The guy in the stockroom is "the help." The garage mechanics are "The help." IT professional are NOT the "the help," and for the enlightenment of the one or two MBAs reading this, we're smarter than you, on average. As management, you ignore this at their peril.
If techs were so smart, they'd have the salaries and power MBAs do. I got my PhD in EE. I was probably the "smartest" of my friends in engineering school, but they all got out of engineering and switched to business either in undergrad, or shortly after graduating. I was the "smartest", and the biggest dumbass.
Smart isn't being able to churn through equations the fastest. Smart is making the best decisions. By that standard, IT professionals are morons.
But there's another way to turn it around. Argument Ad Hitlerum. Have them imagine their child bringing home Mein Kampf and saying "I have faith in Mein Kampf, and it's Prophet Adolf HIlter". Ask them how they would respond.
People tend not to be so accepting of faith when it's something they disapprove of.
I think if you were given evidence of god, you should believe in god whether you were previously Buddist, Wiccan, agnostic, or aetheist. To do otherwise would just be willful blindness.
It would be Faith. Maybe it's contagious, and atheists can get it too.
But a little disturbing and creepy too. The swarm behavior they program into these things is amazing, and gives me Terminator flashbacks. It looks like intelligent behavior.
The one bit of good news on the biofuels front has been the end of the US tariff on Brazilian sugar ethanol, which will displace some corn ethanol grown in the US.
My understanding is that supposedly they do that. They advertise somewhere, rule out the locals, then hire the H1B.
Trouble is, there's no objective demonstration that the H1B can do anything local hires can't. Elsewhere, I suggest objective *tests*. At least give locals a real chance to compete, instead of having their applications thrown out in a bogus "we're pretending we're looking for local hires" kabuki dance.
But even if a company demonstrates that a H1B is more qualified, why should that put the company's needs for a worker ahead of the needs of everyone else who would like to use that immigration slot? Just more crony capitalism.
The immigration slot is a valuable asset. Any slots set aside for economic reasons should go to the highest bidder.
" include mechanisms to fluctuate based on objective standards."
How about objective *tests* for these positions that supposedly there are no competent citizens available to perform?
If no citizens can pass the test, and H1B candidates can, fine, let the H1B candidate win.
The bogus thing is, the H1Bs hired by pimp contract agencies aren't the best available, they're just the whores that the pimp with the employment contract happens to own, and indentured servants who you can kick out of the country if they displease you make better whores than citizens with the right to be here.
"Most current fingerprint scanners have technology that can detect whether the finger has a pulse, and some read fingerprints at a depth below skin level, which would render the silicon fingers useless. Apparently, that hospital is using an older type of scanner."
Old, crappy technology fooled. Whoopie.
And it appears that this was an organized criminal enterprise:
"The mayor of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, Acir Fillo, said there might be as many as 300 hospital employees who do not exist, except for fake fingers with their prints, but who get paid anyway."
And what grownup thinks any security technology is "foolproof", let alone "motivated criminal enterprise proof"? The technology isn't perfect, therefore it's crap?
And by the way - "silicon" fingers? Bet you a dollar that should have been "silicone".
If this guy is actually paid to write this crap, he needs to be fired.
Weren't all the dark poo poo theories accepted only in the last couple of decades? I don't see how anyone can think we're close to having a even temporarily stable theory, let alone the final answers.
And instead of copying the manifestly good idea of making money by giving away software services that allow you to collect valuable data, they try to make that business model illegal.
"Global average temperatures are now higher than they have been for about 75% of the past 11,300 years"
Good?
I thought we were all burning to a crisp in completely unprecedented temperatures in human history. 75th percentile doesn't frighten me. The assumption of 100th percentile at the end of the century hardly seems terrifying either.
I didn't mean to imply that Doctors and government were the only ones colluding to take away consumer and provider freedom in medicine. I'd certainly include the health insurance companies in the cabal. Drug companies. Medical device manufacturers.
The medical industrial/regulatory complex takes our freedom, imposes control, and divides the profit in this captive and protected market between themselves.
You and your guild are deputized agents of the state granted the power to control consumer access to and provider competition in health care services, equipment, treatments, and drugs.
The Doctors have been colluding with government to fuck over patients well and good for a long time. There'd be some justice in seeing them take the shaft in their turn, but I'd rather just end the power of their guild to control may access to health care services and treatments.
What don't they want you to know about? Information.
The information about you is power, and they wish to keep that power for themselves. The medical industrial/government complex takes power from you and divvies the fruits of that power between themselves. That's what it does.
This is it: "She just wants to fire people, the data is a pretense."
Or, she just wants people to quit. When you want to reduce headcount, you start being a dick. This has the look of "we're selling out to someone, and need to reduce headcount beforehand".
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The guy in the stockroom is "the help." The garage mechanics are "The help." IT professional are NOT the "the help," and for the enlightenment of the one or two MBAs reading this, we're smarter than you, on average. As management, you ignore this at their peril.
If techs were so smart, they'd have the salaries and power MBAs do. I got my PhD in EE. I was probably the "smartest" of my friends in engineering school, but they all got out of engineering and switched to business either in undergrad, or shortly after graduating. I was the "smartest", and the biggest dumbass.
Smart isn't being able to churn through equations the fastest. Smart is making the best decisions. By that standard, IT professionals are morons.
But at least Nietzsche once existed, which is more than God or the Easter Bunny can say.
Fun.
But there's another way to turn it around. Argument Ad Hitlerum. Have them imagine their child bringing home Mein Kampf and saying "I have faith in Mein Kampf, and it's Prophet Adolf HIlter". Ask them how they would respond.
People tend not to be so accepting of faith when it's something they disapprove of.
I think if you were given evidence of god, you should believe in god whether you were previously Buddist, Wiccan, agnostic, or aetheist. To do otherwise would just be willful blindness.
It would be Faith. Maybe it's contagious, and atheists can get it too.
Yeah, I'm sure that the 2% of the American public who self identify as atheists all work for the USPS.
But a little disturbing and creepy too. The swarm behavior they program into these things is amazing, and gives me Terminator flashbacks. It looks like intelligent behavior.
Slashdot needs to do something about this. How many posts are that long and have 20 links in them? Shouldn't be that hard to filter such posts.
I flagged the post. I encourage others to do the same.
Thanks.
Somehow I got through, and I'm not subscribed, but it didn't work a second time.
More crony capitalism! Yay!
The one bit of good news on the biofuels front has been the end of the US tariff on Brazilian sugar ethanol, which will displace some corn ethanol grown in the US.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324677204578185750536400698.html
My understanding is that supposedly they do that. They advertise somewhere, rule out the locals, then hire the H1B.
Trouble is, there's no objective demonstration that the H1B can do anything local hires can't. Elsewhere, I suggest objective *tests*. At least give locals a real chance to compete, instead of having their applications thrown out in a bogus "we're pretending we're looking for local hires" kabuki dance.
But even if a company demonstrates that a H1B is more qualified, why should that put the company's needs for a worker ahead of the needs of everyone else who would like to use that immigration slot? Just more crony capitalism.
The immigration slot is a valuable asset. Any slots set aside for economic reasons should go to the highest bidder.
These people also aren't entitled to come to my country.
Moreover, the people who want to hire them aren't entitled to breaks on immigration quotas so they can make a few more bucks.
If you don't believe in open borders, there will be immigration limits. Why should a company get subsidized with a free pass to bypass those limits?
How about we set the quota for spaces, and take bids from *anyone* who wants the slot?
" include mechanisms to fluctuate based on objective standards."
How about objective *tests* for these positions that supposedly there are no competent citizens available to perform?
If no citizens can pass the test, and H1B candidates can, fine, let the H1B candidate win.
The bogus thing is, the H1Bs hired by pimp contract agencies aren't the best available, they're just the whores that the pimp with the employment contract happens to own, and indentured servants who you can kick out of the country if they displease you make better whores than citizens with the right to be here.
Buried in the article
"Most current fingerprint scanners have technology that can detect whether the finger has a pulse, and some read fingerprints at a depth below skin level, which would render the silicon fingers useless. Apparently, that hospital is using an older type of scanner."
Old, crappy technology fooled. Whoopie.
And it appears that this was an organized criminal enterprise:
"The mayor of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, Acir Fillo, said there might be as many as 300 hospital employees who do not exist, except for fake fingers with their prints, but who get paid anyway."
And what grownup thinks any security technology is "foolproof", let alone "motivated criminal enterprise proof"? The technology isn't perfect, therefore it's crap?
And by the way - "silicon" fingers? Bet you a dollar that should have been "silicone".
If this guy is actually paid to write this crap, he needs to be fired.
Weren't all the dark poo poo theories accepted only in the last couple of decades? I don't see how anyone can think we're close to having a even temporarily stable theory, let alone the final answers.
And instead of copying the manifestly good idea of making money by giving away software services that allow you to collect valuable data, they try to make that business model illegal.
Another well reasoned retort on Slashdot. Well done!
"Global average temperatures are now higher than they have been for about 75% of the past 11,300 years"
Good?
I thought we were all burning to a crisp in completely unprecedented temperatures in human history. 75th percentile doesn't frighten me. The assumption of 100th percentile at the end of the century hardly seems terrifying either.
You asked, I answered.
If you had no intention of actually considering the possibility, why waste my time and yours?
Dismissive comments on my mental health don't amount to a refutation of my point.
I didn't mean to imply that Doctors and government were the only ones colluding to take away consumer and provider freedom in medicine. I'd certainly include the health insurance companies in the cabal. Drug companies. Medical device manufacturers.
The medical industrial/regulatory complex takes our freedom, imposes control, and divides the profit in this captive and protected market between themselves.
You and your guild are deputized agents of the state granted the power to control consumer access to and provider competition in health care services, equipment, treatments, and drugs.
The Doctors have been colluding with government to fuck over patients well and good for a long time. There'd be some justice in seeing them take the shaft in their turn, but I'd rather just end the power of their guild to control may access to health care services and treatments.
What don't they want you to know about? Information.
The information about you is power, and they wish to keep that power for themselves. The medical industrial/government complex takes power from you and divvies the fruits of that power between themselves. That's what it does.
I'm sure she didn't do this lightly, I just don't take a corp exec's rationalizations for their actions at face value.
This is it: "She just wants to fire people, the data is a pretense."
Or, she just wants people to quit. When you want to reduce headcount, you start being a dick. This has the look of "we're selling out to someone, and need to reduce headcount beforehand".
More likely she just disapproved of remote work, and claimed to have found some data to rationalize banning it.
Has this data made more public appearances than Elvis today? I thought not.