job.
During prosecution, the PTO gets paid for just about anything the applicant files. That being said, after a patent is granted there are renewal fees.
You would think that examiners would simply allow allow allow, but that hasn't been the case in a while. The patent grant rate has actually dropped in the past few years.
This is inpart due to greater focus on quality, and that allowance of an application is now reviewed multiple times even for primary examiners. In the same time period the backlog has grown as the result of a hiring freeze a couple years ago and fairly high attrition, and perhaps as part of a lower allowance rate.
for me its about 20% off service, but it varies with whatever organization you are assocaited with. If I can get 20% off the iphone service plan that would be a pretty nice deal.
I work for the DOC and our pay scale tops out at 149k. You can work plenty of overtime, so you have gs 5-9's hitting the 149k ceiling and we have comp time which is great if you like to travel. The govt also pays for law school and just about any other education you want. We have a quota, so the more hours you work of comptime/ot your quota increases.
You need to work 5 years to get a pension (1% of your salary per year for your three year high, i think you can collect it when you turn 62).
You get plenty of vacation and sick leave, accumulate 4 hours every 2 weeks, 6 after 3 years, and 8 hours after 15.
Flex schedule. Basically you can work your 80 hours any way you want in a 2 week span.
Nearly 100% telework. Still have to come in 1 hour a week, but wanna live out in NYC and come in for an hour to the DC area, you can.
Managers don't have enough tools to retain people. You are dead on about positive renforcement.
the navy and marines enlist you as an e-3, but you don't wear the rank until completing basic but get the extra pay (same as if you enlist in the army with a college degree and are paid as an e-4).
Apparently a lot of this has to do with trying to find kiddie porn. If you go over to flyertalk, you will find plenty of discussion where just about every american who travels to certain asian countries and has a laptop/digital camera is having to let customs go through their stuff.
Anecdotal evidence of course, but every time I read in the paper when someone was killed by a drunk driver, the driver was usually 2+ times over the limit, which is about what the old limit back in the 70's/80's was,.15
I took a Kaplan LSAT course a couple years back an was the only engineer in the class. Made for some interesting discussion.
I was always concerned about my GPA when applying for law school and wondered if admissions took that into account when comparing a EE degree versus a LA degree.
I take it you have never been on a bicycle in japan and been asked for your gaijin toroukushou (alien registration card)? You don't have it on you and you have to take a nice little visit down to the police station for a couple hours visit. Then expect to be obligated to write a formal apology saying you will not forget to have it again.
Now I was fortunate to have mine on me in the past, but have had several friends who have forgotten. I can't say that I like the fact that bored cops just randomly ask for your ID, but it's their law.
"Here's an idea: perhaps the Japanese are able to determine which laws they want? I know, a radical idea - they didn't even consult the UN before implementing this."
I assume you aren't familiar with problems of Japanese corruption and lack of transparency. Take a look at a japanese newspaper sometime. Doesn't really help either that the LDP has been dominating the diet for the last 53 years.
the reason there is a backlog is because they can't keep the examiners they have. they had a hiring freeze a couple years back as the budget didn't get resolved.
they are being reactive to issues from a couple of years ago. if they could keep the examiners they had, you wouldn't have the rest of the examiners taking over the actions of all those who left, thus not working on new applications and increasing the backlog.
the office tried changing the rules too, in order to speed up the backlog by limiting the number of continuations a case gets, but that is in the courts at the moment.
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considering the local plumber charges $150 an hour, I would say the plumber is doing pretty well.
Remember a couple years back the stories on slashdot about professionals going back to trade school?
that ~35% is federal only, we also pay state taxes (0-10% income tax). Some may pay additional city income taxes.
Add in property tax (gotta fund the schools, we do afterall spend more on schools than the military minus iraq) and it adds up a bit higher.
perhaps they enjoy track days and high performance driver's education?
http://www.nasaproracing.com/hpde/index.html
Go to a couple of track days and you will not want to speed on the road. Building these skills up (even if it is merely time on a skidpad) should be required for a license.
I am a NASA member (national autosport association member) and NASA has hyped it up a bit on their own website/emails to members along with advertisments in Grassroots Motorsport.
People who actually race at an amatuer level, or do HPDE have the cash to spend on such a sim (a track weekend runs at least 400+ when you consider at least access fees plus tyres/brakes etc).
too bad the local SCCA rallyx group shutsdown way to early in the VA area, while the guys further south and further north run most of the year.
Didn't they do this as the result of import limits?
Aren't there easier ways of bringing in naughty pictures and files than sneakernet?
thats not really accurate.
The typical examiner starts around $65k and hits 100k in 3-4 years. Thats not including the current $10,000 bonus per year for 4 years in certain fields.
The problem is that they can't keep people around (attrition amongst new people is rather high). There has been a fairly large salary increase in the past 5 years (and a ton of benefits) to keep people in the office and to have closer pay to what the average patent agent/attorney makes. Problem is, that money and benefits aren't enough to keep people around due to the nature of the job.
During prosecution, the PTO gets paid for just about anything the applicant files. That being said, after a patent is granted there are renewal fees.
You would think that examiners would simply allow allow allow, but that hasn't been the case in a while. The patent grant rate has actually dropped in the past few years.
http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/PatentlyO2006059.jpg
This is inpart due to greater focus on quality, and that allowance of an application is now reviewed multiple times even for primary examiners. In the same time period the backlog has grown as the result of a hiring freeze a couple years ago and fairly high attrition, and perhaps as part of a lower allowance rate.
https://www.wireless.att.com/business/authenticate/
for me its about 20% off service, but it varies with whatever organization you are assocaited with. If I can get 20% off the iphone service plan that would be a pretty nice deal.
I wouldnt mind picking one up if I can maintain my discounts as an AT&T premier customer.
more reported income, so more taxes paid?
from looking at my own school systems budget, their staff is 60% teachers, 40% administrators. I have no idea if this is typical or not.
I work for the DOC and our pay scale tops out at 149k. You can work plenty of overtime, so you have gs 5-9's hitting the 149k ceiling and we have comp time which is great if you like to travel. The govt also pays for law school and just about any other education you want. We have a quota, so the more hours you work of comptime/ot your quota increases.
You need to work 5 years to get a pension (1% of your salary per year for your three year high, i think you can collect it when you turn 62).
You get plenty of vacation and sick leave, accumulate 4 hours every 2 weeks, 6 after 3 years, and 8 hours after 15.
Flex schedule. Basically you can work your 80 hours any way you want in a 2 week span.
Nearly 100% telework. Still have to come in 1 hour a week, but wanna live out in NYC and come in for an hour to the DC area, you can.
Managers don't have enough tools to retain people. You are dead on about positive renforcement.
the navy and marines enlist you as an e-3, but you don't wear the rank until completing basic but get the extra pay (same as if you enlist in the army with a college degree and are paid as an e-4).
The air force and army enlists you as an e-2.
Apparently a lot of this has to do with trying to find kiddie porn. If you go over to flyertalk, you will find plenty of discussion where just about every american who travels to certain asian countries and has a laptop/digital camera is having to let customs go through their stuff.
Anecdotal evidence of course, but every time I read in the paper when someone was killed by a drunk driver, the driver was usually 2+ times over the limit, which is about what the old limit back in the 70's/80's was, .15
yeah we had a rifle club on campus, an archery club, fencing, various Martial arts clubs, the SCA
I took a Kaplan LSAT course a couple years back an was the only engineer in the class. Made for some interesting discussion.
I was always concerned about my GPA when applying for law school and wondered if admissions took that into account when comparing a EE degree versus a LA degree.
Spending endless hours studying was not fun, nor were spending hours upon hours deriving equations.
Lab classes on the other hand were fun, spending time building/testing/diagnosing was very enjoyable.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/13/1914251 yesterday!
I take it you have never been on a bicycle in japan and been asked for your gaijin toroukushou (alien registration card)? You don't have it on you and you have to take a nice little visit down to the police station for a couple hours visit. Then expect to be obligated to write a formal apology saying you will not forget to have it again.
Now I was fortunate to have mine on me in the past, but have had several friends who have forgotten. I can't say that I like the fact that bored cops just randomly ask for your ID, but it's their law.
"Here's an idea: perhaps the Japanese are able to determine which laws they want? I know, a radical idea - they didn't even consult the UN before implementing this."
I assume you aren't familiar with problems of Japanese corruption and lack of transparency. Take a look at a japanese newspaper sometime. Doesn't really help either that the LDP has been dominating the diet for the last 53 years.
considering I paid 37k in stat/county/federal/property taxes last year, I think I paid more than my fair share having maxed out SS taxes as well.
its pretty screwy that I pay more in medicare taxes than my own health premiums.
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the reason there is a backlog is because they can't keep the examiners they have. they had a hiring freeze a couple years back as the budget didn't get resolved.
they are being reactive to issues from a couple of years ago. if they could keep the examiners they had, you wouldn't have the rest of the examiners taking over the actions of all those who left, thus not working on new applications and increasing the backlog.
the office tried changing the rules too, in order to speed up the backlog by limiting the number of continuations a case gets, but that is in the courts at the moment.