tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post3192175090793616115..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: "They're Watching You at Work"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22142527079567676302013-12-03T01:48:25.815-08:002013-12-03T01:48:25.815-08:00By one estimate, more than 98 percent of the world...<i>By one estimate, more than 98 percent of the world’s information is now stored digitally...</i><br /><br />By another estimate, that's a very stupid thing to say. Don Peck is a dull writer too.LetraSetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27973721777779071162013-12-02T07:30:02.461-08:002013-12-02T07:30:02.461-08:00>redundant "what"<
You can find a...>redundant "what"<<br /><br />You can find a persistent "thier" around too. If I had a nickel for every word I've misspelled, I could hire Malcolm Gladwell's editors to fix up my grammer. Grammar. Dammit!Davidhttp://david-passingparade2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27882403348376114212013-12-01T20:00:30.036-08:002013-12-01T20:00:30.036-08:00"freudwasrightaboutafewthings said...
Strang..."freudwasrightaboutafewthings said...<br /><br />Strange that Israel is such an obsession with Sailer readers and no one has said anything about IDF selection procedures here."<br /><br />Israel is not an obsession in the Sailersphere. The obsession that some have for Israel, and thier insistance that we be similarly obsessed, is though. Like you for example, bringing it up when it is not particularly germane.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26826339598897659742013-12-01T19:09:03.889-08:002013-12-01T19:09:03.889-08:00...cheaper, faster, and much-wider-ranging than wh...<i>...cheaper, faster, and much-wider-ranging than <b>what </b>we had before.</i><br /><br /><br />I never heard this redundant "what" until I moved to the Upper Midwest. Is that where Don Peck is from? (Hence his nerve in bringing this up.)<br /><br /> I suspect it bled into English from German.Reg Cæsarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74730944750445522942013-12-01T12:00:02.563-08:002013-12-01T12:00:02.563-08:00Norfolk Southern gave me a battery of tests...
I ...<i>Norfolk Southern gave me a battery of tests...</i><br /><br />I don't know anything about NS except their engines look pretty. But we're talking coal, lots of coal here. Often the only way to move that coal to important places on the east coast that need it and will get mighty cold without it. Big moving dangerous heavy trains.<br /><br />So they're probably proud to be an EEOC employer, but it's also worth everyone's time if their lawyers go through that 17K lines of law to minimize the day-of-the-moron problem. Here's an interesting little blog extract from a rr blog: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?2,268157" rel="nofollow">"anyone who recently got hired by norfolk southern please answer me this quesion: how the hell did you pass the tests they administer at the testing seminar? ...give you 3 sets of numbers with absolutely no relation... you have to pick the fourth. ...<br /><br />...<br /><br />...Norfolk Southern hiring sessions are orchestrated buffers to prevent litigation and allow freedom of hiring practice. ...<br /><br />...<br /><br />...And yet, in spite of all the tests and training, I have still seen trainees terminated because they were putting themselves and fellow employees in danger. ...<br /><br />....<br /><br />...working on the railroad is a career... once you step on the job it has got to be "Attention To Duty" if you don't follow this,you put yourself and your co-workers in extreme danger..."</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-75230829851167622152013-12-01T11:26:14.410-08:002013-12-01T11:26:14.410-08:00I wish it wasn't this way, but the elites are ...<i>I wish it wasn't this way, but the elites are the elites. Stubborn and filled with devout religious belief.</i><br /><br />That tikkun olam cult is pretty bad, isn't it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5120545995824646752013-12-01T10:25:21.397-08:002013-12-01T10:25:21.397-08:00In 1997 I went through a series of multiple day-lo...In 1997 I went through a series of multiple day-long interviews at MicroSoft in Redmond, WA then at a Ft Lauderdale, FL office for a job in the Patent/Trademark/Copyright Protection office. I strongly sensed that all interviewees were seeking likeability, fit, and to a lesser extent, intelligence. I was expecting an attractive job offer as I was very well-qualified and had clicked well with all except for the last one. He interviewed this Gringo in Spanish.Ray VonMartinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-1257436691371804462013-12-01T09:49:21.872-08:002013-12-01T09:49:21.872-08:00someone wrote:
The worst part of being on the diss...someone wrote:<br />The worst part of being on the dissident right is having important things to say and knowing that nobody important will listen. I don't know how Steve does it for a living.<br />======================<br /><br />Sailer is not really a dissident in any meaningful sense. Yes, he does not accept the mainstream consensus wisdom. But he is firmly in the rightwing paleocon camp, which is the primary outsider political tribe. PropagandistHackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032093796955347846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5834757353907593482013-12-01T08:55:34.929-08:002013-12-01T08:55:34.929-08:00You're really being unfair to Uber and other r...You're really being unfair to Uber and other ride sharing services. Their benefit is that ANYONE can be a taxi. It relies on smartphones and other connected devices. you are anywhere, you put in where you want to go, and it matches you with someone in the area that's going there too (or amenable to it.)<br /><br />It is "reinventing" in one sense because it's doing something similar to taxis. But it is also taking advantage of a new infrastructure, wchihc is ubiquitous connected devices, which makes it easier and faster to get service.<br /><br />Cities, which are allegedly formed to help the citizens within, are freaking out because suddenly you don't NEED a taxi, which of course the city licenses with a half million dollar badge; some guy just drives up and takes you where you want to go for a few bucks. Which is obviously better, but they are the enemy now because they threaten the tax revenue scheme.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89428246405295090872013-12-01T07:33:48.123-08:002013-12-01T07:33:48.123-08:00Oh sorry, I missed the sarcasm alert.
Strange th...Oh sorry, I missed the sarcasm alert. <br /><br />Strange that Israel is such an obsession with Sailer readers and no one has said anything about IDF selection procedures here.<br /><br />Does anybody know how they work? Is it really that efficient or do they operate like every other institution does - by connections?freudwasrightaboutafewthingsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41547814345273531352013-12-01T07:19:39.475-08:002013-12-01T07:19:39.475-08:00SBPDL is a wall-to-wall embarrassment. It's a...SBPDL is a wall-to-wall embarrassment. It's all blind subliterate rage. Boring too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61661971820227025652013-12-01T07:10:45.530-08:002013-12-01T07:10:45.530-08:00uestion for iSteve Readers: Are there any other *g...uestion for iSteve Readers: Are there any other *good* conservative/right blogs than iSteve out there?<br /><br /><br />Indeed. And I'd like to broaden the question: is there anything like iSteve in French?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89634600129611983032013-11-30T23:35:06.479-08:002013-11-30T23:35:06.479-08:00Is Procter and Gamble the only big old Fortune 500...<i>Is Procter and Gamble the only big old Fortune 500 company that has bothered to push hard for objective hiring tests in the the face of Uncle Sam's strong arming?</i><br /><br />Norfolk Southern gave me a battery of tests when they interviewed me for consideration for some management trainee jobs in 2001.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67788456132822585522013-11-30T21:37:00.695-08:002013-11-30T21:37:00.695-08:00The original name for "Psychometric Testing&q...The original name for "Psychometric Testing" is "The Knockout Game".<br /><br />Here are some though patterns,<br /><br />1. West Logical -> Straight LInes.<br />2. East Circular.<br />3. Men: Connected Lines.<br />4. Women: Maze.<br /><br />Best pattern is : Star[Like a spoke model]<br />Or a Cycle Wheel, Or Pentagon/Star.<br /><br />Business[Gray]<br />Engineering: Black/White [ A lot of is Gray made Black/White]<br /><br />World is mostly Gray, We wish it to see in Black/White, Mostly Analog/Not Digital.<br /><br />Some caveats about the West.<br /><br />1. Beleive that STEM can do aything, it can do most things, but not all things.<br />2. Nature must be conquerored.[Coming from a Harsh place I can understand]<br />3. STEM is easier than Weather, Envirnoment, Biology/Chemistry, Society/Culture. because its mostly Black/White.<br /><br />Greatest insights one can get is about Nature.<br /><br />Greatest power is in the "The Power of "The Being"".Solushttp://www.vsnl.net/~Solusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67749380931635137662013-11-30T20:10:32.593-08:002013-11-30T20:10:32.593-08:00Meyerle told me that Evolv has looked into these s...<i>Meyerle told me that Evolv has looked into these sorts of factors in its work for clients abroad, and that some of them produce “startling results.”</i><br /><br />I.e., these factors are interesting and potentially important, but we're still not allowed to notice or talk about them in the land of the free and the home of the brave.<br /><br />As Steve said a while back, the PC left is <i>literally pro-ignorance</i>. You want to know what those "startling results" are? And you want to be able to <i>use</i> that knowledge? What are you, some kind of fascist?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78366787423303073122013-11-30T19:08:40.340-08:002013-11-30T19:08:40.340-08:00... which means that scoring ...could violate equa...<i>... which means that scoring ...could violate equal-employment-opportunity standards. ... “we just don’t touch”—at least not in the U.S., where the legal environment is strict.</i><br /><br />Yup, here's pretty much your problem. What do you do when the legal system has patently and manifestly tried and failed, or at least fallen a good way short? Retreat into fantasy only works so long.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-65384157193987870702013-11-30T18:23:00.617-08:002013-11-30T18:23:00.617-08:00It's remarkable how much damage anti-discrimin...It's remarkable how much damage anti-discrimination laws, and the disparate impact doctrine in particular, have done to society.<br /><br />It's unfortunate that private individuals and businesses are micromanaged in their personal and commercial decisions. It's utterly insane that those decisions are forced to be made in conformity with patently false assumptions about the world.<br /><br />What's sad is that it's a political non-issue. When was the last time anybody challenged it? Anything draped in the Civil Rights mantle is sacrosanct and inviolable.<br /><br />The worst part of being on the dissident right is having important things to say and knowing that nobody important will listen. I don't know how Steve does it for a living.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34432482259685049232013-11-30T17:46:20.025-08:002013-11-30T17:46:20.025-08:00"The ass war has replaced the class war."..."The ass war has replaced the class war." Gold, sirDavidhttp://david-passingparade2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4308288543263905312013-11-30T16:52:01.458-08:002013-11-30T16:52:01.458-08:00For any x, (x+1)(x-1) = x squared minus one. So 89...For any x, (x+1)(x-1) = x squared minus one. So 899 is not a prime either (29 times 31) and neither is 8099 (89 times 91). Just realized that ... Nerd joy!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-58221782184109948052013-11-30T16:46:21.841-08:002013-11-30T16:46:21.841-08:00Back in 1951, H. Beam Piper published a science fi...Back in 1951, H. Beam Piper published a science fiction story titled "<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18949/18949-h/18949-h.htm" rel="nofollow">Day of the Moron</a>," about the use of IQ testing to week out men too stupid to work at a nuclear power plant. Turns out the IQ test validated the intuitions of the plant's chief engineer. Mark Plusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18957849872819916932013-11-30T15:03:57.280-08:002013-11-30T15:03:57.280-08:00Quite a lot of companies have folded, that were Fo...Quite a lot of companies have folded, that were Fortune 500: Eastern Airlines, Pan Am, DEC, Sun Microsystems, to name a few. Kodak and Xerox will soon join them I think. NCR, Borders, Circuit City, also come to mind. If you've been following on Slashdot the stuff with Code.org, where the Gates Foundation and Zuckerberg want seven years of student data in return for cash assistance to schools, you'd figure that Gates and Zuckerberg are not too sure about Microsoft and facebook either.<br /><br />A lot companies are born, live, and die fairly rapidly in the US compared to Japan and Europe. Neither of which would have allowed Eastern, or Borders, or Kodak, or DEC, or Sun to go belly up.<br /><br />Pat / Albertosaurus -- No, we are stuck with the religion of elites, who in post-Christian fashion worship the redeemers of original (White) racial sin. Whites will simply have to retreat to cyberspace to avoid the Knockout Game, its not going to stop. Certainly Bill de Blasio is not going to allow imprisonment of "youths" who look like his son. Meanwhile rest assured neither Bill Gates nor Mark Zuckerberg will ever get sucker punched! Doesn't that make you feel all warm inside?<br /><br />There is no solution except continued White flight, high personal mobility, and cyberspace internet usage. Elites will not have it any other way, and eventually all cities will become Third World Mega City One / Judge Dredd hellholes, with a few ultra rich elites living in luxury. Vulnerable as hell of course, NYC is incredibly fragile to power outages, sewage breakdowns, water interruptions the way the suburbs being more distributed are not.<br /><br />I wish it wasn't this way, but the elites are the elites. Stubborn and filled with devout religious belief.Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-12520081794121226792013-11-30T14:10:40.068-08:002013-11-30T14:10:40.068-08:00"Couched in progressive rhetoric, the gentry ...<a href="http://www.joelkotkin.com/content/00835-revolt-against-urban-gentry?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JoelKotkin+%28Joel+Kotkin%29" rel="nofollow">"Couched in progressive rhetoric, the gentry urbanists embrace an essentially neo-feudalist view that society is divided between “the creative class” and the rest of us. Liberal analyst Thomas Frank suggests that Florida’s “creative class” is numerically small, unrepresentative and self—referential; he describes them as “members of the professional-managerial class—each of whom harbors a powerful suspicion that he or she is pretty brilliant as well. The revolt against this mentality surfaced first in New York perhaps because the gaps there are so extreme. Wall Streeters partied under Bloomberg, but not everyone fared so well. The once proudly egalitarian city has become the most unequal place in the country, worse even than the most racially divided, backward regions of the southeast. In New York, the top 1 percent earn roughly twice as much of the local GDP than is earned in the rest of country. The middle class in the city is rapidly becoming vestigial; according to Brookings its share of the city’s population has fallen from 25 percent in 1970s to barely sixteen percent today."</a><br /><br />But the 'progressive' masses are partly to blame, even if they got suckered by the elites. The whole homo thing was bound to favor the elites than the masses. I mean what kind of demographics do homos cater to? What are their social aspirations and tastes? <br /> <br />While all these economic problems were brewing in cities--and in small towns with shut factories--, the main political struggle among 'progressives' in the last 10 yrs was 'gay marriage' and other such nonsense. <br /><br />Ass politics replaced class politics. Progressivism became pro-grab-ass-ism. So, while homo elites won the Ass Struggle, everyone else lost the class struggle. <br /><br />But I'm sure Kotkin has a solution for NY. What it needs is lots of mestizos who will offer leadership roles in coming up with 'vibrant' new fashions and innovations... such as maybe a virtual reality sombrero and maybe sushi taco? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-15567923592305860612013-11-30T13:54:48.878-08:002013-11-30T13:54:48.878-08:00http://www.joelkotkin.com/content/00835-revolt-aga...http://www.joelkotkin.com/content/00835-revolt-against-urban-gentry?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JoelKotkin+%28Joel+Kotkin%29<br /><br />'urban gentry'. I like it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-80923441847013580392013-11-30T13:54:13.761-08:002013-11-30T13:54:13.761-08:00"Are there any other *good* conservative/righ..."Are there any other *good* conservative/right blogs than iSteve out there?"<br /><br /><br />SBPDL or "stuff black people don't like". It offers excellent update on what's wrong with black America. <br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90436830260153079222013-11-30T13:53:47.449-08:002013-11-30T13:53:47.449-08:00Beyond the late Lawrence Auster, Steve Sailer, and...Beyond the late Lawrence Auster, Steve Sailer, and John Derbywhire, I've found the conservative blogosphere pretty uninspiring. I read Ann Althouse's blog; she's only mildly conservative but occasionally hits a home run.Harry Baldwinnoreply@blogger.com