How does the 1/6 of the workforce compare to other states?
That brings up some even more interesting data.
California, the bastion of all that's evil socialism and big government, employs 2.4 million public sector workers. Out of a population of 38 million. That's 6.3% of the total population. Some other estimates count even fewer public employees.
Texas, on the other hand, has 16.66% of its population on the public payroll.
They've been outsourcing for many years - to Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia. Most textile and clothing is now in these countries due to the increased labor costs in China. With the cultural and relationships headway China is making in Africa, manufacturing will soon move there once SE Asia becomes too expensive.
Apparently, Chinese companies have been also outsourcing to another Third World location with cheaper land and cheaper electricity - South Carolina.
No, it's because people now "require" a 3000 sq ft house, a home theater, $200 monthly cable subscription, $200 monthly cell phone bills, and 2 cars each costing north of $25000.
People in the "good old days" only needed a single income because they didn't "need" anywhere near this level of luxuries that we have today.
"Between December 2007 and [June 2011], private-sector employment in Texas declined by 0.6 percent while public-sector jobs increased by 6.4 percent, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. Overall, government employees account for about one-sixth of the workforce in Texas."
My pregnant wife wanted a manual pat-down, and this TSA drone proceeded to give me a lecture about how we shouldn't be afraid of "radiation" and how it's very safe. Then I told him that the government never released any health test data from these machines, et cetera. Thinking back, he could have given me a lot of trouble for that talkback, but didn't.
It's hard to have long term plans in a direct or indirect democracy. Too many people having too much say in things.
Ignoring the social and economic costs for a moment - prior to the Beijing Olympics, the government built an entire subway line under a crowded world capital city in 7 months. Projects like this require a "benevolent" dictator.
Airlines and plane manufacturers are very sensitive to weight.
A 12 oz canned beverage is served to 2 passengers. For a flight with 150 people, that's 75 cans - about 60 lbs. Do the math and you're all of the sudden paying for fuel to carry tens of millions of pounds every year in your fleet - and that's just the complementary beverages.
Every little bit counts. Delta, for example, saved $210,000 a year by removing a single strawberry from their first class salads. If a pack of peanuts goes up by a penny, it's an extra $600,000 a year. These "little" things add up.
Nah, don't knock Ryan Air. If you follow on their instructions exactly, and carry no more than and no bigger than their restrictions and buy nothing onboard, you can do very well.
I flew from Madrid to Morocco for 10 Euros after taxes, and had my backpack with me.
This was the premise of a Stephen King short story. A little boy decides to hold his breath while they administered the "gas" just to see what happens during hyper teleportation or whatever, and bad things happened.
You can easily Google travelogues of many who have made the journey. The photos are very intriguing and amazingly surreal. It looks like a good chunk of these tourists are Americans. I believe all the tours operate out of an authorized travel agency based out of Beijing.
All these tour experiences sound the same. The same 2 Mercedes sedans endlessly circling the city streets where the tour group happens to walk. The same suited men with briefcases who walk in and out of the subway trains. Lots and lots of food (not top-notch of course, but miles away from anything the general population outside of the major cities has ever laid eyes on). And lots of shows involving five digits worth of performers in a insanely large sports stadium. And constant watch from government tour minders - whom a few have successfully befriended enough to let loose the reigns a bit at times.
Last time I was in Kauai and Maui, it seemed like a huge chunk of the tourists were now from Australia. I talked to some of them, and they said it's actually cheaper for them to vacation in Hawaii than Bali which is closer (and more third world). And of course they said all this while doing the hand motion for throwing dollar bills out in front of them while ordering a free round for everyone around them.
AFDX and the Rockwell CDN is not just "COTS hardware and Ethernet". AFDX/664 is a protocol based on UDP packets coupled with hardware redundancy, real-time data transfer, and packet time/sequencing verification. Having the technology based on UDP packets makes it possible to use existing RJ-45 cables and cheap switches for development.
...and to fill up gas on the way down to the Premium Outlets, where they return with 20 Coach bags on each woman's arm (I swear, customs officer - I brought these down from Vancouver and therefore are not subject to import duties. Wink.)
I went for a walk with my future wife at the time in the area, and accidentally stumbled upon the 2000 LinuxFest. They had just set up and didn't even have an entrance sign at the time. She noted at the time "what's that smell?" We walked around for about 15-20 minutes and realized it was a Linux convention. They were doing a conference/workshop on concurrency or something like that.
Off-topic: I've lived in Portland for 15 years (and in the late 80s and early 90s during the Drexler dynasty if anything) and I still have not discovered the origins of "Rip City".
Outsiders scratch their heads thinking - is the city dead or something? "RIP" city?
Despite all that's wrong with Iran, they have a very decent education system - that is even accessible for women, as I was told.
When I was at the University of Washington, there were quite a number of good researchers, lecturers, and post-grads I encountered in engineering and chemistry (both male and female) were educated in Iran.
There were a lot of Christians on my Facebook feed - none of them extremists or anything, mind you - but they certainly felt the need to tell the world that the shootings were a direct result of removing God from the school system.
To me, that is intellectually the same as what the Westboro folks believe. Just without the picketing.
No kidding. I just upgraded my 6-year-old Core 2 Duo box (which was no spring chicken even back then) and am always pleasantly surprised to find that my dollars are going that much further.
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I see what you did there.
My wife pumps several times a day while at work and brings home the milk. I (or another person) can feed the baby via bottle at home.
It's not easy, but it can be done. The baby still gets all the nutritional benefits, but unfortunately not the bonding experiences.
How does the 1/6 of the workforce compare to other states?
That brings up some even more interesting data.
California, the bastion of all that's evil socialism and big government, employs 2.4 million public sector workers. Out of a population of 38 million. That's 6.3% of the total population. Some other estimates count even fewer public employees.
Texas, on the other hand, has 16.66% of its population on the public payroll.
They've been outsourcing for many years - to Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia. Most textile and clothing is now in these countries due to the increased labor costs in China. With the cultural and relationships headway China is making in Africa, manufacturing will soon move there once SE Asia becomes too expensive.
Apparently, Chinese companies have been also outsourcing to another Third World location with cheaper land and cheaper electricity - South Carolina.
http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/06/news/international/china_america_full.fortune/
No, it's because people now "require" a 3000 sq ft house, a home theater, $200 monthly cable subscription, $200 monthly cell phone bills, and 2 cars each costing north of $25000.
People in the "good old days" only needed a single income because they didn't "need" anywhere near this level of luxuries that we have today.
Looks like Texans are the big leechers:
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-08-20/business/35270608_1_job-growth-rick-perry-public-sector-jobs
"Between December 2007 and [June 2011], private-sector employment in Texas declined by 0.6 percent while public-sector jobs increased by 6.4 percent, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. Overall, government employees account for about one-sixth of the workforce in Texas."
Pulling up by the bootstraps, my foot.
Do the Google hits that associate [name] with [crime] suddenly disappear when they are exonerated?
Since they're Chechnyans, they are, in the literal sense of the word, Caucasians.
To put up with a week of cruiseline food and entertainment, I think most of the rich would rather just pay the top cap gains rate instead.
My pregnant wife wanted a manual pat-down, and this TSA drone proceeded to give me a lecture about how we shouldn't be afraid of "radiation" and how it's very safe. Then I told him that the government never released any health test data from these machines, et cetera. Thinking back, he could have given me a lot of trouble for that talkback, but didn't.
It's hard to have long term plans in a direct or indirect democracy. Too many people having too much say in things.
Ignoring the social and economic costs for a moment - prior to the Beijing Olympics, the government built an entire subway line under a crowded world capital city in 7 months. Projects like this require a "benevolent" dictator.
Airlines and plane manufacturers are very sensitive to weight.
A 12 oz canned beverage is served to 2 passengers. For a flight with 150 people, that's 75 cans - about 60 lbs. Do the math and you're all of the sudden paying for fuel to carry tens of millions of pounds every year in your fleet - and that's just the complementary beverages.
Every little bit counts. Delta, for example, saved $210,000 a year by removing a single strawberry from their first class salads. If a pack of peanuts goes up by a penny, it's an extra $600,000 a year. These "little" things add up.
Nah, don't knock Ryan Air. If you follow on their instructions exactly, and carry no more than and no bigger than their restrictions and buy nothing onboard, you can do very well.
I flew from Madrid to Morocco for 10 Euros after taxes, and had my backpack with me.
This was the premise of a Stephen King short story. A little boy decides to hold his breath while they administered the "gas" just to see what happens during hyper teleportation or whatever, and bad things happened.
You can easily Google travelogues of many who have made the journey. The photos are very intriguing and amazingly surreal. It looks like a good chunk of these tourists are Americans. I believe all the tours operate out of an authorized travel agency based out of Beijing.
All these tour experiences sound the same. The same 2 Mercedes sedans endlessly circling the city streets where the tour group happens to walk. The same suited men with briefcases who walk in and out of the subway trains. Lots and lots of food (not top-notch of course, but miles away from anything the general population outside of the major cities has ever laid eyes on). And lots of shows involving five digits worth of performers in a insanely large sports stadium. And constant watch from government tour minders - whom a few have successfully befriended enough to let loose the reigns a bit at times.
Last time I was in Kauai and Maui, it seemed like a huge chunk of the tourists were now from Australia. I talked to some of them, and they said it's actually cheaper for them to vacation in Hawaii than Bali which is closer (and more third world). And of course they said all this while doing the hand motion for throwing dollar bills out in front of them while ordering a free round for everyone around them.
AFDX and the Rockwell CDN is not just "COTS hardware and Ethernet". AFDX/664 is a protocol based on UDP packets coupled with hardware redundancy, real-time data transfer, and packet time/sequencing verification. Having the technology based on UDP packets makes it possible to use existing RJ-45 cables and cheap switches for development.
Yup, he has an Armenian last name and lives in the Armenian enclave of Glendale.
...and to fill up gas on the way down to the Premium Outlets, where they return with 20 Coach bags on each woman's arm (I swear, customs officer - I brought these down from Vancouver and therefore are not subject to import duties. Wink.)
I went for a walk with my future wife at the time in the area, and accidentally stumbled upon the 2000 LinuxFest. They had just set up and didn't even have an entrance sign at the time. She noted at the time "what's that smell?" We walked around for about 15-20 minutes and realized it was a Linux convention. They were doing a conference/workshop on concurrency or something like that.
Off-topic: I've lived in Portland for 15 years (and in the late 80s and early 90s during the Drexler dynasty if anything) and I still have not discovered the origins of "Rip City".
Outsiders scratch their heads thinking - is the city dead or something? "RIP" city?
Despite all that's wrong with Iran, they have a very decent education system - that is even accessible for women, as I was told.
When I was at the University of Washington, there were quite a number of good researchers, lecturers, and post-grads I encountered in engineering and chemistry (both male and female) were educated in Iran.
I've also heard some things about the Hawaiian tourist lobby having some push here too. Does anyone know if that's still true?
There were a lot of Christians on my Facebook feed - none of them extremists or anything, mind you - but they certainly felt the need to tell the world that the shootings were a direct result of removing God from the school system.
To me, that is intellectually the same as what the Westboro folks believe. Just without the picketing.
There's a reason for the saying "Never bring a knife to a gun fight".
No kidding. I just upgraded my 6-year-old Core 2 Duo box (which was no spring chicken even back then) and am always pleasantly surprised to find that my dollars are going that much further.
i7 3770k - $250
8GB RAM - $25
Motherboard - $100
3TB hard drive - $89
Radeon 7700 - $70
430W power supply - $20
All for $550.