Unless the deveopment is done outside of US. Because in that case you can use the letter to wipe your, let's say tears of joy and carry on writing the project. Unless, ofcourse you are planning to visit US any time in the future.
Keep in mind, the NSA has no problem sending a missle into your living room. Anything short of that is them being nice. For example, beating you with a hammer until you agree to install the backdoor.
Agencies with unlimited resources and the attitude of "The ends justify the means" are very dangerous.
You'd find that having a son who is a Fiber optic researcher/engineer that wanted to demonstrate a new technology would help quite a bit. i.e. you fell for a publicity stunt.
Or it could be FAKE NEWS and the others refuse to report on made up bullshit? A Lot of news outlets are prone to make shit up. CNN did that over and over, Fox news has, etc...
Until I see at least three separate reported stories on different sources of it with complete information, I treat everything reported on Fox news or ANY other news outlet and 100% bullshit.
Our fucking news sources are 90% entertainment and 10% professional today.
How about directly from the lips of Orrin Hatch?
“We’ve been informed that the hard drive has been thrown away,” Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the top Republican on the Finance Committee, said in a brief hallway interview.
The question to ask is: Did the drive get destroyed prior to a retention order being issued?
If so, then that's SOP; Dead hardware is recycled.
If not, someone goes to jail.
The recycling of the hardware isn't a question in my mind. Of course they recycle hardware... No email archiving? really? Of an IRS director? All of her emails were really stored in a local PST file, with no backup what-so-ever? And after that hard drive failed, with no backup, you then destroyed the drive?
Now that is a series of coincidental incompetence that I just cannot accept. It's fathomable yes, but the Republicans certainly have the right to turn this into a full on circus. Nothing Bush ever did was this obviously corrupt and he was up to all sorts of evil. I always thought of Obama as similar to Jimmy Carter. I disagree with his policies, he's failing miserably, but his hearts in the right place. Now I see him as more of a Nixon.
I checked every one of those and there's no mention of it. Obama could get IMPEACHED over this. This is turning into a Watergate level scandal. It could all be coincidental, but seriously? The IRS doesn't archive email? REALLY?
So a game that already runs like shit on PC had some graphics settings disabled on PC. How is this even a question? Perhaps those settings caused everyone with an ATI BLAHBLAH card to have random crashes and they didn't want to bother fixing it?
And when did we start believing trailers video quality?
This guy wanted to be able to weld cool stuff without having to sit there holding a welder for hours at a time, plus he wants to have the welds be of uniform quality. What makes this a "3D printer" is that it uses an X-Y drive rather than an arm with elbow/wrist joints like most robotic welding machines.
dom
But that's the thing. If the environment isn't also controlled, the weld will not be of uniform quality. Welding is an art. You have to pay close attention to ambient conditions, the material being used and the settings on your welder. You need more or less Gas pressure, to adjust the gas mix, higher or lower welding speed, and need to change the voltage. You can also reverse the polarity of the weld depending on if you want the puddle to push or pull based on the direction you're welding. When I welded for a living, storms coming would mean I had to re-setup my machine if I was on a big job. I don't know if it was the barometric pressure, temperature or humidity that did it, but it was definitely something we had to deal with. As soon as I'd lift my helmet to make the change (back then there were no auto-dimming helmets) I'd see everyone else in the shop doing the same thing. Moving to someone elses welder meant re-setting it up to, so personal style must have had an effect as well.
On assembly lines they do just that... they control the environment. It's at a relatively constant temperature, humidity and the welding arm is doing the same exact weld over and over again so they operator can program exactly what it's supposed to do. But it's by no means as simple as feeding in a cad file and pressing "weld" You can do that for sure... crappy welds are good for several metric tonnes of force and can hold on a bumper as well as a good weld... but you're not going to get consistent quality or a "Pretty weld"
I was a welder for quite a while. Molten steel behaves more like water than plastic. Steel "beads up" as you heat it. Being precise with welding is very hard. Plastic behaves more like frosting when molten so it's easier to use in a printer scenario.
I think his big mistake is taking the ID of 3D printing and applying it to a martial for which it wasn't intended. I'd think he'd have better luck if he instead looked at Powdered metals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
In industry, they design a part, make a mold for it, press a mixture of powdered metals into the mold and then sinter it (basically the same as firing ceramics)
anyways, yea, that's the direction he should go. I'd use electro static charge to hold the shape and then use something like an Xray laser to melt/fuse/sinter it.
A lot of people spend a lot of time on their phone. Maybe 30 minutes or more. If your phone lasts you a couple years, paying a dollar a day for a phone that is (and let's be honest) substantially better is probably worth it.
If you don't use your cell except for emergency phone calls, yeah what the hell, get whatever's cheapest.
If we're actually going to use logic on this... You're likely to drop/break that phone in the first 6 months. We either need more durable phones are cheaper phones. Less durable, more expensive phones are definitely the wrong direction. I had a Chinese phone for a while that was waterproof, shock proof, dual sims, etc... I loved that phone but it only worked on 1 US carrier and they dont have service where I live now.
What's funny is that for a lot of us, our first PC probably cost around 3500$ back in the day and now most people think the Mac Pro is a really expensive computer.
That's true. But when I bought my first computer, there wasn't one sitting next to it for $200.
Because, if they launch their own video streaming service for their clients, for instance, they wouldn't be able to give it preferential treatment to their packets over those of Netflix.
If there was net neutrality, the ISPs wouldn't be able to push their own services to compete with others, and they'd have to do it on merit.
Same goes for music, TV shows, and possibly even app stores.
If they serve the interwebs to people equally, they have less of a way to make sure it's easier for the consumer to use their products, and instead they might use those of someone else... and then executive bonuses might suffer as their offerings flop.
Won't someone think about the executive bonuses?
That's not it at all. That may be a future revenue stream but I guarantee that's not what they plan on. What this is more about is "Don't regulate us!"
Think about it this way: The feds wanted to pass a law making it illegal for YOU to throw out dirty diapers. You don't have kids... what do you care? But you were asked your opinion. Of course you're going to say you oppose the law. Why put limits on yourself? What if you do have a kid some day, do you want to be washing reusable diapers? Maybe you wont mind... maybe you'll want to save the environment. But that will be years from now. You have no idea what the situation will be then, so why limit yourself now?
and that's the way the ISPs see this. Regulation always limits options and is therefor fiscally bad.
However, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs argued that the Budapest memorandum does not apply to the 2014 Crimean crisis because separation of Crimea was driven by an internal political and social-economic crisis. Russia was never under obligation to force any part of Ukraine's civilian population to stay in Ukraine against its will.
Russia knew the US would look for any conceivable way to avoid living up to their obligations. So they created one and the US bit. Don't get me wrong, I don't think we should be involved in any of this nonsense. We shouldn't be signing such things if we're not willing to live up to our obligations, but if in the event we do... like we did with Ukraine, we should be following through. Because we failed to, our other treaty partners don't trust us to live up to our agreements and develop their own weapons.
"Wireless is different... it is dependent on finite spectrum," said Meredith Attwell Baker, the new head of CTIA, the wireless industry's lobbying arm.
There is absolutely nothing about Net Neutrality that affects the final leg of transmission. Doing away with Net Neutrality helps a bit with peering issues. Limited bandwidth from the tower to the phone, or in the final mile of wired service would be almost totally unaffected by any change in net neutrality. You'll still have limited bandwidth, you'll still have people poorly served during peak usage. Net Neutrality simply changes WHO gets poorly served.
If I get into the interview I almost always get the job.
Almost always? Nothing funnier than an Internet braggart who must equivocate.
First: I brag in real life as well. No need to tack "Internet" onto that statement. Second: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.c... My failings do nothing to invalidate my point. Third: You can only claim I'm equivocating if you only look at that sentence you quoted. Taken as a whole, I give examples of how I might not "get the job" and those are: Different hiring techniques, I fail to make myself familiar to the hiring staff, etc...:-)
There was a large hurricane and we found some flaws in the system to say the least.
That's why you have backups in different geographical areas.
The sites where local admins stored the tapes at local banks faired the best.
Have you considered a service like Iron Mountain? They'll send out a truck to pick up your backups every day, if you like, and store it in a very safe location.
Iron Mountain doesn't serve most of the areas involved. We have dozens of VERY rural sites. Like the top of a mountain, or out in the desert, or along the Mexican border kind of rural. One remote on a mountain gets so much snow build up on it we have a local guy contracted to shovel snow off of it weekly so it doesn't overheat. Another is at the bottom of a canyon on an Indian reservation. The tech has to ride once a week on a helicopter to get to it. In the event of an outage he literally takes a mule down the face of a cliff to get to it. Places like that really do still exist in the United States, as hard as it is to believe.
It has to be more than that. We had a policy of air gapped backups that everyone followed. But we had several different sites with several different admins. There was a large hurricane and we found some flaws in the system to say the least.
In several cases, the backups were kept IN the drive... they were gone. In others, they removed the backups, put them on top of the server or in a desk draw.... gone as well.
In others, they actually removed the tapes from the site, but often they were taken home by the admin or other staff... in those cases we faired slightly better because both the site and the staffs house would have to be under water. Hurricanes are big however, so we had about a 50% success rate there.
In some cases they had a safe on site. This proved marginally better... the tapes were safe in most cases. In one instance we had a rather brave Admin fly across the country, take a cab out to the site and the literally SWIM to get the tape. But in a lot of cases the tape was OK, but the safe was under water. So we weren't able to retrieve it for days.
The sites where local admins stored the tapes at local banks faired the best. So now that's our policy. Backups get stored off-site, in a vault. Technology is better now so we also do remote backups across the net now as well in case the bank is under water as well. But no matter what, we can always head to the bank vault. Ok, I guess a meteor would ruin our day, but you cant plan for everything.
So I can have all the benefits of a closed source phone and OS, the fragmentation of Androids open source market AND blackberries compliance with the whims of 3rd world dictators? Fantastic! Maybe next they can figure out how to make the phone weigh as much as a desktop PC.
They could fine Facebook until they hosted European data in Europe. If they refused they could seize their assets, and deny them revenue from European companies. The end result being that facebook and other companies like them would go screaming mad to congress. So yes, there's plenty that could be done.
I'd prefer a use tax myself, income taxes punish people for creating wealth which just seems ass-backwards. But I'm no fool. Drastic changes like that are generally bad. Getting rid of income tax would have to be done gradually over a period of decades.
Like I said... they're all scum. So can we fix it now or are we going to continue to pretend there isn't a problem so you don't have to feel bad about voting for the same party constantly without ever looking at the details?
I never said either group was anything. I said the most qualified and motivated people get jobs in a perfect world. Affirmative action for its own sake, conversely, is discrimination against people who worked their butts off for a position and were passed over because they were the wrong gender or color.
That's not true at all. I'm *amazing* in interviews. It's truly probably my best skill. If I get into the interview I almost always get the job. How do I do so well? Is it because of my experience? Grasp of the technology? Does my personality exude an air of efficient and dedicated work habits?
No, you get hired based on psychology, and if you know what's going on you can manipulate that. My biggest concern in an interview is that I accidentally get myself hired for a job I can't do... which has happened before. If I can get hired for a job I'm totally unqualified for, there's something wrong with the system.
Hiring managers are biased, from the very start. Your resume tells them all kinds of stuff about you that you didn't realize. Your race is implicit in your name. Your age as well. Do you go my Charlie? Charles? Chuck? That all says a lot about you. The most important part of the interview is the handshake of all things... that sets the tone. Want to know how to do it properly, ask a Marine, they'll show you. What did you wear? Again, this says a lot about you. The hiring manager doesn't even realize that they're being discriminatory. What they are looking for is someone familiar, and they will pick whomever is the most familiar.
The easiest way to game this system is the simple rule: Let the interviewer talk. Listen to what they talk about, what they are interested in, and then when they ask you a tough question (Almost always something they have written down to remember because it's very hard to keep on topic in interviews) answer in a way that leads you back to a topic they're interested in. If they were talking about football earlier, answer with a football analogy. Lead the answer to a point where you ask them a question "So if a running back were to... etc... would you think that would work?" More often than not the hiring manager will go off on a tangent about football. In the end all they really remember about the interview was how comfortable they were talking with you.
There are lots of other tricks in this regard but they all revolve around the same premise: Make yourself as familiar as possible to the interviewer. The more they have in common with you the more they will be inclined to pick you. They'll later claim it was "instinct" that lead them to you.
As much as I've benefited from this 'flaw' in the system I can't pretend it's because I'm such a desirable employee. It's clearly very easy for this to lead to discriminatory behavior. The only solution to this that I can think of is to treat hiring like a science experiment. Use double blind methodology. There's no reason for anyone to ever meet the candidate either. The hardest jobs for me are the ones where they basically send me a test ahead of time. "Answer these technical questions" even using Google and such, your lack of experience (if you have any) becomes very apparent in the way you phrase your answers. I've also seen places where the interviews/test/etc... are all done by HR, the candidates are scored by HR and then the hiring manager looks at the numbers. This is better but you end up with a lot of employees that would be great in HR but not so hot in IT. HR reps, for some reason, tend to score candidates that dress nicely very high.
If our current job market really did go after the "best" candidate for the job, and that resulted in racial disparity, I'd agree with you. But it doesn't. Our current system leads to hiring people that are most like the current employees at the company which is bad for the company, the people interviewing and the current employees. Monocultures are bad for everyone.
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More likely is that the switch will be used during the next "Arab spring" by some not so friendly governments.
Unless the deveopment is done outside of US. Because in that case you can use the letter to wipe your, let's say tears of joy and carry on writing the project. Unless, ofcourse you are planning to visit US any time in the future.
Keep in mind, the NSA has no problem sending a missle into your living room. Anything short of that is them being nice. For example, beating you with a hammer until you agree to install the backdoor.
Agencies with unlimited resources and the attitude of "The ends justify the means" are very dangerous.
They say it is better to kick someone out of a plane than let these people have a day in court.
--Edward Snowden
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
It took 18 years for them to figure this out? Whiles some grandmother in Sweden had 40 GB back in 2007?
When can I get mine? And can I choose from more than one provider? And, most importantly, will I really get 40 GB?
If you actually read the original article:
http://www.thelocal.se/2007071...
You'd find that having a son who is a Fiber optic researcher/engineer that wanted to demonstrate a new technology would help quite a bit. i.e. you fell for a publicity stunt.
To make it even more silly, read the followup article:
http://www.thelocal.se/2008033...
Where it's revealed she didn't really use it much. The equipment was so large, and hot, she actually used it to dry her laundry.
Or it could be FAKE NEWS and the others refuse to report on made up bullshit? A Lot of news outlets are prone to make shit up. CNN did that over and over, Fox news has, etc...
Until I see at least three separate reported stories on different sources of it with complete information, I treat everything reported on Fox news or ANY other news outlet and 100% bullshit.
Our fucking news sources are 90% entertainment and 10% professional today.
How about directly from the lips of Orrin Hatch?
“We’ve been informed that the hard drive has been thrown away,” Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the top Republican on the Finance Committee, said in a brief hallway interview.
http://www.politico.com/story/...
The question to ask is: Did the drive get destroyed prior to a retention order being issued?
If so, then that's SOP; Dead hardware is recycled.
If not, someone goes to jail.
The recycling of the hardware isn't a question in my mind. Of course they recycle hardware...
No email archiving? really? Of an IRS director?
All of her emails were really stored in a local PST file, with no backup what-so-ever?
And after that hard drive failed, with no backup, you then destroyed the drive?
Now that is a series of coincidental incompetence that I just cannot accept.
It's fathomable yes, but the Republicans certainly have the right to turn this into a full on circus.
Nothing Bush ever did was this obviously corrupt and he was up to all sorts of evil.
I always thought of Obama as similar to Jimmy Carter. I disagree with his policies, he's failing miserably, but his hearts in the right place.
Now I see him as more of a Nixon.
/. is really going downhill....
The media in general is going down hill. As much as Foxnews shills for the republicans, this is probably the biggest story of the year, yet it's missing from nearly every other news organization in the country.
http://www.nytimes.com/
http://www.latimes.com/
http://www.pbs.org/topics/news...
http://www.cbsnews.com/
http://www.nbcnews.com/
http://abcnews.go.com/
I checked every one of those and there's no mention of it.
Obama could get IMPEACHED over this. This is turning into a Watergate level scandal.
It could all be coincidental, but seriously? The IRS doesn't archive email? REALLY?
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So a game that already runs like shit on PC had some graphics settings disabled on PC. How is this even a question? Perhaps those settings caused everyone with an ATI BLAHBLAH card to have random crashes and they didn't want to bother fixing it?
And when did we start believing trailers video quality?
This guy wanted to be able to weld cool stuff without having to sit there holding a welder for hours at a time, plus he wants to have the welds be of uniform quality. What makes this a "3D printer" is that it uses an X-Y drive rather than an arm with elbow/wrist joints like most robotic welding machines.
dom
But that's the thing. If the environment isn't also controlled, the weld will not be of uniform quality. Welding is an art. You have to pay close attention to ambient conditions, the material being used and the settings on your welder. You need more or less Gas pressure, to adjust the gas mix, higher or lower welding speed, and need to change the voltage. You can also reverse the polarity of the weld depending on if you want the puddle to push or pull based on the direction you're welding. When I welded for a living, storms coming would mean I had to re-setup my machine if I was on a big job. I don't know if it was the barometric pressure, temperature or humidity that did it, but it was definitely something we had to deal with. As soon as I'd lift my helmet to make the change (back then there were no auto-dimming helmets) I'd see everyone else in the shop doing the same thing. Moving to someone elses welder meant re-setting it up to, so personal style must have had an effect as well.
On assembly lines they do just that... they control the environment. It's at a relatively constant temperature, humidity and the welding arm is doing the same exact weld over and over again so they operator can program exactly what it's supposed to do. But it's by no means as simple as feeding in a cad file and pressing "weld" You can do that for sure... crappy welds are good for several metric tonnes of force and can hold on a bumper as well as a good weld... but you're not going to get consistent quality or a "Pretty weld"
Good luck.
I was a welder for quite a while. Molten steel behaves more like water than plastic. Steel "beads up" as you heat it. Being precise with welding is very hard. Plastic behaves more like frosting when molten so it's easier to use in a printer scenario.
I think his big mistake is taking the ID of 3D printing and applying it to a martial for which it wasn't intended. I'd think he'd have better luck if he instead looked at Powdered metals: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
In industry, they design a part, make a mold for it, press a mixture of powdered metals into the mold and then sinter it (basically the same as firing ceramics)
ooo... hey look, I tried looking it up and that's exactly how they 3D print metal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
anyways, yea, that's the direction he should go. I'd use electro static charge to hold the shape and then use something like an Xray laser to melt/fuse/sinter it.
A lot of people spend a lot of time on their phone. Maybe 30 minutes or more. If your phone lasts you a couple years, paying a dollar a day for a phone that is (and let's be honest) substantially better is probably worth it.
If you don't use your cell except for emergency phone calls, yeah what the hell, get whatever's cheapest.
If we're actually going to use logic on this... You're likely to drop/break that phone in the first 6 months. We either need more durable phones are cheaper phones. Less durable, more expensive phones are definitely the wrong direction. I had a Chinese phone for a while that was waterproof, shock proof, dual sims, etc... I loved that phone but it only worked on 1 US carrier and they dont have service where I live now.
Never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
What's funny is that for a lot of us, our first PC probably cost around 3500$ back in the day and now most people think the Mac Pro is a really expensive computer.
That's true. But when I bought my first computer, there wasn't one sitting next to it for $200.
Because, if they launch their own video streaming service for their clients, for instance, they wouldn't be able to give it preferential treatment to their packets over those of Netflix.
If there was net neutrality, the ISPs wouldn't be able to push their own services to compete with others, and they'd have to do it on merit.
Same goes for music, TV shows, and possibly even app stores.
If they serve the interwebs to people equally, they have less of a way to make sure it's easier for the consumer to use their products, and instead they might use those of someone else ... and then executive bonuses might suffer as their offerings flop.
Won't someone think about the executive bonuses?
That's not it at all. That may be a future revenue stream but I guarantee that's not what they plan on. What this is more about is "Don't regulate us!"
Think about it this way: The feds wanted to pass a law making it illegal for YOU to throw out dirty diapers. You don't have kids... what do you care? But you were asked your opinion. Of course you're going to say you oppose the law. Why put limits on yourself? What if you do have a kid some day, do you want to be washing reusable diapers? Maybe you wont mind... maybe you'll want to save the environment. But that will be years from now. You have no idea what the situation will be then, so why limit yourself now?
and that's the way the ISPs see this. Regulation always limits options and is therefor fiscally bad.
No. There were no deals involving military intervention in any way and form.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
However, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs argued that the Budapest memorandum does not apply to the 2014 Crimean crisis because separation of Crimea was driven by an internal political and social-economic crisis. Russia was never under obligation to force any part of Ukraine's civilian population to stay in Ukraine against its will.
Russia knew the US would look for any conceivable way to avoid living up to their obligations. So they created one and the US bit. Don't get me wrong, I don't think we should be involved in any of this nonsense. We shouldn't be signing such things if we're not willing to live up to our obligations, but if in the event we do... like we did with Ukraine, we should be following through. Because we failed to, our other treaty partners don't trust us to live up to our agreements and develop their own weapons.
"Wireless is different ... it is dependent on finite spectrum," said Meredith Attwell Baker, the new head of CTIA, the wireless industry's lobbying arm.
There is absolutely nothing about Net Neutrality that affects the final leg of transmission. Doing away with Net Neutrality helps a bit with peering issues. Limited bandwidth from the tower to the phone, or in the final mile of wired service would be almost totally unaffected by any change in net neutrality. You'll still have limited bandwidth, you'll still have people poorly served during peak usage. Net Neutrality simply changes WHO gets poorly served.
Almost always? Nothing funnier than an Internet braggart who must equivocate.
First: I brag in real life as well. No need to tack "Internet" onto that statement. :-)
Second: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.c... My failings do nothing to invalidate my point.
Third: You can only claim I'm equivocating if you only look at that sentence you quoted. Taken as a whole, I give examples of how I might not "get the job" and those are: Different hiring techniques, I fail to make myself familiar to the hiring staff, etc...
There was a large hurricane and we found some flaws in the system to say the least.
That's why you have backups in different geographical areas.
The sites where local admins stored the tapes at local banks faired the best.
Have you considered a service like Iron Mountain? They'll send out a truck to pick up your backups every day, if you like, and store it in a very safe location.
Iron Mountain doesn't serve most of the areas involved. We have dozens of VERY rural sites. Like the top of a mountain, or out in the desert, or along the Mexican border kind of rural. One remote on a mountain gets so much snow build up on it we have a local guy contracted to shovel snow off of it weekly so it doesn't overheat. Another is at the bottom of a canyon on an Indian reservation. The tech has to ride once a week on a helicopter to get to it. In the event of an outage he literally takes a mule down the face of a cliff to get to it. Places like that really do still exist in the United States, as hard as it is to believe.
for air gapped backups.
It has to be more than that. We had a policy of air gapped backups that everyone followed. But we had several different sites with several different admins. There was a large hurricane and we found some flaws in the system to say the least.
In several cases, the backups were kept IN the drive... they were gone.
In others, they removed the backups, put them on top of the server or in a desk draw.... gone as well.
In others, they actually removed the tapes from the site, but often they were taken home by the admin or other staff... in those cases we faired slightly better because both the site and the staffs house would have to be under water. Hurricanes are big however, so we had about a 50% success rate there.
In some cases they had a safe on site. This proved marginally better... the tapes were safe in most cases. In one instance we had a rather brave Admin fly across the country, take a cab out to the site and the literally SWIM to get the tape. But in a lot of cases the tape was OK, but the safe was under water. So we weren't able to retrieve it for days.
The sites where local admins stored the tapes at local banks faired the best. So now that's our policy. Backups get stored off-site, in a vault. Technology is better now so we also do remote backups across the net now as well in case the bank is under water as well. But no matter what, we can always head to the bank vault. Ok, I guess a meteor would ruin our day, but you cant plan for everything.
So I can have all the benefits of a closed source phone and OS, the fragmentation of Androids open source market AND blackberries compliance with the whims of 3rd world dictators? Fantastic! Maybe next they can figure out how to make the phone weigh as much as a desktop PC.
They could fine Facebook until they hosted European data in Europe. If they refused they could seize their assets, and deny them revenue from European companies. The end result being that facebook and other companies like them would go screaming mad to congress. So yes, there's plenty that could be done.
I'd prefer a use tax myself, income taxes punish people for creating wealth which just seems ass-backwards. But I'm no fool. Drastic changes like that are generally bad. Getting rid of income tax would have to be done gradually over a period of decades.
Like I said... they're all scum. So can we fix it now or are we going to continue to pretend there isn't a problem so you don't have to feel bad about voting for the same party constantly without ever looking at the details?
I never said either group was anything. I said the most qualified and motivated people get jobs in a perfect world. Affirmative action for its own sake, conversely, is discrimination against people who worked their butts off for a position and were passed over because they were the wrong gender or color.
That's not true at all. I'm *amazing* in interviews. It's truly probably my best skill. If I get into the interview I almost always get the job. How do I do so well? Is it because of my experience? Grasp of the technology? Does my personality exude an air of efficient and dedicated work habits?
No, you get hired based on psychology, and if you know what's going on you can manipulate that. My biggest concern in an interview is that I accidentally get myself hired for a job I can't do... which has happened before. If I can get hired for a job I'm totally unqualified for, there's something wrong with the system.
Hiring managers are biased, from the very start. Your resume tells them all kinds of stuff about you that you didn't realize. Your race is implicit in your name. Your age as well. Do you go my Charlie? Charles? Chuck? That all says a lot about you. The most important part of the interview is the handshake of all things... that sets the tone. Want to know how to do it properly, ask a Marine, they'll show you. What did you wear? Again, this says a lot about you. The hiring manager doesn't even realize that they're being discriminatory. What they are looking for is someone familiar, and they will pick whomever is the most familiar.
The easiest way to game this system is the simple rule: Let the interviewer talk.
Listen to what they talk about, what they are interested in, and then when they ask you a tough question (Almost always something they have written down to remember because it's very hard to keep on topic in interviews) answer in a way that leads you back to a topic they're interested in. If they were talking about football earlier, answer with a football analogy. Lead the answer to a point where you ask them a question "So if a running back were to... etc... would you think that would work?" More often than not the hiring manager will go off on a tangent about football. In the end all they really remember about the interview was how comfortable they were talking with you.
There are lots of other tricks in this regard but they all revolve around the same premise: Make yourself as familiar as possible to the interviewer. The more they have in common with you the more they will be inclined to pick you. They'll later claim it was "instinct" that lead them to you.
As much as I've benefited from this 'flaw' in the system I can't pretend it's because I'm such a desirable employee. It's clearly very easy for this to lead to discriminatory behavior. The only solution to this that I can think of is to treat hiring like a science experiment. Use double blind methodology. There's no reason for anyone to ever meet the candidate either. The hardest jobs for me are the ones where they basically send me a test ahead of time. "Answer these technical questions" even using Google and such, your lack of experience (if you have any) becomes very apparent in the way you phrase your answers. I've also seen places where the interviews/test/etc... are all done by HR, the candidates are scored by HR and then the hiring manager looks at the numbers. This is better but you end up with a lot of employees that would be great in HR but not so hot in IT. HR reps, for some reason, tend to score candidates that dress nicely very high.
If our current job market really did go after the "best" candidate for the job, and that resulted in racial disparity, I'd agree with you. But it doesn't. Our current system leads to hiring people that are most like the current employees at the company which is bad for the company, the people interviewing and the current employees. Monocultures are bad for everyone.