with the spotty contract employment you see quite a bit of in the US these days, the people driving SUVs are trapped. They're trapped because the SUV owners cant buy a new car since theyre living paycheck to paycheck and car dealerships won't accept them in trade-ins because they know they'll just sit on their lots for months because noone else wants them either. Catch-22
is that once one goes many times they'll follow the same path due to the winds being in the same configuration. funny they thought the carolinas were going to get it this year. im in homestead. we got ALOT of flooding when katrina came through here as a strong category 1. see here for the pictures http://cixel.livejournal.com/1109022.html
my girlfriend and i used all our savings to get here to where the cost of living was cheaper. we are from los angeles, my girlfriend has a four year degree in telivision and film which has been outsourced and people are doing it on a volunteer basis while working at mcdonalds. i am a tech worker who's job has been outsourced. we moved from los angeles looking for more opportunity because of the hellish conditions of paying 1175 for a 650 square foot apartment.
i used to be just like you. its only when everything falls apart do you open your eyes and see how very fragile your lifestyle is.
there are many people like me discovering this right now. working hard will get you nowhere these days, only backstabbing will which is something i refuse to do because of my morals.
These people barely have enough money to live let alone buy insurance. Its funny how my opinions have changed now that the economy sucks so bad and jobs pay so little my girlfriend and i have no health insurance. contracted labor is a quick way to poverty but sometimes its all you have.
I liken civilization to a flower, it grows, it blooms and then it dies. We reached our peak. There is way too much entropy in our society (ie. all the red tape, religious resistance, corporate corruption) to continue forward.
If you don't believe me just look at the USPTO and see how the corporations own it and use it to prevent any little guy with an idea from making a dollar on it.
The only way we will see it again is if another civilization supplants us or if we die back immensely and grow again to get rid of the stuff holding us back.
We have to break the system to save it. Its the only way out.
all those people in china and india have similar hopes and dreams. While our low population gen X may not realize these dreams i guarantee you other countries will. We'll be pulled to the stars on the backs of third worlders.
actually theres a really large trash heap you can get some elevation on.
they have an interesting way of getting rid of trash here. they compress it and pile it up and then throw dirt over the top of it. it creates these MASSIVE pretty green hills as the natural tendency of any field or pile of dirt is to sprout grass.
my coworker here refers to the big one in south of miami in cutler ridge as 'mount trashmore'
"Company policies that prevent two relatives from working in the same place, etc I can understand, and if two people in the workplace get married, then one has to go."
Thats because you've already rationalized these away.
For centuries this sort of thing was never a problem. Now you have companies banning people from smoking cigarettes ever because it raises their healthcare rates.
Companies shouldnt be able to control anything you do on your spare time or they are basically your government.
Its funny I used to look at the futurist scenarios of companies having you put in brain or body enhancement mods to make you more productive in your company and thought, that would never happen, people wouldnt allow it. now im seeing just how complacent US citizens are. We would totally let it happen!
As the pool of jobs dwindles as people who once had jobs that are now outsourced are forced to take jobs in other fields and displace those workers people are getting more and more desperate for a job and thus releasing more and more control. We are very much on the path to slavedom.
I hear that. My girlfriend and I just moved from los angeles to south florida. Its a shame cuz we were planning on visiting disneyworld but to hell with that now.
Hey man if i could do any of that stuff and make enough money to feed myself i would. Large spans of unemployment humble onesself. Its not a matter of turning my nose up at a job, its that i cannot afford to feed myself on those jobs.
who WAS tripping balls when the northridge quake happened in 1994. His friend thought it was armageddon and he thought they were being invaded by aliens. Afterwards my friend went out into the street to see what was going on only to have a really large dog run by him and he flipped out.
notice how the 1994 northridge quake occurred following a notorious el nino season. there is well documented cases where people dumped waste water in a fault and it lead to earthquakes.
now think of the deluge they received last winter.
makes you think eh?
it wont affect me since i recently relocated to miami because the tech job market was terrible with downward pressure on wages with upward financial pressure on everything else. it was move or go bankrupt. but all of my family still lives there and i really hope im wrong.
They've had plant turn up that were extinct for eons after turning over swampland to build a building where the seeds were sitting preseved in a peat bog.
There is a pretty famous case of this where there were seeds in a canoe found in a peat bog and they were able to recover a 1000 year old extinct lotus from.
What i dislike is when environmentalists say something is extinct but what they really mean is that its regionally extinct which to me is alot less worrysome also because it doesnt meantion how large the region is. I mean monarch butterflies are regionally extinct from my desk but not from the greater environment around the building.
I really wonder how many blue butterflies (that all look the same) in california are considered endangered? it seems like theres a different one for every piece of the coastline.
Offtopic but pretty interesting, there are so many levels to nature and many things just need the right environmental conditions to make their debut. There is a fungus that lives beneath the soil in oregon, one of the largest living organisms but it only lives the subterranean part of its lifecycle. If the climate were to warm up in oregon, oregon would erupt with mushrooms.
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down here in florida they are
with the spotty contract employment you see quite a bit of in the US these days, the people driving SUVs are trapped. They're trapped because the SUV owners cant buy a new car since theyre living paycheck to paycheck and car dealerships won't accept them in trade-ins because they know they'll just sit on their lots for months because noone else wants them either. Catch-22
do you pull a boat?
Sure you could keep it in dry dock and own a sedan but how do you rapidly pull all those boats out of there if a hurricane is coming your way?
It doesnt matter anyways though, the baby boomers vastly outnumber us.
we need to have a study on areas surrounded by volcanos or other major natural disasters that will occur someday.
These people are so poor do you really think even a tiny fraction of them have laptops with wifi cards?
is that once one goes many times they'll follow the same path due to the winds being in the same configuration. funny they thought the carolinas were going to get it this year. im in homestead. we got ALOT of flooding when katrina came through here as a strong category 1. see here for the pictures
http://cixel.livejournal.com/1109022.html
tell that to all my friends out of work in LA with excellent credentials or floating between jobs every few months.
im in my field over here. theres alot more jobs they still dont pay alot or rather theres a nationwide movement towards contract labor.
my girlfriend and i used all our savings to get here to where the cost of living was cheaper. we are from los angeles, my girlfriend has a four year degree in telivision and film which has been outsourced and people are doing it on a volunteer basis while working at mcdonalds. i am a tech worker who's job has been outsourced. we moved from los angeles looking for more opportunity because of the hellish conditions of paying 1175 for a 650 square foot apartment.
i used to be just like you. its only when everything falls apart do you open your eyes and see how very fragile your lifestyle is.
there are many people like me discovering this right now. working hard will get you nowhere these days, only backstabbing will which is something i refuse to do because of my morals.
I'm a relocated tech from los angeles who's job was outsourced so many times i decided to look for opportunity elsewhere. and youre a troll.
the cocktail of industrial chemicals from chemical plants that were smashed.
These people barely have enough money to live let alone buy insurance. Its funny how my opinions have changed now that the economy sucks so bad and jobs pay so little my girlfriend and i have no health insurance. contracted labor is a quick way to poverty but sometimes its all you have.
I liken civilization to a flower, it grows, it blooms and then it dies. We reached our peak. There is way too much entropy in our society (ie. all the red tape, religious resistance, corporate corruption) to continue forward.
If you don't believe me just look at the USPTO and see how the corporations own it and use it to prevent any little guy with an idea from making a dollar on it.
The only way we will see it again is if another civilization supplants us or if we die back immensely and grow again to get rid of the stuff holding us back.
We have to break the system to save it. Its the only way out.
I'm still waiting for hurricane overlays for google earth. That would really be neat.
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Didn't I hear something just recently though about the national weather service trying to cut off access to the free information because they said there were enough free or advertizing subsidized services out here already? ahh yes heres some information on it http://www.livejournal.com/community/weathernerds
The bill can be read here
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:s786:
all those people in china and india have similar hopes and dreams. While our low population gen X may not realize these dreams i guarantee you other countries will. We'll be pulled to the stars on the backs of third worlders.
actually theres a really large trash heap you can get some elevation on.
they have an interesting way of getting rid of trash here. they compress it and pile it up and then throw dirt over the top of it. it creates these MASSIVE pretty green hills as the natural tendency of any field or pile of dirt is to sprout grass.
my coworker here refers to the big one in south of miami in cutler ridge as 'mount trashmore'
"Company policies that prevent two relatives from working in the same place, etc I can understand, and if two people in the workplace get married, then one has to go."
Thats because you've already rationalized these away.
For centuries this sort of thing was never a problem. Now you have companies banning people from smoking cigarettes ever because it raises their healthcare rates.
Companies shouldnt be able to control anything you do on your spare time or they are basically your government.
Its funny I used to look at the futurist scenarios of companies having you put in brain or body enhancement mods to make you more productive in your company and thought, that would never happen, people wouldnt allow it. now im seeing just how complacent US citizens are. We would totally let it happen!
As the pool of jobs dwindles as people who once had jobs that are now outsourced are forced to take jobs in other fields and displace those workers people are getting more and more desperate for a job and thus releasing more and more control. We are very much on the path to slavedom.
I hear that. My girlfriend and I just moved from los angeles to south florida. Its a shame cuz we were planning on visiting disneyworld but to hell with that now.
Who would kill to see a Princess Bride reunion?
Hey man if i could do any of that stuff and make enough money to feed myself i would. Large spans of unemployment humble onesself. Its not a matter of turning my nose up at a job, its that i cannot afford to feed myself on those jobs.
who WAS tripping balls when the northridge quake happened in 1994. His friend thought it was armageddon and he thought they were being invaded by aliens. Afterwards my friend went out into the street to see what was going on only to have a really large dog run by him and he flipped out.
So yeah, drugs are bad mmkay?
notice how the 1994 northridge quake occurred following a notorious el nino season. there is well documented cases where people dumped waste water in a fault and it lead to earthquakes.
now think of the deluge they received last winter.
makes you think eh?
it wont affect me since i recently relocated to miami because the tech job market was terrible with downward pressure on wages with upward financial pressure on everything else. it was move or go bankrupt. but all of my family still lives there and i really hope im wrong.
but just think then. if the navy powered it with a small nuclear isotope battery source you could essentially be down there forever.
its a desert. theres almost no humidity so you dont get lightning. i know cuz i moved to florida for lightning.
They've had plant turn up that were extinct for eons after turning over swampland to build a building where the seeds were sitting preseved in a peat bog.
There is a pretty famous case of this where there were seeds in a canoe found in a peat bog and they were able to recover a 1000 year old extinct lotus from.
What i dislike is when environmentalists say something is extinct but what they really mean is that its regionally extinct which to me is alot less worrysome also because it doesnt meantion how large the region is. I mean monarch butterflies are regionally extinct from my desk but not from the greater environment around the building.
I really wonder how many blue butterflies (that all look the same) in california are considered endangered? it seems like theres a different one for every piece of the coastline.
Offtopic but pretty interesting, there are so many levels to nature and many things just need the right environmental conditions to make their debut. There is a fungus that lives beneath the soil in oregon, one of the largest living organisms but it only lives the subterranean part of its lifecycle. If the climate were to warm up in oregon, oregon would erupt with mushrooms.