Are the leading tech firms hiring in areas where these minorities live? Your stats are not saying that they are not being hired but that they are not being hired by specific companies. Not everyone is going to want to move away from family and friends for a job or to live among a group of people who are of dissimilar ethnicity. Are you suggesting forcefully moving minorities to new locations (even though they may well have jobs and be happy where they are) or are you advocating forcing companies to move their centers of operation to locales where the minorities are at?
Why is it a problem if it is a cultural predisposition to be interested in things other than the inner workings of technology? Are you insinuating that you "need" to fix some other group's culture? Your goals sound noble but have you really thought them through without an appeal to emotion? What if this group of people is, by enlarge, not interested in your meddling and has no desire to compete in your world? You know what is best after all...
60% of the world's population does not live in America and this conversation is about America. You might have a point if the American populace was constructed with 60% Asians but it is not and you do not.
So... I scrolled down and saw some of your other posts. I really hope your username is ironic. You damned sure better be white 'cause ain't no niggaz I know that dumb.
Yes, I suspect I have worked my way up from Uncle Tom to House Nigger by your views by now. Really, you can stop. We do not need your help. In fact, you are not helping. I am sure you mean well but, trust me on this, you are not helping. We have equality - we really do. We fritter it away and have cultural issues (perhaps) but this is not based on inequality. We do not need your help with that either. Right now there are old people trying to cross the street. Perhaps you can lend them a hand?
That is a nice statistic you've got there. It would be a shame if someone were to actually think about it.
As a (partially) black man, I do not need your help. Affirmative action is telling me that I am unable to do it on my own and must get help from the white man. I do not need your help. I can succeed based on my own merits or I can fail for my lack of them. My race is not, and should not, be considered - at all. That is equality. That is what I faced when I worked and I was quite successful, thank you.
I was there during the civil rights movement. I was young but I was there and I was impacted by it. I was almost 11 when MLK was assassinated. You know what we wanted then? Equality. We did not want extra rights. We did not want affirmative action. (Those came later by people who co-opted the movement to further their agenda of reparation and shame.)
Go ahead, call me an Uncle Tom... Find any excuse to ignore your own flawed logic. By your own statistic that means a high percentage of black graduates are doing well. Culture matters and I know of only three black people whom I am close with (not employees, school-mates, etc but family and close friends) who are actually technically inclined. This does not make the rest idiots. They just are not interested in using technology as anything other than a consumer. This seems to be the case with most normal people. Maybe it is white males who are mentally ill enough to subject themselves to the rigor that is code? That does not fit your narrative so I expect it to be ignored. So, yeah, go ahead and call me an Uncle Tom, it will make you feel better and allow you to keep your biases.
Shorts are short term really. Problems like this fester and take a while before they impact stock prices. Invest in their competition as a long-term investment and you may well do better. Unless, of course, you manage to get lucky and short at just the right time but that is unlikely. Investing in the competition is a much more likely to be successful strategy.
Mostly other white people in my area. Of course my area is stocked right full of illegal immigrants but they are white, and Canadian, so nobody cares. The only time we have any non-white illegal immigrants (and I am only told they are illegal, I am not so crass as to go checking IDs) is during the blueberry and apple harvests. The potato harvest is still done by white kids (and poor adults) who even get two weeks off from school to do so if they are "up in the county." There is some negative consequences.
The kids used to do the blueberry picking (called raking - it is done with a rake like a cranberry rake but finer toothed and is back-breaking labor) and would earn their back to school money with it or whatnot. Now they are not even hired or considered for it. The apple harvest was guys getting ready for winter and the money was used to supplement other income (welfare maybe?) as winter beer money. The harvesters of both are Jamaican more often than not or so I am told. I have not been nosy enough to go out and ask - it is not my concern as I have other things to be concerned about. They certainly live in conditions I would not tolerate at wages I would not accept and doing work harder than I am willing to do unless I am forced to do so or am doing so as a hobby. You could say the locals were treated better and paid better when they did the jobs though I believe wage rates have gone up in those fields but not enough to matter.
For the most part, though, the illegals in my area are working in the woods or driving pulp trucks that pick up the fruits of the labor from those who do work in the woods. They do not seem to be working at the mills (the few that are left) or construction or anything like that. Those jobs seem to be filled by legal residents from my casual inquiries and observations. They are mostly 'illegal' in the sense that they have long since overstayed their work visas. ICE does not seem inclined to do much about it and I dare say that they contribute to the economy and do not work for any less than the locals do. In the case of the fruit harvesters they come in with their own campers and have all the equipment to do the job already with them as well as the expertise in handling the fruit to minimize spoilage. Locals/owners deal with the crops the rest of the year and now do not need to maintain the equipment and seek employees as they arrive in a caravan ready to work and they usually get it done in a very speedy fashion.
I do not have an objective (or subjective, really) statement on this beyond sharing the state of affairs as they seem to exist. I do not opine in either direction except to say that I think people who wish to use the services of this nation should be here legally and contribute to the nation's interests as much as they are able. I am not a part of their society and do not understand their ethics because of this which makes me a poor judge as to how we can resolve this amicably. For what it is worth, it works well enough that people are not killing each other about it in my neck of the woods and we actually have quite a few people who are here illegally for such a small state. Nobody notices and I suspect that is due to the color of their skin or the handiness of having them around for a short spell during harvest season.
I just saw Three Dog Night a few years ago at a very tiny venue. I ended up at the same restaurant that they went to after the show and shared some weed with a band member (I will avoid saying which one or which instrument they played for privacy sake). It was a strange year. Anyhow, they were still a really tight band. I hadn't seen them since the late '70s.
I have no real point but I do have a question...
Why is it that this article just showed up now - in fact all the articles are from early this morning (about 12 hours ago) but this one just appeared a few minutes ago. It even automatically refreshes the home page and I open articles in new tabs so that behavior is not altered. Nothing on my system would cause this behavior. Unfortunately I did not double check on a different computer but I will out of morbid curiosity.
I have a MBP and a iPod. Once in a blue moon I use the iPod. I have not made enough use of the MBP to be comfortable with the OS so it is seldom used unless I have to try to figure out something on behalf of my niece who is a bit of a fanatic but a bit clueless. I imagine that the OS X is good, it seems to be fine, but I simply have not used it enough and am more comfortable in Linux and Windows. Finding options and customizing things is not easy for me and I do not feel the urge to search for everything. I also do not like an OS without a real taskbar. So, yeah... I have some Apple products but I do not use them.
I have an old college "buddy" who actually dropped out but managed to still live on campus for quite some time and then managed to stay in a frat house for even longer. He was the ass that always showed up when we were drinking and, of course, made an ass out of himself. He is my age and still happily scamming gay men. It seems they are another vulnerable target. He does not work as far as I know. I get the occasional email or phone call and I am polite enough to accept the calls. Mostly I think it is morbid fascination as I expect someone to kill him in a rage or to hear of him getting locked up for a very long time.
I do not know if that is good or bad. The frowny emoticon indicates you are unhappy but that could be a good thing. I also speak not one lick of Japanese, Chinese, or Korean, or am even really sure what language it is that is being used. I suppose that means I suck.
Volvos and women's ski teams are the primary exports of Sweden. I am quite partial to both. I am also partial to Saab but there is no Saab available for me (I guess they are going to make an EV for China) unless I want a fighter jet and, recently, Saab was owned by an American car company before being shut down.
Obama does not read/. but you could email your representatives or even email him and an aide will likely read it. If you write it well enough there is a slim chance that he may read it after it has gone through his aides.
That pretty much matches what I have come to understand from following along at various new sites and the comments sections. It seems overly complex, counterintuitive, and potentially harmful if you ask me. This does not, of course, mean that the system used in my country is superior.
I really think we could do with a bunch of new search providers (even paid *gasp*) who specialize in certain areas such as history, science, technology, news, etc... The subjects are so disparate that one provider really is unlikely to be able to effectively give results at a level beyond that of a layman. Having specialist searches would be, I think, a good thing even though it may fracture the market. I suspect that we would have to pay somehow though they could be ad supported but that leads to an extra level of complication in their business model.
Few people realize this. I am a long-term fan of Opera and have noted such frequently in the past. One thing to note is that Opera has now changed and is based on the same engine that Chrome uses. There is now a stable version of the new version though there is also a beta track (I have one Windows PC on it) but I have no idea how to get back onto it with other computers.
The others, including this, are all on stable releases. I have not actually looked to see how to get onto the beta track though and the version numbers are different after updating. I have not found a repo with the latest Opera build in it either so one must go to the site to get it. There is also a beta (maybe stable - I have not checked) developer's version of Opera available.
It is also open source so you can poke at the source, fork it, or do whatever you want with it now. This is a bonus for those who are interested. I have yet to find anything compelling enough to make me delve into it. I have found (and reported) a few bugs however. They are not dire enough to impact my browsing experience so I have not bothered to try to fix them and I am not at all sure that I could.
I have been 'online' since the 1980s. Nothing personal but I sort of wish you would all go home. I may be stuck in my ways but I still blame AOL for the changes and I blame them for the death of USENET as well. Dirty bastards...
I find that Bing's results are often better than Google's. Unfortunately I seldom think to use them and Google is my default search and my home page should I ever actually reach my home page. (My browser opens up the tabs that were open when it was closed. I never really see my home page anymore. I am not even sure if I have configured it as of late.)
I was pretty careful to note that it was a generic you and not you personally.:)
I must also admit that I do not know a whole lot, probably more than most Americans however, about your political system. I do try to keep up to some extent. I had thought you guys got to vote at council meetings, town referendums, city council hearings, etc? If not then, well, I am not really sure what to tell you...
As for my own voting habits, I am actually proud to say that I seldom vote for the winning candidate. I tend to vote for the most closely in-tune with my needs representative. As my needs are generally about personal freedoms and a history of accurate representation I seldom vote for an incumbent. Because of this my vote is usually wasted, for lack of a better word, as I seldom vote for neither of the two major party candidates. (We, ostensibly, have two parties. They are, by my opinion, part and parcel of the same horse. The differences are in rhetoric and the practicality between them is the same.)
Anyhow, sorry if you took what I was saying to mean just you. It was meant to be more an "in addition" type post than one that attempted to engage you in anything remotely like an argument. I suspect my writing was inferior and that I was also smoking a wee bit of marijuana last night. In all honesty, I am again today. Strange, really... I do not typically smoke often or much.
You might actually want to look into DDT and the scientific studies that have been done since the faulty studies done in the '60s and '70s. There is a reason that the WHO has brought back the use of DDT. Not using DDT resulted in more deaths than using DDT ever could. Then again, deaths from malaria are a third world problem and not glamorous so few people actually pay attention to it. Oddly the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation seems to think it is a priority and, even stranger, they seem to think Viagra is handy for medically treating those who have contracted malaria but I digress.
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Are the leading tech firms hiring in areas where these minorities live? Your stats are not saying that they are not being hired but that they are not being hired by specific companies. Not everyone is going to want to move away from family and friends for a job or to live among a group of people who are of dissimilar ethnicity. Are you suggesting forcefully moving minorities to new locations (even though they may well have jobs and be happy where they are) or are you advocating forcing companies to move their centers of operation to locales where the minorities are at?
Why is it a problem if it is a cultural predisposition to be interested in things other than the inner workings of technology? Are you insinuating that you "need" to fix some other group's culture? Your goals sound noble but have you really thought them through without an appeal to emotion? What if this group of people is, by enlarge, not interested in your meddling and has no desire to compete in your world? You know what is best after all...
60% of the world's population does not live in America and this conversation is about America. You might have a point if the American populace was constructed with 60% Asians but it is not and you do not.
So... I scrolled down and saw some of your other posts. I really hope your username is ironic. You damned sure better be white 'cause ain't no niggaz I know that dumb.
Yes, I suspect I have worked my way up from Uncle Tom to House Nigger by your views by now. Really, you can stop. We do not need your help. In fact, you are not helping. I am sure you mean well but, trust me on this, you are not helping. We have equality - we really do. We fritter it away and have cultural issues (perhaps) but this is not based on inequality. We do not need your help with that either. Right now there are old people trying to cross the street. Perhaps you can lend them a hand?
That is a nice statistic you've got there. It would be a shame if someone were to actually think about it.
As a (partially) black man, I do not need your help. Affirmative action is telling me that I am unable to do it on my own and must get help from the white man. I do not need your help. I can succeed based on my own merits or I can fail for my lack of them. My race is not, and should not, be considered - at all. That is equality. That is what I faced when I worked and I was quite successful, thank you.
I was there during the civil rights movement. I was young but I was there and I was impacted by it. I was almost 11 when MLK was assassinated. You know what we wanted then? Equality. We did not want extra rights. We did not want affirmative action. (Those came later by people who co-opted the movement to further their agenda of reparation and shame.)
Go ahead, call me an Uncle Tom... Find any excuse to ignore your own flawed logic. By your own statistic that means a high percentage of black graduates are doing well. Culture matters and I know of only three black people whom I am close with (not employees, school-mates, etc but family and close friends) who are actually technically inclined. This does not make the rest idiots. They just are not interested in using technology as anything other than a consumer. This seems to be the case with most normal people. Maybe it is white males who are mentally ill enough to subject themselves to the rigor that is code? That does not fit your narrative so I expect it to be ignored. So, yeah, go ahead and call me an Uncle Tom, it will make you feel better and allow you to keep your biases.
Shorts are short term really. Problems like this fester and take a while before they impact stock prices. Invest in their competition as a long-term investment and you may well do better. Unless, of course, you manage to get lucky and short at just the right time but that is unlikely. Investing in the competition is a much more likely to be successful strategy.
Mostly other white people in my area. Of course my area is stocked right full of illegal immigrants but they are white, and Canadian, so nobody cares. The only time we have any non-white illegal immigrants (and I am only told they are illegal, I am not so crass as to go checking IDs) is during the blueberry and apple harvests. The potato harvest is still done by white kids (and poor adults) who even get two weeks off from school to do so if they are "up in the county." There is some negative consequences.
The kids used to do the blueberry picking (called raking - it is done with a rake like a cranberry rake but finer toothed and is back-breaking labor) and would earn their back to school money with it or whatnot. Now they are not even hired or considered for it. The apple harvest was guys getting ready for winter and the money was used to supplement other income (welfare maybe?) as winter beer money. The harvesters of both are Jamaican more often than not or so I am told. I have not been nosy enough to go out and ask - it is not my concern as I have other things to be concerned about. They certainly live in conditions I would not tolerate at wages I would not accept and doing work harder than I am willing to do unless I am forced to do so or am doing so as a hobby. You could say the locals were treated better and paid better when they did the jobs though I believe wage rates have gone up in those fields but not enough to matter.
For the most part, though, the illegals in my area are working in the woods or driving pulp trucks that pick up the fruits of the labor from those who do work in the woods. They do not seem to be working at the mills (the few that are left) or construction or anything like that. Those jobs seem to be filled by legal residents from my casual inquiries and observations. They are mostly 'illegal' in the sense that they have long since overstayed their work visas. ICE does not seem inclined to do much about it and I dare say that they contribute to the economy and do not work for any less than the locals do. In the case of the fruit harvesters they come in with their own campers and have all the equipment to do the job already with them as well as the expertise in handling the fruit to minimize spoilage. Locals/owners deal with the crops the rest of the year and now do not need to maintain the equipment and seek employees as they arrive in a caravan ready to work and they usually get it done in a very speedy fashion.
I do not have an objective (or subjective, really) statement on this beyond sharing the state of affairs as they seem to exist. I do not opine in either direction except to say that I think people who wish to use the services of this nation should be here legally and contribute to the nation's interests as much as they are able. I am not a part of their society and do not understand their ethics because of this which makes me a poor judge as to how we can resolve this amicably. For what it is worth, it works well enough that people are not killing each other about it in my neck of the woods and we actually have quite a few people who are here illegally for such a small state. Nobody notices and I suspect that is due to the color of their skin or the handiness of having them around for a short spell during harvest season.
I just saw Three Dog Night a few years ago at a very tiny venue. I ended up at the same restaurant that they went to after the show and shared some weed with a band member (I will avoid saying which one or which instrument they played for privacy sake). It was a strange year. Anyhow, they were still a really tight band. I hadn't seen them since the late '70s.
I have no real point but I do have a question...
Why is it that this article just showed up now - in fact all the articles are from early this morning (about 12 hours ago) but this one just appeared a few minutes ago. It even automatically refreshes the home page and I open articles in new tabs so that behavior is not altered. Nothing on my system would cause this behavior. Unfortunately I did not double check on a different computer but I will out of morbid curiosity.
I have a MBP and a iPod. Once in a blue moon I use the iPod. I have not made enough use of the MBP to be comfortable with the OS so it is seldom used unless I have to try to figure out something on behalf of my niece who is a bit of a fanatic but a bit clueless. I imagine that the OS X is good, it seems to be fine, but I simply have not used it enough and am more comfortable in Linux and Windows. Finding options and customizing things is not easy for me and I do not feel the urge to search for everything. I also do not like an OS without a real taskbar. So, yeah... I have some Apple products but I do not use them.
Are you drunk?
Gay Lesbian Bi Asexual?
(No, I know. I am just a wee bit stoned.)
I have an old college "buddy" who actually dropped out but managed to still live on campus for quite some time and then managed to stay in a frat house for even longer. He was the ass that always showed up when we were drinking and, of course, made an ass out of himself. He is my age and still happily scamming gay men. It seems they are another vulnerable target. He does not work as far as I know. I get the occasional email or phone call and I am polite enough to accept the calls. Mostly I think it is morbid fascination as I expect someone to kill him in a rage or to hear of him getting locked up for a very long time.
You RTFA? You and your kind are unwelcome here. *spits on floor*
In order those would be:
RideZ, rYdes, Rods, and OUBDPHOUDH{DOJJC:SJKBPIB
I am sorry. Really...
I do not know if that is good or bad. The frowny emoticon indicates you are unhappy but that could be a good thing. I also speak not one lick of Japanese, Chinese, or Korean, or am even really sure what language it is that is being used. I suppose that means I suck.
Volvos and women's ski teams are the primary exports of Sweden. I am quite partial to both. I am also partial to Saab but there is no Saab available for me (I guess they are going to make an EV for China) unless I want a fighter jet and, recently, Saab was owned by an American car company before being shut down.
Obama does not read /. but you could email your representatives or even email him and an aide will likely read it. If you write it well enough there is a slim chance that he may read it after it has gone through his aides.
That pretty much matches what I have come to understand from following along at various new sites and the comments sections. It seems overly complex, counterintuitive, and potentially harmful if you ask me. This does not, of course, mean that the system used in my country is superior.
I really think we could do with a bunch of new search providers (even paid *gasp*) who specialize in certain areas such as history, science, technology, news, etc... The subjects are so disparate that one provider really is unlikely to be able to effectively give results at a level beyond that of a layman. Having specialist searches would be, I think, a good thing even though it may fracture the market. I suspect that we would have to pay somehow though they could be ad supported but that leads to an extra level of complication in their business model.
Few people realize this. I am a long-term fan of Opera and have noted such frequently in the past. One thing to note is that Opera has now changed and is based on the same engine that Chrome uses. There is now a stable version of the new version though there is also a beta track (I have one Windows PC on it) but I have no idea how to get back onto it with other computers.
The others, including this, are all on stable releases. I have not actually looked to see how to get onto the beta track though and the version numbers are different after updating. I have not found a repo with the latest Opera build in it either so one must go to the site to get it. There is also a beta (maybe stable - I have not checked) developer's version of Opera available.
It is also open source so you can poke at the source, fork it, or do whatever you want with it now. This is a bonus for those who are interested. I have yet to find anything compelling enough to make me delve into it. I have found (and reported) a few bugs however. They are not dire enough to impact my browsing experience so I have not bothered to try to fix them and I am not at all sure that I could.
The Git is here:
https://github.com/operasoftwa...
Enjoy.
I have been 'online' since the 1980s. Nothing personal but I sort of wish you would all go home. I may be stuck in my ways but I still blame AOL for the changes and I blame them for the death of USENET as well. Dirty bastards...
I find that Bing's results are often better than Google's. Unfortunately I seldom think to use them and Google is my default search and my home page should I ever actually reach my home page. (My browser opens up the tabs that were open when it was closed. I never really see my home page anymore. I am not even sure if I have configured it as of late.)
It is posts like these that make me glad I do not know a damned thing about anime. They also make me less inclined to learn anything more about it.
I was pretty careful to note that it was a generic you and not you personally. :)
I must also admit that I do not know a whole lot, probably more than most Americans however, about your political system. I do try to keep up to some extent. I had thought you guys got to vote at council meetings, town referendums, city council hearings, etc? If not then, well, I am not really sure what to tell you...
As for my own voting habits, I am actually proud to say that I seldom vote for the winning candidate. I tend to vote for the most closely in-tune with my needs representative. As my needs are generally about personal freedoms and a history of accurate representation I seldom vote for an incumbent. Because of this my vote is usually wasted, for lack of a better word, as I seldom vote for neither of the two major party candidates. (We, ostensibly, have two parties. They are, by my opinion, part and parcel of the same horse. The differences are in rhetoric and the practicality between them is the same.)
Anyhow, sorry if you took what I was saying to mean just you. It was meant to be more an "in addition" type post than one that attempted to engage you in anything remotely like an argument. I suspect my writing was inferior and that I was also smoking a wee bit of marijuana last night. In all honesty, I am again today. Strange, really... I do not typically smoke often or much.
You might actually want to look into DDT and the scientific studies that have been done since the faulty studies done in the '60s and '70s. There is a reason that the WHO has brought back the use of DDT. Not using DDT resulted in more deaths than using DDT ever could. Then again, deaths from malaria are a third world problem and not glamorous so few people actually pay attention to it. Oddly the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation seems to think it is a priority and, even stranger, they seem to think Viagra is handy for medically treating those who have contracted malaria but I digress.