I don't grow my own vegetables (not for 15 years anyway), tobacco, or make my own booze. I want the government to stop being an idiot and set up pot as a booze alternative, sold in bars, toke shops, and liquor stores.
> Average annual income: Taiwan US$16563, Korea US$19921 > PPP: Taiwan US$32041, Korea US$23331 PPP is the purchasing power.
I.e., Because many items are much cheaper in Taiwan than in the US (partially because of laws the corporations have had passed to prevent importation of substantially cheaper medicine and items-- i.e. killing what should happen in a true capitalist economy), the $16,563 annual income allows a citizen of Taiwan to live as well as a person making $32041 dollars in the US. So they live about 3/4 as well as the average income $46,000 american citizen.
China and India have the lower wage structure, not Taiwan.
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India has some advantages over the US for costs. Medical is about 20% of our cost (for nearly identical care for many procedures) and a college degree is about 10% of the cost. The college degree is going to be very intense (so like advanced placement classes here) but perhaps less creative and definitely less networking with other US people in your field.
Medical and University costs have grossly outpaced inflation for the last two decades in the US. Since I got my degree in 93, the cost of an in state degree has gone up 500%.
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These lower prices are an artifact and they will shed away quickly. I think within 8 years. Wages here will stagnate and wages their will rise. For exmample: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_13/b3977049.htm "Last year salaries surged 40%, to an average of $160 a month."
"Wait a minute. Doesn't China have an inexhaustible supply of cheap labor? Not any longer. From the textile and toy factories of the south to the corporate headquarters and research labs in Beijing and Shanghai, the No. 1 challenge today is finding and keeping good workers. "
Chinese workers experienced 400% wage inflation at the lowest tiers from 1995 to 2006 alone. Wages for US workers went up about 50% in the same time period (wages for executives went from 85x us workers annual pay to 531x us workers annual pay) http://www.svsu.edu/emplibrary/Whelton%20article.pdf
Why the hell should we jail people for distribution? We don't jail cigarette and alchohol distributers.
It's a multi-billion dollar drain on our resources that would immediately flip around and be a multi-billion dollar income resource.
Not to pick, but it seems like your post is confused on that (read: not for distribution) side note. The rest of your post is seems to be for complete legalization.
Exactly-- during those times that killing is necessary, then those who enjoy and are skillful at it, will excel.
I had a rat problem once. First I took them away. Didn't help. Finally, I took a stick and went to killing them. At first it was a bit tramatic. Very quickly it became enjoyable and cat/mouse hunterly like.
It was ineffective tho, so I went to poison. That stopped the problem.
Animals enjoy playing with and killing other animals. Humans are animals.
In the face of massive propaganda that life is sacred and we shouldn't kill, people still do it and a lot of them enjoy doing it and are good at it.
You are completely correct. It was a random mistake and I've probably corrected others similarly in the past.
That part of my message posting habits will be given a -1. Over time, I should finally evolve the perfect post. +5, Insightful, interesting, informative, underrated, AND funny!
I use noscript with default settings, portable 3.0, portable 3.5, regular 3.0, regular 3.5.
I do not have these issues under Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7.
Right now I'm at 74k. Opened Gmail and I went to 107k. Opened Yahool and went to 114k.
One thing I did find was that my flash drive performance issues with portable was because of the history setting. Apparently with history set on, it builds a huge sqlite database and it updates it constantly.
On my current machine I have adblock, flashblock, noscript. On my home machine, I also have WOT and a couple other addons.
There was one addon that added little 4 section postage stamps around the page overlinks and interesting words and it killed my performance.
So over time, promiscuous people will develop immunity to aids faster than monogomous populations.
Males are in competition- part of the shape of the male penis is that way to scoop out other men's sperm.
However, I really have to address the monogamy part.
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People were not mainly monogamous through out history. Do you think that people just started cheating when we started having surveillance cameras? Are you aware of phrases like "a girl in every port"? The many societies with multiple wives?
People were not mainly monogamous throughout history. They cheat like hell every chance they get. With the plumber, the milk man, the secretary, the pool boy, whatever. Paternity tests flushed out the fact that women frequently (as high as 10% in some populations) have children by men other than their spouse. I had a friend that was stuck with one of these cookoo's.
Divorces spike worldwide, regardless of culture, at about 4 years after the last childbirth. Except in rare cases, women are better served genetically having children by multiple fathers and so their emotions have been selected to behave that way. Men obviously benefit from spreading their seed as far as they can get it, so they behave that way.
In the past rich families had huge numbers of children, (and many bastard children).
Cheating with a mistress was so common in renaissance italy that a practice of killing people after leaving a mistress developed (so you couldn't get confession so you not only were dead but you were damned to hell).
Oh hell.. and France??
The 70's? The 20's?
There was a lot of nasty stuff going on in the victorian era. Rome turned around all kinds of sexual behavior.
Many things we would consider evil today were common practice for most of our history. (Moses killing all the married women, men, old people, and boys, and taking the young females for his troops- he was one of the good guys).
Women who have sex less have shrinkage of the sexual pleasure nerves in the area. Women who have sex more have growth of the sexual pleasure nerves in the area. (and other upgrades from use as well).
Use it or lose it but if you have to much, you'll go crazy.
You may not already be aware but it is slightly addictive. The chemicals and hormones in it improve female happiness and mood.
These question is 1) is it pushed from the male ( those who have a chemical that makes the female happier have more kids) 2) or pulled from the female (those females who are naturally happy because of innocent chemicals have more kids)
Ultimately you are part of the solution. Many cross race offspring are exceptionally good looking. So have 4 or 5 kids and they all marry off and melt the uniformity of race.
There was an insightful comedian (kind of like Steve Wright) who wondered... Is there a place for eye and hair color on chinese drivers licenses?
I wonder, do they distinguish between more subtle variations of black and brown than we do (like Eskimos have many words for snow).
Possible reasons... 1) Sperm better resists the flood of estrogen chemicals and produces more babies. 2) Random chemicals in the environment are mutating the Y gene faster (so change is not coming from a benefit just a lot of random change) 3) Sperm lasts longer to evade birth control as long as possible. Male sperm production is down by about 1/20th of what it used to be the last I read so there is a lot of pressure here. 4) Mutated sperm trying to develop laser beams to cut through condoms and diaphrams.
Who knows what the algorithm is but part of it is probably cross-links in the local language. Then probably pages that are searched for a lot by different users. This would also be low in China currently.
One of my girlfriends worked with a chinese lady who swore up and down that TS never happened. Even when confronted with web evidence and after living in the US for several years. So there is a fair amount of brainwashing going on at an early age.
It surprises me how fast they have regrown an educated class after killing so many back in the 50's. And now PHD's are going back to China. I guess they don't think it will happen again.
There is a lot of racial patriotism in china. One of the best things that could happen there is a lot of immigrants and intermarriage to break up that meme- I think it's potentially dangerous the way aryanism was.
However... I think small cap will be okay (since it is always full of new companies). International will be okay (since there are billions of investors besides the 30 millionish baby boomers.
Also, that money coming out of the market is going to be spent and then... inherited by the boomer's kids who will spend much more freely than the boomers.
I'm currently heavy cash because I expect another major leg down but that cost me a lot doing so. The dollar cost averaging portion I always put in has basically doubled.
Dollar cost averaging has worked consistently for me. Meanwhile my trading gets +30%, +35%, +52% in some years but then -10%, -20%, -30% in other years.
For long term moves I usually use the 50dma and the 300dma to catch about 60-80% of a move. But short term moves just eat me up- especially over the last year. While I think the market is manipulated by the government very heavily now (an analyst firm last week said there is 600 million dollars in the market that has no identifiable source), I still bit on the technical analysis signals that always worked for me in the past and they just don't work now.
Many baby boomers are sliding over to cash, annuities, etc. now. Even if the selling forces the market down, typically it takes the hit and then you have a new normal.
I was talking to a co-worker today.. he said one year of college (& dorm) was now 15k at the local universities in texas (19k in arkansas for out of state after grants).
How can you justify paying $60-80k for a college degree that pays zippo and may not even get you a job.
It's difficult, but we are starting to see retirements now so don't give up hope.
Our company is so short staffed on support that customer satisfaction is starting to edge down.
The baby boomers retire at an ever increasing rate for the next 15 years now. In 10 years, 2 million extra people will retire a year (4 million total).
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Okay, I understand what you mean now.
I don't grow my own vegetables (not for 15 years anyway), tobacco, or make my own booze. I want the government to stop being an idiot and set up pot as a booze alternative, sold in bars, toke shops, and liquor stores.
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.korean/browse_thread/thread/63a135baa9ae8b87
> Average annual income: Taiwan US$16563, Korea US$19921
> PPP: Taiwan US$32041, Korea US$23331
PPP is the purchasing power.
I.e., Because many items are much cheaper in Taiwan than in the US (partially because of laws the corporations have had passed to prevent importation of substantially cheaper medicine and items-- i.e. killing what should happen in a true capitalist economy), the $16,563 annual income allows a citizen of Taiwan to live as well as a person making $32041 dollars in the US. So they live about 3/4 as well as the average income $46,000 american citizen.
http://www.worldsalaries.org/taiwan.shtml
Personal Average Income (2005)
17,138 $US.
297,862 NT$
For example:
http://www.footprintsrecruiting.com/cost-of-living-in-taiwan/cost-of-food-in-taiwan
Monthly expenses (for an expatriate english teacher)...
* Rent: NT$10,000
* Utilities: NT$1,750
* Food: NT$7,500
* Transportation: NT$700
* Entertainment: NT$2,500
* Internet: NT $500
* Cell Phone: NT $1,000
* TOTAL: NT$23,950 (NT$256,000 annually)
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China and India have the lower wage structure, not Taiwan.
---
India has some advantages over the US for costs. Medical is about 20% of our cost (for nearly identical care for many procedures) and a college degree is about 10% of the cost. The college degree is going to be very intense (so like advanced placement classes here) but perhaps less creative and definitely less networking with other US people in your field.
Medical and University costs have grossly outpaced inflation for the last two decades in the US. Since I got my degree in 93, the cost of an in state degree has gone up 500%.
---
These lower prices are an artifact and they will shed away quickly. I think within 8 years. Wages here will stagnate and wages their will rise.
For exmample:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_13/b3977049.htm
"Last year salaries surged 40%, to an average of $160 a month."
"Wait a minute. Doesn't China have an inexhaustible supply of cheap labor? Not any longer. From the textile and toy factories of the south to the corporate headquarters and research labs in Beijing and Shanghai, the No. 1 challenge today is finding and keeping good workers. "
http://www.moneyweek.com/news-and-charts/economics/what-chinas-changing-labour-market-means-for-the-west.aspx
Incomes are rising at double-digit rates - even rural incomes.
http://www.forbes.com/2007/07/02/china-wage-growth-markets-econ-cx_jc_0702markets1.html
On a per-capita basis, the average Chinese worker earned an annual wage of 12,422 yuan ($1,630) in 2002, or 1,035 yuan ($136) per month. As of 2006, they were making 21,001 yuan ($2,756) a year, or 1,750 yuan ($230) a month.
Chinese workers experienced 400% wage inflation at the lowest tiers from 1995 to 2006 alone. Wages for US workers went up about 50% in the same time period (wages for executives went from 85x us workers annual pay to 531x us workers annual pay) http://www.svsu.edu/emplibrary/Whelton%20article.pdf
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Why the hell should we jail people for distribution? We don't jail cigarette and alchohol distributers.
It's a multi-billion dollar drain on our resources that would immediately flip around and be a multi-billion dollar income resource.
Not to pick, but it seems like your post is confused on that (read: not for distribution) side note. The rest of your post is seems to be for complete legalization.
Everyone learned the lesson of Osborne computers.
If they said there was a new WII coming out in 11 months or that the new Wii's controllers would impale your hand with spikes, sales would plummet.
Exactly-- during those times that killing is necessary, then those who enjoy and are skillful at it, will excel.
I had a rat problem once.
First I took them away.
Didn't help.
Finally, I took a stick and went to killing them.
At first it was a bit tramatic.
Very quickly it became enjoyable and cat/mouse hunterly like.
It was ineffective tho, so I went to poison. That stopped the problem.
Animals enjoy playing with and killing other animals. Humans are animals.
In the face of massive propaganda that life is sacred and we shouldn't kill, people still do it and a lot of them enjoy doing it and are good at it.
You are completely correct. It was a random mistake and I've probably corrected others similarly in the past.
That part of my message posting habits will be given a -1. Over time, I should finally evolve the perfect post. +5, Insightful, interesting, informative, underrated, AND funny!
Woo hoo! Rescued from offtopic obscurity by fellow XKCD and Linux fans!
I use noscript with default settings, portable 3.0, portable 3.5, regular 3.0, regular 3.5.
I do not have these issues under Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7.
Right now I'm at 74k.
Opened Gmail and I went to 107k.
Opened Yahool and went to 114k.
One thing I did find was that my flash drive performance issues with portable was because of the history setting. Apparently with history set on, it builds a huge sqlite database and it updates it constantly.
On my current machine I have adblock, flashblock, noscript.
On my home machine, I also have WOT and a couple other addons.
There was one addon that added little 4 section postage stamps around the page overlinks and interesting words and it killed my performance.
I've used noscript for a long time-- recently found Web of Trust (WOT) is equally awesome.
Sometimes I go off the handle half cocked.
So apparently I am in violent agreement with you!
So over time, promiscuous people will develop immunity to aids faster than monogomous populations.
Males are in competition- part of the shape of the male penis is that way to scoop out other men's sperm.
However, I really have to address the monogamy part.
---
People were not mainly monogamous through out history. Do you think that people just started cheating when we started having surveillance cameras?
Are you aware of phrases like "a girl in every port"?
The many societies with multiple wives?
People were not mainly monogamous throughout history. They cheat like hell every chance they get. With the plumber, the milk man, the secretary, the pool boy, whatever.
Paternity tests flushed out the fact that women frequently (as high as 10% in some populations) have children by men other than their spouse. I had a friend that was stuck with one of these cookoo's.
Divorces spike worldwide, regardless of culture, at about 4 years after the last childbirth. Except in rare cases, women are better served genetically having children by multiple fathers and so their emotions have been selected to behave that way. Men obviously benefit from spreading their seed as far as they can get it, so they behave that way.
In the past rich families had huge numbers of children, (and many bastard children).
Cheating with a mistress was so common in renaissance italy that a practice of killing people after leaving a mistress developed (so you couldn't get confession so you not only were dead but you were damned to hell).
Oh hell.. and France??
The 70's?
The 20's?
There was a lot of nasty stuff going on in the victorian era.
Rome turned around all kinds of sexual behavior.
Many things we would consider evil today were common practice for most of our history. (Moses killing all the married women, men, old people, and boys, and taking the young females
for his troops- he was one of the good guys).
Women who have sex less have shrinkage of the sexual pleasure nerves in the area.
Women who have sex more have growth of the sexual pleasure nerves in the area. (and other upgrades from use as well).
Use it or lose it but if you have to much, you'll go crazy.
wow. -1, flamebait to +5 insightful in under 15 minutes.
Not necessarily.
Many well-off people have one or no children.
Many poor people have several children who also have several children.
Being better at getting laid is not the same as being better at procreation.
You may not already be aware but it is slightly addictive. The chemicals and hormones in it improve female happiness and mood.
These question is
1) is it pushed from the male ( those who have a chemical that makes the female happier have more kids)
2) or pulled from the female (those females who are naturally happy because of innocent chemicals have more kids)
Ultimately you are part of the solution. Many cross race offspring are exceptionally good looking.
So have 4 or 5 kids and they all marry off and melt the uniformity of race.
There was an insightful comedian (kind of like Steve Wright) who wondered... Is there a place for eye and hair color on chinese drivers licenses?
I wonder, do they distinguish between more subtle variations of black and brown than we do (like Eskimos have many words for snow).
Lol. Don't you love it when the moderation makes your point for you?
Sudo bring you a sandwich.
Possible reasons...
1) Sperm better resists the flood of estrogen chemicals and produces more babies.
2) Random chemicals in the environment are mutating the Y gene faster (so change is not coming from a benefit just a lot of random change)
3) Sperm lasts longer to evade birth control as long as possible.
Male sperm production is down by about 1/20th of what it used to be the last I read so there is a lot of pressure here.
4) Mutated sperm trying to develop laser beams to cut through condoms and diaphrams.
Who knows what the algorithm is but part of it is probably cross-links in the local language. Then probably pages that are searched for a lot by different users. This would also be low in China currently.
One of my girlfriends worked with a chinese lady who swore up and down that TS never happened. Even when confronted with web evidence and after living in the US for several years. So there is a fair amount of brainwashing going on at an early age.
It surprises me how fast they have regrown an educated class after killing so many back in the 50's.
And now PHD's are going back to China. I guess they don't think it will happen again.
There is a lot of racial patriotism in china. One of the best things that could happen there is a lot of immigrants and intermarriage to break up that meme- I think it's potentially dangerous the way aryanism was.
This was a concern for me as well.
However...
I think small cap will be okay (since it is always full of new companies).
International will be okay (since there are billions of investors besides the 30 millionish baby boomers.
Also, that money coming out of the market is going to be spent and then... inherited by the boomer's kids who will spend much more freely than the boomers.
I'm currently heavy cash because I expect another major leg down but that cost me a lot doing so. The dollar cost averaging portion I always put in has basically doubled.
Dollar cost averaging has worked consistently for me. Meanwhile my trading gets +30%, +35%, +52% in some years but then -10%, -20%, -30% in other years.
For long term moves I usually use the 50dma and the 300dma to catch about 60-80% of a move. But short term moves just eat me up- especially over the last year. While I think the market is manipulated by the government very heavily now (an analyst firm last week said there is 600 million dollars in the market that has no identifiable source), I still bit on the technical analysis signals that always worked for me in the past and they just don't work now.
Many baby boomers are sliding over to cash, annuities, etc. now. Even if the selling forces the market down, typically it takes the hit and then you have a new normal.
I was talking to a co-worker today.. he said one year of college (& dorm) was now 15k at the local universities in texas (19k in arkansas for out of state after grants).
How can you justify paying $60-80k for a college degree that pays zippo and may not even get you a job.
More if you put dorms on credit too.
It's difficult, but we are starting to see retirements now so don't give up hope.
Our company is so short staffed on support that customer satisfaction is starting to edge down.
The baby boomers retire at an ever increasing rate for the next 15 years now. In 10 years, 2 million extra people will retire a year (4 million total).
Good luck.
Thank you.
This reduced the scale of the problem by about 90% or more.
It's strange that this same feature doesn't hit firefox 3.0 in this fashion.