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How does your salary compare with this survey ?
2015 Salaries: Staff and Entry-level Positions: http://www.computerworld.com/salarysurvey/breakdown/2015/joblevel/3
2015 Salaries: Middle IT Management: http://www.computerworld.com/salarysurvey/breakdown/2015/joblevel/4
2015 Salaries: Senior IT Management: http://www.computerworld.com/salarysurvey/breakdown/2015/joblevel/5
http://www.computerworld.com/category/salarysurvey2015
Also, here is a Dice 2015 salary survey also showing nice upward trends for the tech field.
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(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday April 28 2015, @06:32PM
Yes, what you just did here.
That's classic conspiratorial delusion. You mix random facts that you imagine support a larger umbrella of ambiguous nefarious intent into a horrifying near-future conclusion then declare it to be undeniable logic.
You should know full well that if you examine the actual deductions you're making they range from tenuous to absurd.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday April 29 2015, @04:58AM
No, you're the one knitting them together into a Dr. Evil scheme. That is your strawman argument. That's a correct usage of the term, "strawman argument," BTW, which you have not yet effected. You have been putting words in my mouth, I have not done likewise.
What I have done is cite empirical evidence gained through observation, and formed conclusions based on that; that's logically sound. I said, for example, that there is evidence that the government has come to do the bidding of corporations. Snowden's documents have revealed the NSA spied on European Commission officials [propublica.org] who were taking actions against American companies. That's reported by the NY Times, BTW. Former SEC regulator Carmen Segarra [propublica.org] released audio tapes she made while at the NY Fed proving that Wall Street banks have achieved "regulatory capture," meaning they control the regulators meant to regulate them.
Those are facts, programs and policies and actions that have been very deliberately imagined, designed, funded, and implemented. Do you mean to say I have invented all these things? You do know they've been reported on by the most reputable publications, and occasionally by the government itself, right? Are they making it up? Do you mean to deny that the DEA has used parallel construction, or that the CIA tortured people to death, or that the Vice President of the United States admitted he ordered the CIA to torture people, or that the NSA has violated our Constitution, and on and on...? Each of these displays a deep institutional contempt for our laws. Each of them proves we are quite beyond the Rule of Law in America anymore, because there are none in the Executive or Legislative branches who have prosecuted anyone in any of those crimes. (For example, none of the executives at HSBC who laundered billions for the Mexican drug cartels [forbes.com] went to jail or were even charged.)
Watergate was a watershed moment for the Baby Boomers and that was merely one scandal. Each one of the crimes I have ticked off here is more shatteringly vast than that was. And, what's more, nearly all of those have come to light in the last *four* years. So, one Watergate-size event in 30 years, versus, what, 12+ in less than 4 years? If you can look at all those and maintain, with a straight face, that they don't indicate something is seriously broken in the United States, then it begs the question, why is that? Do you mean to say that it is no big deal that the Vice President of the United States admitted on national television that he ordered war crimes? Do you mean to say that it's not an even bigger deal that that guy is not sitting in a prison cell awaiting trial in the Hague? Do you mean to say it's not a big deal that across swathes of Missouri that courts and police departments were running institutionalized extortion schemes (that's per the US DOJ report on the subject)? Do you mean to say it's not an even bigger deal that the Feds haven't descended on those places to arrest the conspirators and charge them under RICO?
Against all that, it doesn't matter how rapidly you wave your hand or how many times you incorrectly employ common rhetorical put-downs against me or others like me who point out these matters and won't content themselves to, "focus on the future, not dwell on the past"; they still won't go away and they won't come to have anything less than an existential impact on freedom and democracy in the United States and perhaps the world. It's a pity you don't seem to be as concerned as we are, but I'm sure you have your reasons. Pray tell.
Washington DC delenda est.