Your standard is the inability to understand English.
The CO2 emissions of the signatories to the Paris Accord have gone up.
Some yes, some no, but since a large portion of the Paris Accord signatories are still developing nations, and nearly all of them have lower emissions per capita than the USA you're still talking from that same position of privilege.
Should your thoughts clear sufficiently someday you may comprehend the difference between talking about change and effecting it.
Before doing anything you need to talk about doing something. You're good at selectively looking into the past, now try looking into the future. USA: The only G20 country to not agree to resolutions against he Paris Accord last week. Incidentally it's also the developed nation with one of the poorest investments into green technology. Compare that to China which is investing several times more than the USA despite having orders of magnitude lower emissions per capita and still have a long way to go to develop much of their population.
But hey that's what privilege allows. No talk, no plan, no action, just a lot of circle jerking and blaming others.
First, I have a very hard time believing you can't find US-born sawmill workers.
I have a hard time believing you actually took me literally while so grandiosely missing the point.
Second, supply-and-demand.
Let me stop you there. Supply and demand are great things when the sum total of the supply side and the demand side have identical characteristics in each of their respective resource pools. When was the last time you went to a job interview and were presented with one question "Were you born here?" and hired only based on that?
The point I'm making is that people and jobs have different qualities. Unfortunately for the software industry the quality isn't appreciated which is precisely why there is rampant H-1B abuse, there's a lack of lower quality workers. Now if the software industry and the software industry alone were the recipients of H-1B then your proposal, however roundabout it is would make sense. But the reality is that the in America just like in most Western countries there are shortages in some fields, gluts in another, and abuses in a 3rd, and your proposal serves to completely screw up the industries that actually do depend on H-1B immigration along with multinational companies which use this process for no other reason than to mobilise their workplace.
I have this argument a few times with nationalists in the country I'm currently living. They say I'm a foreign worker stealing a local job. The reality is I'm a foreign worker bringing a foreign job in locally and helping the economy in the process. I normally finish with a condescending "you're welcome".
If it were easy to prevent abuse of these visa programs without hurting various legitimate uses of them it would have been done by now. But it's a problem faced around the world. There's improvements to be had in the process sure, but if you think you have a silver bullet, chances are you don't.
Are you implying that you can't get Linux working on a card of that generation? That would be news to many. Just because someone drops support for a driver doesn't mean that it doesn't work. This is even more certain in the Linux world than anywhere else, and kind of my point: Linux has phenomenal hardware support, but only in the long run.
I don't have a number. I only pointed out the fault in using unemployment figures as part of your argument. Just as I will do now in this argument: Different companies are differently exposed various macro-economic changes. Just because Ford and Chrysler aren't laying off people doesn't mean the GM decision wasn't driven by tariffs. May I remind you that you just compared a company that needed a bail out in the USA to a company which didn't? By your same reasoning there was no automotive industry crisis in 2008.
There's no indication that it'll be different this time.
This! Intel has nothing going for it right now. They have shown no ability to innovate in the CPU market, they have shown only to be capable of buying up another company's technology and bring it to market full of mixed messages and frankly broken promises (Optane), and their history in discrete graphics is a disaster.
They don't deserve any benefit of the doubt. They deserve only skepticism.
Obama did nothing and I doubt Clinton would have either.
Obama did something. He allowed Americans to go on enjoying cheap products from China rather than forcing them to pay for the made in America prices that no one was very fond of.
The unemployment rate measures employment, not specific jobs. It also measures into the past not taking into account anything in the future. All those GM plants that are closing? Yeah they aren't in your unemployment rate. That Harley Davidson plant that won't be built in the USA? That's not in the unemployment rate. Desperate people taking jobs as janitors after they lost their better paying jobs in manufacturing? That's not in your unemployment rate.
The only conclusion you can draw is that unemployment is low. Since this statistic is completely unchanged you can use this statistic in any way to talk about the affect of the trade war on jobs. There is no causation, and nothing in the data to correlate.
any tiny step he makes in the process compares favourably against the steps of every administration before him for the last 5 odd decades.
Wow. Just wow. I know people are sometimes blind to the past but this is some next level shit right here. Put on your blinders and turned in so far you can't even see the road in front of you let alone the one you've left in the past.
Enjoy America while it lasts. This will not end the way you think. Hell it already isn't working the way you think.
You just can't get past that mindset about "privileged Americans" and lotteries and border lines and whatever you are outraged about today.
Well of course not. How can I get "passed this" is this is exactly the bullshit I'm calling you out on.
Sell your crazy someplace else, "bro". We're not interested.
Not being interested in solving the world problems you are causing is par for the course. Keep blaming everything on everyone else.
Oh look America was the only one of the G20 who again declined to work on parts of the Paris accords this week. American Privilege is not "my" mindset. It's yours.
Please someone instead work on increasing the color resolution (bit depth) instead
Err... done that. Rec2020 with it's 12bit encoding (you don't want to go more, it's just a waste) and wide colour space is the standard for UHD and you can happily enjoy it with a bluray player and a not offensively expensive TV.
I'd much rather see 2k uncompressed with 16-bits per channel of color. That's what a videophile standard should be about.
I'm sure you would however I don't want to change discs 10 times while watching a movie.
As much as Linux on Desktops would be a good thing: a) desktops are dying b) the backend and all intermittent transit for your data is orders of magnitude more important.
First you insist that per capita is important. I go along with you so you change metrics when it no longer suits your argument.
Then you should learn to read. Per Capita is most definitely still important. But while we look at that per capita line maybe you should not conveniently draw a line across a tiny population of the world to exclude yourself.
The new one is just as bad, who knows what "let's focus on the top 10% of the population" is supposed to mean.
Exactly what I said. Rather than your bullshit of blaming the world's problems on 160000 people who live in Curacao let's stick with the per capita arguement but include a meaningful amount of the population of the world. Sorry kiddo that includes *you* good old number 11 on that list.
It's clear you don't really care what the truth is.
I care. That's why I am debating and calling out your abuse of stats which could only be defined as political in its dishonesty. Have you considered running for president?
*you" specifically you, and all the people who think like you are pathetic.
Your lack of education and ability to think shows. But then it did from the very beginning. Keep pretending that you aren't part of the problem while you're rolling coal down the highway bro.
Go focus your righteous indignation on the top ten.
You forgot to finish your sentence. I'll finish it for you: Let's focus on the top 10% of the population. It's a great start.
But why am I not surprised a privileged American who won the lottery of where an artificial line is drawn proposes a solution that involves again drawing some artificial line conveniently in a way that only just excludes them.
*you* specifically you, and all the people who think like you are the problem.
That's a good way of explaining recurring fees, but does nothing to answer any of my questions (which are more like statements) given that this is a USA specific problem despite the fact that Banks also exist outside the USA.
Fun fact: guess what Obama's approval rating was at the same time in his presidency? No, lower...
I'm going to guess higher than Trump. Hey I was right. Why would you tell me to go lower? Do you have some blind partisan agenda to support the Organeutan?
So much for the idea of smart people coming to contribute to America's greatness. It's amazing how many of the Slashdot armchair proposals include a method which relies fundamentally on manipulating a factor that is far removed from the factor of interest (local jobs).
Look, I hate Google as much as the next guy, but why should it be ANY obligation of Google's to promote their competitors or treat them in any given way?
There is no obligation for Google to promote their competitors. Their is obligation for Google not to promote themselves though the use of their market power. It's called anti-trust law. It prevents monopolies, something that America couldn't give two shits about doing despite it being just as relevant of a law over there.
The internet has many search engines. There is zero barrier to simply visiting engine A instead of engine B.
You may not have noticed but this has nothing to do with Google's Internet Search and everything to do with product specific search services. And if you care to start a product specific search service then having your service demoted in the worlds leading Internet search engine is not only a barrier, but it's a barrier created through the abuse of market power.
Google has power because people give Google power.
No, Google has power because of it's size, and you know what? That's actually okay. They can be big, they can have power. The only thing anyone cares about is if they abuse that power.
Since Slashdot likes politics more than cars these days: The government has power. The people gave it that power. The solution is not to strip the power of the government but to put checks in place to ensure that the government can't unilaterally further entrench it's power, like e.g. A president who thinks he can wave his pen to change a constitution.
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Your standard du jour is the Paris Accords
Your standard is the inability to understand English.
The CO2 emissions of the signatories to the Paris Accord have gone up.
Some yes, some no, but since a large portion of the Paris Accord signatories are still developing nations, and nearly all of them have lower emissions per capita than the USA you're still talking from that same position of privilege.
Should your thoughts clear sufficiently someday you may comprehend the difference between talking about change and effecting it.
Before doing anything you need to talk about doing something. You're good at selectively looking into the past, now try looking into the future. USA: The only G20 country to not agree to resolutions against he Paris Accord last week. Incidentally it's also the developed nation with one of the poorest investments into green technology. Compare that to China which is investing several times more than the USA despite having orders of magnitude lower emissions per capita and still have a long way to go to develop much of their population.
But hey that's what privilege allows. No talk, no plan, no action, just a lot of circle jerking and blaming others.
You've made my point better than I ever could.
First, I have a very hard time believing you can't find US-born sawmill workers.
I have a hard time believing you actually took me literally while so grandiosely missing the point.
Second, supply-and-demand.
Let me stop you there. Supply and demand are great things when the sum total of the supply side and the demand side have identical characteristics in each of their respective resource pools. When was the last time you went to a job interview and were presented with one question "Were you born here?" and hired only based on that?
The point I'm making is that people and jobs have different qualities. Unfortunately for the software industry the quality isn't appreciated which is precisely why there is rampant H-1B abuse, there's a lack of lower quality workers. Now if the software industry and the software industry alone were the recipients of H-1B then your proposal, however roundabout it is would make sense. But the reality is that the in America just like in most Western countries there are shortages in some fields, gluts in another, and abuses in a 3rd, and your proposal serves to completely screw up the industries that actually do depend on H-1B immigration along with multinational companies which use this process for no other reason than to mobilise their workplace.
I have this argument a few times with nationalists in the country I'm currently living. They say I'm a foreign worker stealing a local job. The reality is I'm a foreign worker bringing a foreign job in locally and helping the economy in the process. I normally finish with a condescending "you're welcome".
If it were easy to prevent abuse of these visa programs without hurting various legitimate uses of them it would have been done by now. But it's a problem faced around the world. There's improvements to be had in the process sure, but if you think you have a silver bullet, chances are you don't.
Are you implying that you can't get Linux working on a card of that generation? That would be news to many. Just because someone drops support for a driver doesn't mean that it doesn't work. This is even more certain in the Linux world than anywhere else, and kind of my point: Linux has phenomenal hardware support, but only in the long run.
I don't have a number. I only pointed out the fault in using unemployment figures as part of your argument. Just as I will do now in this argument: Different companies are differently exposed various macro-economic changes. Just because Ford and Chrysler aren't laying off people doesn't mean the GM decision wasn't driven by tariffs. May I remind you that you just compared a company that needed a bail out in the USA to a company which didn't? By your same reasoning there was no automotive industry crisis in 2008.
How do you tell someone's sex over the internet anyhow? rChromosomeTest.exe?
Once a month their commits are fully of bugs and the comments are full of swear words.
(Sigh. I shouldn't hit submit. But whatever, asbestos coat on, come at me SJWs)
Despite the card's age, it worked perfectly
No man. *Because* of the card's age it worked perfectly. You slot in an 8 year old card from any manufacturer in a Linux box and it works perfectly.
There's no indication that it'll be different this time.
This! Intel has nothing going for it right now. They have shown no ability to innovate in the CPU market, they have shown only to be capable of buying up another company's technology and bring it to market full of mixed messages and frankly broken promises (Optane), and their history in discrete graphics is a disaster.
They don't deserve any benefit of the doubt. They deserve only skepticism.
Obama did nothing and I doubt Clinton would have either.
Obama did something. He allowed Americans to go on enjoying cheap products from China rather than forcing them to pay for the made in America prices that no one was very fond of.
Unemployment rate doesn't seem affected... so I'd say - none?
The unemployment rate measures employment, not specific jobs. It also measures into the past not taking into account anything in the future. All those GM plants that are closing? Yeah they aren't in your unemployment rate. That Harley Davidson plant that won't be built in the USA? That's not in the unemployment rate. Desperate people taking jobs as janitors after they lost their better paying jobs in manufacturing? That's not in your unemployment rate.
The only conclusion you can draw is that unemployment is low. Since this statistic is completely unchanged you can use this statistic in any way to talk about the affect of the trade war on jobs. There is no causation, and nothing in the data to correlate.
any tiny step he makes in the process compares favourably against the steps of every administration before him for the last 5 odd decades.
Wow. Just wow. I know people are sometimes blind to the past but this is some next level shit right here. Put on your blinders and turned in so far you can't even see the road in front of you let alone the one you've left in the past.
Enjoy America while it lasts. This will not end the way you think. Hell it already isn't working the way you think.
You just can't get past that mindset about "privileged Americans" and lotteries and border lines and whatever you are outraged about today.
Well of course not. How can I get "passed this" is this is exactly the bullshit I'm calling you out on.
Sell your crazy someplace else, "bro". We're not interested.
Not being interested in solving the world problems you are causing is par for the course. Keep blaming everything on everyone else.
Oh look America was the only one of the G20 who again declined to work on parts of the Paris accords this week. American Privilege is not "my" mindset. It's yours.
Please someone instead work on increasing the color resolution (bit depth) instead
Err ... done that. Rec2020 with it's 12bit encoding (you don't want to go more, it's just a waste) and wide colour space is the standard for UHD and you can happily enjoy it with a bluray player and a not offensively expensive TV.
I'd much rather see 2k uncompressed with 16-bits per channel of color. That's what a videophile standard should be about.
I'm sure you would however I don't want to change discs 10 times while watching a movie.
where it matters most
[Citation needed]
As much as Linux on Desktops would be a good thing:
a) desktops are dying
b) the backend and all intermittent transit for your data is orders of magnitude more important.
First you insist that per capita is important. I go along with you so you change metrics when it no longer suits your argument.
Then you should learn to read. Per Capita is most definitely still important. But while we look at that per capita line maybe you should not conveniently draw a line across a tiny population of the world to exclude yourself.
The new one is just as bad, who knows what "let's focus on the top 10% of the population" is supposed to mean.
Exactly what I said. Rather than your bullshit of blaming the world's problems on 160000 people who live in Curacao let's stick with the per capita arguement but include a meaningful amount of the population of the world. Sorry kiddo that includes *you* good old number 11 on that list.
It's clear you don't really care what the truth is.
I care. That's why I am debating and calling out your abuse of stats which could only be defined as political in its dishonesty. Have you considered running for president?
*you" specifically you, and all the people who think like you are pathetic.
Your lack of education and ability to think shows. But then it did from the very beginning. Keep pretending that you aren't part of the problem while you're rolling coal down the highway bro.
Go focus your righteous indignation on the top ten.
You forgot to finish your sentence. I'll finish it for you: Let's focus on the top 10% of the population. It's a great start.
But why am I not surprised a privileged American who won the lottery of where an artificial line is drawn proposes a solution that involves again drawing some artificial line conveniently in a way that only just excludes them.
*you* specifically you, and all the people who think like you are the problem.
That's a good way of explaining recurring fees, but does nothing to answer any of my questions (which are more like statements) given that this is a USA specific problem despite the fact that Banks also exist outside the USA.
Well you sure as hell wouldn't go there for the horrid tasting swill they call coffee.
Nah because the easily offended get off free again after ruining it for everyone.
MOST countries maybe - but do you know that they need to collect this in the USA ? What's driving that requirement, Homeland security ?
Answered in the third sentence of my post.
Well, I guess with an amp cranked up to 11 they might could still manage it.
Have you met Australian wildlife?
Seriously, there isn't even a hint of a tech or geek angle to post this story on slashdot.
News for Tech? No. News for Geeks? Also no. News for Nerds. Ahhh that was it. Your post reeks of a "no true nerd" fallacy.
Fun fact: guess what Obama's approval rating was at the same time in his presidency? No, lower...
I'm going to guess higher than Trump. Hey I was right. Why would you tell me to go lower? Do you have some blind partisan agenda to support the Organeutan?
So much for the idea of smart people coming to contribute to America's greatness. It's amazing how many of the Slashdot armchair proposals include a method which relies fundamentally on manipulating a factor that is far removed from the factor of interest (local jobs).
Sort the applications by salary. Start handing them out for the highest-paid workers, and work your way down.
You've just promoted one industry over another in your immigration system without fixing the underlying problem.
If you really can't find these workers in the US, you'd be willing to pay more to import them.
That's not the problem you just solved. All you managed to do is ask for foreign saw mill workers to be paid as much as low undercut foreign doctors.
Look, I hate Google as much as the next guy, but why should it be ANY obligation of Google's to promote their competitors or treat them in any given way?
There is no obligation for Google to promote their competitors. Their is obligation for Google not to promote themselves though the use of their market power. It's called anti-trust law. It prevents monopolies, something that America couldn't give two shits about doing despite it being just as relevant of a law over there.
The internet has many search engines. There is zero barrier to simply visiting engine A instead of engine B.
You may not have noticed but this has nothing to do with Google's Internet Search and everything to do with product specific search services. And if you care to start a product specific search service then having your service demoted in the worlds leading Internet search engine is not only a barrier, but it's a barrier created through the abuse of market power.
Google has power because people give Google power.
No, Google has power because of it's size, and you know what? That's actually okay. They can be big, they can have power. The only thing anyone cares about is if they abuse that power.
Since Slashdot likes politics more than cars these days:
The government has power. The people gave it that power. The solution is not to strip the power of the government but to put checks in place to ensure that the government can't unilaterally further entrench it's power, like e.g. A president who thinks he can wave his pen to change a constitution.