If someone lost their life because of your "prankster", that criminal should serve serious time in the "fuck me up the ass" Federal Pen. There is no comparison between willful maliciousness and simple incompetence/stupidity.
They don't develop CMA tactics, they were born into it. (Insert Bane parody here.) You can't blame that on us, just because we're blaming them for not doing their jobs.
Tell us, who was responsible for electing qualified officials? Yes, I'm blaming you.
Well, kinda...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_devil They are comparable to tornadoes in that both are a weather phenomenon involving a vertically oriented rotating column of wind. Most tornadoes are associated with a larger parent circulation, the mesocyclone on the back of a supercell thunderstorm. Dust devils form as a swirling updraft under sunny conditions during fair weather, rarely coming close to the intensity of a tornado.
The meme that government is incompetent is really tired
So what? You can't handle the truth? Clearly, you also can't tell the difference between a job that the government should do well, and a civilian who, knowing that they can't do the job, would have hired someone who is competent.
I've been dealing with federal government contracts for forty years, and can talk to you all day about incompetence in their contracting system. Why do you think it's nearly impossible to fire an incompetent government worker?
Wow, being old enough to remember "duck and cover", being a Cold War vet, and owning my own Hemi for seven years, one would think I'd have heard of these before.
Anecdote...I had a flight instructor who left our aero club at a base in Korea to go work as an instructor at KAL for a couple years. He came back to the club and told me that he'd never work for a Korean airline again because the junior co-pilots would never tell the senior pilots when they were fucking up. I'm a big fan of respecting your elders, which is important in that culture, but this kind of thinking is totally unacceptable in a life/death situation.
Having lived in Korea for six years, I'll second ShanghaiBill's opinion on this. You often don't know how good you have it until you actually see the other side.
"Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, or teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime?"
True, but I don't need to know how to prove that 2x2=4 to make a lifetime of use of the fact. If I accept that it's a fact and memorize my multiplication tables, I can fish for a lifetime without ever knowing how my rod and reel were made.
First, not true, but talking heads will say it is because they don't want to pay higher wages.
Second, obviously we're not cheaper than people who come from places where the cost of living is 10% of what ours is...duh. But "educated" is frequently questionable, and often gamed by the companies pushing them.
"massive shortage of dev talent"...many people who were coders left the field at the end of the internet bubble, or during the recession. Now that we're finally seeing some decent salary increases, you'll see them come back.
There's never been a real push for a C.S. union, nor a good reason for one. If you're a C.S. major, and not being paid what you think you deserve, or treated unfairly, you should have no trouble walking out the door, and doing better just down the street...unless you really suck at it, in which case I could see why you'd want a union.
"...because it creates a monoculture that does the organization as a whole harm"
I can see where that could happen, but not on my watch. My company consistently brags about our diversity awards, and even though I'm an old white guy (nearly a minority in my workplace), my selections are based upon who's going to get the job done. I'm pretty confident that my peers do the same, because we often do committee interviews, and discuss them after.
True, because every project (program) manager tries to maximize profit or they're soon replaced with someone who will. It's a problem that won't be fixed by project managers, or any business. It needs federal regulation to make it not be an option for those managers...and I say this as a small government, conservative, capitalist.
That's a funny way to say "maximize profit", which is what virtually every successful business does...not only in the U.S. Don't get me wrong, I'm no H1-B visa fan. But as long as it's legal, you can expect business to take every opportunity to use it...we need to get government to fix that, and stop blaming business for doing what they're supposed to do. But before that will ever happen, we need to get the lobbying money out of Congress, or it will never happen. That, in my mind, is the biggest problem with our version of capitalism at the moment. It can't work when it's subverted because it promotes monopolistic behaviors and gives undue influence to corporations over the citizens./soapbox
It's a common practice to get around the compliance requirements. As a hiring manager, if I have an opening, and know someone who happens to be a great fit for that job, I'm still required to open a requisition for a week, and interview at least three candidates. Maybe I'm looking at it the wrong way, but nobody has ever explained why I should have to jump through that hoop in order to select the obvious person for the job. Because, in the end, I'm still going to get the person I wanted. Most certainly, I'm going to select a known quantity vs. take a risk on someone who I've only had an hour long interview with. That said, you can bet that many hiring managers will craft their requisitions to fit the person...I don't and never have seen the need to...if my selection is already a fit. But I could see people doing so if it was for pure nepotism vs. having someone who's truly a good candidate.
Where are all the other rich kids who had similar privilege and connections? Sorry, no, you can't make that claim logically or we'd have many more like him.
If that were so, we'd have a few million Gates out there. A quick google shows there are ~14 million millionaires in the US. Most all of their kids live similar privileged lives, and yet how many peers does Gates have? I'm not suggesting his ascent was due to his skills...certainly there was a lot of luck involved.
Ass kissing is a skill that most geeks don't understand. It's the reason why you're getting surpassed by people with minimal skills who partied through skill but also have social skills. If you come into the office in flip flops and torn jeans, uncombed hair, and no deodorant, it's not going to matter that you have 20 IT certifications, and know the company network inside and out....you're still likely to get just enough to keep you around. Don't like it? Too fucking bad, the world isn't going to change for you snowflake. And yes, there are some places that are much more tolerant of the things mentioned above...they're the exceptions.
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If someone lost their life because of your "prankster", that criminal should serve serious time in the "fuck me up the ass" Federal Pen. There is no comparison between willful maliciousness and simple incompetence/stupidity.
Can you point to one that's not hackable, and actually functions?
They don't develop CMA tactics, they were born into it. (Insert Bane parody here.) You can't blame that on us, just because we're blaming them for not doing their jobs.
Tell us, who was responsible for electing qualified officials? Yes, I'm blaming you.
Well, kinda...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_devil
They are comparable to tornadoes in that both are a weather phenomenon involving a vertically oriented rotating column of wind. Most tornadoes are associated with a larger parent circulation, the mesocyclone on the back of a supercell thunderstorm. Dust devils form as a swirling updraft under sunny conditions during fair weather, rarely coming close to the intensity of a tornado.
There are plenty of ways to demonstrate/publicize the problem w/o this kind of BS. Sorry, no excuse.
The meme that government is incompetent is really tired
So what? You can't handle the truth? Clearly, you also can't tell the difference between a job that the government should do well, and a civilian who, knowing that they can't do the job, would have hired someone who is competent.
I've been dealing with federal government contracts for forty years, and can talk to you all day about incompetence in their contracting system. Why do you think it's nearly impossible to fire an incompetent government worker?
Wow, being old enough to remember "duck and cover", being a Cold War vet, and owning my own Hemi for seven years, one would think I'd have heard of these before.
Anecdote...I had a flight instructor who left our aero club at a base in Korea to go work as an instructor at KAL for a couple years. He came back to the club and told me that he'd never work for a Korean airline again because the junior co-pilots would never tell the senior pilots when they were fucking up. I'm a big fan of respecting your elders, which is important in that culture, but this kind of thinking is totally unacceptable in a life/death situation.
Having lived in Korea for six years, I'll second ShanghaiBill's opinion on this. You often don't know how good you have it until you actually see the other side.
"Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, or teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime?"
True, but I don't need to know how to prove that 2x2=4 to make a lifetime of use of the fact. If I accept that it's a fact and memorize my multiplication tables, I can fish for a lifetime without ever knowing how my rod and reel were made.
From the summary....The exam was translated for the students in China and Russia.
The study was put together by a global team of researchers led by Prashant Loyalka, an assistant professor at Stanford University.
Everybody does their own propaganda lies. I am sure, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, etc. are all the world leaders in this field too.
Yeah, I'm sure that Standford and IEEE are the propaganda arms of the US government.
The study was put together by a global team of researchers led by Prashant Loyalka, an assistant professor at Stanford University.
First, not true, but talking heads will say it is because they don't want to pay higher wages.
Second, obviously we're not cheaper than people who come from places where the cost of living is 10% of what ours is...duh. But "educated" is frequently questionable, and often gamed by the companies pushing them.
"massive shortage of dev talent"...many people who were coders left the field at the end of the internet bubble, or during the recession. Now that we're finally seeing some decent salary increases, you'll see them come back.
There's never been a real push for a C.S. union, nor a good reason for one. If you're a C.S. major, and not being paid what you think you deserve, or treated unfairly, you should have no trouble walking out the door, and doing better just down the street...unless you really suck at it, in which case I could see why you'd want a union.
Mind sharing what school that is?
"...because it creates a monoculture that does the organization as a whole harm"
I can see where that could happen, but not on my watch. My company consistently brags about our diversity awards, and even though I'm an old white guy (nearly a minority in my workplace), my selections are based upon who's going to get the job done. I'm pretty confident that my peers do the same, because we often do committee interviews, and discuss them after.
True, because every project (program) manager tries to maximize profit or they're soon replaced with someone who will. It's a problem that won't be fixed by project managers, or any business. It needs federal regulation to make it not be an option for those managers...and I say this as a small government, conservative, capitalist.
That's a funny way to say "maximize profit", which is what virtually every successful business does...not only in the U.S. Don't get me wrong, I'm no H1-B visa fan. But as long as it's legal, you can expect business to take every opportunity to use it...we need to get government to fix that, and stop blaming business for doing what they're supposed to do. But before that will ever happen, we need to get the lobbying money out of Congress, or it will never happen. That, in my mind, is the biggest problem with our version of capitalism at the moment. It can't work when it's subverted because it promotes monopolistic behaviors and gives undue influence to corporations over the citizens. /soapbox
It's a common practice to get around the compliance requirements. As a hiring manager, if I have an opening, and know someone who happens to be a great fit for that job, I'm still required to open a requisition for a week, and interview at least three candidates. Maybe I'm looking at it the wrong way, but nobody has ever explained why I should have to jump through that hoop in order to select the obvious person for the job. Because, in the end, I'm still going to get the person I wanted. Most certainly, I'm going to select a known quantity vs. take a risk on someone who I've only had an hour long interview with. That said, you can bet that many hiring managers will craft their requisitions to fit the person...I don't and never have seen the need to...if my selection is already a fit. But I could see people doing so if it was for pure nepotism vs. having someone who's truly a good candidate.
Where are all the other rich kids who had similar privilege and connections? Sorry, no, you can't make that claim logically or we'd have many more like him.
"There is nothing "long shot" about Gates"
If that were so, we'd have a few million Gates out there. A quick google shows there are ~14 million millionaires in the US. Most all of their kids live similar privileged lives, and yet how many peers does Gates have? I'm not suggesting his ascent was due to his skills...certainly there was a lot of luck involved.
Ass kissing is a skill that most geeks don't understand. It's the reason why you're getting surpassed by people with minimal skills who partied through skill but also have social skills. If you come into the office in flip flops and torn jeans, uncombed hair, and no deodorant, it's not going to matter that you have 20 IT certifications, and know the company network inside and out....you're still likely to get just enough to keep you around. Don't like it? Too fucking bad, the world isn't going to change for you snowflake. And yes, there are some places that are much more tolerant of the things mentioned above...they're the exceptions.
The quote "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity" is often attributed to:
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"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
Attribution is disputed...but often given to Seneca https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/...
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