...Unless you're in a protected group, EEO doesn't apply to you.
You can forget it unless you are:
- A racial minority - A woman - Physically disabled or - Mentally disabled
Also, you should be aware that most retail and grocery "shelf-stocking" positions aren't in the stores themselves, but through the vendors that make/distribute the products. Our company serves retail stores and has hundreds of "field merchandisers" whose job it is to go into stores and move our product from the loading dock area to the sales floor. Maybe find a company that needs a field merchandiser in your area.
Of course, this doesn't mean they won't change their minds a few months down the line...
Sorry, after re-reading my original post I realize I wasn't very clear... I meant that if LJ succeeds with their current efforts to "ban" AdBlocker, other sites will follow suit and then the next step will be to force the users to listen to the noises too...
Which is why I hope LJ doesn't succeed. I don't blog at LJ, but Because I'll stop using the internet before I am subjected to ANOTHER intrusive source of noise in my life. I work in a cubicle, so part of what I'm dying for is just a little peace and quiet. When my cube-mate is on the phone it drives me nuts (and likely, vice versa.) The LAST thing we need is an ad for Ford screeching onto my screen and blaring forth from my speakers...
It's been in adblock for a long long time already. (That's the difference between Adblock's "Hide ads" and "Remove ads" options.)
Certainly, I'm glad a technical solution to this is already available, but if LiveJournal succeeds (that is, if they don't back down and people continue to visit their site(s)) the next step is forcing people to listen to the NOISE their ads create. An irritating fad in internet advertising is to have some kind of "audio branding" attached to pop-up/pop-over ads. I mute my computer speaker when surfing for this reason.
What next? Being banned if you mute your speaker so the ads that make noise don't disturb the people sitting around you? A significant portion of internet usage goes on in office/computer lab settings, and if "using an adblocker" is reason enough for a lifetime ban from a web-site, how long until "Turning down the speaker" (or not having one at all) becomes a "bannable" offense. Sad to say it, but its only a matter of time before advert-supported content goes the way of the dinosaur.
Look at radio: The ads became so invasive, and took up so much air-time, that now people are WILLING TO PAY for advert-free (or in some cases limited-advert) radio on XM and Sirius. To some extent, they've been doing it for years with NPR and other community supported radio stations on the terrestrial bands...
Appearently not if of the 9 people who have come from slashdot today and voted on that article, there have been 6 "I agree", 3 "I don't care" and no "I disagree". I find that the people who agree with my comments on slashdot, don't reply to them. Those who take offense, are very vocal.
I came from Slashdot and wasn't offended. Please don't interpret this to mean I support your point of view: I didn't vote in the poll because I was way too busy laughing my ass off to notice the poll.
If you want "good news," expend your effort creating some good news by doing something positive for somebody and then publicizing it. Bitching about the media doesn't solve the problem, action does.
You could also start your own network that airs 24-hour videos of kittens and puppies playing. Otherwise, learn to accept that the real world sorta' sucks.
It's meant to act as a deterrent, the idea being that if it's so easy, so unlikely that you'll get caught and doesn't seem to hurt anyone, a sledgehammer punishment is the only thing that will stop prospective transgressors.
"Harsh penalties for non-crimes" (as I like to call them) don't work at all, and indeed aren't intended to work. Politicians know they won't work when they pass the legislature/congress, and governors/presidents know they don't work when they sign them into law, but they do it ANYWAY, knowing full-well it won't achieve anything.
They are, instead, put out there so that when the Helen Lovejoys of the world jump up and shriek "Won't someone PLEASE think of the CHILDREN!" any politicians present can point to the "stiff penalties" to give an impression of caring/"doing something" when they are, of course, doing nothing at all.
Punishing somebody harshly to make one group of people happy, rather than for the purpose of achieving justice is, in a word, unjust. And unjust laws breed contempt for all laws.
Lemme tell how strange it is getting fan mail for country music stars.
Try getting hit up for autographs after being MISTAKEN for a country music star in person! It happened to me...
Back in the old days I was in the broadcasting business, and stuck at a tiny country music station in the hills (complete with shag carpeting on the studio wall as sound deadening material) and was forced by my employer to attend a Tim McGraw/Faith Hill concert. (Forced: As in, "If you don't go to the show Saturday, don't come to work Monday.")
I wore a hawaiian shirt because before the forced three hour tortue session I attended a luau-themed party, and came directly to the show afterward.
In the parking lot after the show when I was trying to get BACK to the luau party as fast as possible, I was approached by several younger fans who swore I was the guitar player from Tim McGraw's band. (In an arena setting, one chubby guy with a beard in a hawaiian shirt looks like the next, I guess...) After denying for ten minutes I was this guy they pulled out the ultimate redneck "one-up" comment... "What, you're too good to sign my kids' shirts?" I finally gave in, signed their T-shirts "This is the worst autograph ever, Karl Cocknozzle" and moved on with my life.
I'm thinking if the kids ever learned to read, they were probably disappointed.
It's not that 30-year-old programmers want to stop making games, it's just that no game companies will give them fair compensation and healthy working conditions, and they're no longer naive enough to get screwed over!
I think THIS might be a little closer to the explanation than any "loss of creative spark." A 30-year old developer likely has a wife/husband and is approaching the age where they either have kids or don't. That urge to reproduce has moved more than a few high-stress-job professionals to seek jobs with less stress/hours required because they decided a pile of money doesn't balance out "No family life whatsoever."
Funny how that "no family life" thing isn't in the ads/job descriptions for these positions...
Photography, design, print, and graphics happen almost exclusively in mac-only environments
Sounds nice, but our company is also a publishing one, and we have a handful of macs and hundreds of XP boxes. Not that I prefer it this way, but that's how it is. We had a "Can anybody do it better than Mr. Gates?" VP in charge of the IT group for about three years and, well, here we are.
Actually, for the drones working in sales, Macs would be more trouble than they're worth.
"I can't find my Start button!" Oy... Last thing I need is to be tasked with training the untrainable...
Hehe, no job description like thta mean exactly one thing - satisfying government requirements for getting a h1b to fill the position. No local talent for the job means they can bring in the indian guy.
Sadly, this is probably the case... Makes it even more despicable because by farming off to an H1-B they guarantee they won't be hiring a serviceman who moves to civillian life--despite the fact that many Legion staffers used to be career-military. Maybe they forgot how great it was to get a job working with other servicemen?
Except for the ones who want a senior DBA and then call it an entry level position.
Saw this about 1.5 years ago... Turned my stomach.
Help Wanted: Database Administrator/Web Programmer with mix of programming/admin experience. Minimum 4 years IT experience, 2 years DBA. Programming Languages: HTML, PHP, C, VB.net, SQL, and Stored Procedures Salary $26,900, firm. American Legion Post x.
Yup, the legion was looking for a DBA who could do all of that and wanted to pay under $30k. What's funny is it only ran in the paper ONE time, so presumably they found somebody who wanted the job. So either they got some dude who lived in his parents basement and learned SQL Server by setting it up on an old PII laptop, or the job market was crappy enough they could find somebody with the exact experience they wanted in dire enough straits to say "Okay."
Tom DeLay? Is that you modding my previous comment "Flamebait?"
American politicians ARE whores: They accept campaign contributions for favor in execution of their office. If that isn't the definition of a whore, I don't know what is. Certainly, though, it isn't Flamebait.
I'm sure there are plenty of call-girls out there who're classier than the average lawyer or politician.
I disagree... I think ALL call-girls are classier than lawyers and/or politicians because they know and readily admit what they are: Whores. Politicians and lawyers are also whores, but they're in denial about it and think they're "helping society" when all they're really doing is selling us all out for a few bucks.
I have no objection to people doing "dirty" things for money in and of itself. What I object to is the pretty face politicians put-on when talking about their campaign contributions. They call it a "neccessary evil," but they're wrong. It is only a "neccessary evil" if you let the candidates raise private money.
If nobody is allowed to donate anything, the playing field gets a lot more level.
I think this has already happened, with somebody in the low hundred's trying to sell their account based on how high their karma was... So the boys decided to screw with him and wrote a mod that varied his karma randomly each time somebody clicked his user page. Hilarity, apparently, ensued. I googled for a link to the stroy, but didn't find it... Sombebody else who is feeling nostalgic might post a link in reply to this if you're really lucky...
In my opinion, the existance of this tool only strengthens the rumour. If you're going to run a virtual Windows, you still need to have an actual installation of it lying around somewhere. Windows won't run from an HFS+ drive, it will need its own NTFS set-up somewhere - this tool will let you create such a set-up, ready to be dual-booted today and virtualised tomorrow.
Further, even with a really good uber-virtualization scheme in Leopard there would be times you would want to boot up to XP... Such as really intensive games, software that struggled in the virtual environment...
There were also some OS 9 apps that just didn't work--freaked out and crashed--when run under the "Classic" environment in OS X, may also be the case for the XPClassic environ... (Or whatever they call it.)
Are these the same 71% that voted in a leader who doesn't believe (or says that he doesn't believe) that global warming is real? Or are these the 71% that voted for the other guys or didn't vote at all?
I'm not sure whom you're referring to. Bush didn't get 71% of any vote, either time. IMO, the votes he got came mostly from fear. The Repugs did a good job of painting the Democrats, and Mr. Kerry in particular, as unpatriotic cowards, despite Kerry's multiple decroations and honorable service in Vietnam, earned at the same time Bush was, variously, safely home in Texas, serving in the "Champagne Unit" of the Texas Air National Guard, or desserting to work a Senate campaign.
But i think he is partially responsible for this change of heart on the part of the public.
Remember, for a long time, people doubted it was even POSSIBLE to change the environment... largely because the only "evidence" they were given was being shovelled down their throats by politicians who told them what they wanted to hear... i.e. That they could continue to drive giant-S.U.V.s getting 6 MPG, get a tax cut, and not cut any government programs, with no negative consequences in perpetuity throughout the universe. Now, that those lies, and the politicians who told them are being unmased as the filthy, lying swine that many of us suspected them to be all along, the people are in doubt of everything they've been told.
If they lied about Iraq/War On Terror/Civil Rights/Wiretapping then maybe they're lying about global warming too. After all, if a President is willing to hazard the members of the armed forces for a political win, you'd have to think his moral-compass was so cuckoo-banannas that something as trivial as the destruction of human civilization might also be considered a "reason to lie."
So, if that's the case, then why are there so many camera phones out there?
The reason there are so many of them out there is that they have been successfully marketed to the public as "the next must-have thing," and thus most of the phones being offerred come with these "Cameras."
I put that in quotes because a "camera-phone" is to a camera what a Yugo is the automobile--that is, a cheap knock-off that sort of does the same things, but doesn't do them very well.
Anyone have any suggestions on a good career path for a former sysadmin with week coding skills?
Strengthen your skills! Are you a Cisco guru? Study up and get a CCNA/CCNP... Do you have databse skills already? Supplement that with a script language like PHP/Perl. I'm actually taking TFA's advice and getting Project Management certified to make myself more marketable.
on a side note I just got promoted and a 16.change% pay hike Yea me!
Congratulations. My increase was 1.95% of my salary, and when you combine that information with the fact that I'm in the 8th Percentile salary-wise for what I do and where I live, I am working up a new resume and moving my bones on.
No promotion after two years of promises, two consecutive paltry (less than cost of living) raises == me wandering off down the highway to a new gig.
But, European elections are generally held on Sunday when most people have free time.
I actually think this is a great idea--it would make voting more accessible to all. Unfortunately, my bible-thumping neighbors would protest to the point of self-immolation to avoid sullying the "Lord's" day with an election...
So why not have a seperate ballot paper for each office\question, we do this when local, elections collide with Europian ones for example. They are then sorted and counted. sure it'll take a little longer, but waiting a week instead of a nite so you can have a better system isn't much of a price to pay.
...because that would lead to a 50-page ballot which would be totally unmanagable for the voter or the people counting. With that many pages, they'd be lucky to finish counting the ballots before the next election began.
...zero and one person (thankfully not me,) depending on how you define "department." It is painfully neglected, anemic entity that is just now considering an online store.
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...First dupe?
...Unless you're in a protected group, EEO doesn't apply to you.
You can forget it unless you are:
- A racial minority
- A woman
- Physically disabled
or
- Mentally disabled
Also, you should be aware that most retail and grocery "shelf-stocking" positions aren't in the stores themselves, but through the vendors that make/distribute the products. Our company serves retail stores and has hundreds of "field merchandisers" whose job it is to go into stores and move our product from the loading dock area to the sales floor. Maybe find a company that needs a field merchandiser in your area.
Sorry, after re-reading my original post I realize I wasn't very clear... I meant that if LJ succeeds with their current efforts to "ban" AdBlocker, other sites will follow suit and then the next step will be to force the users to listen to the noises too...
Which is why I hope LJ doesn't succeed. I don't blog at LJ, but Because I'll stop using the internet before I am subjected to ANOTHER intrusive source of noise in my life. I work in a cubicle, so part of what I'm dying for is just a little peace and quiet. When my cube-mate is on the phone it drives me nuts (and likely, vice versa.) The LAST thing we need is an ad for Ford screeching onto my screen and blaring forth from my speakers...
Certainly, I'm glad a technical solution to this is already available, but if LiveJournal succeeds (that is, if they don't back down and people continue to visit their site(s)) the next step is forcing people to listen to the NOISE their ads create. An irritating fad in internet advertising is to have some kind of "audio branding" attached to pop-up/pop-over ads. I mute my computer speaker when surfing for this reason.
What next? Being banned if you mute your speaker so the ads that make noise don't disturb the people sitting around you? A significant portion of internet usage goes on in office/computer lab settings, and if "using an adblocker" is reason enough for a lifetime ban from a web-site, how long until "Turning down the speaker" (or not having one at all) becomes a "bannable" offense. Sad to say it, but its only a matter of time before advert-supported content goes the way of the dinosaur.
Look at radio: The ads became so invasive, and took up so much air-time, that now people are WILLING TO PAY for advert-free (or in some cases limited-advert) radio on XM and Sirius. To some extent, they've been doing it for years with NPR and other community supported radio stations on the terrestrial bands...
So what? This may come as a shock to some Slashdot readers, but Slashdot isn't the end-all/be-all of human existence.
I came from Slashdot and wasn't offended. Please don't interpret this to mean I support your point of view: I didn't vote in the poll because I was way too busy laughing my ass off to notice the poll.
If you want "good news," expend your effort creating some good news by doing something positive for somebody and then publicizing it. Bitching about the media doesn't solve the problem, action does.
You could also start your own network that airs 24-hour videos of kittens and puppies playing. Otherwise, learn to accept that the real world sorta' sucks.
"Harsh penalties for non-crimes" (as I like to call them) don't work at all, and indeed aren't intended to work. Politicians know they won't work when they pass the legislature/congress, and governors/presidents know they don't work when they sign them into law, but they do it ANYWAY, knowing full-well it won't achieve anything.
They are, instead, put out there so that when the Helen Lovejoys of the world jump up and shriek "Won't someone PLEASE think of the CHILDREN!" any politicians present can point to the "stiff penalties" to give an impression of caring/"doing something" when they are, of course, doing nothing at all.
Punishing somebody harshly to make one group of people happy, rather than for the purpose of achieving justice is, in a word, unjust. And unjust laws breed contempt for all laws.
Try getting hit up for autographs after being MISTAKEN for a country music star in person! It happened to me...
Back in the old days I was in the broadcasting business, and stuck at a tiny country music station in the hills (complete with shag carpeting on the studio wall as sound deadening material) and was forced by my employer to attend a Tim McGraw/Faith Hill concert. (Forced: As in, "If you don't go to the show Saturday, don't come to work Monday.")
I wore a hawaiian shirt because before the forced three hour tortue session I attended a luau-themed party, and came directly to the show afterward.
In the parking lot after the show when I was trying to get BACK to the luau party as fast as possible, I was approached by several younger fans who swore I was the guitar player from Tim McGraw's band. (In an arena setting, one chubby guy with a beard in a hawaiian shirt looks like the next, I guess...) After denying for ten minutes I was this guy they pulled out the ultimate redneck "one-up" comment... "What, you're too good to sign my kids' shirts?" I finally gave in, signed their T-shirts "This is the worst autograph ever, Karl Cocknozzle" and moved on with my life.
I'm thinking if the kids ever learned to read, they were probably disappointed.
I think THIS might be a little closer to the explanation than any "loss of creative spark." A 30-year old developer likely has a wife/husband and is approaching the age where they either have kids or don't. That urge to reproduce has moved more than a few high-stress-job professionals to seek jobs with less stress/hours required because they decided a pile of money doesn't balance out "No family life whatsoever."
Funny how that "no family life" thing isn't in the ads/job descriptions for these positions...
Sounds nice, but our company is also a publishing one, and we have a handful of macs and hundreds of XP boxes. Not that I prefer it this way, but that's how it is. We had a "Can anybody do it better than Mr. Gates?" VP in charge of the IT group for about three years and, well, here we are.
Actually, for the drones working in sales, Macs would be more trouble than they're worth.
"I can't find my Start button!" Oy... Last thing I need is to be tasked with training the untrainable...
Sadly, this is probably the case... Makes it even more despicable because by farming off to an H1-B they guarantee they won't be hiring a serviceman who moves to civillian life--despite the fact that many Legion staffers used to be career-military. Maybe they forgot how great it was to get a job working with other servicemen?
Saw this about 1.5 years ago... Turned my stomach.
Help Wanted: Database Administrator/Web Programmer with mix of programming/admin experience. Minimum 4 years IT experience, 2 years DBA. Programming Languages: HTML, PHP, C, VB.net, SQL, and Stored Procedures Salary $26,900, firm. American Legion Post x.
Yup, the legion was looking for a DBA who could do all of that and wanted to pay under $30k. What's funny is it only ran in the paper ONE time, so presumably they found somebody who wanted the job. So either they got some dude who lived in his parents basement and learned SQL Server by setting it up on an old PII laptop, or the job market was crappy enough they could find somebody with the exact experience they wanted in dire enough straits to say "Okay."
Tom DeLay? Is that you modding my previous comment "Flamebait?"
American politicians ARE whores: They accept campaign contributions for favor in execution of their office. If that isn't the definition of a whore, I don't know what is. Certainly, though, it isn't Flamebait.
I disagree... I think ALL call-girls are classier than lawyers and/or politicians because they know and readily admit what they are: Whores. Politicians and lawyers are also whores, but they're in denial about it and think they're "helping society" when all they're really doing is selling us all out for a few bucks.
I have no objection to people doing "dirty" things for money in and of itself. What I object to is the pretty face politicians put-on when talking about their campaign contributions. They call it a "neccessary evil," but they're wrong. It is only a "neccessary evil" if you let the candidates raise private money.
If nobody is allowed to donate anything, the playing field gets a lot more level.
...but here we are. Big Brother REALLY IS watching...
I think this has already happened, with somebody in the low hundred's trying to sell their account based on how high their karma was... So the boys decided to screw with him and wrote a mod that varied his karma randomly each time somebody clicked his user page. Hilarity, apparently, ensued. I googled for a link to the stroy, but didn't find it... Sombebody else who is feeling nostalgic might post a link in reply to this if you're really lucky...
Further, even with a really good uber-virtualization scheme in Leopard there would be times you would want to boot up to XP... Such as really intensive games, software that struggled in the virtual environment...
There were also some OS 9 apps that just didn't work--freaked out and crashed--when run under the "Classic" environment in OS X, may also be the case for the XPClassic environ... (Or whatever they call it.)
I'm not sure whom you're referring to. Bush didn't get 71% of any vote, either time. IMO, the votes he got came mostly from fear. The Repugs did a good job of painting the Democrats, and Mr. Kerry in particular, as unpatriotic cowards, despite Kerry's multiple decroations and honorable service in Vietnam, earned at the same time Bush was, variously, safely home in Texas, serving in the "Champagne Unit" of the Texas Air National Guard, or desserting to work a Senate campaign.
But i think he is partially responsible for this change of heart on the part of the public.
Remember, for a long time, people doubted it was even POSSIBLE to change the environment... largely because the only "evidence" they were given was being shovelled down their throats by politicians who told them what they wanted to hear... i.e. That they could continue to drive giant-S.U.V.s getting 6 MPG, get a tax cut, and not cut any government programs, with no negative consequences in perpetuity throughout the universe. Now, that those lies, and the politicians who told them are being unmased as the filthy, lying swine that many of us suspected them to be all along, the people are in doubt of everything they've been told.
If they lied about Iraq/War On Terror/Civil Rights/Wiretapping then maybe they're lying about global warming too. After all, if a President is willing to hazard the members of the armed forces for a political win, you'd have to think his moral-compass was so cuckoo-banannas that something as trivial as the destruction of human civilization might also be considered a "reason to lie."
The reason there are so many of them out there is that they have been successfully marketed to the public as "the next must-have thing," and thus most of the phones being offerred come with these "Cameras."
I put that in quotes because a "camera-phone" is to a camera what a Yugo is the automobile--that is, a cheap knock-off that sort of does the same things, but doesn't do them very well.
Strengthen your skills! Are you a Cisco guru? Study up and get a CCNA/CCNP... Do you have databse skills already? Supplement that with a script language like PHP/Perl. I'm actually taking TFA's advice and getting Project Management certified to make myself more marketable.
Congratulations. My increase was 1.95% of my salary, and when you combine that information with the fact that I'm in the 8th Percentile salary-wise for what I do and where I live, I am working up a new resume and moving my bones on.
No promotion after two years of promises, two consecutive paltry (less than cost of living) raises == me wandering off down the highway to a new gig.
I actually think this is a great idea--it would make voting more accessible to all. Unfortunately, my bible-thumping neighbors would protest to the point of self-immolation to avoid sullying the "Lord's" day with an election...
I probably wouldn't paint myself into a corner on somebody based on solitary Slashdot posting...
...zero and one person (thankfully not me,) depending on how you define "department." It is painfully neglected, anemic entity that is just now considering an online store.
So yeah, it is worrisome.