Did you think about relocating? It has been my experience that if you have a high paying job in a (somewhat) specialized field, it isn't unusual to have to move to find an equivalent job if you aren't well-connected.
Anyway, the unemployment rate is not higher than the great depression (which is what I assume you mean by "depression"). From factcheck.org: "In the 1929-1933 economic disaster an estimated one in four American worker were idle." and "In the Bush slump unemployment peaked at 6.4%..."
I don't think you have a clue about labor statistics. From the Bureau of Labor Statistics website:
Unemployed persons: All persons who had no employment during the reference week, were available for work, except for temporary illness, and had made specific efforts to find employment some time during the 4 week-period ending with the reference week. Persons who were waiting to be recalled to a job from which they had been laid off need not have been looking for work to be classified as unemployed.
Here is more information including the collection methods.
Protect the public from what? Joe Sixpack calling an MCSE to build a bridge? I bet people do that and MCSEs agree all the time! Yeah, that's the ticket.
The only thing at work here is power hungry professional organizations.
I'm absolutely sick of hearing people's arguments about how only ABET (or whatever professional organization) can bestow the use of "engineer" to someone. I won't waste your time by quoting various dictionaries and such, however I'm pretty sure everyone will agree that the english word "engineer" wasn't invented by a current professional organization. The word "engineer" has been around for many hundreds of years. How long as ABET been around? What about, for example, locomotive engineers, flight engineers, et al.? How does ABET have the right to determine the use of titles in domains outside of its own?! AFAIK, it has nothing to do with, for example, software development (software engineer).
And I don't buy that argument about public interest. "Doctors" aren't limited to AMA certified members (e.g. Ph.D.) and somehow people don't line up for medical care at random "Doctors". If ABET wants to legally prevent people from calling themselves "civil engineer", that's fine in my book just like I support the use of "medical doctor" for only AMA certified people.
I also won't buy any argument like "but X legal authority said so" (We all know that judges, law-making bodies, et al are always right.) until an organization is formed to standardize/dictate the use of english language... and then I MIGHT.
Again, note that I have no objection to restriction of a SPECIFC TITLE such as "civil engineer".
If anyone can hijack words, maybe I should hijack "person". From here on out, you must be certified by ME to claim to be a person. Sound ridiculous to you? Probably not as ridiculous as this damn "engineer" thing is to me.
Don't forget the costs of customer complaints which was one of the reasons cited for the switch. At the very least, you waste customer support and management time dealing with the complaints. Also, if I remember correctly, many homes in that area have indoor meters, which would significantly increase costs.
There are traditional universities where you can spend thousands of dollars and get a degree that means nothing. Your protection is to learn about the university before sending in your money. There are national and regional boards which accredit universities and degree programs.
I saw mention of packet filtering changes in the release notes. How does FreeBSD stack up to Linux as a firewall+masquerader? Are the ipfw/natd maintained? Are there mechanisms to allow active mode ftp and other things that don't fit nicely? I've used ipchains up to now, but I'm considering a change.
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Did you think about relocating? It has been my experience that if you have a high paying job in a (somewhat) specialized field, it isn't unusual to have to move to find an equivalent job if you aren't well-connected.
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Anyway, the unemployment rate is not higher than the great depression (which is what I assume you mean by "depression"). From factcheck.org:
"In the 1929-1933 economic disaster an estimated one in four American worker were idle." and "In the Bush slump unemployment peaked at 6.4%
Learning additional languages is certainly an advantage.
BTW, Spanish may supplant English in the US someday, but it is very far from it. According to analysis of the 2000 census: In total, 92 percent of Americans say they speak English very well.... After English (215.4 million) and Spanish (28.1 million), Chinese (2 million) was the language most commonly spoken at home, eclipsing French, German and Italian over the 1990s.
I don't think you have a clue about labor statistics. From the Bureau of Labor Statistics website:
Unemployed persons: All persons who had no employment during the reference week, were available for work, except for temporary illness, and had made specific efforts to find employment some time during the 4 week-period ending with the reference week. Persons who were waiting to be recalled to a job from which they had been laid off need not have been looking for work to be classified as unemployed.
Here is more information including the collection methods.
Please provide a link to substantiate your 1/2 number. I'd love to the see analysis.
An American's experience with the metric system in Belgium. It has some good points.
Hmm... could make for an interesting grass-roots effort to uh... stamp out trademark infringement... yeah...
1. Pick a trademark
2. go to http://<junk><trademark>.com
3. email trademark holder to notify of infringement
4. goto 1
Protect the public from what? Joe Sixpack calling an MCSE to build a bridge? I bet people do that and MCSEs agree all the time! Yeah, that's the ticket.
The only thing at work here is power hungry professional organizations.
FWIW, I'm not an MCSE or the like.
This engineer thing again?! WTF? Please read this post
I'm absolutely sick of hearing people's arguments about how only ABET (or whatever professional organization) can bestow the use of "engineer" to someone. I won't waste your time by quoting various dictionaries and such, however I'm pretty sure everyone will agree that the english word "engineer" wasn't invented by a current professional organization. The word "engineer" has been around for many hundreds of years. How long as ABET been around? What about, for example, locomotive engineers, flight engineers, et al.? How does ABET have the right to determine the use of titles in domains outside of its own?! AFAIK, it has nothing to do with, for example, software development (software engineer).
And I don't buy that argument about public interest. "Doctors" aren't limited to AMA certified members (e.g. Ph.D.) and somehow people don't line up for medical care at random "Doctors". If ABET wants to legally prevent people from calling themselves "civil engineer", that's fine in my book just like I support the use of "medical doctor" for only AMA certified people.
I also won't buy any argument like "but X legal authority said so" (We all know that judges, law-making bodies, et al are always right.) until an organization is formed to standardize/dictate the use of english language... and then I MIGHT.
Again, note that I have no objection to restriction of a SPECIFC TITLE such as "civil engineer".
If anyone can hijack words, maybe I should hijack "person". From here on out, you must be certified by ME to claim to be a person. Sound ridiculous to you? Probably not as ridiculous as this damn "engineer" thing is to me.
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How do you come up with $500 million? The rate is roughly $1.6 per pound
Conversion rate
I believe the production cost is 1.5mil, but the Sci-Fi Channel is only paying half that. Can't seem to find the link, but I will if I find it.
Don't forget the costs of customer complaints which was one of the reasons cited for the switch. At the very least, you waste customer support and management time dealing with the complaints. Also, if I remember correctly, many homes in that area have indoor meters, which would significantly increase costs.
There are traditional universities where you can spend thousands of dollars and get a degree that means nothing. Your protection is to learn about the university before sending in your money. There are national and regional boards which accredit universities and degree programs.
I saw mention of packet filtering changes in the release notes. How does FreeBSD stack up to Linux as a firewall+masquerader? Are the ipfw/natd maintained? Are there mechanisms to allow active mode ftp and other things that don't fit nicely? I've used ipchains up to now, but I'm considering a change.