The only starting salary chart I could quickly find on Google is for Math PhDs. For full-year teaching/research, the starting salary in 1965 was $10,400 and in 2000 was $51,000. To adjust for inflation, I use official CPI values until 1988, and shadowstats.com after that, which computes the CPI according to pre-Greenspan forumlas. Eyeballing the inflation rate for each year from the chart at shadowstats.com and plugging those numbers into Excel, I get that inflation from 1988 to 2008 was 502% (i.e. 5x). Using the official BLS calculator, inflation from 1965 to 1988 was 390% (i.e. 3.9x). Taking these together, we get that the 2008 starting salary for a Math PhD should be $195k, adjusting for inflation from 1965. Not for someone experienced. Starting salary.
It's been nine years since IE5 came out with broken CSS and Web developers have been screaming for it ever since. What's that that Bill Gates says about predicting the future -- that 10 years is just enough time to see paradigm shifts but not so far out that the future cannot be predicted? Does coding to a standard count as a paradigm shift? I guess it is when you're Microsoft and you're coding to someone else's standard.
If superstars are really 10x as good as the average, why are they paid only twice as much?
I don't know if this will work, but here's a suggestion: increase your offer by 30% and on top of that be willing to pay for the services of headhunters and "staffing companies". Limit each headhunter to one resume.
Next step is to devise a way to qualify the applicants. This is an eternally discussed subject, and there are lots of suggestions out there: IQ-type questions, portfolios of past work, hobby computer experience, and just plain old good interview questions, such as "what's the hardest bug you've found, and how did you find it?"; "what's the most speed optimization you've realized?"; "what's the most clever algorithm you've invented?"
I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of sending a spy satellite into orbit and returning it destructively to Earth.
Uh, yeah, that was my joke. The researcher used the word "work" in reference to the narrow definition of Western culture, whereas I broadened it up to include the whole human race.
Unfortunately, people have learned how to avoid natural selection in the short term through unsustainable approaches such as inequity and excess consumption. But this is not going to work in the long term.
Oh, it'll work out very well in the long term, that is, assuming the entire race isn't annihilated. The most sustainable cultures on Earth will survive. I think the quoted researcher meant to say medium term.
How about we just even attempt to have Constitutional laws? Politicians don't like to be held to the Constitution. This used to be in the 1996 Republican Party Platform before Bush operatives removed it at the 2000 Republican National Convention:
In addition, we support Republican-sponsored legislation that would require the original sponsor of proposed federal legislation to cite specific constitutional authority for the measure.
This in reference to four bills submitted in the 104th Congress:
HR 2270: 104 sponsors, didn't get out of House subcommittee
S.RES. 152: 18 sponsors, didn't get out of Senate Committee on Rules
S. 1039: 20 sponsors, didn't get out of Senate Subcommittee on Constitution, Federalism, Property
HR 106: 20 sponsors, didn't get out of House subcommitee
Further evidene, of course, was that there wass no interest in the Constitution is the media bias regarding -- and relatively poor showing in the primaries by -- Ron Paul.
Let's establish the ground rules before coming up with a process to test against those ground rules.
We in the U.S. are fed a steady diet of public education, American Idol, and high fructose corn syrup. I.e. we're lazy. Before the Internet, we couldn't have been bothered to even go to the library, not that there would be any information there after the government (which owns the library) sanitized it. The Internet has woken up 10% of the U.S. population. Blogging is hard work and takes a lot of research. A whole new generation is educating themselves, where public schools had tried to dumb them down. Young people, who get there news from Internet, told their parents about Ron Paul, who did not.
The Internet is in the process of saving the U.S. from its century of tyranny. The only question is whether it will be soon enough. East Germans knew better, but by the time they did, it was too late.
Ron Paul was a skirmish in the war for freedom. The next battle is paper ballots, and at least here in Colorado, at least for 2008, we'll have paper due to overwhelming public outcry for it. The next battle after that is to actually elect a defender of liberty using said paper ballots, by which time a larger percentage of the population should be getting its news from the Internet.
Well, since you made me go look up the rule, I see that it is wins at five states that are needed, not four:
Each candidate for nomination for President of the United States and Vice President of the United States shall demonstrate the support of a majority of the delegates from each of five (5) or more states, severally, prior to the presentation of the name of that candidate for nomination.
Now all those results reported so far, especially for caucus states, are somewhat, but not completely, meaningless. What counts is how the delegates choose to vote at the RNC, out of the remaining candidates. E.g., Fred Thompson and even Mitt Romney delegates might opt to vote for Ron Paul. The caucus states' results so far are particularly meaningless, because the delegates for most caucus states won't get ultimately chosen until late spring/early summer.
Oh, and of course, the RNC can invite whomever it wants to speak. The five states would simply force the RNC to allow Ron Paul to speak.
But I can never take seriously any politician who just says that we should close down the Department of Education.
You do realize it was created in 1979, don't you?
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I've donated $600, knowing that Ron Paul would not win due to electronic voting and biased media, for two reasons: for Ron Paul to spread the message of freedom and to build the freedom movement for next time. Compared to the paltry showings of the Constitution Party that I've been supporting since 2000, compared to my own past efforts at underreported.com, and even compared to Ron Paul's own 1988 presidential run, it was money well spent. The message has spread further than anyone dreamed of even a year ago.
I was elected to be a delegate on Feb. 5 for my precinct in Colorado, and I plan to go through with representing Ron Paul to the county level March 2 (and then possibly also to the state level on May 31) so that he does not lose any of the projected 42 delegates nationwide he is counting on.
There is one last additional hope to further spread the message this cycle, and that is if Ron Paul can get first place in four states (he has no first place finishes so far, at least according to official tallies), then he will be allowed to speak at the Republican National Convention. And perhaps if that happens, some of the "limited government" planks of pre-2000 Republican party platforms can be reinserted. Not that a Republican president elected in 2008 would honor that, but it would ensure that in the 2012 debates that a small-government candidate can score points by quoting the platform and criticizing the neocons.
Seriously, is there anyone who doesn't think this is either a precursor to military action
There are other possibilities. Recall that the FBI shut down Muslim websites hosted in Texas on Sep. 7, 2001. Depending on who you think was responsible for 9/11, it could have either been a futile attempt to prevent 9/11, or a successful attempt to keep Muslims from organizing a peaceful or violent protest against being blamed for 9/11. Since I am in the latter camp, I was pleasantly surprised that the Superbowl went off without a hitch, especially given that the Patriots were playing.
Another possibility is mere cyber warfare (without escalation to a hot war) -- to prevent the much-feared electronic transactions conducted by Iran in Euros rather than dollars.
Finally, don't discount the possibility of a combination of these. Powerful interests rarely do something for a single purpose. E.g., the communications disruption could facilitate a false flag now (perhaps Super Tuesday/Fat Tuesday), which would lead to a U.S. attack on Iran made easier by the same communications blackout -- all coincidentally happening just in time to stop the Iranian Oil Burse.
I wish I did know what was going on -- I'm spooked.
...the following are not infringements of copyright:
[...]
(5) (B) communication by an establishment of a transmission or retransmission embodying a performance or display of a nondramatic musical work intended to be received by the general public, originated by a radio or television broadcast station licensed as such by the Federal Communications Commission, or, if an audiovisual transmission, by a cable system or satellite carrier, if-
(i) in the case of an establishment other than a food service or drinking establishment, either the establishment in which the communication occurs has less than 2,000 gross square feet of space (excluding space used for customer parking and for no other purpose), or the establishment in which the communication occurs has 2,000 or more gross square feet of space (excluding space used for customer parking and for no other purpose) and--
(I) if the performance is by audio means only, the performance is communicated by means of a total of not more than 6 loudspeakers, of which not more than 4 loudspeakers are located in any 1 room or adjoining outdoor space; or
(II) if the performance or display is by audiovisual means, any visual portion of the performance or display is communicated by means of a total of not more than 4 audiovisual devices, of which not more than 1 audiovisual device is located in any 1 room, and no such audiovisual device has a diagonal screen size greater than 55 inches, and any audio portion of the performance or display is communicated by means of a total of not more than 6 loudspeakers, of which not more than 4 loudspeakers are located in any 1 room or adjoining outdoor space;
(ii) in the case of a food service or drinking establishment, either the establishment in which the communication occurs has less than 3,750 gross square feet of space (excluding space used for customer parking and for no other purpose), or the establishment in which the communication occurs has 3,750 gross square feet of space or more (excluding space used for customer parking and for no other purpose) and--
(I) if the performance is by audio means only, the performance is communicated by means of a total of not more than 6 loudspeakers, of which not more than 4 loudspeakers are located in any 1 room or adjoining outdoor space; or
(II) if the performance or display is by audiovisual means, any visual portion of the performance or display is communicated by means of a total of not more than 4 audiovisual devices, of which not more than one audiovisual device is located in any 1 room, and no such audiovisual device has a diagonal screen size greater than 55 inches, and any audio portion of the performance or display is communicated by means of a total of not more than 6 loudspeakers, of which not more than 4 loudspeakers are located in any 1 room or adjoining outdoor space;
In other words, this law carves out explicit permission for restaurants to have a television, which otherwise would be a copyright violation. It does not rescind fair use. Recall fair use as described by U.S. Code Title 17 Section 107 (emphasis added):
In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include--
the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
the nature of the copyrighted work;
the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
As first reported at ronpaulwarroom.com, Greenville had the same discrepancy as Sutton. CNN shows zero votes for Ron Paul while the Nashua Telegraph shows 25 votes.
Also note that New Hampshire was a focus of the 1992 book Votescam (full text) regarding the 1988 election:
Then came a widely reported promise made by Bush to his campaign
manager, Gov. Sununu. It happens that Sununu's computer engineering
skills approach 'genius' on the tests. If Sununu could "deliver" New
Hampshire, and Bush didn't care how and didn't want to know how -- then
Sununu would become his chief of staff in the White House.
[...]
Washington Post: [...] For Vice President Bush and his
supporters, Tuesday's 9-percentage-point victory over Sen. Robert J.
Dole (R-Kan.) in New Hampshire was a delightful surprise; for Andrew
Kohut, it was a horror story.
Kohut is president of the Gallup poll, whose final New Hampshire urvey
was wrong by 17 points: it had put Dole ahead by 8; Bush won by 9. "I
was dismayed," Kohut acknowledged yesterday.
See the Votescam text for a length discussion on the unreliability of those 1988 electronic voting machines.
Thimerosal is indeed not a cause of autism. It triggers autism in those genetically predisposed.
It's like saying gluten causes autism because autism can be controlled through a gluten-free diet -- so we should all stop eating bread. Or better, it's like saying Nintendo causes epilepsy, so we should all stop playing videogames.
Elections are rigged. Even if you don't accept that, enough people believe it that it affects prediction markets. A lot of people such as myself believed that Hillary was the one annointed by the power elite, based in part on the cooperation between Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton in the tsunami aftermath. We were all wrong. It now appears that Obama is the annointed one.
Hey, if you really knew it all along, why weren't you swiping up those underpriced Obama bets?
Perhaps because of five years in jail due to the 2006 Internet gambling law (SAFE Port Act)?
Perhaps it won't be applied to prediction markets, and perhaps it won't be applied to individual bettors. On the other hand, if said risk were traded on a prediction market, we would know just how risky betting in a prediction market is.
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No wonder Gen Y is cynical about salaries.
It's been nine years since IE5 came out with broken CSS and Web developers have been screaming for it ever since. What's that that Bill Gates says about predicting the future -- that 10 years is just enough time to see paradigm shifts but not so far out that the future cannot be predicted? Does coding to a standard count as a paradigm shift? I guess it is when you're Microsoft and you're coding to someone else's standard.
I don't know if this will work, but here's a suggestion: increase your offer by 30% and on top of that be willing to pay for the services of headhunters and "staffing companies". Limit each headhunter to one resume.
Next step is to devise a way to qualify the applicants. This is an eternally discussed subject, and there are lots of suggestions out there: IQ-type questions, portfolios of past work, hobby computer experience, and just plain old good interview questions, such as "what's the hardest bug you've found, and how did you find it?"; "what's the most speed optimization you've realized?"; "what's the most clever algorithm you've invented?"
After 7.6 billion years, it's time to move out of mom's basement.
Each item from the list sounds like the core plot device for a sci fi story either already made or that could be made.
I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of sending a spy satellite into orbit and returning it destructively to Earth.
Uh, yeah, that was my joke. The researcher used the word "work" in reference to the narrow definition of Western culture, whereas I broadened it up to include the whole human race.
- HR 2270: 104 sponsors, didn't get out of House subcommittee
- S.RES. 152: 18 sponsors, didn't get out of Senate Committee on Rules
- S. 1039: 20 sponsors, didn't get out of Senate Subcommittee on Constitution, Federalism, Property
- HR 106: 20 sponsors, didn't get out of House subcommitee
Further evidene, of course, was that there wass no interest in the Constitution is the media bias regarding -- and relatively poor showing in the primaries by -- Ron Paul.Let's establish the ground rules before coming up with a process to test against those ground rules.
The Internet is in the process of saving the U.S. from its century of tyranny. The only question is whether it will be soon enough. East Germans knew better, but by the time they did, it was too late.
Ron Paul was a skirmish in the war for freedom. The next battle is paper ballots, and at least here in Colorado, at least for 2008, we'll have paper due to overwhelming public outcry for it. The next battle after that is to actually elect a defender of liberty using said paper ballots, by which time a larger percentage of the population should be getting its news from the Internet.
Oh, and of course, the RNC can invite whomever it wants to speak. The five states would simply force the RNC to allow Ron Paul to speak.
I was elected to be a delegate on Feb. 5 for my precinct in Colorado, and I plan to go through with representing Ron Paul to the county level March 2 (and then possibly also to the state level on May 31) so that he does not lose any of the projected 42 delegates nationwide he is counting on.
There is one last additional hope to further spread the message this cycle, and that is if Ron Paul can get first place in four states (he has no first place finishes so far, at least according to official tallies), then he will be allowed to speak at the Republican National Convention. And perhaps if that happens, some of the "limited government" planks of pre-2000 Republican party platforms can be reinserted. Not that a Republican president elected in 2008 would honor that, but it would ensure that in the 2012 debates that a small-government candidate can score points by quoting the platform and criticizing the neocons.
Another possibility is mere cyber warfare (without escalation to a hot war) -- to prevent the much-feared electronic transactions conducted by Iran in Euros rather than dollars.
Finally, don't discount the possibility of a combination of these. Powerful interests rarely do something for a single purpose. E.g., the communications disruption could facilitate a false flag now (perhaps Super Tuesday/Fat Tuesday), which would lead to a U.S. attack on Iran made easier by the same communications blackout -- all coincidentally happening just in time to stop the Iranian Oil Burse.
I wish I did know what was going on -- I'm spooked.
In other words, this law carves out explicit permission for restaurants to have a television, which otherwise would be a copyright violation. It does not rescind fair use. Recall fair use as described by U.S. Code Title 17 Section 107 (emphasis added):
Suddely those old Tarzan movies don't seem so far-fetched anymore.
BTW, congestion tolling on I-95/I-395 from Northern Virginia into Washington, DC is projected to be up to $1.60 per mile, or $41.46 for a round trip.
Also note that New Hampshire was a focus of the 1992 book Votescam (full text) regarding the 1988 election:
See the Votescam text for a length discussion on the unreliability of those 1988 electronic voting machines.It's like saying gluten causes autism because autism can be controlled through a gluten-free diet -- so we should all stop eating bread. Or better, it's like saying Nintendo causes epilepsy, so we should all stop playing videogames.
The IT dept is not dead -- it's just in a PT Cruiser now.
Perhaps it won't be applied to prediction markets, and perhaps it won't be applied to individual bettors. On the other hand, if said risk were traded on a prediction market, we would know just how risky betting in a prediction market is.