I do not dispute that they may have or will in the future be able to determine someone's potential, but it will be a crude measurement and entirely pointless as potential is worth exactly worth squat until realized.
Not entirely pointless. Is it worth the resources to extensively educate somebody that has very little potential?
That may be, but let me go on a wild guess that it wasn't nearly as popular as Summertime (Gershwin/Fitzgerald) that you can easily play and sing along using just 5 chords.
You'd guess wrong! The Boswell Sisters were the most popular jazz vocal groups of their time. In fact Ella Fitzgerald cited Conee Boswell as one of her primary influences.
Well, pop music in the not too distant past was also fairly complex (although obviously not as complex as classical). Take this 1933 recording from the Boswell Sisters, it's clearly a lot more harmonically sophisticated than 4 chords, and has a number of tempo changes. And this was pop music in it's time, music that people danced to, sang along with, etc, not some form of "art" music.
The twentieth century saw the progression of musical degeneration. First we lost the sophisticated song structures and harmonic constructions of the jazz age to rock, and then we lost the remaining melodic and lyrical competencies of rock to rap. Now we're merely reduced to drumming and chanting. What's left to lose?
Yes, let's take this to its logical conclusion: perhaps only the wealthy, who have "proven" their "worth" should govern.
That's been the state of affairs for about the last 6000 years, anyway, hasn't it?
no designer worth anything would have 'designed' this world as it is.
Rather arrogant of you to be telling a being presumed to be omniscient, immortal and capable of creating universes how it should be running things, isn't it?
I submit that if He/She/It exists, it probably has a somewhat broader and more mature perspective than you do.
No. I'm pointing out that since patents weren't available to Stradivarius, his only means of protecting his intellectual property was to keep his methods a secret. To this day, nobody has been able to duplicate his instruments, rebutting the argument that his competitors would be able to simply tear it apart and figure out how to duplicate it.
Well, the economy was fine - you're problem is that it isn't the 1950s anymore. That is to say, our biggest possible competitor, Europe, isn't recovering from a recent world war, China and India aren't undergoing massive famines, Korea isn't in the midst of a civil war, and Made in Japan is no longer a synonym for cheap junk.
You could have a 90% tax in the 50's simply because there was no place else to go. Try that today and watch your industries and your wealth move off-shore even faster than they are now.
As soon as a product hits the streets competitors can tear it down and see what makes it tick.
That's why violin makers have been duplicating the Stradivarius for centuries, right?
It's better because the states are forced to compete for citizens and businesses, which helps keep government growth in check. Notice which states are growing most rapidly in population and aren't on the brink of bankruptcy.
If all Yahoo are is a company of cowering cubicle moles, trying not to be noticed and whacked, there's not much she or anyone can do.
I don't know about that. It seems to be working pretty well for IBM.
One thing stood out for me was that of all the nations discussed as possible competitors to the US, China wasn't even mentioned once. This was made less than 30 years ago. Just goes to show you how quickly the unexpected can happen.
I think you're missing the point. The point is experienced Sr. level H1B workers are sometimes classified as Jr. level employees in order to pay them less.
Because we already have plenty of unemployed graduates from law schools, too. What do you think happened to all those smart young people who avoided majoring in STEM fields because they knew they'd be displaced by off-shoring and H1B's?
They're so full of precise specifics that the worker absolutely must have that an American engineer won't be able to fit the bill. Then they hire the H1B from the overseas office that they had in mind in the first place (and who fit the onerous job requirements exactly, strangely enough) and pay him less.
Yep. That's exactly how it works. If you have any doubts about that, watch this.
There are ways around that. Obviously, a Jr. DBA isn't gonna be paid as much as a Sr. DBA. But who's to know if the guy classified as a Jr. DBA is doing work usually done by a Sr. DBA?
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. -- Steinbach
