Immigration

Posted by John on August 14th 2008 to Politics

Every week night, Lou Dobbs rants about the evils of illegal immigration, and many politicians also get mileage out of that.
However a recent study shows that one argument they use is simply wrong:

“Immigrants in [California], about 35 percent of adults, are far less likely than native-born Americans to commit crimes, according to a study by the Public Policy Institute of California, a nonpartisan research group. Among men ages 18 to 40, the group most likely to commit crimes, native-born Americans were 10 times more likely than immigrants to be incarcerated for crimes in California prisons and jails. The study included both legal and illegal immigrants, without focusing separately on illegal immigrants. But it found that native-born American men ages 18 to 40 were at least eight times more likely to be imprisoned for crimes than Mexican immigrants in that age range who were not naturalized citizens — a group likely to have a high percentage of illegal immigrants.” – New York Times.

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Netflix

Posted by John on August 14th 2008 to Managing

It’s conventional to say, “only the paranoid survive” but that’s not true. The paranoid die because the paranoid take all threats as serious and get very distracted.

– Reed Hastings, Netflix

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Marti

Posted by John on August 12th 2008 to Quotations

You must have faith in the best of man and distrust the worst. If not, the worst will prevail.

- Jose Marti

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Ford

Posted by John on August 11th 2008 to Quotations

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. -Henry Ford

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Briggs & Riley

Posted by John on August 05th 2008 to Selling

My favorite backpack just had a zipper failure, so 25 years after graduate school, I’m migrating to a grown up briefcase. It is one of the few things that I use every single day and travels with me all over the world, so it was a hard decision. I bought one from Briggs & Riley, and aside from it being as heavy as a cinder block even when empty, it is a great bag. Their warranty policy is my favorite part:

“Q: Do I need my receipt in order to have my bag repaired? A: No. The fact that you have a Briggs & Riley bag entitles you to warranty repair.”

 Contrast this with a recent Casio camera repair I tried have done. Despite the fact that it had a one year warranty, and the model was only on the market for six months, I had to either show a proof of purchase or a NOTARIZED affadavit that I received it as a gift within the past year!

 

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