We also have poor mothers getting their rambunctious kids diagnosed with ADD to get "crazy money" for their child, something like pediatric disability.
I didn't sent my son to public school because they would have diagnosed and medicated him. As he got older he learned to cope with normal kids and is now doing well in college. He and I are also left handed. The mental illness thing finally got to me but I was old enough to get disability.
We sent our youngest son to a small church school so he wouldn't have to interact with public school kids and their teachers. He is doing well in a public college and is an accomplished musician and computer builder.
Most of the "rise" in autism cases is with the internet we just read about it more and with smaller families each child gets more individual attention. People who can focus on fine details can be very successful. My oldest son is a contract manager with a Fortune 50 company responsible for billion dollar contracts. Look up Harry Stine, an autistic Iowa farmer who turned his observations about soybean plants into a mufti-billion dollar seed company.
OK, the jokes getting old. The flywheel spins on its horizontal axis. Turning left or right has no effect at all. It would actually help reduce body roll in a tight turn. Climbing or descending a steep ramp might present a problem but the flywheel would be mounted on gimbals and have enough freedom of movement not to upset the car.
That was basically the job I had from 1996 to 2006. We went from spring scale produce baggers that needed five people to hang bags and top them off to computer controlled weigher-baggers that only needed one operator and were 10 times more accurate. I did the programing and maintenance. The workers displaced were Mexicans so I don't know what the effect on the local economy was.
I guess it involves economics and Geo-politics beyond my education level but off-shoring most of the jobs requiring unskilled labor not only left those people with no jobs but also eliminated the supply train of raw materials and facilities needed to make the products we now import. It also eliminated the money those workers would have put back into the economy. Now with massive illegal immigration even the jobs left are taken by foreigners. I worked on a farm until I was 43 and all those jobs Americans wont do, I did. I am on SS now so you guys need to keep going for at least 30 more years.
In 1963 when I was in fifth grade I invited all the popular kids to my 11th birthday party. They all came, were polite and brought nice presents. I went and hid my room, I could hardy wait for them to leave. While I never made better than an average income I did managed to get married and have four children who are successful and more sociable than I was. I also distinctly remember being ask one day by a girl why I wasn't participating in the running away from cooties game.
I know who "used" to do the jobs Americans wont do, Black and White Americans. I grew up in Florida during the Fifty's. Migrant crews would pick oranges in the fall and then move farther south picking vegetables in Homestead. In the spring they migrated north picking up and packing potatoes and other fruits and vegetables moving northward as the season progressed along the East coast. My dad owned a small farm and I had the experience of picking up potatoes and cutting cabbage along side the black crew my dad hired. No welfare or food stamps but most worked on a farm and brought home extra produce to cook and sell around the neighborhood.
Somehow everyone survived without millions of Mexicans in the fields and not a single item bought from China or any Japanese automobiles. It's not just a few workers who have been displaced by foreign goods and workers, it's everyone who sold products to and did other work for the now unemployed workers and the now shuttered mills and factories.
Just because your great, great, great, grand pappy was a slave doesn't mean you should suck on welfare and never have to work on a farm. Remember, most of the people on welfare are white, they can do farm work too. I did it for forty years.
My experience. I have four children, one has a PhD, one a law degree, one with high grades in college, and one who whips out her smartphone if you ask her what 5 times 7 is. I spent every night for a year helping her do her math homework so she could graduate high school, tears, lots of tears. She can do words and will pull up a spreadsheet on her laptop if she needs to do anything with numbers. She became a hairdresser and is very happy.
My 26 year old nephew graduated an Electrical Engineering degree. He specialized in computer board layout. He spent four years working with his grandfather running an ocean going tug business before starting school. After graduation last spring he went back to the shipyard. He was installing the electronics and sensors needed for the new main engines being installed in a tug. The experience installing sensors was a plus in him getting hired to install and maintain sensors for a gas pipeline. $20000 moving allowance and one year rent paid apartment with the promise of six figure salary after a year.
Mt son manages a law department that finalizes purchase contracts for natural gas co-generation units. Right now there is good money in natural gas.
That is the best description of dark matter and energy that I have ever seen. I'm going to save it alongside the best description of wealth creation I have.
My daughters miniature dachshund loves to sing with my wife. Her favorite songs are "You are My Sunshine" and "I Will Always Love You". Bring out a harmonica and she and our dachshund-terrier mix male will harmonize on the high notes.
You could just send out some death squads and snuff out the next hundred thousand people who turn 65. That should free up 2 billion over the next 10 years.
Converted an old Dell laptop to Kubuntu, my first Linux install ever. Why did I wait so long? Boots in a minute and even my slow satellite internet seems snappy. My tech savvy son put Win 7 and his old game rig parts in my desktop just to show me he could. Best of both worlds.
Could be that controlled fusion is imposable and a $trillion a year in research would not produce it. Or the oil companies are spending tens of billions a year to stop it. Either way, fusion ain't happening.
I myself was subject to conscription 42 years ago. Got into the Navy and steamed around in circles in the Atlantic. My son used ROTC to help pay for college and opted for the Air Force. They tossed bundles of money at him to reenlist but he took his savings and went to law school. He is helping to pay for his younger siblings education. The world goes around whether you help it or not, do the best you can.
The trouble is in a global economy we are competing with people who were subsistence farmers and to them $2 a day is a pay increase. If we have a $15 an hour minimum wage in America but allow the import of phones made by Chinese workers making $15 a day where is Apple going to source their products?
When the oil runs out we will go back to a labor intensive economy. Teamsters and veterinarians for all those horses we will need to pull plows and haul wagons. Sailors for clipper ships. Lumber jacks to chop trees.
My dad grew up on a farm without electricity. He spent his teen years plowing with a mule. He remembers the Great Depression as the "good old days". If we can keep enough electricity for refrigeration and internet along with antibiotics and anesthetics a slower pace of life might be welcome. Now get of my lawn.
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We also have poor mothers getting their rambunctious kids diagnosed with ADD to get "crazy money" for their child, something like pediatric disability.
Wow, I could have written that post. We not alone!!!
I didn't sent my son to public school because they would have diagnosed and medicated him. As he got older he learned to cope with normal kids and is now doing well in college. He and I are also left handed. The mental illness thing finally got to me but I was old enough to get disability.
We sent our youngest son to a small church school so he wouldn't have to interact with public school kids and their teachers. He is doing well in a public college and is an accomplished musician and computer builder.
Most of the "rise" in autism cases is with the internet we just read about it more and with smaller families each child gets more individual attention. People who can focus on fine details can be very successful. My oldest son is a contract manager with a Fortune 50 company responsible for billion dollar contracts. Look up Harry Stine, an autistic Iowa farmer who turned his observations about soybean plants into a mufti-billion dollar seed company.
OK, the jokes getting old. The flywheel spins on its horizontal axis. Turning left or right has no effect at all. It would actually help reduce body roll in a tight turn. Climbing or descending a steep ramp might present a problem but the flywheel would be mounted on gimbals and have enough freedom of movement not to upset the car.
That was basically the job I had from 1996 to 2006. We went from spring scale produce baggers that needed five people to hang bags and top them off to computer controlled weigher-baggers that only needed one operator and were 10 times more accurate. I did the programing and maintenance. The workers displaced were Mexicans so I don't know what the effect on the local economy was.
I guess it involves economics and Geo-politics beyond my education level but off-shoring most of the jobs requiring unskilled labor not only left those people with no jobs but also eliminated the supply train of raw materials and facilities needed to make the products we now import. It also eliminated the money those workers would have put back into the economy. Now with massive illegal immigration even the jobs left are taken by foreigners. I worked on a farm until I was 43 and all those jobs Americans wont do, I did. I am on SS now so you guys need to keep going for at least 30 more years.
I went and saw Ender's Game, Footfall would be 10 times better.
In 1963 when I was in fifth grade I invited all the popular kids to my 11th birthday party. They all came, were polite and brought nice presents. I went and hid my room, I could hardy wait for them to leave. While I never made better than an average income I did managed to get married and have four children who are successful and more sociable than I was. I also distinctly remember being ask one day by a girl why I wasn't participating in the running away from cooties game.
I know who "used" to do the jobs Americans wont do, Black and White Americans. I grew up in Florida during the Fifty's. Migrant crews would pick oranges in the fall and then move farther south picking vegetables in Homestead. In the spring they migrated north picking up and packing potatoes and other fruits and vegetables moving northward as the season progressed along the East coast. My dad owned a small farm and I had the experience of picking up potatoes and cutting cabbage along side the black crew my dad hired. No welfare or food stamps but most worked on a farm and brought home extra produce to cook and sell around the neighborhood.
Somehow everyone survived without millions of Mexicans in the fields and not a single item bought from China or any Japanese automobiles. It's not just a few workers who have been displaced by foreign goods and workers, it's everyone who sold products to and did other work for the now unemployed workers and the now shuttered mills and factories.
Just because your great, great, great, grand pappy was a slave doesn't mean you should suck on welfare and never have to work on a farm. Remember, most of the people on welfare are white, they can do farm work too. I did it for forty years.
My experience. I have four children, one has a PhD, one a law degree, one with high grades in college, and one who whips out her smartphone if you ask her what 5 times 7 is. I spent every night for a year helping her do her math homework so she could graduate high school, tears, lots of tears. She can do words and will pull up a spreadsheet on her laptop if she needs to do anything with numbers. She became a hairdresser and is very happy.
My 26 year old nephew graduated an Electrical Engineering degree. He specialized in computer board layout. He spent four years working with his grandfather running an ocean going tug business before starting school. After graduation last spring he went back to the shipyard. He was installing the electronics and sensors needed for the new main engines being installed in a tug. The experience installing sensors was a plus in him getting hired to install and maintain sensors for a gas pipeline. $20000 moving allowance and one year rent paid apartment with the promise of six figure salary after a year.
Mt son manages a law department that finalizes purchase contracts for natural gas co-generation units. Right now there is good money in natural gas.
Wasn't that the show on PBS where Ms. Frizzle jumps out of the bus a yells, "HAY YOU GUYS" ?
That is the best description of dark matter and energy that I have ever seen. I'm going to save it alongside the best description of wealth creation I have.
My daughters miniature dachshund loves to sing with my wife. Her favorite songs are "You are My Sunshine" and "I Will Always Love You". Bring out a harmonica and she and our dachshund-terrier mix male will harmonize on the high notes.
I'll play. How old were they? Why are they having an abortion? Who is paying for it? Could they be victims of incest, sex slave, coerced by an abuser?
You could just send out some death squads and snuff out the next hundred thousand people who turn 65. That should free up 2 billion over the next 10 years.
Have you been spying on me? And the tractor is only 43 years old.
Converted an old Dell laptop to Kubuntu, my first Linux install ever. Why did I wait so long? Boots in a minute and even my slow satellite internet seems snappy. My tech savvy son put Win 7 and his old game rig parts in my desktop just to show me he could. Best of both worlds.
Could be that controlled fusion is imposable and a $trillion a year in research would not produce it. Or the oil companies are spending tens of billions a year to stop it. Either way, fusion ain't happening.
I myself was subject to conscription 42 years ago. Got into the Navy and steamed around in circles in the Atlantic. My son used ROTC to help pay for college and opted for the Air Force. They tossed bundles of money at him to reenlist but he took his savings and went to law school. He is helping to pay for his younger siblings education. The world goes around whether you help it or not, do the best you can.
1968 was AWESOME. I was there. Except for Johnson that d**n war it was golden.
The trouble is in a global economy we are competing with people who were subsistence farmers and to them $2 a day is a pay increase. If we have a $15 an hour minimum wage in America but allow the import of phones made by Chinese workers making $15 a day where is Apple going to source their products?
My mother and her HALF sister are from WV. My aunts daughters were HOT.
When the oil runs out we will go back to a labor intensive economy. Teamsters and veterinarians for all those horses we will need to pull plows and haul wagons. Sailors for clipper ships. Lumber jacks to chop trees.
My dad grew up on a farm without electricity. He spent his teen years plowing with a mule. He remembers the Great Depression as the "good old days". If we can keep enough electricity for refrigeration and internet along with antibiotics and anesthetics a slower pace of life might be welcome. Now get of my lawn.
Not everyone is a factory worker. Doctors, lawyers, government workers, farmers, mechanics, retail employees, miners, fishermen, oil field workers.
Then throw in foreign workers. How many of the people who make iPhones can afford to buy one? Does every employee at the Ferrari plant drive one?