This is exactly why even if this sounds like a good idea, it is not. The point of representative government is that one picks a representative, not a pass-through object. Representative candidate A takes certain positions on certain issues, representative candidate B take an alternative set of positions. Whoever is elected is supposed to do the dirty work of finding out that the proposed Sunshine For Kittens Act has nothing to do with neither sunshine nor kittens and vote for or against based on its actual provisions based on their platform. If you have an internet poll for "Should I vote for or against the Sunshine for Kitten Act (see link for details)" you're going to end up voting for it, even though the actual provisions are to spend billions on a combination tunnel/bridge across the Bering Sea. You can talk all you want about how voters are SUPPOSED to be informed, but if your experience in reality hasn't taught you the value of that truism yet, you'll never learn it.
He can get a tourist visa to go and if he lands a job the employer can change him over to a work visa fairly easily. Either that or get married to this fiancee before going. A spouse of someone with a working visa is not a problem to get.
I had the same situation a few years ago. First, you can totally forget any local programming jobs. Chinese programmers get paid about 2000 RMB / month (a pathetic pittance) and there is a long line to get a starting position. I found a compromise for the teaching English route; teach IT classes *in* English. Find a university that has a 'learn abroad' exchange program with a university in the USA or UK. Their students there in China will have a requirement to take courses taught in English, preferably by a native speaker, in order to qualify for the exchange program. This is vastly superior to just teaching English and pays better as well. I taught at China Agricultural University which has such an agreement with University of Portsmouth in the UK. There are a lot of others with the same situation. To find them, work backwards: browse the websites of the schools in the UK and US in the foreign exchange section and look for their partner schools in China. If there is a 'you must complete x hours of courses taught in English', apply to that school in China. Either that, or before you even go set up a "100% work remote" gig with an employer here.
Big companies make private clouds for their mission critical server needs. Public cloud services are for, well, the public and their consumer level devices.
I think both of you might not be parsing his comment correctly. He says he's been living in Asia long term and looks around himself to see belching smoke and dumping factories. You've seen the "I'm European" part and connected it to looking around Europe to see smoke and factories. I spent a couple of years in China and saw nonstop belching smoke and dumping factories.
,,, so the most cost effective way to get a quality laptop is to buy a factory brand. Just search for Clevo and/or Compal which are the factories' house brands. RJ Tech is one reseller where you can get them.
This nonsense is crushing innovation. It's one more in a long line of examples of how we need to reevaluate how we govern ourselves.
Sure it's nonsense, but I appreciate how the Supreme Court moves slowly and thoughtfully compared to the other branches of government. Perhaps they move a bit too slowly some times but the other two move so knee-jerk quickly most of the time that maybe the SC needs to be even slower to balance it out.
Go to Wal---t. Tip over the products. Does it say made in China or made in USA?.
Walmart's gotten much better about stocking made in USA options; in most broad categories you can find a USA made item. Electronics of course are the exception. Even the clothing section has made in USA.
The problem is... There's no backing within the Constitution for such an action. None.
They're just pissy because he found a damn loophole they knew nothing about. He opted out.
What are you babbling about? There's nothing in the Constitution at all about immigration. Thus the Federal government sets immigration regulations by legislation. If enough congress members and the president would sign on, they can do anything from seal the borders completely to letting anyone wander in freely at any time for as long as they want. Either way would be completely OK with what's in the Constitution.
If you think the government deserves credit for "allowing" someone to create a successful business, you're a lost cause.
The GP said the government allowed him to incorporate, not allowed him to create a successful business. Yes, the incorporation process is a (relatively) modern legal procedure enabled by government. No, a business doesn't need to be incorporated to be successful.
Dear god, please tell my ex-wife that. She thinks it's normal to want to live with your mother at 32 years old.
If your mother is 32, you should be living with her. If you are 32, your mother's age and ability to take care of herself should dictate whether she lives with you. But if she does need to live with you, remember how she took care of you when you couldn't fend for yourself before you "Dear god" the idea.
Ron Paul is to the Republicans what Lyndon LaRouche was to the Democrats
I think he's more like Howard Dean is to the Democrats; Dean and Paul are both "out there" to mainstream observers; both seem sincere but polar opposites. Both are needed by their respective parties to put some perspective on things. And just because there is a cult-like following around Paul doesn't mean he encourages them to be a cult; it's rather rude to compare them to LaRouche and his gang.
Do I think Paul would be the best president? not by a long shot. Do I think he would shake things up enough? hopefully.
... and that's why the House of Reps needs him exactly where he is. He does a great job putting what brakes he can on legislative excess before things get out of the committees he's on. People who want him to run for President don't often think of how well he does keep things shaken up. His positions fit his current position just right.
The money isn't sitting in a box. I'm sure the money is changing hands and growing. It's just that it never gets back around to the taxpayers who still owe for it. Don't worry about a huge lot of money not being used --- there are a select few people making good use of it.
The money might be changing hands downstream but the gp's point is correct - it's only economically positive if both parties get something worthwhile in the transaction in question. An overpowered router plugged in and routing is still a beneficial transaction just inefficient. An overpowered router sitting in its box is just a waste.
at which point we'll actually be able to build a global quantum network for all of our cryptographic needs."
If you think things are bad in Europe with the cameras everywhere and in the USA with the Patriot act and whatnot, you'll find out how good you have it when China is in charge of your cryptographic needs.
Only in the last few election cycles have there been Republican governors in either. Before that there's a long unbroken list of Democrats all the way back to Civil War times.
Almost all of the deep south states were Democrat controlled at the state level from the late 1800s until around 2000, and even now a lot of them still are.
Report them to the authorities for what, exactly? It's perfectly legit to bring employees from overseas on an L visa and pay them their hometown wages. That's a social/economic problem IMP, but not a legal problem for them.
The article is about slashing 78% of US employees at IBM. That's not a sign of a healthy company.
They'll be replaced immediately by employees from India and China.
When I was in China I applied to IBM for data warehouse consulting and got to a third round interview. The hiring manager told me the salary, which was about $1,000USD/month (a pretty good rate in China) but they would send me to the US to work. I pointed out that was below the US minimum wage and she said never mind that because they would send me on a 'Z' visa which is good for up to two years with no salary restrictions. When I then objected I couldn't be sent to the US on any kind of visa as a US citizen, she immediately hung up. I tried to call and email to follow up but couldn't get any response.
So, don't worry about IBM's profitability after they get rid of those pesky US workers and their outrageous salary demands. The going rate on an IBM data warehouse consulting is measured by $hundreds/hour and it's almost all markup straight to the company.
Write to your congresscritter and demand something be done about Z visas.
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This is exactly why even if this sounds like a good idea, it is not. The point of representative government is that one picks a representative, not a pass-through object. Representative candidate A takes certain positions on certain issues, representative candidate B take an alternative set of positions. Whoever is elected is supposed to do the dirty work of finding out that the proposed Sunshine For Kittens Act has nothing to do with neither sunshine nor kittens and vote for or against based on its actual provisions based on their platform. If you have an internet poll for "Should I vote for or against the Sunshine for Kitten Act (see link for details)" you're going to end up voting for it, even though the actual provisions are to spend billions on a combination tunnel/bridge across the Bering Sea. You can talk all you want about how voters are SUPPOSED to be informed, but if your experience in reality hasn't taught you the value of that truism yet, you'll never learn it.
He can get a tourist visa to go and if he lands a job the employer can change him over to a work visa fairly easily. Either that or get married to this fiancee before going. A spouse of someone with a working visa is not a problem to get.
I had the same situation a few years ago. First, you can totally forget any local programming jobs. Chinese programmers get paid about 2000 RMB / month (a pathetic pittance) and there is a long line to get a starting position.
I found a compromise for the teaching English route; teach IT classes *in* English. Find a university that has a 'learn abroad' exchange program with a university in the USA or UK. Their students there in China will have a requirement to take courses taught in English, preferably by a native speaker, in order to qualify for the exchange program. This is vastly superior to just teaching English and pays better as well. I taught at China Agricultural University which has such an agreement with University of Portsmouth in the UK. There are a lot of others with the same situation. To find them, work backwards: browse the websites of the schools in the UK and US in the foreign exchange section and look for their partner schools in China. If there is a 'you must complete x hours of courses taught in English', apply to that school in China.
Either that, or before you even go set up a "100% work remote" gig with an employer here.
Big companies make private clouds for their mission critical server needs. Public cloud services are for, well, the public and their consumer level devices.
I think both of you might not be parsing his comment correctly. He says he's been living in Asia long term and looks around himself to see belching smoke and dumping factories. You've seen the "I'm European" part and connected it to looking around Europe to see smoke and factories. I spent a couple of years in China and saw nonstop belching smoke and dumping factories.
,,, so the most cost effective way to get a quality laptop is to buy a factory brand. Just search for Clevo and/or Compal which are the factories' house brands. RJ Tech is one reseller where you can get them.
This nonsense is crushing innovation. It's one more in a long line of examples of how we need to reevaluate how we govern ourselves.
Sure it's nonsense, but I appreciate how the Supreme Court moves slowly and thoughtfully compared to the other branches of government. Perhaps they move a bit too slowly some times but the other two move so knee-jerk quickly most of the time that maybe the SC needs to be even slower to balance it out.
she is an awesome SciFi author; however, this is just nuts!
Good artists (actors, painters, singers, writers) are required to be nuts.
Go to Wal---t. Tip over the products. Does it say made in China or made in USA?.
Walmart's gotten much better about stocking made in USA options; in most broad categories you can find a USA made item. Electronics of course are the exception. Even the clothing section has made in USA.
The problem is... There's no backing within the Constitution for such an action. None.
They're just pissy because he found a damn loophole they knew nothing about. He opted out.
What are you babbling about? There's nothing in the Constitution at all about immigration. Thus the Federal government sets immigration regulations by legislation. If enough congress members and the president would sign on, they can do anything from seal the borders completely to letting anyone wander in freely at any time for as long as they want. Either way would be completely OK with what's in the Constitution.
Depends on what kind of Free World you mean. Singapore is on the top of the list for economic freedoms and at the lower end for political freedoms.
If you think the government deserves credit for "allowing" someone to create a successful business, you're a lost cause.
The GP said the government allowed him to incorporate, not allowed him to create a successful business. Yes, the incorporation process is a (relatively) modern legal procedure enabled by government. No, a business doesn't need to be incorporated to be successful.
Speak for yourself- so far, I'm immortal.
Immortality might be fun right now but I bet the black hole era and following heat death of the universe are going to be seriously boring.
I'm glad they keep it reasonably simple with DDR(1), 2, 3, and now 4. I dread the arrival of RAM2015 or somesuch nonsense one day.
Dear god, please tell my ex-wife that. She thinks it's normal to want to live with your mother at 32 years old.
If your mother is 32, you should be living with her. If you are 32, your mother's age and ability to take care of herself should dictate whether she lives with you. But if she does need to live with you, remember how she took care of you when you couldn't fend for yourself before you "Dear god" the idea.
Ron Paul is to the Republicans what Lyndon LaRouche was to the Democrats
I think he's more like Howard Dean is to the Democrats; Dean and Paul are both "out there" to mainstream observers; both seem sincere but polar opposites. Both are needed by their respective parties to put some perspective on things. And just because there is a cult-like following around Paul doesn't mean he encourages them to be a cult; it's rather rude to compare them to LaRouche and his gang.
Do I think Paul would be the best president? not by a long shot. Do I think he would shake things up enough? hopefully.
... and that's why the House of Reps needs him exactly where he is. He does a great job putting what brakes he can on legislative excess before things get out of the committees he's on. People who want him to run for President don't often think of how well he does keep things shaken up. His positions fit his current position just right.
The money isn't sitting in a box. I'm sure the money is changing hands and growing. It's just that it never gets back around to the taxpayers who still owe for it. Don't worry about a huge lot of money not being used --- there are a select few people making good use of it.
The money might be changing hands downstream but the gp's point is correct - it's only economically positive if both parties get something worthwhile in the transaction in question. An overpowered router plugged in and routing is still a beneficial transaction just inefficient. An overpowered router sitting in its box is just a waste.
at which point we'll actually be able to build a global quantum network for all of our cryptographic needs."
If you think things are bad in Europe with the cameras everywhere and in the USA with the Patriot act and whatnot, you'll find out how good you have it when China is in charge of your cryptographic needs.
I can see states like Mississippi, Alabama doing poorly because they are run by Republicans
Where did you possibly get this impression? Check the list of governors for those two states:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Alabama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Mississippi
Only in the last few election cycles have there been Republican governors in either. Before that there's a long unbroken list of Democrats all the way back to Civil War times.
Almost all of the deep south states were Democrat controlled at the state level from the late 1800s until around 2000, and even now a lot of them still are.
I don't remember the technical term that describes what the military did, but instead of traditional contracting
It's called "cost-plus".
Building contractors do it a lot too; it isn't just a military contract thing.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Report them to the authorities for what, exactly? It's perfectly legit to bring employees from overseas on an L visa and pay them their hometown wages. That's a social/economic problem IMP, but not a legal problem for them.
Sorry, it was the L visa: inter-company transfer.
The article is about slashing 78% of US employees at IBM. That's not a sign of a healthy company.
They'll be replaced immediately by employees from India and China.
When I was in China I applied to IBM for data warehouse consulting and got to a third round interview. The hiring manager told me the salary, which was about $1,000USD/month (a pretty good rate in China) but they would send me to the US to work. I pointed out that was below the US minimum wage and she said never mind that because they would send me on a 'Z' visa which is good for up to two years with no salary restrictions. When I then objected I couldn't be sent to the US on any kind of visa as a US citizen, she immediately hung up. I tried to call and email to follow up but couldn't get any response.
So, don't worry about IBM's profitability after they get rid of those pesky US workers and their outrageous salary demands. The going rate on an IBM data warehouse consulting is measured by $hundreds/hour and it's almost all markup straight to the company.
Write to your congresscritter and demand something be done about Z visas.