However, because of the amount of testing and approvals that are necessary to deploy them, it's difficult to do this on a monthly basis for all our devices.
no one disagrees that it takes manpower to do full regression tests after patches. but the thing is, for most of the time you are NOT writing the patches, just integrating it!
now, that aside, we all know that world labor is less than dirt-cheap. YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE TO AVOID GETTING THINGS DONE in this cheap-as-chips world labor market.
fuck you. you claim you are poor? double fuck you for lying about it and we all can see that, too.
I have been living and working in the bay area for about 25 yrs, now. before that I spent a bunch of years in the boston area, doing the boston software thing.
when I work at some of the big names in the bay area, I see who is working there and what their skill level is. I hear the talk in meetings and see the tech discussions. I see the writings on whiteboards left from meetings. I hear hallway talk. I see the bugs from co-workers. I see the lack of qa and testing and blatant bugs in routines that have 5 lines of code. I see docs that were clearly not written by native english speakers.
the best and brightest? h1b? you HAVE to be shitting me.
big huge lie. they are the cheapest warm bodies you can buy and dominate and boss around. but they are not, and never were, best and brightest. their curve is like our curve; we have some that are stars and most are average. the ones that come over have the same bell curve. some really good stars, but for the most part, you could find the same level of quality here, already.
It sounds like you don't have relevant skill sets anymore
I am not a web gui jokey, if that's what you mean. I can hold my own in C, C++, I can do ok enough in python, and probably get by as well as others in the languages they don't use regularly.
I am pretty in touch with computing in most areas. and I don't even insist on specialist jobs. there are a ton of 'can you write C code?' jobs and I'm be ok doing that. they won't give it to me; I'm too qualified, then. even when I beg for the job, I'm too overqualified and they won't give it to me.
there has been writing and teaching in my background and I'm happy enough to do that. nope, once you write C code, they won't take you as a tech writer. I'm happy to do it! I enjoy it. but the stigma stops them from taking me on. I'm not making this stuff up, either.
I can design hardware, do board bring-up, order parts and eval things. write the firmware, do the networking, solder the parts, document it, write the host based back ends. ensure the whole system works. take it to trade shows and demo it. write the docs for it, do the RMA service. in other words, I can do a whole company's worth of jobs and in some ways I act as a whole hardware/software company of size 1. I can do most anything.
and yet, here I am. unemployed and finding it very hard to break thru that 'but you are an older expensive american' boundary. its a killer, even if you're highly skilled and capable.
I will confess, I'm over 50 and that's a major 'problem' right there for silicon valley employers. they mostly don't hire us anymore and if they do, its always as contract and never fulltime. they're afraid to touch us, in effect. (when you let go a person over a certain age, they have to document a lot more and show that it wasn't due to age. other things come into play when you take on an older guy, and I realize this crap is going on, but its still a show-stopper in your goal of getting employed).
I also know that its common to say 'you are not keeping up' but that's a BS line. I am keeping up. that's not the issue and it never was.
I would personally volunteer to work as a 'secret shopper' for the government in order to weed out these bullshit companies that screw over our own people with this h1b crap.
I'm qualified for a lot of jobs and I have a ton of who's-who names on my resume. I can do the job, in more cases than not. and yet, when I apply, its the same as you - some BS excuse and you never hear from them again.
I would love to help weed out this unpatriotic selfish bastard companies and really sock it to them where it hurts, in fines and even jail time. if there is no pain, you don't change behavior.
I've had to live on unemployment for a while, live on my savings for much much longer and I'm sick and tired of this crap. I'm qualified, I want to work and yet I can't get work. all around me are h1b's and I see tons of job listings. but no one hires me. and my peers, we're all in the same boat (so I know its not personal).
I'd love to help be that secret interviewer. and when I get turned down, I should have the authority behind me (via the government) to have a full investigation done to SHOW ME the real proof of why I'm not qualified for this job.
a few rounds of that hitting the papers and - PROBLEM SOLVED FOR GOOD.
anyone else game to do this? lets start a movement!
I don't think we need a visa system, either. you think we're UNDER POPULATED here in the US? maybe in the flyover states we are, but in the tech area hubs we are overcrowded in a way that is not beneficial to anyone but the corps, who prey on us like vultures.
when we have locals who can't get or keep a job and you have 90% indians and chinese walking around in google, intel, cisco, facebook, twitter, etc - there is something really wrong, here. locals can't get work and we import people who don't really understand our culture and actively avoid being part of it, in fact.
we have no right to hand out jobs to non-citizens when citizens are going hungry, begging to be hired. yes, its true, I speak from personal experience here.
do we need more citizens? really? why would you think we need more people here? a lot of the world is overcrowded. are we supposed to be the world's solution by letting everyone come work and live here?
I was dinged on some of my previous posts when people didn't understand what my beef was. let me be clear; most countries give preference to their citizens, first. for some reason, we do not and I think that's quite unfair. a US person can not go to india and just get a job. you just can't. but indians can come here and get jobs no problem. does that sound equal, to you? why do we have to take everyone in? we can't even feed ourselves, as a whole nation. we are not in any condition to open our doors and let more and more people in. and especially not 'guest workers'. again, we don't have those rights in other countries. I can't just go to places in europe or asia and find a job, even at pay lower than locals. there are laws that stop them from hiring non-citizens. but the US does not do that, we let anyone in and give them first chance over jobs before people who spent 50+ years investing in this country.
most software and hardware jobs are not rocket science. we don't need 'the best and brightest in the world' to patch bugs and write for-loops. most of IT work is not genius-level stuff. and its clear when you walk around the hallways at places like the ones I mentioned that the people there are definitely not the brightest ones findable. they are average guys and girls, doing an average job. I can do that, too, but I can't get work because the companies have given up hiring locals and look to hire only h1b's. for even the simple software jobs, people like me can't get a company to hire them. and we all know why, too.
and in some time afterwards, when they realize that we have infrastructure that pretty much WORKS and they do not, they'll be back.
yeah, its cheap in india. when the electricity works. and when the workers actually DO real quality work.
let them go to india and china. once they realize that cost savings is not all there is, they'll be back.
perhaps they need to truly learn the value of having us, the US born workers who know this country and how to get things done, be in their employ.
I hope more companies do 100% offshoring work.
they will learn that its not all roses.
I think we need to experience more pain (damn) in order for us to get back what we all lost. and we ALL did lose; because if it did not happen to you yet, it will; and it most certainly is happening to people you know.
back when digital first came out and people were experimenting with OTA vs sat vs cable - it was obvious that OTA was pretty decent and everything else sucked badly.
what's the point in high def if its all motion smeared?
damn.
its why I prefer spinning media to streaming, for the most part. amazon video is actually pretty good, but most other streamers really compress things way too much.
I can only hope that our voices are STARTING to be heard and taken seriously.
I can't compete with an h1b. I have more experience, I know silicon valley quite well, I have good contacts and can get things done; but I'm 'an expensive american' because I have US healthcare to pay and US rents to pay, etc. and I'm not willing to have 5 other room mates and live-for-work just to stay employed.
we need a break from this heat wave. many of us who need work cannot get it. companies stopped caring about us and refuse to even consider us. we badly need relief from this or we'll find more of us slipping into the poorest underclass and that's just an absurdity. intelligent and capable thinkers and builders unable to get work because our corp overlords sold us all out.
I'll believe in the relief when I see it. so far, though, its killing many of us. in some ways, almost literally (I may lose my home soon, that's how bad it can get).
right now, life looks pretty dismal in so many ways. many problems in the world, problems at home; and for me, personal shit that is becoming hard to deal with.
but when I read about snowden, I feel a little bit better. it feels better knowing that the world is not 100% all corrupt and evil and that some few souls out there really do risk everything to make things better for us all.
I hope mr. snowden finds some peace in his life (sounds like its not all bad, there) and I consider him the #1 hero for our whole century, in terms of humanity and wanting to really improve things, at great personal cost.
mr. snowden: you are an amazing person and I'd do anything I could to help you in any way I could. we all owe you so much. and all we can say is a great big 'thanks!' (we can't even donate to you, which really sucks.)
OT: but in star trek, the enterprise crew are not the humans of the future.
the kingons are. in fact, its hard to tell many humans from klingons, if you ignore the obvious diff in looks and language.
the dog-eat-dog view is widely held by humans. 'its not enough that I win; you must also lose'. that summarizes much of humanity, sad to say.
there's no chance people will progress to star trek level of kindness, justice and understanding. we don't have it in us, by in large. the good humans are the tiny tiny minority in this world.
I don't take pleasure in saying this. but its just true, that's all.
playing by the rules means you lose and some 'unethical' entity wins.
corps have zero ethics and break rules, knowing its just a matter of numbers and costs/profits. we get laws made by corps that are not constitutional and they fully do this knowing it buys them time and that's all they really needed, anyway.
cops and judges and the whole legal system is not about fairness or even justice. there are so many levels of 'laws' and rules, its all ruined at this point. so stained and full of holes and exceptions.
you are raised to follow and respect rules, but then over the years and decades of your life, you see what goes on in the real world and you soon come to realize that the more powerful and successful entities all selectively break and follow rules as they see fit. they don't blindly just follow rules. they do whatever they want, with calculated costs and risks in mind.
if 'they' don't care and they willfully flaunt it at us, should we continue to follow the school-boy ideals or should we play by the same style that they do?
in an ideal world, we'd all respect rules and we'd have rules that we all agreed on, that helps us all. we are NOT in that world. we have to think for ourselves and be selective. so many 'rules' are not there for our benefit and simply following them is being a stupid robot. be a human! think for yourself. the rules are a mixed bag. it does make sense to be selective in what you follow. until the 'rules' are cleaned up and everyone follows them, the deal is OFF. do what you need to, to survive in this world. they do. so you have to, also.
turn it around: the system is too easily gamed and there are WAY too many that claim to be 'working' when in fact, they have some sweet deal that just works on its own (ie, they are a bank and make money no matter what happens in the world).
the rich don't have to pay for the common infra and yet they benefit from it. I say force it from them. make taxes truly work for us all. its not a hard concept to grasp.
and no one is suggesting a dr. zhivago style purge. but if you know you are not pulling your weight and yet are pulling in most of the money, you WOULD have something to fear and worry about.
what we have now is not sustainable. what do YOU suggest? I just told you what I suggest. leaving it as-is is NOT an option anymore.
they have more money than god, at this point in time. what they stock pile, many of us could live on for the rest of our lives, in the thousands and 10's of thousands. the disparity is disgusting.
take money from the churches, too. they should work for the people but they hoard and don't do SHIT with it, for the most part. sell their land and their assets and give it to the people. we need it. what does god need with a starsh^Hall that money?
stop spending on military. defund 90% of it. its bullshit and its not needed in the way it once was.
truly remove about half of the government offices and jobs. they suck up funds and don't give much back for it.
tax those who are leeches the most; like the wall street motherfuckers. they don't create anything (nothing built, nothing written, nothing really created in any sense other than virtual) and they take so much. tax those who do nothing and collect so much for doing nothing.
we could easily READJUST ourselves so that its more fair.
but we won't unless we fight. and oh boy, I see a fight coming on in the next 50 or less years if we don't fix things soon.
while at a buffet lunch (all you can eat), it occurred to me: the convention in that kind of restaurant is to not allow the customers to take home leftovers even though it seem wasteful to throw out whatever you didn't finish on your plate.
the reason: they don't want to start a precident; they all collude to 'teach' you that you have no right to take that one final partial plate of food with you. if they all stand together and tell each customer that tries, 'no, you cant take that with you' then they all are together and it is a 'rule' that customers come to understand.
by the same token, wouldn't it be great if everyone who was told to train their replacement just stood up and said NO? if we all did, universally, the employers would at least realize that this is the new 'rule' and that they can't get away with it. just like the buffet idea, you create an arbitrary rule that favors you and you stand unified so that that rule 'sticks'.
I know why we don't, though. they lord over us the severance pay which many of us need. maybe even a small bonus. when you know you are going to be between jobs, its damned hard to say no to some extra pay.
but think about it, guys. if we stood strong and universally refused to train our replacements, we could just tell companies 'no, this is not something we support and its our policy, as employees, not to encourage further bad behavior from corporatations'. that's the essence of it. de-condition them of this bad behavior.
who's with me on this?
we hang together or we hang separately. someone famous once said that, I think.
I predict and fully expect to see a rise in american 'terrorism', where americans have been out of work long enough to lose thier homes and feel that they have nothing left so 'fuck it, I'm going on a rampage'.
god help us all once this eventually happens. google and the rest all have the police in their pockets and anyone trying to rush the google campus will get the full riot police on thier asses, but when you have nothing left, you have nothing left to lose. hell, I've been close to that point, myself, feeling quite abandoned by my american 'brothers' who are running the US companies into the ground.
keep depressing local wages and sending jobs overseas. keep it up. you WILL create more locals who want to see you die.
or, maybe start thinking about easing off the outsourcing and h1b's and put americans (who really need and deserve jobs) back to work in a living wage again.
your choice. we rush your gates or you keep us fed.
give it 5-10 more years and this will be on the news.
google, like the rest of the NON INNOVATING bay area giants, just wants warm bodies that are cheap to sit in its seats.
time and time again, they all learn that you can abuse indians and chinese and other asians and if they are here on h1b, they won't ever say no. they are polite little worker bees, living just to make your every wish come true, mr. manager man. sigh.
americans are 'too uppity'. they want time off. they want sick time. they want flex time. they want to be able to say no and move to another job easily. no google or hp or intel or oracle or anyone like that wants to have free actors working there; that ruins the 'we all follow orders' rule. too many people can give the foreigners some ideas and that just CANNOT be!
this is why. obedience and servitude. its the new silicon valley!;(
strongly disagree, people of your own country ARE ENTITLED to jobs IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY.
the fact that you don't get this, its very telling, indeed.
the whole POINT of a country is to protect and give pref treatment to the people who grew up there, paid taxes all their lives, have invested in that place and often, their parents were from there and their kids will stay there.
yes, I, who grew up here in the US, demand to have first right of jobs over some foreigner who did nothing for the US, and in fact, won't do anything for the US once they take their money away and return home, later on.
I have more right to american jobs than indians who were not born here do. they are arrogant AS FUCK, thinking they really do have as much rights as the locals do.
let me turn it around: if I were to move to india, would I - and should I - expect the same rights as locals? of course not!
get real, indians. you don't deserve more rights or even the same rights as those who are invested here and who are part of this country, for the long-run. long after you leave, the rest of us will still be here, picking up the pieces you left behind.
you bet we have a right to jobs ahead of you. the fact that you don't see it proves the point even more how much you DO NOT UNDERSTAND what america is about.
no one listens to 'workers'. the execs are full of ego and can do no wrong.
what they all have gotton used to: hiring a bunch of chair-warmers who are almost universally from south east asia, h1b mostly, and all are young. the exact formula for 'dont make waves, dont challenge the boss'.
the bosses are not used to hearing anyone voice opinions! we have the worst engineering now, walking the hallways of cisco, intel, you name it. they hire 'to a price' and you get monkeys if you pay peanuts.
they go out of their way to hire 'diversity' but that means NOT hiring the real minority, the US-born person who is over 35 and HAS the experience.
silicon valley is a sweatshop, becoming more like what we had 100 years ago when the US finally got fed up and 'did the union thing'. that changed history. things got better for a while.
now, they're back to being company-owned - the world, that is. people don't matter. companies do. and you just better do what you are told. there are 1000 more indians waiting to take your job, here or elsewhere, if you dare say 'no' to a boss.
similarly, raise issues of safety or product design and you won't be continuing there much longer (personal experience on that one).
fuck sillicon valley. it stopped being a place of innovation when it became a place to concentrate chair-sitters from across the world. quantity is all that matters. do we have 'body count'? did we save a lot on it? then we're good (that's how they think).
if you are young, sure, come here. but you won't be able to stay long-term. just be aware of that. and be aware of the fact that companies laugh behind your back when you are gullible enough to believe this 'loyalty' shit they want you to swallow. don't believe it, though. eventually YOU will be replace by someone even cheaper. my years are numbered, but then again, so are yours.
no one is safe in the bay area, job-wise. it stinks here.
love the weather and the culture (well, the old culture, that some people still remember). but the days of the 'hp garage' is long gone. now, its stupid social bullshit, twits and disgracebook lead the pack. ie, no product at all, just hot air and advertising.
the christian definition of god seems to self-contradict itself. many times.
I assert its impossible to be 'loving' and at the same time submit one of your 'children' to infinite amount of time being tortured.
the cogn. dissonance that christians who swallow this crap is unfathomable to me. they must not have ever really THOUGHT it thru.
you spend a nearly zero amount of time on earth (compared to infinity) and you do something that a book says is wrong. you then get no real chance to fix it (views vary, though, on this) and you then spend infinite time in pain.
yeah, that sure sounds like a loving caring JUST god to me (rolls eyes).
how can the 'believers' really believe this? I know the answer: emotion. that is the ONLY answer. rationality is not the way to insert bullshit into the mind. emotion is.
get the kids when they are too young to question; and if they do question, smack them or just make fun of them. they will stop questioning. also, associate 'happy shiny memories' with these so-called teachings and it will be nearly impossible to question them and separate them later when you are old enough to think rationally.
how many young people are brainwashed into following a religion - vs how many older (teenage or older) people are, if both had no exposure to this beforehand? obviously its easier to 'get' the younger ones to follow your ideas than ones who have not had that happy fuzzy association burned into their brain. when given a religion's ideas at an older age, I suspect the numbers of believers are a tiny fraction of the ones at very young ages.
its child abuse. but try to tell people that - and their happy fuzzies get in the way; even worse, they may be so offended they want to, now, KILL YOU.
religion is more dangerous than nukes. and its the worst part of humanity. sad that only a few of us see that and, historically, we have been oppressed and denied the ability to confront the brainwashers for what they truly are.
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However, because of the amount of testing and approvals that are necessary to deploy them, it's difficult to do this on a monthly basis for all our devices.
no one disagrees that it takes manpower to do full regression tests after patches. but the thing is, for most of the time you are NOT writing the patches, just integrating it!
now, that aside, we all know that world labor is less than dirt-cheap. YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE TO AVOID GETTING THINGS DONE in this cheap-as-chips world labor market.
fuck you. you claim you are poor? double fuck you for lying about it and we all can see that, too.
how do you KNOW apple is more secure?
have you seen all the files in the source build chain, along with auditing the silicon used in all data paths?
of course not.
we have apples' WORD that its secure.
maybe its true, maybe its all a PR stunt and they cooperate with LEOs just as much as BB does.
you and I and 99.9% of the world have zero insight into this. lets be honest, shall we?
what you describe is most of the china crap that you buy today.
that does not mean that in-spec jacks and plugs are a problem. in fact, they are not!
so, complain about buying dollar buds. but don't say all jacks and plugs are bad, since that's just plain out WRONG.
its not my fault that you buy crap and complain about the format.
I have been living and working in the bay area for about 25 yrs, now. before that I spent a bunch of years in the boston area, doing the boston software thing.
when I work at some of the big names in the bay area, I see who is working there and what their skill level is. I hear the talk in meetings and see the tech discussions. I see the writings on whiteboards left from meetings. I hear hallway talk. I see the bugs from co-workers. I see the lack of qa and testing and blatant bugs in routines that have 5 lines of code. I see docs that were clearly not written by native english speakers.
the best and brightest? h1b? you HAVE to be shitting me.
big huge lie. they are the cheapest warm bodies you can buy and dominate and boss around. but they are not, and never were, best and brightest. their curve is like our curve; we have some that are stars and most are average. the ones that come over have the same bell curve. some really good stars, but for the most part, you could find the same level of quality here, already.
h1b is bullshit. we all know it.
It sounds like you don't have relevant skill sets anymore
I am not a web gui jokey, if that's what you mean. I can hold my own in C, C++, I can do ok enough in python, and probably get by as well as others in the languages they don't use regularly.
I am pretty in touch with computing in most areas. and I don't even insist on specialist jobs. there are a ton of 'can you write C code?' jobs and I'm be ok doing that. they won't give it to me; I'm too qualified, then. even when I beg for the job, I'm too overqualified and they won't give it to me.
there has been writing and teaching in my background and I'm happy enough to do that. nope, once you write C code, they won't take you as a tech writer. I'm happy to do it! I enjoy it. but the stigma stops them from taking me on. I'm not making this stuff up, either.
I can design hardware, do board bring-up, order parts and eval things. write the firmware, do the networking, solder the parts, document it, write the host based back ends. ensure the whole system works. take it to trade shows and demo it. write the docs for it, do the RMA service. in other words, I can do a whole company's worth of jobs and in some ways I act as a whole hardware/software company of size 1. I can do most anything.
and yet, here I am. unemployed and finding it very hard to break thru that 'but you are an older expensive american' boundary. its a killer, even if you're highly skilled and capable.
I will confess, I'm over 50 and that's a major 'problem' right there for silicon valley employers. they mostly don't hire us anymore and if they do, its always as contract and never fulltime. they're afraid to touch us, in effect. (when you let go a person over a certain age, they have to document a lot more and show that it wasn't due to age. other things come into play when you take on an older guy, and I realize this crap is going on, but its still a show-stopper in your goal of getting employed).
I also know that its common to say 'you are not keeping up' but that's a BS line. I am keeping up. that's not the issue and it never was.
I would personally volunteer to work as a 'secret shopper' for the government in order to weed out these bullshit companies that screw over our own people with this h1b crap.
I'm qualified for a lot of jobs and I have a ton of who's-who names on my resume. I can do the job, in more cases than not. and yet, when I apply, its the same as you - some BS excuse and you never hear from them again.
I would love to help weed out this unpatriotic selfish bastard companies and really sock it to them where it hurts, in fines and even jail time. if there is no pain, you don't change behavior.
I've had to live on unemployment for a while, live on my savings for much much longer and I'm sick and tired of this crap. I'm qualified, I want to work and yet I can't get work. all around me are h1b's and I see tons of job listings. but no one hires me. and my peers, we're all in the same boat (so I know its not personal).
I'd love to help be that secret interviewer. and when I get turned down, I should have the authority behind me (via the government) to have a full investigation done to SHOW ME the real proof of why I'm not qualified for this job.
a few rounds of that hitting the papers and - PROBLEM SOLVED FOR GOOD.
anyone else game to do this? lets start a movement!
I don't think we need a visa system, either. you think we're UNDER POPULATED here in the US? maybe in the flyover states we are, but in the tech area hubs we are overcrowded in a way that is not beneficial to anyone but the corps, who prey on us like vultures.
when we have locals who can't get or keep a job and you have 90% indians and chinese walking around in google, intel, cisco, facebook, twitter, etc - there is something really wrong, here. locals can't get work and we import people who don't really understand our culture and actively avoid being part of it, in fact.
we have no right to hand out jobs to non-citizens when citizens are going hungry, begging to be hired. yes, its true, I speak from personal experience here.
do we need more citizens? really? why would you think we need more people here? a lot of the world is overcrowded. are we supposed to be the world's solution by letting everyone come work and live here?
I was dinged on some of my previous posts when people didn't understand what my beef was. let me be clear; most countries give preference to their citizens, first. for some reason, we do not and I think that's quite unfair. a US person can not go to india and just get a job. you just can't. but indians can come here and get jobs no problem. does that sound equal, to you? why do we have to take everyone in? we can't even feed ourselves, as a whole nation. we are not in any condition to open our doors and let more and more people in. and especially not 'guest workers'. again, we don't have those rights in other countries. I can't just go to places in europe or asia and find a job, even at pay lower than locals. there are laws that stop them from hiring non-citizens. but the US does not do that, we let anyone in and give them first chance over jobs before people who spent 50+ years investing in this country.
most software and hardware jobs are not rocket science. we don't need 'the best and brightest in the world' to patch bugs and write for-loops. most of IT work is not genius-level stuff. and its clear when you walk around the hallways at places like the ones I mentioned that the people there are definitely not the brightest ones findable. they are average guys and girls, doing an average job. I can do that, too, but I can't get work because the companies have given up hiring locals and look to hire only h1b's. for even the simple software jobs, people like me can't get a company to hire them. and we all know why, too.
and in some time afterwards, when they realize that we have infrastructure that pretty much WORKS and they do not, they'll be back.
yeah, its cheap in india. when the electricity works. and when the workers actually DO real quality work.
let them go to india and china. once they realize that cost savings is not all there is, they'll be back.
perhaps they need to truly learn the value of having us, the US born workers who know this country and how to get things done, be in their employ.
I hope more companies do 100% offshoring work.
they will learn that its not all roses.
I think we need to experience more pain (damn) in order for us to get back what we all lost. and we ALL did lose; because if it did not happen to you yet, it will; and it most certainly is happening to people you know.
back when digital first came out and people were experimenting with OTA vs sat vs cable - it was obvious that OTA was pretty decent and everything else sucked badly.
what's the point in high def if its all motion smeared?
damn.
its why I prefer spinning media to streaming, for the most part. amazon video is actually pretty good, but most other streamers really compress things way too much.
I can only hope that our voices are STARTING to be heard and taken seriously.
I can't compete with an h1b. I have more experience, I know silicon valley quite well, I have good contacts and can get things done; but I'm 'an expensive american' because I have US healthcare to pay and US rents to pay, etc. and I'm not willing to have 5 other room mates and live-for-work just to stay employed.
we need a break from this heat wave. many of us who need work cannot get it. companies stopped caring about us and refuse to even consider us. we badly need relief from this or we'll find more of us slipping into the poorest underclass and that's just an absurdity. intelligent and capable thinkers and builders unable to get work because our corp overlords sold us all out.
I'll believe in the relief when I see it. so far, though, its killing many of us. in some ways, almost literally (I may lose my home soon, that's how bad it can get).
right now, life looks pretty dismal in so many ways. many problems in the world, problems at home; and for me, personal shit that is becoming hard to deal with.
but when I read about snowden, I feel a little bit better. it feels better knowing that the world is not 100% all corrupt and evil and that some few souls out there really do risk everything to make things better for us all.
I hope mr. snowden finds some peace in his life (sounds like its not all bad, there) and I consider him the #1 hero for our whole century, in terms of humanity and wanting to really improve things, at great personal cost.
mr. snowden: you are an amazing person and I'd do anything I could to help you in any way I could. we all owe you so much. and all we can say is a great big 'thanks!' (we can't even donate to you, which really sucks.)
$80 ??
are you insane?
I'll stick with torrents.
go fuck yourself, comcast. I'll use you for data, but I see you are still in dreamland when it comes to voice and video.
OT: but in star trek, the enterprise crew are not the humans of the future.
the kingons are. in fact, its hard to tell many humans from klingons, if you ignore the obvious diff in looks and language.
the dog-eat-dog view is widely held by humans. 'its not enough that I win; you must also lose'. that summarizes much of humanity, sad to say.
there's no chance people will progress to star trek level of kindness, justice and understanding. we don't have it in us, by in large. the good humans are the tiny tiny minority in this world.
I don't take pleasure in saying this. but its just true, that's all.
How much do you pay for your daily sunlight, air and gravity?
I'm somewhat large, and so I actually get a rebate from my gravity bill.
playing by the rules means you lose and some 'unethical' entity wins.
corps have zero ethics and break rules, knowing its just a matter of numbers and costs/profits. we get laws made by corps that are not constitutional and they fully do this knowing it buys them time and that's all they really needed, anyway.
cops and judges and the whole legal system is not about fairness or even justice. there are so many levels of 'laws' and rules, its all ruined at this point. so stained and full of holes and exceptions.
you are raised to follow and respect rules, but then over the years and decades of your life, you see what goes on in the real world and you soon come to realize that the more powerful and successful entities all selectively break and follow rules as they see fit. they don't blindly just follow rules. they do whatever they want, with calculated costs and risks in mind.
if 'they' don't care and they willfully flaunt it at us, should we continue to follow the school-boy ideals or should we play by the same style that they do?
in an ideal world, we'd all respect rules and we'd have rules that we all agreed on, that helps us all. we are NOT in that world. we have to think for ourselves and be selective. so many 'rules' are not there for our benefit and simply following them is being a stupid robot. be a human! think for yourself. the rules are a mixed bag. it does make sense to be selective in what you follow. until the 'rules' are cleaned up and everyone follows them, the deal is OFF. do what you need to, to survive in this world. they do. so you have to, also.
capitalism, as practiced by the US, is going to cause the end of the US.
and you know, I wish our kind of capitalism on ALL OF THEM over there in the islamic countries.
what... should we be the only ones suffering in this world?
(lol)
read up on macrovision.
lots of ways to mess with analog signals and 'drm them'.
turn it around: the system is too easily gamed and there are WAY too many that claim to be 'working' when in fact, they have some sweet deal that just works on its own (ie, they are a bank and make money no matter what happens in the world).
the rich don't have to pay for the common infra and yet they benefit from it. I say force it from them. make taxes truly work for us all. its not a hard concept to grasp.
and no one is suggesting a dr. zhivago style purge. but if you know you are not pulling your weight and yet are pulling in most of the money, you WOULD have something to fear and worry about.
what we have now is not sustainable. what do YOU suggest? I just told you what I suggest. leaving it as-is is NOT an option anymore.
they have more money than god, at this point in time. what they stock pile, many of us could live on for the rest of our lives, in the thousands and 10's of thousands. the disparity is disgusting.
take money from the churches, too. they should work for the people but they hoard and don't do SHIT with it, for the most part. sell their land and their assets and give it to the people. we need it. what does god need with a starsh^Hall that money?
stop spending on military. defund 90% of it. its bullshit and its not needed in the way it once was.
truly remove about half of the government offices and jobs. they suck up funds and don't give much back for it.
tax those who are leeches the most; like the wall street motherfuckers. they don't create anything (nothing built, nothing written, nothing really created in any sense other than virtual) and they take so much. tax those who do nothing and collect so much for doing nothing.
we could easily READJUST ourselves so that its more fair.
but we won't unless we fight. and oh boy, I see a fight coming on in the next 50 or less years if we don't fix things soon.
while at a buffet lunch (all you can eat), it occurred to me: the convention in that kind of restaurant is to not allow the customers to take home leftovers even though it seem wasteful to throw out whatever you didn't finish on your plate.
the reason: they don't want to start a precident; they all collude to 'teach' you that you have no right to take that one final partial plate of food with you. if they all stand together and tell each customer that tries, 'no, you cant take that with you' then they all are together and it is a 'rule' that customers come to understand.
by the same token, wouldn't it be great if everyone who was told to train their replacement just stood up and said NO? if we all did, universally, the employers would at least realize that this is the new 'rule' and that they can't get away with it. just like the buffet idea, you create an arbitrary rule that favors you and you stand unified so that that rule 'sticks'.
I know why we don't, though. they lord over us the severance pay which many of us need. maybe even a small bonus. when you know you are going to be between jobs, its damned hard to say no to some extra pay.
but think about it, guys. if we stood strong and universally refused to train our replacements, we could just tell companies 'no, this is not something we support and its our policy, as employees, not to encourage further bad behavior from corporatations'. that's the essence of it. de-condition them of this bad behavior.
who's with me on this?
we hang together or we hang separately. someone famous once said that, I think.
I predict and fully expect to see a rise in american 'terrorism', where americans have been out of work long enough to lose thier homes and feel that they have nothing left so 'fuck it, I'm going on a rampage'.
god help us all once this eventually happens. google and the rest all have the police in their pockets and anyone trying to rush the google campus will get the full riot police on thier asses, but when you have nothing left, you have nothing left to lose. hell, I've been close to that point, myself, feeling quite abandoned by my american 'brothers' who are running the US companies into the ground.
keep depressing local wages and sending jobs overseas. keep it up. you WILL create more locals who want to see you die.
or, maybe start thinking about easing off the outsourcing and h1b's and put americans (who really need and deserve jobs) back to work in a living wage again.
your choice. we rush your gates or you keep us fed.
give it 5-10 more years and this will be on the news.
google, like the rest of the NON INNOVATING bay area giants, just wants warm bodies that are cheap to sit in its seats.
time and time again, they all learn that you can abuse indians and chinese and other asians and if they are here on h1b, they won't ever say no. they are polite little worker bees, living just to make your every wish come true, mr. manager man. sigh.
americans are 'too uppity'. they want time off. they want sick time. they want flex time. they want to be able to say no and move to another job easily. no google or hp or intel or oracle or anyone like that wants to have free actors working there; that ruins the 'we all follow orders' rule. too many people can give the foreigners some ideas and that just CANNOT be!
this is why. obedience and servitude. its the new silicon valley! ;(
strongly disagree, people of your own country ARE ENTITLED to jobs IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY.
the fact that you don't get this, its very telling, indeed.
the whole POINT of a country is to protect and give pref treatment to the people who grew up there, paid taxes all their lives, have invested in that place and often, their parents were from there and their kids will stay there.
yes, I, who grew up here in the US, demand to have first right of jobs over some foreigner who did nothing for the US, and in fact, won't do anything for the US once they take their money away and return home, later on.
I have more right to american jobs than indians who were not born here do. they are arrogant AS FUCK, thinking they really do have as much rights as the locals do.
let me turn it around: if I were to move to india, would I - and should I - expect the same rights as locals? of course not!
get real, indians. you don't deserve more rights or even the same rights as those who are invested here and who are part of this country, for the long-run. long after you leave, the rest of us will still be here, picking up the pieces you left behind.
you bet we have a right to jobs ahead of you. the fact that you don't see it proves the point even more how much you DO NOT UNDERSTAND what america is about.
no one listens to 'workers'. the execs are full of ego and can do no wrong.
what they all have gotton used to: hiring a bunch of chair-warmers who are almost universally from south east asia, h1b mostly, and all are young. the exact formula for 'dont make waves, dont challenge the boss'.
the bosses are not used to hearing anyone voice opinions! we have the worst engineering now, walking the hallways of cisco, intel, you name it. they hire 'to a price' and you get monkeys if you pay peanuts.
they go out of their way to hire 'diversity' but that means NOT hiring the real minority, the US-born person who is over 35 and HAS the experience.
silicon valley is a sweatshop, becoming more like what we had 100 years ago when the US finally got fed up and 'did the union thing'. that changed history. things got better for a while.
now, they're back to being company-owned - the world, that is. people don't matter. companies do. and you just better do what you are told. there are 1000 more indians waiting to take your job, here or elsewhere, if you dare say 'no' to a boss.
similarly, raise issues of safety or product design and you won't be continuing there much longer (personal experience on that one).
fuck sillicon valley. it stopped being a place of innovation when it became a place to concentrate chair-sitters from across the world. quantity is all that matters. do we have 'body count'? did we save a lot on it? then we're good (that's how they think).
if you are young, sure, come here. but you won't be able to stay long-term. just be aware of that. and be aware of the fact that companies laugh behind your back when you are gullible enough to believe this 'loyalty' shit they want you to swallow. don't believe it, though. eventually YOU will be replace by someone even cheaper. my years are numbered, but then again, so are yours.
no one is safe in the bay area, job-wise. it stinks here.
love the weather and the culture (well, the old culture, that some people still remember). but the days of the 'hp garage' is long gone. now, its stupid social bullshit, twits and disgracebook lead the pack. ie, no product at all, just hot air and advertising.
the christian definition of god seems to self-contradict itself. many times.
I assert its impossible to be 'loving' and at the same time submit one of your 'children' to infinite amount of time being tortured.
the cogn. dissonance that christians who swallow this crap is unfathomable to me. they must not have ever really THOUGHT it thru.
you spend a nearly zero amount of time on earth (compared to infinity) and you do something that a book says is wrong. you then get no real chance to fix it (views vary, though, on this) and you then spend infinite time in pain.
yeah, that sure sounds like a loving caring JUST god to me (rolls eyes).
how can the 'believers' really believe this? I know the answer: emotion. that is the ONLY answer. rationality is not the way to insert bullshit into the mind. emotion is.
get the kids when they are too young to question; and if they do question, smack them or just make fun of them. they will stop questioning. also, associate 'happy shiny memories' with these so-called teachings and it will be nearly impossible to question them and separate them later when you are old enough to think rationally.
how many young people are brainwashed into following a religion - vs how many older (teenage or older) people are, if both had no exposure to this beforehand? obviously its easier to 'get' the younger ones to follow your ideas than ones who have not had that happy fuzzy association burned into their brain. when given a religion's ideas at an older age, I suspect the numbers of believers are a tiny fraction of the ones at very young ages.
its child abuse. but try to tell people that - and their happy fuzzies get in the way; even worse, they may be so offended they want to, now, KILL YOU.
religion is more dangerous than nukes. and its the worst part of humanity. sad that only a few of us see that and, historically, we have been oppressed and denied the ability to confront the brainwashers for what they truly are.