I had to modify the following post to take any direct references as I have no way of knowing if you, personally, actually made use of your exploits outside of your own private testing environment...
I guess that's the difference between real tao programmers and script kiddies.
I _could_ have engaged in the same things that script kiddies did, exploiting other people for personal amusement and/or gain, but made a conscious decision not to. I saw the links, I looked at the downloads, the ftp sites, and the web pages. I _could_ have become involved in that sort of thing.
But, and I guess a significant majority of the population is lacking this little definition in their upbringing, I decided that there were far better uses for my intellectual ability... You know, something productive, something which would benefit people, something which didn't rely on targetting and exploiting others' ignorance.
The actions of script kiddies (and don't take this personally because you're part of the greater population) remind me of taking the lunch money from a quadrapalegic.
What's really sick is that most of them got a real kick out of it--and they're the asshats that I'll have to work next to in the professional world.
You haven't worked in, what six months now? Yet you still have internet access and a food source? As opposed to career politicians, top level bank presidents, and executives for major stock conglomerates who have NEVER worked and still have better internet and more food than a thousand of either of us ever will?
You've, once again, qualified for the standard response.
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It has become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like the topics which I choose. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like what I have to say about those topics. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you will never relent in your demonstrated goal to follow up nearly everything which I post with an anonymous reply filled with derision, scorn, disdain, challenge, and vitriol. It is also clear that you have not made a single original post of your own but, rather, you exist only by coattailing on thoughts which I express.
So here's your big chance: Sign up for an account, watch the front page, and post some original material or original thoughts of your own. Then e-mail to me a link to your particular post and I will make an honest and sincere effort to demonstrate for you what a constructive, and perhaps even a constructively critical, response would look like. Through a possible miracle it may happen that we could reach some sort of reasonable discourse rather than you simply following every post that I make with more of your challenges, disdain, scorn, derision, and vitriol.
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$30k salary doesn't add up to $10k a year taxes (even including social security). I don't think you said what you meant to say. You meant to say,"I'll never ever ever ever believe that anyone in the US loses 33% of their paycheck off the top to government taxes and fees unless they explicitly post a signed, notarized, and presidentially approved HTTPS served W-2 on the web for me personally to ridicule as a forgery."
And, what you're doing is smugly priding yourself on being in that priveleged and pampered segment of the income bracket which sloughs the public debt off onto the middle and lower classes.
So, what you are saying is, if the American is ranked at 25 among 100, the manager should still hire him letting the top 24 foreigners go? You failed the challenge.
Let's try again.
I challenge you to find any job which is so highly specialized and so entirely mission critical that, out of a pool of 100 candidates, you could even possibly come up with any plausible set of objective criteria, all of which must then be critically important for this fictitious mission critical and specialized position, by which you could rank the first twenty-five candidates in an explicit order.
It can't be done. There is no job in the $40-$200k salary range which is so entirely specialized and mission critical that you can come up with such a specific set of completely objective criteria that you could possibly exclusively rank a pool of 100 candidates from one to twenty-five. It doesn't exist. If you think it does then please, enlighten us all with it.
Have you thought about taking a nap? You'll give yourself an ulcer if you keep that up.
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For several decades, the US hasn't been able to produce enough CS graduates; According to whom? The same people whose main source of business and profit is in managing the systems which import foreign talent, I presume?
You're asking the politician how important he thinks his pet project is, and then basing the rest of your view of reality on his answer. Even better: you're asking the slave ship owner how important the slave trade is to the economy of the south.
Your analytical ability impresses me to a degree that is impossible for me to express.
Lets say they interviewed 100 people and select only one from that pool who met their expectations. I challenge you to find any job which is so highly specialized and so entirely mission critical that, out of a pool of 100 candidates (assuming the HR department has even the remotest clue), only one candidate would fit.
Wait. I can think of one: 9/11 hijacker. Other than that, if out of a pool of 100 prospective candidates, you as a manager could only fit one of those into an available programming group then it says much more about the incompetence (and probable nepotism) of the manager than it does the employee pool.
But the situation is there are not many qualified American programmers who measure upto their expectations There are two possibilities: Google HR has set their expectations so ridiculously high as to exlude everyone, at which point they can selectively choose anyone from a whole population of unqualified applicants, or this assertion is complete bull.
There is no lack of qualified American applicants. Anyone who claims that there is must necessarily be milking a side system for their own insider profit.
Don't you think the American public has been sold deep enough into debt without subsidizing a system of draining foreign nations of their talent? Maybe, if I sit at the head of an international charity fund, it makes sense to create perpetual charity cases out of foreign nations. It doesn't make sense for the tens of millions of American middle class families who mortgaged their homes to send their children to college to fill those positions.
Are you saying that you paid $10,000 taxes on a $30,000 salary? I don't think you will ever know, nor can I ever forget, the shock I felt when I opened that first paycheck. I think health insurance with that company was around $25/month. I didn't invest in any retirement plans or automatic stock purchases. My 1040 had one tax deduction--me, single white male with no dependents.
Would you care to share with us your employment, salary, and tax history--or is this just an exercise on throwing numbers at the dissenter until you can convince yourself that they _MUST_ be lying because, obviously, there's no exploitation, pork, boondoggles, nepotism, favoritism, or priveleged class in our pristine pure and perfect Federal Government of the USA?
If anything shows that growth for its own sake is utter stupidity, the dot-com bust should. But most "business" people in the U.S. appear to be too stupid to understand that. I suspect that nothing less than a depression on the scale of the Great Depression will teach these people that lesson, and even that might not be enough. To be a little more fair, and at risk of resurrecting the "conspiracy theorist" ranting ACs, the educational system here in America specifically teaches them to become a part of the system of growth for its own sake. Economics in the US is not a study of how financial systems are used--it is only a study of how they operate. The main financial controllers, and these are the people that operate with holdings on the international and multi-trillion dollar level, explicitly do not want people to understand how the financial systems are being used because they, the international financiers, are making a darn good living on the system of growth for its own sake. With that darn good living they are able to buy the support, acquiescence, and sometimes outright subservience, of the politicians and stock market heads who have the authority to, and historical have demonstrated their willingness to, sell the entire population under them into the indentured servitude of those stacked levels of international financiers.
When one looks back across history this is not the first time this sort of thing has happened. Nor have these things happened sporadically. These events are specifically planned--like keeping a tool in the toolbox--to be used opportunistically as strings to control heads of state, heads of banks, heads of international organizations, who in turn control hundreds, if not thousands or tens or thousands, of people beneath them simply by throttling their financial stream.
These systems have been made easier through the computerization of financial systems and the automatic collection of taxes. There is no force feedback at all anymore. The politicians are stooges. The heads of mid-sized and lower corporations are stooges.
It's one big pyramid scheme and, contrary to what the average educated economist will tell you, it's deliberate.
While the Business page in your newspaper may make profits, earnings, and stock prices out to be some magical product of a big hopper which everyone invests in, with surprises and favorites and upsets and races... IT'S NOT, at least not at the level of the international heads of organizations like the Federal Reserve, the Dow, the IMF, the World Bank, or the UN. For the people who sit on the executive boards for those organizations the economic systems of entire nations are just dramas--shows to be played out and hyped up to keep entire populations starry-eyed and happily working and paying taxes so that they, the international financiers, can live priveleged and exalted lives for generations at a time.
25% of income and social security tax is not that far off. That's what makes the system so blatantly unethical: a segment of the population has been purchased, through careful manipulation of their tax load, such that _THEY_ feel that the US Federal Government system is a good and fair system and, because they do make a significantly higher salary than the rest of the population, their collective voice has a much greater impact on major media and popular perception.
I started with a paper route when I was 11 (legal age was 12--never mind that). Until 13 I didn't have to pay taxes because my business was, for recording purposes, all cash. At 13 the laws changed and I was required to file tax returns. I couldn't really see what my tax burden was, up front, until I was 14 and took a job at McDonald's after school and on weekends (and sometimes for an hour before school in the morning). My paycheck tax burden at that time was 25%. When I began working as a formal employee of the newspaper and not just a contracted carrier, at age 16, my tax burden on that paycheck was, again, 25%.
In college I held positions in work-study and summer jobs (in both retail sales, food service, and manual grunt labor). My tax burden on all of those was, again, 25%.
I remember, after all of those years figuring 25% tax burden for my paychecks, when I received my first big corporate professional paycheck in June of 1998. I had been planning for a week how I would portion my paycheck to my bills, how I would portion my paycheck to savings, and how I would take myself out to a nice dinner and maybe even invest in some preemptive car repairs. I had been planning on a 25% tax burden.
My paycheck came then, in summer of '98 on an annual salary of $30k, with a 33% tax burden.
It doesn't really matter who you are. The content of your post tells me that this is obviously NOT the first time you've posted in response to me or, if it is, you certainly haven't missed reading nearly everything I've written over the last six months. It gladdens me to no end to know that you take such a deliberate daily interest in the things that I have to write. Somewhere, at some point, what I have learned just may make it through your haze of ignorance.
Thank you for visiting Slashdot, yet again, to post a followup to my writings.
I am convinced that you are not a stalker. I am also convinced that you have some intellectual ability of your own.
It has become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like the topics which I choose. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like what I have to say about those topics. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you will never relent in your demonstrated goal to follow up nearly everything which I post with an anonymous reply filled with derision, scorn, disdain, challenge, and vitriol. It is also clear that you have not made a single original post of your own but, rather, you exist only by coattailing on thoughts which I express.
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You're getting skilled labour for free!! Define "you". If, by "you", you mean the heads of business who are profitting from the free labor you are correct. If, by "you", you mean the tens of millions of Americans who mortgaged their house so that their children could attend college to be those skilled laborers, you are horribly incorrect.
Which group of "you" benefits from this system? Which group of "you" do the politicians play golf? Which group of "you" carries the majority of the public debt in the United States?
It shouldn't take a number theorist to see the similarity between the H1-B system and the slave trade.
You do know why much of Africa is in such a state of political turmoil? It's because the slave traders pulled the "best and brightest" out of that nation and sent them here to work on farms.
since you pay for services you are not legally entitled to receive. As opposed to American workers who are entitled to receive those services but are constantly met with nothing but denials and excuses.
I've paid taxes for 18 years and not once have I been a recipient of unemployment, social security, medicare, medicaid, or anything. I've been homeless for over a year and still can't get unemployment. I can't even get food stamps because I still have open bank accounts--not even bank accounts with money in them (they have balances less than $25)--but just because they're open.
In my experience hiring for a large company, the issue is people are (a) unwilling to move or (b) not qualified. Odd. I moved to San Diego, that's a. I moved to San Diego because I have eight years' experience working in pharmaceutical R&D--which is one of the largest industries in this town. That's b.
I do think it's good for America to welcome the best and the brightest Do you truly believe that America has a right to sap foreign nations of their talent and create perpetual charity cases out of entire countries?
It's also good for Humanity if America imported the best and the brightest (as opposed to China or the Soviet Union) Do you truly believe that the Federal Government of America is any more honest and humanitarian than the (former) Soviet Union or China? I don't see China invading nations around the globe and creating perpetual debtors out of its entire population.
Finally, invoking Patriotism (as you did) Do you truly believe that patriotism has no real value? Have you studied history, human behavior, or sociology? Do you truly think that it's in the long term best interest of the anchored citizens of this nation to be giving the priveleged positions and salaries to immigrants, and subsidizing them for it, while leaving the average true American household at around $30k/year?
To George Bernard Shaw said, Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. And he, like you, was wrong. Patriotism is a love for home and a desire not to see it sold off, part and parcel, to people whose primary interest has little or nothing to do with preserving it for future generations. In this I do not mean the H1-B immigrants--I mean the treasonous politicians who use the entire American population as their personal slave system.
The first half of your post was "pity us poor picked on H1Bs, we don't get nuthin'"
The second half your post was "you must be wrong."
What was your salary this year? What convinces you that you were truly qualified for your salary?
San Diego seems kind of like a weird place to be homeless Oh? Why's that? Do you have any experience at all being homeless in America? How would you have any point of view on the difference between a good place to be homeless from a bad one?
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I am convinced that you are not a stalker. I am also convinced that you have some intellectual ability of your own.
It has become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like the topics which I choose. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like what I have to say about those topics. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you will never relent in your demonstrated goal to follow up nearly everything which I post with an anonymous reply filled with derision, scorn, disdain, challenge, and vitriol. It is also clear that you have not made a single original post of your own but, rather, you exist only by coattailing on thoughts which I express.
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If you are paying more than half of your salary as taxes, there is something REALLY wrong with what you are doing Or maybe the tax brackets are cut out to pamper people like you to turn you into an unwitting troll in conversations about tax burden.
Are you sure you were not high on illegal substances while filling out your tax forms? A joke doesn't sweep away the facts. Nice try, though.
So the guy who operated the convenience store had an H1B visa? No. At the time they had some other terminology for,"System of importing immigrants to undermine the work ethic of middle class Americans". The system keeps changing. You're familiar with change, right? Maybe not. You make $96k/year. Change is something that you don't even think about. What's the average salary of people whose families have lived in this nation for a hundred years? Somewhere around $30k?
And, would you please tell us again how much you paid in taxes on that $96k? $23-24k? That's hardly 25%! The last time I saw 25% off the top was when I began receiving my first paycheck, at $2.35/hour, when I was 16! Since graduating college, starting at $30k, I've had to assume 33% off the top.
Shows you are just yet another one of those trolls I come across daily on slashdot. No. It shows that you're a pampered recipient of special privelege and you don't even know it and, because you don't know it, you still begrudge anyone who would dare point out the fact of the matter.
So, even though I pay about the same amount in taxes as you did, when you're making nearly twice what I was, and you think you're not the recipient of some subtley hidden special priveleges...
and I'm the ignorant one?
You go! You're playing the perfect role of a fanboy blowhard for the people running the slave trade!
Or the american's arn't interested in that kind of job. Take for example picking lettuce. At least one american is quoted as saying, "I'd pick lettuce if I was paid $1,000 a week". Without noting that you can get "at least one american" to say anything you want them to say by buying them a pop at lunch...
Just because there's a shortage of political positions, making over $100k/year, where the employees write their own performance reviews, write their own pay increases, and get to spend everyone else's money, why should I have to pick lettuce?
I'm certainly more qualified than most of my federal politicians for their job--they're clearly treasonous knuckleheads who don't give a single thought to the meaning of the Constitution. It's not my fault that I didn't grow up in the Bush or Kennedy family with international financial support interests ensuring that I win an election.
I paid something like $23-24K in taxes (including Federal, State, Social security and Medicare) on earnings of $96K last year. So fuck you. Oh, right, just because you did decide to include numbers...
I paid something like $27k in taxes (including Federal, State, Social Security and Medicare) on earnings of $56k in the 2005-2006 year.
You no longer get a "Have a nice day". Fuck you right back. It's obvious that you're getting a deal on your taxes through some kickback system.
Do you even know what the fuck you are talking about? So fuck you Perhaps laws have changed, or maybe you weren't given the kickback option. The guy who owned and operated the convenience store down the street from where I grew up was always very thankful to the US government that, for the first seven years in the US, he was not required to pay any taxes.
Maybe he knew of a loophole that you don't. Maybe the loophole's been closed.
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I am convinced that you are not a stalker.
I called the La Jolla Library, the phone number is on the libraries' website. They'd never heard of you. Well, maybe I'm not completely convinced...
I am also convinced that you have some intellectual ability of your own.
It has become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like the topics which I choose. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like what I have to say about those topics. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you will never relent in your demonstrated goal to follow up nearly everything which I post with an anonymous reply filled with derision, scorn, disdain, challenge, and vitriol. It is also clear that you have not made a single original post of your own but, rather, you exist only by coattailing on thoughts which I express.
So here's your big chance: Sign up for an account, watch the front page, and post some original material or original thoughts of your own. Then e-mail to me a link to your particular post and I will make an honest and sincere effort to demonstrate for you what a constructive, and perhaps even a constructively critical, response would look like. Through a possible miracle it may happen that we could reach some sort of reasonable discourse rather than you simply following every post that I make with more of your challenges, disdain, scorn, derision, and vitriol.
Wouldn't you like to make Slashdot a better place? I sure would. Here's your chance to demonstrate that you have any capacity at all to express your own thoughts.
Thank you for visiting Slashdot, yet again, to post a followup to my writings.
I am convinced that you are not a stalker. I am also convinced that you have some intellectual ability of your own.
It has become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like the topics which I choose. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like what I have to say about those topics. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you will never relent in your demonstrated goal to follow up nearly everything which I post with an anonymous reply filled with derision, scorn, disdain, challenge, and vitriol. It is also clear that you have not made a single original post of your own but, rather, you exist only by coattailing on thoughts which I express.
So here's your big chance: Sign up for an account, watch the front page, and post some original material or original thoughts of your own. Then e-mail to me a link to your particular post and I will make an honest and sincere effort to demonstrate for you what a constructive, and perhaps even a constructively critical, response would look like. Through a possible miracle it may happen that we could reach some sort of reasonable discourse rather than you simply following every post that I make with more of your challenges, disdain, scorn, derision, and vitriol.
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I'm receiving 48 58 66 75 thousand consecutively in the last 4 years/3 jobs in the midwest And yet the "best and brightest" Americans are lucky to have a salary increase of 3.5%/year, and they "should be lucky to have a job!" when they're making 56k after eight years in the industry. And, if they should dare leave the company after noticing the discrepency in pay (not to mention that the H1-B has a significantly lower tax burden, and a significantly lower historical financial debt to the government--which thinks nothing of running $10 trillion dollars in debt), they will be labeled as "malcontent" and future HR offices will be warned against hiring them.
So, tell me, are most immigrants subjected to complete subservience? Or pampered? Because a homeless American, formerly one of our "best and brightest" who dared to note the truly arbitrary nature of the egomaniacal authorities above him, really wants to know.
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I had to modify the following post to take any direct references as I have no way of knowing if you, personally, actually made use of your exploits outside of your own private testing environment...
I guess that's the difference between real tao programmers and script kiddies.
I _could_ have engaged in the same things that script kiddies did, exploiting other people for personal amusement and/or gain, but made a conscious decision not to. I saw the links, I looked at the downloads, the ftp sites, and the web pages. I _could_ have become involved in that sort of thing.
But, and I guess a significant majority of the population is lacking this little definition in their upbringing, I decided that there were far better uses for my intellectual ability... You know, something productive, something which would benefit people, something which didn't rely on targetting and exploiting others' ignorance.
The actions of script kiddies (and don't take this personally because you're part of the greater population) remind me of taking the lunch money from a quadrapalegic.
What's really sick is that most of them got a real kick out of it--and they're the asshats that I'll have to work next to in the professional world.
You've, once again, qualified for the standard response.
Thank you for visiting Slashdot, yet again, to post a followup to my writings.
I am convinced that you are not a stalker. I am also convinced that you have some intellectual ability of your own.
It has become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like the topics which I choose. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like what I have to say about those topics. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you will never relent in your demonstrated goal to follow up nearly everything which I post with an anonymous reply filled with derision, scorn, disdain, challenge, and vitriol. It is also clear that you have not made a single original post of your own but, rather, you exist only by coattailing on thoughts which I express.
So here's your big chance: Sign up for an account, watch the front page, and post some original material or original thoughts of your own. Then e-mail to me a link to your particular post and I will make an honest and sincere effort to demonstrate for you what a constructive, and perhaps even a constructively critical, response would look like. Through a possible miracle it may happen that we could reach some sort of reasonable discourse rather than you simply following every post that I make with more of your challenges, disdain, scorn, derision, and vitriol.
Wouldn't you like to make Slashdot a better place? I sure would. Here's your chance to demonstrate that you have any capacity at all to express your own thoughts.
And, what you're doing is smugly priding yourself on being in that priveleged and pampered segment of the income bracket which sloughs the public debt off onto the middle and lower classes.
Let's try again.
I challenge you to find any job which is so highly specialized and so entirely mission critical that, out of a pool of 100 candidates, you could even possibly come up with any plausible set of objective criteria, all of which must then be critically important for this fictitious mission critical and specialized position, by which you could rank the first twenty-five candidates in an explicit order.
It can't be done. There is no job in the $40-$200k salary range which is so entirely specialized and mission critical that you can come up with such a specific set of completely objective criteria that you could possibly exclusively rank a pool of 100 candidates from one to twenty-five. It doesn't exist. If you think it does then please, enlighten us all with it.
Have you thought about taking a nap? You'll give yourself an ulcer if you keep that up.
Thank you for visiting Slashdot, yet again, to post a followup to my writings.
I am convinced that you are not a stalker. I am also convinced that you have some intellectual ability of your own.
It has become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like the topics which I choose. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like what I have to say about those topics. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you will never relent in your demonstrated goal to follow up nearly everything which I post with an anonymous reply filled with derision, scorn, disdain, challenge, and vitriol. It is also clear that you have not made a single original post of your own but, rather, you exist only by coattailing on thoughts which I express.
So here's your big chance: Sign up for an account, watch the front page, and post some original material or original thoughts of your own. Then e-mail to me a link to your particular post and I will make an honest and sincere effort to demonstrate for you what a constructive, and perhaps even a constructively critical, response would look like. Through a possible miracle it may happen that we could reach some sort of reasonable discourse rather than you simply following every post that I make with more of your challenges, disdain, scorn, derision, and vitriol.
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You're asking the politician how important he thinks his pet project is, and then basing the rest of your view of reality on his answer. Even better: you're asking the slave ship owner how important the slave trade is to the economy of the south.
Your analytical ability impresses me to a degree that is impossible for me to express.
Wait. I can think of one: 9/11 hijacker. Other than that, if out of a pool of 100 prospective candidates, you as a manager could only fit one of those into an available programming group then it says much more about the incompetence (and probable nepotism) of the manager than it does the employee pool. But the situation is there are not many qualified American programmers who measure upto their expectations There are two possibilities: Google HR has set their expectations so ridiculously high as to exlude everyone, at which point they can selectively choose anyone from a whole population of unqualified applicants, or this assertion is complete bull.
There is no lack of qualified American applicants. Anyone who claims that there is must necessarily be milking a side system for their own insider profit.
Don't you think the American public has been sold deep enough into debt without subsidizing a system of draining foreign nations of their talent? Maybe, if I sit at the head of an international charity fund, it makes sense to create perpetual charity cases out of foreign nations. It doesn't make sense for the tens of millions of American middle class families who mortgaged their homes to send their children to college to fill those positions.
Would you care to share with us your employment, salary, and tax history--or is this just an exercise on throwing numbers at the dissenter until you can convince yourself that they _MUST_ be lying because, obviously, there's no exploitation, pork, boondoggles, nepotism, favoritism, or priveleged class in our pristine pure and perfect Federal Government of the USA?
When one looks back across history this is not the first time this sort of thing has happened. Nor have these things happened sporadically. These events are specifically planned--like keeping a tool in the toolbox--to be used opportunistically as strings to control heads of state, heads of banks, heads of international organizations, who in turn control hundreds, if not thousands or tens or thousands, of people beneath them simply by throttling their financial stream.
These systems have been made easier through the computerization of financial systems and the automatic collection of taxes. There is no force feedback at all anymore. The politicians are stooges. The heads of mid-sized and lower corporations are stooges.
It's one big pyramid scheme and, contrary to what the average educated economist will tell you, it's deliberate.
While the Business page in your newspaper may make profits, earnings, and stock prices out to be some magical product of a big hopper which everyone invests in, with surprises and favorites and upsets and races... IT'S NOT, at least not at the level of the international heads of organizations like the Federal Reserve, the Dow, the IMF, the World Bank, or the UN. For the people who sit on the executive boards for those organizations the economic systems of entire nations are just dramas--shows to be played out and hyped up to keep entire populations starry-eyed and happily working and paying taxes so that they, the international financiers, can live priveleged and exalted lives for generations at a time.
I started with a paper route when I was 11 (legal age was 12--never mind that). Until 13 I didn't have to pay taxes because my business was, for recording purposes, all cash. At 13 the laws changed and I was required to file tax returns. I couldn't really see what my tax burden was, up front, until I was 14 and took a job at McDonald's after school and on weekends (and sometimes for an hour before school in the morning). My paycheck tax burden at that time was 25%. When I began working as a formal employee of the newspaper and not just a contracted carrier, at age 16, my tax burden on that paycheck was, again, 25%.
In college I held positions in work-study and summer jobs (in both retail sales, food service, and manual grunt labor). My tax burden on all of those was, again, 25%.
I remember, after all of those years figuring 25% tax burden for my paychecks, when I received my first big corporate professional paycheck in June of 1998. I had been planning for a week how I would portion my paycheck to my bills, how I would portion my paycheck to savings, and how I would take myself out to a nice dinner and maybe even invest in some preemptive car repairs. I had been planning on a 25% tax burden.
My paycheck came then, in summer of '98 on an annual salary of $30k, with a 33% tax burden.
And it hasn't lessened, not one bit, since.
RESOLVE THAT.
It doesn't really matter who you are. The content of your post tells me that this is obviously NOT the first time you've posted in response to me or, if it is, you certainly haven't missed reading nearly everything I've written over the last six months. It gladdens me to no end to know that you take such a deliberate daily interest in the things that I have to write. Somewhere, at some point, what I have learned just may make it through your haze of ignorance.
Thank you for visiting Slashdot, yet again, to post a followup to my writings.
I am convinced that you are not a stalker. I am also convinced that you have some intellectual ability of your own.
It has become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like the topics which I choose. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like what I have to say about those topics. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you will never relent in your demonstrated goal to follow up nearly everything which I post with an anonymous reply filled with derision, scorn, disdain, challenge, and vitriol. It is also clear that you have not made a single original post of your own but, rather, you exist only by coattailing on thoughts which I express.
So here's your big chance: Sign up for an account, watch the front page, and post some original material or original thoughts of your own. Then e-mail to me a link to your particular post and I will make an honest and sincere effort to demonstrate for you what a constructive, and perhaps even a constructively critical, response would look like. Through a possible miracle it may happen that we could reach some sort of reasonable discourse rather than you simply following every post that I make with more of your challenges, disdain, scorn, derision, and vitriol.
Wouldn't you like to make Slashdot a better place? I sure would. Here's your chance to demonstrate that you have any capacity at all to express your own thoughts.
Which group of "you" benefits from this system? Which group of "you" do the politicians play golf? Which group of "you" carries the majority of the public debt in the United States?
It shouldn't take a number theorist to see the similarity between the H1-B system and the slave trade.
You do know why much of Africa is in such a state of political turmoil? It's because the slave traders pulled the "best and brightest" out of that nation and sent them here to work on farms.
I've paid taxes for 18 years and not once have I been a recipient of unemployment, social security, medicare, medicaid, or anything. I've been homeless for over a year and still can't get unemployment. I can't even get food stamps because I still have open bank accounts--not even bank accounts with money in them (they have balances less than $25)--but just because they're open. In my experience hiring for a large company, the issue is people are (a) unwilling to move or (b) not qualified. Odd. I moved to San Diego, that's a. I moved to San Diego because I have eight years' experience working in pharmaceutical R&D--which is one of the largest industries in this town. That's b.
The second half your post was "you must be wrong."
What was your salary this year? What convinces you that you were truly qualified for your salary? San Diego seems kind of like a weird place to be homeless Oh? Why's that? Do you have any experience at all being homeless in America? How would you have any point of view on the difference between a good place to be homeless from a bad one?
Hey look! It's the Anonymous Coward again!
Thank you for visiting Slashdot, yet again, to post a followup to my writings.
I am convinced that you are not a stalker. I am also convinced that you have some intellectual ability of your own.
It has become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like the topics which I choose. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like what I have to say about those topics. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you will never relent in your demonstrated goal to follow up nearly everything which I post with an anonymous reply filled with derision, scorn, disdain, challenge, and vitriol. It is also clear that you have not made a single original post of your own but, rather, you exist only by coattailing on thoughts which I express.
So here's your big chance: Sign up for an account, watch the front page, and post some original material or original thoughts of your own. Then e-mail to me a link to your particular post and I will make an honest and sincere effort to demonstrate for you what a constructive, and perhaps even a constructively critical, response would look like. Through a possible miracle it may happen that we could reach some sort of reasonable discourse rather than you simply following every post that I make with more of your challenges, disdain, scorn, derision, and vitriol.
Wouldn't you like to make Slashdot a better place? I sure would. Here's your chance to demonstrate that you have any capacity at all to express your own thoughts.
And, would you please tell us again how much you paid in taxes on that $96k? $23-24k? That's hardly 25%! The last time I saw 25% off the top was when I began receiving my first paycheck, at $2.35/hour, when I was 16! Since graduating college, starting at $30k, I've had to assume 33% off the top. Shows you are just yet another one of those trolls I come across daily on slashdot. No. It shows that you're a pampered recipient of special privelege and you don't even know it and, because you don't know it, you still begrudge anyone who would dare point out the fact of the matter.
So, even though I pay about the same amount in taxes as you did, when you're making nearly twice what I was, and you think you're not the recipient of some subtley hidden special priveleges...
and I'm the ignorant one?
You go! You're playing the perfect role of a fanboy blowhard for the people running the slave trade!
Just because there's a shortage of political positions, making over $100k/year, where the employees write their own performance reviews, write their own pay increases, and get to spend everyone else's money, why should I have to pick lettuce?
I'm certainly more qualified than most of my federal politicians for their job--they're clearly treasonous knuckleheads who don't give a single thought to the meaning of the Constitution. It's not my fault that I didn't grow up in the Bush or Kennedy family with international financial support interests ensuring that I win an election.
I paid something like $27k in taxes (including Federal, State, Social Security and Medicare) on earnings of $56k in the 2005-2006 year.
You no longer get a "Have a nice day". Fuck you right back. It's obvious that you're getting a deal on your taxes through some kickback system.
Maybe he knew of a loophole that you don't. Maybe the loophole's been closed.
Have a nice day!
I am convinced that you are not a stalker. I called the La Jolla Library, the phone number is on the libraries' website. They'd never heard of you. Well, maybe I'm not completely convinced...
I am also convinced that you have some intellectual ability of your own.
It has become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like the topics which I choose. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like what I have to say about those topics. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you will never relent in your demonstrated goal to follow up nearly everything which I post with an anonymous reply filled with derision, scorn, disdain, challenge, and vitriol. It is also clear that you have not made a single original post of your own but, rather, you exist only by coattailing on thoughts which I express.
So here's your big chance: Sign up for an account, watch the front page, and post some original material or original thoughts of your own. Then e-mail to me a link to your particular post and I will make an honest and sincere effort to demonstrate for you what a constructive, and perhaps even a constructively critical, response would look like. Through a possible miracle it may happen that we could reach some sort of reasonable discourse rather than you simply following every post that I make with more of your challenges, disdain, scorn, derision, and vitriol.
Wouldn't you like to make Slashdot a better place? I sure would. Here's your chance to demonstrate that you have any capacity at all to express your own thoughts.
Thank you for visiting Slashdot, yet again, to post a followup to my writings.
I am convinced that you are not a stalker. I am also convinced that you have some intellectual ability of your own.
It has become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like the topics which I choose. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like what I have to say about those topics. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you will never relent in your demonstrated goal to follow up nearly everything which I post with an anonymous reply filled with derision, scorn, disdain, challenge, and vitriol. It is also clear that you have not made a single original post of your own but, rather, you exist only by coattailing on thoughts which I express.
So here's your big chance: Sign up for an account, watch the front page, and post some original material or original thoughts of your own. Then e-mail to me a link to your particular post and I will make an honest and sincere effort to demonstrate for you what a constructive, and perhaps even a constructively critical, response would look like. Through a possible miracle it may happen that we could reach some sort of reasonable discourse rather than you simply following every post that I make with more of your challenges, disdain, scorn, derision, and vitriol.
Wouldn't you like to make Slashdot a better place? I sure would. Here's your chance to demonstrate that you have any capacity at all to express your own thoughts.
So, tell me, are most immigrants subjected to complete subservience? Or pampered? Because a homeless American, formerly one of our "best and brightest" who dared to note the truly arbitrary nature of the egomaniacal authorities above him, really wants to know.