My now eighty year old mother never needed a job. Helping my dad, brother and me on our farm and raising my two sisters was fulfillment enough. No more farm but she fills her time with walks, quilting, and gardening. My wife has only worked full time for four years and five years part time in our 28 year marriage. She partially home schooled our two children and now spends time caring for her ailing mother, who never had a job, and making art. I have a 5 ft by 7 ft replica of "Creation of Adam" in my living room. At the moment she is sewing a quilt.
My two daughters work, one a teacher and one a hairdresser.
What about when YOU'RE the guy who broke the air line that shut the plant down and idled 50 people for 2 hours? I got a year end bonus anyway, owner was very forgiving. I was also the guy who had to fix that, and everything everyone else broke.
There are over 34 million satellite TV customers, including me, who can't "cut the cord", there is no cord to cut. Many of us can't get DSL and have slow, low cap, satellite internet also. I have to have ESPN for the college football season and of course some sort of broadband so it's $80 a month for each service.
My daughter could read at three and she was the star of her kindergarten class. She had no trouble reading the fifth grade books and her teach loved showing her off to the other teachers. She has a PhD and teaches college English today.
You don't have to teach a highly intelligent 3 year old to read. You read ABC picture books to her when she is two and when she is three she can read any new ABC book to you. By the time she starts kindergarten she can read a newspaper and before she is 30 she will have a PhD in English. Her little brother tried to keep up with her but only has a law degree. All four of her grandparents were high school drop outs. Not your typical children but I am proud of them.
The first low flush toilets were poorly designed. I just replaced the 30 year old toilet in my bathroom with a 1.28 gal one. It has a tiny tank but one short whoosh when when you push the handle and everything's gone and the tank refills in seconds. Now when I use the standard flush toilet in my other bathroom I cringe at the waste of water. It is a ten year old design that just uses a quick closing flap to conservative water but to actually get anything to go down you have to hold down the handle until the tank empties.
You don't understand the kind of people attracted to government service in America. All the programing would have a left wing slant. While most programs would be somewhat entertaining that would only be to increase viewership of their propaganda. The Chinese and North Korean governments would gladly stream this content for it's praise of socialism and communism and hatred of the American way of life.
This could help some but most consumer items are foreign made. You would mostly help the Korean and Chinese economies. Millions of people receive government aid and live in public housing. Somehow this is not socialism but having people live in dormitories next to factories and assemble cellphones is.
I remember when blacks had to go in the back way and sit in the balcony of the theater, which is where I wanted to sit but couldn't. I drank from the "black" water fountain because it was rarely used so the water was cold. That always gave my mother apoplexy.
Help me here, I lack a college education. If Blacks are given preferential treatment why is it the Asians have to be discriminated against? They are mostly high achievers and should be the top applicants. Wouldn't the lowest White applicants be dropped to make room for elevated Black applicants? What, when they push Black applicants up from the bottom the Asians at the top are pushed off?
How many hot rodders do you know. Modern engines are turbo charged, computer controlled, fuel injected marvels. Any thing you do to it will make run worse. Computers on a chip and smartphones are the same way. What can you do to "hot rod" it. I grew up in the 60's fixing up cars and motorcycles. In the 80's I started putting computer parts together. Nothing is hands on anymore, its all just code. About all you can do to things today is put some led's or stickers on it. What is there left for a young man with a mechanical bent to do?
It might not be as good as a human but quantity has a quality of it's own. If cameras can pick out likely suspects then a human can take a closer look from the same feed.
And what do all you liberally educated people do when you toilet backs up or half your outlets lose power? Just for fun (without Googling) what would be the problem if half your electric outlets lost power (US system)?
When was the last time an Air Force pilot killed someone? My son used ROTC to help pay for college. His vision wasn't good enough to be a pilot so he worked in Supply.
Being Scots-Irish myself I can say that many "hillbillys" are kind of proud to be "self taught". My grandfather took his third grade education and retired from farming at 62 with the equivalent of a million dollars in the bank. He started out as a sharecropper in the early thirty's.
Most people are not prepared. When the grid goes down credit and EBT cards stop working. No one can buy food. In many areas looting will begin within hours. My wife worked at a discount store when the EBT system for the entire state went down for a day. By afternoon there was almost a food riot in the parking lot as people went from store to store getting angrier each time being told the system is still down.
I'm sure your parents are happy. I will be 62 soon and no grandchildren yet. My 26 year old daughter and her husband have been living me and her mother saving up to get their own place and start a family and hurray, they just started house hunting. She is ticked off at her sister in law (they were in the same kindergarten class) who has an 8 and a 2 year old already and never worked, but at least is married to the second child's father.
The future belongs to those who reproduce. My grandfather had 9 sisters who became grandmothers. Our family reunions were held at a state park. Now there isn't enough of us to field a baseball team. Other groups are taking over, I wish them good luck.
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My now eighty year old mother never needed a job. Helping my dad, brother and me on our farm and raising my two sisters was fulfillment enough. No more farm but she fills her time with walks, quilting, and gardening. My wife has only worked full time for four years and five years part time in our 28 year marriage. She partially home schooled our two children and now spends time caring for her ailing mother, who never had a job, and making art. I have a 5 ft by 7 ft replica of "Creation of Adam" in my living room. At the moment she is sewing a quilt.
My two daughters work, one a teacher and one a hairdresser.
What about when YOU'RE the guy who broke the air line that shut the plant down and idled 50 people for 2 hours? I got a year end bonus anyway, owner was very forgiving. I was also the guy who had to fix that, and everything everyone else broke.
There are over 34 million satellite TV customers, including me, who can't "cut the cord", there is no cord to cut. Many of us can't get DSL and have slow, low cap, satellite internet also. I have to have ESPN for the college football season and of course some sort of broadband so it's $80 a month for each service.
In my state the CAR is insured, no matter who is driving. You can't renew your tag without (minimum) insurance.
If any government entity finds this plane I don't think they will tell anyone else. Wherever it is is the perfect hiding place.
My God! Someone on the internet has a plan to fix the Internet congestion problem instead of just bitching. Good work.
Good, an informative comment.
My daughter could read at three and she was the star of her kindergarten class. She had no trouble reading the fifth grade books and her teach loved showing her off to the other teachers. She has a PhD and teaches college English today.
You don't have to teach a highly intelligent 3 year old to read. You read ABC picture books to her when she is two and when she is three she can read any new ABC book to you. By the time she starts kindergarten she can read a newspaper and before she is 30 she will have a PhD in English. Her little brother tried to keep up with her but only has a law degree. All four of her grandparents were high school drop outs. Not your typical children but I am proud of them.
That is a perfect explanation.
The first low flush toilets were poorly designed. I just replaced the 30 year old toilet in my bathroom with a 1.28 gal one. It has a tiny tank but one short whoosh when when you push the handle and everything's gone and the tank refills in seconds. Now when I use the standard flush toilet in my other bathroom I cringe at the waste of water. It is a ten year old design that just uses a quick closing flap to conservative water but to actually get anything to go down you have to hold down the handle until the tank empties.
You don't understand the kind of people attracted to government service in America. All the programing would have a left wing slant. While most programs would be somewhat entertaining that would only be to increase viewership of their propaganda. The Chinese and North Korean governments would gladly stream this content for it's praise of socialism and communism and hatred of the American way of life.
WTO agreements not withstanding, tariffs.
This could help some but most consumer items are foreign made. You would mostly help the Korean and Chinese economies. Millions of people receive government aid and live in public housing. Somehow this is not socialism but having people live in dormitories next to factories and assemble cellphones is.
I remember when blacks had to go in the back way and sit in the balcony of the theater, which is where I wanted to sit but couldn't. I drank from the "black" water fountain because it was rarely used so the water was cold. That always gave my mother apoplexy.
Help me here, I lack a college education. If Blacks are given preferential treatment why is it the Asians have to be discriminated against? They are mostly high achievers and should be the top applicants. Wouldn't the lowest White applicants be dropped to make room for elevated Black applicants? What, when they push Black applicants up from the bottom the Asians at the top are pushed off?
How many hot rodders do you know. Modern engines are turbo charged, computer controlled, fuel injected marvels. Any thing you do to it will make run worse. Computers on a chip and smartphones are the same way. What can you do to "hot rod" it. I grew up in the 60's fixing up cars and motorcycles. In the 80's I started putting computer parts together. Nothing is hands on anymore, its all just code. About all you can do to things today is put some led's or stickers on it. What is there left for a young man with a mechanical bent to do?
It might not be as good as a human but quantity has a quality of it's own. If cameras can pick out likely suspects then a human can take a closer look from the same feed.
I would think with more surveillance the police could have seen for themselves whether or not the woman was ran off the road.
And what do all you liberally educated people do when you toilet backs up or half your outlets lose power? Just for fun (without Googling) what would be the problem if half your electric outlets lost power (US system)?
When was the last time an Air Force pilot killed someone? My son used ROTC to help pay for college. His vision wasn't good enough to be a pilot so he worked in Supply.
The Woodstock generation (me) has mostly retired. Only the English and Philosophy majors are still teaching.
Being Scots-Irish myself I can say that many "hillbillys" are kind of proud to be "self taught". My grandfather took his third grade education and retired from farming at 62 with the equivalent of a million dollars in the bank. He started out as a sharecropper in the early thirty's.
Most people are not prepared. When the grid goes down credit and EBT cards stop working. No one can buy food. In many areas looting will begin within hours. My wife worked at a discount store when the EBT system for the entire state went down for a day. By afternoon there was almost a food riot in the parking lot as people went from store to store getting angrier each time being told the system is still down.
I'm sure your parents are happy. I will be 62 soon and no grandchildren yet. My 26 year old daughter and her husband have been living me and her mother saving up to get their own place and start a family and hurray, they just started house hunting. She is ticked off at her sister in law (they were in the same kindergarten class) who has an 8 and a 2 year old already and never worked, but at least is married to the second child's father.
The future belongs to those who reproduce. My grandfather had 9 sisters who became grandmothers. Our family reunions were held at a state park. Now there isn't enough of us to field a baseball team. Other groups are taking over, I wish them good luck.