Having moved around the country a bit I found that in LA the construction has a lot of Latinos, in Atlanta it is largely African-Americans, and in Boston (where I now live) it is largely White people. While I don't expect any illegal aliens from Mexico worked on the Big Dig, there is a very large (white) Brazilian population here and I wouldn't be able to tell if they are on construction sites or if it's Boston natives. In any case, this area is heavily unionized, and I expect the government insisted on "higher skilled" union workers.
Having said that, and being half-Mexican myself, you're a moron if you think that some low paid white trash who thinks he's underpaid is going to do a better job than a Latino worker happy for the chance to make some money. Your comments remind me of Governor Ronald Reagan's idiotic comment about Mexicans thriving in the fields (for which my dad never forgave him). In any event, it is more likely that Bechtel and the like had their heads up their a@@ (you'd think after the Big Dig the gov't would have known better than to hire them in Iraq), while Italian-American owned construction companies were probably cutting corners on jobs they got based on connections.
Military expenditures are the ultimate political patronage, probably even worse than NASA. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of the space program, going to the moon, Mars, etc. I only think the way it is run now is as a jobs program for various congressional districts, and I don't think there's the public will to get to Mars with the huge amounts of money that would be required with this extremely inefficient approach to things. If the money were spent in a more "free market" or start-up friendly fashion then then a lot more could be done for a lot less money. Unfortunately funds for these programs, or for a space plane, etc. generally get cut by congressmen whose districts get a lot of Space Shuttle money, as the tap would close if a space plane ever got off the ground.
In any case, I don't recall saying anything positive about wars in the mid-east. For that matter, it seems that finally the majority of Americans wish we had never set foot in Iraq.
And to put it bluntly, with the way NASA spends money we'll never get far from earth before people tire of paying for it. It'd be much more productive if the billions being thrown at Lockheed-Martin and Boeing were spent on "space start-ups" instead of being wasted on political patronage. The $500 some odd million per shuttle launch is probably more than the sum total that's been spent by all these little guys, and they're generating much more interesting stuff than the overpriced shuttle launches are.
Yes, Adam Sandler is completely idiotic, but occasionally funny. However, Jim Carrey's movies are not so idiotic anymore.
In terms of internet business, I think the completely idiotic grabs customers sometimes, but to hold on to them you'll likely need to adapt.
Yahoo auctions has been around since the early days of EBay and has always been free (I think). If they haven't managed to hurt EBay in the last 5 years then what's changed that makes them more effective today?
Microsoft invested $150 million in Apple back in 1997, as an enticement for Apple to use IE instead of Netscape. Don't know if they still own those shares, but at a minimum they did once own part of Apple.
Is this a joke? Engineering shows us that if we feel something is "true in the gut" then it may work most of the time, but when it gets taken to the most extreme case it can end up with a building or bridge falling down (Tacoma Narrows Bridge for instance). In math we like to take something that is "true in the gut" and see just how extreme we can take it and still have it be true, just like architects want to stretch construction principles as far as they can. Once we find the must fundamental principle involved in the proof then it often gives insight into what other things may be true or false, again just like Tacoma Narrows taught the engineerings about the limits of their techniques at the time.
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Having moved around the country a bit I found that in LA the construction has a lot of Latinos, in Atlanta it is largely African-Americans, and in Boston (where I now live) it is largely White people. While I don't expect any illegal aliens from Mexico worked on the Big Dig, there is a very large (white) Brazilian population here and I wouldn't be able to tell if they are on construction sites or if it's Boston natives. In any case, this area is heavily unionized, and I expect the government insisted on "higher skilled" union workers.
Having said that, and being half-Mexican myself, you're a moron if you think that some low paid white trash who thinks he's underpaid is going to do a better job than a Latino worker happy for the chance to make some money. Your comments remind me of Governor Ronald Reagan's idiotic comment about Mexicans thriving in the fields (for which my dad never forgave him). In any event, it is more likely that Bechtel and the like had their heads up their a@@ (you'd think after the Big Dig the gov't would have known better than to hire them in Iraq), while Italian-American owned construction companies were probably cutting corners on jobs they got based on connections.
Military expenditures are the ultimate political patronage, probably even worse than NASA. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of the space program, going to the moon, Mars, etc. I only think the way it is run now is as a jobs program for various congressional districts, and I don't think there's the public will to get to Mars with the huge amounts of money that would be required with this extremely inefficient approach to things. If the money were spent in a more "free market" or start-up friendly fashion then then a lot more could be done for a lot less money. Unfortunately funds for these programs, or for a space plane, etc. generally get cut by congressmen whose districts get a lot of Space Shuttle money, as the tap would close if a space plane ever got off the ground. In any case, I don't recall saying anything positive about wars in the mid-east. For that matter, it seems that finally the majority of Americans wish we had never set foot in Iraq.
And to put it bluntly, with the way NASA spends money we'll never get far from earth before people tire of paying for it. It'd be much more productive if the billions being thrown at Lockheed-Martin and Boeing were spent on "space start-ups" instead of being wasted on political patronage. The $500 some odd million per shuttle launch is probably more than the sum total that's been spent by all these little guys, and they're generating much more interesting stuff than the overpriced shuttle launches are.
Yes, Adam Sandler is completely idiotic, but occasionally funny. However, Jim Carrey's movies are not so idiotic anymore. In terms of internet business, I think the completely idiotic grabs customers sometimes, but to hold on to them you'll likely need to adapt.
Yahoo auctions has been around since the early days of EBay and has always been free (I think). If they haven't managed to hurt EBay in the last 5 years then what's changed that makes them more effective today?
Microsoft invested $150 million in Apple back in 1997, as an enticement for Apple to use IE instead of Netscape. Don't know if they still own those shares, but at a minimum they did once own part of Apple.
Is this a joke? Engineering shows us that if we feel something is "true in the gut" then it may work most of the time, but when it gets taken to the most extreme case it can end up with a building or bridge falling down (Tacoma Narrows Bridge for instance). In math we like to take something that is "true in the gut" and see just how extreme we can take it and still have it be true, just like architects want to stretch construction principles as far as they can. Once we find the must fundamental principle involved in the proof then it often gives insight into what other things may be true or false, again just like Tacoma Narrows taught the engineerings about the limits of their techniques at the time.