If you read the graph, it says it was produced in 2008 based on 2001 data.
Seems like a nit to me since the graph was clearly supporting a rapid temperature increase; the temperature increase isn't historical on the longer time scale graphs (it'll still be pretty cold compared to the average temperature for most of history), it wasn't an anti-global warming site, I myself stated that I expect global warming and sea temperature rises and agreed that humans contributed to the current warming trend.
BUT- without humans, the temperature has fluctuated warmer and cooler-- and it's been MUCH warmer for millions (billions) of years in fairly recent history and we are in fact exiting an ice age period (none of which lasted forever) and every prior exit, the temperature returned to 72f.
It may be bloody hot for humans (and great for bugs) but I'm pretty sure humans are not going to be able to lock down the earth's temperature with our current technology.
I'm not even arguing against human influence on global warming.
Recall, I said I expect warming and a 20" increase in sea level over the next 86 years, showed that co2 correlates with temperatures, and listed human contributions.
What I am arguing is- it's been warmer- most of history.
We might be accelerating the trend but warming was very likely to happen- and it's been warming for thousands of years since the bottom which was a near ice age or an ice age depending on how you measure it.
While I tend to be pro-link and pro-uber, it's clear to me that taxi's are required to serve bad areas and less profitable areas while link and uber are not.
Part of the process of transitioning to link and uber may eventually require percentage of service of these types.
Otherwise, we'll end up with great competative service in the profitable areas and poor to no service elsewhere. Which will be a failure of the public transportation system.
you can see it's been this hot many times before without human intervention. you can see the temperature made a major move upwards a looooong time before the 1800's. from 26c to 29c. Humans almost certainly had nothing to do with that or other massive temperature shifts between 26 and 30c that have occurred repeatedly over the last millionish years.
This particular move may be enhanced by humans. 7 billion human beings are having widespread effects on the planet. And it looks like we may be on target for 11 billion humans instead of 9 billion humans.
That's a lot of Co2, methane from cows, asphalt paved and building covered ground that used to be forest in most places.
But we are not even at a record temperature yet, similar temperature moves have happened many times (dozens, scores?) over the last million years without humans being the cause.
Based on the evidence of the historical record the temperature could fall 3 degrees shortly after it peaks. Well after we are dead of course.
Right now, I think the most likely course is temperatures will continue to rise slowly- we'll see the oceans rise by 20" by 2100.
And we'll have *too many* people. Way over the carrying capacity of the earth. We've overbred and it really doesn't matter what we do if we don't get the population down. We are just moving deck chairs on a sinking Titantic.
It shows a pretty strong correlation between co2 and temperature. It also shows the co2 level has fluctuated a lot without humans around and that the temperature has been as high and lower many times in the last 10 million years.
We could just be exiting a near ice age. It looks like much of the time, the average temperature of the earth has been about 72F. About 10 degrees warmer than it is now. Humans could be the cause- but even without human interaction, the temperature seems likely to return to the mean at some point in the future. On a billion year scale, the current temperatures are uncommonly low.
Where I use them for 8 hours or more per day, they pay for themselves in about 6 months even at much lower electricity rates than in Europe. Proportionally longer payoffs for areas where i use them less.
And I don't have to replace them. None of them. My first ( a 20w) is still on the porch after more than a decade.
After trying them all (GE, Sylvania, Phillips, Ecolight)- I've settled on the G7 3100k 65 watt replacement bulbs.
2700k and 2900k look pink or orange. 5000k looks blue.
3100k look "right". In blind tests with friends- they couldn't tell which one was an incandescent and which one was the G7.
I also like the 3500k CFL bulbs from Home Depot (red package). They look "superwhite" and not blue.
The G7's are slightly larger than incandescent bulbs and will not fit in six inch glass bulb lights so I use the blue/white Ecolights in them. The extra 50 lumens makes a huge difference to my aging eyes.
My electric bill has been lowered enough by using LED lights (with a few CFL's) that I basically get a "free" LED bulb every two months. My old 52 dollar winter electric bills were 45 dollars this winter. The summer bill is harder to break out (ac is a huge factor) but it seems lower by 5 to 10 bucks too.
I continue to try all new LED's that come on the market but for now the G7 is my favorite.
For someone paying 29 cents per kwh, it seems like they would pay off even faster.
I like the hope of the AC, but I think your post is probably more correct.
I had relatives who became police officers. They became thuggish towards ordinary citizens. It wasn't just thinking ordinary citizens were criminals- it was being thrilled with the power they had over ordinary citizens and the unequal enforcement of the law on them.
When do we take our foot off the accelerator and stop stepping on the younger males (of all races)?
I agree- men are doing FINE in the board room. But it's really starting to suck everywhere down from there.
I was formally trained that if all things were equal - we should hire the "most diverse" candidate first.
Even tho Caucasian males were under represented at the bottom three tiers of the company, they were trying to balance against the lily white top two tiers (1 white female vp- the rest all 55+ year old white males). Middle management was about 60% female and they were blatantly discriminating against men and you knew the EEOC wasn't going to step in.
Don't get me wrong. I'm out. Retired. I'm speaking as a mostly disinterested party.
It just seems like society is continuing to beat up on young males (and esp white young males) and promote and give free stuff to everyone else.
When are you going to stop? What's the criteria for stopping? How far past 58% does it have to go before you can say things are addressed?
Amazingly- lots of videos on Youtube show it doesn't piss them off as much as it flusters them. I feel uncomfortable watching the videos but the police always back down. Sometimes they threaten to arrest the person but you have to have a specific charge to arrest someone. Which leads to the other respectful statement made in the videos.
"Am I under arrest?"
That's a legal phrase too- because if you are not under arrest, you are free to go after a fairly brief period. They have to arrest you to hold you.
It's very easy to for them to mess you up into trouble- but if you stick to certain specific stock phrases and obey their orders (that was another one-- "Are you ordering me to do this?") then it's clear from the videos that while they have a significant advantage in these situations- they are well aware of their own legal boundaries. Once you show you are aware of their legal boundaries they back off.
Quote: Each year in the U.S., 1,200 tornadoes on average kill 60 people, injure 1,500, and cause roughly $400 million in damages, putting long-term average tornado losses on par with hurricanes, according to a new report by Lloydâ(TM)s of London.
âoeTornadoes: A Rising Risk?â finds that the U.S. experiences more tornadoes than anywhere else in the world. The year 2011 was especially vicious, with a record-breaking 1,600 tornadoes causing more than $25 billion in damages, surpassing records for the most tornadoes in a single month and daily.
Other key findings in the report include:
* With urbanization creeping into formerly rural areas, tornadoes are more likely to hit densely populated areas and cause more damages, as evidenced in the increase in the number of billion-dollar events.
--- A big spread from $400 million to $25 billion per year.
If it cost 160 million per mile... the potential payoff is 3 to 60 miles per year.
So, in theory, this could pay for itself in 30 years.
It seems like you could also combine it with wind generation and perhaps some other items (such as a very long high speed transportation system.
I don't think it would have to be solid to work tho. At a minimum, I bet it would be nearly as effective if it were 90% solid. It only has to disrupt the wind patterns (basically long cylinders on their sides- not suppress them.
http://www.gobankingrates.com/... But it wasnâ(TM)t until the International Labor Organization held its first conference in Oct. 1919 that âoeHours of Workâ convention established an 8- or 9-hour work day, which constituted a max of 48 hours worked per week.
Just as the work week seemed to settle, the Great Depression hit. In an effort to avoid layoffs, President Herbert Hoover proposed a bill that would reduce the work week to 30 hours. It passed in Senate; however, it didnâ(TM)t make it through the House.
When Franklin D. Roosevelt entered office, he tried to push again for shorter hours, but they were overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court. Instead, the Walsh-Healy Public Contracts Act of 1936 passed, which required the federal government to pay its contractors overtime wages after eight hours of work in a day. And then the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 passed, which established the five-day, 40-hour work week for everyone, a standard we observe today.
---- Without the great depression we'd have had longer work weeks all along. The exempt status used to be much more limited as well. Very few employees qualified for exempt status. Specific laws were passed to sell computer programmers and engineers down the river and make them exempt even tho they were not management.
I was listening to talk radio last year and there was a 59 year old man-- about to lose his unemployment benefits-- and as a result of that, his house- he thought his wife as well, and -- get this-- he was railing against people who were trying to extend his unemployment benefits.
That's how screwed up things are. People who listen to radio and television which is paid for by the wealthy (and I include MSNBC and CNN) are being brainwashed to slit their own throats because -- maybe --- someday-- (including the 59 year old above) they -might- become wealthy.
It's crazy.
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* if you listen to msnbc you can hear them drop in pro wealthy comments a couple times an hour- or they set a foundation like "but of course we can't raise taxes on the wealthy because that would destroy jobs" .
The problem coming is the wealthy are going to own and preside over automated factories which provide no middle class jobs. I don't know where they think they'll get their customers from once there are no workers with decent incomes left.
I like your posts and I cannot lie, You other brothers can't deny That when a guy posts in with an itty bitty unix trace And a resume in your face You get sprung...
But seriously-- grats on being in the 8 to 11 % who like their jobs. The other 89 to 92% envy you.
Sell one set of tickets without names for $450 and another set of tickets with the name of the bearer on them for $60/$80/$120-- whatever.
To use the ticket, the name on your photo id must match the name on the ticket. Easy to buy for your friends at the same time- just give their names and then those are printed on their tickets.
If you want to buy a "scalping" ticket lacking a name- then you pay a premium for it.
This way *fans* of the shows can pay the price the venue and the band wants the tickets to be sold for and scalpers can subsidize the fans tickets.
It's been hotter 4 times in the last 400,000 years.
This particular heat wave looks to be 10,000 to 20,000 years "early".
If it goes up just a little bit more, then we are in record breaking territory.
Every time it's been this warm in the last 400,000 years, the temperature plunged by about 10c (that's almost 20f) within a few thousand years.
We won't know the answer in our lifetimes. The likely result in our lifetimes is 10" higher water. The likely result in the lifetimes of children being born today is 20" higher water.
I can say, I don't enjoy the "tropical" bugs working their way northward into formerly temperate zones.
Not to weigh in on the south china sea thing. But we have been the "United States OF America" since we were founded.
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The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary...
--- And... --- We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The united states military forces are formally named "U.S. Blah Blah". (Etc.) --
The continent of america was named around 1507. Long before the united states existed. It was not named by a united states citizen.
"American" has become an acceptable slang term for united states citizen in many countries but is also not used in many countries.
Sort of like the "under god" portion of the pledge of allegiance, use of the term "American" was added later.
Heh heh. Hadn't seen it that way. I've seen "andropause".
With HRT, the clock wound back and I'm 35 again in terms of sleep, sexual performance and interest, physique, clarity of thought, and emotional stability.
Recommend it! It's 1/10th the price from compounding pharmacies but won't be covered by most insurance. But, it's 1/2th the price of "covered" products like androgel and testim.
Age discrimination is increasingly common since age discrimination protections were gutted by a 2009 supreme court ruling.
Essentially, unless they say in written form that you are an old geezer so they are firing you or that candidate B was "younger" (and then they get caught by a complaint unrelated to you because you only know you were not hired and probably didn't have grounds to complain) and the email is turned up in a general search than age discrimination can't currently be prosecuted.
Meanwhile- when passing a resume to Infosys for a friend- they returned the resume and said it was fine but they required the candidates HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION DATE.
Not the fact that the person had a high school degree (much less the bachelor's degree and the requisite experience in SQL)-- but the actual date.
Should be illegal.
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The challenge in IT is that the field changes crazy fast. Today's "hot techology" (say Adobe "air"/"flex") only has qualified coders who work for Adobe or who just graduated college. Then three years from now- it's discontinued and you need to be experienced with HTML5. Which will be changed to HTML6 in three more years.
The companies have no interest in spending 12 months training their existing programmers up to speed- so they dump them. And get new college grads or consultants (who don't actually HAVE the experience based on personal experience- but they are allowed to learn on the job if they hide it well enough and their consulting companies helps them and does provide some training- but they do shitty work).
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Then, you add the fact that companies want as one particularly stupid company actually put in it's job ad "young, dynamic, deadline oriented employees" who are willing (and able) to work 70 hours a week for the promise that someday, they'll have experience and get high pay (tho in reality- 95% of them will be dumped for college grads when they turn 40 and only the lucky 5% who chanced into particular skill sets are retained).
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I don't have a good solution but i can tell you this. If you deny people employment you are going to end up paying to support them. Either $18,000 per year for welfare or $31,000 a year incarcerated.
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I saw at 33 the massive age discrimination that was in the IT field for 50 year olds. I saved like hell and never assumed I would be allowed to work until 67. I retired at 51. They literally laid me (and the other 400 not so well prepared employees) off 4 months before my retirement date. They had no idea why I was so happy and not upset but I'd already been mentoring two people as my replacements for 8 months at that point so it was just bonus severance pay and cobra to bridge my medical care til the ACA kicked in.
The difference tho was that the age discrimination today starts at 40 to 45 instead of at age 50. Without going back to trade school or college, it's almost impossible to keep up with the rapidly changing field. Plus you are a cost center- not a profit center.
1st I advise kids to just avoid the field today... but if you must choose it, 2nd I advise kids that they should work for a computer consulting firm with an active training program. -- You are a profit center there --.
If you go to work for any normal company- there is a high risk that your job will be outsourced just when your kids start college.
The problem with a libertarian system is that it requires a strong government to keep it from immediately collapsing into an oligarchy or dictatorship where the wealthy are free to walk all over the rights of everyone else.
I like the ideas of freedom and low taxes espoused by libertarians. For the libertarian system to work, you need everyone to be small and relatively equal in power. Sort of like Jefferson's view of an agrarian democracy.
Today's libertarian ideology is really a thinly disguised "protect the wealthy" which is unsurprisingly, funded by large amounts of money from billionaires.
Yea, I agree weight is the more significant factor.
It looks like there are currently about 150,000 propane vehicles-- and interestingly-- they pay a tax based on mileage.
I could see giving EV and Hybrid vehicles a discount to incent them but at some point (and we are sort of past that point) we need to pay for the highway and bridge system and it's maintenance.
Heavy vehicles pay a higher tax than just the fuel tax using the Form 2290.
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If you read the graph, it says it was produced in 2008 based on 2001 data.
Seems like a nit to me since the graph was clearly supporting a rapid temperature increase; the temperature increase isn't historical on the longer time scale graphs (it'll still be pretty cold compared to the average temperature for most of history), it wasn't an anti-global warming site, I myself stated that I expect global warming and sea temperature rises and agreed that humans contributed to the current warming trend.
BUT- without humans, the temperature has fluctuated warmer and cooler-- and it's been MUCH warmer for millions (billions) of years in fairly recent history and we are in fact exiting an ice age period (none of which lasted forever) and every prior exit, the temperature returned to 72f.
It may be bloody hot for humans (and great for bugs) but I'm pretty sure humans are not going to be able to lock down the earth's temperature with our current technology.
I'm not arguing against global warming.
I'm not even arguing against human influence on global warming.
Recall, I said I expect warming and a 20" increase in sea level over the next 86 years, showed that co2 correlates with temperatures, and listed human contributions.
What I am arguing is- it's been warmer- most of history.
We might be accelerating the trend but warming was very likely to happen- and it's been warming for thousands of years since the bottom which was a near ice age or an ice age depending on how you measure it.
While I tend to be pro-link and pro-uber, it's clear to me that taxi's are required to serve bad areas and less profitable areas while link and uber are not.
Part of the process of transitioning to link and uber may eventually require percentage of service of these types.
Otherwise, we'll end up with great competative service in the profitable areas and poor to no service elsewhere. Which will be a failure of the public transportation system.
If you look at the temperature over the last millionish years...
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/...
you can see it's been this hot many times before without human intervention.
you can see the temperature made a major move upwards a looooong time before the 1800's. from 26c to 29c. Humans almost certainly had nothing to do with that or other massive temperature shifts between 26 and 30c that have occurred repeatedly over the last millionish years.
This particular move may be enhanced by humans. 7 billion human beings are having widespread effects on the planet. And it looks like we may be on target for 11 billion humans instead of 9 billion humans.
That's a lot of Co2, methane from cows, asphalt paved and building covered ground that used to be forest in most places.
But we are not even at a record temperature yet, similar temperature moves have happened many times (dozens, scores?) over the last million years without humans being the cause.
Based on the evidence of the historical record the temperature could fall 3 degrees shortly after it peaks. Well after we are dead of course.
Right now, I think the most likely course is temperatures will continue to rise slowly- we'll see the oceans rise by 20" by 2100.
And we'll have *too many* people. Way over the carrying capacity of the earth. We've overbred and it really doesn't matter what we do if we don't get the population down. We are just moving deck chairs on a sinking Titantic.
Here's the last 10 million years
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6ftZ...
It shows a pretty strong correlation between co2 and temperature. It also shows the co2 level has fluctuated a lot without humans around and that the temperature has been as high and lower many times in the last 10 million years.
Here's the last 65 million years
http://mpe.dimacs.rutgers.edu/...
We are at the bottom of a 65 million year long cooling period.
Here's the last 2.4 billion years
http://geology.utah.gov/survey...
We could just be exiting a near ice age. It looks like much of the time, the average temperature of the earth has been about 72F. About 10 degrees warmer than it is now. Humans could be the cause- but even without human interaction, the temperature seems likely to return to the mean at some point in the future. On a billion year scale, the current temperatures are uncommonly low.
Where I use them for 8 hours or more per day, they pay for themselves in about 6 months even at much lower electricity rates than in Europe. Proportionally longer payoffs for areas where i use them less.
And I don't have to replace them. None of them. My first ( a 20w) is still on the porch after more than a decade.
After trying them all (GE, Sylvania, Phillips, Ecolight)- I've settled on the G7 3100k 65 watt replacement bulbs.
2700k and 2900k look pink or orange.
5000k looks blue.
3100k look "right". In blind tests with friends- they couldn't tell which one was an incandescent and which one was the G7.
I also like the 3500k CFL bulbs from Home Depot (red package). They look "superwhite" and not blue.
The G7's are slightly larger than incandescent bulbs and will not fit in six inch glass bulb lights so I use the blue/white Ecolights in them. The extra 50 lumens makes a huge difference to my aging eyes.
My electric bill has been lowered enough by using LED lights (with a few CFL's) that I basically get a "free" LED bulb every two months. My old 52 dollar winter electric bills were 45 dollars this winter. The summer bill is harder to break out (ac is a huge factor) but it seems lower by 5 to 10 bucks too.
I continue to try all new LED's that come on the market but for now the G7 is my favorite.
For someone paying 29 cents per kwh, it seems like they would pay off even faster.
I like the hope of the AC, but I think your post is probably more correct.
I had relatives who became police officers. They became thuggish towards ordinary citizens. It wasn't just thinking ordinary citizens were criminals- it was being thrilled with the power they had over ordinary citizens and the unequal enforcement of the law on them.
When do we take our foot off the accelerator and stop stepping on the younger males (of all races)?
I agree- men are doing FINE in the board room. But it's really starting to suck everywhere down from there.
I was formally trained that if all things were equal - we should hire the "most diverse" candidate first.
Even tho Caucasian males were under represented at the bottom three tiers of the company, they were trying to balance against the lily white top two tiers (1 white female vp- the rest all 55+ year old white males). Middle management was about 60% female and they were blatantly discriminating against men and you knew the EEOC wasn't going to step in.
Don't get me wrong. I'm out. Retired. I'm speaking as a mostly disinterested party.
It just seems like society is continuing to beat up on young males (and esp white young males) and promote and give free stuff to everyone else.
When are you going to stop? What's the criteria for stopping? How far past 58% does it have to go before you can say things are addressed?
Hic.
Amazingly- lots of videos on Youtube show it doesn't piss them off as much as it flusters them. I feel uncomfortable watching the videos but the police always back down. Sometimes they threaten to arrest the person but you have to have a specific charge to arrest someone. Which leads to the other respectful statement made in the videos.
"Am I under arrest?"
That's a legal phrase too- because if you are not under arrest, you are free to go after a fairly brief period. They have to arrest you to hold you.
It's very easy to for them to mess you up into trouble- but if you stick to certain specific stock phrases and obey their orders (that was another one-- "Are you ordering me to do this?") then it's clear from the videos that while they have a significant advantage in these situations- they are well aware of their own legal boundaries. Once you show you are aware of their legal boundaries they back off.
Quote:
Each year in the U.S., 1,200 tornadoes on average kill 60 people, injure 1,500, and cause roughly $400 million in damages, putting long-term average tornado losses on par with hurricanes, according to a new report by Lloydâ(TM)s of London.
âoeTornadoes: A Rising Risk?â finds that the U.S. experiences more tornadoes than anywhere else in the world. The year 2011 was especially vicious, with a record-breaking 1,600 tornadoes causing more than $25 billion in damages, surpassing records for the most tornadoes in a single month and daily.
Other key findings in the report include:
* With urbanization creeping into formerly rural areas, tornadoes are more likely to hit densely populated areas and cause more damages, as evidenced in the increase in the number of billion-dollar events.
---
A big spread from $400 million to $25 billion per year.
If it cost 160 million per mile... the potential payoff is 3 to 60 miles per year.
So, in theory, this could pay for itself in 30 years.
It seems like you could also combine it with wind generation and perhaps some other items (such as a very long high speed transportation system.
I don't think it would have to be solid to work tho. At a minimum, I bet it would be nearly as effective if it were 90% solid. It only has to disrupt the wind patterns (basically long cylinders on their sides- not suppress them.
Also a factor but..
http://www.gobankingrates.com/...
But it wasnâ(TM)t until the International Labor Organization held its first conference in Oct. 1919 that âoeHours of Workâ convention established an 8- or 9-hour work day, which constituted a max of 48 hours worked per week.
Just as the work week seemed to settle, the Great Depression hit. In an effort to avoid layoffs, President Herbert Hoover proposed a bill that would reduce the work week to 30 hours. It passed in Senate; however, it didnâ(TM)t make it through the House.
When Franklin D. Roosevelt entered office, he tried to push again for shorter hours, but they were overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court. Instead, the Walsh-Healy Public Contracts Act of 1936 passed, which required the federal government to pay its contractors overtime wages after eight hours of work in a day. And then the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 passed, which established the five-day, 40-hour work week for everyone, a standard we observe today.
a little more here
http://www.bloombergview.com/a...
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Without the great depression we'd have had longer work weeks all along. The exempt status used to be much more limited as well. Very few employees qualified for exempt status. Specific laws were passed to sell computer programmers and engineers down the river and make them exempt even tho they were not management.
was pushed back to the bottom of the stack by the 31 triple coal plant that powers six cities.
I was listening to talk radio last year and there was a 59 year old man-- about to lose his unemployment benefits-- and as a result of that, his house- he thought his wife as well, and -- get this-- he was railing against people who were trying to extend his unemployment benefits.
That's how screwed up things are. People who listen to radio and television which is paid for by the wealthy (and I include MSNBC and CNN) are being brainwashed to slit their own throats because -- maybe --- someday-- (including the 59 year old above) they -might- become wealthy.
It's crazy.
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* if you listen to msnbc you can hear them drop in pro wealthy comments a couple times an hour- or they set a foundation like "but of course we can't raise taxes on the wealthy because that would destroy jobs" .
The problem coming is the wealthy are going to own and preside over automated factories which provide no middle class jobs. I don't know where they think they'll get their customers from once there are no workers with decent incomes left.
I like your posts and I cannot lie,
You other brothers can't deny
That when a guy posts in with an itty bitty unix trace
And a resume in your face
You get sprung...
But seriously-- grats on being in the 8 to 11 % who like their jobs. The other 89 to 92% envy you.
Scalping is easy to fix.
Sell one set of tickets without names for $450 and another set of tickets with the name of the bearer on them for $60/$80/$120-- whatever.
To use the ticket, the name on your photo id must match the name on the ticket.
Easy to buy for your friends at the same time- just give their names and then those are printed on their tickets.
If you want to buy a "scalping" ticket lacking a name- then you pay a premium for it.
This way *fans* of the shows can pay the price the venue and the band wants the tickets to be sold for and scalpers can subsidize the fans tickets.
If people are working 60 hour weeks, that means every two people are eliminating employment for a 3rd person.
One of the key drivers behind the 40 hour work week was 25% unemployment rates.
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFoss...
It's been hotter 4 times in the last 400,000 years.
This particular heat wave looks to be 10,000 to 20,000 years "early".
If it goes up just a little bit more, then we are in record breaking territory.
Every time it's been this warm in the last 400,000 years, the temperature plunged by about 10c (that's almost 20f) within a few thousand years.
We won't know the answer in our lifetimes. The likely result in our lifetimes is 10" higher water. The likely result in the lifetimes of children being born today is 20" higher water.
I can say, I don't enjoy the "tropical" bugs working their way northward into formerly temperate zones.
I bet you could shoot a really powerful crossbow with a power source like that.
It should be called the Crossbow Project.
So my plan to rename myself "Owner of all Money" isn't going to work?
Not to weigh in on the south china sea thing. But we have been the
"United States OF America" since we were founded.
---
The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary...
---
And...
---
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The united states military forces are formally named "U.S. Blah Blah". (Etc.)
--
The continent of america was named around 1507. Long before the united states existed. It was not named by a united states citizen.
"American" has become an acceptable slang term for united states citizen in many countries but is also not used in many countries.
Sort of like the "under god" portion of the pledge of allegiance, use of the term "American" was added later.
Heh heh. Hadn't seen it that way. I've seen "andropause".
With HRT, the clock wound back and I'm 35 again in terms of sleep, sexual performance and interest, physique, clarity of thought, and emotional stability.
Recommend it! It's 1/10th the price from compounding pharmacies but won't be covered by most insurance. But, it's 1/2th the price of "covered" products like androgel and testim.
Age discrimination is increasingly common since age discrimination protections were gutted by a 2009 supreme court ruling.
Essentially, unless they say in written form that you are an old geezer so they are firing you or that candidate B was "younger" (and then they get caught by a complaint unrelated to you because you only know you were not hired and probably didn't have grounds to complain) and the email is turned up in a general search than age discrimination can't currently be prosecuted.
Meanwhile- when passing a resume to Infosys for a friend- they returned the resume and said it was fine but they required the candidates HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION DATE.
Not the fact that the person had a high school degree (much less the bachelor's degree and the requisite experience in SQL)-- but the actual date.
Should be illegal.
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The challenge in IT is that the field changes crazy fast. Today's "hot techology" (say Adobe "air"/"flex") only has qualified coders who work for Adobe or who just graduated college. Then three years from now- it's discontinued and you need to be experienced with HTML5. Which will be changed to HTML6 in three more years.
The companies have no interest in spending 12 months training their existing programmers up to speed- so they dump them. And get new college grads or consultants (who don't actually HAVE the experience based on personal experience- but they are allowed to learn on the job if they hide it well enough and their consulting companies helps them and does provide some training- but they do shitty work).
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Then, you add the fact that companies want as one particularly stupid company actually put in it's job ad "young, dynamic, deadline oriented employees" who are willing (and able) to work 70 hours a week for the promise that someday, they'll have experience and get high pay (tho in reality- 95% of them will be dumped for college grads when they turn 40 and only the lucky 5% who chanced into particular skill sets are retained).
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I don't have a good solution but i can tell you this. If you deny people employment you are going to end up paying to support them. Either $18,000 per year for welfare or $31,000 a year incarcerated.
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I saw at 33 the massive age discrimination that was in the IT field for 50 year olds. I saved like hell and never assumed I would be allowed to work until 67. I retired at 51. They literally laid me (and the other 400 not so well prepared employees) off 4 months before my retirement date. They had no idea why I was so happy and not upset but I'd already been mentoring two people as my replacements for 8 months at that point so it was just bonus severance pay and cobra to bridge my medical care til the ACA kicked in.
The difference tho was that the age discrimination today starts at 40 to 45 instead of at age 50. Without going back to trade school or college, it's almost impossible to keep up with the rapidly changing field. Plus you are a cost center- not a profit center.
1st I advise kids to just avoid the field today... but if you must choose it,
2nd I advise kids that they should work for a computer consulting firm with an active training program. -- You are a profit center there --.
If you go to work for any normal company- there is a high risk that your job will be outsourced just when your kids start college.
A testicular cancer survivor with very low T prior to HRT.
Still went bald when testosterone was under 200 and i was having male menopause symptoms.
Well said sir, well said.
The problem with a libertarian system is that it requires a strong government to keep it from immediately collapsing into an oligarchy or dictatorship where the wealthy are free to walk all over the rights of everyone else.
I like the ideas of freedom and low taxes espoused by libertarians. For the libertarian system to work, you need everyone to be small and relatively equal in power. Sort of like Jefferson's view of an agrarian democracy.
Today's libertarian ideology is really a thinly disguised "protect the wealthy" which is unsurprisingly, funded by large amounts of money from billionaires.
Yea, I agree weight is the more significant factor.
It looks like there are currently about 150,000 propane vehicles-- and interestingly-- they pay a tax based on mileage.
I could see giving EV and Hybrid vehicles a discount to incent them but at some point (and we are sort of past that point) we need to pay for the highway and bridge system and it's maintenance.
Heavy vehicles pay a higher tax than just the fuel tax using the Form 2290.