My wife was a loan officer at a bank that was popular with the local churches (small ones, mega ones, lots of them).
It really puts a bit of a crimp in faith and ups your cynicism a few notches when you constantly here pastors talking about their profit margins and loss leaders like some CEO.
And don't forget the one-child policy - up to four grandparents endlessly spoiling their single grandchild with copious amounts of anything the spoiled brat likes to eat.
It's like frickin clockwork, too. My wife was a bit of a Scrooge/Ogre/Grinch (but a good-looking one) all through her 20s and will actually refuse to hold babies when her friends hand them to her.
She's turning 32 this year and can't wait to get pregnant.
So true. My wife's coworkers complain about shopping at the Bellevue Neiman Marcus, as it is probably the only one where you see poorly-dressed ungroomed individuals walking around while looking at their feet and holding a dirty Pyrex lunch box which held left over pasta or pizza an hour prior.
I sat within a 3-cubicle radius from this guy several years ago while working on a derivative of this product. The guy's 80 years old and still comes to work every single day - sharp as ever and has incredible drive.
I still have a memorial bobble head doll of him somewhere in my closet.
I understand that this device was mandated by the government to be installed on commercial aircraft several years back (I haven't read the article yet - it may have been mentioned already). Imagine the CFIT casualties had we left it to the "free" market when to install these things.
I bet if the guy was watching Stallone rip somebody's throat out a la Rambo 4, nobody would have batted an eye.
If you go to the Seattle local news forums, it's funny to see all the hardcore Ron Paul supporters call for immediate censorship of all "objectionable content" in public libraries.
Except the article you point to says he wants to privatize it:
The congressman from Lake Jackson said the TSA should be abolished and airport security should be privatized.
"Well, it shouldnâ(TM)t be government,â he said. âoeYou know, the people who protect very dangerous chemical plants, theyâ(TM)re private sources, you know. They have their police guards. They have their fences. And they have their security. And they do a very good job.
I was wondering why the church-going types on my Facebook news feed changed from their usual Bible quotes and sermon clips to Ron Paul clips. Now I know.
I agree. Here in the Seattle area, our company's been looking for SW guys and managers for months and months with no luck - even with headhunters activated around the country to assist in our search. It's hard to compete (we're a small company) when Amazon/MS/Google are escalating their wage wars. I hear guys coming out of undergrad start at $95k now with them.
All the good people already have jobs. Even the people I wouldn't recommend already have jobs.
But seriously, I think the number of marriages is proportional to how techie the invites get. From my wholly unscientific anecdotal data amongst acquaintances:
First marriage: Paper invites. Second marriage: Evite. Third marriage: Facebook event invite. Fourth marriage: Facebook status update.
I wish something like this would have existed when I chose my current house.
There was. It's called "why this house was cheaper than the other same sized ones a couple miles down". The market has accounted for crime and "ghetto-ness" of a neighborhood long before this or Redfin or Zillow or the Internet.
Do you know any Asian families? You're either "allowed" to be a doctor or engineer. Anything else is an utter failure. (Yes, stereotypes/generalizations blah blah but most of that fire is definitely not smoke). So it's not inconceivable that the Party honchos have engineering degrees. Whether that attests to their true engineering abilities is of course another topic - though these guys come from schools like Peking U, Tsinghua, and Fudan - and they're pretty darn selective and high ranked internationally so they're probably not completely useless.
Besides engineering and medicine, law and MBAs are starting to be an "acceptable" and fashionable degrees to get in Asia, and even more so amongst the diaspora in the West. The skew towards medicine and engineering is even worse in India, I hear.
That's true. Buick is considered a prestige brand over there, comparable to lower-end BMWs and Mercedes models.
Historically, old Communist Party honchos like Zhou Enlai rode around in big black Buicks. Combine this legacy with GM's present-day aggressive marketing of Buick as a sexy luxury car makes it a very attractive vehicle for the Chinese upper classes.
There is a school of thought which holds that not only will advance in computer technology render communism practical
Wal-Mart is often cited as a real-life model of a de facto model national economy. Algorithms determine supply and demand so waste is in the single percentages.
All it needs is advances in robotics enough to get them out of the factory and behind the till at McDonalds.
They've installed machines at our Jack in the Box to take orders - totally Idiocracy style - "would you like an order of BIG ASS FRIES!?" Even more humorous was when a pack of stoner teenagers had trouble navigating the entirely pictorial UI whilst grunting and snorting periodically.
I can understand somebody being physically sick from watching 3D.
Although I don't agree with the argument that 3D can't have artistic merit - that it's just a gimmick.
If Martin Scorsese says that 3D has artistic merit, I'm inclined to be a bit more open-minded about it.
I live in Washington state. I've done an Excel-sheet analysis of my out-of-pocket expenses and taxes from living in Vancouver (where I spent a lot of time in my childhood), and it turns out I actually come out ahead in Vancouver by a few percentage points (assuming similar housing prices).
And that's not counting the benefits of cheaper higher education for my children and better commute options.
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If they're only paying 40% of the national tax burden, then they're being undertaxed.
My wife was a loan officer at a bank that was popular with the local churches (small ones, mega ones, lots of them).
It really puts a bit of a crimp in faith and ups your cynicism a few notches when you constantly here pastors talking about their profit margins and loss leaders like some CEO.
And don't forget the one-child policy - up to four grandparents endlessly spoiling their single grandchild with copious amounts of anything the spoiled brat likes to eat.
"It's been a lot of years now, but back when I was single, I'd just lay it out on the table and either it worked or it did not"
Nowadays, you'd get arrested for that in most states.
It's like frickin clockwork, too. My wife was a bit of a Scrooge/Ogre/Grinch (but a good-looking one) all through her 20s and will actually refuse to hold babies when her friends hand them to her.
She's turning 32 this year and can't wait to get pregnant.
It's usually $0.10 / minute if you're "out" of minutes. The rate increases for more evil phone companies.
For international calls, it's something like $2 / minute.
It doesn't sound like it was forbidden back then:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world#Human_Anatomy_and_Physiology
"This town is (over)run by geeks."
So true. My wife's coworkers complain about shopping at the Bellevue Neiman Marcus, as it is probably the only one where you see poorly-dressed ungroomed individuals walking around while looking at their feet and holding a dirty Pyrex lunch box which held left over pasta or pizza an hour prior.
Only in Seattle.
I sat within a 3-cubicle radius from this guy several years ago while working on a derivative of this product. The guy's 80 years old and still comes to work every single day - sharp as ever and has incredible drive.
I still have a memorial bobble head doll of him somewhere in my closet.
I understand that this device was mandated by the government to be installed on commercial aircraft several years back (I haven't read the article yet - it may have been mentioned already). Imagine the CFIT casualties had we left it to the "free" market when to install these things.
I bet if the guy was watching Stallone rip somebody's throat out a la Rambo 4, nobody would have batted an eye.
If you go to the Seattle local news forums, it's funny to see all the hardcore Ron Paul supporters call for immediate censorship of all "objectionable content" in public libraries.
Except the article you point to says he wants to privatize it:
The congressman from Lake Jackson said the TSA should be abolished and airport security should be privatized.
"Well, it shouldnâ(TM)t be government,â he said. âoeYou know, the people who protect very dangerous chemical plants, theyâ(TM)re private sources, you know. They have their police guards. They have their fences. And they have their security. And they do a very good job.
I was wondering why the church-going types on my Facebook news feed changed from their usual Bible quotes and sermon clips to Ron Paul clips. Now I know.
Everything in life becomes secondary when bellies are not full.
It's no different than back in 1917.
I agree. Here in the Seattle area, our company's been looking for SW guys and managers for months and months with no luck - even with headhunters activated around the country to assist in our search. It's hard to compete (we're a small company) when Amazon/MS/Google are escalating their wage wars. I hear guys coming out of undergrad start at $95k now with them.
All the good people already have jobs. Even the people I wouldn't recommend already have jobs.
10 print "Yes, dear. You're right, dear"
20 goto 10
But seriously, I think the number of marriages is proportional to how techie the invites get. From my wholly unscientific anecdotal data amongst acquaintances:
First marriage: Paper invites.
Second marriage: Evite.
Third marriage: Facebook event invite.
Fourth marriage: Facebook status update.
I wish something like this would have existed when I chose my current house.
There was. It's called "why this house was cheaper than the other same sized ones a couple miles down". The market has accounted for crime and "ghetto-ness" of a neighborhood long before this or Redfin or Zillow or the Internet.
Do you know any Asian families? You're either "allowed" to be a doctor or engineer. Anything else is an utter failure. (Yes, stereotypes/generalizations blah blah but most of that fire is definitely not smoke). So it's not inconceivable that the Party honchos have engineering degrees. Whether that attests to their true engineering abilities is of course another topic - though these guys come from schools like Peking U, Tsinghua, and Fudan - and they're pretty darn selective and high ranked internationally so they're probably not completely useless.
Besides engineering and medicine, law and MBAs are starting to be an "acceptable" and fashionable degrees to get in Asia, and even more so amongst the diaspora in the West. The skew towards medicine and engineering is even worse in India, I hear.
That's true. Buick is considered a prestige brand over there, comparable to lower-end BMWs and Mercedes models.
Historically, old Communist Party honchos like Zhou Enlai rode around in big black Buicks. Combine this legacy with GM's present-day aggressive marketing of Buick as a sexy luxury car makes it a very attractive vehicle for the Chinese upper classes.
There is a school of thought which holds that not only will advance in computer technology render communism practical
Wal-Mart is often cited as a real-life model of a de facto model national economy. Algorithms determine supply and demand so waste is in the single percentages.
All it needs is advances in robotics enough to get them out of the factory and behind the till at McDonalds.
They've installed machines at our Jack in the Box to take orders - totally Idiocracy style - "would you like an order of BIG ASS FRIES!?" Even more humorous was when a pack of stoner teenagers had trouble navigating the entirely pictorial UI whilst grunting and snorting periodically.
I can understand somebody being physically sick from watching 3D. Although I don't agree with the argument that 3D can't have artistic merit - that it's just a gimmick. If Martin Scorsese says that 3D has artistic merit, I'm inclined to be a bit more open-minded about it.
I know a handful of people at Microsoft who write automated email scripts to make them appear to be "working" at 2am for their bosses.
What ever will they do now?
Not the M3 - but the 3-series.
M3 is close to $60k-$75k with all options. 3-series (328, 335, etc.) is the one that's $45k with all options.
?? $7500, and not a salvage title? Tell me more...
You make the assumption that gasoline *only* costs what it says on the sign at the pump.
I live in Washington state. I've done an Excel-sheet analysis of my out-of-pocket expenses and taxes from living in Vancouver (where I spent a lot of time in my childhood), and it turns out I actually come out ahead in Vancouver by a few percentage points (assuming similar housing prices).
And that's not counting the benefits of cheaper higher education for my children and better commute options.