Hmm...access limited ONLY by basis of sex or color.
Yep..sounds like discrimination to me!! I think I'd try to get a young white boy into the program, see if they reject him and say why...and then bring suit.
Sounds reasonable, no? If not..why not? How is this different than any action you see today of people being discriminated against?
If you want a civilian parallel, go hunting sometime. Something like 75-80% of first-time hunters freeze the hell up when it comes time to take the shot... and that's considered to be normal.
No problems with hunting or fishing. Kill'em, prepare them, eat them.
If killing another human being is "easy peasy" for you, and doesn't impart any stress into your life than you would be classified as a sociopath.
If it were one or more of those fine ISIS chaps I was targeting, no, I'd not have a problem killing them without a second thought.
Enemies I have no problem with taking out. I do value life, but it goes in order of my life, family life, friends lives, neighbors lives, countrymen....and down the chain. By the time I get to the bad guys, they are on the easy peasy list pretty quickly.
It is a mindset sure, but not difficult for me. For example I did think long and hard before going for a Concealed Carry license and more broadly, having a gun in my house at all times. If you are not willing to use it and shoot to kill, you'd best not have one. I a clear and easy with that decision and am a gun owner.
Same here...easier here in that it is bad guys and you are pretty much completely abstracted from any blood and guts associated with the hit.
This visceral experience of shooting the weapon in one's own hand and running to-and-fro release the pent-up stress.
My more basic question is..."What Stress?"
I don't see the huge amount of stress from flying a drone via remote control all day. You fly surveillance, occasionally get to bomb a bad guy...seems pretty much easy peasy.
Do people playing regular video games find they are stressed out? I thought most people played video games to relieve stress. Well, IMHO, this seems mostly like a video game so I'm not seeing the huge stress factor. Sure if you blow up a bad guy, it is real here but it is still so abstracted that it isn't all that "real".
Unless the work environment itself is bad, lousy boss/commander, or long hours, I don't see how this could be that stressful. You're certainly not going to be suffering PTSD doing this job....
Yeah, unless they're working them extreme hours, I can't see what the stress is all about.
I'd have no compunction about blowing up bad guys on TV thousands of miles away. What's the problem? What's the special mindset you have to get into?
No, I've not been in the military, I don't like the idea of getting shot AT, but I'd have no problem being on firing squad duty or this type thing where you're doing it via video remotely.
Would this really bother that many other people on here?
The unwarranted police shootings of civilians is being WAY overblown on the 24/7 news channels. It isn't and epidemic or anything. While one is too many, it also isn't the every day thing we all live in fear of over here in the US.
My thoughts are, if you are afraid of police interactions, then the thing to do is...try NOT to provoke them. That means if you are pulled over, comply with their demands (you can still assert your rights if need be), don't run, don't make sudden movements, move slowly and don't provoke a reaction...speak as little as possible, don't be belligerent and above all, keep calm.
When I see films of the police engaging someone and that citizen goes bat shit crazy ranting and raving or resisting the cops or running away (you can't run away from a radio idiot)...well, while I don't agree with it, I think they are often asking for trouble by escalating the incident.
Perhaps we as citizens, can fight back a little. Let's try to get our legislators to make "masking" legal again in public at all times!!
ON a more serious note....I really wanna start looking into making those wearable infrared high powered LEDs type things...wiring them into hats and maybe onto glasses, etc.....and use them to blind out cameras to keep them from reading your facial features.
Personally, I don't wanna live cramped up to everyone else and sharing walls with others.
I prefer to have a decent house, a yard where I can do things....backyard for a smoker, grill, crawfish boils, etc.
You can do all you want to make the urban life more palatable to those who choose it, but I prefer to have my space, and be able to come and go door-to-door when I please on MY schedule and not on the local bus schedule.
I like my neighbors, but I like to have my own personal space away from them too.
Why the FUCK do ALL states not vote about the same time? Why do we let the few SAME states start voting off every single presidential election cycle for primaries?
Surely Iowa and NH aren't the best reflection of the entire US year after year after year...?
Why not put it on a random system every year? Why not let ALL states vote at once. It would force the candidates to possibly show their true colors more in a broad spectrum travel amongst ALL the states, no?
More and more it is clear that those picked in Iowa aren't generally reflective of what the larger country wants...their winners in the past years often are not what is reflected in other states, and it seems a bad thing to let them always start and begin the process of weeding down the field of candidates (especially in this age of 24/7 media) before a more broad opinion of the full 50 states has been heard?
I was actually shocked to hear, that in the TSA screenings for employees, that they were NOT able by law to ask for Social Security numbers. I mean, you *DO* have to have one of those to legally work in the US don't you?
I'm not a big TSA fan at all, but seriously....if this is true WHY would a basic thing for employment on a govt job or government regulated job NOT be asked for?
You don't count (almost) all the other countries on the planet being metric as a huge push?
No, not really.
The average American has very little to any interaction with anyone outside the US at all, much less one that would require much metric/imperial conversions.
It would cause more trouble than it's worth right now, a fiscal burden on an economy that is struggling still to get back on its feet.
I'd dare say if nothing else, there are MUCH more pressing issues that need to be addressed other than making everyone in the US have to go to their computer and do a conversion on the temperature being 30C to know how to dress to go outside after hearing it on the news in the morning.
To which the company will likely say "thank you for your time and we'll show you to the door".
To be clear, I agree with you but being right carries a non-trivial risk of not getting the job. That may or may not be a good thing.
Well, to be a good negotiator, you have to be willing to LOSE.
But to make that easier...you want to be looking for a NEW job while you STILL have a job.
Things are a bit more dicey if you are out of work and NEED a job....so, try always to negotiate from a vantage point of power. If you don't need the job, you can negotiate much better. Saying no doesn't bother you in that game of chicken.
And in this day in age, you should be interviewing for new jobs at least 1-2 times a year, if for nothing else, to keep in practice.
The only way you move forward in salary and responsibility if you're in the W2 race, is to change jobs every few years.
Then perhaps you short-circuit this from happening altogether, and instead pose the question of relevance when current salary is queried.
It is an odd question. It's like going to buy a new car and the dealer asking you what you paid for your last one.
Yup.
One of the golden rules of negotiation is..the first party to give a solid number is the loser.
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I'm negotiating contract bill rates these days, thank goodness I've not had to negotiate a W2 salary in awhile, with having to factor what benefits they offer, etc. I'd much rather know what I'm paying for health, retirement,e tc...and know what my bill rate is, profit vs necessity.
That being said, I stick with broad numbers and narrow it down to have them give me a number first and then we negotiate. I start higher than their number and they come up, I go down, them up...etc.
It's bipartisan. The thing is, they will let it expire, use that to get into office, stage or provoke another major incident, then reinstate the patriot act, only tougher. Using the excuse that getting rid of it made the country vulnerable to terrorist attack. Later the skeptics, and anti war protesters will group together and fight to stop whatever insane killing is going on. The Democrats will take credit for this and use it to get back into office. It's a tag team match between big oil and the motion picture and movie industry.
Don't get too comfy with this.
The Senate will likely pass the Houses "freedom act" bill that basically puts most of the Patriot act back in function, with the single difference being that the metadata will be housed at the phone companies, and a warrant will be needed for each query into it.
Better than before, but certainly not doing away with it totally as I'd like, and start over. The other provisions for lone wolf and traveling wiretaps will be back in full force though.
First let's take the government OUT of the business of preventing people from doing stupid things or hurting themselves.
I think we've long been thwarting natural selection...by saving people from their own stupidity.
1. Make suicide legal. If someone wants to off themselves, why not let them? The ultimate in freedom of choice.
2. Legalize ALL drugs. If someone wants to smoke crystal meth all day long and shoot heroin by night to sleep...let them. They won't be on the longevity list long.
3. Longevity is not a right. If you work hard, save and can afford it...then you get it, but the govt doesn't subsidize the lazy and stupid to live overly long lives. You may get foodstamps, but that doesn't entitle you to longevity treatments. That comes out of YOUR pocket.
4. People that want to gang bang and shoot each other for territory, etc....give them territories to do so, and let them go with impunity. We almost pretty much do this now, it just isn't officially sanctioned. Let idiots kill themselves for stupid shit. Just contain it away from nomal citizenry.
I get what you're saying, but this IS the problem with defining an artist these days. Money is THE priority. When that happens, the ability to express yourself beyond a mathematically calculated attention span becomes impossible.
I agree. A true artist makes their art for themselves FIRST and enjoys the fact that others like it too second.
Of course with rock music, it also plays to helping ugly guys get laid too, but that's another thread.
But in most cases, trying to pander to the money or follow it over art is in the not very long term a failure.
Take Led Zeppelin. Sure they made a LOT of money, but that didn't seem the reason for their musical choices. It was what THEY wanted to explore and convey. It happened to be of such quality that they sold a lot of it, and continue to do so after all these years.
They also went out and gave the people what they wanted in the form of live performances. In those days, your ticket got you usually nearly a 3 hour concert, and it wasn't lip synched....no auto tune, and often it was improvised on the spot. Sure you would get some flub notes....especially with Jimmy trying to squeeze 50M notes into two bars at times, but hey...they gave you all they could. You don't see that much anymore.
But if you are good, you will get the money....but your art should be for YOU first, and if it is worthy the crowd will follow and pay you for it.
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Yep..sounds like discrimination to me!! I think I'd try to get a young white boy into the program, see if they reject him and say why...and then bring suit.
Sounds reasonable, no? If not..why not? How is this different than any action you see today of people being discriminated against?
I don't mind immigrants. Just have them PLEASE sign the fucking guest book on the way in!!!
No problems with hunting or fishing. Kill'em, prepare them, eat them.
If it were one or more of those fine ISIS chaps I was targeting, no, I'd not have a problem killing them without a second thought.
Enemies I have no problem with taking out. I do value life, but it goes in order of my life, family life, friends lives, neighbors lives, countrymen....and down the chain. By the time I get to the bad guys, they are on the easy peasy list pretty quickly.
It is a mindset sure, but not difficult for me. For example I did think long and hard before going for a Concealed Carry license and more broadly, having a gun in my house at all times. If you are not willing to use it and shoot to kill, you'd best not have one. I a clear and easy with that decision and am a gun owner.
Same here...easier here in that it is bad guys and you are pretty much completely abstracted from any blood and guts associated with the hit.
My more basic question is..."What Stress?"
I don't see the huge amount of stress from flying a drone via remote control all day. You fly surveillance, occasionally get to bomb a bad guy...seems pretty much easy peasy.
Do people playing regular video games find they are stressed out? I thought most people played video games to relieve stress. Well, IMHO, this seems mostly like a video game so I'm not seeing the huge stress factor. Sure if you blow up a bad guy, it is real here but it is still so abstracted that it isn't all that "real".
Unless the work environment itself is bad, lousy boss/commander, or long hours, I don't see how this could be that stressful. You're certainly not going to be suffering PTSD doing this job....
I'd have no compunction about blowing up bad guys on TV thousands of miles away. What's the problem? What's the special mindset you have to get into?
No, I've not been in the military, I don't like the idea of getting shot AT, but I'd have no problem being on firing squad duty or this type thing where you're doing it via video remotely.
Would this really bother that many other people on here?
My thoughts are, if you are afraid of police interactions, then the thing to do is...try NOT to provoke them. That means if you are pulled over, comply with their demands (you can still assert your rights if need be), don't run, don't make sudden movements, move slowly and don't provoke a reaction...speak as little as possible, don't be belligerent and above all, keep calm.
When I see films of the police engaging someone and that citizen goes bat shit crazy ranting and raving or resisting the cops or running away (you can't run away from a radio idiot)...well, while I don't agree with it, I think they are often asking for trouble by escalating the incident.
ON a more serious note....I really wanna start looking into making those wearable infrared high powered LEDs type things...wiring them into hats and maybe onto glasses, etc.....and use them to blind out cameras to keep them from reading your facial features.
Personally, I don't wanna live cramped up to everyone else and sharing walls with others.
I prefer to have a decent house, a yard where I can do things....backyard for a smoker, grill, crawfish boils, etc.
You can do all you want to make the urban life more palatable to those who choose it, but I prefer to have my space, and be able to come and go door-to-door when I please on MY schedule and not on the local bus schedule.
I like my neighbors, but I like to have my own personal space away from them too.
It sounds like sorry boys...and likely non-minorities...you just won't get these opportunities because of your sex and possibly even your race.
I was actually hoping for word on the new iPhone update that is (hopefully) coming by around end of summer.
Why the FUCK do ALL states not vote about the same time? Why do we let the few SAME states start voting off every single presidential election cycle for primaries?
Surely Iowa and NH aren't the best reflection of the entire US year after year after year...?
Why not put it on a random system every year? Why not let ALL states vote at once. It would force the candidates to possibly show their true colors more in a broad spectrum travel amongst ALL the states, no?
More and more it is clear that those picked in Iowa aren't generally reflective of what the larger country wants...their winners in the past years often are not what is reflected in other states, and it seems a bad thing to let them always start and begin the process of weeding down the field of candidates (especially in this age of 24/7 media) before a more broad opinion of the full 50 states has been heard?
I'm not a big TSA fan at all, but seriously....if this is true WHY would a basic thing for employment on a govt job or government regulated job NOT be asked for?
I thought that was EXACTLY what we currently had right now.....?
But...don't you want to haggle?
No, not really.
The average American has very little to any interaction with anyone outside the US at all, much less one that would require much metric/imperial conversions.
It would cause more trouble than it's worth right now, a fiscal burden on an economy that is struggling still to get back on its feet.
I'd dare say if nothing else, there are MUCH more pressing issues that need to be addressed other than making everyone in the US have to go to their computer and do a conversion on the temperature being 30C to know how to dress to go outside after hearing it on the news in the morning.
Well, this is what you get when the govt. is fully *bought* and paid for by interests other than the "people".
Well, to be a good negotiator, you have to be willing to LOSE.
But to make that easier...you want to be looking for a NEW job while you STILL have a job.
Things are a bit more dicey if you are out of work and NEED a job....so, try always to negotiate from a vantage point of power. If you don't need the job, you can negotiate much better. Saying no doesn't bother you in that game of chicken.
And in this day in age, you should be interviewing for new jobs at least 1-2 times a year, if for nothing else, to keep in practice.
The only way you move forward in salary and responsibility if you're in the W2 race, is to change jobs every few years.
Yup.
One of the golden rules of negotiation is..the first party to give a solid number is the loser.
I'm negotiating contract bill rates these days, thank goodness I've not had to negotiate a W2 salary in awhile, with having to factor what benefits they offer, etc. I'd much rather know what I'm paying for health, retirement,e tc...and know what my bill rate is, profit vs necessity.
That being said, I stick with broad numbers and narrow it down to have them give me a number first and then we negotiate. I start higher than their number and they come up, I go down, them up...etc.
Its all part of the dance.
Don't get too comfy with this.
The Senate will likely pass the Houses "freedom act" bill that basically puts most of the Patriot act back in function, with the single difference being that the metadata will be housed at the phone companies, and a warrant will be needed for each query into it.
Better than before, but certainly not doing away with it totally as I'd like, and start over. The other provisions for lone wolf and traveling wiretaps will be back in full force though.
Likely this will be law again by Wednesday.
First let's take the government OUT of the business of preventing people from doing stupid things or hurting themselves.
I think we've long been thwarting natural selection...by saving people from their own stupidity.
1. Make suicide legal. If someone wants to off themselves, why not let them? The ultimate in freedom of choice.
2. Legalize ALL drugs. If someone wants to smoke crystal meth all day long and shoot heroin by night to sleep...let them. They won't be on the longevity list long.
3. Longevity is not a right. If you work hard, save and can afford it...then you get it, but the govt doesn't subsidize the lazy and stupid to live overly long lives. You may get foodstamps, but that doesn't entitle you to longevity treatments. That comes out of YOUR pocket.
4. People that want to gang bang and shoot each other for territory, etc....give them territories to do so, and let them go with impunity. We almost pretty much do this now, it just isn't officially sanctioned. Let idiots kill themselves for stupid shit. Just contain it away from nomal citizenry.
I remember being sort of for it when it came about...thnking what could go wrong with organizing so many agencies under one umbrella.
I've now seen the damage that can be done...and I'd love to see the DHS split back up again into separate agencies/factions.
(Said in best Comic Book Guy Voice): Worst president Evarrrrr...
I agree. A true artist makes their art for themselves FIRST and enjoys the fact that others like it too second.
Of course with rock music, it also plays to helping ugly guys get laid too, but that's another thread.
But in most cases, trying to pander to the money or follow it over art is in the not very long term a failure.
Take Led Zeppelin. Sure they made a LOT of money, but that didn't seem the reason for their musical choices. It was what THEY wanted to explore and convey. It happened to be of such quality that they sold a lot of it, and continue to do so after all these years.
They also went out and gave the people what they wanted in the form of live performances. In those days, your ticket got you usually nearly a 3 hour concert, and it wasn't lip synched....no auto tune, and often it was improvised on the spot. Sure you would get some flub notes....especially with Jimmy trying to squeeze 50M notes into two bars at times, but hey...they gave you all they could. You don't see that much anymore.
But if you are good, you will get the money....but your art should be for YOU first, and if it is worthy the crowd will follow and pay you for it.