OT:Shooting Ourselves in the Foot

My first thought too.

Thank God they didn't patent. Can you imagine how much the royalty payments would be?

(And if we didn't pay, they'd terminate our license to produce!)

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That's not certain, but we do know where Newton, Galileo and Chebyshev are from.

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Bryan Hackney

It's neither liberal nor conservative. It's a market, it does what markets do- which is optimise for the market. I could talk about selfish memes, but only if I thought Mr. Aylward wasn't looking.

When it is creating employment in areas with an employment problem, good (in my opinion). When it's transferring employment away from me, bad (in my opinion).

Paul Burke

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Paul Burke

And you know where the '0' comes from? Imagine a memory filled with only '1' ;-)

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Lanarcam

Certainly not in mass. At the current rate of steady increase since

1960, the average American male age 40-49 will be over 7 feet tall and weigh roughly 533 pounds in 2525. ;-) I don't think UK, Canada etc. lag by much.

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Ten times the illiteracy of Iceland? It's possible, although the CIA only admits to similar literacy levels to the US (97%), which is far worse than what they say about France and Germany (99%). They also say

99.8% for Poland and 99% for the UK. Cuba has sunk a lot of resources into literacy since the sixties, and have exported their training methods to greatly improve literacy in some of the poorer Mexican states.

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Spehro Pefhany

Is that a joke ? I saw the home ad... I could never afford something remotely similar, here.

Just for curiosity... .My home, bought ("used") six months ago in Italy, near a small town. Converting in american units, just for easy of comparison...

Roughly 1000 square feet (100 m^2), no garden, third floor, built 25 (!) years ago, in a ugly "soviet" style building with 7 other families, three rooms, 2 baths, 1 car garage... "just" $ 211k with today change.

An home like that in the link, here, would cost more than $1 million. And this is a small town.

I'll spend next 20 years paying for my home. With a wage probably one third of a typical experienced EE in USA.

But... overall... I like living here.

I still can afford some cinemas, my new car, buying all the books I have time to read, a 42'' LCD tv, good appliances, ADSL, pay tv... And can also enjoy 4 weeks of holidays a year. I work in a well-behaved big company (1500 people) without excessive fear of being laid off in the next 5 years.. I love my work; we have good R&D budgets, good tools, low bureaucracy. 40 hours / week, but being ready (and willing!) to reasonably work more (unpaid) if timeline shortens. And I can count on being cured if sick with no expenses...

Two friends of mine just came out from PhD at MIT now. They earn huge money for my standard, now, but they also spend huge quantity of money also just for living.

I still have to understand which lives "better", overall. Comparison is really difficult, so many variables....

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Antonio Pasini

I would think you should have gone with the flow. If you were staying at a hotel, you couldn't get a decent breakfast, so the zweite fruhstuck was needed to get you to lunchtime.

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Everett M. Greene

payments

THe method is obvious to anyone skilled in the field.

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Richard Henry

Is that why there are a million parenting books? ...and ten million sex books? ;-)

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Keith Williams

I don't think a 99% literacy rate is neurologically possible, much less 99.9.

John

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John Larkin

Don't worry about Bill. He's the "Energizer Bunny" when it comes to spreading European bullshit.

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Michael A. Terrell

It's not a joke, In the US all that is required is get off either coast. The guy who started this thread I assume is in Huston, similar "relatively low" prices there too. What I sometimes think is a joke are the young engineers struggling with a family trying to pay for a $500,000-600,000 home in Calif. Some I used to work with literally bussed an hour and half each way morning and night to cut the home costs. Another group bought a four place plane, and flew 45min, with the office right next to the airport. Some of the most interesting engineering businesses I've met in the US are in little farming towns across the midwest ... 15-20 people making a killer wage competing with low dollar bids against the big city coastal folks.

I know of a two story 30,000 square foot doubly reinforced (for atomic blasts) concrete building (with fall out shelter) and 250KW 480V/3PH gensets, well, cistern, etc out in the middle of a no where that sold for about $80,000 not long a go. I'm told that there are a hundred of these across the midwest -- former AT&T microwave relay facilities from the 50's. The farms around them can frequently be had for nearly nothing to, a half section or so ... build 40-200 large homes, and move your company. Many locations are like this within an hour or two drive of a major international airport. Seems crazy to me to give the bankers the proceeds of our hard technology work .... in effect their slaves.

yep ... and personal choice, or lack there of.

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A neighbor of mine was telling me yesterday that she used to work for GE, building radios, till they closed the plant and moved it to Europe. I showed her a modern PC board and she couldn't believe the difference from the boards she used to stuff.

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Michael A. Terrell

Yes, you must ask "99% of what?". I presume they don't count people who are physically incapable of becoming literate or who have become illiterate due to stroke or whatever. Surely the CIA can't be wrong?

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Spehro Pefhany

Strange. I always thought that Europe is declining because we are trying to follow the foolish american social model.

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Blade

You know not of what you speak. The breakfast buffet at the hotel was fabulous! In fact all the inns in Bühlertal had great breakfasts.

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Jim Thompson

Hello Chris,

That would diminish the talent pool and be a very efficient method to drive the last employer out of the country. BTW most if not all of Europe has no license laws. Hardly anyone over there knows what a Eur.Ing is, nor do they care about that.

Old rule: The more bureacratic hurdles, the less jobs there will be. Proven time and again.

So, a university degree is worthless and only some bureaucrats get to decide who will have a job and who doesn't? IMHO, if someone has a degree from a university that shall be enough of a qualification. What difference would some license make?

Regards, Joerg

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Joerg

Europe is declining because Europeans aren't breeding. So far, we don't have that problem in the USA.

John

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John Larkin

Do you know of any examples of high-tech electronics companies who have done this?

I just bought a building in downtown San Francisco, a few blocks from City Hall, for about 75 times the square-foot cost you cite above. One reason is that this is where the talent likes to live.

John

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John Larkin

On Larkin St.? Nicely done.

Bob

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Bob Stephens

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