2017 November

2nd month of the 4th quarter of the 28th year of the Bush-Clinton-Shrub-Obummer economic depression

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  "Compaq, Cisco Systems, and several other companies [e.g. John Deere, GE] are leaders of a new [since 1980] business strategy: out-sourcing [including domestic and off-shore out-sourcing]. Cisco, which not long ago was poised to become the first trillion-dollar company, is [a] driving force behind this trend. It reached a 30% to 40% annual revenue growth with a [then] novel approach to manufacturing: It didn't build anything that it sold." --- Albert Laszlo Barabasi & Jennifer Frangos 2002, 2003, 2014 _Linked: How EveryThing Is Connected to EveryThing Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and EveryDay Life_ pg212  

 
 
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  "Peru... Beginning in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as agricultural laborers, working under conditions that led to high death rates, the Japanese in Peru soon moved into urban communities, where they began working in occupations ranging from domestic servants to small business owners.     Eventually, the Japanese owned three-quarters of all the barber-shops and 200 grocery stores in Peru's capital city, Lima.     Even as agricultural laborers, the Japanese work habits made them more in demand than Peruvian workers, and the Japanese laborers were paid more.     The Japanese acquired a reputation not only for hard work, but also for reliability and honesty.     They also took more interest than Peruvians in the education of their children.     The illiteracy rate in Peru was 79% in 1876, and, though it declined over the generations, 58% of the population was still illiterate in 1940.     Manufacturing firms in Peru during this era were usually controlled either by foreigners or by recent immigrants." --- Thomas Sowell 2015 _Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective_ pg205 (citing C. Harvey Gardiner 1975 _The Japanese and Peru 1873-1973_ pp25, 61-62, 64, 68;     Joalo Frederico Normano, Antonello Gerbi & Anita Bradley 1943 _The Japanese in South America: An Introductory Survey with Special Reference to Peru_ pp70, 109-110;     Toraji Irie & William Himel 1951 November "History of Japanese Migration to Peru part 2" _Hispanic American Historical Review_ vol31 #4 pg662;     William R. Long 1995-04-28 "New Pride for Nikkei in Peru" _LATimes_ pgA1;     Pablo Macera & Shane J. Hunt "Peru" in Roberto Cortes Conde & Stanley J. Stein 1977 _Latin America: Guide to Economic History_ pg566)  

 
 

 

 


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2017 October

3rd month of the 3rd quarter of the 28th year of the Bush-Clinton-Shrub-Obummer economic depression


 
 
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Proposed Bills 2017
 
 
  "[Rolando Gonzalez Barron] announced in 2002 April that 300K workers had been laid off on the border in 2001 and the first months of 2002. Marco Antonio Tomas of Mexico City's Center for Labor Research (CILAS) put the number of lay-offs at 400K as of 2002 November. Until the crisis hit, the maquiladora industry had employed more than 1.3M workers, according to the association. Never the less, only 2 actual plant closures have been cited [directly linked] as evidence of flight to [Red China]. One, a factory making computer monitors for Phillips North America in Juarez, shut down during the Summer of 2002, costin about 600 jobs. Production moved to Suzhou, [Red China]. In another case, Canon close an older facility making ink-jet printers, moving production to SouthEast Asia. Phillips, however, has another 12 border plants, including ones that make televisions, and the company increased investment in many of them in the same year. The other big television manufacturers, Sony, Samsung, and Thomson, also continue to produce in Mexican plants." --- David Bacon 2004 _The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the USA/Mexico Border_ pp315-316  

 
 
Kkilo-thousand 10^31,000
Mmega-millionone thousand thousand10^61,000,000
Ggiga-billionone thousand million10^91,000,000,000
Ttera-trillionone million million10^121,000,000,000,000
Ppeta-quadrillionone million billion10^151,000,000,000,000,000
Eexa-quintillionone billion billion10^181,000,000,000,000,000,000
Zzetta-sextillionone billion trillion10^211,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Yyotta-septillionone trillion trillion10^241,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Except that computer people use 2 as a base raised to multiples of powers of 10, instead of 10 raised to multiples of powers of 3 because powers of 2 are handier for them, but they also want to stay somewhat close to the values of 10 most folks are used to.
1,024Kkilo- (kibi-)2^10
1,048,576Mmega- (mebi-)2^20
1,073,741,824Ggiga- (gibi-)2^30
1,099,511,627,776Ttera- (tebi-)2^40
1,125,899,906,842,624Ppeta- (pebi-)2^50
1,152,921,504,606,846,976Eexa- (exbi-)2^60
1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424Zzetta- (zebi-)2^70
1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176Yyotta- (yobi-)2^80

An alternate set of prefixes has been proposed.


 


 
Proposed Bills 2017


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  "Competence and years of experience are different matters.   Someone might be incompetent for many decades in office, especially since contemporary civil service rules make it nearly impossible to send packing even the most hapless or indolent bureaucrat.   Jackson and his [predecessors and] successors did not deny that experience was important.   But they understood that other values were also important and that allowing public officials to serve for decades might interfere with the realization of such democratic goals as responsiveness to the public and accountability to elected officials." --- Jennifer Bachner, Benjamin Ginsberg, Steven L. Mitchell & Laura Shelley 2016 _What Washington DC Gets Wrong: The UnElected Officials Who Actually Run the Government and Their MisConceptions [about and hostility to] the USA People_ pp160-161  

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