Even 'starting' IT jobs typically require degrees these days. I've seen entry level helpdesk jobs requiring 5+ years experience with a bachelor's (specifically in BIS/MIS/CS) and a list of skills as long as your arm. Most likely this is a tactic not to hire an american, but I see them often enough it's normal in the current market.
Also lots of places have policies that require a bachelor's degree to work for them. You could have 10 or even 20 years of experience and they still insist you have the degree before they will even offer an interview.
What 'website' is 'stealing' anything when the content was user uploaded? You've now said this same message several times in these comments, but unless you can prove the site itself was the one uploading the copyrighted content rather than simply hosting it your claim is false.
Now they may be doing a less than thorough job of cleaning up DMCA takedowns, but that is separate from "a clear case of a website stealing an artist's work".
If you've been unemployed for months and have nothing to show for that time, you're probably not somebody I want to hire.
I was an admin for 5 years and have worked in IT for more than a decade. Two years ago I lost my job because it was a 'cost cutting move' by the board of the group I worked for. When I went looking for work, I looked at any IT jobs I could qualify for. Which goes from helpdesk work up to admin work of various types. Any job less than my last I heard back from said I was overqualified and wouldn't hire me. Any job equal to or slightly more than I had done wanted a degree higher than what I had and wouldn't even give me an interview.
I did plenty of things during that period, but none of them where specifically for any company. I even tried to do a bit of consulting and had a little bit of work as such. However after a point everyone assumes that if you weren't working for another company during that time you did nothing and you therefor are not hire-able. In the end I found a college that was willing to give me a job as a onsite technician for pennies and it looks like I'll have to rebuild my entire career because a change in the market. That is frankly silly.
Actually most schools (even Indian ones) charge foreign students more than native ones. They also tend to teach in their native language. This is an issue for people who typically only get exposed to English (& Spanish) with a few northeastern states hearing a bit of french. The language barrier alone means having to find someone to teach you (at US rates) the native language well enough you could learn in it.
You may as well say that language is an artificial barrier to the market and that we should all speak the same language just to add mobility to the market.
I've actually been accused of trying to protect my job by insisting on a server and software setup in house rather than a questionable cloud service to do the same thing before. The fact that they have less up time than in house solutions and didn't really care about our data didn't mean squat to the business manager or the CAO. The only thing that decided them in the end was that it was illegal for them to do it with our 'client' data, because we were a school district and our clients were underage. Any reasonable argument I made was simply written off as 'protecting my job'. Of course alot of that may be the kick back to the CAO from the provider, and even the in house solution still made use of their software (a front end on a oracle DB).
Their is a tree trimming company in my area that is apparently named for the last name of the owner... However in modern terms it is horribly bad if even slightly misread. Their name? Aspluddeh. Read it with another 's' and say it 'gangsta' style and you may get why that's not so good a name.
I had a 1600x1200 CRT for ages, but a couple years back I finally replaced it because I got tired of messing with a DVI to VGA adapter to keep using it and got a 1920x1080 LCD instead. It is arguably of roughly equal capability, though wider and not as tall. It doesn't weigh 60 lbs though, which is nice when I've had to move it...
I've known at least four people who drink 8+ high calorie/high sugar/high caffine drinks per day and they are as thin as rails. Yet I work out, drink 95% water, and try my best to eat healthy and I'm the one with 'extra' pounds. So I think you and alot of other people are not looking enough at biological factors and deciding it is all in the foods consumed.
An x86 compiler that doesn't work on all x86 processors because OMG it doesn't just run on Intel x86 cpus is a rather bad example. Intel makes compilers, AMD does not. Why should AMD have to make an x86 compiler just for their cpus? If Intel wanted to make an Intel specific compiler they maybe should not brand it as an x86 compiler first?
Here where I live McD's doesn't hire anyone not a manager as a full time employee, so no one gets any of those benefits either. Same for most Walmart and department store employees. They have the bulk of their employees working part time with no benefits.
I worked retail a decade ago and even then most retail places didn't want full time employees. The bulk of their employees worked 30 hours a week and got no benefits. I lucked out and was one of a few full time employees back then getting ~35 hours and so qualifying for basic health insurance, sick time, and vacation. Where I worked less than 1 in 10 of us where full time and the average number of hours per week was 22 across all employees.
So I don't think you understand what that sort of work is like for 90% of people.
Where the heck do you live that McD, Walmart, and 'department stores' all pay more than $100/day? Doing the math $100/day is $12.50 an hour with 8 hours. Where I live in PA those places pay minimum wage to $9/hour (capped) and you have to hope you can actually get an 8 hour shift.
That said, I don't have pity for them either. Most of the women interviewed worked as models or dancers most of the time. What exactly do they think those fields are about...?
Actually I looked into multiple connections and bonding them at our end, but I couldn't get them to sign off on hardware to do the bonding and no ISP really wanted to do it either. I had wanted to do business class DSL or cable as backup to our lowly 3 mbps fiber (yes that slow connection was a fiber one). My area rather sucks for data connections, and this was 3 years ago now.
The same thing exists in the US. Boys top our special education charts, are highly medicated, generally poorly understood, and topics of interest to them are regularly banned from discussion (war, guns, and a few other topics). Some have written very good books on the topic. It effects most of the developed world, though the UK and AUstralia have both been trying to come to grips with it in recent years while the US chooses to ignore it.
Though their are reasons that education is dominated by women (at least in the US). One part is the fact that men are seen to be 'wasting their lives' if they never move into administration, which leaves women to teach and those men who cannot manage to get into administration. When I worked in a school district the pattern with all the men in administrative roles was five or six years in the classroom and then going into administration. Another part is the sheer ease and general vitrol about men teaching girls as the general assumption is that men cannot be trusted around young girls. Women don't get lectures on sexual harassment of their male pupils, but every man who sets foot into a school gets a long and serious lecture on things they cannot do with female students (touching them anywhere, even a pat on the shoulder is out btw). So men are treated badly and looked down on if they don't move into administration, that is hardly a good mix to keep men teaching.
Having spent five years as the IT head for a school district I can tell you that much of it is following the trends in their field. Real data is hard to find and does not in fact always go to plan when you try it on your district's children. So the administrators see a growing trend to teach in XYZ form and the given improvement can be 10-30%, so they opt to try XYZ at their school. A year is typical for any such thing, so even if it doesn't seem to be working for them they will continue it for that period and evaluate it during that time. At the end they may have seen a -10% change in their students which decries the trend and rather than continue with it to see if the change reverses (because the teacher(s) teaching to XYZ were new to it or any of a hundred things) they instead decide to try another trend, say KXT instead the next year to see what effect it has.
Most of the gains and trends are caused by people looking at schools doing 'well' and trying to emulate them. However each group of children are different and respond differently, so the results vary. Three years ago I had looked at One-laptop per child programs and the reported stats varied all over the place. Some had 60% improvements in certain areas, others had neutral or slightly negative results. So when I discussed the topic I said that the highest gains are as much as 60% and the average was more like 10% with some results even being slightly negative. My CAO (Chief Academic Officer, equal to a superintendent) said "When you go in front of the board don't give them all that crap just say it's 60% gains! We would never get it approved if they didn't think this was the best course of action at least for the next year. After that we already have the stuff, so it doesn't matter."
Btw on the whole caching issue, I can say I'd never have gotten funding for it. I couldn't even get them to replace a partial working (it would freeze once every 14 days and require a reboot). They don't see a reason for large expenses of cash. It however is much easier to say we need an 'X' increase a month for added bandwidth. My school district had a shared 3 MB connection and as they transitioned to more and more online based resources we could clearly all see the effects. I was advising we go above our basic needs to around a 20 MB connection (when what we needed was more like 10) for some future-proofing. However no one could offer us 20 or even 10 and so we went to 7 instead.
I would agree with this, in sixth grade my reading skills were measured as 'beyond college' and my math skills were 'college level'. However my school had been reteaching me the same set of things for like four years and I was bored to tears. By the time I did go to college my love of learning had worn off and I didn't really care about pleasing teachers or scoring particularly high. I had already started working in my field though during high school, so I had some idea of what I planned to do. That alone is better than most people I see come to college as undeclared and then they ramble about taking random classes for the next 4 or 5 years.
My parents can't figure out how to hock a DVD player to their TV, so I'd suggest it's equally hard for them to hook up a PC and an xbox. However I'd rather hook up the second one then the first for them as it is much more likely to have issues ("You didn't use the remote to change into the DVD input again", etc).
While I know I'm late to respond to this, I had to say that I'm a writer and I write for free because I enjoy it. I was also a musician and I played for free, not expecting to make money for it. I'm hardly 'odd'.
Plenty of people create art with no expectation of ever being payed for it. You can look at Lawernce lessigs talks on remix culture to see examples of people for no money creating their own variations on a theme. If you'd like to go back in time, lets visit the Victorian era when 1 in every five or six people could play an instrument and basically everyone learned to sing.
People create art and culture as part of living. It is a completely modern concept that only a select few people should and will make art or culture. Sure not everyone was a composer or a 'great artist', and yes if you had the talent you could actually ask for money to perform, teach, etc. However those are not the only artists of the era and only a handful of people reliably got paid for their contribution to art.
If the current media oligarchy should die today, we would still have art and culture. Sure we may not have a 'star' culture, but not all of us think this is a bad thing.
The Federal Reserve doesn't print US currency either, but they can ask for it to be printed by Treasury Department.
The Federal Reserve is responsible for implementing the monetary policy set by the Federal Open Market Committee. They are also quasi-private in nature rather than being government run.
I'm rather dubious this is going to do anything. Everything we drink other than absolutely pure water has calories. Juice (grape for example) is horrible with it's natural sugars (40g) and high calories (170) at even tiny sizes (8 fluid ounces). About the only thing 'safe' to drink is water with it's minor amount of sodium (typically) and no calories or sugars. Good forbid we even want to drink light beer (103 calories, 14mg of sodium, 0.3g of sugar, 12 fl oz), though it may be sort of healthier for you depending on how you look at it....
It's not unheard of. Their are people like myself with solid skills and years of experience who find themselves up against a wall of 'must have formal education of X level' in the entire local market they operate in.
While to some degree that always has happened, this is a bit different. I didn't need a bachelor's just to be a network admin 5 years ago before my last job, my associates degree and experience was just fine. Now they want a bare minimum of a bachelor's degree and want someone with a preference for doctorate or masters holders and it's starting to look like admin level work is now 'must have a doctorate or masters to get an interview'.
Even when I did get interviews the pay sucked and it was hard to get the company to hire anyone. For one job which was secondary admin work (under a primary admin) the business had three contenders and all of us where strong candidates with plenty of experience and had solid interviews. It went to a final decision at the C level for who to hire and the result was 'these candidates look to expensive for us, find quality candidates cheaper'. The very same job was back in the paper for the next two months and they wouldn't look at the three of us again. They couldn't find anyone who could meet their requirements and be 'cheaper looking' (they had never actually asked any of us what we were looking for salary wise) and they simply wrote off the job as being 'to expensive for them to fill'.
This was during a expansion phase where they needed qualified people because they were integrating a group of smaller businesses into their core business all of which had no real IT staff previously. At the time even $30k/year was ok with me as my unemployment was under that and no where in the US is $30k/year ludicrously over-payed for what would have been alot of work.
Then (as has been said here many times) you don't want a college education, you want training like I got with my associates degree which was all hands on 'run these systems' type. College is not designed for that, but business wants more and more college and more degrees. I've been told by places now they won't hire anyone who doesn't have a graduate degree now and they prefer doctorates. And they don't pay more than 50k even so. It's simply inane and stupid.
After my last job with a school district as a network admin I couldn't find a job at all for over a year. I gave up and went back to school. I was always being told I was overqualified or I lacked a degree of sufficient pedigree (They wanted a graduate degree of a variety of types, I had an associate in CIS for example). I had similar 10 years of experience in mixed linux/mac/windows environments even. I have seen admin jobs now 'requiring' doctorates. What sort of doctorate wants to do admin work....? Especially admin work for under 50k/year....
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Even 'starting' IT jobs typically require degrees these days. I've seen entry level helpdesk jobs requiring 5+ years experience with a bachelor's (specifically in BIS/MIS/CS) and a list of skills as long as your arm. Most likely this is a tactic not to hire an american, but I see them often enough it's normal in the current market.
Also lots of places have policies that require a bachelor's degree to work for them. You could have 10 or even 20 years of experience and they still insist you have the degree before they will even offer an interview.
You forgot they charge per phone, so it's like $30 per phone and then $50 for the data alone. Your still screwed.
What 'website' is 'stealing' anything when the content was user uploaded? You've now said this same message several times in these comments, but unless you can prove the site itself was the one uploading the copyrighted content rather than simply hosting it your claim is false.
Now they may be doing a less than thorough job of cleaning up DMCA takedowns, but that is separate from "a clear case of a website stealing an artist's work".
If you've been unemployed for months and have nothing to show for that time, you're probably not somebody I want to hire.
I was an admin for 5 years and have worked in IT for more than a decade. Two years ago I lost my job because it was a 'cost cutting move' by the board of the group I worked for. When I went looking for work, I looked at any IT jobs I could qualify for. Which goes from helpdesk work up to admin work of various types. Any job less than my last I heard back from said I was overqualified and wouldn't hire me. Any job equal to or slightly more than I had done wanted a degree higher than what I had and wouldn't even give me an interview.
I did plenty of things during that period, but none of them where specifically for any company. I even tried to do a bit of consulting and had a little bit of work as such. However after a point everyone assumes that if you weren't working for another company during that time you did nothing and you therefor are not hire-able. In the end I found a college that was willing to give me a job as a onsite technician for pennies and it looks like I'll have to rebuild my entire career because a change in the market. That is frankly silly.
Actually most schools (even Indian ones) charge foreign students more than native ones. They also tend to teach in their native language. This is an issue for people who typically only get exposed to English (& Spanish) with a few northeastern states hearing a bit of french. The language barrier alone means having to find someone to teach you (at US rates) the native language well enough you could learn in it.
You may as well say that language is an artificial barrier to the market and that we should all speak the same language just to add mobility to the market.
I've actually been accused of trying to protect my job by insisting on a server and software setup in house rather than a questionable cloud service to do the same thing before. The fact that they have less up time than in house solutions and didn't really care about our data didn't mean squat to the business manager or the CAO. The only thing that decided them in the end was that it was illegal for them to do it with our 'client' data, because we were a school district and our clients were underage. Any reasonable argument I made was simply written off as 'protecting my job'. Of course alot of that may be the kick back to the CAO from the provider, and even the in house solution still made use of their software (a front end on a oracle DB).
Their is a tree trimming company in my area that is apparently named for the last name of the owner... However in modern terms it is horribly bad if even slightly misread. Their name? Aspluddeh. Read it with another 's' and say it 'gangsta' style and you may get why that's not so good a name.
I had a 1600x1200 CRT for ages, but a couple years back I finally replaced it because I got tired of messing with a DVI to VGA adapter to keep using it and got a 1920x1080 LCD instead. It is arguably of roughly equal capability, though wider and not as tall. It doesn't weigh 60 lbs though, which is nice when I've had to move it...
I've known at least four people who drink 8+ high calorie/high sugar/high caffine drinks per day and they are as thin as rails. Yet I work out, drink 95% water, and try my best to eat healthy and I'm the one with 'extra' pounds. So I think you and alot of other people are not looking enough at biological factors and deciding it is all in the foods consumed.
An x86 compiler that doesn't work on all x86 processors because OMG it doesn't just run on Intel x86 cpus is a rather bad example. Intel makes compilers, AMD does not. Why should AMD have to make an x86 compiler just for their cpus? If Intel wanted to make an Intel specific compiler they maybe should not brand it as an x86 compiler first?
Here where I live McD's doesn't hire anyone not a manager as a full time employee, so no one gets any of those benefits either. Same for most Walmart and department store employees. They have the bulk of their employees working part time with no benefits.
I worked retail a decade ago and even then most retail places didn't want full time employees. The bulk of their employees worked 30 hours a week and got no benefits. I lucked out and was one of a few full time employees back then getting ~35 hours and so qualifying for basic health insurance, sick time, and vacation. Where I worked less than 1 in 10 of us where full time and the average number of hours per week was 22 across all employees.
So I don't think you understand what that sort of work is like for 90% of people.
Where the heck do you live that McD, Walmart, and 'department stores' all pay more than $100/day? Doing the math $100/day is $12.50 an hour with 8 hours. Where I live in PA those places pay minimum wage to $9/hour (capped) and you have to hope you can actually get an 8 hour shift.
That said, I don't have pity for them either. Most of the women interviewed worked as models or dancers most of the time. What exactly do they think those fields are about...?
Actually I looked into multiple connections and bonding them at our end, but I couldn't get them to sign off on hardware to do the bonding and no ISP really wanted to do it either. I had wanted to do business class DSL or cable as backup to our lowly 3 mbps fiber (yes that slow connection was a fiber one). My area rather sucks for data connections, and this was 3 years ago now.
While I don't live there anymore this wikipedia page discusses the city the school was in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erie
The same thing exists in the US. Boys top our special education charts, are highly medicated, generally poorly understood, and topics of interest to them are regularly banned from discussion (war, guns, and a few other topics). Some have written very good books on the topic. It effects most of the developed world, though the UK and AUstralia have both been trying to come to grips with it in recent years while the US chooses to ignore it.
Though their are reasons that education is dominated by women (at least in the US). One part is the fact that men are seen to be 'wasting their lives' if they never move into administration, which leaves women to teach and those men who cannot manage to get into administration. When I worked in a school district the pattern with all the men in administrative roles was five or six years in the classroom and then going into administration. Another part is the sheer ease and general vitrol about men teaching girls as the general assumption is that men cannot be trusted around young girls. Women don't get lectures on sexual harassment of their male pupils, but every man who sets foot into a school gets a long and serious lecture on things they cannot do with female students (touching them anywhere, even a pat on the shoulder is out btw). So men are treated badly and looked down on if they don't move into administration, that is hardly a good mix to keep men teaching.
Having spent five years as the IT head for a school district I can tell you that much of it is following the trends in their field. Real data is hard to find and does not in fact always go to plan when you try it on your district's children. So the administrators see a growing trend to teach in XYZ form and the given improvement can be 10-30%, so they opt to try XYZ at their school. A year is typical for any such thing, so even if it doesn't seem to be working for them they will continue it for that period and evaluate it during that time. At the end they may have seen a -10% change in their students which decries the trend and rather than continue with it to see if the change reverses (because the teacher(s) teaching to XYZ were new to it or any of a hundred things) they instead decide to try another trend, say KXT instead the next year to see what effect it has.
Most of the gains and trends are caused by people looking at schools doing 'well' and trying to emulate them. However each group of children are different and respond differently, so the results vary. Three years ago I had looked at One-laptop per child programs and the reported stats varied all over the place. Some had 60% improvements in certain areas, others had neutral or slightly negative results. So when I discussed the topic I said that the highest gains are as much as 60% and the average was more like 10% with some results even being slightly negative. My CAO (Chief Academic Officer, equal to a superintendent) said "When you go in front of the board don't give them all that crap just say it's 60% gains! We would never get it approved if they didn't think this was the best course of action at least for the next year. After that we already have the stuff, so it doesn't matter."
Btw on the whole caching issue, I can say I'd never have gotten funding for it. I couldn't even get them to replace a partial working (it would freeze once every 14 days and require a reboot). They don't see a reason for large expenses of cash. It however is much easier to say we need an 'X' increase a month for added bandwidth. My school district had a shared 3 MB connection and as they transitioned to more and more online based resources we could clearly all see the effects. I was advising we go above our basic needs to around a 20 MB connection (when what we needed was more like 10) for some future-proofing. However no one could offer us 20 or even 10 and so we went to 7 instead.
I would agree with this, in sixth grade my reading skills were measured as 'beyond college' and my math skills were 'college level'. However my school had been reteaching me the same set of things for like four years and I was bored to tears. By the time I did go to college my love of learning had worn off and I didn't really care about pleasing teachers or scoring particularly high. I had already started working in my field though during high school, so I had some idea of what I planned to do. That alone is better than most people I see come to college as undeclared and then they ramble about taking random classes for the next 4 or 5 years.
My parents can't figure out how to hock a DVD player to their TV, so I'd suggest it's equally hard for them to hook up a PC and an xbox. However I'd rather hook up the second one then the first for them as it is much more likely to have issues ("You didn't use the remote to change into the DVD input again", etc).
While I know I'm late to respond to this, I had to say that I'm a writer and I write for free because I enjoy it. I was also a musician and I played for free, not expecting to make money for it. I'm hardly 'odd'.
Plenty of people create art with no expectation of ever being payed for it. You can look at Lawernce lessigs talks on remix culture to see examples of people for no money creating their own variations on a theme. If you'd like to go back in time, lets visit the Victorian era when 1 in every five or six people could play an instrument and basically everyone learned to sing.
People create art and culture as part of living. It is a completely modern concept that only a select few people should and will make art or culture. Sure not everyone was a composer or a 'great artist', and yes if you had the talent you could actually ask for money to perform, teach, etc. However those are not the only artists of the era and only a handful of people reliably got paid for their contribution to art.
If the current media oligarchy should die today, we would still have art and culture. Sure we may not have a 'star' culture, but not all of us think this is a bad thing.
The Federal Reserve doesn't print US currency either, but they can ask for it to be printed by Treasury Department.
The Federal Reserve is responsible for implementing the monetary policy set by the Federal Open Market Committee. They are also quasi-private in nature rather than being government run.
I'm rather dubious this is going to do anything. Everything we drink other than absolutely pure water has calories. Juice (grape for example) is horrible with it's natural sugars (40g) and high calories (170) at even tiny sizes (8 fluid ounces). About the only thing 'safe' to drink is water with it's minor amount of sodium (typically) and no calories or sugars. Good forbid we even want to drink light beer (103 calories, 14mg of sodium, 0.3g of sugar, 12 fl oz), though it may be sort of healthier for you depending on how you look at it....
It's not unheard of. Their are people like myself with solid skills and years of experience who find themselves up against a wall of 'must have formal education of X level' in the entire local market they operate in.
While to some degree that always has happened, this is a bit different. I didn't need a bachelor's just to be a network admin 5 years ago before my last job, my associates degree and experience was just fine. Now they want a bare minimum of a bachelor's degree and want someone with a preference for doctorate or masters holders and it's starting to look like admin level work is now 'must have a doctorate or masters to get an interview'.
Even when I did get interviews the pay sucked and it was hard to get the company to hire anyone. For one job which was secondary admin work (under a primary admin) the business had three contenders and all of us where strong candidates with plenty of experience and had solid interviews. It went to a final decision at the C level for who to hire and the result was 'these candidates look to expensive for us, find quality candidates cheaper'. The very same job was back in the paper for the next two months and they wouldn't look at the three of us again. They couldn't find anyone who could meet their requirements and be 'cheaper looking' (they had never actually asked any of us what we were looking for salary wise) and they simply wrote off the job as being 'to expensive for them to fill'.
This was during a expansion phase where they needed qualified people because they were integrating a group of smaller businesses into their core business all of which had no real IT staff previously. At the time even $30k/year was ok with me as my unemployment was under that and no where in the US is $30k/year ludicrously over-payed for what would have been alot of work.
Then (as has been said here many times) you don't want a college education, you want training like I got with my associates degree which was all hands on 'run these systems' type. College is not designed for that, but business wants more and more college and more degrees. I've been told by places now they won't hire anyone who doesn't have a graduate degree now and they prefer doctorates. And they don't pay more than 50k even so. It's simply inane and stupid.
After my last job with a school district as a network admin I couldn't find a job at all for over a year. I gave up and went back to school. I was always being told I was overqualified or I lacked a degree of sufficient pedigree (They wanted a graduate degree of a variety of types, I had an associate in CIS for example). I had similar 10 years of experience in mixed linux/mac/windows environments even. I have seen admin jobs now 'requiring' doctorates. What sort of doctorate wants to do admin work....? Especially admin work for under 50k/year....
Because my internet connection tends to hiccup when streaming in HD, but local playback is nice and smooth?
Could be worse, I'm stuck on Time Warner Cable because my only option is Verizon 3 Mb dsl...