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Are Blogging and Unemployment Related?
Roland Piquepaille writes "The Washington Post is really nice with bloggers. Yesterday, it carried an article named "Free Speech -- Virtually," or "Legal Constraints on Web Journals Surprise Many 'Bloggers'". Today, Cynthia L. Webb focuses on an hypothesis from Chris Gulker, which he exposed in a column published by The Independent, "The View from Silicon Valley: Bloggers come in from the cold." As said Chris Gulker, "Many of us are Webloggers 'bloggers' for short. It would be interesting to see if there's a correlation between the meteoric rise of blogging, the practice of keeping a frequently-updated online journal, and the rise of unemployment in Silicon Valley and other tech corridors. Check this column for a summary or the original article for more details."
Hahahaha... You dumb shit. Wow. I can't stop laughing. hahahahaha must hit submit... side hurting... hahahaha
While people still like to bash the bell curve it's the first place I ever heard that phrase, and they said it often. I also learned first there what a normal distribution was (and what they said was the same I got in my stats classes).
The problem came when journalist and many other people read the correlation numbers and assumed it proved something. They complained constantly and many people took it to be gospel.
In fact the final conclusion of the bell curve was an increased emphasis on education. That a high level of education for people of lower intelligence had a great impact, just don't force the smarter kids to learn at thier pace - and I agree totally.
The other part is that genetics plays a large part of maximum intelligence. Thier quote was basically that had newton grown up in the rain forest he probably would have not invented calculus, but he would still have been smart. Don't force avarage children to take AP calsses and don't force brilliant children to take fundamental (that's what the lowest "hardness" classes were called when I was in school), Which also makes sense - maximise what each level is able to learn, don't force the kids (if an average intelligence can work hard enough to pass an ap course let them). All in all I think that is a reasonable thing, much better than what I experience in school (in order to "boost" thier self esteem they made certain kids go into a higher class than they could actually do, they learned nothing and they slowed the rest of the class considerably).
And finally my thoughts on it are most people have no problem with every other physical aspect being ruled by genetics, why is your innate intelligence the only one not? intellegence != education and that is important to remember, as above, put a below average person in an AP class and they are still below average, but an above average in a fundamental class and they are still above average. An above average that lives in the mountains of tennessee (as I have several family members who do) without electricity and no school : they are not educated, take a below average intelligence person in the cities of tennessee and put them through high school and they will have a lot higer level of education (will no more "things"). I never really found that too drastic of a thought and fairly obvious, but I know some people who that idea just enrages.
------- Sorry about the spelling, I suffer from two problems. Dyslexia makes it difficult to spell well, lazy makes it
Well, TI and something else. I've noticed on my HP49G, when playing around with RPN mode, that it's pretty easy to fuck up your order of operations if you aren't careful and you aren't familiar with RPN.
--sdem
Not blogging. Americans being fired from their own companies replaced by foreigners. I am not talking about immigrants, people who want to make a life in the United States, but FOREIGN WORKERS. Hell, with the L-1, they don't even need to worry about H1-B quotas.
I laugh at these numbskulls who think their "skillz" and "contribution to ze company" will let them keep their jobs. Your time is coming, and I feel bad for you because I was right there with ya. Look at your managers - skills DON'T MEAN SHIT. How much you cost is what they are looking at now. And it is pretty hard to rate against third world nations.
I know of companies that are PROFITABLE who are shedding american jobs, replaced by or keeping foreign workers.
IT jobs are going the way of steel, auto, textile, and most manufacturing jobs. The decay has reached upwards into our eco-social system.
California has a budget problem - why? Over 60% of the taxes are paid for by 10% of the taxpayers. What has happened to those high paying jobs? Shipped overseas. Those salaries and consultant level hourly wages are GONE man. And those stupid idiots in Sacremento want to raise even more taxes?!?!
Silicon Valley has a 40% office vacancy rate. This place is done, man. It's nearly half empty. I am seeing more and more graffitti and boards. It ain't coming back like it was. It is full of indians and chinese people - English is barely spoken here. That is the future of IT - better re-train into Bio-Tech cuz the money ain't in IT anymore - irregardless what those ITAA fools say about jobs.