A lot of Apple fans and MS haters may be tempted to cheer, but the loss of 10,000 jobs in this economy means 10,000 families whose lives will been up-ended and that sucks no matter what phone you're rooting for.
And what's more, according to the article, a third of these job losses will come from Finland, with more in Germany and Canada. Decent western factory jobs seem to be going the way of the Dodo bird. Are there any phones still actually being manufactured in the first world? Even if Nokia recovers, what are the odds that those jobs won't reappear in Finland, but in China?
Many a scorned Blizzard fan will wail away on the message boards over this, I'm sure. But hearing a Blizzard fan say "I've had it with them this time!" is like listening to a crack whore bitch about her dealer. She'll rant all day, but you just know by that night she'll be crawling back, offering to suck dick for more.
And ALL of them are driving around in Hummers and F350s with 96" mudders and 5000W stereo systems,
Actually, that pretty accurately describes most of the farmers I worked for. Of course, they would plead poverty if you asked them (bitching is what they did best). But they were pretty well off. And these were mostly low-volume farmers too. One of my friends was the son of a farmer, and his dad gave him about 10 acres to farm one summer (tobacco). In that time he made enough money to buy a brand new truck, with cash. I imagine that there are plenty of midwestern large-scale farmers who are millionaires (not that they would ever admit it when Farm Aid comes to town, of course).
How dare those fuckers have the gall to take time out of their lives to put crops in the ground to feed YOU.
Yeah, well most of the farmers I knew were only interested in feeding their pockets. And most of the crops grown were exported and heavily subsidized by taxpayers. So they weren't feeding me shit.
I think Obama is one of the most left leaning, divisive and ideological people I've ever seen in power in the US, much less in the presidency.
The fact that you can say that and truly believe it just shows how far right the U.S. as a whole has drifted in the last 30 years. Obama isn't even left of Nixon (and I'm not joking), much less the crazed "liberal" you think he is. You remember Nixon don't you? He was the guy who proposed universal health care, raised taxes, and promoted peace with China. Hell, as far right as we've come since those days, it would be all but impossible for even Ronald Reagan to get the Republican nomination these days (a non-church attending, tax-raising, Californian who didn't even try to grandstand on race or abortion? No chance).
In their reply they said "Unit cannot be accepted or resold as received." Did she make it clear in her initial call that she was returning it for a hardware defect, and not just a general "I'm unsatisfied with it" return? I'm pretty sure that ANY hardware defective computer, with original OS or not, cannot be "resold as received." It sounds like the RMA may have mistakenly been issued as if it were a general return when it should have listed it as a hardware defect return.
Here comes the crazy part. Someone needs to figure out a way to get the people who are out of work in touch with these companies who are "desperate" to fill these open positions. It's a win-win situation. People who are out of work get to go back to work, and companies get to fill these open positions.
Thank you for your interest. But you'll note that the job you have applied for specified a requirement of "20 years experience in Java programming." As you do not meet this qualification, we cannot consider you and must hold this job open until someone either meets our criteria, or we can get an H1B visa to fill the job from abroad at a fraction the cost of an American programmer--whichever comes first. We wish you luck in your future endeavors.
See what Bush and Congress really mean by a "shortage of skilled U.S. workers." Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, and thousands of other companies are running fake ads in Sunday newspapers across the country each week.
The sad thing is the American university system is complicit in the scam too. A lot of colleges and universities continue to lure students into college (and often into deep student loan debt) by talking about all the great job opportunities available--citing all the same bullshit "worker shortage" figures that the corporations use to lie to Congress. Just the other day, I saw an ad for a local tech school that talked about "severe worker shortages" in tech fields, implying that if you got your degree from them the job offers would just be falling on you like mana from heaven. A lot of kids are getting themselves into debt right now because of this scam. And most of them are in for a very harsh reality check when they graduate.
A job description can be written in such a way so that the person hired would only be an H-1B visa.
That's what a lot of ignorant people don't understand. They go to the job sites, and see all these postings and think "Wow, there are plenty of jobs out there." What they don't realize is that only a tiny fraction of these postings are actually REAL. With most postings, they already have someone (or, in the case of H1B's, some GROUP) in mind. They're just posting it as a formality. That's why you see so many postings with very specific, sometimes outright bizarre, requirements. These postings are nothing more than outright fraud, IMHO, defrauding a lot of innocent job hunters of time better spent doing ANYTHING else.
1) Post a job that only an H1B could or would take 2) Get no responses from American workers, or weed them all out as "unqualified" 3) Run to Congress, crying about how you can't get American workers 4) Get more H1B visas 5) Profit!
provided they will be paid above the average rate for the job
Good luck getting that clause into any American H1B reform. Our government is a corporate subsidiary here. And even if you could get it in, you can bet they would just find a way to lower the "average pay rate" until it was meaningless.
A bigger issue for me is that I don't want to bring in somebody making $120K if the average salary is $90K
And the big problem with H1B visas is that they artificially DRIVE DOWN the average salary (much as illegal workers do too).
I'll give you a very concrete example. When I was in college, I used to work farm labor during the summers. This was before the glut of illegals started coming up heavily in the area. At that time, farm labor paid a very respectable $7 an hour (one of the best local salaries an unskilled worker could get). Just a few years later, I started to see more and more illegals working those same fields I had. I was talking to an old friend from the area and asked him if he was still working during the summers. He told me that the standard salary had dropped to $4-$5 an hour for the same work we used to do for $7. The good jobs disappeared because the greedy piece-of-shit farmers in the area knew they could hire illegals that cheap easily (and make no mistake about it, the "noble" American farmer is one of the greediest pieces of shit you will ever encounter in your life). And I bet those same farmers would have raised hell if there had been a crackdown on illegals, complaining to the government that they "just couldn't find workers" (at $4-$5 and hour, of course).
I like MacGuyver, though it might become anachronistic as more young people grow up in the post-MacGuyver era. I was actually shocked the other day to learn that one of the new hires was born in the 90's. I guess it had never occured to me that someone old enough to work could have grown up completely in an era I consider so recent.
I become very wary when the higher-ups start talking about fixing problems without spending any money. It's usually corporate-speak for "Do everything for nothing." Some things are WORTH spending money on. Some things you absolutely NEED to spend money on. And hacking together cheap solutions only makes it even more problematic when one of these situations arises (Expect to hear "Hey, why do you need a budget bump now? You did fine last year on next-to-nothing"). Corporate culture almost demands that you spend at least enough money each year to not shock the hell out of the boss when you really NEED it one year.
Not to mention that hacked solutions tend to be a fucking NIGHTMARE to maintain over the long-term. Think about the day your "hacker" leaves and his replacement has to come in and try to figure out his predecessor's jerry-rigged mess.
Go into any thread from the early days of Stuxnet and you'll find people claiming this and many other silly theories (to dismiss the obvious conclusion). Another one of the more prominent theories is that Russia and/or Saudi Arabia made it. Russia--because it was Russian contractors who infected the first PLC's in Iran. And Saudi Arabia because they supposedly have more to lose than Israel if Iran goes nuclear. Anything to absolve the most glaringly obvious culprits, of course. I suspect there was/is more than a little shilling going on in such threads.
If true, they suggest a widespread and multi-year campaign of offensive cyber attacks against multiple targets within that country
What's next, researchers discovering that the recent spate of assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists are SOMEHOW connected?
Anyone who hasn't realized (or *claims* not to have realized) by now that there has been an elaborate, multi-year shadow war by the CIA/Mossad trying to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program is either willfully-blind, retarded, or a shill. Christ, Mossad and the CIA barely even bother to *HIDE* it anymore. Everyone in their right mind knew what was really going on the second Stuxnet was dissected. And they certainly realized it the first time mysterious guys on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to the car of a guy who just happened to also be a prominent nuclear scientist in Iran.
Of course, some willfully-blind, retarded shill out there is going to reply to this and say that those scientists killed themselves and that Stuxnet and Flame were actually created by Iran in an incredibly convoluted attempt to gain world sympathy. Such is true delusion.
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A lot of Apple fans and MS haters may be tempted to cheer, but the loss of 10,000 jobs in this economy means 10,000 families whose lives will been up-ended and that sucks no matter what phone you're rooting for.
And what's more, according to the article, a third of these job losses will come from Finland, with more in Germany and Canada. Decent western factory jobs seem to be going the way of the Dodo bird. Are there any phones still actually being manufactured in the first world? Even if Nokia recovers, what are the odds that those jobs won't reappear in Finland, but in China?
I apologize to the male crack whores out there.
Many a scorned Blizzard fan will wail away on the message boards over this, I'm sure. But hearing a Blizzard fan say "I've had it with them this time!" is like listening to a crack whore bitch about her dealer. She'll rant all day, but you just know by that night she'll be crawling back, offering to suck dick for more.
Google: Really good at launching. Really good at hyping.
Maintenance, upgrade, and support? Not so much.
It also shows that Reddit nowadays is often much more interesting than /.
A few years ago, everyone was saying the same about Digg--and how Digg was the /. killer. Heard from them lately?
Reports of slashdot's demise are frequently exaggerated.
And ALL of them are driving around in Hummers and F350s with 96" mudders and 5000W stereo systems,
Actually, that pretty accurately describes most of the farmers I worked for. Of course, they would plead poverty if you asked them (bitching is what they did best). But they were pretty well off. And these were mostly low-volume farmers too. One of my friends was the son of a farmer, and his dad gave him about 10 acres to farm one summer (tobacco). In that time he made enough money to buy a brand new truck, with cash. I imagine that there are plenty of midwestern large-scale farmers who are millionaires (not that they would ever admit it when Farm Aid comes to town, of course).
How dare those fuckers have the gall to take time out of their lives to put crops in the ground to feed YOU.
Yeah, well most of the farmers I knew were only interested in feeding their pockets. And most of the crops grown were exported and heavily subsidized by taxpayers. So they weren't feeding me shit.
I think Obama is one of the most left leaning, divisive and ideological people I've ever seen in power in the US, much less in the presidency.
The fact that you can say that and truly believe it just shows how far right the U.S. as a whole has drifted in the last 30 years. Obama isn't even left of Nixon (and I'm not joking), much less the crazed "liberal" you think he is. You remember Nixon don't you? He was the guy who proposed universal health care, raised taxes, and promoted peace with China. Hell, as far right as we've come since those days, it would be all but impossible for even Ronald Reagan to get the Republican nomination these days (a non-church attending, tax-raising, Californian who didn't even try to grandstand on race or abortion? No chance).
In their reply they said "Unit cannot be accepted or resold as received." Did she make it clear in her initial call that she was returning it for a hardware defect, and not just a general "I'm unsatisfied with it" return? I'm pretty sure that ANY hardware defective computer, with original OS or not, cannot be "resold as received." It sounds like the RMA may have mistakenly been issued as if it were a general return when it should have listed it as a hardware defect return.
Here comes the crazy part. Someone needs to figure out a way to get the people who are out of work in touch with these companies who are "desperate" to fill these open positions. It's a win-win situation. People who are out of work get to go back to work, and companies get to fill these open positions.
Thank you for your interest. But you'll note that the job you have applied for specified a requirement of "20 years experience in Java programming." As you do not meet this qualification, we cannot consider you and must hold this job open until someone either meets our criteria, or we can get an H1B visa to fill the job from abroad at a fraction the cost of an American programmer--whichever comes first. We wish you luck in your future endeavors.
See what Bush and Congress really mean by a "shortage of skilled U.S. workers." Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, and thousands of other companies are running fake ads in Sunday newspapers across the country each week.
The sad thing is the American university system is complicit in the scam too. A lot of colleges and universities continue to lure students into college (and often into deep student loan debt) by talking about all the great job opportunities available--citing all the same bullshit "worker shortage" figures that the corporations use to lie to Congress. Just the other day, I saw an ad for a local tech school that talked about "severe worker shortages" in tech fields, implying that if you got your degree from them the job offers would just be falling on you like mana from heaven. A lot of kids are getting themselves into debt right now because of this scam. And most of them are in for a very harsh reality check when they graduate.
A job description can be written in such a way so that the person hired would only be an H-1B visa.
That's what a lot of ignorant people don't understand. They go to the job sites, and see all these postings and think "Wow, there are plenty of jobs out there." What they don't realize is that only a tiny fraction of these postings are actually REAL. With most postings, they already have someone (or, in the case of H1B's, some GROUP) in mind. They're just posting it as a formality. That's why you see so many postings with very specific, sometimes outright bizarre, requirements. These postings are nothing more than outright fraud, IMHO, defrauding a lot of innocent job hunters of time better spent doing ANYTHING else.
1) Post a job that only an H1B could or would take
2) Get no responses from American workers, or weed them all out as "unqualified"
3) Run to Congress, crying about how you can't get American workers
4) Get more H1B visas
5) Profit!
provided they will be paid above the average rate for the job
Good luck getting that clause into any American H1B reform. Our government is a corporate subsidiary here. And even if you could get it in, you can bet they would just find a way to lower the "average pay rate" until it was meaningless.
A bigger issue for me is that I don't want to bring in somebody making $120K if the average salary is $90K
And the big problem with H1B visas is that they artificially DRIVE DOWN the average salary (much as illegal workers do too).
I'll give you a very concrete example. When I was in college, I used to work farm labor during the summers. This was before the glut of illegals started coming up heavily in the area. At that time, farm labor paid a very respectable $7 an hour (one of the best local salaries an unskilled worker could get). Just a few years later, I started to see more and more illegals working those same fields I had. I was talking to an old friend from the area and asked him if he was still working during the summers. He told me that the standard salary had dropped to $4-$5 an hour for the same work we used to do for $7. The good jobs disappeared because the greedy piece-of-shit farmers in the area knew they could hire illegals that cheap easily (and make no mistake about it, the "noble" American farmer is one of the greediest pieces of shit you will ever encounter in your life). And I bet those same farmers would have raised hell if there had been a crackdown on illegals, complaining to the government that they "just couldn't find workers" (at $4-$5 and hour, of course).
I hire H-1Bs, I hire Americans.
But I bet you get the H-!B's a lot cheaper, don't you?
Okay, well that last one sounds a little more implausible than the rest--granted.
I'm not doing a bunch of groundbreaking work in physics to be treated like a bitch.
"Granddad, why did western civilization collapse?"
"Well kid, let me tell you about kdawson..."
Why Your IT Department Needs To Staff a Hooker
Now *that's* thinking outside the box on employee recruitment and retention!
I like MacGuyver, though it might become anachronistic as more young people grow up in the post-MacGuyver era. I was actually shocked the other day to learn that one of the new hires was born in the 90's. I guess it had never occured to me that someone old enough to work could have grown up completely in an era I consider so recent.
They are. Deal with it. Accept it.
I become very wary when the higher-ups start talking about fixing problems without spending any money. It's usually corporate-speak for "Do everything for nothing." Some things are WORTH spending money on. Some things you absolutely NEED to spend money on. And hacking together cheap solutions only makes it even more problematic when one of these situations arises (Expect to hear "Hey, why do you need a budget bump now? You did fine last year on next-to-nothing"). Corporate culture almost demands that you spend at least enough money each year to not shock the hell out of the boss when you really NEED it one year.
Not to mention that hacked solutions tend to be a fucking NIGHTMARE to maintain over the long-term. Think about the day your "hacker" leaves and his replacement has to come in and try to figure out his predecessor's jerry-rigged mess.
To the general public, the term “hacker” refers to a user who breaks into a computer system.
FTFY.
Best not to go to your boss asking to hire a "hacker." And I sure wouldn't use that term in writing.
Actually, they hid their activities EXTREMELY well.
No they didn't. Everyone with half a functioning brain knew that Mossad and the U.S. have been behind these activities from the beginning.
Go into any thread from the early days of Stuxnet and you'll find people claiming this and many other silly theories (to dismiss the obvious conclusion). Another one of the more prominent theories is that Russia and/or Saudi Arabia made it. Russia--because it was Russian contractors who infected the first PLC's in Iran. And Saudi Arabia because they supposedly have more to lose than Israel if Iran goes nuclear. Anything to absolve the most glaringly obvious culprits, of course. I suspect there was/is more than a little shilling going on in such threads.
If true, they suggest a widespread and multi-year campaign of offensive cyber attacks against multiple targets within that country
What's next, researchers discovering that the recent spate of assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists are SOMEHOW connected?
Anyone who hasn't realized (or *claims* not to have realized) by now that there has been an elaborate, multi-year shadow war by the CIA/Mossad trying to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program is either willfully-blind, retarded, or a shill. Christ, Mossad and the CIA barely even bother to *HIDE* it anymore. Everyone in their right mind knew what was really going on the second Stuxnet was dissected. And they certainly realized it the first time mysterious guys on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to the car of a guy who just happened to also be a prominent nuclear scientist in Iran.
Of course, some willfully-blind, retarded shill out there is going to reply to this and say that those scientists killed themselves and that Stuxnet and Flame were actually created by Iran in an incredibly convoluted attempt to gain world sympathy. Such is true delusion.