Student Drop-Out Rates...why?

Jim wrote:

This is correct only if "the number in the middle" means half of the
sequence of numbers are below it and half are above it.

Actually half the numbers are less than or equal to it and half are greater than
or equal to it.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

Icebound wrote:

Does not the Recreational, with a cross-country endorsement, give pretty
much everything the SP certificate gives, including the lesser medical
requirement?

Nope.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

On 2005-08-24, Jay Honeck wrote:
It doesn't matter how desirable something is to someone who can't afford
it or how affordable something is to someone who doesn't want it, desire
and resources have to match. Aviation doesn't appeal to many of those who
can afford it.

WHY?

Aviation doesn't appeal, period.

Being in the air is NOT our natural habitat. I'm coming more to the
conclusion that myself and my fellow pilots, aviators, skydivers
(particularly skydivers), hang glider pilots, glider pilots - any sort
of aviator at all, aren't really wired quite the same way as everyone
else.

Everyone else instincively knows that being more than a few feet AGL is
not natural and rather dumb, and only tolerate airline travel because
it's the only way to get some places and you are so insulated fand
distracted from the actual going up in the air bit, they can ignore for
a few hours that they are not firmly attached to the ground. Anything
that reminds them of this (the tiniest bit of turbulence, for example)
makes them anxious (and makes some of them whimper). We didn't evolve as
an airborne species. It is totally alien. To subject yourself to this
voluntarily is, in the subconscious lizard-mind totally insane. So they
don't do it.

There is only a tiny proportion of the population who doesn't
subconsicously find the idea of flying around many thousands of feet
from their natural habitat deeply disturbing. When an aviator stands on
top of a large hill, at least part of them is thinking "Wouldn't it be
cool to run down here with a hang-glider...". When a normal person
stands on top of a big hill, they think "It'd really suck to trip right
now". At least subconsicously.

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

On 2005-08-25, wrote:
Move out of New Jersey. Work as a consultant and you can live anywhere
you can get a high-speed internet connection. No commute necessary and
real estate costs a lot less. I hire developers and sales people almost

Trouble is - if as a computer professional you have a job where you
telecommute (or can telecommute), so can someone from India at a tenth
of your salary. If you want work which gives you the stability to own
and continue to fly an aircraft, you need a job that requires at least
reasonable frequent physical presence so you don't get outsourced.

Mike Rapoport wrote:
What is a "wuffo"

"Wuffo" you jumpin outa that airplane?

Dylan Smith wrote:
Aviation doesn't appeal, period.
Being in the air is NOT our natural habitat.

I'm not even going to ask you opinion about submariners! :-))

"George Patterson" wrote in message
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TaxSrv wrote:

Refineries are like anything else, there are too many of
them so nobody builds any more.

I'm not an expert on this industry either, but do you have a source for
the above? Is the industry lying when they say that at peak demand,
refineries are generally at capacity?

From what I've read, we are at a period of running at capacity. Which
means
that we are getting close to a period in which (as Mike put it) "the
market
grows and there is a shortage." Which will be followed by a period in
which (as
Mike put it) "Then everybody builds more and there is a glut again."

Except they haven't built a new one in about 30 years, and they've closed
(how many) in those 30 some odd years.

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:46:58 GMT, George Patterson
wrote:

Jim wrote:

This is correct only if "the number in the middle" means half of the
sequence of numbers are below it and half are above it.

Actually half the numbers are less than or equal to it and half are greater than
or equal to it.

Much better.


George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

Dylan Smith wrote:
On 2005-08-25, wrote:
Move out of New Jersey. Work as a consultant and you can live anywhere
you can get a high-speed internet connection. No commute necessary and
real estate costs a lot less. I hire developers and sales people almost

Trouble is - if as a computer professional you have a job where you
telecommute (or can telecommute), so can someone from India at a tenth
of your salary. If you want work which gives you the stability to own
and continue to fly an aircraft, you need a job that requires at least
reasonable frequent physical presence so you don't get outsourced.

The real-world picture is a bit more complicated than this. Working
with offshore resources costs a lot more than just the salary of the
guy in Bangalore. If you're contracting resources in small volume,
reasonably-skilled people can easily cost $2500/month, and in order to
get the job done you will probably need an in-country project manager
who costs another $2500. So a three-man shop costs $10k/mo.

In many cases you could do the same job here in the US with 2 good
coders who can manage themselves, live in your time zone, and
understand American business. You won't find good people for $60k/year
who live in the Manhattan area, but you might find them in Florida,
Texas, or Idaho where everything costs half as much and there's no
income tax.

Companies like GE or Accenture can push rates lower because of scale,
but most companies are not able to support those kinds of operations.
Not to mention that there are still many projects where cultural
knowledge that any American resident has will make things go much, much
easier. There is and always will be a place in the picture for American
IT workers.

-cwk.

Excellent grammar and punctuation, but some wrong facts. Idaho's PIT kicks
in a $1,129 at a rate of 1.6% and rachets up to 7.8% at $22,577.

You were correct that Texas and FLA have no income tax.