Most of the I-5/I-205 traffic congestion is caused by Vancouver commuter traffic. Yet, Vancouverites refused to pay for light rail expansion into Vancouver, instead having light rail stop short at the airport. So indirectly, Portland is subsidizing Vancouver by having increased traffic and having to pay for mass transit programs to deal with it.
That's why many people have moved to Vancouver, WA. Lower property tax, no sales tax in neighboring Portland, no income tax, and mooching off of Oregon tax dollars by traveling on I-205/I-5 everyday.
If you only watch his American movies, they certainly do suck.
Try watching the following: Bullet in the Head The Killer Hard Boiled A Better Tomorrow
John Woo has single-handedly redefined the action/gangster genre throughout the 80's. Even when his movies were not watched in the states back then, his influence can easily be seen in filmmakers throughout the world.
Not only that, but some US-branded autos now have many Japanese (as well as others) parts. The Geo Prism has a Corolla engine. Some Chryslers have had Mitsubishi engines for a long time. Some Fords have Mazda engines, etc.
In my youth (and before my engineering life), I had been a musician. I had made loads of money playing music (jazz, classical) at weddings and at Nordstroms. I have even performed a solo on the stages of Carnegie Hall by the time I finished high school.
I love playing music - and it was the competition that turned me off.
There was a competition where it was quite competitive - mostly full of home-schooled kids with parents proverbially putting all their kids' eggs in one basket (the music industry) and pushing them for a life of IB, honors track, and Ivy League schools at all costs. After winning the state-wide contest for 3 years in a row, the parents of 2nd and 3rd place contestants actually put a petition together to reassign the adjudication team (whom I do not know or are related to) for next year's competition. In the competition the following year, they mercifully gave me 2nd place, and the complainee the 1st place.
Hey, last I heard - I'm in a job doing something I like, and PLAYING MY MUSIC AT MY LEISURE AND AS MY HOBBY. The other person is now working as a sales clerk at an arts supply store and teach piano part-time to younger versions of herself.
It all goes back to the whole "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM before." It's a sheepherd mentality amongst the upper management. The writing's all over the wall in regards to cost-savings benefits offered by outsourcing. It's in all the industry rags. It's all that's being talked about at the business cons.
At the day of judgment, I guess none of them wants to be singled out because they "lost" the company millions by not doing what the others have done. It's fair to say that not all of them have investigated the balance sheets carefully enough to understand all the benefits and/or ramifications of outsourcing, but rather have done this simply because others have.
One summer, I worked in a web dev team in a university hospital. We took in "orders" from various professors in the medical school (class webpages and whatnot) and made it for them. One of the huge projects that summer was a complete and concise pictorial encyclopedia of all known STDs (and I don't mean std::cout - well, I suppose it comes from careless std::cin std::cout std::cin std::cout). Let me tell you - I managed to save a lot of money that summer - because I did not need to eat lunch all day during my 8-hr shift after looking at these pieces of art. It's amazing what people can manage to do to themselves.
That's very true. Until 2001, foreign grad students constituted a pool of readily available cheap researchers and lab assistants in higher ed. I've even heard certain academic departments threatening to deport foreign grad students if they unionize along with the other grad students/TA's.
I heard somewhere that 30-40% of US patents were done by foreign scientists working/studying in the US. On the same token, a similarly high percentage of US Ph.D.'s are awarded to foreign students/researchers as well. Until 2001, that is.
Fields like computer science teaches students a real-life application of mathematical ratios, such as 1:50. Or especially at places like tech schools - 1:100.
But what about the day that Wal-Mart has put all the mom-n-pop video stores out of business, and I decided I wanted to rent the Criterion Collection DVD of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai? I don't think this DVD qualifies Wal-Mart's 98% sell-through rate required to be sold there.
Plus they debug much better and make much better code review Nazis (which is always a good thing). Yeah yeah I know it's stereotypical...but at least it applies in my situation.
What about the list for the other side of the spectrum? What the jobs with the highest rates of satisfaction?
A few years ago, I've heard that being an actuary brings the most job satisfaction. Don't they calculate risk tables for insurance companies or something?
I remember doing some calculation back in school - if you can manage to set up a hybrid system (wind and solar together), it's much more efficient. Go off of solar in the day time, and wind in the night time. It's as close to constant generation from natural sources as you're going to get.
That's right. Mod parent up. He understands the secret to keeping the low inflation in the US. Inflation has been kept in check not by cheap Chinese consumer goods, but by goods offered by crackheads. Seriously - where else can you buy a brand new DVD player for $10 at 3am?
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Well, in an indirect way, they are mooching.
Most of the I-5/I-205 traffic congestion is caused by Vancouver commuter traffic. Yet, Vancouverites refused to pay for light rail expansion into Vancouver, instead having light rail stop short at the airport. So indirectly, Portland is subsidizing Vancouver by having increased traffic and having to pay for mass transit programs to deal with it.
That's why many people have moved to Vancouver, WA. Lower property tax, no sales tax in neighboring Portland, no income tax, and mooching off of Oregon tax dollars by traveling on I-205/I-5 everyday.
If you only watch his American movies, they certainly do suck.
Try watching the following:
Bullet in the Head
The Killer
Hard Boiled
A Better Tomorrow
John Woo has single-handedly redefined the action/gangster genre throughout the 80's. Even when his movies were not watched in the states back then, his influence can easily be seen in filmmakers throughout the world.
It's a John Woo movie - that means if you fast-forward through the movie, it will play at normal speed.
1.7 - the '33' in 1337 is silent.
Take the stick shift and:
up, up, down, down, left, right, left right, left turn signal, right turn signal, brake, gas
Where's slacker and moocher?
Today, Japan builds automobiles in the US.
Not only that, but some US-branded autos now have many Japanese (as well as others) parts. The Geo Prism has a Corolla engine. Some Chryslers have had Mitsubishi engines for a long time. Some Fords have Mazda engines, etc.
I see your point.
In my youth (and before my engineering life), I had been a musician. I had made loads of money playing music (jazz, classical) at weddings and at Nordstroms. I have even performed a solo on the stages of Carnegie Hall by the time I finished high school.
I love playing music - and it was the competition that turned me off.
There was a competition where it was quite competitive - mostly full of home-schooled kids with parents proverbially putting all their kids' eggs in one basket (the music industry) and pushing them for a life of IB, honors track, and Ivy League schools at all costs. After winning the state-wide contest for 3 years in a row, the parents of 2nd and 3rd place contestants actually put a petition together to reassign the adjudication team (whom I do not know or are related to) for next year's competition. In the competition the following year, they mercifully gave me 2nd place, and the complainee the 1st place.
Hey, last I heard - I'm in a job doing something I like, and PLAYING MY MUSIC AT MY LEISURE AND AS MY HOBBY. The other person is now working as a sales clerk at an arts supply store and teach piano part-time to younger versions of herself.
It all goes back to the whole "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM before." It's a sheepherd mentality amongst the upper management. The writing's all over the wall in regards to cost-savings benefits offered by outsourcing. It's in all the industry rags. It's all that's being talked about at the business cons.
At the day of judgment, I guess none of them wants to be singled out because they "lost" the company millions by not doing what the others have done. It's fair to say that not all of them have investigated the balance sheets carefully enough to understand all the benefits and/or ramifications of outsourcing, but rather have done this simply because others have.
One summer, I worked in a web dev team in a university hospital. We took in "orders" from various professors in the medical school (class webpages and whatnot) and made it for them. One of the huge projects that summer was a complete and concise pictorial encyclopedia of all known STDs (and I don't mean std::cout - well, I suppose it comes from careless std::cin std::cout std::cin std::cout). Let me tell you - I managed to save a lot of money that summer - because I did not need to eat lunch all day during my 8-hr shift after looking at these pieces of art. It's amazing what people can manage to do to themselves.
On top of all that - it was $9/hr.
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That's very true. Until 2001, foreign grad students constituted a pool of readily available cheap researchers and lab assistants in higher ed. I've even heard certain academic departments threatening to deport foreign grad students if they unionize along with the other grad students/TA's.
I heard somewhere that 30-40% of US patents were done by foreign scientists working/studying in the US. On the same token, a similarly high percentage of US Ph.D.'s are awarded to foreign students/researchers as well. Until 2001, that is.
Fields like computer science teaches students a real-life application of mathematical ratios, such as 1:50. Or especially at places like tech schools - 1:100.
So, not everything Walmart touches turns to crap.
But what about the day that Wal-Mart has put all the mom-n-pop video stores out of business, and I decided I wanted to rent the Criterion Collection DVD of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai? I don't think this DVD qualifies Wal-Mart's 98% sell-through rate required to be sold there.
OK, might as well get it over with:
In Soviet Russia, the KGB unveils you!
Plus they debug much better and make much better code review Nazis (which is always a good thing). Yeah yeah I know it's stereotypical...but at least it applies in my situation.
Teach the honors track or IB. But then you'll have to write 15 recommendation / scholarship letters per week.
What about the list for the other side of the spectrum? What the jobs with the highest rates of satisfaction?
A few years ago, I've heard that being an actuary brings the most job satisfaction. Don't they calculate risk tables for insurance companies or something?
And plus their average salary on the west coast is $90,000/yr, plus bonuses. $85,000 everywhere else in the US.
Bentonville, AR is Wal-Mart's HQ. It's in the heart of the Ozarks.
They've got a Mercedes dealer there, though.
I remember doing some calculation back in school - if you can manage to set up a hybrid system (wind and solar together), it's much more efficient. Go off of solar in the day time, and wind in the night time. It's as close to constant generation from natural sources as you're going to get.
Wow...you need an advanced solar array system set up just for cooling your CPU? What do you run? AMD or something?
That's right. Mod parent up. He understands the secret to keeping the low inflation in the US. Inflation has been kept in check not by cheap Chinese consumer goods, but by goods offered by crackheads. Seriously - where else can you buy a brand new DVD player for $10 at 3am?
Oregon's better. It has Fry's. And no sales tax.