Wouldn't it be better to give American citizenship to these foreigners with the critical job skills you need? How do you expect to eliminate skills shortages? Or you could have American companies train workers to fill these vacancies.
DR Who is Science Fantasy, not Science Fiction. In Science Fiction you have laws of physics that you follow, and things are supposed to happen logically. In Science Fantasy the author decides what they want to happen, then make up a "Sciency" excuse for it. Things like you can zip to anywhere and anywhen, but you can't pack an advanced first aid kit that fits in your pocket.
1- People living outside the USA only get to legally watch a small percent of shows and movies. The studios simply won't offer them outside the US. 2-The studios want to offer shows via network TV, instead of on demand viewing. People don't want to wait.
Restated as 32% of Americans admit they disagree with American copyright law. Passing laws that most people don't agree with causes the people to stop respecting all laws, leading to them not respecting the government. This is a road that eventually ends with the ruling class dying in a violent revolution.
Humans are good at pattern recognition. We naturally attempt to fit the data to patterns we know. If your primitive tribe knows nothing of aircraft then saying an airplane is a bird makes sense.
Mass transport works very well when the cities are designed around it, instead of around cars. America's problem with slush fund politics needs to be dealt with before it destroys America. Maybe President Trump will lead to a country where this problem is dealt with.
Solution: divide the country into blocks and require an ISP to support all customers in a block in order to have access to government owned right-of-ways.
The Republicans are working hard to remove the welfare state. Open borders for workers would lead to open borders for buyers, where you could go to Mexico and buy cheap clothes and take it home without paying tariffs. Having all the jobs move to the countries with the lowest taxes means no jobs for anyone else.
You hire an H1B for the job. Will you also hire and train an American to fill that job? No, that would be crazy, the job is filled. So ten years from now that "temporary" hole is now a permanent skills shortage. And when that H1B decides to go home he can start up a company to do the same job for half the price of the American one. H1B doesn't just export jobs, it exports the entire industry.
The purpose of H1B is to drive DOWN wages and benefits in the USA by forcing American workers to compete for jobs with third world workers. Setting a minimum wage directly undermines that purpose, so it won't happen.
If Obama likes how the NSA is spying on Americans, (he is their boss, if he didn't like what they were doing he could make it stop), why would he pardon someone who publicly complained about that behavior and embarrassed the US government?
This could be an issue if someone was shot, and the bullet wasn't removed. How do you make metal biodegrade? You can't use light materials or the training rounds won't shoot straight.
And then someone from Russia hacks the WiFi router belonging to you neighbor, and it starts spoofing your router, and your devices all connect, and the next thing you know they are using your networked cameras to film a new reality tv show.
Having a government department responsible for computer security would help, they could do vulnerability scans on new hardware as part of the FCC certification, and force patches for weak devices. Extending FCC authority to cover internet devices might work, if you explicitly required a minimum level of security by law.
Make a dedicated IOT network chip, with VPN support built in. The IOT device would be forced to connect directly to its server, with no option to communicate with anyone or anything else. So long as the chip was done properly (common chip=massive economy of scale), it wouldn't matter how buggy the IOT device software is.
It doesn't have to be ultrasound. The Sub sonic range is usable by machines but you won't hear a thing, or a signal in the audio range but at a low signal strength would work.
Ultrasound could also be used to communicate with spyware running on embedded devices in your home or business, to get your secrets when all the phones are turned off or in airplane mode. Sounds like we need to put low pass filters on our speakers and microphones to block this. And physical switches to block microphones.
1-Volkswaggon makes diesel cars. 2-Cars get less maintenance than trucks. 3-larger vehicles have more room and weight for pollution control stuff, so they do a better job. 4-Diesel engines for cars are often derived from gasoline engines. They have lower compression and a less efficient design so they produce more emissions.
There are only 3 cost effective uses of nuclear power: 1-weapons production, 2-medical isotopes, 3-mobile power. The reason nobody is building nuclear power is because it's crazy to spend $0.25/kwh when oil is $0.05/kwh and solar is $0.06/kwh with batteries.
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Wouldn't it be better to give American citizenship to these foreigners with the critical job skills you need? How do you expect to eliminate skills shortages? Or you could have American companies train workers to fill these vacancies.
DR Who is Science Fantasy, not Science Fiction. In Science Fiction you have laws of physics that you follow, and things are supposed to happen logically. In Science Fantasy the author decides what they want to happen, then make up a "Sciency" excuse for it. Things like you can zip to anywhere and anywhen, but you can't pack an advanced first aid kit that fits in your pocket.
1- People living outside the USA only get to legally watch a small percent of shows and movies. The studios simply won't offer them outside the US. 2-The studios want to offer shows via network TV, instead of on demand viewing. People don't want to wait.
Restated as 32% of Americans admit they disagree with American copyright law. Passing laws that most people don't agree with causes the people to stop respecting all laws, leading to them not respecting the government. This is a road that eventually ends with the ruling class dying in a violent revolution.
Humans are good at pattern recognition. We naturally attempt to fit the data to patterns we know. If your primitive tribe knows nothing of aircraft then saying an airplane is a bird makes sense.
Any job that you can do from home, a better qualified worker in India can do from his home. Telecommuting is the slippery slope to job offshoring.
Mass transport works very well when the cities are designed around it, instead of around cars. America's problem with slush fund politics needs to be dealt with before it destroys America. Maybe President Trump will lead to a country where this problem is dealt with.
Or have the government own the last mile, and rent it to anyone. Companies only need to connect the local office and patch in to compete.
Solution: divide the country into blocks and require an ISP to support all customers in a block in order to have access to government owned right-of-ways.
Excellent plan, let the free market solve the problem.
The problem is large corporations are not willing to train workers. There is no long term employment anymore.
The Republicans are working hard to remove the welfare state. Open borders for workers would lead to open borders for buyers, where you could go to Mexico and buy cheap clothes and take it home without paying tariffs. Having all the jobs move to the countries with the lowest taxes means no jobs for anyone else.
You hire an H1B for the job. Will you also hire and train an American to fill that job? No, that would be crazy, the job is filled. So ten years from now that "temporary" hole is now a permanent skills shortage. And when that H1B decides to go home he can start up a company to do the same job for half the price of the American one. H1B doesn't just export jobs, it exports the entire industry.
The purpose of H1B is to drive DOWN wages and benefits in the USA by forcing American workers to compete for jobs with third world workers. Setting a minimum wage directly undermines that purpose, so it won't happen.
"Letting traitors go free" won't play well to the "tough on crime" Republican crowd.
If Obama likes how the NSA is spying on Americans, (he is their boss, if he didn't like what they were doing he could make it stop), why would he pardon someone who publicly complained about that behavior and embarrassed the US government?
This could be an issue if someone was shot, and the bullet wasn't removed. How do you make metal biodegrade? You can't use light materials or the training rounds won't shoot straight.
And then someone from Russia hacks the WiFi router belonging to you neighbor, and it starts spoofing your router, and your devices all connect, and the next thing you know they are using your networked cameras to film a new reality tv show.
Having a government department responsible for computer security would help, they could do vulnerability scans on new hardware as part of the FCC certification, and force patches for weak devices. Extending FCC authority to cover internet devices might work, if you explicitly required a minimum level of security by law.
Make a dedicated IOT network chip, with VPN support built in. The IOT device would be forced to connect directly to its server, with no option to communicate with anyone or anything else. So long as the chip was done properly (common chip=massive economy of scale), it wouldn't matter how buggy the IOT device software is.
There are 2 sets of rules: #1 for the rich and #2 for everyone else.
It doesn't have to be ultrasound. The Sub sonic range is usable by machines but you won't hear a thing, or a signal in the audio range but at a low signal strength would work.
Ultrasound could also be used to communicate with spyware running on embedded devices in your home or business, to get your secrets when all the phones are turned off or in airplane mode. Sounds like we need to put low pass filters on our speakers and microphones to block this. And physical switches to block microphones.
1-Volkswaggon makes diesel cars. 2-Cars get less maintenance than trucks. 3-larger vehicles have more room and weight for pollution control stuff, so they do a better job. 4-Diesel engines for cars are often derived from gasoline engines. They have lower compression and a less efficient design so they produce more emissions.
There are only 3 cost effective uses of nuclear power: 1-weapons production, 2-medical isotopes, 3-mobile power. The reason nobody is building nuclear power is because it's crazy to spend $0.25/kwh when oil is $0.05/kwh and solar is $0.06/kwh with batteries.