Minimal is not free... and please provide a cite supporting your statement that "H-1B workers routinely get paid less than their American counterparts"
In my (personal) experience I can truthfully say that I started at a salary comparable to my American peers, got regular raises and talked back a fair bit.
(full disclosure... I came down from the frozen north, not India or Mexico, so my cultural baggage was not typical and it may have influenced the way I was treated, but I never saw my Indian counterparts treated any differently.
Those of you who believe that an H-1B worker is paid less than a domestic worker don't know anything about the requirements of the program.
In order to be H-1B eligible a position has to pay at least the prevailing wage for the job title in the region that the job is located. .
add to that the filing costs, legal fees, and costs associated with other compliance requirements and it's MORE expensive to hire H1B workers.
The real difference is that corporations can treat them like crap and and most of them will take it because it's better than what's back home..
Being an H1B worker is a kind of indentured servitude... quit your job and go home(or get deported)... get let go and go home (or get deported)
Honestly... I don't believe there is a really good choice... but the NDP has never thrown historical documents in the dumpster (to the best of my knowledge) and (at least in theory) they are the working man's party... so if I were voting in a Canadian election and the candidate wasn't obviously a tool I'd vote that way... otherwise it would be a No Vote ballot..
I grew up there,... 31 years in Canada... only 17 south of the 49th. still have family and friends there, so yeah I've got skin in the game... I see the stupid bastards in Ontario elected themselves another Liberal government... when will they learn ?
Net Neutrality is about treating all providers of data equally and has nothing to do with Quality of Service traffic prioritization...
Put another way... I expect my video stream from Joe Blow Video Streaming should get the same priority on a TimeWarner network as CBS.com video streams.
I expect web pages from JoeBlow.com to be served up with the same priority as pages from CBS.com
Net Neutrality is about the source of the traffic... it's not about the type of traffic...
I do not expect that my web pages from JoeBlow.com be served up with the same bandwidth as my video stream from JoeBlow.com.
That is a QoS issue based on type of traffic and is legitimate bandwidth management and is outside of the Net Neutrality question.
QoS is about the type of traffic... it's not about the source of the traffic...
So either Cisco is spreading FUD or they aren't talking about Net Neutrality.
neither... it was a request for a cite... thanks!
(see how I don't automatically assume that you are a dick? Evidently someone with mod points clearly thought so... )
Properly speaking "math" is an abbreviation of mathematics... a plurality of methods for manipulating numeric values (including addition, subtraction, algebra, calculus, etc.) since mathematics is plural, a plural abbreviation, "maths" is arguably more correct than a singular abbreviation.
But that wouldn't be as entertaining as making fun of regional differences in English.... would it ?
I saw what you did there...
He's not having it both ways, he never said the Republican spin machine was mass media... that was an inference that you made.
The reality is that he is correct... except a more balanced view would be "the political spin machines of every political organization" rather than the "Republican spin machine" ans the mass media is incompetent and led by their corporate masters who direct the spin machines on both sides of the fence.
Planned obsolescence my ass...what this guy is proposing is enforced obsolescence. Or to put it another way...
He's proposing that we throw away the idea of purchasing electronic devices and instead pay the same amount of money for the privilege of renting it's capabilities for a period of time set by the manufacturer.
I don't know about the rest of you but when I buy something I expect it to work until I want to replace it...not for some arbitrary fixed period decided by the manufacturer.
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Minimal is not free ... and please provide a cite supporting your statement that "H-1B workers routinely get paid less than their American counterparts"
In my (personal) experience I can truthfully say that I started at a salary comparable to my American peers, got regular raises and talked back a fair bit.
(full disclosure ... I came down from the frozen north, not India or Mexico, so my cultural baggage was not typical and it may have influenced the way I was treated, but I never saw my Indian counterparts treated any differently.
add to that the filing costs, legal fees, and costs associated with other compliance requirements and it's MORE expensive to hire H1B workers.
The real difference is that corporations can treat them like crap and and most of them will take it because it's better than what's back home.. Being an H1B worker is a kind of indentured servitude ... quit your job and go home(or get deported) ... get let go and go home (or get deported)
Honestly... I don't believe there is a really good choice ... but the NDP has never thrown historical documents in the dumpster (to the best of my knowledge) and (at least in theory) they are the working man's party ... so if I were voting in a Canadian election and the candidate wasn't obviously a tool I'd vote that way ... otherwise it would be a No Vote ballot..
how about if everyone put a big black X in the No Vote box ?
sorry ... meant to type "Liberal led" ...
what scenario ? that the government will ignore the SCoC and continue to do whatever it wants ?
I grew up there, ... 31 years in Canada ... only 17 south of the 49th. still have family and friends there, so yeah I've got skin in the game ... I see the stupid bastards in Ontario elected themselves another Liberal government ... when will they learn ?
barely means shit in Canada ... to foreign governments it means less than spit on a windy day.
...and the police state gears up ...
Put another way ... I expect my video stream from Joe Blow Video Streaming should get the same priority on a TimeWarner network as CBS.com video streams.
I expect web pages from JoeBlow.com to be served up with the same priority as pages from CBS.com
Net Neutrality is about the source of the traffic ... it's not about the type of traffic ...
I do not expect that my web pages from JoeBlow.com be served up with the same bandwidth as my video stream from JoeBlow.com. That is a QoS issue based on type of traffic and is legitimate bandwidth management and is outside of the Net Neutrality question.
QoS is about the type of traffic ... it's not about the source of the traffic ...
So either Cisco is spreading FUD or they aren't talking about Net Neutrality.
neither ... it was a request for a cite ... thanks!
(see how I don't automatically assume that you are a dick? Evidently someone with mod points clearly thought so ... )
and we have a winner .... clearly the law came long after the technology was well established.
they have those requirements already ... they are called cable locks and trigger locks & one is provided with every new gun sold in the USA.
Properly speaking "math" is an abbreviation of mathematics ... a plurality of methods for manipulating numeric values (including addition, subtraction, algebra, calculus, etc.) since mathematics is plural, a plural abbreviation, "maths" is arguably more correct than a singular abbreviation.
But that wouldn't be as entertaining as making fun of regional differences in English .... would it ?
point me at the legal mandate that says all cars must have keys....
I saw what you did there ...
He's not having it both ways, he never said the Republican spin machine was mass media ... that was an inference that you made.
The reality is that he is correct ... except a more balanced view would be "the political spin machines of every political organization" rather than the "Republican spin machine" ans the mass media is incompetent and led by their corporate masters who direct the spin machines on both sides of the fence.
good point ...
sure you can ... you just can't broadcast it publicly. HBO is "on TV"
Auto-correct (from police) I'm guessing ... but considering the recent outbreaks ... it may have been intentional.
So wishing i had Mod points +10 well put.
Planned obsolescence my ass ...what this guy is proposing is enforced obsolescence. Or to put it another way ...
He's proposing that we throw away the idea of purchasing electronic devices and instead pay the same amount of money for the privilege of renting it's capabilities for a period of time set by the manufacturer.
I don't know about the rest of you but when I buy something I expect it to work until I want to replace it ...not for some arbitrary fixed period decided by the manufacturer.
since AC's rarely cite ... here's one https://www.boundless.com/psyc...
How exactly does the Insurance company "win"?
Not literally anyway ...
ding ding ding ... we have a winner.