When I became a lead video game tester in 2001, I knew I was in a dead end job and I would change jobs in three years. I saw a study at that time that showed that skilled IT professionals would be in high demand as baby boomers retire en masse and Southeast Asian workers will return home en masse. So I went back to school to learn computer programming and got into the IT field. Since the Great Recession in 2008, quite a few baby boomers didn't get the memo that they needed to retire and/or drop dead. Thanks to Trump the Southeast Asian workers will be returning home. I'm looking forward to making more money for the next 30 years until I retire.
The Longmire TV show had an episode where a white male suspect questioned in a firebombing and missing person case took the law into his own hand by pulling out a gun and kidnapping a black male from a bar. The barkeep signaled to another person not to draw his holstered gun. When the barkeep and police caught up with him, he told everyone not to shoot because he was helping the police capture a suspect in the case. He was confused as to why he ended up in jail and the black male was let go for not being a suspect.
I suspect this scenario might happen more often in real life for the next four years.
The Stein campaign was complaining bitterly about the cost of asking for the Wisconsin recount, so I'd be surprised if there were significant additional costs there.
I came across an article that suggested that the powers to be are jacking up the costs to discourage the recount. Meanwhile, a Republican in Nevada requested a recount and it got done with minimal amount of fuss.
Getting a job at one of these place is like getting into Harvard or winning the lottery both in terms of difficulty and in terms of how it sets you up for the rest of your career.
The easiest way to get a job at Google is to get a contract support position. I never went to high school and only had a pair of associate degrees to my name when I worked at Google in help desk and data centers. Except for the roasted duck and mac-and-cheese on Fridays, Google was no different than any other Fortune 500 company I worked for.
An education. Paying rent or buying books was a huge problem during my first tour through college in the 1990's. That was before textbook publishers decided that books should cost more than the classes.
During my first tour through college, I typically worked 30 hours per week at the college bookstore. I probably made no more than $10K per year and paid zero in income taxes. Mostly because the county never took out taxes from the monthly paycheck (a huge problem for the regular staff as they needed to sit aside money for taxes) and the amount fell below the threshold for taxable income.
Just barely enough to live off of in my area, if full time, but not if paying for classes at the same time.
When I went back to school to learn computer programming at community college, my education was free thanks to a $3,000 tax credit that George W. signed into law, I was working 60 hours per week as a lead video game tester and made the college president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in major. It really depends on how badly you want it.
When I accepted an QA internship for $10 per hour in 1997, I doubled my income from the minimum-wage restaurant job that I had for three years after college.
CEO earns 10x what I do but does he work 10 times as hard?
When I worked at Cisco in October 2013, my contract came up during an announced layoff period and my boss was prevented from renewing my contract. The CEO got a 60% raise for having a lousy fiscal year. I was unemployed for eight months, had 60 job interviews, and had three job offers pending when I accepted my current position in government IT.
A salary that is comfy in Kansas will have you sleeping in a van in Silicon Valley.
Not quite. I live in Silicon Valley and rent a studio apartment. Depending on how much IT contract work I do in a year, I make $30K to $50K. Silicon Valley can get very expensive in a hurry if you want a big house, big cars, big women and big kids. A modest lifestyle is doable in Silicon Valley if you don't mind your coworkers thinking that you're poor.
I'm calling BS on Silicon Valley having a well-developed transit system.
I live in San Jose and work in Palo Alto. Most mornings it takes me exactly one hour from my front door to take a local bus down the street, pick up the express bus to Palo Alto, and another local bus to the front door of my workplace. The afternoon commute is one to two hours long, depending on 280 traffic. Or four hours if a gravel truck spills across all lanes like it did a few months ago.
VTA transit routes (e.g., the transit agency responsible for mess that is silicon valley) have decided that the only viable transit corridors/routes are south san jose to downtown san jose and mountain view to cisco (aka north-sanjose).
That's correct. Homes in the South and jobs in the North determined the transit lines back in the 1980's. VTA was supposed to have a half-dozen East-West light rail lines but those were never built. When San Carlos got shutdown as a street through San Jose State University in the 1990's, the county built the foundations and covered it up with 18 inches of top soil for a future light rail line. The only major East-West line being built is the BART extension from Fremont.
Santa Clara (in the heart of Silicon valley)
Santa Clara (Intel) haven't been the heart of Silicon Valley in decades. It's Menlo Park (Facebook).
[...] (unless those points are walking distance to light-rail or caltrain).
That's why mixed-developments with stores on bottom and four story of apartments on top are sprouting up along the transit lines. If you don't live near a major transit line and don't work near a major transit line, blaming public transit isn't going to fix it. I live near several major transit lines, so I'm an hour away from work in North San Jose, Mountain View or Palo Alto.
I've waited until I was 37-years-old to learn how to drive. My father wasn't going to teach me as a teenager to drive stick on his one-ton flatbed that he put a million miles on in ten years. Since Silicon Valley has a well-developed transit system, I got around just fine without having a need for a vehicle. One day my father abandoned his old car in my carport. I had not choice but to get my driver license and take possession of the car. Took me three years to find out about all the repairs that he didn't tell me about. It's easier to own a car when you're more mature and financially responsible, especially if your father is DIYer who doesn't believe in mechanics.
Speaking of amusement - I always find it amusing crushing wannabes & pseudo intellectuals like you via easily verified facts you cannot validly overcome.
You're still here? How tiresome. Go play in the street.
* Wasting your own time is your business - it's inefficient & wasteful, mine isn't....
Slashdot exist to keep me amuse while I'm waiting for a script to finish at work. I also love trolling the trolls on Slashdot. Thank you for participation!
See subject: Nobody disproved my points (they're easily proven FACTS is why) so I'll do as I please & watch "your kind" RUN DRY of 'downmodpoints' as always, lol... too bad for you & "your kind" ('soros losers', lmao).
I've already told you that I'm not a moderator. I don't have mod points to waste.
*:)
I'm sorry to see that you have a bump on your head. Yes, that would explain a lot.
Also - do yourself a favor before you play "SiDeWaLk-ShRiNk of/.' - get a psychiatric sciences degree, a formal examination of myself given in a professional psychiatric environs & a license to practice it 1st before you make a BIGGER FOOL OF YOURSELF showing your "delusions of grandeur" @ being a psychiatric pro with WEAK off topic illogical ad hominem attacks that fail vs. me (just like your downmods ALWAYS do).
Let me guess... you're an L. Ron Hubbard fan.
P.S.=> You're easy to kill - you do it to yourselves everytime thinking you can "push me around" when I shit ALL OVER YOU easily negating your bs... apk
There is no uni degree in Germany that requires english or proper english, why should it?
Out of the three or four languages Europeans are supposed to learn English isn't one of them? No wonder the Brits left the European Union in a huff.;)
On the other hand, what do you find wrong in his sentence?
How it was written contradicts the statement that the OP graduated from a university. He came across as being a graduate of American public schools, which is what a university education is supposed to fix. If you run the text through a readability measurement, it comes out at the fourth grade level. I never went to high school, I got an A.A. degree in General Education, transferred and got kicked out of the university in my junior year, and I later went back to get an A.S. in Computer Programming with a 4.0 GPA. Despite not graduating from high school or the university, I write at the 11th grade level. The average American reads at the seventh grade level.
Doing unjustifiable downmods to hide truth on YOUR PART is weak & you know it
I don't moderate on Slashdot. That makes your statement FALSE.
* So fuck off, ok?
You need to something about your anger issues. Venting in public is not healthy.
P.S.=> ANYTHING I wrote is easily substantiatable fact - which just KILLS "your kind" doesn't it? Yes & that's why you tried to "hide it" w/ downmods (which I can post in UNLIMITED FASHION easily to get you to "run dry" of those unjustifiable downmodpoints - lol, you can't even WIN AN ELECTION - do you think you can win vs. me? NO way)... apk
I'm a moderate conservative. We're difficult to kill.
This is Slashdot, not Alt Right. Posting the same comment multiple times doesn't make it any more correct than the first time. Get off the Internet and live in the real world for a change.
Serious question: is any of the money used to pay for the lawsuits and recounts actually taxpayer money? I thought it all came from Stein's campaign (donations).
From what I've been reading, there are direct costs and indirect costs. The donations are paying for the direct costs. The taxpayers are paying for the indirect costs of the extra people that the counties may need to hire to get the recount done in a timely fashion, especially if the ballots are being counted by hand. The recounts have to be done before the electors meet in two weeks.
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When I became a lead video game tester in 2001, I knew I was in a dead end job and I would change jobs in three years. I saw a study at that time that showed that skilled IT professionals would be in high demand as baby boomers retire en masse and Southeast Asian workers will return home en masse. So I went back to school to learn computer programming and got into the IT field. Since the Great Recession in 2008, quite a few baby boomers didn't get the memo that they needed to retire and/or drop dead. Thanks to Trump the Southeast Asian workers will be returning home. I'm looking forward to making more money for the next 30 years until I retire.
The graybeards wearing trench coats and selling recycled AOL floppy discs with illicit programs? Yeah, I stayed away from them too.
The Longmire TV show had an episode where a white male suspect questioned in a firebombing and missing person case took the law into his own hand by pulling out a gun and kidnapping a black male from a bar. The barkeep signaled to another person not to draw his holstered gun. When the barkeep and police caught up with him, he told everyone not to shoot because he was helping the police capture a suspect in the case. He was confused as to why he ended up in jail and the black male was let go for not being a suspect.
I suspect this scenario might happen more often in real life for the next four years.
The Stein campaign was complaining bitterly about the cost of asking for the Wisconsin recount, so I'd be surprised if there were significant additional costs there.
I came across an article that suggested that the powers to be are jacking up the costs to discourage the recount. Meanwhile, a Republican in Nevada requested a recount and it got done with minimal amount of fuss.
Getting a job at one of these place is like getting into Harvard or winning the lottery both in terms of difficulty and in terms of how it sets you up for the rest of your career.
The easiest way to get a job at Google is to get a contract support position. I never went to high school and only had a pair of associate degrees to my name when I worked at Google in help desk and data centers. Except for the roasted duck and mac-and-cheese on Fridays, Google was no different than any other Fortune 500 company I worked for.
An education. Paying rent or buying books was a huge problem during my first tour through college in the 1990's. That was before textbook publishers decided that books should cost more than the classes.
During my first tour through college, I typically worked 30 hours per week at the college bookstore. I probably made no more than $10K per year and paid zero in income taxes. Mostly because the county never took out taxes from the monthly paycheck (a huge problem for the regular staff as they needed to sit aside money for taxes) and the amount fell below the threshold for taxable income.
Just barely enough to live off of in my area, if full time, but not if paying for classes at the same time.
When I went back to school to learn computer programming at community college, my education was free thanks to a $3,000 tax credit that George W. signed into law, I was working 60 hours per week as a lead video game tester and made the college president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in major. It really depends on how badly you want it.
When I accepted an QA internship for $10 per hour in 1997, I doubled my income from the minimum-wage restaurant job that I had for three years after college.
CEO earns 10x what I do but does he work 10 times as hard?
When I worked at Cisco in October 2013, my contract came up during an announced layoff period and my boss was prevented from renewing my contract. The CEO got a 60% raise for having a lousy fiscal year. I was unemployed for eight months, had 60 job interviews, and had three job offers pending when I accepted my current position in government IT.
A salary that is comfy in Kansas will have you sleeping in a van in Silicon Valley.
Not quite. I live in Silicon Valley and rent a studio apartment. Depending on how much IT contract work I do in a year, I make $30K to $50K. Silicon Valley can get very expensive in a hurry if you want a big house, big cars, big women and big kids. A modest lifestyle is doable in Silicon Valley if you don't mind your coworkers thinking that you're poor.
I'm calling BS on Silicon Valley having a well-developed transit system.
I live in San Jose and work in Palo Alto. Most mornings it takes me exactly one hour from my front door to take a local bus down the street, pick up the express bus to Palo Alto, and another local bus to the front door of my workplace. The afternoon commute is one to two hours long, depending on 280 traffic. Or four hours if a gravel truck spills across all lanes like it did a few months ago.
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Gravel-Truck-Overturns-Blocks-Multiuple-Lanes-on-I-280-394043641.html
VTA transit routes (e.g., the transit agency responsible for mess that is silicon valley) have decided that the only viable transit corridors/routes are south san jose to downtown san jose and mountain view to cisco (aka north-sanjose).
That's correct. Homes in the South and jobs in the North determined the transit lines back in the 1980's. VTA was supposed to have a half-dozen East-West light rail lines but those were never built. When San Carlos got shutdown as a street through San Jose State University in the 1990's, the county built the foundations and covered it up with 18 inches of top soil for a future light rail line. The only major East-West line being built is the BART extension from Fremont.
Santa Clara (in the heart of Silicon valley)
Santa Clara (Intel) haven't been the heart of Silicon Valley in decades. It's Menlo Park (Facebook).
[...] (unless those points are walking distance to light-rail or caltrain).
That's why mixed-developments with stores on bottom and four story of apartments on top are sprouting up along the transit lines. If you don't live near a major transit line and don't work near a major transit line, blaming public transit isn't going to fix it. I live near several major transit lines, so I'm an hour away from work in North San Jose, Mountain View or Palo Alto.
That's what you get for using the web for applications that should have been thick clients.
My job is to take care of whatever rolls down the hill, deal with it or shovel it somewhere else. Applications is above my pay grade.
You're clearly an unintelligent EASILY outwitted admitted troll (no creativity creimer you admitted troll)... lol!
I post on Slashdot for fun. Beyond that I don't give a shit.
I checked out my code base. I couldn't find that text in any of my library files. :P
Driving a car isn't hard millions do it.
I've waited until I was 37-years-old to learn how to drive. My father wasn't going to teach me as a teenager to drive stick on his one-ton flatbed that he put a million miles on in ten years. Since Silicon Valley has a well-developed transit system, I got around just fine without having a need for a vehicle. One day my father abandoned his old car in my carport. I had not choice but to get my driver license and take possession of the car. Took me three years to find out about all the repairs that he didn't tell me about. It's easier to own a car when you're more mature and financially responsible, especially if your father is DIYer who doesn't believe in mechanics.
Speaking of amusement - I always find it amusing crushing wannabes & pseudo intellectuals like you via easily verified facts you cannot validly overcome.
You're still here? How tiresome. Go play in the street.
* Wasting your own time is your business - it's inefficient & wasteful, mine isn't....
Slashdot exist to keep me amuse while I'm waiting for a script to finish at work. I also love trolling the trolls on Slashdot. Thank you for participation!
See subject: Nobody disproved my points (they're easily proven FACTS is why) so I'll do as I please & watch "your kind" RUN DRY of 'downmodpoints' as always, lol... too bad for you & "your kind" ('soros losers', lmao).
I've already told you that I'm not a moderator. I don't have mod points to waste.
* :)
I'm sorry to see that you have a bump on your head. Yes, that would explain a lot.
Also - do yourself a favor before you play "SiDeWaLk-ShRiNk of /.' - get a psychiatric sciences degree, a formal examination of myself given in a professional psychiatric environs & a license to practice it 1st before you make a BIGGER FOOL OF YOURSELF showing your "delusions of grandeur" @ being a psychiatric pro with WEAK off topic illogical ad hominem attacks that fail vs. me (just like your downmods ALWAYS do).
Let me guess... you're an L. Ron Hubbard fan.
P.S.=> You're easy to kill - you do it to yourselves everytime thinking you can "push me around" when I shit ALL OVER YOU easily negating your bs... apk
So what?
There is no uni degree in Germany that requires english or proper english, why should it?
Out of the three or four languages Europeans are supposed to learn English isn't one of them? No wonder the Brits left the European Union in a huff. ;)
On the other hand, what do you find wrong in his sentence?
How it was written contradicts the statement that the OP graduated from a university. He came across as being a graduate of American public schools, which is what a university education is supposed to fix. If you run the text through a readability measurement, it comes out at the fourth grade level. I never went to high school, I got an A.A. degree in General Education, transferred and got kicked out of the university in my junior year, and I later went back to get an A.S. in Computer Programming with a 4.0 GPA. Despite not graduating from high school or the university, I write at the 11th grade level. The average American reads at the seventh grade level.
Doing unjustifiable downmods to hide truth on YOUR PART is weak & you know it
I don't moderate on Slashdot. That makes your statement FALSE.
* So fuck off, ok?
You need to something about your anger issues. Venting in public is not healthy.
P.S.=> ANYTHING I wrote is easily substantiatable fact - which just KILLS "your kind" doesn't it? Yes & that's why you tried to "hide it" w/ downmods (which I can post in UNLIMITED FASHION easily to get you to "run dry" of those unjustifiable downmodpoints - lol, you can't even WIN AN ELECTION - do you think you can win vs. me? NO way)... apk
I'm a moderate conservative. We're difficult to kill.
Sorry. It's fake comments all the way down.
FTFY
See subject: [...]
This is Slashdot, not Alt Right. Posting the same comment multiple times doesn't make it any more correct than the first time. Get off the Internet and live in the real world for a change.
Serious question: is any of the money used to pay for the lawsuits and recounts actually taxpayer money? I thought it all came from Stein's campaign (donations).
From what I've been reading, there are direct costs and indirect costs. The donations are paying for the direct costs. The taxpayers are paying for the indirect costs of the extra people that the counties may need to hire to get the recount done in a timely fashion, especially if the ballots are being counted by hand. The recounts have to be done before the electors meet in two weeks.
That's crony capitalism!
-- Sarah Palin