Seen in Print

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Once a rare event but not anymore.

Graduation?

Actually, what you are referring to has been steadily decreasing for many years......but stupidity does remain an active force in the Universe.

No, baby birth and graduation close together in time.

Like I wrote - that's actually been declining.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Progress!

[rogruth]

Progress!

Probably not. Still preggers but not graduating.

[Tom Dempsey]

Most school districts now have "relaxed fit" high schools where the class schedule runs more like a college and most lecture classes are available online. That's where the pregnant girls go to school Roger, also, the class clowns, sufferers of various Autism spectrum maladies, the soon to drop out crowd, and the kids who are about to jump to running start because public education is just plain moving too slow for them. Sure wish that had been around when I was in school.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Is there something to be said for students learning in-concert, still?

[rogruth]

Tom,
Most of those school districts are not in this area or even thought of.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[up148]

That sign is so apropos for today's world. I think our food source is as much to blame for the "Michelin Man" look as ice cream. Watching the news and seeing hurricane victims, it's hard to believe the number of plump and obese people in our society today. And even the thin ones look soft.

BH

[rogruth]

That sign is so apropos for today's world. I think our food source is as much to blame for the "Michelin Man" look as ice cream. Watching the news and seeing hurricane victims, it's hard to believe the number of plump and obese people in our society today. And even the thin ones look soft.

BH

Yes and most of them just sit around and twiddle their thumbs on their phones.
I am still amazed at the cost of toys today.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

That sign is so apropos for today's world. I think our food source is as much to blame for the "Michelin Man" look as ice cream. Watching the news and seeing hurricane victims, it's hard to believe the number of plump and obese people in our society today. And even the thin ones look soft.

BH

Yes and most of them just sit around and twiddle their thumbs on their phones.
I am still amazed at the cost of toys today.

iPhone 10 starting at ~$1k..............

[HONDO74]

Yes and most of them just sit around and twiddle their thumbs on their phones.
I am still amazed at the cost of toys today.

iPhone 10 starting at ~$1k..............[/quote]

And the American people will be lining up to buy one before Christmas, helping China to become the #1 economy in the world.

Apple iPhone produced by Foxconn

1,000,000: Number of workers Foxconn employs in China
100,000: Number of production lines it runs
300,000: Number of people working exclusively on the iPhone
24 hours, 7 days a week: Foxconn's iPhone factory runtime
500,000: Daily iPhone output from Foxconn's Zhengzhou site

[up148]

I guess we have a new phrase. "Too big to boycott". Thats a lot of people who could be employed on this side of the pond.

BH

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I guess we have a new phrase. "Too big to boycott". Thats a lot of people who could be employed on this side of the pond.

Are they willing to work for the same wages & conditions?

[HONDO74]

I guess we have a new phrase. "Too big to boycott". Thats a lot of people who could be employed on this side of the pond.

Are they willing to work for the same wages & conditions?

NO and neither would you Rufus. The people in this country expect to be paid a living wage and have good working conditions. They don't expect to be paid as Chinese slaves.

Apple's cash reserves swell to $250bn
Its holdings have more than doubled in the last five years as Apple stashes increasing amounts offshore, in anticipation of a tax holiday that will let it repatriate cash.

Over the years, Apple Inc. has become the poster child for U.S. multinationals accused of sheltering overseas profits to avoid the IRS. What’s gone largely unnoticed is that it’s been paid more than half a billion dollars by the U.S. government to do just that.

Taking advantage of an exemption tucked into America’s Byzantine tax code, Apple stashed much of its foreign earnings—tax-free—right here in the U.S., in part by purchasing government bonds, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. In return, the Treasury Department paid Apple at least $600 million and possibly much more over the past five years in the form of interest, a Bloomberg review of its regulatory filings shows.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I guess we have a new phrase. "Too big to boycott". Thats a lot of people who could be employed on this side of the pond.

Are they willing to work for the same wages & conditions?

NO and neither would you Rufus. The people in this country expect to be paid a living wage and have good working conditions. They don't expect to be paid as Chinese slaves.

So, moving a 100k jobs and the factory here is not happening then. Reality is a cruel mistress, and folks need to accept that and move on. BTW, a lot of those "slaves' now get some pretty decent wages and instead of wanting to stay in the US and make money, the technical STEM trained kids go back to China to get paid more than we can pay them here. We fail to compete all around.

Taking advantage of an exemption tucked into America’s Byzantine tax code, Apple stashed much of its foreign earnings—tax-free—right here in the U.S., in part by purchasing government bonds, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.

Actually, most of it is not in the US at all - if it were brought into the US in any form, then it would be taxed - leaving it off shore where it was earned from international sales leaves it untaxed. Reading the annual reports is useful.