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Annual H-1B Visa Cap Met In One Day
CNet is reporting that the door has closed on the H1-B visa application process for this year, one day after it began. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services said that it had received 150,000 applications as of yesterday afternoon. 65,000 H1-B visas can be issued for foreigners with bachelor's degrees. The USCIS will choose randomly from the applications to determine the winners.
Who would want to work in the US anyway?
Better off heading to Europe.
God I hate programmers who have switched from other disciplines. They friggin act as if they created a masterpiece when a crap script barely does something.
There should be some sort of limit on people like those in the computer field.
If you can think (as in be creative not just an intelligent primate) and have work ethics than you would not be unemployed. No, there is nothing terribly wrong with our education system. There is something wrong and has been wrong for a while now. It's also not education as much as society and culture. You can't fix the later with laws as we're in a democracy and those idiots we wish to remove are the ones in charge. Also they tried to improve education in the 70s or 80s (Soviet scare, etc.) and got half way through reforms before the public lost interest (and so for 20+ years all those half assed solutions stayed unfinished).
Most Americans not counting recent immigrants or their children (or even up to their children's children) are lazy idiots. I went to a very good public school and either Eastern Europeans and Asians are genetically superior (in which case we should allow unlimited immigration to improve the gene pool) or American parents (and as a result their children) are utter fuckups. These are educated people that are being imported, ones who are much better at the job than any American. Go look at graduate schools in technical fields, electrical engineering is filled with asians on student viasas (and the rest are also asians but already have visas/citizenship). It is the incentive system that has something seriously wrong with it. Not really, the people I work with seem to be quite happy with it. Then again they are good at what they do. The guys going into college know that the job market for computer engineers sucks, so they've been studying other disciplines, enrollment in computer science courses is at record lows all across the country but general college enrollment is climbing. Or you could look at it as that during the boom a lot of people who were not cut out for CS/IT went into it for the money. These people are now unable to find jobs as they're morons. The job market in turn has returned to the pre-boom days as has the school system. You can't magically create better students and candidates out of thin air, not everyone is cut out for such work or capable of putting themselves into it (hating your job is not good). So no, if there aren't any candidates for a job now letting all the idiots in likely won't change things. Make it an attractive career, not one where the suits take advantage of the geeks, and you'll see plenty of increased interest. But if the industry continues to undercut its current people, they will eventually find themselves in a situation where they really do need tons of H1Bs for their talent and not for their effect on wages. There are plenty of job opportunities, just because any "can barely get an English lit degree" moron can't go into cs and get a job later doesn't mean much.
Hell, no one wants to be statistician despite it being absurdly easy to get into good graduate programs, the classes are easy (or hard but for a MS you can go with the easy ones) and the pay is very nice (and if you want to you can do lots of cs as well). Or they'll find that other countries need these guys more than the US does because we've lost our edge. Our edge has been immigrants for the last 40 years, go look at any EE program or magnet middle/high school.
Also not everyone agrees with your "facts": http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/05/pf/college/lucrat
Most sane people who have been within 100 feet of the US pre-college education system will quickly tell you its a shit hole. And guess where the US born college candidates come from?
Like I said before, if you want hard data than simply look at the composition of any good school at any level. If you want to see how bad the pre-college system is then just go look at the failure rate of students on state tests and then go read the tests, remember that every time too many students fail they make the test easier.
Personally ... I think the sad indication of /.'s quality is that a comment such as yours is mod'd up as 'informative'.
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