We Are All Spaniards

I have enough to last about 4 more months at the current deficit rate. Can
I
interest you in a Maule? That will build it back up pretty nicely.

You'd sell your plane before you'd move? Man, that's hard-core.

I'd cut off my, um, appendages, before selling my plane.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:

You'd sell your plane before you'd move? Man, that's hard-core.

Would you get a divorce before selling your plane? That's my choice. The plane's
in for annual now. She goes down to Cape May for new paint on the top of the wings
and general clean-up after that. Then she goes on the block.

George Patterson
Battle, n; A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would
not yield to the tongue.

"Bob Noel" wrote in message
...
In article , Frank wrote:

How many were still in business after a year? I could see where rapid
growth
in self-employment might be a symptom of a bad economy. After all, if
there
are no employers hiring....

Work ebbs and flows from one sector to another, and from one company to
another.


otoh - it might be a symptom of idiots in the management of the
large companies.

That's always the situation, but now people are desperate enough to cut the
employment umbilical and strike out on their own. Now, if they'd just leave
home, their parents could finally be rid of their 30-40 year old offspring~
:~)

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
...

"Bob Noel" wrote:
otoh - it might be a symptom of idiots in the management
of the large companies.

Bingo. Working for a large corporation is like working for the
government - without the job security.

Not true! If your murder someone you might get fired from a government job.

In article 01j8c.82996$Cb.1103178@attbi_s51, Jay Honeck wrote:
The real measure of the world's opinion is this: How many people are
fighting and dying to get into FINLAND? You just don't see too many
people floating on inner-tubes for weeks to get there...

Dunno about Finland, but Britain has a massive problem with illegal
immigration at the moment. Immigrants from as far away from China have
been discovered in the back of trucks (not always alive - in one case, a
lorryload of suffocated would-be immigrants were discovered in a
container truck).

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

In article , Martin Hotze
wrote:

yeah, but we don't have to spend one billion dollar per week for
wargames.

Who is going to invade Austria?

What other country would Austria help?

--
Bob Noel

In article , Tom Sixkiller wrote:
A 2000 square foot, three bedrom house on a nice 1/4 acre lot is common
here; in Europe, that's a palace mostly for the aristocracy. Our aristocracy
is based on merit, not bloodlines.

I don't have a quarter acre lot, but I have a 4 bedroom house, and I'm
hardly aristocracy (I'm a postal worker [0]). Additionally, my house is made
of proper building materials, like 3 foot thick stone walls, and
weathers the frequent winter storms we get very well.

Admittedly, the Isle of Man is not in the European Union, but we are in
the geographical area and have a similar standard of living.

In France, people RENT dogs to walk so they can look affluent; here a dog or
two is damn near standard equipment for most homes.

You must have been to a different France to me. The France I visited
when a friend of mine was working there for a year was actually quite
pleasant, I thought.

[0] Not a disgruntled one.

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

Also, Europe does not have vast tracts of unused land next to cities to
parcel off into 1/4 acre lots.


yep. in our area you have to pay about EUR 6,000 (that is about USD 7,200)
per
square-meter of land. (I don't say that it is good, but it is a fact)

Heck, the main reason my family came to the U.S., over 150 years ago, was
because Europe was running out of land.

I doubt things have improved much -- although, if your reproduction rates
keep dropping, your welfare states will soon evaporate.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

You'd sell your plane before you'd move? Man, that's hard-core.

Would you get a divorce before selling your plane? That's my choice. The
plane's
in for annual now. She goes down to Cape May for new paint on the top of
the wings
and general clean-up after that. Then she goes on the block.

Hmm. Now THAT is a tough choice... ;-)

Actually, I'm fairly certain that my wife would rather move than sell the
plane too. Of course, she's pretty unusual, as wives go, in that she's a
pilot.

Not that there haven't been days when I have longed to go back to renting
aircraft. This usually occurs right after a twenty dollar part breaks, and
I must spend $1000 to have it repaired.

Or when I must pay $1800 for a stupid transponder. (Hell, I was looking at
lawn tractors yesterday, and balked at spending $1000, cuz it was too
expensive. Think about that a minute...)

Most days, though, it's worth it.

I wish you luck, my friend.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

In article , G.R. Patterson III wrote:
As a C coder, I'm obsolete here. Everything is C++, Java, Perl, etc.,

I'm a C/C++ coder (did it for 7 years for IBM on a contract to the USPS)
but I didn't find it difficult to add Perl, PHP etc. I have never used
Java in anger but I don't think it would be difficult to learn.

If you are already a good _software engineer_, the language is almost
irrelevant - algorithms need the same thing in every language, so it
really boils down to learning some new syntax and language features
(such as regexps in Perl, but if you're already using Unix, it's not
hard). I used slack periods at work, and "scratch an itch" projects at
home to learn new languages.

wastes your money. My database experience is Informix and INGRES.
They want Oracle.

This is more of a problem, when you can't just download 'Orrible to
get experience with it. Like programming languages, RDBMS aren't that
different - if you know one well, it doesn't take half that effort to
learn another one. The bulk of it is the same.

With employers getting literally thousands of resumes for every i
position, they take
only people who are a perfect match for the job.

My solution was to 'network' - no, not the kind you do with Cat5e
cables, but the kind aspiring airline pilots do. My last two jobs were
not advertised. I'm also doing some freelance work which wasn't
advertised either. They all came through contacts I made through the
*flying club!* Flying clubs are excellent places to socially network -
because it tends to be a place where business owners/managers
accumulate, and will sometimes moan offline about how such and such a
system isn't working for them. Then you can offer to step in.

Most geeks don't do the social thing very well. If you do socially
network (being an antisocial geek myself, I found this very hard) you
stand out so much from the crowd that it massively improves your chances
of getting work: your fellow geeks are busy mailing out CVs (resumes)
but you actually know the business owners/managers - and will be
considered almost sight unseen before someone else's CV/resume is even
looked at.

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"