People need to wake up to the fact that atmospheric CO2 levels have no effect whatsoever on the temperature and that in fact the reverse is true.
Can someone please translate this sentence into English for me? What is the "reverse" of "no effect whatsoever"?
He's saying CO2 levels do not effect temperature. In fact, it is temperature that effects CO2 levels. As it warms, CO2 increases and, as it cools, CO2 is reduced.
If he's approaching a scene where there is a gun battle between the hypothetical competent law-abiding citizen and the active shooter bad guy, how does he know which is which?
In these situations, the bad guy is often the one wearing body armor and carrying multiple weapons or otherwise "dressed for success". I have gone through multiple real time strategy training sessions designed to make such identifications difficult and as real as possible. I, and virtually everyone that's done this, has correctly identified the bad guy with nearly 100% accuracy. It is just not as hard as you theorize it to be - especially after appropriate training.
Now, let's talk about that less than 1% correct identification. If I'm the good guy facing a bad guy shooter and I'm unarmed, I am getting shot. No doubt about it. But if I'm armed and returning fire, the next good guy with a gun can blindly guess and I still have only a 50% chance of getting shot. The other good guy won't blindly guess so I'm comfortable with a less than 50% chance of him shooting me. 100% or
It always amazes me how marketeers actually think people like to view and "participate" in advertisements.
It's because they do at some level. Super Bowl ads get lots of people to view and participate via discussions that can sometimes go for days/weeks. There is the occasional great ad that does the same during other events or somewhere else during the year. Timing is used - around New Year's all the weight loss ads fire off and again around April/May for "beach body" season. You can be sure a lot of women and no small number of men are engaged in those ads. Same with restaurant ads kicking off around 6 PM every night until around 9 PM, right a peak "what's for dinner?" time.
Recruiters suck. When I was laid off (due to offshoring of course), I worked with dozens of recruiters. They called/emailed me constantly or worked my LinkedIn profile, etc. They *always* had a job I'd be a perfect fit for - more than a few looked like it was a buzzzword list cobbled from my resume even. They're just building a talent list. If you have a friend that is being contacted by recruiters and thinks there really is a job behind it, you have a friend that is oblivious to how this game is working.
I worked for IBM over 15 years on many large scale projects. The second I read the headline, I knew IBM would be in there somewhere. This has kind of become the SOP for IBM in the last decade or so (State of TX, Disney, ServiceMbr Hilton, etc).
Exactly. This, exactly.I am so sick of this bullshit about a lack of IT talent in the US. We all know it's bullshit - IT workers, IT management, politicians, everyone involved. We all know this is a lie.
The old guy that can't learn new tricks is a ridiculous cliche. By IT standards, I'm ancient (almost 50). I've written 2 books on using social media in business and how to do custom development via REST API's and I've done projects merging that all with workflow applications at companies in the Global 1000 level. Most IT guys I work with are over 35 and at least as competent and embracing new technologies as easily as I am. It's utter horseshit to say the 40+ crowd can't do it.
What they really mean when they're saying the older IT guys aren't cutting it is that they don't want to pay them what they're worth. They want to bring in foreign, indentured servants that can be forced to work cheap and put in long hours and that we don't care about anything else. They squeak, send'em right back to that 2nd world shithole they just escaped. Is it any wonder these guys never say 'no' and deceive management about project status? They're scared to death about having to go back. Or, they get young kids just out of college with no life and crushing student debt who are living in areas where a 900 square foot house costs a million bucks so they can create essentially the same indentured servitude paradigm. These kids won't go back to a place where flush toilets are uncommon but they will go bankrupt and have to move back into their parent's house. Honestly, I'm not sure which of those 2 groups got the worst deal. That's why half the stuff we use today comes with odd quirks, inconsistent results and requires a warm or cold restart on a regular basis. Works for shit but, hey, the bottom line looks 1% better and that means stock prices went up a cent!
And training, forget it. I worked at IBM for over 15 years. The last 7 or 8 years technical staff received no training. It was learn on your own or, most frequently, on the customer site/dime while you tried to fix whatever abortion of a code base the H1-B's from Elbonia churned out last week or even *last night*. When I switched into a sales support role, I got training on the latest and greatest tech and sales rah rah meetings on a quarterly basis - sometimes monthly. High profile guest speakers like Magic Johnson were there. Tech guys trying to make things work, nothing. And they have to take it or they get the PBC 3 rating and shown the door so half a dozen offshore workers can backfill them and create the inevitable cross-continental circle jerk in order to resolve the latest self-inflicted critsit melting down the customer's business. Ask any current IBM customer if that's not the way it's working, I saw it all the time
Frigging IT industry is creating its own demise in the US. I constantly advise young people entering college and the workforce to avoid programming and administration - it's a dead end now.
The massive advertising and brand awareness generated from this has undoubtedly fueled some growth for Gravity. Nobody had ever heard of them outside of his specific business arena before this and now everyone knows Gravity. I don't know exactly how much this media blitz nets Gravity but it ain't small.
Let's extend the logic. Paying $70K created such efficiency and opportunity that it doubled profits. So why not go above $70K and make even more money? Would $140K minimum quadruple profits? Probably not, there's a diminishing return here I suspect.
His employee turnover is incredibly low. Is that because it's a great place to work, so much better than all the other great places to work, or is it because he's basically created a dependent employee that cannot afford to leave for another job at market rates? I think he's created a trap for his employees.
I have a pretty good resume - almost 20 years of experience at the Fortune 500/Global 1000 level as a programmer, consultant and technical sales. I have published 2 books. Last year, I got laid off from IBM in one of their annual "resource actions". My resume skews me younger though because I graduated from college in the mid-1990's ( I went to the military for a stretch before college). If you look only at my resume, you may think I'm in my 30's or early 40's (I am nearly 50). I sent my resume out to a metric crapton of companies in the silicon valley area and went through a number of interviews. Here's how one went for a technical sales resource.
I started off with a local team of sales guys in my hometown. This went well despite one of the sales guys looking like he was on the tail end of a 4 day bender and tweaking pretty hard. The feedback I got from the recruiter was very positive with the biggest comment being, "We can close sales with this guy!" So they fly me out to SJC for the face to face. Now, I'm no spring chicken but I do run marathons and half marathons and my extensive background in marital arts pretty much means I could kick the crap out of any one at that office (during my lay off, I worked security at a high profile venue for a TV show). However, there is some gray at the temples and my hair is a little thinner than it used to be.
Of the 7 people I interviewed with in SJC, 5 made direct comments about my age and asked if I thought it would be a problem - as in, "Do you think your age will be a problem here?" and "Tell me about a time you worked with younger people and what the challenges were" and "When did say you graduated college?", etc. etc. After the interviews, the asshole recruiter congratulated me on my willingness to answer and insights into this line of questioning that violated California as well as federal law. They are, shockingly, very comfortable with ignoring the laws in Silicon Valley regarding discrimination. Had I not been out of a job, I'd never have entertained them further but I was in a bind so I had to put up with it.
Needless to say, I did not get a job offer. This is the most blatant of them but every company in Silicon Valley I spoke with took the same line. Every. Single. One.
According to USGS, those 3's you say doing all that damage create, " Vibrations similar to the passing of a truck." The same intensity of a passing truck is cracking foundations and bringing down walls? I call bullshit.
A quake in the 4.x range happens 10,000 - 15,000 times per year. In the 5.x range, 1,000 - 1,500 times per year. So we're seeing quakes like these happen several times a day, every single day, all over the world and there's not a single instance of ecological disaster the FUD being spread in the article tells us to believe.
A magnitude 5.x earthquake "Can cause damage of varying severity to poorly constructed buildings. At most, none to slight damage to all other buildings. Felt by everyone." So a 5.7 around a bnch of pretty well constructed oil tanks is hardly something to get worked up about.
Yeah, I kind of think I got flown out for the interview because my college graduation date is relatively recent. They did not count on my years in the military before going to college so on paper I looked about 10 years younger.
It was indeed a violation of state and federal law - this was California, Silicon Valley. Even they way they mentioned my age and questions they asked about it were illegal. One interviewer asked me point blank, "Don't you think your age will be a problem working here?" I would have unloaded on him but I was so surprised he'd been that brazen about it I was just kind of shocked into saying a simple "No".
I considered filing a complaint but in Silicon Valley this type of discrimination is so wide spread and so openly done that I figured the most I would get out of it is some frustration and just drag out the irritation I had from the interviews. They got more lawyers than me.
I interviewed with 2 companies last year that were very up front about my being mid-40's was a problem. In one company, 5 of the 7 people I talked to brought it up and a couple clearly had problems with it. The recruiter that flew me out congratulated me on putting up with it - what an asshat.
Over 40 in IT, hold on to the job you got because the next one won't hire anyone over 40.
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Can someone please translate this sentence into English for me? What is the "reverse" of "no effect whatsoever"?
He's saying CO2 levels do not effect temperature. In fact, it is temperature that effects CO2 levels. As it warms, CO2 increases and, as it cools, CO2 is reduced.
If he's approaching a scene where there is a gun battle between the hypothetical competent law-abiding citizen and the active shooter bad guy, how does he know which is which?
In these situations, the bad guy is often the one wearing body armor and carrying multiple weapons or otherwise "dressed for success". I have gone through multiple real time strategy training sessions designed to make such identifications difficult and as real as possible. I, and virtually everyone that's done this, has correctly identified the bad guy with nearly 100% accuracy. It is just not as hard as you theorize it to be - especially after appropriate training.
Now, let's talk about that less than 1% correct identification. If I'm the good guy facing a bad guy shooter and I'm unarmed, I am getting shot. No doubt about it. But if I'm armed and returning fire, the next good guy with a gun can blindly guess and I still have only a 50% chance of getting shot. The other good guy won't blindly guess so I'm comfortable with a less than 50% chance of him shooting me. 100% or
That's the point, you can't. If everyone is a criminal then everyone can be controlled...
Texas also has massive drug running cartels along its border where Australia does not. You snip those stats out of context, you get misinformed.
That 12 million is a estimate based on ... what? Other estimates put it as high as 30 million. Both are WAG's.
Oh crap, we got one that can see!
Sweet sweet sarcasm. I love it (and I got it! Good one).
It always amazes me how marketeers actually think people like to view and "participate" in advertisements.
It's because they do at some level. Super Bowl ads get lots of people to view and participate via discussions that can sometimes go for days/weeks. There is the occasional great ad that does the same during other events or somewhere else during the year. Timing is used - around New Year's all the weight loss ads fire off and again around April/May for "beach body" season. You can be sure a lot of women and no small number of men are engaged in those ads. Same with restaurant ads kicking off around 6 PM every night until around 9 PM, right a peak "what's for dinner?" time.
They do it because it's been proven to work.
Recruiters suck. When I was laid off (due to offshoring of course), I worked with dozens of recruiters. They called/emailed me constantly or worked my LinkedIn profile, etc. They *always* had a job I'd be a perfect fit for - more than a few looked like it was a buzzzword list cobbled from my resume even. They're just building a talent list. If you have a friend that is being contacted by recruiters and thinks there really is a job behind it, you have a friend that is oblivious to how this game is working.
I worked for IBM over 15 years on many large scale projects. The second I read the headline, I knew IBM would be in there somewhere. This has kind of become the SOP for IBM in the last decade or so (State of TX, Disney, ServiceMbr Hilton, etc).
It looks like "academic freedom" doesn't mean what it used to mean. We live in a truly Orwellian society.
Exactly. This, exactly.I am so sick of this bullshit about a lack of IT talent in the US. We all know it's bullshit - IT workers, IT management, politicians, everyone involved. We all know this is a lie.
The old guy that can't learn new tricks is a ridiculous cliche. By IT standards, I'm ancient (almost 50). I've written 2 books on using social media in business and how to do custom development via REST API's and I've done projects merging that all with workflow applications at companies in the Global 1000 level. Most IT guys I work with are over 35 and at least as competent and embracing new technologies as easily as I am. It's utter horseshit to say the 40+ crowd can't do it.
What they really mean when they're saying the older IT guys aren't cutting it is that they don't want to pay them what they're worth. They want to bring in foreign, indentured servants that can be forced to work cheap and put in long hours and that we don't care about anything else. They squeak, send'em right back to that 2nd world shithole they just escaped. Is it any wonder these guys never say 'no' and deceive management about project status? They're scared to death about having to go back. Or, they get young kids just out of college with no life and crushing student debt who are living in areas where a 900 square foot house costs a million bucks so they can create essentially the same indentured servitude paradigm. These kids won't go back to a place where flush toilets are uncommon but they will go bankrupt and have to move back into their parent's house. Honestly, I'm not sure which of those 2 groups got the worst deal. That's why half the stuff we use today comes with odd quirks, inconsistent results and requires a warm or cold restart on a regular basis. Works for shit but, hey, the bottom line looks 1% better and that means stock prices went up a cent!
And training, forget it. I worked at IBM for over 15 years. The last 7 or 8 years technical staff received no training. It was learn on your own or, most frequently, on the customer site/dime while you tried to fix whatever abortion of a code base the H1-B's from Elbonia churned out last week or even *last night*. When I switched into a sales support role, I got training on the latest and greatest tech and sales rah rah meetings on a quarterly basis - sometimes monthly. High profile guest speakers like Magic Johnson were there. Tech guys trying to make things work, nothing. And they have to take it or they get the PBC 3 rating and shown the door so half a dozen offshore workers can backfill them and create the inevitable cross-continental circle jerk in order to resolve the latest self-inflicted critsit melting down the customer's business. Ask any current IBM customer if that's not the way it's working, I saw it all the time
Frigging IT industry is creating its own demise in the US. I constantly advise young people entering college and the workforce to avoid programming and administration - it's a dead end now.
Good question ....
Show me someone not spending more than they make and I'll show you someone that's un-American.
The massive advertising and brand awareness generated from this has undoubtedly fueled some growth for Gravity. Nobody had ever heard of them outside of his specific business arena before this and now everyone knows Gravity. I don't know exactly how much this media blitz nets Gravity but it ain't small.
Let's extend the logic. Paying $70K created such efficiency and opportunity that it doubled profits. So why not go above $70K and make even more money? Would $140K minimum quadruple profits? Probably not, there's a diminishing return here I suspect.
His employee turnover is incredibly low. Is that because it's a great place to work, so much better than all the other great places to work, or is it because he's basically created a dependent employee that cannot afford to leave for another job at market rates? I think he's created a trap for his employees.
Well, at least they'll always have Blackberry!
I have a pretty good resume - almost 20 years of experience at the Fortune 500/Global 1000 level as a programmer, consultant and technical sales. I have published 2 books. Last year, I got laid off from IBM in one of their annual "resource actions". My resume skews me younger though because I graduated from college in the mid-1990's ( I went to the military for a stretch before college). If you look only at my resume, you may think I'm in my 30's or early 40's (I am nearly 50). I sent my resume out to a metric crapton of companies in the silicon valley area and went through a number of interviews. Here's how one went for a technical sales resource. I started off with a local team of sales guys in my hometown. This went well despite one of the sales guys looking like he was on the tail end of a 4 day bender and tweaking pretty hard. The feedback I got from the recruiter was very positive with the biggest comment being, "We can close sales with this guy!" So they fly me out to SJC for the face to face. Now, I'm no spring chicken but I do run marathons and half marathons and my extensive background in marital arts pretty much means I could kick the crap out of any one at that office (during my lay off, I worked security at a high profile venue for a TV show). However, there is some gray at the temples and my hair is a little thinner than it used to be. Of the 7 people I interviewed with in SJC, 5 made direct comments about my age and asked if I thought it would be a problem - as in, "Do you think your age will be a problem here?" and "Tell me about a time you worked with younger people and what the challenges were" and "When did say you graduated college?", etc. etc. After the interviews, the asshole recruiter congratulated me on my willingness to answer and insights into this line of questioning that violated California as well as federal law. They are, shockingly, very comfortable with ignoring the laws in Silicon Valley regarding discrimination. Had I not been out of a job, I'd never have entertained them further but I was in a bind so I had to put up with it. Needless to say, I did not get a job offer. This is the most blatant of them but every company in Silicon Valley I spoke with took the same line. Every. Single. One.
sue their asses off.
According to USGS, those 3's you say doing all that damage create, " Vibrations similar to the passing of a truck." The same intensity of a passing truck is cracking foundations and bringing down walls? I call bullshit.
A quake in the 4.x range happens 10,000 - 15,000 times per year. In the 5.x range, 1,000 - 1,500 times per year. So we're seeing quakes like these happen several times a day, every single day, all over the world and there's not a single instance of ecological disaster the FUD being spread in the article tells us to believe.
A magnitude 5.x earthquake "Can cause damage of varying severity to poorly constructed buildings. At most, none to slight damage to all other buildings. Felt by everyone." So a 5.7 around a bnch of pretty well constructed oil tanks is hardly something to get worked up about.
What will be the difference between Playboy and Maxim (or any other Maxim clone) now?
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these! Sorry, been wanting to say that for years ...
Yeah, I kind of think I got flown out for the interview because my college graduation date is relatively recent. They did not count on my years in the military before going to college so on paper I looked about 10 years younger.
It was indeed a violation of state and federal law - this was California, Silicon Valley. Even they way they mentioned my age and questions they asked about it were illegal. One interviewer asked me point blank, "Don't you think your age will be a problem working here?" I would have unloaded on him but I was so surprised he'd been that brazen about it I was just kind of shocked into saying a simple "No".
I considered filing a complaint but in Silicon Valley this type of discrimination is so wide spread and so openly done that I figured the most I would get out of it is some frustration and just drag out the irritation I had from the interviews. They got more lawyers than me.
I interviewed with 2 companies last year that were very up front about my being mid-40's was a problem. In one company, 5 of the 7 people I talked to brought it up and a couple clearly had problems with it. The recruiter that flew me out congratulated me on putting up with it - what an asshat.
Over 40 in IT, hold on to the job you got because the next one won't hire anyone over 40.