People born out of the country to US citizens aren't denied citizenship outright. They are naturalized... That is a more interesting question depending on precisely where they were born, but generally no problem.
Like ads for housing, insurance, mortgages, credit, you know, certain types of well whatever.
You're not doing well with this argument. It's not discriminatory to target clothing ads based on age. Housing, credit, insurance, yeah, fairness is an issue in those categories.
The nastiest plot is to offer you contract-to-hire, let you start, get the most pressing work done, and in the meantime coerce your agency to disclose your age. Very hard to prove, very hard to prosecute. And they never have to give a reason for not extending the contract. Nor is it a violation to be unable to keep scrum masters when your dev team is behaving like psychopaths.
You do understand that targeting comic book ads to teenagers is maximizing sales opportunity, while targeting IT jobs to exclude workers based on age doesn't actually maximize the opportunity to obtain the best or most productive talent, right? There is not a lot of obvious harm in denying older customers the early opportunity to collect another comic, but if you're applying for H1B slots because you got no responses to the ad seeking experienced IT help when you limited that ad to 20 year olds and under, you're cheating twice.
And while the state does overstep, this is a fairly plain violation of the Equal Opportunity Act, in the US, aka Title VII. Change the law or send the EEOC to challenge both Facebook (and other venues) and the advertisers to prevent age criteria from being used in employment ads.
It's that simple. While advertising in Wired instead of The New Yorker might be age based discrimination, it's prima facie when you click on age groups to set the ad distribution. Simple problem, simple solution. Shouldn't take more than a week. Longer if the venues claim they can't control their customers. This fight has been fought in other circumstances.
There is no 'level playing field' for businesses without either a static, mature, saturated market, or, as is usually the case, external intervention, aka government regulation.
Pretending that somehow it's unfair for the cable or telephone company to deny access to the infrastructure needed to deliver competitive Internet service to municipal customers is missing a point made just above - it's your local government that granted monopoly access to those poles and/or conduits, and it is local government that could undo that and let competitors get access to customers. That changes the game.
Wireless however could change the game. Watch T-Mobile enter the 'cable TV' game. And that begins the transformation of TV, media, and Internet in America. Gigabit LTE, Band 71, and pricing is the most likely means to disrupt the ISP business, and do so nationwide. And the others to scramble to usurp all the 600MHz spectrum they can possibly steal, to catch up. Via government mandate. It won't be 'fair' not to...
Stock brokers (HFT machine, to be honest and exact) pay REAL MONEY to be closer and closer to the exchange data centers, where milliseconds mean money. They reroute fiber to save feet of transit. They don't play on the same Internet we do. And brokers out there in the wild will buy the best, absolutely.
If the ISPs want to make money, they ought to be selling 'business-class' (HA!) connections to the few who would pay for them, with lowered latency and all, though I'm getting 15ms on the 5GHz WiFi band through my CenturyLink DSL to their email server, which is hard to beat for that loop. Getting out the door to Bloomberg or Schwab isn't going to be much faster than that on public Internet. Even playing with Ethernet to the home won't do much more. If you're a trader, you're not dealing with seconds, but minutes.
And day traders or active traders are the epitome of asynchronous information brokers. Knowing what to do 15 seconds before the herd figures it out makes you money. Second place is losing money.
Last-mile access and competition solves this. It will result in uniformly average performance, but it will be uniform, as competitors sell better, then get matched by incumbents, then everyone realizes they can't differentiate if they are using the same last mile and the same NAPs. But without competition the monopolists do what they want, essentially walking the thin line between pissing off their customer base and encouraging regulation, either by fiat or competition. Of course, owning the last mile pretty much limits customer redress to fiat. That's government for those of you not inclined to understand statism on its face.
I had an author signon in the University of Maine group (mainei) which I lost when I annoyed many participants in the =events Notes forum. They were angered by my expressing Conservative views, and caused much trouble. Annoying sysops can lead to entire systems being deleted. I surrendered.
But I played a lot Avatar, lots. Among other things, Avatar had an in-game chat system most useful for players to organize and accomplish what they could not alone. But it was multipurpose.
I found that my afternoon sessions (that lasted into evening) began to get a lot of game chat from members of a group called 'pima'. Mostly asking "asl" and then nothing,.. Few of them had significant characters, and in fact didn't seem to be playing at all. Sure enough, it was 3pm in Arizona, and the Pima Correctional Facility, which hosted many juvenile offenders. When they finished their classwork in the GED curriculum, they were permitted to play games. Mostly however, they used these in-game chats to connect with anyone outside of the jail. Being teenagers, they were mostly just looking for contact, wanting to know age, sex, and location of anyone willing to respond. Kids.
But I left mainei for two years, getting a signon and hanging out in a USM room where terminals were, no dialup permitted since the unwashed kept causing problems. But that ended.
And I found Cyber1, and play Avatar in that game universe when I can. Cyber1 has done well with their implementation, very well. They have some great lessons available. And they beg for more, if you have any files to share.
Great fun , PLATO. Still remarkable, with email, chat, instant messaging, forums, and of course courseware. Remarkable. They also built plasma displays for terminals at UICU, and those were noted by IBM among others...
Perhaps the only way to avoid the smoke would be to turn off all the equipment, power the UPS, then cycle on pieces. Of course, if the UPS was going to surge, I think it would be time to chain the UPS tech to a rack and determine what sort of surge would be permitted - most power distribution systems include that protection.
But hey, I've watched machine rooms power back on from the big red levers before, even after three attempts and realizing the inrush demand was tripping the breakers, and well, hey, hindsight.
But I lost blind trust in UPS systems around 1992. And trust in tape backups the same year.
"ISPs took billions in taxpayer-funded government handouts because they bitched, pissed, and moaned they didn't have enough money to build out infrastructure."
You're late. ISPs, before they WERE ISPs, were telcos. And they promised to use fiber-optic technology to enhance telephone service, eliminate toll calls, and deliver television in competition with cable systems at lower costs. Many,k such as New England Telephone, laid fiber but failed to actually use it, billing ratepayers, and then making deals to transform this paid-for fiber into something new, the Internet thing, at ratepayer cost again...
And this happened all over the US.
Now, decades later, more fiber has been laid, but not much to your home, or even near it. It's much more profitable to use what already exists, and for the former telcos, now ISPs, they of course have copper pairs going to your house, mostly. So DSL it is, with the severe limitations involved. Cable companies have a coax line that offers them some advantages, and they also built systems that could accommodate this new use. Reselling the same line over and over, a profit model.
But in much of the US there is no effective competition for Internet services, as has been belabored here and elsewhere, no need to go back to that. My point is that these billions were spent for telephone service that never materialized, and the Internet came along, fortuitously, to make that stuff insanely important and profitable, more so than telephone would have ever done. And many of us paid for it, receiving nothing but the opportunity to pay again and again, for substandard service and poor practices.
Arriving at the new hospital data center (a room 500 ft from the old data center) before anyone else (including IBM), doors open, snowing a blizzard out at 25 degrees, calling the CIO and asking him if he'd been in the room lately.
Nope.
Asking him if he had the electrical contractor's number Call it. There is not s single power outlet visible. Not one.
Yeah, they closed up the walls and painted, the electrical sub never got called.
Extension cords. Frantic 220 installs. Mangled sheetrock. The AS/400 came up about 5:30pm. I was secretly pleased our NetWare cluster was in failover...
We got done about 10:30pm on a Sunday night. No one every asked if this was an IT blunder or or a contractor blunder, but I never discussed it with the CIO , ever. He paid the overtime. My boss was litersally, genuinely speechless, a first for him. This was the same client who had a Token_Ring network that would beacon furiously on a regular basis. IBM took three months to say they couldn't do anything with the CAUs/LAMs, and they should come out and be replaced with switches. Took me asn entire afternoon to find the loose DB-9 interconnect on an 8230 chassis, the ones that were welded on back then. Bolted it in place, problem solved, we did put in the T-C switches during the move. I credit Laura Chappell, her presentation on Token networks at Networks Expo when she was with Novell, and Lanalyzer, for making me a lot of money. Thanks you, Laura!
Now there was the client who, after much analysis, believed his app vendor and replaced our 16MB Token-Ring network with 100Base-T, since they were adamant that Ethernet would outperform Token. This required recabling, drops from the ceiling, because we had reused the existing Cat 3 PDS in floor trays, but that wouldn't do for 100Base-T. No, it made no difference. The vendor them blamed NetWare and AdvantageDB, and in came the NT 4 server. The IT supervisor was the owner's son, but that's not why I questioned his competence.
I don't know how that came out because they wouldn't use us for that, we were a 'NetWare shop', despite my finishing my MCSE. Fine. I know the new guys presented migrating NetWare to NT at our Novell user group two months later. That's how it was back then. Feh.
I started with a 'Turbo XT' clone in 1983, 12MHZ, 640K, 20MB HD, MS-DOS 2.11, CGA, and dual 5 1/4 floppies. Command line was it. The first upgrade was a Hayes Smartmodem 2400. Windows and all that came later, with bus mice and such. BTW, that PC cost as much as the one I would be able to use today, $1200, and all any of these two machines would have in common is the price. And the command line.
I learned command line, batching, and Basic with that. It was 1994 before I bought a copy of The Internet CD (book), and actually got the copy of Slackware running on a spare machine, by now a 386-something I think. Command-line. I could deal with this.
Your old-timers will find these to be the biggest hurdles:
- File permissions and ownership. Getting the octal concept down first will solve that quickly. - Case-sensitive everything. Bleagh. - chron. Yeah, ok. systemd will not annoy them, since they won't have any memory of Linux as it was meant to be.
From there, at command line it's more like Windows than one dares to admit. As in NetWare and Vines were more like Windows than NT, so if they have managed to adapt from Windows 3.1 to Windows 7, they'll find a way or retire. And my money is on adapting. I managed to get from MS-DOS 2.1
I already VPN into the corp intranet, so WiFi or L:TE doesn't matter. And if I were doing SMB consluting I'd recommend they do the same, tunnel in and don't worry a moment about the conduit. Strongest affordable. Two-factor auth.
The network isn't the problem. It's always the problem, so you don;t ever, ever trust it, even your fancy black WiFi in your own living room.
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People born out of the country to US citizens aren't denied citizenship outright. They are naturalized... That is a more interesting question depending on precisely where they were born, but generally no problem.
And you wouldn't need as sponsorship for a visa here. Right? That language doesn't seem to be a problem for you.
Permitting age discrimination in employment ad placement is a violation of the law. Ask the newspaper industry.
"certain kinds of ads"
Like ads for housing, insurance, mortgages, credit, you know, certain types of well whatever.
You're not doing well with this argument. It's not discriminatory to target clothing ads based on age. Housing, credit, insurance, yeah, fairness is an issue in those categories.
And we all just know older workers don't retrain or change roles.
Yeah. Sure.
I don't know if there's been as challenge to a non-student attending a college-sponsored job fair, and that would be interesting.
Maybe, maybe not.
"pretty good proof that they don't deserve to be sued"
No, the law doesn't allow such a defense. In fact, that argument is pretty much only used by those companies caught red-handed.
Not that.
But my office is well populated by workers of all races - even a Navajo. And not just tokens either.
The nastiest plot is to offer you contract-to-hire, let you start, get the most pressing work done, and in the meantime coerce your agency to disclose your age. Very hard to prove, very hard to prosecute. And they never have to give a reason for not extending the contract. Nor is it a violation to be unable to keep scrum masters when your dev team is behaving like psychopaths.
"must be born in the US to apply"
This is better expressed as "will not sponsor visa applications or visa transfers".
Which is pretty common language nowadays.
You do understand that targeting comic book ads to teenagers is maximizing sales opportunity, while targeting IT jobs to exclude workers based on age doesn't actually maximize the opportunity to obtain the best or most productive talent, right? There is not a lot of obvious harm in denying older customers the early opportunity to collect another comic, but if you're applying for H1B slots because you got no responses to the ad seeking experienced IT help when you limited that ad to 20 year olds and under, you're cheating twice.
And while the state does overstep, this is a fairly plain violation of the Equal Opportunity Act, in the US, aka Title VII. Change the law or send the EEOC to challenge both Facebook (and other venues) and the advertisers to prevent age criteria from being used in employment ads.
It's that simple. While advertising in Wired instead of The New Yorker might be age based discrimination, it's prima facie when you click on age groups to set the ad distribution. Simple problem, simple solution. Shouldn't take more than a week. Longer if the venues claim they can't control their customers. This fight has been fought in other circumstances.
Facebook and Twitter are susceptible to competition. Yes, they are. Watch.
But the goal isn't to agitate for changes. It is to make changes.
NO, but it's the game.
There is no 'level playing field' for businesses without either a static, mature, saturated market, or, as is usually the case, external intervention, aka government regulation.
Pretending that somehow it's unfair for the cable or telephone company to deny access to the infrastructure needed to deliver competitive Internet service to municipal customers is missing a point made just above - it's your local government that granted monopoly access to those poles and/or conduits, and it is local government that could undo that and let competitors get access to customers. That changes the game.
Wireless however could change the game. Watch T-Mobile enter the 'cable TV' game. And that begins the transformation of TV, media, and Internet in America. Gigabit LTE, Band 71, and pricing is the most likely means to disrupt the ISP business, and do so nationwide. And the others to scramble to usurp all the 600MHz spectrum they can possibly steal, to catch up. Via government mandate. It won't be 'fair' not to...
Wait for the empire to strike back. It will.
Stock brokers (HFT machine, to be honest and exact) pay REAL MONEY to be closer and closer to the exchange data centers, where milliseconds mean money. They reroute fiber to save feet of transit. They don't play on the same Internet we do. And brokers out there in the wild will buy the best, absolutely.
If the ISPs want to make money, they ought to be selling 'business-class' (HA!) connections to the few who would pay for them, with lowered latency and all, though I'm getting 15ms on the 5GHz WiFi band through my CenturyLink DSL to their email server, which is hard to beat for that loop. Getting out the door to Bloomberg or Schwab isn't going to be much faster than that on public Internet. Even playing with Ethernet to the home won't do much more. If you're a trader, you're not dealing with seconds, but minutes.
And day traders or active traders are the epitome of asynchronous information brokers. Knowing what to do 15 seconds before the herd figures it out makes you money. Second place is losing money.
Last-mile access and competition solves this. It will result in uniformly average performance, but it will be uniform, as competitors sell better, then get matched by incumbents, then everyone realizes they can't differentiate if they are using the same last mile and the same NAPs. But without competition the monopolists do what they want, essentially walking the thin line between pissing off their customer base and encouraging regulation, either by fiat or competition. Of course, owning the last mile pretty much limits customer redress to fiat. That's government for those of you not inclined to understand statism on its face.
I had an author signon in the University of Maine group (mainei) which I lost when I annoyed many participants in the =events Notes forum. They were angered by my expressing Conservative views, and caused much trouble. Annoying sysops can lead to entire systems being deleted. I surrendered.
But I played a lot Avatar, lots. Among other things, Avatar had an in-game chat system most useful for players to organize and accomplish what they could not alone. But it was multipurpose.
I found that my afternoon sessions (that lasted into evening) began to get a lot of game chat from members of a group called 'pima'. Mostly asking "asl" and then nothing,.. Few of them had significant characters, and in fact didn't seem to be playing at all. Sure enough, it was 3pm in Arizona, and the Pima Correctional Facility, which hosted many juvenile offenders. When they finished their classwork in the GED curriculum, they were permitted to play games. Mostly however, they used these in-game chats to connect with anyone outside of the jail. Being teenagers, they were mostly just looking for contact, wanting to know age, sex, and location of anyone willing to respond. Kids.
But I left mainei for two years, getting a signon and hanging out in a USM room where terminals were, no dialup permitted since the unwashed kept causing problems. But that ended.
And I found Cyber1, and play Avatar in that game universe when I can. Cyber1 has done well with their implementation, very well. They have some great lessons available. And they beg for more, if you have any files to share.
Great fun , PLATO. Still remarkable, with email, chat, instant messaging, forums, and of course courseware. Remarkable. They also built plasma displays for terminals at UICU, and those were noted by IBM among others...
Challenge accepted.
Perhaps the only way to avoid the smoke would be to turn off all the equipment, power the UPS, then cycle on pieces. Of course, if the UPS was going to surge, I think it would be time to chain the UPS tech to a rack and determine what sort of surge would be permitted - most power distribution systems include that protection.
But hey, I've watched machine rooms power back on from the big red levers before, even after three attempts and realizing the inrush demand was tripping the breakers, and well, hey, hindsight.
But I lost blind trust in UPS systems around 1992. And trust in tape backups the same year.
"ISPs took billions in taxpayer-funded government handouts because they bitched, pissed, and moaned they didn't have enough money to build out infrastructure."
You're late. ISPs, before they WERE ISPs, were telcos. And they promised to use fiber-optic technology to enhance telephone service, eliminate toll calls, and deliver television in competition with cable systems at lower costs. Many,k such as New England Telephone, laid fiber but failed to actually use it, billing ratepayers, and then making deals to transform this paid-for fiber into something new, the Internet thing, at ratepayer cost again...
And this happened all over the US.
Now, decades later, more fiber has been laid, but not much to your home, or even near it. It's much more profitable to use what already exists, and for the former telcos, now ISPs, they of course have copper pairs going to your house, mostly. So DSL it is, with the severe limitations involved. Cable companies have a coax line that offers them some advantages, and they also built systems that could accommodate this new use. Reselling the same line over and over, a profit model.
But in much of the US there is no effective competition for Internet services, as has been belabored here and elsewhere, no need to go back to that. My point is that these billions were spent for telephone service that never materialized, and the Internet came along, fortuitously, to make that stuff insanely important and profitable, more so than telephone would have ever done. And many of us paid for it, receiving nothing but the opportunity to pay again and again, for substandard service and poor practices.
Arriving at the new hospital data center (a room 500 ft from the old data center) before anyone else (including IBM), doors open, snowing a blizzard out at 25 degrees, calling the CIO and asking him if he'd been in the room lately.
Nope.
Asking him if he had the electrical contractor's number Call it. There is not s single power outlet visible. Not one.
Yeah, they closed up the walls and painted, the electrical sub never got called.
Extension cords. Frantic 220 installs. Mangled sheetrock. The AS/400 came up about 5:30pm. I was secretly pleased our NetWare cluster was in failover...
We got done about 10:30pm on a Sunday night. No one every asked if this was an IT blunder or or a contractor blunder, but I never discussed it with the CIO , ever. He paid the overtime. My boss was litersally, genuinely speechless, a first for him. This was the same client who had a Token_Ring network that would beacon furiously on a regular basis. IBM took three months to say they couldn't do anything with the CAUs/LAMs, and they should come out and be replaced with switches. Took me asn entire afternoon to find the loose DB-9 interconnect on an 8230 chassis, the ones that were welded on back then. Bolted it in place, problem solved, we did put in the T-C switches during the move. I credit Laura Chappell, her presentation on Token networks at Networks Expo when she was with Novell, and Lanalyzer, for making me a lot of money. Thanks you, Laura!
Now there was the client who, after much analysis, believed his app vendor and replaced our 16MB Token-Ring network with 100Base-T, since they were adamant that Ethernet would outperform Token. This required recabling, drops from the ceiling, because we had reused the existing Cat 3 PDS in floor trays, but that wouldn't do for 100Base-T. No, it made no difference. The vendor them blamed NetWare and AdvantageDB, and in came the NT 4 server. The IT supervisor was the owner's son, but that's not why I questioned his competence.
I don't know how that came out because they wouldn't use us for that, we were a 'NetWare shop', despite my finishing my MCSE. Fine. I know the new guys presented migrating NetWare to NT at our Novell user group two months later. That's how it was back then. Feh.
Oh, wait. Now what?
This, Yes.
I started with a 'Turbo XT' clone in 1983, 12MHZ, 640K, 20MB HD, MS-DOS 2.11, CGA, and dual 5 1/4 floppies. Command line was it. The first upgrade was a Hayes Smartmodem 2400. Windows and all that came later, with bus mice and such. BTW, that PC cost as much as the one I would be able to use today, $1200, and all any of these two machines would have in common is the price. And the command line.
I learned command line, batching, and Basic with that. It was 1994 before I bought a copy of The Internet CD (book), and actually got the copy of Slackware running on a spare machine, by now a 386-something I think. Command-line. I could deal with this.
Your old-timers will find these to be the biggest hurdles:
- File permissions and ownership. Getting the octal concept down first will solve that quickly.
- Case-sensitive everything. Bleagh.
- chron. Yeah, ok. systemd will not annoy them, since they won't have any memory of Linux as it was meant to be.
From there, at command line it's more like Windows than one dares to admit. As in NetWare and Vines were more like Windows than NT, so if they have managed to adapt from Windows 3.1 to Windows 7, they'll find a way or retire. And my money is on adapting. I managed to get from MS-DOS 2.1
Windows kernel everywhere is the goal. Your PC, phone, tablet, eventually TV, watch, car.
I already VPN into the corp intranet, so WiFi or L:TE doesn't matter. And if I were doing SMB consluting I'd recommend they do the same, tunnel in and don't worry a moment about the conduit. Strongest affordable. Two-factor auth.
The network isn't the problem. It's always the problem, so you don;t ever, ever trust it, even your fancy black WiFi in your own living room.