The Cellar  

Go Back   The Cellar > Main > The Internet
FAQ Community Calendar Today's Posts Search

The Internet Web sites, web development, email, chat, bandwidth, the net and society

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 01-26-2015, 10:07 PM   #886
classicman
barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy.
 
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 23,401
From here
Attached Images
 
__________________
"like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt
classicman is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-27-2015, 10:04 AM   #887
Clodfobble
UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 20,012
I can't say much about the other major cities, but yeah, Austin's stayed a high-growth area throughout the economic woes of the last decade. Even when the housing bubble burst, they kept right on building and successfully selling new homes right across the highway from me.
Clodfobble is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-28-2015, 03:20 AM   #888
xoxoxoBruce
The future is unwritten
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
.
Attached Images
 
__________________
The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.
xoxoxoBruce is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-28-2015, 07:13 AM   #889
Griff
still says videotape
 
Join Date: Feb 2001
Posts: 26,813
ooooo looks like a hump day opportunity!
__________________
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Griff is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-28-2015, 07:59 AM   #890
Griff
still says videotape
 
Join Date: Feb 2001
Posts: 26,813
btw... Texas did have a nice run from 2008 on up but you can plot other states from their individual bottoms to skew similarly.
__________________
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Griff is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-28-2015, 08:27 AM   #891
footfootfoot
To shreds, you say?
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
Posts: 18,449
Quote:
Originally Posted by Undertoad View Post
No wonder they made the stadium into a vagina.
The article calls it "accidental."

Riiiight, because sometimes a stadium is just a stadium.
__________________
The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs
footfootfoot is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-28-2015, 09:01 AM   #892
Lamplighter
Person who doesn't update the user title
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods
Posts: 6,402
Quote:
Originally Posted by footfootfoot View Post
...Riiiight, because sometimes a stadium is just a stadium.
Lamplighter is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-28-2015, 11:35 AM   #893
Clodfobble
UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 20,012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Griff
btw... Texas did have a nice run from 2008 on up but you can plot other states from their individual bottoms to skew similarly.
Yeah but not every state... somebody had to go down for the overall US numbers to be at a loss. Admittedly, it could all just be Detroit.



I went looking for what the lone hit song about Thursday might be, and found it in the original article for Bruce's graphic: "Sweet Thursday," Johnny Mathis 1962.
Clodfobble is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-28-2015, 10:07 PM   #894
Griff
still says videotape
 
Join Date: Feb 2001
Posts: 26,813
This is an interesting document with some interesting graphs and charts if someone knows how to clip them. The bottom line is a somewhat different economy in Texas. Texas had pretty consistent higher unemployment than the country as a whole until around 2006. From then on Texas performed better than the rest of the country. Now with energy prices sinking we'll see if its a sustainable thing.
__________________
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Griff is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-28-2015, 10:17 PM   #895
xoxoxoBruce
The future is unwritten
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
Goats everywhere, The Washington Post has an interactive map where you can check county by county.
Attached Images
 
__________________
The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.
xoxoxoBruce is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-28-2015, 11:31 PM   #896
Lamplighter
Person who doesn't update the user title
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods
Posts: 6,402
Quote:
... literally every goat...
No way. Over the years I gotten many people's goats, and never given them back.
No one knows the number or where they are now.
Lamplighter is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-29-2015, 12:14 AM   #897
xoxoxoBruce
The future is unwritten
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
Obviously you left them, or they wandered to, Texas.
__________________
The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.
xoxoxoBruce is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-29-2015, 02:44 AM   #898
xoxoxoBruce
The future is unwritten
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
Watch your fingers...
Attached Images
 
__________________
The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.
xoxoxoBruce is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-29-2015, 01:32 PM   #899
footfootfoot
To shreds, you say?
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
Posts: 18,449
"I'll just reach up into this jointer and clear out the chips... I'll just reach under this mower and clear out the clogged grass... I'll just stick my hand into this snowblower to loosen up the packed snow... Let me look down into this barrel and see why the gun didn't go off..."

There's a youtube video of the last one. The guy won the Bronze medal in the Darwin competition.
__________________
The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs
footfootfoot is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-30-2015, 01:59 AM   #900
xoxoxoBruce
The future is unwritten
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 71,105
After you've mangled your hand (or what ever you're clearing the clog with, Studly) be careful driving to the hospital.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Highway Loss Data Institute, reports some interesting results. Realize they are recording real world results so it's primarily on vehicles three years old.

In 1989 the reported, A 700% variation between model.(pdf)

In 2011 they reported, "Death rates by model: SUV drivers are among least likely to be killed".

There's a lot of information there. I don't agree with all of their theories or conclusions, but the data charted should be pretty straight foreword.
Attached Images
 
__________________
The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.
xoxoxoBruce is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 7 (0 members and 7 guests)
 

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 10:41 AM.


Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.8.1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.