I wanted to use 'KGB' in the joke as most people would have followed it more easily I think, and I knew about the new abbreviation but as I don't speak Russian I didn't know the actual words. Thank you for your explanation -
I've crossed the border between Russia and just about anywhere you can think of that shares a border with Russia. I have never ever been interrogated at their border. I've even crossed the Ukrainian Moldovan border with another individual who overstayed his visa for months. They barely asked any questions even then, they just walked him to a nearby bank and had him pay a fine (the fine is paid directly to the bank to prevent the possibility of the border guard pocketing it). I even overstayed my own visa while exiting Ukraine. I didn't even miss my flight.
You forgot to mention that you work for the KGB...
Admittedly your logic is completely faulty in so many aspects that I must have missed a few. Your premise is what I've been dismissing with every word. That you think that you know the truth I can do nothing about, as people who don't know what they're talking about often think that they know the truth.
You can introduce an infinite number of people at 100,000 but you cannot maintain that situation thus the salaries would drop in direct ratio of supply to demand.
I'll say that if you vote for any such plan where the labor market is flooded with people that I sincerely hope that it affects your industry.
I will not waste further time discussing fundamental and extremely basic economics with someone who is obviously unwilling or perhaps just plain incapable of understanding it.
My 'guess' is provably wrong? I don't see that you have 'proven' anything at all other than that you don't understand economics and that, like so many people on/. you can be offensive for no good reason whatsoever.
You stated "must have an advanced degree capable of pulling in $100,000 or more per year in the US market.". You did not state this as a requirement for staying in the country but okay, let's run with it.
You're saying now that anyone not making 100k minimum would be sent home. You can only hold true to that until they qualify as US citizens and are able to stay without any limitation which nullifies your attempt to keep labor rates high over time. Even if it were true, you would end up sending so many of them home as to completely negate your proposal to start with.
This is one of those things that might well work in a limited situation (tracking marked bills to reveal criminal activity, etc) but the cost of Encoding, recording, and (securely) logging every bill as it is printed just isnt something that would be feasible for the majority of bill denominations. Maybe if it was limited to large quantity bills or something...
Maybe not, if you balance these costs against the lost value of money due to counterfeiting, as well as having to come up with new money periodically once there's too much counterfeit in play.
Let's see if you still feel the same way when you're 50 years old and have lost your job to someone half your age willing to work for half the pay.
Unless you are a scientist or researcher with some leads on technology that no one else has, or are in some other way unique in your personal value proposition, in all probability, your company sponsored you because you cost less than the locals who could also do the job.
This works out well for you, for now, and for the company, but not for the people that you're competing against. You don't care now, but you'll care when you become entrenched over time and then find yourself competing against those younger and cheaper than yourself.
This has nothing to do with any nationality, religion, sex or race and has everything to do with being able to expect a decent wage to live on when you do a good job.
Capitalism is good up to a point but you have to have some balance to protect the people from the companies.
You assume that the $5k off would be a one time value, it would not.
Each wave of incoming immigrants would have at least that much of an effect and the cumulative salary impact of bringing in an unlimited (1,000,000 in your example in only five years) would completely flood the industry / industries and devalue labor rates to a point where people who would have been making 110,000 in your example would be making 30-40k if they were lucky enough to still have work.
I'm all for immigration but you have to restrict the inflow such that it doesn't impact the labor market.
These are not conservative leaning. They are religious zealots. They need to stop making people right of center seem like that they are all crazed idiots.
Difficult to categorize them as zealots when they're a significant portion of the population.
I'm not saying they're not zealots, just that it becomes difficult to call them such.
Of course, the bad part happens when there's an accident, and hundreds of gallons of supercritical H2 suddenly become several hundred thousand cubic meters of H2 gas, which is not exactly what you want to have around when there's a lot of energy being dissipated by mangling metal.
Depends on how accidental the explosion is, and on what accidental target.
Seems to me that this drone doesn't need to carry a bomb per se, as it can act as one.
Some junkies will kill themselves... but that will taper off quickly. Some kill themselves. Some don't. Some never touch the stuff. If people want to destroy themselves... let them.
...and when they use it as a (legal) gag on their friends or their sister's friends?
The only way to really beat this is to educate children / people of the dangers with honest, graphic information.
The Russian space mission, returning today after wiping out historic footprints previously left by the American astronauts and scattering empty bottles of Vodka around the site, mysteriously vanished just as it was returning to Earth's atmosphere. It is thought to have possibly accidentally collided with an old and no longer functioning American weather satellite that although furnished with a nuclear core prototype energy fusion system, was drifting uncontrolled in orbit, resulting in the completely accidental disintegration of the Russian craft into its component atoms.
It will be just like it always has been and still is on the earth, be it on the land, in the oceans or in the skis. Whoever can take it and hold it will keep it until someone stronger takes it from them.
'Right' has nothing to do with it.
Palestine / Isreal/etc. The south China sea and all the islands in it (currently an issue between China and the Philippines) Tibet Falkland Islands Gibraltar The north pole region
The whole point of my post about having a low dollar is unemployment. Inflation has nothing to do with it. You need to think internationally and not only about what you yourself can buy with your dollar but about what multinationals and people around the world consider when making buying decisions.
The lower the dollar, the lower the relative cost of manufacturing in the US versus outside the US, and the lower the cost of the services provided by Americans in the US versus people outside the US.
The lower the dollar, the more people will buy American goods and services. The more American goods and services sold, the more jobs should exist in America. The more jobs in America, the less unemployment in America.
My belief is that the value of the dollar has been dropped deliberately to help the US compete globally with regards to both manufacturing and services, what there is left of it. A strong dollar policy sounds good but it's not what the US needs at this point.
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I wanted to use 'KGB' in the joke as most people would have followed it more easily I think, and I knew about the new abbreviation but as I don't speak Russian I didn't know the actual words. Thank you for your explanation -
Surely you meant to say "Password1"
I've crossed the border between Russia and just about anywhere you can think of that shares a border with Russia. I have never ever been interrogated at their border. I've even crossed the Ukrainian Moldovan border with another individual who overstayed his visa for months. They barely asked any questions even then, they just walked him to a nearby bank and had him pay a fine (the fine is paid directly to the bank to prevent the possibility of the border guard pocketing it). I even overstayed my own visa while exiting Ukraine. I didn't even miss my flight.
You forgot to mention that you work for the KGB...
(joking)
Well..of course they are! After all...someone has to buy it to be able to put it on the net for everyone else to download!!
Admittedly your logic is completely faulty in so many aspects that I must have missed a few. Your premise is what I've been dismissing with every word. That you think that you know the truth I can do nothing about, as people who don't know what they're talking about often think that they know the truth.
You can introduce an infinite number of people at 100,000 but you cannot maintain that situation thus the salaries would drop in direct ratio of supply to demand.
I'll say that if you vote for any such plan where the labor market is flooded with people that I sincerely hope that it affects your industry.
I will not waste further time discussing fundamental and extremely basic economics with someone who is obviously unwilling or perhaps just plain incapable of understanding it.
My 'guess' is provably wrong? I don't see that you have 'proven' anything at all other than that you don't understand economics and that, like so many people on /. you can be offensive for no good reason whatsoever.
You stated "must have an advanced degree capable of pulling in $100,000 or more per year in the US market.". You did not state this as a requirement for staying in the country but okay, let's run with it.
You're saying now that anyone not making 100k minimum would be sent home. You can only hold true to that until they qualify as US citizens and are able to stay without any limitation which nullifies your attempt to keep labor rates high over time. Even if it were true, you would end up sending so many of them home as to completely negate your proposal to start with.
This is one of those things that might well work in a limited situation (tracking marked bills to reveal criminal activity, etc) but the cost of Encoding, recording, and (securely) logging every bill as it is printed just isnt something that would be feasible for the majority of bill denominations. Maybe if it was limited to large quantity bills or something...
Maybe not, if you balance these costs against the lost value of money due to counterfeiting, as well as having to come up with new money periodically once there's too much counterfeit in play.
Let's see if you still feel the same way when you're 50 years old and have lost your job to someone half your age willing to work for half the pay.
Unless you are a scientist or researcher with some leads on technology that no one else has, or are in some other way unique in your personal value proposition, in all probability, your company sponsored you because you cost less than the locals who could also do the job.
This works out well for you, for now, and for the company, but not for the people that you're competing against. You don't care now, but you'll care when you become entrenched over time and then find yourself competing against those younger and cheaper than yourself.
This has nothing to do with any nationality, religion, sex or race and has everything to do with being able to expect a decent wage to live on when you do a good job.
Capitalism is good up to a point but you have to have some balance to protect the people from the companies.
You assume that the $5k off would be a one time value, it would not.
Each wave of incoming immigrants would have at least that much of an effect and the cumulative salary impact of bringing in an unlimited (1,000,000 in your example in only five years) would completely flood the industry / industries and devalue labor rates to a point where people who would have been making 110,000 in your example would be making 30-40k if they were lucky enough to still have work.
I'm all for immigration but you have to restrict the inflow such that it doesn't impact the labor market.
These are not conservative leaning. They are religious zealots. They need to stop making people right of center seem like that they are all crazed idiots.
Difficult to categorize them as zealots when they're a significant portion of the population.
I'm not saying they're not zealots, just that it becomes difficult to call them such.
There is effectively only one political party in the US now.
American companies complaining they can't hire resources in these fields (without mentioning that they want to pay jack shit) perhaps?
Strikes me as a bit of an H1B dodge...
Thanks for your reply -
I don't disagree but perhaps if there is sufficient demand for hydrogen new techniques can be developed.
And yes, I'm aware that I'm being overly optimistic :-)
"is not" != "can not be"
Of course, the bad part happens when there's an accident, and hundreds of gallons of supercritical H2 suddenly become several hundred thousand cubic meters of H2 gas, which is not exactly what you want to have around when there's a lot of energy being dissipated by mangling metal.
Depends on how accidental the explosion is, and on what accidental target.
Seems to me that this drone doesn't need to carry a bomb per se, as it can act as one.
All of it.
Some junkies will kill themselves... but that will taper off quickly. Some kill themselves. Some don't. Some never touch the stuff. If people want to destroy themselves... let them.
...and when they use it as a (legal) gag on their friends or their sister's friends?
The only way to really beat this is to educate children / people of the dangers with honest, graphic information.
Ah come on it's not like the spare parts being used for American weapons systems are often Chinese made counterfeits...oh...wait...
Pinto?
Was a joke...
Where G = Gajillion?
I think we reached that point in the fifties and sixties actually...and have been moving backwards ever since.
News headlines the day after...
The Russian space mission, returning today after wiping out historic footprints previously left by the American astronauts and scattering empty bottles of Vodka around the site, mysteriously vanished just as it was returning to Earth's atmosphere. It is thought to have possibly accidentally collided with an old and no longer functioning American weather satellite that although furnished with a nuclear core prototype energy fusion system, was drifting uncontrolled in orbit, resulting in the completely accidental disintegration of the Russian craft into its component atoms.
It will be just like it always has been and still is on the earth, be it on the land, in the oceans or in the skis. Whoever can take it and hold it will keep it until someone stronger takes it from them.
'Right' has nothing to do with it.
Palestine / Isreal /etc.
The south China sea and all the islands in it (currently an issue between China and the Philippines)
Tibet
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar
The north pole region
The moon and space will be no different.
The whole point of my post about having a low dollar is unemployment. Inflation has nothing to do with it. You need to think internationally and not only about what you yourself can buy with your dollar but about what multinationals and people around the world consider when making buying decisions.
The lower the dollar, the lower the relative cost of manufacturing in the US versus outside the US, and the lower the cost of the services provided by Americans in the US versus people outside the US.
The lower the dollar, the more people will buy American goods and services. The more American goods and services sold, the more jobs should exist in America. The more jobs in America, the less unemployment in America.
Now I will indeed go out for lunch.
My belief is that the value of the dollar has been dropped deliberately to help the US compete globally with regards to both manufacturing and services, what there is left of it. A strong dollar policy sounds good but it's not what the US needs at this point.