I'm 60 and my parents are still alive. Thankfully they do not have a computer or cell phone. I've only sent one text and that was to my wife to bring home some dog food. On the other hand my children, age 21 to 40, are never out of sight of their smart phones and are usually tapping away on it when you are trying to talk to them.
So do you interpret the "meaning" of numbers in you math classes and input your understanding of elements in chemistry class? While the laws of mathematics and physics are universal, language and culture reflect what you are taught. English (or whatever the local language is) teachers have a canon of what the authors of classic books were saying. They want students to see what they see in the books and keep people thinking the same. The government in France even restricts words that can be added to the language.
In 9th grade English class we were assigned "Alas Babylon", and even though our small town was mentioned we hated it. Well, some of us actually did read it all the way through the first night but trust me, we hated it.
Oh yes, practice all those swear words, then whenever you are confused or irritated you can easily mutter a few choice ones even you in front of TV cameras with an open mike.
In some primitive cultures people refuse to let someone take a photograph of them because they believe the camera will steal their soul, yet anytime you are at an outing and someone says "say cheese" you smile and pose for a few seconds. Who is being primitive now?
I worked at a packing plant that had a potato sorting machine. In 2006 it was 13 years old and ran on a 386 box with DOS 3.1. To upgrade to Win 95 would have cost $40000. The sensor head circuit boards required 3.1 and were no longer available. The new models needed 95. We had two spares. So far it's still running.
I find it hard to believe that every company has unique needs and has to have custom software. I owned a farm, grossed about $500000 a year. I wrote a program for my Sinclair ZX81 for my financial records, yes, it was custom software but come on, it only had 64k of memory. That and a writing a few things down in a notebook (the paper kind) was enough. At the time developers wanted thousands for their custom "farm" accounting programs.
I guess Florida traffic is different. Going from two lanes to four quadruples carrying capacity. A slow driver or someone trying to turn left can shut down a two lane. Adding a third lane to each side doubles capacity again. Slow downs for merging traffic from on ramps is reduced by through traffic keeping in the left two lanes at near full speed. I have been driving in the Orlando and Jacksonville area for 45 years. The population has increased dramatically in those years and even with lower speed limits travel times are much quicker. The only problem with Orlando is once you are on the surface streets traffic signal cycles are twice as long as needed and you wait a full minute after cross traffic has cleared before you get a green light.
Cheap labor is wonderful, if you are hiring, If you are a laborer trying to pay your rent, not so much. What makes jobs is people's need for something. They also have to be able to afford what they want. If everyone has what they want they will not buy anything else, or, if they are broke, they wont buy either. Right now people with money have all they need, they are investing their money in foreign business. Millions of Americans have no job or money. Without government programs distributing the wealth they would be starving and homeless. Rolling down the window of your imported car and shouting, "Get a job" when you drive by the welfare office doesn't make one available.
You forget, workers compete in a global market. Several billion substance farmers want a job. The market will raise wages when no one in the world will work for $1 a day. Until then, without minimum wage laws, that will be the prevailing wage.
I can tell you are not an entrepreneur. Socialist have money to distribute because the capitalist made it. Farmers and factory owners buy machines because they can make more profit by not hiring so many workers. As long as new entrepreneurs need people to grow their business displaced workers could move to a new job. Unfortunately we have automated most low skill jobs and outsourced the rest. Society needs far fewer skilled workers so income sharing from those highly productive farms and factories is needed, or greatly reduced populations. Either way will require massive government intervention.
When I was 18 in 1970 I made $1.60 per hour as a farm laborer. I could buy 6 gal of gasoline with one hour's pay. Today 6 gal cost about $20. $20 an hour was the most I ever made working, and that was 6 years ago. Ironically I was a computerized packaging machine technician. The manual machines required 10 people to operate. The computer controlled one only needed 4, and it weighted the product ten times more accurately.
When the US finally has single payer- single provider healthcare you will just be another government employee. You wont have to worry about that whole billing and patient liability thing at all. Wont that be great!
I can't believe you quoted figures without Googleing. From the Dept of Education in constant 2009-10 dollars, 1961-62 $2835, 2008-09 $10694. I know you're old like me but keep up with the times. My daughter has been teaching collage English for 10 years and says the students get dumber every year.
The public's mind has been "poisoned" by the fud spouted by anti GMO forces and labeling will be the same as banning. What mother wants to feed her child poison, and every unexplained malady will be attributed to GMOs and manufactures will be hounded out of business. These same kind of fears have hamstrung nuclear energy.
You are correct that people should allowed to consume whatever they want as long as they know what they are ingesting, whether that be GMO foods are other natural (or artificial) compounds. It does seem odd to me many of the same people who protest nuclear power and GMOs risk fines and incarceration to obtain and consume substances that are clinically proven to cause physical harm.
As they say, "citation needed". All my research has shone that some farmers deliberately propagated Round Up ready plants by planting commodity grain meant for consumption and spraying the crop with herbicide and then planting or selling the seeds that were produced. They had not bought seed directly from Monsanto or signed a contract but the courts decided that using the benefits of Monsanto's patents without paying was illegal. Anyway most small farms disappeared years ago due to economy of scale, they were to small to be profitable.
Do you want farmers to use more chemical pesticides? Use more fuel and water cultivating crops to kill weeds? Have higher food prices? Then by all means ban GMOs. If no farmer uses them then all farmers are on a level playing (farming) field. We are used to work, Mexicans do most of it anyway, we'll get by.
How do we send the developed world back to the 19th century and force the third world to stay there? It wont be the "evil" climate scientist but someone with political power and GUNS. If we cut back quickly billions will die of starvation. Do it slowly and the Earth will suffer more extreme climate change and those who survive will still have to reduced population levels by 50% or more. How do you insure that only the right (few) people have children? How will you punish those who cheat?
The term now is "prepper". We are prepping for the economic collapse. If the EBT system goes down millions of people will have no way to buy food. How long can the US government run trillion dollar deficits? We stock food for when the stores are emptied out and guns to keep non peppers away.
I do believe the Snipes are responsible for keeping the ship afloat. The Deck Apes get noticed because you can SEE them, We Snipes were down in the hold, keeping those pumps running.
If the packages had been shipped from 10 locations within the US the test would be 10 times more valid. One clerk where the packages were received from Germany could have been responsible for most of the missing packages.
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I'm 60 and my parents are still alive. Thankfully they do not have a computer or cell phone. I've only sent one text and that was to my wife to bring home some dog food. On the other hand my children, age 21 to 40, are never out of sight of their smart phones and are usually tapping away on it when you are trying to talk to them.
So do you interpret the "meaning" of numbers in you math classes and input your understanding of elements in chemistry class? While the laws of mathematics and physics are universal, language and culture reflect what you are taught. English (or whatever the local language is) teachers have a canon of what the authors of classic books were saying. They want students to see what they see in the books and keep people thinking the same. The government in France even restricts words that can be added to the language.
In 9th grade English class we were assigned "Alas Babylon", and even though our small town was mentioned we hated it. Well, some of us actually did read it all the way through the first night but trust me, we hated it.
Oh yes, practice all those swear words, then whenever you are confused or irritated you can easily mutter a few choice ones even you in front of TV cameras with an open mike.
In some primitive cultures people refuse to let someone take a photograph of them because they believe the camera will steal their soul, yet anytime you are at an outing and someone says "say cheese" you smile and pose for a few seconds. Who is being primitive now?
Dude, really? "Voice recognition on, manual reset only".
I worked at a packing plant that had a potato sorting machine. In 2006 it was 13 years old and ran on a 386 box with DOS 3.1. To upgrade to Win 95 would have cost $40000. The sensor head circuit boards required 3.1 and were no longer available. The new models needed 95. We had two spares. So far it's still running.
I find it hard to believe that every company has unique needs and has to have custom software. I owned a farm, grossed about $500000 a year. I wrote a program for my Sinclair ZX81 for my financial records, yes, it was custom software but come on, it only had 64k of memory. That and a writing a few things down in a notebook (the paper kind) was enough. At the time developers wanted thousands for their custom "farm" accounting programs.
I guess Florida traffic is different. Going from two lanes to four quadruples carrying capacity. A slow driver or someone trying to turn left can shut down a two lane. Adding a third lane to each side doubles capacity again. Slow downs for merging traffic from on ramps is reduced by through traffic keeping in the left two lanes at near full speed. I have been driving in the Orlando and Jacksonville area for 45 years. The population has increased dramatically in those years and even with lower speed limits travel times are much quicker. The only problem with Orlando is once you are on the surface streets traffic signal cycles are twice as long as needed and you wait a full minute after cross traffic has cleared before you get a green light.
Cheap labor is wonderful, if you are hiring, If you are a laborer trying to pay your rent, not so much. What makes jobs is people's need for something. They also have to be able to afford what they want. If everyone has what they want they will not buy anything else, or, if they are broke, they wont buy either. Right now people with money have all they need, they are investing their money in foreign business. Millions of Americans have no job or money. Without government programs distributing the wealth they would be starving and homeless. Rolling down the window of your imported car and shouting, "Get a job" when you drive by the welfare office doesn't make one available.
You forget, workers compete in a global market. Several billion substance farmers want a job. The market will raise wages when no one in the world will work for $1 a day. Until then, without minimum wage laws, that will be the prevailing wage.
Um, how do you force 50 million Mexican women to use birth control? Or do you figure that new wall will keep them out.
I can tell you are not an entrepreneur. Socialist have money to distribute because the capitalist made it. Farmers and factory owners buy machines because they can make more profit by not hiring so many workers. As long as new entrepreneurs need people to grow their business displaced workers could move to a new job. Unfortunately we have automated most low skill jobs and outsourced the rest. Society needs far fewer skilled workers so income sharing from those highly productive farms and factories is needed, or greatly reduced populations. Either way will require massive government intervention.
When I was 18 in 1970 I made $1.60 per hour as a farm laborer. I could buy 6 gal of gasoline with one hour's pay. Today 6 gal cost about $20. $20 an hour was the most I ever made working, and that was 6 years ago. Ironically I was a computerized packaging machine technician. The manual machines required 10 people to operate. The computer controlled one only needed 4, and it weighted the product ten times more accurately.
When the US finally has single payer- single provider healthcare you will just be another government employee. You wont have to worry about that whole billing and patient liability thing at all. Wont that be great!
So the same percent of kids who where not in a gifted class have PhD s and law degrees?
I can't believe you quoted figures without Googleing. From the Dept of Education in constant 2009-10 dollars, 1961-62 $2835, 2008-09 $10694. I know you're old like me but keep up with the times. My daughter has been teaching collage English for 10 years and says the students get dumber every year.
The public's mind has been "poisoned" by the fud spouted by anti GMO forces and labeling will be the same as banning. What mother wants to feed her child poison, and every unexplained malady will be attributed to GMOs and manufactures will be hounded out of business. These same kind of fears have hamstrung nuclear energy.
You are correct that people should allowed to consume whatever they want as long as they know what they are ingesting, whether that be GMO foods are other natural (or artificial) compounds. It does seem odd to me many of the same people who protest nuclear power and GMOs risk fines and incarceration to obtain and consume substances that are clinically proven to cause physical harm.
As they say, "citation needed". All my research has shone that some farmers deliberately propagated Round Up ready plants by planting commodity grain meant for consumption and spraying the crop with herbicide and then planting or selling the seeds that were produced. They had not bought seed directly from Monsanto or signed a contract but the courts decided that using the benefits of Monsanto's patents without paying was illegal. Anyway most small farms disappeared years ago due to economy of scale, they were to small to be profitable.
Do you want farmers to use more chemical pesticides? Use more fuel and water cultivating crops to kill weeds? Have higher food prices? Then by all means ban GMOs. If no farmer uses them then all farmers are on a level playing (farming) field. We are used to work, Mexicans do most of it anyway, we'll get by.
How do we send the developed world back to the 19th century and force the third world to stay there? It wont be the "evil" climate scientist but someone with political power and GUNS. If we cut back quickly billions will die of starvation. Do it slowly and the Earth will suffer more extreme climate change and those who survive will still have to reduced population levels by 50% or more. How do you insure that only the right (few) people have children? How will you punish those who cheat?
When I worked at "large aerospace company" I brought sandwiches to work and ate in the field office. Was what I paid for lunch-meat and bread taxable?
The term now is "prepper". We are prepping for the economic collapse. If the EBT system goes down millions of people will have no way to buy food. How long can the US government run trillion dollar deficits? We stock food for when the stores are emptied out and guns to keep non peppers away.
I do believe the Snipes are responsible for keeping the ship afloat. The Deck Apes get noticed because you can SEE them, We Snipes were down in the hold, keeping those pumps running.
If the packages had been shipped from 10 locations within the US the test would be 10 times more valid. One clerk where the packages were received from Germany could have been responsible for most of the missing packages.