That's not my experience. The Indian guys that we work with tend to be highly skilled and very professional. I have no complaints about their ability or the quality of the code they produce.
I have no complaints about the quality of the work done by either the Americans or the H1B visa Indians. We're all good programmers. Their very presence here makes the talent pool deeper and depresses wages. I'm not complaining, I make a good living. I would earn about 20% more if there weren't so many warm bodies here to depress the wages.
The problem I have is that companies lobby politicians to increase the H1B cap by claiming that there isn't enough talent here in the US to get the job done. That's absolute rubbish. There are enough properly trained or trainable Americans here but the employers would rather pay less over all for that segment of the labor market. One problem that they're starting to run into is that a lot of the H1B Indians are young and fertile, so they're having children here that are US Citizens. That makes it easier for them to become permanent residents and not be bound like indentured servants. My employer doesn't do the kind of sleazy lobbying/complaining that I'm referring to but just like all the others it benefits from it.
Ahhhhh, echos of the housing bubble? Corporate America has shifted targets from lowly craftsmen, to the formerly elite IT crowd.
The day will come when a citizen of the US can't buy an IT job, especially if he looks like a white American.
It's funny that you mention that. I work in IT at a Fortune 500 company. One day last week, I was in a meeting and I was the only black person there and ironically I also had the lightest skin. Indian H1Bs are ALL OVER IT. Anything Oracle related is dominated by Indian H1Bs.
oh? I also work on my car, home electronics & wiring, carpentry and even plumbing at times. so by your logic I'm an auto manufacturer, fabrication facility, housing contractor.....??
Then, think of yourself as a power user. Most "regular" user don't code fixes on their own computers, change their own oil, wire their own outlets, fix their own steps or their own plumbing.
I do those things too, but you understand that most people don't.
I'm into vintage firearms. I can't tell you how many times I've seen an old WWII or WWI vintage rifle that's worth next to nothing because some Bubba went and fucked it up. Guns that would be worth a lot of money if they were un-messed with are only worth a couple hundred dollars. I assume it's the same with most classic car collectors.
MPG Requirements were an average. Cadillac started producing little shitboxes to get their average up so that they could still make the big luxury cars that their customers wanted.
I think it's funny that light trucks were given an exemption and that lead, directly, to the rise in popularity of the SUV.
We also discovered caves. Caves do a much better job of remaining a constant temperature than buildings. Buildings suck at keeping the cold out in the winter and the hot out in the summer.
Regardless, people didn't live their entire lives inside of buildings or caves. People had to go out and gather plants or hunt. In the days before refrigeration, that meant that even in even in the winter, people had to venture forth into the cold outdoors to get enough food to survive. Clothing wasn't a social convention, it was a necessary survival item. Try going outside in Boston this weekend without clothes and tell me how you're not suffering from hypothermia and it's just a social convention.
Much of Europe gets cold in the winter. Much of Europe can be uncomfortably cool, if you're nude during other part of the year. The same is true of Asia and north America, but those weren't the people who were shocked to discover naked savages when they "discovered" the rest of the world.
Clothing allowed people to live in areas that were too cold for them and it allowed for fair skinned people to venture into warmer places without constantly sunburning.
Pull your front tires off the ground launching at a red light and tell me nobody gives a damn about what you drive.
That's about perceived reckless driving, the car is immaterial.
And just as with guns, we take heat for kids in bone stock econo boxes dying while 'racing'. Cops look at you real hard for having _safety_ equipment in your street car. e.g. better brakes or a roll protection seam to imply horsepower. Not that there's no truth to that.
There's no comparison between a few individual power-tripping asshole cops giving you some hard looks, and the POTUS implying that you are responsible for dead children as he pushes to ban parts of your hobby.
When the first cars came out people cared a great deal, and wanted flagmen to walk ahead of every car...you really don't know the history of this.
Yeah yeah and buggy whip makers were upset that they were going to soon be out of work... That has nothing to do with the world of today.
Not about trying to cut down on gun crime, that's a ridiculous cover.
More people were killed with hammers last year than with the kinds of guns they want to prohibit.
Most gun violence is committed with handguns, but they know there is no political will to enact a handgun ban. Semiautomatic rifles are an easy target because the average person doesn't have a very good understanding of the difference between a military weapon and a civilian firearms that looks similar to one.
If you're a chess player, you learn to think about the moves to come. That's what we're doing.
I know nothing of the car crushings in Ontario. I know next to nothing of DOT approval of tires.
The other items, I'm at least nominally aware of. I do a lot of my own car maintenance and repairs. I have a 3rd Generation Camaro that I'm working (very slowly) on restoring.
We've avoided it getting quite as bad as the gun situation, where it becomes a top issue to world leaders, through self-policing.
No, you've avoided coming to the attention of the powers that be because nobody gives a damn about what you drive. There hasn't been 50 years of plotting and scheming to deny you the right to own a car. All of the bullshit regulations that you face are about squeezing a few more dollars out of the car fags, not about prohibition.
When is the last time Congress held hearings about limiting your right to own whatever car you want? When is the last time the President of the US went on a tour to promote his plan to curtail what car accessories you can own or buy?
There's no need for you to stand up and decry the ridiculousness of an onslaught of bullshit legislation. Gun enthusiasts don't have that option. There are people who've been trying for longer than either of us has been alive to strip the American people of the ability to own entire classes of firearms or even all classes of firearms. We take a stand, we make noise because we have no other choice.
In 1994, I bought a Colt Sporter Lightweight that came with two 5 round magazines. These magazines were 20 round magazines that had a steel spacer riveted into them. It took me 5 minutes with a pair of pliers to remove the spacers and stuff 20 rounds into each magazine.
You don't think that maybe, just maybe, people who migrated to colder areas got used to wearing clothing and as such were shocked when they re-explored tropical areas where clothing was optional?
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Yet the current crop of Republicans charged up two wars on the credit card - one based on complete lies
Don't forget the Democrats who voted for the those wars too. You know, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden also voted for the Iraq war.
LK
That's not my experience. The Indian guys that we work with tend to be highly skilled and very professional. I have no complaints about their ability or the quality of the code they produce.
LK
I have no complaints about the quality of the work done by either the Americans or the H1B visa Indians. We're all good programmers. Their very presence here makes the talent pool deeper and depresses wages. I'm not complaining, I make a good living. I would earn about 20% more if there weren't so many warm bodies here to depress the wages.
The problem I have is that companies lobby politicians to increase the H1B cap by claiming that there isn't enough talent here in the US to get the job done. That's absolute rubbish. There are enough properly trained or trainable Americans here but the employers would rather pay less over all for that segment of the labor market. One problem that they're starting to run into is that a lot of the H1B Indians are young and fertile, so they're having children here that are US Citizens. That makes it easier for them to become permanent residents and not be bound like indentured servants. My employer doesn't do the kind of sleazy lobbying/complaining that I'm referring to but just like all the others it benefits from it.
LK
Ahhhhh, echos of the housing bubble? Corporate America has shifted targets from lowly craftsmen, to the formerly elite IT crowd.
The day will come when a citizen of the US can't buy an IT job, especially if he looks like a white American.
It's funny that you mention that. I work in IT at a Fortune 500 company. One day last week, I was in a meeting and I was the only black person there and ironically I also had the lightest skin. Indian H1Bs are ALL OVER IT. Anything Oracle related is dominated by Indian H1Bs.
LK
If the business is in a high crime area, the police will not respond with any type of expediency.
In Chicago, they might not even respond at all.
I suspect that they want to get pictures of the crooks to turn over to the police or to release to the news.
LK
oh? I also work on my car, home electronics & wiring, carpentry and even plumbing at times. so by your logic I'm an auto manufacturer, fabrication facility, housing contractor.....??
Then, think of yourself as a power user. Most "regular" user don't code fixes on their own computers, change their own oil, wire their own outlets, fix their own steps or their own plumbing.
I do those things too, but you understand that most people don't.
LK
I'm a believer. I believe that the universe and everything in it was created by God.
Mandating that Intelligent Design be taught in a science class is lunacy. If anything, maybe in a philosophy class, but it's not science.
LK
I'm into vintage firearms. I can't tell you how many times I've seen an old WWII or WWI vintage rifle that's worth next to nothing because some Bubba went and fucked it up. Guns that would be worth a lot of money if they were un-messed with are only worth a couple hundred dollars. I assume it's the same with most classic car collectors.
LK
Details seem to be slim.
LK
Perhaps, but the only way to get rid of it is to repeal it. There's a process for that.
LK
Yes, you should name the companies.
No, there's nothing else you can do about it.
LK
MPG Requirements were an average. Cadillac started producing little shitboxes to get their average up so that they could still make the big luxury cars that their customers wanted.
I think it's funny that light trucks were given an exemption and that lead, directly, to the rise in popularity of the SUV.
LK
Well met brother felon.
Not quite. I did this after the law passed congress but before Klinton signed it.
LK
We also discovered caves. Caves do a much better job of remaining a constant temperature than buildings. Buildings suck at keeping the cold out in the winter and the hot out in the summer.
Regardless, people didn't live their entire lives inside of buildings or caves. People had to go out and gather plants or hunt. In the days before refrigeration, that meant that even in even in the winter, people had to venture forth into the cold outdoors to get enough food to survive. Clothing wasn't a social convention, it was a necessary survival item. Try going outside in Boston this weekend without clothes and tell me how you're not suffering from hypothermia and it's just a social convention.
Much of Europe gets cold in the winter. Much of Europe can be uncomfortably cool, if you're nude during other part of the year. The same is true of Asia and north America, but those weren't the people who were shocked to discover naked savages when they "discovered" the rest of the world.
Clothing allowed people to live in areas that were too cold for them and it allowed for fair skinned people to venture into warmer places without constantly sunburning.
LK
Pull your front tires off the ground launching at a red light and tell me nobody gives a damn about what you drive.
That's about perceived reckless driving, the car is immaterial.
And just as with guns, we take heat for kids in bone stock econo boxes dying while 'racing'. Cops look at you real hard for having _safety_ equipment in your street car. e.g. better brakes or a roll protection seam to imply horsepower. Not that there's no truth to that.
There's no comparison between a few individual power-tripping asshole cops giving you some hard looks, and the POTUS implying that you are responsible for dead children as he pushes to ban parts of your hobby.
LK
It shouldn't be too hard to update NICS to allow individuals to make use of it.
LK
When the first cars came out people cared a great deal, and wanted flagmen to walk ahead of every car...you really don't know the history of this.
Yeah yeah and buggy whip makers were upset that they were going to soon be out of work... That has nothing to do with the world of today.
Not about trying to cut down on gun crime, that's a ridiculous cover.
More people were killed with hammers last year than with the kinds of guns they want to prohibit.
Most gun violence is committed with handguns, but they know there is no political will to enact a handgun ban. Semiautomatic rifles are an easy target because the average person doesn't have a very good understanding of the difference between a military weapon and a civilian firearms that looks similar to one.
If you're a chess player, you learn to think about the moves to come. That's what we're doing.
LK
I know nothing of the car crushings in Ontario. I know next to nothing of DOT approval of tires.
The other items, I'm at least nominally aware of. I do a lot of my own car maintenance and repairs. I have a 3rd Generation Camaro that I'm working (very slowly) on restoring.
We've avoided it getting quite as bad as the gun situation, where it becomes a top issue to world leaders, through self-policing.
No, you've avoided coming to the attention of the powers that be because nobody gives a damn about what you drive. There hasn't been 50 years of plotting and scheming to deny you the right to own a car. All of the bullshit regulations that you face are about squeezing a few more dollars out of the car fags, not about prohibition.
LK
I'm completely serious.
When is the last time Congress held hearings about limiting your right to own whatever car you want? When is the last time the President of the US went on a tour to promote his plan to curtail what car accessories you can own or buy?
There's no need for you to stand up and decry the ridiculousness of an onslaught of bullshit legislation. Gun enthusiasts don't have that option. There are people who've been trying for longer than either of us has been alive to strip the American people of the ability to own entire classes of firearms or even all classes of firearms. We take a stand, we make noise because we have no other choice.
LK
Piston heads/car fags can keep their hobby quiet because no one is actively trying to ban it.
LK
30 round magazines are NOT illegal. They do NOT require a background check to obtain.
LK
What makes you think that the federal government is the only one that one might need to resist?
I'd like to refer you to the "Battle of Athens"
LK
In 1994, I bought a Colt Sporter Lightweight that came with two 5 round magazines. These magazines were 20 round magazines that had a steel spacer riveted into them. It took me 5 minutes with a pair of pliers to remove the spacers and stuff 20 rounds into each magazine.
LK
Name an administrator's policy which has directly or indirectly caused harm to you or your family, and where a gun has defused the situation?
I can not name a traffic accident that I was in where a seat-belt saved my life. I still buckle up when I go for a drive.
LK
You don't think that maybe, just maybe, people who migrated to colder areas got used to wearing clothing and as such were shocked when they re-explored tropical areas where clothing was optional?
LK