At most, it should be 5% horse cock porn so they have to look a bit harder to find it.
Good point. But I was picturing it being in any databases and such as well, thus inflating sizes and requiring analysis to access, at which point it's not until they try jpg encoding that they get the horse picture on their monitor.;) So 10%?
Besides what Noughmad said, you also have the problem that making a country 'poor' via the means you mention doesn't actually make them cheap places to do manufacturing in. Destroying their infrastructure and killing their people tends to do that.
You need places with decent infrastructure to support your factory, and workers that are willing to work for cheap to outsource to.
China is 'great' for this, Africa, on average, isn't. Though it's getting closer, and a lot of that is that China is putting a lot of money into Africa for it's natural resources, and China wants it stable.
I remember reading that Chinese shoe factory workers were having their wages double every 3 years - for the last 15 years or so.
CSMonitor has an article which mentions that labor costs are rising 15-20% a year in china, and they're up to $6/hour average - barely under US minimum wage. Add quality issues, delays in product delivery, delivery costs, and automation here in the USA, and 'reshoring' is a thing.
Even if a lot of it's going to Mexico. Thing is, once China approaches equity, then the other southeast asian countries, followed by Mexico, where are manufacturers going to go for cheap labor? Africa? I get the feeling that by the time that happens, Chinese firms will be looking to outsource themselves to save costs(and I've heard they already are), and you end up going from around the worlds richest 50% looking to outsource to the poorest 50%, to 90% of the world looking to outsource to the remaining 10%. IE there just won't be enough 'poor' remaining in the world to absorb the demand for cheap labor. So outsourcing will have to come to a practical end.
It would have been funnier if in front of 'network' was 'honeypot'. Not to mention more impressive competence wise.
"Yeah, that network you hacked? Those terabytes of data you stole? It was a honeypot network, we were having bets on what you'd do next, and the terabytes of data was all randomly generated using SCIGen and such. Oh, and 50% horse cock porn. You didn't rate midget porn."
Don't know what happened in your family's situation, but perhaps something could have been done. Certainly you wouldn't have had to wait till the late seventies. Well, your parents.
I was born in '76. Mom didn't get the shot when I was born*, my brother matched, then mom spontaneously aborted her third pregnancy due to mismatch. Maybe it was because we were poor and in the midwest, maybe they didn't test, I don't know.
Sigh... Standard business machines would do better in that case. Just spend the extra $10 or so per machine to get them in a better case than normal.
Any further measures I'd need to see how they're being abused. As for 3 year replacement - that was a standard corporate replacement timeline, so I'm not sure they were being abused that badly.
The biggest one that I was aware of was the student computer lab where 1/3 of the machines were replaced every year. I understand that they wear out and need to be replaced but instead of going with an inexpensive configuration they basically bought high-end gaming machines.
If they're buying high end 'gaming' machines, then they don't need to be replaced every 3 years. I'm at 5 years for my current system. Of course, my 'standard' is that I upgrade or add another HD when that gets full*, CPU upgrade if a replacement can be had with 50% better performance for not too much money, and double for my video card. Looking at replacing it now(it'd be about $300 to get a video card that has *double* the score on most benchmarks than my current one).
*Currently running with 2 SSDs and 2 HDs. OS and applications on one SSD, games I'm playing now on another, videos and old games and such on the HDs.
You're right that the USA's idea of risk is seriously screwed up. I suspect the ensuing justifications from various gun nuts will only highlight the fact that your society is incapable of having an adult conversation about the subject.
I'm of the thought that if kids aren't scrapping themselves up(knees and other parts) on occasion, they're not having enough fun.
Gun nuts or not, the issue you're seeing is the friction between different types of people. The 'FREEDOM!' gun carrying types tend NOT to be the ones that go apeshit over a scrapped knee in a playground.
We tend to see the extremes of either on the news.
We had PE classes, the gym was our fitness center. A gym *and* fitness centers in the dorms, in some cases apartment like pools too small to actually do laps in? A waste as a gym and/or training pool for laps is more efficient.
Strange, my university has a fitness center that IS basically the Gym. Well, it ends up being a number of facilities - running track, weight area, climbing wall, tennis courts, basketball courts, pool, etc...
As for the 'extra' luxury, well, even the military is having to house it's junior enlisted in more luxurious quarters. They even get their own rooms today!
Solutions in search of an actual problem in many cases from the sounds of it.
On the other hand, I've heard that the apple model under Jobs was 'come out with something that the customers don't even know they want yet'. IE Apple didn't look at what customers said they wanted, they looked instead at what they thought customers 'needed' but didn't know it.
It's a dangerous game. You can win big, or lose everything doing that.
Let's see: Fitness center: Actually makes sense given that we've learned that physical fitness is tied to mental acuity. IE working out helps you learn and process information. Free wifi: At my university I use it to do my homework in the student center. It's also a relatively cheap service. A few thousand in APs, use already existing network lines, etc... Total cost is probably under $100k/year even for a huge university. Recreation directors tend to bring in 'students' from the community taking classes to improve themelves in various ways. Heck, as a teenager I took some cooking classes at the local university.
With a student loan the lender can't repossess your education so student loan contracts specify that you can't abrogate the debt.
That's actually federal law, and it used to be that a bankruptcy court could discharge them, and they would, occasionally. Though it generally took a crash in the job market for your chosen career field, permanent disability that meant you had to start over education wise, etc...
since the government is the only body that can force institutions to accept a certain price-point
I disagree. Remove the ease of obtaining loans in excessive amounts(however you define excessive), and the colleges would tighten their belts to offer degrees within the new reachable amounts, much like how as loan amounts increase, so don't college costs. They charge what the market will bear.
Assuming each professor teaches 4-5 classes, each with 20-25 students, that's about $1M per teacher. I can understand a professor running about $250k between salary and benefits, so indeed, where is the rest of the money going?
Note: I know that there are courses where they shove a couple hundred students into one class, but at the same time you'll also have degree specific courses that might have 12 people in it.
First, why is it the purpose of higher education to get you a job?
Because not many 18 year olds can afford to spend $30k+ on education for 'intellectual fulfillment' if it doesn't come with increased earnings to pay for it.
That being said, a 4 year degree is still often seen as more valuable than a 2 year degree that only concentrates on the core subjects and doesn't have the 'diversity' courses because diversity of experience is generally considered good.
The article writer was pursuing a degree that leads to a 4+ year school. But it is a degree that is worth precisely nothing as there is no way to gain a job outside of academia in it.
If there's jobs for it, period, inside academia or not, then it's not worth 'precisely nothing'. But it isn't worth much if there's not enough jobs to support the graduates.
Also, a degree in Philosophy is still worth it to the outside world in specific areas. Think tanks like having a few around, just for the training in logic.
As long as he's 'barely making it' he's 'judgement proof', and by the sounds of it has most of 'his' resources in his wife's name.
The judge has to let him keep things like his house, a car to get to work, money for groceries and such. By his own admission he went for work that was 'fulfilling' emotionally, but not fiscally.
One solution the author didn't consider was moving to Alaska before starting college. Alaska taxes oil profits and gives residents tuition credit. It may be too socialist for many Americans to choose a solution like that, but it would have made this one person's life much better and have gotten them out of their particular debt issues.
Timeline. He started school before the Trans-Alaskan pipeline opened, so it wasn't an option back then. Today, since oil prices crashed the University's lost 40% of it's funding(I'm a college student in Alaska right now), so that's not going to be pretty for the next few years.
I think this topic is going to be the issue of my next letter to my representatives. They may not listen to me much, but I know it gets their attention. I recommend that more people write them, because they DO pay attention to what their constituents are telling them.
Don't know about SCE, but I know Disney was 250 workers. Personally, I'd just cut the H1B visas by 250 positions in response to Disney's move, and about 500 for SCE.
just as it is extremely hard to learn advanced math from night classes and self-study.
I don't know if you count calculus as 'advanced math', but I've found kahn academy and similar much more useful than class time. And you end up doing a lot of self-study anyways.
I never heard from him again, but hopefully he made it back in one piece.
Odds are that he did; IT contractors don't really get killed over there, and most aren't even in the AOR. Hell, I was military IT and I didn't venture off base.
If you get a major that is "useless", it shouldn't doom you to a fate of crushing debt for the next thirty years. Crappy job, maybe. But getting a high-paying gig is NOT why you go to school and learn philosophy.
Because there's limited amounts of money available for self-gratification via learning/education. Spending $80k/year on a philosophy degree when your parents are lower middle class or upper lower class via loans and such might be 'fulfilling' at the moment, but it's only a little more fulfilling than buying a sports car and racing it spending the same $80k/year. Hell, after racing for that long you're about as likely to be able to spin it into a well-paying career.
gasoline isn't 'just' a hydrocarbon, at least part of the issue tends to be the other stuff in gasoline. But point, I was thinking about the simpler ones.
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At most, it should be 5% horse cock porn so they have to look a bit harder to find it.
Good point. But I was picturing it being in any databases and such as well, thus inflating sizes and requiring analysis to access, at which point it's not until they try jpg encoding that they get the horse picture on their monitor. ;) So 10%?
Besides what Noughmad said, you also have the problem that making a country 'poor' via the means you mention doesn't actually make them cheap places to do manufacturing in. Destroying their infrastructure and killing their people tends to do that.
You need places with decent infrastructure to support your factory, and workers that are willing to work for cheap to outsource to.
China is 'great' for this, Africa, on average, isn't. Though it's getting closer, and a lot of that is that China is putting a lot of money into Africa for it's natural resources, and China wants it stable.
I remember reading that Chinese shoe factory workers were having their wages double every 3 years - for the last 15 years or so.
CSMonitor has an article which mentions that labor costs are rising 15-20% a year in china, and they're up to $6/hour average - barely under US minimum wage. Add quality issues, delays in product delivery, delivery costs, and automation here in the USA, and 'reshoring' is a thing.
Even if a lot of it's going to Mexico. Thing is, once China approaches equity, then the other southeast asian countries, followed by Mexico, where are manufacturers going to go for cheap labor? Africa? I get the feeling that by the time that happens, Chinese firms will be looking to outsource themselves to save costs(and I've heard they already are), and you end up going from around the worlds richest 50% looking to outsource to the poorest 50%, to 90% of the world looking to outsource to the remaining 10%. IE there just won't be enough 'poor' remaining in the world to absorb the demand for cheap labor. So outsourcing will have to come to a practical end.
It would have been funnier if in front of 'network' was 'honeypot'. Not to mention more impressive competence wise.
"Yeah, that network you hacked? Those terabytes of data you stole? It was a honeypot network, we were having bets on what you'd do next, and the terabytes of data was all randomly generated using SCIGen and such. Oh, and 50% horse cock porn. You didn't rate midget porn."
Don't know what happened in your family's situation, but perhaps something could have been done. Certainly you wouldn't have had to wait till the late seventies. Well, your parents.
I was born in '76. Mom didn't get the shot when I was born*, my brother matched, then mom spontaneously aborted her third pregnancy due to mismatch. Maybe it was because we were poor and in the midwest, maybe they didn't test, I don't know.
*The first RH mismatch normally makes it.
Sigh... Standard business machines would do better in that case. Just spend the extra $10 or so per machine to get them in a better case than normal.
Any further measures I'd need to see how they're being abused. As for 3 year replacement - that was a standard corporate replacement timeline, so I'm not sure they were being abused that badly.
I would have had a younger sister if it wasn't for this. I was the first RH mismatch in my family...
Sadly, it looks like the treatment didn't reach the USA until at least a decade later.
The biggest one that I was aware of was the student computer lab where 1/3 of the machines were replaced every year. I understand that they wear out and need to be replaced but instead of going with an inexpensive configuration they basically bought high-end gaming machines.
If they're buying high end 'gaming' machines, then they don't need to be replaced every 3 years. I'm at 5 years for my current system. Of course, my 'standard' is that I upgrade or add another HD when that gets full*, CPU upgrade if a replacement can be had with 50% better performance for not too much money, and double for my video card. Looking at replacing it now(it'd be about $300 to get a video card that has *double* the score on most benchmarks than my current one).
*Currently running with 2 SSDs and 2 HDs. OS and applications on one SSD, games I'm playing now on another, videos and old games and such on the HDs.
You're right that the USA's idea of risk is seriously screwed up. I suspect the ensuing justifications from various gun nuts will only highlight the fact that your society is incapable of having an adult conversation about the subject.
I'm of the thought that if kids aren't scrapping themselves up(knees and other parts) on occasion, they're not having enough fun.
Gun nuts or not, the issue you're seeing is the friction between different types of people. The 'FREEDOM!' gun carrying types tend NOT to be the ones that go apeshit over a scrapped knee in a playground.
We tend to see the extremes of either on the news.
If they start actually paying more than lip service to 'small government' they might actually lure me back to them.
We had PE classes, the gym was our fitness center. A gym *and* fitness centers in the dorms, in some cases apartment like pools too small to actually do laps in? A waste as a gym and/or training pool for laps is more efficient.
Strange, my university has a fitness center that IS basically the Gym. Well, it ends up being a number of facilities - running track, weight area, climbing wall, tennis courts, basketball courts, pool, etc...
As for the 'extra' luxury, well, even the military is having to house it's junior enlisted in more luxurious quarters. They even get their own rooms today!
Solutions in search of an actual problem in many cases from the sounds of it.
On the other hand, I've heard that the apple model under Jobs was 'come out with something that the customers don't even know they want yet'. IE Apple didn't look at what customers said they wanted, they looked instead at what they thought customers 'needed' but didn't know it.
It's a dangerous game. You can win big, or lose everything doing that.
Let's see:
Fitness center: Actually makes sense given that we've learned that physical fitness is tied to mental acuity. IE working out helps you learn and process information.
Free wifi: At my university I use it to do my homework in the student center. It's also a relatively cheap service. A few thousand in APs, use already existing network lines, etc... Total cost is probably under $100k/year even for a huge university.
Recreation directors tend to bring in 'students' from the community taking classes to improve themelves in various ways. Heck, as a teenager I took some cooking classes at the local university.
With a student loan the lender can't repossess your education so student loan contracts specify that you can't abrogate the debt.
That's actually federal law, and it used to be that a bankruptcy court could discharge them, and they would, occasionally. Though it generally took a crash in the job market for your chosen career field, permanent disability that meant you had to start over education wise, etc...
since the government is the only body that can force institutions to accept a certain price-point
I disagree. Remove the ease of obtaining loans in excessive amounts(however you define excessive), and the colleges would tighten their belts to offer degrees within the new reachable amounts, much like how as loan amounts increase, so don't college costs. They charge what the market will bear.
Assuming each professor teaches 4-5 classes, each with 20-25 students, that's about $1M per teacher. I can understand a professor running about $250k between salary and benefits, so indeed, where is the rest of the money going?
Note: I know that there are courses where they shove a couple hundred students into one class, but at the same time you'll also have degree specific courses that might have 12 people in it.
First, why is it the purpose of higher education to get you a job?
Because not many 18 year olds can afford to spend $30k+ on education for 'intellectual fulfillment' if it doesn't come with increased earnings to pay for it.
That being said, a 4 year degree is still often seen as more valuable than a 2 year degree that only concentrates on the core subjects and doesn't have the 'diversity' courses because diversity of experience is generally considered good.
The article writer was pursuing a degree that leads to a 4+ year school. But it is a degree that is worth precisely nothing as there is no way to gain a job outside of academia in it.
If there's jobs for it, period, inside academia or not, then it's not worth 'precisely nothing'. But it isn't worth much if there's not enough jobs to support the graduates.
Also, a degree in Philosophy is still worth it to the outside world in specific areas. Think tanks like having a few around, just for the training in logic.
As long as he's 'barely making it' he's 'judgement proof', and by the sounds of it has most of 'his' resources in his wife's name.
The judge has to let him keep things like his house, a car to get to work, money for groceries and such. By his own admission he went for work that was 'fulfilling' emotionally, but not fiscally.
One solution the author didn't consider was moving to Alaska before starting college. Alaska taxes oil profits and gives residents tuition credit. It may be too socialist for many Americans to choose a solution like that, but it would have made this one person's life much better and have gotten them out of their particular debt issues.
Timeline. He started school before the Trans-Alaskan pipeline opened, so it wasn't an option back then. Today, since oil prices crashed the University's lost 40% of it's funding(I'm a college student in Alaska right now), so that's not going to be pretty for the next few years.
I think this topic is going to be the issue of my next letter to my representatives. They may not listen to me much, but I know it gets their attention. I recommend that more people write them, because they DO pay attention to what their constituents are telling them.
Don't know about SCE, but I know Disney was 250 workers. Personally, I'd just cut the H1B visas by 250 positions in response to Disney's move, and about 500 for SCE.
just as it is extremely hard to learn advanced math from night classes and self-study.
I don't know if you count calculus as 'advanced math', but I've found kahn academy and similar much more useful than class time. And you end up doing a lot of self-study anyways.
I never heard from him again, but hopefully he made it back in one piece.
Odds are that he did; IT contractors don't really get killed over there, and most aren't even in the AOR. Hell, I was military IT and I didn't venture off base.
If you get a major that is "useless", it shouldn't doom you to a fate of crushing debt for the next thirty years. Crappy job, maybe. But getting a high-paying gig is NOT why you go to school and learn philosophy.
Because there's limited amounts of money available for self-gratification via learning/education. Spending $80k/year on a philosophy degree when your parents are lower middle class or upper lower class via loans and such might be 'fulfilling' at the moment, but it's only a little more fulfilling than buying a sports car and racing it spending the same $80k/year. Hell, after racing for that long you're about as likely to be able to spin it into a well-paying career.
gasoline isn't 'just' a hydrocarbon, at least part of the issue tends to be the other stuff in gasoline. But point, I was thinking about the simpler ones.