It does not.

This is an interesting graph for December 7th.

Too big and large to bring over, but interesting trivia re: ceo pay vs average worker.

http://www.payscale.com/ceo-income

Wait. What? WHAT? What? What? What? (I've gone off the deep end, get me to Bellevue) WHAT?

101 MILLION DOLLARS? That's like a million per dalmatian.

That. Doesn't. Even. Make. Sense.

:headshake

The freaking .0000000000000000000001%.

I'm running for CEO.

Which college degrees are worth the debt?

http://www.crisp360.com/info/which-c...#ixzz1gHhEH1Xm

Engineering has always been the one major with a good payout. If only I had been good in maths...sigh.

Me to. I done good in English. No money in it, tho. :lol:

Yet my differential aptitude test in HS suggested I be a rocket scientist. Yeah. Right. Is there a job for 'good test taker'?

That was very enlightening. I wish there was something like this for master's degrees.

It seems like every time you get another degree your income goes down.

I should have never gone past 6th grade, dammit! :D

Please stop now, for a breather.

Higher education (degrees) may be just union cards for some,
but it can be so much more... leading to a life with more interests
and appreciation of things, other than the "job".

OMG, but I hated it when my folks sat around the dinner table,
and bitched about their "jobs". Who said what... What was said back.

My folks encouraged me to go on to college, and then through grad school, and then post-doc.
By then, my HS friends were in jobs, had families, and had "things".

While in college, I was jealous and frustrated. It took several years
to catch up on the $, but I believe my life and my family's life were
so much better due to time in college and university.
And, I enjoyed my career... a lot.

Debt is one thing, but it's not irreversible.
Earning a living is necessary, but it's not sufficient.

TXTing while driving: dangerous, but not as dangerous as you'd think

http://cellar.org/2011/crashes1.jpg

http://cellar.org/2011/crashes2.jpg

link

If you add the three red ones together from slide 2 (all cell phone related) it totals up to about 400,000 and the second deadliest cause behind inattention.

What does this mean? The car is in motion but no one is behind the wheel?

I don't understand the 'no driver present'.

eda - me too, lol

Just guessing here -
The car was hit by another car while parked?
The car rolled down a hill or was left in gear?
The driver was :doit: in the backseat?

Gotta be a parked car getting hit by something. Our car has been in two accidents and both were no driver present. (Can't avoid the idiots trying to hit you if you aren't in the car.)

But no driver present only represents about 210 crashes (n.b. classic, the numbers aren't listed in thousands)

It's gotta be, they left off the e-brake and the car rolled downhill until it hit a moving vehicle.

I call BS on the whole "Not Distracted" category. I assume it's self reporting. Enough said.

The "caller" died in the accident ? :rolleyes:

Exactly.

For garsh sakes, people are killing each other out there to get a text out.

Ridiculous.

Yes it was ... They texted their answers in. :eyebrow:

This Just In From The "Yeah, No Shit" Files
 

Attachment 36043

India...yeah, no shit.

Actually, there's probably a lot of it. :rolleyes:

Word.

For the pilot who rarely posts here anymore ...

Since the Pres has decided to ask for congress to raise the debt ceiling again, I thought this was fitting.
(note the team in power at the bottom)

One time I drank these crazy fizzy drinks and floated up into the air and I thought I hit the debt ceiling. Turns out it was only the glass ceiling. :lol:

I bet you got dressed in the basement after that.

I think it's funny that the Republicans are represented by pink. Not that I care, but because I know they do.

is the house control part of the graphic correct toward the later part of the axis?

looks wrong to me

Here are a couple interesting, if not frightening from yesterday's MJ show.
This link will take you to their page. I couldn't find the video of the segment on youtube.

First graph ... defense, discretionary and other mandatory will flatline for 30 years? :eyebrow: :headshake
It is worth noting that the biggest consistent increase is in health care. In fact, if you spent less on that, it might cut back the social security obligations a bit too. :bolt:

Second graph ... incomprehensible. What is the vertical axis? What was at zero in 2008?

Go to the link ZG ...
The first graph - These are current projections as a % of GDP.
The second graph is employment change from 2008. Based upon employment in 2008. Thats why its at 0.

I find those projections to be highly implausible.

Okay, thanks, that makes some sense, at least.

Government spending vs Unemployment

oops - from here admittedly biased source, but if the numbers are correct, it is an interesting trend.

It would be interesting to see those two parameters plotted against each other.

From the link:
Maybe cars have just gotten so much better that they don't need to be replaced every three to five years.

There doesn't appear to be a consistent leader between the two, so I would guess that neither causes the other; they are correllated because they are both related to the strength of the economy in general.

Well, rising unemployment can lead to government stimulus packages, which would explain the correlation in 2008-2010. Man, those lines got ugly there, didn't they?

Can't get the pics out, but a good look at a couple more.
I'm in this BIG EFFIN RED area with a few other dwellars.

27+ weeks 45.9% Gah!

Wall Street Journal

When recessions occur, unemployment goes up. A government that continues spending normally also goes up on that chart. A reduced GDP and unchanged government spending appears on that chart as increased government spending.

The chart would have to be deceptive. On that chart, both unemployment and government spending must go up when GDP goes down. Those trends report nothing useful or informative.

That, sir, is a Good Point.

tx xob

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What happened in 1980 - Privatization or what?

Ronald Reagan

yeh, I got that much ... and?

Is that when the war on drugs started?

From Classic's graph link in Wikipedia...

Reagan, as Governor of Calif pushed the de-institutionalization of patients with mental illness...
proposing instead they be treated in their local communities with the State providing funds.
The funding never happened.
Then, as President, this de-institutionalization program spread across the nation.

That seems to be a big part of it P&M...

bold mine

Regarding the politicians who wrote those laws, were they being lobbied by the owners of private prisons, perhaps? :eyebrow:


Minor point - the graph suggests the growth in prison population has slowed since 2000, but the last column is only from 2000 to 2006, but is still drawn as wide as the other ten-year columns. Probably growth has continued at the same rate.

Prisons, Privatization, And Public Values *
Stephen McFarland
Chris McGowan 
Tom O'Toole
Presented to Prof. Mildred Warner 
Privatization and Devolution CRP 612 
December 2002

Introduction to Prison Privatization
A note in passing: The GEO Corporation used to be named the "Wackenhut Corrections Corporation"
Sounds a bit like McCain's "Wack-A-Mole" theory of war. :D

Not to defend the resultant lack of care, but we cannot gloss over what those institutions were and occasionally still are. Abuse and neglect were rampant the system needed to be bulldozed not tweaked. Even today the institutionalized mentally ill suffer at the hands of insensitive, sometimes abusive, poorly trained staff. My SiL is trying to cleanup one such public facility in NYS. You would not believe how many workers are on administrative leave when they should have been fired and maybe prosecuted. Cuomo is rightfully pissed about it.

Oh and legalize it. You know, if Obama put a legalization plank down, I'd be back on board in a heartbeat. Hell I might even put a election sign by the road.