You are falling into the same trap that the GP says Obama is falling into. "We aren't selling enough cars so make more cars" "We are not employing enough engineers, so make more engineers." If the market really wanted more engineers, then they would pay engineers more, making the jobs more attractive to students. That is what happened in the tech bubble. Companies were paying high salaries for IT workers and the number of students studying to become IT workers soar. If companies were willing to pay engineers like they are actually wanted, then there would be engineers to fill those positions. It is basic supply and demand. The market does not reflect a high demand, so the supply is low.
Creating more engineers in the United States doesn't help when companies are outsourcing engineering jobs and bringing H1B visa workers over to keep costs, in other words the salary of workers, low while sticking the savings in the pockets of the C-level executives.
Really, why would anyone spend $50,000 - $100,000 to get a degree where one will be paid $40K to start, where one's job might be outsourced, or where the company might bring in an H1B visa holder willing to work for $10,000 less, then transfers one to a group working on a project that gets canceled, then decides one's position is redundant, eliminates the position, and then lays one off ?
BTW, if companies really want to save money on salaries, why aren't they outsourcing the positions with the largest salaries: the C-Level executives?
You can add "having to work 80 hour weeks to finish a project because nitwit salesmen and marketers told the customer it would be available two months before the projected completion date" and "some nil-whit executive with an MBA decides to buy another company doing the same thing with completely different technology and expecting the two business units to be merged in two months with no increase in funding and no direction other than 'make it so'". Let us not forget "getting paid, at best, in the very low six figures to make the bad decisions of non-technical managers and executives who do little and are paid in the high six to eight figures profitable realities."
Teach Art badly and you end up with a bunch of "primitivist" and "modern" artists, drawing stick figures, creating poorly formed sculptures, and splashing paint on a canvas thinking they are the next Pollock. And, the students still get credit and often a good grade.
Teach English badly and you end up with a bunch of people who can't spell, put together a coherent sentence, have poor reading comprehension, make signs that say "10 items or less", and use text slang to write basic sentences. And, the students will get partial credit for trying.
Teach Science badly and you end up with failed experiments in lab courses which in turns lowers the students grades and makes science seem harder than other courses. You end up with a population of vaccine opponents, (un)intelligent design supporters, and people who mistakenly think they know what the scientific method is, how it operates, and what is and is not scientific when, in fact, they do not know. This is why we end up with people saying things like "It is just a theory" for, say, the Theory of Evolution and then not understanding when one points out that the Theory of Gravity is also "just a theory".
At some point something happened to the good wages and nothing happened to the graduation numbers.
That would be C-level greed and H1B visas. I figured it out once. If the CEOs of the Fortune 500 had their pay capped 50 times the lowest paid employee's, every single employee of their companies could get a $5,000 a year raise. And, that is just the CEOs. Now, imagine what would have happen if the same kind of pay adjustment were applied to all of the upper-managers at every single company in America, with the results split between worker pay and dividends.
Oh, BTW, what are you going to do about my "big words"? Are you going to act like every other union member I have seen and physically attack me like the criminal scum you are?
He is a pussy. Won't admit it and continues to do it. I have no doubt you will join in. That is about the speed of union pukes.
You are are striking against the Red Cross to get more money out of them, and where do you think that money come from, asshole? You and your corrupt group are trying to take money away from those that actually need it to fill your greedy pockets.
Maybe the rest of us should treat you union shits the way you treat people who need to make money. Follow you, throw things through your windows, vandalize your cars, and drag you off for a good beating so you will know your place. You really are an amoral, greedy, shit.
The bacteria that killed a man last week has been detected in the nose of an employee who works in the mail room and on a computer keyboard in the newspaper office where both men worked, health officials said.
Congratulations on being a liar, asshole. Maybe you should change your sig to reference your own stupidity.
Yes, that is the group striking against the Red Cross, a charitable group. How noble of you. Oh, look, you have a picture of a race-baiting asshole on your front page as well.
Anonymous isn't interested in helping anyone. They are just a bunch of cowardly cyber-thugs trying to impose their will on others. Just look at the PBS attack. They didn't like the opinion expressed by a show, so they attacked PBS to intimidate PBS and its shows into not expressing that opinion. They are lying hypocrites who complain about censorship and non-transparency, while trying to censor others and keeping themselves anonymous so they can not be examined, which is pretty nontransparent.
No. I am not a member of Anonymous. Personally, I think the members of Anonymous are a bunch of cowards and that they need to be hunted down, arrested, tried, convicted, and then banned from using the internet for the rest of their lives.
a couple of envelopes of anthrax
Do you know what anthrax can do and how little it takes to kill hundreds of people? You may as well have said "a couple of hijacked aircraft being flown into skyscrapers".
So, this is where I ask you to show your proof that the anthrax attacks and that any of the cyber-attacks by LulzSec or Anonymous are false flag attacks. Now, either provide evidence or STFU.
Actually, yes I am. I get to listen to things like the aircraft machinist union trying to stop Boeing from opening a plant in SC because they don't want the jobs to go to another state where the union isn't strong so they can't strike and force their will on the company.
Most unions have stopped being about what is fair and have become about what they can force companies to do, greed, kickbacks, and getting money for the union leaders. They don't even care about the workers anymore, just the power they wield.
Yeah, that federal law needs to be changed. Most unions have stopped being about what is right and fair and are now all about what the union wants, getting dues out of the workers, and organized crime.
Union reps belong to the union. People who work for the unions and not in the profession the union covers are NOT part of the union and are generally prevented from unionizing. Just like Michael "The Fat Hypocrite" Moore told two of his employees that if they joined a union he would have to fire one to raise the other's pay.
Gee, who would ever call an app that syncs over wifi "wifi sync"? And, who would ever think to use a combination of the wifi signal symbol and sync symbols as an icon for something that syncs over wifi? That is shear madness.
For all he knows, Apple rejected his app because it already had the functionality in the pipeline for iOS 5.
Apparently you don't know anything about nuclear energy or the convention. That, or you need a class on reading comprehension. But, I didn't expect you to understand my post. You are too busy knowing you are right to actually think or correct your ignorance.
No, it doesn't. There are a number of viable ways to dispose of nuclear waste, it is just that environmentalists do not want to use any of them. The absolute best method would be to use deep well drilling technology to bury the waste, preferably by injecting it deep into a subducting plate. A second location would be the Pacific abyssal plain, one of the most stable regions on the planet.
Most environmentalists like yourself are so busy stopping things and worrying about everything that you never come up with a solution and when others come up with a solution, you reject it as too dangerous without understanding the dangers. There are solutions, you just don't want to use them.
No, actually it means exactly that. Because MDSolar has an agenda, it is reasonable that any source he submits will be biased towards his way of thinking and not representative of the actual discussion. There is absolutely no reason to assume that any source he submits will be unbiased or represent the topic objectively.
You, apparently, have no idea what "strategic bombing" is. Strategic bombing is the bombing of infrastructure to reduce the enemy's ability to produce war materials. We bombed factories, rail lines, resource production and distribution systems. We did not bomb the "Germany's People". We did not intentionally bomb schools, churches, hospitals, etc. Nor did we bomb indiscriminately as the Germans did to England in WWII using buzz bombs, which did hit churches, schools, etc.
I suggest you actually study World War Two and military strategy before making such inane comments.
Slashdot Mirror
You are falling into the same trap that the GP says Obama is falling into. "We aren't selling enough cars so make more cars" "We are not employing enough engineers, so make more engineers." If the market really wanted more engineers, then they would pay engineers more, making the jobs more attractive to students. That is what happened in the tech bubble. Companies were paying high salaries for IT workers and the number of students studying to become IT workers soar. If companies were willing to pay engineers like they are actually wanted, then there would be engineers to fill those positions. It is basic supply and demand. The market does not reflect a high demand, so the supply is low.
Creating more engineers in the United States doesn't help when companies are outsourcing engineering jobs and bringing H1B visa workers over to keep costs, in other words the salary of workers, low while sticking the savings in the pockets of the C-level executives.
Really, why would anyone spend $50,000 - $100,000 to get a degree where one will be paid $40K to start, where one's job might be outsourced, or where the company might bring in an H1B visa holder willing to work for $10,000 less, then transfers one to a group working on a project that gets canceled, then decides one's position is redundant, eliminates the position, and then lays one off ?
BTW, if companies really want to save money on salaries, why aren't they outsourcing the positions with the largest salaries: the C-Level executives?
You can add "having to work 80 hour weeks to finish a project because nitwit salesmen and marketers told the customer it would be available two months before the projected completion date" and "some nil-whit executive with an MBA decides to buy another company doing the same thing with completely different technology and expecting the two business units to be merged in two months with no increase in funding and no direction other than 'make it so'". Let us not forget "getting paid, at best, in the very low six figures to make the bad decisions of non-technical managers and executives who do little and are paid in the high six to eight figures profitable realities."
Teach Art badly and you end up with a bunch of "primitivist" and "modern" artists, drawing stick figures, creating poorly formed sculptures, and splashing paint on a canvas thinking they are the next Pollock. And, the students still get credit and often a good grade.
Teach English badly and you end up with a bunch of people who can't spell, put together a coherent sentence, have poor reading comprehension, make signs that say "10 items or less", and use text slang to write basic sentences. And, the students will get partial credit for trying.
Teach Science badly and you end up with failed experiments in lab courses which in turns lowers the students grades and makes science seem harder than other courses. You end up with a population of vaccine opponents, (un)intelligent design supporters, and people who mistakenly think they know what the scientific method is, how it operates, and what is and is not scientific when, in fact, they do not know. This is why we end up with people saying things like "It is just a theory" for, say, the Theory of Evolution and then not understanding when one points out that the Theory of Gravity is also "just a theory".
That would be C-level greed and H1B visas. I figured it out once. If the CEOs of the Fortune 500 had their pay capped 50 times the lowest paid employee's, every single employee of their companies could get a $5,000 a year raise. And, that is just the CEOs. Now, imagine what would have happen if the same kind of pay adjustment were applied to all of the upper-managers at every single company in America, with the results split between worker pay and dividends.
Awww, did you get one of your sock puppets to mod me down because you were proven to be a lying shit? Or, is it just the return of my mod stalker?
Oh, BTW, what are you going to do about my "big words"? Are you going to act like every other union member I have seen and physically attack me like the criminal scum you are?
He is a pussy. Won't admit it and continues to do it. I have no doubt you will join in. That is about the speed of union pukes.
You are are striking against the Red Cross to get more money out of them, and where do you think that money come from, asshole? You and your corrupt group are trying to take money away from those that actually need it to fill your greedy pockets.
Maybe the rest of us should treat you union shits the way you treat people who need to make money. Follow you, throw things through your windows, vandalize your cars, and drag you off for a good beating so you will know your place. You really are an amoral, greedy, shit.
Congratulations on being a liar, asshole. Maybe you should change your sig to reference your own stupidity.
Yes, that is the group striking against the Red Cross, a charitable group. How noble of you. Oh, look, you have a picture of a race-baiting asshole on your front page as well.
You are just another greedy shitbag.
Anonymous isn't interested in helping anyone. They are just a bunch of cowardly cyber-thugs trying to impose their will on others. Just look at the PBS attack. They didn't like the opinion expressed by a show, so they attacked PBS to intimidate PBS and its shows into not expressing that opinion. They are lying hypocrites who complain about censorship and non-transparency, while trying to censor others and keeping themselves anonymous so they can not be examined, which is pretty nontransparent.
everyone is a member of 'Anonymous'
No. I am not a member of Anonymous. Personally, I think the members of Anonymous are a bunch of cowards and that they need to be hunted down, arrested, tried, convicted, and then banned from using the internet for the rest of their lives.
a couple of envelopes of anthrax
Do you know what anthrax can do and how little it takes to kill hundreds of people? You may as well have said "a couple of hijacked aircraft being flown into skyscrapers".
So, this is where I ask you to show your proof that the anthrax attacks and that any of the cyber-attacks by LulzSec or Anonymous are false flag attacks. Now, either provide evidence or STFU.
"Hey, thanks for leaving the faucets running in all the houses you hit. Now we know exactly how many burglary charges to put against you."
Actually, yes I am. I get to listen to things like the aircraft machinist union trying to stop Boeing from opening a plant in SC because they don't want the jobs to go to another state where the union isn't strong so they can't strike and force their will on the company.
Most unions have stopped being about what is fair and have become about what they can force companies to do, greed, kickbacks, and getting money for the union leaders. They don't even care about the workers anymore, just the power they wield.
Personal experience with the UAW and Teamsters.
What union do you belong to?
Yeah, that federal law needs to be changed. Most unions have stopped being about what is right and fair and are now all about what the union wants, getting dues out of the workers, and organized crime.
Union reps belong to the union. People who work for the unions and not in the profession the union covers are NOT part of the union and are generally prevented from unionizing. Just like Michael "The Fat Hypocrite" Moore told two of his employees that if they joined a union he would have to fire one to raise the other's pay.
How much was samzenpus paid to put this piece of crap blogspam on the front page?
Gee, who would ever call an app that syncs over wifi "wifi sync"? And, who would ever think to use a combination of the wifi signal symbol and sync symbols as an icon for something that syncs over wifi? That is shear madness.
For all he knows, Apple rejected his app because it already had the functionality in the pipeline for iOS 5.
Apparently you don't know anything about nuclear energy or the convention. That, or you need a class on reading comprehension. But, I didn't expect you to understand my post. You are too busy knowing you are right to actually think or correct your ignorance.
No, it doesn't. There are a number of viable ways to dispose of nuclear waste, it is just that environmentalists do not want to use any of them. The absolute best method would be to use deep well drilling technology to bury the waste, preferably by injecting it deep into a subducting plate. A second location would be the Pacific abyssal plain, one of the most stable regions on the planet.
Most environmentalists like yourself are so busy stopping things and worrying about everything that you never come up with a solution and when others come up with a solution, you reject it as too dangerous without understanding the dangers. There are solutions, you just don't want to use them.
No, actually it means exactly that. Because MDSolar has an agenda, it is reasonable that any source he submits will be biased towards his way of thinking and not representative of the actual discussion. There is absolutely no reason to assume that any source he submits will be unbiased or represent the topic objectively.
Answer: The SlashDot editors publish the submissions that push their own agenda and follow their own biases.
You, apparently, have no idea what "strategic bombing" is. Strategic bombing is the bombing of infrastructure to reduce the enemy's ability to produce war materials. We bombed factories, rail lines, resource production and distribution systems. We did not bomb the "Germany's People". We did not intentionally bomb schools, churches, hospitals, etc. Nor did we bomb indiscriminately as the Germans did to England in WWII using buzz bombs, which did hit churches, schools, etc.
I suggest you actually study World War Two and military strategy before making such inane comments.
I see, so you support their censorship. Good, glad to know you are for censorship of PBS by LulSec. Shows exactly what you are.