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  1. Things like US judges ordering American companies to hand over foreign data is much more hurting their sales.

  2. Skilled, yes. But not in those numbers and certainly not for the kind of jobs H1-B's are filling now.

    What really helped the US was the influx of German scientists and engineers before and after WW2. Those were really skilled, and that much smaller number did kick ass.

  3. The best thing would be free college for those who can't pay it or can't get a loan. Sure, it creates waste - highly educated unemployed - but it creates also much more value. And it reduces the amount of blue collar workers who need to find a blue collar job.

    Disadvantage: it takes 2 generations to have a significant effect.

  4. The next presidential decrete sets the number of H1-B visas to be given out the next 4 years to 0, while congress gets to pass a law to end the H1-B visas completely.

  5. The voters in the last election disagree.

  6. Only after they have mastered to make a fire by heating up 2 pieces of wood by friction.

  7. Re:What is the difference? on Google, Unlike Microsoft, Must Turn Over Foreign Emails, Rules Judge (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, they both have in common that they are American companies. It would be more reliable to have your mail handled by a Russian server, the Russians are probably not going to cooperate with the FBI. They might snoop themselves of course, but the Russians don't care if I pirate American movies or oder pot.

  8. Re:Stick a fork in Mozilla! They're done! on Mozilla Binds Firefox's Fate To The Rust Language (infoworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There are several forks. I'm typing this in Palemoon, a fork that didn't go along in the chromification process.

  9. Re:Assembly language is good enough for anyone... on Mozilla Binds Firefox's Fate To The Rust Language (infoworld.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mozilla has chased the good programmars away because they didn't agree with some SJW agenda and the ones that remain have to use Rust to not screw up security.

  10. Re:Expand the H-1B beyond the Tech Industry . . . on Microsoft's H-1B Workers Cited In Motion That Successfully Blocked Trump's Travel Ban (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Satya Nadella, is that you talking?

  11. Re:They don't get it. on Microsoft Seeks Trump Order Exemption for Workers With Visas (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    After all, the pittyfull remains of what are now called "native Americans" know all too well what happens when you let in too many immigrants...

  12. Re:The point on 'Australia Is Stubbing Out Smoking' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No need to smuggle them in from the outside. Australia has huge uninhabited areas, just grow the tobacco somewhere just as they do with mariuana.

  13. Re:The point on 'Australia Is Stubbing Out Smoking' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Case 1: fine him. He can't pay up, so he either goes to jail (much more expensive when you're not running a slave labour gang like the US prison system) or he robs someone to pay the fine. I would just sentence him to community service.

    Case 2: nothing wrong with that. Of course, the next day my car is "officially" the property of some poor homeless guy who can't pay the fines when I speed with it.

  14. Re:The point on 'Australia Is Stubbing Out Smoking' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I have to pay for the pensions of all those healthy people because they grow too old and need a lot of care before their healthy bodies finally give up in their late 90's.

    Perhaps it is un-American, but if a group of humans wants to develop a society above the state of the farmer/hunter settlements of 6000 years agoo, where each member could survive on its own in nature, you need to pay for things that might happen to others. Others pay for what might happen to you. I prefer to pay more for my healthcare than I receive in return: it means you don't get sick too often.

  15. Re:The point on 'Australia Is Stubbing Out Smoking' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, a smoker's life is on average shorter than that of non-smokers, so they die off before they get REALLY expensive because they get Alzheimer or Parkinson and need continuous treatment during the time their healthy bodies keep functioning.

  16. Re:The point on 'Australia Is Stubbing Out Smoking' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Making it that expensive means they are creating a huge black market. That's what always happens when the difference between production price and sales price is artificially made huge.

    Even in Europe a lot of drug criminals are now in illegal tobacco products (i.e. otherwise legal products for which no taxes were paid). Chance of getting busted is much lower, the penalties are also much lower and the profit is still huge.

  17. Marketshare? on It's Time To Admit Apple Watch Is a Success (imore.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    > Much like there's no real "tablet market", just an iPad market.

    Nonsense, Android sold more units. Just like the phone market is really an Android market.

  18. Re:Wow, Al Capone is now == Pirate Bay on Swedish Govt Mulls Tougher Punishments To Tackle Pirate Sites (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Not only the last couple of years. Sweden already showed to be very helpfull to enforce US copyright trolls like scientology in the 1990's: see https://culteducation.com/grou...

  19. Re:OMG on Indian IT Sector Warns Against US Visa Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Is that why there are so many Americans working 3 burger flipping jobs just to keep alive and pay the rent?

  20. Re:Umm, no... usually the page is broken. on Chrome Now Reloads Pages 28% Faster (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    Just grab them by the pussy.

  21. Re: Deliberately missing the forest for the trees on Is The Tech Industry Driving Families Out of San Francisco? (nytimes.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    But it's the Brittish own fault as well: why are all those n1ggers in Calais trying to get in the UK? Because they know they won't get trrown out as soon as they're captured. If they got a 1-way ticket back to Calais they would stop trying quickly enough. And don't forget all those members of the former colonies who seem to have easy access to the UK, it's full of pakis there as well.

  22. Re:Deliberately missing the forest for the trees on Is The Tech Industry Driving Families Out of San Francisco? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The result was so good that this waas one of the main reasons for the Brexit. Yeah, a real success story.

  23. Re:New projects are even more misguided than the o on Free Software Foundation Shakes Up Its List of Priority Projects (networkworld.com) · · Score: 0

    Well, at least the SJW's presidential candidate lost the election so not all hope is lost.

  24. Re:Stargate programme?? on CIA Releases 13M Pages of Declassified Documents Online (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    I knew it was real all the time! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  25. Re:Scientists and doctors.. on 'Superbug' Resistant To 26 Antibiotics Kills A Patient In Nevada (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    You can also drop the ideological dogma that all product research and development has to be done by private companies. Just set up a public company for this kind of research, and the best option would be to revoke any patents granted on medicaal research not used in actual products if that is standing in the way.