The Cellar / Charts, Graphs, & data piles.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 8/09/2021 11:52 pm

I got a copy of the PA summery of vehicle registrations for 2020. Tells how many of each classification of cars, trucks, trailers, motorcycles, etc by fuel used, [strike]handicapped[/strike] Disability plates, etc by county.
But at the end of the pages of county stats they have out of state. WTF, why would you register your vehicle here if you ain't?
I guess people who live in and around NYC would register at their place in the Poconos. Rental trucks/trailers owned by a corporation out of state. School busses rented from an out of state corporation. But 72,000 trucks in the pickup weight slots, and 85 hearses, for over 12 million total just boggles my mind.

**Posted by glatt** 11/12/2021 8:24 am

It turns out that the Terminator movies were wrong and the machines are killing off the human race by seducing us and keeping us from spending time with one another. Don't believe me? Look at where your attention is right now.

**Posted by Flint** 11/12/2021 1:19 pm

glatt wrote:
Look at where your attention is right now.

I'm sitting at a desk so I can buy food.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 11/14/2021 10:44 pm

Top 10 depreciators in the first 5 years.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 11/27/2021 11:15 pm

Missing persons...

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 11/27/2021 11:17 pm

Black Friday '21 the US oil futures took a big hit...

**Posted by griff** 11/28/2021 7:55 am

Didn't we want this?

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 11/28/2021 1:46 pm

Indubitably, but it won't show up at retail level unless it's sustained for quite awhile.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 11/29/2021 10:46 pm

No wonder we've got so many nazis running around, the joint is crawling with krauts.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 12/01/2021 11:40 am

Burglaries by state...

**Posted by glatt** 12/01/2021 5:51 pm

I always wondered why people complain about crime so much in this country and vote for politicians who fund cops, and now I see why. I didn't know I lived in an anomaly.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 12/02/2021 2:00 am

Of course this was for 2020 and there were a lot more people home than pre pandemic.

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 12/11/2021 4:29 pm

Maybe we have had this before. If so, watch it again. Full screen.
Note average vs. max depths.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5C7sqVe2Vg

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 12/19/2021 3:54 am

Where is everyone...

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 12/25/2021 1:15 am

Countries with mountains galore...

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 1/10/2022 12:20 am

The most edited Wiki articles...

**Posted by tw** 1/10/2022 8:04 pm

xoxoxoBruce wrote:
The most edited Wiki articles...

What parameters define 'edited'? Number of changes? Number of edits censored (removed) by moderators? Size of changes or addition of new subtiltes?

**Posted by Flint** 1/11/2022 7:52 pm

what's the deal with 'Deaths in 2013" ??

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 1/12/2022 2:52 am

I wonder what Google's electric bill is...

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 1/12/2022 5:11 am

Flint wrote:
what's the deal with 'Deaths in 2013" ??

People died.

It was this whole...thing.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 1/14/2022 8:40 pm

tw wrote:
xoxoxoBruce wrote:
The most edited Wiki articles...
What parameters define 'edited'? Number of changes? Number of edits censored (removed) by moderators? Size of changes or addition of new subtiltes?

Edit = a change or correction made as a result of editing.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 1/14/2022 8:44 pm

Michigan snowplow names...

Michigan has a lot of roads, #10 in the nation, one ahead of PA...

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 1/14/2022 8:54 pm

There are Federal programs to help train people to build roads. Not the engineers who design them but the actual get you hands dirty builders. There is apparently people willing to do the work but can't get hired because of a lack of experience. Say a person has been working for an outfit doing concrete foundations and celler slabs. It doesn't take much training to bring them up to speed on concrete highway building but contractors don't want to train them.

**Posted by tw** 1/15/2022 1:11 pm

That trend is directly traceable to a spreadsheet mentality that makes all decisions from costs - not from value. Same created a major shortage of welders. Companies refused to pay for training welders. Since a more experiences (better trained) welder requires higher pay. Or will move on.

According to business school graduates, training only increases costs. Better trained welders have no value. Reality: a better educated welder who is paid more money ACTUALLY means higher profits. But reasons for those profits does not have an entry on spreadsheets. So it does not exist.

Cost controls claim training is an expense - not an asset to a company. A problem directly traceable to top management that does not come from where the work get done. That comes from business schools. Another example of a well proven reality. 85% of all problems are directly traceable to top management.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 1/26/2022 11:10 pm

But if you train better welders somebody else will hire them away for more money they can afford to pay because they didn't have to pay for training. We'll just let the robots do it.