$2.3B per year on a $23m investment in bribing congress (http://opensecrets.org/industries/indus.asp?Ind=B 02) is: ($2,300,000,000 / $22,699,424) *100%= 10,132% return. = Damn near priceless.
Now RIAA members *could* invest in modernizing their legacy business model, but their current one is clearly much more lucrative.
All complex systems have bugs that need to be ironed out....
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IB10Ak05. html "Keys notes, however, that the electronic spectrum around Baghdad is polluted by the myriad jamming devices that coalition forces primarily employed to thwart remote detonations of the improvised explosive devices that have inflicted 70% of all US fatalities in that war."... "The potential problem was discovered when the first F-22s were operating near US Navy ships off the Atlantic coast. Navy radars overwhelmed the F-22's automated sensors. Even now, larger, multi-station, purpose-built electronic-intelligence-gathering airplanes encounter difficulties around the Iraqi capital because of the extreme density of jamming devices."
I think that you'll find that most h1b people start out even, but then move to permanent residency (aka green card) process then salaries begin to stagnate. (aka "retrogression"). The h1bs get renewed during this decade(s) long process. I started on an L2 and then switched to an h1b to get perm residency status when my wife switched from an L1 to an H1 for the same reason. You go from H1b to "labor certification" to I-140 to I145/I-175. (I started L2->h1b but this is atypical.) In my case, the experience I gained when I started at my company did not count for my h1b/labor cert. Then your salary is mostly fixed for the 5-10 years past that point due to the quota system, even though you get 5-10 years experience on the job. Also you are not able to get promoted because you applied for that first job, not the new one.
You are allowed to switch jobs 180 days after you get your I-145/I-175. You can contract as soon as you get your EAD (I-765). The problem is that everything up to the I-145 takes around 6-9 months but you can't even apply for the I145 for years and years afterwards.
In Bill Gate's mind, he's probably correct because he doesn't see anyone who makes less than $100K, immigrants included. That's his bubble.
What brings salaries down is the perm residency process that holds salaries in place for so long. I whole heartedly agree that it is better to train people than to import them. But that is a pressing education issue in US society. ($30K/year tuition? Are you joking?) Not the immigrant's fault.
Essentially, policy makers have to decide whether they want half a million foreign well trained brains in their economy or they don't. Regardless of the citizenship, the economic benefits to the society exists as a whole. For those who think that I should get the hell out consider these two points: 1) I've met Americans working all over the world. They didn't seem to have any qualms about working in those countries. 2) If they don't cut the perm residency process time by around 10 years, I'm going anyway. I miss being able to contract to whom I want, work for whom I want, start a buisness in what I want. What is the point of being a computer geek if you can't do any of that?
It would be sad because I have made many friends here. Politics suck but Americans are very nice people.
What I would suggest if I were you is comprehensive immigration reform. It cost that Swift company 30M when they lost their low skill illegal workers. It'll cost the American economy a heck of a lot more when the high skilled legal immigrant workers get fed up and leave for greener pastures. And that will be a net loss of jobs for the US economy. PS: By the way h1b people: Canadian permanent residency costs $500, fill in the form (no lawyers required), they'll ask you info when they need it and it takes only 18-24 months.
If you read it again, you'll see that that was not the argument. It was given that in Canada there is socialized medicine, that it makes sense for the tax payer to pick up the tab of the trials due to cost savings.
touchy touchy.
PS: Canada does cover everyone for less per capita than the US covers the old and the poor. ; )
Try switching languages and you'll see the CS majors (from good schools) shine. True, in my school the courses the languages that we wrote in *were* incidental. Above the 200 level there were no "X Language" course. I used to say that the profs announced that "you'll be writing your next assignment in [.. roll the dice..] Java." But most languages are similar and fall into families. Scheme is like Lisp. Assembly is like C. Java is like C# or C++.
I've had input in hiring people. Personally, I'm not so concerned that someone has the stellar skills in the language of the day. Ability in C language impresses me. Clean code impresses me. Even for web stuff. Most programmers can hack things together on the fly and that impresses the brass; they don't see that this job is also a profession. The world doesn't need more hackers (classical sense of the word) because it causes never ending debugging and refactoring sessions. Nobody wants to spend their career fixing someone's crap. And the explanation that a product that they wanted was so rushed into place that it cannot become something slightly different without major work is painful for everyone. I know. So calculate your ROI over two or three years not just one. Not saying that someone w/o a CS degree cannot code well. I'm saying that it is more likely that someone with a CS degree will want to. Unless they're bored out of their skull and then they need to be assigned some other project/language/platform or design work for a challenge.
Also, US broadcasters must follow two mandated FCC requiremts: 1.4.23.33.b: That no one in America be offended by any content. Bland Baby Bland! 1.7.2.C: That it be crap.
Thank the gods in geo-orbit for Starchoice. I'm going to watch "Little Mosque on the Prarie" in French. ; )
no car crashes... You just bump into a static fence. But I really really suck at driving. Especially with the traction control and the stability control off.
I believe the US constitution reflects a "contract" between the government and the individual in so far as the government may not limit free speech; your employer, however may.
Of course this case is one of political expediency vs free speech but that's just nuance...must..not...break...Goodwin's...law.....
Microsoft is just warming up their blog-o-sphere marketing engine again. I guess that's where Vista's marketing budget went. = )
And why wouldn't they? They've done it with other products previously. The threat is that as soon as Sony (finally) sorts out their production issues, Microsoft will have to eat hd-dvd's development costs. Sure they'll sell a few Xbox 360 HD-DVD attachments, but with no hdcp, I doubt the studios will cozy up to the format w/o a kickback. Sony will eventually, slowly, sell a lot of PS3s. Every single one a good quality blue ray player.
Living here is kinda like being "The Prisoner". They have lots of colourful marching bands. Saw some kids practicing with mock rifles last summer, as most kids back home would practice with batons. People are being watched because the US government thinks that if they know enough about you there is some causation with future action....Even I've been fingerprinted four or five times but have never been involved in anything more than a speeding ticket. Today my US friend just bought an AK47 for $500.
About 10 years ago it came out that they used automated facial recognition technology in the city. I believe that that information was banned in the UK. So the bobbies are in the dohnut shop.
New US passports have biometric information, correct? So when a large % of US citizens have to get passports (for their own country! heh!) that means that the US has a large pool of biometric information. Smells of Negroponte.
warning: With this careless talk you are undermining the very basis of modern western governments. Once, to undermine government legitimacy one would mock democracy or the methodology used. No longer. You are a threat and you must be stopped!!
But our own individual greed have all contributed to this problem. When was the last time anyone cared about looking for anything "made in the USA"?
Indians (for instance) have been buying "Made in the USA" software since.. the beginning of software. Perhaps it is time they wrote some software for the US?
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Get in the 00s. = )
http://www.trailerparkboys.com/
"..by subnational groups or clandestine agents.."
Their subversion of the word "terrorism" (to exclude themselves) speaks volumes.
$2.3B per year on a $23m investment in bribing congress (http://opensecrets.org/industries/indus.asp?Ind=B 02) is:
($2,300,000,000 / $22,699,424) *100%= 10,132% return. = Damn near priceless.
Now RIAA members *could* invest in modernizing their legacy business model, but their current one is clearly much more lucrative.
No, it would simultaniously crash into Mars and not.
Go Team Canada!
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/05/barenaked-lad ies-new-album-free-no-drm-now/
All complex systems have bugs that need to be ironed out....
. html ...
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IB10Ak05
"Keys notes, however, that the electronic spectrum around Baghdad is polluted by the myriad jamming devices that coalition forces primarily employed to thwart remote detonations of the improvised explosive devices that have inflicted 70% of all US fatalities in that war."
"The potential problem was discovered when the first F-22s were operating near US Navy ships off the Atlantic coast. Navy radars overwhelmed the F-22's automated sensors. Even now, larger, multi-station, purpose-built electronic-intelligence-gathering airplanes encounter difficulties around the Iraqi capital because of the extreme density of jamming devices."
no, the market rate when you get hired only. That is the law.
Believe me, I would love to change that.
I think that you'll find that most h1b people start out even, but then move to permanent residency (aka green card) process then salaries begin to stagnate. (aka "retrogression"). The h1bs get renewed during this decade(s) long process.
I started on an L2 and then switched to an h1b to get perm residency status when my wife switched from an L1 to an H1 for the same reason.
You go from H1b to "labor certification" to I-140 to I145/I-175. (I started L2->h1b but this is atypical.)
In my case, the experience I gained when I started at my company did not count for my h1b/labor cert. Then your salary is mostly fixed for the 5-10 years past that point due to the quota system, even though you get 5-10 years experience on the job. Also you are not able to get promoted because you applied for that first job, not the new one.
You are allowed to switch jobs 180 days after you get your I-145/I-175. You can contract as soon as you get your EAD (I-765). The problem is that everything up to the I-145 takes around 6-9 months but you can't even apply for the I145 for years and years afterwards.
In Bill Gate's mind, he's probably correct because he doesn't see anyone who makes less than $100K, immigrants included. That's his bubble.
What brings salaries down is the perm residency process that holds salaries in place for so long. I whole heartedly agree that it is better to train people than to import them. But that is a pressing education issue in US society. ($30K/year tuition? Are you joking?) Not the immigrant's fault.
Essentially, policy makers have to decide whether they want half a million foreign well trained brains in their economy or they don't. Regardless of the citizenship, the economic benefits to the society exists as a whole. For those who think that I should get the hell out consider these two points:
1) I've met Americans working all over the world. They didn't seem to have any qualms about working in those countries.
2) If they don't cut the perm residency process time by around 10 years, I'm going anyway. I miss being able to contract to whom I want, work for whom I want, start a buisness in what I want. What is the point of being a computer geek if you can't do any of that?
It would be sad because I have made many friends here. Politics suck but Americans are very nice people.
What I would suggest if I were you is comprehensive immigration reform. It cost that Swift company 30M when they lost their low skill illegal workers. It'll cost the American economy a heck of a lot more when the high skilled legal immigrant workers get fed up and leave for greener pastures. And that will be a net loss of jobs for the US economy.
PS: By the way h1b people: Canadian permanent residency costs $500, fill in the form (no lawyers required), they'll ask you info when they need it and it takes only 18-24 months.
we already are in prison, aren't we?
If you read it again, you'll see that that was not the argument. It was given that in Canada there is socialized medicine, that it makes sense for the tax payer to pick up the tab of the trials due to cost savings.
touchy touchy.
PS: Canada does cover everyone for less per capita than the US covers the old and the poor. ; )
Try switching languages and you'll see the CS majors (from good schools) shine.
True, in my school the courses the languages that we wrote in *were* incidental. Above the 200 level there were no "X Language" course. I used to say that the profs announced that "you'll be writing your next assignment in [.. roll the dice..] Java." But most languages are similar and fall into families. Scheme is like Lisp. Assembly is like C. Java is like C# or C++.
I've had input in hiring people. Personally, I'm not so concerned that someone has the stellar skills in the language of the day. Ability in C language impresses me. Clean code impresses me. Even for web stuff. Most programmers can hack things together on the fly and that impresses the brass; they don't see that this job is also a profession. The world doesn't need more hackers (classical sense of the word) because it causes never ending debugging and refactoring sessions. Nobody wants to spend their career fixing someone's crap. And the explanation that a product that they wanted was so rushed into place that it cannot become something slightly different without major work is painful for everyone. I know. So calculate your ROI over two or three years not just one.
Not saying that someone w/o a CS degree cannot code well. I'm saying that it is more likely that someone with a CS degree will want to. Unless they're bored out of their skull and then they need to be assigned some other project/language/platform or design work for a challenge.
Also, US broadcasters must follow two mandated FCC requiremts:
1.4.23.33.b:
That no one in America be offended by any content. Bland Baby Bland!
1.7.2.C:
That it be crap.
Thank the gods in geo-orbit for Starchoice. I'm going to watch "Little Mosque on the Prarie" in French. ; )
no car crashes... You just bump into a static fence.
But I really really suck at driving. Especially with the traction control and the stability control off.
Nobody lend me your car! = )
I believe the US constitution reflects a "contract" between the government and the individual in so far as the government may not limit free speech; your employer, however may.
..must..not...break...Goodwin's...law.....
Of course this case is one of political expediency vs free speech but that's just nuance.
OK, fulfill. Whatever! = )
Microsoft is just warming up their blog-o-sphere marketing engine again. I guess that's where Vista's marketing budget went. = )
And why wouldn't they? They've done it with other products previously. The threat is that as soon as Sony (finally) sorts out their production issues, Microsoft will have to eat hd-dvd's development costs. Sure they'll sell a few Xbox 360 HD-DVD attachments, but with no hdcp, I doubt the studios will cozy up to the format w/o a kickback. Sony will eventually, slowly, sell a lot of PS3s. Every single one a good quality blue ray player.
Living here is kinda like being "The Prisoner". They have lots of colourful marching bands. Saw some kids practicing with mock rifles last summer, as most kids back home would practice with batons. People are being watched because the US government thinks that if they know enough about you there is some causation with future action....Even I've been fingerprinted four or five times but have never been involved in anything more than a speeding ticket. Today my US friend just bought an AK47 for $500.
This place is freak'n surreal.
About 10 years ago it came out that they used automated facial recognition technology in the city.
I believe that that information was banned in the UK. So the bobbies are in the dohnut shop.
New US passports have biometric information, correct?
So when a large % of US citizens have to get passports (for their own country! heh!) that means that the US has a large pool of biometric information. Smells of Negroponte.
warning: With this careless talk you are undermining the very basis of modern western governments.
Once, to undermine government legitimacy one would mock democracy or the methodology used. No longer. You are a threat and you must be stopped!!
Woot!
Congrats to Deutschland also.
Never thought we'd rank so high on the list.
-b
Indians (for instance) have been buying "Made in the USA" software since.. the beginning of software. Perhaps it is time they wrote some software for the US?
Symmetry is most definitely not sufficient.
P olitics/2006/09/29/title_171
Europeans in the US will be subject to new laws that will be signed by their president in the next couple of days:
http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.php/Tasty
If I were European, I'd be rather happy about the talks breakdown given the above.
Given the world of choices in where to work or fly... Legally speaking, this is no less risky than travelling to any tin-pot dictatorship.
-b
Oil doesn't grow on trees ja know! ; )
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http://finance.yahoo.com/currency/convert?from=CA
They sure as heck can donate. And that's worth many votes.
Of course their constituents are big business, not you nor I.