is there any proof that the NSA was doing stuff like this?
It doesn't matter. A "we don't do that" from the NSA, even if we could be sure it was the gospel truth, would be no defense. Read up on the creation of the Bill of Rights. The authors took the approach that any power which potentially can be abused, will be abused at some point.
"Outed" an assault rifle owner? I wasn't aware guns had been banned in the United States.
I would love to see the NRA get involved in this. They're well organized, have a lot of influence, and are hardly considered left-wing nut jobs.
P.S. I don't belong to the NRA, own no firearms, and have mixed feeling about the organization. However the NRA on one side, and people concerned about calls to abortion clinics and labor union organizers on the other would make a formidable coalition. Something for everybody to hate except the Stasi wannabees.
Good point. Instead of pussy footing around with this metadata crap, lets just have searches of everyone's homes. Sure most of them can legally own firearms, but who knows who is keeping a ton of C4, liters of weaponized anthrax, or a pair of box cutters in their basement. Search everyone - there is nothing to worry about if you've got nothing to hide.
I don't want to pay (subside) someone else healthcare.
I didn't want to pay for your K-12 education and subsidize your higher education. It would bother me a lot less though if you weren't so childish and self-centered.
Yeah, even the IEEE finally admits it. Don't expect them or the IEEE-USA to do anything though. IEEE is heavily dominated by academicians, who are all for cranking out more grads. Everybody knows where their bread is buttered.
I can't comment on your anecdote, since I've no idea what your cohort was, how many professors were involved, etc. Overall though the US graduates about 2x as many STEM people as the job market can absorb. I can't imagine how large the factor is for philosophy and medieval art history majors. Universities are businesses, and like all businesses they want more customers. That they're not-for-profit is immaterial. They don't care what you do with their product, so long as you buy it. It's more than a little suspicious that MD's are an exception, when the accreditation is run by their union.
30+ years says you're overconfident. I've stayed in the field, was once out of work for 6 months, but other than that my longest unemployment was 3 days. It definitely helps to stay up-to-date, and just do a plain old-fashioned good job. However, I've known people who were at least as good and as up-to-date as me, but after being out of work for a long time (filled in with a few burger jobs and stuff) had to switch to another, often less lucrative career. There is a lot of luck involved, though some people don't like to believe that. I'd guess you're about half way to retirement. I sincerely wish you luck, but remember that the second half of the way to retirement can be a lot harder.
She has gotten some work from temp agencies, but even that has gotten sparse. Thanks for the NA idea though, even if it pays little it'd be worth it to keep her patient skills more up-to-date.
Forget Switzerland - there are plenty of nursing jobs in North Dakota. Seriously, it's because of the oil boom, and she's gotten job offers from there, complete with signing bonus and paying relo costs.
She'd love to, bet there's an issue: $$$ We both agree that it's a bad idea to get into debt up to our eyeballs, and because we have kids there is limited cash available.
give it time. They'll be another shortage within 3-4 years
The problem is that if you've recently graduated from nursing school, like my wife, when the next shortage rolls around, you'll get rejected because you're no longer a recent grad and you have little to no work experience.
It's not restricted at the "union" level - it's restricted at the school level.
There is no difference. As I pointed out above, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), which accredits medical schools, is mostly run by the AMA.
The local vet school, for example, strictly caps enrollment... because veterinary medicine is a slow growth field, and they want to produce enough students to replace retiring vets and match growth without flooding the market, lowering wages, and making people with $200K in student loans unemployed.
I didn't realize vets have a good union too. In other areas of higher education, from computer science to medieval art history, schools will happily accommodate as many customers (oops, I mean students) as they can, enlarging departments to meet demand, and do it without any regard to the job prospects of their graduates. Curiously MD's, and as you say DVM's, work differently.
So why aren't there more or larger medical schools? "Overcrowding" does a great job of restricting the supply of doctors. The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), which accredits medical schools, is mostly run by the AMA.
Blame the bean counting MBAs running the hospitals and focusing solely on the bottom line - profit over patient care.
Yup, patient to nurse ratio is much higher than it used to be, or than it is in other countries. If you go through the numbers, you'll find that nurses are but a tiny part of the utterly obscene hospital bills you get these days. Of course the MBA's pinch pennies on the people who actually provide patient care, and lavish salaries on "administrators" like themselves.
I know. My wife is a nursing grad who can't find a job for anything. When she started the program, it was pretty easy to get a job. By the time she graduated it was just the opposite. And it's not just her. She's kept in touch with classmates and they all say the same thing. It does seem to depend on were you are in the country though. Frustratingly, she regularly gets job offers from various other states.
get out now and go somewhere with real skills before your loans get to high.
How about foreign languages? A working knowledge of Telugu and Kannada are probably the most useful qualifications these days for any work related to computers.
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is there any proof that the NSA was doing stuff like this?
It doesn't matter. A "we don't do that" from the NSA, even if we could be sure it was the gospel truth, would be no defense. Read up on the creation of the Bill of Rights. The authors took the approach that any power which potentially can be abused, will be abused at some point.
"Outed" an assault rifle owner? I wasn't aware guns had been banned in the United States.
I would love to see the NRA get involved in this. They're well organized, have a lot of influence, and are hardly considered left-wing nut jobs.
P.S. I don't belong to the NRA, own no firearms, and have mixed feeling about the organization. However the NRA on one side, and people concerned about calls to abortion clinics and labor union organizers on the other would make a formidable coalition. Something for everybody to hate except the Stasi wannabees.
Good point. Instead of pussy footing around with this metadata crap, lets just have searches of everyone's homes. Sure most of them can legally own firearms, but who knows who is keeping a ton of C4, liters of weaponized anthrax, or a pair of box cutters in their basement. Search everyone - there is nothing to worry about if you've got nothing to hide.
You realize that the correct word for what you describe here is ... 'pyramid scheme.'
You do realize you have no clue what a pyramid scheme is, right?
This. I'm tired of losing most of my income to older generations while knowing that I'll get *none* of the same benefits.
Pray tell, how do you "know" this (other than by regurgitating canards).
I don't want to pay (subside) someone else healthcare.
I didn't want to pay for your K-12 education and subsidize your higher education. It would bother me a lot less though if you weren't so childish and self-centered.
I had to explain "Desk Checks"
Dang, I didn't know there was a name for it. Does it count as a new skill if I learned a buzzword for an old one I had?
This is so 911, ERs, and the government can know not to respond or care for such people.
I would love to see such people left bleeding on the street, but unfortunately that will never happen.
What was the 'Tronics Boom'?
They're worth whatever a vulture capitalist is willing to fund, or whatever an IPO will bring in.
Agreed. A con is worth whatever you can get out of it.
Yeah, even the IEEE finally admits it. Don't expect them or the IEEE-USA to do anything though. IEEE is heavily dominated by academicians, who are all for cranking out more grads. Everybody knows where their bread is buttered.
My master's cohort had 20 people in it.
I can't comment on your anecdote, since I've no idea what your cohort was, how many professors were involved, etc. Overall though the US graduates about 2x as many STEM people as the job market can absorb. I can't imagine how large the factor is for philosophy and medieval art history majors. Universities are businesses, and like all businesses they want more customers. That they're not-for-profit is immaterial. They don't care what you do with their product, so long as you buy it. It's more than a little suspicious that MD's are an exception, when the accreditation is run by their union.
Thanks.
20+ years says you're wrong.
30+ years says you're overconfident. I've stayed in the field, was once out of work for 6 months, but other than that my longest unemployment was 3 days. It definitely helps to stay up-to-date, and just do a plain old-fashioned good job. However, I've known people who were at least as good and as up-to-date as me, but after being out of work for a long time (filled in with a few burger jobs and stuff) had to switch to another, often less lucrative career. There is a lot of luck involved, though some people don't like to believe that. I'd guess you're about half way to retirement. I sincerely wish you luck, but remember that the second half of the way to retirement can be a lot harder.
She has gotten some work from temp agencies, but even that has gotten sparse. Thanks for the NA idea though, even if it pays little it'd be worth it to keep her patient skills more up-to-date.
Forget Switzerland - there are plenty of nursing jobs in North Dakota. Seriously, it's because of the oil boom, and she's gotten job offers from there, complete with signing bonus and paying relo costs.
She should get her NP
She'd love to, bet there's an issue: $$$
We both agree that it's a bad idea to get into debt up to our eyeballs, and because we have kids there is limited cash available.
give it time. They'll be another shortage within 3-4 years
The problem is that if you've recently graduated from nursing school, like my wife, when the next shortage rolls around, you'll get rejected because you're no longer a recent grad and you have little to no work experience.
It's the one dependable career though: every job that can be automated will (and should) be automated, but someone needs to write that automation.
"Dependable career" is a nice theory - shame it isn't corroborated by reality.
It's not restricted at the "union" level - it's restricted at the school level.
There is no difference. As I pointed out above, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), which accredits medical schools, is mostly run by the AMA.
The local vet school, for example, strictly caps enrollment ... because veterinary medicine is a slow growth field, and they want to produce enough students to replace retiring vets and match growth without flooding the market, lowering wages, and making people with $200K in student loans unemployed.
I didn't realize vets have a good union too. In other areas of higher education, from computer science to medieval art history, schools will happily accommodate as many customers (oops, I mean students) as they can, enlarging departments to meet demand, and do it without any regard to the job prospects of their graduates. Curiously MD's, and as you say DVM's, work differently.
So why aren't there more or larger medical schools? "Overcrowding" does a great job of restricting the supply of doctors. The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), which accredits medical schools, is mostly run by the AMA.
Blame the bean counting MBAs running the hospitals and focusing solely on the bottom line - profit over patient care.
Yup, patient to nurse ratio is much higher than it used to be, or than it is in other countries. If you go through the numbers, you'll find that nurses are but a tiny part of the utterly obscene hospital bills you get these days. Of course the MBA's pinch pennies on the people who actually provide patient care, and lavish salaries on "administrators" like themselves.
I know. My wife is a nursing grad who can't find a job for anything. When she started the program, it was pretty easy to get a job. By the time she graduated it was just the opposite. And it's not just her. She's kept in touch with classmates and they all say the same thing. It does seem to depend on were you are in the country though. Frustratingly, she regularly gets job offers from various other states.
native-language based identifier of the colleague
I'm not talking about colleagues.
get out now and go somewhere with real skills before your loans get to high.
How about foreign languages? A working knowledge of Telugu and Kannada are probably the most useful qualifications these days for any work related to computers.