I've been rear ended by a Ford Expedition at a red light when the 30 year old woman was not distracted (Who then blamed me for apparently stopping at a red light). As well as several other times, fear stupid people not just people on their cell phone which includes not stupid uses and not stupid people. Blaming 'cell phones' or anything else for stupidity is silly.
I swear it's all they know how to do. I've also found they think they know about 'X' when all they know was condensed in a potentially not even very accurate article. Not that you can tell them "I don't know where you learned that, but it's horseshit", that sort of response makes them think you are dumb instead since obviously a nationally published magazine would somehow be infallible...
But not in the US due to price discrimination. In the US we expect everyone to pay more for the same thing as we do in poor countries. The easiest way to see this is in the cost of drugs: US $80, South Africa $10. This works across the board, so any concept of 'poverty' needs to be proportional to costs for goods and services. Typically when we do this the US pays 8-10x for most 'typical' goods and services compared to developing countries. In a real comparison this means that 20k jobs in the US are equal to 2k jobs in developing countries. Yes that is still better than plenty of places, but their really are poor in the US who don't live that much better than those anywhere else. But the barriers to developing wealth are higher in the US, education and self-employment are expensive in the US and not nearly as expensive elsewhere in the world.
The reasons for this include higher laws in the US, the same price discrimination already mentioned, and higher taxes. Many African nations are prime examples of this, we lend a self-employed person in Africa $500. This $500 is equal to $5000 in the US. However their are few if any laws they have to worry about and no real legislative issues to them using this to become coca cola distributors. The final end of this is almost no real taxes, so all non-living expenses can go back into their business. So their 'usable' portion of the investment is easily 90%+ while in the US the usable part of a $5000 loan is easily half or 50% of that $5000. This is more true when their are efforts like Kiva.org to finance innovation and self-employment in developing countries. The same thing doesn't yet exist in the US, though one of the founders of Kiva.org is working on a new project called ProFounder that may change this.
That's all without looking at realistic numbers for people below the poverty line, which btw may be artificial in concept but is a reflection on price discrimination in the US, and how many we are adding during this economic downturn. The longer this continues and the more companies don't help bring the US (that they hire people in) up, then the less real money we have and the more the government has to spend to keep people from living worse than the do in lots of other countries. Btw in my area not having shelter or good clothing in winter is a death sentence, you'll die of exposure before the lack of food kills you. The same cannot be said for the person in Africa where the temperature never goes below freezing.
I'd love to know what state you live in... Mine is PA and frankly an associates degree and 8 years experience means jack shit now. In fact that's why I'm back in college. And since I was last in college about 10 years ago they don't even have to take my old credits toward my new degree program... Yeah for 'higher' education.
More on topic though, what the H1B's want is any odd job here to provide money back to their families in India or China. Nothing else matters to them. They make 5-7x what they would in India here and are happy with much less sophisticated conditions then most US people want to live in.
What's worse by far is something that happened to me... My coworkers wouldn't tell me when the shit hit the fan and I needed to take care of something. So instead I'd hear about it from my boss... That is way way worse then being bothered while working on something else.
Not that everyone did this, but it happened enough I'd suddenly find myself called to the bosses office to explain 'X', which I'd never heard about until he brought it up.
I encouraged anything that kept me out of that crap. On the other hand when critically important things would need to be done, people would walk in and demand immediate help. It was always a no win situation...
I actually argued this with a economics professor and he suggested the easy reason we don't keep at least some of that stuff native is due to comparative advantage. Ie China can do it 'better' and so we let them and do other things with our own resources. This is actually something economics teaches is 'good'. In fact it basically says unless you have a comparative advantage in making something, you shouldn't bother to make it at all... Which in the real world is less than sane, yet those in economics tend to agree this is not only sane it's the way things should be...
Personally I still vote is stupid and impractical for the real world myself.
I live just shy of 40 miles from where I work (the city housing market is 5 times the cost of the same in a small town making it the only place I can afford to live), so I do between 80-90 miles a day on average and on the extreme can hit 150 miles in a day. A 100 mile electric would be pushing it for my daily commute. I'm hardly that much of an exception, I know lots of people near DC commute about as far. I know you say '200 miles', but what I've seen is closer to 100 than 200.
Having been in the beta... I can say they ignored everything we told them to. Heck by the last beta phase the game still wasn't working well enough to be a conventional beta and we said so. Which by the way wasn't easy whoever designed their forums probably did work on the games UI... We told them it wasn't ready for launch, we'd barely been able to even test it as often as it wasn't working at a server level...
The worst part is it looks so nice at a character level you want the game to work. Square proves over and over they are good at character design. However they seem to suck at everything else lately...
This has actually become something of my issue for me... Both of my last former employers won't say anything except the dates I worked for them... Having heard what the conversation sounds like for former employees I'm not really surprised:
"Hello? Yes that person used to work for us. Give me a moment... They were here from July 200X to December 200X. I'm sorry, but we can't really say anymore about them other than dates worked. Yes. Ok, well have a nice day."
It's all neutral and monotone and says absolutely nothing worth knowing. Because it's company policy even my bosses who I worked for rather than HR can't say anything when used as a reference. One of my former bosses got in trouble for trying to give a good reference actually.
But to a new employer I may as well not list previous employment with either place. I have one reference even further back who will give me a real reference, but they were a client when I worked consulting and so don't have much weight with a company hiring me for a desk job.
Yes yes, disagree asshole (my opinion just like yours).
Grep is oh so helpful on a mixed windows and linux set of servers, especially when alot of things, in the linux side especially, are often cryptic. Not to say windows doesn't have cryptic things, but they tend more toward edge cases being cryptic. Fairly 'normal' stuff is often cryptic in linux unless you've been doing it for years and no simply running linux at home is not the same thing. It's a very different thing when the linux server has to server 10k active connections to at home with 1 to 4 and usually not concurrent ones. Heck with the sheer number of different potential packages that can be used to do 'X' in linux that's a huge number of potential things you'd have to be a near expert in, figure in different versions even which slightly alter the way things work and outside experience becomes even less.
I understand hardware a heck of a lot better though than alot of programmers. I understand networks better than alot of programmers. So what if I can't code the frikkin' linux kernel? What the heck does that have to do with making sure hardware and the network work right? The only possible argument is that the linux kernel is so shit it will screw things up. We know that's crap though, so what's the real issue? I think it's time linux finally makes simple things simple with a CLI core under the easily used GUI (that is *shock* actually user friendly!).
This particular company I used as my last example was actually a 50-100 million a year company. Their was a) no cast-off desktop that could run any current windows server version while I was there b) no way my under funded department would have gotten an extra server license. Heck they went 3 years (probably more now) on a broken fileserver that would randomly stop responding (hardware issue, damaged motherboard after a lightning strike when unprotected and before my time there) regardless of how much I said replacing it would solve our issues with it. Heck before my time there it was the domain controller and had the same issues! I reformatted it when we got in a real PC to act as a domain controller and made it a fileserver because I needed one and it was the only piece of hardware that had a chance in heck of doing the job.
My whole department though was budgeted at less than $30k/year sans salaries. Or I guess I should say 'hourly wages', even I was considered an hourly employee... Yet I was 'oncall' 24/7... Though good luck actually being paid for time spent doing support that wasn't regular hours... Hell I couldn't even be truthful on my hours spent in the building... I worked at least an extra hour per day and was never paid for it... Really it was not the best place to work for, but there just are not alot of admin jobs in northwestern PA, southwestern you get Pittsburgh and there are lots... But I've never had the money to move down there.
Actually they had no clue what a 'good server' was, so when they left it up to me they were functional and up to date systems. Though most of our windows servers were from HP's server line.
Others not so much, like when they decided web hosting should move in house and gave me a zero dollar budget. So I cannibalized a bunch of antique desktops and made a new 'linux apache web server'.
Funny enough I'd gotten a 5k raise every year (much needed though as the pay started fairly low for an network admin). Though with a change in leadership the board took power and they decided I was to expensive and outsourced me about a year ago. Hence it was 'my last employer'.
OOS did ok, though it's still not the year of the linux desktop. Remember I said I had to keep a bunch of antiques running and made them linux? Well normal people would use them, or more not use them. They were considered non-functional by everyone that used them and this is ubuntu, so the interface wasn't exactly CLI and not terribly unlike windows. On the server end I could have probably pieced together another antique web server, but I didn't really need much of a test system for a limited use web server...
Btw I argued against getting the web server in house. We existed on a 2Mb fiber connection (they chose to only pay for 2Mbps anyways), having the web server take away from our already pathetic bandwidth was a bad idea...
My last employer had 500 odd employees/systems (exact numbers of each varied), but we didn't write any software. We had no internal or even external development. The 6 servers that were the core of the network all had dedicated functions (well ok sometimes two or three 'dedicated' functions) and management was extreme penny pincher's. Though probably because extra cash went to them.
A testing environment of any sort was a pipe dream. 'Why would we waste our money on a server we aren't using?', believe me I argued this point quite heavily along with other common things like hardware life cycles... Half my job ended up being about keeping 1.2 Ghz Celerons with 256 MB of ram running in 2009... That meant they ran Windows 95/98 btw. That didn't go well with a server update to 2005 for AD domain... They couldn't be bothered to replace them though... so I created 120 odd linux boxes... of questionable ability... Modern GUI linux doesn't like those anymore than Windows XP would.
It's not my only example in my decade of admin work, I've never had a proper testing environment... Everything was always live.
'admins don't typically do stuff once' WTF world do you live in...? I administered a 500 user network a bit over a year ago and very few things were repeated. I set up servers once, and then unless I needed to change something I didn't need to reconfigure them. Now some things like new user accounts is common and repeatable... But those take 2 or 3 minutes and it's done, unless you really cycle massive amounts of employees this should never be more than a half hours work... And a GUI is easily adept at simple repeated tasks. In my 4 years I found little need for scripted anything outside an oracle database and maybe some rare cases with exchange (of all things). Everything else was usually taken care of from a centralized system once, and rarely if ever done again.
All I have to say is: Amen! (in a nonreligious sort of way)
I'm a not very good programmer who is a good system admin. I've been fighting the general apathy to anyone who can't read the source for the linux kernel in the linux world for going on a decade now! I'm always being told 'write it yourself' when I bump into a wall in administering linux systems that would be a simple button press in Windows... I don't want to reinvent the wheel! I'd frankly suck at it! That A) doesn't mean I'm a bad admin and B) Isn't something I even have time for in my day.
I can just see my last employer waiting as I read through 10k lines of source code to figure out why X isn't working with Y. Those above me want things to 'just work' and when they don't and it takes time to fix it's the end of the world. I'll take tracking down the idiot on the campus who plugged the network cable into the same switch twice over writing my own app any day.
lol, this may be what should happen... but in my experience most companies won't foot the bill to have 'test' servers unless you happen to be a software shop...
Quality of the games has been the one thing no gateway company has ever given to shits about. Titles continue to be horrible even today, and content control hasn't effected this.
While they have had numerous issues, the Tesla Roadster actually does get about 200 miles of range, can do 70, and has been for sale... That last part is the bigger issue as they have failed to actually meet demand.
This however isn't at all like it used to be in the US. At one point their were as many as 5 parties all with equal chances of getting a candidate elected as president! I want those days! And yes that means a single candidate can be president with only a sliver over 20% of the overall vote.
As for your point, I didn't care where the votes come from. I really really don't. I hate both traditional parties equally, I don't give a damn who would have voted demrep (it's one thing, I see zero difference between either) it's one vote not going to the scumsucking balls of crap we've let run the country to long.
Um... Good...? I'd like third parties to take the votes out of both stupid moronic and utterly contemptible parties. I'm all for 5 or 6 candidates. Heck I'd take a dozen, but I doubt that will happen... What some people seem to fail to remember is that the US has had multiple parties in the past! It's really only into the 20th century we became two parties with no one else in contention. Now most people are fricking brainwashed into believing only two parties can ever win! Rubbish!
For those of sufficient age we had Peroit as a viable third party who had ~20% of the popular vote in the election he took part in. At least with him you knew why he'd favor big business, but the one thing he wasn't was a politician... We haven't had a third party candidate that managed as high a percent since then, but we have made it over 1% on a few cases.
Really after being sans job for over a year I'd work there if they would pay to relocate me... I know 'cybercommand' isn't anywhere near where I live, so that's basically a must. Heck these days the government might even be one of the only places that would pay to relocate me... It may not be the greatest thing on my resume, but neither is a year without work... At least it's in my field though, which is better than what I'll have to do really soon now...
lol, well the first time I went to school it was in Columbus Ohio. More recently I was 100 miles north of Pittsburgh. Columbus really had no interest in new business as they were hand and foot with insurance companies and banks. Where I am now should be very interested in new business, but even after having been the third largest city in PA for over a hundred years, Harrisburg has spent the last 2 decades removing state funding from the area until now we are fourth of even fifth largest in PA. This however is where I was raised and sans money to move it's where I have to live.
My first college experience at DeVry ended when I ran out of money. My family was not middle class and couldn't do all that much to help me. But they made enough I couldn't qualify for any state or federal grants geared to lower income families. In fact they had to take out a parental loan they still have 11 years later because they can't afford to pay it... I worked all through that run of college, including at the school as workstudy but I could barely afford to keep my car running and to eat, buying books often required using credit cards each semester. Personally I'd wanted a lower costing college to go to, which funny enough I'm at now, but my parents felt DeVry would be better as they were impressed by the presentation done by the DeVry rep saying how I'd be rolling in money and graduate 'early' if I went there. It should be pointed out the tech bubble still existed when I started and popped during my first run through college.
Really my story isn't that odd either. Statistics aren't kept so well for college 'dropouts' as it is for college grads (which is sad I tend to find the reverse far more interesting), but what I have found is my story is not that rare or even uncommon. 'Dropout' numbers tend to fall into one of two categories: Financial troubles or Party kids. In particular when I went my first time financial troubles was actually a very large reason for those I went to school with to leave. Why? That I don't quite know. That is where the statistics get crappy as most don't care what exactly happens to 'dropouts'. I can say though that usually at best half of those entering college graduate, so the fact I didn't graduate my first time through shouldn't be abnormal at all. What is abnormal is I'm actually trying to finish my education again, that only happens in 10% of those who didn't complete their degree originally.
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I've been rear ended by a Ford Expedition at a red light when the 30 year old woman was not distracted (Who then blamed me for apparently stopping at a red light). As well as several other times, fear stupid people not just people on their cell phone which includes not stupid uses and not stupid people. Blaming 'cell phones' or anything else for stupidity is silly.
I swear it's all they know how to do. I've also found they think they know about 'X' when all they know was condensed in a potentially not even very accurate article. Not that you can tell them "I don't know where you learned that, but it's horseshit", that sort of response makes them think you are dumb instead since obviously a nationally published magazine would somehow be infallible...
But not in the US due to price discrimination. In the US we expect everyone to pay more for the same thing as we do in poor countries. The easiest way to see this is in the cost of drugs: US $80, South Africa $10. This works across the board, so any concept of 'poverty' needs to be proportional to costs for goods and services. Typically when we do this the US pays 8-10x for most 'typical' goods and services compared to developing countries. In a real comparison this means that 20k jobs in the US are equal to 2k jobs in developing countries. Yes that is still better than plenty of places, but their really are poor in the US who don't live that much better than those anywhere else. But the barriers to developing wealth are higher in the US, education and self-employment are expensive in the US and not nearly as expensive elsewhere in the world.
The reasons for this include higher laws in the US, the same price discrimination already mentioned, and higher taxes. Many African nations are prime examples of this, we lend a self-employed person in Africa $500. This $500 is equal to $5000 in the US. However their are few if any laws they have to worry about and no real legislative issues to them using this to become coca cola distributors. The final end of this is almost no real taxes, so all non-living expenses can go back into their business. So their 'usable' portion of the investment is easily 90%+ while in the US the usable part of a $5000 loan is easily half or 50% of that $5000. This is more true when their are efforts like Kiva.org to finance innovation and self-employment in developing countries. The same thing doesn't yet exist in the US, though one of the founders of Kiva.org is working on a new project called ProFounder that may change this.
That's all without looking at realistic numbers for people below the poverty line, which btw may be artificial in concept but is a reflection on price discrimination in the US, and how many we are adding during this economic downturn. The longer this continues and the more companies don't help bring the US (that they hire people in) up, then the less real money we have and the more the government has to spend to keep people from living worse than the do in lots of other countries. Btw in my area not having shelter or good clothing in winter is a death sentence, you'll die of exposure before the lack of food kills you. The same cannot be said for the person in Africa where the temperature never goes below freezing.
I'd love to know what state you live in... Mine is PA and frankly an associates degree and 8 years experience means jack shit now. In fact that's why I'm back in college. And since I was last in college about 10 years ago they don't even have to take my old credits toward my new degree program... Yeah for 'higher' education.
More on topic though, what the H1B's want is any odd job here to provide money back to their families in India or China. Nothing else matters to them. They make 5-7x what they would in India here and are happy with much less sophisticated conditions then most US people want to live in.
What's worse by far is something that happened to me... My coworkers wouldn't tell me when the shit hit the fan and I needed to take care of something. So instead I'd hear about it from my boss... That is way way worse then being bothered while working on something else.
Not that everyone did this, but it happened enough I'd suddenly find myself called to the bosses office to explain 'X', which I'd never heard about until he brought it up.
I encouraged anything that kept me out of that crap. On the other hand when critically important things would need to be done, people would walk in and demand immediate help. It was always a no win situation...
I actually argued this with a economics professor and he suggested the easy reason we don't keep at least some of that stuff native is due to comparative advantage. Ie China can do it 'better' and so we let them and do other things with our own resources. This is actually something economics teaches is 'good'. In fact it basically says unless you have a comparative advantage in making something, you shouldn't bother to make it at all... Which in the real world is less than sane, yet those in economics tend to agree this is not only sane it's the way things should be...
Personally I still vote is stupid and impractical for the real world myself.
I live just shy of 40 miles from where I work (the city housing market is 5 times the cost of the same in a small town making it the only place I can afford to live), so I do between 80-90 miles a day on average and on the extreme can hit 150 miles in a day. A 100 mile electric would be pushing it for my daily commute. I'm hardly that much of an exception, I know lots of people near DC commute about as far. I know you say '200 miles', but what I've seen is closer to 100 than 200.
Having been in the beta... I can say they ignored everything we told them to. Heck by the last beta phase the game still wasn't working well enough to be a conventional beta and we said so. Which by the way wasn't easy whoever designed their forums probably did work on the games UI... We told them it wasn't ready for launch, we'd barely been able to even test it as often as it wasn't working at a server level...
The worst part is it looks so nice at a character level you want the game to work. Square proves over and over they are good at character design. However they seem to suck at everything else lately...
This has actually become something of my issue for me... Both of my last former employers won't say anything except the dates I worked for them... Having heard what the conversation sounds like for former employees I'm not really surprised:
"Hello? Yes that person used to work for us. Give me a moment... They were here from July 200X to December 200X. I'm sorry, but we can't really say anymore about them other than dates worked. Yes. Ok, well have a nice day."
It's all neutral and monotone and says absolutely nothing worth knowing. Because it's company policy even my bosses who I worked for rather than HR can't say anything when used as a reference. One of my former bosses got in trouble for trying to give a good reference actually.
But to a new employer I may as well not list previous employment with either place. I have one reference even further back who will give me a real reference, but they were a client when I worked consulting and so don't have much weight with a company hiring me for a desk job.
Yes yes, disagree asshole (my opinion just like yours).
Grep is oh so helpful on a mixed windows and linux set of servers, especially when alot of things, in the linux side especially, are often cryptic. Not to say windows doesn't have cryptic things, but they tend more toward edge cases being cryptic. Fairly 'normal' stuff is often cryptic in linux unless you've been doing it for years and no simply running linux at home is not the same thing. It's a very different thing when the linux server has to server 10k active connections to at home with 1 to 4 and usually not concurrent ones. Heck with the sheer number of different potential packages that can be used to do 'X' in linux that's a huge number of potential things you'd have to be a near expert in, figure in different versions even which slightly alter the way things work and outside experience becomes even less.
I understand hardware a heck of a lot better though than alot of programmers. I understand networks better than alot of programmers. So what if I can't code the frikkin' linux kernel? What the heck does that have to do with making sure hardware and the network work right? The only possible argument is that the linux kernel is so shit it will screw things up. We know that's crap though, so what's the real issue? I think it's time linux finally makes simple things simple with a CLI core under the easily used GUI (that is *shock* actually user friendly!).
This particular company I used as my last example was actually a 50-100 million a year company. Their was a) no cast-off desktop that could run any current windows server version while I was there b) no way my under funded department would have gotten an extra server license. Heck they went 3 years (probably more now) on a broken fileserver that would randomly stop responding (hardware issue, damaged motherboard after a lightning strike when unprotected and before my time there) regardless of how much I said replacing it would solve our issues with it. Heck before my time there it was the domain controller and had the same issues! I reformatted it when we got in a real PC to act as a domain controller and made it a fileserver because I needed one and it was the only piece of hardware that had a chance in heck of doing the job.
My whole department though was budgeted at less than $30k/year sans salaries. Or I guess I should say 'hourly wages', even I was considered an hourly employee... Yet I was 'oncall' 24/7... Though good luck actually being paid for time spent doing support that wasn't regular hours... Hell I couldn't even be truthful on my hours spent in the building... I worked at least an extra hour per day and was never paid for it... Really it was not the best place to work for, but there just are not alot of admin jobs in northwestern PA, southwestern you get Pittsburgh and there are lots... But I've never had the money to move down there.
Actually they had no clue what a 'good server' was, so when they left it up to me they were functional and up to date systems. Though most of our windows servers were from HP's server line.
Others not so much, like when they decided web hosting should move in house and gave me a zero dollar budget. So I cannibalized a bunch of antique desktops and made a new 'linux apache web server'.
Funny enough I'd gotten a 5k raise every year (much needed though as the pay started fairly low for an network admin). Though with a change in leadership the board took power and they decided I was to expensive and outsourced me about a year ago. Hence it was 'my last employer'.
OOS did ok, though it's still not the year of the linux desktop. Remember I said I had to keep a bunch of antiques running and made them linux? Well normal people would use them, or more not use them. They were considered non-functional by everyone that used them and this is ubuntu, so the interface wasn't exactly CLI and not terribly unlike windows. On the server end I could have probably pieced together another antique web server, but I didn't really need much of a test system for a limited use web server...
Btw I argued against getting the web server in house. We existed on a 2Mb fiber connection (they chose to only pay for 2Mbps anyways), having the web server take away from our already pathetic bandwidth was a bad idea...
My last employer had 500 odd employees/systems (exact numbers of each varied), but we didn't write any software. We had no internal or even external development. The 6 servers that were the core of the network all had dedicated functions (well ok sometimes two or three 'dedicated' functions) and management was extreme penny pincher's. Though probably because extra cash went to them.
A testing environment of any sort was a pipe dream. 'Why would we waste our money on a server we aren't using?', believe me I argued this point quite heavily along with other common things like hardware life cycles... Half my job ended up being about keeping 1.2 Ghz Celerons with 256 MB of ram running in 2009... That meant they ran Windows 95/98 btw. That didn't go well with a server update to 2005 for AD domain... They couldn't be bothered to replace them though... so I created 120 odd linux boxes... of questionable ability... Modern GUI linux doesn't like those anymore than Windows XP would.
It's not my only example in my decade of admin work, I've never had a proper testing environment... Everything was always live.
'admins don't typically do stuff once' WTF world do you live in...? I administered a 500 user network a bit over a year ago and very few things were repeated. I set up servers once, and then unless I needed to change something I didn't need to reconfigure them. Now some things like new user accounts is common and repeatable... But those take 2 or 3 minutes and it's done, unless you really cycle massive amounts of employees this should never be more than a half hours work... And a GUI is easily adept at simple repeated tasks. In my 4 years I found little need for scripted anything outside an oracle database and maybe some rare cases with exchange (of all things). Everything else was usually taken care of from a centralized system once, and rarely if ever done again.
All I have to say is: Amen! (in a nonreligious sort of way)
I'm a not very good programmer who is a good system admin. I've been fighting the general apathy to anyone who can't read the source for the linux kernel in the linux world for going on a decade now! I'm always being told 'write it yourself' when I bump into a wall in administering linux systems that would be a simple button press in Windows... I don't want to reinvent the wheel! I'd frankly suck at it! That A) doesn't mean I'm a bad admin and B) Isn't something I even have time for in my day.
I can just see my last employer waiting as I read through 10k lines of source code to figure out why X isn't working with Y. Those above me want things to 'just work' and when they don't and it takes time to fix it's the end of the world. I'll take tracking down the idiot on the campus who plugged the network cable into the same switch twice over writing my own app any day.
lol, this may be what should happen... but in my experience most companies won't foot the bill to have 'test' servers unless you happen to be a software shop...
Quality of the games has been the one thing no gateway company has ever given to shits about. Titles continue to be horrible even today, and content control hasn't effected this.
He never included 'affordable' in his list.... xD
So far they've been one of, if not the only electric I've seen get any sort of real production...
While they have had numerous issues, the Tesla Roadster actually does get about 200 miles of range, can do 70, and has been for sale... That last part is the bigger issue as they have failed to actually meet demand.
This however isn't at all like it used to be in the US. At one point their were as many as 5 parties all with equal chances of getting a candidate elected as president! I want those days! And yes that means a single candidate can be president with only a sliver over 20% of the overall vote.
As for your point, I didn't care where the votes come from. I really really don't. I hate both traditional parties equally, I don't give a damn who would have voted demrep (it's one thing, I see zero difference between either) it's one vote not going to the scumsucking balls of crap we've let run the country to long.
Um... Good...? I'd like third parties to take the votes out of both stupid moronic and utterly contemptible parties. I'm all for 5 or 6 candidates. Heck I'd take a dozen, but I doubt that will happen... What some people seem to fail to remember is that the US has had multiple parties in the past! It's really only into the 20th century we became two parties with no one else in contention. Now most people are fricking brainwashed into believing only two parties can ever win! Rubbish!
For those of sufficient age we had Peroit as a viable third party who had ~20% of the popular vote in the election he took part in. At least with him you knew why he'd favor big business, but the one thing he wasn't was a politician... We haven't had a third party candidate that managed as high a percent since then, but we have made it over 1% on a few cases.
Really after being sans job for over a year I'd work there if they would pay to relocate me... I know 'cybercommand' isn't anywhere near where I live, so that's basically a must. Heck these days the government might even be one of the only places that would pay to relocate me... It may not be the greatest thing on my resume, but neither is a year without work... At least it's in my field though, which is better than what I'll have to do really soon now...
Darn it, you practically stole my line!
Though personally it sounded way to much like what companies say when asking for H1B visas it was scary...
Makes you wonder what the government wants for qualifications... 20 years experience with ruby on rails maybe...?
lol, well the first time I went to school it was in Columbus Ohio. More recently I was 100 miles north of Pittsburgh. Columbus really had no interest in new business as they were hand and foot with insurance companies and banks. Where I am now should be very interested in new business, but even after having been the third largest city in PA for over a hundred years, Harrisburg has spent the last 2 decades removing state funding from the area until now we are fourth of even fifth largest in PA. This however is where I was raised and sans money to move it's where I have to live.
My first college experience at DeVry ended when I ran out of money. My family was not middle class and couldn't do all that much to help me. But they made enough I couldn't qualify for any state or federal grants geared to lower income families. In fact they had to take out a parental loan they still have 11 years later because they can't afford to pay it... I worked all through that run of college, including at the school as workstudy but I could barely afford to keep my car running and to eat, buying books often required using credit cards each semester. Personally I'd wanted a lower costing college to go to, which funny enough I'm at now, but my parents felt DeVry would be better as they were impressed by the presentation done by the DeVry rep saying how I'd be rolling in money and graduate 'early' if I went there. It should be pointed out the tech bubble still existed when I started and popped during my first run through college.
Really my story isn't that odd either. Statistics aren't kept so well for college 'dropouts' as it is for college grads (which is sad I tend to find the reverse far more interesting), but what I have found is my story is not that rare or even uncommon. 'Dropout' numbers tend to fall into one of two categories: Financial troubles or Party kids. In particular when I went my first time financial troubles was actually a very large reason for those I went to school with to leave. Why? That I don't quite know. That is where the statistics get crappy as most don't care what exactly happens to 'dropouts'. I can say though that usually at best half of those entering college graduate, so the fact I didn't graduate my first time through shouldn't be abnormal at all. What is abnormal is I'm actually trying to finish my education again, that only happens in 10% of those who didn't complete their degree originally.