h1b asian programmers still have jobs
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because employers know that they are at a disadvantage.
But even if they are the best in the world, America and whatever jobs or work it has to offer, those jobs should go to American citizens, not to noncitizens...
...a Drivers license national ID because the Drivers license has nothing to do with the SSN. That way CorpGovMedia can keep all those illegal aliens quasi-slaves working and thereby keep all those wages low and also keep all those rents high. CorpGovMedia just wants more livestock on its ranch named America....
The country is owned jointly, and since it is in our control, and we pay the tab to maintain it, and it is our work that builds it, and it is our taxes that build the roads and the sewers and provides for the fair and monitored elections. And this is also the place where we citizens work; this country is our workplace.
What word do you attach to such an entity: this place is a place we paid for--and our ancestors paid for it with blood; we inherited it from them--and it is a place we maintain with our monies; and it is a place from whence we derive our livelihood. What is another word for that sort of place, that sort of entity?
The word you want, young peabrain, is "business." THis country is our business. THis business has many partners. THis business is owned jointly by its citizens. Like many other businesses, the partners often have not only common interests, but also have *conflicting* interests.
Rich partners have conflicting interests with most other partners. For example, since rich partners buy labor, they want to buy it as cheaply as possible. Since average and below average partners sell labor, they want to sell their labor as costly as possible.
Rich partners buy TV time to make other partners think that teh factors that provide cheap labor are good.
If(allusion == socialist) then
output("you dirty commie!")
The rich folks aint gonna let that mean ol Big Brother take over. You know why? No, you don't, but I'll tell you why: because if everything were known (transparent society, such as would be provided by Big Brother, and national IDs), then the rich folks would not be able to exploit our jointly owned property (the USA) as they have been doing. And then do you know what would happen? You. the little guy (with the lil peabrain) would actually get more of the beenfits accruing from your share of the joint ownership of the USA. The rich folks would have to pay more for nannies, dishwashers, programmers, etc. But like I said, don't worry, cuz the rich uns pay the TV people to keep you lil guys all stirred up about "Big Brother". That way they can keep ripping you off. So like I said don't worry your lil pea brain, just turn on the TV. There ya go...
Re:GLOBALIZATION IS ABOUT HAVE EXPLOITING HAVE-NOT
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Katz is helping to create a Globalization straw man. He attacks the straw man of "McDonalds Globalization", and meanwhile globalization by subverting the rights of ownership of American/WEstern Democracies citizens (they/we OWN our respective countries, defacto) continues.
Yeah, I know, it's a new idea for you...
Globalizations SHOULD really be about stoping immigration and the subsequent lowering of wages.
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Basically true, in a fundamental way. But socialism will probably never work until some sort of Great SoftWare OverLord is around to run things fairly. Until then, we just have to keep a lookout for our own interests.
GLOBALIZATION IS ABOUT HAVE EXPLOITING HAVE-NOTS
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The western democracies carved out a place where there could exist such a thing as a middle class. Where a working man could make a living for himself and his family. The western democracies are a haven for capital: they are stable and work by the rule of law.
So that is why there is work here.
We compete on the gloabl stage for work. We offer a business advantage over third world competitors in that we are stable and are run by the rule of law. And because we have this advantage over 3rd world, that is the only reason why we have work here at all. Otherwise we would have no work here because we CHARGE HIGH WAGES.
People, that is a GOOD THING! WE WANT HIGH WAGES!
WE DON'T WANT LOW WAGES!
But big corporations want both stability/the rule of law AND low wages. So therefore "open borders immigration" and globalization is what corporations want because it LOWERS WAGES!
Our politicians want to give them that because the corporations PAY THEM.
Can you please see that this is a process of negotiation! That there are CONFLICTS OF INTEREST between corporations and the citizens of western democracies?
When you go to buy a car and the salesman says he wants 100K, you don't just pay him, do you? YOU NEGOTIATE!
The problem is that corporations have poured so much money into propaganda through so many means that people like Katz beleive the pro-globalization propaganda. Or maybe, Katz is being paid by business lobbies to write pro-globalization propaganda.
Jon Katz, do you take money from corporate lobbies?
Actually, it is quite possible that this is a legitimate patent.
1. IBM filed in 1998.
2. You need to understand that invention starts when the idea is conceived. If IBM *conceived* of teh idea in, say, 1994, and diligently reduced it to practice from 1994 to 1998, then, then file with the uSPTO,....that's how it works. OR they could have conceived of teh idea in 1992...or even earlier....
This is how the process works....all you need is some documentation of when you first conceived of the idea, and some documentation of having diligently reduced it practice in teh intervening time frame between conception and filing.
The USA is owned by us, its citizens. The USA is our property and our place of business. Of course, we need controls on our place of business. Just as many businesses require locks on their doors and even far more sophisticated security devices, such as smart cards, etc we too, need sophisticated security controls.
THIS IS NO BIG DEAL!!
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So how many people probably died during the terroism? A couple thousand, maybe? So what? 6000 die every DAY in this country. And 100,000 humans die every die on this planet.
Yes, this was a Bad Thing, but when it comes right down to it, Bin Laden's WTC& Pentagon shenanigans were nothing but a blip on the daily death-o-meter.
Forget about Bin Laden--he's a smalltimer. Let's go take on the Big Daddy of terrorist, Death himself.
Oh, wait. I forgot. I am dealing with primates, here. Forgive my logic....
I have not read the article, but your wording implies that Trident is not supporting x86. Actually, isn't that tantamount to not supporting Linux?
And why did you not say Trident was not suppporting x86? And why did you not say Trident was not supporting Linux (de facto)?
I am behind Linux, and have it installed on computers in my house. I think it is important that I have a second choice, even though I USE Windows.
But I find you weasel-wording disingenuous here, especially since the Linux cadre come off as being straight shooters, and frankly, pride themselves on their bluntness.
I taught for a couple years in as a 7th grade English teacher in Carrizo Springs, Texas (a MISERABLE little dirtball of a town). I noticed that there was a VERY high attrition rate for teachers. I and another teacher discussed the problem, and even went back and looked at past yearbooks to see how many teachers were leaving every year. The attrition rate was about 30% every year.
After looking at which new teachers arrived each year, and evaluating them personally, we arrived at the conclusion that the more "intelligent" a new teacher was, the quicker they would leave the profession.
Out of about 9 new teachers (new to the profession) who arrived in a 2 year time span, only three remained after 3 years: a special ed teacher who had been special ed herself in school, a former salesman, and a very good teacher who was teaching on a waiver because she could not pass the (fairly easy) state teachers' test.
Our conclusion: teaching career halflife is inversely proportional to IQ.
And that makes sense to me: we high IQ types spent a lot of time reading, etc. So our social skills are less well developed than those social types. And believe me, in order to thrive as a teacher, social skills are paramount.
That is why I can only chuckle at the unending drivel from the media about how we need more-educated teachers--we actually need LESS-educated teachers. You see, for various reasons, teachers no longer have much institutional power. So the power that they now have is only gotten by way of their personal relationships with students, parents, principals, etc.
You want good teachers? Hire those who did not spend much time reading as kids. Hire those who are outgoing, with a lot of friends, and who are good talkers, and who are in tune with body language, that of their own and others.
So what happened to me?
I (and my high IQ) got a great high tech job (writing software patents) with a great office and a secretary high in a power tower downtown.
The point is not whether there is or is not a shortage of progammers. The point is that this country (The USA) is owned and operated for the benefit of its citizens, solely.
We the citizens of this country should very much desire that there be a shortage of workers in ALL occupations (with the execption of health care workers, whom we should import at a very high rate). We WANT high wages--that's a good thing for us citizens. Yes, it is "bad for business", but this country is not run for the benefit of business--it is run for the benefit of its citizens, the owners of this country...
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Jon, your take on the takeover of the USA by corporatism is dead-on. But the whole fastfood thing is very lame.
Once again, the solution to the problem is right in front of us, and you did allude to it when you mentionedhow corporatism is stifling competition.
We can deal Fast Food America a deah blow and STILL improve our food choices: look at the Hong Kong model: when I was there a couple decades ago, it was an expensive city, but a poor sailor could still eat well by patronizing the street vendors, who had well-equipped, full featured, sanitary mobile kitchens that delivered quality and variety at a low price.
But how can we break the mold? No matter who we vote for, they go on the take. Most of them are, or sooner or later, will be.
We had a chance with Perot, but we let the media demonize him.
If we take to the streets, we lose capital investment.
First we have to make mainstream TV -watching America realize what is going on.
The H1B situation is the perfect example of corporatism run rampant in the USA.
Ice crystals cause a lot of damage. That will be a bog obstacle for future scientists to overcome. Maybe they cannot overcome it. Who knows?
When you cross a street and you see a bus bearing down on you, do you stop to calculate the odds of you successfully making it to the curb? If the odds are poor, do you just stand there and enjoy the time you have left?
Hmm. Finally, a halfway decent question.
The anomaly is the $28k offered by the Cryonics Institute. They use morticians to do the cryopreservation.
All other firms (really only 2 other active firms in the world) use teams of volunteers aided by paid emergency medical staff (usually).
In truth, there are only 2 really active firms freezing people; one does it cheap, the other doesn't (they use more monoitoring equipment.
If you want to freeze your head, it's 50K; most use an insurance policy to pay for it.
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because employers know that they are at a disadvantage.
But even if they are the best in the world, America and whatever jobs or work it has to offer, those jobs should go to American citizens, not to noncitizens...
...a Drivers license national ID because the Drivers license has nothing to do with the SSN. That way CorpGovMedia can keep all those illegal aliens quasi-slaves working and thereby keep all those wages low and also keep all those rents high. CorpGovMedia just wants more livestock on its ranch named America....
I got into this issue YEARS ago, and whenever I mentioned it on forums like Slashdot, I was unanimously shouted down...
Now however, it look as if even some of the invincible young dumbasses are catching on to the problem.
The idea is that the USA is a business. And you are not an employee, BUT AN OWNER. YOU OWN, WITH 200+ million other owners, the USA.
The politicians are not your bosses, but YOUR employees.
You feel as if that is NAIVE....that the situation is the opposite.
If so, it can be changed....
MAKE IT SO!
...letting your govt import all that cheap and desparate labot in the form of 3rd world tech workers...dumbasses!
The country is owned jointly, and since it is in our control, and we pay the tab to maintain it, and it is our work that builds it, and it is our taxes that build the roads and the sewers and provides for the fair and monitored elections. And this is also the place where we citizens work; this country is our workplace.
What word do you attach to such an entity: this place is a place we paid for--and our ancestors paid for it with blood; we inherited it from them--and it is a place we maintain with our monies; and it is a place from whence we derive our livelihood. What is another word for that sort of place, that sort of entity?
The word you want, young peabrain, is "business." THis country is our business. THis business has many partners. THis business is owned jointly by its citizens. Like many other businesses, the partners often have not only common interests, but also have *conflicting* interests.
Rich partners have conflicting interests with most other partners. For example, since rich partners buy labor, they want to buy it as cheaply as possible. Since average and below average partners sell labor, they want to sell their labor as costly as possible.
Rich partners buy TV time to make other partners think that teh factors that provide cheap labor are good.
If(allusion == socialist) then
output("you dirty commie!")
If(allusion== socialist)then
output("You dirty commie!")
From you slashdot user info site: "Thirty something geeky cartoonist with the flair and personality of Eeyore. Oh bother. ;)"
You are 30-something?!! Your comments read like *thirteen*-something!
The rich folks aint gonna let that mean ol Big Brother take over. You know why? No, you don't, but I'll tell you why: because if everything were known (transparent society, such as would be provided by Big Brother, and national IDs), then the rich folks would not be able to exploit our jointly owned property (the USA) as they have been doing. And then do you know what would happen? You. the little guy (with the lil peabrain) would actually get more of the beenfits accruing from your share of the joint ownership of the USA. The rich folks would have to pay more for nannies, dishwashers, programmers, etc. But like I said, don't worry, cuz the rich uns pay the TV people to keep you lil guys all stirred up about "Big Brother". That way they can keep ripping you off. So like I said don't worry your lil pea brain, just turn on the TV. There ya go...
Katz is helping to create a Globalization straw man. He attacks the straw man of "McDonalds Globalization", and meanwhile globalization by subverting the rights of ownership of American/WEstern Democracies citizens (they/we OWN our respective countries, defacto) continues.
Yeah, I know, it's a new idea for you...
Globalizations SHOULD really be about stoping immigration and the subsequent lowering of wages.
Basically true, in a fundamental way. But socialism will probably never work until some sort of Great SoftWare OverLord is around to run things fairly. Until then, we just have to keep a lookout for our own interests.
The western democracies carved out a place where there could exist such a thing as a middle class. Where a working man could make a living for himself and his family. The western democracies are a haven for capital: they are stable and work by the rule of law.
So that is why there is work here.
We compete on the gloabl stage for work. We offer a business advantage over third world competitors in that we are stable and are run by the rule of law. And because we have this advantage over 3rd world, that is the only reason why we have work here at all. Otherwise we would have no work here because we CHARGE HIGH WAGES.
People, that is a GOOD THING! WE WANT HIGH WAGES!
WE DON'T WANT LOW WAGES!
But big corporations want both stability/the rule of law AND low wages. So therefore "open borders immigration" and globalization is what corporations want because it LOWERS WAGES!
Our politicians want to give them that because the corporations PAY THEM.
Can you please see that this is a process of negotiation! That there are CONFLICTS OF INTEREST between corporations and the citizens of western democracies?
When you go to buy a car and the salesman says he wants 100K, you don't just pay him, do you? YOU NEGOTIATE!
The problem is that corporations have poured so much money into propaganda through so many means that people like Katz beleive the pro-globalization propaganda. Or maybe, Katz is being paid by business lobbies to write pro-globalization propaganda.
Jon Katz, do you take money from corporate lobbies?
Actually, it is quite possible that this is a legitimate patent. ....that's how it works. OR they could have conceived of teh idea in 1992...or even earlier....
1. IBM filed in 1998.
2. You need to understand that invention starts when the idea is conceived. If IBM *conceived* of teh idea in, say, 1994, and diligently reduced it to practice from 1994 to 1998, then, then file with the uSPTO,
This is how the process works....all you need is some documentation of when you first conceived of the idea, and some documentation of having diligently reduced it practice in teh intervening time frame between conception and filing.
because of america's greed with respect to the immigration fiasco.
Now the american sheeple might start to wake up.
Izzata crime?
The USA is owned by us, its citizens. The USA is our property and our place of business. Of course, we need controls on our place of business. Just as many businesses require locks on their doors and even far more sophisticated security devices, such as smart cards, etc we too, need sophisticated security controls.
So how many people probably died during the terroism? A couple thousand, maybe? So what? 6000 die every DAY in this country. And 100,000 humans die every die on this planet.
Yes, this was a Bad Thing, but when it comes right down to it, Bin Laden's WTC& Pentagon shenanigans were nothing but a blip on the daily death-o-meter.
Forget about Bin Laden--he's a smalltimer. Let's go take on the Big Daddy of terrorist, Death himself.
Oh, wait. I forgot. I am dealing with primates, here. Forgive my logic....
I have not read the article, but your wording implies that Trident is not supporting x86. Actually, isn't that tantamount to not supporting Linux?
And why did you not say Trident was not suppporting x86? And why did you not say Trident was not supporting Linux (de facto)?
I am behind Linux, and have it installed on computers in my house. I think it is important that I have a second choice, even though I USE Windows.
But I find you weasel-wording disingenuous here, especially since the Linux cadre come off as being straight shooters, and frankly, pride themselves on their bluntness.
I taught for a couple years in as a 7th grade English teacher in Carrizo Springs, Texas (a MISERABLE little dirtball of a town). I noticed that there was a VERY high attrition rate for teachers. I and another teacher discussed the problem, and even went back and looked at past yearbooks to see how many teachers were leaving every year. The attrition rate was about 30% every year.
After looking at which new teachers arrived each year, and evaluating them personally, we arrived at the conclusion that the more "intelligent" a new teacher was, the quicker they would leave the profession.
Out of about 9 new teachers (new to the profession) who arrived in a 2 year time span, only three remained after 3 years: a special ed teacher who had been special ed herself in school, a former salesman, and a very good teacher who was teaching on a waiver because she could not pass the (fairly easy) state teachers' test.
Our conclusion: teaching career halflife is inversely proportional to IQ.
And that makes sense to me: we high IQ types spent a lot of time reading, etc. So our social skills are less well developed than those social types. And believe me, in order to thrive as a teacher, social skills are paramount.
That is why I can only chuckle at the unending drivel from the media about how we need more-educated teachers--we actually need LESS-educated teachers. You see, for various reasons, teachers no longer have much institutional power. So the power that they now have is only gotten by way of their personal relationships with students, parents, principals, etc.
You want good teachers? Hire those who did not spend much time reading as kids. Hire those who are outgoing, with a lot of friends, and who are good talkers, and who are in tune with body language, that of their own and others.
So what happened to me?
I (and my high IQ) got a great high tech job (writing software patents) with a great office and a secretary high in a power tower downtown.
Do I miss teaching? What do you think?
HAHAHAHAHAHAA....
Houston cannot even get the buses to run on any kind of schedule.
This would be yet another joke...
We the citizens of this country should very much desire that there be a shortage of workers in ALL occupations (with the execption of health care workers, whom we should import at a very high rate). We WANT high wages--that's a good thing for us citizens. Yes, it is "bad for business", but this country is not run for the benefit of business--it is run for the benefit of its citizens, the owners of this country...
BSCS in May 01
Once again, the solution to the problem is right in front of us, and you did allude to it when you mentionedhow corporatism is stifling competition. We can deal Fast Food America a deah blow and STILL improve our food choices: look at the Hong Kong model: when I was there a couple decades ago, it was an expensive city, but a poor sailor could still eat well by patronizing the street vendors, who had well-equipped, full featured, sanitary mobile kitchens that delivered quality and variety at a low price.
But how can we break the mold? No matter who we vote for, they go on the take. Most of them are, or sooner or later, will be.
We had a chance with Perot, but we let the media demonize him.
If we take to the streets, we lose capital investment.
First we have to make mainstream TV -watching America realize what is going on.
The H1B situation is the perfect example of corporatism run rampant in the USA.
BSCS in May 01
Ice crystals cause a lot of damage. That will be a bog obstacle for future scientists to overcome. Maybe they cannot overcome it. Who knows?
When you cross a street and you see a bus bearing down on you, do you stop to calculate the odds of you successfully making it to the curb? If the odds are poor, do you just stand there and enjoy the time you have left?
BSCS in May 01
Hmm. Finally, a halfway decent question. The anomaly is the $28k offered by the Cryonics Institute. They use morticians to do the cryopreservation. All other firms (really only 2 other active firms in the world) use teams of volunteers aided by paid emergency medical staff (usually). In truth, there are only 2 really active firms freezing people; one does it cheap, the other doesn't (they use more monoitoring equipment. If you want to freeze your head, it's 50K; most use an insurance policy to pay for it.
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See the FAQ at http://www.cryonet.org
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Wrong. Cryonics does not require constant power. See the FAQ at http://www.cryonet.org
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