I get all the food for my family from a regional supermarket chain. They're the reason I can EAT. Does this mean my political views should align with the president of the supermarket's?
No. Work is just somewhere I happen to trade my time for money.
Try being a surgeon or a lawyer without an education.
These professions are TERRIBLE examples, because they each have organizations set up (the AMA and ABA) for the express purpose of artificially limiting the number of people in their fields based on lofty criteria like "did this person attend college?"
Without the AMA and ABA, you WOULDN'T have to spend years in college to become a surgeon or lawyer--a trade school would be just as good. Frankly, I don't care if my surgeon went to college and learned about medieval history as long as he's skilled in his trade.
Hey, I have a better idea. Let's take just 1% of that trillion dollars per year, and use it to feed EVERY SINGLE !@## STARVING KID THE WORLD OVER. Yes, that's all it would take. A Billion dollars per year could by a handful of rice, corn, or wheat to put into the hands of every single starving kid in the world.
Ever think about what effect free food has on the target country's local agriculture economy? I'll give you a hint: Local farmers have to start competing with free. The answer isn't dumping free food onto people--it's investing in infrastructure so that functional and stable markets can develop.
Certainly it's not in the best interests of these institutions, nor in the interests of people who actually are committed to getting an education, for all students to get in free of tuition and admission selection requirements. As such a thing massively dilutes the quality of the institution, and the quality of the education that is available.
I have never encountered any evidence whatsoever that any objective measurement of education quality correlates with an institution's exclusivity.
Harvard only lets "certain" people in who deserve a great education, therefore, people think Harvard's great because they only let "certain" people in, therefore, Harvard only lets "certain" people in...
You don't really want lower interest rates on student loans; you want the government to spend more on making higher education affordable for those who qualify for it.
Incorrect.
If the government pitched in $5,000 to everyone who attended college, colleges would simply increase tuition by exactly $5,000. The price of a good or service is set at what the market will bear. A four-year degree is expensive because the wide availability of credit, scholarships and subsidies allows colleges to charge more. See also: easy credit's effect on the housing market.
No, parent is a troll, because their nationality has nothing to do with the crime they allegedly committed, and was used purely for the purpose of bigotry...Unless the parent also goes around writing in "WHITE AMERICAN" on all articles that mention bad things white Americans do. It's totally irrelevant.
So, if one belongs to a gender/racial/ethnic group whose members, somewhere in the world, at some time in history, have ever been discriminated against for any reason, that makes it understandable to be perpetually thin-skinned and looking for opportunities to be insulted/offended around every corner?
Or, in other words: My ancestors are Irish. Is it reasonable for me to be offended by harmless "immigrant jokes"?
Intention: To funnel money into the hands of those who own capital.
You can say that about most laws in the USA. The entire system is set up so that money nearly always flows from those who don't have it to those who do.
Anyone in the embedded systems biz who's ever gone to a trade show probably knows the "brick in the box" technique.
1. You fab a slick looking enclosure for your "new product". 2. You put a brick in the box. 3. You show the box with wires coming out of it, and a PC behind the curtain displayinging the actual app.
That way, you have something to show/promise/sell YEARS before an actual product is ready, and can blame the engineers for being slow to finish and test that "last 10%".
That's the ONLY reason I'm at any job whatsoever, it is nothing more than a means to an end...the end being my being able to live the lifestyle I wish. The job does nothing more than enable to me to do as I please.
Unfortunately, IT is not the field to be in if you want a salary that truly lets you "do as you please" unless you please to merely live a modest middle-class life with a few fun electronic toys. Sure, IT tends to pay a bit above average, but it's certainly not going to turn your family into the next Rockefellers. If you know of such an IT job, please let me know--my resume is ready.
If you want a truly "do as you please" lifestyle you need to either start rich, have a rich friends/family network to get you a job as a high-flying business consultant or C-level executive, or be exceedingly lucky as an entrepreneur.
There's nothing glorious about writing overly-clever "arcane tweaks" into your code to squeeze 1% more performance out (or whatever the silly goal is) at the expense of it being totally unreadable and unmanageable.
Didn't he just have another Slashdot appearance a few days ago, telling us all how great "Duct Tape" programmers (or "sloppy programmers" as I call them) are and how those stupid disciplined software designers and architects were wasting their time?
Meh... I think I'll take my software advice from someone else, thank you.
I don't disagree that it's a lot of money for an intern to make, but that doesn't really justify screeching at them for it.
It IS an almost unreasonable amount of money for an intern, but you're right--we shouldn't be screeching at them. We should be screeching at our own employers.
If the economy wasn't so bad, I bet there would be a lot of printouts of this article nailed to manager's doors come Monday morning. These kids with no credentials and little professional track record are out-earning a lot of us smart middle-career professionals.
For the top jobs? Nepotism or pedigree. You could be the smartest or most talented guy among your peers, but if you don't know the right person's uncle or haven't dined on the right senior manager's yacht, well... enjoy your 2nd rate job at Joe's local engineering shop.
$4500-$6000 is more than I'm making and I've been in software for 10 years and have an MBA from a top school. That's a BIG salary for a seasoned professional, let alone an intern.
Trouble is, it's fairly easy for even a public defender to get a jury to the reasonable doubt point on the matter.
I wouldn't call that "trouble". That's the whole point of the system. The government SHOULD have to prove something beyond reasonable doubt before they are allowed to force someone into prison (where they are likely to be assaulted, raped, and possibly killed). I thank my lucky stars that I live in a place where, at least in theory, I can't have my life ruined simply because some cop with a grudge thinks I might have had a gun in my pocket.
You've got it spot on, it seems. From just the preview Amazon gives you, the author's point is: "Young people are dumb!" and his evidence is a bunch of clips of Jay Leno ambushing young people on the street asking such useless trivia as, "Where does the Pope live?" Who knows how many smart people he had to cut out to get enough dummies for the segment...
He then goes on to bitch about how young people don't seem to have time to "read the classics".
Look, old man, just because you got your college degree for $400 cash and ended up with an office job and a PENSION, doesn't mean today's youth are lazy and stupid because they have to work three minimum wage jobs just to service their enormous debt. And no, they don't have the leisure time you had to "read the classics".
No; Our generation thinks that being able to sort large amounts of information and provide contextual meaning to it is an asset.
Only for, say, the president of the company. For the other 99% worker bees out there, the most important ability is to shut out external distractions, finish the task they're being paid for, and start on the next (usually identical) task.
Our generation has an excellent strength: Balancing many often competing objectives while working in a very socially fluid environment.
That's not as great a job skill as it sounds, really. When I read your status report for the week and it says "Got 50% of the way through five projects" that's not as impressive as the older guy's whose report reads "Finished and shipped that one critical project."
I bet Symantec either funds the creation of a lot of the viruses out there in the wild, or even authors them outright. Got to keep those threats out there to keep selling product...
deny the organization who discovered it the fruits of their labor
Call it anecdote, but I find that the people most likely to use the phrase "fruits of... labor" tend to be the people least likely to have ever performed an hour of true hard labor in their lives.
Like the Rugged Individualist(TM) who goes on and on about how he shouldn't pay taxes and should be able to keep the "fruits of his labor" when it turns out he resets people's passwords and reboots servers for a living.
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I get all the food for my family from a regional supermarket chain. They're the reason I can EAT. Does this mean my political views should align with the president of the supermarket's?
No. Work is just somewhere I happen to trade my time for money.
Try being a surgeon or a lawyer without an education.
These professions are TERRIBLE examples, because they each have organizations set up (the AMA and ABA) for the express purpose of artificially limiting the number of people in their fields based on lofty criteria like "did this person attend college?"
Without the AMA and ABA, you WOULDN'T have to spend years in college to become a surgeon or lawyer--a trade school would be just as good. Frankly, I don't care if my surgeon went to college and learned about medieval history as long as he's skilled in his trade.
Hey, I have a better idea. Let's take just 1% of that trillion dollars per year, and use it to feed EVERY SINGLE !@## STARVING KID THE WORLD OVER. Yes, that's all it would take. A Billion dollars per year could by a handful of rice, corn, or wheat to put into the hands of every single starving kid in the world.
Ever think about what effect free food has on the target country's local agriculture economy? I'll give you a hint: Local farmers have to start competing with free. The answer isn't dumping free food onto people--it's investing in infrastructure so that functional and stable markets can develop.
Certainly it's not in the best interests of these institutions, nor in the interests of people who actually are committed to getting an education, for all students to get in free of tuition and admission selection requirements. As such a thing massively dilutes the quality of the institution, and the quality of the education that is available.
I have never encountered any evidence whatsoever that any objective measurement of education quality correlates with an institution's exclusivity.
Harvard only lets "certain" people in who deserve a great education, therefore, people think Harvard's great because they only let "certain" people in, therefore, Harvard only lets "certain" people in...
You don't really want lower interest rates on student loans; you want the government to spend more on making higher education affordable for those who qualify for it.
Incorrect.
If the government pitched in $5,000 to everyone who attended college, colleges would simply increase tuition by exactly $5,000. The price of a good or service is set at what the market will bear. A four-year degree is expensive because the wide availability of credit, scholarships and subsidies allows colleges to charge more. See also: easy credit's effect on the housing market.
No, parent is a troll, because their nationality has nothing to do with the crime they allegedly committed, and was used purely for the purpose of bigotry...Unless the parent also goes around writing in "WHITE AMERICAN" on all articles that mention bad things white Americans do. It's totally irrelevant.
So, if one belongs to a gender/racial/ethnic group whose members, somewhere in the world, at some time in history, have ever been discriminated against for any reason, that makes it understandable to be perpetually thin-skinned and looking for opportunities to be insulted/offended around every corner?
Or, in other words: My ancestors are Irish. Is it reasonable for me to be offended by harmless "immigrant jokes"?
Intention: To funnel money into the hands of those who own capital.
You can say that about most laws in the USA. The entire system is set up so that money nearly always flows from those who don't have it to those who do.
Anyone in the embedded systems biz who's ever gone to a trade show probably knows the "brick in the box" technique.
1. You fab a slick looking enclosure for your "new product".
2. You put a brick in the box.
3. You show the box with wires coming out of it, and a PC behind the curtain displayinging the actual app.
That way, you have something to show/promise/sell YEARS before an actual product is ready, and can blame the engineers for being slow to finish and test that "last 10%".
That's the ONLY reason I'm at any job whatsoever, it is nothing more than a means to an end...the end being my being able to live the lifestyle I wish. The job does nothing more than enable to me to do as I please.
Unfortunately, IT is not the field to be in if you want a salary that truly lets you "do as you please" unless you please to merely live a modest middle-class life with a few fun electronic toys. Sure, IT tends to pay a bit above average, but it's certainly not going to turn your family into the next Rockefellers. If you know of such an IT job, please let me know--my resume is ready.
If you want a truly "do as you please" lifestyle you need to either start rich, have a rich friends/family network to get you a job as a high-flying business consultant or C-level executive, or be exceedingly lucky as an entrepreneur.
There's nothing glorious about writing overly-clever "arcane tweaks" into your code to squeeze 1% more performance out (or whatever the silly goal is) at the expense of it being totally unreadable and unmanageable.
Didn't he just have another Slashdot appearance a few days ago, telling us all how great "Duct Tape" programmers (or "sloppy programmers" as I call them) are and how those stupid disciplined software designers and architects were wasting their time?
Meh... I think I'll take my software advice from someone else, thank you.
Overwhelming numbers don't work against superior firepower and superior training.
Tell that to the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I don't doubt for a moment that ANY police department in the country would miss the opportunity to rile up protesters so they get to bust some heads.
I don't disagree that it's a lot of money for an intern to make, but that doesn't really justify screeching at them for it.
It IS an almost unreasonable amount of money for an intern, but you're right--we shouldn't be screeching at them. We should be screeching at our own employers.
If the economy wasn't so bad, I bet there would be a lot of printouts of this article nailed to manager's doors come Monday morning. These kids with no credentials and little professional track record are out-earning a lot of us smart middle-career professionals.
How on earth do you get these internships?
For the top jobs? Nepotism or pedigree. You could be the smartest or most talented guy among your peers, but if you don't know the right person's uncle or haven't dined on the right senior manager's yacht, well... enjoy your 2nd rate job at Joe's local engineering shop.
$4500-$6000 is more than I'm making and I've been in software for 10 years and have an MBA from a top school. That's a BIG salary for a seasoned professional, let alone an intern.
Trouble is, it's fairly easy for even a public defender to get a jury to the reasonable doubt point on the matter.
I wouldn't call that "trouble". That's the whole point of the system. The government SHOULD have to prove something beyond reasonable doubt before they are allowed to force someone into prison (where they are likely to be assaulted, raped, and possibly killed). I thank my lucky stars that I live in a place where, at least in theory, I can't have my life ruined simply because some cop with a grudge thinks I might have had a gun in my pocket.
Really? Perps? I don't know anyone who seriously uses that word besides hopped-up cops on TV.
How 'bout we call them what they are until they have their day in court: SUSPECTS.
You've got it spot on, it seems. From just the preview Amazon gives you, the author's point is: "Young people are dumb!" and his evidence is a bunch of clips of Jay Leno ambushing young people on the street asking such useless trivia as, "Where does the Pope live?" Who knows how many smart people he had to cut out to get enough dummies for the segment...
He then goes on to bitch about how young people don't seem to have time to "read the classics".
Look, old man, just because you got your college degree for $400 cash and ended up with an office job and a PENSION, doesn't mean today's youth are lazy and stupid because they have to work three minimum wage jobs just to service their enormous debt. And no, they don't have the leisure time you had to "read the classics".
No; Our generation thinks that being able to sort large amounts of information and provide contextual meaning to it is an asset.
Only for, say, the president of the company. For the other 99% worker bees out there, the most important ability is to shut out external distractions, finish the task they're being paid for, and start on the next (usually identical) task.
Our generation has an excellent strength: Balancing many often competing objectives while working in a very socially fluid environment.
That's not as great a job skill as it sounds, really. When I read your status report for the week and it says "Got 50% of the way through five projects" that's not as impressive as the older guy's whose report reads "Finished and shipped that one critical project."
Or Symantec...?
I bet Symantec either funds the creation of a lot of the viruses out there in the wild, or even authors them outright. Got to keep those threats out there to keep selling product...
Hey, watch it! I'm an engineer who would love to work for a hedge fund, you insensitive clod!
deny the organization who discovered it the fruits of their labor
Call it anecdote, but I find that the people most likely to use the phrase "fruits of ... labor" tend to be the people least likely to have ever performed an hour of true hard labor in their lives.
Like the Rugged Individualist(TM) who goes on and on about how he shouldn't pay taxes and should be able to keep the "fruits of his labor" when it turns out he resets people's passwords and reboots servers for a living.