The bill was drawn up by lobbyists. Congress don't know, and don't want to know what the bill is about. All a matter of who pays for the campaign contributions.
I don't think I could invent any type of work that is more perfect for offshoring/inshoring than IT.
1) Unlike manufacturing, you don't have to mess with physical inventory. This is huge. Shipping costs, and other supply chain costs, can be very substantial. With IT, everything is done over the internet. Perfect for offshoring.
2) Unlike manufacturing, you don't have to worry about special plants, or special equipment, special environmental regulations, or worker safety issues. Just use ordinary computers, and ordinary office space. Dealing with foreign regulations for building permits, and the like can be a nightmare. With IT, you don't have to bother with any that. Just rent space in an existing building. Even if you build your own building, you don't have to bother with all the special issues that go with manufacturing.
3) Unlike health care, or other fields, you don't have to bother with sort of special education, or licensing requirements. For example, we can import nurses from Mexico, they would not be qualified. Health care licensing is regulated by the state. Nothing like that to worry about with IT, legally, practically anybody can do practically anything.
4) No unions to fuss with. Replace all the IT workers you want with visa workers, then send the entire department offshore. No need to worry about union pushback.
5) No standardization in IT. You can always tell the government there is a shortage of qualified workers, since there is absolutely no definition of what is "qualified." You have a virtual carte blanche to make up any kind of statistics about salaries, or qualification. For example, you could look for workers with an arbitrary list of experience requirements, and when you don't find them, use that as an excuse to hire offshore workers with no experience, and just a liberal arts degree.
6) US IT workers are not represented by any professional organization, and therefore have no voice in congress. Dump on IT workers all you want, what's to stop you?
7) Due to massive corporate propaganda, it is widely believed there is a shortage of qualified US IT workers, so nobody will blame you for going offshore. There was significant public outcry in the 1980s when manufacturing was moved offshore. Michael Moore even created a movie, and Billy Joel wrote a song. Nobody cares about spoiled IT workers.
8) You can point to contributions made by actual immigrants, and then prentend that H1Bs are actual immigrants. Great PR.
9) You can place the race card. You can say that anybody critical of replacing US workers with offshore is a racist, bigoted, and xenophobic; and thereby, immediately quash any dissention.
10) US IT workers are too spineless, selfish, arrogant, and disorganized, to put up any sort of meaningful resistance to your offshoring plans. Take your time, when you start importing visa workers, only the workers who are directly affected will care. The guy in the next cubical won't care until his head is on the chopping block. US IT workers have a special trick of sticking their noses in the air, and their heads in the sand. US IT workers will say: "they could never do without me. I'm much too valuable. Only the poorly qualified lose their jobs." Dumping on US IT workers is like shooting fish in a barrel.
11) Significant saving. US IT workers can be quite expensive.
12) Indentured servant status is even more important for IT workers, than other workers. Everybody's information system setup is different, so it takes a while for IT workers to learn their jobs. US workers can quit just after they get up to speed. Which means you are training people for their next job. Worse yet, they can take what they have learned (on your dime) to your competitors. With visa workers, they have to stay with you for six years, then you can send them to your offshore operations.
If you've been following the stances he's taken he's definitely extremely radical
Radical compared to what? Obama open defied the US constitution by signing the NDAA. Is that not radical? Remember that nut-job preacher from Obama's church?
Who are having a hissy fit about how horrid Ron Paul is, because you don't think Ron's an "economic luminary." So please tell us, who is an economic luminary?
Nobody can figure out why fewer Americans want to study for STEM careers, but everybody agrees that the solution is bring in more visa workers to take the jobs of US STEM workers.
In regard to STEM training, the report makes an argument for immigration reform that enables foreign students to remain in the U.S. It doesn't offer specifics on an approach for accomplishing this, or look at the debate around this issue. In 2010, there were 7.6 million STEM workers in the U.S., representing about one in 18 workers. Computer and math occupations account for close to half the STEM employment.
The U.S., the report said, produces fewer STEM graduates relative to other developed countries. Citing data from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OCED), the report said that in 2009, nearly 13% of U.S. graduates with bachelor's degrees were in STEM fields, near the bottom of OCED countries.
"Significant economic competitors -- such as South Korea (26.3%), Germany (24.5%), Canada (19.2%), and the United Kingdom (18.1%) -- are on the long list of countries producing a much higher percentage of STEM graduates," the report said.
One in five STEM workers is foreign born, with 63% coming from Asia, the report said. The foreign-born share of STEM workers with graduate degrees is 44%.
As another poster pointed out, windows built in tools are total crap.
The first thing I did, when I got my new hp laptop, about about a year ago, was try to make an image with those built-in tools. It ran for hours, and I got all kinds of error.
Even if things seemed to go smoothly, how do you know if tyou have a good image? If you try to install the image, and something goes wrong, you are completely SOL. For that reason, I doubt many people try their new image until they really need it. If it doesn't work, you are completely screwed.
Yeah screw those founding fathers with their freedom of expression nonsense. We will much better off when the major corporations dictate what we can, and cannot, say.
I thought the whole idea of mono was to set you up for a Microsoft lawsuit? Microsoft files frivolous patent lawsuits all the time, and MS threatens even more than that.
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You would be having a hissy fit.
Obama signed it because he loves it, there can be no other reason.
Oracle will tell you the language is free, then sue you when you use it. Just ask Google.
Everybody knows that democrats can do no wrong when it comes to civil rights. Only republicans are bad.
The bill was drawn up by lobbyists. Congress don't know, and don't want to know what the bill is about. All a matter of who pays for the campaign contributions.
I would assume that Powershell would be the default. Would there be any possibilities?
I don't think I could invent any type of work that is more perfect for
offshoring/inshoring than IT.
1) Unlike manufacturing, you don't have to mess with physical inventory. This is
huge. Shipping costs, and other supply chain costs, can be very substantial.
With IT, everything is done over the internet. Perfect for offshoring.
2) Unlike manufacturing, you don't have to worry about special plants, or
special equipment, special environmental regulations, or worker safety issues.
Just use ordinary computers, and ordinary office space. Dealing with foreign
regulations for building permits, and the like can be a nightmare. With IT, you
don't have to bother with any that. Just rent space in an existing building.
Even if you build your own building, you don't have to bother with all the
special issues that go with manufacturing.
3) Unlike health care, or other fields, you don't have to bother with sort of
special education, or licensing requirements. For example, we can import nurses
from Mexico, they would not be qualified. Health care licensing is regulated by
the state. Nothing like that to worry about with IT, legally, practically
anybody can do practically anything.
4) No unions to fuss with. Replace all the IT workers you want with visa
workers, then send the entire department offshore. No need to worry about union
pushback.
5) No standardization in IT. You can always tell the government there is a
shortage of qualified workers, since there is absolutely no definition of what
is "qualified." You have a virtual carte blanche to make up any kind of
statistics about salaries, or qualification. For example, you could look for
workers with an arbitrary list of experience requirements, and when you don't
find them, use that as an excuse to hire offshore workers with no experience,
and just a liberal arts degree.
6) US IT workers are not represented by any professional organization, and
therefore have no voice in congress. Dump on IT workers all you want, what's to
stop you?
7) Due to massive corporate propaganda, it is widely believed there is a
shortage of qualified US IT workers, so nobody will blame you for going
offshore. There was significant public outcry in the 1980s when manufacturing
was moved offshore. Michael Moore even created a movie, and Billy Joel wrote a
song. Nobody cares about spoiled IT workers.
8) You can point to contributions made by actual immigrants, and then prentend
that H1Bs are actual immigrants. Great PR.
9) You can place the race card. You can say that anybody critical of replacing
US workers with offshore is a racist, bigoted, and xenophobic; and thereby,
immediately quash any dissention.
10) US IT workers are too spineless, selfish, arrogant, and disorganized, to put
up any sort of meaningful resistance to your offshoring plans. Take your time,
when you start importing visa workers, only the workers who are directly
affected will care. The guy in the next cubical won't care until his head is on
the chopping block. US IT workers have a special trick of sticking their noses
in the air, and their heads in the sand. US IT workers will say: "they could
never do without me. I'm much too valuable. Only the poorly qualified lose their
jobs." Dumping on US IT workers is like shooting fish in a barrel.
11) Significant saving. US IT workers can be quite expensive.
12) Indentured servant status is even more important for IT workers, than other
workers. Everybody's information system setup is different, so it takes a while
for IT workers to learn their jobs. US workers can quit just after they get up
to speed. Which means you are training people for their next job. Worse yet,
they can take what they have learned (on your dime) to your competitors. With
visa workers, they have to stay with you for six years, then you can send them
to your offshore operations.
12) Most IT workers don't work directly with
Seems fair. But, why don't companies, like Microsoft, get in trouble when they defy the court's orders?
Obama just signed the NDAA, and he won't veto SOPA/PIPA. He is effectively throwing the US constitution in the shredder. He is just as bad as GWB.
His job plans have been a sad joke.
If you've been following the stances he's taken he's definitely extremely radical
Radical compared to what? Obama open defied the US constitution by signing the NDAA. Is that not radical? Remember that nut-job preacher from Obama's church?
According to who? I suppose you prefer the an NDAA signing, constitution shredder, like Obama?
Compared to who?
Who are having a hissy fit about how horrid Ron Paul is, because you don't think Ron's an "economic luminary." So please tell us, who is an economic luminary?
I think libertarians want to minimize government, not do away with government regulation entirely .
Not only did Obama not end the Patriot Act, he just signed the NDAA which is even worse.
Stop it. Obama can't bend over fast enough for Goldman Sachs, and Microsoft. Obama is every bit the elitist as any repub.
Not to mention illegal immigration, and sky-high debt. Perpetual wars in the mid-east. Out-of-control government spending.
Yeah, gotta love those constitution shredding dems.
GWB was not better, but at least Ron Paul wants to uphold the constitution, which is more than you can say for the present Obama-nation.
A lot of people are not interested if fighting MS. Computer come with Windows installed. Windows comes with MSIE installed. MSIE defaults to Bing.
Isn't Mandriva another MS partner? Like SuSE, Xandros, and Linspire?
I think all the MS supporting Linuxes are going to die out. And it can't happen fast enough for me. Plenty of non-scam Linux distros out there.
SOPA sure seems unconstitutional to me.
Nobody can figure out why fewer Americans want to study for STEM careers, but everybody agrees that the solution is bring in more visa workers to take the jobs of US STEM workers.
In regard to STEM training, the report makes an argument for immigration reform that enables foreign students to remain in the U.S. It doesn't offer specifics on an approach for accomplishing this, or look at the debate around this issue. In 2010, there were 7.6 million STEM workers in the U.S., representing about one in 18 workers. Computer and math occupations account for close to half the STEM employment.
The U.S., the report said, produces fewer STEM graduates relative to other developed countries. Citing data from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OCED), the report said that in 2009, nearly 13% of U.S. graduates with bachelor's degrees were in STEM fields, near the bottom of OCED countries.
"Significant economic competitors -- such as South Korea (26.3%), Germany (24.5%), Canada (19.2%), and the United Kingdom (18.1%) -- are on the long list of countries producing a much higher percentage of STEM graduates," the report said.
One in five STEM workers is foreign born, with 63% coming from Asia, the report said. The foreign-born share of STEM workers with graduate degrees is 44%.
When you say "security" do you mean secure from viruses? Do you mean personal privacy?
Or, do you mean the totaltarian governments are secure from any sort of uprising?
That is my philosophy. We dont' understand them, they don't understand us. Oh well.
Just leave them alone. We have our own backyard to clean up.
As another poster pointed out, windows built in tools are total crap.
The first thing I did, when I got my new hp laptop, about about a year ago, was try to make an image with those built-in tools. It ran for hours, and I got all kinds of error.
Even if things seemed to go smoothly, how do you know if tyou have a good image? If you try to install the image, and something goes wrong, you are completely SOL. For that reason, I doubt many people try their new image until they really need it. If it doesn't work, you are completely screwed.
No kidding, people who do stuff like that are hard-core criminals. Such people deserve to be financially ruined, and incarcerated.
Yeah screw those founding fathers with their freedom of expression nonsense. We will much better off when the major corporations dictate what we can, and cannot, say.
I thought the whole idea of mono was to set you up for a Microsoft lawsuit? Microsoft files frivolous patent lawsuits all the time, and MS threatens even more than that.
I think I would steer clear of mono.