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  1. Re:That's not a plan, Stan on Sweden Pledges To Cut All Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2045 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's the next administration's job to follow through.

  2. Re:Isn't this just virtue signaling at this point? on Sweden Pledges To Cut All Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2045 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, even the worse estimates still show that it will take a 50 years for us to get to what would be considered a normal global average for human history.

  3. Re:They don't get it. on Microsoft Seeks Trump Order Exemption for Workers With Visas (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "throwing his weight around" by allowing some committee put together by Obama to dictate which countries are unsafe and should be vetter better?

  4. Re:Maybe train the American kid first on Cutting H-1Bs Could Mean More Competition From China and India, Says GoDaddy CEO (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This. Unfortunately, it seems everyone who is serious with fixing our STEM shortage seems to want to do it using STEAM. I am sorry, but no, no gender studies major has ever designed a bridge.Their is simply no place in technical fields for arts majors.

  5. Re:Maybe train the American kid first on Cutting H-1Bs Could Mean More Competition From China and India, Says GoDaddy CEO (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Silly European, didn't you know that University is for rioting and taking gender study classes exclusively.

  6. "We do not produce enough technically qualified candidates in this country"
    "Forced to train H1B replacement"
      Pick one.

  7. Re:reprioritizing, not cutting on Cutting H-1Bs Could Mean More Competition From China and India, Says GoDaddy CEO (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes, These proposed changes would mean America would sort of be in a union where the government would work on behalf on the people instead of corporate interests.

  8. Re:simple solution to the h1b problem on Cutting H-1Bs Could Mean More Competition From China and India, Says GoDaddy CEO (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That is basically what is being discussed. But instead of just skimming off the top (forcing foreigners to take lower wages to compete), he is considering what I consider a far better plan. Increasing the minimum wage for H1B visas, and focusing on the highest paid workers. Coupled with his refocusing of immigration to the highest skilled individuals should provide a glut of extremely skilled foreign workers, while weeding out the H1B workers whose only major skill was their price point.

  9. Raising H1B minimum wage on Cutting H-1Bs Could Mean More Competition From China and India, Says GoDaddy CEO (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see the problem. If their is literally not a single American that can fill the position, then you should have no trouble paying the H1B that does fill the role what he is worth.

  10. Re:They don't get it. on Microsoft Seeks Trump Order Exemption for Workers With Visas (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The entire point is that people form these countries have not been properly vetted. these are war tron countries that do not even supply police records for their citizens. Many of these refugees and immigrants are black boxes, with no provable history or documentation. Half of Trumps campaign was about increasing the vetting procedures for countries like these.

  11. Re:Critical mass?!?! DAMN that Trump! on Tesla's Battery Revolution Just Reached Critical Mass (bloomberg.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    He conveniently used the list of countries from which all travel was considered a clear and present danger.
    Ya, he reasoning is clearly flawed.

  12. Re:Critical mass?!?! DAMN that Trump! on Tesla's Battery Revolution Just Reached Critical Mass (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Trump did not even have control over the countries on the travel ban list, they were put there years ago, before he even ran for office. And it is really a surprise that Trump does business with the successful stable countries in the Middle east, and not with the ones engulfed in terrorism and civil war?

  13. Did the used to have Protections? on Trump's Executive Order Eliminates Privacy Act Protections For Foreigners (whitehouse.gov) · · Score: 1

    I thought that was the point of all the major spying organizations sharing Intel, so they they would get uncensored and unrestricted access to their own citizens info?

  14. VR party games? on 10% Of 'Resident Evil 7' Players Are Wearing VR Headsets (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 2

    What VR parties games? A VR headset really gets in the way of any sort of group experience. It seems fundamentally incongruous. The only thing I see VR really kicking off with is the pornographic industry.

  15. Re:Well, yes. As they should. on The US Border Patrol Is Checking Detainees' Facebook Profiles (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Why was this down voted?
    You don't even have to be at a border crossing zone, with reduced rights. Everyone, including the government, is allowed to view your public persona. When you post to Twitter, it is not a secret.

  16. Border Security on The US Border Patrol Is Checking Detainees' Facebook Profiles (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Watch Border Security.
    This is standard operating procedure for everyone goign through the border in Canada, Australia, and America. They will look thorough your texts, your emails, your social media. It's quite funny when after waiting for a few minutes for the security screening to be completed, the security guards go up to the smuck and ask him about the pictures of drugs he took 5 years ago, and the text message he sent 20 minutes ago saying he was looking forwards to getting "toasted" after the plane lands.

  17. Re:Well, duh...! on All-Corn Diet Turns Hamsters Into Cannibals · · Score: 1

    This is untrue, it is only modern hybrid corn that has a tiny amount of protein, and most of it locked away and unusable.
    Naturally, corn is like most grains, it contains a goodly amount. Many strains exist which will give you 20%, and some experimentation has yielded strains with upwards of 30%. I believe a decent grain mix typically contains something like 16%, so corn is extremely protein rich if done right.

    The problem is America, the farmers are paid to produce corn, the more they produce the more they are paid. So having the plant put effort into nutrients and protein is counter productive.

  18. Re:Happened to humans also on All-Corn Diet Turns Hamsters Into Cannibals · · Score: 1

    It was not exactly clear, B3 is only missing when not niximized?

  19. Re:The User is responsible for open sourse softwar on Who's Responsible For Accidents Caused By Open Source Self-Driving Car Software? (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    The letter of the law is sort of unimportant. If you thought Ford was going to be responsible, then it is not your understanding of law I would call into question first, but your basic common sense. A car would practically have to cost twice as much, if the manufacturer was responsible for all accidents and deaths it caused.

  20. This, even just dialup speeds is 604.8 megabytes a day.That is not much less than I get now. And is like 20 times better than what I grew up with, which was dialup but really slow.

    I would love the government even if they could even get a fairly decent affordable 1 MB/s service out here.

  21. he pays full SS & Medicare tax of 13.85% - which goes against GROSS receipts

    You must be mistaken, hardly anyone makes profits in the double digits of percentages. Most business men make like 1-2% profits. If you calculated tax on gross, no businesses would survive.

  22. Here is a report on Taxi's, which measures maintenance at about 5% of expenses, about 10% of the costs of the gas. Clearly Uber drivers are not spending $1620 dollars a day in gas, you must be orders of magnitude away from correct.

  23. That maintenance has to be wrong. I think you have to take into consideration much of that maintenance comes from the car sitting idle for years, something we do not have in this case. And any reasonable professional will be driving a car that will wear well, not some shiny pile of junk that is expected to fall apart the second the warranty expires.

  24. The ability to renegotiate the terms or quit your job without being thrown in jail.

  25. Its not the Number of "Attacks" on Are Squirrels A Bigger Threat To Our Critical Infrastructure? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not the number, in any system as large as the American electrical grid some percentage will always be down. The threat is some incredibly inconvenient parts of the grid going down at inconvenient times. Squirrels might cause thousands of "attacks", but they will never randomly knock out three levels of backups at key installations spread across the continent at the same time that China just happens to launch a nuclear attack.