He might get buried there, either shipped as a corpse or dying on the way, but it's not likely that he'd actually ever live there, it's not anywhere near as close as some people might think it is.
how are they going to enforce "do not track" if they can't even enforce do not call?
That's the question I was asking when I saw this story and decided to post it. So far as I know, some of the worst of the bad actors out there actually will use the 'Do Not Call' list as their calling list for their robodialers; others just roll the dice and hope there aren't enough complaints to get them busted, or find some way to obfuscate themselves enough to avoid calls getting traced back to them. Also, I'm not sure how a 'Do Not Track' law is going to be enforcable on a website that is hosted and operated outside the United States, not unless this was part of a world-wide agreement. I suppose in a glass-half-full sort of way, it's good that legislators are at least taking the subject seriously enough to be trying to do something about it.
If you're not interested in discussing anything of substance, why post at all?
Oh gee, I'm so sorry, I forgot that I'm supposed live up to your arbitrary standards of posting! I'll run right out into traffic straightaway and kill myself, O God of the Internets, will that appease you?
I've looked through a few hundred of your recent comments; they're far from what I'd call 'sparkling', and they're sure not popular, in fact I'd call them passive-aggressive trolling. Bugger off, I'm done talking to you.
Who cares what it is? It's Microsoft, so it's automatically crap. Probably will get forced onto everyone just like Windows 10, and it'll probably be used by Microsoft, their 'partner companies', and the government to directly spy on what you're doing on your computer at all times. Who needs it? Linux plus VNC FTW, Microsoft can shove it up it's Borg botnet ass.
That more or less sums up what you're saying, and what all the whiners and complainers about this legislation are saying. Why wait until someone gets hurt or killed before you do something about a situation? Or is your convenience more important than making sure your toys don't get someone hurt or killed? Like I said: lawn darts.
'my argument'
There is no 'argument' here; I'm telling you all how things are. Your job is to nod your heads and soak up the truth and wisdom. For extra credit, go make sure nobody else is being stupid with their flying toys either, so you ALL get to keep them in the future. Now please get lost.
Sounds like they're aiming to screw themselves out of the market entirely. Strip it all out of your house and send it back for a refund, buy products from a responsible company that isn't out to screw over their customer base.
Here, read this, especially the part about the FAA wanting to educate drone users, not punish them: https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Also, you're giving me the 'pointed stick' argument: anything can be used as a weapon so why don't they just ban everything? It's not a valid argument. Point: If ALL drone users had acted responsibly in the first place, none of this would be happening right now, but that's not the case, the Djinn is out of the bottle, the proverbial horse has left the proverbial barn, Pandora's semi-autonomously-flying box has been opened; it ain't going back the way it was no matter how much whiners whine about it, so just pay your $1.67 per year registration fee and move on already. Maybe the next time some new 'toy' in the lawn darts category comes up, citizens instead of the government will jump up and make sure people aren't being stupid with them, instead of the gods-be-damned clusterfuck this whole gods-be-damned toy drone thing has turned into.
Here's the important part for the 'tl,dr' crowd: The FAA is focusing on educating drone operators, since they believe most illegal operation of drones is due to ignorance on the part of the operators. Forcing you to pay a whole $5 for 3 years and put a number on your drone is a way to make you pay attention and learn the rules. Again: you're getting off EASY, they're not assuming everyone is a criminal or terrorist, they're not outlawing drones, they're not doing this to make money (in fact it probably COSTS more to operate the registration process than the $5 they're charging).
Oh, I dunno which problem is worse, idiots flying in the airspace of firefighting planes trying to keep California from burning to a cinder, or idiots flying onto Whitehouse grounds, or criminals flying their 'drone delivery service' into a federal prison to deliver their 'care package' of contraband, or scumbags using drones to invade their neighbors privacy? Or idiots (potential terrorists?) flying them in and around airports? Or who knows what else idiots with drones have done that I didn't read about? Do we just wait until there's a million of them, and idiots flying them all over the place with no regard for anyone's safety, or for existing laws, and then crack down on them? Makes ZERO sense, and again: All you guys with your toys are getting off easy only having to register them, instead of them being made completely and totally illegal.
..and NO, I really don't care about anyone else's opinions, especially the whiners and complainers about this development from the FAA, because it's about as just and fair as things are going to get (see above: 'not outlawed') so you should all just STFU and be thankful you get to keep them at all -- and if you want to complain to someone, go find one of the fools who made this situation what it is now, and beat on them for a while.
They are expecting what around 700,000 "drones" to be sold this holiday season, so that almost certainly means that there are already hundreds of thousands of them already flying and how many actual incidents have there been?
Just enough high-profile ones, and of high enough profile, to get the wrong kind of attention from the right people, that's what. Blame the idiots and criminals, not the government. Yell at me all you want, I'm just telling you all how it is, and IDGAF if any of you like it or not.
Every last one of you who are whining about this now had every opportunity to call or write your local legislators and the FAA and suggest some sort of better solution other than 'do nothing', and you didn't, so you can just STFU so far as I'm concerned, or go kick in the door of the idiots who helped make these annoying enough to make the government do something about them. Also so far as I'm concerned you people who are complaining the loudest are probably the ones who want to fly them in places you shouldn't be flying them, and now you're all butthurt over having to be responsible, so again: STFU. Pay your $5 and be glad they aren't outlawing them completely.
Under the system, which was recommended by a task force of drone manufacturers, state regulators, airline pilots, and police in November, individuals who currently own and fly a drone have until Feb. 19 to register with the FAA.
Gee, I guess you complainers should go picket your drone manufacturers' headquarters, then, and protest at airports against pilots, too. Or maybe you can get over it. Also stop flying your toys in places they don't belong. I'm firmly convinced that every last one of you who are complaining about this are the ones responsible, and the louder you whine about it, the worse an offender you are.
So many of you are complaining about your toys having to be registered with the FAA now. But I put these points to you:
1. Who is really to blame, here? The retards who were irresponsible with their toys, that's who, so go bang on them! 2. What the actual FUCK do you expect the FAA and the government to do? Nothing? Doing nothing means the problem continues. Or do you expect cops to waste their time trying to chase down little flying toys? That's like trying to herd ferrets.. who got into a case of Rockstar; it ain't happenin'. The only other viable alternative I can see, would be to ban non-government drones entirely from the U.S., which no doubt would make all of you froth at the mouth even worse. Therefore: GET OVER IT.
You can thank the retards for ruining it for everyone.
THIS, times infinity! You want to get upset at someone for the government and law enforcement having to go this way? Go beat down the door of one of the morons who flew their toy into a wildfire and got in the way of firefighters, or onto the Whitehouse grounds, or to spy on some neighbors' daughter, or any of the other morons who literally ruined it for everyone.
The fact that their reasoning is circular is only reinforcing their beliefs to themselves.
Exactly, like the billboard near my house, proclaiming 'The Bible contains evidence that God exists!'.. but I digress.. I've worked with electricity, then electronics, then computers, since I was ten or eleven years old, and I'm middle-aged now. Seems like every day I take for granted basic things about those three subjects that I know, and am reminded by (to borrow your term) 'Most People' of that fact, when I see them give me confused, and even sometimes scared, looks about technology. If it's just shooting the breeze about the weather or whatever casual topics might come up in convesation, you usually don't notice any difference in those extra thirty or forty IQ points, but as soon as anything technical comes up, it becomes shockingly obvious.
The FBI, like most of our policitians, apparently, are ignorant jackasses. If you put a 'backdoor' into encryption so the government can encrypt it, then it is exactly the same, in practical terms, as transceiving data in the clear instead. Guaranteed, terrorists, spies, and criminals, will all have access to this 'backdoor' within weeks (if not days or hours) of it becoming a reality. What do we have to do to get these fucking idiots to understand that?
You want to hold yourself out as a qualified expert on climatology? Fine. Reveal your real name, your credentials, and your published papers on the subject. Be prepared to prove you're who you say you are, and to defend your credentials and your findings. Otherwise, you're just another random person on the Internet who claims they know what they're talking about.
I'm not saying it's not possible to do a scientifically valid analysis, I'm saying nobody here is qualified to do so, or if they are there's no way for them to prove they are, unless they want to go public with who they are, show their bona-fides, and present their work. You notice how much of that is happening here (zero). Furthermore, the types that infest places like Slashdot are also going to scoff wildly at any actual research that's already been done, and scoff even more at the people who did the research, citing ulterior motives and conspiracy theories, much in the way that Ted Cruz, noted nutbag, says that 'climate change' is all just a liberal conspiracy to grab power and money.
The really sad thing is, by the time the Earth itself makes it obvious whether there is such a thing as 'global warming' or not, it'll be way too late to do anything about it. What little comfort I can take on the subject, is that I'll be long since dead before that day comes, so I won't have to suffer through it.
OMFG, the level of stupidity in threads like this
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Know what? All sides of any thread on the subject of the Earth's climate and what may or may not be happening to it, and who/what may or may not be responsible for it? And I mean all sides of it, is full of utter stupidity masquerading as 'opinion' and 'fact'.
You want 'facts'? You want 'informed opinions'? You're not going to find it here. Why? Because nobody here is a scientist specializing in climatology, and while it's possible, I find it highly unlikely that anyone who posts here, myself included, is academically qualified enough to interpret what climate data has been collected, if you could even find such analysis to be scientifically valid in any significant way. All I see in any discussion thread like this one? Beliefs, plain and simple; you're expressing your belief in this-or-that theory (which you have neither the credentials nor the background to explore and prove/disprove yourself using the scientific method), or belief in one scientist or the other (which is about as useless as the above mentioned belief-in-a-theory), or (my 'personal favorite', said with sarcastic overtones) belief in the words some non-scientific pundit or other's 'belief' one way or the other. All the above may as well be someone saying 'God says it's one-way-or-the-other', or just roll a six-sided die, 1-2-3 means 'no global warming', 4-5-6 means 'there is global warming'.
Face the truth: Nobody is deciding anything about Earth's climate, one way or the other here. All everyone is doing is venting a bunch of hot air, using it as an excuse to fling around personal insults against anyone who doesn't agree with your 'opinion' on the subject, and generally wasting theirs and everyone else's time accomplishing absolutely nothing.
You want to actually do something of real substance with regards to investigating possible long-term changes in the Earth's climate, and what may or may not be affecting it? Go get a real education in the sciences, with a focus on climatology (and whatever other subjects are useful in this case) whether you get degree(s) in them or not, go collect your own data (or at least investigate, in a scientific manner, the validity of the data collected thusfar) do your own experiments, and come to real science-based conclusions, publish your findings, and face the judgement of the world scientific community, just like with any other scientific research. Otherwise you're just 'armchair quarterbacking' to no effect.
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Don't like what I had to say here? Tough for you. Deal with it.
Brainwave-reading technology, that all citizens will be required to have implanted in their heads at birth, that detect when you're thinking about anything copyrighted. Embedded wireless technology will automatically generate a charge on your credit card or against your bank account to pay a royalty fee.
Personally I have nothing against people from other countries -- the U.S. was, and still is, made up of peoples from all over the world -- but if you're not a U.S. citizen, then all your arguments, to me, are suspect. It makes ZERO sense to give jobs to people imported from other countries when there are U.S. citizens, who have families to take care of, who are being passed over for jobs, and all this about them 'not being qualified' is frankly bullshit, and in fact it's the opposite case: very often the 'imports' are not as skilled or experienced. I KNOW people who have been affected by this, most of which worked for their respective companies for years and years, and were forced out because they'd rather pay some kid from overseas a fraction of what they were making, regardless of their skill or experience (or lack thereof), and someone from another country who is arguing the opposite of what I'm saying, is frankly lacking in basic credibility due to their own self-interest. We NEED to take care of our own citizens FIRST, and selfish corporations need to be smacked down when they try to screw our own people so they can improve their bottom line.
..and before anyone says it: I am NOT one of the people who lost a job to an H1-B, but that doesn't mean I don't object to the way things are being done.
What should be done instead is to create legislation mandating that the unemployment rate for the industry being hired for is below a set level before they can import workers on the H1-B program, *and* they have to pay the prevailing wage. Saying the talent doesn't exist in the U.S. is utter and complete bullshit, and if I had my way what corporations do to U.S. citizens with the H1-B program would be considered treason. It has nothing to do with 'no local talent', it has to do with 'we don't want to PAY for local talent'. Meanwhile the middle class in this country is disappearing.
That's programming a VR that lives on the SMBus, not accessing locked-down PLL registers to overclock the crap out of something, so no, actually, really, that's only one of the elements I was talking about.
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I'd rather die at 70, having lived a high quality of life, than live 140 gruelling years of clinging to life for no reason than to cling to life.
He might get buried there, either shipped as a corpse or dying on the way, but it's not likely that he'd actually ever live there, it's not anywhere near as close as some people might think it is.
how are they going to enforce "do not track" if they can't even enforce do not call?
That's the question I was asking when I saw this story and decided to post it. So far as I know, some of the worst of the bad actors out there actually will use the 'Do Not Call' list as their calling list for their robodialers; others just roll the dice and hope there aren't enough complaints to get them busted, or find some way to obfuscate themselves enough to avoid calls getting traced back to them. Also, I'm not sure how a 'Do Not Track' law is going to be enforcable on a website that is hosted and operated outside the United States, not unless this was part of a world-wide agreement. I suppose in a glass-half-full sort of way, it's good that legislators are at least taking the subject seriously enough to be trying to do something about it.
If you're not interested in discussing anything of substance, why post at all?
Oh gee, I'm so sorry, I forgot that I'm supposed live up to your arbitrary standards of posting! I'll run right out into traffic straightaway and kill myself, O God of the Internets, will that appease you?
I've looked through a few hundred of your recent comments; they're far from what I'd call 'sparkling', and they're sure not popular, in fact I'd call them passive-aggressive trolling. Bugger off, I'm done talking to you.
Who cares what it is? It's Microsoft, so it's automatically crap. Probably will get forced onto everyone just like Windows 10, and it'll probably be used by Microsoft, their 'partner companies', and the government to directly spy on what you're doing on your computer at all times. Who needs it? Linux plus VNC FTW, Microsoft can shove it up it's Borg botnet ass.
What could possibly go wrong?
That more or less sums up what you're saying, and what all the whiners and complainers about this legislation are saying. Why wait until someone gets hurt or killed before you do something about a situation? Or is your convenience more important than making sure your toys don't get someone hurt or killed? Like I said: lawn darts.
'my argument'
There is no 'argument' here; I'm telling you all how things are. Your job is to nod your heads and soak up the truth and wisdom. For extra credit, go make sure nobody else is being stupid with their flying toys either, so you ALL get to keep them in the future. Now please get lost.
Sounds like they're aiming to screw themselves out of the market entirely. Strip it all out of your house and send it back for a refund, buy products from a responsible company that isn't out to screw over their customer base.
Here, read this, especially the part about the FAA wanting to educate drone users, not punish them: https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Also, you're giving me the 'pointed stick' argument: anything can be used as a weapon so why don't they just ban everything? It's not a valid argument. Point: If ALL drone users had acted responsibly in the first place, none of this would be happening right now, but that's not the case, the Djinn is out of the bottle, the proverbial horse has left the proverbial barn, Pandora's semi-autonomously-flying box has been opened; it ain't going back the way it was no matter how much whiners whine about it, so just pay your $1.67 per year registration fee and move on already. Maybe the next time some new 'toy' in the lawn darts category comes up, citizens instead of the government will jump up and make sure people aren't being stupid with them, instead of the gods-be-damned clusterfuck this whole gods-be-damned toy drone thing has turned into.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Here's the important part for the 'tl,dr' crowd: The FAA is focusing on educating drone operators, since they believe most illegal operation of drones is due to ignorance on the part of the operators. Forcing you to pay a whole $5 for 3 years and put a number on your drone is a way to make you pay attention and learn the rules. Again: you're getting off EASY, they're not assuming everyone is a criminal or terrorist, they're not outlawing drones, they're not doing this to make money (in fact it probably COSTS more to operate the registration process than the $5 they're charging).
What problem?
Oh, I dunno which problem is worse, idiots flying in the airspace of firefighting planes trying to keep California from burning to a cinder, or idiots flying onto Whitehouse grounds, or criminals flying their 'drone delivery service' into a federal prison to deliver their 'care package' of contraband, or scumbags using drones to invade their neighbors privacy? Or idiots (potential terrorists?) flying them in and around airports? Or who knows what else idiots with drones have done that I didn't read about? Do we just wait until there's a million of them, and idiots flying them all over the place with no regard for anyone's safety, or for existing laws, and then crack down on them? Makes ZERO sense, and again: All you guys with your toys are getting off easy only having to register them, instead of them being made completely and totally illegal.
..and NO, I really don't care about anyone else's opinions, especially the whiners and complainers about this development from the FAA, because it's about as just and fair as things are going to get (see above: 'not outlawed') so you should all just STFU and be thankful you get to keep them at all -- and if you want to complain to someone, go find one of the fools who made this situation what it is now, and beat on them for a while.
..and finally: Read my sigline.
They are expecting what around 700,000 "drones" to be sold this holiday season, so that almost certainly means that there are already hundreds of thousands of them already flying and how many actual incidents have there been?
Just enough high-profile ones, and of high enough profile, to get the wrong kind of attention from the right people, that's what. Blame the idiots and criminals, not the government. Yell at me all you want, I'm just telling you all how it is, and IDGAF if any of you like it or not.
Every last one of you who are whining about this now had every opportunity to call or write your local legislators and the FAA and suggest some sort of better solution other than 'do nothing', and you didn't, so you can just STFU so far as I'm concerned, or go kick in the door of the idiots who helped make these annoying enough to make the government do something about them. Also so far as I'm concerned you people who are complaining the loudest are probably the ones who want to fly them in places you shouldn't be flying them, and now you're all butthurt over having to be responsible, so again: STFU. Pay your $5 and be glad they aren't outlawing them completely.
Under the system, which was recommended by a task force of drone manufacturers, state regulators, airline pilots, and police in November, individuals who currently own and fly a drone have until Feb. 19 to register with the FAA.
Gee, I guess you complainers should go picket your drone manufacturers' headquarters, then, and protest at airports against pilots, too. Or maybe you can get over it. Also stop flying your toys in places they don't belong. I'm firmly convinced that every last one of you who are complaining about this are the ones responsible, and the louder you whine about it, the worse an offender you are.
Wouldn't clouds detected on alien worlds, indicate a fairly decent chance that there is water there?
(Yes, yes, yes, I know, the clouds could be something other than water vapor -- which is why I used the word 'chance')
So many of you are complaining about your toys having to be registered with the FAA now. But I put these points to you:
1. Who is really to blame, here? The retards who were irresponsible with their toys, that's who, so go bang on them!
2. What the actual FUCK do you expect the FAA and the government to do? Nothing? Doing nothing means the problem continues. Or do you expect cops to waste their time trying to chase down little flying toys? That's like trying to herd ferrets.. who got into a case of Rockstar; it ain't happenin'. The only other viable alternative I can see, would be to ban non-government drones entirely from the U.S., which no doubt would make all of you froth at the mouth even worse. Therefore: GET OVER IT.
You can thank the retards for ruining it for everyone.
THIS, times infinity! You want to get upset at someone for the government and law enforcement having to go this way? Go beat down the door of one of the morons who flew their toy into a wildfire and got in the way of firefighters, or onto the Whitehouse grounds, or to spy on some neighbors' daughter, or any of the other morons who literally ruined it for everyone.
The fact that their reasoning is circular is only reinforcing their beliefs to themselves.
Exactly, like the billboard near my house, proclaiming 'The Bible contains evidence that God exists!'.. but I digress.. I've worked with electricity, then electronics, then computers, since I was ten or eleven years old, and I'm middle-aged now. Seems like every day I take for granted basic things about those three subjects that I know, and am reminded by (to borrow your term) 'Most People' of that fact, when I see them give me confused, and even sometimes scared, looks about technology. If it's just shooting the breeze about the weather or whatever casual topics might come up in convesation, you usually don't notice any difference in those extra thirty or forty IQ points, but as soon as anything technical comes up, it becomes shockingly obvious.
The FBI, like most of our policitians, apparently, are ignorant jackasses. If you put a 'backdoor' into encryption so the government can encrypt it, then it is exactly the same, in practical terms, as transceiving data in the clear instead. Guaranteed, terrorists, spies, and criminals, will all have access to this 'backdoor' within weeks (if not days or hours) of it becoming a reality. What do we have to do to get these fucking idiots to understand that?
You want to hold yourself out as a qualified expert on climatology? Fine. Reveal your real name, your credentials, and your published papers on the subject. Be prepared to prove you're who you say you are, and to defend your credentials and your findings. Otherwise, you're just another random person on the Internet who claims they know what they're talking about.
I'm not saying it's not possible to do a scientifically valid analysis, I'm saying nobody here is qualified to do so, or if they are there's no way for them to prove they are, unless they want to go public with who they are, show their bona-fides, and present their work. You notice how much of that is happening here (zero). Furthermore, the types that infest places like Slashdot are also going to scoff wildly at any actual research that's already been done, and scoff even more at the people who did the research, citing ulterior motives and conspiracy theories, much in the way that Ted Cruz, noted nutbag, says that 'climate change' is all just a liberal conspiracy to grab power and money.
The really sad thing is, by the time the Earth itself makes it obvious whether there is such a thing as 'global warming' or not, it'll be way too late to do anything about it. What little comfort I can take on the subject, is that I'll be long since dead before that day comes, so I won't have to suffer through it.
Know what? All sides of any thread on the subject of the Earth's climate and what may or may not be happening to it, and who/what may or may not be responsible for it? And I mean all sides of it, is full of utter stupidity masquerading as 'opinion' and 'fact'.
You want 'facts'? You want 'informed opinions'? You're not going to find it here. Why? Because nobody here is a scientist specializing in climatology, and while it's possible, I find it highly unlikely that anyone who posts here, myself included, is academically qualified enough to interpret what climate data has been collected, if you could even find such analysis to be scientifically valid in any significant way. All I see in any discussion thread like this one? Beliefs, plain and simple; you're expressing your belief in this-or-that theory (which you have neither the credentials nor the background to explore and prove/disprove yourself using the scientific method), or belief in one scientist or the other (which is about as useless as the above mentioned belief-in-a-theory), or (my 'personal favorite', said with sarcastic overtones) belief in the words some non-scientific pundit or other's 'belief' one way or the other. All the above may as well be someone saying 'God says it's one-way-or-the-other', or just roll a six-sided die, 1-2-3 means 'no global warming', 4-5-6 means 'there is global warming'.
Face the truth: Nobody is deciding anything about Earth's climate, one way or the other here. All everyone is doing is venting a bunch of hot air, using it as an excuse to fling around personal insults against anyone who doesn't agree with your 'opinion' on the subject, and generally wasting theirs and everyone else's time accomplishing absolutely nothing.
You want to actually do something of real substance with regards to investigating possible long-term changes in the Earth's climate, and what may or may not be affecting it? Go get a real education in the sciences, with a focus on climatology (and whatever other subjects are useful in this case) whether you get degree(s) in them or not, go collect your own data (or at least investigate, in a scientific manner, the validity of the data collected thusfar) do your own experiments, and come to real science-based conclusions, publish your findings, and face the judgement of the world scientific community, just like with any other scientific research. Otherwise you're just 'armchair quarterbacking' to no effect.
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Don't like what I had to say here? Tough for you. Deal with it.
Brainwave-reading technology, that all citizens will be required to have implanted in their heads at birth, that detect when you're thinking about anything copyrighted. Embedded wireless technology will automatically generate a charge on your credit card or against your bank account to pay a royalty fee.
Personally I have nothing against people from other countries -- the U.S. was, and still is, made up of peoples from all over the world -- but if you're not a U.S. citizen, then all your arguments, to me, are suspect. It makes ZERO sense to give jobs to people imported from other countries when there are U.S. citizens, who have families to take care of, who are being passed over for jobs, and all this about them 'not being qualified' is frankly bullshit, and in fact it's the opposite case: very often the 'imports' are not as skilled or experienced. I KNOW people who have been affected by this, most of which worked for their respective companies for years and years, and were forced out because they'd rather pay some kid from overseas a fraction of what they were making, regardless of their skill or experience (or lack thereof), and someone from another country who is arguing the opposite of what I'm saying, is frankly lacking in basic credibility due to their own self-interest. We NEED to take care of our own citizens FIRST, and selfish corporations need to be smacked down when they try to screw our own people so they can improve their bottom line.
..and before anyone says it: I am NOT one of the people who lost a job to an H1-B, but that doesn't mean I don't object to the way things are being done.
What should be done instead is to create legislation mandating that the unemployment rate for the industry being hired for is below a set level before they can import workers on the H1-B program, *and* they have to pay the prevailing wage. Saying the talent doesn't exist in the U.S. is utter and complete bullshit, and if I had my way what corporations do to U.S. citizens with the H1-B program would be considered treason. It has nothing to do with 'no local talent', it has to do with 'we don't want to PAY for local talent'. Meanwhile the middle class in this country is disappearing.
That's programming a VR that lives on the SMBus, not accessing locked-down PLL registers to overclock the crap out of something, so no, actually, really, that's only one of the elements I was talking about.