If you are less experienced you are trading your time to develop skills, if you are more experienced you are trading your skills for more time.
Yeah surely the fact that medical bills constitute the largest single source of bankruptcy in this country, even with most of those people having medical insurance, is proof that people fucked up spending too much. Those idiots shouldn't have gotten hit by a drunk driver, or sick, or hurt...
I think that it is one of the things that corporate America can do to ensure that American people always conduct a negotiation with a disadvantage in the U.S.
In one job that I took, there was the initial lowball offer, which I laughed off and said "No, really, we both know that is a low-ball value, try again". Their second offer was a bit better but still below prevailing wages.
When I was in a similar situation I changed the game by saying I would be happy to work for 4 days a weeks at that rate and would accept the role on that basis. I didn't care what the answer was because I was already employed and the extra time I would simply dedicate to additional income streams.
Your negotiation is even more compelling when both parties get what they want, it's called a win-win situation and the one time when it isn't a cliche.
How to negotiate for a better salary.
This.... because for some ridiculous reason, the salary for your next job is based upon the salary of your current or previous job. Whenever I get called by a recruiter for a position I'm semi-serious about, they undoubtedly ask me what my current salary is so they can base my future salary on it. I always lie lie and lie some more up to the point of what I think their position is worth.
Don't lie, just say 'it's confidential'. A reason will be challenged, to challenge confidentiality an inquiry first has to broach the reason for the confidentiality before they get to the answer. The answer to why it is confidential is 'it's confidential and I can't breach confidentiality agreements'. See no lying required.
Every single IT person should be negotiating salaries UP, all the time. There should never be downward salary pressure on skilled I.T staff. Please take note of this people starting in IT, you may not be very skilled now however as you get older you will be. Remember that any agism you encounter or practice is effectively a cap on your salary in the future.
IT work is hard, don't forget that. Make employers pay for either your energy OR your skills.
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I was going to say 'fuck off' but 'Die.' is better.
Well you could have said fuck off and Dice. I hear that's twice as insulting.
Any idea why they're allowed to emit the CFCs, rather than trapping them? I would expect it to be a closed system. Is this just tiny, unavoidable leaks, or is it deliberately releasing them to the atmosphere?
Yeah, it's hundreds of miles of pipes in a closed system, so they leak and it's old. Trapping it would be good, however I don't think that has been achieved. I believe that is why ultracentrifuge technology is being pursued.
CFC's were nasty chemicals, but they weren't generally crucial to modern life.... Go nuclear or give up.
It's a common myth that Nuclear doesn't contribute to greenhouse gasses however, in reality, CFC114 is the primary chemical input to enriching Nuclear fuel prior to its use in Nuclear Reactors. Several years ago I was curious about this and I used data available from the US EPA web site on licenced CFC emitters and discovered that the largest emitter there was from the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant.
At roughly 1,500,000Kg per year it was over 5 times more than the second on the list.
The reason this is important is not because CFC's are a more potent (20,000*C) greenhouse gas, it's because CFC's affect Phytoplankton which are the creatures that produce oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide. Coupled with the secondary effect of ocean acidification from carbon absorbed from the atmosphere it interferes with the calcium content of these creatures shells forcing them deeper where photo synthesis is less effective. The same creatures are also affected by ozone depletion (which also forces them deeper) as it that careful balance of the suns radiation that allows them to produce oxygen in the first 1-10 metres of the oceans surface.
They produce more oxygen than all of the tress on earth so understanding and making sure they are ok is one of those less understood tipping points that humans are messing with.
What I mean is that, for example, often one line ends and the next begins too fast for any normal person to breathe. Rap has some extreme examples of this. I recall a live performance by Eminem a few years ago where he sang most of each line but then had someone else cover the last couple of words so that he could get enough oxygen for the next line.
Maybe the guy was too out of shape to produce a performance? I remember seeing System of a Down not so long ago, when I thought it was dubious they could deliver however they delivered a massive unstoppable two hour set. There is no way a person can deliver those performances if they aren't at the top of their game physically and mentally.
Even autotune is mostly used to correct singers who can't hold a specific pitch, not to extend their vocal range or otherwise make it something that can't be sung.
Correcting a singer who can't hold a specific pitch is expanding their vocal range! Maybe from zero to something, but still.
What about in a live setting if the singer is tired or sick and needs help delivering a 'usual' performance as opposed to trying to record a performance that just isn't there? Isn't that what they were made for initially?
A lot of post 1990 stuff is very hard to do live, if not impossible.
Later we got auto-tune. That lets people do ridiculous things with their voices, because they can hit notes effortlessly and it becomes more like playing an instrument than actually singing. Add the loudness war in and you get lots of distortion and ringing added into the vocal mix. Real time effects are standard too.
Some great points - which '90's music do you mean?
I'm the lead vocalist in a band and we just recorded an album. I can't stand auto tunas personally and forbid them in the studio - even for back-up singers. Everyone has to be physically fit and my mates tell me I can sing high enough to sound like a chick - if I want to. We have used technology to drive the recording process pretty hard to achieve dynamic range in the recordings for precisely the reasons you cite. I'm so happy people are starting to realize it!!!
Technology has changed the way we record songs because all of the restrictions you had are gone. Our song structure is completely free and we do anything from jazz an pop to blistering heavy metal simply because we can. Having said that we push musically to the creative limits because the technology is stable enough to perform reliably enough for us to take those risks and reproduce it live on instruments.
I don't know if that means if the song structure has changed because of technology or if it means we can finally do what we want musically because the technology can keep up with the structures we want to make. I think it's natural for music to change and now that there is enough CPU time to support it our plans become more ambitious.
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