Many comments above mentioned that cops are in it for the power. May be they should be spending more time proving they are worth to be trusted and only then given the authority? Much like doctors, you know - college, residency, etc. As far as I understand now all you have to do is finish the academy and you get a badge and a gun, apparently the screening is not that effective...
Sorry, my post is a bit too long, but so is the parent.
Ribbons are crap. I've used Office for 10 years and I often cannot find a simple function I used to have right there in the menu. Apple's searchable menus are far superior. Also, next time you use them on a laptop try to notice how they take up half of your screen. And next time you say that something now takes 30 sec instead of an hour, please include a solid example. And why would it take an *hour* before?
Visual Studio is good, I agree. Let's forget for a minute that the Express (free personal use) version is heavily castrated. Forms designer is way better than anything in Java world for example. But good old Power Builder offered a much more stable visual designer. Also, try to change a generated form manually (some people do that and there is nothing to stop them in Visual Studio) and you will never be able to open that form in the designer. And when you refactor something in Visual Studio it takes fucking forever, because it's doing a simple text search across the entire project.
Anyways, I think Microsoft does do a lot of good things - like, for example, providing employment for a *lot* of people (partially by creating labor-heavy and IT-maintenance-heavy desktop and server products - although this might be considered a kind of the "broken window fallacy" activity), but your arguments are hardly accurate.
1. Live in the US, have kids.
2. Send them to school in India.
3. Find them jobs here in the US after they graduate. They don't need visa since they were born here.
4....
5. Profit!
The "..." is the absence of a humongous amount of debt which has special rules applied and cannot even be erased by bankruptcy.
Now back to the point of: How to get here if you were born overseas...
>the builders were saying how much easier it would be to build a second one
hmm... so the builders would actually be interested in the first one failing if they wanted more work?
What country? There isn't that many countries left who will allow immigrants with nothing else but close to just come to live there.
On the other hand - if one considers Antarctica to be a country - that could be a reasonable compromise. The prisoners might ask for more close than usual though...
Maintaining the old release (security patches, enhancements, fixes) requires time and money. Who is going to pay for that when most of the users switched to 3.x?
This post should also be tagget "incomplete" and "sensationalism".
First, put things in pestpective - compare that 21K number to how many employees are in those companies. That will give you the *intended* percentage of foreigners in those companies (intended because they did not get all those cases approved by the DoL or USCIS).
Second, six years ago nobody thought we would be in this deep shit (except for those of us who think they know the future). And it *was* difficult to find some professionals. It was even difficult to do it two years ago.
Third, most of the companies would hire a local resident with matching skills if they were availlable. Department of Labor looks into every single case of H1B. And Department of Labor must approve every single H1B case. And after that USCIS (immigration) also looks into every single H1B case and must approve it. Exactly how much more eversight is needed?
There is no direct relation between foreign students and H1B visas except the 20000 visas specifically allocated to US graduates. They don't have to plan to obtain H1B after they graduate. And while they study - they pay full price for the education they receive. So I don't see how that makes it *at the expense of qualified American students*.
Also, on the topic of "dirt cheap wages". Department of Labot determines how much the H1B must be paid. Those numbers are public. They should be average for the market/industry/area.
First step in an H1B application is Labor Department's evaluation of the case. It is there to make sure of three (3) important things:
1) a local resident, capable of doing this job, isn't available;
2) the position, being filled, offers amount of compensation, that complies with determined prevailing wage (which is quite accurate);
3) the company did not have layoffs in the recent months.
The company is required to advertise about the position in the local/regional paper and on the web prior to filing the DoL petition.
If company is caught cheating on their H1B cases, they will not get any new approvals.
This makes sure "immigrants" (they are not immigrants, they are actually temp workers - after six years must stay out of the status for a year) are not "stealing" jobs.
But one thing I know for sure - laying off workers not based on their performance, but on some other factor will not increase efficiency. And that is what capitalism is designed to avoid.
>2)...
That is why the first step in obtaining an H1B is the Labor Department's evaluation of your petition. Its function is to determine whether that position can be filled by a local resident. The position has to be advertised in the paper and online, and the compensation must comply with prevailing wage numbers, which are quite accurate.
One thing that is different with those H1B guys - they try harder. Because if they are laid off - there is no unemployment benefits and you only have about a month (strictly - 10 days) to transfer to another employer. Plus - a lot of jobs require residency or citizenship, so those are excluded.
So my response to those who whine about H1B - try harder. If you know of any company that is abusing the H1B program - report it to USCIS, DoL or DHS. Call your congressman about that company. But do not blame the program which is very beneficial, because it actually does bring in talented, enthusiastic, hardworking professionals to this country.
That could easily be fixed by turning the whole setup 90 degrees and suspending the user above the screen. Something like this cucumber harvesting combine.
McCain wanted to freeze min wage, cut taxes further for super riches and had nothing solid on reducing spending. Remember that debt number, which did not fit the screen? Could it be possible that inflation with frozen paycheck is actually making people more poor?
Well, one with such talents could always join an investment company or hedge fund, say as a quantitative analyst. That will insure that your talent is only used to improve the lives of your fellow citizens.
oh, wait...
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Many comments above mentioned that cops are in it for the power. May be they should be spending more time proving they are worth to be trusted and only then given the authority? Much like doctors, you know - college, residency, etc. As far as I understand now all you have to do is finish the academy and you get a badge and a gun, apparently the screening is not that effective...
>water supply is limited
Oh, but that would counteract the global warming sea level rise!
Sorry, my post is a bit too long, but so is the parent.
Ribbons are crap. I've used Office for 10 years and I often cannot find a simple function I used to have right there in the menu. Apple's searchable menus are far superior. Also, next time you use them on a laptop try to notice how they take up half of your screen. And next time you say that something now takes 30 sec instead of an hour, please include a solid example. And why would it take an *hour* before?
Visual Studio is good, I agree. Let's forget for a minute that the Express (free personal use) version is heavily castrated. Forms designer is way better than anything in Java world for example. But good old Power Builder offered a much more stable visual designer. Also, try to change a generated form manually (some people do that and there is nothing to stop them in Visual Studio) and you will never be able to open that form in the designer. And when you refactor something in Visual Studio it takes fucking forever, because it's doing a simple text search across the entire project.
Anyways, I think Microsoft does do a lot of good things - like, for example, providing employment for a *lot* of people (partially by creating labor-heavy and IT-maintenance-heavy desktop and server products - although this might be considered a kind of the "broken window fallacy" activity), but your arguments are hardly accurate.
1. Live in the US, have kids. ...
2. Send them to school in India.
3. Find them jobs here in the US after they graduate. They don't need visa since they were born here.
4.
5. Profit!
The "..." is the absence of a humongous amount of debt which has special rules applied and cannot even be erased by bankruptcy. Now back to the point of: How to get here if you were born overseas...
>denormalize
I think that should be "normalize".
>the builders were saying how much easier it would be to build a second one
hmm... so the builders would actually be interested in the first one failing if they wanted more work?
What country? There isn't that many countries left who will allow immigrants with nothing else but close to just come to live there. On the other hand - if one considers Antarctica to be a country - that could be a reasonable compromise. The prisoners might ask for more close than usual though...
And computers were made of tubes! Not like these Internets today. oh, wait...
Maintaining the old release (security patches, enhancements, fixes) requires time and money. Who is going to pay for that when most of the users switched to 3.x?
This post should also be tagget "incomplete" and "sensationalism". First, put things in pestpective - compare that 21K number to how many employees are in those companies. That will give you the *intended* percentage of foreigners in those companies (intended because they did not get all those cases approved by the DoL or USCIS). Second, six years ago nobody thought we would be in this deep shit (except for those of us who think they know the future). And it *was* difficult to find some professionals. It was even difficult to do it two years ago. Third, most of the companies would hire a local resident with matching skills if they were availlable. Department of Labor looks into every single case of H1B. And Department of Labor must approve every single H1B case. And after that USCIS (immigration) also looks into every single H1B case and must approve it. Exactly how much more eversight is needed?
There is no direct relation between foreign students and H1B visas except the 20000 visas specifically allocated to US graduates. They don't have to plan to obtain H1B after they graduate. And while they study - they pay full price for the education they receive. So I don't see how that makes it *at the expense of qualified American students*. Also, on the topic of "dirt cheap wages". Department of Labot determines how much the H1B must be paid. Those numbers are public. They should be average for the market/industry/area.
Close the lid of a Macbook Pro and look at the light on the lid button. Slowly going up and down.
First step in an H1B application is Labor Department's evaluation of the case. It is there to make sure of three (3) important things: 1) a local resident, capable of doing this job, isn't available; 2) the position, being filled, offers amount of compensation, that complies with determined prevailing wage (which is quite accurate); 3) the company did not have layoffs in the recent months. The company is required to advertise about the position in the local/regional paper and on the web prior to filing the DoL petition. If company is caught cheating on their H1B cases, they will not get any new approvals. This makes sure "immigrants" (they are not immigrants, they are actually temp workers - after six years must stay out of the status for a year) are not "stealing" jobs. But one thing I know for sure - laying off workers not based on their performance, but on some other factor will not increase efficiency. And that is what capitalism is designed to avoid.
>2)...
That is why the first step in obtaining an H1B is the Labor Department's evaluation of your petition. Its function is to determine whether that position can be filled by a local resident. The position has to be advertised in the paper and online, and the compensation must comply with prevailing wage numbers, which are quite accurate. One thing that is different with those H1B guys - they try harder. Because if they are laid off - there is no unemployment benefits and you only have about a month (strictly - 10 days) to transfer to another employer. Plus - a lot of jobs require residency or citizenship, so those are excluded. So my response to those who whine about H1B - try harder. If you know of any company that is abusing the H1B program - report it to USCIS, DoL or DHS. Call your congressman about that company. But do not blame the program which is very beneficial, because it actually does bring in talented, enthusiastic, hardworking professionals to this country.
IAJACL = I'm just a country lawyer
Summer Glau would be nice. I hope Keanu Reeves plays Jet Black not Spiegel though.
That could easily be fixed by turning the whole setup 90 degrees and suspending the user above the screen. Something like this cucumber harvesting combine.
Please, not those dancing cowboys again...
McCain wanted to freeze min wage, cut taxes further for super riches and had nothing solid on reducing spending. Remember that debt number, which did not fit the screen? Could it be possible that inflation with frozen paycheck is actually making people more poor?
is Kumar in the movie as well?
>They did that in the 70's...dates back to the 30's...20's
If that has worked for so long, why would they change the tactics now.
even with the Austing Powers' swedish-made pump? Actually, you wouldn't even need to pump, just connect the thing to the outside of the ship.
Virgin rejected - they would have to change the name first
Well, one with such talents could always join an investment company or hedge fund, say as a quantitative analyst. That will insure that your talent is only used to improve the lives of your fellow citizens. oh, wait...
Not in Russia it isn't.