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FWD.US is a conspiracy created by Mark Zuckerberg to help drive down IT wages in America.

I have no problem with talented immigrants, but American corporations are LYING about the need for those H1B immigrants due to so-called "shortages" of STEM workers in America, and in the offing they are displacing QUALIFIED American workers with those immigrants (in clear violation of the law). Here are some FACTS to counter Zuckerberg's SPIN around his company's (and others, like MSFT, Cisco, Facebook, Google, etc.) cynical attempt to drive down wages. Just look at the recent policy decision to permit H1B spouses to seek work permits in May, 2015 something; that's 150,000 new workers (most of them professionals - and many with IT skills) into an already challenged IT economy. FWD.US is part of a legal conspiracy to drive down tech wages, under cover of the lie that America does not have sufficient STEM talent. Zuckerberg is shilling for his pals, and working against the American IT worker.

FACTS: One of the most respected technology pundits in Silicon Valley has this to say about the H1-B worker problem http://www.cringely.com/2012/1...

Here's an attorney and his consultants teaching corporations how to manipulate foreign-worker immigration law to replace qualified American workers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

H1-B abuse if accompanied by other worker-visa abuse L-1 Visa (H1-B's are only the tip of the iceberg). There are more than 20 categories of foreign worker visas. http://economyincrisis.org/con...

Professor Norman Matloff's extremely well documented studies on this problem. http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/...

Federal offshoring of healthcare.gov website http://www.economicpopulist.or...

How H1-B visa abuse is hurting American tech workers http://www.motherjones.com/pol...

There is no stem worker crisis in America http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-wo...

Marc Zuckerberg and wealthy tech scions continue to perpetuate this trend http://programmersguild.org/do...

Yahoo http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs...

Unemployment is a problem in America, and so are our sticky problems with immigration. Undercover of helping those immigrants who have so long labored in our agricultural sector, the American IT sector has seen fit to use the sentiment to help agricultural workers to create a Landslide of advantage for itself. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

H1Bs in Sacramento http://www.news10.net/story/ne...

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/gop_campaign_manager_resigns_after_fake_hurricane_sandy_tweets_20121031

You know what, how about a few more.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_21326939/lathrop-man-accused-killing-wife-screwdriver

Mentally handicapped individual still figured out how to kill with a screwdriver.

Or how about a doctor who killed babies with scissors?

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/philadelphia-abortion-doctor-accused-killing-babies-scissors-charged/story?id=12649868#.UeVhjY2miUQ

Or how about this guy who killd another man with a basebal bat. Too bad the 62-year-old didn't have a gun to aid him when he was trying to defend the woman.

http://www.news10.net/news/article/247702/2/Deputies-Man-coming-to-wifes-aid-killed-in-baseball-bat-attack

And then of course there's this guy, who killed with his bare hands.

http://www.news10.net/news/article/196580/5/Father-beats-man-to-death-with-bare-hands-for-sexually-abusing-daughter

So if we really want to be safe, we need to add to the list of dangerous weapons to be banned:

- Knives
- Screwdrivers
- Scissors
- Baseball bats
- Bare hands

This list could go on for pages.

You know what, how about a few more.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_21326939/lathrop-man-accused-killing-wife-screwdriver

Mentally handicapped individual still figured out how to kill with a screwdriver.

Or how about a doctor who killed babies with scissors?

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/philadelphia-abortion-doctor-accused-killing-babies-scissors-charged/story?id=12649868#.UeVhjY2miUQ

Or how about this guy who killd another man with a basebal bat. Too bad the 62-year-old didn't have a gun to aid him when he was trying to defend the woman.

http://www.news10.net/news/article/247702/2/Deputies-Man-coming-to-wifes-aid-killed-in-baseball-bat-attack

And then of course there's this guy, who killed with his bare hands.

http://www.news10.net/news/article/196580/5/Father-beats-man-to-death-with-bare-hands-for-sexually-abusing-daughter

So if we really want to be safe, we need to add to the list of dangerous weapons to be banned:

- Knives
- Screwdrivers
- Scissors
- Baseball bats
- Bare hands

This list could go on for pages.

Will the "law-abiding gun owner" shoot up a mall?
No that is a crime, thus the law abiding gun owner will do no such thing, but we might try to stop a criminal committing such a crime as happened in Clackmas. (whether or not he had any effect on the situation is up for debate, but a law abiding gun owner was there and did try to intervene. But realizing he didn't have a safe shot he held his fire (not wanting to cause additional injuries to innocents) and moved himself and his girlfriend to a more secure location. Of course the holophobes claim that liberal carry laws will result in mass numbers of armed citizens pulling their guns and charging in guns blazing without regards for the concequences but that did not and does not happen. Well the police do it quite regularly but armed Law abiding citizens? It hasn't happened yet.

Will the "law-abiding gun owner" share her weapon with her son so that he kills 20 first-graders and 6 teachers?
And you know that she "shared her weapons" knowing what his plans were? Now I know no better than you but it's far more likely that the reason she was killed was to enable him to get access to her weapons.

Will the "law-abiding gun owner" kill his wife at her office?
Nope, again that's a crime. The Law abiding gun owner won't do that.

Now do formerly law abiding gun owners on rare occasion do such actions. Yes, too often. But invariably indicators go back to additional stressors leading to mental instability. And then they dis-regard the laws. But such individuals are actually quite rare. Most gun homicides are performed with illegally owned or obtained firearms by those who have no care for the law. The majority of homicides every year are inner city gang violence. We do need to find ways to reduce homicide by any and all weapon types but taking my guns isn't going to do it. Taking my guns changes this http://www.news10.net/news/article/222195/2/1-dead-in-Sacramento-home-invasion into another potential mass tragedy.

The safety margins are estimated based upon what is known at that time and can also be too small. That's why these things have been watched like hawks and many portions replaced.

SONGS has been offline since January due to premature wear detected in pipes installed in 2010-2011. They've vowed not to restart it until they know exactly what caused the problem. The inspection regimen caught the problem. Fairly early too.

People always talk about how unsafe nuclear plants are due to human failings. But if you look at their safety record, we'd be a lot better off worrying more about other power sources rather than nuclear power. More people were killed in the U.S. by commercial wind power just last year (1 maintenance worker, 2 members of the public) than have been killed by commercial nuclear power in 54 years (zero). Statistically, nuclear power is actually the safest power source man has ever harnessed.

And because someone who can't wrap his head around the idea that wind is more dangerous than nuclear under our current regulatory structure is going to call BS:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/apr/22/lamar-alexander/facts-risks-nuclear-power-plants/
http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=118532
http://www.sanduskyregister.com/news/2011/jun/14/bellevuefall061411azxml
http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/article_e00a0cd2-bfcd-5543-85fd-cafa456922e4.html
(I'm limiting it to commercial power generation, leaving out 2 wind-related construction fatalities and one fatal fall from a research turbine.)

I seemed to remember this happening in California and was able to dig up this story. That may or may not be the one I remember. I don't know if they were violating the law by target shooting, or if they were prosecuted for starting a fre regardless of cause. Regardless, as others have noted, common sense is in short supply. Being pro-gun is one thing. Having a state legislature that refused to ban target shooting on public lands in red-flag conditions is just INSANE.

Apparently it's not perfectly fine in California and in fact it can be considered a felony:

Former Sacramento real estate mogul Michael Lyon was charged with four felony counts of electronic eavesdropping in Sacramento County Superior Court Wednesday morning. Case details

Lyon, 54, did not enter a plea. He has been accused of secretly recording three women who were guests in his Sacramento home. Bill Portanova, Lyon's attorney, has said investigators told him the women were prostitutes.

http://origin.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=106614&provider=top

I know somebody is going to say this wouldn't work in the US but it did, by accident.

I don't think it really matters that they have improperly spent all this money. So what?.. Is someone going to get in trouble for it over at TSA? Obviously not, they couldn't care less. The machines aren't about making you safer, it's about training you how to be a slave in this new globalized terrorist-filled society. If they cared about people's safety, they wouldn't let their workers walk right past security because they too, could be a terrorist.

Or they wouldn't be raiding the pilot's house that blew the whistle on this blatant hypocritical mission that the TSA is apparently on. http://www.news10.net/news/article.aspx?storyid=113529&provider=top&catid=188

These scanners are obviously making their way to shopping malls, schools, gov buildings, and just about anywhere else - so don't let them fool you and tell you it's for the brown men in turbans, feeling up your 14yr old daughter and your 75yr old grandmother has nothing to do with brown men in turbans plotting evil things in caves.

let's see

The 50-year-old pilot, who lives outside Sacramento, asked that neither he nor his airline be identified.
He has worked for the airline for more than a decade and was deputized by the TSA to carry a gun in the cockpit.
He is also a helicopter test pilot in the Army Reserve and flew missions for the United Nations in Macedonia.Sacramento-area pilot punished for YouTube video

The sad part is it's probably more likely that two pilots have the same name then that same set of credentials.

I can't believe this stuff is still going.

Just watch the video over here in the top right: http://www.news10.net/news/story.aspx?storyid=51000&catid=2

I don't even know what to think. If you think you have the right to push your beliefs on me because some scientist said that you were "born this way" then think again. I used to have sex with my animals on my farm. Was I born that way? Did I get any rights? NO. And you know what, I had to eventually accept that what I was doing was wrong. Jesus helps me with that. It is the same thing here. A bunch of whiners, trying to get as many people on their side so that way THEY won't feel so bad about it.

This is all because of the way the government works things. Yet these people lash out at churches and communities demanding their "rights". I don't know what the heck they want but they can go crawl back to their beloved government and complain about the lack of equality in their civil unions.

Laws like these will eventually force oppression on companies. What if you are a DJ and you are asked to play at a gay marriage but you refuse because it goes against what you believe? Will you be prosecuted? What if you run a wedding planning service and are forced to plan a gay wedding or risk a federal offense? This is not the america that I want!

How I would really be ashamed to work at google. I am now ashamed to even use their products. Do you think that every one of their 20,000 employees agrees with this? Some big (gay) cheese at the top is trying to oppress everyone. Communists!

Get the stupid government out of our lives!

The moderates usually have no authority over the extremists, so how should they police them?

Leave the group.

If the organization or group you are in is being lead in a direction you are opposed to and you have no say in that course, then you should leave. To stay is to explicitly condone the actions of the leadership. The best contemporary example of this in the context of religious groups is in fact the "Mormon" Church of Latter Day Saints, which has seen many followers leave because of the way in which it conducted itself during the Proposition 8 vote.

Here was a church leadership which injected its organization voluminously and inappropriately into a contemporary political issue. They turned an institution of private religious belief into public political party. Their church is now feeling the backlash from this, and attempting to take off their political cap as quickly as they put it on is simply not possible.

By staying in their church, Mormons explicitly endorse their churches actions and stances. Ostensibly on the issue of gay marriage, but more importantly on the long term decision that the LDS church can and will inject itself and its considerable demographic and monetary clout directly and voluminously into any political debate that takes its fancy. Many european states, learning from experience, outrightly ban such behavior, but in the US, obviously things are different.

You can stay and support the actions of your church leaders, or you can leave. There are other sects, and other interpretations. The same goes for Muslims, particularly those in western countries, who frequent mosques with radical imams. Protestants break off and form new churches all the time. Even catholics can pick other pulpits if they take exception to their current priest. Staying to avoid social difficulty, or pretending that your presence is not being used to support your church leader's views and actions, are not valid excuses. Staying to "change from within" is only valid if you are actively doing so, otherwise it too is an excuse.

People can and should leave a church if that church's actions or beliefs go against their own principles. To stay is to abandon those principles.

Shall we talk about "bullshit"? Let's start with your comment, a charming blend of distortion and fabrication.

Issuing IOUs to state employees during budget crises is not standard procedure in California nor, to my knowledge, any other state. The last time IOUs were issued to state workers in California was when Pete Wilson (another Republican governor) attempted it in 1992, when the state ran out of cash during protracted budget negotiations — something controller Chiang assures us will not happen until at least the end of September.

Banks refused to accept the IOUs, and public employees were finally driven to take legal action. The state was ultimately forced to come to a settlement with workers in 1996, after a 1995 ruling by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. found that the state's IOUs were not "cash or its equivalent" and violated the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. California has never since issued IOUs as pay.

http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=3 2251

I agree with the parent, this is likely a case of eairly schizophrenia and needs to be dealt with.

This is the comment that what I said was directed to, but your reply focused on your justifications for the guy you knew more about. Now, I'm going to take you back to school here...

I don't really need to render any diagnosis

See above and then don't.

See something else you discover is that though humans are complex creatures, we have a lot of things that are common. If a person acts a certian way, there are common causes for it. The more behaviours they have that are consistent with a certian thing, the more likely that thing is indeed the case.

Spoken like a county shrink. Due to the complex nature of the subject, this of course can be right within a very tightly defined context, but in the context of diagnosing someone based upon an article in the news, it is completely wrong. Even in the context of diagnosing someone you personally know, there is still a substantial margin of error.

If you really have a degree, then you must have some familiarity with the DSM, right? Do you know how many overlapping symptoms there are for many of the disorders listed in the DSM? We're not talking single symptoms, we're talking many symptoms found under many different disorders.

It's simplistic thinking like this which has harmed a good many people in the form of misdiagnosis and it's a reason I commented. I have seen many people misdiagnosed by McShrinks who think this way. If you have not yet learned that the same behavior in two different people can have two entirely unrelated causes and in fact, OFTEN DO have entirely unrelated causes, then you don't understand psychology yet as you ought and I hope you're not practicing.

In this case you have the aluminium foil coating their house, and the persecution complex of others sending "radiation" towards them to cause problems. Quite typical of schizophrenia. Am I 100% certian? Of course not, but I am certian this is highly atypical behaviour, and not something helpful to an actual problem of radiation poisoning thus I'm pretty confident in saying they need some professional help.

As I indicated in my original post, I tend to agree that something not right is going on and they do need some help. The thing is, too many wannabe psych experts toss around the schizophrenia term as if it applies to any behavior we deem illogical. A true psychological scientist, must first ascertain the cause of this behavior. Unless you have talked to the people and heard their side of it, you haven't a clue as to the cause. Here's an article on the subject I found since then:
http://www.news10.net/storyfull1.asp?id=11032

What further info does this article add?
The family is from pakistan. This is a biggie. Now you have to add cultural background into the mix, as well as the traumatic effects of 9/11 on people in this country who resemble middle easterners at all. This alone changes the whole mix, right there. Suddenly, a relatively logical source of the delusion, if it is delusion, can be hypothesized. That's a key difference between the delusions and persecution complexes of a shizophrenic and someone suffering from something else. The shizophrenic has unfounded fears that have no supporting evidence whatsoever. Whereas in this case, this piece of information indicates there may well be some traumatic experiences that these beliefs are built on, which means they can be unbuilt. If this is the case, then there is a good chance it is not schizophrenia.

However if you want to get all worked up over a post on a web forum, you go right ahead.

I get worked up because I take psychology seriously. I've had to deal with people on the wrong medication prescribed to them by hacks who tend to take a simplistic view of mental disorders, similar to the simplistic view you've offered here.

That you have a degr

This is why you don't jump to conclusions...

http://www.news10.net/storyfull1.asp?id=11032

The D'Souzas, who live in South Natomas, are of Pakistani extraction. Since the terrorist attacks three-and-half years ago, the family believes they have be subjected to what they characterized as "covert and overt" hate crimes. According to the D'Souzas, the covert crimes include having intense microwave radiation directed at their house.

Now all of a sudden, it starts to make sense. I know schizophrenia can run in the family, but the WHOLE family? Sure it could, but that's a really outside chance. I remember in the weeks following 9/11, how people who looked even remotely middle eastern, including INDIANS, would get out of my way and avoid eye contact with me. There was great fear. That was a very real phenomenon I observed. Now, mr. pysch student, care to tell me why people of that descent would be that scared? Hmmm? Schizophrenia? Persecution complex?

Did it ever occur to you, that what could be occuring here is a complex form of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, brought on quite possibly by very real "anti-arab" sentiments and actions they very likely experienced after 9/11? Basically, each negative experience the family members had, amplified each others, and their fear was stoked by the rhetoric of the media outlets they were exposed to?

How can you jump to conclusions based on the flimsiest of evidence and you don't think twice about the consequences of doing so, and consider yourself a student of science and a logical thinker? That wasn't a good diagnosis at all. If you were a responsible scientist in any way, shape or form, you would have agreed that conclusions can not be reached based on the given evidence. But you work in a county facility, so that says all I need to hear about you. NOT IMPRESSED. And I'm not saying this to insult, I know well the hacks that work in county facilities, they do a tremendous amount of damage through wrong diagnosis.

In fact, if you really do have college level psych training, you need to get your money back from your teachers because they failed to teach you a very critical lesson... YOU CAN NOT MAKE DIAGNOSIS OF PEOPLES BEHAVIORS BASED ON 3 PARAGRAPH NEWS BLURBS. That's absurd, that's poor science, and irresponsible.

And I don't need the color of authority by stating my credentials to advance my viewpoint, I'll let what I have to say stand on its own merit, because it does if you objectively consider it.

Your theories are the worst kind of popular tripe, your methods are sloppy and your conclusions are highly questionable. You are a poor scientist

It is GPS based, the article is just a bit vague, try This one instead.

These "Officials" are Joan Borucki, the director of California DMV.

Linky

--Ender

Link is here....

And here's the text...
Red light camera tickets have temporarily been suspended throughout Sacramento county. On Tuesday, Sacramento County District Attorney Jan Scully announced the break, which will remain in place until the system can be reviewed.

The hiatus in the use of the devices was called because of a possible timing discrepancy in the cameras. Under current law, drivers are given 0.20 of a second after a traffic signal turns red before the camera takes a picture.

Some questions have arisen about whether or not the cameras are actually set correctly to provide the delay. The manual for the cameras specifies that delays of more than 0.15 of a second but less than 0.20 can be rounded to the higher number, meaning that some motorists may have been cited while still within the allowable limit.

The questions about the timing of when the photos will cause hundreds of red light violations to be dismissed. This is the second time there has been a mass dismissal of red light cases. In 1999, it was ruled that drivers were not properly notified of the existence of the cameras, forcing more than a thousand tickets to be thrown out.