Cesium 137 has a 30 year half life...it takes 10 X Half Life to get "close to inert" or close to background radiation before radiation is safer. Cesium 137 takes 300 years before it is close to inert. Three or four centuries.... Cesium's half life is not the LONGEST, Plutonium has a 240,000 half life. So 240,000 X 30 years or 7,200,000 years before its safe. Fukushima will pollute the environment, every spring when the tree pollens are released for the next 300 years minimum. Cesium impacts heart muscle. More heart issues are in the world's future. During the Fukushima explosions, the Cesium pushed up into the Jet stream reached the USA within 24 - 48 hours. Baby doctors in the Ohio Valley were telling anyone that would listen that babies were being born with more holes in their hearts than normal...no one wanted to hear about it. The database showing Jet Stream currents, and the radiation in them, was altered in real time to hide this fact...many of us were watching it when they altered the data... Radnet here in the USA was finally turned off to hide the facts from the American people...just as they turned the censors off in Russia after the Nuclear core exploded at that Russian military base...videos showed the mushroom cloud, that was no missile, it was a reactor. As for what they are cooling at the site, Fukushima, the rods people, they will need to be cooled for well over 7,200,000 years. Don't let the industry try to talk only about radioactive isotopes with lower half lifes...it would be laughable if it were not so pathetically sad. We are getting polluted. Casking the rods will not last forever...rods need to be re-casked every 50 years when crack appears in the casking material. Even if we were generous and say that they would not need to be re-casked every 100 years, it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that the cost of casking alone makes generation from nuclear plants, that are suppose to have only a 30 year life but never get shutdown, NOT COST EFFECTIVE. Nuclear power has and always will be about weapons...there is gold in selling weapons...research what we "tip" many of our weapons in. No one talks about this radiation pollution. Follow the money...it will always lead you to the answer, unfortunately. Researchers went back to Chernobyl approx 27 years after the event and found more Cesium 137 in the environment than what the Russians officially documented. What if they go back again in another 30 years and the radiation has not dropped in half from what they documented the last time? If this happens, it means that either Cesium 137 does not break down in nature as it does in the lab (very disturbing thought) and the half life is greater than 30 years....again Cesium 137 is not the radioactive isotope with the longest half life. After Fukushima, all the Nuclear plants in Japan were turned off, just being cooled, not providing electricity, for a period of time. At first their were a few electricity brown outs, but as the Japanese consumers adjusted, the brown outs disappeared...meaning nuclear power WAS NOT NECESSARY. The Nuclear power industry in Japan quickly turned all the reactors back on...can't let consumers realize that we do not need them! It was good to see all the URLs referencing radiation has already reached the USA from Fukushima...most people are still in denial about this truth. Remember you need a "Cesium detector" to detect Cesium radiation, a normal radiation detector will not detect it.... The exposure is already here and will be for the next 300+ years...whether we like it or not.

Thanks for including that link, your post should NOT have been down rated to zero! If you had not listed it I was going to.

One important caveat, I do not believe that link (https://myaccount.google.com/permissions) automatically includes all 3rd parties. For others, here is an article about this, that is NOT behind a paywall, from the BBC dated July 3, 2018: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44699263.

The link at the end of the above https://myaccount.google.com/p...">article, has a link to Google's Security Checkup Page, funny when I went there, it said I have one app, that I did give access too, that I might want to consider removing...fyi, that site cannot read my emails, what is funny, is when I go to the link provided above looking for applications that I gave Permission to to read my email, that app is NOT listed...my guess is it is a "3rd Party application with limited (cannot read emails) access to my account.

In fact, per that page, I have NOT given any applications access to my Google gMail account. Of course I know it (Google's Primary checkup page) is NOT checking for 3rd party sites.

Like everything online, the devil is in the details and most people (me included sometimes) do not make time to dig into the details...deep in the bowls of the FREE website. Hey its FREE, we are giving them something, else its not cost effective for them to provide that service for FREE.

And if you do read the Terms of Service (ToS) of every website, there is a very good chance you would miss the sentenance where you gave them access to everything about you as they are rarely straight forward.

For Reference:
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-26677607Here is a 2012 article about this same issue with Microsoft

I am sure I could find this for every other email service, especially if it is free, online, to be honest I do not want to bother looking.

An important point to consider,

my guess is all the websites work like this, to be sure check your email application's FAQs or better yet other blogs not controlled by the company that put out that email package

, is that if you have given a 3rd party access, even when you later turn it off, it will NOT automatically turn off ALL 3rd Party access, only future 3rd party access.

From Microsoft Outlook: If Integrated Apps is turned off, apps that have already been installed and have permission to access information won't be uninstalled, and the permissions won’t be removed. Even though Integrated Apps is turned off,....

Look for a place where each app is listed and can individually be turned off if you want to later block third party applications!

Why did a true story about a parasitic fungus living on and killing an entire ant colony get modded to zero.

You start looking for weirdness in nature and you find it all the time, the trick is knowing what is truly 'nature' and what is 'man made'.

Anyone else remember reading about the tornadoe that hit a small town in the midwest and multiple people reported to the hospital with black fibers moving and growing out of their bodies?

Evidently these fibers would move toward heat and light sources and work against attempts to remove them.

Real world is always more interesting and weirder than what hollywood can make up and yes would make for a great horror movie.

Let me be the first to welcome our Organoids Overloads!

Or as someone smarter than me said in 1971, "Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss".

Oh snap, we did get fooled again!

That is the correct question to ask....what do you think they are going to do with everyone's facial image?

Identity Theft?
NSA, CIA, FBI, Homeland Security, Law Enforcement
Profiling (race, culture, color, religious preference, freckles)
not pay us for the use of our likeness, i.e. Looker
. . .

Plenty of people have mentioned the Raspberry Pi and Arduino...plenty of options in the $25 - $100 range.

This poster agrees with them, but what about those that do NOT want to build hardware, they just want to explore Linux and software....this post is for you. Read on, and note, while the starting prices of their hardware starts out low, by the time you max it out with memory, disk drives, power supplies, better Graphics cards, multiple other stuff, the price will rise. In other words, do not expect this hardware to be the cheapest, just know that it will work with an distro of Linux out of the box, period! And to be honest, they are often not much more when configured similar to what you have in the big box store...just let them know which Distro of Linux you want on it, and they will configure it for you. You spend your time learning Linux, not messing with hardware and device drivers.

ZaReason is your Answer!

ZaReason has been active in the open source community since their founding days and all of their hardware is built with open source in mind. No UEFI BS chips on any of their hardware. No need to purchase a Windows OS in order to wipe Windows and install a Linux Distro.

First encountered the ZaReason owners at SCaLE in Los Angeles / Pasadena, California, when it was held at the hotels near LAX, now they hold it in Pasadena. If you are into Open source and have not been to SCaLE you should check it out. The things you can learn about, often from the creator is great, especially for the price. Recommend you book a room a head and stay in the hotel where the conference is hosted...but I digress.

Most of ZaReason's hardware starts in the $400 - $600 dollar range, but will quickly go up when you start adding their current maximum memory (32GB RAM) and if you add 6TB hard drives, etc.... When Windows refused to allow their Operating System to address above 16GB of RAM memory, ZaReason was putting laptops together with that amount of RAM and it was all usable. One of their laptop models had the largest screen on the market at the time, 16.3 (Bright, anti-glare 17.3" LED backlit display @ 1920x1080 pixels) versus 15" from other manufacturers.

Want to create a TV wall on a 65" or larger TV in your house, Linux will let you do it, there is software that has to be configured / built in with the kernel that will let you control the processors independently of each other, say let your 2 cores control one screen, another core control another, two other cores control yet another screen, etc... and divide your 65" TV into a TV Wall of say 3 X 3 or 4 X 4 monitors. Let the internet stream music on one screen, news on a couple of others, weather on another, you can program on four of the others and show social media on yet other screens of your TV Wall....I plan to do this in the next couple of years...software was available back in 2010 or before.

Boy will I cut the cord....can't wait and will never look back...if only I had Google Fiber in my area!

Full disclosure, I do not work at the company, but have purchased two laptops, a desktop/server and in the near future will be getting another server or their mediabox... decisions, decisions, never had any problems with any of them.

They also sell rack mounted hardware built for Linux, which is nice for companies with IT Rooms and racks.

For a first Linux I would recommend 'Mint', just way too easy to use, tell your grandmother its a new version of Windows and she will love it.

Debian is a great branch, what Ubuntu and many others are built on top of.

Not trying to start a war about which Linux branch is better, this chart GNU/Linux distro timeline Version 10.9. Love this Graphic, understand why it does not include BSD, here is FreeBSD, though it really should.

You can google any two or three Linux to find someones opinion, better yet their experience with a specific version of Linux...here are two comparisons between Linux and BSD: Comparing BSD and Linux and What is the difference between Linux and BSD?. By doing such comparisons you can find a version of GNU Linux that will fit your needs.

As you can see there are a few other branches in Linux besides BSD, Debian, Redhat and Slackware to choose from. Check out Distribution Watch for information on other distros besides the main 3. Which distros are still being actively developed.

For those looking at 'tinkering' you should consider the Linux Distros with lower memory requirements like Damn Small Linux or Tiny Linux.

Raspbian is Debian optimized for the Raspberry Pi is very well done and there are 1000s of projects document if you need help coming up with ideas.... This is how most of us get started, we get the hardware, we look at a project or two, once we accomplish those, we start designing our own....for instance when I start brewing beer one day, no way am I going to do it without a computer timing my brewing process so I can hone my skill and you guessed it, there is a project for that BrewPi using the Raspberry Pi.

Guess he will not be coming back yet....oh well.

Oracle wins

So this is how they get their business...they F-up and still win. amazing.

My last job was outsourced for pennies on the dollar, guess Oracle will do the same....profit! Way To Go Oracle, you suck!

Anyone who has had to update, maintain or change a mainframe based system where Oracle is involved understands all too well....pathetic.

and they do, do this....

Worked in the Telco industry, we had $15,000.00 Network General Sniffers at each end of a T1 to prove beyond doubt, that the line was cut and it was the Telco's fault.

They denied it 100% of the time, until you produced logs from both Network General Sniffers and the problem was them and not you...every single time...without fail.

You are 100% correct that they will do this to prevent, thwart or at least slow down competition.

The smart move is for Sheri Weiner to lose her seat at the table, she is obviously completely controlled by the industry attempting to prevent the citizens of Nashville from getting FTTH.

Pretty typical of every city that attempts to put in Fiber To The Home, the industry sues and loses at least twice if not three times, but if the citizens push through it, they get Fiber and lower Cable rates to boot.

It is the only way Cable companies ever lower their prices, because its the only way they get true competition.

Perhaps that is the proper alternative....

I plan to keep bees.

One of my adult sons is alergic, does not currently live with me, but I hope will visit once in a while.

At first I thought I would just keep an epi-pen handy, but the shelf life of the medicine is a serious concern.

My father has passed, he was a working Pharmacist, worked his way through Medical school, he would keep some medicines in the fridge and if needed, administer via a syringe.

What is the minimum training required to administer a syringe of anything effectively....bet it is cheaper than the 'idiot-proof' pin with zero risk of administering the wrong dosage....as long as your eyesight is good enough to read the syringe.

Just seems like a Superior solution in the long run all the way around, though I applaude the Hackers DIY alternative and the actual reality that ones health is ones responsibility and we should all do everything in are power to avoid needing the hospital and pharma industry, period.

Sure hope the industry and politicians never manage to restrict or outlaw vitamins...know big pharma wants them too. We gotta stay healthy or we are screwed, as health care will bankrupt us!

Now my preference is FTTH, true FTTH, where the Fiber line goes back to my home and I OWN IT along with my HOUSE.

FACTS:

• FTTH costs from $1,500.00 to $3,000.00 to run to most homes in a community.
• FTTH adds $5,000.00 value to the price of the home when you sell, if the FTTH line is owned by the home owner and sold with the home.
• With FTTH, it costs providers less than $0.50 cents per GB of bandwidth per month. So for 10 GB, the company's cost is ONLY $5.00 per month. (per NTT Exec, where Japanese consumers have had 100MB/100MB, no throttling, for $55 per month or less since the year 2000) The point is the companies that provide Fiber, FTTH, can still make a hell of a profit without the need for throttling.
• When FTTH comes to a community, Cable prices drop...it is the only time that they do drop. They have to, to compete.

Since less than 30 cities have this in the USA, hint Verizon is not true FTTH, just becaue they say 'Fiber' does not make it the way it should be, just the way they did it....

Since less than 30 cities have FTTH in the USA and since 'they' use ALEC to pass anti-competitive legislation to prevent FTTH....to move away from CABLE requires DSL not controlled by a Cable company or TELCO...many locations just DO NOT HAVE even a decent DSL alternative.

DSL's unthrottled 786KBps upstream is better than any CABLE UP TO PROMISE that is throttled back. Always will be, that is why many of us dump cable...they throttle.

If you see a spinning symbol, indicating what you are attempting to watch is 'spooling' your UPSTREAM BANDWIDTH is being throttled to less than 768KBps period. To prove this is simple, purchase a WRT-dd, Tomato or OpenWRT firmware supported firewall/router and you can see your bandwidth in REAL TIME. Every day, every hour, all the time.

Every Cable company that I have had, throtlles bandwidth 99% of the time. The only time they do not throttle is when you run the SPEEDTEST, than that PIPE opens all the way up. The millisecond the speed test ends, you are immediately throttled. This proves a few things:

• you are THROTTLED
• extra bandwidth exists, thus you DO NOT NEED TO BE THROTTLED...of course than the cable company could not charge you more for less.

Locally owned Cable companies, owned by the town, or by a residential area, might be better, actually allot better than TWC, Comcast, Pioneer, etc..., but you are still throttled.

Thus when I cut cable, and I will in the near future, I WILL NOT WANT TO GO BACK, unless I have no other alternative...this they know, thus they use ALEC to pass anti-FTTH legislation in many states (14 US States and counting have outright bands).

You want freedom, jobs, improvements in your local economy, get FTTH. if you can not, well than your politicians are part of the problem, replace them or watch your area die economically.

Justthinkit,

Loved how you laid out the statements made and how real they actually are.

These days its more likely to be Conspiracy FACT, than a Conspiracy Theory....especially when it comes to the 1%.

Don't know if they control 50% of the Wealth in the entire world, it would not surprise me. Do know that 9% of Americans control 90% of the wealth in our country. And the fact that they get such a large percentage of Americans to think that they have a shot at getting were they are just proves the fact that marketing works.

I took that Smallest Little Political Quiz a while back, it highlighted a couple of facts:

• 9% of Americans are truly Conservative, the rest miss-identify themselves.
• 19% of Americans are truly Liberal, the rest miss-identify themselves
• 72% the rest of Americans, are very effectively prevented from organizing to upend the status quo.

Before someone chimes in that the Smallest Little Political Quiz has problems, I say to you, it is much more RIGHT than it is WRONG.

The 1% are extremely effective at maintaining control. Should you become successful enough to become a threat, they will either co-opt you or block you from success through new state laws or the courts. They will not let you join the party, you (and I) are useless to them and just consume resources they greedily want for themselves.

The Tea Party was co-opted by the time they had their first convention by the Koch brothers. (Remember there candidate for President was the Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker, Republican whose biggest contributor before the Koch brothers was the largest polluter in the state of Wisconsin, amazingly he held onto his seat)

The Republicans are almost 100% co-opted due to their need to raise money to run for election, the 1% have more than enough money to buy you and they do.

The Democrats are not as largely co-opted as the Republicans, not because they are any better, but only because the 1% control the Republicans and Tea Party, they don't need to control more than half the Democrats.

Thanks to their pushing Citizen's United vs FEC, should that BS progress, they will not need either the Republicans or the Tea Party...and thanks to so many 1 issue votes (true evil to any Democracy) they are pretty close to getting their majority on the Supremes. Than it is game over.

The 1% are no different than any other hate group, they love themselves and hate everyone else.

For my kids, I am working hard to set up businesses that will provide them and their descendants lifetime incomes, basically what the 1% have done since the beginning...I can't join them, don't want to join them, but do want my own descendants to have a shot at a decent life where 'Right to Work' for less states, 1H1B Visas and other Anti-America-Job activities will effectively kill any possible career they can try for before they can obtain a salary high enough above poverty levels so that they have a shot at continuing to build what I have started for them....in the long run it is about cash flow (what ever cash the current economy uses) and food independence (so that they do not spend everything they have just to survive.)

Sadly with Agencies that police clean air and clean water getting regulatory captured and their budgets devastated to the point they can not possibly enforce laws that protect are air and water....the chances of our descendants staying healthy enough not to be raped by health care is getting harder and harder.

And speaking of rape, should my daughter get raped, heaven forbid, I would counsel her to abort the baby, why reward the rapist, however should my daughter decide to keep the baby inspite of the horrendus crime done to her, I would support her decision, though IT MUST BE HER DECISION! You A-holes that want to make a raped woman a criminal SUCK! YOU ARE EVIL AND EVERYTHING YOU DO IS EVIL, no matter how you spin it...get off my yard and stay out of my bedroom. ...had to step down off my soap box...ugh, that was ugly.

My father was a doctor, even he did not think his patients should be forced into bankruptcy to afford his care. Thankfully he has passed so he does not have to see it getting continually worse.

While the tone of this post might seem negative to some, I remain hopeful, in spite of the obvious adversity and intend to set up mine...good luck setting up yours. We will both need it!

Mr Welch is famous for wanting to put a factory on a barge and anchor it off the cheapest labor source country available, even he did not expect to be able to get away with his low wage crap in the USA!

Tea Party and Republicans want Right to Work for Less, will say its unfair, but secretlly love it. As their Koch Brothers and other Citizen United enriched cauffeurs push for...after all you don't support their anti-labor pro themselves BS you will be primaried.

WOW, $3,500 is all it costs a company to get away with this...that is super cheap. Can you hear the flush of high paying tech jobs increasing to India because of this. A better solution would have been to put the business out of business.

After all the Supreme Court, thanks to Citizen's United, has judicailly stated that corporations are people, time for a few of the bad actors to get the Death Penalty.

So many states, Republican and Tea Party controlled, are failing financially right now, when will people learn, their polices (all of them) do NOT WORK! They never did, they never will. This BS started in the 80s, with President Reagan, and they could get away with it because this country had a huge middle class (huge supply of families with money that could buy goods and services). Both parties, Republicans and Democrats have slowly whittled away at the middle class to the point that the wealthy 1% can no longer maintain the economic viability of the country...thus we get recession, depression and low wage jobs.

Low Wage jobs are not an equitable replacement for Higher wage middle class jobs that have been lost and will never come back thanks primarily to the Republicans and Tea Party's unwillingness to do what is right for this country.

So many countries have lost their vertical markets for their products because this cheap offshort labor steals their products and undercuts them in the market...don't look to most Americans to cry for you....you cheap businesses have done this to yourselves.

Ironically insane as they keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result...idiots.

You can not be pro-family and anti-labor.
You can not be anti-single payer health care and pro family.
You can not be pro religious and care nothing for the least among you.
You can not be pro-family and create an environment where two paychecks (from the mother and the father) will not provide the same standard of living as that parent's grandparents.
You can not be only focused on religion and kill families financially, what do they have left to tithe with?
Heck if two parents have to have three or four jobs to have a standard of living less than that of their parents and grandparents...have you really helped them at all? NOPE. This is what Republicans and Tea Party candidates say they are for based on morality...put up or shut up.

Full Disclosure: I am no Democrat, NAFTA was not good for us, but I recognize the only political party at the national level to balance the budget was the Democrats with President Clinton. Republicans and Tea Party have never done that.

And why every vote Republican and Tea Party, they have nothing new and only come up with any plan after being lambasted for not having one...remember the conservative yahoo standing up holding the blank piece of paper at President Obama yelling, here is our plan....telling, very telling.

Say Balancing the budget is not needed, I understand the financial benefit of a very strong economy, yet Republicans and Tea Party fail to learn the lessons of the past...you can not economically pull yourself up in a climate of Austerity with only lower paying jobs being created and expect that to happen.

Hey politicians, all of you, How many high paying jobs have you created today? Last week? Last Month? Last Year? While you were in office?

If one company can do it, others can, but won't.

In n Out pays (for a decade now) a new high schooler $10 per hour. What are the other fast food restaurant's excuses. Don't say you can not, you can, you don't want to, nor do you have to.

In n Out Managers (Store Managers) make over $100K.

In n Out is wildly successful, everything fresh, nothing frozen as Texas will find out as it expands east once suppliers are lined up. You won't go back to MikeyD's, Wendeyes, Bugger King, etc... if you have an In-n-Out nearby. And their meal deals are cheaper to boot.

The container store pays their employees $50K per year! If they can do it...

One west coast restaurant insists their Managers only work 50 hours, no more, as they want them to have a family life (life outside of the restaurant) and be better managers when they are at the restaurant...name escapes me...but if they can do it the others could, but don't, wont. Their turnover is much lower and we all know this saves the company money.

Is your employee turnover rate higher than the average for your industry? Fix it or fail. The fix might be higher wages and better hours...get use to it.

Imagine the boost to the economy if the supply side increased thanks to higher paying salareis. I can imagine it. This is the only thing that will work!

Since the 1980s, the policies of the political parties have not been working. VOTERS are INSANE to do the same thing and expect a different result. Stop listening to their lies. Do your own homework. After all we all want our children to be better off than us, don't we?

People lament jobs and buisnesses relocating overseas (for tax reasons) yet wont mention Tarriff and Trade Policies which historically (pre 1980) controlled this bad behavor. To glibly say it won't work and businesses will locate elsewhere is BS, if our economy is booming businesses will want to sell their products here. If they have to build it here and pay equitable wages thanks to smart tarriff and trade policies, they will.

One thing we know, if a company does NOT HAVE to do it, most will not. Sad but true. They honestly do not care about their employees....their loss

Stock buyers will say they want organic growth, yet when a business grows and needs to hire thousands of people, increase in labor, what do they do...punish the company...ironic..yes, but true.

Enough of the wet dream, it will never work...if you can not garner votes with your policies, time to change your message and do what your voters want. If not, and your Citizen's United financed campaign still loses (as it will eventually) don't complain to us...we saw it coming even if you did not.

Privotizing public things, never makes them cheaper forever...perhaps for a year or two, but down the roald, those public things get more expensive and the private entity that is enriching itself will push money to those Republican and Tea Party candidates to do more of the same...no matter how it destroys the US economically and financially.

Please learn and research...you will come to the same conclusions if you use the brain god gave you. I know my friends and I did. Dogma kils your kids. Wise up for their sakes or they will suffer at the hands of those you vote for.

Your only security is the money in the bank (or investment).

Even if your house is paid off, you still have to pay your property taxes, insurance (home and auto), food, water, power or you will lose that home.

Here is what I wish I knew 10 - 15 years ago...you can learn from my mistake (I am successfully doing this today as you should be.):

Investment income is taxed at a 15% rate, lower 10% if you have a great accountant and are very wealthy. Its how Mitt Romney managed to get a 10% tax rate that everyone talked about in the last presidential election.

Don't let those that have benefitted from our system, pull shut the gates behind them and hurt the rest of us, never let them raise the tax rate on investment income. After all in most cases, you have already paid tax once (sometimes twice) on that income, so why pay more a second/third time. Enough is enough.

Don't have to wait, just had a second job outsourced to India last year. And so many others have had jobs outsoruced since 2005, so no need to wait another 26 years...been there, already happened, can't afford the T-Shirt to prove it.

Back in the 90s, there were a group of middle IT Managers and IT Directors that would be assigned the new shiny 'golden' project initiative that the company was pursuing to increase revenue and theoretically grow. Right before the project would completely 'fail' they would jump off it and wait for the next new golden 'shiney' thing the company wanted to pursue. You see these new golden projects get the budget and they make more money.

It amazed me that Human Resources never reviewed the many golden boys that kept getting assigned the new projects, had heavy turnover and jumped ship before it failed. You have to allow your people to 'fail' and learn, however what is with letting them do it the third, fourth and fifth time again? Have they had any success? Then why are you allowing them to shmooze their way into the company's budgetary coeffurs again? Look specifically at that Manager's 'turn-over' rate (of experienced professional programmers, Engineers and Systems Analysts) and cut them off. There are other roles that do not impact direct reports that they can do for the company, you don't always have to fire them....

So someone is laid off, no surprise there any more. A gap in their resume, means they were smart enough to bank enough money not to have to work for just anyone. That they could pick and choose. After 10 years if you are not doing this, the Universe help you, you will need it.

To avoid being grumpy, program for yourself, release your own product and only pursue IT Specialist, Support, Systems Administration, Engineering Technology, Product Management, Project Management, ScrumMaster, Product owner type of roles with other companies.

Only code for others if you have a great salary, profit sharing and bonuses...the 'great salary' lets you avoid well meaning startups that might have good intentions but fail for other reasons. Unless you are independently wealthy, than stick with startups and do it for the love of doing it, not the salary. It only takes one to hit for you to never need to work again.

Hey HR Departments, check your Manager, Director, VP's personnel turnover rates. Are they higher than industry averages? Great you found your problem, now do something about it.

Many people get into management for the wrong reasons and the power goes to their head. If they can not motivate and keep their people, perhaps they should not be managers. For your company's sake, HR Directors, do your job and put them somewhere productive that they can no longer hurt the company. After all it does cost real dollars, especially in time, to hire good people, stop letting these incompetent Managers ruin it for everyone. How much do they cost the company because of their inability to manage people.

And if your Manager's role, their job description, does not include allot of time to actively working with, coach, mentor and motivating direct employees, stop calling them a Manager, they're not.

If you want to be a great manager, does your company's objectives reward you for working with and actively managing direct reports? If not, take the hint and look for a company where you can be an effective manager, where you are now, they just don't care. This breeds the wrong type of environment and you will constantly lose your best engineers and programmers because of it.

HR you tell us that turn-over costs the company money, put up or shut up...actively monitor and review your 'Managers' and 'Directors'.

It really is simple. Keep it that way!