H1Bs currently can't vote, but most of them aim to become citizens over time - by having their employers file their green cards and ultimately becoming citizens. Once they do, who do you think they're more likely to support - the politicians who made it easier for them to get where they ended, or harder?
I've argued that aside from H1B, the OPT authorizations - something that F1 visa holding students are allowed to do for a year or two - convert directly to green cards. These people have US degrees, and are more likely to be exposed solely to the US work culture, rather than Indian or any other. In fact, not just US work culture, but US culture, and be more likely to assimilate - something that has been at issue w/ immigration. Not something that people who've been working for years in India and suddenly brought here are likely to do.
Your other 2 ideas are fine. Split the visas - make the H1Bs actually for people who have the skills in question, and put in the criteria you've mentioned. The other one - for the companies that claim that they legitimately can't find the people - assign them the temporary visas, and then let them decide whether they want to bring them in, or just have them work remotely from the Bangalore office, and just come on occasion when the clients need them
If only we could get Matt Drudge interested in iOS, Windows, systemd, Linux, BSD and other tech related stuff, so that those of us sick of the Trump bashing, Chelsea Manning smooching, Russia bashing, Muslim smooching, Right bashing, Left smooching stories here can have somewhere to go
My point was that once the bidet is used to clean the butt of the patient, the nurse gets to wipe a (relatively) cleaner butt, instead of the dirty one to start w/. I wasn't thinking about someone who's so infirm that s/he's unable to get to the bathroom
indians tend to vote more republican, is my experience. they 'like' authority and authoritarian concepts. its deep in their culture. and this aligns perfectly with R-based thoughts.
Uh, do you have any data to back that up? Everything I've seen has indicated that while there are some pockets of Indians who've moved to the right and support the GOP, the majority of them, who live mainly in NJ and CA, are still heavily (D)
Both Republicans and Democrats are split on this. The Dems have both their working class constituencies - the ones that haven't already defected like those in MI, PA and WI, as well as their minority constituency - Indians, who still vote more heavily Democrat than Republican
Republicans, OTOH, have the collision b/w their business interests, who want more visas, vs their own grassroots that would like to see even legal immigration curtailed until unemployment is drastically reduced
So in all likelihood, there will be bipartisan support for both sides
I guess sarcasm is lost on people. I clearly read the GP as pointing out that had DJT or a GOP congressman introduced something like this, he'd have been tagged 'racist', and that Lofgren ain't being treated that way b'cos she's a Liberal
Okay, so you appreciate Trump for getting this moving, then wanna remove him and his VP. What guarantee do you have that anyone else you have in mind - probably from the Dem side - is gonna continue this? And Trump, as a Republican, has a better chance of standing b/w lobbyists like NASSCOM and GOP congressmen: why would any of the latter go against their lobbyist to oblige, say, a Bernie or a Pocahontas?
So let's say you need core Java programmers in Charlotte, and can't find them. Now, under this law, you can't bring in people from Bangalore either. So are you likely to find them in SC or WV or AL?
They don't wanna pay twice as much. When it comes to negotiating salaries for people they employ, they are extremely tight, but funnily enough, when it comes to expected salaries, they expect something near the $200k mark, if not much more
How effective are you then in keeping your workforce, given that offshoring companies are a dime a dozen in India - not just the HCLs, the TCSs and the Wipros, but also really small ones like Zensar, CSS Corp, Mindtree, Syntel, et al who are often ready to lure them? Or have you found some happy median b/w what would keep them from bolting and what you would have paid an US employee here?
I am no fan of the Dems, but does this bill say anything beyond the visas in question? In particular, does it say anything about the countries of origin, being tougher on Indians than they might be on, say, Romanians or Swedes?
Only problem w/ that: when your pool is empty - at any price, and your company can't bring in H1Bs or any of the other work visas, there is no one left to do the job. The companies in question would then have to move their basic operations offshore. The government could then try passing a law that if a company offshores any operation, they'd be penalized, but then, the company would have to weigh in whether it's better off moving wholly to India and servicing that market.
He's not gonna know that b'cos it'll be run by his successors - namely Don, Eric and Allen Weisselburg for the duration of his presidency. If all profits go into the treasury, then all that's left are operating expenses of the company.
The full financials of his company were released when he announced his candidacy. His tax returns is what the Left is hung up on, but they reveal little about his financials, other than the net of what he had to pay. Besides, how is his personal tax returns in any way relevant to the P&L statements and balance sheets of the Trump Organization, which is the subject here?
Holding Steve Jobs up as an example of Syrian innovation is down and out inane. He had nothing to do w/ his sperm donor: he was raised solely by a White couple, who was the only family he knew and loved. Yeah, he did accept his birth sister once he got to know her, but he made it a point to emphasize that Mr Jobs, not Mr Jandali, was his father. PERIOD!
I doubt that Windows Phone failed due to an inability to run Steam. After all, Microsoft did make Xbox games available, but that didn't help it. Windows Phone failed b'cos there were too many apps that people use on their smartphones that are not there on Windows Phones.
Like if you are a Uber Driver and need to use Uber Partner, that's not there in Windows Phone. Lyft neither. Until recently (w/ WhatsApp), there wasn't a good video calling app. This phone could have been a great workphone and substitute for Blackberry, except that professional VOIP apps, such as 8x8 or Vonage, are not there on this platform. Those were the big things that I, for one, missed. It does have Yelp, Fandango, Shazam and quite a few nice apps: in fact, OneNote is just awesome. But the fact that some of the major mobile apps were missing did not do it any good.
You also didn't answer me about Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia. India - Muslims are just 15% of their population, but there's no reason he couldn't have asked the Indians to not issue passports to Muslims that would be valid for the US if he wanted to. But my point was - if the purpose of the ban was to blacklist Muslims from coming, why would he leave out the part of the world that has 1 billion of the 1.8 billion Muslims worldwide?
The Emirates pulled the plug on one of his projects after he first announced his Muslim ban after the San Bernardino shootings. I'm not sure whether the Saudis and others have reacted similarly, but I can't imagine activity's picked up. Also, based on the announcement he made a couple of weeks ago about how his overseas business is being segregated from him and how all profits will go into the US treasury, he has nothing to gain by enhancing his overseas properties.
Not just that, people just don't 'lose' their emails. So if someone bought one copy of Office 365, and got 5 Outlook/Hotmail/Live emails for different members of the family/relatives so that each could have a copy on his/her computer, then all they'll do is keep renewing. So they're not likely to see too many new subscribers, since anyone who'd be interested would be covered by the first wave of adapters.
I have this package. I bought it b'cos I wanted Office on 3 computers that I have, and didn't want to own 3 separate licenses of the full thing. Another thing I liked was that I could automatically upgrade from Office 2013 to 2016 when it was available - something that couldn't have been done w/ the plain Office 2013.
I also didn't get what you meant by 'total reliance on the cloud'. Office 365 installs on your computer just like normal office: you're not running it remotely on Azure. Also, your documents can be saved on your computer as well: 1TB of cloud backup is there, but you don't have to make that the default where you save. Also, didn't get what you meant by 'reduced functionality' either - I have Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook and Access. The last you don't get unless you buy the Professional version of the standalone.
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AC, where did you read Beau's name? msmash posted this. You might have had more credibility had you gotten at least THIS right
Responding to both your posts here
H1Bs currently can't vote, but most of them aim to become citizens over time - by having their employers file their green cards and ultimately becoming citizens. Once they do, who do you think they're more likely to support - the politicians who made it easier for them to get where they ended, or harder?
I've argued that aside from H1B, the OPT authorizations - something that F1 visa holding students are allowed to do for a year or two - convert directly to green cards. These people have US degrees, and are more likely to be exposed solely to the US work culture, rather than Indian or any other. In fact, not just US work culture, but US culture, and be more likely to assimilate - something that has been at issue w/ immigration. Not something that people who've been working for years in India and suddenly brought here are likely to do.
Your other 2 ideas are fine. Split the visas - make the H1Bs actually for people who have the skills in question, and put in the criteria you've mentioned. The other one - for the companies that claim that they legitimately can't find the people - assign them the temporary visas, and then let them decide whether they want to bring them in, or just have them work remotely from the Bangalore office, and just come on occasion when the clients need them
If only we could get Matt Drudge interested in iOS, Windows, systemd, Linux, BSD and other tech related stuff, so that those of us sick of the Trump bashing, Chelsea Manning smooching, Russia bashing, Muslim smooching, Right bashing, Left smooching stories here can have somewhere to go
This actually is a good job to automate - people will be better off for it
My point was that once the bidet is used to clean the butt of the patient, the nurse gets to wipe a (relatively) cleaner butt, instead of the dirty one to start w/. I wasn't thinking about someone who's so infirm that s/he's unable to get to the bathroom
indians tend to vote more republican, is my experience. they 'like' authority and authoritarian concepts. its deep in their culture. and this aligns perfectly with R-based thoughts.
Uh, do you have any data to back that up? Everything I've seen has indicated that while there are some pockets of Indians who've moved to the right and support the GOP, the majority of them, who live mainly in NJ and CA, are still heavily (D)
They should introduce bidets in this country
Both Republicans and Democrats are split on this. The Dems have both their working class constituencies - the ones that haven't already defected like those in MI, PA and WI, as well as their minority constituency - Indians, who still vote more heavily Democrat than Republican
Republicans, OTOH, have the collision b/w their business interests, who want more visas, vs their own grassroots that would like to see even legal immigration curtailed until unemployment is drastically reduced
So in all likelihood, there will be bipartisan support for both sides
I guess sarcasm is lost on people. I clearly read the GP as pointing out that had DJT or a GOP congressman introduced something like this, he'd have been tagged 'racist', and that Lofgren ain't being treated that way b'cos she's a Liberal
Okay, so you appreciate Trump for getting this moving, then wanna remove him and his VP. What guarantee do you have that anyone else you have in mind - probably from the Dem side - is gonna continue this? And Trump, as a Republican, has a better chance of standing b/w lobbyists like NASSCOM and GOP congressmen: why would any of the latter go against their lobbyist to oblige, say, a Bernie or a Pocahontas?
So let's say you need core Java programmers in Charlotte, and can't find them. Now, under this law, you can't bring in people from Bangalore either. So are you likely to find them in SC or WV or AL?
They don't wanna pay twice as much. When it comes to negotiating salaries for people they employ, they are extremely tight, but funnily enough, when it comes to expected salaries, they expect something near the $200k mark, if not much more
How effective are you then in keeping your workforce, given that offshoring companies are a dime a dozen in India - not just the HCLs, the TCSs and the Wipros, but also really small ones like Zensar, CSS Corp, Mindtree, Syntel, et al who are often ready to lure them? Or have you found some happy median b/w what would keep them from bolting and what you would have paid an US employee here?
I am no fan of the Dems, but does this bill say anything beyond the visas in question? In particular, does it say anything about the countries of origin, being tougher on Indians than they might be on, say, Romanians or Swedes?
Only problem w/ that: when your pool is empty - at any price, and your company can't bring in H1Bs or any of the other work visas, there is no one left to do the job. The companies in question would then have to move their basic operations offshore. The government could then try passing a law that if a company offshores any operation, they'd be penalized, but then, the company would have to weigh in whether it's better off moving wholly to India and servicing that market.
Which could be a good thing
Well, WD would now have 'Made in Japan' as well, for any ex-Toshiba memory fabs that are Japan based.
I have LastPass, which I access from 3 of my devices. Why would that be inadequate?
He's not gonna know that b'cos it'll be run by his successors - namely Don, Eric and Allen Weisselburg for the duration of his presidency. If all profits go into the treasury, then all that's left are operating expenses of the company.
The full financials of his company were released when he announced his candidacy. His tax returns is what the Left is hung up on, but they reveal little about his financials, other than the net of what he had to pay. Besides, how is his personal tax returns in any way relevant to the P&L statements and balance sheets of the Trump Organization, which is the subject here?
Holding Steve Jobs up as an example of Syrian innovation is down and out inane. He had nothing to do w/ his sperm donor: he was raised solely by a White couple, who was the only family he knew and loved. Yeah, he did accept his birth sister once he got to know her, but he made it a point to emphasize that Mr Jobs, not Mr Jandali, was his father. PERIOD!
I doubt that Windows Phone failed due to an inability to run Steam. After all, Microsoft did make Xbox games available, but that didn't help it. Windows Phone failed b'cos there were too many apps that people use on their smartphones that are not there on Windows Phones.
Like if you are a Uber Driver and need to use Uber Partner, that's not there in Windows Phone. Lyft neither. Until recently (w/ WhatsApp), there wasn't a good video calling app. This phone could have been a great workphone and substitute for Blackberry, except that professional VOIP apps, such as 8x8 or Vonage, are not there on this platform. Those were the big things that I, for one, missed. It does have Yelp, Fandango, Shazam and quite a few nice apps: in fact, OneNote is just awesome. But the fact that some of the major mobile apps were missing did not do it any good.
You can always select the cell, then under properties, define it as text, instead of a number, and then format-copy down
You also didn't answer me about Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia. India - Muslims are just 15% of their population, but there's no reason he couldn't have asked the Indians to not issue passports to Muslims that would be valid for the US if he wanted to. But my point was - if the purpose of the ban was to blacklist Muslims from coming, why would he leave out the part of the world that has 1 billion of the 1.8 billion Muslims worldwide?
The Emirates pulled the plug on one of his projects after he first announced his Muslim ban after the San Bernardino shootings. I'm not sure whether the Saudis and others have reacted similarly, but I can't imagine activity's picked up. Also, based on the announcement he made a couple of weeks ago about how his overseas business is being segregated from him and how all profits will go into the US treasury, he has nothing to gain by enhancing his overseas properties.
Not just that, people just don't 'lose' their emails. So if someone bought one copy of Office 365, and got 5 Outlook/Hotmail/Live emails for different members of the family/relatives so that each could have a copy on his/her computer, then all they'll do is keep renewing. So they're not likely to see too many new subscribers, since anyone who'd be interested would be covered by the first wave of adapters.
I have this package. I bought it b'cos I wanted Office on 3 computers that I have, and didn't want to own 3 separate licenses of the full thing. Another thing I liked was that I could automatically upgrade from Office 2013 to 2016 when it was available - something that couldn't have been done w/ the plain Office 2013.
I also didn't get what you meant by 'total reliance on the cloud'. Office 365 installs on your computer just like normal office: you're not running it remotely on Azure. Also, your documents can be saved on your computer as well: 1TB of cloud backup is there, but you don't have to make that the default where you save. Also, didn't get what you meant by 'reduced functionality' either - I have Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook and Access. The last you don't get unless you buy the Professional version of the standalone.