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December 28, 2014 at 7:47 AM in reply to: What are you planning to do in terms of asset allocation for 2015? #781461December 27, 2014 at 7:09 PM in reply to: What are you planning to do in terms of asset allocation for 2015? #781454
no_such_reality
ParticipantInvestment strategy 2015
1. Focus on my health. Goal 10% weight reduction thru proper eating
2. Premium annual passes to Disneyland for the family with a suitable set aside of dollar for the vists (child is still preschool). Our average visit is 13000 Steps so is a good blend of family tim end light continual activity
3. Big oil
4. My professional network
5. domestic and global large firms
6. Gold&Silver now if I could just figure out if it will crater or rocket. But it will probbly sit in a trading range.Hunting a new rental is too time consuming and the deals are pretty lean in OC now.
December 23, 2014 at 10:35 PM in reply to: Interesting commentary on the Vegas economy (paging FlyerInHI) #781326Participant[quote=deadzone][quote=FlyerInHi][quote=deadzone]
You believe, without any evidence, that somehow society is better (whatever that means) if everybody had a college degree. This is baseless nonsense.
[/quote]Is it nonsense to say that near universal high school education has made us a better society?
Why can’t we raise the bar and aim for college for everyone? At least everyone who wants a college education should have access.
I don’t necessarily condone how education is financed, but in principle, a college education is better than none.[/quote]
Okay, so ditch diggers need College education too, by your logic.
I’ll assume you are either joking, or have just no clue how the real world operates.[/quote]
A ditch digger that understands basic finance, compound interest and time value of money, along with the reading comprehension skills and mastery of English and critical thinking skills to evaluate political ads at more than a sound bite level probably is more desirable.
I’ll even give the benefit to say the same goes for the social sciences in increasing basic societal understanding assisting in establishing a more harmonious society allowing all to flourish.
If education increases the knowledge level of individuals and their ability to interact and improve upon their and society’s situation then yes. But if the degree pursuit is about fulfilling bureaucratic red tape requirements, then much like technical certifications, they are pretty meaningless.
And the difference between the top and above is self evident in our current education complex IMHO
December 23, 2014 at 7:09 AM in reply to: Interesting commentary on the Vegas economy (paging FlyerInHI) #781299Participant[quote=CA renter]
Liberal Arts subjects were meant to teach people how to think, but we know how those degrees are viewed today.[/quote]Keep in mind by the 1940s half the population had no more than an 8th grade education. A mere 6% had college degrees.
A liberal arts education was far more valuable, as a were the STEM degrees, comparatively. The liberal arts major were also more structured and they really did emphasize thinking. Today, I’m not so sure, so many anecdotal examples I know of the teachers just expecting you to puppet the pabalum they’re expousing.
An electrician, plumber, chef, etc, those are solid professions. They need an education in knowing how to think, manage their money, smell BS, etc. But the current output of the education complex? I’m not to sure.
December 22, 2014 at 6:29 AM in reply to: Interesting commentary on the Vegas economy (paging FlyerInHI) #781253Participant[quote=CA renter][quote=spdrun]Maybe, but part of the implication is that there aren’t enough non-survival jobs, so people get pushed to survival jobs that pay decently.[/quote]
Agreed, and that’s why the article is so important — we really need to reevaluate the desire to push everyone into college, no matter what. .[/quote]
While Vegas may be an outlier, the main point the author was making was highlighting the disdain that has arisen in our society for blue collar work.
Most of SoCal has a huge no traditional income market There are a lot of people making a lot of money doing neither white collar nor blue collar work and it isn’t all illicit
Overall I think the authors quote of the colleague terming the service job survival job how disconnected the disdain much of the educational system has for the real world. How likely is it that the one school the author is at has more grad students in her field than the state of Nevada is going to hire in the next decade? That is the reality I see when I see classrooms Kids chasing the dream with a marginally better chance of realizing it than the kids on the basketball court chasing theirs
Yes STEm, I know, 90% of the kids aren’t doing STEM. The kids aren’t really in the schools getting educated. They checking of prerequisites to go apply for jobs.
Universities used to teach you to think. Now they teach you to follow the rules in the box. It gets better. We taking many of the service industries and now starting to wrap requirements around them to have BA degrees.
ParticipantThe study just uses BMI measure of >30.
Which means a 6 foot tall police officer weighing 225 pounds regardless of physical condition is considered obese by this study.
ParticipantMy wife hasn’t commented. The smell isn’t horrible. Just wood fire smell and now that the bar has been out of the box for a few days, the bar isn’t nearly as strong smelling.
The smell definitely isn’t a toxic smell quit a wood fire smell (actually I think smoke from a wood fire is fairly toxic)
Participant[quote=scaredyclassic]how does your body smell?[/quote]
Low grade morning after campfire smell
Second shower with it after cleaning the gutters wasn’t as strong but still very noticeable
My eyes know it though. They feel like I’ve been sitting around a fire.
ParticipantWow scaredy. I picked up a bar cause I wanted to check it out. Holy smoke, my shower smells like the inside of my fireplace the morning after burning about four of those full bundles of cheap pine wood from the upper market in my fireplace. Seriously it is exactly the smell of cleaning your fireplace.
ParticipantYes I do. I grew up guns. I’ve known since I was six that you KNOW what you are shooting at before you shoot. Mistakes happen. Pulling the trigger fifteen times is not a mistake.
Their job is tough isn’t an excuse to kill people because they are over their heads.
I know it’s a sh*t job. Go watch the video of Ramos spoiling to beat Kelly Thomas.
Quit making excuses for excessive behavior.
What you are saying is when a cop stops me because he think I did a rolling stop late a night, I need to fear for my life because he deals with shit and is justified to have a hair trigger that he assumes I’m a deadly threat to him.
Not acceptable.
Even more dangerous is your attitude only cops can judge cops.
The attitude you display is the attitude that has tolerated the escalating militarization of our police forcec. The civilian public is the enemy.
I know most of the cops are good people. That truely want to help the community. Doing a sh*t job.
But the tolerance for the police training and relying on the overwhelming force is dangerous for our Republic and the population at large.
Participant[quote=CA renter][quote=no_such_reality]
Does that include spraying over 100 rounds at a bright blue Tacoma with a 71 and 47 year old Hispanic women in it delivering newspaper when looking for a large black man in a dark grey Nissan Titan?[/quote]
Who’s defending that? FWIW, they got a nice settlement, and the police chief agreed that the officers who shot at them violated policy. Yes, the cops were on edge as they were defending the home of a captain who was specifically threatened by Dorner. Yes, they thought the sound of the newspaper hitting a driveway was a gunshot. Still, the women won a settlement without much effort…the cops knew what they did was wrong.
The culture that sprays 100+ rounds is the same culture that pummels a schizophrenic to death (also acquitted), strangle holds a cigarette seller, pepper sprays sitting occupy wall street protestors, and so on…
ParticipantTechnically, CalPERS is the government and Wall street, all rolled in one.
Participant[quote=CA renter][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=Hobie]Like I suggested to Brian, some of you need to spend an evening in a ‘ride a long’ with local cops. It’s free, and will open your eyes. Enough of the knee jerk reaction to cops techniques. Go ahead, try yourself to negotiate with a crazy person. Live and learn. We live with lots of crazy.[/quote]
it’s the price we pay for the 2nd am. And shit loads of guns in a culture of violence where cops reasonably believed people who hate them are armed. It seems unfair though when they jump the gun more on black citizens. If they do.[/quote]
It’s a matter of statistical odds, I think. They will be more wary in circumstances that warrant it, at least in their minds. What we need to ask — and HONESTLY answer — is why they think that certain situations are more dangerous than others.[/quote]
Does that include spraying over 100 rounds at a bright blue Tacoma with a 71 and 47 year old Hispanic women in it delivering newspaper when looking for a large black man in a dark grey Nissan Titan?
Participant[quote=SK in CV][quote=svelte]It is terrible that he died yes, but he was certainly not cooperating.
I don’t care if you’re white, black, yellow or orange if you don’t cooperate with police then they should be able to use force to make you cooperate.
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Cooperate or die? Really?[/quote]
Let’s check with Kelly Thomas…
It’s what the protest are really about. Non-accountability for excessive use of force.
ParticipantThat is what sleazy Donald is really good at. Taking a big gamble with other people’s money. He’s good at getting them to believe that it’s a good deal, they’ll get a good return if he succeeds, he gets the lion share. They lose everything they put in if he fails. He walks away.
It’s called dumb money. There’s lots of dumb money.
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