Since the majority of H-1B abuse comes from IT services, there's one very easy way to keep that from happening: change the law to specifically disallow IT workers from being eligible for the H-1B. Maybe make a new visa class for IT workers with all kinds of extra restrictions on it too, but since the abuse is just about all coming from one industry, that's how you fix it.
The H-1B is a very broadly applicable visa, there are many, many people making use of it who aren't doing so fraudulently. Modifying the entire H-1B program, and increasing the difficulty for everyone, in an effort to fix the abuse from one specific industry is just stupid.
What led you to believe the facts bother me? I was just asking what the OP's point was.
I assume he was trying to make some kind of snide remark about public money spent on science being wasted, but I would prefer to get confirmation before I jump to that conclusion.
Yes? And? I mean, it appears to be true, but is there some larger point behind your comment or do you just like observing where funding for things comes from?
McAfee is just as nutty as Sister Sarah, if not possibly more. Palin just dresses up her stupid craziness in the right anti-media anti-establishment buzzwords so it appeals to the GOP voter base.
So why does anyone even give John McAfee an interview anymore, let alone write about the bullshit he spews in those interviews? The man is an endless fountain of bullshit, and his grasp of reality seems tenuous at best these days.
Maybe the "morons" would like STEM jobs that contribute to the people, not ones that contribute to defense contractors at the expense of the people.
But no, you're probably right, those two positions are completely irreconcilable and only an idiot would ever decline to give up their principles in search of job growth.
...and, in deploying it, open the door to militarizing space. Because what we really need to do is extend the worst parts of our nature to space too, right?
I know the GOP is the party of pimping out Zombie Reagan, and they're favorite past-time is cherry picking things about the man to back up what they want to do now, but reviving Star Wars? Really? They're not even trying to pretend they didn't jump the shark now.
"no expectation of privacy" and "no expectation of not having your every movement and statement recorded and kept for eternity" are two different things.
Not really. But if you don't want your public goings on to be recorded and stored forever vote. Vote in an informed way, and do it in local elections. Everyone overlooks local elections until something like this comes up, but they're as important if not more important in most people's daily lives than the big splashy national elections.
...as contrasted to the private industry folks who not only hoover up every possible piece of data they can get within a country mile of, but then go on to monetize it and/or sell it?
We're in the age of data. Everyone has, finally, come around to understand that and they're acting accordingly. Your faux outrage over the government doing it is just silly.
Seriously, that has to be the dumbest random libertarian aside I've ever seen in an article summary. "If we had competing public transport companies, one could've switched to a privacy-respecting competitor."
Seriously? That's how you decide to slip in your political commentary? Come on...
The secretary is right that charging companies to be whitelisted is bad (for many different reasons). But somehow he goes from that ethical conundrum about making money by lying to your customers (by not blocking ads) and making money as a middle-man (by charging advertisers) to the idea that ad-blocking itself is bad...
It's far too late for that. Playing ads for paying customers already drove me away from them, I won't be going back just because they now let me pay more to avoid those ads.
That's the exact reason I refuse to use Hulu, either in the free or paid version. They want me to not only pay for their service, but also sit through mandatory ads? Yeah... no. That's why I ditched cable in the first place.
It does seem strange that it would be the ATF doing the surveillance, though.
I get that they probably have expertise in surveillance that (say) the EPA may be lacking, but it wasn't the EPA (or any other federal agency) that asked for the ATF's help, it seems to have been law enforcement of some kind. Which makes me think this was an effort by local law enforcement to avoid the disclosure requirements that local law imposes on them.
That seems like a... unique way to get around local surveillance disclosure laws: Ask the feds to do the surveillance for you, and just piggy back on them.
It's a disingenuous attempt to circumvent the law, sure, but it is awfully creative.
There were so many great things about the Pre. But unfortunately, build quality wasn't one of them. If it had been a solidly built phone I'd probably still be using it. But when my last one finally died (again) and I was told there was no way to do an insurance replacement and get the same phone... I moved on.
Citizen's United has nothing to do with fourth amendment rights, and a corporation doesn't need to have fourth amendment rights to prevent the free reading of information on seized servers.
Citizens United, and now Hobby Lobby, stand for the worryingly advancing proposition that corporations are identical to people and must be afforded all the same rights... in spite of the fact that they're fictitious legal entities. They're bad decisions which have made worse law, and your strange argument in favor of them is frankly completely incorrect.
Right. Because the national debt is equivalent to climate change.
Also, as has been pointed out, your contention is completely unsupported by reality. But nice try. Maybe you should take your own advice about not being a "partisan pawn"?
Do you know how immigration in this country works?
If you're here on an H-1B and lose your job, you have to leave. Your status lapses when the visa does.
If you want to get a green card through work, you have to get labor certifications and go through a very extensive search process to show that there is absolutely no US citizen able and available to do the job that you're trying to use to get a green card.
Your pithy suggestion doesn't "fix" anything or make treatment more "fair or humane". It dicks over immigrants, or potential immigrants, even harder than our already screwed up system does.
Maybe, just maybe, the fact that there are 50 million unemployed Americans has nothing at all to do with foreign workers. There are a maximum of 65,000 H-1B visas issued per year, even if those all went away and every one of those jobs was filled by one of the 50 million unemployed you'd have a 0.13% reduction in the number of unemployed.
MAYBE the issue is more complicated than "the dirty foreigners are taking all the work!". MAYBE the issue is the geographic location of the unemployed being very different from the geographic location of any available jobs. MAYBE the 50 million unemployed don't have the education, skills, or experience needed to perform any of the jobs those H-1B visa holders are performing... or any of the other available jobs.
But reality never gets in the way of a good freakout, does it? It's so much easier to just blame the foreigner, and that's such a popular option in this country. You've got to love deeply ingrained xenophobia.
Every foreign search engine, blogging platform, or other covered entity just blocks all Russian originated IPs. Homegrown solutions may spring up to replace them, but the hassle ought to at least take this from "quietly" to "amid widespread condemnation and protest from Russians". Plus, who wants to be complicit in this kind of stupid BS?
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Since the majority of H-1B abuse comes from IT services, there's one very easy way to keep that from happening: change the law to specifically disallow IT workers from being eligible for the H-1B. Maybe make a new visa class for IT workers with all kinds of extra restrictions on it too, but since the abuse is just about all coming from one industry, that's how you fix it.
The H-1B is a very broadly applicable visa, there are many, many people making use of it who aren't doing so fraudulently. Modifying the entire H-1B program, and increasing the difficulty for everyone, in an effort to fix the abuse from one specific industry is just stupid.
What led you to believe the facts bother me? I was just asking what the OP's point was.
I assume he was trying to make some kind of snide remark about public money spent on science being wasted, but I would prefer to get confirmation before I jump to that conclusion.
Yes? And? I mean, it appears to be true, but is there some larger point behind your comment or do you just like observing where funding for things comes from?
Yes, I'm sure that's it. That's not at all a baseless paranoid assertion, no no, YOU are the sane one it's everyone else that's crazy. Right?
McAfee is just as nutty as Sister Sarah, if not possibly more. Palin just dresses up her stupid craziness in the right anti-media anti-establishment buzzwords so it appeals to the GOP voter base.
So why does anyone even give John McAfee an interview anymore, let alone write about the bullshit he spews in those interviews? The man is an endless fountain of bullshit, and his grasp of reality seems tenuous at best these days.
Maybe the "morons" would like STEM jobs that contribute to the people, not ones that contribute to defense contractors at the expense of the people.
But no, you're probably right, those two positions are completely irreconcilable and only an idiot would ever decline to give up their principles in search of job growth.
...and, in deploying it, open the door to militarizing space. Because what we really need to do is extend the worst parts of our nature to space too, right?
As if Ted Cruz ever thinks through a single one of his awful policy proposals to their logical conclusion...
I know the GOP is the party of pimping out Zombie Reagan, and they're favorite past-time is cherry picking things about the man to back up what they want to do now, but reviving Star Wars? Really? They're not even trying to pretend they didn't jump the shark now.
"no expectation of privacy" and "no expectation of not having your every movement and statement recorded and kept for eternity" are two different things.
Not really. But if you don't want your public goings on to be recorded and stored forever vote. Vote in an informed way, and do it in local elections. Everyone overlooks local elections until something like this comes up, but they're as important if not more important in most people's daily lives than the big splashy national elections.
...as contrasted to the private industry folks who not only hoover up every possible piece of data they can get within a country mile of, but then go on to monetize it and/or sell it?
We're in the age of data. Everyone has, finally, come around to understand that and they're acting accordingly. Your faux outrage over the government doing it is just silly.
Seriously, that has to be the dumbest random libertarian aside I've ever seen in an article summary. "If we had competing public transport companies, one could've switched to a privacy-respecting competitor."
Seriously? That's how you decide to slip in your political commentary? Come on...
The secretary is right that charging companies to be whitelisted is bad (for many different reasons). But somehow he goes from that ethical conundrum about making money by lying to your customers (by not blocking ads) and making money as a middle-man (by charging advertisers) to the idea that ad-blocking itself is bad...
How do you even manage logic that faulty?
It's far too late for that. Playing ads for paying customers already drove me away from them, I won't be going back just because they now let me pay more to avoid those ads.
That's the exact reason I refuse to use Hulu, either in the free or paid version. They want me to not only pay for their service, but also sit through mandatory ads? Yeah... no. That's why I ditched cable in the first place.
It does seem strange that it would be the ATF doing the surveillance, though.
I get that they probably have expertise in surveillance that (say) the EPA may be lacking, but it wasn't the EPA (or any other federal agency) that asked for the ATF's help, it seems to have been law enforcement of some kind. Which makes me think this was an effort by local law enforcement to avoid the disclosure requirements that local law imposes on them.
That seems like a... unique way to get around local surveillance disclosure laws: Ask the feds to do the surveillance for you, and just piggy back on them. It's a disingenuous attempt to circumvent the law, sure, but it is awfully creative.
There were so many great things about the Pre. But unfortunately, build quality wasn't one of them. If it had been a solidly built phone I'd probably still be using it. But when my last one finally died (again) and I was told there was no way to do an insurance replacement and get the same phone... I moved on.
Citizen's United has nothing to do with fourth amendment rights, and a corporation doesn't need to have fourth amendment rights to prevent the free reading of information on seized servers.
Citizens United, and now Hobby Lobby, stand for the worryingly advancing proposition that corporations are identical to people and must be afforded all the same rights... in spite of the fact that they're fictitious legal entities. They're bad decisions which have made worse law, and your strange argument in favor of them is frankly completely incorrect.
Looks like someone in the Andromeda Galaxy just worked out how to make a doomsday weapon.
There goes the galactic neighborhood.
Right. Because the national debt is equivalent to climate change.
Also, as has been pointed out, your contention is completely unsupported by reality. But nice try. Maybe you should take your own advice about not being a "partisan pawn"?
Do you know how immigration in this country works?
If you're here on an H-1B and lose your job, you have to leave. Your status lapses when the visa does.
If you want to get a green card through work, you have to get labor certifications and go through a very extensive search process to show that there is absolutely no US citizen able and available to do the job that you're trying to use to get a green card.
Your pithy suggestion doesn't "fix" anything or make treatment more "fair or humane". It dicks over immigrants, or potential immigrants, even harder than our already screwed up system does.
Maybe, just maybe, the fact that there are 50 million unemployed Americans has nothing at all to do with foreign workers. There are a maximum of 65,000 H-1B visas issued per year, even if those all went away and every one of those jobs was filled by one of the 50 million unemployed you'd have a 0.13% reduction in the number of unemployed.
MAYBE the issue is more complicated than "the dirty foreigners are taking all the work!". MAYBE the issue is the geographic location of the unemployed being very different from the geographic location of any available jobs. MAYBE the 50 million unemployed don't have the education, skills, or experience needed to perform any of the jobs those H-1B visa holders are performing... or any of the other available jobs.
But reality never gets in the way of a good freakout, does it? It's so much easier to just blame the foreigner, and that's such a popular option in this country. You've got to love deeply ingrained xenophobia.
Every foreign search engine, blogging platform, or other covered entity just blocks all Russian originated IPs. Homegrown solutions may spring up to replace them, but the hassle ought to at least take this from "quietly" to "amid widespread condemnation and protest from Russians". Plus, who wants to be complicit in this kind of stupid BS?