Not necessarily true. Is the government doing the suing here? No, two students from somewhere else are suing. Or more precisely their lawyers are doing the suing. We don't know who the students are, but if it's like many other ADA lawsuits they may only be peripherally involved in the case ("I can pay you thousands of dollars if you agree to be a plaintiff, just sign here.").
The law as written allows third parties to sue and collect damage or settle out of court, even if no fixes are ever made to accomodate someone with disabilities. It's a quirk on the ADA. The out of court settlements are often less than the cost to hire lawyers and defend the lawsuit.
Compare to something like the EPA. I cannot sue my neighbor for having smelly dog waste in his backyard, instead the government has to do this and they're not going to bother with such an expensive process for this, they don't have the time or resources. Even if lucky they'd have an inspector have a look and say "this is not a problem and does not violate any regulations, stop wasting my time you stupid slashdot poster!" With ADA it's different. I can go and find a lawyer to sue, or more likely a lawyer will approach me and offer to split some money with me if I sue my neighbor, or even more likely than that they'll get a plaintiff who's never seen my neighbor or the yard or who doesn't even live in the area act as a plaintiff.
Even Saul Goodman thinks these lawyers are sleazebags.
Many of these lawsuits are driven by lawyers who seek out plaintiffs (sounds familiar?). Ie, some shop owners are being sued because their handicap parking spaces are not wide enough or not enough of them, etc. The plaintiffs almost always turn out to be someone who's never been to the shop, never tried to shop there, never complained to the shop owner, etc. The first the owner hears about not being in compliance is the lawsuit.
This is NOT how regulations are supposed to work. Lawsuits are supposed to be the last resort, and the usually come from a government agency which is too overburdened to create lawsuits on a whim. The snag with the ADA is that it allows people other than the government to sue. The end result of this may be that ADA is torn town by an anti-regulation administration rather than reforming it and fixing the abuses.
TeamViewer works well. If it's not running, then no security holes. Anyone who leaves it on all the time needs to learn to be more paranoid. It's easy to set up too even for someone without much technical expertise. I use it to fix problems on my mother's computer. VNC on the other hand I can't figure out, and all I wanted was to connect a linux box to my OSX laptop.
I'm not saying any of this is good. But practically speaking one should always assume that the job market is very difficult to break into and thus should always work hard to rise above the crowd. Also be prepared to climb the ladder instead of going straight to the top.
Yes, college didn't guarantee the jobs. They never guaranteed the jobs. The mistake is in assuming that not going to college would have been a better career choice. If the college grads aren't finding the STEM jobs, then for sure someone with only a high school diploma is not getting any of those jobs either.
Any experience at all, even internships or co-ops, will help out getting a post graduation job. Even having had a paycheck in the past puts you ahead of a lot of special snowflakes. A resume with extra-credit class work doing a semester long project is going to look a lot better than the average new grad's resume. Any student still in school needs to be investigating how to get some experience or extras on the resume *before* graduating.
I would like to find more talented engineers and programmers. Too many are focusing on web or phone apps these days. If there's a glut then where are they? Those jobs aren't all filled by H1-Bs, and the outsource engineers are just plain awful.
Having a degree is just one part of the formula. Then you need skills and maybe some experience. This means taking on summer or intern jobs, doing extra credit courses, getting that A, etc. If the grades aren't so good then get those internships or summer jobs before graduating. Do some personal projects instead of surfing all summer. Companies don't really want the entry level grad with no experience anyway, it takes too long to train them. So you really have to be ahead of the curve, and be willing to take the low tier tech jobs just to get your feet wet.
Here's how it works in California. PUC guarantees a fixed level of income to the utilities. If the utilities can conserve energy usage then they make more profit. So it's in their best interest to make things very accurate. If they swing things to charge customers more, then they can be in big trouble with the PUCs, who do investigate. Especially any industrial or commercial power user will be very intent on making sure their bill is accurate.Your assumption seems to be that every utility, even customer owned municipal ones, are cheating.
There is equipment that is not too expensive to calibrate meters. Any reputable utility would have used them. Blame the dumb dutch utilities and not all smart meters everywhere.
Old style meters were broken, very difficult to calibrate, and the mechanics wear out over time. Ordinary people often screw up. Ie, in Bakersfield they blamed cost hikes on PG&E even though they were in the middle of a heat wave and using more air conditioning than normal, independent investigation found no fault.
Naw, this is unlikely. Probably a bad energy provider. The utilities do test this stuff, I've seen them. We test some meters too.
It's yet another "smart meters are evil" story, finding the tiny fraction that screws up and trying to make it look like everything is broken.
Shops basically started it as I heard. Longer daylight hours, once people were used to having clocks, meant more shoppers. This predates energy shortages, etc.
Some of these people ARE the leaders. They become leaders because they have work experience, or because because they've been at the company the longest, or because they're the only person working on a key piece of the project that no one else knows. (ie, someone understands radio so they get put in charge of doing the radio code, or they were the person who wrote all the unintelligible code back when the company was a startup and now they're senior lead in charge of screwing it up)
You never hear what the company "wants" to hire. They don't announce this. You are not told why you did not get the job or why you did get it.
As a rule, nobody wants to hire anyone that needs extensive training first. Not even an H1-B employee. So to get those jobs you must be above average, provide skills that are not commodity skills, make yourself invaluable. If you show up and say "I have a certificate, just like millions of other people" don't expect special consideration be made just because you're local.
When I was in college there was always a dumb class or two for easy credits if you were lazy. Such as Microsoft Word, or Programming For Math Majors, or Spreadsheet in Science. Today though, the entire CS curriculum feels dumbed down this way. Now I see recent grads not knowing how a computer even works as a practical matter, or how a computer works as a theoretical matter. They've learned nothing that a trade school advertised on daytime TV cannot teach. When most of the jobs no longer require a brain, then no wonder they want to outsource the jobs.
What I want is the experienced programmers to actually act like experienced programmers! Too many self taught people with EE or physics background with absolutely atrocious coding skills, no concept of algorithms, and an attitude that quick and dirty is the proper way to do things. I can't believe how some people manage to get an advanced degree without possessing any analytical skills.
Also doesn't help that they hate the so called "elites" and then vote for the most elitist and privileged persons in the country. Hillary's campaign problems seemed to ignore that huge swath, assumed that the typical blue collar union vote would go her way even if they were ignored, and preaching to the converted. Having obscure actress give a speech isn't going to sway a single vote. This goes for the repubican primaries too, they didnt take Trump seriously or take seriously the growing backlash (now though they're pandering and saying they loved him all along).
And that's the problem. They know people forget. It's probably ten years or more since they last answered those questions, so they do allow some slack in the answers especially when you're talking directly to a teller. Ie, name of high school, was the answer "XYZ" or "XYZ High School", or "XYZ Joint Union High School". Did you accidentally type in "Washingnot"? First car was a either a Celica or Corolla, not sure which.
At the time you need to find the random answers to these questions is when you need to know your password - if you have to look up the answers you may as well look up the password! The times when the questions are very useful is when you're not at home, you're stranded in a strange city, your wallet was stolen, etc.
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Well Microsoft noticed that Windows 10 was still not on 100% of users computers so they felt compelled to escalate the war.
Not necessarily true. Is the government doing the suing here? No, two students from somewhere else are suing. Or more precisely their lawyers are doing the suing. We don't know who the students are, but if it's like many other ADA lawsuits they may only be peripherally involved in the case ("I can pay you thousands of dollars if you agree to be a plaintiff, just sign here.").
The law as written allows third parties to sue and collect damage or settle out of court, even if no fixes are ever made to accomodate someone with disabilities. It's a quirk on the ADA. The out of court settlements are often less than the cost to hire lawyers and defend the lawsuit.
Compare to something like the EPA. I cannot sue my neighbor for having smelly dog waste in his backyard, instead the government has to do this and they're not going to bother with such an expensive process for this, they don't have the time or resources. Even if lucky they'd have an inspector have a look and say "this is not a problem and does not violate any regulations, stop wasting my time you stupid slashdot poster!" With ADA it's different. I can go and find a lawyer to sue, or more likely a lawyer will approach me and offer to split some money with me if I sue my neighbor, or even more likely than that they'll get a plaintiff who's never seen my neighbor or the yard or who doesn't even live in the area act as a plaintiff.
Even Saul Goodman thinks these lawyers are sleazebags.
Many of these lawsuits are driven by lawyers who seek out plaintiffs (sounds familiar?). Ie, some shop owners are being sued because their handicap parking spaces are not wide enough or not enough of them, etc. The plaintiffs almost always turn out to be someone who's never been to the shop, never tried to shop there, never complained to the shop owner, etc. The first the owner hears about not being in compliance is the lawsuit.
This is NOT how regulations are supposed to work. Lawsuits are supposed to be the last resort, and the usually come from a government agency which is too overburdened to create lawsuits on a whim. The snag with the ADA is that it allows people other than the government to sue. The end result of this may be that ADA is torn town by an anti-regulation administration rather than reforming it and fixing the abuses.
TeamViewer works well. If it's not running, then no security holes. Anyone who leaves it on all the time needs to learn to be more paranoid. It's easy to set up too even for someone without much technical expertise. I use it to fix problems on my mother's computer. VNC on the other hand I can't figure out, and all I wanted was to connect a linux box to my OSX laptop.
I'm not saying any of this is good. But practically speaking one should always assume that the job market is very difficult to break into and thus should always work hard to rise above the crowd. Also be prepared to climb the ladder instead of going straight to the top.
Yes, college didn't guarantee the jobs. They never guaranteed the jobs. The mistake is in assuming that not going to college would have been a better career choice. If the college grads aren't finding the STEM jobs, then for sure someone with only a high school diploma is not getting any of those jobs either.
Real world work experience is good. Internship or co-op is still better than goofing off during the summer, which it seems most students do.
Doesn't matter. It's experience for the resume. It helps earn the next job.
Any experience at all, even internships or co-ops, will help out getting a post graduation job. Even having had a paycheck in the past puts you ahead of a lot of special snowflakes. A resume with extra-credit class work doing a semester long project is going to look a lot better than the average new grad's resume. Any student still in school needs to be investigating how to get some experience or extras on the resume *before* graduating.
They don't think. They have apps that do thinking for them.
I would like to find more talented engineers and programmers. Too many are focusing on web or phone apps these days. If there's a glut then where are they? Those jobs aren't all filled by H1-Bs, and the outsource engineers are just plain awful.
Having a degree is just one part of the formula. Then you need skills and maybe some experience. This means taking on summer or intern jobs, doing extra credit courses, getting that A, etc. If the grades aren't so good then get those internships or summer jobs before graduating. Do some personal projects instead of surfing all summer. Companies don't really want the entry level grad with no experience anyway, it takes too long to train them. So you really have to be ahead of the curve, and be willing to take the low tier tech jobs just to get your feet wet.
Here's how it works in California. PUC guarantees a fixed level of income to the utilities. If the utilities can conserve energy usage then they make more profit. So it's in their best interest to make things very accurate. If they swing things to charge customers more, then they can be in big trouble with the PUCs, who do investigate. Especially any industrial or commercial power user will be very intent on making sure their bill is accurate.Your assumption seems to be that every utility, even customer owned municipal ones, are cheating.
There is equipment that is not too expensive to calibrate meters. Any reputable utility would have used them. Blame the dumb dutch utilities and not all smart meters everywhere.
Employment to just pointless jobs to people just to have jobs is best done by the military. Biggest jobs program in the US.
Old style meters were broken, very difficult to calibrate, and the mechanics wear out over time. Ordinary people often screw up. Ie, in Bakersfield they blamed cost hikes on PG&E even though they were in the middle of a heat wave and using more air conditioning than normal, independent investigation found no fault.
Naw, this is unlikely. Probably a bad energy provider. The utilities do test this stuff, I've seen them. We test some meters too.
It's yet another "smart meters are evil" story, finding the tiny fraction that screws up and trying to make it look like everything is broken.
Shops basically started it as I heard. Longer daylight hours, once people were used to having clocks, meant more shoppers. This predates energy shortages, etc.
Some of these people ARE the leaders. They become leaders because they have work experience, or because because they've been at the company the longest, or because they're the only person working on a key piece of the project that no one else knows. (ie, someone understands radio so they get put in charge of doing the radio code, or they were the person who wrote all the unintelligible code back when the company was a startup and now they're senior lead in charge of screwing it up)
You never hear what the company "wants" to hire. They don't announce this. You are not told why you did not get the job or why you did get it.
As a rule, nobody wants to hire anyone that needs extensive training first. Not even an H1-B employee. So to get those jobs you must be above average, provide skills that are not commodity skills, make yourself invaluable. If you show up and say "I have a certificate, just like millions of other people" don't expect special consideration be made just because you're local.
When I was in college there was always a dumb class or two for easy credits if you were lazy. Such as Microsoft Word, or Programming For Math Majors, or Spreadsheet in Science. Today though, the entire CS curriculum feels dumbed down this way. Now I see recent grads not knowing how a computer even works as a practical matter, or how a computer works as a theoretical matter. They've learned nothing that a trade school advertised on daytime TV cannot teach. When most of the jobs no longer require a brain, then no wonder they want to outsource the jobs.
Eisenhower was from an obsolete era when people naively thought that the job of elected officials was to govern instead of campaign.
What I want is the experienced programmers to actually act like experienced programmers! Too many self taught people with EE or physics background with absolutely atrocious coding skills, no concept of algorithms, and an attitude that quick and dirty is the proper way to do things. I can't believe how some people manage to get an advanced degree without possessing any analytical skills.
At least novices can be trained.
Also doesn't help that they hate the so called "elites" and then vote for the most elitist and privileged persons in the country. Hillary's campaign problems seemed to ignore that huge swath, assumed that the typical blue collar union vote would go her way even if they were ignored, and preaching to the converted. Having obscure actress give a speech isn't going to sway a single vote. This goes for the repubican primaries too, they didnt take Trump seriously or take seriously the growing backlash (now though they're pandering and saying they loved him all along).
They have medicine now for the humor impaired.
And that's the problem. They know people forget. It's probably ten years or more since they last answered those questions, so they do allow some slack in the answers especially when you're talking directly to a teller. Ie, name of high school, was the answer "XYZ" or "XYZ High School", or "XYZ Joint Union High School". Did you accidentally type in "Washingnot"? First car was a either a Celica or Corolla, not sure which.
At the time you need to find the random answers to these questions is when you need to know your password - if you have to look up the answers you may as well look up the password! The times when the questions are very useful is when you're not at home, you're stranded in a strange city, your wallet was stolen, etc.