This is an apples/oranges comparison when you consider the standards that medical equipment is held to vs. say an ATM. Yes, I'd trust something that was certified to preform heart surgery much more than I'd trust something put out by Skank of America or Shitibank.
And just to pile onto my own comment, who the fuck do you think stays in Trump's hotels and casinos? The current administration makes a shit ton of cash from tourism, so you're an idiot if you think they don't care.
I'm not sure where the uninhabitable ones are...I haven't searched through the list here, but people have moved back into the town of Centralia, after it had originally been condemned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Well, you shouldn't have to have a photo ID to do these things, cuz it's racist you know. buy alcohol or cigarettes drive a car check a book out of the library make a bank transaction get on an airplane cross the boarder pick up a perscription
While I despise the abuse of H1-B visas, a quick google will show that there are over 5 million IT jobs in the U.S. That puts the percentage of H1-Bs pretty low among the population.
As an engineering hiring manager, I'm always going to aim for the best value when I bring someone onboard. I'm always going to hire at the lowest labor grade necessary to get the job done...why would I pay more? Now, and this happens, if we're not getting qualified candidates at the job level we've posted, we'll bump up the compensation until we get what we need. If the market is saturated with IT workers, why would we pay premium wages for them? It's not about paying crap wages either...nobody that works for us should be having a hard time unless they have unusual circumstances.
And, FWIW, I've personally been told by various program managers that I'm "too expensive", but then they discover that I do all the crap work that nobody else is willing to do, and it's done on or ahead of schedule...I always try to justify my position.
At $7.25/hour x 2.5 = $18.125/hr $18.125 x 40 x 52 = $37700/yr (your pay)
Google says... One reason applicants may be lining up to become a sanitation worker is the pay. The starting salary is low, $33,746, but when you factor in overtime, it averages $47,371 in the first year. And after 5½ years, the salary jumps to an average of $88,616 dollars.
If that $800/hr exec can land a billion dollar contract, would you not hire him? He could take that business somewhere else if you don't. Most of the basement boys here don't have a clue when it comes to winning contracts or bringing in business because they're too busy whining that others are overpaid. FWIW, I work on a lot of proposals, so I do see a bit of it. And granted, some of these execs are certainly overcompensated. You're welcome to call it cronyism, others call it networking, deal making, etc...some people excel at it, and are worth every penny because they create business for the company (jobs)...and many should be taking pay cuts when they don't.
M&A (mergers and acquisition) is intentional, and done to "grow the business". Many smaller companies are set up with the express purpose of making them buyout candidates in order to enrich the founders. We see a lot of this in the defense industry, where connected military officers retire from the service, start a company, getting preferential business as veteran/small business owned, and then sell that off to the major contractors after just a few years. This gives the larger contractors access to contracts they couldn't have won, and "grows the business".
While many CEOs are overcompensated, what a lot of folks don't realize is that they're compensated for bringing in new business. You get that by networking, having a big ego/personality, by golfing with other executives, etc., etc. That's not going to be automated anytime soon.
It's tougher to convince the government to not cave to lobbyists from CompTIA, and make things like Sec+ a requirement before you can lay hands on a DoD computer. The government (your tax dollars) ends up paying for many of those certs as well as the required continuing education. Someone needs to shut this shit down.
And, FWIW, I got my cert recently...worthless IMO.
lets change that around a little to something else you probably also blindly believe:
there is no need for vaccinations anymore in first-world countries. i can't imagine vaccinations being necessary or having been for decades now.
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fluoride in drinking water, at the right levels, is a huge boost for dental health.. especially among children and teens, and especially among the poor. it is ridiculously inexpensive to do at the municipal water supply. there is no reason not to do it.
About 55 percent of bottled water in the United States is spring water, including Crystal Geyser and Arrowhead. The other 45 percent comes from the municipal water supply, meaning that companies, including Aquafina and Dasani, simply treat tap water—the same stuff that comes out of your faucet at home—and bottle it up.
I know this isn't the norm, but here in northern VA, we're already starting to see parking spaces with chargers. We have about four of them in my company's parking garage, and I've seen a few at places like outside a movie theater in Ashburn. Yes, I too believe this guy is full of shit on the timeframe, but my guess is about double his.
I got caught up in it back with my first 128k Mac in '84. Coworkers were calling it a "fruit computer", and yet all they were doing on their PCs was playing games, and stuck with DOS at the time, while I was drawing training documents and printing stuff that was WYSIWYG. The biggest attraction to Macs for me was that you could start up just about any application, and easily figure out how to get shit done...Apple clearly had developers following a good style guide. I went through a 512k, a Mac II, an iMac (loved getting into the UNIX side here), and a couple others in between. Due to work requirements, I ended up getting a PC, and have hated them ever since. I'm an old UNIX/C/C++ developer, who was used to my shit just working on Suns, HPs and SGIs, and the Macs did the same. In comparison, the PCs were, and still are crap. I don't know the current state of Macs, so I can't say if they're still much better...it's been a few years. As for iPads, and iPhones, I've owned a few of each, and again, they're just simple to use...if you need and operating manual, you probably can't boil water.
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This is an apples/oranges comparison when you consider the standards that medical equipment is held to vs. say an ATM. Yes, I'd trust something that was certified to preform heart surgery much more than I'd trust something put out by Skank of America or Shitibank.
Stubborn, really? I'd argue that you're the one being stubborn, arguing against facts put in that refute your point.
And just to pile onto my own comment, who the fuck do you think stays in Trump's hotels and casinos? The current administration makes a shit ton of cash from tourism, so you're an idiot if you think they don't care.
$1.6T and 7.6M employees say you're wrong.
The U.S. travel and tourism industry generated nearly $1.6 trillion in economic output in 2015, supporting 7.6 million U.S. jobs.
I'm not sure where the uninhabitable ones are...I haven't searched through the list here, but people have moved back into the town of Centralia, after it had originally been condemned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Well, you shouldn't have to have a photo ID to do these things, cuz it's racist you know.
buy alcohol or cigarettes
drive a car
check a book out of the library
make a bank transaction
get on an airplane
cross the boarder
pick up a perscription
While I despise the abuse of H1-B visas, a quick google will show that there are over 5 million IT jobs in the U.S. That puts the percentage of H1-Bs pretty low among the population.
Here, I will explain it to you.
As an engineering hiring manager, I'm always going to aim for the best value when I bring someone onboard. I'm always going to hire at the lowest labor grade necessary to get the job done...why would I pay more? Now, and this happens, if we're not getting qualified candidates at the job level we've posted, we'll bump up the compensation until we get what we need. If the market is saturated with IT workers, why would we pay premium wages for them? It's not about paying crap wages either...nobody that works for us should be having a hard time unless they have unusual circumstances.
And, FWIW, I've personally been told by various program managers that I'm "too expensive", but then they discover that I do all the crap work that nobody else is willing to do, and it's done on or ahead of schedule...I always try to justify my position.
At $7.25/hour x 2.5 = $18.125/hr
$18.125 x 40 x 52 = $37700/yr (your pay)
Google says...
One reason applicants may be lining up to become a sanitation worker is the pay. The starting salary is low, $33,746, but when you factor in overtime, it averages $47,371 in the first year. And after 5½ years, the salary jumps to an average of $88,616 dollars.
Time to switch careers?
If that $800/hr exec can land a billion dollar contract, would you not hire him? He could take that business somewhere else if you don't. Most of the basement boys here don't have a clue when it comes to winning contracts or bringing in business because they're too busy whining that others are overpaid. FWIW, I work on a lot of proposals, so I do see a bit of it. And granted, some of these execs are certainly overcompensated. You're welcome to call it cronyism, others call it networking, deal making, etc...some people excel at it, and are worth every penny because they create business for the company (jobs)...and many should be taking pay cuts when they don't.
Not disputing, but...
M&A (mergers and acquisition) is intentional, and done to "grow the business". Many smaller companies are set up with the express purpose of making them buyout candidates in order to enrich the founders. We see a lot of this in the defense industry, where connected military officers retire from the service, start a company, getting preferential business as veteran/small business owned, and then sell that off to the major contractors after just a few years. This gives the larger contractors access to contracts they couldn't have won, and "grows the business".
While many CEOs are overcompensated, what a lot of folks don't realize is that they're compensated for bringing in new business. You get that by networking, having a big ego/personality, by golfing with other executives, etc., etc. That's not going to be automated anytime soon.
E = MBA squared.
E != zero x zero
It's tougher to convince the government to not cave to lobbyists from CompTIA, and make things like Sec+ a requirement before you can lay hands on a DoD computer. The government (your tax dollars) ends up paying for many of those certs as well as the required continuing education. Someone needs to shut this shit down.
And, FWIW, I got my cert recently...worthless IMO.
You clearly stopped reading after the second sentence. Any other idiocy you'd like to try?
lets change that around a little to something else you probably also blindly believe:
there is no need for vaccinations anymore in first-world countries. i can't imagine vaccinations being necessary or having been for decades now.
**
fluoride in drinking water, at the right levels, is a huge boost for dental health.. especially among children and teens, and especially among the poor. it is ridiculously inexpensive to do at the municipal water supply. there is no reason not to do it.
Dental decay isn't contagious.
Googled answer...
About 55 percent of bottled water in the United States is spring water, including Crystal Geyser and Arrowhead. The other 45 percent comes from the municipal water supply, meaning that companies, including Aquafina and Dasani, simply treat tap water—the same stuff that comes out of your faucet at home—and bottle it up.
"Evian is naive spelled backwards."
Brilliant...saving that one for future discussions...tyvm.
Get off my lawn maggot!
Glad I read this before posting. I had googled "weight of an18 wheeler"...it came back with 80,000lbs.
I know this isn't the norm, but here in northern VA, we're already starting to see parking spaces with chargers. We have about four of them in my company's parking garage, and I've seen a few at places like outside a movie theater in Ashburn. Yes, I too believe this guy is full of shit on the timeframe, but my guess is about double his.
What orifice did you pull that number from? $19k? Maybe in rural Oklahoma, but not in any big city or suburb.
I got caught up in it back with my first 128k Mac in '84. Coworkers were calling it a "fruit computer", and yet all they were doing on their PCs was playing games, and stuck with DOS at the time, while I was drawing training documents and printing stuff that was WYSIWYG. The biggest attraction to Macs for me was that you could start up just about any application, and easily figure out how to get shit done...Apple clearly had developers following a good style guide. I went through a 512k, a Mac II, an iMac (loved getting into the UNIX side here), and a couple others in between. Due to work requirements, I ended up getting a PC, and have hated them ever since. I'm an old UNIX/C/C++ developer, who was used to my shit just working on Suns, HPs and SGIs, and the Macs did the same. In comparison, the PCs were, and still are crap. I don't know the current state of Macs, so I can't say if they're still much better...it's been a few years. As for iPads, and iPhones, I've owned a few of each, and again, they're just simple to use...if you need and operating manual, you probably can't boil water.
New research is showing that the science isn't so settled when it comes to sodium.
https://news.vanderbilt.edu/20...