I am the OP:
Short answer, my landlord installed the floodlight and the motion detector that runs in. I think she was partly concerned with security, which I don't really think is an issue.
Longer answer, my wife has MS which gives her both vision problems and balance problems. She also walks with a cane which would make it hard to carry a torch. I think that a lot of older people have similar issues.
Whatever the rhetoric ("exceptional" or not), we have major inefficiencies arising from restrictive visas on taleneted workers. My non-citizen colleagues in the sciences have had to jump through a thousand hoops to keep working here, and sometimes their education/employment has been disrupted by delays in getting the visa.
And within the country, allowing in skilled migrants promotes equality by increasing competition at the top of the wage scale.
Dean Baker included this as one of the ways that the upper classes protect themselves (competition for thee, not for me)
http://deanbaker.net/images/stories/documents/cns.html#2
Anyway, as a knowledge worker, I'm totally comfortable with inviting more "competitors" because I actually think of them as "colleagues". I think that their presence will increase the productivity of native knowledge workers sufficiently to compensate for any loss due to competition.
One way to respond to this is to figure out what these people were trying to suppress, and publicize that information. The information becomes newsworthy for the simple reason that someone tried to suppress it. This is an unintended consequence of trying to suppress information -- the act of suppression itself brings attention to the information.
So what specific posts triggered this attack from the fanatics? I we can identify them, we can publicize them. I skimmed the linked articles and did not get a good idea of what set them off.
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I am the OP: Short answer, my landlord installed the floodlight and the motion detector that runs in. I think she was partly concerned with security, which I don't really think is an issue. Longer answer, my wife has MS which gives her both vision problems and balance problems. She also walks with a cane which would make it hard to carry a torch. I think that a lot of older people have similar issues.
Whatever the rhetoric ("exceptional" or not), we have major inefficiencies arising from restrictive visas on taleneted workers. My non-citizen colleagues in the sciences have had to jump through a thousand hoops to keep working here, and sometimes their education/employment has been disrupted by delays in getting the visa.
And within the country, allowing in skilled migrants promotes equality by increasing competition at the top of the wage scale. Dean Baker included this as one of the ways that the upper classes protect themselves (competition for thee, not for me) http://deanbaker.net/images/stories/documents/cns.html#2 Anyway, as a knowledge worker, I'm totally comfortable with inviting more "competitors" because I actually think of them as "colleagues". I think that their presence will increase the productivity of native knowledge workers sufficiently to compensate for any loss due to competition.
One way to respond to this is to figure out what these people were trying to suppress, and publicize that information. The information becomes newsworthy for the simple reason that someone tried to suppress it. This is an unintended consequence of trying to suppress information -- the act of suppression itself brings attention to the information. So what specific posts triggered this attack from the fanatics? I we can identify them, we can publicize them. I skimmed the linked articles and did not get a good idea of what set them off.