I used to work for a tax attorney who had EXTREMELY RICH people and corporations as clients--a VERY sweet man, and believe it or not, scrupulously honest within the rules as written. He was also a law professor and at 91 STILL PRACTICING (he passed away in 2005, but I'd bet he's still collecting residuals:-) ANYWAY, he knew the laws as written were 100% unfair to people who worked for a living. That's because the extremely rich don't want to PAY for the gov't--they just want it to benefit them. They grease the palms of Congress to get loopholes written into the tax and business laws. They call them "campaign donations". Also, almost every congressman has a book deal ---who do you think buys up the stock? (RICH PEOPLE buy 'em by the truck and then dispose of them) Lastly, except for campaign speeches, they get PAID beaucoup bucks when ever they stand up in front of a crowd and open their pie holes--it's called a speaker's fee.
If you think those congressional over inflated salaries are what the bastards live on, you're too naive to live. They have to be in the millionaires club to get IN to Congress--and they take a PAYCUT to go to Washington--but they LEAVE RICHER. So, that's how they pay a bribe without slipping an envelope of money under the table.
Then the very rich get laws written in their favor to not pay taxes. They hide money overseas and in shell corporations. They "Lose" money in bad investments that they write off. Basically, per the Professor, his job was to make very rich people look like they were a 25c away from qualifying for food stamps. He did it very well and it made him very rich.
It will be used to hire and fire based on discrimination. They LEGALLY can't ask you if you're married, have kids, what church you go to, who you support politically, etc. etc.
But they can read it on Facebook and roast you for your associations.
I was told by a recruiter to just completely 100% and absolutely don't use social media and don't let any member of my immediate family use it. I said, I already do, and there are no "drunk pictures" or anything like that. He was adamant. In the current hiring environment, employers will use ANYTHING to weed out anybody. Unless you're applying for a Social Media position--don't use social media. Employers who may want to send you around the world on a moment's notice doesn't want to find out you have children--or a spouse. If he wants to send you to Saudi Arabia--he pretty much CAN'T send you if you're a Jew. He may be a funny-mental-case Christian--he might let you slide if he thinks you're a luke-warm Xtian--but won't even THINK of hiring an atheist. You may not be gay, but if you have a family member who is out and proud, the employer may take exception. Did you "LIKE" Obama? In Virginia, there are people who have already been fired for that--LEGALLY! "LIKE" evidently isn't protected free speech--EVEN IF YOU WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT! (Yeah, a sheriff in Virginia Beach fired employees who supported Democrats last election--and used his investigative powers to do it. Right now they're investigating his use of his investigative powers, but the fired employees are still fired, because your political leanings aren't protected in matters of employment)
So, if you live in Washington--DO NOT LET YOUR LEGISLATORS VOTE FOR THIS BILL!
Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with Ubuntu, but, if it's not working for you, try Fedora. Download LIVE CD version that will fit on a USB drive. Have someone help you set it up to make it bootable. There's a prog called Linux Live USB. http://www.linuxliveusb.com/ That works pretty well.
THEN plug it in and boot it up. If you like it, most of them can be installed on your hdd with just a click.
I used to love my datalink watch. For 1990's tech, it was pretty good. I had to retire it with my last CRT monitor, but it was useful to me for all the years I owned it.
Well, it MIGHT not be so dumb. But CHILL dude--if somebody has an idea you don't like--you DON'T have to buy it. GEESH! you're acting like they're going to pick your pocket or something.
A smartwatch certainly wouldn't replace my Google Nexus, but if it could just have a half dozen or so simple functions, it could be worth something.
Tell me the time and date--that's a given. Bluetooth sync of the day's appointments from my calendar. Maybe a small subset of my playlist that'll transfer quickly with Bluetooth. Track a few easy peasy pieces of info, like current local weather. Stock indexes, maybe a few stocks from my portfolio. Automatic sync of important news headlines.
Just a few little things to keep me from having to pull out my pad would be a good thing and maybe worth something to me.
In their day, the Swiss Guards were some serious bad asses. Stripey clothes were all the rage then, anyway. And as far as halberds go, the 6 ft combination axe and spears they wield would STILL do a number on anyone who isn't packing a gun or other ranged weapon. They AREN'T just ceremonial--they're SHARP!
Today, they have both the ceremonial uniform (the stripey one) and they also dress somewhat like American Secret Service when the Pope is milling about his flock. They're fully versed in both the ancient weapon they carry, AND modern handguns and assault weapons. The guys who serve do so for a 2 year period as part of their Swiss Army service. It's a rather prestigious posting and competition within the standing Swiss army is fierce.
True. Quite often it's a pick-which-way-I-want-to-lose day at the ole Stubbyfingers manse. This morning as she drove me to my bus stop on her way to work, it was shaping up to be ONE OF THOSE DAYS. BUT, it's mostly worked for 25 years.
Or as we say at our anniversaries, "Here's to another year of near misses!"
You wouldn't say "Genteel Emotions" if you ever had a rolling pin thrown at you. Women ARE diverse individuals--just don't do anything to piss'em off if you know what's good for you.
25 years of experience tells me the reason Wives outlive the Husbands on average is because Hubby gave his Honest Opinion once too often.
She was going after him tooth and nail because it would look good on her if she won. The so-called "victim" wasn't pressing charges.
Read "The Hacker Crackdown" In there they charged a bunch of kids with "Hacking" to obtain "Secret" information that could destroy the nation's telecommunications grid. After coercing several into a plea deal to plead guilty and take 18months to testify against the remaining defendant who faced something like 30Years, it became known that AT&T actually SOLD the "Stolen" information that REALLY COULDN"T DESTROY THE NATIONS telecom grid in a bound manual for $12.50 if you called their 800 number. SO, the "dangerous hacker" who had spent 2 years in solitary waiting for trial was released with a misdemeanor petty theft and everybody who cooperated went to Fed prison and have a felony record that they plead to . This cost the Gov't several million to prosecute.
BTW, when your wife asks you how she looks wearing whatever she has donned, she does NOT want an honest answer. "You look fine" or "You Look LOVELY" or something like are the only acceptable answers. However, you have signed an unwritten contract to accept all blame from any wardrobe issue she may have from the time you replied until she removes the article(s). If the question precedes a new clothing purchase, the unwritten contract you have signed in blood only terminates when the article is willingly and lovingly donated to Goodwill.
OK, You're going to give long winded arguments that if we let the Pure Capitalists have their way--their basic honesty and fairness will have their employees fat and happy.
I'm done trying to shoot down your Ayn Rand Epistomology--Ms. Rand said bluntly that employees are not worht the wages you have to pay them in one of her essays. (yes, I've read many of them)
All I can say is BULLSHIT!
Employers would cut wages until the Gov't HAD to step in and feed the masses to keep them from rioting--and then say their taxes to pay the army to keep the bad elements from knocking down their walls were too high. Society IS NOT about YOU making a profit. You CAN make a profit, but you CAN'T do injury to others to do it (broad definition of INJURY here--you can't beat them, cheat them out of the agreed wages, pay them less than the legal minimum--and that's employees) For NON employees, you can't steal from them, deprive them of THEIR livelihood or make it impossible to live in your shadow [ie, you can't cut a guy off from competeing with you by burning the bridge to his place of business--you can't INTENTIONALLY pollute downstream of your business so that other's can't drink the water or breathe the air])
The "Pure Capitalism" model has been tried. Employers pretty much paid their employees enough to keep them alive and not much more. When business went down, cutting wages below starvation was a neat way of culling the weaker employees.
One additional note...if "all Obama supporters are on Welfare" then we have a welfare rate of at LEAST 51%. Perhaps something is "BROKEN" in our economy and "100% pure Capitalism" isn't the answer.
The Equal Right act did 2 things. YES, it forced people in power to stop discriminating by race. It also removed all LEGAL discrimination (the "Jim Crow" laws that actually gave Legal support to discrimination. BUT i'm not talking about that. We're MOSTLY past the age where people of color couldn't enter through the front door and needed to be out of town by sundown. (BTW, in my hometown, that law was still on the books and some old farts still thought it was enforceable and were ANGRY when it wasn't)
I'm talking about wages and benefits alone. I had this conversation with a guy after the 2012 election. He was ranting about Obama getting re-elected. He said it shouldn't count because there were still questions as to his citizenship and immigration status (Yeah, he not only thinks Obama is Kenya born, but in the country illegally--honestly believes it) and ALL of his supporters were on welfare and shouldn't have been allowed to vote anyway. As far as he was concerned, HIS votes should count more because he had several businesses and was helping the country more than ANY individuals. "OH, so you don't vote as an individual, you vote as a shareholder and the more shares, the more your vote counts", I said. "EXACTLY!" He was going on about how people thought the world owed them a living when they weren't really contributing to it if they didn't actually have a business of their own that DID something useful. I replied that the WORLD doesn't owe an individual a living, but EMPLOYERS owe their EMPLOYEES one. He called me a "Commie". Then began telling me that their SHOULD be NO minimum wage and how the Obamanistas were talking about raising it from $7ish/hr to $10/hr. None of HIS employees got $10/hr and they weren't WORTH the $7 that he was forced to pay them. He was barely breaking even paying minimum wage. I said that if he was paying his FULL TIME employees so little that they still qualified for Welfare, Food Stamps, Rent and Utility assistance and Medicare, then it was HE who was recieving the most benefit from welfare--not his employees. He is not allowed to shortchange the developer on the lease for his business properties. His business would be dark if he didn't pay his full utility bill for several months. His suppliers wouldn't send him the materials that he needs to produce his products if he underpaid them. Why, then, should he be allowed to gyp his employees out of a living and health benefits, just because it was the ONLY part of the equasion that would allow it? I also said if he couldn't pay his employees a living wage for their labor and still make money, then perhaps his talents weren't in business. He said "FUCK YOU! YOU COMMIE PINKO BASTARD".
This is why I am not and do not WANT to be an entrepreneur. I want to do my bit, cash my check, and go the hell home. Now, I HAVE worked in places where a 40hr week didn't get the job done--and I accepted that--because they PAID me for it.
What I don't understand is there's become this attitude that everybody has to be a high roller entrepreneur and work 100 hour weeks and maybe succeed and maybe bankrupt yourself and leave your family homeless. WHY? If somebody WANTS to do that--let'em. I don't--but American society is going to the Darwinian "Top Dog or dead dog" model. You're a successful CEO of a multi-million dollar company--or you're roadkill.
I worked in a 10 man shop supporting a user base of 1200+. My boss once said if we ever worked a 40hour week, he'd charge it to VACATION AND SICK LEAVE.
A 60 hour week was pretty standard. 90 hour weeks weren't unheard of.
So, Google reads my e-mails and sends me ads that I usually ignore based on that.
Am I upset? NO, because Google still WORKS.
Microsoft is just upset that they didn't do it first. Same with the Browser. Same with the Internet. Same with computer networking in general. Ditto pad computing. And cell phones. Gaming consoles; although, I must admit, I LIKE X-Box, but they DIDN'T THINK OF IT BEFORE SOMEBODY ELSE MADE A BUCKET OF MONEY OFF OF IT.
And let's face it. As far as the bean counters are concerned, you put a body in a chair and code flows forth. It doesn't matter to them if it's good code.
I live near DC. I REALLY don't want to see weapon's designers with "Will make WMD for food" signs.
How long before a contractor Defense Intelligence Analyst realizes that someone else will pay him for his skills--perhaps someone in places where they don't like US very much.
Admittedly, French factory workers generally don't leave work too tuckered out. Alternately, French factories don't have a need to put safety netting on the roof to keep indentured workers from jumping off to escape their servitude.
But we in the U.S. have itch-youz, too. I went for a job interview where I was told by the hiring manager to not bother sitting down, they weren't hiring any Americans, "interviews" were just a formality so they could get more H-1Bs. Yep. NO SHIT! They were dragging people from India as fast as they could to work for a straight $8/hr with no insurance benefits, no holidays, vacation, or sick time. They all had to have 2nd jobs to pay rent. Many of them had to borrow large amounts of money from their extended families to bribe the Indian headhunters to even get them to the U.S. Furthermore, the company had their visa, so they couldn't even seek employment elsewhere.
How do I know this? I happened to meet one of their poor guest workers. She had a security badge from the company and I asked how she liked her job. She DIDN'T. She said it was a terrible place to work. She was a programmer. She and her husband had about $20000 in debt back home they'd scrounged up to get their U.S. jobs. She was pregnant. She couldn't get any time off to go to the doctor for prenatal care. The best she could do was a doc-in-a-box near her other job. Once the baby was born, she was probably going to lose her job. She wasn't sure she'd be able to stay in the U.S. Her husband hadn't seen her in about 5 months because his job with the same company was in another state. He wasn't going to be able to come when the baby was born.
The more I listened to this poor girl (I say "girl" because she's young enough to be my daughter), the more I though this story sounded more like it had been written by Charles Dickens or Harriet Beecher Stowe. And this was in 2006! She KNEW that most people didn't get treated like that--HELL, She worked at a SUBWAY for her 2nd job and they treated her MUCH better than the other company. PAID her more per hour, too. Still didn't have health care, but WOULD have it from Subway after she was there 6 months. Wouldn't pay for the baby, but I suppose it was some comfort.
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WHAT? It's all LEGAL.
I used to work for a tax attorney who had EXTREMELY RICH people and corporations as clients--a VERY sweet man, and believe it or not, scrupulously honest within the rules as written. He was also a law professor and at 91 STILL PRACTICING (he passed away in 2005, but I'd bet he's still collecting residuals :-) ANYWAY, he knew the laws as written were 100% unfair to people who worked for a living. That's because the extremely rich don't want to PAY for the gov't--they just want it to benefit them. They grease the palms of Congress to get loopholes written into the tax and business laws. They call them "campaign donations". Also, almost every congressman has a book deal ---who do you think buys up the stock? (RICH PEOPLE buy 'em by the truck and then dispose of them) Lastly, except for campaign speeches, they get PAID beaucoup bucks when ever they stand up in front of a crowd and open their pie holes--it's called a speaker's fee.
If you think those congressional over inflated salaries are what the bastards live on, you're too naive to live. They have to be in the millionaires club to get IN to Congress--and they take a PAYCUT to go to Washington--but they LEAVE RICHER.
So, that's how they pay a bribe without slipping an envelope of money under the table.
Then the very rich get laws written in their favor to not pay taxes. They hide money overseas and in shell corporations. They "Lose" money in bad investments that they write off. Basically, per the Professor, his job was to make very rich people look like they were a 25c away from qualifying for food stamps. He did it very well and it made him very rich.
The Professor was still a good guy, though.
It will be used to hire and fire based on discrimination. They LEGALLY can't ask you if you're married, have kids, what church you go to, who you support politically, etc. etc.
But they can read it on Facebook and roast you for your associations.
I was told by a recruiter to just completely 100% and absolutely don't use social media and don't let any member of my immediate family use it. I said, I already do, and there are no "drunk pictures" or anything like that.
He was adamant. In the current hiring environment, employers will use ANYTHING to weed out anybody. Unless you're applying for a Social Media position--don't use social media. Employers who may want to send you around the world on a moment's notice doesn't want to find out you have children--or a spouse. If he wants to send you to Saudi Arabia--he pretty much CAN'T send you if you're a Jew. He may be a funny-mental-case Christian--he might let you slide if he thinks you're a luke-warm Xtian--but won't even THINK of hiring an atheist. You may not be gay, but if you have a family member who is out and proud, the employer may take exception. Did you "LIKE" Obama? In Virginia, there are people who have already been fired for that--LEGALLY! "LIKE" evidently isn't protected free speech--EVEN IF YOU WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT! (Yeah, a sheriff in Virginia Beach fired employees who supported Democrats last election--and used his investigative powers to do it. Right now they're investigating his use of his investigative powers, but the fired employees are still fired, because your political leanings aren't protected in matters of employment)
So, if you live in Washington--DO NOT LET YOUR LEGISLATORS VOTE FOR THIS BILL!
to control their computers, or is Micro$oft using it to control the users?
Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with Ubuntu, but, if it's not working for you, try Fedora. Download LIVE CD version that will fit on a USB drive. Have someone help you set it up to make it bootable. There's a prog called Linux Live USB. http://www.linuxliveusb.com/ That works pretty well.
THEN plug it in and boot it up. If you like it, most of them can be installed on your hdd with just a click.
I used to love my datalink watch. For 1990's tech, it was pretty good. I had to retire it with my last CRT monitor, but it was useful to me for all the years I owned it.
Well, it MIGHT not be so dumb. But CHILL dude--if somebody has an idea you don't like--you DON'T have to buy it. GEESH! you're acting like they're going to pick your pocket or something.
A smartwatch certainly wouldn't replace my Google Nexus, but if it could just have a half dozen or so simple functions, it could be worth something.
Tell me the time and date--that's a given.
Bluetooth sync of the day's appointments from my calendar.
Maybe a small subset of my playlist that'll transfer quickly with Bluetooth.
Track a few easy peasy pieces of info, like current local weather. Stock indexes, maybe a few stocks from my portfolio.
Automatic sync of important news headlines.
Just a few little things to keep me from having to pull out my pad would be a good thing and maybe worth something to me.
Don't make fun of the Swiss Guards.
In their day, the Swiss Guards were some serious bad asses. Stripey clothes were all the rage then, anyway. And as far as halberds go, the 6 ft combination axe and spears they wield would STILL do a number on anyone who isn't packing a gun or other ranged weapon. They AREN'T just ceremonial--they're SHARP!
Today, they have both the ceremonial uniform (the stripey one) and they also dress somewhat like American Secret Service when the Pope is milling about his flock. They're fully versed in both the ancient weapon they carry, AND modern handguns and assault weapons. The guys who serve do so for a 2 year period as part of their Swiss Army service. It's a rather prestigious posting and competition within the standing Swiss army is fierce.
The story is Bruce Schneier slamming security awareness training--but the banner ad is for Security Awareness Training with Kevin Mitnick.
I'm going to go have a ROFL fit now.
True. Quite often it's a pick-which-way-I-want-to-lose day at the ole Stubbyfingers manse. This morning as she drove me to my bus stop on her way to work, it was shaping up to be ONE OF THOSE DAYS. BUT, it's mostly worked for 25 years.
Or as we say at our anniversaries, "Here's to another year of near misses!"
You wouldn't say "Genteel Emotions" if you ever had a rolling pin thrown at you. Women ARE diverse individuals--just don't do anything to piss'em off if you know what's good for you.
25 years of experience tells me the reason Wives outlive the Husbands on average is because Hubby gave his Honest Opinion once too often.
She was going after him tooth and nail because it would look good on her if she won. The so-called "victim" wasn't pressing charges.
Read "The Hacker Crackdown" In there they charged a bunch of kids with "Hacking" to obtain "Secret" information that could destroy the nation's telecommunications grid. After coercing several into a plea deal to plead guilty and take 18months to testify against the remaining defendant who faced something like 30Years, it became known that AT&T actually SOLD the "Stolen" information that REALLY COULDN"T DESTROY THE NATIONS telecom grid in a bound manual for $12.50 if you called their 800 number. SO, the "dangerous hacker" who had spent 2 years in solitary waiting for trial was released with a misdemeanor petty theft and everybody who cooperated went to Fed prison and have a felony record that they plead to . This cost the Gov't several million to prosecute.
I hope he makes a boatload of money off it.
BTW, when your wife asks you how she looks wearing whatever she has donned, she does NOT want an honest answer. "You look fine" or "You Look LOVELY" or something like are the only acceptable answers. However, you have signed an unwritten contract to accept all blame from any wardrobe issue she may have from the time you replied until she removes the article(s). If the question precedes a new clothing purchase, the unwritten contract you have signed in blood only terminates when the article is willingly and lovingly donated to Goodwill.
OK, You're going to give long winded arguments that if we let the Pure Capitalists have their way--their basic honesty and fairness will have their employees fat and happy.
I'm done trying to shoot down your Ayn Rand Epistomology--Ms. Rand said bluntly that employees are not worht the wages you have to pay them in one of her essays. (yes, I've read many of them)
All I can say is BULLSHIT!
Employers would cut wages until the Gov't HAD to step in and feed the masses to keep them from rioting--and then say their taxes to pay the army to keep the bad elements from knocking down their walls were too high.
Society IS NOT about YOU making a profit. You CAN make a profit, but you CAN'T do injury to others to do it (broad definition of INJURY here--you can't beat them, cheat them out of the agreed wages, pay them less than the legal minimum--and that's employees) For NON employees, you can't steal from them, deprive them of THEIR livelihood or make it impossible to live in your shadow [ie, you can't cut a guy off from competeing with you by burning the bridge to his place of business--you can't INTENTIONALLY pollute downstream of your business so that other's can't drink the water or breathe the air])
The "Pure Capitalism" model has been tried. Employers pretty much paid their employees enough to keep them alive and not much more. When business went down, cutting wages below starvation was a neat way of culling the weaker employees.
NO.
One additional note...if "all Obama supporters are on Welfare" then we have a welfare rate of at LEAST 51%. Perhaps something is "BROKEN" in our economy and "100% pure Capitalism" isn't the answer.
The Equal Right act did 2 things. YES, it forced people in power to stop discriminating by race. It also removed all LEGAL discrimination (the "Jim Crow" laws that actually gave Legal support to discrimination. BUT i'm not talking about that. We're MOSTLY past the age where people of color couldn't enter through the front door and needed to be out of town by sundown. (BTW, in my hometown, that law was still on the books and some old farts still thought it was enforceable and were ANGRY when it wasn't)
I'm talking about wages and benefits alone.
I had this conversation with a guy after the 2012 election. He was ranting about Obama getting re-elected. He said it shouldn't count because there were still questions as to his citizenship and immigration status (Yeah, he not only thinks Obama is Kenya born, but in the country illegally--honestly believes it) and ALL of his supporters were on welfare and shouldn't have been allowed to vote anyway. As far as he was concerned, HIS votes should count more because he had several businesses and was helping the country more than ANY individuals. "OH, so you don't vote as an individual, you vote as a shareholder and the more shares, the more your vote counts", I said. "EXACTLY!" He was going on about how people thought the world owed them a living when they weren't really contributing to it if they didn't actually have a business of their own that DID something useful.
I replied that the WORLD doesn't owe an individual a living, but EMPLOYERS owe their EMPLOYEES one. He called me a "Commie". Then began telling me that their SHOULD be NO minimum wage and how the Obamanistas were talking about raising it from $7ish/hr to $10/hr. None of HIS employees got $10/hr and they weren't WORTH the $7 that he was forced to pay them. He was barely breaking even paying minimum wage.
I said that if he was paying his FULL TIME employees so little that they still qualified for Welfare, Food Stamps, Rent and Utility assistance and Medicare, then it was HE who was recieving the most benefit from welfare--not his employees. He is not allowed to shortchange the developer on the lease for his business properties. His business would be dark if he didn't pay his full utility bill for several months. His suppliers wouldn't send him the materials that he needs to produce his products if he underpaid them. Why, then, should he be allowed to gyp his employees out of a living and health benefits, just because it was the ONLY part of the equasion that would allow it? I also said if he couldn't pay his employees a living wage for their labor and still make money, then perhaps his talents weren't in business.
He said "FUCK YOU! YOU COMMIE PINKO BASTARD".
Per most GOP members, as an "employee" I neither deserve to live, eat, or have a place in the Great Hereafter if I'm not an ENTREPRENEUR.
This is why I am not and do not WANT to be an entrepreneur. I want to do my bit, cash my check, and go the hell home.
Now, I HAVE worked in places where a 40hr week didn't get the job done--and I accepted that--because they PAID me for it.
What I don't understand is there's become this attitude that everybody has to be a high roller entrepreneur and work 100 hour weeks and maybe succeed and maybe bankrupt yourself and leave your family homeless. WHY? If somebody WANTS to do that--let'em. I don't--but American society is going to the Darwinian "Top Dog or dead dog" model. You're a successful CEO of a multi-million dollar company--or you're roadkill.
I worked in a 10 man shop supporting a user base of 1200+. My boss once said if we ever worked a 40hour week, he'd charge it to VACATION AND SICK LEAVE.
A 60 hour week was pretty standard. 90 hour weeks weren't unheard of.
If I walk in wearing a Google (fucking) Glass, I DARE them to eject me or actually TRY an "ass kicking".
So, Google reads my e-mails and sends me ads that I usually ignore based on that.
Am I upset? NO, because Google still WORKS.
Microsoft is just upset that they didn't do it first. Same with the Browser. Same with the Internet. Same with computer networking in general. Ditto pad computing.
And cell phones.
Gaming consoles; although, I must admit, I LIKE X-Box, but they DIDN'T THINK OF IT BEFORE SOMEBODY ELSE MADE A BUCKET OF MONEY OFF OF IT.
And let's face it. As far as the bean counters are concerned, you put a body in a chair and code flows forth.
It doesn't matter to them if it's good code.
Actually, gators are cool with that.
Honestly, they won't mind the snack.
I live near DC. I REALLY don't want to see weapon's designers with "Will make WMD for food" signs.
How long before a contractor Defense Intelligence Analyst realizes that someone else will pay him for his skills--perhaps someone in places where they don't like US very much.
Some people are a tad dangerous to "lay-off".
Admittedly, French factory workers generally don't leave work too tuckered out. Alternately, French factories don't have a need to put safety netting on the roof to keep indentured workers from jumping off to escape their servitude.
But we in the U.S. have itch-youz, too. I went for a job interview where I was told by the hiring manager to not bother sitting down, they weren't hiring any Americans, "interviews" were just a formality so they could get more H-1Bs. Yep. NO SHIT! They were dragging people from India as fast as they could to work for a straight $8/hr with no insurance benefits, no holidays, vacation, or sick time. They all had to have 2nd jobs to pay rent. Many of them had to borrow large amounts of money from their extended families to bribe the Indian headhunters to even get them to the U.S. Furthermore, the company had their visa, so they couldn't even seek employment elsewhere.
How do I know this? I happened to meet one of their poor guest workers. She had a security badge from the company and I asked how she liked her job. She DIDN'T. She said it was a terrible place to work. She was a programmer. She and her husband had about $20000 in debt back home they'd scrounged up to get their U.S. jobs. She was pregnant. She couldn't get any time off to go to the doctor for prenatal care. The best she could do was a doc-in-a-box near her other job. Once the baby was born, she was probably going to lose her job. She wasn't sure she'd be able to stay in the U.S. Her husband hadn't seen her in about 5 months because his job with the same company was in another state. He wasn't going to be able to come when the baby was born.
The more I listened to this poor girl (I say "girl" because she's young enough to be my daughter), the more I though this story sounded more like it had been written by Charles Dickens or Harriet Beecher Stowe. And this was in 2006! She KNEW that most people didn't get treated like that--HELL, She worked at a SUBWAY for her 2nd job and they treated her MUCH better than the other company. PAID her more per hour, too. Still didn't have health care, but WOULD have it from Subway after she was there 6 months. Wouldn't pay for the baby, but I suppose it was some comfort.