I know slavery is opposed by Constitutional amendment. But I don't see any thing in the Constitution about cannibalism. I say we start grinding up politicians and lawyers into food meal and feeding the starving children around the world.
It's time to jump ship and get out of IT. It's about to crash. No, I don't mean.com style. I mean industry/career-wise.
I'll explain...throughout modern history, there is a tendency to tout a career choice or field as a long-term career. The truth is, it almost always fails to be and is usually done at the peak of that career's value.
There was a time that being a butcher was an excllent local career choice. Until suddenly, no one went to the local butcher as the big grocery store became the supplier (this mainly due to the advent of the automobile which made such travel inconsequential).
In the 70's there was talk of electrical engineering being the field to be. Manufacturing of electronics. In fact, IBM let Microsoft own DOS because HARDWARE was the place to be. Then that all became automated and outsourced, suddenly you can buy an entire computer for less than the operating system. How things have changed.
The two big ones mentioned now is healthcare (in particular, nursing) and software.
Let's look at nursing as I believe it's ahead of the IT curve right now. I have been amazed by how many friends I have who are back in school pursuing nursing degrees. At least 6, and I don't have that many friends. LOL
My wife is a nurse. Let me give you some insights on that career path. Her hospital won't hire any nurse without prior experience. Is this unusual? Nope, come to find out that few are. I've met a number or recently graduated nurses. They've done their four years. Made the grade. Taken on the debt with the thought that they were entering a field in which they'd be guaranteed a job and not have to worry about unemployment. It wasn't a glamorous career, it's dirty, messy and hard work. But at least they'd always have a job, right?
Well, every nurse I've met who has graduated in the past year is still trying to find a job. That's right, they've sent out resumes to dozens of hospitals. No job. As I said, my wife's hospital will only hire you if you've got a number of years of experience. Right now there are enough nursese floating around many regions that hospitals don't want to hire and train a new nurse.
Oh and yes, there are many nurse positions in certain cities and regions. Where they hired highly-paid travel nurses.
But that's changing, and it's also largely because of seasonal clientelle numbers. They don't want to add full time permanent staff. So they bring in an expensive travel nurses to cover 2-3 months when they're more likely to have higher number of patients (summer for accidents) and (holidays for heart attacks).
Frankly, I think we'd get far better educations if we started under-funding schools.
No serious. 90% of people I went to school with never used the math they learned in high school. Never used most of anything they learned.
Ironically, all the things they needed to know about real life, they never learned.
Go figure....
I am really beginning to think apprenticeship is a better model and that we should return to it. (BTW, if someone didn't show knack for a trade the master would return them to their father and say "this isn't for them.") It allowed for finding one's fit more quickly.
What new firms? Oh wait, you mean H1B importer vendors who's soul job is to process H1B visas, supply workers to be contracting firms and take a 25% cut of what that worker earns.
Worst of all, now us American workers are being forced into this system. We work for a contracting firm but are hired by a vendor. The actual client pays $100K. The contracting firm keeps 30%, the vendor another 20% and the actual worker see's $50K.
And the sole reason for this? So the actual client can fire at will with no obligation or concern.
And don't forget, a large part of it revolves around the fact that it's not just low pay.
It's constant hire/fire/hire/fire project timelines and few Americans want to work where every 3-6 months their fired and rehired on other projects with no permancy in mind.
And that low salary, well the contracting firm is still receiving a $100K or so for that poor H1B worker.
Just curious, with thousands of computer programmers out of work. Why import people to take jobs.
Oh wait, that's right. So big mega-companies working for Federal and state governments can received $150,000 for an H1B worker who will only receive $50,000.
Best of all, it'll drive the salary prices down. And ordinary American computer programmers who were making $70K-$100K are now forced to take jobs at $40K-$60K with less benefits.
But I'm happy, I now have a 100+ mile commute to make $15K less than I did 3 years ago.
4. "they shall not be questioned in any other Place."
Hmm, sounds like questioning to me. As much as the TSA would probably like to blur this event. It sounds to me as if even a bad lawyer can make a pretty clear case that they were in violation of the Constitution.
SECTION 6 of the Constitution reads "They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place."
1) TSA consistently fails to find contraband when tested unaware. (And we're trying the same ol' same ol' in our tests. Nothing new or unsuspected like explosive breast implants.)
2) The threat of a U.S. airline EVER being used as a missile again is next to nothing. Americans are now aware of that threat. In fact, I estimate the time from a man standing up with a gun or a box cutter and declaring he is hijacking the plane until he is beat to death by passengers to be approx. 2-4 minutes. That threat only occurred because we were unaware. We are no longer unaware. In fact, by the time the 4th plane received news, the hijacking attempt was foiled.
"I'm unwilling to wait until after a catastrophic event to get the information I need to make an informed decision as a consumer."
You are neither getting said information nor said safety. So wouldn't it be better to not be groped?
And isn't it better to sacrifice a little bit of individual safety, for far greater safety and liberty of the nation as a whole?
Perhaps, but it's the same intellectual dishonesty that allowed voters to whitewash the fact that President Obama sat under a pastor for years who expounded racist and bigoted comments and hate for America.
So apparently such does not seem to preclude eligibility for POTUS.
You mean like the Keynesian economists and advocates for central banking/Federal Reserve that have been repeatedly taking us down the exact same road time after time since 1913.
I think Einstein commented about such repetitiveness.
That's okay. With $14-$17 trillion in debt. We're probably only about 7-14 years away from the Paul's getting their cuts, austerity measures and curtailing of safety net.
The difference is that there will be nothing left for the non-uber elites (who will, and already are, relocate to other nations). Where as if we enact change now and bring our spending under control, we might still have the opportunity to provide a foundation for most all working Americans.
It's kind of like saying we need to cut the credit cards and turn off cable TV. Eventually, you're going to have no other choice and go bankrupt. Where as if you do it now, you might be able to recover.
Actually, a broken digital clock isn't right anytime. But those old 1800's analog clocks, are as you say, at least right twice a day.
But let's not even talk about the logic fallacy your post is. Zero argument, all ad hominen and red herring.
And well, what do I expect from a poster who things liberty was a thing of yesteryear and that freedom and liberty are no longer essential concepts for today.
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I know slavery is opposed by Constitutional amendment. But I don't see any thing in the Constitution about cannibalism. I say we start grinding up politicians and lawyers into food meal and feeding the starving children around the world.
We'll never miss them. We've got so many...
"people would still need bridges, roads, plumbing, and power."
Why? Where am I going that I need a bridge or a road?
Plumbing? Plenty of places don't have plumbing. And well, we can always poop in a field.
Power? Well, since I won't be able to afford a TV, or internet or cable or anything else. What will I need power for.
All my time will likely be spent gardening, gathering, and eating squirrel.
Now if the economy collapses on Monday. Then we'll still need bridges at least. :P
I'll tell you...
It's time to jump ship and get out of IT. It's about to crash. No, I don't mean .com style. I mean industry/career-wise.
I'll explain...throughout modern history, there is a tendency to tout a career choice or field as a long-term career. The truth is, it almost always fails to be and is usually done at the peak of that career's value.
There was a time that being a butcher was an excllent local career choice. Until suddenly, no one went to the local butcher as the big grocery store became the supplier (this mainly due to the advent of the automobile which made such travel inconsequential).
In the 70's there was talk of electrical engineering being the field to be. Manufacturing of electronics. In fact, IBM let Microsoft own DOS because HARDWARE was the place to be. Then that all became automated and outsourced, suddenly you can buy an entire computer for less than the operating system. How things have changed.
The two big ones mentioned now is healthcare (in particular, nursing) and software.
Let's look at nursing as I believe it's ahead of the IT curve right now. I have been amazed by how many friends I have who are back in school pursuing nursing degrees. At least 6, and I don't have that many friends. LOL
My wife is a nurse. Let me give you some insights on that career path. Her hospital won't hire any nurse without prior experience. Is this unusual? Nope, come to find out that few are. I've met a number or recently graduated nurses. They've done their four years. Made the grade. Taken on the debt with the thought that they were entering a field in which they'd be guaranteed a job and not have to worry about unemployment. It wasn't a glamorous career, it's dirty, messy and hard work. But at least they'd always have a job, right?
Well, every nurse I've met who has graduated in the past year is still trying to find a job. That's right, they've sent out resumes to dozens of hospitals. No job. As I said, my wife's hospital will only hire you if you've got a number of years of experience. Right now there are enough nursese floating around many regions that hospitals don't want to hire and train a new nurse.
Oh and yes, there are many nurse positions in certain cities and regions. Where they hired highly-paid travel nurses.
But that's changing, and it's also largely because of seasonal clientelle numbers. They don't want to add full time permanent staff. So they bring in an expensive travel nurses to cover 2-3 months when they're more likely to have higher number of patients (summer for accidents) and (holidays for heart attacks).
http://nursinglink.monster.com/benefits/articles/193-why-cant-new-nurses-find-jobs
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-07-09-1Anurses09_ST_N.htm
I expect the IT industry to soon follow the same slope...
Actually, it benefits the top 2%.
85% of my house taxes is a school tax.
Frankly, I think we'd get far better educations if we started under-funding schools.
No serious. 90% of people I went to school with never used the math they learned in high school. Never used most of anything they learned.
Ironically, all the things they needed to know about real life, they never learned.
Go figure....
I am really beginning to think apprenticeship is a better model and that we should return to it. (BTW, if someone didn't show knack for a trade the master would return them to their father and say "this isn't for them.") It allowed for finding one's fit more quickly.
Immigrants no....non-immigrant workers, yes.
Really, like no internet. No self driving cars. No GPS. And more...
Really....
What new skills?
What new firms? Oh wait, you mean H1B importer vendors who's soul job is to process H1B visas, supply workers to be contracting firms and take a 25% cut of what that worker earns.
Worst of all, now us American workers are being forced into this system. We work for a contracting firm but are hired by a vendor. The actual client pays $100K. The contracting firm keeps 30%, the vendor another 20% and the actual worker see's $50K.
And the sole reason for this? So the actual client can fire at will with no obligation or concern.
And don't forget, a large part of it revolves around the fact that it's not just low pay.
It's constant hire/fire/hire/fire project timelines and few Americans want to work where every 3-6 months their fired and rehired on other projects with no permancy in mind.
And that low salary, well the contracting firm is still receiving a $100K or so for that poor H1B worker.
Why?
Just curious, with thousands of computer programmers out of work. Why import people to take jobs.
Oh wait, that's right. So big mega-companies working for Federal and state governments can received $150,000 for an H1B worker who will only receive $50,000.
Best of all, it'll drive the salary prices down. And ordinary American computer programmers who were making $70K-$100K are now forced to take jobs at $40K-$60K with less benefits.
But I'm happy, I now have a 100+ mile commute to make $15K less than I did 3 years ago.
Just to further correct you..
Neither President Bush nor President Obama are either left nor right. Though I would say President Obama's statements come across as "left".
The truth is, both are south or down (fascist). I personally would like to see more up (libertarian) policies.
You're write some times when I right really quickly my brain skips a beet or too and selects the wrong phrase.
My apologies, and always appreciate when someone "politely" corrects, as you did. I hate encouraging errors to continue. :-)
If you made all of Con-gress & 1% deal with what we avg folk have to deal with, they'd change their policies and fix things.
1. He was escorted by police.
2. He was instructed (ordered) to remain in a cubicle.
3. Definition of Detain
"to keep from proceeding; keep waiting; delay."
Oh and one of the definitions of "arrest" is to stop.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arrest
4. "they shall not be questioned in any other Place."
Hmm, sounds like questioning to me. As much as the TSA would probably like to blur this event. It sounds to me as if even a bad lawyer can make a pretty clear case that they were in violation of the Constitution.
SECTION 6 of the Constitution reads "They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place."
Really?
I hate those annoying pop-up ads on my iPhone.
Just saying...
Consider the following:
1) TSA consistently fails to find contraband when tested unaware. (And we're trying the same ol' same ol' in our tests. Nothing new or unsuspected like explosive breast implants.)
2) The threat of a U.S. airline EVER being used as a missile again is next to nothing. Americans are now aware of that threat. In fact, I estimate the time from a man standing up with a gun or a box cutter and declaring he is hijacking the plane until he is beat to death by passengers to be approx. 2-4 minutes. That threat only occurred because we were unaware. We are no longer unaware. In fact, by the time the 4th plane received news, the hijacking attempt was foiled.
"I'm unwilling to wait until after a catastrophic event to get the information I need to make an informed decision as a consumer."
You are neither getting said information nor said safety. So wouldn't it be better to not be groped?
And isn't it better to sacrifice a little bit of individual safety, for far greater safety and liberty of the nation as a whole?
Perhaps, but it's the same intellectual dishonesty that allowed voters to whitewash the fact that President Obama sat under a pastor for years who expounded racist and bigoted comments and hate for America.
So apparently such does not seem to preclude eligibility for POTUS.
Even if they were in clear violation of the U.S. Constitution which prevents such detention on the way to a Congress session?
Senator Rand Paul claims he was ordered to remain sitting in a cubicle. That's a detention folks...
AND ILLEGAL
"White male adults, and US citizens"
Perhaps you're right. Maybe we should profile white U.S. males who've converted to Islam in the past decade.
You mean like the Keynesian economists and advocates for central banking/Federal Reserve that have been repeatedly taking us down the exact same road time after time since 1913.
I think Einstein commented about such repetitiveness.
That's okay. With $14-$17 trillion in debt. We're probably only about 7-14 years away from the Paul's getting their cuts, austerity measures and curtailing of safety net.
The difference is that there will be nothing left for the non-uber elites (who will, and already are, relocate to other nations). Where as if we enact change now and bring our spending under control, we might still have the opportunity to provide a foundation for most all working Americans.
It's kind of like saying we need to cut the credit cards and turn off cable TV. Eventually, you're going to have no other choice and go bankrupt. Where as if you do it now, you might be able to recover.
Probably from Liberia or something? ;-)
There is the actual solution to this problem. Change the law so ALL flights require TSA checks. Even charter flights.
Suddenly all these priviledged pre-madona's boarding charter and private jets would change the law real quick.
Actually, a broken digital clock isn't right anytime. But those old 1800's analog clocks, are as you say, at least right twice a day.
But let's not even talk about the logic fallacy your post is. Zero argument, all ad hominen and red herring.
And well, what do I expect from a poster who things liberty was a thing of yesteryear and that freedom and liberty are no longer essential concepts for today.