Unless you are an oil field worker, I cannot imagine how a person who would call themselves Gen Y could ever end up in the third world without being upper middle class.
Yeah: once. It's a bit like telling me that high school teachers spend all this time on lesson plans: those who have never done it before certainly do. By the tenth year of teaching the same thing you should be looking at maybe a few minutes of finding interesting examples (most of which will just be bookmarks that you noted while surfing the web for amusement) and possibly refining your style based on student responses. I know that my teachers in HS, even the dedicated ones, worked like this. You could easily tell when they were teaching material that was relatively new to them because the lectures weren't as polished; OTOH the conic sections segment of Algebra II could have been recorded and played year after year. Hell, that's Khan Academy's killer app: have the kids watch good lectures at home that explain the concepts, while saving valuable teacher interactions for the school day. I'd much rather do that than the other way around.
people work longer hours than ever and households now require both parents to work just to get the same level as single income families in the 1960s
Well, it's actually quite simple. First, we have a lot more stuff, of much higher quality, than was available in the 1960s. Technically, it's a 1959 model, but I'm sure you'll spot me one year for this video of a 1959 Chevrolet Impala in an off-angle collision with a 2009 Impala. Our houses are much, much larger. We have cable and air conditioning and cell phones and computers and DVRs and giant flat televisions that hang on the wall. So that's part of it.
The other problem is the Red Queen effect of women's liberation, combined with forced busing - a terrible, terrible idea that was the nail in the coffin of a lot of America's cities. After busing, the only way to be sure that your children's school would be a neighborhood school was to turn your neighborhood into a suburb with its own school district. People poured into the suburbs at an even faster rate than before, but there are only so many good suburban districts with great schools, and only so many homes in those suburbs. The immediate response was a bidding war for those homes, driving women into the workplace to try to supplement the family income. Of course, all those women weren't being completely idle before, and so they had to pay someone to do many of the things - cooking, cleaning, watching the kids - that in the past they had done themselves. Result? The latchkey kids of the 70s and 80s who raised themselves. The quality of family time was visibly diminished as both Mom and Dad come in tired and cranky from a day at work and haphazardly sit down with the kids for a hurriedly snarfed-down fast food, frozen, or boxed meal, if they even eat together as a family. Disposable income doesn't go up much, though, because most of the gains from Mom's work have been offset by the higher expenses and the more expensive house (not to mention the fact that two cars become a virtual necessity - Mom can't take Dad to work and then use the car all day).
As the old saying goes, the game may be rigged, but it's the only one in town and you can't win if you don't play.
All assuming the kids won't share passwords with each other... probably this is one for which the technical solution won't be fine-grained enough until the computer can recognize everyone in the room and shut down if there are any viewers who aren't allowed to watch this movie at this time.
There's a description here of how someone did this with Plex, basically you create a second library consisting of all kids' movies and make it a separate share. The kids' logins only get them access to those movies. You have a different library with all the movies. (You could even put the really adults-only content in yet another library, should you choose.)
You could do something similar with different shares on a NAS. I've got a Synology and the DS Video app is quite handy for iPads, etc., so I'd probably leave the kids' movies there and put the inappropriate stuff in folders I would access directly.
Oh, I don't want talking or text noises on aircraft, either. But it's ridiculous that a copy of War and Peace is permitted below 10k feet, but my Kindle (wireless off) isn't.
Incidentally, why do you care about this? Do they instantly forget all their training the moment they clock out? I mean, if they're trained professionals, don't you want them carrying all the time?
If you collapse in public, do you want the off-duty EMT nearby to start CPR or wait for the ones who are on the clock to arrive?
Like I said, you and I can do that in our heads. I'm not a construction worker. Are you? Assume that's spacing for nails or whatever. Where are the next two located? Almost anyone is going to be reaching for a calculator. At that point, bring on the metrics.
Quick, what's 1/8 of 37 inches? I can do that, and maybe you can too, but a lot of people are going to be pulling out a calculator at that point. The results are easier to turn into real life measurements - as noted, decimal millimeters in the construction trade is adequate for all but the most precise parts of the installation - in metric, than in English.
My Bible - selected years ago by going to Barnes and Noble, reviewing the Bible translation chart, and picking the one with the highest grade level (9th) - translates amounts in footnotes, presumably because the old units help retain the flavor of the text.
They had them on interstates in Alabama in the 90s because of the influx of Germans for the Mercedes plant. I loved it because 120 km/h = 74.5 mph, which is about how fast I drive when the limit is 70. So take the distance in km, divide by two, that's how many minutes to your destination.
T-mobile will do very cheap service, but it's a classic you-get-what-you-pay-for. I used their prepaid service before I signed on with Verizon because it was cheap, but I'm a busy professional and my phone makes it easier for me to make money, so I treat it like any other business expense and pay for quality. At the time I signed on, they were the only carrier with a decent signal where I worked. Now I'm grandfathered into truly unlimited data, and AT&T isn't any cheaper.
Slaves were paid in food and housing. The fact that they were not free does not mean that they were not compensated.
People act like the bad part about being a slave was the field work and the whippings. That part was no different from the Royal Navy of the time. The bad part was that you weren't free, that you were the property of another man to dispose of quite literally as he pleased. That your children, should you have any, were his property too.
No, it's the artificial creation of any culture which has progressed beyond hunter-gatherer status. Aboriginal Australians didn't. That doesn't make them stupid, but it does mean they were living a very primitive life. It's not as though China and Japan didn't have property before they met Westerners.
The phones are subsidized, but I pay over $100/mo for my smartphone plan. And it's very basic - I could shave it down to maybe $80/mo with less talk time, but that's about it. If you're not on a family plan or a cheap MVNO, phone service in the US is very expensive. On the upside, though, we do have nationwide roaming for free, which is a pretty meaningful thing when your nation is this big.
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Unless you are an oil field worker, I cannot imagine how a person who would call themselves Gen Y could ever end up in the third world without being upper middle class.
Yeah: once. It's a bit like telling me that high school teachers spend all this time on lesson plans: those who have never done it before certainly do. By the tenth year of teaching the same thing you should be looking at maybe a few minutes of finding interesting examples (most of which will just be bookmarks that you noted while surfing the web for amusement) and possibly refining your style based on student responses. I know that my teachers in HS, even the dedicated ones, worked like this. You could easily tell when they were teaching material that was relatively new to them because the lectures weren't as polished; OTOH the conic sections segment of Algebra II could have been recorded and played year after year. Hell, that's Khan Academy's killer app: have the kids watch good lectures at home that explain the concepts, while saving valuable teacher interactions for the school day. I'd much rather do that than the other way around.
people work longer hours than ever and households now require both parents to work just to get the same level as single income families in the 1960s
Well, it's actually quite simple. First, we have a lot more stuff, of much higher quality, than was available in the 1960s. Technically, it's a 1959 model, but I'm sure you'll spot me one year for this video of a 1959 Chevrolet Impala in an off-angle collision with a 2009 Impala. Our houses are much, much larger. We have cable and air conditioning and cell phones and computers and DVRs and giant flat televisions that hang on the wall. So that's part of it.
The other problem is the Red Queen effect of women's liberation, combined with forced busing - a terrible, terrible idea that was the nail in the coffin of a lot of America's cities. After busing, the only way to be sure that your children's school would be a neighborhood school was to turn your neighborhood into a suburb with its own school district. People poured into the suburbs at an even faster rate than before, but there are only so many good suburban districts with great schools, and only so many homes in those suburbs. The immediate response was a bidding war for those homes, driving women into the workplace to try to supplement the family income. Of course, all those women weren't being completely idle before, and so they had to pay someone to do many of the things - cooking, cleaning, watching the kids - that in the past they had done themselves. Result? The latchkey kids of the 70s and 80s who raised themselves. The quality of family time was visibly diminished as both Mom and Dad come in tired and cranky from a day at work and haphazardly sit down with the kids for a hurriedly snarfed-down fast food, frozen, or boxed meal, if they even eat together as a family. Disposable income doesn't go up much, though, because most of the gains from Mom's work have been offset by the higher expenses and the more expensive house (not to mention the fact that two cars become a virtual necessity - Mom can't take Dad to work and then use the car all day).
As the old saying goes, the game may be rigged, but it's the only one in town and you can't win if you don't play.
All assuming the kids won't share passwords with each other... probably this is one for which the technical solution won't be fine-grained enough until the computer can recognize everyone in the room and shut down if there are any viewers who aren't allowed to watch this movie at this time.
There's a description here of how someone did this with Plex, basically you create a second library consisting of all kids' movies and make it a separate share. The kids' logins only get them access to those movies. You have a different library with all the movies. (You could even put the really adults-only content in yet another library, should you choose.)
You could do something similar with different shares on a NAS. I've got a Synology and the DS Video app is quite handy for iPads, etc., so I'd probably leave the kids' movies there and put the inappropriate stuff in folders I would access directly.
I know what those are like, and what they contain.
Are you sure? Do you know exactly what mutations are present between the wild type and the cultivated? Because the GMO folks actually do.
Not defending Monsanto, they're pricks. But pretending that natural mutations are just so awesome and specific while artificial ones aren't is silly.
Strict liability is an absolutely ridiculous proposal. Either you haven't thought it through, or you're intentionally being disingenuous.
we would see abundance of drought and frost resistant, nitrogen fixing crops.
What do you want to water them with, unicorn tears?
The value of a big-name school degree is immense and going up. Students are correspondingly applying to them in droves.
Oh, I don't want talking or text noises on aircraft, either. But it's ridiculous that a copy of War and Peace is permitted below 10k feet, but my Kindle (wireless off) isn't.
can only carry on duty
Incidentally, why do you care about this? Do they instantly forget all their training the moment they clock out? I mean, if they're trained professionals, don't you want them carrying all the time?
If you collapse in public, do you want the off-duty EMT nearby to start CPR or wait for the ones who are on the clock to arrive?
You do know that you have to have a license in order to carry concealed in almost every state in the Union, right?
That's a great argument for airplane mode, not so strong against using them at all.
Like I said, you and I can do that in our heads. I'm not a construction worker. Are you? Assume that's spacing for nails or whatever. Where are the next two located? Almost anyone is going to be reaching for a calculator. At that point, bring on the metrics.
Who's it with? Do share.
Quick, what's 1/8 of 37 inches? I can do that, and maybe you can too, but a lot of people are going to be pulling out a calculator at that point. The results are easier to turn into real life measurements - as noted, decimal millimeters in the construction trade is adequate for all but the most precise parts of the installation - in metric, than in English.
My Bible - selected years ago by going to Barnes and Noble, reviewing the Bible translation chart, and picking the one with the highest grade level (9th) - translates amounts in footnotes, presumably because the old units help retain the flavor of the text.
They had them on interstates in Alabama in the 90s because of the influx of Germans for the Mercedes plant. I loved it because 120 km/h = 74.5 mph, which is about how fast I drive when the limit is 70. So take the distance in km, divide by two, that's how many minutes to your destination.
Only the leaches of society will use entitlements like Highways, Police, Fire, etc...
Ah, so you're a bureaucrat yourself, I see? Threaten to cut the basic services instead of winter public pool hours?
I just want to take this chance to reach across the political aisle and agree: AT&T sucks.
T-mobile will do very cheap service, but it's a classic you-get-what-you-pay-for. I used their prepaid service before I signed on with Verizon because it was cheap, but I'm a busy professional and my phone makes it easier for me to make money, so I treat it like any other business expense and pay for quality. At the time I signed on, they were the only carrier with a decent signal where I worked. Now I'm grandfathered into truly unlimited data, and AT&T isn't any cheaper.
Slaves were paid in food and housing. The fact that they were not free does not mean that they were not compensated.
People act like the bad part about being a slave was the field work and the whippings. That part was no different from the Royal Navy of the time. The bad part was that you weren't free, that you were the property of another man to dispose of quite literally as he pleased. That your children, should you have any, were his property too.
an artificial creation of western culture.
No, it's the artificial creation of any culture which has progressed beyond hunter-gatherer status. Aboriginal Australians didn't. That doesn't make them stupid, but it does mean they were living a very primitive life. It's not as though China and Japan didn't have property before they met Westerners.
The phones are subsidized, but I pay over $100/mo for my smartphone plan. And it's very basic - I could shave it down to maybe $80/mo with less talk time, but that's about it. If you're not on a family plan or a cheap MVNO, phone service in the US is very expensive. On the upside, though, we do have nationwide roaming for free, which is a pretty meaningful thing when your nation is this big.
Thanks, AC, I needed that.