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I felt like a day of fun was in order! Did you have a dream either realized or unrealized about what you’d do / be when you ‘grew up’? Are you still becoming who you will be when you grow up? I am! 🙂
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economic fun facts,
Google with income of 8.44 billion dollars in 2010 has 20600 employees
McDonald’s with income of 24 billion dollars in 2010 has 400000 employees
I think employee pay and benefits may be more costly at Google.
fnord,
Google is a high tech company it needs only 21k employees to create 8.5 billion bucks.
Mcdonalds is a low tech burger joint which needs 400k employees to create 24 billion dollars.
Who creates the most jobs, high tech or low tech?
Are we talking strictly ‘most’ jobs or the what type of jobs?
That is where apples and oranges often get compared.
If we are talking about living-wage jobs that will sustain a household – then the fast food industry will probably not be your first choice.
Is there a place for both types of jobs in our society? Yes, but perhaps we have too many households where that burger joint’s job is the only source of income. If so, then no wonder our social govenrment programs are being over-extended.
This is a high tech company notice all the people working here.
http://boingboing.net/2010/02/15/robot-factory-builds.html
I had a good laugh from this comment at the link above:
“Old joke about a automotive CEO taking a union leader on a tour around his new robotic car factory: The CEO teases the union leader that he won’t be able to collect union dues from the workers. The union leader replies that the workers won’t be buying cars either.”
“the workers won’t be buying cars either.”
Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury,
I rest my case.
Thanks for the laugh!
Senator Keith Olbermann?
A group of liberal activists want the former MSNBC talk-show host to run for the seat of retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT). What a nightmare, say opponents of the idea.
http://theweek.com/article/index/211394/senator-keith-olbermann
What a Tea Party budget looks like
http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/26/news/economy/tea_party_budget/
Just wanted to share some new to me terms to be referenced in upcoming political discussions. This is from one of my email lists…
According to the Wikipedia description, the Dunning-Kruger effect describes a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to recognize their mistakes.
Kruger and Dunning propose that incompetent people:
1. tend to over-estimate their own level of skill 2. fail to recognize genuine skill in others 3. fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy 4. recognize and acknowledge their own lack of skill _if_ they can be trained to substantially improve.
Point 4 leaves the obvious unspoken: the incompetent will continue to fail to recognize and acknowledge their own lack of skill so long as they refuse the training required to improve their skills.
The whole piece bears reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Surely this describes any number of crackpots and other graduates of Google University who imagine that their untrained eyes are seeing things the experts have missed–or worse, that the experts are supposedly in cahoots to deny.
Then there’s always the infamous “Gish gallop”….
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop
Using prefabricated materials, the Chinese completes a 15-story hotel in just 6 days.
The work crew erected the hotel — a soundproofed, thermal-insulated structure reportedly built to withstand a magnitude 9 earthquake — with all prefabricated materials. In other words, a crew of off-site factory workers built the sections, and their on-site counterparts arranged them on the foundation for the Ark project.
Despite the frenetic pace of construction, no workers were injured — and thanks to the prefab nature of the process, the builders wasted very few construction materials. Below is a time-lapse video that shows the hotel being built from the ground up in less than a week.
Is a life insurance policy part of the room rental in this 6 day maracle?
Magnitude 9? Hmmmmmmm…..
What were the black and white ribbons that were being worn by all the people at the SOTU.
I assume it is something to do with the Tucson shooting?
Yes, I think they were in honor of the victims of the recent Tuscon shootings.
Fnord is correct.
How interesting……I just checked the Fox News website and not one mention of Michele Bachmann’s response to the SOTU on behalf of the Tea Party Express.
Things make you go hmnmmmm……..
P.S. – I watched a little bit of the Bachmann’s speech and I have to say – whoever did her make up should be fired. I could not really listen to what she was whining about because I could not get past the fact she looked like some one from the Twilight movie. Her eyes looked very much like a vampire and the darkness around the eyes was just downright creepy.
But I don’t think I missed much – from what Chris Matthews’ coverage of Michele Bachmann’s previous video when this woman actually stated that John Quincy Adams and the founding fathers worked tireleslly all their lives to extinguish slavery.
What???? There should be a basic history examination for elected officials.
Seriously, the Tea Party needs to look into changing those tea bags – it seems the current bags have gone rancid.
Here’s an assessment of Michele Bachmann’s speech last night.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-michele-bachmann-20110127,0,7008937.story
I agree with both Paul Ryan and Michele Bachmann that we need to stop curb our spending. But I only have one question for both of these people.
Paul Ryan is a 7-term Congressman and Michele Bachmann is a 2-term Congresswoman – which means both of these fine Congress Critters were there during the GWB years of massive federal spending.
Where was their outrage at too much spending at that time?
GWB had two wars off budget – pushed through Medicare Drug Program with no funding to pay for it.
But only now since Obama took over is spending out of control?
The difference I see is that Republicans can say they’ll do better and be believed. Whatever they did in the past isn’t going to happen in the future. Their constituency believes them now. After all, nothing is ever really the fault of a member of the GOP!
I agree with both Paul Ryan and Michele Bachmann that we need to stop curb our spending. But I only have one question for both of these people.
Paul Ryan is a 7-term Congressman and Michele Bachmann is a 2-term Congresswoman – which means both of these fine Congress Critters were there during the GWB years of massive federal spending.
Where was their outrage at too much spending at that time?
sorry for double post- i went back in to add the last few lines and I guess my original post was still there waiting..
Now this is something I’ve not seen before. I am not surprised by it, but I did not think anyone went so far as to say this outloud.
I wonder if this Arizona elected official also thinks the violent television, videos and the total disrespect of life that an unwarranted war plays any part in the desensitizing of our society?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/25/linda-gray-roe-v-wade-arizona-shooting_n_813388.html
Nope! If you’re unborn they’re all for making sure you get born and then you’re on your own.
What message does it send when a state has their own ‘state gun’? While I can understand the desire to honor a Utah native that has made a contribution to the state, is it really wise for a state to bestow the honor of a state gun?
On the flip side – does it really hurt anything?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/26/utah-official-gun-state-gun-browning-m1911_n_814174.html
Walmart has backed down from a 2-yr fight with historians and preservationists in Virginia.
Let’s not forget – Walmart recently teamed up with Michelle Obama to lower the prices of fruits and produce and to try to lower the fat/sugar content.
Is this a sign that a huge corporation is able to listen and respond to the needs and desires of the people the serve?
Is this also a sign that a huge corporation can be a good citizen?
Kudos to Walmart.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41272877/ns/business-us_business?gt1=43001
Nothing like fear driving a movement. When reading this article, note there are 263 Muslims in Wyoming currently. I guess one can never be too careful – huh?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/26/wyoming-sharia-law-bill_n_814266.html