So by all means let's have a melting pot. Even if melting two metals together forms a blade weaker than either of the two metals, that blade will still be stronger than a blade made of two separate pieces of metal or a blade made from metals that have not thoroughly blended.
Wrong: bi-metal blades are extremely common in applications like jigsaws (sabre saws) and reciprocating saws ("sawzalls"), because they're more durable than single-metal blades. Bi-metal is not an allow, it's two separate metals joined together, without blending. You see it in blades because with a saw blade, you want the body of the blade to be flexible, but the teeth to be very hard (so they stay sharp), which are opposite qualities. Another example of completely separate metals on a blade is circular saw blades with carbide teeth: the blade is made of one kind of steel, and the teeth are made of small cut pieces of carbide (high-carbon steel), which are actually glued onto the blade body.
Where was this? It certainly wasn't NYC proper, since 1) you can't own a shotgun there, I'm fairly sure, and 2) people in NYC aren't in unions, unless they're tradespeople--Wall Street brokers and web developers certainly aren't in any unions, and 3) NYC has been electing Republican mayors for over a decade now. Anyway, NYC is nothing like the rest of NY state; it really should be its own state. From what I've heard, much of upstate NY is actually quite rural. Finally, I doubt many people in NYC know their neighbors.
Don't be ridiculous: why would Paypal not be considered acceptable? Ebay (which owns Paypal) is a huge, multibillion dollar company now, and Paypal already sends reports on you to the IRS if you exceed $20k in transactions per year.
Your post sounds idiotic, BTW? When have "liberals" ever restructured any system in recent memory, in a way that hurt that system? Why would Congress restructure the banking system, when the banking system OWNS Congress (what do you think that bail-out was?). If you're referring to ObamaCare, you're an even bigger idiot: ObamaCare was a giant boon to the insurance industry that did nothing to lower costs, and a lot to increase the profitability of the insurance companies.
You sound like one of those morons who thinks the Democrats are "liberals", rather than being in bed with large corporations.
I think it should wait until kids have mastered basic addition and subtraction and multiplication and decimals, but that's it: they should start being exposed to it early (like around 9-10), but have more advanced classes in it later on in high school (where they learn about interest, compound interest, loans, collections, garnishments, child support payments, mortgages, etc.). This stuff is all pretty important for living in modern American society, and it should be taught in school. I don't know if it is or not, but it certainly wasn't back in the 80s and early 90s when I was in school, except maybe in an optional "home economics" class which college-bound kids weren't allowed to attend (and non-college-bound boys did not attend).
No, of course not, but for several reasons. 1) You really don't want to get too entangled with people that have that many problems in life; from what I saw, many of them had constant drama of some kind going on in their lives: relatives going to jail, relatives getting maimed in drug deals gone bad, one housekeeper even had a nephew who raped and murdered a small girl. And 2) they wouldn't know what to do with a CU account. These people operate solely on cash; keeping money in a bank is a foreign concept for them.
Yes, to an extent, people are responsible for themselves and their own decisions, but as a society, it's our (collective) responsibility to educate all our members so that they can function in a modern society, and American society is failing miserably in that regard. These basic life skills like having a bank account and managing money should be taught to kids in grade school and high school, and obviously that's not happening. I had to learn all that stuff on my own, which isn't so hard when you grow up in a middle-class household with a parent who already understands these things (my mom took me to get my own bank account (savings of course) when I was about 10 years old; this was back in the good old days of the 80s when banks didn't charge fees for every little thing), but if your parents don't understand this stuff at all, you're screwed in this society because no one's going to teach you. However, now with even poor people using the internet, maybe things will change because all this stuff can be easily looked up and read about.
Yes, that $10 (which at most CUs is refundable when you close your account) is better than being charged $4 every time you want access to your money, but a lot of poor people simply don't think that far ahead, and have zero financial management ability whatsoever. I've seen it with people I've hired for domestic duties; they use check-cashing stores for absolutely everything.
24 * 7 = 364. There's 365 days in a year (366 on leap years), so adding the extra "365" does make sense. 24/7/52 would be stupid, because you're effectively saying that 1 day out of the year, something different is happening or not working.
So you don't have to go back through flight school? I met a guy who flew a Blackhawk in the Army, yet he was going to (civilian) helicopter flight school to get his FAA certifications. Maybe the military time doesn't help getting CFI and CFII licenses, which are required to get a job (not by the FAA, but by almost any employer).
Also, the other thing I've heard about military pilots is they frequently don't have that many flight hours. No one will hire you unless you have 1000 hours, except the school you went to, and a lot of jobs require 2000 or more.
All in all, from what I can tell, aviation is a horrible career in the civilian world: there's WAY too many pilots, the pay is lousy, it takes forever to build up to where the pay is enough to live on with a family, and the cost is enormous (which, coupled with the lousy pay for the first 5-10 years is even worse). Worse yet, if someone decides they don't like you, they'll tell all their buddies and you'll never get a job.
Anyone that can cook or has a spouse that can, shouldn't need to go to a fancy restaurant all that often.
I'm not talking about fancy (high-end, expensive) restaurants actually, I'm just talking about good restaurants, ones that make quality food for reasonable prices. They're hard to find these days, and you'll almost never find a chain that serves quality food. Your best bet is family-owned non-chain restaurants (which are still hit-and-miss, but that's better than a 90+% failure rate like you'll get with the corporate chains). You're not going to find many of those in smaller towns; they've all gone under because people are cheap and go to fast food places.
Avoiding things prepared with high fructose corn syrup and damaged fats is difficult, because most restaurants don't publish the ingredients list of their foods.
Exactly, but you're not too likely to find that in a non-chain restaurant I think.
Yeah, Midlothian's an odd place. I spent some years in Henrico county (not too far from Short Pump) when I was young, which is definitely more conservative, but I don't think that has anywhere near that rural mindset. Of course, I was fairly young at the time, and also maybe things have changed, but also interestingly, I was Catholic too at that time. But I don't think Midlothian is representative of the whole Richmond area.
I partially grew up in Richmond, VA. I don't remember ever being asked that. What part of the city were you in? Somehow I doubt you'd ever be asked that kind of question in The Fan.
There are definitely a bunch of places in Utah like that. But that's a very unique state. Anywhere else, the only place you'd see stuff like that is in tiny villages in midwestern states, most likely.
Maybe, but's he's been modded way up, so apparently the Slashdot crowd really does think that in 80% of the US, you'll be shunned by everyone in a town or city of tens of thousands of residents if you don't attend the one church there, which apparently has seating capacity for 10,000+ people at a time.
Mostly agreed, except for the bit about Digi-Key and Element 14. I order all my stuff from Mouser, Avnet, Arrow, and onlinecomponents.com. Digi-Key has a great selection, but their prices are the highest in the industry. And Element 14 seems to have prices even higher than Mouser, so I'm not sure what the attraction there is. For finding parts, the most useful site I've found is findchips.com: it'll show you what the prices and stock levels are for any part from dozens of distributors at once.
However, one big problem with living in places like that is that you're not near a lot of city services and amenities. A big, big one is restaurants: small towns don't have them; they'll have a handful of crappy places and that's it. (College towns are a little better, but not that much since students are cheap, but they're a lot better than your typical hick town where there's absolutely nothing except fast-food.) While obviously urban areas aren't exactly chock-full of the highest-quality fare, due to their sheer size there's surely something within a short drive that you'll like and that isn't going to give you food poisoning, and the larger and more expensive the area, the more really high-quality restaurants you'll find. Unless you or your spouse is an amateur chef (and doesn't mind cooking all the time, without a break), it really sucks having only 1 or 2 restaurants you can go to, or worse none at all.
Of course, the other thing you miss out on is shopping; it's hard to pick out clothes that'll fit well on a website (though it's probably easier for men than women, but last time I went shopping for jeans I found that I had to have different sizes for different styles of cut, and that's just for pairs of pants all from the same brand!), and you generally get better sales and discounts when you go to stores in-person. However (esp. if you're a typical guy), you probably don't go clothes shopping that often so as long as you're a couple hours away from a decent-sized city that probably isn't that much of a problem; you can just take a trip every 2-3 months and satisfy all your in-person shopping needs and get everything else on the internet.
That's because everything is different in Europe. By most accounts, cities there are actually nice, and it's the suburbs that aren't so great. The reverse is true here in America.
WTF? Where have you lived where your neighbors shunned you for not belonging to the "local church"? I've lived in several places around the country and have never seen that at all (TN, VA, AZ, MS), even though the places I've lived have not exactly been "forward thinking". In any town or city with a population greater than 300, there's multiple churches and people don't all go to the same church. In any normal city, tons of people don't go to church at all, and people just don't ask about it.
Finally, where have you ever lived where you needed to be "accepted by your neighbors"? In all the different places I've lived (probably about 20 different addresses), it was very rare I knew my neighbors well or said much to them besides an occasional "hi". Americans are famous for not interacting with their neighbors.
I'm in the NYC area, and I see a lot of the same thing: a bunch of hoopla about the "Silicon Alley", a bunch of events for people to "network" at, and a lot of talk about VC funding for "great ideas", which are all just Yet Another Social Networking website or app or the like.
Engineers have been going to college for their formal educations since the mid-late 1800s. Before that, there wasn't much industrialization.
However, there is a place where engineers still learn as apprentices, and don't bother with college: Mexico. And that country has a great reputation for engineering prowess...
Yes, but it's not like every single officer shares this attitude you describe; I'm sure lots of them have the knuckleheaded attitude that people can't quit, so why bother being nice to them or worrying about making sure their jobs are rewarding? The way you describe it, it sounds like this has been a big problem in the past (which is why they're testing and adopting new management techniques), and the ex-military officers which the AC above complained about in the civilian world were probably guys who were around before such management techniques were adopted, and they themselves were probably part of the problem.
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So by all means let's have a melting pot. Even if melting two metals together forms a blade weaker than either of the two metals, that blade will still be stronger than a blade made of two separate pieces of metal or a blade made from metals that have not thoroughly blended.
Wrong: bi-metal blades are extremely common in applications like jigsaws (sabre saws) and reciprocating saws ("sawzalls"), because they're more durable than single-metal blades. Bi-metal is not an allow, it's two separate metals joined together, without blending. You see it in blades because with a saw blade, you want the body of the blade to be flexible, but the teeth to be very hard (so they stay sharp), which are opposite qualities. Another example of completely separate metals on a blade is circular saw blades with carbide teeth: the blade is made of one kind of steel, and the teeth are made of small cut pieces of carbide (high-carbon steel), which are actually glued onto the blade body.
Where was this? It certainly wasn't NYC proper, since 1) you can't own a shotgun there, I'm fairly sure, and 2) people in NYC aren't in unions, unless they're tradespeople--Wall Street brokers and web developers certainly aren't in any unions, and 3) NYC has been electing Republican mayors for over a decade now. Anyway, NYC is nothing like the rest of NY state; it really should be its own state. From what I've heard, much of upstate NY is actually quite rural. Finally, I doubt many people in NYC know their neighbors.
You don't withhold FICA and taxes for housekeepers and landscapers; they're private contractors according to the IRS, not employees.
Have anything else retarded to say?
Don't be ridiculous: why would Paypal not be considered acceptable? Ebay (which owns Paypal) is a huge, multibillion dollar company now, and Paypal already sends reports on you to the IRS if you exceed $20k in transactions per year.
Your post sounds idiotic, BTW? When have "liberals" ever restructured any system in recent memory, in a way that hurt that system? Why would Congress restructure the banking system, when the banking system OWNS Congress (what do you think that bail-out was?). If you're referring to ObamaCare, you're an even bigger idiot: ObamaCare was a giant boon to the insurance industry that did nothing to lower costs, and a lot to increase the profitability of the insurance companies.
You sound like one of those morons who thinks the Democrats are "liberals", rather than being in bed with large corporations.
I think it should wait until kids have mastered basic addition and subtraction and multiplication and decimals, but that's it: they should start being exposed to it early (like around 9-10), but have more advanced classes in it later on in high school (where they learn about interest, compound interest, loans, collections, garnishments, child support payments, mortgages, etc.). This stuff is all pretty important for living in modern American society, and it should be taught in school. I don't know if it is or not, but it certainly wasn't back in the 80s and early 90s when I was in school, except maybe in an optional "home economics" class which college-bound kids weren't allowed to attend (and non-college-bound boys did not attend).
No, of course not, but for several reasons. 1) You really don't want to get too entangled with people that have that many problems in life; from what I saw, many of them had constant drama of some kind going on in their lives: relatives going to jail, relatives getting maimed in drug deals gone bad, one housekeeper even had a nephew who raped and murdered a small girl. And 2) they wouldn't know what to do with a CU account. These people operate solely on cash; keeping money in a bank is a foreign concept for them.
Yes, to an extent, people are responsible for themselves and their own decisions, but as a society, it's our (collective) responsibility to educate all our members so that they can function in a modern society, and American society is failing miserably in that regard. These basic life skills like having a bank account and managing money should be taught to kids in grade school and high school, and obviously that's not happening. I had to learn all that stuff on my own, which isn't so hard when you grow up in a middle-class household with a parent who already understands these things (my mom took me to get my own bank account (savings of course) when I was about 10 years old; this was back in the good old days of the 80s when banks didn't charge fees for every little thing), but if your parents don't understand this stuff at all, you're screwed in this society because no one's going to teach you. However, now with even poor people using the internet, maybe things will change because all this stuff can be easily looked up and read about.
No, it's pretty horrific, taking advance of peoples' ignorance like that.
People who get paid with these cards don't have mortgages, and certainly don't save any money.
Yes, that $10 (which at most CUs is refundable when you close your account) is better than being charged $4 every time you want access to your money, but a lot of poor people simply don't think that far ahead, and have zero financial management ability whatsoever. I've seen it with people I've hired for domestic duties; they use check-cashing stores for absolutely everything.
I'd suggest polishing up your resume.
Totally agreed about the rest of your post, and I think this line is the most important part of all. This company is doomed.
Sorry, 52*7 = 364.
24 * 7 = 364. There's 365 days in a year (366 on leap years), so adding the extra "365" does make sense. 24/7/52 would be stupid, because you're effectively saying that 1 day out of the year, something different is happening or not working.
So you don't have to go back through flight school? I met a guy who flew a Blackhawk in the Army, yet he was going to (civilian) helicopter flight school to get his FAA certifications. Maybe the military time doesn't help getting CFI and CFII licenses, which are required to get a job (not by the FAA, but by almost any employer).
Also, the other thing I've heard about military pilots is they frequently don't have that many flight hours. No one will hire you unless you have 1000 hours, except the school you went to, and a lot of jobs require 2000 or more.
All in all, from what I can tell, aviation is a horrible career in the civilian world: there's WAY too many pilots, the pay is lousy, it takes forever to build up to where the pay is enough to live on with a family, and the cost is enormous (which, coupled with the lousy pay for the first 5-10 years is even worse). Worse yet, if someone decides they don't like you, they'll tell all their buddies and you'll never get a job.
Anyone that can cook or has a spouse that can, shouldn't need to go to a fancy restaurant all that often.
I'm not talking about fancy (high-end, expensive) restaurants actually, I'm just talking about good restaurants, ones that make quality food for reasonable prices. They're hard to find these days, and you'll almost never find a chain that serves quality food. Your best bet is family-owned non-chain restaurants (which are still hit-and-miss, but that's better than a 90+% failure rate like you'll get with the corporate chains). You're not going to find many of those in smaller towns; they've all gone under because people are cheap and go to fast food places.
Avoiding things prepared with high fructose corn syrup and damaged fats is difficult, because most restaurants don't publish the ingredients list of their foods.
Exactly, but you're not too likely to find that in a non-chain restaurant I think.
I never thought this place was as ridiculous as /r/atheism on Reddit; maybe I was wrong...
But I'm not so sure that even the people on /r/atheism would believe that silliness the OP wrote about 80% of America.
Yeah, Midlothian's an odd place. I spent some years in Henrico county (not too far from Short Pump) when I was young, which is definitely more conservative, but I don't think that has anywhere near that rural mindset. Of course, I was fairly young at the time, and also maybe things have changed, but also interestingly, I was Catholic too at that time. But I don't think Midlothian is representative of the whole Richmond area.
I partially grew up in Richmond, VA. I don't remember ever being asked that. What part of the city were you in? Somehow I doubt you'd ever be asked that kind of question in The Fan.
There are definitely a bunch of places in Utah like that. But that's a very unique state. Anywhere else, the only place you'd see stuff like that is in tiny villages in midwestern states, most likely.
Maybe, but's he's been modded way up, so apparently the Slashdot crowd really does think that in 80% of the US, you'll be shunned by everyone in a town or city of tens of thousands of residents if you don't attend the one church there, which apparently has seating capacity for 10,000+ people at a time.
Mostly agreed, except for the bit about Digi-Key and Element 14. I order all my stuff from Mouser, Avnet, Arrow, and onlinecomponents.com. Digi-Key has a great selection, but their prices are the highest in the industry. And Element 14 seems to have prices even higher than Mouser, so I'm not sure what the attraction there is. For finding parts, the most useful site I've found is findchips.com: it'll show you what the prices and stock levels are for any part from dozens of distributors at once.
However, one big problem with living in places like that is that you're not near a lot of city services and amenities. A big, big one is restaurants: small towns don't have them; they'll have a handful of crappy places and that's it. (College towns are a little better, but not that much since students are cheap, but they're a lot better than your typical hick town where there's absolutely nothing except fast-food.) While obviously urban areas aren't exactly chock-full of the highest-quality fare, due to their sheer size there's surely something within a short drive that you'll like and that isn't going to give you food poisoning, and the larger and more expensive the area, the more really high-quality restaurants you'll find. Unless you or your spouse is an amateur chef (and doesn't mind cooking all the time, without a break), it really sucks having only 1 or 2 restaurants you can go to, or worse none at all.
Of course, the other thing you miss out on is shopping; it's hard to pick out clothes that'll fit well on a website (though it's probably easier for men than women, but last time I went shopping for jeans I found that I had to have different sizes for different styles of cut, and that's just for pairs of pants all from the same brand!), and you generally get better sales and discounts when you go to stores in-person. However (esp. if you're a typical guy), you probably don't go clothes shopping that often so as long as you're a couple hours away from a decent-sized city that probably isn't that much of a problem; you can just take a trip every 2-3 months and satisfy all your in-person shopping needs and get everything else on the internet.
That's because everything is different in Europe. By most accounts, cities there are actually nice, and it's the suburbs that aren't so great. The reverse is true here in America.
WTF? Where have you lived where your neighbors shunned you for not belonging to the "local church"? I've lived in several places around the country and have never seen that at all (TN, VA, AZ, MS), even though the places I've lived have not exactly been "forward thinking". In any town or city with a population greater than 300, there's multiple churches and people don't all go to the same church. In any normal city, tons of people don't go to church at all, and people just don't ask about it.
Finally, where have you ever lived where you needed to be "accepted by your neighbors"? In all the different places I've lived (probably about 20 different addresses), it was very rare I knew my neighbors well or said much to them besides an occasional "hi". Americans are famous for not interacting with their neighbors.
I'm in the NYC area, and I see a lot of the same thing: a bunch of hoopla about the "Silicon Alley", a bunch of events for people to "network" at, and a lot of talk about VC funding for "great ideas", which are all just Yet Another Social Networking website or app or the like.
Engineers have been going to college for their formal educations since the mid-late 1800s. Before that, there wasn't much industrialization.
However, there is a place where engineers still learn as apprentices, and don't bother with college: Mexico. And that country has a great reputation for engineering prowess...
Yes, but it's not like every single officer shares this attitude you describe; I'm sure lots of them have the knuckleheaded attitude that people can't quit, so why bother being nice to them or worrying about making sure their jobs are rewarding? The way you describe it, it sounds like this has been a big problem in the past (which is why they're testing and adopting new management techniques), and the ex-military officers which the AC above complained about in the civilian world were probably guys who were around before such management techniques were adopted, and they themselves were probably part of the problem.