Federal Way, WA. I lived there for a few months while doing an internship at Weyerhaeuser. It's mostly a bedroom community which rallies itself around Seatac Mall, which is a ghetto-ass mall which recently tried to reinvent itself as some fuzzy warm community gathering place (although it's impossible to get anywhere without a car - kind of like the time I spent around Dearborn, Michigan). The people there are for the most part middle class conservative-leaning folks (not as redneck and Bible thumping as Auburn or Lakewood but pretty close). Although on the morning of 9/11, I remember driving by a McDonald's where some young kids held up signs that said "Kill all fuckin' Arabs!" (which drew plenty of joyous honking from passersby) and a patriotic rally was held nearby at Cheney Stadium out of all places. They like to say that they're ethnically diverse, but the ethnic diversity is entirely made up of the large Korean population (even the mayor is Korean). But a good part of these Koreans like to live there (as well as Federal Way's mirror up north called Lynnwood) because most of this group are evangelicals and fit right in the community. When I rode the bus, more than half of the Federal Way Koreans going to work in downtown Seattle were reading the Bible quite intensely.
Federal Way does have the best Korean food in the Seattle area. But other than that, there's not a damn thing to do in Federal Way.
Needless to say, I did not enjoy my time there and moved back north as soon as possible. This news story does not surprise me. Washington state may be liberal, but only around the densely-populated pockets on I-5.
A Cadillac would have been considered a good American status symbol in the 50's or so. But you're now talking about a car which will depreciate significantly even within its warranty period. A quick search on Kelley's Blue Book shows that a Cadillac Seville 4-door depreciates to only around $11,000 after only 5 years.
Mercedes, despite its crappy quality these days in many of its models, will remain for a long time a status of luxury in the minds of many throughout the world.
But nowadays, I hear they're selling more Buicks in China than in the US.
I am not Filipino. But I've been told that the Philippines has some of the best nursing education around. States like California cannot recruit enough nurses for their hospitals, so they actively recruit from the Philippines.
When I was in high school, a Japanese exchange student told me that many Japanese teens heat up Nissin Cup Noodles, let it sit in cold water for a couple minutes, then drill a hole at the bottom of the cup and use it as a poor man's FleshLight (not worksafe). Quoth him, "I feels like real thing, man."
Obviously, he did not eat too much of his own inventions.:-)
But seriously, instant noodles nowadays are pretty bad (nutritionally - lots of "50% saturated fat, etc." types out there). Even after draining it through hot water and using your own soup and flavoring, you're still dealing with fried noodles for the most part.
My favorite is a vegetarian ramen from Taiwan. I haven't had a better one. Whatever chemicals they put in there to make the noodles taste good and have a good texture, they've got it all correct. Is there a food critic-type site that catalogs all brands and flavors of Ramen?
When I interviewed at Ford, I interviewed with a guy whom I only later found out was one of Jaguar's design engineers. He asked for my frank opinions of Jaguars. I told him that, with all due respect, Jaguars nowadays resemble Tauruses with leather. He looked quite shocked. He ended offering me a position on the engineering team (which I declined) because they were hungry was these types of "fresh blood" thinking instead of just the usual yes-sir mentality moping around the Big Three leadership.
I can't find it right now but there is also the instance in the 1800's about the civil war in China that was started by a guy who thought he was Jesus's brother. I can't seem to find it on Wiki right now since the names spelling evades me. But that costed several million lives as well.
The Taiping Rebellion involved the forces of the Qing Empire in China and those inspired by a Hakka self-proclaimed mystic named Hong Xiuquan, a Christian convert who had declared himself the new Messiah and younger brother of Jesus Christ and Yang Xiuqing a former salesman of firewood in Guanlubu who was frequently able to act as a mouthpiece of God to direct the people and gain himself a large amount of political power. Hong, Yang and their followers established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (also Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace, officially written literally 'Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace') and attained control of significant parts of southern China.
Most accurate sources put the total deaths at about 20 million civilians and army personnel [1], although some claim the death toll was much higher (as many as 50 million according to at least one source [2]). Some historians estimate the combination of natural disasters combined with the political insurrections may have cost as many as 200 million Chinese lives between 1850 and 1865 [3]. That figure is generally thought to be an exaggeration, as it is approximately half the estimated population of China in 1851.[4]
America has one of the highest literacy rates in the world, and the quality of talent is rising every day. To say that the Americans you know don't have a grasp of the Vietnamese language, and that by extension the rest of the country doesn't is just wrong.
See. That didn't make any sense either. There is no tradition of English in Vietnamese society, unlike Singapore or Hong Kong which were former British colonies.
According to the news reports (listening on and off), Kim's problem was that he ONLY used GPS for navigation, instead of a paper map. GPS did not tell him that the road was closed for the winter. He took that road because GPS told him it was the shortest route to his next destination.
I've traveled that road before. It's clearly marked "Closed in Winter" on my AAA maps. Although it was mentioned that he may have exclusively used GPS for navigation.
Interesting that you brought up covering your car in snow and sticking a sign out. The snow would have covered the sign up pretty quickly, right? About 10 years ago, some other guy died on the same road when he got snowbound in his RV and trapped in the snow. He died from starvation 66 days later, but kept a diary of his ordeal. (Too lazy to google for exact details, just regurging what I heard on the news).
we have shitty cell providers in the U.S. due to lack of a healthy marketplace. I just got back from Asia, and even homeless people have cell phones because it's cheaper than a landline. (Not because I was out in the boonies where landlines don't make sense, but in major cities like Hong Kong).
Just depends on where you live. In Vancouver, Canada, there are very few left turn lanes on the major thoroughfares, so you'll always have 3-4 cars waiting in the intersection and turning left right when it turns red. (I've seen this in NYC too).
One day, older American will weep and younger Americans will be confused by lines like:
Capt. Vasili Borodin: I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that? Captain Ramius: I suppose. Capt. Vasili Borodin: No papers? Captain Ramius: No papers, state to state. Capt. Vasili Borodin: Well then, in winter I will live in... Arizona. Actually, I think I will need two wives. Captain Ramius: Oh, at least.
Well...you can't exactly expect people to want to talk about it on email. Fly those same friends over to the West and I'm sure they'll spill the goods. I work for a Fortune 500 company and I've already met 3 people working in our subsidiary in China who actually were IN the protests.
My fiancee has a Ph.D. and is making boatloads of money and is reasonably intelligent in a wide variety of topics save history and geography. She didn't know that the Eiffel Tower was in Paris. With all the new bling bling and bright shiny objects being exported to China these days, it's very possible that a large number of people would grow up ignorant of even their own history.
I have to second what the parent said. Unless you lived way out in the western frontier of China, there is no way that they would not have heard of the incident.
But then I know 16-18 kids recently from China who don't know their own president, vice-president, etc. They have their fair share of slackers and ignoramuses these days too.
But then again. Keep using your anti-bacterial soap, and when the real bad bacteria comes for you, you'll be even worse off in the long run. Pussification is a bad thing if you're the only one being pussified.
See? First the Bush administration legalizes torture, now Microsoft is now legally able to restrict web access to only one hour a day! Where's the outrage!? Donate to Amnesty now!
I wish that was funny. When I ate at a restaurant in Vancouver a month ago, the bill was $53 Canadian. The credit card statement (of which the card has favorable foreign exchange rates) showed $49 American.
I wonder when the US Dollar will be at parity with the Peso.
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You're assuming that members of his family and community breed with outsiders.
Federal Way, WA. I lived there for a few months while doing an internship at Weyerhaeuser. It's mostly a bedroom community which rallies itself around Seatac Mall, which is a ghetto-ass mall which recently tried to reinvent itself as some fuzzy warm community gathering place (although it's impossible to get anywhere without a car - kind of like the time I spent around Dearborn, Michigan). The people there are for the most part middle class conservative-leaning folks (not as redneck and Bible thumping as Auburn or Lakewood but pretty close). Although on the morning of 9/11, I remember driving by a McDonald's where some young kids held up signs that said "Kill all fuckin' Arabs!" (which drew plenty of joyous honking from passersby) and a patriotic rally was held nearby at Cheney Stadium out of all places. They like to say that they're ethnically diverse, but the ethnic diversity is entirely made up of the large Korean population (even the mayor is Korean). But a good part of these Koreans like to live there (as well as Federal Way's mirror up north called Lynnwood) because most of this group are evangelicals and fit right in the community. When I rode the bus, more than half of the Federal Way Koreans going to work in downtown Seattle were reading the Bible quite intensely. Federal Way does have the best Korean food in the Seattle area. But other than that, there's not a damn thing to do in Federal Way. Needless to say, I did not enjoy my time there and moved back north as soon as possible. This news story does not surprise me. Washington state may be liberal, but only around the densely-populated pockets on I-5.
Rename title of story to "HD-DVD wins 96% of next-gen DVD market share".
A Cadillac would have been considered a good American status symbol in the 50's or so. But you're now talking about a car which will depreciate significantly even within its warranty period. A quick search on Kelley's Blue Book shows that a Cadillac Seville 4-door depreciates to only around $11,000 after only 5 years.
Mercedes, despite its crappy quality these days in many of its models, will remain for a long time a status of luxury in the minds of many throughout the world.
But nowadays, I hear they're selling more Buicks in China than in the US.
I am not Filipino. But I've been told that the Philippines has some of the best nursing education around. States like California cannot recruit enough nurses for their hospitals, so they actively recruit from the Philippines.
When I was in high school, a Japanese exchange student told me that many Japanese teens heat up Nissin Cup Noodles, let it sit in cold water for a couple minutes, then drill a hole at the bottom of the cup and use it as a poor man's FleshLight (not worksafe). Quoth him, "I feels like real thing, man."
Obviously, he did not eat too much of his own inventions. :-)
But seriously, instant noodles nowadays are pretty bad (nutritionally - lots of "50% saturated fat, etc." types out there). Even after draining it through hot water and using your own soup and flavoring, you're still dealing with fried noodles for the most part.
My favorite is a vegetarian ramen from Taiwan. I haven't had a better one. Whatever chemicals they put in there to make the noodles taste good and have a good texture, they've got it all correct. Is there a food critic-type site that catalogs all brands and flavors of Ramen?
A passport has an RFID implanted if it has this symbol.
I renewed mine about 1.5 months ago and didn't have it.
Ooh I can answer this.
When I interviewed at Ford, I interviewed with a guy whom I only later found out was one of Jaguar's design engineers. He asked for my frank opinions of Jaguars. I told him that, with all due respect, Jaguars nowadays resemble Tauruses with leather. He looked quite shocked. He ended offering me a position on the engineering team (which I declined) because they were hungry was these types of "fresh blood" thinking instead of just the usual yes-sir mentality moping around the Big Three leadership.
I can't find it right now but there is also the instance in the 1800's about the civil war in China that was started by a guy who thought he was Jesus's brother. I can't seem to find it on Wiki right now since the names spelling evades me. But that costed several million lives as well.
The Taiping Rebellion involved the forces of the Qing Empire in China and those inspired by a Hakka self-proclaimed mystic named Hong Xiuquan, a Christian convert who had declared himself the new Messiah and younger brother of Jesus Christ and Yang Xiuqing a former salesman of firewood in Guanlubu who was frequently able to act as a mouthpiece of God to direct the people and gain himself a large amount of political power. Hong, Yang and their followers established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (also Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace, officially written literally 'Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace') and attained control of significant parts of southern China. Most accurate sources put the total deaths at about 20 million civilians and army personnel [1], although some claim the death toll was much higher (as many as 50 million according to at least one source [2]). Some historians estimate the combination of natural disasters combined with the political insurrections may have cost as many as 200 million Chinese lives between 1850 and 1865 [3]. That figure is generally thought to be an exaggeration, as it is approximately half the estimated population of China in 1851.[4]
America has one of the highest literacy rates in the world, and the quality of talent is rising every day. To say that the Americans you know don't have a grasp of the Vietnamese language, and that by extension the rest of the country doesn't is just wrong.
See. That didn't make any sense either. There is no tradition of English in Vietnamese society, unlike Singapore or Hong Kong which were former British colonies.
According to the news reports (listening on and off), Kim's problem was that he ONLY used GPS for navigation, instead of a paper map. GPS did not tell him that the road was closed for the winter. He took that road because GPS told him it was the shortest route to his next destination.
I've traveled that road before. It's clearly marked "Closed in Winter" on my AAA maps. Although it was mentioned that he may have exclusively used GPS for navigation.
Interesting that you brought up covering your car in snow and sticking a sign out. The snow would have covered the sign up pretty quickly, right? About 10 years ago, some other guy died on the same road when he got snowbound in his RV and trapped in the snow. He died from starvation 66 days later, but kept a diary of his ordeal. (Too lazy to google for exact details, just regurging what I heard on the news).
Yes, in Hood River, OR - right next to the Bonneville Dam which supplies a big chunk of electricity in the west.
we have shitty cell providers in the U.S. due to lack of a healthy marketplace. I just got back from Asia, and even homeless people have cell phones because it's cheaper than a landline. (Not because I was out in the boonies where landlines don't make sense, but in major cities like Hong Kong).
Just depends on where you live. In Vancouver, Canada, there are very few left turn lanes on the major thoroughfares, so you'll always have 3-4 cars waiting in the intersection and turning left right when it turns red. (I've seen this in NYC too).
I have one from 1984. Still working even after I dropped it on concrete numerous times. It has the signature 80's metallic plastic.
One day, older American will weep and younger Americans will be confused by lines like:
Capt. Vasili Borodin: I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?
Captain Ramius: I suppose.
Capt. Vasili Borodin: No papers?
Captain Ramius: No papers, state to state.
Capt. Vasili Borodin: Well then, in winter I will live in... Arizona. Actually, I think I will need two wives.
Captain Ramius: Oh, at least.
Well...you can't exactly expect people to want to talk about it on email. Fly those same friends over to the West and I'm sure they'll spill the goods. I work for a Fortune 500 company and I've already met 3 people working in our subsidiary in China who actually were IN the protests.
My fiancee has a Ph.D. and is making boatloads of money and is reasonably intelligent in a wide variety of topics save history and geography. She didn't know that the Eiffel Tower was in Paris. With all the new bling bling and bright shiny objects being exported to China these days, it's very possible that a large number of people would grow up ignorant of even their own history.
I have to second what the parent said. Unless you lived way out in the western frontier of China, there is no way that they would not have heard of the incident.
But then I know 16-18 kids recently from China who don't know their own president, vice-president, etc. They have their fair share of slackers and ignoramuses these days too.
I agree with your sentiments.
But then again. Keep using your anti-bacterial soap, and when the real bad bacteria comes for you, you'll be even worse off in the long run. Pussification is a bad thing if you're the only one being pussified.
Sell. KeyBank Stock. Now.
I just got 2 of those (his and hers) Fedexed to me last week. Last I looked - these things ran for $150 each at Costco for the 2GB model.
Another offer that can be attached to it is the refer-a-friend program. Both get $25 gift cards for referrals, up to $500 or something.
How they hoped to get mortgage or car loan business from cheapskates like me is beyond me.
Don't be so sure. I've seen quite a few comments already about how "cool" and "faster" Linux will be now that it's real-time.
See? First the Bush administration legalizes torture, now Microsoft is now legally able to restrict web access to only one hour a day! Where's the outrage!? Donate to Amnesty now!
I wish that was funny. When I ate at a restaurant in Vancouver a month ago, the bill was $53 Canadian. The credit card statement (of which the card has favorable foreign exchange rates) showed $49 American.
I wonder when the US Dollar will be at parity with the Peso.