They bitch about not being able to hire good programmers, then when good programmers show up, they chuck them out the door - usually with armed escort - while replacing them with the cheapest labor they can find, made even cheaper with their constant "oh noes, labor shortage" attempts to flood the labor market and drop those wages even lower.
You companies want competent programmers? Treat them like equals, not something you stepped in while shortcutting across the lawn.
If you look at who runs societies, from the jungles to the cities, it's not athelets or brutes. It is elder statesmen, who have excelled at politics and have spent their whole life climbing and building the social hierarchy.
Sadly, this often means they can't do anything else.
Bullshit. I am a highly skilled US worker, and I have NO healthcare, and will not live long enough to see it. You need to look a little harder at the system you are worshipping. The US may be good, but it's not the New Christ.
Are they trying to make life insanely difficult for student and amateur video makers?
Yes.
What I don't get is that there is TONS of "analog signal" that is not RIAA-owned, so how can they legislate on it?
The idea is for the Music And Film Industry Associations to eventually own every slice of "signal" possible - creation of any non-static media will have to be okayed by the Man - for enough cash, of course.
Or perhaps they won't, but apparently they'll make it very difficult to use the required equipment. Make life difficult for students, and you're cutting off your source of income 20 years down the road..
20 years? These people can't see twenty weeks down the road...
While I doubt the parent poster will ever read this, I'm responing anyway.
"Waaah, waaah, I can't succeed because the Man is hellbent on keeping me down! It ain't cause I is dumb, it ain't because I didn't learn nuthin in skool, it ain't cause I spend money as fast as I get it, it's cuz of this big ol' conspiracy! Send in the gubbimint to take dat money from them rich bastids who don't deserve it anyway!"
Why is it every goddamn time I suggest that man is not the only master of his destiny, some kneejerk asshole has to bring up "conspiracy" bullshit. I never claimed "conspiracy". A "conspiracy" isn't required. Hell, synergy isn't even required in this example, though it does intensify matters. All I said was, there is at least one random mofo out there, who thinks it's fun to pick on people. No "conspiracy". Not even other people, necessarily. Just an overconfident prick willing to step on you.
Must be nice to live in a world where nothing is your own fault.
As opposed to one where everything is? Your claims are just as fantastical. Some things are my fault; some things are not. To claim either extreme dominates is lunacy.
P.S. At least I have the endtags to use my handle.
I'm surprised there still are that many - I'd assume the top three would buy up all the others, thereby being able to dictate the direction the market goes - not to mention being able to dictate programmer/artist salaries; such a level of control will allow them to fire anyone not willing to work for free...
If you can't afford to go to college, it's because you didn't get off your lazy "I'm should be entitled to it" ass to do so.
Laziness has little to do with it. Many people out there work 2 to 3 jobs and still can't afford college* - are they lazy? Should they get a fourth job and forgo sleep? Millions of people out there are working harder - and smarter - that you ever did, and still can't get by. To them, you are the lazy one - and you, inexplicably, are getting rewarded for your laziness, in their point of view.
I have seen your type run up and down the block refuting the hard work of American citizens, calling them lazy simply because you "got ahead", and they didn't. Well, guess what? They've been down the same path that you have, put as much or more effort into it, and didn't get the same results. Could there possibly be something else out there affecting the outcome? "Impossible!" you and your kind say! "Our wills can defeat any obstacle, even the very laws of physics!" At least, that's what your attitude indicates - that there is no force out there that is outside of one human's control. Well, I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but there is. Most important of those is the other million or so desires, wants and needs of the other people around - and their efforts to get them. Some of their efforts may help, some of them may unintentionally hinder. Some of them, unfortunately, act to intentionally hinder, in order to gain or keep a relative gain on position.
So, it's not about laziness. Granted, being lazy usually doesn't help, but to suggest that people are lazy simply because they haven't achieved what you have is one of the most ignorant and offensive slaps in the face one can give a fellow citizen.
Not to mention that just because someone has to work three jobs to afford a college education, doesn't mean it's right to require such. We're suppose to make this world a better place, we're not supposed to prop up a shitty system and aid and abet those who exploit the weak and unfortunate.
*Even if they did get to college, the degree they get is worth shit, as most jobs are, or will be, sent overseas to people with a fraction of our minimum cost of living, and far less freedom to ask for a better wage.
And one last thing, to answer the great-grandparent who started this: There is only one way to gain or keep your freedom - you have to vigilantly fight for it. Neither socialism nor capitalism will "cost you your freedom;" only your lack of vigilance does that. This, at least, is something the immediate parent poster can agree on.
Precisely why education is being discourgaed in the United States - the people in power are sick and tired of playing "mother may I" with the hoi polloi; they want to dictate what people do and kill those who so much as hesitate in following orders.
Second, undereducated workers leads to lower productivity, and thus decreased wealth. Without that wealth, we won't be able to hire the best and brightest from around the world.
That doesn't even make sense. The resaon they're hiring "the best and brightest" is to make sure their workforce is not undereducated. The largest danger is that none of those people will be from most corporations' primary market - the United States - and therefore no one will be able to afford all that crap they're producing - their markets will simply cease to exist.
Having the best and brightest workers doesn't mean anything when the CEO's and shareholders are shortsighted greedy elitists.
Are you afraid that we're going to become extinct or something? There are too many humans on the planet already. Fewer humans => easier for the environment to sustain.
Not to mention fewer people => smaller supply of labor => higher wages. That IS sound economics. American insistance on treating a woman's womb like a mass-production line is the primary reason why our wages are so low - the supply of labor is growing exponentially, and the demand is shrinking due to corporate mergers. Like the parent post says, we're not exactly running a shortage of people, here.
You are being far too easy on U.S. corporations. Citizens of the United States, as members of a democracy, have the power to create laws that state that if a corporation doesn't behave in a proper fashion, i.e. hiring U.S. citizens, maintaining a safe workplace, paying living wages, etc. then the corporation will lose its corporate charter and limited liability and cease to exist. Yes, in the short run the loss of jobs will be painful. But in the long run, the increased obedience of corporations to the public will create a much better society. Or all of the existing corporations will refuse and die out, and entreprenuers will rule the day. A better future, in either case.
In the past, when this nation started out, there were significant restrictions on the behavior of corporations, that forced them to act more in tune with their community's needs. During the Rail Baron era, aristocrats bribed away much of those resrictions, giving corporation free reign over our freedoms. I think it is time to return to when the public was the corporations' master, not the other way around.
I was working on NHL 2K2 for the Dreamcast when Sega decided, "let's not make consoles anymore." Despite the fact that the actual game was completed, it didn't help my career any - I haven't been able to get a salaried job since. Needless to say, I'm a bit disappointed, here in my cardboard box.
I work in the games industry as a programmer, and am generally leery of people with CS degrees.
Then, what would you recommend for an aspiring game programmer? I am a competent c/c++ programmer with 7 months of game programming experience (i.e. not enough to matter) but no degree. I'm trying to re-enter the field, but companies generally won't touch me with a 16-foot pole. I'm in school now, trying to finish a CS degree, is this wrong? Should I switch degrees?
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They bitch about not being able to hire good programmers, then when good programmers show up, they chuck them out the door - usually with armed escort - while replacing them with the cheapest labor they can find, made even cheaper with their constant "oh noes, labor shortage" attempts to flood the labor market and drop those wages even lower.
You companies want competent programmers? Treat them like equals, not something you stepped in while shortcutting across the lawn.
You must really hate democracy, then...
Oh, dear God, please, please don't encourage him...
If you look at who runs societies, from the jungles to the cities, it's not athelets or brutes. It is elder statesmen, who have excelled at politics and have spent their whole life climbing and building the social hierarchy.
Sadly, this often means they can't do anything else.
Mmm... are we bitter today?
what's next, the penny-arcade national health care program?
As long as the FruitFucker isn't doing the prostate exams...
You'll have nothing to fear - they'll just be searching themselves...
Bullshit. I am a highly skilled US worker, and I have NO healthcare, and will not live long enough to see it. You need to look a little harder at the system you are worshipping. The US may be good, but it's not the New Christ.
Are they trying to make life insanely difficult for student and amateur video makers?
Yes.
What I don't get is that there is TONS of "analog signal" that is not RIAA-owned, so how can they legislate on it?
The idea is for the Music And Film Industry Associations to eventually own every slice of "signal" possible - creation of any non-static media will have to be okayed by the Man - for enough cash, of course.
Or perhaps they won't, but apparently they'll make it very difficult to use the required equipment. Make life difficult for students, and you're cutting off your source of income 20 years down the road..
20 years? These people can't see twenty weeks down the road...
Who gives a fuck if it is a 'human life' under undefined terms, or under your defined terms, it is a living organism for crying out loud!
So, I should stop eating plants? They're living organisms! In fact, they're still alive when I eat them!*
* assuming they're fresh - fast food salads notwithstanding.
While I doubt the parent poster will ever read this, I'm responing anyway.
"Waaah, waaah, I can't succeed because the Man is hellbent on keeping me down! It ain't cause I is dumb, it ain't because I didn't learn nuthin in skool, it ain't cause I spend money as fast as I get it, it's cuz of this big ol' conspiracy! Send in the gubbimint to take dat money from them rich bastids who don't deserve it anyway!"
Why is it every goddamn time I suggest that man is not the only master of his destiny, some kneejerk asshole has to bring up "conspiracy" bullshit. I never claimed "conspiracy". A "conspiracy" isn't required. Hell, synergy isn't even required in this example, though it does intensify matters. All I said was, there is at least one random mofo out there, who thinks it's fun to pick on people. No "conspiracy". Not even other people, necessarily. Just an overconfident prick willing to step on you.
Must be nice to live in a world where nothing is your own fault.
As opposed to one where everything is? Your claims are just as fantastical. Some things are my fault; some things are not. To claim either extreme dominates is lunacy.
P.S. At least I have the endtags to use my handle.
I'm surprised there still are that many - I'd assume the top three would buy up all the others, thereby being able to dictate the direction the market goes - not to mention being able to dictate programmer/artist salaries; such a level of control will allow them to fire anyone not willing to work for free...
If you can't afford to go to college, it's because you didn't get off your lazy "I'm should be entitled to it" ass to do so.
Laziness has little to do with it. Many people out there work 2 to 3 jobs and still can't afford college* - are they lazy? Should they get a fourth job and forgo sleep? Millions of people out there are working harder - and smarter - that you ever did, and still can't get by. To them, you are the lazy one - and you, inexplicably, are getting rewarded for your laziness, in their point of view.
I have seen your type run up and down the block refuting the hard work of American citizens, calling them lazy simply because you "got ahead", and they didn't. Well, guess what? They've been down the same path that you have, put as much or more effort into it, and didn't get the same results. Could there possibly be something else out there affecting the outcome? "Impossible!" you and your kind say! "Our wills can defeat any obstacle, even the very laws of physics!" At least, that's what your attitude indicates - that there is no force out there that is outside of one human's control. Well, I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but there is. Most important of those is the other million or so desires, wants and needs of the other people around - and their efforts to get them. Some of their efforts may help, some of them may unintentionally hinder. Some of them, unfortunately, act to intentionally hinder, in order to gain or keep a relative gain on position.
So, it's not about laziness. Granted, being lazy usually doesn't help, but to suggest that people are lazy simply because they haven't achieved what you have is one of the most ignorant and offensive slaps in the face one can give a fellow citizen.
Not to mention that just because someone has to work three jobs to afford a college education, doesn't mean it's right to require such. We're suppose to make this world a better place, we're not supposed to prop up a shitty system and aid and abet those who exploit the weak and unfortunate.
*Even if they did get to college, the degree they get is worth shit, as most jobs are, or will be, sent overseas to people with a fraction of our minimum cost of living, and far less freedom to ask for a better wage.
And one last thing, to answer the great-grandparent who started this: There is only one way to gain or keep your freedom - you have to vigilantly fight for it. Neither socialism nor capitalism will "cost you your freedom;" only your lack of vigilance does that. This, at least, is something the immediate parent poster can agree on.
Moderators, Tiro is a well known troll.
And you're jealous because you're not as well known of a troll?
And people wonder why some intellectuals want bigger government - now we know they want to avoid being raped by anonymous cowards...
First, democracy depends on an educated populace
Precisely why education is being discourgaed in the United States - the people in power are sick and tired of playing "mother may I" with the hoi polloi; they want to dictate what people do and kill those who so much as hesitate in following orders.
Second, undereducated workers leads to lower productivity, and thus decreased wealth. Without that wealth, we won't be able to hire the best and brightest from around the world.
That doesn't even make sense. The resaon they're hiring "the best and brightest" is to make sure their workforce is not undereducated. The largest danger is that none of those people will be from most corporations' primary market - the United States - and therefore no one will be able to afford all that crap they're producing - their markets will simply cease to exist.
Having the best and brightest workers doesn't mean anything when the CEO's and shareholders are shortsighted greedy elitists.
Are you afraid that we're going to become extinct or something? There are too many humans on the planet already. Fewer humans => easier for the environment to sustain.
Not to mention fewer people => smaller supply of labor => higher wages. That IS sound economics. American insistance on treating a woman's womb like a mass-production line is the primary reason why our wages are so low - the supply of labor is growing exponentially, and the demand is shrinking due to corporate mergers. Like the parent post says, we're not exactly running a shortage of people, here.
You are being far too easy on U.S. corporations. Citizens of the United States, as members of a democracy, have the power to create laws that state that if a corporation doesn't behave in a proper fashion, i.e. hiring U.S. citizens, maintaining a safe workplace, paying living wages, etc. then the corporation will lose its corporate charter and limited liability and cease to exist. Yes, in the short run the loss of jobs will be painful. But in the long run, the increased obedience of corporations to the public will create a much better society. Or all of the existing corporations will refuse and die out, and entreprenuers will rule the day. A better future, in either case.
In the past, when this nation started out, there were significant restrictions on the behavior of corporations, that forced them to act more in tune with their community's needs. During the Rail Baron era, aristocrats bribed away much of those resrictions, giving corporation free reign over our freedoms. I think it is time to return to when the public was the corporations' master, not the other way around.
If you want that sort of efficiency use robots.
Oh, they'll use robots, alright. They'll replaces us all with robots, then use more robots to kill off the "excess" population...
First, individual productivity has gone way, way up in the past couple of decades. Technology has been the big player here.
Do not forget that while productivity has shot up, real wages are dropping - "jobless recovery," anyone?
I was working on NHL 2K2 for the Dreamcast when Sega decided, "let's not make consoles anymore." Despite the fact that the actual game was completed, it didn't help my career any - I haven't been able to get a salaried job since. Needless to say, I'm a bit disappointed, here in my cardboard box.
Seems "MCSE & A+ Certified buddy at work(TM)" lost the case screws, so "MCSE & A+ Certified buddy at work(TM)" POP-RIVETED THE GOD DAMN CASE SHUT.
...and he still lives?
They could be showing a giant crater...
I work in the games industry as a programmer, and am generally leery of people with CS degrees.
Then, what would you recommend for an aspiring game programmer? I am a competent c/c++ programmer with 7 months of game programming experience (i.e. not enough to matter) but no degree. I'm trying to re-enter the field, but companies generally won't touch me with a 16-foot pole. I'm in school now, trying to finish a CS degree, is this wrong? Should I switch degrees?
He's (grandparent poster) a lawyer. If people don't consult lawyers, he doesn't eat.