in the WW2 days, the US rounded up japanese americans and put them in 'camps' for 'safe keeping'. quite a shameful thing to do and a black mark on US history;(
how did they find the japanese americans?
CENSUS!
a lot of us have refused to feed the census since we consider it immoral (given how it was abused in the past). there are good things that come from it, but I'd still rather not take part in it.
many of us are at the point of being so suspicious of any 'info request' that comes across our desk, my new reaction is 'no, I won't answer or supply you your requested info.'
I guess its the new-normal, now. but I question every single request for 'more info' and challenge them all. rolling over and supplying info for the surveillance state will only work against you.
I have mail and many domains at gandi, a french registrar and hoster.
sigh. I guess if this law passes, I have to transfer my accounts to some new company. even if gandi relocates (I doubt it) they'll still be a french company and therefore, subject to the french set of bullshit laws.
damn. this is a big hassle. any recommendations for 'good countries' that host domains, etc? swiss? holland? who still has 'good freedom' left?
islam has, as part of its philosophy (if you call it that; its hardly a 'love of mankind'!) that everyone on the earth HAS to convert to islam. they may not say that to your face in english on camera, but its there and they all know it.
there are 'temporary peaces' where they regroup to refight you again. there is NEVER a perma peace. they do not want it and they will not accept it.
basically, I hate saying this but this religion is toxic to the earth and should be removed.
how long do you want to give them to westernize and 'live and let live' ? how much more do you want to endure while they 'teach' us what's really on their mind?
no one wants bloody wars, but a slow perma-war is much worse, isn't it?
does anyone seriously believe that islam will modernize? hell, name ANY religion that has changed even one bit since its creation. you can't expect any religion (which is mostly based on non-facts and non-provable things) to 'grow up'. the thing is, most religions are not hell-bent (..) on making everyone on the planet the same as you. christianity IS like that, but they at least won't go to the same extremes; they'll bug the hell out of you and try to enact laws to favor their own views but they rarely try to KILL you. islam is not like that; killing to convert is part of their way.
we have 3 things we can do: 1) nothing, 2) accept our defeat and just put up with this continual set of attacks, 3) man-up to the conflict and fight it to the end.
do you see a #4? I really don't. sooner or later, we will have to deal with this with #3. the question is: how much more destruction of OUR way of life are we willing to tolerate in order to avoid #3?
and similar to us, they wont ever get their older style freedom back, either. once gone, freedom is damned hard to regain.
sigh. the US can -almost- be forgiven for their stupid plunge into insanity, but the french have seen what we have had to deal with (our citizens) in the past decade or so after all the 'SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING!' bullshit; and they STILL decided to go full retard!
stupid french. seriously stupid french. they saw how it mostly ruined us and they STILL wanted to join that club!;(
see, people: even with advanced knowledge of what repression will do to your country, politicians still DO NOT CARE and will do anything to get more power even when it means throwing their country under the bus.
you are reinforcing my point. this is not 'broadcasting' since its priv'd info and radio bands have been blocked for about 20 years or so, now.
I remember buying a radio shack scanner that could do the 'diode trick' and you could easily unblock the analog phone bands. I never did that, I just read about it. yeah, read about it.
but now, even when the analog bands are no longer used for phones, the freq's are still on the block list, afaik.
and gear to decrypt digital phone rf data is NOT legal for regular people!
in no way am I 'broadcasting' where I am, other than to the technical limits of what is needed in order TO communicate.
am I walking around telling everyone that I'm about to drive on route 66 or that I'm now crosing state borders? the only ones who would know this are SPIES. if it takes a spy to know something, by definition I'm not 'broadcasting' anything.
weird to see people on this kind of forum taking the opposing view. are the shills THAT easy to buy off, these days? that many false flags registered here? must be, since no techie would be saying the anti-privacy things I'm reading (more and more) on this kind of forum.
at least they are easy to spot. they say batshit crazy things.
you're an idiot, then. only an idiot talks to cops unless under arrest.
talking to a cop can ruin your life even if you are fully innocent and have the best intentions. go watch the famous youtube video 'dont talk to cops'. you need to learn a few things.
oh, and btw, they train cops to lie and to weasel info out of you. its formal training. they know the game. shame that you are still ignorant of how its played.
btw, who DO I know that the cop is not trying to seek revenge against someone? lets say you are in a black neighborhood and a cop comes looking for a guy. you going to just give that info out? really?
bad idea all around. this is what warrants are for. get a warrant and we'll talk, but not until then.
if there is no privacy, in the future, all the privates wil get to SEE our privates!
eww. gross. I don't want to be part of that future.
OT joke: its been said of C++ that the concept of 'friends' is: friends can see each others' private parts. lol
anyway, privacy is CORE to the human race. it will never go out of style. its only the spooks and bad guys (ceos, etc) who try to connvince you (no, not a spelling error) that privacy is dead. of course, they all say that from their fenced in estates, with doormen and guards. they don't publish their emails or phone numbers or addresses. but of course, 'privacy is dead!'. right?
don't believe it and don't go easy into that good night.
'broadcasting' in the tech sense, yes, but NOT in the usual PUBLIC SENSE. convenient that you leave that part out.
to get your location, special equipment that The Public can't get (!) is needed. how is this 'broadcasting' then? its encrypted AND locked down so that only special people can see or tune it. that does not meet the definition of 'telling everyone around you where you are'. just the opposite!
why do you hate america and freedom? or, are you just trollin' ?
we can't answer this question, but take a guess: how do you think the framers of this country and its constitution would feel about this? you think they'd fine 'fine and dandy' with the government getting your 'person to person' conversations; the content, location, everything? you really think that would have approved of this?
of course not. we are not even close to the same spirit of freedom that STARTED this country. shame. damned shame, in fact. we once stood for something great.
still stuck on a nexus one with 2.2 os. no security updates AT ALL in years.
I'm not asking for gpu updates or new apps. I am asking that the google apps (gps, gmail, etc) WORK. they all crash and are not reliable on my N1. if I start out on a road trip, I have to be sure to reboot my phone so that gps won't crash. every day, several times a day, the touch screen locks up and buzzes at you (a day1 problem for n1 users which google has never even tried to fix).
the hardware is fine! it all still works. but its insecure as hell, apps don't often run right and I had to use another mail client to read my gmail mail (if that's not a slap in the face to google, I'm not sure what is. yes, gmail app on a google phone does not work and won't work from now on since its not supported anymore; nothing is 'supported' anymore on my phone).
why do I keep this phone? well, I now know google's story and this will be repeated again and again and again. if I buy something android it will fail in a year or two and I'll be abandoned again in short order after that. I'm already tired of the whack-a-mole mentality google has on their 'products'. they simply don't care. quality at google is a sorry joke. not sure when it all went to hell, but it surely has.
apple is not my cup of tea. windows, well, it USED to be the bad guy around town but now, I'm not sure its the worst thing out there anymore. but I'm not excited to spend any money on 'phones'. the whole subject matter is a sore area; all the players suck, the offerings are buggy and inconsistent, its more about money grabs than giving users good gear, and the spying - the spying by EVERYONE really gets me down.
back to fragmentation: its real, its makes google a laughing stock to those who know better and to say that you can't get kernel or ip-stack or security o/s updates because 'your gpu is too old' does not pass the smell test. it just is a bullshit excuse.
regular linux can be updated. phones are not regular linux. they all pretty much suck when you know how things COULD have been.
sdn at cisco is a joke (they cancelled onePK. oh, and they didn't really tell anyone, either, but it IS cancelled).
disc: I used to work there. key terms: 'used to'
cisco is a has-been. and most of their really good people will leave in the year, as cisco removes all cubes and goes full retar^Hopen-office-plan. no one was excited about that and people said that when their building converts over, they'll either work from home or quit.
I remember cisco from the early 90's (I was there at menlo) and cisco today is a shell of what it used to be. they have too many people, too many projects and too much dead project (and old code!).
hell, when heartbleed came out, it took cisco over 6mos to get a working ssh daemon and even then its still broken with latest linux and putty opensl libs.
they do some things right, but too much else is done wrong, there.
pity, but they have definitely passed their prime, so to speak. canceling onePK was a huge loss even though it was complex as hell. now, their sdn story is weaker than all the rest.
and don't get me started on that csr1000v piece of shit. lacks too many tools and is not reliable (from what I've seen when I played around with it). don't get me started on their bad snmp, netconf and bazillion variants of the 'cisco classic cli'.
I've even asked 'is this a real job? are you willing and able to hire a local?'
the look of shock on their faces when asked this very direct question is priceless.
usually, they lie. no, I'm wrong. they ALWAYS lie. and they fucking waste my time, collect my resume and my salary (a $100 data point, I'm told) and then I'm persona non-grateful (sic) to them.
does not work anymore unless you are very generic.
recruiters now work for THE COMPANY. they are hired by them, often exclusively, and they ONLY hunt for them or a few others. they don't work for you (they never really did, but they used to be more independant).
I have recruiters I've known for 20 years and yet, when I'm out of work, I call and its 'sorry, nothing to fit your quals right now.'
does that sound like someone who 'works for me' ?
you hunt for a job, you apply for that job and the guy-in-the-suit that is assigned to that job calls you, if even that. you don't go to generic recruiters anymore; they wont even waste any (real) time with you unless you are an instant match.
law enforcement is a joke, in the US. its about power, greed, money grabs, politics and racism.
I'll go on record saying: we could end all 'LE' for a full year and we would not even notice any change in our daily lives. except maybe some of us would NOT be hassled, shot, tased or framed.
I find the whole 'law enforcement' system a pathetic joke. if I'm in trouble, the LAST person I could call is a cop. so, if they all went away and never came back, I would never notice.
they don't really investigate things, anyway. they look for easy low hanging fruit and fund themselves with theft from citizens (civil asset forfeiture).
seriously, they would all fly to mars, one day, and we'd be better off. there really is not THAT much crime that not having cops around would not be a big problem.
yup, this is how far we've gone. cops used to be good guys, but now they are thugs with badges and military weapons. I'd just assume they DID all fly to mars and stay there.
like we have 'independant auditors' who inspect WMDs, we would need some rival country (not UN, UN is fucking worthless) to come in and 'inspect' us for compliance.
OF COURSE we can't trust ourselves. the foxes are really bad at guarding the chicken coop...
imagine that, though; what a world wide headline that would be! "amercia agreed to disarm from its worldwide mass surveillance and will be audited to ensure its real by country X Y and Z"
bzzzt. is that my morning alarm? is it take to wake up now?
lets turn it around and see how you like it. suppose the shoe was on the other foot and your country was allowing 'cheap foreign labor' to enter the country and take jobs from locals. I know, its laughable - your country can't even give reliable electricity or sanitation to most of its citizens, but lets suppose you were the tech advanced country and we were the third world.
you study for years, you pay your dues and you are invested in your country. you want to grow old there and live your life there. you care about it and you want your home to be prosperous. but the invading hoards are taking - not only the lower end jobs but ALL jobs - and your own people are now being displaced. you would just shrug it off as 'well, we tried to compete but we lost. let the better man win!'. you going to say that? and feel that way??
its so terribly one-sided, you h1b fans. you come like thieves, you take take take and the only receipient is the company who sponsored you. the rest of the folks all end up LOSING because of your presence there.
see, jobs are finite and they don't expand to fill the resources available. when the jobs are taken, those who are without are left to starve. I happen to NOT enjoy starving; especially in my own country where I have paid taxes for more decades than you have been live (very likely).
you have no clue what impact you have on the US, do you?
I bet you fucking don't even CARE! you're the perfect little capitalist: "I got mine, so fark you!". is that it?
look, just admit to being a job thief, say you simply don't CARE and at least we can give you points for honesty.
sorry, but I have to call BS on the 'its mostly about the elite programmers'. it SHOULD be about the specialty fields or where exceptional experience is needed and some researcher from a foreign country is the only expert who can do this job, that's fine.
what I have seen (been living in the bay area 25 years; born in the US and lived here all my life; and, yes, I have travelled outside the US) is that the jobs that are being filled by h1b's (at cisco, for example, where I -used- to work) are ordinary common jobs. I have met some very sharp folks who where h1b but also lots of very inexperienced, shabby programmers who created more work as clean-up after them than they added during their stay.
I mostly apply for 'regular old' programming jobs, these days. I consider myself average or a bit above, but certainly not genius level. I'm capable and I can usually get the job done or at least escalate if I'm stuck. but even for the common jobs, I'm being pushed aside in preference for the h1b. I see it at interviews. I see it when I am working, the ability level and experience level of those around me. we can all see it, its not hard. and we all know that its not the high-end programmer that we mostly import. its the common guy, and I have to tell you, lots of us 'common guys' are out of work and companies simply won't hire us because we are not as abusable as foreigners. plain and simple, cut and dried for you.
I understand you have needs and your family is important to you. but why should my country spend more time and energy supporting YOU instead of ME? I don't expect YOUR country to support me or take care of me. I don't expect country A or B or C to support me. I DO expect my own damned country to prefer its own people be working here, getting the rewards of their life-long investment in the place and helping to make the next generation of americans even better off than their parents.
that brings up another sore point. am I better off than my parents generation? I'm mid 50's and I still don't own my own house. I make (or made, when I was still working) a nice figure in the $100-$200k range. but in the bay area, its really hard to afford to buy a house if you didn't have help, and with employers throwing you under the bus every other year, no bank wants to loan money to a 'contractor' who has 'uncertain employment'. therefore, I'm a renter and may never have the chance to buy my own home. my parents grew up in the WW2 era and they made a fraction (translated) of what I make/made. but they owned their own home, could afford to have kids and treat them well, they didn't worry about 'will I be working again next year' like I do, pretty much all the time, now. they had a retirement and pension and overall they had many things I will never have.
I'm worse off than my parents' generation, overall. and its not looking like its going to improve any time soon.
so WHY should I - and people like me - just hand over my country to visitors? again, would your home country willingly accept me? my country is accepting you. where do *I* go?
you have to understand the feelings of those who invested their whole lives here, only to be told 'sorry, social contract is now off.'
what IS the role of a government? isn't it to promote the well-being or safety of its people?
are h1b's citizens where they get the same level of protection as those who were born here or got citizenship the long/slow/hard way?
why do we owe anyone else a job? its often asked 'why do US companies owe US workers jobs?' but I turn it around, why should US companies NOT support their own people, FIRST ??
find me another country that offers anything close to this h1b bullshit to foreigners coming to their shores to work. name one country - just one - that thinks its own citizens should be 2nd to 'guest workers'. ONLY the US fits that description.
we start wars with the presumption of keeping americans safe. we collect taxes to pay for infrastructure to benefit those who live here. there are many examples of what countries do for their own people. that's kind of the whole point of 'membership'; by being an american, I should have priority in employment over those who have paid NO dues here and have no vested interest - whatsoever - in the long-term success and stability of our country.
but my country sold me out. I can go months (or much longer) without getting a job offer and I have decades of useful IT experience. is that right? does that sound like my country is taking care of me? sure doesn't sound like that to me, from where I sit.
republicans - democrats - none of them lift a finger to help the struggling middle class. as far as I'm concerned, we have nothing but traitors in congress, these days.
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we can solve all crimes by preventing you and everyone else from leaving home.
we want to solve crimes right?
(do you NOT see how stupid your post was?)
in the WW2 days, the US rounded up japanese americans and put them in 'camps' for 'safe keeping'. quite a shameful thing to do and a black mark on US history ;(
how did they find the japanese americans?
CENSUS!
a lot of us have refused to feed the census since we consider it immoral (given how it was abused in the past). there are good things that come from it, but I'd still rather not take part in it.
many of us are at the point of being so suspicious of any 'info request' that comes across our desk, my new reaction is 'no, I won't answer or supply you your requested info.'
I guess its the new-normal, now. but I question every single request for 'more info' and challenge them all. rolling over and supplying info for the surveillance state will only work against you.
I have mail and many domains at gandi, a french registrar and hoster.
sigh. I guess if this law passes, I have to transfer my accounts to some new company. even if gandi relocates (I doubt it) they'll still be a french company and therefore, subject to the french set of bullshit laws.
damn. this is a big hassle. any recommendations for 'good countries' that host domains, etc? swiss? holland? who still has 'good freedom' left?
islam has, as part of its philosophy (if you call it that; its hardly a 'love of mankind'!) that everyone on the earth HAS to convert to islam. they may not say that to your face in english on camera, but its there and they all know it.
there are 'temporary peaces' where they regroup to refight you again. there is NEVER a perma peace. they do not want it and they will not accept it.
basically, I hate saying this but this religion is toxic to the earth and should be removed.
how long do you want to give them to westernize and 'live and let live' ? how much more do you want to endure while they 'teach' us what's really on their mind?
no one wants bloody wars, but a slow perma-war is much worse, isn't it?
does anyone seriously believe that islam will modernize? hell, name ANY religion that has changed even one bit since its creation. you can't expect any religion (which is mostly based on non-facts and non-provable things) to 'grow up'. the thing is, most religions are not hell-bent (..) on making everyone on the planet the same as you. christianity IS like that, but they at least won't go to the same extremes; they'll bug the hell out of you and try to enact laws to favor their own views but they rarely try to KILL you. islam is not like that; killing to convert is part of their way.
we have 3 things we can do: 1) nothing, 2) accept our defeat and just put up with this continual set of attacks, 3) man-up to the conflict and fight it to the end.
do you see a #4? I really don't. sooner or later, we will have to deal with this with #3. the question is: how much more destruction of OUR way of life are we willing to tolerate in order to avoid #3?
and similar to us, they wont ever get their older style freedom back, either. once gone, freedom is damned hard to regain.
sigh. the US can -almost- be forgiven for their stupid plunge into insanity, but the french have seen what we have had to deal with (our citizens) in the past decade or so after all the 'SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING!' bullshit; and they STILL decided to go full retard!
stupid french. seriously stupid french. they saw how it mostly ruined us and they STILL wanted to join that club! ;(
see, people: even with advanced knowledge of what repression will do to your country, politicians still DO NOT CARE and will do anything to get more power even when it means throwing their country under the bus.
"if you don't start following the law, I'm going to report you"
there, I just made a threat and its actually quite legal.
he did insult them; he used english!
you are reinforcing my point. this is not 'broadcasting' since its priv'd info and radio bands have been blocked for about 20 years or so, now.
I remember buying a radio shack scanner that could do the 'diode trick' and you could easily unblock the analog phone bands. I never did that, I just read about it. yeah, read about it.
but now, even when the analog bands are no longer used for phones, the freq's are still on the block list, afaik.
and gear to decrypt digital phone rf data is NOT legal for regular people!
in no way am I 'broadcasting' where I am, other than to the technical limits of what is needed in order TO communicate.
am I walking around telling everyone that I'm about to drive on route 66 or that I'm now crosing state borders? the only ones who would know this are SPIES. if it takes a spy to know something, by definition I'm not 'broadcasting' anything.
weird to see people on this kind of forum taking the opposing view. are the shills THAT easy to buy off, these days? that many false flags registered here? must be, since no techie would be saying the anti-privacy things I'm reading (more and more) on this kind of forum.
at least they are easy to spot. they say batshit crazy things.
you're an idiot, then. only an idiot talks to cops unless under arrest.
talking to a cop can ruin your life even if you are fully innocent and have the best intentions. go watch the famous youtube video 'dont talk to cops'. you need to learn a few things.
oh, and btw, they train cops to lie and to weasel info out of you. its formal training. they know the game. shame that you are still ignorant of how its played.
btw, who DO I know that the cop is not trying to seek revenge against someone? lets say you are in a black neighborhood and a cop comes looking for a guy. you going to just give that info out? really?
bad idea all around. this is what warrants are for. get a warrant and we'll talk, but not until then.
if there is no privacy, in the future, all the privates wil get to SEE our privates!
eww. gross. I don't want to be part of that future.
OT joke: its been said of C++ that the concept of 'friends' is: friends can see each others' private parts. lol
anyway, privacy is CORE to the human race. it will never go out of style. its only the spooks and bad guys (ceos, etc) who try to connvince you (no, not a spelling error) that privacy is dead. of course, they all say that from their fenced in estates, with doormen and guards. they don't publish their emails or phone numbers or addresses. but of course, 'privacy is dead!'. right?
don't believe it and don't go easy into that good night.
'broadcasting' in the tech sense, yes, but NOT in the usual PUBLIC SENSE. convenient that you leave that part out.
to get your location, special equipment that The Public can't get (!) is needed. how is this 'broadcasting' then? its encrypted AND locked down so that only special people can see or tune it. that does not meet the definition of 'telling everyone around you where you are'. just the opposite!
why do you hate america and freedom? or, are you just trollin' ?
we can't answer this question, but take a guess: how do you think the framers of this country and its constitution would feel about this? you think they'd fine 'fine and dandy' with the government getting your 'person to person' conversations; the content, location, everything? you really think that would have approved of this?
of course not. we are not even close to the same spirit of freedom that STARTED this country. shame. damned shame, in fact. we once stood for something great.
still stuck on a nexus one with 2.2 os. no security updates AT ALL in years.
I'm not asking for gpu updates or new apps. I am asking that the google apps (gps, gmail, etc) WORK. they all crash and are not reliable on my N1. if I start out on a road trip, I have to be sure to reboot my phone so that gps won't crash. every day, several times a day, the touch screen locks up and buzzes at you (a day1 problem for n1 users which google has never even tried to fix).
the hardware is fine! it all still works. but its insecure as hell, apps don't often run right and I had to use another mail client to read my gmail mail (if that's not a slap in the face to google, I'm not sure what is. yes, gmail app on a google phone does not work and won't work from now on since its not supported anymore; nothing is 'supported' anymore on my phone).
why do I keep this phone? well, I now know google's story and this will be repeated again and again and again. if I buy something android it will fail in a year or two and I'll be abandoned again in short order after that. I'm already tired of the whack-a-mole mentality google has on their 'products'. they simply don't care. quality at google is a sorry joke. not sure when it all went to hell, but it surely has.
apple is not my cup of tea. windows, well, it USED to be the bad guy around town but now, I'm not sure its the worst thing out there anymore. but I'm not excited to spend any money on 'phones'. the whole subject matter is a sore area; all the players suck, the offerings are buggy and inconsistent, its more about money grabs than giving users good gear, and the spying - the spying by EVERYONE really gets me down.
back to fragmentation: its real, its makes google a laughing stock to those who know better and to say that you can't get kernel or ip-stack or security o/s updates because 'your gpu is too old' does not pass the smell test. it just is a bullshit excuse.
regular linux can be updated. phones are not regular linux. they all pretty much suck when you know how things COULD have been.
REST apis at ciscso are a joke.
sdn at cisco is a joke (they cancelled onePK. oh, and they didn't really tell anyone, either, but it IS cancelled).
disc: I used to work there. key terms: 'used to'
cisco is a has-been. and most of their really good people will leave in the year, as cisco removes all cubes and goes full retar^Hopen-office-plan. no one was excited about that and people said that when their building converts over, they'll either work from home or quit.
I remember cisco from the early 90's (I was there at menlo) and cisco today is a shell of what it used to be. they have too many people, too many projects and too much dead project (and old code!).
hell, when heartbleed came out, it took cisco over 6mos to get a working ssh daemon and even then its still broken with latest linux and putty opensl libs.
they do some things right, but too much else is done wrong, there.
pity, but they have definitely passed their prime, so to speak. canceling onePK was a huge loss even though it was complex as hell. now, their sdn story is weaker than all the rest.
and don't get me started on that csr1000v piece of shit. lacks too many tools and is not reliable (from what I've seen when I played around with it). don't get me started on their bad snmp, netconf and bazillion variants of the 'cisco classic cli'.
well, its apple. so, not a JTAG port but a PRICETAG port, perhaps?
they have no prophet, only loss.
(its all there on the P&L statements....)
you guys know its a several hundred year old typo, right?
the corrected script actually says "72 YEAR OLD virgin". and you get one of them, just one.
now, if that's worth killing yourself over, hey, its your [after]life, not mine!
Ultrix 4.2a, here. have not seen a virus on this machine, ever.
still clean after all these years.
as long as you can find scsi1 disks, you can keep running Mosaic and some versions of lynx. DECwindows rocks!
(what? whaaaaat?)
I've even asked 'is this a real job? are you willing and able to hire a local?'
the look of shock on their faces when asked this very direct question is priceless.
usually, they lie. no, I'm wrong. they ALWAYS lie. and they fucking waste my time, collect my resume and my salary (a $100 data point, I'm told) and then I'm persona non-grateful (sic) to them.
does not work anymore unless you are very generic.
recruiters now work for THE COMPANY. they are hired by them, often exclusively, and they ONLY hunt for them or a few others. they don't work for you (they never really did, but they used to be more independant).
I have recruiters I've known for 20 years and yet, when I'm out of work, I call and its 'sorry, nothing to fit your quals right now.'
does that sound like someone who 'works for me' ?
you hunt for a job, you apply for that job and the guy-in-the-suit that is assigned to that job calls you, if even that. you don't go to generic recruiters anymore; they wont even waste any (real) time with you unless you are an instant match.
law enforcement is a joke, in the US. its about power, greed, money grabs, politics and racism.
I'll go on record saying: we could end all 'LE' for a full year and we would not even notice any change in our daily lives. except maybe some of us would NOT be hassled, shot, tased or framed.
I find the whole 'law enforcement' system a pathetic joke. if I'm in trouble, the LAST person I could call is a cop. so, if they all went away and never came back, I would never notice.
they don't really investigate things, anyway. they look for easy low hanging fruit and fund themselves with theft from citizens (civil asset forfeiture).
seriously, they would all fly to mars, one day, and we'd be better off. there really is not THAT much crime that not having cops around would not be a big problem.
yup, this is how far we've gone. cops used to be good guys, but now they are thugs with badges and military weapons. I'd just assume they DID all fly to mars and stay there.
I'd go one further.
like we have 'independant auditors' who inspect WMDs, we would need some rival country (not UN, UN is fucking worthless) to come in and 'inspect' us for compliance.
OF COURSE we can't trust ourselves. the foxes are really bad at guarding the chicken coop...
imagine that, though; what a world wide headline that would be! "amercia agreed to disarm from its worldwide mass surveillance and will be audited to ensure its real by country X Y and Z"
bzzzt. is that my morning alarm? is it take to wake up now?
"its not a matter of where he grips it, its a matter of weight ratios!"
oh, sorry. wrong thread. carry on.
you're indian, right?
lets turn it around and see how you like it. suppose the shoe was on the other foot and your country was allowing 'cheap foreign labor' to enter the country and take jobs from locals. I know, its laughable - your country can't even give reliable electricity or sanitation to most of its citizens, but lets suppose you were the tech advanced country and we were the third world.
you study for years, you pay your dues and you are invested in your country. you want to grow old there and live your life there. you care about it and you want your home to be prosperous. but the invading hoards are taking - not only the lower end jobs but ALL jobs - and your own people are now being displaced. you would just shrug it off as 'well, we tried to compete but we lost. let the better man win!'. you going to say that? and feel that way??
its so terribly one-sided, you h1b fans. you come like thieves, you take take take and the only receipient is the company who sponsored you. the rest of the folks all end up LOSING because of your presence there.
see, jobs are finite and they don't expand to fill the resources available. when the jobs are taken, those who are without are left to starve. I happen to NOT enjoy starving; especially in my own country where I have paid taxes for more decades than you have been live (very likely).
you have no clue what impact you have on the US, do you?
I bet you fucking don't even CARE! you're the perfect little capitalist: "I got mine, so fark you!". is that it?
look, just admit to being a job thief, say you simply don't CARE and at least we can give you points for honesty.
sorry, but I have to call BS on the 'its mostly about the elite programmers'. it SHOULD be about the specialty fields or where exceptional experience is needed and some researcher from a foreign country is the only expert who can do this job, that's fine.
what I have seen (been living in the bay area 25 years; born in the US and lived here all my life; and, yes, I have travelled outside the US) is that the jobs that are being filled by h1b's (at cisco, for example, where I -used- to work) are ordinary common jobs. I have met some very sharp folks who where h1b but also lots of very inexperienced, shabby programmers who created more work as clean-up after them than they added during their stay.
I mostly apply for 'regular old' programming jobs, these days. I consider myself average or a bit above, but certainly not genius level. I'm capable and I can usually get the job done or at least escalate if I'm stuck. but even for the common jobs, I'm being pushed aside in preference for the h1b. I see it at interviews. I see it when I am working, the ability level and experience level of those around me. we can all see it, its not hard. and we all know that its not the high-end programmer that we mostly import. its the common guy, and I have to tell you, lots of us 'common guys' are out of work and companies simply won't hire us because we are not as abusable as foreigners. plain and simple, cut and dried for you.
I understand you have needs and your family is important to you. but why should my country spend more time and energy supporting YOU instead of ME? I don't expect YOUR country to support me or take care of me. I don't expect country A or B or C to support me. I DO expect my own damned country to prefer its own people be working here, getting the rewards of their life-long investment in the place and helping to make the next generation of americans even better off than their parents.
that brings up another sore point. am I better off than my parents generation? I'm mid 50's and I still don't own my own house. I make (or made, when I was still working) a nice figure in the $100-$200k range. but in the bay area, its really hard to afford to buy a house if you didn't have help, and with employers throwing you under the bus every other year, no bank wants to loan money to a 'contractor' who has 'uncertain employment'. therefore, I'm a renter and may never have the chance to buy my own home. my parents grew up in the WW2 era and they made a fraction (translated) of what I make/made. but they owned their own home, could afford to have kids and treat them well, they didn't worry about 'will I be working again next year' like I do, pretty much all the time, now. they had a retirement and pension and overall they had many things I will never have.
I'm worse off than my parents' generation, overall. and its not looking like its going to improve any time soon.
so WHY should I - and people like me - just hand over my country to visitors? again, would your home country willingly accept me? my country is accepting you. where do *I* go?
you have to understand the feelings of those who invested their whole lives here, only to be told 'sorry, social contract is now off.'
you bring up a good point.
what IS the role of a government? isn't it to promote the well-being or safety of its people?
are h1b's citizens where they get the same level of protection as those who were born here or got citizenship the long/slow/hard way?
why do we owe anyone else a job? its often asked 'why do US companies owe US workers jobs?' but I turn it around, why should US companies NOT support their own people, FIRST ??
find me another country that offers anything close to this h1b bullshit to foreigners coming to their shores to work. name one country - just one - that thinks its own citizens should be 2nd to 'guest workers'. ONLY the US fits that description.
we start wars with the presumption of keeping americans safe. we collect taxes to pay for infrastructure to benefit those who live here. there are many examples of what countries do for their own people. that's kind of the whole point of 'membership'; by being an american, I should have priority in employment over those who have paid NO dues here and have no vested interest - whatsoever - in the long-term success and stability of our country.
but my country sold me out. I can go months (or much longer) without getting a job offer and I have decades of useful IT experience. is that right? does that sound like my country is taking care of me? sure doesn't sound like that to me, from where I sit.
republicans - democrats - none of them lift a finger to help the struggling middle class. as far as I'm concerned, we have nothing but traitors in congress, these days.