Unfortunately, even if I do agree with you that Robert Reich is a racist, that is an ad hominem argument and I don't see how his racism would have a strong influence on his view of the Glass-Steagall Act.
If you think it's racist then you must have skipped the history lesson on The New Deal whereby, in an effort to secure the votes necessary, they (House/Senate) basically had to promise key members that the recovery would touch the "right" people. The right people in this case being white males. Blacks, Asians, and Women of all races were largely cut out of the New Deal unless hiring them was a necessity due to lack of able-bodied white men.
Whenever economists speak of jobs programs for everyone, not just "white male construction workers", this is what they're eluding to.
The unemployment rate among non-Asian minorities is much higher than that of the rest of the country (e.g. Nov African-American unemployment rate is 15.7%)
Are you suggesting that Reich is a racist because he sees this as a problem and wants to ensure that African Americans and Hispanics get employment opportunities ?
You "wish" more blacks could be more like him? How many black people do you have intimate conversations with to base your opinion on how "most" of them are like?
I'm curious - what's your opinion on what other races who aren't white should be more like? I mean in your perfect world where white people just dictated how everyone should behave.
I'm using Gmail for my domain and received zero spams in well over a year. My email address is all over the web. What are you using for your spam filter?
I am less worried about receiving spam and more worried about not receiving good mails. Are you sure that Gmail's spam filter has zero false positives as well? If you are sure, how do you know? I can not check my spam folder manually because it contains thousands of mails.
At one point I was checking it religiously but I've come to trust it after never finding a legitimate mail in my spam folder after a long period of time. I still check it from time to time, and again, I don't find legitimate mail tagged as spam.
Most confirmation mails (and the like) end up in my Gmail junk folder. E-Mails from normal people never. And for me it has just become a automatic process to look in the junk folder for those.
I don't bother obfuscating either. I do get spam occasionally, but the gmail algorithm learns so once I mark a particular type of spam as spam it never comes up again.
I can't use gmail because I have the requirement to create email addresses on-the-fly. I have my own domain and can do that. The result is I need good spam filtering.
My filtering now achieves around 99.6% filtering, and about 1 detected false positive per month. It would be interesting to see how gmail copes with my 2400 spam per day, and what accuracy it achieves, but it's a non-starter because of how I use email.
I do this all the time with Google Apps to track who sells my email address, creating a new one for each place I signup.
1. Create a catch-all address for the domain you're going to use that isn't the normal postmaster one.
2. Pick a three- or four-letter combination of letters that rarely appears in normal conversation (like dcj, for example).
3. Set a mail filter on the catch-all account to forward all mail that has your three-letter combination as a part of its recipient list to your real address.
This means that for every service you sign up for, you can create a new address (I always use domainname.code@mydomain) that is trackable and gets to you. For example, I just signed up with Via Rail's online system - using the address viarail.dcj@mydomain. It will get forwarded to my real address (since it's got the dcj in there), if I start getting spam on it I'll know where they got the email address from, and if it gets really bad I can just change my filters to block all email to viarail.dcj@mydomain.
You could do something with Gmail's plus-addressing, but I find that many services don't accept those email addresses.
Yahoo Mail offers a service called AddressGuard that does exactly this, but it's only available to paid accounts. You can also easily use these as your from address, so even in direct correspondence, you still shield your primary address from the recipient. (This allowed me to verify that eMusic sells their subscriber list to spammers.)
A free alternative is SneakEmail (http://www.sneakemail.com) which allows you to set up disposable addresses that forward to your primary account, and allows you to set up pre-forwarding filters. They also create a unique address for the sender of each email, and you can set up your SneakEmail filters to insert this as the reply-to address of each email you receive.
SneakEmail is great; it's what I use when I'm seriously suspicious of who I'm sending mail to.
For 95% of the things I sign up for, however, I'm not that paranoid - the slight decrease in security is offset by the added convenience of not having to log into a third-party service (like SneakEmail) to get what I'm doing done.
Good idea. For those of us who use an @gmail.com address, here's what you can use in lieu of plus signs, which as JimmyL said often don't work:
Gmail lets you insert periods between the letters of your username. So if my email address is [email protected], the following are valid variants of my email address:
I use a custom domain, but have it set up to forward all addresses to Gmail, mainly to use their spam filter. I'm not sure what your particular use-case for the on-demand addresses is, but you might be able to set up some Gmail label rules to sort it for you on that end too.
The only downside is that you have to manually verify your custom domain's 'sent from' addresses in Gmail, so you can't easily reply from arbitrary addresses.
This is why I worked full-time through undergrad and graduate school. By the time I finished grad school (in computer science), I already had years of experience on my resume from full time employees and short term contracts. It's my solid work experience that got me my current position after graduation, not my MS in CS.
I don't expect the entitled American youth to sacrifice like that though. Now I understand why H1's are so popular, they have experience, work them to death for less pay, and the joy of not dealing with entitled American youth.
Even outside of tech, for example in the medical field, hospitals are paying for massive amounts of SE Asians to move here for nursing positions. The hospitals can't find people for these good paying jobs, so they have to go outside of the US for people to fill these positions.
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