He's basically trying to use the old 'guns make people safer' argument that I was attempting to lampoon in my journal entry.
Guns do make people safer. That is why police and flight marshalls carry them.
I do agree that a private business might find it reasonable to restrict the ability and right for self defence on its premises - in exchange for a guarantee that it will provide safety.
While your journal entry does provoke a discussion - it is nothing more then a provocation. Right to carry a dangerous object in some particular place has no direct bearing on your right for self defence and right to bear weapons.
There are no cops where I hike, so I do carry a.44. In U.K. they would rather have you killed then allow a responsible person to carry a handgun. People in power only tend to protect symbols of their power - gun control originated in ancient times to keep slaves enslaved.
INteresting fact - among 33 states with "must issue" concealed carry permits, permit holders are among the least likely to commit a crime.
Another fact - criminals are afraid of homeowner guns more then the police. I guess that explain that burglaries, including occupied premises shot through the roof in U.K. after they established their gun control laws: totally inefective straw man tool for dishonest power hungry politicans to keep massed diverted from real issues.
Re:OK, that's obvious on the surface...
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Then the bubble burst and nobody has done anything about repealing the limit.
Bull. It went back from 200000 per year to 65000 (plus 20K for those with U.S. degrees).
as many are only in the US for the short haul and could care less about Social Security, schools, infrastructure, etc.
Bull. They pay Social Security, Medicare and all other taxes, while they are not eligible for the benefits.
Illegal aliens and outsourcing are our enemy. Quality educated folks coming here to work their asses off are our friends.
Re:which are you, a manager or a foreigner?
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get them to work for $40k-50k?
And you agreed to work for $34K and/or $7/hr instead of 40K - 50K? Something does not add up.
Cost saving for an H1B is a myth. It does cost upward of $10K a year in legal costs and fees. If you actually check salaries - you may find yourself surprised that those Chinese and Russian guys are actually making more then you thought. I know in our organization they do. And they were brought onboard because they make a better job. And if we were prohibited from hiring them, as you seem to wish, those jobs would have went to Beijing or Moscow.
Face it you are not that good. Everybody who is actually good, not just with a padded resume, can find a job, and don't blame H1B for that.
Re:Slightly incorrect research.
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That's precisely what the study attempted to do.
And my point was it failed: as it was 1) not done by an independent party 2) the is NO public data about CURRENT salaries of H1B holders available, as I pointed out.
But this study aside: From what I see H1B do not bring any cost savings, after all other costs are taken into account (I am not talking about sweat shops of old that became less relevant since H1B folks are able to change jobs nowdays with relative ease). They really compete against outsourcing, not against our native employees.
Same reason universities bring in foreign grad students and pay them scholarship. Growth and quality creates jobs, not protectionism.
I am all for ensuring that H1B holders and green card applicants are indeed very good professionals. But it should be made easier, not harder, to bring them onboard.
20K per year savings are bogus. Subtract legal fees and compare equivalent positions and there are no savings, only headache of dealing with corporate lawers.
In all decent companies I know about H1B workers are given raises and are generally well regarded. In my group they are probably the brightest employee.
I would imagine that the reason for discrepancy is the existence of "sweat shops" who outsource H1B workers and pay them low wages. In all decent companies I know about H1B folks were quite good and paid well.
I guess that is what this systems needs - some requirements about what positions H1B can be used to fill and prohibition on using them as contractors. Completely losing the ability to bring in a good guy solely based upon his citizenship would be a bad public policy for U.S.
Just make sure that best and brightest are indeed best and brightest.
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You can save $20,573 per year per employee
Not really. Legal costs of bringing and keeping and H1B is about 10K per year. And if you compare salaries for an exact same position (not averages as in this biased study), there is no advantage.
The fact is that the real threat is outsourcing overseas. Having some quality people coming over is a good idea: it just needs to be be better regulated. For example outlawing employing H1B workers as contractors would be a good start to get rid of most sweat shops: that brings most of the bias.
In my group we have three H1B guys. They make more then most others and they are worth it. For cheap labor we outsource to India (with pretty bad results so far - but investors would not budge. Idiots.)
Slightly incorrect research.
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Data on the public disclosure site lists salaries for H1B workers at the moment they were hired. On average that would be unvervalued by about 4 to 5 years of raises - when most of H1B were hired.
Other issue is that it does not compare apples to apples: most H1b are non-managerial positions with relatively low experience, while national average includes middle managers. One need to compare H1B to the people in the same position.
And it looks like reducing numbers of H1Bs does wonders to the IT jobs retention in U.S. indeed. Not.
I have seen evidence of some pretty shoddy programming practices for car controls. Same crap of unrealistic deadlines, poor specifications and so on. People could afford to fine tune avionics code and medical when the size of the code was managable. This is slowly becoming a dream from the past.
It is correct that most of the modern systems have fail-safe backups. The trend is that when corporate headquarters bean counters realize the benefits of software only based solutions (which are not dismally unreliable at the moment) there will be tremendous pressure to migrate to them. At the same time complexity of software will increase, and quility control decrease.
I see lawsuits in our future. U.S. already spends more on lawsuits then on R&D. Soon the ratio will be 10:1.
I will murder any person who would suggest to use Rational process tools for any project that I participate in (other then their profiler, though it is also ugly).
In the vast majority of software, failure to function does not lead to injuries and fatalities.
I am not so sure. Amount of microcontroller code around you is staggering. What do you think controls stability control in your car, or elevator in your building.
And in even more often failure to function leads to large financial damages.
As stupid as I am? Not at all.
Now, beeing at your level of stupidity, with nothing to live for, must be extremely painful. You are so outrageously moronic, it really hurts you.
I think nobody gives a flying fuck on what you believe. The only fact is that the design were the right click is compromised by the position of the left finger is seriously flawed.
Apparently, yu can not use right "button" unless you lift up your left button finger. Utterly useless doodad, it is. So who cares about marketing mumbo-jumbo anyway.
Sure not all of it is hype. There are certain things you CAN hear. I can easily hear a difference between 128kbit and 256kbit MP3 even in headphones or between $20 and $1000 speakers in my room - double blind test if needed. Nobody argues against good audio equipment. It is just a lot of development in that area did cross the line of beeing based in reality and practicality.
Reminds me of a different story about those fancy expensive wine glasses that supposedly improve wine tasting experience.
They are still beeing hyped by some most prominent wine critics. In all professional reviews there was a clear improvement of wine score when tasted from those glasses.
The problem was - after those experiments were properly repeated as a double blind study, any difference completely dissappeared.
The lesson was - hype does affect your taste.
Actually, I am not saying it is bad. If they enjoy the illusion - that's just fine.
The new language is fundamentally flawed. It is totally inconsistent.,
Blah, blah, blah. I can not count how many times I have heard that sort of rhetoric. Especially from people with some favorite obscure language to promote. I am actually a memeber of two industry committee defining a couple specialized languages. Those organizations are filled with people like that.
There is NO inconsistency. You can write a Java program and it will work exactly as described. With new improvements, writing such a program became easier and more practical.
In fact they do make it a better designed language as opposed to what was in 1.4, what you so ignorantly stated.
Of cause they are not perfect. All imporvements had to be compatible with zillions of existing applications.
The fact is - they made it for a better and easier to use language. If you think that knowing about a few caveats makes you an expert - it just makes you arrogant.
It is not about perfection. It is about making some well designed improvements upon one of the most widely used languages. It is about practicality, not theoretical goodness.
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Bull. Canada prohibits handguns and concealed carry.
Guns do make people safer. That is why police and flight marshalls carry them.
I do agree that a private business might find it reasonable to restrict the ability and right for self defence on its premises - in exchange for a guarantee that it will provide safety.
While your journal entry does provoke a discussion - it is nothing more then a provocation. Right to carry a dangerous object in some particular place has no direct bearing on your right for self defence and right to bear weapons.
There are no cops where I hike, so I do carry a .44. In U.K. they would rather have you killed then allow a responsible person to carry a handgun. People in power only tend to protect symbols of their power - gun control originated in ancient times to keep slaves enslaved.
INteresting fact - among 33 states with "must issue" concealed carry permits, permit holders are among the least likely to commit a crime.
Another fact - criminals are afraid of homeowner guns more then the police. I guess that explain that burglaries, including occupied premises shot through the roof in U.K. after they established their gun control laws: totally inefective straw man tool for dishonest power hungry politicans to keep massed diverted from real issues.
Bull. It went back from 200000 per year to 65000 (plus 20K for those with U.S. degrees).
as many are only in the US for the short haul and could care less about Social Security, schools, infrastructure, etc.
Bull. They pay Social Security, Medicare and all other taxes, while they are not eligible for the benefits.
Illegal aliens and outsourcing are our enemy. Quality educated folks coming here to work their asses off are our friends.
And you agreed to work for $34K and/or $7/hr instead of 40K - 50K? Something does not add up.
Cost saving for an H1B is a myth. It does cost upward of $10K a year in legal costs and fees. If you actually check salaries - you may find yourself surprised that those Chinese and Russian guys are actually making more then you thought. I know in our organization they do. And they were brought onboard because they make a better job. And if we were prohibited from hiring them, as you seem to wish, those jobs would have went to Beijing or Moscow.
Face it you are not that good. Everybody who is actually good, not just with a padded resume, can find a job, and don't blame H1B for that.
And my point was it failed: as it was 1) not done by an independent party 2) the is NO public data about CURRENT salaries of H1B holders available, as I pointed out.
But this study aside: From what I see H1B do not bring any cost savings, after all other costs are taken into account (I am not talking about sweat shops of old that became less relevant since H1B folks are able to change jobs nowdays with relative ease). They really compete against outsourcing, not against our native employees.
Same reason universities bring in foreign grad students and pay them scholarship. Growth and quality creates jobs, not protectionism.
I am all for ensuring that H1B holders and green card applicants are indeed very good professionals. But it should be made easier, not harder, to bring them onboard.
In all decent companies I know about H1B workers are given raises and are generally well regarded. In my group they are probably the brightest employee.
Code monkeys are in India. Know your enemy.
I guess that is what this systems needs - some requirements about what positions H1B can be used to fill and prohibition on using them as contractors. Completely losing the ability to bring in a good guy solely based upon his citizenship would be a bad public policy for U.S.
Just make sure that best and brightest are indeed best and brightest.
The fact is that the real threat is outsourcing overseas. Having some quality people coming over is a good idea: it just needs to be be better regulated. For example outlawing employing H1B workers as contractors would be a good start to get rid of most sweat shops: that brings most of the bias.
In my group we have three H1B guys. They make more then most others and they are worth it. For cheap labor we outsource to India (with pretty bad results so far - but investors would not budge. Idiots.)
Other issue is that it does not compare apples to apples: most H1b are non-managerial positions with relatively low experience, while national average includes middle managers. One need to compare H1B to the people in the same position.
And it looks like reducing numbers of H1Bs does wonders to the IT jobs retention in U.S. indeed. Not.
It is correct that most of the modern systems have fail-safe backups. The trend is that when corporate headquarters bean counters realize the benefits of software only based solutions (which are not dismally unreliable at the moment) there will be tremendous pressure to migrate to them. At the same time complexity of software will increase, and quility control decrease.
I see lawsuits in our future. U.S. already spends more on lawsuits then on R&D. Soon the ratio will be 10:1.
The sky is falling. :(
I am not an open source developer. CUrrently I do work for a rather large corporation.
So maybe murder is overreacting. Slow torture, and then dismissal for cause.
I will murder any person who would suggest to use Rational process tools for any project that I participate in (other then their profiler, though it is also ugly).
And in even more often failure to function leads to large financial damages.
Software controls ABS in your cars, respirators in hospitals, landing aircrafts, chemical plants and so on.
It is not just your data.
Dikes on bikes....errr.. on TANKS!!
Yep. My Xeon desktop runs on mumbo-jumbo and brand identity.
As stupid as I am? Not at all.
Now, beeing at your level of stupidity, with nothing to live for, must be extremely painful. You are so outrageously moronic, it really hurts you.
I think nobody gives a flying fuck on what you believe. The only fact is that the design were the right click is compromised by the position of the left finger is seriously flawed.
Apparently, yu can not use right "button" unless you lift up your left button finger. Utterly useless doodad, it is. So who cares about marketing mumbo-jumbo anyway.
This example does not show how they broke someone's code. It is their Windows, and they may choose to run it on anything they want.
Sure not all of it is hype. There are certain things you CAN hear. I can easily hear a difference between 128kbit and 256kbit MP3 even in headphones or between $20 and $1000 speakers in my room - double blind test if needed. Nobody argues against good audio equipment. It is just a lot of development in that area did cross the line of beeing based in reality and practicality.
Reminds me of a different story about those fancy expensive wine glasses that supposedly improve wine tasting experience.
They are still beeing hyped by some most prominent wine critics. In all professional reviews there was a clear improvement of wine score when tasted from those glasses.
The problem was - after those experiments were properly repeated as a double blind study, any difference completely dissappeared.
The lesson was - hype does affect your taste.
Actually, I am not saying it is bad. If they enjoy the illusion - that's just fine.
Blah, blah, blah. I can not count how many times I have heard that sort of rhetoric. Especially from people with some favorite obscure language to promote. I am actually a memeber of two industry committee defining a couple specialized languages. Those organizations are filled with people like that.
There is NO inconsistency. You can write a Java program and it will work exactly as described. With new improvements, writing such a program became easier and more practical.
That ALL that matters.
In fact they do make it a better designed language as opposed to what was in 1.4, what you so ignorantly stated.
Of cause they are not perfect. All imporvements had to be compatible with zillions of existing applications.
The fact is - they made it for a better and easier to use language. If you think that knowing about a few caveats makes you an expert - it just makes you arrogant.
It is not about perfection. It is about making some well designed improvements upon one of the most widely used languages. It is about practicality, not theoretical goodness.