There are two big barriers for government IT hiring:
Pay scale
The GS payscale doesn't map well to high-end IT skills. So often you end up with the marginally qualified, or those rare individuals who are not only not in it for the money, but somehow find a way to turn down offers every quarter from another round of head-hunters.
Extra scrutiny
The government security and screening process is a lot tougher than many commercial enterprises. It leads to ironic debtor-prison type situations where an otherwise qualified guy about to have his house foreclosed can't get the job because he is a security risk because he needs the money. The government just doesn't want to take the risk he will be try to pay off his bills by selling access to the highest bidder.
Just like in so many other things, large numbers of individuals have stopped paying their fair share. This is made only more sad is that all it takes is paying attention, and remembering who did what over the course of their terms and political careers come voting time.
Just what I always wanted. Another boogie-man that I can give up all my rights to be protected from. Now I can both pay more in taxes to be protected and lose more of those freedoms and the privacy I wasn't really using anyhow.
With any luck this will work exactly as well as it did with the pervious boogie-man of terrorism. You know none of their plots would ever get foiled if not for the government taking away all our nasty freedoms.
At this rate I can soon be totally free of rights, which means I should be absolutely safe the same way that people in prison are perfectly safe.
Why do we rush to punish everyone in the interest of being "Fair"? What should really be done is make those responsible bear the weight for their bad choices.
Simple solution is make the people without insurance find a way to pay for any damage done. If you can't get the money from selling their assets then you could check what human organs are selling for on the black market.
That would only have to happen once before the message gets out to even the densest person. Then you won't have to make everyone else suffer for the bad behavior of a minority of people.
It may sound cruel to do this to a handful of people, but no more so than punishing millions who are innocent.
If we actually taught students that it matters what they major in, maybe more of them would go into fields which are in demand, such as STEM fields referenced in this article.
Instead we told students just get a degree in anything and then wonder why we have so many (for example art and history majors) ending up working fast-food to get by.
If the education system had instead encouraged STEM degrees as a way to be sucessful, and been honest that only small percentages of people with certain degrees can actually *find* a related job we wouldn't be in this boat.
One one hand you tell students they will be sucessful if they get a college degree (any college degree).
On the other hand you have colleges marketing easy-and-fun degree programs with very low market demand for those degrees.
The net result is a crop of students with a pile of debt and a Masters degree in Basket-Weaving which isn't necessary in the real world.
Funny, I make about double what my manager does. It is nearly impossible to find folks in my particular specialization.
Make supply and demand work to your advantage. Just like a business has to sell what is in demand to succeed you need to make yourself into a product which is in demand.
Between actions like this and things such as bandwidth caps it appears that the major ISP's are looking to alienate their customer base.
In the mean time, figure it will be possible to DOS someone by placing some complaints against them?
How about businesses placing complaints against their competitors? Maybe I should go apply for a business process patent on doing this....
Now that the gloves are off and they can mine data to their hearts content, what is to prevent them from using the data for more than just advertising?
I think some people will start seeing letters like this in the future from their insurance companies:
"Dear Sir/Madam, due to the number of your relatives receiving (cancer/alzheimers/diabetes/etc) treatment, we are electing to no longer cover you due."
So don't set it yourself, but let your golfing buddies set it for you.
Then you turn around and return the favor for them at their companies where you sit on the board.
Many individuals sit on the board of multiple corporations. Its a "you-scratch-my-back-I'll-scratch-yours" business world.
It never was about getting the artist paid. Nice to see that dirty little secret proven. It was all about the DISTRIBUTORS getting paid, regardless if the artist sees a dime. Crying that the artist were suffering was just a PR stunt on their part. The RIAA has driven more artists/singers/song-writers into brankruptcy than all the file sharers in the world will ever do.
Its all about return on investment. You get much more bang for your buck in buying a Senator of Congressman and then having the full weight of the US government behind you than trying to hire a private army of thugs and lawyers to do it yourself.
Makes perfect business sense. What doesn't make sense is why we don't call out our politicians for this behavior.
I'd rather have this than a website putting up a paywall to support themselves.
I'd rather click a button to end the ad and tell someone their ad sucked, then pay for a subscription. Especially considering some videos on youtube aren't worth the bits they are stored on.
Besides, this might actually lead to halfway interesting advertisements.
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So totally unlike music? Wonder what sort of precedent this interpretation may be setting.
Qapla!
There are two big barriers for government IT hiring:
Pay scale
The GS payscale doesn't map well to high-end IT skills. So often you end up with the marginally qualified, or those rare individuals who are not only not in it for the money, but somehow find a way to turn down offers every quarter from another round of head-hunters.
Extra scrutiny
The government security and screening process is a lot tougher than many commercial enterprises. It leads to ironic debtor-prison type situations where an otherwise qualified guy about to have his house foreclosed can't get the job because he is a security risk because he needs the money. The government just doesn't want to take the risk he will be try to pay off his bills by selling access to the highest bidder.
Funny how people often use the excuse "think of the children" when asking you to give up your rights and freedoms.
I am thinking of the children. Children who will one day not enjoy the rights I had if I do not fight for those rights today.
That explains what is going wrong.
Just like in so many other things, large numbers of individuals have stopped paying their fair share. This is made only more sad is that all it takes is paying attention, and remembering who did what over the course of their terms and political careers come voting time.
Just what I always wanted. Another boogie-man that I can give up all my rights to be protected from. Now I can both pay more in taxes to be protected and lose more of those freedoms and the privacy I wasn't really using anyhow.
/end-sarcasm
With any luck this will work exactly as well as it did with the pervious boogie-man of terrorism. You know none of their plots would ever get foiled if not for the government taking away all our nasty freedoms.
At this rate I can soon be totally free of rights, which means I should be absolutely safe the same way that people in prison are perfectly safe.
Selling your soul to the Devil seems tame in comparison.
In fact, I think the Devil might be contacting their legal department for some pointers after this one.
Why do we rush to punish everyone in the interest of being "Fair"? What should really be done is make those responsible bear the weight for their bad choices.
Simple solution is make the people without insurance find a way to pay for any damage done. If you can't get the money from selling their assets then you could check what human organs are selling for on the black market.
That would only have to happen once before the message gets out to even the densest person. Then you won't have to make everyone else suffer for the bad behavior of a minority of people.
It may sound cruel to do this to a handful of people, but no more so than punishing millions who are innocent.
Its an urban legend, but a good one. http://www.snopes.com/crime/safety/response.asp
Actually, it was the fact that it combined the armaments of both the Marauder (PPC's) and Catapault (LRM's) which caused it to be dubbed MadCat.
I do hope its the D variant with all the SRM's on it.
It's called a Wall-of-Traffic. I believe it is a 10/5 artifact with Trample. Requires 8 mana of any color to cast.
Yes it does.
If we actually taught students that it matters what they major in, maybe more of them would go into fields which are in demand, such as STEM fields referenced in this article.
Instead we told students just get a degree in anything and then wonder why we have so many (for example art and history majors) ending up working fast-food to get by.
If the education system had instead encouraged STEM degrees as a way to be sucessful, and been honest that only small percentages of people with certain degrees can actually *find* a related job we wouldn't be in this boat.
I blame education for this.
One one hand you tell students they will be sucessful if they get a college degree (any college degree).
On the other hand you have colleges marketing easy-and-fun degree programs with very low market demand for those degrees.
The net result is a crop of students with a pile of debt and a Masters degree in Basket-Weaving which isn't necessary in the real world.
Funny, I make about double what my manager does. It is nearly impossible to find folks in my particular specialization.
Make supply and demand work to your advantage. Just like a business has to sell what is in demand to succeed you need to make yourself into a product which is in demand.
It is as if millions of nerds cried out at once, and were suddenly silenced. -Guinan (played by Oprah Winfrey)
The original quote is from Star Wars.
Obiwan /= Guinan
Surprisingly it got modded "Informative"?
Between actions like this and things such as bandwidth caps it appears that the major ISP's are looking to alienate their customer base. In the mean time, figure it will be possible to DOS someone by placing some complaints against them? How about businesses placing complaints against their competitors? Maybe I should go apply for a business process patent on doing this....
Now that the gloves are off and they can mine data to their hearts content, what is to prevent them from using the data for more than just advertising? I think some people will start seeing letters like this in the future from their insurance companies: "Dear Sir/Madam, due to the number of your relatives receiving (cancer/alzheimers/diabetes/etc) treatment, we are electing to no longer cover you due."
Makes me wonder if these judges have heard of things such as maybe HIPA? Whatever happened to that whole privacy of medical records idea?
So don't set it yourself, but let your golfing buddies set it for you. Then you turn around and return the favor for them at their companies where you sit on the board. Many individuals sit on the board of multiple corporations. Its a "you-scratch-my-back-I'll-scratch-yours" business world.
The old saying still holds true today: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
It never was about getting the artist paid. Nice to see that dirty little secret proven. It was all about the DISTRIBUTORS getting paid, regardless if the artist sees a dime. Crying that the artist were suffering was just a PR stunt on their part. The RIAA has driven more artists/singers/song-writers into brankruptcy than all the file sharers in the world will ever do.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Nobody does, which is whole point.
If more people had been paying attention it never would have gotten this far.
Its all about return on investment. You get much more bang for your buck in buying a Senator of Congressman and then having the full weight of the US government behind you than trying to hire a private army of thugs and lawyers to do it yourself.
Makes perfect business sense. What doesn't make sense is why we don't call out our politicians for this behavior.
I'd rather have this than a website putting up a paywall to support themselves.
I'd rather click a button to end the ad and tell someone their ad sucked, then pay for a subscription. Especially considering some videos on youtube aren't worth the bits they are stored on.
Besides, this might actually lead to halfway interesting advertisements.