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Several years ago, Qualcomm employee at San Diego which was reported in the news, but another one happened just a year or so after which they tried really hard to keep quiet. Both happened at the same building "WT".
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/CM...
https://www.lajollalight.com/s...

Then another suicide happened again earlier this year.

https://www.sandiegoreader.com...
https://timesofsandiego.com/bu...

I saw it on the Far Side

Should go for Tony Krvaric

He is already an established politician and have some first hand experience with copyright infringement.

In keeping with the lawn-mower analogy, why do anything at all with lawn mowers when you could hire a cheap Mexican or two to cut your grass for you while you drink beer and watch football? That's the problem Qualcomm solves by all of their lobbying and hiring of H1-B visas.

-- Ethanol-fueled

Employers are largely composed of con men and criminals. Ask any IRS agent about it; they just take this as an accepted fact going in and they're not wrong. I have worked for upwards of 20 employers of various descriptions from flipping burgers to mega corps and I can say with certainty that each and every one of them was some species of scammer.

Congress listens to them at all because Congress is more of the same- ambitious men who want money, women and power. Anything that gets in the way- in this case paying Americans American wages instead of pretending there's a desperate STEM labor shortage and flooding the market with H1Bs- is a total non-starter for them. They don't even think twice about it- "oh... here's how you run THIS scam ..."

There's not really more to it than that. Employers are liars through and through and the companies they create are in a constant game of cat and mouse with the law, with their customers and with their employees.

It's genetic and what we need to find is a genetic cure for it. We need to tone down the sociopathic impulses that drive people and tone up the empathetic ones. Doing that will be THE achievement of the 21st century.

It's not panacea, but any little movement in that direction would yield huge savings in law enforcement, regulation, societal disruption and a massive increase in egalitarian outcomes. We can then take all that saved energy and money and attention and put it on creating even better things and circumstances for ourselves.

People from future generations will look at our literature and TV and movies and culture and be glad they didn't now just as we're glad we didn't live in the Dark Ages.

In all projections of a future (where humans have survived), we're more peaceful, more productive, there aren't have and have nots , there isn't just base level strife that causes grown men to rape 5 year old children.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/18/africa-child-rape-crisis_n_3103558.html

How do we get there? By religion? By indoctrination? By capitalism? By communism? The fact is men are genetically predisposed to not just crave having more than the other guy but to FLAUNT it and to absolutely GRIND the other guy down. This is how men show their brightly colored feathers to females and females do indeed prefer men who have more stuff, power and prestige.

Women like winners and men like to win. It's a marriage made by hell.

So sure, the corporations are knowing and deliberately lying about the STEM graduate situation. They've been doing that since at least 1995 according to Norm Matloff.

http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1b.html

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2012/feb/08/citylights1-fed-H1B-visa-engineers/

  And Congress and the press go along with the lie because all the men at the top of THOSE hierarchies stand to benefit by undermining other men who do not hold those positions of power. This is just instinctive knowledge. Congress knows they're lying, knows why they're lying and knows it's their part in this scam to wring their hands and decry their fellow (male) citizens qualifications.

"Of course you need to search all over the world if you only want highly skilled people."

According to a recent study mentioned in Mother Jones and elsewhere, H-1B workers are not even close to the "best and brightest" as these companies claim. In fact they probably don't hold up to American workers. All they are is cheap.

Well, there was, before the American economy went to shit.

Just graduated with a degree in physics? How about 10 bucks an hour soldering pads and screwing screws?

The more energy we have, the cheaper transportation and food is which in turn lets people have more money for charity to help people who need food.

The more energy we have, the greedier the corporations controlling it will become. Constant rate hikes, cutting corners on infrastructure and safety, passing the costs of their own follies onto their ratepayers, creating artificial shortages a la OPEC, etc.

Your vision of a warm and fuzzy utopia will not happen until after a bloody proletarian revolt which will hopefully happen in another 10-20 years.

Last week in a Spring Valley business park, a tower nearly 100 feet tall sprang up seemingly overnight...I approached three men, dressed as though they might be engineers, who were standing in the parking lot outside NSM Surveillance on Via Orange Way. When I asked them what the tower was for, one of them responded with the joke, "We can't tell you. We'd have to kill you."...By Wednesday afternoon the tower had disappeared.

Though that particular product was probably just a communications tower, the article describes how easy it is to set up an Orwellian society, especially with a systems integrator such as NSM Surveillance.

Here's a guy who hates almost everything - Duncan Shepherd of the San Diego Reader:
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/movies/reviews/