Some people are idiots!

[Anonymous]

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[John in CR]

That's why China is making significant investment in Africa. That's where all of the work will be done once Chinese labor prices come in line.

John

 

[Link]

Anyone know of any online IQ tests that are legit? For fun I did one online was rated a genius, went back and did it again and answered them all as wrong as I could and was still rated a genius. Of course they were selling more in depth evaluations.

The Spark's was the only one I've seen that's timed, so I'm inclined to mention that. :?

2. what color is red?

Almost too embarrassed to ask, but does no one else think this is a really tough question?

I'm going to assume there's going to be a card with a few choices on it, but if not, then try "the one that's around 635nm".

 

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[deronmoped]

Become self employed or the owner of the business, and create your own job security.

John

Yep, work as hard as you want, make as much as you want. I went that route twenty five years ago, pick who I will work for, set my hours, set my pay, vacation any time I want... "It's the only way to fly".

Deron.

 

[deronmoped]

As someone who had their previous career sent to Bangalore earlier this decade; I'm with nutz on this one.

I've been to Bangalore and Chennai (Madras). Bangalore is tech central in India. Seeing it up close was fascinating. There was 1950s style taxi cabs, three wheel rickshaws everywhere, people working under cars jacked up in the middle of fast moving traffic, you risk your life just crossing the road sometimes, there was monkeys running around the sidewalks, and I saw techies who live in tents and carry around computers on what looks like stretchers. I'm sure most techies don't live in tents but some do there. Yet the people are extremely motivated, determined, disciplined, smart, talented, polite, respectful. The most technical guy I ever knew was from India, and I've met several other Indians like him, not in India but in Silicon Valley. The thing to watch closely next is financial services. In 2001 there was 12 trillion wiped off the market value of tech stocks. Financial services are being hit even harder, and we're going to see a lot of the same things like in tech, only larger in magnitude, and these also cascade into other corporate businesses due to the financial services tsunami. If the banker that used to lend you money to make cash flow is broke, what then? Find another banker? What bankers aren't broke? Find another bailout? I believe we're eventually going to see huge hikes in interest rates. It has to be so or the USD and treasuries will take a big fall, and the consequences of that would be dramatic for everyone in the world.

Yeah, I figure as soon as the economy gets going again, inflation and interest rates will soar. Nothing is really happening right now because people are holding onto their money and not a lot of the hundreds of billions in stimulus has made it's way out into the market yet. At that point you would be wise to get rid of your cash, high inflation over a few years could easily cut 20% or more out of the value of a dollar.

Deron.