I skipped high school and went into college, getting a college degree without getting a high school or G.E.D. diploma. Most entry-level employers focused on the high school diploma and refused to hire me even though I had a college degree.
I'm going to call a solid bullshit on that one. You can't attend an accredited College in the US without at least obtaining a GED. Which would be a rather simple matter for someone smart enough to skip high school entirely.
I know a guy who went straight from 8th grade to UCLA. So it can be done. I'm not sure what had to happen between the schools, but he never went to High School.
I would imagine more than a few officials went running for their "Edward Snowden has blood on his hands" fanfiction with their tongues cartoonishly flapping out the sides of their mouths the second news of the attack broke.
James Clapper did this morning on NBC, that's for sure.
"BOO!" - you poor frightened people in the "home of the brave" unwilling to stand up and defend your freedom from your own government.
Your grand experiment is dissolving into a surveillance/police state. A least in Europe there are many who will defend freedom.....even if bad things can happen. Because they know bad things WILL happen in a police state.
As you can see above, Americans these days have been frightened into valuing safety over an open society. I believe this is by design, but reasonable people can disagree.
You don't know what Obama was briefed. He's been openly trying to downplay ISIS for several years - because their existence imperils his "be nice to everyone and everyone will be nice to you" approach to international relations in a way that would make Neville "Peace for our time" Chamberlain proud.
That image too is for public consumption. American foreign policy has nothing to do with "be nice to everyone and everyone will be nice to you".
It's an open question to me whether it's the media that is dumb, the alleged government spokespeople, or somebody is just faking it to bullshit the generally dumb public who doesn't know any better.
I'm going with option C. The authorities want to be able to see what we're doing. Encryption interferes with that. Linking encryption with terrorism in the public mind might change public sentiment when it comes to the question of back doors. The public is largely unsophisticated in this area and the government and media like that just fine.
The level of entitlement people have today is overwhelming, and they're more than happy to share with you about how mad they are that Amazon sells "Fuck the Police" T-Shirts and how Starbucks doesn't have Christmas themed coffee cups anymore.
Nobody gives a shit and neither should you, stop being so conceited.
I have been told that the less one pays attention to the stupidity around them, the happier one is. I'm working on implementing that. It's not easy.
Social media has created a new scary norm where that "nationwide media frenzy" (mob mentality) is the prosecutor, jury, and judge and your employer's fear of reputational risk is the executioner.
It doesn't matter if you are right or wrong. Logic doesn't apply - only perception management.
The new, widely-embraced form of discrimination is having an opinion different than that of the mob. Our laws need to adjust to form adequate civil protections.
Yeah, we should amend the Constitution to ensure everyone has the freedom to express their opinion!;-)
the article (yes, I read it!) says that apple is targeting a paypal-style service where they keep a service fee. They would displace the credit cards in this regard.
So, how is that "peer-to-peer"? There seems to be a middle-man involved.
The thinking that does is because there is a system with flaws, that occasionally leads to incorrect outcomes despite the best efforts of everyone involved, that you then refuse to accept that most of the time the system works. Because it does. And no matter how often people tell you they're innocent. Or were wrongfully convicted, they weren't.
I get the impression that either you are a prosecutor or don't have much experience with the legal system in the United States. The vast majority of people who are charged with a crime plead out, either because they can't afford a decent lawyer or are threatened with all manner of charges by the prosecutor and don't want to take the chance. Even innocent people do this because the deck is overwhelmingly stacked against them. And the prosecutors don't care of they are innocent or not, just about their conviction rate. That is not a picture of a system that is working.
People think Law and Order is a reasonable representation of our legal system. It is not. People's "best efforts" are often not put towards actual justice but towards locking up whomever was arrested.
face facts. use logic. best way to prevent jobs going to non american citizens is to be truly productive and contributing value for money paid.
Is that really how you think these decisions are made? They somehow measure the value and productivity of the worker and decide whether they are getting their money's worth?
Explain this to me, I run a small company, how is it you think you can stop me from outsourcing work to other countries (and I do that) when not outsourcing is so much more expensive in terms of regulations, taxes, laws, never mind hourly wages, so how do you do that exactly?
What do you think you can do to prevent an owner of a company from hiring people ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD exactly? Ha!
I have an uncle and 2 in-laws who have all paid union dues for 30+ years. One lost his job when the company moved to another state, another lost his job when the company outsourced, and one voluntarily moved to another state to get out of the union.
Yeah, no kidding. My father-in-law paid union dues for 30 years too. All he got was a steady job, and is now well taken care of in retirement. Oh wait, that wasn't the argument you were making, sorry.
In other words, if you are Americans and still want to work in America, find yourself a niche, a niche which add a lot of value to what you do, a niche that no one outside of America can easily duplicate, and you will get to enjoy your job as long as what you do creates more money to your employer than what they pay you every month
You guys may not like what I am saying, but we need to face the reality somehow --- this world's competitiveness has heat up tremendously. USA and Europe are no longer the only places in the world where innovations happen
I see, so most of us are fucked, is what you're saying. A niche, by definition, is a small slice of the market. So a very few people can earn a good salary and everyone else just has to start a new career or work for peanuts. Let me guess, you've found a niche.
What "rest of the economy" is left after all the good jobs have gone overseas?
Luxury goods, of course! Since all the money is being funneled to the top, the market will explode for yachts, Gulfstreams, and the ultimate status symbol, US Congressmen.
Or... Great for the rest of us, their lower costs will fight margin compression for a time, but their competitors will follow suit to remain competitive and while 3 million Americans lose out on high wages, 300 million Americans gain in lower consumption costs (after all, we are a consumption economy), and India will gain 9 million jobs. For the American and Indian economies, this is a plus. The whole world gets more economic expansion as the cheapest possible costs are applied to work, and consumption increases. Don't let the lobbies and unions bogg the rest of consumers down. Just as steel workers fought to keep the cost of construction and cars up, the IT workers are fighting to keep the cost of software and IT up, at the expense of the rest of the economy.
Cengage doesn't serve all 300 million Americans; not even close. And what on Earth makes you think that labor saving will result in lower consumer prices? That savings goes to profit. That's the whole point.
I see your member number isn't that low. One day maybe you'll grow up and join the rest of us in understanding that supply-side economics doesn't work.
And these companies do what they do because the US government, the state governments, and the local municipalities make it expensive and difficult to employ Americans.
These governments make the rules. Companies simply play the game the best they can under the rules. It silly to blame them for behaving rationally.
Better would be to blame idiot politicians that make stupid rules.
This is so hilariously divorced from reality, I have to think you're joking or trolling. Companies simply play the game the best they can under the rules? As though they are detached observers and not primary participants in the shaping of law and policy? Perhaps you should look into LASIK to deal with that myopia.
...even IT workers in low-cost parts of the country are too expensive and their work is being sent to Cognizant, one of the largest H-1B visa users.
So are we not even pretending anymore that H-1B visas are for workers possessing skills not found locally? Because that's what they are supposed to be for. And that's what we have been told over and over when we made the observation that it's really about wage suppression. And yet, it seems to be about wage suppression. I guess we're one more industry that's finding out that unregulated Capitalism is not our friend.
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Now that the world is subject to the jurisprudence of the United States, this should be trivial. /rolleyes
That is often how Americans see things, unfortunately.
having a university degree is "overqualified" for a barista job.
Not if you were a liberal arts major.
BURN! Hey wait, I have a Liberal Arts degree!
I skipped high school and went into college, getting a college degree without getting a high school or G.E.D. diploma. Most entry-level employers focused on the high school diploma and refused to hire me even though I had a college degree.
I'm going to call a solid bullshit on that one. You can't attend an accredited College in the US without at least obtaining a GED. Which would be a rather simple matter for someone smart enough to skip high school entirely.
I know a guy who went straight from 8th grade to UCLA. So it can be done. I'm not sure what had to happen between the schools, but he never went to High School.
I would imagine more than a few officials went running for their "Edward Snowden has blood on his hands" fanfiction with their tongues cartoonishly flapping out the sides of their mouths the second news of the attack broke.
James Clapper did this morning on NBC, that's for sure.
"BOO!" - you poor frightened people in the "home of the brave" unwilling to stand up and defend your freedom from your own government. Your grand experiment is dissolving into a surveillance/police state. A least in Europe there are many who will defend freedom .....even if bad things can happen. Because they know bad things WILL happen in a police state.
As you can see above, Americans these days have been frightened into valuing safety over an open society. I believe this is by design, but reasonable people can disagree.
You don't know what Obama was briefed. He's been openly trying to downplay ISIS for several years - because their existence imperils his "be nice to everyone and everyone will be nice to you" approach to international relations in a way that would make Neville "Peace for our time" Chamberlain proud.
That image too is for public consumption. American foreign policy has nothing to do with "be nice to everyone and everyone will be nice to you".
It's an open question to me whether it's the media that is dumb, the alleged government spokespeople, or somebody is just faking it to bullshit the generally dumb public who doesn't know any better.
I'm going with option C. The authorities want to be able to see what we're doing. Encryption interferes with that. Linking encryption with terrorism in the public mind might change public sentiment when it comes to the question of back doors. The public is largely unsophisticated in this area and the government and media like that just fine.
The level of entitlement people have today is overwhelming, and they're more than happy to share with you about how mad they are that Amazon sells "Fuck the Police" T-Shirts and how Starbucks doesn't have Christmas themed coffee cups anymore.
Nobody gives a shit and neither should you, stop being so conceited.
I have been told that the less one pays attention to the stupidity around them, the happier one is. I'm working on implementing that. It's not easy.
Social media has created a new scary norm where that "nationwide media frenzy" (mob mentality) is the prosecutor, jury, and judge and your employer's fear of reputational risk is the executioner.
It doesn't matter if you are right or wrong. Logic doesn't apply - only perception management.
The new, widely-embraced form of discrimination is having an opinion different than that of the mob. Our laws need to adjust to form adequate civil protections.
Yeah, we should amend the Constitution to ensure everyone has the freedom to express their opinion! ;-)
the article (yes, I read it!) says that apple is targeting a paypal-style service where they keep a service fee. They would displace the credit cards in this regard.
So, how is that "peer-to-peer"? There seems to be a middle-man involved.
The thinking that does is because there is a system with flaws, that occasionally leads to incorrect outcomes despite the best efforts of everyone involved, that you then refuse to accept that most of the time the system works. Because it does. And no matter how often people tell you they're innocent. Or were wrongfully convicted, they weren't.
I get the impression that either you are a prosecutor or don't have much experience with the legal system in the United States. The vast majority of people who are charged with a crime plead out, either because they can't afford a decent lawyer or are threatened with all manner of charges by the prosecutor and don't want to take the chance. Even innocent people do this because the deck is overwhelmingly stacked against them. And the prosecutors don't care of they are innocent or not, just about their conviction rate. That is not a picture of a system that is working.
People think Law and Order is a reasonable representation of our legal system. It is not. People's "best efforts" are often not put towards actual justice but towards locking up whomever was arrested.
Define "well distributed" please. The wealthy tend to define as 99% for them, 1% for everyone else.
Here you go: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnor...
face facts. use logic. best way to prevent jobs going to non american citizens is to be truly productive and contributing value for money paid.
Is that really how you think these decisions are made? They somehow measure the value and productivity of the worker and decide whether they are getting their money's worth?
If the American worker cared so much why doesn't he form a company and show everyone how its done
Sometimes they do. https://www.nceo.org/articles/...
Explain this to me, I run a small company, how is it you think you can stop me from outsourcing work to other countries (and I do that) when not outsourcing is so much more expensive in terms of regulations, taxes, laws, never mind hourly wages, so how do you do that exactly?
What do you think you can do to prevent an owner of a company from hiring people ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD exactly? Ha!
I don't know, the law? http://www.dol.gov/whd/immigra...
Unless you're a business owner who doesn't mind breaking the law to make more money. In which case, go for it.
Those unions worked great for manufacturing and prevented having those jobs go overseas, didn't they.
Yes they did, absolutely. Germany, for example has strong unions, strong worker protections and a strong manufacturing economy.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
I have an uncle and 2 in-laws who have all paid union dues for 30+ years. One lost his job when the company moved to another state, another lost his job when the company outsourced, and one voluntarily moved to another state to get out of the union.
Yeah, no kidding. My father-in-law paid union dues for 30 years too. All he got was a steady job, and is now well taken care of in retirement. Oh wait, that wasn't the argument you were making, sorry.
Anytime you vote make sure your politico is against H1-B Visas. Otherwise you vote for your own job loss.
And what if neither Team Blue nor Team Red are taking that position?
So, you want communism? Guaranteed jobs from the government?
Or you want to find a way to make India just vanish into thin air?
If you are employed, at least we're dispelled the myth that the jobs go to the most capable and intelligent people.
In other words, if you are Americans and still want to work in America, find yourself a niche, a niche which add a lot of value to what you do, a niche that no one outside of America can easily duplicate, and you will get to enjoy your job as long as what you do creates more money to your employer than what they pay you every month
You guys may not like what I am saying, but we need to face the reality somehow --- this world's competitiveness has heat up tremendously. USA and Europe are no longer the only places in the world where innovations happen
I see, so most of us are fucked, is what you're saying. A niche, by definition, is a small slice of the market. So a very few people can earn a good salary and everyone else just has to start a new career or work for peanuts. Let me guess, you've found a niche.
What "rest of the economy" is left after all the good jobs have gone overseas?
Luxury goods, of course! Since all the money is being funneled to the top, the market will explode for yachts, Gulfstreams, and the ultimate status symbol, US Congressmen.
Or... Great for the rest of us, their lower costs will fight margin compression for a time, but their competitors will follow suit to remain competitive and while 3 million Americans lose out on high wages, 300 million Americans gain in lower consumption costs (after all, we are a consumption economy), and India will gain 9 million jobs. For the American and Indian economies, this is a plus. The whole world gets more economic expansion as the cheapest possible costs are applied to work, and consumption increases. Don't let the lobbies and unions bogg the rest of consumers down. Just as steel workers fought to keep the cost of construction and cars up, the IT workers are fighting to keep the cost of software and IT up, at the expense of the rest of the economy.
Cengage doesn't serve all 300 million Americans; not even close. And what on Earth makes you think that labor saving will result in lower consumer prices? That savings goes to profit. That's the whole point.
I see your member number isn't that low. One day maybe you'll grow up and join the rest of us in understanding that supply-side economics doesn't work.
And these companies do what they do because the US government, the state governments, and the local municipalities make it expensive and difficult to employ Americans.
These governments make the rules. Companies simply play the game the best they can under the rules. It silly to blame them for behaving rationally.
Better would be to blame idiot politicians that make stupid rules.
This is so hilariously divorced from reality, I have to think you're joking or trolling. Companies simply play the game the best they can under the rules? As though they are detached observers and not primary participants in the shaping of law and policy? Perhaps you should look into LASIK to deal with that myopia.
...even IT workers in low-cost parts of the country are too expensive and their work is being sent to Cognizant, one of the largest H-1B visa users.
So are we not even pretending anymore that H-1B visas are for workers possessing skills not found locally? Because that's what they are supposed to be for. And that's what we have been told over and over when we made the observation that it's really about wage suppression. And yet, it seems to be about wage suppression. I guess we're one more industry that's finding out that unregulated Capitalism is not our friend.
Hey look, a case in point.