http://shnelvar.pmpblogs.com Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:54:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On 2010-03-04, yaakovwatkins commented in http://www.dailycamera.com/opinion-columnists/ci_14506978#ixzz0hCvIDF3p Questions. It is odd to talk about how sleepy someone is if we don't talk about when they went to sleep, only when they get up. I disagree. Certainly, the number of sleep hours is important but so is WHEN those hours are ... http://shnelvar.pmpblogs.com/2010/03/04/teenagers-sleep-and-the-market/ I urge the Gentle reader to read http://www.dailycamera.com/guestopinion/ci_14059029 A poster, btm1001, wrote: "And since the new minimum wage means employers will hire the most skilled applicants first, teens find they are left out in the cold." So prior to the new minimum wage, employers hired the least skilled applicants first? It's the economy stupid! ... http://shnelvar.pmpblogs.com/2009/12/25/minimum-wage/ Let me state the obvious: AIDS is a tragedy. Millions of people a year die from this disease. Let me state the obvious: people die in car accidents and motorcycle accidents. People die skiing, too. When someone dies unexpectedly, it is a loss to their loved ones. Nearly all who ... http://shnelvar.pmpblogs.com/2009/12/17/the-odds-of-getting-aids/ In response to a letter published in the LTE of the Camera on 2009-09-15. PAUL DOUGAN : "And if you want to stop further Nat Turners, being harsher with the enslaved won`t help. You need to abolish slavery." There are two solutions to the problem. More terror or freedom. The Roman Empire had ... http://shnelvar.pmpblogs.com/2009/09/15/on-terrorizing-slaves/ Back in the early 1970's, I had worked on this very same issue: Is a college education worth getting? I was a programmer working with an econometrician trying to decide this. In fact, Milton Friedman reported (incorrectly) that a college education was NOT worth the investment in forgone income plus the ... http://shnelvar.pmpblogs.com/2009/08/13/on-going-to-college/ From http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/apr/30/30elet/ Photovoltaic arrays for energy efficiency I was inspired by the photo in the paper (April 16) about the extensive 98-kilowatt photovoltaic (PV) solar system installed by SolSource of Denver on the roof of Blue Mountain Arts. When I think of all the acres of flat rooftops available in Boulder, imagine ... http://shnelvar.pmpblogs.com/2009/04/30/11/ There is a woman, lafayetteeast, who feels that all of my complaints about government are negative.  You can see the back and forth at http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/apr/20/20elet/ lafayetteeast: "Ralph: yes ... you've hit your nail on the head ... you despise .... you are a negativity freak ... everything with you is negative ... ... http://shnelvar.pmpblogs.com/2009/04/23/4/ As I write this, you can see my older blogs at http://www.dailycamera.com/blogs/community-blog-ralph-shnelvar/ http://shnelvar.pmpblogs.com/2009/04/23/older-blogs/