I wonder, while you're railing against the latest president to run roughshod over our liberty, do you also bear in mind that democrats have in fact done worse? GWB has imprisoned some people without due process, and is fighting to continue to do so, but FDR imprisoned hundreds of thousands of people in concentration camps[1]. Will you condemn that as well?
-jcr
[1] Yes, concentration camps. They didn't dream up the "internment camps" euphemism until news of what Hitler was doing in his concentration camps started to leak out.
Apple's already been down the road of choosing the apparently spiffier processor from a vendor that wasn't able to deliver in quantity. If AMD becomes the better processor choice in the future, then I'm sure Apple will switch again.
Given that women comprise roughly 51% of the population, and yet only hold about 2-3% of the positions in question, it should really not be that difficult to see that there is some form of glass ceiling/gender bias in place.
Talk about a straw man! This is the same statistical argument that has been tossed around ever since the left decided to re-package racial and gender dscrimination and call it "affirmative action".
It simply does not follow that because more fortune 500 CEOs are white and male, that there's something illegal or immoral about how they were chosen.
He was talking about CPU performance, and he said in the same breath that the disk and the memory weren't going to be faster than the G5 iMac. If the SPECMarks weren't what he claimed, then there'd be a story here.
Women complaining about a glass ceiling usually do so because they systematically see their male colleagues being promoted ahead of them even though they are less competent, more junior, less suited for the job, etc.
In their opinion. What person passed over for a promotion ever believes that the one who got it was better than themselves?
Men see other men (and women) promoted ahead of them, too. It happens all the time.
Thankfully, I am no longer in Charlotte, North Carolina!
That's called "voting with your feet". I would suggest also, that racism is its own punishment: Charlotte, NC is probably considerably below Bangalore on any company's list of places to locate a high-tech development project.
Of course, market forces being what they are, I might consider locating a new venture in Charlotte, on the grounds that I would be able to attract the best workers, by being the only meritocratic employer in the area. Or easier still, I could run ads in the local papers: "Want to get out of Charlotte? Send me your resume!"
Blacks live on the West side of Interstate 77
Can a Jew find a nice house at a reasonable price there?;-)
I really hate laws "protecting against" racism -- they don't help minorities, and I believe they hurt "us."
The biggest problem in these laws is the unintended consequences. Where racial preferences exist, as in academia, it makes the people who "benefit" from those preferences suspect: did they really make the grade?
If the University of California system abolished all racial discrimination, Berkeley would probably be about 60-70% Asian. I don't have a problem with that. What I find appalling, is that Asian students can work their asses off to excel academically, and be turned away from top universities because they "already have their quota this year". This is racial discrimination, and it's wrong. Frankly, I find it disappointing that Asians aren't marching through the streets of the Peoples Republic of Berkeley demanding an end to this second-class citizenship, and telling the white hippie brats who bleat about "diversity" to just shut the fuck up.
There are all kinds of ways to apply pressure to racists to clean up their act, without resorting to the power of the state. Government power is a very dangerous thing, and it should be used as sparingly as possible.
I was once instructed (2002) by HR to select only middle-aged white males, because "they can't sue."
Anyone can sue, on any pretext at all. Whether they can prevail is the question. If any of those people laid off were made aware of that instruction, it could have cost the company a hell of a lot of money.
I often find women in particular complaining about the "glass ceiling", and I'm boggled at the idea of anyone expecting to be promoted to the top of a company. Company founders will seek out successors who remind them of themselves, and there's nothing wrong with that. If anyone wants to lead a business, they should expect it to be a business that they themselves started.
In addition, some companies on their own choose to resort to a quota-like system out of laziness or incomplete understanding of the law.
And some companies decide to avoid the costs of litigation, (which are high, even if they're right), which can ensue on the pretext that if the demographics of their workforce don't match the demographics of their community, that they must be practicing illegal discrimination.
Half says that absolutely none of the would-be discriminators were successful companies.
Tomas Sowell wrote a very interesting essay on the role that private companies played in fighting the Jim Crow laws. "Separate but equal" was expensive to implement.
If I heard that a company was trying to hire on a racist basis, I'd make a point of not doing business with them, not just because of their repugnant behavior, but because it points to incompetence in management.
But all I can say is that it doesn't surprise me at all.
When the video is available from iTMS, it's uncoupled from the network schedule. You can send an episode to a friend as a gift. You can buy one show and see whether you want any more, and the critical thing is, you can watch it anytime you want. It's a whole new ball game.
Students need to do their own work so that the University granting $StudentX with a degree doesn't loose credibility by certifying that "$GraduateX is now Capable of doing the job" when he really doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.
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I wonder, while you're railing against the latest president to run roughshod over our liberty, do you also bear in mind that democrats have in fact done worse? GWB has imprisoned some people without due process, and is fighting to continue to do so, but FDR imprisoned hundreds of thousands of people in concentration camps[1]. Will you condemn that as well?
-jcr
[1] Yes, concentration camps. They didn't dream up the "internment camps" euphemism until news of what Hitler was doing in his concentration camps started to leak out.
Any reason why this couldn't also lead to much higher density for system RAM?
-jcr
Should have gone AMD, Steve.
Apple's already been down the road of choosing the apparently spiffier processor from a vendor that wasn't able to deliver in quantity. If AMD becomes the better processor choice in the future, then I'm sure Apple will switch again.
-jcr
Given that women comprise roughly 51% of the population, and yet only hold about 2-3% of the positions in question, it should really not be that difficult to see that there is some form of glass ceiling/gender bias in place.
Talk about a straw man! This is the same statistical argument that has been tossed around ever since the left decided to re-package racial and gender dscrimination and call it "affirmative action".
It simply does not follow that because more fortune 500 CEOs are white and male, that there's something illegal or immoral about how they were chosen.
One, however, doesn't normally become the head of a F500 company by starting it.
It's the surest way to do so. There are only 500 CEO jobs in the fourtune 500, and expecting to get promoted to one of them is just silly.
-jcr
He was talking about CPU performance, and he said in the same breath that the disk and the memory weren't going to be faster than the G5 iMac. If the SPECMarks weren't what he claimed, then there'd be a story here.
-jcr
Yeah, but 99% of Fortune 500 CEOs and majority of company execs are male
So what? If you want to run a company, start one.
-jcr
Women complaining about a glass ceiling usually do so because they systematically see their male colleagues being promoted ahead of them even though they are less competent, more junior, less suited for the job, etc.
In their opinion. What person passed over for a promotion ever believes that the one who got it was better than themselves?
Men see other men (and women) promoted ahead of them, too. It happens all the time.
-jcr
Hire?
You seem to be under a misapprehension. Those shows aren't a commercial venture. They're community theater.
-jcr
but have you seen these things... acting worse than.... well, the original series.
;-)
Sometimes there's a downside to being inclusive. Ever been to a Filk?
-jcr
I probably shouldn't have mentioned my former employers, as they are very litigious.
"Truth is a complete defense" in any action for libel. I wouldn't worry about it.
-jcr
Thankfully, I am no longer in Charlotte, North Carolina!
;-)
That's called "voting with your feet". I would suggest also, that racism is its own punishment: Charlotte, NC is probably considerably below Bangalore on any company's list of places to locate a high-tech development project.
Of course, market forces being what they are, I might consider locating a new venture in Charlotte, on the grounds that I would be able to attract the best workers, by being the only meritocratic employer in the area. Or easier still, I could run ads in the local papers: "Want to get out of Charlotte? Send me your resume!"
Blacks live on the West side of Interstate 77
Can a Jew find a nice house at a reasonable price there?
-jcr
I really hate laws "protecting against" racism -- they don't help minorities, and I believe they hurt "us."
The biggest problem in these laws is the unintended consequences. Where racial preferences exist, as in academia, it makes the people who "benefit" from those preferences suspect: did they really make the grade?
If the University of California system abolished all racial discrimination, Berkeley would probably be about 60-70% Asian. I don't have a problem with that. What I find appalling, is that Asian students can work their asses off to excel academically, and be turned away from top universities because they "already have their quota this year". This is racial discrimination, and it's wrong. Frankly, I find it disappointing that Asians aren't marching through the streets of the Peoples Republic of Berkeley demanding an end to this second-class citizenship, and telling the white hippie brats who bleat about "diversity" to just shut the fuck up.
There are all kinds of ways to apply pressure to racists to clean up their act, without resorting to the power of the state. Government power is a very dangerous thing, and it should be used as sparingly as possible.
-jcr
I was once instructed (2002) by HR to select only middle-aged white males, because "they can't sue."
Anyone can sue, on any pretext at all. Whether they can prevail is the question. If any of those people laid off were made aware of that instruction, it could have cost the company a hell of a lot of money.
-jcr
Why didn't she just talk to the IT guys who took care of your exception? Is it not the same department?
-jcr
One of the things that I always loved about the "hacker" culture of the 80's and early 90's was that the *only* thing that mattered was your ability
That's still the case in hacker culture.
-jcr
I never accepted a block, from anyone!
That of course, would be why you succeed.
I often find women in particular complaining about the "glass ceiling", and I'm boggled at the idea of anyone expecting to be promoted to the top of a company. Company founders will seek out successors who remind them of themselves, and there's nothing wrong with that. If anyone wants to lead a business, they should expect it to be a business that they themselves started.
-jcr
In addition, some companies on their own choose to resort to a quota-like system out of laziness or incomplete understanding of the law.
And some companies decide to avoid the costs of litigation, (which are high, even if they're right), which can ensue on the pretext that if the demographics of their workforce don't match the demographics of their community, that they must be practicing illegal discrimination.
-jcr
Half says that absolutely none of the would-be discriminators were successful companies.
Tomas Sowell wrote a very interesting essay on the role that private companies played in fighting the Jim Crow laws. "Separate but equal" was expensive to implement.
If I heard that a company was trying to hire on a racist basis, I'd make a point of not doing business with them, not just because of their repugnant behavior, but because it points to incompetence in management.
-jcr
These claims are false.
They may or may not be, but citing a government publication stating how the act is intended to work, doesn't make a definitive case.
-jcr
Nobody said it was altruistic. Nevertheless, it was the right thing to do.
-jcr
The difference being that when you do so with iTMS, you're not running the risk of getting busted.
-jcr
But all I can say is that it doesn't surprise me at all.
When the video is available from iTMS, it's uncoupled from the network schedule. You can send an episode to a friend as a gift. You can buy one show and see whether you want any more, and the critical thing is, you can watch it anytime you want. It's a whole new ball game.
-jcr
Students need to do their own work so that the University granting $StudentX with a degree doesn't loose credibility by certifying that "$GraduateX is now Capable of doing the job" when he really doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.
;-)
Too late.
-jcr
Easier than that... Just call them up randomly to walk the class through their code, and explain what the code that they ostensibly wrote does.
-jcr