Plugging your info into a public website makes that info public.
And therein lies the problem. Allegedly, it's for business and employment "networking". But if no one can see your info, you can't "network" with them and they can't with you. If you're hoping that an employer might come along, see you as a potential candidate and give you a call, then you can't hide your resume under a bushel.
In reality, I don't know if anyone actually finds a job or other opportunity that way. All I ever experienced was seeing current and former colleagues bragging about promotions and other BS. That and requests to "connect" from people I just wasn't that interested in -- it seemed to me that like facebook, they just wanted to have the largest network of friends. I probably don't do networking right, but I couldn't see the value of it. Some people are compelled to use it for work -- so I've heard. And every so often some HR type gets interviewed in Forbes and says something like: "If you're not on LinkedIn, you don't exist."
Why would anyone who could be deployed choose to have children? Don't people even think of this?
I can understand divorce and hospitalisation, as they're (usually) not choices freely made.
Not everybody has a working crystal ball.
Also, as far as young men go in the US at least*, there is mandatory draft registration. Any man in that age range could be deployed. Probably not, but we are talking about predicting the future here**. So, if you're thinking right now if you'd like a kid, you should also be thinking about what could be happening for the next 18 years and nine months in your country and the world.
*Uh oh. I just made a US-centric statement. Is that because of extreme American chauvinism, or is is just because if I attempted to account for every country in the world this post would be ridiculously long and filled with stuff I'd almost certainly be pulling out of my ass?
**A draft in the US is unlikely, since it would make unnecessary wars less palatable.
While thinking about good and bad sci-fi inspired by the success of "Star Wars," I thought about "The Black Hole," an example of the latter. And since I was already using my internet-box-thing, I checked the wikipedia entry. And I came across this gem:
In November 2009, it was reported that Disney has plans to remake the movie. Director Joseph Kosinski (who directed Disney's 2010 blockbuster Tron: Legacy) and producer Sean Bailey are attached to the production,[5][13] and Jon Spaihts, who wrote the original script for the Alien prequel Prometheus, was confirmed as writer for the project on April 5, 2013
Light bulb.
Give this project to Abrams instead -- he can't make it much worse -- and we let Star Wars rest in peace without further damage to the series. Everyone's happy.
The original Star Wars trilogy wasn't great by any objective measure I can think of, it was just a good product of its time with people involved in its production willing to share the characters and stories and build on the world.
What objective measures of art, or even film specifically, can you think of? If you say, "Amalgamation of movie critic and audience reviews" then I'll say "No, by those measures, the first Star Wars trilogy, and "The Empire Strikes Back" in particular, were great. Check out Rotten Tomatoes, IMDB, or whatever if you like. They compare favorably with Casablanca, what do you want, Citizen Kane*?"
But I don't think that's what you meant. I believe that you just hoped we'd accept what you'd said, "The original Star Wars trilogy wasn't great by any objective measure," without thinking WTF an "objective measure" might mean in this case.
*Despite the fact that Citizen Kane is often called something like "best movie ever" and similar, it's actually entertaining -- you should watch it sometime.
And anyone can take 2 hours, boil some water, add grains, hops...add yeast and let it sit for 2 weeks, bottle and let sit for 10 days and you can have 5-11% abv beer.
If I had a nickel for every time I heard someone say: "I'm gonna get soooo drunk three and a half weeks from now . . . I'd be broke.
But... I just brewed 5 gallons of hooch mead inside of a month. Drinking 3 glasses of the stuff is better than Nyquil, and way tastier.
Alcohol production is stupid easy. Sugars + yeast + sanitized brewing vessel + time = get 'er drunk.
I assume that on your list of motivations for doing this -- a list that probably includes but is not limited to, fun, a sense of accomplishment, curiosity, a feeling of independence, pride -- avoiding the taxes levied on Thunderbird is way, way down there, right?
Heroin withdrawal is not fatal. Alcohol, benzodiazepines, and barbiturates are the three drug classes with life threatening withdrawal syndromes. Heroin withdrawal is still extraordinarily unpleasant, but it's not deadly.
Benzos? Why, he asked seriously? Suicide risk or seizures? Knowing lots of people on long-term benzos, that's kind of alarming, to say the least, that they're in your top three for withdr^B^B^B^B^B^B discontinuation problems.
This place hasn't done anything worth it since what? 1977?
You're thinking of the parent company, Lucasfilm. TFA is about LucasArts, the videogame division.
And even if we were discussing Lucasfilm, and even if you're a die-hard Ewok hater, you're still neglecting "The Empire Strikes Back," "Raiders of the Lost Ark," "Temple of Doom," "Last Crusade" . ..
Not to say that it's not true but how many workers have ever come out and admitted that they dug their own companies grave through laziness and incompetence?
I know I'm being trolled by an AC, but here I go anyway . . .
Even if a company's going down the tubes due to an incompetent and lazy workforce, it's still a management failure for poor hiring decisions in the first place and/or not firing poor employees when appropriate. A poor workman blames his tools.
Those were the days. Cars, houses, plows, flour, medicines to "restore female regularity" . . . Sears had it all.
If you get a chance to see it, the National Archives has a short film by the Ford Motion Picture Laboratories Educational Weekly series about prefab houses like the Sears House. "Home Made," from 1919, shows a young engaged couple deciding to buy a prefab house, shows the manufacturing processes behind it, and finally the on-site construction. It even has the cute "calendar page tear-off" device to indicate the passage of time.
It inspired Buster Keaton, who did his own take -- including the calendar gimmick -- in a short: One Week (1920). That one's worth the 19 minutes of your time to see.
My novelty reprint of the "1897 Sears Catalog" lists dozens of buggies, phaetons, wagons, surreys, traps and road carts available to be crated at the factory and drop-shipped. They promise a 5 day order turn-around at the factory, and freight-shipment by rail or boat to your nearest depot/port/etc. Getting your crated vehicle unpacked , assembled and back home is your problem, I guess. But anyplace big enough for a depot probably is big enough for carriage repair shop, I guess.
They really were the Amazon of their day. Or vice-versa. There's a pun in there somewhere.
But, see, how else is google going to push their unwanted social network on us(besides bugging you every time you watch a youtube video, modifying your search results to promote google+ results, emailing all gmail users, and never shutting up about it)?
I ended up deleting my youtube account just to make the pestering stop. I didn't really need an account, I only used it to bookmark video producers I liked. And the google+ signup required for hangout just moved me away from google talk. Really, I just got rid of a "social network," I don't want another, even one that I don't use -- or don't use on purpose. Who knows what google might decide to post for me? And if I don't check, I wouldn't know. So I figured it was a maintenance hassle on my part.
Gtalk was nice. I could sent gvoice calls to my PC. When cell service got bad in my neighborhood, that was really handy. But not worth the hassle now. I know, I know, this is slashdot, and someone will call me "entitled" for stating what I want, as if my wishes had the force of law or something.
Who cares if IBM's keyboard didn't "give them" a single key? Pick one that's essentially unused on a personal computer. SysRq, Scroll Lock, Pause/Break? I don't care. Actually, I don't care that they sued Ctrl-Alt-Del. I certainly never dropped a user manual on my keyboard that hit those three keys accidentally. I'm sure everyone here has a list of far worse design mistakes in Windows more serious than: "Why does the old reset pattern let me log in?" First one that comes to my find is "Why do I click 'Start' to stop?"
And thus, instead of teaching our children to act responsibly, we can just erase their ferk ups with a simple click potentially hiding people with low moral values.
I guarantee that you have done more than one thing incredibly stupid looking but harmless, that had it been captured in picture or video by your friends and shared online would make you much less employable. What's that? You don't remember doing anything like that? Yeah, that's the point.
That's stupid. If you've got too many good applicants just pick a random subset to review and throw the rest in the bin. Once you find a good candidate you can stop reviewing. You don't need to make up reasons to reject everyone else.
HR people have bosses. Bosses like reasons. Bosses like scientificky sounding winnowing processes. They can still be "random," but they need to sound like they aren't. You generally don't brag to the boss that you printed the resumes, tossed them down the stairs and interviewed the "top five."
People who use this type of thing just to cut down the pool are fucking morons. If you can't rank applicants objectively then just pick one at random and move on.
Weeding them out by tossing all those with stupid youtube videos is a pretty random method, but can be sold as sensible and scientific to management. In practice, you're doing just what you say, but in a way that makes the bosses happy the way tossing out the As, Cs, Es, Gs, etc. won't.
Also, I'm not fully convinced that HR departments aren't full of "fucking morons," or at least ordinary people who know that that's the appearance you need to project to keep your job.
This is a trend that has been going on more-or-less continuously since the J. Edgar Hoover administration and will continue to go on long after you die of old age.
I honestly can't tell if you're implying that Hoover, the first FBI director, was really the man pulling the strings of one or more US Presidents, or if you meant to type "Herbert Hoover".
It's not the DEA that thinks that, it's 'SOMEONE' in the DEA. DEA is not a sentient being.
An organization is more than the sum of its members. It is also rules, bylaws, tradition, hierarchy, property and money, a charter, etc. You don't need to look further than an ant hill to see an example.
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Plugging your info into a public website makes that info public.
And therein lies the problem. Allegedly, it's for business and employment "networking". But if no one can see your info, you can't "network" with them and they can't with you. If you're hoping that an employer might come along, see you as a potential candidate and give you a call, then you can't hide your resume under a bushel.
In reality, I don't know if anyone actually finds a job or other opportunity that way. All I ever experienced was seeing current and former colleagues bragging about promotions and other BS. That and requests to "connect" from people I just wasn't that interested in -- it seemed to me that like facebook, they just wanted to have the largest network of friends. I probably don't do networking right, but I couldn't see the value of it. Some people are compelled to use it for work -- so I've heard. And every so often some HR type gets interviewed in Forbes and says something like: "If you're not on LinkedIn, you don't exist."
Isn't it about time that this guy and Todd Akin just get a room, already, and make out.
FTA: " Google could be fined a maximum of €150,000 (US$202,562), or €300,000 for a second offense"
TFA isn't clear if there's anything more than that on a 3rd, 4th . . . Nth offense. If the max is 450k, that's just a cost of doing business to them.
Why would anyone who could be deployed choose to have children? Don't people even think of this?
I can understand divorce and hospitalisation, as they're (usually) not choices freely made.
Not everybody has a working crystal ball.
Also, as far as young men go in the US at least*, there is mandatory draft registration. Any man in that age range could be deployed. Probably not, but we are talking about predicting the future here**. So, if you're thinking right now if you'd like a kid, you should also be thinking about what could be happening for the next 18 years and nine months in your country and the world.
*Uh oh. I just made a US-centric statement. Is that because of extreme American chauvinism, or is is just because if I attempted to account for every country in the world this post would be ridiculously long and filled with stuff I'd almost certainly be pulling out of my ass?
**A draft in the US is unlikely, since it would make unnecessary wars less palatable.
"Harry Potter" did it right. They did the series of novels, in sequence, and then stopped. There's no "Hogwarts, the Next Generation".
Yet. . .
Okay, bear with me.
While thinking about good and bad sci-fi inspired by the success of "Star Wars," I thought about "The Black Hole," an example of the latter. And since I was already using my internet-box-thing, I checked the wikipedia entry. And I came across this gem:
In November 2009, it was reported that Disney has plans to remake the movie. Director Joseph Kosinski (who directed Disney's 2010 blockbuster Tron: Legacy) and producer Sean Bailey are attached to the production,[5][13] and Jon Spaihts, who wrote the original script for the Alien prequel Prometheus, was confirmed as writer for the project on April 5, 2013
Light bulb.
Give this project to Abrams instead -- he can't make it much worse -- and we let Star Wars rest in peace without further damage to the series. Everyone's happy.
The original Star Wars trilogy wasn't great by any objective measure I can think of, it was just a good product of its time with people involved in its production willing to share the characters and stories and build on the world.
What objective measures of art, or even film specifically, can you think of? If you say, "Amalgamation of movie critic and audience reviews" then I'll say "No, by those measures, the first Star Wars trilogy, and "The Empire Strikes Back" in particular, were great. Check out Rotten Tomatoes, IMDB, or whatever if you like. They compare favorably with Casablanca, what do you want, Citizen Kane*?"
But I don't think that's what you meant. I believe that you just hoped we'd accept what you'd said, "The original Star Wars trilogy wasn't great by any objective measure," without thinking WTF an "objective measure" might mean in this case.
*Despite the fact that Citizen Kane is often called something like "best movie ever" and similar, it's actually entertaining -- you should watch it sometime.
Taxi Driver?
Jodi Foster. 13. Nicely done.
And anyone can take 2 hours, boil some water, add grains, hops...add yeast and let it sit for 2 weeks, bottle and let sit for 10 days and you can have 5-11% abv beer.
If I had a nickel for every time I heard someone say: "I'm gonna get soooo drunk three and a half weeks from now . . . I'd be broke.
But... I just brewed 5 gallons of hooch mead inside of a month. Drinking 3 glasses of the stuff is better than Nyquil, and way tastier.
Alcohol production is stupid easy. Sugars + yeast + sanitized brewing vessel + time = get 'er drunk.
I assume that on your list of motivations for doing this -- a list that probably includes but is not limited to, fun, a sense of accomplishment, curiosity, a feeling of independence, pride -- avoiding the taxes levied on Thunderbird is way, way down there, right?
Heroin withdrawal is not fatal. Alcohol, benzodiazepines, and barbiturates are the three drug classes with life threatening withdrawal syndromes. Heroin withdrawal is still extraordinarily unpleasant, but it's not deadly.
Benzos? Why, he asked seriously? Suicide risk or seizures? Knowing lots of people on long-term benzos, that's kind of alarming, to say the least, that they're in your top three for withdr^B^B^B^B^B^B discontinuation problems.
This place hasn't done anything worth it since what? 1977?
You're thinking of the parent company, Lucasfilm. TFA is about LucasArts, the videogame division.
And even if we were discussing Lucasfilm, and even if you're a die-hard Ewok hater, you're still neglecting "The Empire Strikes Back," "Raiders of the Lost Ark," "Temple of Doom," "Last Crusade" . . .
Not to say that it's not true but how many workers have ever come out and admitted that they dug their own companies grave through laziness and incompetence?
I know I'm being trolled by an AC, but here I go anyway . . .
Even if a company's going down the tubes due to an incompetent and lazy workforce, it's still a management failure for poor hiring decisions in the first place and/or not firing poor employees when appropriate. A poor workman blames his tools.
They even sold entire houses.
Those were the days. Cars, houses, plows, flour, medicines to "restore female regularity" . . . Sears had it all.
If you get a chance to see it, the National Archives has a short film by the Ford Motion Picture Laboratories Educational Weekly series about prefab houses like the Sears House. "Home Made," from 1919, shows a young engaged couple deciding to buy a prefab house, shows the manufacturing processes behind it, and finally the on-site construction. It even has the cute "calendar page tear-off" device to indicate the passage of time.
It inspired Buster Keaton, who did his own take -- including the calendar gimmick -- in a short: One Week (1920). That one's worth the 19 minutes of your time to see.
My novelty reprint of the "1897 Sears Catalog" lists dozens of buggies, phaetons, wagons, surreys, traps and road carts available to be crated at the factory and drop-shipped. They promise a 5 day order turn-around at the factory, and freight-shipment by rail or boat to your nearest depot/port/etc. Getting your crated vehicle unpacked , assembled and back home is your problem, I guess. But anyplace big enough for a depot probably is big enough for carriage repair shop, I guess.
They really were the Amazon of their day. Or vice-versa. There's a pun in there somewhere.
But, see, how else is google going to push their unwanted social network on us(besides bugging you every time you watch a youtube video, modifying your search results to promote google+ results, emailing all gmail users, and never shutting up about it)?
I ended up deleting my youtube account just to make the pestering stop. I didn't really need an account, I only used it to bookmark video producers I liked. And the google+ signup required for hangout just moved me away from google talk. Really, I just got rid of a "social network," I don't want another, even one that I don't use -- or don't use on purpose. Who knows what google might decide to post for me? And if I don't check, I wouldn't know. So I figured it was a maintenance hassle on my part.
Gtalk was nice. I could sent gvoice calls to my PC. When cell service got bad in my neighborhood, that was really handy. But not worth the hassle now. I know, I know, this is slashdot, and someone will call me "entitled" for stating what I want, as if my wishes had the force of law or something.
Who cares if IBM's keyboard didn't "give them" a single key? Pick one that's essentially unused on a personal computer. SysRq, Scroll Lock, Pause/Break? I don't care. Actually, I don't care that they sued Ctrl-Alt-Del. I certainly never dropped a user manual on my keyboard that hit those three keys accidentally. I'm sure everyone here has a list of far worse design mistakes in Windows more serious than: "Why does the old reset pattern let me log in?" First one that comes to my find is "Why do I click 'Start' to stop?"
And thus, instead of teaching our children to act responsibly, we can just erase their ferk ups with a simple click potentially hiding people with low moral values.
I guarantee that you have done more than one thing incredibly stupid looking but harmless, that had it been captured in picture or video by your friends and shared online would make you much less employable. What's that? You don't remember doing anything like that? Yeah, that's the point.
That's stupid. If you've got too many good applicants just pick a random subset to review and throw the rest in the bin. Once you find a good candidate you can stop reviewing. You don't need to make up reasons to reject everyone else.
HR people have bosses. Bosses like reasons. Bosses like scientificky sounding winnowing processes. They can still be "random," but they need to sound like they aren't. You generally don't brag to the boss that you printed the resumes, tossed them down the stairs and interviewed the "top five."
Since it's a law, presumably these sites can be prosecuted under those laws, and they are prosecuted by the government.
Only if the site is in California. This is why laws passed by one country, or bit of a country, cannot regulate the internet.
As someone has already pointed out, they can't regulate the internet, but they can regulate facebook . . .
And no, incorporating in Delaware or the Cayman Islands won't change that. I already tried it to get out of speeding tickets, didn't work.
People who use this type of thing just to cut down the pool are fucking morons. If you can't rank applicants objectively then just pick one at random and move on.
Weeding them out by tossing all those with stupid youtube videos is a pretty random method, but can be sold as sensible and scientific to management. In practice, you're doing just what you say, but in a way that makes the bosses happy the way tossing out the As, Cs, Es, Gs, etc. won't.
Also, I'm not fully convinced that HR departments aren't full of "fucking morons," or at least ordinary people who know that that's the appearance you need to project to keep your job.
even if you did not know the car you bought was stollen.
It's hard to imagine that anyone with a working nose and taste buds wouldn't notice pretty soon that their car was stollen.
Trying to conflate an organization with a person is just retarded.
Thank you for your considered and thoughtful response.
This is a trend that has been going on more-or-less continuously since the J. Edgar Hoover administration and will continue to go on long after you die of old age.
I honestly can't tell if you're implying that Hoover, the first FBI director, was really the man pulling the strings of one or more US Presidents, or if you meant to type "Herbert Hoover".
It's not the DEA that thinks that, it's 'SOMEONE' in the DEA. DEA is not a sentient being.
An organization is more than the sum of its members. It is also rules, bylaws, tradition, hierarchy, property and money, a charter, etc. You don't need to look further than an ant hill to see an example.