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October 20, 2013 at 8:26 AM in reply to: Any of you doing anything to your money market accounts just in case of a default? #767091
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Participant[quote=flu][quote=CDMA ENG]SDDuuuude and me took our respective wives to Searsucker last night…
The cougar crowd looking for men of means was quite entertaining…
CE[/quote]
How was the food? I heard mixed reviews…
You’ve been to Snooze yet?[/quote]
Well… We did a little of the Tappas thing…
Couple of shared appetizers then on to sharing a entree with our wives.
Appetizers were good. 8 out of 10… Duuuude had the Ono which is cooked purposely dry, the waiter told us this was the way it was supposed to be, and I think he would have given it a seven. I had the scallops, perfectly cooked, very nice tasting… 8 out of 10.
For a shi shi place I would say its right on par with what you would expect. Good… Not great… and a bit pricy…
If you are a “fruity-sweet” drink type then the alcohol menu may be worth trying alone.
I was all sugared out by the time we got there, as I had made some limoncello for Duuuude, and we had mix drinks at his house but they had some really interesting drinks on the menu that I had never heard of. My wife had this drink which I think had whiskey in it but it tasted like an cinnamon apple pie… Quite tasty. The also have a lot of alchol infused fruit. So worth a try there for the drinks.
It’s quite loud there so a bit of a “club” feel to it.
Haven’t even heard of Snooze so no… but now I’ll add it to my list.
If your a Carmel Valley type… I would highly recommend Trattria Ponte Vecchio. Small privately owned restruante. Chef is from Napoli… Ammmmazzzing italian food. Best gnocchi I have ever had though last time I ordered it wasn’t his… Must have ran out that night and served “store bought”. Make reservations… they are tiny and sometimes overbook. My only compliant is that they sometimes overbook and the kitchen gets slow…
No cougar crowd either…
And I really wasn’t kidding about the cougar / digger crowd… It was fierce… More than what you see at Del-Mar…
CE
ParticipantSDDuuuude and me took our respective wives to Searsucker last night…
The cougar crowd looking for men of means was quite entertaining…
CE
October 18, 2013 at 10:05 PM in reply to: OT: Justice for Alexian Lien: victim of mob beating… #767077ParticipantThe boys on Riker Isle will have fun with this d-bag cop…
I think Karma will work itself out on this one…
CE
Participant[quote=no_such_reality][quote=CDMA ENG]
A lot. No one assumes a “George Jetson” future where a machine does one hundered percent of the work. It has been explained, multiple times, why there is will a huge reduction in need for physical, and some intellectual, labor.[/quote]I think a lot of intellectual jobs, such as Software Developers, are beginning the winter of their discontent and looking at a future that manufacturing was looking at starting in the late 1970s.
One last attempt at prospective. We’ve talked oil, there’s a boatload of good paying jobs in the Dakota oil fields.
Since 2007, the Bakken Oil Formation counties have experienced explosive growth and current have 3% unemployment. Impressive, be flexible. Go where the jobs are.
Now reality. From 2007-2011, all industries in those counties added 27,954 jobs. Twenty seven thousand jobs. Overall North Dakota employment grew about 30,000 jobs since 2007. A part of the Bakken Formation is in Montana but Montana has actually lost employment since 2007 in spite of oil field work.
Why is that important? Perspective. San Diego City has 56,160 people currently unemployed looking for work. A little over twice ALL the jobs created with the oil boom in the Bakken Field.
San Diego county, has 125,860 people unemployed and looking for work. That 4.5X all the jobs, across industries created in the Bakken field boom.
Finally, in that same time period, San Diego City grew a net 40,000 people.[/quote]
Concur with the software developer remark… and would even expand that to engineering in general. I have tools now that made things that it would take me days to do mere hours…
We are all headed towards obscelences… Just some more quickly than others…
I would say “F” it and become a wine maker but more and more that is even automated… Including Napa..
CE
Participant[quote=bearishgurl][quote=CDMA ENG]I think everyone here, with a rare few, understands the problem.
As the reduction of labor, and by extension people, continues due to automation, and other such things, it makes me wonder what will be the drivers for population reduction.
Also the boomers dying off will do nothing for us…
It is well known that:
Gen Y Population >> Gen X & Boomers Populations
And reduction is the key issue here for a greater disturbution of wealth, education, and social well-being…
SDDuuuude once showed me a study showing that most likely it would be the price of resources.
China is trying to be proactive with a “One Child Policy”.
MISH thinks it will be war…
One could argue that it would probably be a combination of the first and the third but either way the demand for physical… and intellectual labor (though disportantionly physical) is disappearing and unless something is address proactively then the third option is mostly likely…
Fortunately we, as a country, are very good at the third… that does not mean I condone it.
CE[/quote]
Are the rest of the US all of a sudden going to stop needing the food and gas and oil that the country’s midsection produces … all with PHYSICAL LABOR jobs??
What about gradually? I don’t think it will be uncommon that new gas-powered vehicles will still be running 30 years from now. And they are STILL being manufactured today. And will the rest of the country’s residents have no need for the meat, dairy, grain and produce (grown in flyover America) in the coming decades?
I understand automation is used successfully in factories but humans are still needed to supervise it. Gen X/Y have been leaving family farms to attend college elsewhere for decades … and perhaps never returning. How will this change?
Sorry, but I just don’t see Americans surviving on MREs and seaweed briquettes in any of our lifetimes. I see Gen Y getting living-wage jobs, partly due to massive boomer retirements from here on out. That is, those Gen Y who are serious about majoring in an employable field and willing to relocate, if necessary.
Am I missing something??[/quote]
A lot. No one assumes a “George Jetson” future where a machine does one hundered percent of the work. It has been explained, multiple times, why there is will a huge reduction in need for physical, and some intellectual, labor.
If you continue to miss the point, especially after some excellent examples have been presented, it is your doing.
Again… Everyone, except for a few, accepts the idea…
For a moment let’s turn to you arguement about retiring Boomers…
Gen Y Population >> Gen X Population…
So this not being a 1 to 1 factor doesn’t really pan out in favor of labor (physical or intellectual).
We should move well past this arguement as it is not even an arguement, at this point, but turn our attention on how, as NSR put it “Change the world funadmentally” without ripping ourselves apart globally, nationally, locally, tribally, and so forth.
There are millions in China without real wage jobs… You only need to look at China… It will be only a matter of time before something radical happens there. They will be the crystal ball for other modern societies.
You can you continue your denial… Mostly likely you will be dead and I will be out of the work force and dying myself when the magnitude of this problem comes to bear… so no sweat there…
Hopefully we have recognized this and dealt with the problem before it becomes too late and the third option is rendered.
I do not see an apopyloptic future, as you state, where we are eating MREs and Seaweed biscuits.
To be quite frank I see us more like Mexico or Central America… Where the rich are abudcted daily and the rule of law is anything but…
“Ignorance frequently begets confidence more then confidence does…” Charlie “D”
CE
ParticipantI think everyone here, with a rare few, understands the problem.
As the reduction of labor, and by extension people, continues due to automation, and other such things, it makes me wonder what will be the drivers for population reduction.
And reduction is the key issue here for a greater disturbution of wealth, education, and social well-being…
SDDuuuude once showed me a study showing that most likely it would be the price of resources.
China is trying to be proactive with a “One Child Policy”.
MISH thinks it will be war…
One could argue that it would probably be a combination of the first and the third but either way the demand for physical… and intellectual labor (though disportantionly physical) is disappearing and unless something is address proactively then the third option is mostly likely…
Fortunately we, as a country, are very good at the third… that does not mean I condone it.
CE
October 17, 2013 at 9:59 PM in reply to: What do all candidates to be the next chairman of the Fed have in common? #767016Participant[quote=6packscaredy]WWJD?[/quote]
I am buying a t-shirt that says that though the J stands for Jose…
As in Jose Mourniho… The Coach of Chelsea FC…
I look to him for divine inspiration.
CE
Participant[quote=no_such_reality]The world fundamentally needs to change. Automation is, and will continue, to largely make 90% of the population irrelevant from a labor standpoint.
The vast majority of the population, not only don’t have the education, they don’t have the family dynamic, they don’t have nutrition, they don’t have the raw life enrichment experiences necessary to develop the raw mental horsepower needed to be part of the creative class.
The question is how will we get over the hump before we rip ourselves apart.[/quote]
+1
CE
October 14, 2013 at 3:27 PM in reply to: Any of you doing anything to your money market accounts just in case of a default? #766909ParticipantThanks FLU…
Participant[quote=Jazzman][quote=bearishgurl][quote=Jazzman]Dear Eve39
[snip]
Firstly, and belatedly welcome to San Diego (from San Diegan’s (I don’t live there)) and au revoir if you have already left (that’s OK, I left too). This is my assumption since you haven’t responded.
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Yours sincerely,
Jazzman
(Also not from around here)[/quote]
@Jazzman, of course Eve could help us out here if she checks back in but I think you might possibly have the wrong saluation. Try “Vis es: snart.”In my experience, most of the European residents residing in Pt Loma are Swedes :)[/quote]
An American, a Finn and a Swede are in the sauna together. Suddenly there is a “beep beep” sound, and the American starts to look at the palm of his hand.
“What are you doing?” asks the Finn.
The American replies: “This is the latest Apple technology. I’ve got my pager embedded in the palm of my hand, so I don’t have to carry it around any more.”
Then the familiar old Nokia ring tone is heard, and the Finn starts looking at the palm of his hand.
“What are you doing?” ask the other guys.
The Finn replies: “This is the latest Nokia technology. I’ve got my mobile phone embedded in the palm of my hand, so I don’t have to carry it around any more.”
The Swede thinks to himself that he’d better not be outdone by these guys, so he leaves the sauna. In a couple of minutes he returns, and there is toilet paper hanging out of his bum!
“What the hell is that??” shout the other guys in unison.
“I’m getting a fax.” says the Swede.[/quote]
+1
Best telecom joke yet…
CE
October 12, 2013 at 6:33 PM in reply to: Any of you doing anything to your money market accounts just in case of a default? #766806Participant[quote=earlyretirement]I don’t keep large amounts in MM’s due to the no FDIC protection but you can easily keep large sums in your Checking or Savings accounts with FDIC protection. Just add on POD beneficiaries to boost the protection beyond the $250,000 limits.[/quote]
I am not getting the POD strategy. Can you please expand on past the beneficary part or is that the whole point?
CE
October 12, 2013 at 8:22 AM in reply to: OT: Super Trendy Dude! Helmet Law for Walking/Nanny State #766786Participant[quote=all]You could not just do +2 in one post?[/quote]
Lol. Incomptent tablet operator…
CE
October 11, 2013 at 9:58 PM in reply to: OT: Super Trendy Dude! Helmet Law for Walking/Nanny State #766779Participant[quote=ocrenter]So the premise is to hire people to go out and collect signature for a fake initiative to force people to wear helmets while walking.
Most of the people just don’t even care, probably signing just so they can leave without saying no. I think this is a good study to show that if you are able to fund enough people to stand on a corner collecting signatures, you can pretty much collect enough signatures for anything.
It’s almost identical to the video from Jimmy Kimmel on Obamacare vs ACA. The majority of the public are misinformed or not informed. And as long as someone with an agenda has enough money, they can use propaganda to alter public perception.
http://youtu.be/sx2scvIFGjE%5B/quote%5D
+1
Agreed.
October 11, 2013 at 9:57 PM in reply to: OT: Super Trendy Dude! Helmet Law for Walking/Nanny State #766778Participant[quote=ocrenter]So the premise is to hire people to go out and collect signature for a fake initiative to force people to wear helmets while walking.
Most of the people just don’t even care, probably signing just so they can leave without saying no. I think this is a good study to show that if you are able to fund enough people to stand on a corner collecting signatures, you can pretty much collect enough signatures for anything.
It’s almost identical to the video from Jimmy Kimmel on Obamacare vs ACA. The majority of the public are misinformed or not informed. And as long as someone with an agenda has enough money, they can use propaganda to alter public perception.
http://youtu.be/sx2scvIFGjE%5B/quote%5D
+1
Agreed.
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