CO2 is not a hydrocarbon. Also while CH4 is a more potent greenhouse gas it also breaks down pretty soon. CO2 is dangerous as it accumulates and doesnt break down. However there is something which uses CO2 - plants. Plant more crops instead of forests. Crops use a lot more CO2 than trees. Converting the rainforest to cropland will pretty much solve Global Warming.
A lot of people in 2008 survived by living rent free in their foreclosed houses. If these folks had been renting the homelessness would have been much worse. banks did not move to take possession as noone was buying and if they did an eviction then they would have to pay to guard an empty house or have it vandalized. People taking 0$ loans did not cause 2008. The Mortgage brokers reselling these loans as AAA in order to get big bonuses caused 2008. If 0$ loans MBS had been priced properly we wouldnt have had a bust.
This money should be used for providing downpayment assistance. Amny californians pay more in rent than a mortgage but as the cost of living is so high they never can save for a downpayment. Living paycheque to paycheque means a job loss means homelessness. If they got downpayment assistance and could move into homes then a job loss would mean they could still live in those homes while they go through a restructuring of their loans with the banks.
California's housing problem is due to misguided environmentalism putting large swathes of land as forest reserves next to expanding cities. This means that houses are overpriced.
BTW I think you missed the point. I said IT work whereas you took it to the entire tech industry. IT is the on call admin, the installations, the bug fixes, the internal projects. I am not talking about startups where you have a chance of becoming a miionaire. Americans are perfectly willing to do that. But the grunt work is something only H1Bs are willing to do.
People who do not have the money to get a medical degree do not have the money to get an Engineering degree. And if you have the money why would you get an Engineering degree when medicine pays so much better?
Potassium Cyanide can be extracted from Almonds and Apple Seeds using only physical processes. Its completely organic and natural and will kill you on contact with your tongue. Organic is a scam.
H1Bs have to have a degree in Comp Science or some other engineering+5 years coding and have to be paid a certain amount (differs by areas and cost of living. For Mountain View at least 105K).
That sets some kind of a minimum bar as no company is going to pay 105K for incompetent folks.
On the other hand if you are Black Lesbian you dont even need to interview. Google's diversity program calls that a triple play.
When you get so hard into virtue signalling that you keep hiring useless people, you still need to hire some competent people to do the work and since you already blew your budget on useless hires,you need cheap competent folks and thats where H1Bs come in.
They are pretty much indentured labor and just keep their heads down and work hard till they win their freedom/get their greencards which in the case of Indians can be upto 20 years now.
Any H1B getting paid 105K would be getting 200K if they were a citizen or GC.
Indians are the new oppressed class. Funny how despite that when it comes to college admissions, Indians dont get any benefit for affirmative action.
Side note: IT work is work that Americans will not do. It needs a certain level of intelligence and education but also has horrible work life balance. If you are willing to accept that shitty work life balance and are smart enough to get an Engineering degree there are much more high paying professions like Doctors, Startup Founders etc so basically only those folks who need a visa and hence need to work at an IT firm are the ones who take these jobs up. Everyone with a choice will go for the better options.
No real reason for him to be there given he has no official post in the US govt anymore so maybe hes supplementing his retirement with a little freelance cyberterrorism
It specifically targetted Siemens controllers the Iranians had bought. It ensured that for the future the Iranians would either buy American controllers on the black market or use non-western controllers which there was a lesser chance of the US/Israel having source code to. The Germans were pissed about Stuxnet as it killed their market for controllers around the world.
The US was a middling country till WW1 its primary export being crude oil. After WW1 and 2 US got a lead as the rest of the world was destroyed. Around the same time Saudi oil started coming online. The period of US being a Superpower has coincided with the period of Saudi-US alliance.
I agree the strong do what they wish and the fact that US prosperity is built on the largess of the Saudis (if Saudis sold oil in anything other than USD the whole US economy comes crashing down), the Saudis will do what they wish and the US will take it like a good boy.
Did you read what I said? Climate change is good for the Saudis. As well the Russians and the Canadians. Climate change is only a problem if you are happy with your current climate
Its not that US buys oil in dollars that is important or if whether US even buys oil. Its that other countries like India have to buy Oil in Dollars and hence they need to stockpile dollars and hence they buy up US debt at cheap rates. If India could pay for oil in Rupees they wouldnt be holding billions of US govt debt and then the US would have trouble raising funds to run a deficit and then would have trouble funding a 600 billion military and also New York would no longer be the ventral nervous system of the world economy. The Saudis have the US by the balls and the US has them by the balls. Now both of them can play nice or squeeze (hich would bring a world of hurt to not just both but other countries like India too)
Russia has nowhere near the scope of the US to be an asshole. The Ruble is not the international reserve currency so all trade goes through New York not Moscow hence the US has opportunity to spy on all world trade transactions. India is demanding that at least domestic trade transactions not be spied on by not having the data go through New York
The NPT was a racist treaty. It was created right after India's first nuclear test in 1974 and specifically excluded India from NWS status. No way can we have the brown man have nukes. If the NPT had banned nukes for all India would have been the first to sign.
No H1B means that the work gets completely offshored and the houses Indians are buying in Silicon Valley get bought in Bangalore.
And the reason Indians use H1B so much is because of the major educated nations , only China and India are barred from the E3 visa. All other countries just use the E3 visa which has no quota limit or waiting periods.
USA treats India (supposedly a friedn) on par with China (supposedly an adversary). Indians are not blind. They make sure to have alternates to USA like Russia and Iran as when push comes to shove USA cant be trusted. (During the 1962 India-China war USA refused to come help India as it was busy with the Cuban missile crises. This after India had allowed CIA to stage rebels into Tibet which is why the Chinese were pissed). USA is a fair weather friend while Russia is an all weather friend.
To add , as a percentage of GDP foreign trade is minuscule in India. Most USD investments into India are NRIs investing back into India and that will not stop regardless of whether India has good relations with the world. Even if it was made illegal, Hawala offers a way. On the other hand India has a trade deficit with almost all countries except the oil producing countries. India could close its borders and as long as it got enough remittances to cover its oil import bill the economy would keep chugging along. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Amazon, Caterpillar, GE, Coca Cola, Pepsi, John Deere, Monsanto might witness an increase in shareholder suicides.
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CO2 is not a hydrocarbon. Also while CH4 is a more potent greenhouse gas it also breaks down pretty soon. CO2 is dangerous as it accumulates and doesnt break down. However there is something which uses CO2 - plants. Plant more crops instead of forests. Crops use a lot more CO2 than trees. Converting the rainforest to cropland will pretty much solve Global Warming.
A lot of people in 2008 survived by living rent free in their foreclosed houses. If these folks had been renting the homelessness would have been much worse. banks did not move to take possession as noone was buying and if they did an eviction then they would have to pay to guard an empty house or have it vandalized.
People taking 0$ loans did not cause 2008. The Mortgage brokers reselling these loans as AAA in order to get big bonuses caused 2008. If 0$ loans MBS had been priced properly we wouldnt have had a bust.
This money should be used for providing downpayment assistance. Amny californians pay more in rent than a mortgage but as the cost of living is so high they never can save for a downpayment. Living paycheque to paycheque means a job loss means homelessness. If they got downpayment assistance and could move into homes then a job loss would mean they could still live in those homes while they go through a restructuring of their loans with the banks.
California's housing problem is due to misguided environmentalism putting large swathes of land as forest reserves next to expanding cities. This means that houses are overpriced.
BTW I think you missed the point. I said IT work whereas you took it to the entire tech industry. IT is the on call admin, the installations, the bug fixes, the internal projects. I am not talking about startups where you have a chance of becoming a miionaire. Americans are perfectly willing to do that. But the grunt work is something only H1Bs are willing to do.
People who do not have the money to get a medical degree do not have the money to get an Engineering degree. And if you have the money why would you get an Engineering degree when medicine pays so much better?
Potassium Cyanide can be extracted from Almonds and Apple Seeds using only physical processes. Its completely organic and natural and will kill you on contact with your tongue. Organic is a scam.
Somebody did, hence the broken sensor. Hollywood Movies - Weapons of mass disinformation and yet banned by no treaty
H1Bs have to have a degree in Comp Science or some other engineering+5 years coding and have to be paid a certain amount (differs by areas and cost of living. For Mountain View at least 105K).
That sets some kind of a minimum bar as no company is going to pay 105K for incompetent folks.
On the other hand if you are Black Lesbian you dont even need to interview. Google's diversity program calls that a triple play.
When you get so hard into virtue signalling that you keep hiring useless people, you still need to hire some competent people to do the work and since you already blew your budget on useless hires ,you need cheap competent folks and thats where H1Bs come in.
They are pretty much indentured labor and just keep their heads down and work hard till they win their freedom/get their greencards which in the case of Indians can be upto 20 years now.
Any H1B getting paid 105K would be getting 200K if they were a citizen or GC.
Indians are the new oppressed class. Funny how despite that when it comes to college admissions, Indians dont get any benefit for affirmative action.
Side note: IT work is work that Americans will not do. It needs a certain level of intelligence and education but also has horrible work life balance. If you are willing to accept that shitty work life balance and are smart enough to get an Engineering degree there are much more high paying professions like Doctors, Startup Founders etc so basically only those folks who need a visa and hence need to work at an IT firm are the ones who take these jobs up. Everyone with a choice will go for the better options.
He was handing out infected USB drives.
No real reason for him to be there given he has no official post in the US govt anymore so maybe hes supplementing his retirement with a little freelance cyberterrorism
It specifically targetted Siemens controllers the Iranians had bought. It ensured that for the future the Iranians would either buy American controllers on the black market or use non-western controllers which there was a lesser chance of the US/Israel having source code to.
The Germans were pissed about Stuxnet as it killed their market for controllers around the world.
Israel has been accused of being in an Axis of Evil. It was called the Protocols of Zion and was just as ridiculous as the Axis of Evil Meme
Israel literally bombs Iranian soldiers in Syria every month. Israel is beyond Acts of War. Its a theocratic state so these are Acts of God.
Its funny to see the 2 two theocratic states in the middle east go at each other. its popcorn time for secular folks.
The h1B ARE the competent folks.
Nokia cameras were always better
The US was a middling country till WW1 its primary export being crude oil. After WW1 and 2 US got a lead as the rest of the world was destroyed. Around the same time Saudi oil started coming online. The period of US being a Superpower has coincided with the period of Saudi-US alliance.
When it gets too hot just have a few Tsar bomba go off in Siberia and you will have a nuclear winer. Problem solved
I agree the strong do what they wish and the fact that US prosperity is built on the largess of the Saudis (if Saudis sold oil in anything other than USD the whole US economy comes crashing down), the Saudis will do what they wish and the US will take it like a good boy.
Did you read what I said? Climate change is good for the Saudis. As well the Russians and the Canadians. Climate change is only a problem if you are happy with your current climate
Its not that US buys oil in dollars that is important or if whether US even buys oil. Its that other countries like India have to buy Oil in Dollars and hence they need to stockpile dollars and hence they buy up US debt at cheap rates. If India could pay for oil in Rupees they wouldnt be holding billions of US govt debt and then the US would have trouble raising funds to run a deficit and then would have trouble funding a 600 billion military and also New York would no longer be the ventral nervous system of the world economy. The Saudis have the US by the balls and the US has them by the balls. Now both of them can play nice or squeeze (hich would bring a world of hurt to not just both but other countries like India too)
Lets talk about the outrage over the Saudis kidnapping the Lebanese PM. Who did they learn from? The US kidnapping the Panamian President.
Russia has nowhere near the scope of the US to be an asshole. The Ruble is not the international reserve currency so all trade goes through New York not Moscow hence the US has opportunity to spy on all world trade transactions. India is demanding that at least domestic trade transactions not be spied on by not having the data go through New York
The NPT was a racist treaty. It was created right after India's first nuclear test in 1974 and specifically excluded India from NWS status. No way can we have the brown man have nukes.
If the NPT had banned nukes for all India would have been the first to sign.
No H1B means that the work gets completely offshored and the houses Indians are buying in Silicon Valley get bought in Bangalore.
And the reason Indians use H1B so much is because of the major educated nations , only China and India are barred from the E3 visa. All other countries just use the E3 visa which has no quota limit or waiting periods.
USA treats India (supposedly a friedn) on par with China (supposedly an adversary).
Indians are not blind. They make sure to have alternates to USA like Russia and Iran as when push comes to shove USA cant be trusted. (During the 1962 India-China war USA refused to come help India as it was busy with the Cuban missile crises. This after India had allowed CIA to stage rebels into Tibet which is why the Chinese were pissed). USA is a fair weather friend while Russia is an all weather friend.
To add , as a percentage of GDP foreign trade is minuscule in India. Most USD investments into India are NRIs investing back into India and that will not stop regardless of whether India has good relations with the world. Even if it was made illegal, Hawala offers a way.
On the other hand India has a trade deficit with almost all countries except the oil producing countries. India could close its borders and as long as it got enough remittances to cover its oil import bill the economy would keep chugging along. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Amazon, Caterpillar, GE, Coca Cola, Pepsi, John Deere, Monsanto might witness an increase in shareholder suicides.