All the broken windows are a new feature, but I'd say Russians are very good at improvising and will cope with the situation.
I just read from a Russian news source that some people are also trying to benefit from the situation by breaking their own windows in hope that government will give them some kind of compensation.
So you don't want to sound xenophobic but you really are. Foreign workers contribute to the economy, pay taxes, and bring specific talents that are badly needed by companies but you think we should hire Americans just because they are Americans?
As a foreigner in USA who worked on H1B, I will tell that, yes law makers should be creating laws that make it easier and cheaper to hire Americans than H1B workers. Don't think of good or evil in terms of "people" or "world", but try to realize that each and every country should focus on their own first and should not be increasing own unemployment just not to look xenophobic. H1B's should be a temporary solution while you are training your own citizens.
And US companies actually check your criminal record?
They really do. Especially when you are in IT person, who will most likely have access to all kinds of sensitive data. I once worked for a company that could not find a replacement sysadmin (previous one left himself) for almost a year - some candidates failed criminal background check and some failed credit check!
If you are ever in trouble that might lead to a criminal record of any kind - do yourself a favor and hire the best lawyer whether you can afford one or not (borrow).
I worked under H1B and have switched several employers over time - it is doable, but it is not as easy as you think. If you find another employer before you are fired, and if that employer agrees to file the paperwork for H1B, then yes, you can "easily" switch jobs. I was working as a contractor for a company that wanted to hire me directly and even made me an offer, but it was too bad for them, since neither they nor their lawyer knew what to do and I ended up going somewhere else.
Also, you have 10 days to get out of the country after you are fired. However, these 10 days will still be counted as a gap in your legal status and in most cases you will have to leave the country to get a new H1B, i.e. you will be a the mercy of the immigration officer in your own country and even then officer at the border can refuse you the entry w/o an explanation.
As a Green Card holder or a Citizen, you can go to your boss and say "give me a raise or I quit", but as an H1B worker you are pretty much stuck with whatever pay was given to you. There are also legal tricks to make sure that you don't get the salary that company promised the government they will pay you.
After a while H1B holder would want to get a Green Card, but that is a long process that requires you to stick with your employer once documents are submitted. This creates another opportunity for employers to impose their will on you.
Current laws help companies to find cheaper labor at expense of Americans. Instead of raising caps, they should change laws, so that it is more costly to hire H1B workers, i.e. tax companies for each and every H1B and if they really need these workers they will have no problem paying the tax.
You also have to be licensed by state, which may or may not issue such license, and be checked by a doctor to be able to speak "freely". There are also should be "free speech" FREE zones, just to bring it in line with the Second amendment. After all, what is good for a goose is good for the gander.
I agree on the hoarding part. I am already thinking of going out today and buying several thousand rounds of ammo, in case my state goes with the crazies.
...And in the state of New York, you can still get yourself a nice Browning 1911-22 with walnut like the one I take plinking when I drive my blue Prius out to our little country place.
Your "Second Amendment Rights" to bear a gun or a Blue-Rhino gas can have not been infringed.
Don't know about your Second Amendment, but mine was written to protect me from a tyrannous government, i.e. it expects me to fight government (if such need should arise) and not go plinking or hunting with my weapons, i.e. it means I should have access to military grade weapons.
In one of the images (#11) in the article you can see screenshot of the "Automatic Inspection" software. It says that the defect rate is over 1%, i.e. for 150,000 units it should have been more than 1,500 defective units. Of course, they did mention that it was "shipped" units they were bragging about.
The guy who failed to wipe the computer probably got a new promotion, precisely because of his highly valuable skill of not being able to wipe a computer while saying he did it.
No, it'd go more like this:
1. You have five debit/credit cards in your wallet.
2. You get a Google Wallet card to combine all the cards into one.
3. You now have one card in your wallet and five cards stored somewhere safe.
In the end you will have to carry more than one card plus cash, because you cannot predict what payment method you will need, since not all merchants will accept your universal card, whatever card it might be, and not all merchants accept cards (thus the need for cash).
Visa and Mastercard made sure that this was illegal in the US a long, long time ago.
Every time I go to a gas station I hope that what you said was a reality. Apparently lawyers are not very good with math and while prohibiting surcharges they are still allowing discounts, e.g. you can't ask customers to pay extra 10 cents for using credit card but you can charge "everyone" 10 cents "extra" and give 10 cents discount for cash payments.
I also thought "Tesla" and imagined the old beautiful and sexy designs they used to have. All of the current lineup now just looks plain ugly. They should have fired their old designed several years ago and never hired any replacement, so that current models could have benefited from the old beautiful design.
Have you read the article you linked? It pretty much says the same thing:
The QWERTY keyboard, so called for the top row of letters on its left-hand side, was devised to make things easy for the typewriter, not the typist.
and
To solve the jamming problem, Sholes and company, who had originally arranged their keyboard in alphabetical order, decided to put the most commonly used letters (or what they thought were the most commonly used letters) as far apart as possible in the machine's innards.
and
Of course, a superior system exists. It's called the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, or DSK, after inventor August Dvorak, who developed it while a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.
How is this different from FBI shutting child pornography websites, or taking over DNS records of websites that infringe copyrights? I am not saying that what Russians are doing is right, but lets not forget that we already have the same system and laws in place over here.
As for "save the children" argument that Russians used, I believe pretty much the same argument was used to give US law enforcement power to prosecute child pornography cases. It is hard to argue that government had some other intentions, but if it Russians...then of course they have to be different and have to have an ulterior motive.
I have tried several other thin pens over the years and have settled on this one. I think my co-workers like it too, because my pens keeps disappearing, but I now have pretty good supply of them in case they stop being produced.
Cost of studying has nothing to do with lower wages that H1-B workers are getting.
I was a foreign worker. I got my undergraduate and graduate degrees in US. I am going to go ahead and claim my education costs were higher than that of an average American.
All of the tuition had to be out-of-state tuition, since foreign students can never qualify for in-state tuition. I had no access to government loans or grants. Vast majority of scholarships were not accessible to me even with 4.0 GPA. I had no family or friends to fall back onto, and due to that my out of pocket costs were higher.
In the end, my wages still were lower, because when an H1-B worker can't say "I quit" as easily as an American. Under the H1-B rules after you quit or get fired you have 10 days to get out of the country. That 10 day grace period might still be used against you even if you are lucky and find another job and process all the paperwork in time.
I used to work as an H1-B worker. I 100% agree that the work visa program lowers wages and steals jobs from Americans.
From my personal experience I know, that if I was not dependent on my employer I would have asked for higher than the market pay rate, rather than take lower than the market rate. However, since US government "helped", none of the companies I worked for had to offer proper wages to job applicants. I have seen many tailored job postings that were not really looking for applicants, but were posted only to fulfill requirements set forth by the government. Prevailing wage analysis and numbers that come out from that are mostly irrelevant and do not have to be lower than the wage being paid to the H1-B worker. My approved green card application had much higher wage than I was/am getting.
The program does not protect American workers at all. I used to hate H1-B due to somewhat slave labor legal conditions associated with it, but now that I am almost a citizen, I hate it because in its current state it does not benefit Americans and actually harms them.
Another things worth mentioning, although many people apply for green card after being on H1-B, the work visa is not considered to be a proper path to citizenship by US government. Partially due to this, none of the experience gained while working on H1-B can be used in green card application to prove that person is an asset to the company or to the country.
Rubber banding happens, when you try to scroll past the content, your screen will scroll a little beyond the content and then bounce back. This gives the user a visual feedback that device is responding to the input (trying to scroll) and that device is not frozen; thus, making the experience less frustrating.
How does the HFT magically know what you were willing to pay? It's really hard to have a reasoned debate when people are attributing ridiculous feats to HFT.
At any given time, you can see all submitted buy/sell orders, as well as executed ones. Orders do not always get executed in the order they were submitted.
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All the broken windows are a new feature, but I'd say Russians are very good at improvising and will cope with the situation.
I just read from a Russian news source that some people are also trying to benefit from the situation by breaking their own windows in hope that government will give them some kind of compensation.
So you don't want to sound xenophobic but you really are. Foreign workers contribute to the economy, pay taxes, and bring specific talents that are badly needed by companies but you think we should hire Americans just because they are Americans?
As a foreigner in USA who worked on H1B, I will tell that, yes law makers should be creating laws that make it easier and cheaper to hire Americans than H1B workers. Don't think of good or evil in terms of "people" or "world", but try to realize that each and every country should focus on their own first and should not be increasing own unemployment just not to look xenophobic. H1B's should be a temporary solution while you are training your own citizens.
And US companies actually check your criminal record?
They really do. Especially when you are in IT person, who will most likely have access to all kinds of sensitive data. I once worked for a company that could not find a replacement sysadmin (previous one left himself) for almost a year - some candidates failed criminal background check and some failed credit check!
If you are ever in trouble that might lead to a criminal record of any kind - do yourself a favor and hire the best lawyer whether you can afford one or not (borrow).
I worked under H1B and have switched several employers over time - it is doable, but it is not as easy as you think. If you find another employer before you are fired, and if that employer agrees to file the paperwork for H1B, then yes, you can "easily" switch jobs. I was working as a contractor for a company that wanted to hire me directly and even made me an offer, but it was too bad for them, since neither they nor their lawyer knew what to do and I ended up going somewhere else.
Also, you have 10 days to get out of the country after you are fired. However, these 10 days will still be counted as a gap in your legal status and in most cases you will have to leave the country to get a new H1B, i.e. you will be a the mercy of the immigration officer in your own country and even then officer at the border can refuse you the entry w/o an explanation.
As a Green Card holder or a Citizen, you can go to your boss and say "give me a raise or I quit", but as an H1B worker you are pretty much stuck with whatever pay was given to you. There are also legal tricks to make sure that you don't get the salary that company promised the government they will pay you.
After a while H1B holder would want to get a Green Card, but that is a long process that requires you to stick with your employer once documents are submitted. This creates another opportunity for employers to impose their will on you.
Current laws help companies to find cheaper labor at expense of Americans. Instead of raising caps, they should change laws, so that it is more costly to hire H1B workers, i.e. tax companies for each and every H1B and if they really need these workers they will have no problem paying the tax.
You also have to be licensed by state, which may or may not issue such license, and be checked by a doctor to be able to speak "freely". There are also should be "free speech" FREE zones, just to bring it in line with the Second amendment. After all, what is good for a goose is good for the gander.
I agree on the hoarding part. I am already thinking of going out today and buying several thousand rounds of ammo, in case my state goes with the crazies.
...And in the state of New York, you can still get yourself a nice Browning 1911-22 with walnut like the one I take plinking when I drive my blue Prius out to our little country place.
Your "Second Amendment Rights" to bear a gun or a Blue-Rhino gas can have not been infringed.
Don't know about your Second Amendment, but mine was written to protect me from a tyrannous government, i.e. it expects me to fight government (if such need should arise) and not go plinking or hunting with my weapons, i.e. it means I should have access to military grade weapons.
To make sure all of the intelligent people are accounted for.
In one of the images (#11) in the article you can see screenshot of the "Automatic Inspection" software. It says that the defect rate is over 1%, i.e. for 150,000 units it should have been more than 1,500 defective units. Of course, they did mention that it was "shipped" units they were bragging about.
Do you really want to be a judge that sided with an accused child porn user? That will ruin your career no matter who is right or wrong.
The guy who failed to wipe the computer probably got a new promotion, precisely because of his highly valuable skill of not being able to wipe a computer while saying he did it.
... So how would Verizon determine whether I'm a "dirty pirate" or just a guy who makes use of technology?
Easy-peasy! If you use more bandwidth than a grandma checking emails, then you are a dirty pirate!
Here's direct link to TED's video on YouTube, so that you don't have to navigate maze on all these articles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MKXjjpZqZwU
No, it'd go more like this: 1. You have five debit/credit cards in your wallet. 2. You get a Google Wallet card to combine all the cards into one. 3. You now have one card in your wallet and five cards stored somewhere safe.
In the end you will have to carry more than one card plus cash, because you cannot predict what payment method you will need, since not all merchants will accept your universal card, whatever card it might be, and not all merchants accept cards (thus the need for cash).
Visa and Mastercard made sure that this was illegal in the US a long, long time ago.
Every time I go to a gas station I hope that what you said was a reality. Apparently lawyers are not very good with math and while prohibiting surcharges they are still allowing discounts, e.g. you can't ask customers to pay extra 10 cents for using credit card but you can charge "everyone" 10 cents "extra" and give 10 cents discount for cash payments.
...
The details of the Double Irish/Dutch sandwich scheme is even on Wikipedia and has been for years.
...
I was not familiar with the term and had to look it up. Here's the link for the lazy
From the Wikipedia article:
Major companies known to employ the Double Irish strategy are:
Apple Inc.
Eli Lilly and Company
Facebook
Forest Laboratories
Google
Microsoft
Oracle Corp.
Pfizer Inc.
I also thought "Tesla" and imagined the old beautiful and sexy designs they used to have. All of the current lineup now just looks plain ugly. They should have fired their old designed several years ago and never hired any replacement, so that current models could have benefited from the old beautiful design.
The QWERTY keyboard, so called for the top row of letters on its left-hand side, was devised to make things easy for the typewriter, not the typist.
and
To solve the jamming problem, Sholes and company, who had originally arranged their keyboard in alphabetical order, decided to put the most commonly used letters (or what they thought were the most commonly used letters) as far apart as possible in the machine's innards.
and
Of course, a superior system exists. It's called the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, or DSK, after inventor August Dvorak, who developed it while a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.
How is this different from FBI shutting child pornography websites, or taking over DNS records of websites that infringe copyrights? I am not saying that what Russians are doing is right, but lets not forget that we already have the same system and laws in place over here.
As for "save the children" argument that Russians used, I believe pretty much the same argument was used to give US law enforcement power to prosecute child pornography cases. It is hard to argue that government had some other intentions, but if it Russians...then of course they have to be different and have to have an ulterior motive.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006JNHJ/ref=wms_ohs_product
Uni-Ball Gel RT Micro Point
0.38mm
I have tried several other thin pens over the years and have settled on this one. I think my co-workers like it too, because my pens keeps disappearing, but I now have pretty good supply of them in case they stop being produced.
Cost of studying has nothing to do with lower wages that H1-B workers are getting.
I was a foreign worker. I got my undergraduate and graduate degrees in US. I am going to go ahead and claim my education costs were higher than that of an average American.
All of the tuition had to be out-of-state tuition, since foreign students can never qualify for in-state tuition. I had no access to government loans or grants. Vast majority of scholarships were not accessible to me even with 4.0 GPA. I had no family or friends to fall back onto, and due to that my out of pocket costs were higher.
In the end, my wages still were lower, because when an H1-B worker can't say "I quit" as easily as an American. Under the H1-B rules after you quit or get fired you have 10 days to get out of the country. That 10 day grace period might still be used against you even if you are lucky and find another job and process all the paperwork in time.
I used to work as an H1-B worker. I 100% agree that the work visa program lowers wages and steals jobs from Americans.
From my personal experience I know, that if I was not dependent on my employer I would have asked for higher than the market pay rate, rather than take lower than the market rate. However, since US government "helped", none of the companies I worked for had to offer proper wages to job applicants. I have seen many tailored job postings that were not really looking for applicants, but were posted only to fulfill requirements set forth by the government. Prevailing wage analysis and numbers that come out from that are mostly irrelevant and do not have to be lower than the wage being paid to the H1-B worker. My approved green card application had much higher wage than I was/am getting.
The program does not protect American workers at all. I used to hate H1-B due to somewhat slave labor legal conditions associated with it, but now that I am almost a citizen, I hate it because in its current state it does not benefit Americans and actually harms them.
Another things worth mentioning, although many people apply for green card after being on H1-B, the work visa is not considered to be a proper path to citizenship by US government. Partially due to this, none of the experience gained while working on H1-B can be used in green card application to prove that person is an asset to the company or to the country.
What does the patented "Rubber Banding" do...
Rubber banding happens, when you try to scroll past the content, your screen will scroll a little beyond the content and then bounce back. This gives the user a visual feedback that device is responding to the input (trying to scroll) and that device is not frozen; thus, making the experience less frustrating.
For some cars, like Tesla, if your main battery dies (i.e. drains itself), you will have to buy a new $40,000 battery that is not covered by warranty.
How does the HFT magically know what you were willing to pay? It's really hard to have a reasoned debate when people are attributing ridiculous feats to HFT.
At any given time, you can see all submitted buy/sell orders, as well as executed ones. Orders do not always get executed in the order they were submitted.