In other words, a "warning" means it's pretty darn likely the thing is coming. Having lived in the northern U.S. for many years, I can think of a few times that a "warning" didn't really pan out, but not very many.
I use to live in the north, now I live in the south. It's different here.
I can't speak to this specific warning, but meteorologists in the south have a comically difficult time forecasting winter precipitation type. Up north, if it's winter and there's probable precip, it's going to be snow. In the south, our winter temperatures typically hover between 30-35 degrees, so even if precip is highly probable, it's really, really difficult to forecast if it's going to be snow, ice, or rain because very small changes in temperature can foul up the entire forecast. Forecasts get busted here routinely.
I'd be interested to see what percentage of NWS snow warnings wind up being busts in Georgia. Something tells me that the percentage is higher than what you experience up north. Those warnings probably sound more like cries of wolf in Atlanta.
Mutually exclusive arguments. I can like living in a city and not agree with the hiring practices of the companies.
I agree. I never meant to tie one to the other. I was just spouting off at random.
All I was trying to say with that was that if you told me that I could have a job in Detroit proper or NYC proper, I wouldn't even give one tenth of one hoot what the job was. I'd choose NYC every day of the week, and twice on Sunday.
When speaking to people who are not from Michigan, why waste my time by saying "I live in Farmington Hillls" to then further qualify with "It's a city near Detroit" ?
I recommend that you say you're from the Detroit metro area, in that case. Most Americans understand the concept of "suburbs".
The fact that Snyder is calling for this specifically in Detroit is just dumb. None of the companies that I have been looking at have offices in the city proper. I guess that is why they had to qualify this with "work and live". Are they going to force companies to open in Detroit then? Stupid.
Well, I won't argue with your opinion on that, but the goal of the program seems to get people to live and work inside of Detroit proper, in an effort to revitalize the city. The suburbs don't need revitalization as they didn't spend decades as a squalid war zone.
When was the last time the Jews feel like they are the "mainstream" anywhere but in Israel ?
This hasn't really been my experience. I don't feel like an outsider in the US due to being Jewish. If anything, I find that Jewish people have an instinct to try to blend in as much as possible, because being outwardly identifiable as Jewish hasn't turned out so well for us in the past.
Oh, this is just silly. Americans know all about Sweden. We love your bikini team, by the way! Haven't heard much from them in a while, though. Are they OK?
In fairness, there could have been a bit of a language/accent barrier involved there. I've never heard an American fail to recognize that Europe is outside of the US, but I guess anything's possible.
My wife had a total of 8 years of French and spent a semester in Paris. She hasn't used it yet and is no longer very fluent. As for applied knowledge, her spreadsheet skills are good, but she trips up on logic and conditionals.
Exactly. Foreign language is not equivalent to computer programming. That's why Kentucky shouldn't permit students to substitute computer programming for foreign language requirements.
Why is there a foreign language requirement anyway?
To exercise that portion of your brain. To gain a better understanding of English grammar by learning the grammar system of another language. To give you a way to communicate with people who don't speak English. To broaden students' minds to the world outside of Kentucky (foreign language courses teach culture, too).
This stuff's important and should be required. It's more important than learning programming, which frankly, is not difficult to learn.
The 3 years of French I took in high school have long been flushed from memory. Without active use, it's a waste of time. Most Americans never leave the country... and the US is so big and diverse that many feel there is no need.
I don't see how this is relevant.
It doesn't matter if the foreign language learning is of little practical use (plenty of people learn Latin). That's beside the point.
Learning a foreign language and computer programming are totally different disciplines and require different types of learning. One is not equivalent to the other, and both are important.
I grew up in what most people would call Detroit. More specifically, in the Detroit metropolitan area.
Speaking as someone who has never lived in Michigan, I do not think of Farmington Hills when someone says "Detroit". When someone says "Detroit", I think of Detroit, the city. If they say Detroit metro area, that means something completely different to me.
Also, I didn't read from the article that it was about attracting people to work outside the city limits. My reading was that it was for Detroit proper, to help in the city's redevelopment.
Many of open positions are looking for people that have had automotive experience before, which I don't have.
I know that you have zero control over this, but I thought I'd give my unsolicited opinion on it anyway. As someone who has worked in several different industries, I think that requiring specific industry experience is stupid. Especially if you're trying to convince people that Detroit is an acceptable city to live in, as compared with NoCal, NYC, DC, etc.
How are you going to convince someone with an advanced degree to settle in effing Detroit? They are going to want to escape the poverty of the third world!
The problem facing Detroit is not a lack of people with advanced degrees. The problem is decades of life under a corrupt mayor, high crime, crushing taxes, over-regulation, and shitty weather.
The situation is improving a lot lately, but it has a long way to go. You can't solve this overnight by issuing a bunch of visas. Detroit needs to get serious about redevelopment, crime prevention, and attracting business. Once there are good jobs there, you'll have plenty of Americans with advanced degrees going there. I don't have to remind you that we're in the midst of a "jobless recovery".
All of these things are happening already. It's just a slow process to undo decades of mismanagement.
There are cases where a person was charged with paternity, proven he wasn't the father and still shackled with child support. Why? Because he spent time with the mother and the child
Wait. You mean to tell me that if a man spends time with a single mom and her kid, that that man becomes the kid's father?
Something sounds a little off there. If that were the case, my kid's math tutor would qualify. If he had a math tutor, anyway.
Yeah, but that would mean that Kansas would have to admit that lesbians are people with equal rights and responsibilities. Not likely.
I think that the State of Kansas would assert that lesbians in the state have the same rights as straight women in the State of Kansas to marry opposite-sex partners. Some people might not be satisfied with that, but that's a separate issue.
Reading the comments, there were a couple of issues at play here.
First, there was the sperm donor contract, which was drafted by the individuals. Apparently, the two contracts differed, so the judge set aside the contract.
Once the contract was set aside, the child is considered to be the responsibility of the mother and her spouse. But the mother and her partner were unmarried (and wouldn't have been permitted to marry, as same-sex marriage is not recognized by the State of Kansas).
Since the mother is unmarried, the biological father is then recognized as the second parent responsible for the child, and that is how the court ruled.
As the 6'3" black guy with should length dreadlocs and a beard, I would respectfully disagree. I'm sitting here in a comfortable network engineer position that I worked hard to get.
Half of the network administration team at my current client is black. I guess our anecdotes just canceled each other out, hmm?
CFLs suck because CFLs suck. Incandescents and LEDs are irrelevant to CFLs' suckitude.
CFLs suck because they lie about how long they last, they emit unpleasant light, they are noisy, and confusing. Confusing? Yes. Can I put this bulb in a dimmer? How about outside? Or in a fixture? And can I throw them out with the trash, or put them in my household recycling? Or do they need special recycling?
Seriously. Fuck CFLs. They were a bad idea, and will be relegated to the trash heap of history. They are the 8-track tapes of our time.
I once tried to get a bulb replaced that died after like 6 months and they wanted an original register receipt, as though anyone saves every stupid register receipt and can find it. I tried explaining that the receipt is not needed to prove that the bulb didn't last 10 years because the company's name is stamped on the damn bulb, and they haven't been selling them for 10 years, so clearly the bulb did not last 10 years. No luck.
I hate CFLs. They can all die in a fire. Give me LEDs in like 2 years after they iron out the remaining kinks.
Coincidentally, most financial experts will tell you that having about 25-35% of your income as discretionary is the ideal case: Less and you can't really save any money for retirement, etc.
I think you captured the essence of the argument right here. What you're saying is that a $95k/yr salary is roughly the minimum in order to maintain a financially-prudent household. One that is able to sustain itself and even weather a storm or two. In other words, you've basically made it.
There is a huge comfort. A huge luxury to be able to live free of serious financial worry. I hope that you share this comfort, and I hope that you never have to learn the enormity of that comfort firsthand*. I'm not talking about having unlimited funds here--just knowing that a life event isn't going to turn your circumstances dire. If you aren't set up that way, then you really are at risk of an illness or job loss or something causing a huge turmoil. Like needing to move, going bankrupt, etc.
So, yeah, I get that $95k is not going to give you the life of a king in a high cost of living area, but it does afford a huge benefit of being financially secure.
* I learned how important it was when my wife fell ill with cancer and required expensive medical treatments and was unable to work during her 2-year fight with the disease. Her illness and grave prognosis were stressful, of course, but there was absolutely no financial pressure. Her disability insurance policy kicked in and her medical insurance policy is pretty decent and we just covered a lot, too (like travels to see the top specialists in her disease--seems health insurance doesn't cover that). We had our 6 months' expenses in cash, which we used a little bit, but not much. Our savings during that time were curtailed quite a bit, but for the most part, this was a financial nonevent. We just initiated our contingency plans, and they worked just fine.
Luckily, she was able to concentrate full time on the cancer fighting, and she is now in remission and back at work. Had there been financial pressure, risk of losing the house or something, I'm not sure how that would have went.
Cowards? I dare any pedestrian to step in front of one of our county transit buses. Those people have the balls of the Tienanmen Square tank guy.
Honestly, I doubt that. 'Round these parts, any contact between a pedestrian and a city bus is automatically the driver's fault, and that usually ends the driver's career.
True, but there is a girls' club. They operate right out in the open, too. Imagine if someone wanted to start a Society of Men Engineers or an Association for Men in Computing. Yeah, that'd get shut down in about 37 seconds. But I guess it's OK for women to give each other favors because they're oppressed.
I believe them that space was the problem in Hong Kong. Expensive real estate there. My understanding is that the Chinese government does not meddle too much in the affairs of Hong Kong like they do on the Mainland.
That being said, I have a client that is trying to do business in China, and I can confirm that the Chinese government is a total pain in the ass about this. I'm not involved in the details, but basically, you need an e-commerce license that is insanely expensive to sell anything in the Chinese market, and it just wasn't worth it to them. The client has a presence in every other Southeast Asian country.
I imagine that the situation for Google is different, but anyway, I just thought I'd share for no reason since it's irrelevant to Hong Kong.
I think a stern warning or a ticket makes more sense.
If I understood correctly, the officer did give the Leaf owner a stern warning, and the Leaf owner responded by throwing a tantrum.
I support the guy's first amendment rights to throw a tantrum, but as a practical matter, throwing a tantrum at a cop really increases your odds of getting arrested.
Most healthcare consumption is nonemergency. Even the life-threatening kind.
My wife had a very aggressive form of cancer that would have killed her, but not in, say, a week or something. We put a lot of time and effort into researching the best doctors for her disease.
Unless you've just been in a car wreck or something, there's usually time to shop around based on your priorities.
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In other words, a "warning" means it's pretty darn likely the thing is coming. Having lived in the northern U.S. for many years, I can think of a few times that a "warning" didn't really pan out, but not very many.
I use to live in the north, now I live in the south. It's different here.
I can't speak to this specific warning, but meteorologists in the south have a comically difficult time forecasting winter precipitation type. Up north, if it's winter and there's probable precip, it's going to be snow. In the south, our winter temperatures typically hover between 30-35 degrees, so even if precip is highly probable, it's really, really difficult to forecast if it's going to be snow, ice, or rain because very small changes in temperature can foul up the entire forecast. Forecasts get busted here routinely.
I'd be interested to see what percentage of NWS snow warnings wind up being busts in Georgia. Something tells me that the percentage is higher than what you experience up north. Those warnings probably sound more like cries of wolf in Atlanta.
Mutually exclusive arguments. I can like living in a city and not agree with the hiring practices of the companies.
I agree. I never meant to tie one to the other. I was just spouting off at random.
All I was trying to say with that was that if you told me that I could have a job in Detroit proper or NYC proper, I wouldn't even give one tenth of one hoot what the job was. I'd choose NYC every day of the week, and twice on Sunday.
When speaking to people who are not from Michigan, why waste my time by saying "I live in Farmington Hillls" to then further qualify with "It's a city near Detroit" ?
I recommend that you say you're from the Detroit metro area, in that case. Most Americans understand the concept of "suburbs".
The fact that Snyder is calling for this specifically in Detroit is just dumb. None of the companies that I have been looking at have offices in the city proper. I guess that is why they had to qualify this with "work and live". Are they going to force companies to open in Detroit then? Stupid.
Well, I won't argue with your opinion on that, but the goal of the program seems to get people to live and work inside of Detroit proper, in an effort to revitalize the city. The suburbs don't need revitalization as they didn't spend decades as a squalid war zone.
When was the last time the Jews feel like they are the "mainstream" anywhere but in Israel ?
This hasn't really been my experience. I don't feel like an outsider in the US due to being Jewish. If anything, I find that Jewish people have an instinct to try to blend in as much as possible, because being outwardly identifiable as Jewish hasn't turned out so well for us in the past.
Oh, this is just silly. Americans know all about Sweden. We love your bikini team, by the way! Haven't heard much from them in a while, though. Are they OK?
There are a lot of exceptions in German grammar, and frankly, I hate languages with gendered nouns.
The supplier asked where Europe was in the US.
In fairness, there could have been a bit of a language/accent barrier involved there. I've never heard an American fail to recognize that Europe is outside of the US, but I guess anything's possible.
My wife had a total of 8 years of French and spent a semester in Paris. She hasn't used it yet and is no longer very fluent. As for applied knowledge, her spreadsheet skills are good, but she trips up on logic and conditionals.
Exactly. Foreign language is not equivalent to computer programming. That's why Kentucky shouldn't permit students to substitute computer programming for foreign language requirements.
Why is there a foreign language requirement anyway?
To exercise that portion of your brain. To gain a better understanding of English grammar by learning the grammar system of another language. To give you a way to communicate with people who don't speak English. To broaden students' minds to the world outside of Kentucky (foreign language courses teach culture, too).
This stuff's important and should be required. It's more important than learning programming, which frankly, is not difficult to learn.
The 3 years of French I took in high school have long been flushed from memory. Without active use, it's a waste of time. Most Americans never leave the country... and the US is so big and diverse that many feel there is no need.
I don't see how this is relevant.
It doesn't matter if the foreign language learning is of little practical use (plenty of people learn Latin). That's beside the point.
Learning a foreign language and computer programming are totally different disciplines and require different types of learning. One is not equivalent to the other, and both are important.
I grew up in what most people would call Detroit. More specifically, in the Detroit metropolitan area.
Speaking as someone who has never lived in Michigan, I do not think of Farmington Hills when someone says "Detroit". When someone says "Detroit", I think of Detroit, the city. If they say Detroit metro area, that means something completely different to me.
Also, I didn't read from the article that it was about attracting people to work outside the city limits. My reading was that it was for Detroit proper, to help in the city's redevelopment.
Many of open positions are looking for people that have had automotive experience before, which I don't have.
I know that you have zero control over this, but I thought I'd give my unsolicited opinion on it anyway. As someone who has worked in several different industries, I think that requiring specific industry experience is stupid. Especially if you're trying to convince people that Detroit is an acceptable city to live in, as compared with NoCal, NYC, DC, etc.
How are you going to convince someone with an advanced degree to settle in effing Detroit? They are going to want to escape the poverty of the third world!
The problem facing Detroit is not a lack of people with advanced degrees. The problem is decades of life under a corrupt mayor, high crime, crushing taxes, over-regulation, and shitty weather.
The situation is improving a lot lately, but it has a long way to go. You can't solve this overnight by issuing a bunch of visas. Detroit needs to get serious about redevelopment, crime prevention, and attracting business. Once there are good jobs there, you'll have plenty of Americans with advanced degrees going there. I don't have to remind you that we're in the midst of a "jobless recovery".
All of these things are happening already. It's just a slow process to undo decades of mismanagement.
There are cases where a person was charged with paternity, proven he wasn't the father and still shackled with child support. Why? Because he spent time with the mother and the child
Wait. You mean to tell me that if a man spends time with a single mom and her kid, that that man becomes the kid's father?
Something sounds a little off there. If that were the case, my kid's math tutor would qualify. If he had a math tutor, anyway.
Darkness wouldn't fix that she wasn't into it, even if it hid her lumber dyke appearance.
Maybe she's bisexual.
Yeah, but that would mean that Kansas would have to admit that lesbians are people with equal rights and responsibilities. Not likely.
I think that the State of Kansas would assert that lesbians in the state have the same rights as straight women in the State of Kansas to marry opposite-sex partners. Some people might not be satisfied with that, but that's a separate issue.
Reading the comments, there were a couple of issues at play here.
First, there was the sperm donor contract, which was drafted by the individuals. Apparently, the two contracts differed, so the judge set aside the contract.
Once the contract was set aside, the child is considered to be the responsibility of the mother and her spouse. But the mother and her partner were unmarried (and wouldn't have been permitted to marry, as same-sex marriage is not recognized by the State of Kansas).
Since the mother is unmarried, the biological father is then recognized as the second parent responsible for the child, and that is how the court ruled.
As the 6'3" black guy with should length dreadlocs and a beard, I would respectfully disagree. I'm sitting here in a comfortable network engineer position that I worked hard to get.
Half of the network administration team at my current client is black. I guess our anecdotes just canceled each other out, hmm?
Any particular reason to spend $70 on LEDs? I thought you could get decent LEDs for under $15 or so now.
CFLs suck because CFLs suck. Incandescents and LEDs are irrelevant to CFLs' suckitude.
CFLs suck because they lie about how long they last, they emit unpleasant light, they are noisy, and confusing. Confusing? Yes. Can I put this bulb in a dimmer? How about outside? Or in a fixture? And can I throw them out with the trash, or put them in my household recycling? Or do they need special recycling?
Seriously. Fuck CFLs. They were a bad idea, and will be relegated to the trash heap of history. They are the 8-track tapes of our time.
CFL side repeatedly tells the truth
What a load of shit.
"This bulb will last you 10 years, guaranteed."
I once tried to get a bulb replaced that died after like 6 months and they wanted an original register receipt, as though anyone saves every stupid register receipt and can find it. I tried explaining that the receipt is not needed to prove that the bulb didn't last 10 years because the company's name is stamped on the damn bulb, and they haven't been selling them for 10 years, so clearly the bulb did not last 10 years. No luck.
I hate CFLs. They can all die in a fire. Give me LEDs in like 2 years after they iron out the remaining kinks.
Coincidentally, most financial experts will tell you that having about 25-35% of your income as discretionary is the ideal case: Less and you can't really save any money for retirement, etc.
I think you captured the essence of the argument right here. What you're saying is that a $95k/yr salary is roughly the minimum in order to maintain a financially-prudent household. One that is able to sustain itself and even weather a storm or two. In other words, you've basically made it.
There is a huge comfort. A huge luxury to be able to live free of serious financial worry. I hope that you share this comfort, and I hope that you never have to learn the enormity of that comfort firsthand*. I'm not talking about having unlimited funds here--just knowing that a life event isn't going to turn your circumstances dire. If you aren't set up that way, then you really are at risk of an illness or job loss or something causing a huge turmoil. Like needing to move, going bankrupt, etc.
So, yeah, I get that $95k is not going to give you the life of a king in a high cost of living area, but it does afford a huge benefit of being financially secure.
* I learned how important it was when my wife fell ill with cancer and required expensive medical treatments and was unable to work during her 2-year fight with the disease. Her illness and grave prognosis were stressful, of course, but there was absolutely no financial pressure. Her disability insurance policy kicked in and her medical insurance policy is pretty decent and we just covered a lot, too (like travels to see the top specialists in her disease--seems health insurance doesn't cover that). We had our 6 months' expenses in cash, which we used a little bit, but not much. Our savings during that time were curtailed quite a bit, but for the most part, this was a financial nonevent. We just initiated our contingency plans, and they worked just fine.
Luckily, she was able to concentrate full time on the cancer fighting, and she is now in remission and back at work. Had there been financial pressure, risk of losing the house or something, I'm not sure how that would have went.
Cowards? I dare any pedestrian to step in front of one of our county transit buses. Those people have the balls of the Tienanmen Square tank guy.
Honestly, I doubt that. 'Round these parts, any contact between a pedestrian and a city bus is automatically the driver's fault, and that usually ends the driver's career.
There is no "boys' club."
True, but there is a girls' club. They operate right out in the open, too. Imagine if someone wanted to start a Society of Men Engineers or an Association for Men in Computing. Yeah, that'd get shut down in about 37 seconds. But I guess it's OK for women to give each other favors because they're oppressed.
It's exactly the sort of shallow, adolescant caricature of feminist thought that should offend feminists.
Actually, I find it to be a great example of how radical feminists sound to regular people who just believe in equality.
I believe them that space was the problem in Hong Kong. Expensive real estate there. My understanding is that the Chinese government does not meddle too much in the affairs of Hong Kong like they do on the Mainland.
That being said, I have a client that is trying to do business in China, and I can confirm that the Chinese government is a total pain in the ass about this. I'm not involved in the details, but basically, you need an e-commerce license that is insanely expensive to sell anything in the Chinese market, and it just wasn't worth it to them. The client has a presence in every other Southeast Asian country.
I imagine that the situation for Google is different, but anyway, I just thought I'd share for no reason since it's irrelevant to Hong Kong.
I think a stern warning or a ticket makes more sense.
If I understood correctly, the officer did give the Leaf owner a stern warning, and the Leaf owner responded by throwing a tantrum.
I support the guy's first amendment rights to throw a tantrum, but as a practical matter, throwing a tantrum at a cop really increases your odds of getting arrested.
Most healthcare consumption is nonemergency. Even the life-threatening kind.
My wife had a very aggressive form of cancer that would have killed her, but not in, say, a week or something. We put a lot of time and effort into researching the best doctors for her disease.
Unless you've just been in a car wreck or something, there's usually time to shop around based on your priorities.