There are three types of lies: 1. Lies 2. Damn lies 3. Statistics
In a poverty-stricken community of 1000 people where 999 people earn $10000 per year, one person earns $100000000. That results in an average (mean) income of $109900 per person, which is not at all representative of the poverty. The problem with economic statistics is that they are painfully skewed by the top incomes.
Yes, I saw that link, but I was trying to illustrate the average income and how it isn't representative of the average person. I know plenty of married households where husband and wife (combined) earn less than $40k\year. When I worked as a software tester at Deere, about half of the engineers I knew didn't even make $70k.
I take care of myself by eating reasonably well, exercising, and visited the dental wing of a local college when I needed work. I was in a car accident when I was 20. My car insurance payed for the hospital expenses and work I missed. Clothes, housewares, appliances? Thrift stores and rummage sales. By the time I was 28, I had over $20k in savings. I guess I'm fortunate with regard to my student loans. My first degree was an AAS from a state school that I paid for as I attended, and my BA was at a private college (I know now, THAT was stupid), but I graduated with only about $55k in loans.
For about the last year, I've been making around $20\hr, and I still shop at thrift stores for almost all of my goods.
I'm not insisting that everyone can live like I do, but I'm telling you it's possible.
I don't have the statistics handy, but last year I crunched some numbers to figure out estimates of the total working population. If the average income per person in 2012 was just shy of $43k (http://bber.unm.edu/econ/us-pci.htm), that's about $13.4 trillion (using the population numbers from http://quickfacts.census.gov/q...). Assuming everyone who works is working full-time or better (60% of the population? That's about 188.3 million people), we have an average income of $71155 per person. Of course, these are fuzzy numbers that I put together in just a couple minutes.
Does this smell anything like the platform that our current president ran on, twice?
We don't need to pay more in taxes, we need to stop spending so much on things like war, unnecessary civil developments (Silent railroad crossings?), corporate welfare, politician pensions, etc. You're addressing a symptom of the problem, not the root: government spending and thieving to support private interests that are funneled through government spending.
Granted, I live in a smaller city, but Minneapolis is about the same cost, unless you need to go a great distance for work. Just outside of DC is also about the same. A nicer home, car, and children are not necessities. As an adult, I spent 10 years working for less than $10\hr. A large number of people I know make less than $10\hr. In fact, I made less than $8\hr until I was 26, and I was still able to live rather comfortably because I didn't waste money on things that I didn't need.
Does this mean that I think things are fine? No, I agree that income disparity is a horrible problem in a country where the "average" income is $75k\year, but very few of us know anyone who makes that much money.
Mod parent up! Wireless opens up many doors for ISPs. Infrastructure is the biggest cost, and wireless infrastructure makes it possible for just about anyone to become a tier 3 ISP.
Want a neighborhood ISP? Fast and easy: just put a tripod on your roof with a couple sector 3.65Ghz APs, and connect it to a router with a fast backbone. Add more components to improve security, or whatever you want. It's not hard. My friend sold his rural ISP late last year, and he had just negotiated for a 500Mb/500Mb up/down backbone for $3k/month. Each month, they are getting about 10 new customers at $50-70/month. The last I heard, his customer count was about 900, and that was before he signed away financial responsibility in November 2013.
The guy started this company about eight years ago, and was just a network engineer at a hospital when he did. Yes, almost anyone can start an ISP.
I've been saying it for years: length! Thisshittasteslikechicken! Will take many, many years for any algorithm to crack. http://www.securityadminisanidiot.com/ will also assure security. Why don't management and administrators understand this?
Call me a hateful bigot, but casting that Asa Butterfield as Ender will be the downfall of this film. He ruined Hugo, ruined The Boy in Striped Pyjamas, and probably everything else he's touched. I have already promised everyone I know that I will not be seeing this in the theater, and not renting it.
You've never worked a helpdesk, have you? There are few things more painful than spending 40 minutes on a call with someone who can't figure out how to copy and paste, or type their username and password into the provided and labeled fields.
These are people working for some of the biggest engineering firms in the world. I only wish I were joking.
Why should I be forced to subsidize some lazy people who _choose_ to live in a city where they experience snow flurries once in a while? I don't know of anyone in North Dakota or Minnesota who complains about having to get their mail from the curb. You think Buffalo has harsh weather? Then move!
You must not understand where your IRAs are, because they're in these companies.
Does that mean every mutual fund must pass this punishment on to its customers? There's no way, because that might be a breach of confidence.
You (as the investor) have no way of knowing exactly what gets done because the information doesn't come out until it's too late for you to make an informed decision.
Are you a senator or congress critter? Upper management of a US automaker?
If civil engineers designed traffic lights like this, it would _ruin_ automobile transportation. Have you ever driven a car/truck/bicycle in America?
It seems like you're encouraging a race to see who can approach the light at the slowest possible pace to ensure they can stop before it turns red for fear of being punished? That is the wrong paradigm.
I'm not joking. The trick seems to be finding a way to improve your odds in the numbers game of marketing. Usually, it's by finding a way to get mentioned at the water cooler. It doesn't matter that if product you sell is indistinguishable from any of the competitors, what matters is that they remember yours.
Look what Jobs did with the Macbook line, even just the "Think different." tagline. Dodge seemed to have a winner with the "Hi." campaign. AFLAC's duck is a great way to help remember them. Volkswagen's "Das Auto" was pretty great. Wendy's "Where's the beef?" lady will probably never be forgotten.
John Deere has a variety of satellite-guided systems that can be implemented, and there are a few methods to monitor and program firmware over a wireless connection (I don't know the exact communications medium, it's not my field). Suggesting that there is 500+GB isn't unlikely, because I use CAN to interact with the hardware that we test, and a few seconds of reading a few variables can easily be 1MB.
Here's my quick number-crunching output: 500GB / 5 hours (estimate average flight including prep) = 100GB / hour 100GB / 60min / 60sec =.0278GB / sec of data being recorded If it's anything like the CAN system here, they'll probably have 16 byte messages, depending on how it's subdivided. A lot of things report at 1000ms intervals, but more critical ones report at 100ms or faster..0278GB/s = 28.4MB/s = 29127KB/s = 29826162 bytes / second 29826162 byte / 24 byte / 10 ms = Assuming they use 16 byte messages with 8 character message IDs logged to.asc or.blf, etc, that breaks down to roughly 124000 things reporting every 100ms. My guess is that there are probably messages transmitted to the ground every minute or thirty seconds, or about 3MB per data burst.
I probably should have added a couple of notes about how the best people don't waste their time with certifications, because their previous experience exceeds the crap these certifications imply.
Make no mistake, I think this garbage is as useless to the IT world as used toilet paper is to a hungry man, but there are still short-sighted management units and HR drones that will only believe you know anything about magical black boxes if you have a piece of paper from someone else who says that you do.
In a nutshell, a certification is like a piece of paper that says "I can speak this language fluently.".
If you didn't know how to speak Hindi, but needed to do business in a remote part of India where Hindi is the dominant language, wouldn't it be nice if you could hire someone (local to you) with proof of their fluency?
The problem is that far too many HR departments and managers don't understand that demanding roughly half of these certifications from anyone who has spent even a year in IT would be akin to demanding a native English speaker have some kind of ESL training/certification.
Clearly, one of us has been able to decide that seeking income isn't our first goal when trying to find a job. Until this year, I've been unable to find employment that (consistently) pays even $10/hour, and I'm 30. Since I finished my first degree, the first thing I look at when seeking a better job is how much it will pay. To date, the best money I've made is delivering pizza, and it's not because I lack ability, intelligence, or willingness to work.
I have met many people in the last few years who went into consulting, and they all tout that it's great to finally get paid what their skills are worth. The hidden thing they never mention: people skills. Most of the engineers I know don't have people skills, at least, not with people outside their immediate work/social-sphere.
If you are competent, have people skills, _and_ you can sell (all of which are usually required for most consulting work), you're wasting your time in consulting, because you'll double your income (or better) in insurance. I don't see that field getting saturated with capable people for a long time.
I would argue that food scarcity isn't increasing, but our current situation comes from a variety of problems: 1- horrible resource management 2- no incentive to produce (US farm subsidies) 2a- edible food units converted (at a net loss) into non-edible fuels 2b- edible food units wasted to keep prices artificially high 2c- arable soils not used for production or even intentionally spoiled.
Why? Capitalism has resulted in atrocious abuses by short-sighted goons. I think we have seen a derivation of corporatism that will enrich a few at the expense of the many.
We need more entities that enact intelligent, long-term practices focused on the maximum profit over the company lifetime, not the maximum profit in the shortest time for the smallest number.
We can't assume a company will be good just because it's non-profit. If access is "limited", how much will it cost to become unlimited? If it's limited, someone is limiting it, and everyone has a price. Don't kid yourself.
Governments are supposed to be non-profit, and look what has happened throughout world history.
When it comes to governments, or any institution that has unrestricted access to all of the information about a population, no amount of suspicion is too much.
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There are three types of lies:
1. Lies
2. Damn lies
3. Statistics
In a poverty-stricken community of 1000 people where 999 people earn $10000 per year, one person earns $100000000. That results in an average (mean) income of $109900 per person, which is not at all representative of the poverty. The problem with economic statistics is that they are painfully skewed by the top incomes.
Yes, I saw that link, but I was trying to illustrate the average income and how it isn't representative of the average person. I know plenty of married households where husband and wife (combined) earn less than $40k\year. When I worked as a software tester at Deere, about half of the engineers I knew didn't even make $70k.
Craigslist? Classifieds? An apartment fit for a single person can be found for $400-600.
Sorry, I forgot to respond to the other things.
I take care of myself by eating reasonably well, exercising, and visited the dental wing of a local college when I needed work. I was in a car accident when I was 20. My car insurance payed for the hospital expenses and work I missed. Clothes, housewares, appliances? Thrift stores and rummage sales. By the time I was 28, I had over $20k in savings. I guess I'm fortunate with regard to my student loans. My first degree was an AAS from a state school that I paid for as I attended, and my BA was at a private college (I know now, THAT was stupid), but I graduated with only about $55k in loans.
For about the last year, I've been making around $20\hr, and I still shop at thrift stores for almost all of my goods.
I'm not insisting that everyone can live like I do, but I'm telling you it's possible.
I don't have the statistics handy, but last year I crunched some numbers to figure out estimates of the total working population. If the average income per person in 2012 was just shy of $43k (http://bber.unm.edu/econ/us-pci.htm), that's about $13.4 trillion (using the population numbers from http://quickfacts.census.gov/q...). Assuming everyone who works is working full-time or better (60% of the population? That's about 188.3 million people), we have an average income of $71155 per person. Of course, these are fuzzy numbers that I put together in just a couple minutes.
Does this smell anything like the platform that our current president ran on, twice?
We don't need to pay more in taxes, we need to stop spending so much on things like war, unnecessary civil developments (Silent railroad crossings?), corporate welfare, politician pensions, etc. You're addressing a symptom of the problem, not the root: government spending and thieving to support private interests that are funneled through government spending.
Please, get off your soap-box.
monthly expense
500 apartment
300 groceries
300 transportation expense
100 utilities
total necessary expenses = 1200
Granted, I live in a smaller city, but Minneapolis is about the same cost, unless you need to go a great distance for work. Just outside of DC is also about the same. A nicer home, car, and children are not necessities. As an adult, I spent 10 years working for less than $10\hr. A large number of people I know make less than $10\hr. In fact, I made less than $8\hr until I was 26, and I was still able to live rather comfortably because I didn't waste money on things that I didn't need.
Does this mean that I think things are fine? No, I agree that income disparity is a horrible problem in a country where the "average" income is $75k\year, but very few of us know anyone who makes that much money.
Mod parent up! Wireless opens up many doors for ISPs. Infrastructure is the biggest cost, and wireless infrastructure makes it possible for just about anyone to become a tier 3 ISP.
Want a neighborhood ISP? Fast and easy: just put a tripod on your roof with a couple sector 3.65Ghz APs, and connect it to a router with a fast backbone. Add more components to improve security, or whatever you want. It's not hard. My friend sold his rural ISP late last year, and he had just negotiated for a 500Mb/500Mb up/down backbone for $3k/month. Each month, they are getting about 10 new customers at $50-70/month. The last I heard, his customer count was about 900, and that was before he signed away financial responsibility in November 2013.
The guy started this company about eight years ago, and was just a network engineer at a hospital when he did. Yes, almost anyone can start an ISP.
I've been saying it for years: length! Thisshittasteslikechicken! Will take many, many years for any algorithm to crack. http://www.securityadminisanidiot.com/ will also assure security. Why don't management and administrators understand this?
Call me a hateful bigot, but casting that Asa Butterfield as Ender will be the downfall of this film. He ruined Hugo, ruined The Boy in Striped Pyjamas, and probably everything else he's touched. I have already promised everyone I know that I will not be seeing this in the theater, and not renting it.
This is similar in the US, but it varies slightly based on frequencies, locations, and environment.
You've never worked a helpdesk, have you? There are few things more painful than spending 40 minutes on a call with someone who can't figure out how to copy and paste, or type their username and password into the provided and labeled fields.
These are people working for some of the biggest engineering firms in the world. I only wish I were joking.
Why should I be forced to subsidize some lazy people who _choose_ to live in a city where they experience snow flurries once in a while? I don't know of anyone in North Dakota or Minnesota who complains about having to get their mail from the curb. You think Buffalo has harsh weather? Then move!
Or they're operating from their parents' basement...
Am I too late?
You must not understand where your IRAs are, because they're in these companies.
Does that mean every mutual fund must pass this punishment on to its customers? There's no way, because that might be a breach of confidence.
You (as the investor) have no way of knowing exactly what gets done because the information doesn't come out until it's too late for you to make an informed decision.
Are you a senator or congress critter? Upper management of a US automaker?
Are you sure that isn't dependent upon which state you call home? In my state, no political registration is necessary.
That's right, North Dakota doesn't force you to take sides until you actually vote. What a concept!
If civil engineers designed traffic lights like this, it would _ruin_ automobile transportation. Have you ever driven a car/truck/bicycle in America?
It seems like you're encouraging a race to see who can approach the light at the slowest possible pace to ensure they can stop before it turns red for fear of being punished? That is the wrong paradigm.
I'm not joking. The trick seems to be finding a way to improve your odds in the numbers game of marketing. Usually, it's by finding a way to get mentioned at the water cooler. It doesn't matter that if product you sell is indistinguishable from any of the competitors, what matters is that they remember yours.
Look what Jobs did with the Macbook line, even just the "Think different." tagline. Dodge seemed to have a winner with the "Hi." campaign. AFLAC's duck is a great way to help remember them. Volkswagen's "Das Auto" was pretty great. Wendy's "Where's the beef?" lady will probably never be forgotten.
John Deere has a variety of satellite-guided systems that can be implemented, and there are a few methods to monitor and program firmware over a wireless connection (I don't know the exact communications medium, it's not my field). Suggesting that there is 500+GB isn't unlikely, because I use CAN to interact with the hardware that we test, and a few seconds of reading a few variables can easily be 1MB.
Here's my quick number-crunching output: .0278GB / sec of data being recorded .0278GB/s = 28.4MB/s = 29127KB/s = 29826162 bytes / second .asc or .blf, etc, that breaks down to roughly 124000 things reporting every 100ms. My guess is that there are probably messages transmitted to the ground every minute or thirty seconds, or about 3MB per data burst.
500GB / 5 hours (estimate average flight including prep) = 100GB / hour
100GB / 60min / 60sec =
If it's anything like the CAN system here, they'll probably have 16 byte messages, depending on how it's subdivided. A lot of things report at 1000ms intervals, but more critical ones report at 100ms or faster.
29826162 byte / 24 byte / 10 ms =
Assuming they use 16 byte messages with 8 character message IDs logged to
I probably should have added a couple of notes about how the best people don't waste their time with certifications, because their previous experience exceeds the crap these certifications imply.
Make no mistake, I think this garbage is as useless to the IT world as used toilet paper is to a hungry man, but there are still short-sighted management units and HR drones that will only believe you know anything about magical black boxes if you have a piece of paper from someone else who says that you do.
In a nutshell, a certification is like a piece of paper that says "I can speak this language fluently.".
If you didn't know how to speak Hindi, but needed to do business in a remote part of India where Hindi is the dominant language, wouldn't it be nice if you could hire someone (local to you) with proof of their fluency?
The problem is that far too many HR departments and managers don't understand that demanding roughly half of these certifications from anyone who has spent even a year in IT would be akin to demanding a native English speaker have some kind of ESL training/certification.
Clearly, one of us has been able to decide that seeking income isn't our first goal when trying to find a job. Until this year, I've been unable to find employment that (consistently) pays even $10/hour, and I'm 30. Since I finished my first degree, the first thing I look at when seeking a better job is how much it will pay. To date, the best money I've made is delivering pizza, and it's not because I lack ability, intelligence, or willingness to work.
I have met many people in the last few years who went into consulting, and they all tout that it's great to finally get paid what their skills are worth. The hidden thing they never mention: people skills. Most of the engineers I know don't have people skills, at least, not with people outside their immediate work/social-sphere.
If you are competent, have people skills, _and_ you can sell (all of which are usually required for most consulting work), you're wasting your time in consulting, because you'll double your income (or better) in insurance. I don't see that field getting saturated with capable people for a long time.
I would argue that food scarcity isn't increasing, but our current situation comes from a variety of problems:
1- horrible resource management
2- no incentive to produce (US farm subsidies)
2a- edible food units converted (at a net loss) into non-edible fuels
2b- edible food units wasted to keep prices artificially high
2c- arable soils not used for production or even intentionally spoiled.
Why? Capitalism has resulted in atrocious abuses by short-sighted goons. I think we have seen a derivation of corporatism that will enrich a few at the expense of the many.
We need more entities that enact intelligent, long-term practices focused on the maximum profit over the company lifetime, not the maximum profit in the shortest time for the smallest number.
We can't assume a company will be good just because it's non-profit. If access is "limited", how much will it cost to become unlimited? If it's limited, someone is limiting it, and everyone has a price. Don't kid yourself.
Governments are supposed to be non-profit, and look what has happened throughout world history.
When it comes to governments, or any institution that has unrestricted access to all of the information about a population, no amount of suspicion is too much.