What can't Toyota periodically replace sections where the plants are? $Counter = 0; 1). Cut down section of plants 2). Bury plants to trap chemicals just like a bog would 3). plant new plants in cleared section 4). $Counter++ 5). If $Counter >= 10,000 then recover coal/oil, $counter = 0 6). Goto line 1
Because Toyota is primarily a car company, not a TDP company. If they were experts at the esoteric art of TDP they would probably operate a TDP plant instead of making cars, but since they are experts at making the world's best cars, they make cars instead, along with occasional PR filler material like the article.
Also, its unclear if even the TDP experts can run a TDP plant at a profit, but Toyota has a track record of running a car company at a profit... so do what makes the money...
Until recently, if you got an NSL to disclose information about one of your users, that user being yourself, it would have been illegal to disclose to yourself that the jackboots were requesting information about yourself.
On land rural jobs cost about $15K/mile. On land super-urban jobs cost about $500K/mile. The difference is permits, corruption, kickbacks, etc. Also scaling is important, "one job in Montana" may be hundreds of miles, and "one job in Manhatten" may be measured in feet, but the fixed costs are... fixed... so the cost per mile seems higher on the short jobs.
If you assume underwater fiber costs around as much as the total cost of cheap rural route, the 6200 mile route times 16K/mile equals about $100M. That makes sense, since the whole job is only supposed to cost about $300M.
Repairing fiber is somewhat more difficult than laying fiber because it's time sensitive. But then again they probably charge by the hour anyway. Since a "several day" repair job approaches $10M, if you assume that is 4 days at $10M total, that would be about $2.5M per day. The little row boat they're using is going to take about 40 days to paddle across the pond, 40 days * $2.5M a day conveniently works out to about $100M. That makes sense, since the whole job is only supposed to cost about $300M.
Add in the usual admin overhead, several multimillion dollar executive bonuses, engineering work, station gear at each endpoint, marketing and sales upfront expenses including slashvertisements, booze, coke, etc, I think they could blow somewhat less than $100M on that.
My labor estimate is probably about right for overtime repair work and a bit high for contracted construction work. My estimate for overhead may be a bit high. That means the cost of the cable itself probably is about $125M to $150M.
I realize this is slashdot not "soap opera storyline dot com", but still surprised no one noticed:
My girlfriend
A number of clients are guys
some have no incentive to try and improve their speech.
The boyfriend is always the last to know. Even if your girlfriend is doing absolutely nothing inappropriate with the guys at all, they might sign up solely to enjoy looking at her, or daydreaming or just purely platonic-ly bored/lonely.
(If its not obvious, nothing personal intended dude, just having some fun with how the story was written)
First, lets see any domestic car manufacturer make any car of any technology with those specs:
35+ mph... 10+ year lifespan... under $10K.
I mean before going all star trek with complicated stuff, can they even build a "model T" or VW-bug-alike that meets just those basic specs, even if it only seats one and gets two miles per gallon, etc, before trying to install new high tech with amazing performance (and probably, amazing costs)?
the buyer will buy the amount of kwh in batteries they feel they need
I do agree that "marketing-miles" will become the new "cupholder count" in car advertising. Perhaps, instead of advertising SUVs tearing thru muddy parks (which the typical SUV owner will never do) they'll show an e-vehicle cruising hundreds of (marketing) miles without a charge (which the typical owner will never do)
The only time the Prius' friction braking system is activated
When the car is completely quiet (no ventilation, no screaming kids, no music) I can hear them activate, if I'm actively listening for it an paying attention. Not even a sound so much as a change in road feel as the friction kicks in. Now the anti-lock, that is a different issue and its impressively loud.
What do you mean by sacrificing power? Regenerative braking returns some of the vehicle's kinetic energy to the battery, making the car more efficient.
Think slamming it in reverse at full throttle instantaneously, up to and including breaking the tires loose and smoking them. With current technology (electric "current" get it?) that would probably roast the controller and the motor.
That's why the friction brakes on my Tesla still squeak; because the regenerative deceleration is enough 98% of the time, and I rarely need to use the friction brakes.
I think his point is if you actively burned battery power you could probably eliminate that last 2%, making for an even lighter, faster, higher performance car. I've got years of experience driving a hybrid with regen braking, and it is not nearly powerful enough to trigger the anti-lock brakes. Perhaps a Tesla can regen brake hard enough to feel it in your eyeballs, don't know, would be fun to find out...
and the whole electric drive-train, is going to be cheaper than paying for gas?
Hell, wouldn't it be cheaper to buy a new electric than to retrofit it?
I know you're just trolling, but its an interesting topic anyway.
Most conversion stories seem to begin with "remove burned out IC engine and leaky transmission". You'd be surprised how expensive a new gas drivetrain plus installation costs compared to the new parts for a small electric drivetrain. So, drivetrain is usually mentally justified as a repair cost.
Then justify the purchase price of just enough small lead acid deep cycle batteries to just barely work, because you've got leftover money from the drivetrain, and you'll never pay for gas again, even if it barely makes it to the grocery store and back. So, first tiny battery set is usually mentally justified as an investment with a great ROI (not buying gas).
Once it works pretty well, justify more paralleled batteries for longer range, because its a luxury and you're worth it and just for the pure heck of it, etc etc. Just like you don't "need" leather seats but you wasted the money on them anyway, you can waste the money on 100 miles worth of battery that you don't need if you really want it. Plus you can one-up the guy you saw on the internet and who cares what it costs, you're going to out do his conversion no matter the expense. So, second set of batteries is usually mentally justified as a pure luxury.
So someone who's more in-the-know with anonymizing data sets of this or similar nature able to shed some light on this?
Much like social networking sites, the best solution is not to upload anything you don't want your name on. Since they're trying to build a "commuter car" as opposed to a "adult video shopping excursion car", the best solution is to only upload the drive to and from work, unless your work happens to be "professional adult video shopper".
You mention Debian, then mention the job title "supervisor"...
a Linux distro supervisor needs to make sure that all the packages in the distro will play nicely with each other
Can you describe your experience with Debian's supervisors and management team?
(Disclaimer, I have some personal experience with this exact topic. It is handled in an effective mostly-anarchistic way, without any "management overhead", which I doubt the fine article's writers and readers can comprehend.)
I'd guess it's worries about patents, partners, and other politically related things.
The solution for Sequoia is pretty simple, write the fancy vote counting machine as an exact emulator of a 1928 IBM 301 tabulating machine, then overclock the emulation a wee bit. Nobody screws around with IBM's patent portfolio, and frankly an overclocked 301 is massive overkill for "counting votes".
It is really a very elegant solution. Admittedly, I will freaking fall out of my chair laughing if I download their source code and discover this is exactly what they did.
The video game simply can't provide the same physical and emotional feedback as real war, and I think you will find those are what cause PTSD and depression far more than the situation itself.
I was in the army, and never shot anyone. However, I don't think you can discuss PTSD/depression without "hurry up and wait" (more like hurry up and get super anxious). I don't think there is any "hurry up and wait" in video games beyond waiting a few seconds to load the level.
Another missing feedback is the physical exhaustion and lack of sleep screwing with your judgment.
Who says it has to be made of steel that close to the road?
If you're going to the trouble to scrap all existing steel vehicles or at least ban them permanently from the new infrastructure, you're better off building super-ultra-high speed 2.0 i-rail at 400 MPH instead of low speed 60 MPH cars...
The charging connector is a trivially solved problem. The plug has a low-speed, low-power data interface which (among other interlock methods) is used to verify that the connector is properly seated before delivering any power.
None the less, a megawatt is still a megawatt... one percent loss due to a speck of dust or slight misalignment means you're dumping 10 kilowatts thermal in the connector. Kaboom. Megawatt class cables are not little old lady friendly. 0000 gauge wire is a roughly half inch diameter solid bar of copper, weighs about a pound per foot, rated to only 200 amps at insulation temperature delta high enough to burn hands on a summer day. At 200 amps, you need a mere 5 KV to pass a megawatt. You could use bigger cables, but making the "power cable" weigh over 50 pounds is not granny friendly, and the induced voltage from that current will zap grannies pacemaker. Or you could trade off for higher voltage, but I don't think UL will list "consumer accessible" stuff above 477 volts and on a rainy day the connector will have to be quite large just to survive a mere 5 KV without arcing over. Assuming the connectors insulator is perfectly clean of course.
No, I'm not seeing megawatt class consumer level power connectors anytime soon.
2). because air is cool at all speeds/altitudes, composite alloys and other lightweight materials can be used
Well, the impractical part is the heat exchanger has to be lighter and more efficient than simply making a bigger fuel tank, thus you don't need to cool your air.
Even better a rocket engine uses pure, ice cold liquid O2. But the precooling the intake air wastes 80% of the cooling on nonburnable nitrogen.
I wish we would back a design like Skylon. Now that would be something to get really excited about and it would fill even the general population with a sense of awe to inspire a whole new generation of space exploration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon [wikipedia.org]
Yeah sense of awe, as in WTF... the skylon is unrealistic for the following reasons:
1) Looking at the wikipedia article, first off, 50% faster than blackbird engines is a pure pipe dream. Material science has not improved enough for turbine blades to survive that, and the intakes required to decelerate incoming air to subsonic will either be too heavy, or impossible, or not distribute airflow evenly enough, etc etc. Tech and cad design help some, but not enough.
2) Second wiki article problem, twice the size (twice the wing area?) but three times the weight, that things going to be a real handful at take off.
3) The sabre engine probably will not work, as the designer himself only gives it a TRL of 2 or 3. By his own admission, that's right up there with warp drive proposals and telekinesis. The ISP is too low, the T/W is too low. Following the old 6-6-6 rule, whats wrong with 6% bigger fuel tanks and an off the shelf engine?
(The 6-6-6 rule is mach 6 (good f-ing luck) at 60Kfeet up (difficult to impossible for an air breathing engine) gets you a whopping 6% of the way to orbit)
Caps recharge in a matter of minutes... almost like a traditional gas n' go.
A gas pump nozzle sprays gas at about the thermal equivalent of a megawatt-class electrical plug, more or less.
I won't bore you with the chemical engineering thermodynamics and electrical engineering details, but just think about it, if you can burn a huge tank of gas in a generator for hours on end to continuously generate lots of kilowatts, then filling the empty tank in seconds would seem to imply megawatts of power transfer...
Megawatt-level quick disconnect plugs are not a common mass produced device. Your average retard won't last long while trying to use one, either.
And they last a lot longer with less environmental headaches for disposal.
PCBs make nice capacitor dielectrics, not so super environmental contaminants. Seems a little preliminary to declare not only will something be invented, but when it's invented it'll also be super environmental, just because that would be nice if it were true.
one option would be to put induction cables into the road, so that the car can be charged while driving.
I think you'd find the effect on steel car chassis to be very "exciting" (sorry for electric motor field winding pun this early in the morning). That would apply to any "mostly iron" chassis, no matter if IC or electric powered, or even semi and RV trailers...
Seriously though, although turning the road into a giant linear induction motor sounds very amusing under normal circumstances, it would be a bit wasteful in stop and go conditions and very dangerous in low traction situations.
It seems to have been priced in the range of $250 - $350
I think that was their main problem.
The fine article discusses "biodegradable packaging" and such. I don't think that was a relevant part of the failure.
Reminds me of the failed million dollar condo project near where I work, land where they find approx one dead body per year, swarmed with panhandlers, median local income about $30K/yr, next door to an EPA "brownfield" site, but that's OK, they will sell because they got granite countertops. Yeah.
imagine if "Accounting Rules 1995, 1998, 2000" was the norm- accounting rules became obsolete every 3 years and you had to retrain or lose your job
I am not sure if you were going for a "funny" mod, but tax accounting is, if anything, worse than your description of IT, because unlike IT, you can't use anything but memorization, certainly no logic is used, and it literally does change, a little bit, every year, and there are about a zillion independent taxing authorities in the USA (city, county, state, federal), but only one microsoft.
On the other hand, my great grandfather was 100% employed thru Great Depression One doing that. Takes just as long and costs just as much to file taxes on 100% of revenue as it does on 10% of revenue, at least to a first order of magnitude. I wonder if I'll be employed 100% of the time during Great Depression Two...
Hairstylists and plumbers aren't going away or going to be outsourced any time soon.
"Insourced" Habla espanol. The key is to find a position where the job can't be sent to China or the worker can't be imported from Mexico. Mostly, this seems to revolve around sales, management, some medical (not all), some education (certainly not all), organized crime/politics and marketing. Anything else?
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What can't Toyota periodically replace sections where the plants are? $Counter = 0; 1). Cut down section of plants 2). Bury plants to trap chemicals just like a bog would 3). plant new plants in cleared section 4). $Counter++ 5). If $Counter >= 10,000 then recover coal/oil, $counter = 0 6). Goto line 1
Because Toyota is primarily a car company, not a TDP company. If they were experts at the esoteric art of TDP they would probably operate a TDP plant instead of making cars, but since they are experts at making the world's best cars, they make cars instead, along with occasional PR filler material like the article.
Also, its unclear if even the TDP experts can run a TDP plant at a profit, but Toyota has a track record of running a car company at a profit ... so do what makes the money ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization
Last I checked, a few months ago, there didn't seem to be any simple options for running skype on a 64-bit GNU/Linux machine.
http://wiki.debian.org/skype
"Video did not work for me, but otherwise it was all fine."
First, you can't easily have webmail, which is important for many people.
apt-get install squirrelmail.
For me, running mutt via ssh is more accessible/important.
If the government wants access to my inbox they'll need to talk to me since I'm the admin of my mail server.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Letter
Until recently, if you got an NSL to disclose information about one of your users, that user being yourself, it would have been illegal to disclose to yourself that the jackboots were requesting information about yourself.
How much of that cost is the cable?
http://www.isp-planet.com/business/fiber_price_bol.html
On land rural jobs cost about $15K/mile. On land super-urban jobs cost about $500K/mile. The difference is permits, corruption, kickbacks, etc. Also scaling is important, "one job in Montana" may be hundreds of miles, and "one job in Manhatten" may be measured in feet, but the fixed costs are... fixed... so the cost per mile seems higher on the short jobs.
If you assume underwater fiber costs around as much as the total cost of cheap rural route, the 6200 mile route times 16K/mile equals about $100M. That makes sense, since the whole job is only supposed to cost about $300M.
Repairing fiber is somewhat more difficult than laying fiber because it's time sensitive. But then again they probably charge by the hour anyway. Since a "several day" repair job approaches $10M, if you assume that is 4 days at $10M total, that would be about $2.5M per day. The little row boat they're using is going to take about 40 days to paddle across the pond, 40 days * $2.5M a day conveniently works out to about $100M. That makes sense, since the whole job is only supposed to cost about $300M.
Add in the usual admin overhead, several multimillion dollar executive bonuses, engineering work, station gear at each endpoint, marketing and sales upfront expenses including slashvertisements, booze, coke, etc, I think they could blow somewhat less than $100M on that.
My labor estimate is probably about right for overtime repair work and a bit high for contracted construction work. My estimate for overhead may be a bit high. That means the cost of the cable itself probably is about $125M to $150M.
I realize this is slashdot not "soap opera storyline dot com", but still surprised no one noticed:
My girlfriend
A number of clients are guys
some have no incentive to try and improve their speech.
The boyfriend is always the last to know. Even if your girlfriend is doing absolutely nothing inappropriate with the guys at all, they might sign up solely to enjoy looking at her, or daydreaming or just purely platonic-ly bored/lonely.
(If its not obvious, nothing personal intended dude, just having some fun with how the story was written)
First, lets see any domestic car manufacturer make any car of any technology with those specs:
35+ mph ... 10+ year lifespan ... under $10K.
I mean before going all star trek with complicated stuff, can they even build a "model T" or VW-bug-alike that meets just those basic specs, even if it only seats one and gets two miles per gallon, etc, before trying to install new high tech with amazing performance (and probably, amazing costs)?
the buyer will buy the amount of kwh in batteries they feel they need
I do agree that "marketing-miles" will become the new "cupholder count" in car advertising. Perhaps, instead of advertising SUVs tearing thru muddy parks (which the typical SUV owner will never do) they'll show an e-vehicle cruising hundreds of (marketing) miles without a charge (which the typical owner will never do)
The only time the Prius' friction braking system is activated
When the car is completely quiet (no ventilation, no screaming kids, no music) I can hear them activate, if I'm actively listening for it an paying attention. Not even a sound so much as a change in road feel as the friction kicks in. Now the anti-lock, that is a different issue and its impressively loud.
What do you mean by sacrificing power? Regenerative braking returns some of the vehicle's kinetic energy to the battery, making the car more efficient.
Think slamming it in reverse at full throttle instantaneously, up to and including breaking the tires loose and smoking them. With current technology (electric "current" get it?) that would probably roast the controller and the motor.
That's why the friction brakes on my Tesla still squeak; because the regenerative deceleration is enough 98% of the time, and I rarely need to use the friction brakes.
I think his point is if you actively burned battery power you could probably eliminate that last 2%, making for an even lighter, faster, higher performance car. I've got years of experience driving a hybrid with regen braking, and it is not nearly powerful enough to trigger the anti-lock brakes. Perhaps a Tesla can regen brake hard enough to feel it in your eyeballs, don't know, would be fun to find out...
and the whole electric drive-train, is going to be cheaper than paying for gas?
Hell, wouldn't it be cheaper to buy a new electric than to retrofit it?
I know you're just trolling, but its an interesting topic anyway.
Most conversion stories seem to begin with "remove burned out IC engine and leaky transmission". You'd be surprised how expensive a new gas drivetrain plus installation costs compared to the new parts for a small electric drivetrain. So, drivetrain is usually mentally justified as a repair cost.
Then justify the purchase price of just enough small lead acid deep cycle batteries to just barely work, because you've got leftover money from the drivetrain, and you'll never pay for gas again, even if it barely makes it to the grocery store and back. So, first tiny battery set is usually mentally justified as an investment with a great ROI (not buying gas).
Once it works pretty well, justify more paralleled batteries for longer range, because its a luxury and you're worth it and just for the pure heck of it, etc etc. Just like you don't "need" leather seats but you wasted the money on them anyway, you can waste the money on 100 miles worth of battery that you don't need if you really want it. Plus you can one-up the guy you saw on the internet and who cares what it costs, you're going to out do his conversion no matter the expense. So, second set of batteries is usually mentally justified as a pure luxury.
So someone who's more in-the-know with anonymizing data sets of this or similar nature able to shed some light on this?
Much like social networking sites, the best solution is not to upload anything you don't want your name on. Since they're trying to build a "commuter car" as opposed to a "adult video shopping excursion car", the best solution is to only upload the drive to and from work, unless your work happens to be "professional adult video shopper".
You mention Debian, then mention the job title "supervisor"...
a Linux distro supervisor needs to make sure that all the packages in the distro will play nicely with each other
Can you describe your experience with Debian's supervisors and management team?
(Disclaimer, I have some personal experience with this exact topic. It is handled in an effective mostly-anarchistic way, without any "management overhead", which I doubt the fine article's writers and readers can comprehend.)
I'd guess it's worries about patents, partners, and other politically related things.
The solution for Sequoia is pretty simple, write the fancy vote counting machine as an exact emulator of a 1928 IBM 301 tabulating machine, then overclock the emulation a wee bit. Nobody screws around with IBM's patent portfolio, and frankly an overclocked 301 is massive overkill for "counting votes".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulating_machine
It is really a very elegant solution. Admittedly, I will freaking fall out of my chair laughing if I download their source code and discover this is exactly what they did.
Pr0n can be for reminiscing. Alien demonoid from Phobos, not so much, unless your college experience was quite different from mine.
Or rephrased, Pr0n can be for remembering the good old days (especially once you're married), but games can imagine the future.
The video game simply can't provide the same physical and emotional feedback as real war, and I think you will find those are what cause PTSD and depression far more than the situation itself.
I was in the army, and never shot anyone. However, I don't think you can discuss PTSD/depression without "hurry up and wait" (more like hurry up and get super anxious). I don't think there is any "hurry up and wait" in video games beyond waiting a few seconds to load the level.
Another missing feedback is the physical exhaustion and lack of sleep screwing with your judgment.
Who says it has to be made of steel that close to the road?
If you're going to the trouble to scrap all existing steel vehicles or at least ban them permanently from the new infrastructure, you're better off building super-ultra-high speed 2.0 i-rail at 400 MPH instead of low speed 60 MPH cars...
The charging connector is a trivially solved problem. The plug has a low-speed, low-power data interface which (among other interlock methods) is used to verify that the connector is properly seated before delivering any power.
None the less, a megawatt is still a megawatt... one percent loss due to a speck of dust or slight misalignment means you're dumping 10 kilowatts thermal in the connector. Kaboom. Megawatt class cables are not little old lady friendly. 0000 gauge wire is a roughly half inch diameter solid bar of copper, weighs about a pound per foot, rated to only 200 amps at insulation temperature delta high enough to burn hands on a summer day. At 200 amps, you need a mere 5 KV to pass a megawatt. You could use bigger cables, but making the "power cable" weigh over 50 pounds is not granny friendly, and the induced voltage from that current will zap grannies pacemaker. Or you could trade off for higher voltage, but I don't think UL will list "consumer accessible" stuff above 477 volts and on a rainy day the connector will have to be quite large just to survive a mere 5 KV without arcing over. Assuming the connectors insulator is perfectly clean of course.
No, I'm not seeing megawatt class consumer level power connectors anytime soon.
2). because air is cool at all speeds/altitudes, composite alloys and other lightweight materials can be used
Well, the impractical part is the heat exchanger has to be lighter and more efficient than simply making a bigger fuel tank, thus you don't need to cool your air.
Even better a rocket engine uses pure, ice cold liquid O2. But the precooling the intake air wastes 80% of the cooling on nonburnable nitrogen.
I wish we would back a design like Skylon. Now that would be something to get really excited about and it would fill even the general population with a sense of awe to inspire a whole new generation of space exploration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon [wikipedia.org]
Yeah sense of awe, as in WTF... the skylon is unrealistic for the following reasons:
1) Looking at the wikipedia article, first off, 50% faster than blackbird engines is a pure pipe dream. Material science has not improved enough for turbine blades to survive that, and the intakes required to decelerate incoming air to subsonic will either be too heavy, or impossible, or not distribute airflow evenly enough, etc etc. Tech and cad design help some, but not enough.
2) Second wiki article problem, twice the size (twice the wing area?) but three times the weight, that things going to be a real handful at take off.
3) The sabre engine probably will not work, as the designer himself only gives it a TRL of 2 or 3. By his own admission, that's right up there with warp drive proposals and telekinesis. The ISP is too low, the T/W is too low. Following the old 6-6-6 rule, whats wrong with 6% bigger fuel tanks and an off the shelf engine?
(The 6-6-6 rule is mach 6 (good f-ing luck) at 60Kfeet up (difficult to impossible for an air breathing engine) gets you a whopping 6% of the way to orbit)
Caps recharge in a matter of minutes... almost like a traditional gas n' go.
A gas pump nozzle sprays gas at about the thermal equivalent of a megawatt-class electrical plug, more or less.
I won't bore you with the chemical engineering thermodynamics and electrical engineering details, but just think about it, if you can burn a huge tank of gas in a generator for hours on end to continuously generate lots of kilowatts, then filling the empty tank in seconds would seem to imply megawatts of power transfer...
Megawatt-level quick disconnect plugs are not a common mass produced device. Your average retard won't last long while trying to use one, either.
And they last a lot longer with less environmental headaches for disposal.
PCBs make nice capacitor dielectrics, not so super environmental contaminants. Seems a little preliminary to declare not only will something be invented, but when it's invented it'll also be super environmental, just because that would be nice if it were true.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorinated_biphenyl
one option would be to put induction cables into the road, so that the car can be charged while driving.
I think you'd find the effect on steel car chassis to be very "exciting" (sorry for electric motor field winding pun this early in the morning). That would apply to any "mostly iron" chassis, no matter if IC or electric powered, or even semi and RV trailers...
Seriously though, although turning the road into a giant linear induction motor sounds very amusing under normal circumstances, it would be a bit wasteful in stop and go conditions and very dangerous in low traction situations.
It seems to have been priced in the range of $250 - $350
I think that was their main problem.
The fine article discusses "biodegradable packaging" and such. I don't think that was a relevant part of the failure.
Reminds me of the failed million dollar condo project near where I work, land where they find approx one dead body per year, swarmed with panhandlers, median local income about $30K/yr, next door to an EPA "brownfield" site, but that's OK, they will sell because they got granite countertops. Yeah.
imagine if "Accounting Rules 1995, 1998, 2000" was the norm- accounting rules became obsolete every 3 years and you had to retrain or lose your job
I am not sure if you were going for a "funny" mod, but tax accounting is, if anything, worse than your description of IT, because unlike IT, you can't use anything but memorization, certainly no logic is used, and it literally does change, a little bit, every year, and there are about a zillion independent taxing authorities in the USA (city, county, state, federal), but only one microsoft.
On the other hand, my great grandfather was 100% employed thru Great Depression One doing that. Takes just as long and costs just as much to file taxes on 100% of revenue as it does on 10% of revenue, at least to a first order of magnitude. I wonder if I'll be employed 100% of the time during Great Depression Two...
Hairstylists and plumbers aren't going away or going to be outsourced any time soon.
"Insourced" Habla espanol. The key is to find a position where the job can't be sent to China or the worker can't be imported from Mexico. Mostly, this seems to revolve around sales, management, some medical (not all), some education (certainly not all), organized crime/politics and marketing. Anything else?
It works as good as my Cougar repelling rock in my office. I haven't seen a cougar in the office since I got it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_disparity_in_sexual_relationships#Slang_terms
Your loss.