We are at a cross-roads in this country--a cross-roads that affects the entire world. I hope that enough of us can turn off the news and decide for ourselves so that we can have the wonderful future that is easily within reach. I wish the US government would take the lead but I don't think it will happen. I have faith in the people though. A couple people own all of the news companies in the US and throughout the world. This is the reason we don't have conversations about improving worker conditions in other countries. This is a key in improving everyone's life and is so easy to do. Yet, people keep throwing their money at these fucking sweatshops and want to pretend they are not taking part in the abuse of others and themselves. These elites who user these issues out of the forum of debate love taxes and they love debt...it keeps them in control. Tax people to death, make them run to the bank to buy anything significant. It is not a hard math problem and we have writings going back thousands of years warning us about this.
It is not that complicated. People need to be trained properly. I have never met anyone who was trained properly. I taught myself and devoured blogs, books, forums for years that involved discussions around best practices, patterns, and case studies to hone myself into a professional developer. Most people devour reddit.
I counsel any young person that is curious to stay out of IT.
Do not get trapped in an office your whole life. Stay away from IT because it is always understaffed and overworked. Yeah, you make good money but your health goes to shit and your ability to impact is often limited.
I suggest hands-on engineering where you get to go outside and travel to different sites....things like HVAC tech, aircraft engineer, electrician, or something involving industrial controls or construction.
It is very tough to find a good company to work for in IT--have to get lucky. There is no standardized skill verification so you often end up working with a bunch of hacks who poke around in a GUI who have little idea what is going on behind the scenes. Your attempts to fend off disaster go ignored and those who recover from disasters get all the credit--even if they caused it.
If you love tech....make it your own...do your own thing and love it. Stay away from corporations.
This could be the issue that finally leads us to stop accepting the use of slave labor. All you have to do is hit the American SJW switch for one of their favorite classes.
Every time I type a comment on slashdot I have to go back and count my sentence spaces out of a genuine fear that someone will notice and light into my ass.
It is funny how it is always assumed that bewildered transients and criminals are always assumed to vote democrat upon entering our country. Why is that?
You would normally find me talking with the libertarian or "conservative" crowd at a random party but I very much want to try implementing UBI. I think we can and if you look at the claims regarding ending entitlements and other details of how it is supposed to work (in theory), it is very compelling.
"I've been told that vacation is less negotiable than salary with the rationale that vacation is measurable/noticeable by peers and can create friction when one employee is deemed "away too much"."
That is non-science...and some may even say nonsense.
Why is everyone "going all Battlestar Galactica?" Smart TVs are a way to get away from the cable TV assholes of yesteryear. Your campaign to banish "smart TVs" is doomed from the beginning. Outside of this thread we are all talking about how we ditched cable years ago.
1080...why? It will probably be more expensive. 4K is amazing up close..especially when gaming. I have been using a 49" 4K Roku TV as a monitor. Eye strain gone.
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They don't say it directly. It comes from constantly promoting office jobs as the thing to aim for while ignoring and marginalizing trades.
Education needs de-funded. All it does is ingrain group-think. There is not a single well-to-do liberal who sends their kid to regular public school.
We are at a cross-roads in this country--a cross-roads that affects the entire world. I hope that enough of us can turn off the news and decide for ourselves so that we can have the wonderful future that is easily within reach. I wish the US government would take the lead but I don't think it will happen. I have faith in the people though. A couple people own all of the news companies in the US and throughout the world. This is the reason we don't have conversations about improving worker conditions in other countries. This is a key in improving everyone's life and is so easy to do. Yet, people keep throwing their money at these fucking sweatshops and want to pretend they are not taking part in the abuse of others and themselves. These elites who user these issues out of the forum of debate love taxes and they love debt...it keeps them in control. Tax people to death, make them run to the bank to buy anything significant. It is not a hard math problem and we have writings going back thousands of years warning us about this.
It is not that complicated. People need to be trained properly. I have never met anyone who was trained properly. I taught myself and devoured blogs, books, forums for years that involved discussions around best practices, patterns, and case studies to hone myself into a professional developer. Most people devour reddit.
I counsel any young person that is curious to stay out of IT.
Do not get trapped in an office your whole life.
Stay away from IT because it is always understaffed and overworked. Yeah, you make good money but your health goes to shit and your ability to impact is often limited.
I suggest hands-on engineering where you get to go outside and travel to different sites....things like HVAC tech, aircraft engineer, electrician, or something involving industrial controls or construction.
It is very tough to find a good company to work for in IT--have to get lucky. There is no standardized skill verification so you often end up working with a bunch of hacks who poke around in a GUI who have little idea what is going on behind the scenes. Your attempts to fend off disaster go ignored and those who recover from disasters get all the credit--even if they caused it.
If you love tech....make it your own...do your own thing and love it. Stay away from corporations.
This could be the issue that finally leads us to stop accepting the use of slave labor. All you have to do is hit the American SJW switch for one of their favorite classes.
....and yet none of that shit matters because people buy their books online...hence the rise of Amazon and her robots.
Every time I type a comment on slashdot I have to go back and count my sentence spaces out of a genuine fear that someone will notice and light into my ass.
True story. I once eagerly devoured a documentary on Helvitica.
Islam is not exclusive to culture. However, islam and all other "religions" are a cancer on the world as are the people who take them seriously.
It is funny how it is always assumed that bewildered transients and criminals are always assumed to vote democrat upon entering our country. Why is that?
It should have been $2000 a month and for everyone or it isn't UBI.
UBI could be the best innovation since compounding interest.
You would normally find me talking with the libertarian or "conservative" crowd at a random party but I very much want to try implementing UBI. I think we can and if you look at the claims regarding ending entitlements and other details of how it is supposed to work (in theory), it is very compelling.
True. It is not hard for engineers to fire a manager.
"I've been told that vacation is less negotiable than salary with the rationale that vacation is measurable/noticeable by peers and can create friction when one employee is deemed "away too much"."
That is non-science...and some may even say nonsense.
I have a feeling I'm going to retire to the forrest and run into all you fuckers.
Nothing to see here, everything is OK now....they removed it from the store.
Yep....and so has Khols. They know it's over. Three years tops...
Google sunsetted and shut down so many things over the years I can't look at them seriously for anything any more.
Why is everyone "going all Battlestar Galactica?" Smart TVs are a way to get away from the cable TV assholes of yesteryear. Your campaign to banish "smart TVs" is doomed from the beginning. Outside of this thread we are all talking about how we ditched cable years ago.
A basic 49" 4K smart TV goes for $400 now. My TCL operates at 60Hz and is the best monitor I have ever had in my life.
Geek returns TV (computer) because it gets on the internet...WTF is going on around here? Is it vanilla pudding day at the nursing home?
1080 looks like shit at 32" up close
1080...why? It will probably be more expensive. 4K is amazing up close..especially when gaming. I have been using a 49" 4K Roku TV as a monitor. Eye strain gone.