If I want to cook a steak, it costs me more to buy the raw steak and sides than to just go out and buy one at a restaurant.
I just got some grass-fed organic steak, some fingerling potatoes for under $20. The equivalent food at a restaurant of equivalent quality would charge me at least $40. Oh and included in the $20 was a hearty glass of Argentinian malbec.
I did EE @ University of Washington about 10 years ago. It was, I was told, an abnormal year where he had 40% female in the undergrad class and 50% in the graduate program - and not imported females either, but actual American-born white people (otherwise it was a pretty heavy Asian student body) and quite a number of them would fit right in the business school in terms of looks and dress.
The CS dept, on the other hand, was a complete sausage fest. 20:1 male/female ratio of a study group walking to grab food was a pretty common sight.
In addition to Finland, Iceland seems to be quite homogeneous. So much so that pharmaceutical companies do research there. Someone went to Iceland and took random pictures of people on the street at regular time intervals, and many people on those pictures showed resemblance of facial features.
150 Canadians...out of a population of 35 million...had to come to the US for care between 2006-2009.
So only 0.004% of their population slipped through the cracks of their system in 3 years' time. Woopie do. Sounds like a fantastic system compared to what we have, especially considering Canada spends only 2/3 of what we spend on health care as % of GDP.
Thanks for sharing that. I've always assumed that the city had sent them there at taxpayer expense - and it's usually highly questionable as they're always directing traffic in front of expensive shopping centers or at the high profile private sporting events.
When the Bush daughters were in Buenos Aires, they got their purse stolen in broad daylight, while under Secret Service protection. That's pretty hardcore.
When I was in the Buenos Aires subway, someone bumped into me, and everyone on the train just assumed I had my wallet stolen (it wasn't, as I was careful). It's that bad down there apparently.
I'm no expert in cars, but I've replaced my own brake pads, changed my own oil, and recently even worked through a do-it-yourself oxygen sensor replacement.
Then you're already in the 99% percentile of car knowledge in this country. You must be aware that they make cars now with no dipsticks, because people can't be bothered to even do that (or TPMS replacing the "arduous" task of checking tire pressure).
Libertarians (at least on paper) won't like Costa Rica - they have one of the highly-ranked universal health care systems in the world, and their gas prices are set by the government (same price in every station in the country).
Funny how I hear this logic so often from folks who believe unwaveringly in the magic of the free market (such as yourself, going by your sig). The desirability of certain locales is built into the prices - simple as that.
If you like to eat on a regular basis not made in a chain restaurant or ethnic (real ethnic, not watered-down for Americans), you have to live in a big city. If you want to attend live music performance worth a darn on a regular basis, you have to live in a big city. So no - depending on your personal needs, you may very well not get the 100% big city experience just through Fedex.
That's a good point. They happily tear down Beijing hutongs built back in the 1600s, chisel Starbucks stores into the Great Wall's bricks, but will build these gaudy imitations of other people's "old stuff".
At least they learned soon enough to not dump their litter into the summer palace lakes of Hangzhou and Suzhou. Of course the serene view is now obstructed by the skyscrapers nearby.
The Communist Party officially recognizes 55 ethnic minority groups in China. In many autonomous regions, the local indigenous language is taught and used in an official capacity. They're also exempt from the One Child Policy.
The Filipinos are just as fervently religious, if not more, than the South Koreans. These have been the two must-stops for all American evangelical tours for a very long time. Lots of tap on the forehead and fall backwards on the stage going on over in these places.
In the South, it is socially. When I meet people for the first time, within the first 10 minutes the question invariably comes: not "do you go to church", but "which church do you go to"?
My wife was once a loan officer specializing in non-profits. It certainly dulls your sense of religious-ness-sy as you see an endless sea of "clergymen" filing in day after day, from churches both large and small, talking about their "breakeven point" and "ROI" of their "operations".
Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan, leading arguably the greatest military campaigns of all time, also had more than a smattering of trouble in Afghanistan as well.
There are also serious medical considerations too. For most women, they develop a sudden and serious allergic reaction to gold and diamonds thus suffer from symptoms such as bloating and irratibility.
Uh. That's essentially what I said - one country's business ventures may or may not translate successfully in another country.
FYI - I'm half Taiwanese and have lived in Taipei for years, so I can't really be "racist and narrow-minded" (whatever that means) when I comment about my own culture.
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If I want to cook a steak, it costs me more to buy the raw steak and sides than to just go out and buy one at a restaurant.
I just got some grass-fed organic steak, some fingerling potatoes for under $20. The equivalent food at a restaurant of equivalent quality would charge me at least $40. Oh and included in the $20 was a hearty glass of Argentinian malbec.
If you're talking about a $10 tubesteak, maybe.
I did EE @ University of Washington about 10 years ago. It was, I was told, an abnormal year where he had 40% female in the undergrad class and 50% in the graduate program - and not imported females either, but actual American-born white people (otherwise it was a pretty heavy Asian student body) and quite a number of them would fit right in the business school in terms of looks and dress.
The CS dept, on the other hand, was a complete sausage fest. 20:1 male/female ratio of a study group walking to grab food was a pretty common sight.
In addition to Finland, Iceland seems to be quite homogeneous. So much so that pharmaceutical companies do research there. Someone went to Iceland and took random pictures of people on the street at regular time intervals, and many people on those pictures showed resemblance of facial features.
Korean and Japanese people are genetically identical
That's a flamebait if I ever saw one. Hehe.
But how do you explain that the two peoples look distinctly different?
English is not a programming language.
That depends on much your lawyers charges per hour.
150 Canadians...out of a population of 35 million...had to come to the US for care between 2006-2009.
So only 0.004% of their population slipped through the cracks of their system in 3 years' time. Woopie do. Sounds like a fantastic system compared to what we have, especially considering Canada spends only 2/3 of what we spend on health care as % of GDP.
Thanks for sharing that. I've always assumed that the city had sent them there at taxpayer expense - and it's usually highly questionable as they're always directing traffic in front of expensive shopping centers or at the high profile private sporting events.
When the Bush daughters were in Buenos Aires, they got their purse stolen in broad daylight, while under Secret Service protection. That's pretty hardcore.
When I was in the Buenos Aires subway, someone bumped into me, and everyone on the train just assumed I had my wallet stolen (it wasn't, as I was careful). It's that bad down there apparently.
I'm no expert in cars, but I've replaced my own brake pads, changed my own oil, and recently even worked through a do-it-yourself oxygen sensor replacement.
Then you're already in the 99% percentile of car knowledge in this country. You must be aware that they make cars now with no dipsticks, because people can't be bothered to even do that (or TPMS replacing the "arduous" task of checking tire pressure).
Obesity makes us collectively use an extra billion gallons of gas every year.
Libertarians (at least on paper) won't like Costa Rica - they have one of the highly-ranked universal health care systems in the world, and their gas prices are set by the government (same price in every station in the country).
Funny how I hear this logic so often from folks who believe unwaveringly in the magic of the free market (such as yourself, going by your sig). The desirability of certain locales is built into the prices - simple as that.
If you like to eat on a regular basis not made in a chain restaurant or ethnic (real ethnic, not watered-down for Americans), you have to live in a big city. If you want to attend live music performance worth a darn on a regular basis, you have to live in a big city. So no - depending on your personal needs, you may very well not get the 100% big city experience just through Fedex.
That's a good point. They happily tear down Beijing hutongs built back in the 1600s, chisel Starbucks stores into the Great Wall's bricks, but will build these gaudy imitations of other people's "old stuff".
At least they learned soon enough to not dump their litter into the summer palace lakes of Hangzhou and Suzhou. Of course the serene view is now obstructed by the skyscrapers nearby.
Yellowface?
The Communist Party officially recognizes 55 ethnic minority groups in China. In many autonomous regions, the local indigenous language is taught and used in an official capacity. They're also exempt from the One Child Policy.
The hipsters around here do the "Day Twah" thing. Along with "tar-shay" (Target)
Rents in the Seattle area are at that level or higher nowadays, what with the Wage Wars of 2011-2012 between MS, Amazon, and Google.
The Filipinos are just as fervently religious, if not more, than the South Koreans. These have been the two must-stops for all American evangelical tours for a very long time. Lots of tap on the forehead and fall backwards on the stage going on over in these places.
you are not required by law to go to church
In the South, it is socially. When I meet people for the first time, within the first 10 minutes the question invariably comes: not "do you go to church", but "which church do you go to"?
My wife was once a loan officer specializing in non-profits. It certainly dulls your sense of religious-ness-sy as you see an endless sea of "clergymen" filing in day after day, from churches both large and small, talking about their "breakeven point" and "ROI" of their "operations".
I'll have to give the Tatiana Nikolayeva version a try. I consider the recently remastered 1981 Gould recording to be by far the one to beat.
Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan, leading arguably the greatest military campaigns of all time, also had more than a smattering of trouble in Afghanistan as well.
There are also serious medical considerations too. For most women, they develop a sudden and serious allergic reaction to gold and diamonds thus suffer from symptoms such as bloating and irratibility.
Move to China. Pretty much their entire political elite for the last 40 years have been engineers.
Uh. That's essentially what I said - one country's business ventures may or may not translate successfully in another country.
FYI - I'm half Taiwanese and have lived in Taipei for years, so I can't really be "racist and narrow-minded" (whatever that means) when I comment about my own culture.