If employers stopped basing their decisions on where that magic piece of paper came from, and started basing their decisions on what the applicant actually knows and is capable of doing, then you would see the need for that magic piece of paper decline precipitously.
Well, they need some quick method to quickly weed down the applicants, and a college degree is usually one of them.
These days, however, that doesn't work as well as it used to...college degrees are getting to be a dime a dozen, basically where everyone in the past had a HS degree...everyone now has a bachelor's.
I'm guessing soon if not already, to stand out in a crowd (at least on first new hire jobs without experience) to stand out, you'll need at least a masters.
Yes, they should - because that's the way they tend to catch idiots misusing MIRTs - the pulse pattern is visible on the cameras.
Well, it would only be on the back of my car around the license plate...not in the front (no plate), so I doubt I'd be tripping anything like the MIRT off.....
Labeling a Porsche 911 Turbo as a car is deceptive. It is a race machine.
Especially this one...It HAD been raced on the track...I have pictures of it with its numbers on the side...and with the rollbars in it.
The previous owner had had it tuned down a bit for street...but honestly, I don't think it still had a street legal compression or exhaust. Thankfully, I lived in states with no 'sniff' test.
Not really, the LED hat actually has some effect for most security cameras currently in use.
I've been wanting to surround my license plate holder on my car with these IR LEDs....and see if they'd blank out my plate to the stupid speed/traffic light cameras....
There's nothing in it that guarantees free speech.
Well, I think there are the parts that pretty much say that ALL rights are inherently mans by birthright...and only laws passed (by the local and state govts) can limit them. Therefore free speech is mans to begin with.
While I paraphrase considerablly...remember that the Constitutions does NOT grant rights to the citizens...it spells out the limited enumerated rights/responsibilities of the Federal Govt.
The Bill of rights is basically only restating for emphasis...rights people already have. Those rights are NOT granted by the document.
Wait tell they figure out that they can get a guy in India to do the lecture on video for 1/2 the price. Then we will outsource the professors as well.
PLEASE, don't give them any ideas....it was fucking hard enough to understand they back when *I* was in college!!!
I swear there was an Oriental guy teaching one of my calculus classes...maybe Chinese. But it was the hardest thing to not laugh when when he was trying to describe getting the area of a tube from a flat sheet of metal/paper.
He kept over and over doing "Ok..first you roll the shit....then, you take the shit and..."
If Indian instructors are nearly as hard to understand at the tech phone supports I've had from "Bob" lately....well, it will surely degrade the already failing US education system. Hard to learn if you can't understand a damned thing the instructor is trying to say...
We are now looking at Tables and our Phones and using them more and more compared to our PCs or Laptops. Every new version adds a bit more of a wow factor and entices people go upgrade and get the new one.
Well, if you're just Joe User....maybe. But I find it hard to edit audio/video or many other fun things (hell, even writing some papers or thoughts down for later) on a tablet or phone.
I know..I know..I guess the majority of people out there do nothing but check in on FB (or whatever FB people do) or play a game or two, but there is no real shortage of people at actually do WORK on a computer...creative things (I prefer to type on a real keyboard) like writing, editing, coding...something for generating real content that another person will actually use (possibly end use on a tablet), and you need the desktop for that.
Many business I know of are still using XP on their desktops. I guess often due to specially written apps, or just that the mandate to change has not yet come from upon high.
Heck..on on project I know personally about...federal one....everyone is on XP. Until they upgrade the workstations/laptops, no one on that team is going to be moving from XP to Win7....I'm not 100% sure that the move has been sanction for the whole system in this rather large Federal department.
And you don't go updating these computers yourself....
I took a different approach - needed one to get in contact with friends while out of the country... That was three years ago. Now I check it about once every month and a half to re-lock all my privacy settings -- so yes; I have one, but its effectively the same as not, with the added 'advantage' that should I need it the account is made.
While I see the point your making...I still have to question why you need FB to 'keep in touch with friends' at all, when there are a multitude of methods of keeping in touch?
I keep in touch with my friends, some daily, others at least weekly or monthly (depending on how tight we are). I've never had FB or any social site account, yet I've never wanted for a way to get in touch with them.
Phone, skype and email work just fine internationally....?
(On another note, most people believe that caring about other human beings is central to being a good person. You seem to have a terrible lack of empathy for other people. You may want to ask yourself why that is.)
Pretty simple...I only have one life that I know of, and I'm the most important person in the world to me.
So, while I'm a giving person to my friends and family...and my country, it pretty much stops short of that...I want myself and my team to 'win'.
When it comes down between me and anyone else, well, I intend for me to win...no exceptions.
How about if I open a garbage dump, specializing in dealing with feces, right next to your bar, and the sight and smell chase away all your customers? Hey, you can't tell me I can't open a garbage dump next to you. If you don't like it, you move.
Different thing entirely, these are zoning laws...you know, commercial, residential, waste...etc. Different scale, and not really applicable to my point.
You as an individual have a choice to make whether you want to drink at or work in a bar that allows smoking. C'mon...be reasonable in your arguments and keep it apples to apples, eh?
I think you've missed the point of the OWS. Their point is: the banks wrecked the economy, probably criminally. They not only did not get punished, but they got 700 billion dollars of taxpayer money, which they then turned around and used to pay bonuses to the people that wrecked the economy. Meanwhile, people who did everything right - got good grades, borrowed money to pay for school, and got a degree - none of them can find a job.
You know..if they really had a coherent message, and all of them were chanting this...with signs, etc...and stating that on all interviews, then it would have been worthwhile IMHO.
However, I really saw NONE of this message coming from 99% of those doing the OWS campouts.
If this was the message from the movement, it sure got drowned out by what I listed above as what I gleaned from their protests.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, they need some quick method to quickly weed down the applicants, and a college degree is usually one of them.
These days, however, that doesn't work as well as it used to...college degrees are getting to be a dime a dozen, basically where everyone in the past had a HS degree...everyone now has a bachelor's.
I'm guessing soon if not already, to stand out in a crowd (at least on first new hire jobs without experience) to stand out, you'll need at least a masters.
Any suggestions, ideas about doing it in the IR thing out of the windshields?
Well, it would only be on the back of my car around the license plate...not in the front (no plate), so I doubt I'd be tripping anything like the MIRT off.....
Especially this one...It HAD been raced on the track...I have pictures of it with its numbers on the side...and with the rollbars in it.
The previous owner had had it tuned down a bit for street...but honestly, I don't think it still had a street legal compression or exhaust. Thankfully, I lived in states with no 'sniff' test.
So, I'm guessing that this facial recognition software can't locate and recognize Lady Gaga?
I've been wanting to surround my license plate holder on my car with these IR LEDs....and see if they'd blank out my plate to the stupid speed/traffic light cameras....
And why exactly would I, or anyone in general in the US want/need to do this?
Do most federal judges not hold out on ruling on cases that are currently before SCOTUS?
Yeah, but those of us that DO own guns....own many more than one.
I'm sure if the time came...many could load more than a couple out to those that don't currently own them.
Well, I think there are the parts that pretty much say that ALL rights are inherently mans by birthright...and only laws passed (by the local and state govts) can limit them. Therefore free speech is mans to begin with.
While I paraphrase considerablly...remember that the Constitutions does NOT grant rights to the citizens...it spells out the limited enumerated rights/responsibilities of the Federal Govt.
The Bill of rights is basically only restating for emphasis...rights people already have. Those rights are NOT granted by the document.
Nope...I've never owned car car with more than 2x functional seats, and I'd not take a SUV if someone gave one to me.
I had a Porsche once...'86 911 Turbo, fun car, but Katrina killed it.
The name is for the cayenne chile pepper.
PLEASE, don't give them any ideas....it was fucking hard enough to understand they back when *I* was in college!!!
I swear there was an Oriental guy teaching one of my calculus classes...maybe Chinese. But it was the hardest thing to not laugh when when he was trying to describe getting the area of a tube from a flat sheet of metal/paper.
He kept over and over doing "Ok..first you roll the shit....then, you take the shit and..."
If Indian instructors are nearly as hard to understand at the tech phone supports I've had from "Bob" lately....well, it will surely degrade the already failing US education system. Hard to learn if you can't understand a damned thing the instructor is trying to say...
Well, if you're just Joe User....maybe. But I find it hard to edit audio/video or many other fun things (hell, even writing some papers or thoughts down for later) on a tablet or phone.
I know..I know..I guess the majority of people out there do nothing but check in on FB (or whatever FB people do) or play a game or two, but there is no real shortage of people at actually do WORK on a computer...creative things (I prefer to type on a real keyboard) like writing, editing, coding...something for generating real content that another person will actually use (possibly end use on a tablet), and you need the desktop for that.
Many business I know of are still using XP on their desktops. I guess often due to specially written apps, or just that the mandate to change has not yet come from upon high.
Heck..on on project I know personally about...federal one....everyone is on XP. Until they upgrade the workstations/laptops, no one on that team is going to be moving from XP to Win7....I'm not 100% sure that the move has been sanction for the whole system in this rather large Federal department.
And you don't go updating these computers yourself....
While I see the point your making...I still have to question why you need FB to 'keep in touch with friends' at all, when there are a multitude of methods of keeping in touch?
I keep in touch with my friends, some daily, others at least weekly or monthly (depending on how tight we are). I've never had FB or any social site account, yet I've never wanted for a way to get in touch with them.
Phone, skype and email work just fine internationally....?
Depends on what you consider 'friends'.
If you include people who's only relation to you is they click the 'friend' button...well, that means nothing to me.
My friends are all people I am in touch with weekly if not daily or more. They are people I try as often as possible to see and be with in meatspace.
But someone I'll never meet, or interact in person with....I could care less..they aren't my friends.
Friends are ones you care about and they care about you.
As the old saying goes: "Friends help you move..."
"Real Friends help you move bodies...."
Really? While I don't agree with a lot either of those ladies do or say...I've not heard them say anything bigoted?
And if for some reason you feel you must for God's sake use some sanity and don't post stupid shit you'd not like your wife/girlfriend to know?!?!
At worst..use false identities on the damned things...but just best to avoid them altogether IMHO.
I've never been on it...and I'm not missing a thing so far...plenty of friends without it.
Pretty simple...I only have one life that I know of, and I'm the most important person in the world to me.
So, while I'm a giving person to my friends and family...and my country, it pretty much stops short of that...I want myself and my team to 'win'.
When it comes down between me and anyone else, well, I intend for me to win...no exceptions.
Err....and african children are my problem how?
We're only talking about the US here.....where it is and SHOULD be ok to be wealthy if it is attained by legal means.
Africa is not my country, why do I give a damn about their own mismanagement of their economy and resources?
That was only meant to keep states from using taxation and other means to disallow commerce coming from another state in favor of local products.
It wasn't meant for the feds to be enabled to stick their nose into all state business and that of private companies and manufacturers.
OMG...great!!
The Slashdot Dream Ticket!! Something for everyone to bitch about!!!
Different thing entirely, these are zoning laws...you know, commercial, residential, waste...etc. Different scale, and not really applicable to my point.
You as an individual have a choice to make whether you want to drink at or work in a bar that allows smoking. C'mon...be reasonable in your arguments and keep it apples to apples, eh?
You know..if they really had a coherent message, and all of them were chanting this...with signs, etc...and stating that on all interviews, then it would have been worthwhile IMHO.
However, I really saw NONE of this message coming from 99% of those doing the OWS campouts.
If this was the message from the movement, it sure got drowned out by what I listed above as what I gleaned from their protests.