Reverse discrimination is just discrimination with a side ordrer of vengence. It's no less sick than regular discrimination just more socially acceptable.
If you just call racism racism and sexism sexism at least people will know what you are talking about.
The plaintiff doesn't have to do anything of the sort. The plaintiff doesn't even have to prove that she is more qualified than the person they ultimately hired, merely that she was qualified for the position. H1B and the like require you to hire locally if possible first.
Interesting. So if she asked for pay of a million dollars they don't have to employ her, but they can't apply for H1B visas for that position either?
Very insightful and educational, but I think you are wrong about the tipping point in the US. If it was the NSA surveillance then protests would have already started.
During the Dorner hunt the LAPD were taking pot-shots at random people. They shot two innocent women delivering newspapers who looked nothing at all like the man the police were hunting. The American public did nothing.
There was a story floating around about how the FBI actually took over and ran a child porn site for two weeks in order to entrap pedophiles. It's fine for the FBI to break the exact same laws as those they are hunting.
'Incapable of estimating the real cost of their business.' pretty much sums up most small companies. They cheap out in a lot of areas but in a lot of cases that makes the difference between getting wiped out by a debt collector on a bill they can't afford to pay and making a small profit.
Of course the upper management types never cheap out when it comes to their new company iphones, macbook air's, company cars, or giving the fat secretary they are screwing a huge pay rise.
It's not the number of hosts that's the problem, it's how different those hosts are. A thousand hosts fully configured by puppet scripts, running the same OS, and most of the same software will be perfectly manageable by just one good guy.
On the other hand 10 hosts all configured cowboy-style, installed from CDs with all manual configuration, on old erratic hardware, with no resilience built in, would be unmanageable by anyone.
Switch your hours so your working 1-2 hours yours users are not per day. During that time you will get more done then the other 6-7 hours of the day.
I do exactly that. It's the best productivity advise ever. I also try to work weekends instead of weekdays some of the time just to get a better thoughput of work.
Ineffective companies don't ask for documentation. In my job I document because I believe it's the right thing to do. If I never documented anything management wouldn't notice the difference. I suspect no-one currently there even understands my documentation but if I quit the next guy should.
I don't know. Look at the occupy movement, it changed nothing. There will always be a few loonies on either side and the media will report exactly what's it's told to report. Sooner or later the whole thing will be cleared by paramilitary police. Maybe it would work but it would need clear practical demands and a massive number of supporters.
Maybe a better protest would be if those 100,000 people just stopped paying tax. Or if those same people stopped their cars in the middle of major roads for a day French style.
Laws affect everyone. So, can they receive any money at all?
They should be paid wages by the government and they should be voted in or out by those who have an interest in the issues. They should not be running massive publicity campaigns.
Somehow, I don't think even the Republicans would have the stomach for the open slaughter of US citizens in the streets, were such a revolution to be initiated.
800 FEMA concentration camps tell me you are wrong. You have a gun or two. They have a well trained and equipped paramilitary police force, a well trained and equipped military, drones, signals interceptions, the media, and an unshakable belief that anyone who uses force against them must be destroyed at any cost.
If you and a hundred thousand friends armed yourselves and marched on the white house you would never get there and you would all be dead or imprisoned within the week. The media would be running stories about how you used chemical weapons, killed, raped, looted, used torture, used child soldiers, and how you were funded and trained by al-qaeda.
My point is the very last thing you want to do is play them at their greatest strength.
Lawyers care about what they can justify under their flexible interpretation of letter of the law. They are not concerned about the spirit or intent of the law.
Most lawyers are game players with no morals because that's exactly what it takes to be a successful lawyer.
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It's hardly self righteous to ask why people want to make things to kill when they could make anything at all.
Where are the stories about people making go-carts or a mini-helicopters with 3D printers? Are quadcopters not cool anymore?
Why do this? You could make anything with a 3D printer, what does it say about you that you only want to make weapons?
How about making a computer case? A motorbike? A fembot?
Reverse discrimination is just discrimination with a side ordrer of vengence. It's no less sick than regular discrimination just more socially acceptable.
If you just call racism racism and sexism sexism at least people will know what you are talking about.
Are you quite sure that doesn't just undermine women more?
Giving someone an unfair advantage is a clear sign that you believe they are less capable.
The plaintiff doesn't have to do anything of the sort. The plaintiff doesn't even have to prove that she is more qualified than the person they ultimately hired, merely that she was qualified for the position. H1B and the like require you to hire locally if possible first.
Interesting. So if she asked for pay of a million dollars they don't have to employ her, but they can't apply for H1B visas for that position either?
This is Infosys. 'Average or below' is right where they are. More likely she was overqualified and they thought that might make her a troublemaker.
Infosys cares about one qualification only - Will you work for less than minimum wage?
That seems to be the extent of their hiring process. I know because I've seen the code they produce.
Very insightful and educational, but I think you are wrong about the tipping point in the US. If it was the NSA surveillance then protests would have already started.
During the Dorner hunt the LAPD were taking pot-shots at random people. They shot two innocent women delivering newspapers who looked nothing at all like the man the police were hunting. The American public did nothing.
Because most people are running on EC2 and the Virginia datacenters are the most popular for that?
EC2 is great, but it's an expensive way to buy bandwidth. Cheap dedicated or virtual machines are far cheaper.
There was a story floating around about how the FBI actually took over and ran a child porn site for two weeks in order to entrap pedophiles. It's fine for the FBI to break the exact same laws as those they are hunting.
And if you haven't heard of them, you weren't putting together your own systems 8-17 years ago.
I was. I've still never heard of them.
Ebay is hell. Paypal is worse.
If I can't afford to buy it new or reconditioned from a respectable supplier I don't buy it. Life is so much better that way.
Damn, I never heard of it before, it never showed up in my searches for parts.
Hint, you can't have a successful business if you don't tell people about it!
Word of mouth only works for drug dealers.
Same here, I thought I knew all the suppliers but I never heard of them.
How did this get on slashdot? Has everyone else heard of them?
'Incapable of estimating the real cost of their business.' pretty much sums up most small companies. They cheap out in a lot of areas but in a lot of cases that makes the difference between getting wiped out by a debt collector on a bill they can't afford to pay and making a small profit.
Of course the upper management types never cheap out when it comes to their new company iphones, macbook air's, company cars, or giving the fat secretary they are screwing a huge pay rise.
Step 1. Kidnap his wife/girlfriend
Fail on Step 1. The guy works as a sysadmin, what are you going to do? Kidnap his ramen noodles?
It's not the number of hosts that's the problem, it's how different those hosts are. A thousand hosts fully configured by puppet scripts, running the same OS, and most of the same software will be perfectly manageable by just one good guy.
On the other hand 10 hosts all configured cowboy-style, installed from CDs with all manual configuration, on old erratic hardware, with no resilience built in, would be unmanageable by anyone.
You can learn a lot in a week, if you really want to.
Switch your hours so your working 1-2 hours yours users are not per day. During that time you will get more done then the other 6-7 hours of the day.
I do exactly that. It's the best productivity advise ever. I also try to work weekends instead of weekdays some of the time just to get a better thoughput of work.
Lots of people. Welcome to system administration! Here's your accordion.
(I spent three years documenting furiously. We finally got a third sysadmin. He found my notes incomprehensible. Sigh.)
How? Did you write them in Russian or doesn't he understand the systems he is paid to manage?
Ineffective companies don't ask for documentation. In my job I document because I believe it's the right thing to do. If I never documented anything management wouldn't notice the difference. I suspect no-one currently there even understands my documentation but if I quit the next guy should.
Some companies can't afford 2 sysadmin people. It's not that they are deliberately gambling, they are doing the best they can with limited money.
Obviously this only applies to tiny or failing companies.
I don't know. Look at the occupy movement, it changed nothing. There will always be a few loonies on either side and the media will report exactly what's it's told to report. Sooner or later the whole thing will be cleared by paramilitary police. Maybe it would work but it would need clear practical demands and a massive number of supporters.
Maybe a better protest would be if those 100,000 people just stopped paying tax. Or if those same people stopped their cars in the middle of major roads for a day French style.
Laws affect everyone. So, can they receive any money at all?
They should be paid wages by the government and they should be voted in or out by those who have an interest in the issues. They should not be running massive publicity campaigns.
Somehow, I don't think even the Republicans would have the stomach for the open slaughter of US citizens in the streets, were such a revolution to be initiated.
800 FEMA concentration camps tell me you are wrong. You have a gun or two. They have a well trained and equipped paramilitary police force, a well trained and equipped military, drones, signals interceptions, the media, and an unshakable belief that anyone who uses force against them must be destroyed at any cost.
If you and a hundred thousand friends armed yourselves and marched on the white house you would never get there and you would all be dead or imprisoned within the week. The media would be running stories about how you used chemical weapons, killed, raped, looted, used torture, used child soldiers, and how you were funded and trained by al-qaeda.
My point is the very last thing you want to do is play them at their greatest strength.
Lawyers care about what they can justify under their flexible interpretation of letter of the law. They are not concerned about the spirit or intent of the law.
Most lawyers are game players with no morals because that's exactly what it takes to be a successful lawyer.