I've always found it akin to pit-bulls. There are some that are nice, but a goodly number of them are dangerous even when they're yours, and more-so when they're somebody elses.
That being said, I've met some truly respectable lawyers. When I did have to pursue a company on an injury claim, I had initially consulted a lawyer and he even prepared some initial paperwork. During the interum my rather strongly worded "start answering my calls or you will be sued" letter reached the company, which they were required to forward to their insurance corp. The insurance corp actually treated me like a human, so I left off suing. The lawyer was very understanding of this, and even declined payment for the work he had done.
I ended up settling up with the insurance corp on my own. For the record on that too, a lot of Insurance Corps are rather hostile when dealing with claims, but this one was very good from start to finish.
I'd rather have not had the broken bones that resulted in the whole thing, but overall I found their offer and their response to my counters reasonable and personable in terms of what monetary compensation can do for such things (and they also had the problem/negligence which resulted in my injury fixed rather quickly).
So while the typical lawyer or big corp, insurance corp, etc is often portayed as money-grubbing sharks, not all of them are so.
There are cases, however, where you have to poke around a bit to get a job done right. I've had quite a number of (private) customers bring me machines with dead drives with important files after the bigger shops couldn't fix them. Sometimes the old "stick it in a ziplock in the freezer" trick works with stuck bearings etc. In a lot of cases, getting the drive up and running was step 1. Step 2 was dealing with various issues of data corruption etc etc. In a lot of cases a disk with issues is a lot easier to restore when you connect it via a USB adaptor (when a drive goes down on a regular bus the machine gets pissy, but USB just disappears and reappears), but you still end up with possibly munged files etc. The last step, therefore, is usually to comb around a bit and check to make sure you actually got legit files back, and not a bunch of garbled or zero-padded crap. One tries to restrict such things to inane seeming files, but you do run across some interesting filenames on some occasions.
One thing I've learned after restoring several different peoples' drives. Word documents seem to be less likely to come back than ODF. Porn (mpeg format) is probably the most resilient to corruption though. It's both a bit sad and amusing having to hand back a drive and telling the owner: "about 50% of your documents were corrupt and unrecoverable, but your porn collection is in good shape." Luckily, most people are more interested in family pictures, etc, and JPEG's aren't too bad with surviving minor filesystem or corruption issues.
And yet he's out-and-about, which makes little sense to me. Probation should mean that he has a PO, has to make regular reports, and at least is under some scrutiny to ensure he doesn't pull the same crap again. Seems like nobody's paying attention though.
Yes, but similarly somebody could post up a picture of you on any number of other websites. While the tagging system might not be the same, most crawlers would probably pick it up well enough from a hyperlink with your name in it, or whatnot.
Now technically I believe that you can request the site to take down those images as needed, but could not the same process be used for facebook? But yeah, I avoid doing dumb things on camera more or less as a general rule...
It's not just the royalties/payments to the artists, it's the taxes, which could become an even bigger issue. While big corps might be able to get away with shady practises to hide their real profits, if they try to stick with a large penalty by announcing revenues of several times what was declared on their taxes they're likely going to be in deep trouble
Not only that, but showing huge profits is going to blow away their pleas of "piracy is killing the industry and we're losing money/profits/etc", which is probably the real point here....
Maybe I have bugs on the brain, at least two look like moths to me:
Moth, face with tongue out, suit/w red tie, lamp?, moth, upside-down shirt/w zipper, necklace, lady's body/w feathered boa/dress, seahorses on coral, fat little chinese dude with a hat
Of course, a more amusing answer might be "why do you keep showing me pictures of dead people, I didn't do anything!":-)
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I don't know about Vista, but even if Linux was ever targeted for this kind of attack/spyware, you would have to run the software as root to enable packet sniffing!
As a service on the local machine perhaps, but thinking that Linux solves everything is a fairly head-in-the-sand approach in itself. There's always:
a) In-transit packet sniffing. Plenty of places between your PC and the destination server for your unencrypted traffic to be sniffed.
b) Local password caches: Plenty of users locally store their passwords for convenience. It's not impossible or even that difficult to pull them. The "wallets" may to some extent work to protect these, but an infected user account could still happily launch a background service that politely asks for the password at a convenient time
c) Config files: Local infected accounts can have local configuration files (firefox, etc) overwritten without the user knowing. Will you notice if your proxy is set to funky server for a few days?
d) Menu items, etc: When you click on the firefox icon, are you really running what you think? What if it's a wrapper with a 3rd-party app? OK, you run from commandline... is your $PATH set to run/usr/bin before "./.hiddenvirusdir/usr/bin" ?
There are PLENTY of ways to compromise a 'nix desktop without root access. Yes, windows is less secure in many ways, but 'nix is far from invulnerable, because at some point it all comes down to the fine balance between security an convenience. My former co-worker and I use to play what was essentially "security wars." We would find fun ways to get into each others systems and muck things up. In the process we learned how easy it is, and migrated some of our practises to the web.
Actually (d) was my favorite, as before I left he asked me "why is it when I sometimes start my firefox it still goes to mylittlepony.com" (or whatever it was I'd set). Other fun tricks include a.tar.bz in a convenience location, sourced when they load a particular app, to overwrite their SSH authorized_keys or some other fun files. Having the data compressed means that they can't grep for expected items
Yes, windows has issues. For the experienced, so does Linux. If fact, short of writing actual trojans or binaries, I generally managed to more easily subvert my friend's 'nix machine more often than our other co-workers windows box.
Got any comparable data to back that up with? It seems to me that the book industry has not in recent history gone through the changes in popularity that video-games have, nor also the technological changes unless you count the mac-coloured Chapters touchscreen kiosks etc.
For music and movies... it seems to me that a disproportionate amount of material is often a fairly good parallel to books. Crap that is big explosions or good looking boy-bands, but often enough lacking substantial depth.
In fact, it seems that the movie industry is so devoid of talent in making intriguing plotlines, that they've pretty much decided to plunder all the childhood series' of the current generation. I'm still waiting for "smurfs 2012, the movie" because I think that's one of the few they *haven't* planned to remake yet.
Yes, and I believe Disney likely has an actual business presence in the UK with which to press such matters. The Gallery seems to have neither law nor presence in the US on their side.
I wonder if part of the issue is not with games themselves, but with the audience. Previously, there was a certain demographic to a gamer that you had a good chance of hitting. Games like "Space Quest" were full of little inside bloopers, etc, taking aim at popular geek culture like Star Wars, Star Trek, computer jokes in general, etc.
Now that the demographic is broader, a lot of players simply wouldn't get the joke. I think that when the market was smaller, there were also less watchers. Now you have to watch out for PR squads of doom, who are ready to have you tarred and feathered for things like the "hot coffee" incident, etc.
Face it. Games aren't (just) for geeks anymore. Sure, certain games may still have that target, but overall the market has been saturated by "big corporate players" in the production end, and "soccer moms and dads" in the consumer end.
we're going to wind up making food a lot more expensive and therefor eating less.
Uh, no. More likely those that are lower on the income scale will end up less able to afford proper nutritional foods, while those on the upper end continue to overconsume. This of course will leads to a greater divide, as nutrition is often one of the biggest bases for physical and intellectual development...
The plot and rather simplistic controls make it fun to play, unfortunately I've found that the bugs definitely did not, especially when it came to Tiberium Wars. While it improved over time, initial games of the purchased product was like playing a Beta copy, and I didn't buy at release time, but many months later, meaning there was plenty of time for fixes. There were a few instances in single-player missions where I had to restart because the game wouldn't recognize completed objectives, and some even more frustrating instances of multiplayer crashing, dropping out, or many other issues.
EA makes good games, but the overall quality of the released product seems to be lacking. You're better off to wait until about a year after the initial release until the bugs are out.
Seriously, how hard is it? The cellular providers here actually *DO* this. If I dial somebody who hasn't setup their voicemail, I get a "you have reached an unconfigured voicemail box for 555-555-5555, please let the owner know to configure their mailbox"
For my own inbox, just a couple minutes for the default setup (password, and the provider's default greeting) and all is done.
Indeed. I think that - while the PC market may have shrunk somewhat - the main change is that the games market has grown overall, and moreso in the console arena. Modern consoles attract more gamers. Unfortunately, as a larger source of revenue, this also means that games are generally produced to target consoles in terms of controls, etc, which doesn't make use of the advantages a PC might have.
My understanding of these laws is that the wasn't a burden to prove the age of the individual in question, which would save the police trying to track down children on the basis of photos alone.
That being said, I believe there is still some basis for the provable age of a person on the part of the defence. Say if a 21-yr-old had pictures of his girlfriend, who could possibly be under-age, but was provable as 18+ at the time of the photograph. Still, it could probably be a pretty dicey scenario with certain cases, for example, many Asian females are perceived by others to be younger than their physical age. I suppose that's where reasonable doubt comes in.
However, whatever the case of consent may be, involvement with somebody who is physically a toddler, even if she had a mental capacity akin to her chronological age, would be pretty dicey. Perhaps if she were in physically at least an age of pubescence and chronologically/mentally an adult it might be even more dicey, as at that time she would not only have the mental capacity to consent, but also the mental/physical maturity, and the physical "drive" to do so. Perhaps it's a good think that her mental capacity seems somewhat closely tied to her age, so that the reasoning falls among other people with mental capacities below their age.
I'll forgo for now the question of "should we" and jump into possibility:
Are there any known methods for speeding or artificially stimulating the production of myelin? If, for example, she reaches the physical age of 16, even if she's chronologically 40, I'd image that the extended lifespan with normal mental capabilities would be somewhat impressive (assuming slow physical "ageing" means longer chronological lifestyle).
I remember that when I was young, MJ was very much an idol to many people my age. Who says we're looking to him for inspiration - or even as a role-model - in this day and age? No, it's the passing of something from our youth. We mourn what he was, not what he had become.
And yes, if Stephen Hawking passed I'd imagine it would still be a fairly big event as well.
So have something that flags internally when a non-approved battery has been installed, similar to how many devices have little tags that indicate if they've gotten wet internally etc.
And if they're really all that worried about third-party batteries not being as "high quality" as theirs, they would stop at the error/warning message but still let the damn things work. Let the consumer decide whether to continue using them
I suppose the ability to do this would depend on what software/libs SCUMMVM uses and whether they're GPL, but isn't it often possible for a company to sell a license which permits the use of GPL'ed code without revealing sources (dual-licensing, etc).
Of course, that would only likely work if the engine isn't using GPL'ed libs, because they'd still be locked to the GPL at that point, I believe.
I'm not a FOSS licensing expert though, but that was my understanding of things.
I also wonder what's going on behind the scenes. It seems that a lot of things are going through internationally as "treaties", as has been mentioned in many US-centric articles. Perhaps there's no need for such legislation if it's already been pushed through as "confidential" treaty clauses...
I'd have to agree on the Trojans. Way too damn tight, and nothing sucks quite as much as having your little friend being squeezed and chaffed. I've found that Durex tend to fit a little better in that regard though, and besides, who the heck decided to name a condom Trojan... you know, like the group who supposedly snuck their little soldiers secretly into the enemy fortress.
Basically from what I can understand, this is fairly common, and nothing new from the US. If you look into various other major issues such as Tienneman square, there's external factors involved in pushing these "revolts" against the local government. Whatever the intentions, those powers have blood on their hands yet use either result (people overthrow government or government kills protectors) to fuel their agenda in the media.
It's also part of why various countries get pretty pissed off about the US involvement in their affairs. Whatever the outcome might be, is it legitimate for the US to push the people into becoming pawns against their own government to further a foreign agenda (even if it furthers the citizens' agenda at the same time). Pretty sad to me.
Or is it that the bottom line is so so so f*****g important that those companies don't even want to spend even little money and time on implementing a shortlisting criteria when they outsource work ?
Amen to that. For all those that complain about hiring outsourced labour, I've seen plenty of shit-workers produced right here in my own country (in this case, Canada). So perhaps another issue is that by outsourcing the work, you've just given up the ability to filter, monitor, and/or control it in most ways. We had *tons* of local applicants claiming all sorts of great background, experience, and skills. One of the more promising ones never showed up for his first workday (apparently he found better work elsewhere and decided not to tell until until day two), others were often a mix of home-tinkerers and people those who only looked good on paper. We also had a few "foreign" applicants who from what we could tell were quite skilled in the technical arena, but unfortunately lacked the communications/language skills needed to work in the team. It wasn't the best-paying job, and it definitely had grind-times, but in comparing it was likely better than a lot of what was out there as most jobs I was seeing were about the same but often only 2-6 month temp stints.
So maybe it's a sense of "crap here, crap there", but locally you can better filter out the crap to get somebody good, while remotely the crap workers are at least cheaper.
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I've always found it akin to pit-bulls. There are some that are nice, but a goodly number of them are dangerous even when they're yours, and more-so when they're somebody elses.
That being said, I've met some truly respectable lawyers. When I did have to pursue a company on an injury claim, I had initially consulted a lawyer and he even prepared some initial paperwork. During the interum my rather strongly worded "start answering my calls or you will be sued" letter reached the company, which they were required to forward to their insurance corp. The insurance corp actually treated me like a human, so I left off suing. The lawyer was very understanding of this, and even declined payment for the work he had done.
I ended up settling up with the insurance corp on my own. For the record on that too, a lot of Insurance Corps are rather hostile when dealing with claims, but this one was very good from start to finish.
I'd rather have not had the broken bones that resulted in the whole thing, but overall I found their offer and their response to my counters reasonable and personable in terms of what monetary compensation can do for such things (and they also had the problem/negligence which resulted in my injury fixed rather quickly).
So while the typical lawyer or big corp, insurance corp, etc is often portayed as money-grubbing sharks, not all of them are so.
There are cases, however, where you have to poke around a bit to get a job done right.
I've had quite a number of (private) customers bring me machines with dead drives with important files after the bigger shops couldn't fix them. Sometimes the old "stick it in a ziplock in the freezer" trick works with stuck bearings etc.
In a lot of cases, getting the drive up and running was step 1. Step 2 was dealing with various issues of data corruption etc etc. In a lot of cases a disk with issues is a lot easier to restore when you connect it via a USB adaptor (when a drive goes down on a regular bus the machine gets pissy, but USB just disappears and reappears), but you still end up with possibly munged files etc. The last step, therefore, is usually to comb around a bit and check to make sure you actually got legit files back, and not a bunch of garbled or zero-padded crap. One tries to restrict such things to inane seeming files, but you do run across some interesting filenames on some occasions.
One thing I've learned after restoring several different peoples' drives. Word documents seem to be less likely to come back than ODF. Porn (mpeg format) is probably the most resilient to corruption though. It's both a bit sad and amusing having to hand back a drive and telling the owner: "about 50% of your documents were corrupt and unrecoverable, but your porn collection is in good shape." Luckily, most people are more interested in family pictures, etc, and JPEG's aren't too bad with surviving minor filesystem or corruption issues.
And yet he's out-and-about, which makes little sense to me. Probation should mean that he has a PO, has to make regular reports, and at least is under some scrutiny to ensure he doesn't pull the same crap again. Seems like nobody's paying attention though.
Yes, but similarly somebody could post up a picture of you on any number of other websites. While the tagging system might not be the same, most crawlers would probably pick it up well enough from a hyperlink with your name in it, or whatnot.
Now technically I believe that you can request the site to take down those images as needed, but could not the same process be used for facebook? But yeah, I avoid doing dumb things on camera more or less as a general rule...
It's not just the royalties/payments to the artists, it's the taxes, which could become an even bigger issue.
While big corps might be able to get away with shady practises to hide their real profits, if they try to stick with a large penalty by announcing revenues of several times what was declared on their taxes they're likely going to be in deep trouble
Not only that, but showing huge profits is going to blow away their pleas of "piracy is killing the industry and we're losing money/profits/etc", which is probably the real point here....
Maybe I have bugs on the brain, at least two look like moths to me:
Moth, face with tongue out, suit /w red tie, lamp?, moth, upside-down shirt /w zipper, necklace, lady's body /w feathered boa/dress, seahorses on coral, fat little chinese dude with a hat
Of course, a more amusing answer might be "why do you keep showing me pictures of dead people, I didn't do anything!" :-)
I don't know about Vista, but even if Linux was ever targeted for this kind of attack/spyware, you would have to run the software as root to enable packet sniffing!
As a service on the local machine perhaps, but thinking that Linux solves everything is a fairly head-in-the-sand approach in itself. There's always:
a) In-transit packet sniffing. Plenty of places between your PC and the destination server for your unencrypted traffic to be sniffed.
b) Local password caches: Plenty of users locally store their passwords for convenience. It's not impossible or even that difficult to pull them. The "wallets" may to some extent work to protect these, but an infected user account could still happily launch a background service that politely asks for the password at a convenient time
c) Config files: Local infected accounts can have local configuration files (firefox, etc) overwritten without the user knowing. Will you notice if your proxy is set to funky server for a few days?
d) Menu items, etc: When you click on the firefox icon, are you really running what you think? What if it's a wrapper with a 3rd-party app? OK, you run from commandline... is your $PATH set to run /usr/bin before "./.hiddenvirusdir/usr/bin" ?
There are PLENTY of ways to compromise a 'nix desktop without root access. Yes, windows is less secure in many ways, but 'nix is far from invulnerable, because at some point it all comes down to the fine balance between security an convenience. My former co-worker and I use to play what was essentially "security wars." We would find fun ways to get into each others systems and muck things up. In the process we learned how easy it is, and migrated some of our practises to the web.
Actually (d) was my favorite, as before I left he asked me "why is it when I sometimes start my firefox it still goes to mylittlepony.com" (or whatever it was I'd set). Other fun tricks include a .tar.bz in a convenience location, sourced when they load a particular app, to overwrite their SSH authorized_keys or some other fun files. Having the data compressed means that they can't grep for expected items
Yes, windows has issues. For the experienced, so does Linux. If fact, short of writing actual trojans or binaries, I generally managed to more easily subvert my friend's 'nix machine more often than our other co-workers windows box.
Got any comparable data to back that up with? It seems to me that the book industry has not in recent history gone through the changes in popularity that video-games have, nor also the technological changes unless you count the mac-coloured Chapters touchscreen kiosks etc.
For music and movies... it seems to me that a disproportionate amount of material is often a fairly good parallel to books. Crap that is big explosions or good looking boy-bands, but often enough lacking substantial depth.
In fact, it seems that the movie industry is so devoid of talent in making intriguing plotlines, that they've pretty much decided to plunder all the childhood series' of the current generation. I'm still waiting for "smurfs 2012, the movie" because I think that's one of the few they *haven't* planned to remake yet.
Yes, and I believe Disney likely has an actual business presence in the UK with which to press such matters. The Gallery seems to have neither law nor presence in the US on their side.
I wonder if part of the issue is not with games themselves, but with the audience. Previously, there was a certain demographic to a gamer that you had a good chance of hitting. Games like "Space Quest" were full of little inside bloopers, etc, taking aim at popular geek culture like Star Wars, Star Trek, computer jokes in general, etc.
Now that the demographic is broader, a lot of players simply wouldn't get the joke. I think that when the market was smaller, there were also less watchers. Now you have to watch out for PR squads of doom, who are ready to have you tarred and feathered for things like the "hot coffee" incident, etc.
Face it. Games aren't (just) for geeks anymore. Sure, certain games may still have that target, but overall the market has been saturated by "big corporate players" in the production end, and "soccer moms and dads" in the consumer end.
we're going to wind up making food a lot more expensive and therefor eating less.
Uh, no. More likely those that are lower on the income scale will end up less able to afford proper nutritional foods, while those on the upper end continue to overconsume. This of course will leads to a greater divide, as nutrition is often one of the biggest bases for physical and intellectual development...
The plot and rather simplistic controls make it fun to play, unfortunately I've found that the bugs definitely did not, especially when it came to Tiberium Wars. While it improved over time, initial games of the purchased product was like playing a Beta copy, and I didn't buy at release time, but many months later, meaning there was plenty of time for fixes. There were a few instances in single-player missions where I had to restart because the game wouldn't recognize completed objectives, and some even more frustrating instances of multiplayer crashing, dropping out, or many other issues.
EA makes good games, but the overall quality of the released product seems to be lacking. You're better off to wait until about a year after the initial release until the bugs are out.
Seriously, how hard is it? The cellular providers here actually *DO* this. If I dial somebody who hasn't setup their voicemail, I get a "you have reached an unconfigured voicemail box for 555-555-5555, please let the owner know to configure their mailbox"
For my own inbox, just a couple minutes for the default setup (password, and the provider's default greeting) and all is done.
The whole business of making music would become a perverse combination of hype and ownership on a multinational level
Would become? I think perhaps we're there already.
Indeed. I think that - while the PC market may have shrunk somewhat - the main change is that the games market has grown overall, and moreso in the console arena. Modern consoles attract more gamers. Unfortunately, as a larger source of revenue, this also means that games are generally produced to target consoles in terms of controls, etc, which doesn't make use of the advantages a PC might have.
My understanding of these laws is that the wasn't a burden to prove the age of the individual in question, which would save the police trying to track down children on the basis of photos alone.
That being said, I believe there is still some basis for the provable age of a person on the part of the defence. Say if a 21-yr-old had pictures of his girlfriend, who could possibly be under-age, but was provable as 18+ at the time of the photograph. Still, it could probably be a pretty dicey scenario with certain cases, for example, many Asian females are perceived by others to be younger than their physical age. I suppose that's where reasonable doubt comes in.
However, whatever the case of consent may be, involvement with somebody who is physically a toddler, even if she had a mental capacity akin to her chronological age, would be pretty dicey. Perhaps if she were in physically at least an age of pubescence and chronologically/mentally an adult it might be even more dicey, as at that time she would not only have the mental capacity to consent, but also the mental/physical maturity, and the physical "drive" to do so. Perhaps it's a good think that her mental capacity seems somewhat closely tied to her age, so that the reasoning falls among other people with mental capacities below their age.
I'll forgo for now the question of "should we" and jump into possibility:
Are there any known methods for speeding or artificially stimulating the production of myelin? If, for example, she reaches the physical age of 16, even if she's chronologically 40, I'd image that the extended lifespan with normal mental capabilities would be somewhat impressive (assuming slow physical "ageing" means longer chronological lifestyle).
I remember that when I was young, MJ was very much an idol to many people my age. Who says we're looking to him for inspiration - or even as a role-model - in this day and age? No, it's the passing of something from our youth. We mourn what he was, not what he had become.
And yes, if Stephen Hawking passed I'd imagine it would still be a fairly big event as well.
So have something that flags internally when a non-approved battery has been installed, similar to how many devices have little tags that indicate if they've gotten wet internally etc.
And if they're really all that worried about third-party batteries not being as "high quality" as theirs, they would stop at the error/warning message but still let the damn things work. Let the consumer decide whether to continue using them
I suppose the ability to do this would depend on what software/libs SCUMMVM uses and whether they're GPL, but isn't it often possible for a company to sell a license which permits the use of GPL'ed code without revealing sources (dual-licensing, etc).
Of course, that would only likely work if the engine isn't using GPL'ed libs, because they'd still be locked to the GPL at that point, I believe.
I'm not a FOSS licensing expert though, but that was my understanding of things.
I also wonder what's going on behind the scenes. It seems that a lot of things are going through internationally as "treaties", as has been mentioned in many US-centric articles. Perhaps there's no need for such legislation if it's already been pushed through as "confidential" treaty clauses...
I'd have to agree on the Trojans. Way too damn tight, and nothing sucks quite as much as having your little friend being squeezed and chaffed. I've found that Durex tend to fit a little better in that regard though, and besides, who the heck decided to name a condom Trojan... you know, like the group who supposedly snuck their little soldiers secretly into the enemy fortress.
Basically from what I can understand, this is fairly common, and nothing new from the US. If you look into various other major issues such as Tienneman square, there's external factors involved in pushing these "revolts" against the local government. Whatever the intentions, those powers have blood on their hands yet use either result (people overthrow government or government kills protectors) to fuel their agenda in the media.
It's also part of why various countries get pretty pissed off about the US involvement in their affairs. Whatever the outcome might be, is it legitimate for the US to push the people into becoming pawns against their own government to further a foreign agenda (even if it furthers the citizens' agenda at the same time). Pretty sad to me.
Or is it that the bottom line is so so so f*****g important that those companies don't even want to spend even little money and time on implementing a shortlisting criteria when they outsource work ?
Amen to that. For all those that complain about hiring outsourced labour, I've seen plenty of shit-workers produced right here in my own country (in this case, Canada). So perhaps another issue is that by outsourcing the work, you've just given up the ability to filter, monitor, and/or control it in most ways. We had *tons* of local applicants claiming all sorts of great background, experience, and skills. One of the more promising ones never showed up for his first workday (apparently he found better work elsewhere and decided not to tell until until day two), others were often a mix of home-tinkerers and people those who only looked good on paper. We also had a few "foreign" applicants who from what we could tell were quite skilled in the technical arena, but unfortunately lacked the communications/language skills needed to work in the team. It wasn't the best-paying job, and it definitely had grind-times, but in comparing it was likely better than a lot of what was out there as most jobs I was seeing were about the same but often only 2-6 month temp stints.
So maybe it's a sense of "crap here, crap there", but locally you can better filter out the crap to get somebody good, while remotely the crap workers are at least cheaper.