No one actually quits, they just switch from smoking to vaping.
I thought you were onto some interesting subtleties that are being missed in the discussion.
And sometimes back and forth as money permits (or doesn't).
And then I realized you weren't. *sigh*
If you want to solve the problem of smoking, your best bet is to keep your ideas and voice completely out of it. You are so wrong that you have wrapped back around again and almost became right. Just wow.:)
Meanwhile, we have a vaping epidemic hitting schools. Are we going to do this all over again?
Well that settles it. There is a vaping epidemic. The way to stop it is to ban it! Go go gadget ban hammer!
Do you have ANY idea how idiotic that sounds?
I think there are some questions to be answered before we decide to act without thinking. BAN THEM ALLLLLLLLLL aryoooooooooooooo
Why are the kids vaping? What is the nicotine content of their vape? Would these kids have started smoking if vapes had not been available? Is the vaping hurting them?
I dunno. I would think that we should know the answers to some of these questions before we decide on an action. Getting all medieval on vapes because it replaces smoking without all of the other nasty products inherent in burning organics is like hating on Solar Power because it provides energy just like coal power does. (but the pathways to energy are entirely different! doesn't matter, they both provide electricity; therefore solar must be as bad as coal!)
Both cigarettes and vapes can provide nicotine; therefore, smoking and vaping are equivalent!
If all smokers switched to vape tomorrow, would there be a massive overall improvement in health? Of course there would be.
Yes, but they would risk being lost in giant vape-clouds of hipster douche-baggery -- a great detriment of the rest of us.:-)
The nice thing about cig smokers who vape, they know that any "clouds" coming out is wasted nicotine, so when a smoker is vaping, there are zero clouds.
I vape all the time in public. Not a single person has noticed. I have not smoked a single cigarette in two weeks now. The reason this has been a successful experiment so far is that the vape device I am using is a super-tiny device that is hidden in the palm of my hand and it feels a bit like a pacifier.
It is the pacifier aspect that has made vaping a viable alternative to smoking cigarettes. I have half a dozen vape devices and none of them were useful until I found this itty bitty little device that I can use at ANY time and nobody notices. Yes, I even vaped at a kids birthday party last week. Nobody noticed or cared.
The real problem comes when the two worlds mix: you buy a piece of software that is offline only but is a time bomb, with expiring license and basically stopping because the local clock got past a point or the remote clock from the authentication server did.
ROFLMAO. This is what recently took down a major drug lord. It is absolutely hilarious.
Gotta get the product out this quarter or the company will fold. Quality Assurance takes time, we don't have time. Quality Assurance takes money.... whoah whoah whoah there cowboy. QA costs money?! Fuck that shit. Release it now. We will fix any bugs later if they impact adoption of the device/thing/product.
I would LOVE to have a powerful, generic (and upgradable) processor/storage/radio package in my pocket, knapsack or attached to my belt or armband, with my own choice of wireless input/output devices.
This will NEVER happen. Too many people are invested in you NOT having it. Back in the late 90s, I did design such a device.:)
I am guessing The Onion will be called a legit news source. Here is an eerie example of their prescience, note that the article was written before any of the shit they mention happened.
Fake News separates people. How do I know you are not generating Fake News right now?
I don't know what the end goal is, but this Fake News thing is an agenda of some sort.
Back in 2008, I had a sudden realization that I misinterpreted. See, the price of rice was going up. Everywhere. The BBC did a VERY extensive story on it and did some researching in the story. Nobody from the farmers to the auction houses, to the end consumer, was benefiting from the rise in price... so where was the money going?
And that is when it hit me. Resources are being gathered. It could just be harvest time, but I felt like something was different. Some people got VERY rich off of the housing debacle that happened. I thought that perhaps the rise in price was a response to the resource gathering in the US through the housing market.
My assumption was that war would start soon. Why else gather resources? I am guessing the war has already started, but it is not as obvious at first because the earliest shots are not fired from guns.
Shit is happening right now, that is all I know. Nothing you hear on the news is reliable, even when they are not actively trying to twist it.
And yeah, I noticed that too. Shit is being stirred radically in relation to Trump. I assume it is the Democrats failing to understand why they lost to him. At least one other poster here gets it in its entirety: Hillary was rejected completely and soundly by the common person. Figure out why instead of throwing a tantrum and flinging it all on Trump. (not saying that Trump is good or bad)
I was going to reply about something being important about your body physically being somewhere, but your comment covers it very well, if slightly narrower than I would have framed it.:)
Problem is all the anti-net neutrality people kept saying we had to get rid of it because it stifles investment, and as soon as its gone we'll enter a golden age where everyone has the most super internet access ever.
No. The anti-net neutrality people wanted network neutrality gone. They said some words about infrastructure or whatever to try and convince you but those words held no meaning for them then and it is obvious that those words have no meaning for them now. They just wanted impediments to vacuuming up money to be removed. Whatever words they had to utter in order to make it so are irrelevant. I have no idea why anyone "believed" these amoral bloodsucking parasites. We all should know that words hold no meaning for them, just money.
I wouldn't even say they lied. They uttered some words in response to other words but the meanings of any of those words is not relevant. How can you lie if you did not intend to deceive?
We all know that Comcast is a huge money oriented business. Most of Comcast doesn't even exist to deal with communications and other things that people give them money for. Most of Comcast exists to ensure that the flow of money is the largest that it could possibly be. The services that they provide to get that money to begin with are irrelevant. The only thing that matters is getting more money. It doesn't matter how, why, who, or anything. Money MUST come in. That is all that matters.
Such a sick way to run a business... and I don't mean "sick" the way it used to mean, as in like "cool" or something. I mean sick as in diseased and dying.
Seriously, very few companies make products because they have a passion for it. Even if a company was started that way, what business schools teach, loses any of that value derived from making a product out of passion.
Somehow or another, this braindead idea seems to have entered into the schools that teach business: A business is about making money, the actual method of making that money is not terribly important, just the act of making money is important. So a car company is not a car company, it is a company that makes money by building cars.
So here we have a company. Its method of making money revolves around... who cares what it revolves around? It doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is refining the process to gouge the maximum amount of money out of the service they provide.
So from this vantage point, what do you think Comcast is going to do if they can devise a way to gouge more money out of people? They will do it.
How do you think the Comcast executives sees the infrastructure that provides their method of making money? It is a cost center. Money should come in, never out, so maintenance will always be perpetually underfunded. Money in, no money out.
This is a hyper-refined veiwpoint that has its uses, but to insist that every executive think like this? Absolute madness. Can you imagine how fucked up the world would be if every business acted like this? Oh wait, we don't need to imagine. I don't like this world.
You're missing the bigger picture. The Russians are not left or right. Their goal is instability in the US. That means making partisan differences worse. Getting the people to vote for governments that cannot function. Divide and conquer is the name of the game. In that respect they will 'support' any side if they know they can use it to stir up trouble. They want Americans to turn on each other.
While you are correct, I think it is much more reasonable to fear the CIA and friends. They are allowed to operate on US soil now and they have been. With a vengeance. The CIA is responsible for more fake news than Russia, Iran, North Korea, and all of the multinational corps combined. But the law that prevented the CIA from acting domestically was removed, with no fanfair. Nobody noticed or thought anything about it. Well, I am sure some noticed, but media-inspired line is: It was a non-event back in 2010 and it is still a non-event. lol, very few people "noticed" the absurd rise in Fake News with the change in directive at the CIA. I am sure there is no causation, but the correlation is very very interesting.:)
now they love him because he fixed an election for Trump.
God damn! If I had only known it was so easy to control people, I could have been President by now. What the fuck people?! Why didn't anyone tell me how easy it is to control millions of people and force them to vote in a particular way?
Fuuuuuccccccck. I am so dumb. I guess I should take comfort in the fact that both parties are dumb too, so I have lots of company. They spent billions of dollars campaigning and such in an effort to sway the vote, and all it took was Julian Assange releasing some information and BAM! Instant Presidency. Wow. Just wow.
I am guessing they are going to be using this technique in the future rather than wasting billions of dollars campaigning?
Not everyone. Just a few vocal idiots who are certain that their world view is correct and that everyone operates on the same principals of justice that they operate on.
The words infamy and perfidy have no meaning associated with them that these people can understand... because they themselves are not that underhanded. But yeah, they are fucking crazy and you are not.
On the other hand, I think the issues of fake information, information overload, and relationship destroying social media comments are all bigger issues.
I think it was around 2010, but before that year, the CIA and other "fuck with people" orgs within the US Government were explicitly prohibited from performing propaganda and other shit on US soil.
Have you noticed the level of fucked up news being reported on since then? I believe I have said something similar in a similar situation: If you create a rabid dog that attacks anything, don't be surprised when it attacks you too. The CIA is a rabid dog and it has been explicitly set loose within the USA. This has only just begun. The amount of misery and suffering we are going to experience is going to make our current times seem idyllic and desirable.
Can you imagine people looking longingly back at the Trump Administration and complaining that they don't have it that good anymore?
Yeah, shit is going to get REALLY bad. The CIA has the technology and wherewithal to actually control the entire country regardless of Presidents and Laws and Courts... and since 2010, they have been grabbing for that control with great enthusiasm.
See an illegal in America doesn't work a job unless a company hires him to begin with. So the real death of the working class isn't Jose from Mexico, it's Bob the CEO from Fuck You, USA who is saying "I'm going to break the law and hire this person and pay them under the table at a severely reduced wage, because fuck America."
Nailed it. Thanks Bob.
But, some of those illegals hang out in front of Home Depot or whatever and craftsmen pick them up at the beginning of the day and return them at the end of the day with a bit of money in their pocket. Illegal Immigration and the Death of the Middle Class are actually pretty deep and complex subjects.
But your original statement is exceedingly useful, so I stand by judgement of "nailed it!". No puns intended.;)
Welcome to the club. I am guessing most people think this is a pretty small club. It is not. Their algorithms are getting a little better though. They seemed to have realized that their original sets of rules essentially made sure a significant portion of the population matches those rules and it wasted their time. Of course, our time being wasted is not even of the slightest concern. No. It was that their time was wasted that caused it to change.
Many are still getting pulled aside, but it seems to be less frequent than before.
Um... why not just get a phone that you can remove all sources of power from? Then, you could still use a cell phone when you are willing to, but not have it communicate in any way when you don't want it to.
This is why Google, Apple, and Samsung all make phones without removable batteries. So you can't actually turn the damned thing off. Ever.
I am still not entirely certain why removing the analog audio port is so important. I am guessing it has something to do with DRM and copying... but that really doesn't make any sense to me since I had to copy the music to the phone to begin with. I guess they assume everyone streams their music from a commercial service?
TL;DR, RMS is an absolutely fucking crazy nutjob. He happens to be right more than he is wrong, so people should pay attention to him... but do NOT treat him like a fucking God or something. Remember, he is an absolutely fucking crazy nutjob.
There has to be something people can use to discriminate amongst potential new hires. Using something random, like the color of their hair, will have no correlation to how they might perform.
There are two main discriminators that can be used. Education is one. A referral is another.
Neither of those two discriminators can guarantee anything. They are to be used as filter for potential candidates. To allow you more time to examine people who have more potential to fit than the average random person.
If you have no discriminators, then you could potentially be evaluating a world class chemist for a janitorial position. If you let the system sort that shit out, it will take forever for that world class chemist to stop being a janitor and start working as a chemist. Inefficient. To speed up the process, discriminators are used.
But then, I have the most eerie fucking Quote of the Day at the bottom of the web page right now: Optimization hinders evolution.
How to balance the Quote of the Day and optimizing hiring practices? A little beyond me at the moment.
I guess my message is: There is no Silver Bullet to the hiring process.
Look dude, they are explicitly looking for people who are like me.
I am curious. I like to see reality. None of the technologies that we have created are really "amazing". All of this shit is basic; however, some is VERY VERY tedious.
As a species, our brains are exceptionally weak when it comes to Understanding. We are dominated by the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
But then there are people like me who reverse the flow of entropy. I study random shit because I have a curiosity about it. I delve in deep into topics until I am looking at raw reality (scary, confusing, truth is not as concrete as we seem think it is). I then reassemble everything from basic reality until I am back where humans live. Once I hit this point, people tend to call me a wizard or say that I can do "deep magic" in relation to whatever topic is at hand.
But on any typical day, like today, all I do is rant about nonsensible and seemingly nonsensical things.
TL;DR, the Real Shit is rarely taught in school. You are merely given a set of tools and let loose into Reality with no effort being given to help you actually understand WTF is going on. You don't need to know, you are just a cog.
But cogs can't think, and even if they could, they wouldn't be able to communicate it.
TL;DR to the TL;DR, The powers that be decided the masses don't need to be able to think for themselves, but the powers that be are in over their heads and they are desperate for help and are willing to look into the uncultivated portions of their gardens for a solution because the answer is explicitly NOT in their cultivated gardens.
I can't say that I am not pleased about how arrogance has come back around, but, I don't live at that level. From me, all I will say is, "that's a shame", and continue on with what doing what I do, hoping beyond hope that certain types of mental disease will disappear or die off.
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No one actually quits, they just switch from smoking to vaping.
I thought you were onto some interesting subtleties that are being missed in the discussion.
And sometimes back and forth as money permits (or doesn't).
And then I realized you weren't. *sigh*
If you want to solve the problem of smoking, your best bet is to keep your ideas and voice completely out of it. You are so wrong that you have wrapped back around again and almost became right. Just wow. :)
Meanwhile, we have a vaping epidemic hitting schools. Are we going to do this all over again?
Well that settles it. There is a vaping epidemic. The way to stop it is to ban it! Go go gadget ban hammer!
Do you have ANY idea how idiotic that sounds?
I think there are some questions to be answered before we decide to act without thinking. BAN THEM ALLLLLLLLLL aryoooooooooooooo
Why are the kids vaping?
What is the nicotine content of their vape?
Would these kids have started smoking if vapes had not been available?
Is the vaping hurting them?
I dunno. I would think that we should know the answers to some of these questions before we decide on an action. Getting all medieval on vapes because it replaces smoking without all of the other nasty products inherent in burning organics is like hating on Solar Power because it provides energy just like coal power does. (but the pathways to energy are entirely different! doesn't matter, they both provide electricity; therefore solar must be as bad as coal!)
Both cigarettes and vapes can provide nicotine; therefore, smoking and vaping are equivalent!
If all smokers switched to vape tomorrow, would there be a massive overall improvement in health? Of course there would be.
Yes, but they would risk being lost in giant vape-clouds of hipster douche-baggery -- a great detriment of the rest of us. :-)
The nice thing about cig smokers who vape, they know that any "clouds" coming out is wasted nicotine, so when a smoker is vaping, there are zero clouds.
I vape all the time in public. Not a single person has noticed. I have not smoked a single cigarette in two weeks now. The reason this has been a successful experiment so far is that the vape device I am using is a super-tiny device that is hidden in the palm of my hand and it feels a bit like a pacifier.
It is the pacifier aspect that has made vaping a viable alternative to smoking cigarettes. I have half a dozen vape devices and none of them were useful until I found this itty bitty little device that I can use at ANY time and nobody notices. Yes, I even vaped at a kids birthday party last week. Nobody noticed or cared.
The real problem comes when the two worlds mix: you buy a piece of software that is offline only but is a time bomb, with expiring license and basically stopping because the local clock got past a point or the remote clock from the authentication server did.
ROFLMAO. This is what recently took down a major drug lord. It is absolutely hilarious.
Future Linux User in 2020
Almost 2020 now bud. Need any advice on getting started? ;)
WTF is with all this rapid-release crap?
Gotta get the product out this quarter or the company will fold. Quality Assurance takes time, we don't have time. Quality Assurance takes money.... whoah whoah whoah there cowboy. QA costs money?! Fuck that shit. Release it now. We will fix any bugs later if they impact adoption of the device/thing/product.
Are you really curious or ...
I would LOVE to have a powerful, generic (and upgradable) processor/storage/radio package in my pocket, knapsack or attached to my belt or armband, with my own choice of wireless input/output devices.
This will NEVER happen. Too many people are invested in you NOT having it. Back in the late 90s, I did design such a device. :)
I am guessing The Onion will be called a legit news source. Here is an eerie example of their prescience, note that the article was written before any of the shit they mention happened.
https://politics.theonion.com/...
Fake News separates people. How do I know you are not generating Fake News right now?
I don't know what the end goal is, but this Fake News thing is an agenda of some sort.
Back in 2008, I had a sudden realization that I misinterpreted. See, the price of rice was going up. Everywhere. The BBC did a VERY extensive story on it and did some researching in the story. Nobody from the farmers to the auction houses, to the end consumer, was benefiting from the rise in price... so where was the money going?
And that is when it hit me. Resources are being gathered. It could just be harvest time, but I felt like something was different. Some people got VERY rich off of the housing debacle that happened. I thought that perhaps the rise in price was a response to the resource gathering in the US through the housing market.
My assumption was that war would start soon. Why else gather resources? I am guessing the war has already started, but it is not as obvious at first because the earliest shots are not fired from guns.
Shit is happening right now, that is all I know. Nothing you hear on the news is reliable, even when they are not actively trying to twist it.
And yeah, I noticed that too. Shit is being stirred radically in relation to Trump. I assume it is the Democrats failing to understand why they lost to him. At least one other poster here gets it in its entirety: Hillary was rejected completely and soundly by the common person. Figure out why instead of throwing a tantrum and flinging it all on Trump. (not saying that Trump is good or bad)
I was going to reply about something being important about your body physically being somewhere, but your comment covers it very well, if slightly narrower than I would have framed it. :)
cunts like you were saying the the Bureau of Labor were fudging the numbers.
And then there are people like me who insist that the numbers are fudged regardless of who is in office. ;)
But I get your point. The OP is not being internally consistent and expects everyone else to blithely ignore that fact. :)
Problem is all the anti-net neutrality people kept saying we had to get rid of it because it stifles investment, and as soon as its gone we'll enter a golden age where everyone has the most super internet access ever.
No. The anti-net neutrality people wanted network neutrality gone. They said some words about infrastructure or whatever to try and convince you but those words held no meaning for them then and it is obvious that those words have no meaning for them now. They just wanted impediments to vacuuming up money to be removed. Whatever words they had to utter in order to make it so are irrelevant. I have no idea why anyone "believed" these amoral bloodsucking parasites. We all should know that words hold no meaning for them, just money.
I wouldn't even say they lied. They uttered some words in response to other words but the meanings of any of those words is not relevant. How can you lie if you did not intend to deceive?
We all know that Comcast is a huge money oriented business. Most of Comcast doesn't even exist to deal with communications and other things that people give them money for. Most of Comcast exists to ensure that the flow of money is the largest that it could possibly be. The services that they provide to get that money to begin with are irrelevant. The only thing that matters is getting more money. It doesn't matter how, why, who, or anything. Money MUST come in. That is all that matters.
Such a sick way to run a business... and I don't mean "sick" the way it used to mean, as in like "cool" or something. I mean sick as in diseased and dying.
Seriously, very few companies make products because they have a passion for it. Even if a company was started that way, what business schools teach, loses any of that value derived from making a product out of passion.
Somehow or another, this braindead idea seems to have entered into the schools that teach business: A business is about making money, the actual method of making that money is not terribly important, just the act of making money is important. So a car company is not a car company, it is a company that makes money by building cars.
So here we have a company. Its method of making money revolves around ... who cares what it revolves around? It doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is refining the process to gouge the maximum amount of money out of the service they provide.
So from this vantage point, what do you think Comcast is going to do if they can devise a way to gouge more money out of people? They will do it.
How do you think the Comcast executives sees the infrastructure that provides their method of making money? It is a cost center. Money should come in, never out, so maintenance will always be perpetually underfunded. Money in, no money out.
This is a hyper-refined veiwpoint that has its uses, but to insist that every executive think like this? Absolute madness. Can you imagine how fucked up the world would be if every business acted like this? Oh wait, we don't need to imagine. I don't like this world.
...
What I tell you three times is true. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
What you are seeing is evidence of that.
Facts don't matter when discussing Truth. Right? ;)
You're missing the bigger picture. The Russians are not left or right. Their goal is instability in the US. That means making partisan differences worse. Getting the people to vote for governments that cannot function. Divide and conquer is the name of the game. In that respect they will 'support' any side if they know they can use it to stir up trouble. They want Americans to turn on each other.
While you are correct, I think it is much more reasonable to fear the CIA and friends. They are allowed to operate on US soil now and they have been. With a vengeance. The CIA is responsible for more fake news than Russia, Iran, North Korea, and all of the multinational corps combined. But the law that prevented the CIA from acting domestically was removed, with no fanfair. Nobody noticed or thought anything about it. Well, I am sure some noticed, but media-inspired line is: It was a non-event back in 2010 and it is still a non-event. lol, very few people "noticed" the absurd rise in Fake News with the change in directive at the CIA. I am sure there is no causation, but the correlation is very very interesting. :)
now they love him because he fixed an election for Trump.
God damn! If I had only known it was so easy to control people, I could have been President by now. What the fuck people?! Why didn't anyone tell me how easy it is to control millions of people and force them to vote in a particular way?
Fuuuuuccccccck. I am so dumb. I guess I should take comfort in the fact that both parties are dumb too, so I have lots of company. They spent billions of dollars campaigning and such in an effort to sway the vote, and all it took was Julian Assange releasing some information and BAM! Instant Presidency. Wow. Just wow.
I am guessing they are going to be using this technique in the future rather than wasting billions of dollars campaigning?
Not everyone. Just a few vocal idiots who are certain that their world view is correct and that everyone operates on the same principals of justice that they operate on.
The words infamy and perfidy have no meaning associated with them that these people can understand... because they themselves are not that underhanded. But yeah, they are fucking crazy and you are not.
On the other hand, I think the issues of fake information, information overload, and relationship destroying social media comments are all bigger issues.
I think it was around 2010, but before that year, the CIA and other "fuck with people" orgs within the US Government were explicitly prohibited from performing propaganda and other shit on US soil.
Have you noticed the level of fucked up news being reported on since then? I believe I have said something similar in a similar situation: If you create a rabid dog that attacks anything, don't be surprised when it attacks you too. The CIA is a rabid dog and it has been explicitly set loose within the USA. This has only just begun. The amount of misery and suffering we are going to experience is going to make our current times seem idyllic and desirable.
Can you imagine people looking longingly back at the Trump Administration and complaining that they don't have it that good anymore?
Yeah, shit is going to get REALLY bad. The CIA has the technology and wherewithal to actually control the entire country regardless of Presidents and Laws and Courts... and since 2010, they have been grabbing for that control with great enthusiasm.
Have a nice day. :)
See an illegal in America doesn't work a job unless a company hires him to begin with. So the real death of the working class isn't Jose from Mexico, it's Bob the CEO from Fuck You, USA who is saying "I'm going to break the law and hire this person and pay them under the table at a severely reduced wage, because fuck America."
Nailed it. Thanks Bob.
But, some of those illegals hang out in front of Home Depot or whatever and craftsmen pick them up at the beginning of the day and return them at the end of the day with a bit of money in their pocket. Illegal Immigration and the Death of the Middle Class are actually pretty deep and complex subjects.
But your original statement is exceedingly useful, so I stand by judgement of "nailed it!". No puns intended. ;)
Welcome to the club. I am guessing most people think this is a pretty small club. It is not. Their algorithms are getting a little better though. They seemed to have realized that their original sets of rules essentially made sure a significant portion of the population matches those rules and it wasted their time. Of course, our time being wasted is not even of the slightest concern. No. It was that their time was wasted that caused it to change.
Many are still getting pulled aside, but it seems to be less frequent than before.
Um... why not just get a phone that you can remove all sources of power from? Then, you could still use a cell phone when you are willing to, but not have it communicate in any way when you don't want it to.
This is why Google, Apple, and Samsung all make phones without removable batteries. So you can't actually turn the damned thing off. Ever.
I am still not entirely certain why removing the analog audio port is so important. I am guessing it has something to do with DRM and copying... but that really doesn't make any sense to me since I had to copy the music to the phone to begin with. I guess they assume everyone streams their music from a commercial service?
TL;DR, RMS is an absolutely fucking crazy nutjob. He happens to be right more than he is wrong, so people should pay attention to him... but do NOT treat him like a fucking God or something. Remember, he is an absolutely fucking crazy nutjob.
There has to be something people can use to discriminate amongst potential new hires. Using something random, like the color of their hair, will have no correlation to how they might perform.
There are two main discriminators that can be used. Education is one. A referral is another.
Neither of those two discriminators can guarantee anything. They are to be used as filter for potential candidates. To allow you more time to examine people who have more potential to fit than the average random person.
If you have no discriminators, then you could potentially be evaluating a world class chemist for a janitorial position. If you let the system sort that shit out, it will take forever for that world class chemist to stop being a janitor and start working as a chemist. Inefficient. To speed up the process, discriminators are used.
But then, I have the most eerie fucking Quote of the Day at the bottom of the web page right now: Optimization hinders evolution.
How to balance the Quote of the Day and optimizing hiring practices? A little beyond me at the moment.
I guess my message is: There is no Silver Bullet to the hiring process.
I like the other response to your words, but I felt the need to offer up this response too:
"We want skilled employees! (who don't cost much)"
later...
*lays off skilled older employees* (because they cost too much)
Look dude, they are explicitly looking for people who are like me.
I am curious. I like to see reality. None of the technologies that we have created are really "amazing". All of this shit is basic; however, some is VERY VERY tedious.
As a species, our brains are exceptionally weak when it comes to Understanding. We are dominated by the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
But then there are people like me who reverse the flow of entropy. I study random shit because I have a curiosity about it. I delve in deep into topics until I am looking at raw reality (scary, confusing, truth is not as concrete as we seem think it is). I then reassemble everything from basic reality until I am back where humans live. Once I hit this point, people tend to call me a wizard or say that I can do "deep magic" in relation to whatever topic is at hand.
But on any typical day, like today, all I do is rant about nonsensible and seemingly nonsensical things.
TL;DR, the Real Shit is rarely taught in school. You are merely given a set of tools and let loose into Reality with no effort being given to help you actually understand WTF is going on. You don't need to know, you are just a cog.
But cogs can't think, and even if they could, they wouldn't be able to communicate it.
TL;DR to the TL;DR, The powers that be decided the masses don't need to be able to think for themselves, but the powers that be are in over their heads and they are desperate for help and are willing to look into the uncultivated portions of their gardens for a solution because the answer is explicitly NOT in their cultivated gardens.
I can't say that I am not pleased about how arrogance has come back around, but, I don't live at that level. From me, all I will say is, "that's a shame", and continue on with what doing what I do, hoping beyond hope that certain types of mental disease will disappear or die off.