Sadly most of the media companies haven't become savvy enough to realize the internet is global and this silly crap of geolimiting things is last century. When most media is made outside the 'normal' methods we see today then I'm sure that will change.
You have no clue what communism is. Commuinism doesn't say 'Russia' or even 'China' neither is actually a communist state. Both were autocratic (with the Chinese version still being a single party democracy that is effectively autocractic). Communism can never be a form of government (it literally has nothing to do with governing). Large scale communism fails because it's never actually been used as intended. It is however a contemporary of Capitalism as both are a system of economics. Communism doesn't remove managers, it changes how they relate to the company as a whole.
Communism is simply the means of production in the hands of the workers. A very successful Spanish company is a modern communist one with each worker having a say in the whole. Because the 'shares' are all owned by the workers, they all have a vested interest in the company and in turn the company has a vested interest in them. While the Spanish economy has suffered lately that company has done fairly well and did well without having to fire thousands of people to make stockholders happy like a traditional american company. That doesn't mean hard choices aren't made, but it does change how those choices are made. Ironically this makes communist companies more democractic than capitalist ones.
There are still managers in such a company, however those people can't fuck the employees because the employees in turn collectively have authority. If everyone hates a upper management decision, that decision will be undone and the one who forced it on everyone may suffer as a consequence. Management is held responsible for their actions. Which by the way is the failing of management in a Capitalist company. Shareholders have no real interest in keeping bad decisions form hurting anyone except themselves and they don't work for the company the have shares in. So no one is there to keep management in line.
Co-ops are another modern take on 'communist' companies. Where a group of people get together to collectively accomplish a goal and then share the decision making and rewards between all parties involved. ISPs, small power companies, and other ventures have had very good success as cooperative ventures.
What makes you think that those who 'string up' the producers won't claim and redistribute the wealth that allowed the production? Someone will certainly keep producing. It just won't be the one it was before. Heck it could become the dreaded 'communism' where the laborers take the means of production and use it to make goods and services without an 'overlord' who thinks they are entitled to all the profits form their efforts.
I worked that job for 3 years, because I still made more than any other position I'd had. And I live in northwetern PA between Buffalo, NY and Cleveland, OH. I knew many other admins in my region and the most well paid made ~$50k/year here. It's about 75k/year in Pittsburgh and near $100k/year in Philly with the capital somewhere between the two. However cost of living is actually higher in all three, so take home is probably about the same. I spent nearly 10 years being a consultant for small businesses, which is the longest I worked any one 'job'. However a small business consultant doesn't make very much either and doesn't get things like health insurance. Which is why I went back to working in IT as a admin.
And you seem to have missed I have no money at this point. Bringing up a 'vacation' now is so funny... I haven't had money for one of those in over six years. Actually more than that as I had a fiance nearly six years ago and giving in to her random whims took any money I had for vacations. It's why I literally can't move anywhere either. I get offers for usually short term (6 month) gigs all over the country (from New Jersey to Texas), because I do have solid skills. However those won't pay to get me there or even interview there. I would love to know how you expect me to go across country and somehow live there on less than $100.
If he has such problems he should move his operation to where things are simply cheaper. Where I live in PA he could higher a senior developer for less than half of that and that developer could not only afford to own their own home, they could live in a gated community for $100k/year.
The real irony is that while one side pushes for the government to do the educating, the other pushes for the government to get out of education and privatize that 'industry'. To make it worse a lot of talent exists that just doesn't dot the i's and cross the t's the HR people or those who decide who gets hired wants.
Where I live (in PA) there are to many people looking for to few IT jobs. Yet even so, we aren't just competing against people from here... Local colleges, universities, and trade schools have scaled up their Comp Sci/CIS/MIS programs due to 'demand'. But the number of jobs for you after getting a degree has remained low locally. Those who can afford to leave, go elsewhere. Those that don't become unemployed or underemployed and compete for the small number of positions in the field that exist locally. Having recently gone back to finish my degree I saw people just graduating who have moved to every state in the union. Anyone who stayed can't find a job.
Even in what most people would call 'the middle of nowhere' all the larger companies (GE transportation division for instance which is the largest company in my region) hire out nearly all their internal IT to foreign workers. The example I just used tosses away apps that don't have bachelor's degrees or higher and even a bachelor's is a bare minimum. Does maintaining a small server environment require indepth knowledge of data structures or programming? No. The place uses MS products and doesn't locally do any software coding. Sure a degree shows you could work through the crap of school for 4 years or so, but most university or college programs are complete overkill for basic IT positions and don't teach the more practical things they will need on the job anyways. Then most 'require' skills that would be impossible to get outside of an industry that utilizes a particular piece of software or hardware (since no one is buying a server and a $200k piece of software to learn it for a $40k/year job). Worse are the ones that require knowledge of a product built internally at another segment of the company. In other words a job that requires skills impossible to get outside of the company for entry level employment. This is a glowing red sign saying 'We train people outside this country on our software, please don't bother applying'. After all if you already have training in that software, you worked for them already and why would you move from one job within to a different entry level one?
As if those two things weren't enough a third issue is that most companies need IT, but hate it. They see it as not bringing anything to the company and so minimize it (nearly insuring it doesn't do anything to useful for the company). Often thousands of machines with little to no automation. Primitive tools and equipment below what's required to even maintain the existing infrastructure. Business people making IT decisions with no reasonable expectations of the requirements. This is why we all hear stories about those '5 million dollar boondoggles' where consultants and outsourced companies were called in and the money seemed to all get wasted away. Hell most companies don't even trust their IT people. And really often they shouldn't. I've seen way to many cases where even the good guys are treated like shit, payed almost nothing, and expected to regularly perform miracles without ever even being appreciated. Given the treatment even good people can be tempted because they come to resent those they work for.
Oh and lastly my own personal favorite... I turn 38 years old this year. I now regularly get asked 'Why are you still in IT?' And have to explain that I actually like the problem solving and adaptation that is at the heart of IT. Or even more how I can apply for positions above 'network adminsitrator' all day, but business people don't take me seriously so I can't be 'executive material' and of course with more small companies around than large ones there are few jobs between 'network admin' and 'C** level employee'. While still being called a
They are easily one of the biggest, of not the biggest, attack vectors. Because of this I block ads and literally won't white list anyone, because there have been tons of cases of 'respectable' ad hosts being cracked and hosting malware through their ads. Often without the company knowing for months!
So no, I'd rather not have my systems infected because someone wants me to view ads that I won't actually click on anyways. I can count on one hand how many times I clicked on an ad before ad-blockers were a thing. Combine these two things together and they stay blocked. Forever.
Want me to unblock your ads? Step #1: Make them passive enough it's nearly impossible to use their ads to infect my system. We can talk about Step #2 once the first is done.
I used to make what worked out to around $13 as a network admin here in PA and it was quite enough to live on and even talk of buying a house. My dad who did building maintenance until last year used to make _less_ than that and was the primary breadwinner of my direct family. Oh and yes, customer service workers make less than $12/hour here.
For me... I'm tired of living with other people. The only person I could live with was my ex-fiance and the end of that was not me. Otherwise I can't go for more than a few months before other people drive me nuts and I need my space from them. In most apartments you can't usually get space from them. More so the more roommates you need.
On top of this is my horribly bad experiences with roommates including nut cases who threatened to kill me in my sleep because I stopped contributing to the shared food budget (of which they were buying stupidly expensive stuff and I was barely home to eat any of it, so paying for them to eat well was stupid). To a roommate whose sister got him hooked on drugs and he moved out taking my tv with them. Or even a brief stint with my parents... Which was great fun. Yes, I'm still twelve, thanks mom I need all this advice about how my ex was a horrible person every single day just because she broke off the engagement with me.
So yeah... I can't imagine why of why people don't want to live with others...
It's called I wrote it at midnight and was half asleep. Then again after a car accident I have very minor brain damage that causes me to reverse the placement of letters when I'm typing at times, so typos are extremely common for me anyways.
Well my parent's believe Apple are being a bunch of dicks about this and should just comply. I doubt they are the only ones. While you and me may believe privacy is worth fighting for I bet most companies would rather get a good feeling for the general consensus first. From a pure 'business' perspective that's the right thing to do when not specifically on the spot like Apple is.
Apple had no good option to go with, spend lots of time and effort trying to make it possible with no return or make this a public case of privacy for their users and the government is 'bad'. Looking at those of course they go 'User Privacy!' as a rallying cry. You need to remember while peopel may run then, a company is a collective entity that is entirely selfish.
lol, I've seen some major hospitals that have 2 entire IT people on staff (an admin and an assistant)... I applied for a network admin position at a hospital with 2 IT employees (though I didn't know that until the interview) for 400 employees and well over 300 connected systems (from tablets doctor's used, to connected hardware, routers, and servers of various types, as well as dedicated workstations for nurses). They also used highly specialized systems that were extremely complex. Oh and did I mention satellite officers for doctor's that are part of their network, but not onsite? Yeah... Huge mess there.
Because obviously all this tech in a modern hospital can just work on it's own. No one ever wants to keep enough IT staff on hand to deal with regular maintenance because that would take away from executive bonuses. Hospitals are not any different, even as they are required to push further into the digital realm. This is the direct result. Oh and they don't even usually pay that well. Heck I think half the interviews I've had with companies lately are just to 'prove' a native worker wasn't 'qualified' to do the job even though my resume is solid. Good luck to the sucker form India getting those jobs.
I'd love the option... I have wanted any candidate on a national election ballot in... Well pretty much since I first had the ability to vote. I didn't want Clinton, or Bush Jr, Obama, and I hate both party candidates right now for president. I'd love to be able to tell them what I think of them, but...
Sadly the only real means to change it relies on the body that is invested in the current system... So yeah... Never going to happen.
60%? That high? I'm lucky if I see someone from another state who matches my stances by even 25%, let alone my state which is stupendously conservative.
I usually just open the top several results in their own tabs as is. It's quite often I don't get exactly what I want for a lot of things my parents want my help with for instance. Google and DuckDuckGo have issues answering questions like 'methods for marking property borders' or 'border trees'. I had talked to a law professor about the subject and they wanted to see information on the topic. Even the top 20 results from the search engines gave me lots of stuff that didn't do me a bit of good.
Helping them over the last few years has lead to me getting in the habit of opening as many as 10 or even 15 tabs when searching for stuff and then quickly sorting through them to see if they are useful at all.
I find it ironic that the cameras and better radio guidance were things the R/C airplane and helicopter crowd wanted for years, but when it finally becomes a fairly cheap thing to have... 'Drones' have become a thing and people did stupid things with them and now R/C airplanes get caught up in those issues.
It feels so strange that today someone can't just go pick up a R/C plane as a kid, return home, and fly it on 10 acres of country land like I did as a kid. The worst thing that could happen back then was crashing it into a neighbors dairy cow on accident. Instead they need to get a $5 license from the FAA because they are 'drones'.
In fact my dad still has an R/C helicopter that would seem to fall under these rules that he flies in his backyard. I'll have to remind him that it's a 'drone' now and he'll need a licence or someone may report him.
So people want the headaches of dealing with potentially completely unknown strangers to have conflicts with? I used to work for a college and the dorms were dominated by conflicts between roomies 90% of the time from the sound of it... Regardless of how well they tried to find similar people to put together with surveys and other measures. That's also with thousands of people to work with each year as well.
All this is fine in a place where you can make enough to do this...
I live in PA and work in IT (I have over 15 years in the field) and when I see say... a 6 month contract. They are paying 10-20k. Figuring you get 2 of those back to back to fir perfectly in a year your take home is 20-40k for a year. Unless you live in your parents basement living on that and then incorporating on top of that is going to be pretty insanely expensive. Certainly it is without benefits. Simple health care is going to run you ~$150-200/month on your own (unless you want to pay for nothing
Heck, I just saw a 2 month contract for Pittsburgh, PA and Strongville, OH... For $4k.The requirements to get the job are awfully high (nearly a decade of experience with Websphere, Windows, and Linux administration). Not including travel costs between locations. Heck they don't even reimburse you for the costs of the interview unless you get the job and they came to me. But... For what they wanted and what they were paying, it wasn't interesting for me.
In my experience in my state, contract work is for suckers because it's used by companies to undercut real employment. It's also used to get workers for much less than full time ones cost. 'Negotiate'? That doesn't happen. They tell you what they are paying and you can take it or leave it.
Locally government contracting is almost all short term programming gigs for the State. As someone who is not a programmer by trade, I haven't spent much time looking at them. I'd need to move to get Federal contracts and with my state not even being able to pass a budget for the last 5 months... Well not a good time to be a State employee.
As someone with a Skylake chip when I just last week rebuilt this machine... It may theoretically be able to power 3x 4k monitors, but I seriously doubt it could do much with them once it did. My new gear didn't like my old Radeon HD 6970 I wanted to use with it, so since I built it I've been running it's integrated GPU. Tomorrow a new shiny Radeon R9 390 arrives though and that... I can see doing something with multiple 4k screens.
What I think is a better question is why they think anyone is doing this in the UK... Most cam copies I see are either from Slavic states near Russia or from somewhere in Asia. Most western world copies of movies tend to be screeners and other video sources and are in fact rare since companies started watermarking them. The only good use of a cam copy is pretty much deciding if the movie may be worth the hassle of a real theatre to go so or wait for a release copy.
While I don't give him good odds of getting elected, mostly because people can't seem to do more than vote for the candidates that get the biggest media campaigns, he's the only current candidate I'd even think of voting for. Lessig isn't my perfect candidate, but he is far more like it then any primary party candidate could ever be and still be part of their party. The greens and Libertarians have much the same issues as he does. The last good presidential third party candidates to get any traction have all been business people with the sheer money to rival any campaign the big two could field. Most people just can't be bothered to get a feel for candidates outside tv ads and billboards sadly. They hear talking points, see rallies in the local and national news, and then think 'this guy does things I like' or 'this guy is from the party I like' and vote for them. I'm certain this will continue even though I wish it would change.
I don't know... I barely watch regular tv anymore, but I've never once said 'I can't commit to another show, and I don't have the time to emotionally commit to another show.'. What I usually say is 'There is to much crap I have no interest in on tv', which includes lots of shows with interesting premises that never go anywhere. When I do find a show I like I'm lucky to get 13 episodes before they go on hiatus and run the risk of never being seen again because the metrics say it's not 'popular enough'. As has already been mentioned Firefly falls on this list, but plenty of others do as well. Networks are inherently fickle and wouldn't recognize good tv if it was used to hit them over the head. Thank god they are becoming less and less needed to handle entertainment.
Ironically I just had my Seasonic 80+ gold rated power supply die... While a bunch of PSUs I have in older systems before 80+ was a thing are still running just fine. It was effectively silent, but then GPU and CPU fans have always been louder than PSU fans in all the systems I've built since dedicated graphics cards with 3D became a thing.
Now the reason I bought it at the time was that it had some of the tightest power to the correct ratings for it's rails compared to other brands in testing. And from what my MB reported this was true with highly accurate power to the rails that never really fluctuated. But arguing that as a selling point for most people is probably kinda hard.
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Sadly most of the media companies haven't become savvy enough to realize the internet is global and this silly crap of geolimiting things is last century. When most media is made outside the 'normal' methods we see today then I'm sure that will change.
You have no clue what communism is. Commuinism doesn't say 'Russia' or even 'China' neither is actually a communist state. Both were autocratic (with the Chinese version still being a single party democracy that is effectively autocractic). Communism can never be a form of government (it literally has nothing to do with governing). Large scale communism fails because it's never actually been used as intended. It is however a contemporary of Capitalism as both are a system of economics. Communism doesn't remove managers, it changes how they relate to the company as a whole.
Communism is simply the means of production in the hands of the workers. A very successful Spanish company is a modern communist one with each worker having a say in the whole. Because the 'shares' are all owned by the workers, they all have a vested interest in the company and in turn the company has a vested interest in them. While the Spanish economy has suffered lately that company has done fairly well and did well without having to fire thousands of people to make stockholders happy like a traditional american company. That doesn't mean hard choices aren't made, but it does change how those choices are made. Ironically this makes communist companies more democractic than capitalist ones.
There are still managers in such a company, however those people can't fuck the employees because the employees in turn collectively have authority. If everyone hates a upper management decision, that decision will be undone and the one who forced it on everyone may suffer as a consequence. Management is held responsible for their actions. Which by the way is the failing of management in a Capitalist company. Shareholders have no real interest in keeping bad decisions form hurting anyone except themselves and they don't work for the company the have shares in. So no one is there to keep management in line.
Co-ops are another modern take on 'communist' companies. Where a group of people get together to collectively accomplish a goal and then share the decision making and rewards between all parties involved. ISPs, small power companies, and other ventures have had very good success as cooperative ventures.
What makes you think that those who 'string up' the producers won't claim and redistribute the wealth that allowed the production? Someone will certainly keep producing. It just won't be the one it was before. Heck it could become the dreaded 'communism' where the laborers take the means of production and use it to make goods and services without an 'overlord' who thinks they are entitled to all the profits form their efforts.
I worked that job for 3 years, because I still made more than any other position I'd had. And I live in northwetern PA between Buffalo, NY and Cleveland, OH. I knew many other admins in my region and the most well paid made ~$50k/year here. It's about 75k/year in Pittsburgh and near $100k/year in Philly with the capital somewhere between the two. However cost of living is actually higher in all three, so take home is probably about the same. I spent nearly 10 years being a consultant for small businesses, which is the longest I worked any one 'job'. However a small business consultant doesn't make very much either and doesn't get things like health insurance. Which is why I went back to working in IT as a admin.
And you seem to have missed I have no money at this point. Bringing up a 'vacation' now is so funny... I haven't had money for one of those in over six years. Actually more than that as I had a fiance nearly six years ago and giving in to her random whims took any money I had for vacations. It's why I literally can't move anywhere either. I get offers for usually short term (6 month) gigs all over the country (from New Jersey to Texas), because I do have solid skills. However those won't pay to get me there or even interview there. I would love to know how you expect me to go across country and somehow live there on less than $100.
If he has such problems he should move his operation to where things are simply cheaper. Where I live in PA he could higher a senior developer for less than half of that and that developer could not only afford to own their own home, they could live in a gated community for $100k/year.
The real irony is that while one side pushes for the government to do the educating, the other pushes for the government to get out of education and privatize that 'industry'. To make it worse a lot of talent exists that just doesn't dot the i's and cross the t's the HR people or those who decide who gets hired wants.
Where I live (in PA) there are to many people looking for to few IT jobs. Yet even so, we aren't just competing against people from here... Local colleges, universities, and trade schools have scaled up their Comp Sci/CIS/MIS programs due to 'demand'. But the number of jobs for you after getting a degree has remained low locally. Those who can afford to leave, go elsewhere. Those that don't become unemployed or underemployed and compete for the small number of positions in the field that exist locally. Having recently gone back to finish my degree I saw people just graduating who have moved to every state in the union. Anyone who stayed can't find a job.
Even in what most people would call 'the middle of nowhere' all the larger companies (GE transportation division for instance which is the largest company in my region) hire out nearly all their internal IT to foreign workers. The example I just used tosses away apps that don't have bachelor's degrees or higher and even a bachelor's is a bare minimum. Does maintaining a small server environment require indepth knowledge of data structures or programming? No. The place uses MS products and doesn't locally do any software coding. Sure a degree shows you could work through the crap of school for 4 years or so, but most university or college programs are complete overkill for basic IT positions and don't teach the more practical things they will need on the job anyways. Then most 'require' skills that would be impossible to get outside of an industry that utilizes a particular piece of software or hardware (since no one is buying a server and a $200k piece of software to learn it for a $40k/year job). Worse are the ones that require knowledge of a product built internally at another segment of the company. In other words a job that requires skills impossible to get outside of the company for entry level employment. This is a glowing red sign saying 'We train people outside this country on our software, please don't bother applying'. After all if you already have training in that software, you worked for them already and why would you move from one job within to a different entry level one?
As if those two things weren't enough a third issue is that most companies need IT, but hate it. They see it as not bringing anything to the company and so minimize it (nearly insuring it doesn't do anything to useful for the company). Often thousands of machines with little to no automation. Primitive tools and equipment below what's required to even maintain the existing infrastructure. Business people making IT decisions with no reasonable expectations of the requirements. This is why we all hear stories about those '5 million dollar boondoggles' where consultants and outsourced companies were called in and the money seemed to all get wasted away. Hell most companies don't even trust their IT people. And really often they shouldn't. I've seen way to many cases where even the good guys are treated like shit, payed almost nothing, and expected to regularly perform miracles without ever even being appreciated. Given the treatment even good people can be tempted because they come to resent those they work for.
Oh and lastly my own personal favorite... I turn 38 years old this year. I now regularly get asked 'Why are you still in IT?' And have to explain that I actually like the problem solving and adaptation that is at the heart of IT. Or even more how I can apply for positions above 'network adminsitrator' all day, but business people don't take me seriously so I can't be 'executive material' and of course with more small companies around than large ones there are few jobs between 'network admin' and 'C** level employee'. While still being called a
They are easily one of the biggest, of not the biggest, attack vectors. Because of this I block ads and literally won't white list anyone, because there have been tons of cases of 'respectable' ad hosts being cracked and hosting malware through their ads. Often without the company knowing for months!
So no, I'd rather not have my systems infected because someone wants me to view ads that I won't actually click on anyways. I can count on one hand how many times I clicked on an ad before ad-blockers were a thing. Combine these two things together and they stay blocked. Forever.
Want me to unblock your ads? Step #1: Make them passive enough it's nearly impossible to use their ads to infect my system. We can talk about Step #2 once the first is done.
I used to make what worked out to around $13 as a network admin here in PA and it was quite enough to live on and even talk of buying a house. My dad who did building maintenance until last year used to make _less_ than that and was the primary breadwinner of my direct family. Oh and yes, customer service workers make less than $12/hour here.
For me... I'm tired of living with other people. The only person I could live with was my ex-fiance and the end of that was not me. Otherwise I can't go for more than a few months before other people drive me nuts and I need my space from them. In most apartments you can't usually get space from them. More so the more roommates you need.
On top of this is my horribly bad experiences with roommates including nut cases who threatened to kill me in my sleep because I stopped contributing to the shared food budget (of which they were buying stupidly expensive stuff and I was barely home to eat any of it, so paying for them to eat well was stupid). To a roommate whose sister got him hooked on drugs and he moved out taking my tv with them. Or even a brief stint with my parents... Which was great fun. Yes, I'm still twelve, thanks mom I need all this advice about how my ex was a horrible person every single day just because she broke off the engagement with me.
So yeah... I can't imagine why of why people don't want to live with others...
It's called I wrote it at midnight and was half asleep. Then again after a car accident I have very minor brain damage that causes me to reverse the placement of letters when I'm typing at times, so typos are extremely common for me anyways.
Well my parent's believe Apple are being a bunch of dicks about this and should just comply. I doubt they are the only ones. While you and me may believe privacy is worth fighting for I bet most companies would rather get a good feeling for the general consensus first. From a pure 'business' perspective that's the right thing to do when not specifically on the spot like Apple is.
Apple had no good option to go with, spend lots of time and effort trying to make it possible with no return or make this a public case of privacy for their users and the government is 'bad'. Looking at those of course they go 'User Privacy!' as a rallying cry. You need to remember while peopel may run then, a company is a collective entity that is entirely selfish.
lol, I've seen some major hospitals that have 2 entire IT people on staff (an admin and an assistant)... I applied for a network admin position at a hospital with 2 IT employees (though I didn't know that until the interview) for 400 employees and well over 300 connected systems (from tablets doctor's used, to connected hardware, routers, and servers of various types, as well as dedicated workstations for nurses). They also used highly specialized systems that were extremely complex. Oh and did I mention satellite officers for doctor's that are part of their network, but not onsite? Yeah... Huge mess there.
Because obviously all this tech in a modern hospital can just work on it's own. No one ever wants to keep enough IT staff on hand to deal with regular maintenance because that would take away from executive bonuses. Hospitals are not any different, even as they are required to push further into the digital realm. This is the direct result. Oh and they don't even usually pay that well. Heck I think half the interviews I've had with companies lately are just to 'prove' a native worker wasn't 'qualified' to do the job even though my resume is solid. Good luck to the sucker form India getting those jobs.
I'd love the option... I have wanted any candidate on a national election ballot in... Well pretty much since I first had the ability to vote. I didn't want Clinton, or Bush Jr, Obama, and I hate both party candidates right now for president. I'd love to be able to tell them what I think of them, but...
Sadly the only real means to change it relies on the body that is invested in the current system... So yeah... Never going to happen.
60%? That high? I'm lucky if I see someone from another state who matches my stances by even 25%, let alone my state which is stupendously conservative.
The article mentions SPECTRE the James Bond villain organization, though I to couldn't help thinking of the hydra logo first...
I usually just open the top several results in their own tabs as is. It's quite often I don't get exactly what I want for a lot of things my parents want my help with for instance. Google and DuckDuckGo have issues answering questions like 'methods for marking property borders' or 'border trees'. I had talked to a law professor about the subject and they wanted to see information on the topic. Even the top 20 results from the search engines gave me lots of stuff that didn't do me a bit of good.
Helping them over the last few years has lead to me getting in the habit of opening as many as 10 or even 15 tabs when searching for stuff and then quickly sorting through them to see if they are useful at all.
I find it ironic that the cameras and better radio guidance were things the R/C airplane and helicopter crowd wanted for years, but when it finally becomes a fairly cheap thing to have... 'Drones' have become a thing and people did stupid things with them and now R/C airplanes get caught up in those issues.
It feels so strange that today someone can't just go pick up a R/C plane as a kid, return home, and fly it on 10 acres of country land like I did as a kid. The worst thing that could happen back then was crashing it into a neighbors dairy cow on accident. Instead they need to get a $5 license from the FAA because they are 'drones'.
In fact my dad still has an R/C helicopter that would seem to fall under these rules that he flies in his backyard. I'll have to remind him that it's a 'drone' now and he'll need a licence or someone may report him.
So people want the headaches of dealing with potentially completely unknown strangers to have conflicts with? I used to work for a college and the dorms were dominated by conflicts between roomies 90% of the time from the sound of it... Regardless of how well they tried to find similar people to put together with surveys and other measures. That's also with thousands of people to work with each year as well.
These sounds like serious headaches.
All this is fine in a place where you can make enough to do this...
I live in PA and work in IT (I have over 15 years in the field) and when I see say... a 6 month contract. They are paying 10-20k. Figuring you get 2 of those back to back to fir perfectly in a year your take home is 20-40k for a year. Unless you live in your parents basement living on that and then incorporating on top of that is going to be pretty insanely expensive. Certainly it is without benefits. Simple health care is going to run you ~$150-200/month on your own (unless you want to pay for nothing
Heck, I just saw a 2 month contract for Pittsburgh, PA and Strongville, OH... For $4k.The requirements to get the job are awfully high (nearly a decade of experience with Websphere, Windows, and Linux administration). Not including travel costs between locations. Heck they don't even reimburse you for the costs of the interview unless you get the job and they came to me. But... For what they wanted and what they were paying, it wasn't interesting for me.
In my experience in my state, contract work is for suckers because it's used by companies to undercut real employment. It's also used to get workers for much less than full time ones cost. 'Negotiate'? That doesn't happen. They tell you what they are paying and you can take it or leave it.
Locally government contracting is almost all short term programming gigs for the State. As someone who is not a programmer by trade, I haven't spent much time looking at them. I'd need to move to get Federal contracts and with my state not even being able to pass a budget for the last 5 months... Well not a good time to be a State employee.
As someone with a Skylake chip when I just last week rebuilt this machine... It may theoretically be able to power 3x 4k monitors, but I seriously doubt it could do much with them once it did. My new gear didn't like my old Radeon HD 6970 I wanted to use with it, so since I built it I've been running it's integrated GPU. Tomorrow a new shiny Radeon R9 390 arrives though and that... I can see doing something with multiple 4k screens.
What I think is a better question is why they think anyone is doing this in the UK... Most cam copies I see are either from Slavic states near Russia or from somewhere in Asia. Most western world copies of movies tend to be screeners and other video sources and are in fact rare since companies started watermarking them. The only good use of a cam copy is pretty much deciding if the movie may be worth the hassle of a real theatre to go so or wait for a release copy.
Sane people can tell the difference, sadly most people are not sane...
While I don't give him good odds of getting elected, mostly because people can't seem to do more than vote for the candidates that get the biggest media campaigns, he's the only current candidate I'd even think of voting for. Lessig isn't my perfect candidate, but he is far more like it then any primary party candidate could ever be and still be part of their party. The greens and Libertarians have much the same issues as he does. The last good presidential third party candidates to get any traction have all been business people with the sheer money to rival any campaign the big two could field. Most people just can't be bothered to get a feel for candidates outside tv ads and billboards sadly. They hear talking points, see rallies in the local and national news, and then think 'this guy does things I like' or 'this guy is from the party I like' and vote for them. I'm certain this will continue even though I wish it would change.
I don't know... I barely watch regular tv anymore, but I've never once said 'I can't commit to another show, and I don't have the time to emotionally commit to another show.'. What I usually say is 'There is to much crap I have no interest in on tv', which includes lots of shows with interesting premises that never go anywhere. When I do find a show I like I'm lucky to get 13 episodes before they go on hiatus and run the risk of never being seen again because the metrics say it's not 'popular enough'. As has already been mentioned Firefly falls on this list, but plenty of others do as well. Networks are inherently fickle and wouldn't recognize good tv if it was used to hit them over the head. Thank god they are becoming less and less needed to handle entertainment.
Ironically I just had my Seasonic 80+ gold rated power supply die... While a bunch of PSUs I have in older systems before 80+ was a thing are still running just fine. It was effectively silent, but then GPU and CPU fans have always been louder than PSU fans in all the systems I've built since dedicated graphics cards with 3D became a thing.
Now the reason I bought it at the time was that it had some of the tightest power to the correct ratings for it's rails compared to other brands in testing. And from what my MB reported this was true with highly accurate power to the rails that never really fluctuated. But arguing that as a selling point for most people is probably kinda hard.