Every employee would have a baseline commuting time. Work hours start after the employee has driving his usual commute time. Businesses that have no established office could designate some street address as Home base. Employees would drive to the home base first several times to establish a commute time for themselves.
If your client is close to where you live you get to drink another cup of coffee before you start work.
I was extrapolating where the younger students will be in 6 or 7 years. The class is only 13 students so it is a small sample. Most are employed as CNAs and are trying to get better positions. A cellphone is a requirement for employment. The iPhone is a status thing and they somehow find money to get the best. Their lives do not revolve around computers and if they have one it is so virus laden as to be useless.
I taught my wife on-line searching skills and she spends hours researching and finding nursing help sites. Many of the other students do little or no studying and depend on the teacher throwing out enough missed answers so they can pass the tests. Supposedly they have good people skills and will still make good nurses. At least I have my wife to care for me in my old age (she's 15 years younger than me) but the rest of you shouldn't expect much. People living outside of the South or large urban areas may have a different experience.
You would be very wrong. My wife is taking nursing classes at a tech school. Most of the students in her class are poor young women with at least one child. While two or three do not have a computer at home they all have iPhones. Most also have a grant to pay for the course that includes an $800 check to pay for incidentals. No one showed up with a laptop but several got new iPhones. My wife is happy with her Galaxy S2 but her old HP dv1000 had gotten too slow so I got her an HP 15 for $350 from Amazon
Of course nursing courses are more advanced than middle school. Much of the class work is presented on Power Points and the text books only cover the basics. People without computer skills and Internet are very disadvantaged. With me for IT support my wife is the top student. Should she be held back because most of the students are not as privileged?
Hmmm, The federal government just paid to install water lines in my rural area. The pipe ends (actually starts a quarter mile from my house where the well field is). We have a reliable and shallow water table so this wasn't needed. They had to up grade the electrical service down my road to provide three phase power to the pumps so at least my power is much more reliable.
In the twenty first century I would think high speed internet would be considered just as necessary as clean water. Every home that is getting water service has access to DSL and cable. My home is beyond where these services end. I don't mind providing my own water but some municipal high speed would be nice.
AT&T was paid to run fiber past my house. They weren't paid to hook anyone to it. The copper line doesn't support DSL. Cable ends a mile from my house. I pay $80 a month for 17 Gigs by satellite.
No matter what your stand is on climate change we are running out of affordable oil and coal. We have to set up a renewable infrastructure while we still have the fossil fuel energy and wealth to do it. We can't power our current civilization with renewables so we have to change our civilization. A pastoral agricultural based civilization can get by with intermittent power. Facilities that need uninterrupted power can invest in battery storage and bio fueled peaking plants.
After over forty years of farm work I am in a position to grow my own food and my front yard happens to be a fifty acre field. I look forward to working alongside some anti GMO people and watch as they cheerfully pull weeds.
Four decades ago my infant daughter was diagnosed with lazy eye so we put a patch on her good eye. She constantly tried to pull it off so after a few days I took it off of her. A few years latter it was determined she had optic nerve damage from a birth defect and had no sight in that eye. We were blinding her with that patch.
I worked as a tech at a produce packing plant that was transitioning from total manual operation (hand hung bags and spring scales with a dial needle) to automated weighing and handling machines. I was working with an electrical and mechanical genius. He had worked for the DoD servicing ballistic missals. We helped the manufacture devolve the software and improve the pneumatic mechanical parts.
We were responsible for almost everything except sales. Building maintenance, receiving check in, all production equipment, electric and hydraulic, plus cooler refrigeration and packing floor AC.
That job was blue collar but before that I ran a family farm for 25 years so I was always looking at things from a management standpoint. Mostly it was asking my coworker why we were doing things the wrong way. The answer was always that is how the owner thinks it should be done. The owner had worked his way up from a farm hand to the owner of a 10 million dollar business and still thought he was the smartest person in the building. Self made millionaires are infuriating to work with, as are geniuses. Having to work for both a millionaire farmer when I had failed at farming and with a genius who was also bigger and stronger than me was humbling and very tiring. I just collect my SS check and troll the inter-webs now.
This is pervasive throughout American education, especaly with disadvantaged minorities. My wife is in nursing school. She is an older student and studies very hard. She is also the top student in her class. Of the 13 students in her class 4 or 5 fail every exam. The teacher then throws out enough of the tough questions so every one can pass or offers extra credit work. Last night the teacher offered a 50% grade bonus for doing the workbook pages for that segment. Some students started whining that there were too many pages, how about enough credit to pass from just a few? These are our future nursing home staff. I plan on dieing at home.
The global GDP is around $80 trillion. Ditching fossil fuels will cut it by 75% or more. I doubt damage from climate change will top one trillion in the next ten years. Argue long term all you want but near term the financial carnage from shutting down the fossil industry will be hundreds of trillions of dollars and hundreds of millions of lives.
Keeping seven billion people alive without fossil fuels will be a very fine balancing act. With world wide cooperation and every dime of the worlds wealth it could be accomplished. What's most likely to happen is nothing but more talk.
When I was 40 I lost my farm. If I had won the $80 million powerball then I would have had the biggest and best potato farm in the world. Farming with plenty of money is the most fun thing you can do standing up. Today at 63 you couldn't pay me enough to farm. First I would find a doctor to fix what ever is wrong with my side so I could at least bend down and pull a few weeds in my garden without feeling like Ronda Rousey just punched me in the ribs. I would give my daughter enough money so she could quit work and have me a grandchild. I would build a nice house with a big art studio for my wife on my land and bribe AT&T enough to run cable the mile and a half to it.
Twenty years ago I read somewhere that most men in their 50s are happy. They have either become successful in their jobs or used to being a failure. At that time I wanted to punch the person who wrote that in the nose. After 20 years of basically being a failure I actually have gotten used to it. Of course having 13 acres of land and a paid for livable mobile home and a $2000 a month SS check might not be considered failure to some people.
I have four wonderful successful children and a lovely loving wife so I do consider myself rich. Do the best you can but be content with what you get.
How much oil is baked into a solar panel? Can solar panels be economically built using only renewable power? The best answer I can find is "No, but we use too much energy anyway. The Earth will be better off if we learn to get by with less."
I went to high school in the late 60s. I had taught myself to type during the summer and only took typing class for an easy credit. Being left handed I used my left thumb for the space bar. I was instructed to use my right thumb. When I ask the teacher why I couldn't use my left thumb she said because I will fail you if you do. Turns out the teacher knew best. Fifty years later my left hand is mostly paralyzed from carpel tunnel and I have been forced back to my right for mousing and one handed typing.
My genetic body weight is 212 lbs. I have maintained that weight for the last 40 years with three exceptions. At thirty two my wife left me and I was despondent and had to eat my own cooking. I lost down to 175. I found a new wife and went back to 212. Ten years later I lost my farm and had to scramble for work. Again despondent and exhausted. Down to 175. I find a good job and back to 212. Ten years later I get depressed again and have a chronic tooth infection, back to 175. Today I weigh 212 and hopefully no life shattering event is about to happen and I wont have go though rapid weight loss again.
Every time I lost weigh I didn't really feel hungry. Now I'm partial disabled and can't do any real work so I watch what I eat. I only buy health food, no snacks wrapped cellophane. My wife lost almost 70 lbs and is determined to not regain it so a lot of salads and no sweets in the house. As you get older you have to eat less and less to maintain a stable weight.
My wife loves our Brother MFC-J870DW printer. $99 from Amazon. It accepted the cheap after market ink tanks without a peep. It just works, and for her thats something because all things electronic hate her, with good reason. She once blue screened my computer, killing the keyboard and attached scanner with one touch.
For toughness I nominate my 10 year old OKI C5400 color laser printer. At least it was 10 when my wife demanded I replace it. And yes, it didn't like her, I had to force it to print things for her. The Brother is a sweetheart.
People who paid attention in biology class should know this. Different plants have different pollination methods. Most corn is hybrid and saved seed will not produce. Canola, cotton, and soybeans are open pollinated and saved seed will grow exactly like the parent plant. Terminator seeds from open pollinated plants will not grow.
Pollen from any of these plants will affect any nearby plants of the same species.
Look it up, one of the new definitions of subsidy is a tax not paid. So like one other person has already said, any money not taxed away after a company's breakeven point can be called a subsidy.
Most of those poor folk have an iPhone 5 or 6. If Google gives them a WiFi router they wont have to use any of their data plan. No, I'm not being a racist. My wife is going to nursing school and many of her classmates are in that situation and they all have new iPhones. My wife is grateful to have her Galaxy S2.
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Every employee would have a baseline commuting time. Work hours start after the employee has driving his usual commute time. Businesses that have no established office could designate some street address as Home base. Employees would drive to the home base first several times to establish a commute time for themselves.
If your client is close to where you live you get to drink another cup of coffee before you start work.
I was extrapolating where the younger students will be in 6 or 7 years. The class is only 13 students so it is a small sample. Most are employed as CNAs and are trying to get better positions. A cellphone is a requirement for employment. The iPhone is a status thing and they somehow find money to get the best. Their lives do not revolve around computers and if they have one it is so virus laden as to be useless.
I taught my wife on-line searching skills and she spends hours researching and finding nursing help sites. Many of the other students do little or no studying and depend on the teacher throwing out enough missed answers so they can pass the tests. Supposedly they have good people skills and will still make good nurses. At least I have my wife to care for me in my old age (she's 15 years younger than me) but the rest of you shouldn't expect much. People living outside of the South or large urban areas may have a different experience.
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You would be very wrong. My wife is taking nursing classes at a tech school. Most of the students in her class are poor young women with at least one child. While two or three do not have a computer at home they all have iPhones. Most also have a grant to pay for the course that includes an $800 check to pay for incidentals. No one showed up with a laptop but several got new iPhones. My wife is happy with her Galaxy S2 but her old HP dv1000 had gotten too slow so I got her an HP 15 for $350 from Amazon
Of course nursing courses are more advanced than middle school. Much of the class work is presented on Power Points and the text books only cover the basics. People without computer skills and Internet are very disadvantaged. With me for IT support my wife is the top student. Should she be held back because most of the students are not as privileged?
I hurt my knee in a motorcycle accident when I was 19. Walking and running were no problem but I can't pedal a bicycle to the end of my driveway.
Hmmm, The federal government just paid to install water lines in my rural area. The pipe ends (actually starts a quarter mile from my house where the well field is). We have a reliable and shallow water table so this wasn't needed. They had to up grade the electrical service down my road to provide three phase power to the pumps so at least my power is much more reliable.
In the twenty first century I would think high speed internet would be considered just as necessary as clean water. Every home that is getting water service has access to DSL and cable. My home is beyond where these services end. I don't mind providing my own water but some municipal high speed would be nice.
AT&T was paid to run fiber past my house. They weren't paid to hook anyone to it. The copper line doesn't support DSL. Cable ends a mile from my house. I pay $80 a month for 17 Gigs by satellite.
No matter what your stand is on climate change we are running out of affordable oil and coal. We have to set up a renewable infrastructure while we still have the fossil fuel energy and wealth to do it. We can't power our current civilization with renewables so we have to change our civilization. A pastoral agricultural based civilization can get by with intermittent power. Facilities that need uninterrupted power can invest in battery storage and bio fueled peaking plants.
After over forty years of farm work I am in a position to grow my own food and my front yard happens to be a fifty acre field. I look forward to working alongside some anti GMO people and watch as they cheerfully pull weeds.
Four decades ago my infant daughter was diagnosed with lazy eye so we put a patch on her good eye. She constantly tried to pull it off so after a few days I took it off of her. A few years latter it was determined she had optic nerve damage from a birth defect and had no sight in that eye. We were blinding her with that patch.
I worked as a tech at a produce packing plant that was transitioning from total manual operation (hand hung bags and spring scales with a dial needle) to automated weighing and handling machines. I was working with an electrical and mechanical genius. He had worked for the DoD servicing ballistic missals. We helped the manufacture devolve the software and improve the pneumatic mechanical parts.
We were responsible for almost everything except sales. Building maintenance, receiving check in, all production equipment, electric and hydraulic, plus cooler refrigeration and packing floor AC.
That job was blue collar but before that I ran a family farm for 25 years so I was always looking at things from a management standpoint. Mostly it was asking my coworker why we were doing things the wrong way. The answer was always that is how the owner thinks it should be done. The owner had worked his way up from a farm hand to the owner of a 10 million dollar business and still thought he was the smartest person in the building. Self made millionaires are infuriating to work with, as are geniuses. Having to work for both a millionaire farmer when I had failed at farming and with a genius who was also bigger and stronger than me was humbling and very tiring. I just collect my SS check and troll the inter-webs now.
This is pervasive throughout American education, especaly with disadvantaged minorities. My wife is in nursing school. She is an older student and studies very hard. She is also the top student in her class. Of the 13 students in her class 4 or 5 fail every exam. The teacher then throws out enough of the tough questions so every one can pass or offers extra credit work. Last night the teacher offered a 50% grade bonus for doing the workbook pages for that segment. Some students started whining that there were too many pages, how about enough credit to pass from just a few? These are our future nursing home staff. I plan on dieing at home.
The global GDP is around $80 trillion. Ditching fossil fuels will cut it by 75% or more. I doubt damage from climate change will top one trillion in the next ten years. Argue long term all you want but near term the financial carnage from shutting down the fossil industry will be hundreds of trillions of dollars and hundreds of millions of lives.
Keeping seven billion people alive without fossil fuels will be a very fine balancing act. With world wide cooperation and every dime of the worlds wealth it could be accomplished. What's most likely to happen is nothing but more talk.
When I was 40 I lost my farm. If I had won the $80 million powerball then I would have had the biggest and best potato farm in the world. Farming with plenty of money is the most fun thing you can do standing up. Today at 63 you couldn't pay me enough to farm. First I would find a doctor to fix what ever is wrong with my side so I could at least bend down and pull a few weeds in my garden without feeling like Ronda Rousey just punched me in the ribs. I would give my daughter enough money so she could quit work and have me a grandchild. I would build a nice house with a big art studio for my wife on my land and bribe AT&T enough to run cable the mile and a half to it.
Twenty years ago I read somewhere that most men in their 50s are happy. They have either become successful in their jobs or used to being a failure. At that time I wanted to punch the person who wrote that in the nose. After 20 years of basically being a failure I actually have gotten used to it. Of course having 13 acres of land and a paid for livable mobile home and a $2000 a month SS check might not be considered failure to some people.
I have four wonderful successful children and a lovely loving wife so I do consider myself rich. Do the best you can but be content with what you get.
Then we need more immigrants. At some point there must be diminishing returns. How many would that be? 50 million, 100 million?
How much oil is baked into a solar panel? Can solar panels be economically built using only renewable power? The best answer I can find is "No, but we use too much energy anyway. The Earth will be better off if we learn to get by with less."
Yes, I was going to say this but you saved me the trouble.
I went to high school in the late 60s. I had taught myself to type during the summer and only took typing class for an easy credit. Being left handed I used my left thumb for the space bar. I was instructed to use my right thumb. When I ask the teacher why I couldn't use my left thumb she said because I will fail you if you do. Turns out the teacher knew best. Fifty years later my left hand is mostly paralyzed from carpel tunnel and I have been forced back to my right for mousing and one handed typing.
My genetic body weight is 212 lbs. I have maintained that weight for the last 40 years with three exceptions. At thirty two my wife left me and I was despondent and had to eat my own cooking. I lost down to 175. I found a new wife and went back to 212. Ten years later I lost my farm and had to scramble for work. Again despondent and exhausted. Down to 175. I find a good job and back to 212. Ten years later I get depressed again and have a chronic tooth infection, back to 175. Today I weigh 212 and hopefully no life shattering event is about to happen and I wont have go though rapid weight loss again.
Every time I lost weigh I didn't really feel hungry. Now I'm partial disabled and can't do any real work so I watch what I eat. I only buy health food, no snacks wrapped cellophane. My wife lost almost 70 lbs and is determined to not regain it so a lot of salads and no sweets in the house. As you get older you have to eat less and less to maintain a stable weight.
My wife loves our Brother MFC-J870DW printer. $99 from Amazon. It accepted the cheap after market ink tanks without a peep. It just works, and for her thats something because all things electronic hate her, with good reason. She once blue screened my computer, killing the keyboard and attached scanner with one touch. For toughness I nominate my 10 year old OKI C5400 color laser printer. At least it was 10 when my wife demanded I replace it. And yes, it didn't like her, I had to force it to print things for her. The Brother is a sweetheart.
All this is predicated on a static labor pool. How many countries have locked down borders? Any gravy-train is going to attract a lot of riders.
With a slot in the middle.
People who paid attention in biology class should know this. Different plants have different pollination methods. Most corn is hybrid and saved seed will not produce. Canola, cotton, and soybeans are open pollinated and saved seed will grow exactly like the parent plant. Terminator seeds from open pollinated plants will not grow. Pollen from any of these plants will affect any nearby plants of the same species.
Look it up, one of the new definitions of subsidy is a tax not paid. So like one other person has already said, any money not taxed away after a company's breakeven point can be called a subsidy.
Most of those poor folk have an iPhone 5 or 6. If Google gives them a WiFi router they wont have to use any of their data plan. No, I'm not being a racist. My wife is going to nursing school and many of her classmates are in that situation and they all have new iPhones. My wife is grateful to have her Galaxy S2.