Re:unionization = siren song
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Should IT Unionize?
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I consider myself an IT professional, and I got my degree in Japanese Literature.
Awesome. I too consider myself an IT professional, and have a degree in Philosophy. I thought this was rare until last week... had interviews for 2 seperate positions where I met 2 Philosophy grads working in IT. I, for one, think Computer Science grads should stick to the Science (or development or the CIO, CTO, or Chief Archetecture slots) and leave the 'practice' of computers to the experts. They are devaluing their expensive education and helping to drive our salaries down. Do lawyers work as paralegals? Do sugeons take jobs as nurses? Get out of my field, you stupid geniuses!
I mostly agree with parent and GP, unions seem to be unfair to their members when pay/seniority is based on number of years of membership rather than skill or experience... and unionization does seem to drive productivity to a bare minimum. On at least 2 occasions I've turned down positions that require that I join a union (illegal, btw, to require this, though it is common... but there is hardly any law enforcement in labor short of injury). At the same time, however, I hate Walmart for their slimey practices... and I must acknowledge the mysterious devaluing of IT skills since ~2001 (Microsoft's marketing for Active Directory is partially to blame: "use AD, no need for FT IT!"). It sickens me to see jobs that in 2001 paid 65K that are now advertised as $12/hr part-time (and CS degree required, WTF!!). I've read where experts say IT salaries will continue to fall until 2011... Why should skilled IT pull the same pay a non-skilled day laborer makes? I thought unions were a necessity of robber-baron days, but maybe it is time to unionize to stablize our dwindling salaries....
For Parent: thanks for the insight, however, be careful... very few people have sympathy for the wealthy:
A surgeon hires a plumber, and when he sees the bill exclaims "OMG, you make more that I do!" -- to which the plumber responds "Why do you think I quit practicing Medicine?"
One might postulate that our galaxy & its satellites may revolve around the center of gravity of the Local Group of galaxies... but I think that's thought wrong now... apparently all the galaxies are rapidly moving away from each other faster and faster in all directions, as though the universe were flying apart; it seems its expanding from all points (think of raisens in rising dough, or dots drawn on a balloon as its inflated).
And who makes it a requirement to even keep ANY books? Restaurant owners I know keep only a weeks worth of 'books' on tiny scraps of paper... the registers keep only 24 hours of info... the only taxes they pay are on credit card transactions. If you don't keep books, they'll have a heck of a time auditing.
go back a step you were on to something... use solar thermal energy in the baking process to produce solar voltaic cells...
Someday cells might be so efficient, a way to harness unused solar collected energy centrally might be developed, and the MIT dream of paying you money to take a new (solar micro energy plant) laptop might become a reality.
Any correllation to age is overshadowed by missing a very cool UID by 11. (some other notables: 42, 69, 86, 365, 409, 711, 911, 1337, 8008, 112358, 1618033, 3141592, 8675309, 27182818, 10100111001, etc.)
how does the iphone use youtube if it doesn't use flash?
Apple convinced YouTube to switch formats, since H.264 is superior at compression and quality, YouTube agreed. Apple (I heard) is helping YouTube convert all their old stock to H.264. All that newer higher quality stuff is H.264, but in browsers the player is still flash.
Once YouTube abandons Flash for content, the question remains why (should YouTube) use it for anything? The open source players are phenomenal, and YouTube being a Google joint now, I half expect them to switch their required (or recommended) plugin to mplayer or vlc.
Lucas frames any adventures of Jones by using an unmentioned feature of the franchise. The movie titleing more than insinuates that the story comes from the pages of comics. If something is drawn fantastic enough, anything is possible in comics. Unfortunately, there is no previous comic hero or stories of Indy's adventures that we all grew up reading or collecting. Also, use of titleing as a replacement for a true literary frame will be often missed because no one talks about the covers of books (or movie posters or movie titleing). Generally, the cover of a book isn't part of the story it contains. But with comics it usually is.
Now this, I know, is true. I have this old friend, known him forever so despite his character flaws, he's sort of like a brother. He looks like Brad Pitt, but according to my mother, my sister (former quite successful model), my female cousins, every girlfriend I've ever had, much better looking than Brad. Broke, sure. Total fucking sociopath. Intelligent, but no concept of morality... a psycological egoist. He can sure get girls... unbelievably hot girls. But he can't keep them. His longest relationship was his marriage, and that lasted all of 4 months. So, while I believe the story is true, I take it with a grain of salt.
yeah, but you can certainly fiix that easily with money. Take a comedy class, get good at it... personality and being funny trumps all. Remember, while you almost never see an ugly or overweight woman with a handsome man (unless they married young and he is that rarest of breeds of men, i.e. decent), you will often see ugly or obese men with drop dead gorgeous women. Again, being funny trumps all.
The irony is, most women, even the beautiful ones, don't care about looks. Evolutionarily speaking, all they want is a good provider, fat, ugly, stupid, disagreable, whatever. So it sucks that my good looks, trim physique, high intelligence and friendly nature count for nothing because I'm so poor.
You are. You're protected by free speech right up until the person jumps, and then you lose that protection. If you create circumstances to incite a crime, you can't use free speech as a defense. This has been decided long ago and upheld by the Supreme Court [citation needed].
Thanks for posting, most others seem to think it was a single act that brought the charges, and that isn't true. There is such a thing as felony harrassment, and currently there are a few MySpace felony harrassment cases being prosecuted. This case seems particularly heiness, so maybe prosectors believe that its just not a strong enough charge... they want blood. I don't know the details, but I think its likely this is one of the "lesser included charges." Lying, apparently, is protected by free speech, unless it causes someone to commit a crime, or causes mass panic (yelling "FIRE" in a crowded theater isn't protected). If it wasn't suicide but theft or murder that was committed, apparently, it'd be clearer that these instances of lying were not protected and couldn't be used as a defense. It seems like proving intent in this case shouldn't be too difficult, i.e. lies with the intention to cause misery, and once they do that, even if suicide wasn't the intent, it doesn't matter... misery, in many people, is enough to cause suicidal thoughts. Causing misery is harmful, and using speech to cause intense misery shouldn't be protected.
LOL OK, I'm pretty sure that although there is some life that tolerates high temperatures and the other nastiness, most life as we know it gets killed off... I have no references, but I think I saw on History channel that some mass underwater extinctions were caused by underwater volcanic activity.[citation needed]
well... let's assume I buy a new machine abroad, and there have broadband access, say 20Gb of data stored in several gmail accounts. It takes awile... a few to several hours I'd think. Grabbing 10MB (even a few 10MB at a time) off gmail is not instantaneous. But its a small price to pay for confounding those that would unjustly put me under scrutiny or mess with my privacy.
As heat increases, density decreases due to increased movement of the particles.
Well, ignoring the substance of your question (because I'm not sure either... pressure I'd guess), let's also remember water is weird, and the opposite occurs... as heat decreases, yes, water becomes more dense (cold water sinks in warmer water)... until it freezes, and then it becomes less dense (ice floats).
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I consider myself an IT professional, and I got my degree in Japanese Literature.
Awesome. I too consider myself an IT professional, and have a degree in Philosophy. I thought this was rare until last week... had interviews for 2 seperate positions where I met 2 Philosophy grads working in IT. I, for one, think Computer Science grads should stick to the Science (or development or the CIO, CTO, or Chief Archetecture slots) and leave the 'practice' of computers to the experts. They are devaluing their expensive education and helping to drive our salaries down. Do lawyers work as paralegals? Do sugeons take jobs as nurses? Get out of my field, you stupid geniuses!
I mostly agree with parent and GP, unions seem to be unfair to their members when pay/seniority is based on number of years of membership rather than skill or experience... and unionization does seem to drive productivity to a bare minimum. On at least 2 occasions I've turned down positions that require that I join a union (illegal, btw, to require this, though it is common... but there is hardly any law enforcement in labor short of injury). At the same time, however, I hate Walmart for their slimey practices... and I must acknowledge the mysterious devaluing of IT skills since ~2001 (Microsoft's marketing for Active Directory is partially to blame: "use AD, no need for FT IT!"). It sickens me to see jobs that in 2001 paid 65K that are now advertised as $12/hr part-time (and CS degree required, WTF!!). I've read where experts say IT salaries will continue to fall until 2011... Why should skilled IT pull the same pay a non-skilled day laborer makes? I thought unions were a necessity of robber-baron days, but maybe it is time to unionize to stablize our dwindling salaries....
For Parent: thanks for the insight, however, be careful... very few people have sympathy for the wealthy:
A surgeon hires a plumber, and when he sees the bill exclaims "OMG, you make more that I do!" -- to which the plumber responds "Why do you think I quit practicing Medicine?"
One might postulate that our galaxy & its satellites may revolve around the center of gravity of the Local Group of galaxies... but I think that's thought wrong now... apparently all the galaxies are rapidly moving away from each other faster and faster in all directions, as though the universe were flying apart; it seems its expanding from all points (think of raisens in rising dough, or dots drawn on a balloon as its inflated).
They didn't skip it. The secondary mirror is actually the reflection of the tertiary mirror in the primary mirror.
SMS is expensive... and a gimmick. There are far better FREE mobile messinging techs out there, but it is still insanely popular.
1) Why do people still use SMS?
2) When will they stop, and stfu already?
And who makes it a requirement to even keep ANY books? Restaurant owners I know keep only a weeks worth of 'books' on tiny scraps of paper... the registers keep only 24 hours of info... the only taxes they pay are on credit card transactions. If you don't keep books, they'll have a heck of a time auditing.
A: Because in the US alone there's about 3200 train accidents a year... no matter how fast they're moving.
forgot one
http://www.netbsd.org/
sure, and variants, 55378008, you get the idea, there are others, 2600, 8808, 68030, ...
go back a step you were on to something... use solar thermal energy in the baking process to produce solar voltaic cells...
Someday cells might be so efficient, a way to harness unused solar collected energy centrally might be developed, and the MIT dream of paying you money to take a new (solar micro energy plant) laptop might become a reality.
Any correllation to age is overshadowed by missing a very cool UID by 11. (some other notables: 42, 69, 86, 365, 409, 711, 911, 1337, 8008, 112358, 1618033, 3141592, 8675309, 27182818, 10100111001, etc.)
how does the iphone use youtube if it doesn't use flash?
Apple convinced YouTube to switch formats, since H.264 is superior at compression and quality, YouTube agreed. Apple (I heard) is helping YouTube convert all their old stock to H.264. All that newer higher quality stuff is H.264, but in browsers the player is still flash.
Once YouTube abandons Flash for content, the question remains why (should YouTube) use it for anything? The open source players are phenomenal, and YouTube being a Google joint now, I half expect them to switch their required (or recommended) plugin to mplayer or vlc.
Lucas frames any adventures of Jones by using an unmentioned feature of the franchise. The movie titleing more than insinuates that the story comes from the pages of comics. If something is drawn fantastic enough, anything is possible in comics. Unfortunately, there is no previous comic hero or stories of Indy's adventures that we all grew up reading or collecting. Also, use of titleing as a replacement for a true literary frame will be often missed because no one talks about the covers of books (or movie posters or movie titleing). Generally, the cover of a book isn't part of the story it contains. But with comics it usually is.
Too bad Apple didn't think to give them some other form of compensation... like discounts on hardware/software or maybe a free iPhone.
Now this, I know, is true. I have this old friend, known him forever so despite his character flaws, he's sort of like a brother. He looks like Brad Pitt, but according to my mother, my sister (former quite successful model), my female cousins, every girlfriend I've ever had, much better looking than Brad. Broke, sure. Total fucking sociopath. Intelligent, but no concept of morality... a psycological egoist. He can sure get girls... unbelievably hot girls. But he can't keep them. His longest relationship was his marriage, and that lasted all of 4 months. So, while I believe the story is true, I take it with a grain of salt.
yeah, but you can certainly fiix that easily with money. Take a comedy class, get good at it... personality and being funny trumps all. Remember, while you almost never see an ugly or overweight woman with a handsome man (unless they married young and he is that rarest of breeds of men, i.e. decent), you will often see ugly or obese men with drop dead gorgeous women. Again, being funny trumps all.
The irony is, most women, even the beautiful ones, don't care about looks. Evolutionarily speaking, all they want is a good provider, fat, ugly, stupid, disagreable, whatever. So it sucks that my good looks, trim physique, high intelligence and friendly nature count for nothing because I'm so poor.
TFA is deliciously vague. I need something similar for my CRF cat. Where is the howto link?
the problem is the Digg hoard keeps coming back!
You are. You're protected by free speech right up until the person jumps, and then you lose that protection. If you create circumstances to incite a crime, you can't use free speech as a defense. This has been decided long ago and upheld by the Supreme Court [citation needed].
Thanks for posting, most others seem to think it was a single act that brought the charges, and that isn't true. There is such a thing as felony harrassment, and currently there are a few MySpace felony harrassment cases being prosecuted. This case seems particularly heiness, so maybe prosectors believe that its just not a strong enough charge... they want blood. I don't know the details, but I think its likely this is one of the "lesser included charges." Lying, apparently, is protected by free speech, unless it causes someone to commit a crime, or causes mass panic (yelling "FIRE" in a crowded theater isn't protected). If it wasn't suicide but theft or murder that was committed, apparently, it'd be clearer that these instances of lying were not protected and couldn't be used as a defense. It seems like proving intent in this case shouldn't be too difficult, i.e. lies with the intention to cause misery, and once they do that, even if suicide wasn't the intent, it doesn't matter... misery, in many people, is enough to cause suicidal thoughts. Causing misery is harmful, and using speech to cause intense misery shouldn't be protected.
LOL
OK, I'm pretty sure that although there is some life that tolerates high temperatures and the other nastiness, most life as we know it gets killed off... I have no references, but I think I saw on History channel that some mass underwater extinctions were caused by underwater volcanic activity.[citation needed]
well... let's assume I buy a new machine abroad, and there have broadband access, say 20Gb of data stored in several gmail accounts. It takes awile... a few to several hours I'd think. Grabbing 10MB (even a few 10MB at a time) off gmail is not instantaneous. But its a small price to pay for confounding those that would unjustly put me under scrutiny or mess with my privacy.
With over 75% of the earth being water,
Uh... if that were true there wouldn't be enough gravity to have an Earth. Its only the surface that is mostly covered with water.
As heat increases, density decreases due to increased movement of the particles.
Well, ignoring the substance of your question (because I'm not sure either... pressure I'd guess), let's also remember water is weird, and the opposite occurs... as heat decreases, yes, water becomes more dense (cold water sinks in warmer water)... until it freezes, and then it becomes less dense (ice floats).