When fines are equivalent to about $5 of an average American's paycheck. Why are corporations going to stop? Meanwhile, the average traffic ticket fine which ranges $150-$450 often given for driving the same damn speed as everyone else. Essentially equates to about 0.5%+/-0.2% of an average American income.
Therefore a similar equivalent fine for AT&T should be around $500 million to $1 billion.
1) H1B Visa is not tied to a specific company 2) H1B Visa salary has to be the equivalent of the current average for said position of U.S. citizen workers. (In otherwords, the average pay cannot take into account other H1B visa workers) 3) H1B Visa includes a $10K tax per $100K income bracket, this goes to fund free tuition at 2 year colleges so we can have more trained resources.
You only have to pay $60K for that position. So it's easy to say, hey, we didn't find a network security agent with 15 years of experience and a master's degree for our offered $60K. So we have to bring someone over from India. Because there are no qualified American's [willing to work for peanuts].
Today, most CEOs take actions to get immediate profits while hurting the company long term. They bail out of the plane after they alight it on fire, and enjoy their golden parachutes. They then move onto another firm and repeat the process.
Actually, global warming is far less alarming than global cooling. But most of the extreme weather events that are pointed to for global warming are in fact dwarfed by recorded activities. California had greater droughts, and also a super flood in the 1800s.
Nice to know the science is finally catching up....
We know the HPV triggers cancer. We know that the Tasmanian Devils are suffering from it. I suspect that some brain cancers are in fact contagious. Had a friend working on a research team on brain cancer, who then contracted it.
And most of the research resulted in the understanding that data collection is extremely inaccurate. That many of those former remote temperature measurement sites are now next to urban structures.
That the overlaying of modern, historical, and prehistoric temperature data relied upon the opinions of scientists, thus subject to bias.
And that all the models to date have proven woefully poor and inadequate at their predictions. Showing that their understanding is far from complete.
NONE OF THIS MEANS WE SHOULDN'T STOP POLLUTING THE AIR AND OCEANS
Actually, those of us have read a lot. And one of the things we are aware of is that they are using various temperature record sets. Be it modern satellites or glacial cores. First, in all measurements of the past, assumptions are made. Second, in trying to overlay historical data, modern data, and pre-historic data, there is a general lack of compatible metrics. To stay with the recent English vs Metric. We're trying to match an English bolt with a Metric nut.
How they decided to match up the modern, historical, and ancient data sets was based on human opinons. Thus rather flawed. There is actual proof of these flaws, in the fact that a) their models have always failed to predict and b) we have human anthropological historical records that show them to be incorrect. (This is why they later recanted on the medieval warm period.)
Also, all of it is moot, if we do not address the scope of what warm weather entails. Firstly, colder climates result in the following. Reduction in the number of flora and fauna species, the formation of deserts (because Earth's moisture is trapped in the poles). Hotter climates, result in an increase of diversity of flora and fauna, increase in global vegetation and a reduction in long ranging deserts.
These are all fact that are seldom discussed in this debate. Nor is the fact that during the cretaceous period the temperature was 20 degrees hotter than today. Life still thrived.
The truth is, humans may have to adapt and face consequences of a warming climate. But Earth and life will adapt as it always has. Humans are more disturbed by a change in status quo. But global warming is far more tolerable and of less consequence than a global cooling, glacier age. Which would result in starvation of millions.
The man was trying to reach a local hotel just a little ways from the airport and drove 250 miles (@ ~60mph, that is 4 hours). I am sorry we cannot blame a GPS for dementia. If this guy had a Rand McNally Road Atlas, he'd still have driven for four hours. He clearly had no perspective on reality. This is NOT a GPS issue, this is dementia..
I haven't finished configuring it. But am excited. I would say this is a pretty high end laptop. And perhaps rivaling and surpassing the XPS line in many ways. On top of the option for Xeon processors and ECC RAM (which I didn't feel I needed - I went with a quad-core and standard RAM), the 17" version of this machine offers the option for RAID5 using NVMe M.2 drives. Note, for this, you need a special interposer connector and caddy. (Mine should arrive this week, and then I hope to have three Samsung Pro 950 drives.
But there is more to this than just internals. The laptop is a noticeable notch or two higher than my old 17" Dell workstation. First off, the bottom are made of thin but strong metal plates. Button slides, battery plate comes off. Slide a lever to remove the battery.There is your 2.5" drive bay easily accessible as well. It all feels of very high build quality and engineering. Lots of metal as opposed to plastic. Very nice...
Remove two screws, and a second larger plate is able to be slid off. Wow...beautiful. About 10 different module bays. Two bays for NVMe M.2 drives, two easily accessed memory slots, bays for WLAN cards, WiFi, and a host of others. Very nice having such easy access rather than having to remove keyboards, disconnect monitors, etc. This is a very nicely engineered machine.
Can't wait to run my new 17" laptop with 4K screen, and RAID 5 NVMe drives. This is my first new workstation purchase in 10 years. My last was in 2006, also a Dell. It was replaced in the fourth year under warranty. Replacement is now 6 years old. So I figured it was time...
Sorry, it's not. When companies can import and employ foreign workers to lower wagers, on tax funded government contracts. In which the government pays $140,000 and the worker sees less than half of that. Sorry, that's called "corruption".
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DO THE CRIME, PAY THE FINE!
To corporations essentially,
PAY THE FINE, DO THE CRIME
When fines are equivalent to about $5 of an average American's paycheck. Why are corporations going to stop? Meanwhile, the average traffic ticket fine which ranges $150-$450 often given for driving the same damn speed as everyone else. Essentially equates to about 0.5%+/-0.2% of an average American income.
Therefore a similar equivalent fine for AT&T should be around $500 million to $1 billion.
Verizon to pay 1.35 cents fine....
Seems like even in that regards they're barely valid?
Long live SCO!!!!!
The 85% who don't feel safe on the roads in manual driving?
1) H1B Visa is not tied to a specific company
2) H1B Visa salary has to be the equivalent of the current average for said position of U.S. citizen workers. (In otherwords, the average pay cannot take into account other H1B visa workers)
3) H1B Visa includes a $10K tax per $100K income bracket, this goes to fund free tuition at 2 year colleges so we can have more trained resources.
You only have to pay $60K for that position. So it's easy to say, hey, we didn't find a network security agent with 15 years of experience and a master's degree for our offered $60K. So we have to bring someone over from India. Because there are no qualified American's [willing to work for peanuts].
Today, most CEOs take actions to get immediate profits while hurting the company long term. They bail out of the plane after they alight it on fire, and enjoy their golden parachutes. They then move onto another firm and repeat the process.
Just saying....
Casts out his lines behind his boat trolling his lures.
*sighs*
Actually, global warming is far less alarming than global cooling. But most of the extreme weather events that are pointed to for global warming are in fact dwarfed by recorded activities. California had greater droughts, and also a super flood in the 1800s.
But these historical bits are ignored.
Nice to know the science is finally catching up....
We know the HPV triggers cancer. We know that the Tasmanian Devils are suffering from it. I suspect that some brain cancers are in fact contagious. Had a friend working on a research team on brain cancer, who then contracted it.
Print the parts you need, when you need.... LEGO 3D
YES!!!!!!!
Stop pumping out billions of gallons of water from prehistoric aquifers to irrigate our crops. Where do folks think that water goes? In the oceans...
http://www.surfacestations.org...
And most of the research resulted in the understanding that data collection is extremely inaccurate. That many of those former remote temperature measurement sites are now next to urban structures.
That the overlaying of modern, historical, and prehistoric temperature data relied upon the opinions of scientists, thus subject to bias.
And that all the models to date have proven woefully poor and inadequate at their predictions. Showing that their understanding is far from complete.
NONE OF THIS MEANS WE SHOULDN'T STOP POLLUTING THE AIR AND OCEANS
Actually, those of us have read a lot. And one of the things we are aware of is that they are using various temperature record sets. Be it modern satellites or glacial cores. First, in all measurements of the past, assumptions are made. Second, in trying to overlay historical data, modern data, and pre-historic data, there is a general lack of compatible metrics. To stay with the recent English vs Metric. We're trying to match an English bolt with a Metric nut.
How they decided to match up the modern, historical, and ancient data sets was based on human opinons. Thus rather flawed. There is actual proof of these flaws, in the fact that a) their models have always failed to predict and b) we have human anthropological historical records that show them to be incorrect. (This is why they later recanted on the medieval warm period.)
Also, all of it is moot, if we do not address the scope of what warm weather entails. Firstly, colder climates result in the following. Reduction in the number of flora and fauna species, the formation of deserts (because Earth's moisture is trapped in the poles). Hotter climates, result in an increase of diversity of flora and fauna, increase in global vegetation and a reduction in long ranging deserts.
These are all fact that are seldom discussed in this debate. Nor is the fact that during the cretaceous period the temperature was 20 degrees hotter than today. Life still thrived.
The truth is, humans may have to adapt and face consequences of a warming climate. But Earth and life will adapt as it always has. Humans are more disturbed by a change in status quo. But global warming is far more tolerable and of less consequence than a global cooling, glacier age. Which would result in starvation of millions.
Shh....don't exclaim the emperor's new clothes are invisible...
And burr.....it brought back the winter...
The man was trying to reach a local hotel just a little ways from the airport and drove 250 miles (@ ~60mph, that is 4 hours). I am sorry we cannot blame a GPS for dementia. If this guy had a Rand McNally Road Atlas, he'd still have driven for four hours. He clearly had no perspective on reality. This is NOT a GPS issue, this is dementia..
I haven't finished configuring it. But am excited. I would say this is a pretty high end laptop. And perhaps rivaling and surpassing the XPS line in many ways. On top of the option for Xeon processors and ECC RAM (which I didn't feel I needed - I went with a quad-core and standard RAM), the 17" version of this machine offers the option for RAID5 using NVMe M.2 drives. Note, for this, you need a special interposer connector and caddy. (Mine should arrive this week, and then I hope to have three Samsung Pro 950 drives.
But there is more to this than just internals. The laptop is a noticeable notch or two higher than my old 17" Dell workstation. First off, the bottom are made of thin but strong metal plates. Button slides, battery plate comes off. Slide a lever to remove the battery.There is your 2.5" drive bay easily accessible as well. It all feels of very high build quality and engineering. Lots of metal as opposed to plastic. Very nice...
Remove two screws, and a second larger plate is able to be slid off. Wow...beautiful. About 10 different module bays. Two bays for NVMe M.2 drives, two easily accessed memory slots, bays for WLAN cards, WiFi, and a host of others. Very nice having such easy access rather than having to remove keyboards, disconnect monitors, etc. This is a very nicely engineered machine.
Can't wait to run my new 17" laptop with 4K screen, and RAID 5 NVMe drives. This is my first new workstation purchase in 10 years. My last was in 2006, also a Dell. It was replaced in the fourth year under warranty. Replacement is now 6 years old. So I figured it was time...
^^^ THIS
Of course why did anyone mod down such a sane rational comment.
THEY WERE/ARE
Or more...
Sorry, it's not. When companies can import and employ foreign workers to lower wagers, on tax funded government contracts. In which the government pays $140,000 and the worker sees less than half of that. Sorry, that's called "corruption".