I wouldn't mind that. But employers would hate it. The green card is a source of artificial leverage over someone's salary. You take that away, they'll scream murder.
Because the H1B program, in reality, is an indentured servitude program...? There are people, supposedly, who work here for 10 years, at abominable pay, yet never quite get that green card...
Well, there's a trick to it. Something I came across, by accident, was something of an interesting read (i.e. was not something I went looking for). Apparently, a number of firms have requirements for special software that is only available through that firm...you can see where this is headed. So if the firm, which is posting the job, lists experience in this software, as a requirement, software that is not readily available to other native applicants...they manage to fulfill the letter of the law (they didn't find any 'qualified' applicants), while violating the spirit of the law.
Increasingly stigmatized? Really? Holy sh*t, where have you been? For the last two years, we've been thrown under a bus, repeatedly! Demonized by the media? Name one computer-related incident where they haven't mentioned the person was a hacker, whether or not it turned out true? And the punishments handed out by the courts? Fuck, I could rip off the NY stock exchange for $50 billion, and get a lighter sentence, than reporting a bug in some company's latest software.
Who said anything about hacking? Look, when you manage to get your GED, then you'll realize that 'hackers' like those portrayed in movies largely do not exist. What I am speaking of, simply, are the grass-roots activists and impromptu bartenders, as one Republican nominee found-out, that can catch you off-guard, using perfectly legal technology, in public places.
And you know it will happen...because politicians will never stop being corrupt, nor will they ever stop appearing in public. This is every politician (not the guy with wings): link.
Babe, techs have been screaming about this for months, years even. You have come to the wrong website if you think you can play this game, and get away with it.
Well, it has been a fairly interesting week. Let's see, got the jobs data right here, and it's a doozy: link
Given those unemployment figures, it's kind of hard to argue that there is a lack of people in those fields seeking gainful employment. Oh, wait, I'm wrong; apparently, a large number of them have recently given up looking for work, as they simply couldn't find any, and thus are dropped from the count in the future (hurrah!).
Personally, I can't wait until we see the past few months' employment figures readjusted, at some future date.
But yeah, if you had to listen to the techs or business people on this one, the techs are probably telling it straight: they're being screwed. But that's alright, it's not like it's going to affect the security / whatever of our nation, as surely people will continue to enter into these great fields despite the now frequent hardships, right? Only no, it appears that a lot of programs seem to be having problems here. It warms the cockles of my heart to know that the US's CyberCommand will, in time, possibly be 100% foreign-born.
Hey Congress, just keep doing what you've been doing. Fantastic job thus far, can't wait to see the results next quarter. Just know that a large, angry, and extremely vocal contingent of unemployed techs will certainly not spend their idle time trying to find ways to undermine you as you've undermined them. Nope, that'll never happen. Plus those are votes you can count on not getting on election day...not that it will matter with the kickbacks you will be earning for passing this crap...on the other hand, an untimely exposure of a scandal does tend to limit one's chances, and does cost a lot less. Price of a bought Senator? $5,000,000. Price of an Android phone? $300. Catching the good Senator making out with someone not his wife, and uploading it to YouTube? Priceless.
'Tis quite alright. In the typical predator / prey co-evolution style way of doing things, for every new right the government (the predator) wanders off with, the people (the prey) will develop something new. In a few millenia, the people of the past would, if revived, die of a heart-attack within 5 minutes of being told the current state of worldly affairs. "Good news, we've traveled to the other side of the galaxy, and found sentient alien life! Even created some of our own! But the bad news is that you are not allowed to have more than 3 minutes of 'alone' time, sex is now mandatory, and not only did Jesus come back to rule us, but He wants you to know He hates every one of us personally! All education is now public and free...but no one attends classes because they're too busy trying to win a seat on the latest game show, which only happens if you watch for some random string of characters displayed randomly, and text it immediately! Robots basically run everything, and the AIs are totally psychopathic, but since no one values their life much, and the police don't investigate missing persons, the AIs inevitably end up being really depressed. As for the aliens...well, some say they got it the worst. They come to Earth because, for all its problems, it's better than what's going on on their home planets..." -> like that kind of bad.
Well, how can you respect an animal that is not willing to fight for its own freedom, but willfully submits at the slightest threat? Even the sheep in the fields put up more of a struggle than this lot. "Of course our masters, who have screwed us at every turn, will have a sudden conviction of conscience, brought upon by, I don't know, the gods (because they've typically been the great centers of morality...), and not go through with whatever depravity is in the works this time. Yeah, that'll happen."
But you know what the sad part is? That for a portion of the people out there, it's not that they're being ruled, rightly or wrongly that they're complaining about. It's that they're not the ones doing the ruling! How many people would give up being able to tell others how to live their lives, if it meant getting them to give up telling them how to live their lives in return? Like a dog with two bones...
Mmmm. Problem of definition of words here. It's not that the solutions cannot be profitable, it's that the solutions they dream up will be...centered around the idea of maximizing repeat customers (even at the cost of long-term profitability). Think of it as selling someone a generator, then selling them a thimble of diesel to power said generator once every few hours...not terribly efficient, and it pisses off the customers, who inevitably search out other long-term solutions, impacting your long-term bottom-line. This particular group has the kind of caricature / image of the kind of person who would design a bio-degradable car which melts if left out in the rain...not terribly useful for those who want a maximum ROI.
Here's a fine example. Everyone, and their kids, are working on the 'drinking water' problem in Africa, right? You have Life Straws, graphene filters, etc. However, what do all of these solutions have in common? They generate repeat customers. They all have components that wear out, and need replacements after several uses. They are not solutions, in that you hand them out or set them up in some remote village, and the drinking water problem is solved; they're solutions in that they're temporary fixes, highly profitable, have great PR, provide lots of jobs at home, and are guaranteed to have repeat customers. That's the difference between owning land, and renting it.
And it's like a disease. You no longer own anything anymore. Your body, your mind...and the results are a constant churn of crap.
In oh so many words, I believe you're hitting the nail on the head. The point behind this proposed 'plan' is a dog and pony show; it's an ego-stroking venture, designed to make the designated 'thinkers' feel important in a world undergoing a depression. I imagine that anything they dream up and jointly agree upon will 1.) be loudly announced from the UN as a great thing, 2.) already be in line with their current way of thinking ("Why, your plan for over-population is strikingly similar to our own!"), and 3.) be complete disasters if actually used (*shudders*).
Nope, just a story about a large number of companies folding for lack of being competitive in a global environment. Seems they are unable to hire an IT people to keep things running, despite offering 'competitive wages,' and having an unlimited H1B limit to fall back upon. Who wants to work for a bunch of stuck of rich white kids who never pay their bills anyway, and think majoring in business / art history is all they need to do to live a successful life? They can keep their rapidly depreciating dollars / euros, and their business degrees for selling stuff they will no longer be able to make or afford, or perhaps art history degrees so they can host tours on Sundays for school children, while the rest of the world goes on the build something.
Meanwhile the STEMs, the various trades, and so on of any decent caliber will be welcome elsewhere in the world. He who has the gold makes the rules, only so long as the people want gold.
It's called "work" not "BDSM time with loud shouting / personal insults and poor pay." If I want to be yelled at by someone, I'll get married. Or I'll visit one of the seedier areas of a red light district, and pay one of the ladies dressed in leather to work me down until I can't bear the sight of myself in the mirror.
That's easy to understand. They're scared of IT. They don't understand it, and it seems to be everywhere; the best they can do is try to contain it, and hold onto their illusory power bases (if IT doesn't know the magic way we do things in our department, we can't be outsourced / downsized; hell, if we ask for 't3H cL0uD,' we can turn the tables on IT, and outsource them!). They are ill equipped to understand that it's not IT versus the rest of the company and its little departments ala standard company politics, but this company versus the company across the street that has a non-retarded staff that has integrated IT into all of its operations, and is busy running this company out of the business.
This is a serious problem with American businesses, IMHO. Now, a lot of Asian businesses...well, they've been steadily gearing up to clean our clocks. And you'll notice that the "Buy American!" ad campaigns aren't really effective...you can see where American business is headed. While you were engaging in petty internal squabbles over fiefdoms owned by no one, and Wall St. was busy playing its mad games with the currency, other places were watching us, and learning from our mistakes. When they can do everyone else's job 100 times faster for 10 times less...well, your time is up.
First rule of networking: assume that any and all conversations that take place over an electronic medium are recorded, and played back to a room filled with prosecutors / investigators hell-bent on finding something to charge you with.
Second rule of networking: assume this does not apply only to electronic mediums.
See, in a better world, your rights will be upheld. Good triumphs over evil through no sleight of the hand, but simply because it is the preferable course that nature should take. In reality, there is always one group of people out there that wants you to believe something as a constant, so they can work around it. Your belief in a right to privacy is the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden to these types, and they covet eating it above all other things; eating it, and never telling you that it was eaten. It's simply too tempting a target! A blind spot, right there, for the taking. With everyone fooled into believing they have some rights to privacy, well, they'll never see the prosecution coming. And trial by ambush, while frowned upon in civilized courts, is sadly still a common occurrence in unenlightened areas of existence.
All that matters, in this life, at the end of the day, is that you die. That's the singular goal everyone is working towards. Widget A fits into Socket B, which creates Component C. On a higher dimension, you are, no doubt, moving in a straight line, to your finish.
One need only visit a traffic court, after receiving a traffic ticket, to understand the streamlining and efficiency of what, no doubt, goes on 'upstairs.' You are guilty from the moment you are charged, and only evidence of the highest objectivity will overturn that sealed conviction. And even then...some judges will refuse to look at the evidence! Mind you, the part about selling kids into modern day slavery, in my own current state of PA, has forced a closer look at some of these shenanigans...still, the way is hard, and long.
I love you. The Sybil system...*shudders*...imperfection magnified.
I mean, on one hand, it's fascinating...the idea that enough eccentric / psychopathic minds acting in unison can average things out. On the other hand, for set of waves that cancel, there are also a set of waves that magnify, when overlapped. 'Tis just an anime series...but it's interesting that the original author left that out...or perhaps that's the error that the Sybil system can't account for...the one it produces by its mere existence. It believes, that because it consider its own operations purely logical, that it can peer into the future...that it will act today, as it will act tomorrow. But that's just intellectual laziness...the replacement of a complex equation, not fully understood, with a mere symbol, that triggers a delayed calculation. What is the 5th order derivative of its actions next Tuesday, accounting for it having taken the 5th order derivative today? Since it believes it's purely logical, then it must be a 0, 1, or infinity (something like that). If it's a 1.3, the entire calculation is off, and requires additional work. Part of the series, especially the end, points out the flaws present...the Sybil system has to make compromises to further its agenda...logical, in a way, illogical, in that it perverts its own actions, and allows for increased error.
The true problem, faced with a system of this magnitude, that is never discussed, is over of playing God. If you can spot an individual who is at risk, how well can you alter the variables so that they are no longer at risk? Do you compromise by hijacking their mind, or do you move the environment around to achieve this end? Think about it.
Gotta do something to cut down on the population, right? Who knew electing politicians who could get claustrophobic in the Palace of Versaille would be a bad move?
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I wouldn't mind that. But employers would hate it. The green card is a source of artificial leverage over someone's salary. You take that away, they'll scream murder.
Because the H1B program, in reality, is an indentured servitude program...? There are people, supposedly, who work here for 10 years, at abominable pay, yet never quite get that green card...
Well, there's a trick to it. Something I came across, by accident, was something of an interesting read (i.e. was not something I went looking for). Apparently, a number of firms have requirements for special software that is only available through that firm...you can see where this is headed. So if the firm, which is posting the job, lists experience in this software, as a requirement, software that is not readily available to other native applicants...they manage to fulfill the letter of the law (they didn't find any 'qualified' applicants), while violating the spirit of the law.
Increasingly stigmatized? Really? Holy sh*t, where have you been? For the last two years, we've been thrown under a bus, repeatedly! Demonized by the media? Name one computer-related incident where they haven't mentioned the person was a hacker, whether or not it turned out true? And the punishments handed out by the courts? Fuck, I could rip off the NY stock exchange for $50 billion, and get a lighter sentence, than reporting a bug in some company's latest software.
Who said anything about hacking? Look, when you manage to get your GED, then you'll realize that 'hackers' like those portrayed in movies largely do not exist. What I am speaking of, simply, are the grass-roots activists and impromptu bartenders, as one Republican nominee found-out, that can catch you off-guard, using perfectly legal technology, in public places.
And you know it will happen...because politicians will never stop being corrupt, nor will they ever stop appearing in public. This is every politician (not the guy with wings): link.
Babe, techs have been screaming about this for months, years even. You have come to the wrong website if you think you can play this game, and get away with it.
M*therf*cker. No wonder the NorthEast market has been dead this last year.
Well, it has been a fairly interesting week. Let's see, got the jobs data right here, and it's a doozy: link
Given those unemployment figures, it's kind of hard to argue that there is a lack of people in those fields seeking gainful employment. Oh, wait, I'm wrong; apparently, a large number of them have recently given up looking for work, as they simply couldn't find any, and thus are dropped from the count in the future (hurrah!).
Personally, I can't wait until we see the past few months' employment figures readjusted, at some future date.
But yeah, if you had to listen to the techs or business people on this one, the techs are probably telling it straight: they're being screwed. But that's alright, it's not like it's going to affect the security / whatever of our nation, as surely people will continue to enter into these great fields despite the now frequent hardships, right? Only no, it appears that a lot of programs seem to be having problems here. It warms the cockles of my heart to know that the US's CyberCommand will, in time, possibly be 100% foreign-born.
Hey Congress, just keep doing what you've been doing. Fantastic job thus far, can't wait to see the results next quarter. Just know that a large, angry, and extremely vocal contingent of unemployed techs will certainly not spend their idle time trying to find ways to undermine you as you've undermined them. Nope, that'll never happen. Plus those are votes you can count on not getting on election day...not that it will matter with the kickbacks you will be earning for passing this crap...on the other hand, an untimely exposure of a scandal does tend to limit one's chances, and does cost a lot less. Price of a bought Senator? $5,000,000. Price of an Android phone? $300. Catching the good Senator making out with someone not his wife, and uploading it to YouTube? Priceless.
That's quite alright. Wall St. is quite willing to sell you someone else's tulip bulbs...
*shrugs* Doesn't matter. If the encryption of current BitCoins is defeated, then the network shifts to a more secure encryption. Check the spec.
'Tis quite alright. In the typical predator / prey co-evolution style way of doing things, for every new right the government (the predator) wanders off with, the people (the prey) will develop something new. In a few millenia, the people of the past would, if revived, die of a heart-attack within 5 minutes of being told the current state of worldly affairs. "Good news, we've traveled to the other side of the galaxy, and found sentient alien life! Even created some of our own! But the bad news is that you are not allowed to have more than 3 minutes of 'alone' time, sex is now mandatory, and not only did Jesus come back to rule us, but He wants you to know He hates every one of us personally! All education is now public and free...but no one attends classes because they're too busy trying to win a seat on the latest game show, which only happens if you watch for some random string of characters displayed randomly, and text it immediately! Robots basically run everything, and the AIs are totally psychopathic, but since no one values their life much, and the police don't investigate missing persons, the AIs inevitably end up being really depressed. As for the aliens...well, some say they got it the worst. They come to Earth because, for all its problems, it's better than what's going on on their home planets..." -> like that kind of bad.
Well, how can you respect an animal that is not willing to fight for its own freedom, but willfully submits at the slightest threat? Even the sheep in the fields put up more of a struggle than this lot. "Of course our masters, who have screwed us at every turn, will have a sudden conviction of conscience, brought upon by, I don't know, the gods (because they've typically been the great centers of morality...), and not go through with whatever depravity is in the works this time. Yeah, that'll happen."
But you know what the sad part is? That for a portion of the people out there, it's not that they're being ruled, rightly or wrongly that they're complaining about. It's that they're not the ones doing the ruling! How many people would give up being able to tell others how to live their lives, if it meant getting them to give up telling them how to live their lives in return? Like a dog with two bones...
Mmmm. Problem of definition of words here. It's not that the solutions cannot be profitable, it's that the solutions they dream up will be...centered around the idea of maximizing repeat customers (even at the cost of long-term profitability). Think of it as selling someone a generator, then selling them a thimble of diesel to power said generator once every few hours...not terribly efficient, and it pisses off the customers, who inevitably search out other long-term solutions, impacting your long-term bottom-line. This particular group has the kind of caricature / image of the kind of person who would design a bio-degradable car which melts if left out in the rain...not terribly useful for those who want a maximum ROI.
Here's a fine example. Everyone, and their kids, are working on the 'drinking water' problem in Africa, right? You have Life Straws, graphene filters, etc. However, what do all of these solutions have in common? They generate repeat customers. They all have components that wear out, and need replacements after several uses. They are not solutions, in that you hand them out or set them up in some remote village, and the drinking water problem is solved; they're solutions in that they're temporary fixes, highly profitable, have great PR, provide lots of jobs at home, and are guaranteed to have repeat customers. That's the difference between owning land, and renting it.
And it's like a disease. You no longer own anything anymore. Your body, your mind...and the results are a constant churn of crap.
Probably trying to find out just how drunk they can possibly get on a 12-hour flight. The entire idea is one of a fully-funded junket.
Not that I don't approve junkets. But we already know what needs to be done in a few areas; the rest we can figure out as we go along.
In oh so many words, I believe you're hitting the nail on the head. The point behind this proposed 'plan' is a dog and pony show; it's an ego-stroking venture, designed to make the designated 'thinkers' feel important in a world undergoing a depression. I imagine that anything they dream up and jointly agree upon will 1.) be loudly announced from the UN as a great thing, 2.) already be in line with their current way of thinking ("Why, your plan for over-population is strikingly similar to our own!"), and 3.) be complete disasters if actually used (*shudders*).
Well, you are putting all the puppets in a single room, separated from their masters, who do the thinking for them...
Not necessarily. It might just be an interface problem, with existing components (human nature).
Nope, just a story about a large number of companies folding for lack of being competitive in a global environment. Seems they are unable to hire an IT people to keep things running, despite offering 'competitive wages,' and having an unlimited H1B limit to fall back upon. Who wants to work for a bunch of stuck of rich white kids who never pay their bills anyway, and think majoring in business / art history is all they need to do to live a successful life? They can keep their rapidly depreciating dollars / euros, and their business degrees for selling stuff they will no longer be able to make or afford, or perhaps art history degrees so they can host tours on Sundays for school children, while the rest of the world goes on the build something.
Meanwhile the STEMs, the various trades, and so on of any decent caliber will be welcome elsewhere in the world. He who has the gold makes the rules, only so long as the people want gold.
It's called "work" not "BDSM time with loud shouting / personal insults and poor pay." If I want to be yelled at by someone, I'll get married. Or I'll visit one of the seedier areas of a red light district, and pay one of the ladies dressed in leather to work me down until I can't bear the sight of myself in the mirror.
Which means harassing the employees about getting things done faster (thus preventing them from doing so), and failing to strategize properly.
That's easy to understand. They're scared of IT. They don't understand it, and it seems to be everywhere; the best they can do is try to contain it, and hold onto their illusory power bases (if IT doesn't know the magic way we do things in our department, we can't be outsourced / downsized; hell, if we ask for 't3H cL0uD,' we can turn the tables on IT, and outsource them!). They are ill equipped to understand that it's not IT versus the rest of the company and its little departments ala standard company politics, but this company versus the company across the street that has a non-retarded staff that has integrated IT into all of its operations, and is busy running this company out of the business.
This is a serious problem with American businesses, IMHO. Now, a lot of Asian businesses...well, they've been steadily gearing up to clean our clocks. And you'll notice that the "Buy American!" ad campaigns aren't really effective...you can see where American business is headed. While you were engaging in petty internal squabbles over fiefdoms owned by no one, and Wall St. was busy playing its mad games with the currency, other places were watching us, and learning from our mistakes. When they can do everyone else's job 100 times faster for 10 times less...well, your time is up.
Yeah, no. The 7990, while often announced, has yet to really be pushed to market. Newegg is only listing one board, as such, at the moment.
Perhaps you are thinking of the 7970?
First rule of networking: assume that any and all conversations that take place over an electronic medium are recorded, and played back to a room filled with prosecutors / investigators hell-bent on finding something to charge you with.
Second rule of networking: assume this does not apply only to electronic mediums.
See, in a better world, your rights will be upheld. Good triumphs over evil through no sleight of the hand, but simply because it is the preferable course that nature should take. In reality, there is always one group of people out there that wants you to believe something as a constant, so they can work around it. Your belief in a right to privacy is the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden to these types, and they covet eating it above all other things; eating it, and never telling you that it was eaten. It's simply too tempting a target! A blind spot, right there, for the taking. With everyone fooled into believing they have some rights to privacy, well, they'll never see the prosecution coming. And trial by ambush, while frowned upon in civilized courts, is sadly still a common occurrence in unenlightened areas of existence.
All that matters, in this life, at the end of the day, is that you die. That's the singular goal everyone is working towards. Widget A fits into Socket B, which creates Component C. On a higher dimension, you are, no doubt, moving in a straight line, to your finish.
One need only visit a traffic court, after receiving a traffic ticket, to understand the streamlining and efficiency of what, no doubt, goes on 'upstairs.' You are guilty from the moment you are charged, and only evidence of the highest objectivity will overturn that sealed conviction. And even then...some judges will refuse to look at the evidence! Mind you, the part about selling kids into modern day slavery, in my own current state of PA, has forced a closer look at some of these shenanigans...still, the way is hard, and long.
I love you. The Sybil system...*shudders*...imperfection magnified.
I mean, on one hand, it's fascinating...the idea that enough eccentric / psychopathic minds acting in unison can average things out. On the other hand, for set of waves that cancel, there are also a set of waves that magnify, when overlapped. 'Tis just an anime series...but it's interesting that the original author left that out...or perhaps that's the error that the Sybil system can't account for...the one it produces by its mere existence. It believes, that because it consider its own operations purely logical, that it can peer into the future...that it will act today, as it will act tomorrow. But that's just intellectual laziness...the replacement of a complex equation, not fully understood, with a mere symbol, that triggers a delayed calculation. What is the 5th order derivative of its actions next Tuesday, accounting for it having taken the 5th order derivative today? Since it believes it's purely logical, then it must be a 0, 1, or infinity (something like that). If it's a 1.3, the entire calculation is off, and requires additional work. Part of the series, especially the end, points out the flaws present...the Sybil system has to make compromises to further its agenda...logical, in a way, illogical, in that it perverts its own actions, and allows for increased error.
The true problem, faced with a system of this magnitude, that is never discussed, is over of playing God. If you can spot an individual who is at risk, how well can you alter the variables so that they are no longer at risk? Do you compromise by hijacking their mind, or do you move the environment around to achieve this end? Think about it.
Gotta do something to cut down on the population, right? Who knew electing politicians who could get claustrophobic in the Palace of Versaille would be a bad move?