Let's start with the root of the evil here: lazyness.
Way back when programmers were gods and people begged us to come to an interview and if we sounded smart they threw money and toys at us word got around. Many many people started memorizing a lot of terms and then going to interviews and walking out with high-dollar jobs. The problem was when they sat down to do the work they realized that these terms were nowhere near as complicated as figuring out how to understand, expand, fix, or write the code those terms referred to.
Many of these blowhards knew enough about the corporate BS game (read: Dilbert) to keep their jobs for months or even longer by shoveling BS ("The API doesn't clearly specify the implementation of the state machine we need to implement in our [insert name] solution. For this reason I am waiting on an email from the [insert vendor] tech support.") I think that this fact alone caused 80% of the.bombs and huge IS budget wasting during the last decade.
During the time they spent doing all of this they took courses in management paid for by the education fund of their respective company. Once people started feeling the budget give way with no stable product ready they knew their butts would get chopped quick: so they bailed. Now they go out into the marketplace with even more knowledge of bs terminology and no skills and get jobs as managers.
Now I go to interviews and get asked what [insert any term coined by Rational (tm)] means and to duplicate and example on the whiteboard. (There is a place for that stuff, out of the scope of this post) But if you were lucky enough to be one of the people from the start writing corporate code and picking up the slack of the BSers and didn't have time to memorize UML for dummies: KEEP YOUR JOB FOR ALL YOU ARE WORTH. If you leave you will need a new BS degree (no, that's not Bachelor of Science) in Technical Jargon.
It's a new market: you get paid well for shoveling huge buckets of terminology and knowing how to draw pretty picutres or paid crap to actually take the pictures and turn them into functioning applications.
If we are bombarding these flies with radiation isn't that like playing pool (as in pool with millions of que balls and billions of balls on the table) to make them sterile?
What if just.01% of the target flies winds up mutated and not sterile. (And no, that's not unreasonable). Couldn't we wind up with more problems?
What if the parasite which these flies carry (and it would be insane to think no parasites get into the batches being zapped) get mutated by the radiation?
I'm just an at-home sysadmin but I have a fat pipe and 5 computers. I have been exploited for DOS attacks (back when I had no firewall and all Win machines).
Now I run a linux firewall and a couple of other linux distro machines for education/work and two Win32 machines (ME and 2000).
I'm in the position of knowing almost nothing about security, and although I know something about network programming I know very little about the common networking components available and/or how to fix them myself if there is an exploit.
This means (obviously) that I am completely dependant on posted security holes to keep my network secure. If this standard keeps me from knowing about a hole for the sooner of 30 days or a patch to even KNOW about a whole doesn't that make me, the consumer, intentionally and knowingly left open to attack by the vendor? Shouldn't they be required to let me know? I can't immagine the pressure high-security network admins would be under if the standard required those 30 days.
It would be nice if the DNS protocol could be extended to store spamming information on ip addresses (someone tell D. Eastlake, he'd love to write another RFC:) ). Something like a count of verified reports. That way when an SMTP request comes in the recieving server can simply do a reverse lookup on the ip and retrieve spam information, apply some rules and refuse/grant the connection.
This would make IPs clean up their act faster than blocking them or threatening to block them.
"Authentica and other companies make online shredding systems that scramble e-mail messages and limit access to the software key needed to decrypt them. To make messages "disappear," access to the key is withdrawn after a given time"
Ok, so the first time they need to review a document that is now "expired" they start copying the documents to their local harddisks for review or putting the information into databases and refering to them in memos. Nobody has time to scower a whole corporate network for copies of documents which should not have been copied so this is still not really a solution.
The difference is in one being morally wrong to accept and the other being necessary for people to get enough publicity to get noticed and thereby get elected.
(FYI, good and bad below denotes moral character, not political stance.)
There are always going to be very rich people who want to get people elected to help then get away with bad things: i.e. bad people. Bad people accept bribes with no problems because they are bad people.
There are always going to be good people who want to get elected so they can make a difference in a gov. which is constantly under the threat of being taken over by bad people. These people are usually backed by huge sums of money from a.) rich individuals who also want to make a differnce b.)rich companies which want to make a difference/offer money to everyone in hopes of getting help later c.)large groups of poor people who want to be protected from rich evil people.
If you make "contributions" illegal, you have hurt good and bad politicians pockets. The difference is that they bad guys can get their funding via the other route.
The fundamental difference between a bribe and a contribiton is that they report the contribtions, the bribes are kept pretty hush-hush.
WTF are you thinking? At least when contributions are legal we know that good men will still get elected because they don't have to sacrifice their morals to get support. Just because the person handing you a $600,000 campaign contribution wants a favor later doesn't mean they will get that favor (especially when giving the favor will get the politician into the fire as well).
When contributions become illegal then bribes become more popular, and those unwilling to accept bribes will not ever come close to getting into office. This is the reason people who are against campaign contributions don't get elected as well.
IMHO the contributions are less trouble than not having them. They should be watched, just like they are being watched. People should scream bloody murder when they are used like M$ and Enron used them. If the populace doesn't rise up and scream for justice then the problem is with the populace not the corporation. Remember that the corporation is made up of people who work for it, and incidentally the populace is made up of the same people.
Note to self: move smoke detectors away from door. Not only would that be an easy way to break in but it would provide an interesting defense to overcome in court.
Until they manage to put decryptors in my eyes and descramblers in my ears copy protections is a load of bs no matter how much they spend on it. I will choose to honor a copyright or not, just like everyone else out there.
Let's stop waisting all our resources on this planet trying to protect that easy money tree of the 1900s and spend some time inventing new ones for the next centry.
I've seen all these posts with people just itching to be the first to rain on the parade.
The simple fact is that it's a great advancement, and a usefull one. Sure, it may not be great for portable MP3 players or Video cameras, but I'd bet it will make those professional studio cameras a hell of a lot better when I'm doing a 2 hour photo shoot. In addition, it's a great tool for research as well. Being able to have small recording devices with 5 GB space allows scientists to set up much higher quality time-lapse and real-time remote data gathering equipment.
So stop trying to bash ol' timmy and do something constructive.
I beta tested Anarchy Online for about 5 months. About 3 weeks ago, an electrical fire knocked out my computer via a nasty surge. After getting a new motherboard and such I tried to log into AO and play, but couldn't because it had been released and my account wasn't active anymore.
WTF were they thinking!? The servers were barely keeping up with the beta testers. The game was very laggy at times, the chase camera likes to get stuck in corners and people's crotches.
Don't get me wrong, it's a good game, but I'm getting sick of overblown budgets causing good ideas to fail.
Let's just all learn to speak binary. We can seak in long and short dashes built from words gathered from all languages. Morse code can become popular again.
-1010011 1001100 (SL)
How can you license a site which does not operate within your stae? I mean, if you have an online gambling site in Texas and Nevada wants to charge you for licensing then how are they going to enforce it?
Let's face it. The government has always done whatever the hell it wants to do to catch people doing whatever it thinks they shouldn't be doing. Even if we rant and rave our arses off until we win this fight, there'd be 100 people arested right here in the US unjustly who were searched illegally and will never get so much as a fair hearing, much less an appeal hearing.
My suggestion is this: fix the ever-lovin' legal system from the ground up instead of continuing to try to keep patching the holes which LEAs and other agencies keep kicking in the walls of freedom.
I have personally been searched on 3 occasions because a drug dog barked at my van after I refused a search. I have never done drugs in my life. I have no criminal record. On one occasion I was brazenly full-body searched on a busy road near my home because I had a LEGALLY REGISTERED firearm in my vehicle. Is it right? Nope. Can I do a damned thing about it? Nope.
Little known facts: In the grand ol' US of A there is something called Family Court. Burden of proof: on the defendant. Appeals: NO SUCH THING. Double Jeopardy: NO SUCH THING. Right to a fiar trial: NO SUCH THING. Right to an attorney: NO SUCH THING. Conflict of interest: NO SUCH THING. Even more shocking: I was told by a judge on court record that I "would have a change of heart" because of my belief in corporal punishment or would be thrown in jail for contempt. Why is it like this? An LEA called DFCS, or DSS, or whatever your state calls it.
So go save the russians while your sister is being raped by your county cleark 'cause the neighbor thought she saw her smoke a joint.
I don't give a rat's ass about the.health tld, but the regulation bit has me up in arms.
Next big headline "WHO More powerful than WTO?" I can just see it. I already have to practically go to war with doctors all the time who make bad decisions because they don't know what the heck they're doing.
Fact: in the United States (and most European doctors are trained here) doctors do what they were told to do by doctors who where told to do... you get the point. I don't trust most doctors because they really don't use their heads. All they do is memorize a bunch of crap out of a book and then make decisions based on it. Most of the health-related websites, which I trust, go AGAINST popular opinion. People who know better because they do the research to back up their claims write those sites. This is because popular doctors dictate popular opinion, and they are normally nothing more than highly educated politicians.
To back up my claims: One of the best doctors I have known was a Paranatologist for my wife during her pregnancy. She was diagnosed with prenatal diabetes after taking the screening test. I had to argue with the doctor for an hour before he conceded that the test-results were entirely inaccurate due to the low-sugar consumption of a patient with no arms and legs. He was willing to bet her life on a textbook result from a test which was unfit for use in her pregnancy. I had to show him 6 references in metabolic research to convince him that the test was inaccurate. He didn't do the research.
I have had the same problem in similar cases at every doctor my wife and I have seen. They go on documented history and don't use their heads. Prescriptions are guesswork based on the same "match-and-win" approach to medicine. Over the last 60 years every single major belief of doctors has changed because of errors and flaws in treatment methodology. And now the WHO has all the answers and will be right all the time?
The corporations do NOT benefit from HB-1 visas. Only temp agencies do. Corporations are paying $100-150/hr for contractors. Permanent employees are what everyone wants, and can't get.
Well dude *sniff*, whadda ya expect? I'm a free *sniff*, you know, thinker. I'm like, *sniff* libertarian and all. I say, legalize this shit!
Yeah.
Oh shit *sniff*, segfault!
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I'm sure if I bought one I'd never get to use it. I'd be too busy going out and buying more plastic dust and goo for my wife to waste printing new decorating designs. "This one! No... that doesn't look right at all, how 'bout THIS one!? No... that doesn't look good either!"
Meanwhile I'm trying to figure out how to grind the growing pile back down into dust and feed it back into the printer...
90% of the HB1 visas in the US are from India. The vast majority of the developers that come over on an HB1 visa have about a 3 or 6 mo. Microsoft certification course and fly over to work for $15-30/hr. They can do that because they don't mind living 10 to a house and sending every penny they save home. (taken from 5 contractors and 1 permanent employee for my company which are all Indian.)
Why does this piss me off so much? Because tech-staffing firms are charging decent American corporations which are too dumb or too desperate to pay attention $150-200/hr for these guys. The staffing company keeps the change. In addition, American developers who want to be temp or contract workers are not attractive to the agencies because we won't work for $30/hr.
Basically, staffing companies are raping American business and H1B visa holders.
Am I opposed to immigration? Absolutely not! I think american immigration restrictions are way too strict. Am I opposed to loosing my cushy lifestyle built on a lifetime of dedication to the magic glowing box? Of course I am! Would I bitch if it were just the H1B visa holders? Nope, I'd tighten my belt and take it as fate. But when it's a lowsy, stinkin' staffing agency I get pissed.
I'm a Christian. I'm conservative. I don't have a filter on any of my 3 computers. I don't block URLs on my proxy. My kids are too young at this point for it to matter, but I won't even tell my kids not to browse the porn sites. Why?
Simple: I'll teach them how to think for themselves.
I get so sick of hearing conservatives talk about having to ban this and block that. I say let 'em have at it. Somewhere along the line you just have to trust people to use their heads. The farther down the line you make that decision theirs while they are growing up, the more unprepaired they are to handle the day to day decisions when you aren't there to babysit them. My children will be raised to know what's right and wrong (according to my beliefs:P ), but I won't force them to do or not do them.
Now right and wrong aren't the same as "kill you if you do" or "maim you if you don't". I'll make my children brush their teeth until they understand why not. Same thing goes with closing car doors on hands, crossing the street without looking and other dangers which take time and understanding to comprehend.
That doesn't mean I won't let my children cross streets or shut car doors however. America seems to think that blindfolding and lecturing enlessly are the only ways to raise children. Sounds kinda stupid to me.
Fact: Only two types of people benefit from H-1B visas... Outsourcing (Subcontracting) firms and aliens (non-residents, not little green men).
I have been a Programmer/DBA/System archetect for a very long time. I work with many forein contractors on a regular basis. They are grotesquely overrated. For the most part (generalization here) their technology skill set is outdated or completely M$ based (i.e. Access or FoxPro and Visual Basic).
Has this affected me? YES! I now find it almost impossible to find contracting positions that pay a damn thing, even though my skillset far outpases any foreign contractor I have ever met. I can find permanent positions by the bucketfull, but I bore easily with corporate squatter jobs. So my take on the whole thing, as one of those MOST affected by allowing more into this country, is that it is a bad idea.
I really wish that the mother f*#$ing goverment would stop micro-managing the economy. If they could do it worth a damn then I might not be so ticked, but everything they touch they screw up.
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Let's start with the root of the evil here: lazyness.
.bombs and huge IS budget wasting during the last decade.
Way back when programmers were gods and people begged us to come to an interview and if we sounded smart they threw money and toys at us word got around. Many many people started memorizing a lot of terms and then going to interviews and walking out with high-dollar jobs. The problem was when they sat down to do the work they realized that these terms were nowhere near as complicated as figuring out how to understand, expand, fix, or write the code those terms referred to.
Many of these blowhards knew enough about the corporate BS game (read: Dilbert) to keep their jobs for months or even longer by shoveling BS ("The API doesn't clearly specify the implementation of the state machine we need to implement in our [insert name] solution. For this reason I am waiting on an email from the [insert vendor] tech support.") I think that this fact alone caused 80% of the
During the time they spent doing all of this they took courses in management paid for by the education fund of their respective company. Once people started feeling the budget give way with no stable product ready they knew their butts would get chopped quick: so they bailed. Now they go out into the marketplace with even more knowledge of bs terminology and no skills and get jobs as managers.
Now I go to interviews and get asked what [insert any term coined by Rational (tm)] means and to duplicate and example on the whiteboard. (There is a place for that stuff, out of the scope of this post) But if you were lucky enough to be one of the people from the start writing corporate code and picking up the slack of the BSers and didn't have time to memorize UML for dummies: KEEP YOUR JOB FOR ALL YOU ARE WORTH. If you leave you will need a new BS degree (no, that's not Bachelor of Science) in Technical Jargon.
It's a new market: you get paid well for shoveling huge buckets of terminology and knowing how to draw pretty picutres or paid crap to actually take the pictures and turn them into functioning applications.
If we are bombarding these flies with radiation isn't that like playing pool (as in pool with millions of que balls and billions of balls on the table) to make them sterile?
.01% of the target flies winds up mutated and not sterile. (And no, that's not unreasonable). Couldn't we wind up with more problems?
What if just
What if the parasite which these flies carry (and it would be insane to think no parasites get into the batches being zapped) get mutated by the radiation?
I find this frightening as well.
I'm just an at-home sysadmin but I have a fat pipe and 5 computers. I have been exploited for DOS attacks (back when I had no firewall and all Win machines).
Now I run a linux firewall and a couple of other linux distro machines for education/work and two Win32 machines (ME and 2000).
I'm in the position of knowing almost nothing about security, and although I know something about network programming I know very little about the common networking components available and/or how to fix them myself if there is an exploit.
This means (obviously) that I am completely dependant on posted security holes to keep my network secure. If this standard keeps me from knowing about a hole for the sooner of 30 days or a patch to even KNOW about a whole doesn't that make me, the consumer, intentionally and knowingly left open to attack by the vendor? Shouldn't they be required to let me know? I can't immagine the pressure high-security network admins would be under if the standard required those 30 days.
Just my two cents.
It would be nice if the DNS protocol could be extended to store spamming information on ip addresses (someone tell D. Eastlake, he'd love to write another RFC :) ). Something like a count of verified reports. That way when an SMTP request comes in the recieving server can simply do a reverse lookup on the ip and retrieve spam information, apply some rules and refuse/grant the connection.
This would make IPs clean up their act faster than blocking them or threatening to block them.
Ok, so the first time they need to review a document that is now "expired" they start copying the documents to their local harddisks for review or putting the information into databases and refering to them in memos. Nobody has time to scower a whole corporate network for copies of documents which should not have been copied so this is still not really a solution.
*sigh* Ethics .01
The difference is in one being morally wrong to accept and the other being necessary for people to get enough publicity to get noticed and thereby get elected.
(FYI, good and bad below denotes moral character, not political stance.)
There are always going to be very rich people who want to get people elected to help then get away with bad things: i.e. bad people. Bad people accept bribes with no problems because they are bad people.
There are always going to be good people who want to get elected so they can make a difference in a gov. which is constantly under the threat of being taken over by bad people. These people are usually backed by huge sums of money from a.) rich individuals who also want to make a differnce b.)rich companies which want to make a difference/offer money to everyone in hopes of getting help later c.)large groups of poor people who want to be protected from rich evil people.
If you make "contributions" illegal, you have hurt good and bad politicians pockets. The difference is that they bad guys can get their funding via the other route.
The fundamental difference between a bribe and a contribiton is that they report the contribtions, the bribes are kept pretty hush-hush.
Add this to sophisticated face regognition and pattern matching software that can trace clothing and you are bound to have some problems.
WTF are you thinking? At least when contributions are legal we know that good men will still get elected because they don't have to sacrifice their morals to get support. Just because the person handing you a $600,000 campaign contribution wants a favor later doesn't mean they will get that favor (especially when giving the favor will get the politician into the fire as well).
When contributions become illegal then bribes become more popular, and those unwilling to accept bribes will not ever come close to getting into office. This is the reason people who are against campaign contributions don't get elected as well.
IMHO the contributions are less trouble than not having them. They should be watched, just like they are being watched. People should scream bloody murder when they are used like M$ and Enron used them. If the populace doesn't rise up and scream for justice then the problem is with the populace not the corporation. Remember that the corporation is made up of people who work for it, and incidentally the populace is made up of the same people.
Note to self: move smoke detectors away from door. Not only would that be an easy way to break in but it would provide an interesting defense to overcome in court.
Until they manage to put decryptors in my eyes and descramblers in my ears copy protections is a load of bs no matter how much they spend on it. I will choose to honor a copyright or not, just like everyone else out there.
Let's stop waisting all our resources on this planet trying to protect that easy money tree of the 1900s and spend some time inventing new ones for the next centry.
I've seen all these posts with people just itching to be the first to rain on the parade.
The simple fact is that it's a great advancement, and a usefull one. Sure, it may not be great for portable MP3 players or Video cameras, but I'd bet it will make those professional studio cameras a hell of a lot better when I'm doing a 2 hour photo shoot. In addition, it's a great tool for research as well. Being able to have small recording devices with 5 GB space allows scientists to set up much higher quality time-lapse and real-time remote data gathering equipment.
So stop trying to bash ol' timmy and do something constructive.
I beta tested Anarchy Online for about 5 months. About 3 weeks ago, an electrical fire knocked out my computer via a nasty surge. After getting a new motherboard and such I tried to log into AO and play, but couldn't because it had been released and my account wasn't active anymore.
:)
WTF were they thinking!? The servers were barely keeping up with the beta testers. The game was very laggy at times, the chase camera likes to get stuck in corners and people's crotches.
Don't get me wrong, it's a good game, but I'm getting sick of overblown budgets causing good ideas to fail.
Personally, I think they should fund game companies like the Japanese reusable rocket space programs.
Let's just all learn to speak binary. We can seak in long and short dashes built from words gathered from all languages. Morse code can become popular again. -1010011 1001100 (SL)
How can you license a site which does not operate within your stae? I mean, if you have an online gambling site in Texas and Nevada wants to charge you for licensing then how are they going to enforce it?
Let's face it. The government has always done whatever the hell it wants to do to catch people doing whatever it thinks they shouldn't be doing. Even if we rant and rave our arses off until we win this fight, there'd be 100 people arested right here in the US unjustly who were searched illegally and will never get so much as a fair hearing, much less an appeal hearing.
My suggestion is this: fix the ever-lovin' legal system from the ground up instead of continuing to try to keep patching the holes which LEAs and other agencies keep kicking in the walls of freedom.
I have personally been searched on 3 occasions because a drug dog barked at my van after I refused a search. I have never done drugs in my life. I have no criminal record. On one occasion I was brazenly full-body searched on a busy road near my home because I had a LEGALLY REGISTERED firearm in my vehicle. Is it right? Nope. Can I do a damned thing about it? Nope.
Little known facts: In the grand ol' US of A there is something called Family Court. Burden of proof: on the defendant. Appeals: NO SUCH THING. Double Jeopardy: NO SUCH THING. Right to a fiar trial: NO SUCH THING. Right to an attorney: NO SUCH THING. Conflict of interest: NO SUCH THING. Even more shocking: I was told by a judge on court record that I "would have a change of heart" because of my belief in corporal punishment or would be thrown in jail for contempt. Why is it like this? An LEA called DFCS, or DSS, or whatever your state calls it.
So go save the russians while your sister is being raped by your county cleark 'cause the neighbor thought she saw her smoke a joint.
Is it just me, or has anyone else started having nightmares about this one backfiring?
"His expansion plan: SpiderCows"
Cow gives birth to orb spider's the size of calfs with poison milk shooting out of their as...er.. abdomens.
Don't say it can't happen look at the killer bees.
Arachnaphobia anyone?
Headlines in heaven: "Humans Shoot Arch-angel Michael in Head while on a fly-bye. Angelic hosts demand justice."
I don't give a rat's ass about the .health tld, but the regulation bit has me up in arms.
Next big headline "WHO More powerful than WTO?" I can just see it. I already have to practically go to war with doctors all the time who make bad decisions because they don't know what the heck they're doing.
Fact: in the United States (and most European doctors are trained here) doctors do what they were told to do by doctors who where told to do... you get the point. I don't trust most doctors because they really don't use their heads. All they do is memorize a bunch of crap out of a book and then make decisions based on it. Most of the health-related websites, which I trust, go AGAINST popular opinion. People who know better because they do the research to back up their claims write those sites. This is because popular doctors dictate popular opinion, and they are normally nothing more than highly educated politicians.
To back up my claims: One of the best doctors I have known was a Paranatologist for my wife during her pregnancy. She was diagnosed with prenatal diabetes after taking the screening test. I had to argue with the doctor for an hour before he conceded that the test-results were entirely inaccurate due to the low-sugar consumption of a patient with no arms and legs. He was willing to bet her life on a textbook result from a test which was unfit for use in her pregnancy. I had to show him 6 references in metabolic research to convince him that the test was inaccurate. He didn't do the research.
I have had the same problem in similar cases at every doctor my wife and I have seen. They go on documented history and don't use their heads. Prescriptions are guesswork based on the same "match-and-win" approach to medicine. Over the last 60 years every single major belief of doctors has changed because of errors and flaws in treatment methodology. And now the WHO has all the answers and will be right all the time?
I think not.
The corporations do NOT benefit from HB-1 visas. Only temp agencies do. Corporations are paying $100-150/hr for contractors. Permanent employees are what everyone wants, and can't get.
I always knew the phrase "The great boiling pot" was a prediction. Now we really will be an indistinguishable people.
Parts is parts!
Well dude *sniff*, whadda ya expect? I'm a free *sniff*, you know, thinker. I'm like, *sniff* libertarian and all. I say, legalize this shit!
Yeah.
Oh shit *sniff*, segfault!
I'm sure if I bought one I'd never get to use it. I'd be too busy going out and buying more plastic dust and goo for my wife to waste printing new decorating designs. "This one! No... that doesn't look right at all, how 'bout THIS one!? No... that doesn't look good either!"
Meanwhile I'm trying to figure out how to grind the growing pile back down into dust and feed it back into the printer...
90% of the HB1 visas in the US are from India. The vast majority of the developers that come over on an HB1 visa have about a 3 or 6 mo. Microsoft certification course and fly over to work for $15-30/hr. They can do that because they don't mind living 10 to a house and sending every penny they save home. (taken from 5 contractors and 1 permanent employee for my company which are all Indian.)
Why does this piss me off so much? Because tech-staffing firms are charging decent American corporations which are too dumb or too desperate to pay attention $150-200/hr for these guys. The staffing company keeps the change. In addition, American developers who want to be temp or contract workers are not attractive to the agencies because we won't work for $30/hr.
Basically, staffing companies are raping American business and H1B visa holders.
Am I opposed to immigration? Absolutely not! I think american immigration restrictions are way too strict. Am I opposed to loosing my cushy lifestyle built on a lifetime of dedication to the magic glowing box? Of course I am! Would I bitch if it were just the H1B visa holders? Nope, I'd tighten my belt and take it as fate. But when it's a lowsy, stinkin' staffing agency I get pissed.
I say deport THEM!
I'm a Christian. I'm conservative. I don't have a filter on any of my 3 computers. I don't block URLs on my proxy. My kids are too young at this point for it to matter, but I won't even tell my kids not to browse the porn sites. Why?
:P ), but I won't force them to do or not do them.
Simple: I'll teach them how to think for themselves.
I get so sick of hearing conservatives talk about having to ban this and block that. I say let 'em have at it. Somewhere along the line you just have to trust people to use their heads. The farther down the line you make that decision theirs while they are growing up, the more unprepaired they are to handle the day to day decisions when you aren't there to babysit them. My children will be raised to know what's right and wrong (according to my beliefs
Now right and wrong aren't the same as "kill you if you do" or "maim you if you don't". I'll make my children brush their teeth until they understand why not. Same thing goes with closing car doors on hands, crossing the street without looking and other dangers which take time and understanding to comprehend.
That doesn't mean I won't let my children cross streets or shut car doors however. America seems to think that blindfolding and lecturing enlessly are the only ways to raise children. Sounds kinda stupid to me.
Fact: Only two types of people benefit from H-1B visas... Outsourcing (Subcontracting) firms and aliens (non-residents, not little green men).
I have been a Programmer/DBA/System archetect for a very long time. I work with many forein contractors on a regular basis. They are grotesquely overrated. For the most part (generalization here) their technology skill set is outdated or completely M$ based (i.e. Access or FoxPro and Visual Basic).
Has this affected me? YES! I now find it almost impossible to find contracting positions that pay a damn thing, even though my skillset far outpases any foreign contractor I have ever met. I can find permanent positions by the bucketfull, but I bore easily with corporate squatter jobs. So my take on the whole thing, as one of those MOST affected by allowing more into this country, is that it is a bad idea.
I really wish that the mother f*#$ing goverment would stop micro-managing the economy. If they could do it worth a damn then I might not be so ticked, but everything they touch they screw up.