Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Wed Dec 4 10:21:41 CST 2013
Jim, I can only speak from personal experience, and that is not much evidence. But something strange has happened to me in the past year. A bit of back-story first. I am 66 years old and have previously declared myself semi-retired. I love in Canada. My last three contracts have all been with firms in the USA. Granted that the USA comprises about 90% of the continental economy, this is hardly a position on which to bet. But the point I am trying to make here is that I have way better luck with obtaining contracts with American firms than Canadian. I cannot explain why that is. One of the last three derive from a book I wrote about MySQL. The other two happened because of my involvement in AccessD and DbaSQL. You should understand that this is not a complaint.I just find it interesting that Americans are interested in hiring me but Canadians are not. I have no idea why this is the case. On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Hans-Christian Andersen < hans.andersen at phulse.com> wrote: > From a radio show I was listening to, I think they said that Norways > government has a policy of selling all the natural gas and oil and putting > all the profits into social system and also into a nice big fat bank > account, so that they can use the money wisely in the future. They didn't > want to suffer the "Resource curse" that many countries seem to suffer when > they suddenly strike rich. > > Wikipedia has a good article about it: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse > > - Hans > > > On Dec 3, 2013, at 7:00 PM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > > > It is interesting to note that Norway, a country who actually products > and subsequently sells oil has the highest car fuel prices while Saudi > Arabia has the lowest? > > > > Jim > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Hans-Christian Andersen" <hans.andersen at phulse.com> > > To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" < > dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2013 2:32:36 PM > > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Way OT but I love you people so I'm posing > the question. > > > > I’m only surprised Denmark wasn’t among the top 3 most expensive > countries. > > > > We’re number 5! We’re number 5! (or 6, if you buy Diesel) > > > > - Hans > > > > > > On Dec 3, 2013, at 1:59 PM, Jon Tydda <jon at tydda.plus.com> wrote: > > > >> Well I'm stunned. You've managed to find somewhere that petrol is more > >> expensive than the UK! > >> > >> I found this site: http://www.fuel-prices-europe.info/ which has some > nice > >> comparisons in Euros and the local currency... so I'm paying about > double > >> what people in the US are paying. > >> > >> > >> Jon > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > >> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of > Salakhetdinov > >> Shamil > >> Sent: 02 December 2013 22:21 > >> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > >> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Way OT but I love you people so I'm posing the > >> question. > >> > >> Hi Jim -- > >> > >> I have been in the the East-South Italy Salento region this summer - I > can't > >> say prices somehow differ (/are lower than) from Paris or Amsterdam or > Ghent > >> or Brussels, where I have been last year November. And gasoline is very > >> expensive - 1.7x EURO in Italy ( http://www.energy.eu/ ) ), even here > in > >> Russia it's now "just" ~1USD+/liter. Well, ordinary everyday good wine > costs > >> in Italy are low (up to 3EURO per 0.7l bottle) as well as prices for > some > >> Italian local fruits and vegetables but that's it AFAIHF. > >> > >> Thank you. > >> > >> -- Shamil > >> > >> > >> Monday, December 2, 2013 12:25 PM -07:00 from Jim Lawrence > >> <accessd at shaw.ca>: > >>> Italy would definitely be a good place to go...considering Italians > have > >> been running things for around 3000 years, first the Roman Empire and > then > >> the Roman Catholic church...so they have hordes of culture from > everywhere. > >> Then there is a bit of a recession going on in the country so the prices > >> might also be excellent. > >>> > >>> ...And anyone that can build the Ferrari, Maserati and Lamborghini to > name > >> a few... > >>> > >>> Jim > >> <<< skipped >>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> dba-Tech mailing list > >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> dba-Tech mailing list > >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- Arthur