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January 4, 2014 at 7:21 PM in reply to: So what would you do with someone that keeps taking your newspaper? #769529
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ParticipantI think part of this is just due to society and America and simply because parent’s could. Some of the depression era parents or WW2 folks or America booming after WW2 because all of Europe’s manufacturing was bombed and destroyed made the 50s – 90s great for America. It’s the situation of the rest of the world and the parents living through a tougher time. Since the parents had it tough, the kids were sheltered and told they can do/have whatever because the parents could provide a more sheltered / safer life.
I honestly think a lot of this is REALLY out of everyone’s control actually. It’s sorta the luck of the draw of when you graduate, when you live, where you live, etc…
Like some of the kids graduating now, through no fault of their own, they will probably NEVER make more than say someone from 5-10 years ago simply because the economy isn’t as good and the guy 10 years ago is already established in a higher paying/better job than the new guy.
The Chinese/Indian kid works harder because they come from an environment where the competition is tougher/harder or their life is just harder that they don’t want to go back to that.
Sorta like if you play sports and everyone is simply better, you tend to be better too since that’s your training/competition.
The Chinese or Indian immigrant grew up from more humble tougher beginnings and simply wants it more than most native born American.
This pisses off a lot of non-immigrant asian people, but in a few years, these new people would be behind as well probably…however, the difference is that asian families tend to help their kids far more than the typical white person I think so the asians will still be buying up all the nice area homes etc since the parents will help them.
Overall, for most Americans, just based on where they were in standard of living before, inequality, tax laws and all the hands to feed, future prospects would probably be lower than say China which has improved probably the quality of life for more folks (totally guessing here)…assuming they were on a farm with no running water, etc…
Just boils down to how great things were already.
ParticipantThis is one of the benefits of paying your own way through college and understanding possibly at a younger age the value/cost of money/a degree…
People who got their way paid through college (me), don’t realize how much it costs and probably wasted more time/money then they realized (me as well) and probably didn’t focus as much. Maybe I was just immature and an idiot as well.
After graduating and working and taking/paying for further education, I was a lot more studious since I took it more seriously. Maybe I was just older/more mature…who knows.
Unfortunately, I think college now vs. 20+ years ago when I went is just too expensive for everyone to go and get that degree or college experience. It’s nice if you or your family can afford it, but I think most people would be better off just trying to code/start a business or what not at a younger age, especially if they were planning to major in something very hard to get a job in.
Of course, if you plan to pursue being a doctor/lawyer or anything else which requires a degree, then you’re out of luck really.
I suppose I sorta feel that having it easier as a youth made me “less” competitive as an adult.
One thing I do realize now is also that if you aren’t part of the old power/wealth/connections, etc…it’s also very hard to get far far ahead…
You can do “ok” as an engineer or what not, but as any asian male will tell you, you start to notice that asian male glass ceiling eventually…
ParticipantI had a foreign paypal charge recently…It really could have been anyone as your card is seen/sold so easily nowadays.
December 22, 2013 at 6:07 PM in reply to: The CHP and Hell Angels what do they have in common? #769346Participant[quote=CA renter]
That wasn’t the main issue in this case. Would an employee of a private company (not a govt contractor or a company under strict govt regulations) be under this kind of scrutiny? No, they would not.
[/quote]I don’t know why you are defending this so hard, but it’s pretty clear this debate/discussion just won’t make it through to you and you aren’t seeing the point.
I, and I don’t think MANY people really CARES or WANT the private company to go through the scrutiny of a government position. It’s just not needed FOR THE JOB. It DOESN’T MAKE THE GOVERNMENT job better or more stringent or tougher to get. They just have a DIFFERENT requirement!
In short the SCRUTINY isn’t to check anything skill based, but more so on specific job requirements for a government job. NOT BETTER. You call it more STRINGENT. I call it checking for different things.
Like maybe you can’t have embezzled money if you work in government finance. Maybe in the corporate world, they WANT people who know how to embezzle to minimize taxes or loopholes? Get it?
If some CEO who’s 50 and wants a different hooker who’s exactly 18 every single night, good for him…no skin off my back. A public position might be against this since it’s public and mom’s might not want to encourage girls or have this “public” guy behaving like this.
Public jobs serve the public…if you don’t like it, don’t do it and don’t go through the special checks. The checks aren’t special or “stringent”. They’re just different checks for different positions.
I used to work in HR as well in the pass and had to go through a “test” I was told to see if I could see fellow co-worker salary/stock options, etc…I passed I was told so did work in it, but using the word stringent like in all your examples is not the right word. They just wanted to make sure for that job, I had certain character or characteristics ok for that position. Stringent or more skilled isn’t the right term…
In the end, most people view “government” not as the most financially lucrative as top CEO/corporate jobs so I think MOST people feel private jobs are tougher and more stringent/skill based to get than public work…
Me included…You don’t see ANYONE in government making 5 billion in a day on a stock move (our friend Zuck)…
People LEAVE government to make the super bucks.
EVERYONE who is on the top billionaire’s money list is all companies they started. Not gov…
except maybe North Korea…
December 21, 2013 at 5:56 PM in reply to: The CHP and Hell Angels what do they have in common? #769336ParticipantThis whole discussion of public employees vs. private and hiring requirements is just missing the point that for a private enterprise and corporation, it is OK and known that their goal is to ONLY serve shareholders, employees and their customers. They don’t have to do shit for the public and if they want to dump toxic waste or hire criminals, they can certainly try to do that since the public doesn’t pay their salary.
For a public position in the government, ALL tax paying citizens PAY their salaries so the people or their elected representative should have a say in who is hired.
It’s not so much the government has more stringent hiring and employment standards, it’s just that they SERVE A DIFFERENT GOAL/PURPOSE is why they NEED different and not necessary stringent or better/higher standards. This whole discussion of “stringent/higher” is missing the point.
The government could just hire some joe shmo who is an idiot (quite a few politicians are), but if his job requires him to not have embezzled money from public sources, so be it and now (it’s perceived in this discussion that’s he was rated under a more stringent system just because the public doesn’t want someone who was a rapist or a sexual harasser (think Bob Filner). There are plenty of playboy execs who no on cares if they fool around or harass people as long as it’s not compromising the company.
For some wall street types, maybe that’s a benefit and job requirement to know how to screw people over.
Bottom line is that it’s a TOTALLY different environment purely because again, the government worker is PAID and serves the PUBLIC.
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]
If a general feeling of crisis takes hold, then we can descend into hell very quickly. Think New Orleans but much worse, spread out to a whole region the country. Even the police will be defending their own.I don’t know what the catastrophe might be, but it could be meteorite striking the earth, revolution by NRA, some biological attack, or whatever. It’s not that I believe that will happen in my lifetime, but if you have the money and can buy a farmhouse in someplace remote, fertile, beautiful, and enjoyable, then why not?[/quote]
The problem with the remote locations is that if it’s safe, fertile or has anything worth taking, someone or more likely, some group would come by and take it.
I watched a few episodes of that Doomsday Preppers show and you have quite a few people stocking up for the apocalypse…Some of these groups have 20-30 people they know, heavily HEAVILY armed with tons of guns/bullets and everyone is trained to use them. They also have their own fort, but if they need to move, they can move within 1 hour with tons of food and their buses, a few other cars.
It just seems if you are alone or in a small group, your best bet is to just lay low or hunker down if you can or out of sight. If you show anything worth taking, expect someone to take it.
So do a lot of people here have their emergency stuff? We’ve been stocking out evac bag and have some fuel, but nothing crazy…(too expensive and silly). No guns though due to kids.
ParticipantThe problem with any apocalyptic event is if you have kids, the small kids will be a huge liability to survive and would prevent you from moving around a lot or early due to school, another mouth to feed, etc…at least until they get to 8 or so and can pack their own gun…
December 17, 2013 at 6:48 PM in reply to: OT: I need to shave at least 4 seconds off my drive time…. #769202ParticipantWhen I used to auto-x, sometimes we’d share a car or a “better” driver would drive my car and you can get a sense of how much more time you can get from your vehicle…Again, tires make a world of difference and a lot of times, you can even tell when you car’s tires are losing grip. You notice it just pushes or you have to wait a lot more when the tires are old/hard/etc…before you can turn or recover.
If this other driver has suspension and tires, that’s really all you need as I mentioned in my earlier post. Car power is not that important on the auto-x vs. say a track or something. Like you don’t see Nissan GTRs do that well since the car is big/heavy.
This is why you see people go through the massive hassle of trailering tires on all manner of cars even the Miata to these events.
If I win lotto, I will be autocrossing again. 😉 Maybe with a flatbed and a truck!
ParticipantThe downside with some of the Poway schools is that a lot of them are full and there have been articles about it where someone lived across the street from the highly rated elementary school, but was forced to go to the much older (25 years) Adobe Bluff school…
Not that AB is a bad school, but walking to school vs. driving 30 minutes sucks. You’d think they will at least let you go to a mello roos school, but I didn’t read that from all the aticles.
Even if you pay upwards of 6-10k in mello roos does not guarantee you a spot in any particular school within the PUSD…just “some” PUSD school.
Del Sur has had a ton of new houses and is still building so that would be a concern. There is a new school being built, but my guess is it would be “full” too.
ParticipantI don’t have a problem with someone who finds a cure for cancer or some other disease if they became a billionaire. So many people are worth so much nowadays and since we need some money to survive, it’d be sad to see the father of the cure for cancer be on the street and broke…
More power to them if they can find the cure and they deserve the money since unfortunately, in society now, you need “some” money at least to live.
December 16, 2013 at 6:00 PM in reply to: OT: I need to shave at least 4 seconds off my drive time…. #769163ParticipantAren’t Porsches/M3s in a different class? I think it’s impossible to win the overall best time if your car isn’t fixed up as some of these heavily modified cars. A lot of cars you see at these things are not even street legal. Sometimes, you see these little go-karts that beat the best car time by like 10 seconds too.
ParticipantOn the panhandler, I’ve seen the same guy holding a sign saying his car broke down on different weeks. I give 0 to panhandlers…always.
December 15, 2013 at 5:42 PM in reply to: OT: I need to shave at least 4 seconds off my drive time…. #769131ParticipantHaving done this as well in the past, these are the 3 top things critical to winning…
1) Driver’s skill
2) Car’s Handling
3) Tires…Tires…Tires…Tires…
I suppose they have classes for street tires too, but most of the time, for autocrossing, car power isn’t important since there are limited straightaways.
I assume you do all the basic look ahead, memorize the track, run the correct lines etc.
Would help if you looked at the results and see what the other drivers are running.
Usually, you lose by fractions of a second. If you need 4 seconds, you need quite a bit of help! 🙂
ParticipantYeah, agree with flu here. If you’re only in a 1/1, it can’t be that hard to move. It IS a pain, but this is sorta where longer leases sorta helps the renter as well to keep rents from going up. I’d believe the landlord is probably correct on the rate other people are paying.
Unlike most of the renters, landlords, especially financial ones like this just look at the numbers and charge what works and what they can get away with. It’s not really that emotional for them, especially the corporate types IMO. I could be way off, but it doesn’t do them any good since the manager probably just “works” there.
If it’s a large complex and all the new people are paying 1400/month, maybe some other quality is forcing people to rent at your place like pets allowed, etc…
That said, I’ve just move. Also, another thing to consider is maybe the “nicer” place you’re seeing is from small time renters underpricing it to find the ultimate best tenant. Maybe out of 200 applicants, only 1 gets picked so hardly anyone really gets that price.
So glad we bought back in 09. Just saw one of those realtor flyers showing sold homes for near 150k from what we paid! Crazy.
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