There's no shortage of nurses. There's a shortage of nurses at the NICE PRICE. Similarly, there's no shortage of gasoline but there is a shortage of gasoline at a price of $1 per gallon.
This bidding is apt to result in a race to the bottom.
Read some of Paul Craig Roberts columns on http://www.vdare.com/roberts/all_columns.htm. I agree with his assertion that we're exporting jobs that provide ladders of upward mobility and importing poor people. He makes the case that this is not free trade but global labor arbitrage.
The idea is these insurance companies give low rates to safe drivers and high rates to unsafe drivers. The tacit assumption is that the unsafe drivers will clean up their act or stop driving. This will not happen. They will drop their insurance and move. Many of the working poor already do this. That's why people with assets must purchase uninsured motorist coverage. The large influx of poor immigrants into many areas has worsened this situation. Some don't have licenses or have lost licenses due to DWI. That doesn't stop them from driving. If the sheriff comes for their tags, they'll take the tags off another car at the mall and continue driving. They have nothing to lose.
This black box stuff will only penalize the shrinking middle class.
This little ploy here, is just another thing for them to test and see how far they can push it. Big-brother issues aside, I wouldn't be amazed if this kind of thing becomes mandatory for full coverage car insurance in the next 10 years.
With each "conviction", hatred toward them will grow. Their enemies are accumulating. When bad deeds are done to RIAA and it's people, there will be too many suspects to narrow down.
It's worth noting that salesmen in these electronics stores often claim that their service plans cover anything that happens to the items, and so it's not too surprising that people get mad when they refuse to fix damaged items.
Yeah, once you take the depreciation on the item, the service plan costs about what the item is worth. You're right to say "these electronics stores". They all do it. Short circuit shitty tried to sell me a plan on a TV sayin' they'd replace it if lightning run in on it. Yeah, right.
Even the author concedes that some breakthroughs must occur before this electromagnetic utopia he describes can be realized. I suppose the same sort of case can be made for intergalactic travel.
Most engineering schools are reporting declines in enrollment. This is hardly surprising since most engineering curriculums, including CS, are difficult compared to other fields of study. Without the prospect of a good job waiting for them, many college students are veering away from these majors.
Companies pay several thousand dollars to run MS SQL? Why would companies with 1 server and less than 50 people do such a thing, when mysql/postgresql and others exist? Why? Because either an incompetent IT person doesn't really know how to migrate data, the company software isn't "supported" on that db engine (read: so what; most companies don't support the sql-side of things anyway!!!), or a dishonest consultant is ready to make a buck off of this company's ignorance.
Another reason they run MS SQL and other M$ products is to cover their butts. They can blame M$ when things go bad.
There was some guy who had the gateway.com domain long before Gateway 2000 had a presence on the internet. I think in 1995, Gateway approach this guy and offered him $15k for the domain. They said that was their offer because it would cost about $15k to hire lawyers to get it from him. At the time, Gateway was using gw2k.com and they still used 2000 as part of their name. One newgroup poster dubbed them Buttmunch 2000, a name I still prefer to this day.
This article should have been written long ago. It was true then and it's true now. There has never been a shortage of engineers or scientists. There certainly have been shortages of engineering jobs. As the article pointed out, these shortage claims were made by those interested in increasing the supply of workers for the purpose of holding down their wages. What they mean is theres a shortage of engineers at the nice price. By a similar line of reasoning, I conclude theres a shortage of gasoline at the price of $1 per gallon.
Joking aside, I think it's important to point out that what we need a lot of are engineers, not scientists.
The market signals say we do not need more engineers or scientists. Right now many are finding it difficult to stay employed. This article is a sober albeit sketchy assessment of the employment prospects for engineers and scientists. I've been in engineering for 25 years. I'd like to stay in it another 25 years but I'm not very optimistic.
If your employer requires you to access the company network from home, the broadband service is deductible if half your activity on it is company related. For that matter, so is the computer, whatever software you run on it and related equipment/supplies. Check IRS Pub 529 for details. I've used an accountant for the past 20 years to do this. I build myself a new machine every other year and use it only for work. I have a home office in one room of my house and only do my work-from-home stuff in there.
Amateur radio operators have put up large antennae on their property drawing the ire of homeowner's associations and sometimes finding themselves at odds with municipal ordinances. The FCC basically said they have the final word on this.
Even if a user keeps up with the latest patches and antivirus software, their machine may become chock full of spyware. They clean it with Adaware and before long, it's chock full of more spyware. The latest round of spyware is just about as bad as any virus I've heard tell of. My point is Windows can't be secured. So I'm not surprised to hear 80% of the spam comes from Windows machines.
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There's no shortage of nurses. There's a shortage of nurses at the NICE PRICE. Similarly, there's no shortage of gasoline but there is a shortage of gasoline at a price of $1 per gallon.
This bidding is apt to result in a race to the bottom.
I've seen estimates much higher.
Read some of Paul Craig Roberts columns on http://www.vdare.com/roberts/all_columns.htm. I agree with his assertion that we're exporting jobs that provide ladders of upward mobility and importing poor people. He makes the case that this is not free trade but global labor arbitrage.
Why do people refer to Walm*rt with a star in the name?
Well, they might be using the star as a sphinctor symbol. Yessir. Heck, we used to put 'em by people's names on memos to denote sphinctorhood.
The idea is these insurance companies give low rates to safe drivers and high rates to unsafe drivers. The tacit assumption is that the unsafe drivers will clean up their act or stop driving. This will not happen. They will drop their insurance and move. Many of the working poor already do this. That's why people with assets must purchase uninsured motorist coverage. The large influx of poor immigrants into many areas has worsened this situation. Some don't have licenses or have lost licenses due to DWI. That doesn't stop them from driving. If the sheriff comes for their tags, they'll take the tags off another car at the mall and continue driving. They have nothing to lose.
This black box stuff will only penalize the shrinking middle class.
This little ploy here, is just another thing for them to test and see how far they can push it. Big-brother issues aside, I wouldn't be amazed if this kind of thing becomes mandatory for full coverage car insurance in the next 10 years.
Yeah, they're just floating a trial balloon here.
With each "conviction", hatred toward them will grow. Their enemies are accumulating. When bad deeds are done to RIAA and it's people, there will be too many suspects to narrow down.
It's worth noting that salesmen in these electronics stores often claim that their service plans cover anything that happens to the items, and so it's not too surprising that people get mad when they refuse to fix damaged items.
Yeah, once you take the depreciation on the item, the service plan costs about what the item is worth. You're right to say "these electronics stores". They all do it. Short circuit shitty tried to sell me a plan on a TV sayin' they'd replace it if lightning run in on it. Yeah, right.
This is a corporate fascist police state. What do expect? to travel state to state without your papers? What do you have to hide, comrade?
Even the author concedes that some breakthroughs must occur before this electromagnetic utopia he describes can be realized. I suppose the same sort of case can be made for intergalactic travel.
994,000 more and we'll be back to the employment levels we had in late '99.
... there may not be many CS's left in the US 10 years from now, male or female.
aaahhh-ooooooogaaahh! Dive! Dive!
Most engineering schools are reporting declines in enrollment. This is hardly surprising since most engineering curriculums, including CS, are difficult compared to other fields of study. Without the prospect of a good job waiting for them, many college students are veering away from these majors.
No matter how difficult this might to for some people to realize, the society does not exist to help them profit. It exists to protect it's members.
Amen!
Companies pay several thousand dollars to run MS SQL? Why would companies with 1 server and less than 50 people do such a thing, when mysql/postgresql and others exist? Why? Because either an incompetent IT person doesn't really know how to migrate data, the company software isn't "supported" on that db engine (read: so what; most companies don't support the sql-side of things anyway!!!), or a dishonest consultant is ready to make a buck off of this company's ignorance.
Another reason they run MS SQL and other M$ products is to cover their butts. They can blame M$ when things go bad.
We've seen 3 months in the last 42 where we had 6 figure gains. But the breakdown of those jobs showed most didn't pay near as much as the jobs lost.
Talking about perks seems like wishful thinking.
There was some guy who had the gateway.com domain long before Gateway 2000 had a presence on the internet. I think in 1995, Gateway approach this guy and offered him $15k for the domain. They said that was their offer because it would cost about $15k to hire lawyers to get it from him. At the time, Gateway was using gw2k.com and they still used 2000 as part of their name. One newgroup poster dubbed them Buttmunch 2000, a name I still prefer to this day.
AT&T has been in a downward spiral for a long time. This is just more retrenching. They are being marginalized away.
I heard one old engineer say he'd had tried to get a job with AT&T but they found out his parents were married when he was born and wouldn't hire him.
This article should have been written long ago. It was true then and it's true now. There has never been a shortage of engineers or scientists. There certainly have been shortages of engineering jobs. As the article pointed out, these shortage claims were made by those interested in increasing the supply of workers for the purpose of holding down their wages. What they mean is theres a shortage of engineers at the nice price. By a similar line of reasoning, I conclude theres a shortage of gasoline at the price of $1 per gallon.
Joking aside, I think it's important to point out that what we need a lot of are engineers, not scientists.
The market signals say we do not need more engineers or scientists. Right now many are finding it difficult to stay employed. This article is a sober albeit sketchy assessment of the employment prospects for engineers and scientists. I've been in engineering for 25 years. I'd like to stay in it another 25 years but I'm not very optimistic.
If your employer requires you to access the company network from home, the broadband service is deductible if half your activity on it is company related. For that matter, so is the computer, whatever software you run on it and related equipment/supplies. Check IRS Pub 529 for details. I've used an accountant for the past 20 years to do this. I build myself a new machine every other year and use it only for work. I have a home office in one room of my house and only do my work-from-home stuff in there.
that was fast
Amateur radio operators have put up large antennae on their property drawing the ire of homeowner's associations and sometimes finding themselves at odds with municipal ordinances. The FCC basically said they have the final word on this.
Even if a user keeps up with the latest patches and antivirus software, their machine may become chock full of spyware. They clean it with Adaware and before long, it's chock full of more spyware. The latest round of spyware is just about as bad as any virus I've heard tell of. My point is Windows can't be secured. So I'm not surprised to hear 80% of the spam comes from Windows machines.
... the same way the guys in Pink Floyd did, make some albums. The next best thing is to listen to theirs.