It can't possibly be a small percentage of the population. From coworkers, friends and family that I know of, a good number of them think this way to varying degrees. These people are not rednecks - they live in liberal bastions on the west coast (San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, and even Vancouver if you can believe that) and a good number of them have professional degrees. If people like that live in fear from attacks, imagine the other unwashed masses out there in the flyover states.
Just the American airlines suck. The Asian and some European airlines still have excellent food and booze in coach. Just flew the Paris->Seattle on Air France and the food and wine were excellent in coach. No one sat next to my wife and I in the 4-seat row, so we just laid across the seat and slept like we owned the place.
Most of these guys were $7/hr rent-a-cops before 9/11 and DHS came onboard. Now they're the same people - except now they're fully-funded federal employees making $20/hr doing the same thing.
But the Nexus card: - only works for the car that you register - only you get to blast past all the suckers, not the other passengers in your car with you - need to drive all the way up there for an interview
I just stop by the duty free shop, pay $1.50 for a pack of gum, and blast past 75% of the suckers.
I read somewhere that they're doing roadwork for the road to Lynden for the next 2 years. Sumas will be the only wide open road, but it's too far for me since I tend to go to Vancouver proper for the most part.
The storekeepers in Bellingham say that the expected surge of Canadian dollars has been subdued thus far, due to the fact that Canadians loathe the long lines at the border. 2 hrs or more of waiting during peak times plus over-inquisitive border patrol agents tend to drive away business.
Well, with his 5 healthy sons in their primes and their idle hands from the fact that none of them serve in the war that their father supports, he certainly needs to devote a lot of effort to ensure that none of them engage in anything tomfoolery with their idle hands.
Have you been to a casino? It doesn't matter if you are in Asia, the UK, Monaco, the U.S., Canada, wherever. A significant, if not majority of the players will be of Asian origin. Maybe Asians (east Asians in this case) have a genetic disposition to be more susceptible to addiction?
OK. I'm going to take the rest of the day off and play civ.
I met a girl at a job fair (whom I sort of know) who wrote "Linux administrator" on her resume. It turns out she popped in a Red Hat CD one time and "went all the way to the end installing it on her PC", which is the extent of her experience.
She's now a senior project manager at Microsoft for one of their very visible products. To be fair to MS HR, she is _very very_ well-connected as her daddy is a CIO in a Fortune 30 company (which makes me wonder why she was at a job fair at all...)
Chinese food is probably one of the more universally adapted foods in the world, given that Chinese immigrants are found in many corners of the globe. In Italy, Chinese restaurants serve their food in traditional Italian-like courses - antipasti, secondi, etc.
Because of the Chinese Exclusion Act in the U.S. in the late 1800's, Chinese men were not allowed to bring wives/women over to the U.S.. As a result, these lowly-paid unskilled laborers had to cook their own food, later developed into things like chop suey. (I was told that this "Chinese" food made its way even to the deep trenches of Africa - a place supposedly called "Golden Dragon" in Niger in the Sahara serves goops of chop suey, so I was told) So American and Canadian Chinese food has a tradition of crappiness stemming from immigration restrictions, which finally changed with relaxed immigration policies in recent times.
- Sold 2 of my cars in the last couple years at the posted price - both within 2 hours of posting. - Got my job there. Very happy. - Got all my wedding vendors there. Very happy for the most part. - Run my ads for my side business exclusively on CL. Get more business than I can handle.
I'm in the Puget Sound area too, and I've been mucking around my router thinking it was my setup the whole time (I suspected Comcast, but wasn't sure). So what reputable ISPs are available in our region (Speakeasy?)
One of my previous managers spent a couple years living on the streets of Mexico City (for his post-grad "research"). After 2 weeks of diarrhea, he can go anywhere in the world and eat street vendor food and not get sick.
I just got done talking with an uncle of mine who does a lot of business in China (he's pretty high up in an international engineering firm based in Hong Kong). He says that all the poisonings and shenanigans would not have gone on without the knowledge of their American clients (i.e. the CEOs who wanted to outsource to them in the first place). He says that, for example, extra lead levels in Mattel toys were most likely already known by the bosses in the U.S., and they were just betting that no one would find out (or that the cost of litigation is less than the cost of using materials with lower lead content). Cue the Fight Club quotes.
Shenzhen is perhaps China's biggest magnet for migrant workers. Imagine a city with the population of L.A. doubling its native population within 10 years due to all the demand for workers from all the factories. It's partly due to a need to enforce the inflow of people so that social services don't breakdown overnight.
The term "Made in U.S.A." is sometimes a highly dubious one in the fashion industry. It often means slave labor of illegal Chinese immigrants in the Chinatown sweatshops of L.A. or New York. Or oftentimes in Saipan or Guam, which makes it technically still American soil.
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It can't possibly be a small percentage of the population. From coworkers, friends and family that I know of, a good number of them think this way to varying degrees. These people are not rednecks - they live in liberal bastions on the west coast (San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, and even Vancouver if you can believe that) and a good number of them have professional degrees. If people like that live in fear from attacks, imagine the other unwashed masses out there in the flyover states.
Just the American airlines suck. The Asian and some European airlines still have excellent food and booze in coach. Just flew the Paris->Seattle on Air France and the food and wine were excellent in coach. No one sat next to my wife and I in the 4-seat row, so we just laid across the seat and slept like we owned the place.
Want piece in the bedroom? Pay attention to the wife and give her good service.
Wow! A recursive Freudian slip!
It's even worse if you're poor and their affluent.
Not necessarily. Quite often the other way around. Ask the German Jews circa the 1930's or the Chinese living in Indonesia.
Most of these guys were $7/hr rent-a-cops before 9/11 and DHS came onboard. Now they're the same people - except now they're fully-funded federal employees making $20/hr doing the same thing.
But the Nexus card:
- only works for the car that you register
- only you get to blast past all the suckers, not the other passengers in your car with you
- need to drive all the way up there for an interview
I just stop by the duty free shop, pay $1.50 for a pack of gum, and blast past 75% of the suckers.
I read somewhere that they're doing roadwork for the road to Lynden for the next 2 years. Sumas will be the only wide open road, but it's too far for me since I tend to go to Vancouver proper for the most part.
I had mine over 6 months ago in Vancouver. Good times.
My friend just had his in Vancouver last week. Those dollar bills aren't as desired as before...
The storekeepers in Bellingham say that the expected surge of Canadian dollars has been subdued thus far, due to the fact that Canadians loathe the long lines at the border. 2 hrs or more of waiting during peak times plus over-inquisitive border patrol agents tend to drive away business.
Well, with his 5 healthy sons in their primes and their idle hands from the fact that none of them serve in the war that their father supports, he certainly needs to devote a lot of effort to ensure that none of them engage in anything tomfoolery with their idle hands.
Have you been to a casino? It doesn't matter if you are in Asia, the UK, Monaco, the U.S., Canada, wherever. A significant, if not majority of the players will be of Asian origin. Maybe Asians (east Asians in this case) have a genetic disposition to be more susceptible to addiction?
OK. I'm going to take the rest of the day off and play civ.
I met a girl at a job fair (whom I sort of know) who wrote "Linux administrator" on her resume. It turns out she popped in a Red Hat CD one time and "went all the way to the end installing it on her PC", which is the extent of her experience.
She's now a senior project manager at Microsoft for one of their very visible products. To be fair to MS HR, she is _very very_ well-connected as her daddy is a CIO in a Fortune 30 company (which makes me wonder why she was at a job fair at all...)
marginalisation of women
Interestingly enough, Muslim countries such as Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Turkey have elected women as presidents.
Chinese food is probably one of the more universally adapted foods in the world, given that Chinese immigrants are found in many corners of the globe. In Italy, Chinese restaurants serve their food in traditional Italian-like courses - antipasti, secondi, etc.
Because of the Chinese Exclusion Act in the U.S. in the late 1800's, Chinese men were not allowed to bring wives/women over to the U.S.. As a result, these lowly-paid unskilled laborers had to cook their own food, later developed into things like chop suey. (I was told that this "Chinese" food made its way even to the deep trenches of Africa - a place supposedly called "Golden Dragon" in Niger in the Sahara serves goops of chop suey, so I was told) So American and Canadian Chinese food has a tradition of crappiness stemming from immigration restrictions, which finally changed with relaxed immigration policies in recent times.
"By the time they say what time it is, isn't it already over?" and "Do they do it every second?"
Oh my you've bred yourself there an embedded programmer.
Honda exports $2 billion worth of soybeans to Japan every year, in containers which carry car parts to the U.S..
I'll be another data point for your "research":
- Sold 2 of my cars in the last couple years at the posted price - both within 2 hours of posting.
- Got my job there. Very happy.
- Got all my wedding vendors there. Very happy for the most part.
- Run my ads for my side business exclusively on CL. Get more business than I can handle.
Maybe she meant The Police.
:-)
Those no good rock n rollers with their ungodly riff raff should be all locked up!
I'm in the Puget Sound area too, and I've been mucking around my router thinking it was my setup the whole time (I suspected Comcast, but wasn't sure). So what reputable ISPs are available in our region (Speakeasy?)
Overheard In New York
One of my previous managers spent a couple years living on the streets of Mexico City (for his post-grad "research"). After 2 weeks of diarrhea, he can go anywhere in the world and eat street vendor food and not get sick.
Load up on stocks from McDonald's, Jack in the Box, and Sizzler's.
I just got done talking with an uncle of mine who does a lot of business in China (he's pretty high up in an international engineering firm based in Hong Kong). He says that all the poisonings and shenanigans would not have gone on without the knowledge of their American clients (i.e. the CEOs who wanted to outsource to them in the first place). He says that, for example, extra lead levels in Mattel toys were most likely already known by the bosses in the U.S., and they were just betting that no one would find out (or that the cost of litigation is less than the cost of using materials with lower lead content). Cue the Fight Club quotes.
Shenzhen is perhaps China's biggest magnet for migrant workers. Imagine a city with the population of L.A. doubling its native population within 10 years due to all the demand for workers from all the factories. It's partly due to a need to enforce the inflow of people so that social services don't breakdown overnight.
The term "Made in U.S.A." is sometimes a highly dubious one in the fashion industry. It often means slave labor of illegal Chinese immigrants in the Chinatown sweatshops of L.A. or New York. Or oftentimes in Saipan or Guam, which makes it technically still American soil.