That was not clear. Here's a description. It's pretty despicable how corporations bend-over backwards to disqualify Americans, just so they hire cheaper imported workers:
"Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified applicants, and the steps they go through to disqualify even the most qualified Americans in order to secure green cards for H-1b workers. Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, and thousands of other companies are running fake ads in Sunday newspapers across the country each week."
Limiting H-1B is logical if you desire to help unemployed americans, but President Obama wants to *redistribute* the wages away from the "rich" americans towards poorer india, china, et cetera workers. He's said as much in his old college & other lectures. So he probably thinks H-1B visas are a great way to accomplish the goal, as it hands the money to much poorer non-americans. It's a way to spread the wealth.
"The message I take away from this election is very simple "The American people are still frustrated & still want change."
- Obama, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DV4j2URWNo
If that dying mother was just one story, I'd agree but there are lots of these stories where the UK Government Monopoly Care rejected patients. Like the elderly man who died in a waiting room on a gurney. The hospital claimed "not our fault" because he was "never admitted" even though he was on a bed in their lobby.
Or the 20 year British girl who wanted a PAP smear because both her grandmother and mother developed cervical cancer. In the US you just hand-over the cash and get it done, but this young lady was denied sefvice by the government monopoly. And again at age 21, 22, and 23. At 24 she developed cancer and died a short while later.
"Healthcare in the US will necessarily require rationing and withholding of procedures." - the new Health 'czar'
>>>When children work to support their parents' Social Security, that's what economists call a generational transfer.
Except that it's a pyramid, and all pyramids eventually collapse, because there's not enough workers (bottom) to fund the retirees (on top). It is why the FTC has outlawed pyramids in the general marketplace.
>>>Surgeons in the U.S. have a financial incentive to operate; they get paid by the operation.
False.
US surgeons get paid a flat yearly salary just the same as UK surgeons. But don't let the "facts" get in the way of your 5-minute hate towards all things American. BTW are you anti-choice? A woman owns her body and has the right to decide to kill the fetus growing inside her. Pro-choice. Why can't we *all* have the same right to own our bodies, and decide whether or not to insure it? (And at what level - 100% or just for emergency.)
I can support having a safety net to HELP pay for those who have zero cash left. Like a medical form of welfare. I cannot support an anti-choice monopoly that holds a gun to your head, and forces you to join, else spend time in jail.
>>>It's not a monopoly. There are many private health providers in the UK.
That's what they say about the US school system too: "There are many private schools to choose from." Yeah. If you're well-off. The poor and middle income persons (us) are stuck in an inferior, falling-apart government system with no way to escape. He who holds the money (government) holds the monopoly on the customer & the customer is too poor to afford paying a second bill on top of the gov't bill.
It used to be that NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, Syfy, Bravo had no overlap. But now I see MSNBC reporters "crossing over" to give reports on NBC especially during election nights or disasters, and Al Roker does his Weather Channel report from NBC studios. During the Olympics the Bravo channel ceases to be Bravo and becomes just another NBC Sports offshoot. From time to time, I've also seen Syfy shows appear on NBC, or vice-versa.
I've had a lot of people say the same about me: "You're probably a racist." It doesn't make it true. Neither do I think the web-owner blocking that certain Asian country (N.Korea perhaps) is racist. His motives are likely due to other motivations, such as ending spam.
BTW I think when someone automatically pulls-out words like "racist" or "uncle tom" or "nazi", they merely demonstrate their low IQ level. If you have an argument, then make an argument. Don't devolve to 5-year-old level of shouting pointless, meaningless words.
>>>gas company that only sells to Fords. It'd be a much less profitable business through.
Yes but in THIS case, ABC, NBC, etc decided that it is MORE profitable to protect the TV screen for broadcast and cable usage only, as these services pay ~10 times more money than internet-based Hulu does. It is a perfectly logical decision to make, if you want to maximize your bottom line.
Laws can be changed, but rights are Natural and can never be revoked. If you disagree, remember what happened to those men who were placed on trial after they tried to revoke the right to life for certain undesirable Germans, Poles, et cetera. And here in the US we had to pay Reparations to japanese Americans after we had deprived them of their liberty and property. Even though the action was legal in the 1940s (per order of the Supreme Court), it was still unethical and violated their natural, innate rights.
I only buy MAFIAA products *after* I've already seen them, and if I enjoy them, I buy them on CD or DVD. The problem is I've not enjoyed them in the last few years.
>>>Where I live antenna isn't an option which is too bad
I find it odd that you live someplace where Cable and High Speed Internet Lines have been run, but over-the-air television is not available. What is your ZIPcode? Try here: http://www.tvfool.com/ Or here: http://www.google.com/search?q=cm4228hd
Have you thought about getting limited cable? It's about $20/month for the first 20 channels.
>>>It's my website, and I allow or disallow you to see my content.
Careful. Senator Rand Paul was called a racist when he made the same argument. Don't be surprised if, in the near future, you will no longer be allowed to limit who sees the free portions of your website. i.e. You'd no longer be able to block "a specific Asian country" as you do now, because of Congressional or Judicial action.
Hence things are scarce. Not a difficult thing to comprehend, and arguing scarcity is not a real concept just makes you (and Dr. Sam Vaknin) look idiotic. Even databits, although cheap, are not infinite since their existence relies upon electricity to create them, electricity typically comes from coal (also scarce), and millions of men to dig the ditches and lay the cables (labor is scarce). The argument that things are now "free" is ridiculous.
Rachel Maddow appeared on MSNBC the other night and did point-out that CNBC has different rules from the other NBC-owned properties. She was discussing Keith Olbermann and how he was forbidden from giving contributions to politicians, which is a universal rule across all the NBC-owned channels... except the financial channel CNBC where it's a-okay.
Apparently CNBC has a different organizational structure separate from NBC, MSNBC, Syfy, and so on, which is why you can't watch NBC, MSNBC, Syfy, et al on the GoogleTV box, but you can watch CNBC just fine.
>>>they generally get a lot more money from ads on TV and carriage agreements than they do with Hulu.
You're 100% correct. ABC, CBS, Comcast/NBC, and FOX are trying to protect the TV screen for use with broadcast and cable feeds only. They don't want internet on the television screen, because it doesn't earn as much money for them.
>>>explisit conditions that it's for computer viewing only.
A Boxee or Google Box is not a computer? It has a CPU, GPU, and memory. How is that not a computer? This reminds me how RIAA gave permission to TV studios to use music on television and home video (VHS, laserdisc, videorecords), and then 10-20 years later claimed "DVD is not video" to extract additional fees. Of course DVD is video. Of course a boxee or googleTV is a computer.
>>>It is hard to think about copyright as something that helps spread and disseminate culture anymore.
That was NEVER its purpose. The purpose was to provide incentive (money from sales) to the writers to make new works. Otherwise if their books immediately fell into the public domain, they'd have no incentive to create. Or if they did create, might end-up like Edgar Allen Poe (poor).
According to a just-released Associate Press article, recent actions by FOX, ABC, NBC and CBS suggest broadcasters believe they can make more money from cable TV providers if they hold back some programming online. That could mean new limits on online viewing are coming: Broadcasters might make fewer of their shows available to begin with, or delay when they become available -- say, a month after an episode is broadcast -- rather than the few hours it typically takes now. FOX Broadcast already postpones viewing of its new episodes by 8 days.
It would make it tougher for viewers to drop their cable TV subscriptions. Broadcasters can then demand more money from cable and satellite TV providers to carry their stations on the lineups. Meanwhile Time-Warner and Comcast are pursing a new model called "TV Everywhere" that would allow viewers to watch shows from TNT, TBS, Syfy online, but not until they entered the required password (available to cable subscribers only).
>>>it's simply that the networks don't want to play nice
Pretty much. They want you watch the shows on COMCAST and other cable companies, not over the internet. I submitted the following article to slashdot about a week ago:
NBC's Syfy delaying online episodes 30 days
The Comcast/NBC-owned Syfy cable channel has decided to delay Online airing of new episodes. Most of its shows (including Haven, Ghost Hunters, Sanctuary) will not be legally available online for 30 days, in an attempt to get more people watching the show live on their Cable or Dish TV subscriptions. The response from Syfy VP Craig Engler: "How soon we post video is dependent on various agreements with producers, distributors, etc. We post as much as we can as soon as we can."
The explanation given by Hulu on their Stargate Universe page: "The first 3 episodes of the new season will be available the day after their original airdates. Subsequent episodes will become available 30 days after their original airdates."
>>>The country restrictions are there due to copyright law.
Close but not quite true. When DVDs were first introduced with Region coding, it was done to prevent citizens from buying products from overseas, like Japan or China, for less money than the home versions. The companies wanted to make that impossible, and thereby "break" the global free market. Sell the DVD for $1 in China, and $20 in the EU or US.
Now they've extended that concept to Online video. Basically it's all about Control and money.
He may be "confident" we'll be able to retain the ability to run X applications in a compatibility mode, but I'm not. MY PS3 doesn't run a whole host of PS1 or PS2 games even though Sony claimed it would. (So I bought a space PS2 instead.) Windows Vista and Seven doesn't run old 3.1 or 95/98 apps. Mac OS X doesn't do well with classic PPC or 68000 apps.
Has/. turned into the Firefox cheer brigade? How about articles about Seamonkey which also *just* arrived at the Beta stage. Or Opera 11 which is in testing stage.
Slashdot Mirror
That was not clear. Here's a description. It's pretty despicable how corporations bend-over backwards to disqualify Americans, just so they hire cheaper imported workers:
"Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified applicants, and the steps they go through to disqualify even the most qualified Americans in order to secure green cards for H-1b workers. Microsoft, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, and thousands of other companies are running fake ads in Sunday newspapers across the country each week."
You don't understand.
Limiting H-1B is logical if you desire to help unemployed americans, but President Obama wants to *redistribute* the wages away from the "rich" americans towards poorer india, china, et cetera workers. He's said as much in his old college & other lectures. So he probably thinks H-1B visas are a great way to accomplish the goal, as it hands the money to much poorer non-americans. It's a way to spread the wealth.
"The message I take away from this election is very simple
"The American people are still frustrated & still want change."
- Obama, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DV4j2URWNo
If that dying mother was just one story, I'd agree but there are lots of these stories where the UK Government Monopoly Care rejected patients. Like the elderly man who died in a waiting room on a gurney. The hospital claimed "not our fault" because he was "never admitted" even though he was on a bed in their lobby.
Or the 20 year British girl who wanted a PAP smear because both her grandmother and mother developed cervical cancer. In the US you just hand-over the cash and get it done, but this young lady was denied sefvice by the government monopoly. And again at age 21, 22, and 23. At 24 she developed cancer and died a short while later.
"Healthcare in the US will necessarily require rationing and withholding of procedures." - the new Health 'czar'
>>>When children work to support their parents' Social Security, that's what economists call a generational transfer.
Except that it's a pyramid, and all pyramids eventually collapse, because there's not enough workers (bottom) to fund the retirees (on top). It is why the FTC has outlawed pyramids in the general marketplace.
>>>Surgeons in the U.S. have a financial incentive to operate; they get paid by the operation.
False.
US surgeons get paid a flat yearly salary just the same as UK surgeons. But don't let the "facts" get in the way of your 5-minute hate towards all things American. BTW are you anti-choice? A woman owns her body and has the right to decide to kill the fetus growing inside her. Pro-choice. Why can't we *all* have the same right to own our bodies, and decide whether or not to insure it? (And at what level - 100% or just for emergency.)
I can support having a safety net to HELP pay for those who have zero cash left. Like a medical form of welfare. I cannot support an anti-choice monopoly that holds a gun to your head, and forces you to join, else spend time in jail.
I am Pro-choice.
You are anti-choice.
>>>It's not a monopoly. There are many private health providers in the UK.
That's what they say about the US school system too: "There are many private schools to choose from." Yeah. If you're well-off. The poor and middle income persons (us) are stuck in an inferior, falling-apart government system with no way to escape. He who holds the money (government) holds the monopoly on the customer & the customer is too poor to afford paying a second bill on top of the gov't bill.
I think you are splitting hairs, just as RIAA did when they claimed "DVDs are not home video" and demanded additional payments for the songs used.
>>>they are losing money.
Only if you are a Nielsen Ratings household. Otherwise your viewer or non-viewership is not measured and is not a loss for NBC, FOX, etc.
NBC seems to be more integrated now then ever.
It used to be that NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, Syfy, Bravo had no overlap. But now I see MSNBC reporters "crossing over" to give reports on NBC especially during election nights or disasters, and Al Roker does his Weather Channel report from NBC studios. During the Olympics the Bravo channel ceases to be Bravo and becomes just another NBC Sports offshoot. From time to time, I've also seen Syfy shows appear on NBC, or vice-versa.
>>>Probably because he is racist.
I've had a lot of people say the same about me: "You're probably a racist." It doesn't make it true. Neither do I think the web-owner blocking that certain Asian country (N.Korea perhaps) is racist. His motives are likely due to other motivations, such as ending spam.
BTW I think when someone automatically pulls-out words like "racist" or "uncle tom" or "nazi", they merely demonstrate their low IQ level. If you have an argument, then make an argument. Don't devolve to 5-year-old level of shouting pointless, meaningless words.
>>>gas company that only sells to Fords. It'd be a much less profitable business through.
Yes but in THIS case, ABC, NBC, etc decided that it is MORE profitable to protect the TV screen for broadcast and cable usage only, as these services pay ~10 times more money than internet-based Hulu does. It is a perfectly logical decision to make, if you want to maximize your bottom line.
>>>they don't have that legal right anymore.
Laws can be changed, but rights are Natural and can never be revoked. If you disagree, remember what happened to those men who were placed on trial after they tried to revoke the right to life for certain undesirable Germans, Poles, et cetera. And here in the US we had to pay Reparations to japanese Americans after we had deprived them of their liberty and property. Even though the action was legal in the 1940s (per order of the Supreme Court), it was still unethical and violated their natural, innate rights.
I haven't seen one of the FBI warnings in years.
I only buy MAFIAA products *after* I've already seen them, and if I enjoy them, I buy them on CD or DVD. The problem is I've not enjoyed them in the last few years.
>>>Where I live antenna isn't an option which is too bad
I find it odd that you live someplace where Cable and High Speed Internet Lines have been run, but over-the-air television is not available. What is your ZIPcode? Try here: http://www.tvfool.com/ Or here: http://www.google.com/search?q=cm4228hd
Have you thought about getting limited cable?
It's about $20/month for the first 20 channels.
>>>It's my website, and I allow or disallow you to see my content.
Careful. Senator Rand Paul was called a racist when he made the same argument. Don't be surprised if, in the near future, you will no longer be allowed to limit who sees the free portions of your website. i.e. You'd no longer be able to block "a specific Asian country" as you do now, because of Congressional or Judicial action.
Is the Earth infinite?
No.
Hence things are scarce. Not a difficult thing to comprehend, and arguing scarcity is not a real concept just makes you (and Dr. Sam Vaknin) look idiotic. Even databits, although cheap, are not infinite since their existence relies upon electricity to create them, electricity typically comes from coal (also scarce), and millions of men to dig the ditches and lay the cables (labor is scarce). The argument that things are now "free" is ridiculous.
Rachel Maddow appeared on MSNBC the other night and did point-out that CNBC has different rules from the other NBC-owned properties. She was discussing Keith Olbermann and how he was forbidden from giving contributions to politicians, which is a universal rule across all the NBC-owned channels... except the financial channel CNBC where it's a-okay.
Apparently CNBC has a different organizational structure separate from NBC, MSNBC, Syfy, and so on, which is why you can't watch NBC, MSNBC, Syfy, et al on the GoogleTV box, but you can watch CNBC just fine.
>>>they generally get a lot more money from ads on TV and carriage agreements than they do with Hulu.
You're 100% correct. ABC, CBS, Comcast/NBC, and FOX are trying to protect the TV screen for use with broadcast and cable feeds only. They don't want internet on the television screen, because it doesn't earn as much money for them.
>>>explisit conditions that it's for computer viewing only.
A Boxee or Google Box is not a computer? It has a CPU, GPU, and memory. How is that not a computer? This reminds me how RIAA gave permission to TV studios to use music on television and home video (VHS, laserdisc, videorecords), and then 10-20 years later claimed "DVD is not video" to extract additional fees. Of course DVD is video. Of course a boxee or googleTV is a computer.
Damn lawyers.
>>>It is hard to think about copyright as something that helps spread and disseminate culture anymore.
That was NEVER its purpose. The purpose was to provide incentive (money from sales) to the writers to make new works. Otherwise if their books immediately fell into the public domain, they'd have no incentive to create. Or if they did create, might end-up like Edgar Allen Poe (poor).
P.S. And another article I submitted to /.
Say Goodbye to Free Net tv
According to a just-released Associate Press article, recent actions by FOX, ABC, NBC and CBS suggest broadcasters believe they can make more money from cable TV providers if they hold back some programming online. That could mean new limits on online viewing are coming: Broadcasters might make fewer of their shows available to begin with, or delay when they become available -- say, a month after an episode is broadcast -- rather than the few hours it typically takes now. FOX Broadcast already postpones viewing of its new episodes by 8 days.
It would make it tougher for viewers to drop their cable TV subscriptions. Broadcasters can then demand more money from cable and satellite TV providers to carry their stations on the lineups. Meanwhile Time-Warner and Comcast are pursing a new model called "TV Everywhere" that would allow viewers to watch shows from TNT, TBS, Syfy online, but not until they entered the required password (available to cable subscribers only).
The full Associated Press article: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hLJUJG0KT_y42300paSxJ64BMVWg?docId=c148bb49920c44d590c60ce1f5935c83
>>>it's simply that the networks don't want to play nice
Pretty much. They want you watch the shows on COMCAST and other cable companies, not over the internet. I submitted the following article to slashdot about a week ago:
NBC's Syfy delaying online episodes 30 days
The Comcast/NBC-owned Syfy cable channel has decided to delay Online airing of new episodes. Most of its shows (including Haven, Ghost Hunters, Sanctuary) will not be legally available online for 30 days, in an attempt to get more people watching the show live on their Cable or Dish TV subscriptions. The response from Syfy VP Craig Engler: "How soon we post video is dependent on various agreements with producers, distributors, etc. We post as much as we can as soon as we can."
The explanation given by Hulu on their Stargate Universe page: "The first 3 episodes of the new season will be available the day after their original airdates. Subsequent episodes will become available 30 days after their original airdates."
The full article is here: http://forums.syfy.com/index.php?showtopic=2351127
>>>The country restrictions are there due to copyright law.
Close but not quite true. When DVDs were first introduced with Region coding, it was done to prevent citizens from buying products from overseas, like Japan or China, for less money than the home versions. The companies wanted to make that impossible, and thereby "break" the global free market. Sell the DVD for $1 in China, and $20 in the EU or US.
Now they've extended that concept to Online video.
Basically it's all about Control and money.
He may be "confident" we'll be able to retain the ability to run X applications in a compatibility mode, but I'm not. MY PS3 doesn't run a whole host of PS1 or PS2 games even though Sony claimed it would. (So I bought a space PS2 instead.) Windows Vista and Seven doesn't run old 3.1 or 95/98 apps. Mac OS X doesn't do well with classic PPC or 68000 apps.
Nope. Not confident at all.
Has /. turned into the Firefox cheer brigade? How about articles about Seamonkey which also *just* arrived at the Beta stage. Or Opera 11 which is in testing stage.
It seems all /. talks about is Firefox and IE.