Their business is showing advertisements to as many people as possible.
Entertainment is only the method they use.
The networks business model is showing advertisements to customers. The cable companies business model is providing content to customers. We pay them to give us content without commercials, otherwise we could just get an antenna.
I know a way to save $8 billion in taxes and $30 billion in taxpayers wasted time per year Shut the whole system down. And the beauty of it is that the chance of a terrorist blowing up your plane is almost exactly the same, to at least 5 or 6 nines.
Like the Narnia books, these have embedded Xian messages that are not safe for children.
Be sure and exclude all ideologies. If the Christian ideology is dangerous for children, so are all the others. That should leave you with a sample set of zero to work with.
I think Piers Anthony would be good. They won't get all the double entendres at that age but will still find plenty to keep them interested. Then four years from now, they will understand it on a whole new level and still find it interesting.
Me, I am 41 years old and currently rereading one of Anthony's "Bio of a Space tyrant" books. I've read it at least 3 other times at various stages of my life.
Stay off the preachy stuff.
Why must everything that a religious person does be judged on the fact that he is religious and not of the quality of the work itself?
So this might not be intentional or planned, but evolution at work: Nigerian scammers who send out believable emails get hundred times more responses by people who want to check out the scheme more closely, but 99% of those cannot be convinced to hand over actual money, no matter how much work the scammer invests. So the scammer makes no money and gives up scamming. Another scammer whose English is rubbish gets only one percent of the replies, but all those replies are from true idiots, so that scammer makes more money and keeps doing it.
Yet another example that evolution works, only it works in reverse of what the theories propose.
I would certainly agree that I don't see people complaining about the gender gap in ditchdiggers, garbage collectors, construction workers and the like.
I wonder how long before we have to have at least 50% of all NBA players be women (even though they have the WNBA already).
Seriously, he died months ago, we can stop jerking off all over his legacy now...
Steve Jobs is dead, but contrary to the summary, Larry Page is still alive and well.
The trick is to be better than average (be one of the "go-to" guys)
I used to believe that being better than average was going to always make me be in demand, and I also at one time made close to the $200k mark. Unfortunately, I learned the hard way that when the crap hits the fan, better than average is not in demand at all. In fact, the better you are, the lower your desirability. They want bare minimum that can get the job done, pay as low as possible and pray to whatever god is listening that something doesn't go wrong that their worker drone doesn't know how to handle.
The number should be based off of how big the company is. Basically a ratio of local workers to foreign. What the ratio is to be is entirely up to the government based on some basic analysis of a whole bunch of large, medium and small companies. (maybe even make different ratios for each company size-type)
Hopefully this would eliminate some of the H1b sweatshops where out of 30 or 40 consultants, 100% of them are on H1B, and even though they are termed employees and not contractors (because H1b can't be used for contractors), they somehow don't get paid when they are on the bench.
Isn't there always a shortage of slave labor?
Yes, in a society where some people get paid for their work, it becomes next to impossible to keep slaves. They keep running off to the paying jobs.
Then, why cant Americans compete with H1B's?Americans are used to a higher standard of living. We like to live in houses with our families. At least in my case, when I and a number of my colleagues were replaced by H1B workers, the 6 H1Bs in question all lived in the same 2 bedroom apartment (which is illegal in some states, and merely against the rules in many other complexes), and drove a single car which was definitely not capable of seating 6 people. I also suspect they did not have a valid drivers license and that state did not recognize Indian driver's licenses.
Thank you for your interest. But you'll note that the job you have applied for specified a requirement of "20 years experience in Java programming." As you do not meet this qualification, we cannot consider you
I can't tell you how much I hate automated application sites where they just say "No thank you" if you are able to meet only 99 of their 100 criteria, even though the original job posting listed some of them as "preferred" and not "required". I mean, I have the necessary years of SQL, Oracle, Java, C++, HTML, XML, Management, but lack something ridiculous like I've never add cells B7 and H94 in Excel, even though I've added lots of other cells. I've actually gotten kicked out of an app and then went back and ticked the box next to the requirement because anybody actually hiring for the position would not want people to get filtered out on such stupid criteria.
And then there are the ones where it kicks me out of the application because I don't have an H1B number, being as how I'm a citizen and all.
Looking for a job is a full time job. That being said, when I was looking for a job, I was still doing some side projects in new technologies. However, nobody was really interested because I hadn't done them in a "professional environment". I had never used Oracle for work, but I had it installed at home and I had gotten certified at the Mastery level in PL/SQL by Brainbench (showing my age). Also, got certified at the mastery level for Project Management. I ended up going back to basically an entry level job at entry level wages. I still have only pulled myself up to just under half what I used to make.
People in SF are asking for 140k to be an entry level PHP engineer. Why would I spend 140k when I can get someone for 100k.
If you can get someone from the U.S. for 100k, then that is fine. If you have to get an H1B to come over to work for 100k, then that is illegal.
Incidentally, I don't make near that much, but you'd probably have to pay me abut $140k to do PHP too.
an H-1B worker hired as a "junior software engineer" in San Francisco cannot be paid less than $90,000.
But a Senior Software Engineer level person can be hired on as a "junior software engineer" for $90,000 and put a person with the title "senior software engineer" out of work.
People who are gainfully employed probably aren't going to look at a job posting unless it pays 10-15% more than they are used to making. Many job postings these days don't even display a price range, so a lot of those are just going to get ignored except for people who are really desperate for work.
If you need a foreign expert - pay above average of all DBA-style jobs; if you just need a junior one - hire locally.
DBA, Developer, IT are all commodity jobs. They do not require specific expertise. If you are not able to find local labor, it is because you are not paying enough.H1B is for specialized fields that you just can't get anybody already in the U.S. to fill. We're talking limited pool worldwide: PhD level research type people. The type of people that we brought in in the 1970s. There is probably a country wide need for perhaps 500 of these type of people per year and most of these people have the means to immigrate on their own if they so desired.
But who's to know if the guy classified as a Jr. DBA is doing work usually done by a Sr. DBA?
You have identified another form of wage rot. Let's say you have a Senior DBA who is making near the top of the pay range Senior DBAs and he/she is doing a good job and deserves a raise. Well, HR won't let you give them a raise because the Senior DBA salary range is defined as one standard deviation from X. So what happens? Well, you give them a title change to DBA Manager. Who do they manage? Nobody. What type of work do they do? Senior DBA work. What salary level are they in? Manager. What happened to the Senior DBA salary range? It went down because the average was lowered when this guy who is still doing Senior DBA work got his title changed to Manager.
On the flipside, how many votes are FOR the candidate because of his race. Does one cancel out the other?
That all depends on the degree and of racism expressed by one side or the other. On the average, it is my experience that minorities tend to be more racist against whites and other different race minorities, than non-minorities are toward minorities. Of course, then you have kooks like the KKK, Nazis and other extremist groups which don't skew the statistics much because they are thankfully such a small percentage.
You might even have a bird where you give it pellet feed (with say 4 colored pellets all with the exact same nutrient content) and the bird will only eat the pellets of one color and not touch the rest. Such a bird would die of starvation if released to the wild.
Human's and various domesticated animals are not the first co-evolution pairs. Ants and aphids are another good example. if all the ants went away, all the aphids would die.
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Their business is showing advertisements to as many people as possible. Entertainment is only the method they use.
The networks business model is showing advertisements to customers. The cable companies business model is providing content to customers. We pay them to give us content without commercials, otherwise we could just get an antenna.
I know a way to save $8 billion in taxes and $30 billion in taxpayers wasted time per year Shut the whole system down. And the beauty of it is that the chance of a terrorist blowing up your plane is almost exactly the same, to at least 5 or 6 nines.
And don't forget those precious, precious advertising dollars!
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No text or New Testament?
Like the Narnia books, these have embedded Xian messages that are not safe for children.
Be sure and exclude all ideologies. If the Christian ideology is dangerous for children, so are all the others. That should leave you with a sample set of zero to work with.
I think Piers Anthony would be good. They won't get all the double entendres at that age but will still find plenty to keep them interested. Then four years from now, they will understand it on a whole new level and still find it interesting.
Me, I am 41 years old and currently rereading one of Anthony's "Bio of a Space tyrant" books. I've read it at least 3 other times at various stages of my life.
Stay off the preachy stuff.
Why must everything that a religious person does be judged on the fact that he is religious and not of the quality of the work itself?
So this might not be intentional or planned, but evolution at work: Nigerian scammers who send out believable emails get hundred times more responses by people who want to check out the scheme more closely, but 99% of those cannot be convinced to hand over actual money, no matter how much work the scammer invests. So the scammer makes no money and gives up scamming. Another scammer whose English is rubbish gets only one percent of the replies, but all those replies are from true idiots, so that scammer makes more money and keeps doing it.
Yet another example that evolution works, only it works in reverse of what the theories propose.
I would certainly agree that I don't see people complaining about the gender gap in ditchdiggers, garbage collectors, construction workers and the like.
I wonder how long before we have to have at least 50% of all NBA players be women (even though they have the WNBA already).
Maybe women just aren't as likely as men to leave India.
Seriously, he died months ago, we can stop jerking off all over his legacy now...
Steve Jobs is dead, but contrary to the summary, Larry Page is still alive and well.
You forgot that staple of dance music:
I, I, I, repeat ad nauseum
The trick is to be better than average (be one of the "go-to" guys)
I used to believe that being better than average was going to always make me be in demand, and I also at one time made close to the $200k mark. Unfortunately, I learned the hard way that when the crap hits the fan, better than average is not in demand at all. In fact, the better you are, the lower your desirability. They want bare minimum that can get the job done, pay as low as possible and pray to whatever god is listening that something doesn't go wrong that their worker drone doesn't know how to handle.
The number should be based off of how big the company is. Basically a ratio of local workers to foreign. What the ratio is to be is entirely up to the government based on some basic analysis of a whole bunch of large, medium and small companies. (maybe even make different ratios for each company size-type)
Hopefully this would eliminate some of the H1b sweatshops where out of 30 or 40 consultants, 100% of them are on H1B, and even though they are termed employees and not contractors (because H1b can't be used for contractors), they somehow don't get paid when they are on the bench.
Isn't there always a shortage of slave labor?
Yes, in a society where some people get paid for their work, it becomes next to impossible to keep slaves. They keep running off to the paying jobs.
Then, why cant Americans compete with H1B's?Americans are used to a higher standard of living. We like to live in houses with our families. At least in my case, when I and a number of my colleagues were replaced by H1B workers, the 6 H1Bs in question all lived in the same 2 bedroom apartment (which is illegal in some states, and merely against the rules in many other complexes), and drove a single car which was definitely not capable of seating 6 people. I also suspect they did not have a valid drivers license and that state did not recognize Indian driver's licenses.
Thank you for your interest. But you'll note that the job you have applied for specified a requirement of "20 years experience in Java programming." As you do not meet this qualification, we cannot consider you
I can't tell you how much I hate automated application sites where they just say "No thank you" if you are able to meet only 99 of their 100 criteria, even though the original job posting listed some of them as "preferred" and not "required". I mean, I have the necessary years of SQL, Oracle, Java, C++, HTML, XML, Management, but lack something ridiculous like I've never add cells B7 and H94 in Excel, even though I've added lots of other cells. I've actually gotten kicked out of an app and then went back and ticked the box next to the requirement because anybody actually hiring for the position would not want people to get filtered out on such stupid criteria.
And then there are the ones where it kicks me out of the application because I don't have an H1B number, being as how I'm a citizen and all.
Looking for a job is a full time job. That being said, when I was looking for a job, I was still doing some side projects in new technologies. However, nobody was really interested because I hadn't done them in a "professional environment". I had never used Oracle for work, but I had it installed at home and I had gotten certified at the Mastery level in PL/SQL by Brainbench (showing my age). Also, got certified at the mastery level for Project Management. I ended up going back to basically an entry level job at entry level wages. I still have only pulled myself up to just under half what I used to make.
People in SF are asking for 140k to be an entry level PHP engineer. Why would I spend 140k when I can get someone for 100k.
If you can get someone from the U.S. for 100k, then that is fine. If you have to get an H1B to come over to work for 100k, then that is illegal.
Incidentally, I don't make near that much, but you'd probably have to pay me abut $140k to do PHP too.
an H-1B worker hired as a "junior software engineer" in San Francisco cannot be paid less than $90,000.
But a Senior Software Engineer level person can be hired on as a "junior software engineer" for $90,000 and put a person with the title "senior software engineer" out of work.
People who are gainfully employed probably aren't going to look at a job posting unless it pays 10-15% more than they are used to making. Many job postings these days don't even display a price range, so a lot of those are just going to get ignored except for people who are really desperate for work.
If you need a foreign expert - pay above average of all DBA-style jobs; if you just need a junior one - hire locally.
DBA, Developer, IT are all commodity jobs. They do not require specific expertise. If you are not able to find local labor, it is because you are not paying enough.H1B is for specialized fields that you just can't get anybody already in the U.S. to fill. We're talking limited pool worldwide: PhD level research type people. The type of people that we brought in in the 1970s. There is probably a country wide need for perhaps 500 of these type of people per year and most of these people have the means to immigrate on their own if they so desired.
But who's to know if the guy classified as a Jr. DBA is doing work usually done by a Sr. DBA?
You have identified another form of wage rot. Let's say you have a Senior DBA who is making near the top of the pay range Senior DBAs and he/she is doing a good job and deserves a raise. Well, HR won't let you give them a raise because the Senior DBA salary range is defined as one standard deviation from X. So what happens? Well, you give them a title change to DBA Manager. Who do they manage? Nobody. What type of work do they do? Senior DBA work. What salary level are they in? Manager. What happened to the Senior DBA salary range? It went down because the average was lowered when this guy who is still doing Senior DBA work got his title changed to Manager.
On the flipside, how many votes are FOR the candidate because of his race. Does one cancel out the other?
That all depends on the degree and of racism expressed by one side or the other. On the average, it is my experience that minorities tend to be more racist against whites and other different race minorities, than non-minorities are toward minorities. Of course, then you have kooks like the KKK, Nazis and other extremist groups which don't skew the statistics much because they are thankfully such a small percentage.
You might even have a bird where you give it pellet feed (with say 4 colored pellets all with the exact same nutrient content) and the bird will only eat the pellets of one color and not touch the rest. Such a bird would die of starvation if released to the wild.
Human's and various domesticated animals are not the first co-evolution pairs. Ants and aphids are another good example. if all the ants went away, all the aphids would die.