' Men in RIAA jackets helped cart away 'evidence'.
So these guys are now behaving like law enforcement agencies, going in with RIAA jackets and so forth? Their importance is way overblown. They're acting like ATF agents. What's next? Will they burn down a compound?
We've been giving the phone and cable companies a free ride, buying their arguments that free enterprise is working efficiently. It isn't. These massive companies have managed to keep all other entrants out of their markets by manipulating the FCC and getting the Supreme Court to buy their argument that there's a free market for broadband. There isn't. We have the worst of both worlds: Government protection of an oligopoly comprised of regional duopolies (one cable company and one DSL provider in most markets), and tremendously high barriers to entry, without at least the broad reach that a government-controlled system would have. We need a truly competitive marketplace, or we'll keep languishing.
Amen. There ain't no free market in nothin'. Anytime I hear talk of "free market" something or another, it usually means corporate welfare or companies using the government to protect their profits. The "free market" talk is just self serving spin from the corporate carpetbaggers and their tag-along speculators.
There were a bunch of lawsuits over house fires started by TV sets in the 60s. I guess it's been so long ago, most of todays corporate executives have forgotten. I reckon they'll be gettig a reminder real soon.
As an aside, if our laws become so draconian that it's impossible to not be a criminal in some way, might that encourage people to just become rapant law breakers? When you can't win, why try?
Amen. We'll soon end up with half the country guarding the other half.
Draconian laws aren't the only problem. Over zealous prosecution is an equal contributor. Today's careerist prosecutors are judged by their conviction rates. There's no telling how many people are railroaded by the Mike Nifongs in our criminal justice system.
The US dollar is losing it's value so rapidly, base metal slugs used as coinage are worth more than face value.
See, we stopped making pennies of copper in 1982. Pennies made after 82 are copper plated zinc alloy. Now even that is worth more than a penny (1.73 cents). A pre 83 copper penny is worth about 3 cents.
Pre 65 dimes, quarters and halves, also referred to as "junk silver coin" are fetching about 6 and a half times face value.
The US dollar may soon lose it's status as reserve currency in the world. When that happens, we will be faced with hyperinflation. This is happening because of our burgeoning trade deficit causing by offshoring, our rapidly growing budget deficit caused by this insane war and the government printing currency like there's no tommorrow.
Tommorrow will come and we will be confronted with a bitter reality.
The particular emphasis of some engineering programs are probably the least of their worries now. Countires that don't make things, don't need many engineers. It seems that our governing class has decided that the United States is to become a country thet doesn't make things. For example, electronics manufacturing has all but vanished in the US. There's plenty of electronic stuff being manufactured in other countries but not here. Few have expressed surprise as the design jobs have followed the manufacturing jobs.
Need an experienced engineer with hands on experience? Why fixate on what kinds the schools are turning out? There are legions of unemployed and underemployed engineers. Yes, they are older guys but the hands-on issue is moot. They have that. Not quite as cheap but then the young ones will be making their mistakes and learning. These guys have already made theirs. See, the difference between a 50 year old engineer and a 25 year old enginer is the 50 year old engineer has been 25. Oh yeah, I've known a few who became set in their ways but the vast majority were eager to learn and use new technologies. So instead of spewing forth more warm bodies, why not use some ones we already have?
This industry trade group has planted the results of this study in a magazine they can point congress to when they lobby for more bad trade deals and temporary visas.
what will happen to the people who bought from him? Will they be required to return what they bought to the original owners? Will they be tracked down by the police for recieving stolen goods?
Most likely they'll have to return the goods. Ain't no telling whether they'll get a refund. I seriously doubt the cops would get them for fencing stolen merchandise unless they'd bought lots of stuff from the same seller. Then, they'd have some explaning to do.
A music store in town bought stolen equipment from somebody. I don't know whether the store manager knew the stuff was stolen but before they could sell it, members of the band who had been ripped off came shopping for replacement gear and what should they find but a speaker cabinet with a ripped grill cloth which had been expertly and distinctively repaired by the bass player's mother. They called the rest of the band and kept looking. A third of their equipment turned up in that store. The store manager was red-faced. He didn't want a bad reputation. I have to hand it to him. He ate it. He gave them every piece of equipment they could identify. (They had given the cops a detailed description of what was taken. These guys weren't yo-yos. They'd written down serial numbers.)
They should be paying them, not fining them. There's way too many deer in the US and not enough predators to keep them in check. Most get killed by vehicle collisions anyway. Deer hunting should be encouraged.
India has a very important advantage, their command of the English language. There are lots more Indians with good english skills than Chinese, for example.
You should own guns because there are bad people with guns who may use them against you. If you have a gun, you have the option to fight them. If you don't have a gun, you are at their mercy.
Gun laws are not effective in reducing bad people's access to guns. Many, if not most, bad people aren't supposed to have guns anyway because of previous bad behavior. Banning guns has no effect on them.
Private citizens in the USA have always had guns. This is a defining characteristic of the USA. It is a big deal. Mao knew what he was talking about when he said all power flows from the barrel of a gun. This is why it is best to distribute this power.
Here's how it works. You can stay as late as you want, so long as you're there by 8 in the morning.
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while another advises that the National Science Foundation fund more graduate students and increase the amount of the fellowships.
Here they go again.
They're fixated on the supply while ignoring demand. The demand for technical people has dropped because we don't make things here any more. The R&D is done where things are made. A country that doesn't make stuff, doesn't need a bunch of scientists and engineers. Heck, we aren't using the ones we've already got. Why do they think graduating a bunch more will help? For the scientists and engineers, that'll make things worse.
The problem isn't the supply of labor, it's the supply of jobs. But the only ideas we ever hear are to "fix the schools."
I can happily work long hours when I know it will make a difference. But too often there's somebody causing a disconnect between the work and the reward. That's what causes stress, the natural confusion arising from the mind having to override the body's strong desire to beat the living shit out of some asshole who desperately deserves it. Maybe we should start a fight club.
I saw the presentation he mentioned and there's no clear answer at the end of it to the question "where to tomorrow's novices opportunities come from?". Outsourcing today takes the opportunity to gain footing on the bottom 2-3 rungs off the 5 step skills ladder. We can't all be advanced and experts without having spent the time to get there.
Where indeed. But it's really worse than he lets on because being an expert doesn't mean you'll never have to climb that ladder again. You will if you wish to continue doing technical work. I've already had to because the vast majority of jobs in the electronics industry were outsourced. The second climb has felt quite a bit steeper than the first.
Most people who become an expert in a technical field only climb this skills ladder once. I've met several dozen who have done it twice and in some cases, it's really stretching a point to include some of them in that number. Such people are unusual. I've met 2 individuals who successfully made drastic career changes into 3 technical fields.
I don't know whether I can do it again. Nor do I have any idea what change to make. At least when electronics was on the decline, software loomed. There ain't much light ahead.
Today, it almost seems that voice calls are the least-used function of most phones...
I've had 3 different providers and there have been signal strength problems with all of them. I'd like to use my cell phone as my primary but until the robustness and reliability improves, that won't happen. Web surfing, music and other stuff is frilly fluff as far as I'm concerned. I want a phone that works well all the time first. Then I'll consider all the other stuff.
Eat lots beans, chili and other flatulence inducing foods. Then cut rank farts that peel the paint off the wall.
Stressful open office layouts? That's exactly the point. These seating arrangements are designed to maximize stress. Any oranganization that adopts them has that as it's goal.
Since 93, I've used a dozen different email clients. In most cases, they were not of my chosing. When I have a choice, I use pine. I have yet to find a small, capable client with such a straightforward, intuitively designed, user friendly interface. I have high hopes of Alpine but mutt, elm and emacs' rmail are inferior to pine.
Your bank called. You owe 2400$ in fees from failed transfer attempts.
Do you speak from experience, firsthand or otherwise?
I've never heard tell of such a thing. Assuming this is for real, one advantage of the separate account approach I suggested is they don't have your money yet.
Some of this seems to be based on "who complains first" but generally if you use PayPal and have a problem, you can kiss your money goodbye. Add to this the fact that PayPal constantly pushes linking your PayPal account to your "real" bank account (apparently so they can clean you out in one fell swoop)...
Then create a separate checking account at a different bank and don't keep any more money in it than is absolutely necessary.
When I got a new supervisor who was a big fan of Neutron Jack Welch, I wasn't surprised that I was told to do the job his way or take the highway. (Not that his way was any better than the other supervisors, it's just a line in the sand so he knows when to fire you.) I was the third of a dozen senior people to leave the department that year. It's no surprise that the company is currently on the road to bankruptcy.
Yep. Micromanagement seems to be the hallmark of the Neutron Jack philosophy. I've encountered this same crap myself. When you see Welch's book on some new manager's desk, it's a safe bet you'll be hearing the "my way or the highway" schpeil soon.
I hope Jack Welch dies and busts hell wide open for the damage he has done to American industry and for all the minds he poisoned with his Ferengi-like dogma.
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You can do it once but your resume should have a job that spans several years right after it.
Several years? I must be getting old. I remember when only staying a couple years was considered job hopping.
' Men in RIAA jackets helped cart away 'evidence'.
So these guys are now behaving like law enforcement agencies, going in with RIAA jackets and so forth? Their importance is way overblown. They're acting like ATF agents. What's next? Will they burn down a compound?
We've been giving the phone and cable companies a free ride, buying their arguments that free enterprise is working efficiently. It isn't. These massive companies have managed to keep all other entrants out of their markets by manipulating the FCC and getting the Supreme Court to buy their argument that there's a free market for broadband. There isn't. We have the worst of both worlds: Government protection of an oligopoly comprised of regional duopolies (one cable company and one DSL provider in most markets), and tremendously high barriers to entry, without at least the broad reach that a government-controlled system would have. We need a truly competitive marketplace, or we'll keep languishing.
Amen. There ain't no free market in nothin'. Anytime I hear talk of "free market" something or another, it usually means corporate welfare or companies using the government to protect their profits. The "free market" talk is just self serving spin from the corporate carpetbaggers and their tag-along speculators.
There were a bunch of lawsuits over house fires started by TV sets in the 60s. I guess it's been so long ago, most of todays corporate executives have forgotten. I reckon they'll be gettig a reminder real soon.
As an aside, if our laws become so draconian that it's impossible to not be a criminal in some way, might that encourage people to just become rapant law breakers? When you can't win, why try?
Amen. We'll soon end up with half the country guarding the other half.
Draconian laws aren't the only problem. Over zealous prosecution is an equal contributor. Today's careerist prosecutors are judged by their conviction rates. There's no telling how many people are railroaded by the Mike Nifongs in our criminal justice system.
The US dollar is losing it's value so rapidly, base metal slugs used as coinage are worth more than face value.
See, we stopped making pennies of copper in 1982. Pennies made after 82 are copper plated zinc alloy. Now even that is worth more than a penny (1.73 cents). A pre 83 copper penny is worth about 3 cents.
Pre 65 dimes, quarters and halves, also referred to as "junk silver coin" are fetching about 6 and a half times face value.
The US dollar may soon lose it's status as reserve currency in the world. When that happens, we will be faced with hyperinflation. This is happening because of our burgeoning trade deficit causing by offshoring, our rapidly growing budget deficit caused by this insane war and the government printing currency like there's no tommorrow.
Tommorrow will come and we will be confronted with a bitter reality.
The particular emphasis of some engineering programs are probably the least of their worries now. Countires that don't make things, don't need many engineers. It seems that our governing class has decided that the United States is to become a country thet doesn't make things. For example, electronics manufacturing has all but vanished in the US. There's plenty of electronic stuff being manufactured in other countries but not here. Few have expressed surprise as the design jobs have followed the manufacturing jobs.
Jobs Update: The Death of US Engineering
Need an experienced engineer with hands on experience? Why fixate on what kinds the schools are turning out? There are legions of unemployed and underemployed engineers. Yes, they are older guys but the hands-on issue is moot. They have that. Not quite as cheap but then the young ones will be making their mistakes and learning. These guys have already made theirs. See, the difference between a 50 year old engineer and a 25 year old enginer is the 50 year old engineer has been 25. Oh yeah, I've known a few who became set in their ways but the vast majority were eager to learn and use new technologies. So instead of spewing forth more warm bodies, why not use some ones we already have?
We have already reached the end game of the surveillance state. Rejoice - a great reckoning is due very soon and I'm not kidding.
I reckon I'd be tickled to see a YouTube video of some nosy bastard's camera phone shoved up his ass.
This industry trade group has planted the results of this study in a magazine they can point congress to when they lobby for more bad trade deals and temporary visas.
what will happen to the people who bought from him? Will they be required to return what they bought to the original owners? Will they be tracked down by the police for recieving stolen goods?
Most likely they'll have to return the goods. Ain't no telling whether they'll get a refund. I seriously doubt the cops would get them for fencing stolen merchandise unless they'd bought lots of stuff from the same seller. Then, they'd have some explaning to do.
A music store in town bought stolen equipment from somebody. I don't know whether the store manager knew the stuff was stolen but before they could sell it, members of the band who had been ripped off came shopping for replacement gear and what should they find but a speaker cabinet with a ripped grill cloth which had been expertly and distinctively repaired by the bass player's mother. They called the rest of the band and kept looking. A third of their equipment turned up in that store. The store manager was red-faced. He didn't want a bad reputation. I have to hand it to him. He ate it. He gave them every piece of equipment they could identify. (They had given the cops a detailed description of what was taken. These guys weren't yo-yos. They'd written down serial numbers.)
We should start a fight club.
They should be paying them, not fining them. There's way too many deer in the US and not enough predators to keep them in check. Most get killed by vehicle collisions anyway. Deer hunting should be encouraged.
India has a very important advantage, their command of the English language. There are lots more Indians with good english skills than Chinese, for example.
You should own guns because there are bad people with guns who may use them against you. If you have a gun, you have the option to fight them. If you don't have a gun, you are at their mercy.
Gun laws are not effective in reducing bad people's access to guns. Many, if not most, bad people aren't supposed to have guns anyway because of previous bad behavior. Banning guns has no effect on them.
Private citizens in the USA have always had guns. This is a defining characteristic of the USA. It is a big deal. Mao knew what he was talking about when he said all power flows from the barrel of a gun. This is why it is best to distribute this power.
Here's how it works. You can stay as late as you want, so long as you're there by 8 in the morning.
while another advises that the National Science Foundation fund more graduate students and increase the amount of the fellowships.
Here they go again.
They're fixated on the supply while ignoring demand. The demand for technical people has dropped because we don't make things here any more. The R&D is done where things are made. A country that doesn't make stuff, doesn't need a bunch of scientists and engineers. Heck, we aren't using the ones we've already got. Why do they think graduating a bunch more will help? For the scientists and engineers, that'll make things worse.
The problem isn't the supply of labor, it's the supply of jobs. But the only ideas we ever hear are to "fix the schools."
I can happily work long hours when I know it will make a difference. But too often there's somebody causing a disconnect between the work and the reward. That's what causes stress, the natural confusion arising from the mind having to override the body's strong desire to beat the living shit out of some asshole who desperately deserves it. Maybe we should start a fight club.
I saw the presentation he mentioned and there's no clear answer at the end of it
to the question "where to tomorrow's novices opportunities come from?".
Outsourcing today takes the opportunity to gain footing on the
bottom 2-3 rungs off the 5 step skills ladder. We can't all be advanced
and experts without having spent the time to get there.
Where indeed. But it's really worse than he lets on because being an expert doesn't mean you'll never have to climb that ladder again. You will if you wish to continue doing technical work. I've already had to because the vast majority of jobs in the electronics industry were outsourced. The second climb has felt quite a bit steeper than the first.
Most people who become an expert in a technical field only climb this skills ladder once. I've met several dozen who have done it twice and in some cases, it's really stretching a point to include some of them in that number. Such people are unusual. I've met 2 individuals who successfully made drastic career changes into 3 technical fields.
I don't know whether I can do it again. Nor do I have any idea what change to make. At least when electronics was on the decline, software loomed. There ain't much light ahead.
The implications are grim.
Today, it almost seems that voice calls are the least-used function of most phones
I've had 3 different providers and there have been signal strength problems with all of them. I'd like to use my cell phone as my primary but until the robustness and reliability improves, that won't happen. Web surfing, music and other stuff is frilly fluff as far as I'm concerned. I want a phone that works well all the time first. Then I'll consider all the other stuff.
Eat lots beans, chili and other flatulence inducing foods. Then cut rank farts that peel the paint off the wall.
Stressful open office layouts? That's exactly the point. These seating arrangements are designed to maximize stress. Any oranganization that adopts them has that as it's goal.
Since 93, I've used a dozen different email clients. In most cases, they were not of my chosing. When I have a choice, I use pine. I have yet to find a small, capable client with such a straightforward, intuitively designed, user friendly interface. I have high hopes of Alpine but mutt, elm and emacs' rmail are inferior to pine.
There's plenty of it.
Your bank called. You owe 2400$ in fees from failed transfer attempts.
Do you speak from experience, firsthand or otherwise?
I've never heard tell of such a thing. Assuming this is for real, one advantage of the separate account approach I suggested is they don't have your money yet.
Some of this seems to be based on "who complains first" but generally if you use PayPal and have a problem, you can kiss your money goodbye. Add to this the fact that PayPal constantly pushes linking your PayPal account to your "real" bank account (apparently so they can clean you out in one fell swoop)
Then create a separate checking account at a different bank and don't keep any more money in it than is absolutely necessary.
When I got a new supervisor who was a big fan of Neutron Jack Welch, I wasn't surprised that I was told to do the job his way or take the highway. (Not that his way was any better than the other supervisors, it's just a line in the sand so he knows when to fire you.) I was the third of a dozen senior people to leave the department that year. It's no surprise that the company is currently on the road to bankruptcy.
Yep. Micromanagement seems to be the hallmark of the Neutron Jack philosophy. I've encountered this same crap myself. When you see Welch's book on some new manager's desk, it's a safe bet you'll be hearing the "my way or the highway" schpeil soon.
I hope Jack Welch dies and busts hell wide open for the damage he has done to American industry and for all the minds he poisoned with his Ferengi-like dogma.