In the August issue of Wired magazine, there was quite a disgusting infoporn about how you could sell your body for $46 million. It priced egg cells at $7,000/egg and sperm at $75/donation.
I'm not sure I'd want to meet the person that could donate eggs and sperm...
The grunt jobs will be shipped off to the cheapest place, whereas there will always be a place for higher-end jobs. The goal posts will constantly be moving though.
So, why shouldn't it happen to higher-end jobs, too?
If sending 90% of a companies lower level (programmer / developer / coder) positions overseas is a good thing, why don't they start sending the managerial and executive jobs overseas? After all, shouldn't managers be near the people they are managing?
Or, is there something so extra-special about management that there is no possible way that someone overseas can do the job you do? Oh wait, did that sound cynical?
If I sound bitter, it's because I am. I have over 20 years of data processing experience, fluent in several technologies, and learning even more. I can't even get an interview nowdays. My last company fired me after 9 years of good work, claiming I couldn't do my job (that I had been doing for 9 years!). Then, where did my job end up? Yup - overseas. My old company basically told me that I had no future there as a developer, but I could probably get a project management position. So they had no use for me as a software developer/engineer (something I'm quite good at), but they'd pay me more money do be a manager (something I would probably suck at...)
Loyalty to long-time skilled employees? Not anymore. Companies are only loyal to their short-term bottom line.
Re:42V is for steering, not audio
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This isn't about car audio; that's just where the poster found the story. This is about driving larger motors, like power steering. Power steering is about to go electric.
My Saturn VUE has electric power steering, it works just fine on 12volts.
It's the 900watts of stereo system that will eventually fry my alternator! *grin*
Surely somewhere someone has access to South Carolina's traffic records, right?
Find out if 'miss vermont' (and I had such a high opinion of Vermont until today!) received two speeding tickets on the same day. If so, I'd believe the rest of the story a lot more.
from the Cedar Point website:
May not accommodate Guests of Exceptional Size.
Whew! I guess I won't be going on this beastie!
I'll just continue to enjoy the Magnum XL-200, even though now people will think that a 200 foot tall coaster is 'wimpy'...
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Re:the 1999 Tornado killed because it was so huge
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The 1999 tornado in Moore Oklahoma killed so many not because there wasn't enough warning, but because it was the most powerful tornado every recorded. It was listed as an F5, the nastiest class of tornado, but many meterologists say that the F5 classification doesn't fit, because the 1999 tornado was off the scale.
I saw somewhere that the 1999 Moore tornado had its windspeed measured with a doppler radar, and the number they came up with was one mph below F6 status. It would have been the first F6 tornado ever documented.
Snowstorms can cover huge areas, perhaps thousands of square miles. The average tornado might have a destruction path less than 500 yards wide by 2 miles long. Yes, some of the 'monster' storms can be a mile wide, but 'tornado alley' is tens of thousands of square miles.
No place has "almost a 100% chance" of being hit by a twister every year. If there was such a place, no one would be living there!
Technology is helping to save people's lives by giving them a few more minutes of warning, and by helping to find people who were smart enough to take cover.
Spending hours on my old Apple ][, trying to avoid the 'a thief stole some food' message...
*sigh*...
I found one spot in one dungeon where using a magic attack would double all your stats. Do that several times, and you'd become a killing machine. I remember attacking with the bow, and killing things off the screen...
For the economy as a whole, though, the money freed by getting cheaper IT solutions won't be stuffed into mattresses, but will enable more investment in other sectors (including up and coming areas).
I disagree. The money is not being "saved", it is being removed from the U.S. economy.
Think about it: the dollar I spend on a soft-drink at my local convenience store gets paid to a worker of that store. They spend it on something else. That place spends it on something else, and so on, and so on. But if I take that dollar and send it overseas, it's GONE from my local economy.
By continuing to send more and more money overseas, that money isn't "saved", it's removed from the economy.
Long-winded hypothetical situation. Small island, inhabited by lets say 100 people. Has a fixed amount of money, they use it for bartering goods and services. One islander discovers that he can get a good cheaper from another island, so starts bartering with that island instead. What does his island get? A 'good' or 'service', sure -- but the money is GONE. If that continues, eventually his island will have no money left.
Here's my economic lesson for today: No one is "making" money. Money isn't "made", it is only transferred. The only way to 'make' money is to have someone else give you some of their's. If that person doesn't have any money, you can't make any money from them.
If U.S. companies continue to send more money overseas than we receive from overseas ("Trade Deficit", anyone?) - in the long term the U.S. economy will go through a depression that will make the 1930's look like a bad day at the office.
So, you contine to "save" money, and I'll continue to do my best to keep my money in my local economy. That way, it has a chance to eventually come back to me!
The rich world will continue to specialise in those industries which require the latest cutting edge infrastructure and skills, and slowly discard the rest.
And by doing so, the "rich world" will eventually give away so much work that they will be poor.
Think about it - if the United States economy continues to send good-paying jobs overseas, what's left for the people in the U.S.? Yes, some "rich" people will get even richer, but a LOT of us will get poorer. Is that what we want?
I'm a developer with over 20 years experience. Cobol, SQL, VB, C, Java, HTML, UML, XML - I can do them all pretty well. My old company fired me after nine years claiming I couldn't do my job. Why? Because they can send my job to India and find someone with 2 years of experience who will work for $6 an hour...
Multiply that by the number of people who earn a living here in the U.S. by writing code, and where does that leave us? Claiming to be a 'Java developer' because we write some code at home, while earning a living working fast-food?
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Well, someone has to pay for all those annoying commercials...
I'm not sure I'd want to meet the person that could donate eggs and sperm...
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A Partitioned Data Set (PDS) is basically a directory. You can store multiple different files within the PDS, and access each one of them separately.
Also, it's very easy to reference the PDS as a whole. Very handy for back-ups & restores, for example.
I hope mainframe skills aren't totally useless, because I've got 20 years worth of them!
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So, why shouldn't it happen to higher-end jobs, too?
If sending 90% of a companies lower level (programmer / developer / coder) positions overseas is a good thing, why don't they start sending the managerial and executive jobs overseas? After all, shouldn't managers be near the people they are managing?
Or, is there something so extra-special about management that there is no possible way that someone overseas can do the job you do? Oh wait, did that sound cynical?
If I sound bitter, it's because I am. I have over 20 years of data processing experience, fluent in several technologies, and learning even more. I can't even get an interview nowdays. My last company fired me after 9 years of good work, claiming I couldn't do my job (that I had been doing for 9 years!). Then, where did my job end up? Yup - overseas. My old company basically told me that I had no future there as a developer, but I could probably get a project management position. So they had no use for me as a software developer/engineer (something I'm quite good at), but they'd pay me more money do be a manager (something I would probably suck at...)
Loyalty to long-time skilled employees? Not anymore. Companies are only loyal to their short-term bottom line.
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Bosses like yours are unfortunately all too rare these days...
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2. Raise wind
3. Harvest wind
4. PROFIT!
Just don't break it...
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My Saturn VUE has electric power steering, it works just fine on 12volts.
It's the 900watts of stereo system that will eventually fry my alternator! *grin*
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Find out if 'miss vermont' (and I had such a high opinion of Vermont until today!) received two speeding tickets on the same day. If so, I'd believe the rest of the story a lot more.
!Sig
May not accommodate Guests of Exceptional Size.
Whew! I guess I won't be going on this beastie!
I'll just continue to enjoy the Magnum XL-200, even though now people will think that a 200 foot tall coaster is 'wimpy'...
!Sig
I saw somewhere that the 1999 Moore tornado had its windspeed measured with a doppler radar, and the number they came up with was one mph below F6 status. It would have been the first F6 tornado ever documented.
It was truly a monster...
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No place has "almost a 100% chance" of being hit by a twister every year. If there was such a place, no one would be living there!
Technology is helping to save people's lives by giving them a few more minutes of warning, and by helping to find people who were smart enough to take cover.
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Oh man, I'm going to hell for even *thinking* that...
Nice to have that kind of name recognition, though!
Personally, I'm boycotting Best Buy, but that discussion is for another time...
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Your parents are looking out for your best interest. And you're complaining?
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And by "started", I mean it was too late to stop it from happening.
I support our troops, but question our government.
I can't imagine going to a school that won't let me bring video games...
Some?
Not clever enough for a sig, yet...
Who would have thought there would be two television programs on at the same time that were both worth watching?
not clever enough for a sig, yet...
Spending hours on my old Apple ][, trying to avoid the 'a thief stole some food' message...
*sigh*...
I found one spot in one dungeon where using a magic attack would double all your stats. Do that several times, and you'd become a killing machine. I remember attacking with the bow, and killing things off the screen...
*sigh*...
I disagree. The money is not being "saved", it is being removed from the U.S. economy.
Think about it: the dollar I spend on a soft-drink at my local convenience store gets paid to a worker of that store. They spend it on something else. That place spends it on something else, and so on, and so on. But if I take that dollar and send it overseas, it's GONE from my local economy.
By continuing to send more and more money overseas, that money isn't "saved", it's removed from the economy.
Long-winded hypothetical situation. Small island, inhabited by lets say 100 people. Has a fixed amount of money, they use it for bartering goods and services. One islander discovers that he can get a good cheaper from another island, so starts bartering with that island instead. What does his island get? A 'good' or 'service', sure -- but the money is GONE. If that continues, eventually his island will have no money left.
Here's my economic lesson for today: No one is "making" money. Money isn't "made", it is only transferred. The only way to 'make' money is to have someone else give you some of their's. If that person doesn't have any money, you can't make any money from them.
If U.S. companies continue to send more money overseas than we receive from overseas ("Trade Deficit", anyone?) - in the long term the U.S. economy will go through a depression that will make the 1930's look like a bad day at the office.
So, you contine to "save" money, and I'll continue to do my best to keep my money in my local economy. That way, it has a chance to eventually come back to me!
And by doing so, the "rich world" will eventually give away so much work that they will be poor.
Think about it - if the United States economy continues to send good-paying jobs overseas, what's left for the people in the U.S.? Yes, some "rich" people will get even richer, but a LOT of us will get poorer. Is that what we want?
I'm a developer with over 20 years experience. Cobol, SQL, VB, C, Java, HTML, UML, XML - I can do them all pretty well. My old company fired me after nine years claiming I couldn't do my job. Why? Because they can send my job to India and find someone with 2 years of experience who will work for $6 an hour...
Multiply that by the number of people who earn a living here in the U.S. by writing code, and where does that leave us? Claiming to be a 'Java developer' because we write some code at home, while earning a living working fast-food?
Anyone looking for a skilled developer?