Probably pretty nice as this is the time of the year when it isn't rainy and shitty every day as it isn't "winter" yet. Seriously I went 6 weeks without seeing the sun when I was in that state and the only reason I did see it is I decided one day to go an drive out into the high desert until I found it. Although maybe he lives in the garbage state
Well if one looks at my household where my wife drives at most 50 miles a day an electric vehicle is ideal for her. For me on the other hand I will drive at least 65 miles and on the weekends it is frequently over 300 miles a day while towing. We decided a while ago that for her the next car will be an electric as she is the ideal usecase for one. I would welcome an electric car for my use but for me they aren't there yet. Maybe in 10 years and hopefully my current car will last that long so that I can make that choice.
The worst you can give me is poisoned information. Information where I cannot determine which is genuine and which is fake. This is by some margin the worst kind of situation you can put anyone in statistics (or profiling) in.
Sort of like what I managed to do to facebook at one point. It thought I was looking for a Gay Jamaican Jewish lover as for a couple of months that is all I saw ads for.
With mine I got the best results going through the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau as far as getting a response out of the company. Granted my state attorney general's office was very helpful to me as well. The only thing I got from the state department of commerce was a notification that they had opened an investigation into the debt collector but they are also the body in my state the regulates debt collectors so that should make life difficult for the debt collector.
I would have thought that you could have really put the screws to the debt collector as I believe that once they are notified in writing, especially with a cease and desist from an attorney, that if they do contact you the debt becomes legally uncollectable and you can basically tell the to piss off and sue for harassment at that point.
Personally I hate these companies as they are all dumb as fucking rocks as I frequently get called by debt collectors trying to collect credit card debt from the previous owner of my house who hasn't lived there for almost 14 years. Most are polite enough when I tell them they have lived there in 13 years but one would think that by checking the public records they would see they don't fucking live there. Those tend to be the reputable ones and they don't hide their identity on the phone. The somewhat questionable ones that insist I am lying to them I tell them that if they ever contact me again I will sue them for harassment as is my right as I am not the person they are looking for, and then there was the really shit ball one that I went full on scorched earth on.
Not really understanding Grover's Algorithm I have been under the impression that while it does speed up symmetric key crypto its effect is that it more or less halves the key length. A number of public key algorithms are done in using Shor's Algorithm but there are others available. So using it with a quantum computer on a 256 bit symmetric key would be the same as using a classical computer to crack 128 bit symmetric key. When I looked into the energy requirements I believe that to cycle an ideal 128 bit counter through all states takes a huge amount of energy, as in a sizable portion of the total annual US production. Given that there are some very smart people working to crack encryption and breaks only get better with time having something that puts the feasibility out past the heat death of the universe seems like it might be in order. If it turns out we really can't make a quantum computer then the 256 bit estimate is much closer to being unbreakable as there you are looking at entire star level of energy. Also those energy requirements are only for cycling a counter through all states using an ideal computer so there would be even higher requirements to actually attempt the decryption and more so because modern computers are many orders of magnitude worse energy wise than an ideal on.
Up higher in the page I went over my recent experience with a debt collector. While not similar to your situation I decided to take a different scorched earth approach. My solution was to get several bigger sticks that will make their life more difficult than anything I could do on my own.
Not sure if my experience is typical or not I had a fairly good experience when dealing with the US Federal Consumer Protection Bureau (CFPB), MN Department of Commerce, and MN State Attorney General's Office when I was dealing with a shit bag debt collection company and I gather now that all 3 agencies now have an open investigation into them.
The debt collection company was trying to collect a student loan debt from someone who only shared my first name. The collection company started calling and when ever I would answer there wouldn't be anyone on the line. When they would call caller ID would always list the caller as "Toll Free Call" and when looking up the number online I didn't see anything indicating who was calling. When I would answer the phone I would inform them that this is harassment, that they have been told previously to never contact me ever and that I am informing them to never contact me again. I started recording the calls (video recording) and after having them call me multiple times in the same day and being told the line above. After about a week of this and after the day when they called me 4 times and were told I filed a complaint with the MN State Attorney General seeking relief and providing what limited information I had received. A few days later the Attorney General's Office responded and provided detailed information on the company and information on who else I should be filing a complaint about a shit bag debt collection company. Additionally the Attorney General's Office had sent a demand to the company indicating that they were to no longer contact me that also demanded that they respond to an inquery now started by the Attorney General's Office.
So at that point I filed complaints with the CFPB and MN Department of Commerce. A day later I received confirmation that the CFPB had contacted the debt collector and that they were to no longer contact me by phone. Unfortunately the debt collection company disregarded this and continued to call for a couple of more days. This caused me to file additional complaints with the CFPB and MN Department of commerce about their continued harassment at this point as well as forwarding all of this information to the Attorney General's Office. A bit later I get a response through the CFPB from the debt collector in which they provided all of the information they had on the loan including the loan application (this included mother's maiden name, previous addresses current addresses, employer at the time, wage information, social security number, banking information), copy of the person's drivers license, copy of their social security card, and a letter directed to me informing me that I had 7 days to to work out payment details otherwise they would be suing me and seizing my assets. The problem is that the information I provided to the CFPB clearly demonstrated that I was not the actual owner of this debt, which they could have figured out from public records even before hand having never been in the states where the person who the debt belonged to, not ever having a drivers license from that state, having a different middle and last name, having a different birth date (over 15 years different), and attending a different school. In their letter they also indicated that they had no record of me ever answering the phone let alone being told to never call me as well as stating that they never called me after being contacted by the CFPB.
I responded to their letter with one of my own informing them that any attempt to collect this debt from me by them or any other company I will view as an attempt to defraud me and that I would also consider them a co-conspirator in the action and would be filing a criminal complaint. I explained to them that they had broken the law several times including their outright lies and that I had recorded a number of their calls and can provide evidence showing that I had told them multiple times to never contact me in the same day as well as provide evidence of them continuing to call me after being to
You might be right on that one. To be sure I still say we liquefy them and to be sure we safely store them in the nuclear waste casks that can survive a rocket powered train smashing into them.
If they do introduce a law it should probably be tied to Moore's law, such that we don't end up with something that can be broken in 20 minutes with an average BitCoin processor
No. I would suggest using a key in the 570 to 600 bit range (the last time I calculated it I got 601 bits but vaguley remember at one point in the past getting 570 bits as an answer) as somewhere in that range you run out of energy in this universe running on an idealquantum computer. Granted this assumes symmetric key algorithms as a number of asymmetric (public key) algorithms are known to fall easy to quantum computers but there appears to be some other solutions.
Well given the quality of the US educational system they won't have to regulate math as anything beyond the most simple arithmetic will be too complex.
If you are not a crypto expert, you are going to rely on libraries or APIs or continue on to roll your own anyway. Crypto from scratch is hard to do correctly... look at all of the SSL vulnerabilities over the years. The math may be perfectly understood by this hypothetical person, but implementing that knowledge perfectly is another matter entirely.
My understanding of the OpenSSL and SSL issues you reference was not due to the cypto, well there was a lot of legacy crap that could be fallen back to (thanks Bill Clinton), but instead mostly due to the huge amount of crap in OpenSSL and that weird heartbleed bug. Now if you want to talk about screwing the pooch on crypto algorithms there is this little one that went unnoticed from 1998 to 2009. Basically it means that the confusion in the SERPENT cipher isn't as strong as was initially thought having a non-linear order of 2 instead of the claimed 3. This was something one would have thought would have been easily caught by all the experts doing the evaluation of the AES finalists but was missed. Granted the large number of rounds used should make up for this overlooked weakness.
You are like those idiots who look at the similarities between the Lincoln assassination and the Kennedy assassination, and think it must be related somehow (because Lincoln was shot in the Ford theater, and Kennedy was shot in a Lincoln, made by Ford! I swear that is 100% true!!).
It isn't just Putin who hates her but then I also hate Trump as well and think that the both of them should be liquefied and spread across farm fields as that much bull shit would fertilize the entire nation.
YOU LIVE IN A DESERT!! UNDERSTAND THAT? YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT!! NOTHING GROWS HERE! NOTHING'S GONNA GROW HERE! Come here, you see this? This is sand. You know what it's gonna be 100 years from now? IT'S GONNA BE SAND!! YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT!
I think I have been black listed from most of those scammers which is rather unfortunate as I would string them along for a long time and in general was good at getting them to blow a gasket. My more recent annoyance is debt collectors who are trying to collect a student loan taken out by someone who happens to share only my first name. This loan is so old that is has probably been through all the reputable debt collectors. Having been called enough about this debt and figured out what the laws around debt collection I have figured out what I need to do to get them in trouble.
The most recent debt collector that tried to collect was Allied Interstate and they really screwed the pooch. I had told them multiple times to never contact me again as they go to great lengths to obfuscate their identity so one could reasonably claim they didn't know who was calling. After recording several calls I received where they would hang up on me when I would tell them to never call me again, sometime multiple times in a single day I reported them to the federal Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Minnesota Department of Commerce, and the Minnesota Attorney General's Office providing the evidence of repeated harassment. The only complaint they initially responded to was the CFPB one but even with that one Allied Interstate fucked up badly. The first was that after being notified in writing (the CFPB sends confirmation of this) to no longer contact me by phone they continued for 2 more days which I diligently recorded and reported as further violations. Allied Interstate also insisted that I owed the debt after providing information to the CFPB that if they had looked at it would have proven that I was not the owner but instead they sent me all of the documentation related to the debt that at this point was clearly not mine. By the way this is a huge violation of the law as debt collectors are not allowed to disclose to a non authorized 3rd party details about the debt, of which I clearly was not. So I received a copy of the person who took out the loan's original loan application, a copy of their drivers license they had at the time, a copy of the social security card. The loan application had their 2 previous addresses, mother's maiden name, social security number, address at the loan application time, as well as a bunch of information that would be useful. Additionally I was informed in the letter that I had 7 days to respond other wise they would be filing a lawsuit against me to seize my assets. They also insisted that they had not contacted me after being contacted by the CFBP which was not the case as well as stating that they had no record of me ever answering their previous calls. I responded in writing immediately informing them that they had now willfully violated the law again and clearly demonstrated how they had violated the law and provided the evidence of them doing so including stating that I had provided the3 government agencies with video recording of the incidents where I had answered the phone told them not to contact me where they had hung up. I also demanded
1. That they never contact me again in any form and that if I ever was contacted again about this debt by anyone I would consider it an attempt to defraud myself and I would be filing suite against whoever was the current owner of the debt and also naming them as a co-conspirator
2. That I was going to file an additional complaint with the CFPB, MN Department of Commerce, and the MN Attorney General's office
3. That I will consider this issue resolved from my end excluding any actions that various government agencies may wish to take against them if I receive a letter apologizing for their awful sloppy practices that also states that I was never the owner of the debt, the letter would be notarized and delivered by USPS certified mail with delivery confirmation requiring signature.
4. That they contact the real owner of the debt and inform that they have acted illegally in collecting this debt describing all of the unlawful ac
95% of your "friends" on facebook are anything but that.
For some yes for others who don't have a metric shit ton of "friends" it is likely that 100% of their friends on facebook are real friends or relatives who they actually like. It is actually fairly useful for keeping in contact with far flung real friends in an almost broadcast like manner. It is also really useful when planning a get together of 12 people who are spread across 6 contents and 7 countries. That said I only have about 35 or so Facebook friends and they are either relatives or were friends in real life long before Facebook.
I'm not arguing for them getting the prevailing wage. I'm arguing for them getting substantially more as tech companies make all sorts of claims that they can't find Americans to do these jobs and these same companies claim that they can't train people in time so they have to import them. So using the same logic that companies use these people are the most critical difficult to replace individuals in the company so logically they should be the highest compensated individuals.
Yes I did exaggerate the available workforce but given the quality of some of the H-1Bs I have worked with a high school dropout who knows how to use Dream Weaver would have been a better option. Others I have worked with have been exceptional individuals but it seems that while they follow a similar distribution to American workers but the distribution is shifted a bit lower. Personally when I hear a tech company saying they can't fine an/any Americans who can do the job I hear it as they can't find any Americans that will do the job at shit pay and awful working conditions. I however do believe that there are cases where there isn't an American with the needed skill set or one that isn't close enough but these would really be the truly exceptional cases and those types of people I would thing end up having employers beat a path to their door and already are getting great compensation. A job that requires a bog standard Java programmer, Oracle DBA, CCNA, MCSE, etc. isn't one that should ever be held by a H-1B but far too often are.
To add another data point here is my anecdote from that time as a fresh college grad. It took me the better part of a year at that time to get a job in tech as someone who graduated college in December of 2001. I did however take what ever job I could find and during that time drove forklift until I finally got into the tech world.
Not enough. The H-1B program is suppose to be to fill positions for which an American cannot be found to do and these tech companies all claim that in a country of 300+ million people they can't find someone qualified. This tells me that these people must have truly a exceptional skill set. Also since these companies can't seem to find someone to train in time that they have to go and bring in someone on a H-1B that these people are super critical, more so than board members or the CxO level staff. So given that I say that H-1B holders should be the highest compensated people at the company. This would have to include such things as base pay, bonuses, medical, dental, 401k, stock options, housing allowance, relocation allowance, vehicle/transportation allowance, etc. since has been stated by tech companies these people are critical to their business and they can't find someone in a country of 300+ million who has the skill set. To prevent any dodgy practices I say take the average highest total compensation over the previous 5 years and this is the level that would have to be paid to a H-1B. If you make that change I say let as many of these exceptional skilled people into the country.
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Probably pretty nice as this is the time of the year when it isn't rainy and shitty every day as it isn't "winter" yet. Seriously I went 6 weeks without seeing the sun when I was in that state and the only reason I did see it is I decided one day to go an drive out into the high desert until I found it. Although maybe he lives in the garbage state
Well if one looks at my household where my wife drives at most 50 miles a day an electric vehicle is ideal for her. For me on the other hand I will drive at least 65 miles and on the weekends it is frequently over 300 miles a day while towing. We decided a while ago that for her the next car will be an electric as she is the ideal usecase for one. I would welcome an electric car for my use but for me they aren't there yet. Maybe in 10 years and hopefully my current car will last that long so that I can make that choice.
The worst you can give me is poisoned information. Information where I cannot determine which is genuine and which is fake. This is by some margin the worst kind of situation you can put anyone in statistics (or profiling) in.
Sort of like what I managed to do to facebook at one point. It thought I was looking for a Gay Jamaican Jewish lover as for a couple of months that is all I saw ads for.
With mine I got the best results going through the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau as far as getting a response out of the company. Granted my state attorney general's office was very helpful to me as well. The only thing I got from the state department of commerce was a notification that they had opened an investigation into the debt collector but they are also the body in my state the regulates debt collectors so that should make life difficult for the debt collector.
I would have thought that you could have really put the screws to the debt collector as I believe that once they are notified in writing, especially with a cease and desist from an attorney, that if they do contact you the debt becomes legally uncollectable and you can basically tell the to piss off and sue for harassment at that point.
Personally I hate these companies as they are all dumb as fucking rocks as I frequently get called by debt collectors trying to collect credit card debt from the previous owner of my house who hasn't lived there for almost 14 years. Most are polite enough when I tell them they have lived there in 13 years but one would think that by checking the public records they would see they don't fucking live there. Those tend to be the reputable ones and they don't hide their identity on the phone. The somewhat questionable ones that insist I am lying to them I tell them that if they ever contact me again I will sue them for harassment as is my right as I am not the person they are looking for, and then there was the really shit ball one that I went full on scorched earth on.
Not really understanding Grover's Algorithm I have been under the impression that while it does speed up symmetric key crypto its effect is that it more or less halves the key length. A number of public key algorithms are done in using Shor's Algorithm but there are others available. So using it with a quantum computer on a 256 bit symmetric key would be the same as using a classical computer to crack 128 bit symmetric key. When I looked into the energy requirements I believe that to cycle an ideal 128 bit counter through all states takes a huge amount of energy, as in a sizable portion of the total annual US production. Given that there are some very smart people working to crack encryption and breaks only get better with time having something that puts the feasibility out past the heat death of the universe seems like it might be in order. If it turns out we really can't make a quantum computer then the 256 bit estimate is much closer to being unbreakable as there you are looking at entire star level of energy. Also those energy requirements are only for cycling a counter through all states using an ideal computer so there would be even higher requirements to actually attempt the decryption and more so because modern computers are many orders of magnitude worse energy wise than an ideal on.
Up higher in the page I went over my recent experience with a debt collector. While not similar to your situation I decided to take a different scorched earth approach. My solution was to get several bigger sticks that will make their life more difficult than anything I could do on my own.
Not sure if my experience is typical or not I had a fairly good experience when dealing with the US Federal Consumer Protection Bureau (CFPB), MN Department of Commerce, and MN State Attorney General's Office when I was dealing with a shit bag debt collection company and I gather now that all 3 agencies now have an open investigation into them.
The debt collection company was trying to collect a student loan debt from someone who only shared my first name. The collection company started calling and when ever I would answer there wouldn't be anyone on the line. When they would call caller ID would always list the caller as "Toll Free Call" and when looking up the number online I didn't see anything indicating who was calling. When I would answer the phone I would inform them that this is harassment, that they have been told previously to never contact me ever and that I am informing them to never contact me again. I started recording the calls (video recording) and after having them call me multiple times in the same day and being told the line above. After about a week of this and after the day when they called me 4 times and were told I filed a complaint with the MN State Attorney General seeking relief and providing what limited information I had received. A few days later the Attorney General's Office responded and provided detailed information on the company and information on who else I should be filing a complaint about a shit bag debt collection company. Additionally the Attorney General's Office had sent a demand to the company indicating that they were to no longer contact me that also demanded that they respond to an inquery now started by the Attorney General's Office.
So at that point I filed complaints with the CFPB and MN Department of Commerce. A day later I received confirmation that the CFPB had contacted the debt collector and that they were to no longer contact me by phone. Unfortunately the debt collection company disregarded this and continued to call for a couple of more days. This caused me to file additional complaints with the CFPB and MN Department of commerce about their continued harassment at this point as well as forwarding all of this information to the Attorney General's Office. A bit later I get a response through the CFPB from the debt collector in which they provided all of the information they had on the loan including the loan application (this included mother's maiden name, previous addresses current addresses, employer at the time, wage information, social security number, banking information), copy of the person's drivers license, copy of their social security card, and a letter directed to me informing me that I had 7 days to to work out payment details otherwise they would be suing me and seizing my assets. The problem is that the information I provided to the CFPB clearly demonstrated that I was not the actual owner of this debt, which they could have figured out from public records even before hand having never been in the states where the person who the debt belonged to, not ever having a drivers license from that state, having a different middle and last name, having a different birth date (over 15 years different), and attending a different school. In their letter they also indicated that they had no record of me ever answering the phone let alone being told to never call me as well as stating that they never called me after being contacted by the CFPB.
I responded to their letter with one of my own informing them that any attempt to collect this debt from me by them or any other company I will view as an attempt to defraud me and that I would also consider them a co-conspirator in the action and would be filing a criminal complaint. I explained to them that they had broken the law several times including their outright lies and that I had recorded a number of their calls and can provide evidence showing that I had told them multiple times to never contact me in the same day as well as provide evidence of them continuing to call me after being to
Probably not yet but they have a clear model of how to get it there.
You might be right on that one. To be sure I still say we liquefy them and to be sure we safely store them in the nuclear waste casks that can survive a rocket powered train smashing into them.
If they do introduce a law it should probably be tied to Moore's law, such that we don't end up with something that can be broken in 20 minutes with an average BitCoin processor
No. I would suggest using a key in the 570 to 600 bit range (the last time I calculated it I got 601 bits but vaguley remember at one point in the past getting 570 bits as an answer) as somewhere in that range you run out of energy in this universe running on an ideal quantum computer. Granted this assumes symmetric key algorithms as a number of asymmetric (public key) algorithms are known to fall easy to quantum computers but there appears to be some other solutions.
Well given the quality of the US educational system they won't have to regulate math as anything beyond the most simple arithmetic will be too complex.
Sometimes, its use is even legally mandated.
Shut your pie hole NERC and the DOE would never recommend or mandate such terrorist supporting activities.
Yes that was sarcasm and it is sad that without this someone would misinterpret it.
If you are not a crypto expert, you are going to rely on libraries or APIs or continue on to roll your own anyway. Crypto from scratch is hard to do correctly... look at all of the SSL vulnerabilities over the years. The math may be perfectly understood by this hypothetical person, but implementing that knowledge perfectly is another matter entirely.
My understanding of the OpenSSL and SSL issues you reference was not due to the cypto, well there was a lot of legacy crap that could be fallen back to (thanks Bill Clinton), but instead mostly due to the huge amount of crap in OpenSSL and that weird heartbleed bug. Now if you want to talk about screwing the pooch on crypto algorithms there is this little one that went unnoticed from 1998 to 2009. Basically it means that the confusion in the SERPENT cipher isn't as strong as was initially thought having a non-linear order of 2 instead of the claimed 3. This was something one would have thought would have been easily caught by all the experts doing the evaluation of the AES finalists but was missed. Granted the large number of rounds used should make up for this overlooked weakness.
Well we have already had a professional wrestler as a governor and also a body builder so why not a porn star.
You are like those idiots who look at the similarities between the Lincoln assassination and the Kennedy assassination, and think it must be related somehow (because Lincoln was shot in the Ford theater, and Kennedy was shot in a Lincoln, made by Ford! I swear that is 100% true!!).
I always just like those weird historical coincidences.
Putin would love to see her go down.
So would Bill.
It isn't just Putin who hates her but then I also hate Trump as well and think that the both of them should be liquefied and spread across farm fields as that much bull shit would fertilize the entire nation.
Careful with #2 there you may summon the unholy one.
So like the westerns of old.
YOU LIVE IN A DESERT!! UNDERSTAND THAT? YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT!! NOTHING GROWS HERE! NOTHING'S GONNA GROW HERE! Come here, you see this? This is sand. You know what it's gonna be 100 years from now? IT'S GONNA BE SAND!! YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT!
I think I have been black listed from most of those scammers which is rather unfortunate as I would string them along for a long time and in general was good at getting them to blow a gasket. My more recent annoyance is debt collectors who are trying to collect a student loan taken out by someone who happens to share only my first name. This loan is so old that is has probably been through all the reputable debt collectors. Having been called enough about this debt and figured out what the laws around debt collection I have figured out what I need to do to get them in trouble.
The most recent debt collector that tried to collect was Allied Interstate and they really screwed the pooch. I had told them multiple times to never contact me again as they go to great lengths to obfuscate their identity so one could reasonably claim they didn't know who was calling. After recording several calls I received where they would hang up on me when I would tell them to never call me again, sometime multiple times in a single day I reported them to the federal Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Minnesota Department of Commerce, and the Minnesota Attorney General's Office providing the evidence of repeated harassment. The only complaint they initially responded to was the CFPB one but even with that one Allied Interstate fucked up badly. The first was that after being notified in writing (the CFPB sends confirmation of this) to no longer contact me by phone they continued for 2 more days which I diligently recorded and reported as further violations. Allied Interstate also insisted that I owed the debt after providing information to the CFPB that if they had looked at it would have proven that I was not the owner but instead they sent me all of the documentation related to the debt that at this point was clearly not mine. By the way this is a huge violation of the law as debt collectors are not allowed to disclose to a non authorized 3rd party details about the debt, of which I clearly was not. So I received a copy of the person who took out the loan's original loan application, a copy of their drivers license they had at the time, a copy of the social security card. The loan application had their 2 previous addresses, mother's maiden name, social security number, address at the loan application time, as well as a bunch of information that would be useful. Additionally I was informed in the letter that I had 7 days to respond other wise they would be filing a lawsuit against me to seize my assets. They also insisted that they had not contacted me after being contacted by the CFBP which was not the case as well as stating that they had no record of me ever answering their previous calls. I responded in writing immediately informing them that they had now willfully violated the law again and clearly demonstrated how they had violated the law and provided the evidence of them doing so including stating that I had provided the3 government agencies with video recording of the incidents where I had answered the phone told them not to contact me where they had hung up. I also demanded
1. That they never contact me again in any form and that if I ever was contacted again about this debt by anyone I would consider it an attempt to defraud myself and I would be filing suite against whoever was the current owner of the debt and also naming them as a co-conspirator
2. That I was going to file an additional complaint with the CFPB, MN Department of Commerce, and the MN Attorney General's office
3. That I will consider this issue resolved from my end excluding any actions that various government agencies may wish to take against them if I receive a letter apologizing for their awful sloppy practices that also states that I was never the owner of the debt, the letter would be notarized and delivered by USPS certified mail with delivery confirmation requiring signature.
4. That they contact the real owner of the debt and inform that they have acted illegally in collecting this debt describing all of the unlawful ac
95% of your "friends" on facebook are anything but that.
For some yes for others who don't have a metric shit ton of "friends" it is likely that 100% of their friends on facebook are real friends or relatives who they actually like. It is actually fairly useful for keeping in contact with far flung real friends in an almost broadcast like manner. It is also really useful when planning a get together of 12 people who are spread across 6 contents and 7 countries. That said I only have about 35 or so Facebook friends and they are either relatives or were friends in real life long before Facebook.
I'm not arguing for them getting the prevailing wage. I'm arguing for them getting substantially more as tech companies make all sorts of claims that they can't find Americans to do these jobs and these same companies claim that they can't train people in time so they have to import them. So using the same logic that companies use these people are the most critical difficult to replace individuals in the company so logically they should be the highest compensated individuals.
Yes I did exaggerate the available workforce but given the quality of some of the H-1Bs I have worked with a high school dropout who knows how to use Dream Weaver would have been a better option. Others I have worked with have been exceptional individuals but it seems that while they follow a similar distribution to American workers but the distribution is shifted a bit lower. Personally when I hear a tech company saying they can't fine an/any Americans who can do the job I hear it as they can't find any Americans that will do the job at shit pay and awful working conditions. I however do believe that there are cases where there isn't an American with the needed skill set or one that isn't close enough but these would really be the truly exceptional cases and those types of people I would thing end up having employers beat a path to their door and already are getting great compensation. A job that requires a bog standard Java programmer, Oracle DBA, CCNA, MCSE, etc. isn't one that should ever be held by a H-1B but far too often are.
To add another data point here is my anecdote from that time as a fresh college grad. It took me the better part of a year at that time to get a job in tech as someone who graduated college in December of 2001. I did however take what ever job I could find and during that time drove forklift until I finally got into the tech world.
Not enough. The H-1B program is suppose to be to fill positions for which an American cannot be found to do and these tech companies all claim that in a country of 300+ million people they can't find someone qualified. This tells me that these people must have truly a exceptional skill set. Also since these companies can't seem to find someone to train in time that they have to go and bring in someone on a H-1B that these people are super critical, more so than board members or the CxO level staff. So given that I say that H-1B holders should be the highest compensated people at the company. This would have to include such things as base pay, bonuses, medical, dental, 401k, stock options, housing allowance, relocation allowance, vehicle/transportation allowance, etc. since has been stated by tech companies these people are critical to their business and they can't find someone in a country of 300+ million who has the skill set. To prevent any dodgy practices I say take the average highest total compensation over the previous 5 years and this is the level that would have to be paid to a H-1B. If you make that change I say let as many of these exceptional skilled people into the country.