That assumes educated parents. (It's not just true of Asian parents.)
The thought that occurs to me, though, is that when it comes to education, you want to spread as wide a net as possible. You want to sweep up those kids who came from poor, uneducated families. Not out of social goodness or kindness or egalitarianism per se (though, these things come as side effects), but rather out of a desire to make our society competitive, and to increase the ability of the true wealth creating section of society: the middle class.
If you want to optimize our ability to compete in technology, it means that you not only have to have the quality, but also, a certain quantity of folks that are trained in math, science and western empirical thinking. And this means that you can't limit education to the rich and to those whose parents have it. You need to grab all with ability and give them the opportunity to thrive and be high end contributing members of society.
And to do this, you need to have good schools available to all. Which, yes, means pouring money into the schools. Again - it won't fix all the problems, but there will be no fix if we aren't willing to pay the cost of educating the next generation.
In closing, I'd note that we're in a perilous place. Once a society allows it's overall level of education to drop below a certain threshold, it is incredibly hard to recover. Once that critical mass of education is lost, it is extremely hard to build back up to it again. There simply aren't enough educated people left to pass the knowledge and ways of thinking on to the next generation.
Never forget, you can have at most two out of three: good, fast and cheap.
And odds are, if you outsource overseas, good won't be one of the two. Sure, you may launch, but you'll be rewriting the entire product to add features. Meaning that you're down to one out of three: cheap. And really,, not all that cheap.
Remember, at most two out of three. There is, however, no lower limit; it is quite possible to achieve zero out of three. Or to put it another way, bad, late and expensive.
When we don't respect teachers, treat them like babysitters (and expect to pay them a salary consummate with that of a babysitter's), instead of hiring out truly intelligent, motivated folks for the job, and treating them like the professionals they are, we cripple our kid's education.
When we stuff 40 or more kids into the same class for budget reasons, there is no way that the quality of the education decreases.
When our textbooks are 30 years old, when they don't reflect recent history or innovations; when we don't have computer access, we are not preparing our kids for modern life and jobs.
All of these things lead us to solutions such as teaching towards tests, instead of real education. And often in buildings that are falling apart around our kid's ears.
And then to top it off, we cut pell grants and subsidized loans. We make college education a privilege for the rich, and thus, we limit the scale of the net we throw for those who might truly become of value to society based upon their merit and value as an educated member of society, limiting their potential, and thus limiting our societies potential.
Throwing money at the problem won't fix all that ails it. But it sure will go a darn long way.
... if we don't seriously fund education for the next generation, and stop thinking we can skimp on that commitment to pay for tax breaks for the rich and extended wars of choice.
When you go with a contracting agency, it allows the company to put you to work on a trial basis without incurring costs like insurance, nor having any contractual (or emotional) bonds if they don't feel you're working out. If they do hire you, they are paying the recruitment costs to the contractor.
And as the above poster noted, with the government scenario, that's to prevent corruption with government contracts.
What's happening here is monopolistic collusion in an effort to keep wages down, and thus costs down. While some might argue that it is in the businesses best interest, I would argue that despite any savings, it inhibits innovation and talent, and that the stockholders should sue every single one of the corporations that does this. In addition to getting thumped by the DoJ for breaking the RICO and monopoly laws.
... one of the following appears to be at least probable:
1. There really is something weird about our dual-planet system (tides, etc) that makes life truly rare.
2. It really is impossible to go FTL, meaning we're stuck in our system, and had probably stop treating it more like a sewer than not. (Also: 50 generations to Motie-hood!)
3. Intelligent life has a propensity to kill itself off.
Just as a true victory over SOPA would have been a push back to pass net neutrality / net freedom legislation. Instead, we just postponed SOPA till maybe after the 2012 elections, when a number of congressfolk will be job seeking or secure in their seats and looking for a bit o' cash^H^H^H^Hwar chest financing.
For video there's no real choice other than Google, so just make sure that you're not logged in if you're viewing something you don't want to be tracked and associated with your other Google services.
Probably not sufficient, if they're looking at Agent ID's and such. Odds are there exists a mapping between hardware/browser/user somewhere in there. Which would add a certain amount of noise at some level, but on the other hand, said noise might in and of itself contain useful features.
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That assumes educated parents. (It's not just true of Asian parents.)
The thought that occurs to me, though, is that when it comes to education, you want to spread as wide a net as possible. You want to sweep up those kids who came from poor, uneducated families. Not out of social goodness or kindness or egalitarianism per se (though, these things come as side effects), but rather out of a desire to make our society competitive, and to increase the ability of the true wealth creating section of society: the middle class.
If you want to optimize our ability to compete in technology, it means that you not only have to have the quality, but also, a certain quantity of folks that are trained in math, science and western empirical thinking. And this means that you can't limit education to the rich and to those whose parents have it. You need to grab all with ability and give them the opportunity to thrive and be high end contributing members of society.
And to do this, you need to have good schools available to all. Which, yes, means pouring money into the schools. Again - it won't fix all the problems, but there will be no fix if we aren't willing to pay the cost of educating the next generation.
In closing, I'd note that we're in a perilous place. Once a society allows it's overall level of education to drop below a certain threshold, it is incredibly hard to recover. Once that critical mass of education is lost, it is extremely hard to build back up to it again. There simply aren't enough educated people left to pass the knowledge and ways of thinking on to the next generation.
Never forget, you can have at most two out of three: good, fast and cheap.
And odds are, if you outsource overseas, good won't be one of the two. Sure, you may launch, but you'll be rewriting the entire product to add features. Meaning that you're down to one out of three: cheap. And really,, not all that cheap.
Remember, at most two out of three. There is, however, no lower limit; it is quite possible to achieve zero out of three. Or to put it another way, bad, late and expensive.
Basically, they want to not pay minimum wage or health insurance and dump unfiltered shit into the air and the rivers.
Not completely their fault, though, what with the way that corporations like Walmart put pressure on companies.
Somebody's been reading Snow Crash...
In part, absolutely it does.
When we don't respect teachers, treat them like babysitters (and expect to pay them a salary consummate with that of a babysitter's), instead of hiring out truly intelligent, motivated folks for the job, and treating them like the professionals they are, we cripple our kid's education.
When we stuff 40 or more kids into the same class for budget reasons, there is no way that the quality of the education decreases.
When our textbooks are 30 years old, when they don't reflect recent history or innovations; when we don't have computer access, we are not preparing our kids for modern life and jobs.
All of these things lead us to solutions such as teaching towards tests, instead of real education. And often in buildings that are falling apart around our kid's ears.
And then to top it off, we cut pell grants and subsidized loans. We make college education a privilege for the rich, and thus, we limit the scale of the net we throw for those who might truly become of value to society based upon their merit and value as an educated member of society, limiting their potential, and thus limiting our societies potential.
Throwing money at the problem won't fix all that ails it. But it sure will go a darn long way.
... if we don't seriously fund education for the next generation, and stop thinking we can skimp on that commitment to pay for tax breaks for the rich and extended wars of choice.
This is a bit different.
When you go with a contracting agency, it allows the company to put you to work on a trial basis without incurring costs like insurance, nor having any contractual (or emotional) bonds if they don't feel you're working out. If they do hire you, they are paying the recruitment costs to the contractor.
And as the above poster noted, with the government scenario, that's to prevent corruption with government contracts.
What's happening here is monopolistic collusion in an effort to keep wages down, and thus costs down. While some might argue that it is in the businesses best interest, I would argue that despite any savings, it inhibits innovation and talent, and that the stockholders should sue every single one of the corporations that does this. In addition to getting thumped by the DoJ for breaking the RICO and monopoly laws.
The white hats have to win every single battle.
The black hats need only win one.
... one of the following appears to be at least probable:
1. There really is something weird about our dual-planet system (tides, etc) that makes life truly rare.
2. It really is impossible to go FTL, meaning we're stuck in our system, and had probably stop treating it more like a sewer than not. (Also: 50 generations to Motie-hood!)
3. Intelligent life has a propensity to kill itself off.
Doesn't look so good for us.
More like:
Ticket agents will be sending money off to pay the fees on Nigerian Oil Ministry inheritances.
Conductors will be giving away their World of Warcraft account information.
Popups may start appearing on train information screens.
... still makes it sound like some major incident with their nomenclature.
Involuntary beta testing in a limited market.
This is the appropiate response.
Just as a true victory over SOPA would have been a push back to pass net neutrality / net freedom legislation. Instead, we just postponed SOPA till maybe after the 2012 elections, when a number of congressfolk will be job seeking or secure in their seats and looking for a bit o' cash^H^H^H^Hwar chest financing.
Why would we need a Mandatory Facebook Usage Bill when we can get most folks to do it voluntarily?
And those who don't - well, we KNOW they're anti-social rebels, right?
Keeps politician salaries/bribes up.
It's THE CLOUD - the magical answer to everything.
This thread leads me to imagine Disney suing Anonymous for unlicensed use of Mickey Mouse.
... this license. Expect it to go into production sometime next year across the web.
Three words: Android phone contract.
Android phone contracts.
Visits to any site with google analytics at home, work and from mobile.
Use of youtube, including embedded videos.
Use of google docs at work.
No, you really can't use the internet without coming into contact with Google.
For video there's no real choice other than Google, so just make sure that you're not logged in if you're viewing something you don't want to be tracked and associated with your other Google services.
Probably not sufficient, if they're looking at Agent ID's and such. Odds are there exists a mapping between hardware/browser/user somewhere in there. Which would add a certain amount of noise at some level, but on the other hand, said noise might in and of itself contain useful features.
And don't sign in at home, or on your mobile phone, or really, ever. Including at any time in the past.
To be specific, said bullshit is circular logic.
You are under arrest for resisting arrest....
In an airport paid for by taxpayer dollars?
Jersey Shore now widely watched in Canada.
Canadian average IQ drops 14 points.