Discalimer : I'm a green card holder who came to the USA on an H1-B sponsorship, and have recently been made laid-off. If you think this is "sour grapes" then so be it ; I think I'm being objective.
On the whole, the law as it stands makes sense, but it does need to be improved. I agree with most of the comments on this story that state that the H1B program is a good thing, the general theme being that the H1B program is beneficial to the USA and that the vast majority of folks on the program have got there by merit.
However, I did learn (the hard way) that there is at least one major loophole in the program. Having worked for several years for a major IT company (you've heard of them but I won't name them) I was recently laid off. This was a legitimate business decision in so much that business was slacking off and cuts needed to be made. The problem I have is that the company was making "reduction in force" announcements while busily bringing in new blood through a third party outsourcing company. Needless to say, the third party company was bringing in folks from India, good folks, but nontheless folks who had exactly the same skills as the citizens and green card holders they were firing, but could be paid much less. My former employer could not have hired these people directly, but can do it perfectly legitimately through a third party.
The bottom line : any company can fire perfectly good employees and bring in foreign labor at lower rates, so long as they do it through a third party.
They say it's currently about twice the distance from the sun as Pluto. I wonder how far it will get before.... we go and retrieve it. I read a book a while back, can't remember which one, but I'm pretty sure it was an Arthur C Clarke, possibly "3001". Anyway, in the story space travel has advanced to such a stage that craft can travel many orders of magnitude faster than the likes of Pioneer and Voyager. They decided that having primitive spacecraft travelling through space forever, possibly being picked up by other civilizations, was not a good thing. So they simply sent craft out, picked up the "trash" and brought it back. I wonder if this will ever happen. Arthur C. Clarke has made some very astute observations and even predicted technological advances such as geostationary satellites, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if we did retrieve these craft one day, albeit not in our lifetimes.
I think they are refering to either the Kuiper Belt, or more likely the bow shock wave, where the particles thrown off from the sun form a shock wave with the interstellar medium. But if you want a real answer, go ask an astronomer.
Everyone needs to check out popfile.sourceforge.net. It's GPL, dead easy to set up and use, and quite frankly, it's brilliant. It uses naive Bayesian filtering, catches about 99% of my spam, and rarely if ever catches a non spam message by mistake. Spammers are going to HATE this tool. Try it. You won't be sorry.
I had the same problem. I did an "unset MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME" which solved the problem. I have another problem though - it takes ages to start (like over a minute !) on one of my machines. Using Mandrake Linux 8.1
I think the judge got it wrong. He says that by publishing something on the web you are publishing it in every country in the world. I think that is clearly incorrect. You have published the files on your server, which most definitely resides in your own country and nowhere else. The viewers from all over the world have to voluntarily make an "electronic journey" to your country to view the content. Let me draw an analogy: Imagine I'm sitting in the USA the middle of the desert right on the US/Mexico border. I'm sitting in a chair, facing away from the Mexican border, reading a newspaper. Now, a Mexican walks up behind me, still in Mexico, and looks over my shoulder. Did the publisher publish the newspaper in Mexico ? No ! The reader viewed the content across an international border. Theoretically you could do the same thing from a distance if the viewer was using a telescope or binoculars. So why should it be different if the viewer is using electrons instead of photons for the transmission medium ?
OK, that link won't work. Do this instead:
Surf to http://www.tess.uspto.gov
Select "New User Form Search (Basic)".
Enter "illustrator" as the search term and click
"Submit query". The link for "Illustrator"
is number 11 on the list.
I already posted this as an earlier reply. Posting again so it gets more visibility.
Um, actually they do have a trademark on "Illustrator" : http://tess.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=ck s87k.4.11 I didn't think you could trademark a generic word (e.g. a word that's in the dictionary), but I guess this shows that you can.
Um, actually they do have a trademark on "Illustrator" :
http://tess.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=ck s87k.4.11
I didn't think you could trademark a generic word (e.g. a word that's in the dictionary), but I guess this shows that you can.
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Discalimer : I'm a green card holder who came to the USA on an H1-B sponsorship, and have recently been made laid-off. If you think this is "sour grapes" then so be it ; I think I'm being objective.
On the whole, the law as it stands makes sense, but it does need to be improved. I agree with most of the comments on this story that state that the H1B program is a good thing, the general theme being that the H1B program is beneficial to the USA and that the vast majority of folks on the program have got there by merit.
However, I did learn (the hard way) that there is at least one major loophole in the program. Having worked for several years for a major IT company (you've heard of them but I won't name them) I was recently laid off. This was a legitimate business decision in so much that business was slacking off and cuts needed to be made. The problem I have is that the company was making "reduction in force" announcements while busily bringing in new blood through a third party outsourcing company. Needless to say, the third party company was bringing in folks from India, good folks, but nontheless folks who had exactly the same skills as the citizens and green card holders they were firing, but could be paid much less. My former employer could not have hired these people directly, but can do it perfectly legitimately through a third party.
The bottom line : any company can fire perfectly good employees and bring in foreign labor at lower rates, so long as they do it through a third party.
IMHO, this is a major loophole.
They say it's currently about twice the distance from the sun as Pluto. I wonder how far it will get before.... we go and retrieve it. I read a book a while back, can't remember which one, but I'm pretty sure it was an Arthur C Clarke, possibly "3001". Anyway, in the story space travel has advanced to such a stage that craft can travel many orders of magnitude faster than the likes of Pioneer and Voyager. They decided that having primitive spacecraft travelling through space forever, possibly being picked up by other civilizations, was not a good thing. So they simply sent craft out, picked up the "trash" and brought it back. I wonder if this will ever happen. Arthur C. Clarke has made some very astute observations and even predicted technological advances such as geostationary satellites, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if we did retrieve these craft one day, albeit not in our lifetimes.
I think they are refering to either the Kuiper Belt, or more likely the bow shock wave, where the particles thrown off from the sun form a shock wave with the interstellar medium. But if you want a real answer, go ask an astronomer.
Everyone needs to check out popfile.sourceforge.net. It's GPL, dead easy to set up and use, and quite frankly, it's brilliant. It uses naive Bayesian filtering, catches about 99% of my spam, and rarely if ever catches a non spam message by mistake. Spammers are going to HATE this tool. Try it. You won't be sorry.
I had the same problem. I did an "unset MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME" which solved the problem. I have another problem though - it takes ages to start (like over a minute !) on one of my machines. Using Mandrake Linux 8.1
I think the judge got it wrong. He says that by publishing something on the web you are publishing it in every country in the world. I think that is clearly incorrect. You have published the files on your server, which most definitely resides in your own country and nowhere else. The viewers from all over the world have to voluntarily make an "electronic journey" to your country to view the content. Let me draw an analogy: Imagine I'm sitting in the USA the middle of the desert right on the US/Mexico border. I'm sitting in a chair, facing away from the Mexican border, reading a newspaper. Now, a Mexican walks up behind me, still in Mexico, and looks over my shoulder. Did the publisher publish the newspaper in Mexico ? No ! The reader viewed the content across an international border. Theoretically you could do the same thing from a distance if the viewer was using a telescope or binoculars. So why should it be different if the viewer is using electrons instead of photons for the transmission medium ?
Nope, "Illustrator" IS trademarked. See my earlier post.
OK, that link won't work. Do this instead: Surf to http://www.tess.uspto.gov Select "New User Form Search (Basic)". Enter "illustrator" as the search term and click "Submit query". The link for "Illustrator" is number 11 on the list.
I already posted this as an earlier reply. Posting again so it gets more visibility. Um, actually they do have a trademark on "Illustrator" : http://tess.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=ck s87k.4.11 I didn't think you could trademark a generic word (e.g. a word that's in the dictionary), but I guess this shows that you can.
Um, actually they do have a trademark on "Illustrator" : http://tess.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=ck s87k.4.11
I didn't think you could trademark a generic word (e.g. a word that's in the dictionary), but I guess this shows that you can.
Strangely, you are actually correct.