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Yeah, I'd like to see a link on the trades with entry level $80K

He didn't say entry level, so I'm assuming he is talking high end for both jobs with or without degree. Some numbers for good paying jobs without a degree: https://careers.workopolis.com...

I live in Calgary (Canada), and the job market is definitely starting to pick up here. I was laid off from my previous employer in September, but within days had more interviews than I knew what to do with. And the money is starting to get better as well.

If you are interested in the job market in Canada, the best job site around here is http://www.workopolis.com/

If you have any oil or gas experience, then head to Calgary.

Just hire me as a consultant and ill take care of it for you.

Man. Wrong site.
Workopolis it is. Not slashdot.

I don't think I noticed any mention of that in their recruitment ads. Hmm, nope.

It probably will happen though, as our existing nuclear plants (especially Pickering and Bruce) are nearing the ends of their lives, and the govt. wants to phase out our fossil fuel plants because they contribute to the smog problem in southern Ontario every summer. And with increasing electricity consumption, especially during the hot summers, we are faced with the threat of rolling blackouts and having to buy electricity off of Quebec and the US in order to meet demand.

http://www.workopolis.com/
http://www.monster.ca/

"I'm pretty sure that China would be glad to take all of Canada's oil currently going to the U.S."

Speak of the devil...

http://globeandmail.workopolis.com/servlet/Content /fasttrack/20050415/RENBRIDGE15?section=Energy

OPEC, right? A full retranslation:

"It appears that the United States is striking back at OPEC in the Middle East . After what appeared to be a preemptive strike against terrorism, many dictators were removed from power. It doesn't actually mention OPEC, but its pretty well accepted that monopolizing oil wells is mostly done by OPEC."

I can't help but disagree with most of the responses to this point. In my opinion China is rapidly improving in many ways - just look at their progress within the last decade.

Arguably the two biggest problems facing their country - overpopulation and pollution - are slowly coming to an end (still decades though). What makes this case interesting is that the same government that has censorship to retain control can swiftly implement strategies to solve problems. By limiting families to one child by law - the population is remaining manageably steady at 0.57% growth (2004 est). Not that I'm promoting communism - but if the US suddenly faced a problem of overpopulation how long would it be before protesting and ignorance tapered done enough for our government to implement an obviously necessary law?

US law also seems to limit non-competes. One law firm has listed all sorts of complications, including the need for the employer to provide additional "consideration" (ie. money) if a non-compete is provided.

I created myself a linux job by selling linux and openbsd solutions to one of my customers. Linux do a great job replacing aging and worm ridden NT servers.

Furthermore, when you search linux on yahoo hotjobs , you will find thousands of linux jobs. In Québec, were i live, linux jobs are also available.

If the state would pay for T1s for the schools, I guarantee you plenty of teachers (and administrators) would find good uses for them

Like child pornography!

</tounge-in-cheek>

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for installing internet service in schools - but you know sometimes you have to stop and think about what they really need it for, and what it will actually be used for, and if what you're paying for is what you need.

Do you really need 5 computers in every classroom, from Kindergarten to Grade 12 (On top of multiple, dedicated 20 or 30 machine labs PLUS library and office stations)? Do they all need internet access?
=Smidge=

You can always smell a "something for nothing" democrat.

Life isn't all ergonomic keyboards and naptimes on company time. Your entire argument is based on emotion and conjecture. Walmart has done nothing illegal, and for you to bash them as if they're just some evil corporation is ridiculous.

...sub-poverty level wages. If you stay long enough you're left with back problems, wrist problems, and bone spurs for your trouble.
sub-poverty level to me, and I may be wrong about this, means below poverty level. Being paid about two times minimum wage wouldn't be below poverty level. I would think below minimum wage would be sub-poverty level.

not the way the world works. These people are living on such a thin margin of financial saftey that a missed paycheck, an injury, their car breaking down, can make the difference and put them on the street.
Actually, that's exactly how the world works. Here's the secret. If you have some ambition for a better job, go out and start looking while you hold your current job. You may be miserable for a little while, but if you line it up right, you can quit your current job and move on to you new happy job.

• investors - so they buy stock for his pump-n-dump
• corporate linux users - so they put more consideration into getting licenses
• sco staff - so they don't spend their workday surfing workopolis
• his mom - so she's not so embarassed that she goes back to her maiden name

honestly, he doesn't care if anyone on this site believes him or not (unless his mom is reading that is...)

That's less than US$29K. While one of the job requirements may be unique, it would be amusing to see how long a heterosexual male would last working there.

http://www.workopolis.com/servlet/Content/fasttrac k/20030301/RNEWS-3?section=Technology

http://www.dieselnet.com/news/0106litex.html

http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stori es/2003/03/31/newscolumn7.html

http://www.nordicwirelesswatch.com/wireless/story. html?story_id=2654

In a real company, they would be tossed out the door.

A while back, I came across this article that really put into perspective how successful the *real* companies are at making computer products. Look towards the end of the article for the really good part.

The jist of it is that Mitch Kapor, after Lotus became wildly successful and turned into a "real company", did an experiment and submitted the resumes of the first 40 people who started Lotus (including Kapor himself) to the hiring department (I assumed they changed the names but keeping the characteristics of the CV's). Not a single one of the people responsable for the original innovation that made all the money ever received any kind of response.

The combined companies that make up the RIAA have released fewer new tiles. See the BusinessWeek article and this article by George Ziemann of MacWizards Music

If I understand basic accounting correctly, then releasing 20% fewer new titles should reduce expenses somwhat (admittedly not by quite 20%), so suffering only a 7% drop in sales should look like an increase in profits, unless you are expiriencing losses other than in sales.

I have learned of much of the new music I listen to through CDBaby.com and I'm sure that the RIAA companies are not very happy about losing customers to artists that don't care much for the typical record company contract.

It seems the companies are once again not being quite honest about thier losses, the causes, and, it seems, thier motives.

Winnipeg's National Microbiology Laboratory has good reason to think this isn't coronavirus at all.

Ok, so not the most trusted news source, but it was the first I could find quick, and it's been all over our local news for several days now. Why isn't anyone else reporting this? Bad news sells more eyeballs?

Some people might end up taking this job:

Human Resources Development Canada "Senior Web Developer" Position

BTW, I had a friend that worked where you did (Pixstream/Cisco). He was only there 2 months when they pulled the plug and he got 6 MONTHS severance! I'm guessing you got more than that - it must be nice. The small company that I worked for 5 years (also in video) shut down 2 months ago and we got NO severance (not even the paltry government legislated minimum yet, but that's another story).

Oh, and I'm a Waterloo EE grad (about 10 years older than you, I'm guessing); we had only about 3% women in those days. Good thing that there was Arts, Kineseology and Wifred Laurier Universty!

Had this not been miraculously modded up into the realm of positive numbers, I would have continued to ignore it. However, given that the weirdos with spare points and an antiwar axe to grind deem, by their positive moderation, your comment somehow relevant to the original article, I will respond (nee bite).

(If the original AC post, entitled "Sick", has since been appropriately re-modded into oblivion, Slashdot folks can move right along to the next post, as there's nothing to see here.)

First, we're not all Americans on here, you know - I would hardly call Slashdot "US media" (Fastcompany, I'll acknowledge, is as US as it comes this side of Guns and Ammo). Second, if you were paying attention in history class you'd know that, by most interpretations, there wouldn't be an english-speaking Great Britain today if it weren't for the Americans and Canadians that rolled up onto the shores of Normandy. (Granted the Soviets also had a lot to do with it, but the history books most post-war Brits undoubtedly favoured the American influence over the Soviet influence on the matter. Save the debate for later.)

The reality of the matter is that there are certain times where force, and/or the threat of force, absolutely MUST be used in the name of peace and saving lives. Asking an advancing army nicely doesn't always work. I think that much is pretty obvious to anyone over three apples high.

As for the B52s in question, you (as a war hater) should be able to grasp that preserving B52s is GOOD for those with your mentality, for three simple reasons.

#1 - It's good for the environment to reduce, reuse and recycle, right? Better to use what we have already than build new bombers.

#2 - B52s are hardly high-tech. Keeping them around means less likelihood of an arms race based on either a) more of the planes that replace them (B1-B/B2 etc) or b)the search for alternative delivery mechanisms (ICBM / space laser / rail-gun / death ray).

YOU of all people should be THANKFUL that B52s are being kept instead of scrapped for newer, scarier war technologies - better the smoky, subsonic devil you know than the one you don't. Let me know if you're still having trouble with this concept.

#3 - Economics. Undoubtedly, you're not a big fan of your tax money going to defence. I know, I know, you're not an American, but from UN dues to NATO dues to peacekeeper participation, I'd guess your country foots some of the bill somewhere down the line. And besides, would you rather have the best scientists and engineers in the world working on a B52 replacement, or working on more peaceful things?

So yes, tell me again how you disapprove of this article and the news that B52s are going to be kept online for the next fourty years.

Last little bit, the US military is becoming MORE militaristic than it was in, say, the 1980s? Or in the 1960s, when Walt Disney submitted each of his films to the FBI for editing? Or during WWII, when major pro-war Hollywood films were made entirely with government grants? Where-ya-been? Now, more than ever (which admittedly isn't saying much), US media is quasi-objective about what its government and military are doing. If you're a Western European, you're shallow for not recognizing that your country's freedom is in no small way connected to Americans. If you're an Eastern European, you are a hypocrite for complaining about the actions of American media when your own (former soviet) media are so blind to what goes on in Chechnya and if you are neither Eastern European nor Western European, how in heck are you able to offer a "European point of view"?

Sheesh.

Enjoy your 16th birthday... and the freedom that surrounds it.