Xander ,'Sleeper'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Huh. And I just got my raise, effective tomorrow.
Of course, it may only be good for 2 weeks!
Excuse me while I go depress myself for being rather overpaid given my experience and fear I'll not be able to find something starting in this bracket anytime soon.
So, like, what kind of raises are folks in the IT industry getting?
I got a long-overdue 3% cost-of-living raise. Last year.
It's a strange, strange day when I find myself missing George the Elder.
No doubt. And when I say, "FUCK! Sandra Day O'Connor's retiring!"
As an IT professional in DC last year, I got 6%. Which is about what I'd gotten the previous 3 years also. That's for softer stuff - writing JSPs and doing some interface design, with a smattering of project management. Of course, I work for a Big Evil Defense Contractor, and business has been good in that sector, this administration.
They're swearing in Antonio Villaraigosa today. As he was starting his speech by acknowledging the names in the audience, like former mayor Hahn, he spoke Vice President Al Gore's name and the audience erupted in cheer.
Then he spoke Governer Schwarzenegger's name and the crowd booed, to which Villaraigosa responded -- "Angelinos.... Angelinos.... There will be civility here today...."
Wow.
Did you mean to post that in Movies, bon?
So, pursuant to Sean's story about the swearing-in...why are the coasts more liberal than the heartland? Do liberals move to coastal areas? Is it the influx of immigrants? The constant awareness due to ports that there's more than just us in the world? Chemical pollution in the ocean? Heterogenous cities (I kinda covered that already)?
Are coasts in other countries more liberal than inland areas?
Yes, yes I did mean to post that in Movies.
This is what happens when you have two threads open at once.
I think it's a combination of all of that, Raq. Immigrants, ports, heterogeny, and I think there is a tendancy for liberal minded youths in the heartland to want to run screaming from a world view that's so very different fromt heir own.
I don't know if it's really so much coasts vs inland as urban vs rural, and the big cities are primarily on the coasts because they were all ports at one time.