Demand that your member of congress attach severe penalties (years in prison and seizure of assets) for the executives of any company that uses H1B labor when there are US workers available.
I've no desire to increase the burden on the taxpayers by imprisoning those sleazebags (prison is expensive). A much simpler and cheaper approach is to just end the H-1B program. I'm sick of this "compromise" and "exception under special circumstances" debate about the H-1B program. Just get rid of the damn thing. It didn't start until 1990, and the US was the world's technical and scientific leader for decades before some BS artists dreamed up the supposed need for such a program.
wouldn't it be a more of a free market, if companies could hire world wide, without control of the government
Which they can't, and won't be able to. There is, and never was, any plan or intent to eliminate barriers for hiring foreign workers in general in the US. It's limited to techies and farm workers. Whenever they complain about having to bend over while no one else does, they're told to suck it up in the name of the "free market". Isn't it amazing how selective the "free market" is?
It's just cheap labor conservatives up to their dirty tricks again.
Aided and abetted by cheap labor "liberals". I say this as a liberal. Being a "liberal" in politics these days means accepting gays in the military (a good thing) while shafting people who are trying to earn a living. Billy Clinton's "third way" means acting all open minded while working almost as hard as the conservatives to screw the average person.
OSHA and environmental regulations are the job killer in the US.
Right, better we should let people get killed on the job and pollute the environment with abandon. Works in China! Meanwhile, Germany has worker safety and environmental laws much tougher than the US, yet they are a major industrial exporter.
The only wrong thing is that the 1965 Immigration Act was passed.
Don't go slamming the 1965 Immigration Act in its entirety. You can argue about categories and quotas, but it did eliminate the racist immigration policy that we'd had before. It also has nothing to do with the H-1B program, which didn't start until 1990.
Wrong, and you're also a hypocrite. You don't mind near slaves and children making everything you buy...
And you know this how? The GP mentioned nothing about that. Do you often make gross and often inaccurate generalizations? That's the root of prejudice.
Would you rather these people live in the US for a while, pay taxes for your benefits, or have all that money go overseas and have them work in their original country?
That's an old and very weak rationalization for the H-1B program. Given how much lower salaries are in some countries, even compared to H-1B salaries, and that, unlike the H-1B program, there are no limits on foreign hiring, companies will move any jobs they can offshore. It's not as though they had even a shred of loyalty to the people and the country that brought them their wealth. H-1B's are hired for things that cannot be offshored, or even worse, to facilitate offshoring of other jobs. Even the Indian finance minister call the the H-1B the outsourcing visa.
we need to clamp down on tech businesses and get them to stop exploiting H-1B's
Here's a simple approach: eliminate the H-1B program. Forget the "well, let's compromise, some need" blah, blah, blah garbage. Just get rid of it. The country did fine, and was a leader in science and technology for decades, without the H-1B visa program. Also note that this does not mean any reduction in immigration (including skills based immigration), just a guest worker program that we don't, and never did, need (except for lowering salaries).
Good point. Tropical storm vs. hurricane, or hurricane category, is based only on wind speed. That gives a fair idea of the wind damage caused, but in many cases, and certainly Sandy, most of the damage is caused by the storm surge. That's more a function of the total energy of the storm, which for Sandy was the second highest on record, due to the large area it covered.
Back when I was using Solaris, standard procedure (and not just for me) was to install all the GNU utilities and put them in the path ahead of the Sun stuff.
Have you ever seen one? Besides, nobody has ever proven that wormholes don't exist, which fits great with the philosophy of the Masters of the Universe. Nobody has ever proven that all those derivatives and other exotic financial instruments will inevitably destroy the world economy, so just go with them.
These jerks doing HFT is giving people in the financial sector a bad name.
I didn't know they could get a worse name.
No matter what Wall St apologists say, this is skimming.
Probably so, but it's nothing compared to the outright criminal activities (especially control fraud) that were practiced pre-crash, and probably post-crash as well. The DoJ, SEC, OCC, etc., etc., etc. have bent over backwards to not investigate, let alone prosecute these crimes. For good measure, toss in the corrupt but unfortunately not illegal practices of the Fed engineering yield curves to benefit the banks, buying commercial trash securities (the law says the Fed is only allowed to buy high quality securities) or letting investment firms like Goldman-Sachs have access to Fed loan facilities (they're supposed to be limited to depository institutions).
No need for an atomic clock on every computer. NTP can only give you accuracy to within a few milliseconds, but PTP can give you better than 100us, albeit with some specialized networking equipment. A GPS receiver can act as the master reference for a facility, and give you absolute time to within tens of nanoseconds.
Certain algorithms have gotten more efficient faster than hardware/Moore's.
And many of them have not (perhaps cannot). Software bloat is rarely about choosing fundamental algorithms that are inefficient. Modern programmers have found plenty of other ways to slow software to a crawl.
Currently I've settled on D as the best compromise.
Have you used it successfully on serious projects? I'm intrigued by D, but have heard, even from fans, that it's still kind of buggy. Has that changed?
I'm pretty sure it was a speed of light violation.
Technically no. A wormhole is a space-time distortion, and the speed of light is not, and cannot, be violated when traveling through it. It only appears to be a violation of the speed of light to someone not taking into account the reduced distance through the wormhole.
P.S. Kudos to our financial wizards for figuring out how to create and use a wormhole. Contrary to the cynics who think they just plain cheated, using a wormhole is not forbidden by any financial regulation.
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Demand that your member of congress attach severe penalties (years in prison and seizure of assets) for the executives of any company that uses H1B labor when there are US workers available.
I've no desire to increase the burden on the taxpayers by imprisoning those sleazebags (prison is expensive). A much simpler and cheaper approach is to just end the H-1B program. I'm sick of this "compromise" and "exception under special circumstances" debate about the H-1B program. Just get rid of the damn thing. It didn't start until 1990, and the US was the world's technical and scientific leader for decades before some BS artists dreamed up the supposed need for such a program.
wouldn't it be a more of a free market, if companies could hire world wide, without control of the government
Which they can't, and won't be able to. There is, and never was, any plan or intent to eliminate barriers for hiring foreign workers in general in the US. It's limited to techies and farm workers. Whenever they complain about having to bend over while no one else does, they're told to suck it up in the name of the "free market". Isn't it amazing how selective the "free market" is?
Startup? I could pay it by taking some money out of my 401k.
It's just cheap labor conservatives up to their dirty tricks again.
Aided and abetted by cheap labor "liberals". I say this as a liberal. Being a "liberal" in politics these days means accepting gays in the military (a good thing) while shafting people who are trying to earn a living. Billy Clinton's "third way" means acting all open minded while working almost as hard as the conservatives to screw the average person.
OSHA and environmental regulations are the job killer in the US.
Right, better we should let people get killed on the job and pollute the environment with abandon. Works in China! Meanwhile, Germany has worker safety and environmental laws much tougher than the US, yet they are a major industrial exporter.
The US does not bow to the world.
Unfortunately it doesn't bow to its citizens either.
The only wrong thing is that the 1965 Immigration Act was passed.
Don't go slamming the 1965 Immigration Act in its entirety. You can argue about categories and quotas, but it did eliminate the racist immigration policy that we'd had before. It also has nothing to do with the H-1B program, which didn't start until 1990.
Wrong, and you're also a hypocrite. You don't mind near slaves and children making everything you buy ...
And you know this how? The GP mentioned nothing about that. Do you often make gross and often inaccurate generalizations? That's the root of prejudice.
Would you rather these people live in the US for a while, pay taxes for your benefits, or have all that money go overseas and have them work in their original country?
That's an old and very weak rationalization for the H-1B program. Given how much lower salaries are in some countries, even compared to H-1B salaries, and that, unlike the H-1B program, there are no limits on foreign hiring, companies will move any jobs they can offshore. It's not as though they had even a shred of loyalty to the people and the country that brought them their wealth. H-1B's are hired for things that cannot be offshored, or even worse, to facilitate offshoring of other jobs. Even the Indian finance minister call the the H-1B the outsourcing visa.
we need to clamp down on tech businesses and get them to stop exploiting H-1B's
Here's a simple approach: eliminate the H-1B program. Forget the "well, let's compromise, some need" blah, blah, blah garbage. Just get rid of it. The country did fine, and was a leader in science and technology for decades, without the H-1B visa program. Also note that this does not mean any reduction in immigration (including skills based immigration), just a guest worker program that we don't, and never did, need (except for lowering salaries).
Good point. Tropical storm vs. hurricane, or hurricane category, is based only on wind speed. That gives a fair idea of the wind damage caused, but in many cases, and certainly Sandy, most of the damage is caused by the storm surge. That's more a function of the total energy of the storm, which for Sandy was the second highest on record, due to the large area it covered.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/sandy-packed-more-total-energy-than-katrina-at-landfall/2012/11/02/baa4e3c4-24f4-11e2-ac85-e669876c6a24_blog.html
Nonsense. If your business is washed away by a storm surge you won't need to worry about looting.
Require all new housing within 10 miles of a coast to be built either on stilts or with a ground floor only used for garage, mud room, and guest room.
That makes sense. I live 1 mile from the coast. Of course I also live 200 feet above sea level. What sort of storm surge should I worry about?
Remove all insurance subsidies for housing withing 10 miles of a coast. All of them. No exemptions.
But keep them for places subject to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tornadoes, forest fires, river flooding and flash floods?
Raise power systems 10 feet up, to allow for storm surge flooding.
You do realize that most of the power losses from Sandy were due to the winds breaking above ground power lines, right?
Redraft flood drainage and screening to anticipate storm surges 10 feet in elevation in all locations.
That sounds useful - Sandy had a 13 foot storm surge.
Makes sense.
And OpenBSD, and NetBSD, and what other flavors do they have this week?
Back when I was using Solaris, standard procedure (and not just for me) was to install all the GNU utilities and put them in the path ahead of the Sun stuff.
Neutrinos exist.
Have you ever seen one? Besides, nobody has ever proven that wormholes don't exist, which fits great with the philosophy of the Masters of the Universe. Nobody has ever proven that all those derivatives and other exotic financial instruments will inevitably destroy the world economy, so just go with them.
These jerks doing HFT is giving people in the financial sector a bad name.
I didn't know they could get a worse name.
No matter what Wall St apologists say, this is skimming.
Probably so, but it's nothing compared to the outright criminal activities (especially control fraud) that were practiced pre-crash, and probably post-crash as well. The DoJ, SEC, OCC, etc., etc., etc. have bent over backwards to not investigate, let alone prosecute these crimes. For good measure, toss in the corrupt but unfortunately not illegal practices of the Fed engineering yield curves to benefit the banks, buying commercial trash securities (the law says the Fed is only allowed to buy high quality securities) or letting investment firms like Goldman-Sachs have access to Fed loan facilities (they're supposed to be limited to depository institutions).
Ya know, as a Morlock, I'm starting to look at them less as gated communities and more as veal pens.
Veal? That's barbaric. Wait until they're older - they're still pretty tender at 18.
Neutrinos? Bah. A wormhole lets you shrink the distance between 2 points, so the speed of light is less of a problem.
No need for an atomic clock on every computer. NTP can only give you accuracy to within a few milliseconds, but PTP can give you better than 100us, albeit with some specialized networking equipment. A GPS receiver can act as the master reference for a facility, and give you absolute time to within tens of nanoseconds.
No need - chips are already packaged. The epoxy package is probably more of a pollution problem than the carbon inside would be.
Certain algorithms have gotten more efficient faster than hardware/Moore's.
And many of them have not (perhaps cannot). Software bloat is rarely about choosing fundamental algorithms that are inefficient. Modern programmers have found plenty of other ways to slow software to a crawl.
Currently I've settled on D as the best compromise.
Have you used it successfully on serious projects? I'm intrigued by D, but have heard, even from fans, that it's still kind of buggy. Has that changed?
The clocks weren't quite synchronized
Yes, it's so difficult to synchronize clocks these days. A GPS receiver will only get you a time reference accurate to within tens of nanoseconds.
I'm pretty sure it was a speed of light violation.
Technically no. A wormhole is a space-time distortion, and the speed of light is not, and cannot, be violated when traveling through it. It only appears to be a violation of the speed of light to someone not taking into account the reduced distance through the wormhole.
P.S. Kudos to our financial wizards for figuring out how to create and use a wormhole. Contrary to the cynics who think they just plain cheated, using a wormhole is not forbidden by any financial regulation.