Anchorage, KY's pop = 2264. It's one of the green spots about ten miles east of Louisville.

Papa John Schnatter (Papa John's Pizza) owns a good deal of it.

Probably bumps the average.

When you're that wealthy, you can keep out the riff-raff ;)

Sure, and hanging with other 1%ers drives the average income up. Of course that's reported taxable income which has nothing to do with reality.

Now Scarsdale NY, avg. income $232,422, has a population 17,471. Some of them must be making big bucks for that average.

Cigarette sales for each year, from 1970 through 2012, in packs per capita, by states.

http://psychoactivelectricity.tumblr...ge/97518333168

Interesting.

What's up with New Hampshire?

Low taxes = cheaper prices = people from neighboring states buy there

As a non-smoker, that never occurred to me. But I am aware of the liquor stores.

KY never leaves the red (shocker).

I must be the only person in KY that doesn't smoke. Cigarettes, that is.

Like most people already knew, don't fuck with KY and/or PA:

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Bromine Production.



OOOOOOhhhkay.

Does your doctor take payola from pharmaceutical companies? Obamacare mandated the creation of a public database for you to find that information.

It's clunky, as the dataset is necessarily huge, but just find the "Physician Last Name" field on the right, type in whoever you want, and make sure the box next to it gets checked.

There are some legal kinks still being worked out, and some loopholes, so if your doctor's name isn't on there it doesn't necessarily mean they're not getting money. Plus some other caveats. But it's a nice start.

That's very interesting, and yes it is a good start though clunky. Thanks Clodfobble.

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Grav, my friend, I thank you for giving me a few laughs when I was in sore need of them.

You are the man.

:D

States' Income Inequality - from YahooHomes

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Gravdigr, bridging the gap between rich and poor, get some Gravdigr today!

Since all states have rich and poor I wondered how they made that map. They've grafted the states by Gini Coefficient.

http://espnfivethirtyeight.files.wor...tendants-2.png

from here: http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/d...dants-are-men/

I wonder if I should move from the 2.3% to Boilermaker...

Janitor wouldn't compare to boilermaker, but a bigger leap than a doctor... percentage of the market wise, not income.

Griff, when you were young and fire in the belly idealistic, you set goals like building your house, contribute more than 50% in raising your kids, getting educated and certified to help the most needy people in America.

You not only built your house, you built a timber frame home from fucking TREES. You did that while playing Mr Mom and raising two great kids that know what they want and are almost ready to twist the world's tail. Oh, wasn't there a wife going to school in there too?

Then you got yourself educated plus all the extra stuff to follow your special choice of careers, and the bullshit dog and pony show of getting certified and verified, even thought you'd proven you were qualified. All this while maintaining tight family ties, with the wife and kids knowing you were there anytime they needed you

As frustrating as your job is, or actually the assholes on the periphery of your job are, I don't think you could walk away from the kids. You could only become a boilermaker if the assholes in Harrisburg get reelected in November and further cut spending, forcing you out completely.

Now you're uh, well... wizened, wiser, and sober, you did it. You did it well and maintained your integrity to boot. Nothing but respect man, you ain't Superman but you're as close as anyone I've ever known of.


Oh, can I borrow $10? :blush:

Are you calling me old?!!!! ;)

Neither a borrower nor a lender be Bro.

Oh no, it's just your fencing suit smells that way. :haha:

Jawbone, the company that was able to map earthquake intensity in California a few months ago by noting which wearers of their device woke up during an earthquake, is at it again.

Here is their US map of when users go to sleep. A really cool thing shows that people on the eastern side of time zones go to bed earlier than those on the western side, presumable because it gets dark in the East sooner.

Brooklyn is the only county in the US that goes to sleep (on average) after midnight.

I wish I could imbed the interactive map, but I don't know how. Click the link above.

Here is a screenshot of the static map.
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Edit: And here are the hours of sleep each night
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:biglaugha

Marriage Chart
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/marriage.png

I had to find this out, and thought someone else may find it handy/interesting.

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I knew the higher I get, the harder it is to make me boil.:cool:

Word.:D

From SpuriousCorrelations

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Sooooooooooo ...

According to Griff's chart neither party has really done shit to help the Middle Class.

But they said they love me long time!

FDR was the only one to make significant progress, and that was battling the great depression too. Maybe the depression was why, because things were so bad the people(voters) were fed up and gave him the support to make laws empowering middle class labor.

When the middle class got fat and lazy they allowed Reagan to bring the oligarchy out of the shadows and back to brazen power, where they were before WW I.

But party? Nope, all politicians follow the voters demands, and when the voters are apathetic, they follow the money.

When defining the end of the middle class, be sure not to include the upper middle class.

Getting into the 10%, and out of this graph, means a household income of $118,200 as of this thread.

True, everyone's perception of where the cut off is, both above and below, varies.

Not really a chart.

Or a graph.

More of a graphic.

An infographic, I suppose.

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No promise of accuracy.

Fear the zombies...

They always say that, honey.

A visual representation of a year's worth of smog in Beijing. Picture taken at the same time each day for a year.

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Unregulated industry at its finest :greenface

or State controlled industry at its finest. Choose your spin.

If the regulator owns the regulated (or vice versa), it's unregulated.

[reductionist]Are you arguing for the divestment of the National Parks?[/argumentarian]

Actually, I agree HM.

I'm arguing that the head of the Park Service had better never get a cut of the mineral rights.

Just kill me now.

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But wait, isn't that the goal of civilized society, to make life easier for the next generation... even if the whippersnappers don't appreciate it.

As quick reference to whether you should be in misery or not.
Much easier than checking the feels.

Wait. I was reading this wrong initially. I had always heard that the holidays were the worst, but this is saying the holidays are the best.

Well, these are search results, so you could take them in the completely opposite fashion: if you are searching for depression-related topics, you are acknowledging the problem and looking for solutions. If you're worse off, you're not searching the internet for your symptoms, you're just wallowing in bed.

What I want to know are the weekly ups-and-downs: are people searching more at home on the weekends, or when they're at work on the boss' dime?

I'd guess Monday morning on the company dime. ;)

You might be stressed about whether to blanket your horse or not.

Obamacare next year... at The Dish.

Well that chart sure isn't accurate for me. My employer is in NJ.

Does it matter where they are, or where you live?

Looking at the chart, it says one thing and my situation is the complete opposite.

They charted what the Insurance companies said they charged for the "second lowest silver plan", so would reflect changes only for that plan. From what I've seen there are more plans than Carter has Little liver Pills.

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But they didn't ask if people thought it worked.