If you give away other people's money - like politicians do - you are a saint.
If you give away your own money, and many successful business owners do (Vanderbilt, Gates, Carnegie, Mellon, Rockefeller, Hearst), you are still scum.
Imagine: you want to sell your car for $4000, and I want to buy it for $4000. Now imagine the government tells you can't sell the car for that price, so the deal is off.
What is the difference between that, and mandatory minimum wage?
Stop the flood of illegals, and stop the flood of visa workers, and wages would rise naturally from the laws of supply and demand.
Not as if there is any risk in hiring foreign nations. Absolutely no chance that our trade secrets are going to go to countries that do not respect our laws, and may be hostile to our interests, and already have a near monopoly on our manufacturing.
> After 9/11, for *months*, the pilots' union was saying that for trips under 300-400 mi, the train was very much the better option. Republicans, who are willing to spend tons of public money on airports, and to a lesser extent, roads, have *consistently* underfunded Amtrak.
1) Isn't Amtrak a private company? If so, you can hardly compare money spent for roads, or even airports, with money spent to subsidize Amtrak.
2) Why do you only blame republicans?
3) Do we know that this has anything to do with funding? Maybe it was operator error?
Difference is: Catholics raping boys is not tolerated by wider society. In Muslim countries, like Saudi, "marrying" girls, as young as nine years old, is perfectly normal, and legal.
After all, Mohammad, the perfect example for all Muslim men, consummated his marriage to nine year old Aisha when she was nine years old.
We all know the situation is bullshit. So we bitch, and send each other links to articles. As if that will fix the problem.
Situation-1:
Manager: you're fired. Train your H1B replacement before you go, or you get no severance. IT Worker: guess I have no choice.
Situation-2:
Manager: you're fired. Train your H1B replacement before you go, or you get no severance. Entire IT staff: you try to pull that bullshit, and we all walk out right this minute! Manager: okay, you win.
When I was around 9 years old, listening to the Beatles, I noticed that people only liked to listen to music from their era. I promised myself to keep up and to learn to appreciate new music trends - not like my foggy 30 year old parents who cursed rock-n-roll.
> It's not proven that any particular pesticide or agro-chemical is to blame.
The evidence is pretty damning. Neonics do not directly kill, they affect the nervous system so the insects can take care of themselves. Many bees leave the hive, and cannot find the way back. That is exactly the way neonics would work.
> The fact that urban bees are thiving
Because they are pollinating crops that are contaminated with neonics.
If you have an aol address, it probably means that you have been online longer than most, and have no compelling reason to go though the considerable trouble changing your email address.
How does that make you "stuck in the 1990s?" Does an aol address force you use Windows-95?
Android may be based on Linux, but it is not Linux. Android is rarely used as a desktop, or server. As such, Android is irrelevant to the desktop, or server, market.
> If you're over 40 then perhaps you should neither expect nor accept to be hired to do what a 20 year old can, and for a much lower pay.
Who says a 40 year is *always* paid more than a 20 year old? Only bigoted, ignorant, prejudice people, it seems to me.
> Besides, younger people will take orders like you probably won't, and have physical resources that you probably don't (think crunch time).
Nice bigoted "reasoning." Not long ago, I worked a 5 month contract job where everybody was over 45 except for one guy who was 26. Guess who was the only one who was *always* late. Guess who was the only one to take sick days - and he took a lot of them. I am not saying that is always the case, but you might want to tone back your prejudice just a little. And where do you get this idea that older people won't take orders that younger people will?
> Know what you are capable of and either find the right job for you (i.e., the thing that only someone with you expertise can do on schedule - on budget - on specs) and/or build your own shop; they might come.
Not as easy as it sounds. There is less, and less, room as you get closer to the top. You may be great at managerial duties, but not everybody can grow into such a position - simple math.
> The majority of people spend their whole life as a single gender, but are never the same age twice
All the more reason that a woman should be so stupid as to get a degree in engineering. The majority of people spend their whole life as the same race, maybe African Americans should not get a degree in engineering? If they do then that is just bad career planning - they should know better than to try to get a career where they are largely excluded because of prejudice, right?
> Also, there is no protection for young people against age discrimination, only old.
Maybe that is because job discrimination against young people is much less common? Still, I agree that nobody should be immediately excluded because of age, either old or young - prejudice is prejudice.
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If you give away other people's money - like politicians do - you are a saint.
If you give away your own money, and many successful business owners do (Vanderbilt, Gates, Carnegie, Mellon, Rockefeller, Hearst), you are still scum.
Imagine: you want to sell your car for $4000, and I want to buy it for $4000. Now imagine the government tells you can't sell the car for that price, so the deal is off.
What is the difference between that, and mandatory minimum wage?
Stop the flood of illegals, and stop the flood of visa workers, and wages would rise naturally from the laws of supply and demand.
Not as if there is any risk in hiring foreign nations. Absolutely no chance that our trade secrets are going to go to countries that do not respect our laws, and may be hostile to our interests, and already have a near monopoly on our manufacturing.
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Charges Five in Chinese Army With Hacking
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304422704579571604060696532
How do we know this accident had anything to do with budget?
What makes you think that only republicans are at fault?
> After 9/11, for *months*, the pilots' union was saying that for trips under 300-400 mi, the train was very much the better option. Republicans, who are willing to spend tons of public money on airports, and to a lesser extent, roads, have *consistently* underfunded Amtrak.
1) Isn't Amtrak a private company? If so, you can hardly compare money spent for roads, or even airports, with money spent to subsidize Amtrak.
2) Why do you only blame republicans?
3) Do we know that this has anything to do with funding? Maybe it was operator error?
My understanding is that this accident has nothing to do with infrastructure.
But you certainly would not know that by listening to the media coverage of the accident.
Difference is: Catholics raping boys is not tolerated by wider society. In Muslim countries, like Saudi, "marrying" girls, as young as nine years old, is perfectly normal, and legal.
After all, Mohammad, the perfect example for all Muslim men, consummated his marriage to nine year old Aisha when she was nine years old.
We all know the situation is bullshit. So we bitch, and send each other links to articles. As if that will fix the problem.
Situation-1:
Manager: you're fired. Train your H1B replacement before you go, or you get no severance.
IT Worker: guess I have no choice.
Situation-2:
Manager: you're fired. Train your H1B replacement before you go, or you get no severance.
Entire IT staff: you try to pull that bullshit, and we all walk out right this minute!
Manager: okay, you win.
When I was around 9 years old, listening to the Beatles, I noticed that people only liked to listen to music from their era. I promised myself to keep up and to learn to appreciate new music trends - not like my foggy 30 year old parents who cursed rock-n-roll.
But I could never appreciate rap, or Madonna.
Except nobody said that. If you actually paid attention you might learn something.
They are trying to create bees that are more resistant to the neonics, and mites. I don't know about the super size and all.
You must hate living them. Bees pollinate crops. They are vitally important.
> It's not proven that any particular pesticide or agro-chemical is to blame.
The evidence is pretty damning. Neonics do not directly kill, they affect the nervous system so the insects can take care of themselves. Many bees leave the hive, and cannot find the way back. That is exactly the way neonics would work.
> The fact that urban bees are thiving
Because they are pollinating crops that are contaminated with neonics.
Yes, it can be considerable trouble to change to a new email address.
I have dozens of web accounts, for which I use my yahoo address. It would be a huge PITA to have to change everything. And besides, what would I gain?
If you have an aol address, it probably means that you have been online longer than most, and have no compelling reason to go though the considerable trouble changing your email address.
How does that make you "stuck in the 1990s?" Does an aol address force you use Windows-95?
Android may be based on Linux, but it is not Linux. Android is rarely used as a desktop, or server. As such, Android is irrelevant to the desktop, or server, market.
Once everybody is dependent on systemd, Red Hat will change things.
Yeah, systemd is open, just like OOXML is "open" - again, right out of Microsoft's playbook.
> Republican means you shouldn't trust a word they're saying.
Very true. However, Democrat also means you shouldn't trust a word they're saying. Obama has been caught in more flat-out lies than I can remember.
That a fact? What are your credentials? What is your source?
You need internet. Cable-TV is a grossly overpriced luxury.
With a digital antenna, and services like hulu, and every channel having it's own website: you can watch practically anything with cable-tv.
I have a Roku, and use my PC as a Plex server. I have not missed cable at all.
> If a company wants young people, who am I to force them to take me?
Would you feel the same way about discrimination by race, gender, or religion?
> If you're over 40 then perhaps you should neither expect nor accept to be hired to do what a 20 year old can, and for a much lower pay.
Who says a 40 year is *always* paid more than a 20 year old? Only bigoted, ignorant, prejudice people, it seems to me.
> Besides, younger people will take orders like you probably won't, and have physical resources that you probably don't (think crunch time).
Nice bigoted "reasoning." Not long ago, I worked a 5 month contract job where everybody was over 45 except for one guy who was 26. Guess who was the only one who was *always* late. Guess who was the only one to take sick days - and he took a lot of them. I am not saying that is always the case, but you might want to tone back your prejudice just a little. And where do you get this idea that older people won't take orders that younger people will?
> Know what you are capable of and either find the right job for you (i.e., the thing that only someone with you expertise can do on schedule - on budget - on specs) and/or build your own shop; they might come.
Not as easy as it sounds. There is less, and less, room as you get closer to the top. You may be great at managerial duties, but not everybody can grow into such a position - simple math.
> The majority of people spend their whole life as a single gender, but are never the same age twice
All the more reason that a woman should be so stupid as to get a degree in engineering. The majority of people spend their whole life as the same race, maybe African Americans should not get a degree in engineering? If they do then that is just bad career planning - they should know better than to try to get a career where they are largely excluded because of prejudice, right?
> Also, there is no protection for young people against age discrimination, only old.
Maybe that is because job discrimination against young people is much less common? Still, I agree that nobody should be immediately excluded because of age, either old or young - prejudice is prejudice.
Depends on what you call "senior"
26 y/o with 5 years professional experience is what you want for entry level.
31 y/o with 10 years professional experience is what you want for senior level.
36 y/o with 15 years professional experience is washed up.