But it still depresses the wages in these markets because of the large surplus of workers. What no one has been able to explain to me is why if these people are so critical to a company why they are not legally required by law to be the highest compensated people working at that company. I mean if these individuals are so critical that it was impossible to find someone in the entire US or train someone in time that they had to import someone they must be exceptionally critical to the operations of that company so they should be the highest compensated person working there.
If this were implemented I wouldn't have a problem with having an unlimited number of H1-B employees as we would see what the actual need was instead of this body farm crap that goes on now. For a small company that really does need a highly specialized worker for a short period of time it wouldn't create a huge burden as they really are looking for a highly specialized employee and those cost a lot of money. For a large company like MS, Google, FB, IBM, etc. it would cause them to rethink their process since I doubt that IBM wants to have ~1600 people with the same compensation package as their CEO.
I guess it is time to write my useless congress critters again on this issue, as well as the local papers who won't print my Op-Ed.
Hey there isn't a single person in elected office that I have voted for and hasn't been since GWB left office (sorry bout that I still believed in the lesser of 2 evils crap with both of his elections). I do vote in the primaries as well and have been very active in trying to contact my congress critters and other elected officials but they don't seem to listen or my voice isn't loud enough. I tried to help the Minnesota democrats out before Mark Dayton was first elected as he just seemed like a train wreck with name recognition and actively supported one of his challengers but went over like a ton of bricks. So now we have a Governor that I don't think could find has ass with both hands who apparently is incapable of reading the bills he signs or vetoes by later says he didn't know what was in them.
As a fellow Minnesotan this isn't new. She was pushing for the 300k cap before with the auto increase almost exactly 2 years ago. I haven't been very pleased with her even before that as she seemed to make national issues out of things that need not be or be out to lunch when sponsoring a bill that had very obvious unintended consequences that she was even informed of.
Then add in that at a personal level she has been the worst elected official that I have written to in responding to issues. While she does give responses to letters, unlike Franken who has never responded, they are patronizing as hell if you disagree with something or will thank you for supporting her decision when you were clearly against it. The worst was on the Syria chemical weapons issue when that was going on where her letter was about how wonderful it was that she didn't have to decide because thankfully Russia stepped in.
I have written Klobuchar a number of times on this H1-B issue and it seems to fall on deaf ears. The only thing I can figures is that the large medical companies here are telling her they need something in return for their support since both her and Franken voted for the ACA which put a tax on medical device makers' revenue, 2.3% per device,.
I don't know if Kurt Bills would have been any better especially on this issue but at least I knew him and was able to have a discussion with him. Part of that may have been because I was a former student and a part of that was probably because he was my representative to the state house.
Look into using a voltage regulator like these. I power my two RPis using them and since they have such a large input voltage range I can use lots of things to power them. I frequently use an old car battery to power one as a base station and an old laptop battery pack to power a mobile roving one (I do this when mapping trails). These regulator a fairly efficient and seem to be dead on accurate in their voltage.
Well not $2k but ~$1300 is what I spent on my current desktop at home. Then again I was building a machine to support my hobby of doing amateur cartography and needed a machine that had at least 24GB ram to do what I was trying to do. That was about 2.5 years ago and since I put a priority on reliability and quality instead of cost it should last for close to a decade. The one splurge was going from a middle of the pack i5 to a top of the line i7 since MicroCenter had the i7 on sale for only $25 more than the i5 I was looking at at the time. Then again my use case is kind of special but there are cases where a higher end machine is needed. Also I went and got the $75 graphics card instead of the $600+ one since I don't play any games that would tax any currently made card.
I think Lars might be completely correct. By seeing who wastes the most time on face book and mining that data they can get read of the dead weight employees and bring up efficiency. Then again he might just be shilling for his company which seem the more likely view.
My work tried to have their own work social network thing and it was a disaster because no one wanted to use it and I imagine foisting this on any company would be much the same.
I will admit that it has been about 10 years since I lived in Paris but I seem to remember a fair number of people living in subway stations and in some of the gardens fairly well hidden. So have things changed recently or is this just viewing things through rose colored glasses? Also I remember a fair number of panhandlers, not as bad a down town Portland, OR but substantially higher than in the Twin Cities in Minnesota.
Thanks. I try to keep in good practice and was initially taught how to properly shoot by my grandfather who was a marine and later in boy scouts by a retired marine. For the boy scout rifle merit badge with the.22lr the requirement was 5 shots at 50 feet covered by a quarter but the retired marine wanted everyone to be able to do 5 covered by a dime. I do shoot a lot and have a higher end air rifle that I send about probably 9,000-10,000 rounds a year through as it is so much cheaper than even using.22lr and I can use the air rifle for pest control in my city while even firing off a.22 short would be illegal.
For a Mosin-Nagant it wasn't cheap as I paid something like $350 for it years ago but from the initial inspection looked like it had the best potential of the three M39s that were available. It has been a very good deer gun as when I have seen deer with it I have always filled the freezer even if every deer did run a few 10s of yards instead of just dropping.
I figured that was probably the case with hand loads but didn't know anyone who did it with competition shooting. I looked into possibly doing it but the meager cost savings, unknown benefits I could expect for my use, and high initial investment had always put me off. Now I know that unless I want to get into long distance competition shooting I wouldn't see much if any gain over what I am currently using which is good enough.
100 yards is about the farthest I typically shoot since I use it as a deer gun up in northern Minnesota where the trees are so thick you can't see much beyond that and most deer I take have been between 60 and 70 yards away. I was also referring to groups of 5 shots, not 10 so that also contributes to the smaller spread. I use a good long eye relief scope with 2.75x magnification mounted where the rear sight blade was (professionally mounted). FYI I was the one that had the scope mounted and did keep the original parts so that the rifle can be put back to its original state.
As far as the quality it was last re-barreled in '44 but it is very clean and sharp with a good crown and still has all of the bluing. At one point fairly recently it was professionally bedded and floated probably by the previous owner so it wouldn't surprise me if it was owned by someone who did some WWII era competition rifle shooting with it. It does really likes that longer heavier brown bear 203 grain boat tail ammo while with the cheap 148 grain wolf stuff it shoots like trash and will open up to about 3.5 MOA.
So it sounds like if I wanted to get into competition shooting hand loads would be a better option but for putting meat in the freezer the $10 box of 20 steel cased rounds are about as good as I could expect.
I have made some farther shots with it out to about a quarter mile but those have all been off the dock at cans we set up across the lake but that is just for shits and giggles. Those are still pretty hard shots to make even on hot humid windless day, since it isn't any fun to just miss, with that gun.
Even if they did have a key logger I am wondering why their NIDS didn't detect the bad outbound traffic. Having worked in places that probably have just slightly lower security standards and a well defined set of traffic flows this is the ideal job of a properly set up NIDS. Now add in that a correct set of NIDS rules has a direct mapping to firewall rules (on the hosts and on the network firewall devices which they should have) and this should have been stopped.
The trick to those stupid security questions is just to put in a random string there is nothing that says it has to be the real answer. For example: Q: What was your first pet's name? A: Kd1hRuhe^bhNfyh*285kwlLojs5g0kaSjn
Even in you first example I don't believe that the government needs to sanction the individual saying it even if as a society we should ostracize them. To me this still seems like someone expressing an opinion since it isn't a specific threat, or someone command others to go and kill, riot, burn shit down, etc. I had a grandmother who who had views like that and she felt that the US joined the wrong side in WWII and was very vocal about the Jews, Romas, and the other mongrel races to use her own words. You know what she was my bat shit insane racist grandmother, she didn't command others to kill, incite violence or anything else but was none to pleased to meet my fiance being both of Jewish decent and one of those mongrel races.
Out of curiosity what kind of differences are you seeing between hand loads and standard commercial ammo? I shoot a Finnish M39 and it has a spread of just over 1MOA with the cheap Brown Bear 203gr soft point boat tail ammo I can pick up for about $8-$10 a box.
At first it was 5 or 10k then eventually it got moved up to 50K and at present I believe it requires 100k signatures. And yes if it crosses what ever threshold they currently have set you can expect them to provide a patronizing response that at best says they are going to do the exact oppisite and you can go sit on it and spin or they bitch, moan, and dodge the petition.
In my state it is illegal to have a loaded uncased firearm while on a public road (unimproved roads exempted but those are far fewer than condition implies) and frequently when out hunting I am walking on forest roads. I have been stalked by wolves while walking back to camp. To carry a weapon either openly or concealed loaded required getting a CCW. Additionally the only way you can have a loaded firearm for protection when out bow hunting is if you possess a CCW. So to be in compliance with the laws I got a CCW a few years back when the predator populations started rapidly expanding where I hunt.
I take it you don't get much international news. The Chinese have had problems with individuals in their Uyghur population, yet apart from putting the screws to that ethnic group haven't wiped them from the map.
Finally someone other than me stating this. I also have a CCW permit and the only time I carry a sidearm is when I am out hunting since I have had a few too many run ins with large predators and can't have a loaded weapon when walking down a country road without one. The wolves, bears, cougars don't know the difference between armed and unarmed and at dusk it can become hard to tell where they are until they are right in front of you. I don't feel the need to carry it with me when out grocery shopping, taking the kids to the park, running errands, etc, since I don't live in a squalled hell hole with gang and drug problems, or Mosul. Also the sidearm I have isn't really all that good for protection from other people, especially in populated places, since it is fairly large and very powerful for a handgun but is correctly sized for humanly taking all big game in North America.
I believe that zip guns and Saturday night specials are already handled by existing laws and given the low density of plastic it seems that they would also be covered by existing local laws. Also any moron can make a firearm of varying quality since when I was a kid my friends and I use to make potato guns all the time and those would fire reliability.
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But it still depresses the wages in these markets because of the large surplus of workers. What no one has been able to explain to me is why if these people are so critical to a company why they are not legally required by law to be the highest compensated people working at that company. I mean if these individuals are so critical that it was impossible to find someone in the entire US or train someone in time that they had to import someone they must be exceptionally critical to the operations of that company so they should be the highest compensated person working there.
If this were implemented I wouldn't have a problem with having an unlimited number of H1-B employees as we would see what the actual need was instead of this body farm crap that goes on now. For a small company that really does need a highly specialized worker for a short period of time it wouldn't create a huge burden as they really are looking for a highly specialized employee and those cost a lot of money. For a large company like MS, Google, FB, IBM, etc. it would cause them to rethink their process since I doubt that IBM wants to have ~1600 people with the same compensation package as their CEO.
I guess it is time to write my useless congress critters again on this issue, as well as the local papers who won't print my Op-Ed.
Just because it was a shitty idea then doesn't mean it isn't still a shitty idea now.
Hey there isn't a single person in elected office that I have voted for and hasn't been since GWB left office (sorry bout that I still believed in the lesser of 2 evils crap with both of his elections). I do vote in the primaries as well and have been very active in trying to contact my congress critters and other elected officials but they don't seem to listen or my voice isn't loud enough. I tried to help the Minnesota democrats out before Mark Dayton was first elected as he just seemed like a train wreck with name recognition and actively supported one of his challengers but went over like a ton of bricks. So now we have a Governor that I don't think could find has ass with both hands who apparently is incapable of reading the bills he signs or vetoes by later says he didn't know what was in them.
As a fellow Minnesotan this isn't new. She was pushing for the 300k cap before with the auto increase almost exactly 2 years ago. I haven't been very pleased with her even before that as she seemed to make national issues out of things that need not be or be out to lunch when sponsoring a bill that had very obvious unintended consequences that she was even informed of.
Then add in that at a personal level she has been the worst elected official that I have written to in responding to issues. While she does give responses to letters, unlike Franken who has never responded, they are patronizing as hell if you disagree with something or will thank you for supporting her decision when you were clearly against it. The worst was on the Syria chemical weapons issue when that was going on where her letter was about how wonderful it was that she didn't have to decide because thankfully Russia stepped in.
I have written Klobuchar a number of times on this H1-B issue and it seems to fall on deaf ears. The only thing I can figures is that the large medical companies here are telling her they need something in return for their support since both her and Franken voted for the ACA which put a tax on medical device makers' revenue, 2.3% per device,.
I don't know if Kurt Bills would have been any better especially on this issue but at least I knew him and was able to have a discussion with him. Part of that may have been because I was a former student and a part of that was probably because he was my representative to the state house.
Look into using a voltage regulator like these. I power my two RPis using them and since they have such a large input voltage range I can use lots of things to power them. I frequently use an old car battery to power one as a base station and an old laptop battery pack to power a mobile roving one (I do this when mapping trails). These regulator a fairly efficient and seem to be dead on accurate in their voltage.
Well not $2k but ~$1300 is what I spent on my current desktop at home. Then again I was building a machine to support my hobby of doing amateur cartography and needed a machine that had at least 24GB ram to do what I was trying to do. That was about 2.5 years ago and since I put a priority on reliability and quality instead of cost it should last for close to a decade. The one splurge was going from a middle of the pack i5 to a top of the line i7 since MicroCenter had the i7 on sale for only $25 more than the i5 I was looking at at the time. Then again my use case is kind of special but there are cases where a higher end machine is needed. Also I went and got the $75 graphics card instead of the $600+ one since I don't play any games that would tax any currently made card.
I think Lars might be completely correct. By seeing who wastes the most time on face book and mining that data they can get read of the dead weight employees and bring up efficiency. Then again he might just be shilling for his company which seem the more likely view.
My work tried to have their own work social network thing and it was a disaster because no one wanted to use it and I imagine foisting this on any company would be much the same.
Thanks. I didn't know that.
I will admit that it has been about 10 years since I lived in Paris but I seem to remember a fair number of people living in subway stations and in some of the gardens fairly well hidden. So have things changed recently or is this just viewing things through rose colored glasses? Also I remember a fair number of panhandlers, not as bad a down town Portland, OR but substantially higher than in the Twin Cities in Minnesota.
Thanks. .22lr the requirement was 5 shots at 50 feet covered by a quarter but the retired marine wanted everyone to be able to do 5 covered by a dime. I do shoot a lot and have a higher end air rifle that I send about probably 9,000-10,000 rounds a year through as it is so much cheaper than even using .22lr and I can use the air rifle for pest control in my city while even firing off a .22 short would be illegal.
I try to keep in good practice and was initially taught how to properly shoot by my grandfather who was a marine and later in boy scouts by a retired marine. For the boy scout rifle merit badge with the
For a Mosin-Nagant it wasn't cheap as I paid something like $350 for it years ago but from the initial inspection looked like it had the best potential of the three M39s that were available. It has been a very good deer gun as when I have seen deer with it I have always filled the freezer even if every deer did run a few 10s of yards instead of just dropping.
I figured that was probably the case with hand loads but didn't know anyone who did it with competition shooting. I looked into possibly doing it but the meager cost savings, unknown benefits I could expect for my use, and high initial investment had always put me off. Now I know that unless I want to get into long distance competition shooting I wouldn't see much if any gain over what I am currently using which is good enough.
or Mark Twain's
And you thought copyright was bad now.
100 yards is about the farthest I typically shoot since I use it as a deer gun up in northern Minnesota where the trees are so thick you can't see much beyond that and most deer I take have been between 60 and 70 yards away. I was also referring to groups of 5 shots, not 10 so that also contributes to the smaller spread. I use a good long eye relief scope with 2.75x magnification mounted where the rear sight blade was (professionally mounted). FYI I was the one that had the scope mounted and did keep the original parts so that the rifle can be put back to its original state.
As far as the quality it was last re-barreled in '44 but it is very clean and sharp with a good crown and still has all of the bluing. At one point fairly recently it was professionally bedded and floated probably by the previous owner so it wouldn't surprise me if it was owned by someone who did some WWII era competition rifle shooting with it. It does really likes that longer heavier brown bear 203 grain boat tail ammo while with the cheap 148 grain wolf stuff it shoots like trash and will open up to about 3.5 MOA.
So it sounds like if I wanted to get into competition shooting hand loads would be a better option but for putting meat in the freezer the $10 box of 20 steel cased rounds are about as good as I could expect.
I have made some farther shots with it out to about a quarter mile but those have all been off the dock at cans we set up across the lake but that is just for shits and giggles. Those are still pretty hard shots to make even on hot humid windless day, since it isn't any fun to just miss, with that gun.
More likely the password was probably the same as that on my luggage: 1-2-3-4-5
It was probably shitty weak passwords. Here is a helpful tutorial that should explain everything.
Even if they did have a key logger I am wondering why their NIDS didn't detect the bad outbound traffic. Having worked in places that probably have just slightly lower security standards and a well defined set of traffic flows this is the ideal job of a properly set up NIDS. Now add in that a correct set of NIDS rules has a direct mapping to firewall rules (on the hosts and on the network firewall devices which they should have) and this should have been stopped.
The trick to those stupid security questions is just to put in a random string there is nothing that says it has to be the real answer. For example:
Q: What was your first pet's name?
A: Kd1hRuhe^bhNfyh*285kwlLojs5g0kaSjn
Well there has been a recent spat in India over some forced conversions so they aren't mellow as you believe.
Even in you first example I don't believe that the government needs to sanction the individual saying it even if as a society we should ostracize them. To me this still seems like someone expressing an opinion since it isn't a specific threat, or someone command others to go and kill, riot, burn shit down, etc. I had a grandmother who who had views like that and she felt that the US joined the wrong side in WWII and was very vocal about the Jews, Romas, and the other mongrel races to use her own words. You know what she was my bat shit insane racist grandmother, she didn't command others to kill, incite violence or anything else but was none to pleased to meet my fiance being both of Jewish decent and one of those mongrel races.
I’ve abandoned free market principles to save the free market.
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The Europeans are just learning type of messaging works for the US and applying it to their own countries.
Out of curiosity what kind of differences are you seeing between hand loads and standard commercial ammo? I shoot a Finnish M39 and it has a spread of just over 1MOA with the cheap Brown Bear 203gr soft point boat tail ammo I can pick up for about $8-$10 a box.
At first it was 5 or 10k then eventually it got moved up to 50K and at present I believe it requires 100k signatures. And yes if it crosses what ever threshold they currently have set you can expect them to provide a patronizing response that at best says they are going to do the exact oppisite and you can go sit on it and spin or they bitch, moan, and dodge the petition.
In my state it is illegal to have a loaded uncased firearm while on a public road (unimproved roads exempted but those are far fewer than condition implies) and frequently when out hunting I am walking on forest roads. I have been stalked by wolves while walking back to camp. To carry a weapon either openly or concealed loaded required getting a CCW. Additionally the only way you can have a loaded firearm for protection when out bow hunting is if you possess a CCW. So to be in compliance with the laws I got a CCW a few years back when the predator populations started rapidly expanding where I hunt.
I take it you don't get much international news. The Chinese have had problems with individuals in their Uyghur population, yet apart from putting the screws to that ethnic group haven't wiped them from the map.
Finally someone other than me stating this. I also have a CCW permit and the only time I carry a sidearm is when I am out hunting since I have had a few too many run ins with large predators and can't have a loaded weapon when walking down a country road without one. The wolves, bears, cougars don't know the difference between armed and unarmed and at dusk it can become hard to tell where they are until they are right in front of you. I don't feel the need to carry it with me when out grocery shopping, taking the kids to the park, running errands, etc, since I don't live in a squalled hell hole with gang and drug problems, or Mosul. Also the sidearm I have isn't really all that good for protection from other people, especially in populated places, since it is fairly large and very powerful for a handgun but is correctly sized for humanly taking all big game in North America.
I believe that zip guns and Saturday night specials are already handled by existing laws and given the low density of plastic it seems that they would also be covered by existing local laws. Also any moron can make a firearm of varying quality since when I was a kid my friends and I use to make potato guns all the time and those would fire reliability.