Salieri gave the "stand down" order at Benghazi.

"Should be", yes. But that's not the way most people do things. I've been involved in multiple hiring discussions, and "soft" issues almost always are involved, often in the form of "team fit".

Look how bad things went with Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven works. Shouldda let Disney own their notes.

We didn't need Washington State and Montana anyhow. They can't produce decent basketball teams.

Regardless of intent or not, certain practices may indeed lead to age-tilted hiring as an actual end result. That doesn't necessarily make it "right", though.

One can argue a company is obligated to balance its employees' race, gender, and age to reflect the external population of available talent. This may involve counter-acting other hiring practices that indirectly lead to imbalances. Using your example, either stop paying in pink unicorn pillows, or adjust your hiring to match calculated age goals to compensate for the pillow bias.

The specifics of what you feel a company is obligated to do is of course a personal political opinion. I'm just trying to point out that "discrimination" can be purely accidental, and being accidental may not be considered a sufficient "excuse" to keep doing it.

If it's accidental, one could make a good case that the org doesn't deserve punitive or "retro" fees, but are at least obligated to remedy it going forward.

Perhaps a law should be passed that companies above a certain size are obligated to actively monitor their hiring profiles so as to avoid bias. Then "we didn't know" wouldn't be a valid claim anymore.

Maybe it will be coastal if Yellowstone blows big enough.

Words can have many meanings such that the intent of the writers and context often has to be considered also:

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I've learned over time that skills are only about half the factors of hiring decisions (with exceptions for high-demand specialties). Personality and "feeling" issues play the other half.

A work-place has a culture just like any village or geographical region, and if you don't fit the culture, your are likely to be turned away. Age of growing up is part of that "culture". I'm not saying it's fair, but rather that it's human nature.

Young people are more energetic

That explains your "creative" typing patterns.

Juries typically don't interpret Constitutional law. Whether they "should" is another matter.

That's what I keep thinking: too bad we can't mine all that energy such that we'd be killing two birds with one stone: getting energy AND draining the heat from that spot, reducing the risk or magnitude of a volcanic explosion.

It's kind of like using ocean water to solve coastal droughts: all that water sitting right next to us, but no practical way to turn it into potable water. It's a tease; at least with current technology.

I see tablets and laptops eventually merging into incarnations of the same thing. If they focus on that, they should be okay.

The trick may be different requirements for x86 conventions versus ARM such that it's difficult to have interchangeable parts and share manufacturing for both.

There are always going to be a group of jerks trying to out-jerk each other there. Our presence doesn't seem to be decreasing them, but merely make us their target. The iron-fisted dictators have been a relative force of stability even. Stable jerks are preferable to unstable jerks.