No one is owed a remote job. Unfortunately, if you work for the state, it is highly likely you don't have the skills and leverage to force the issue as most of the positions are just supporting some sort of bureaucracy and fundamentally have to exist because a lobbyist at one point got a law passed. State jobs, like it or not, are often effectively just political appointments.
Also keep in mind that you can't fire or terminate anyone, ever, in the state, so there's also a chance leadership feels this is the first time they can turnover roles that aren't doing much or meeting their goals. That's a very rare opportunity. If you think "rest-and-vest" is bad in tech, you ain't seen anything when it comes to government. Imagine jobs where no one has accomplished anything in a decade or more.
Of course you immediately jump to some sort of conspiracy though.
How many immigrants do you think grew up the same way? Hint: almost none, as the United States is the only country that enshrines true freedom of speech as an unalienable and fundamental right.
This is probably considered "hate-speech" in this day and age, but immigration, shockingly, has cons as well.
It really depends on what the security team was doing. Saying they fired the security team sounds like bad PR, but who knows. Maybe they were just running scanners and couldn't prove value to a VP.
The whole front range area was pretty incredible pre-marijuana legalization. Definitely changed since then. Your friends are right, Californians have been flooding in for a decade plus in greater and greater numbers, and unsurprisingly they bring the same issues they tried to leave behind. Before, that was mostly contained to the Boulder bubble. (homeless issues, loud yet empty activism, blue-no-matter-who, nimby policies, you know the drill).
Sure, Denver has more of a night life now and fancier restaurants I guess?
From Wikipedia: “He was the most prominent member of the high-profile hacker think tank the L0pht.”
That’s quite a generous take. There were plenty of excellent hackers in the 90s, but “L0pht” just seemed like the PR friendly one that could go on good morning America.
Can’t tell if this is real or just a 90s security person trying to stay relevant after being fired.
Or perhaps if we had the demographics of Norway our schools would be vastly better in every single category except “diversity”.
Like it or not students are not born genetically equal. Throw in poverty and lack of effective parenting and there’s no hope that endless funding will somehow fix that situation.
1-800-Contacts will auto-renew your existing prescription in some states via a eye exam you can do on your phone. I think optometrists consistently sue them over that sort of tech to try to keep their useless glasses monopoly in an era where they really don't need to exist anymore.
Else order from Canada or the UK. Still cheaper to get a new exam at Costco in most cases.
Also keep in mind that you can't fire or terminate anyone, ever, in the state, so there's also a chance leadership feels this is the first time they can turnover roles that aren't doing much or meeting their goals. That's a very rare opportunity. If you think "rest-and-vest" is bad in tech, you ain't seen anything when it comes to government. Imagine jobs where no one has accomplished anything in a decade or more.
Of course you immediately jump to some sort of conspiracy though.