Show me how many advanced mathematicians come in on a H1B visa.
While you're at it, show me anyone who comes in on a H1B visa IN CANADA.
Actually, Canada is seeing H1B holders wanting to move to Canada - thank you Mr. Trump. Same as Canada is seeing a rise in people fleeing the states to claim refugee status in Canada. Weird, but that's what happens when a whole country decides en masse to live in Trumplestiltskin's universe, where his small hands are especially helpful in pulling factoids out of his arse.
Or cancelled cheque, or tax receipt from the charitable organization (which includes the amount and the charity's tax registration number). However, he doesn't have to show any of this to actually claim the tax deduction - only needs it on hand if he's audited. In Canada you don't file receipts with your tax returns.
If you go driving without a license or with one but ignoring safety for you and/or others then you are likely to get put in jail.
The likelihood of getting caught is pretty low provided you don't do something to attract attention, and the car you're driving is properly registered so it doesn't trigger a red flag when checked. And driving without a license is a fine, not jail, unless the revocation was because of drunk driving or another offence. Judges aren't going to throw people in jail for such minor offenses - that costs money. Fines make money.
Divide and conquer is a tactic of leaders, not followers. Beat cops are not leaders engaged in making decisions wrt divide and conquer. Trump, on the other hand, did a really good job on that. Look at how divided the republican party is today. So what if it's an "own goal"?
Those unionized bus drivers will be collecting their big early retirement pensions, as per their UNION CONTRACT. Something IT workers were too stupid to get because "IT is different."
Your answer demonstrates the hostage mentality of IT workers. You're still eligible for the same severance package - it's the law. You cannot be denied it because you refused to do a job you were not hired for and never agreed to as part of your job description. Also, they have to give you a reference no matter what. Most employers nowadays will, as a matter of policy, limit it to "yes, we can confirm that Jane Smith worked here from YYYY.MM.DD to YYYY.MM.DD" because they don't want lawsuits. Get your personal references from co-workers, not your bosses.
Another "moving the goalpost" response. You're the one with reading comprehension problems. I pointed out that all the "solutions" that coders are offering are impractical for mechanical engineers. Coders in general ARE fucktards - that's why they've been opposed to unions, same as poor people who voted for Trump. Just more turkeys voting for Thanksgiving. I'm the only coder I know who ever tried to organize a union - and it failed because people in IT are generally a bunch of chickenshits afraid that they will be fired for doing something perfectly legal.
Same as they obediently train their H1B replacements. "But I need my separation pay!" They have to pay it to you even if you refuse. "But I have to - I need the extra 3 months work!" So you stab your co-workers in a back instead of saying "ain't happening." Funny how blue-collar workers are smarter about that.
Those unionized bus drivers? Great pensions, and when they're replaced by self-driving buses, they'll get big payouts and early retirement. Not "1 week for every year of service and don't let the door hit you on the way out."
What you describe in your last paragraph is "Stockholm Syndrome." Retarded, but I guess employers WANT employees who feel they are hostages to their jobs.
Do you really believe that students aren't trying to find summer jobs to help pay their expenses? Doing free co-ops is for the rich kids, whose parents can afford it.
The guy is a mechanical engineer. What sort of "open source projects" do you want him to participate in?
An open source design for a household cleaning robot would be cool. An open source sexbot would also be nice. The real killer app would be to combine them both into one device.
Already been done. Just look for stories about guys damaging their penises in vacuum cleaners, like this Darwin Awards story about the guy who permanently chopped off part of his penis that way, which has this note added:
Johannes Schya says such events are common in Germany. A graduate dissertation at the University of Munich details this strange kind of injury, and includes case studies and interviews with the involuntary volunteers. The dissertation was made public by members of the "Chaos Computer Club" of Hamburg, and has been referenced in Der Spiegel, Nr 5 1986. Those interested can read "Penisverletzung bei Masturbation mit Staubsaugern" Theimuras, Michael Alschibajy Von der Universitt Mnchen.
Pubs serve non-alcoholic drinks. I guess you've never heard of the "designated driver" programs that let the designated driver drink as much non-alcoholic pop and juice and tea and coffee and water as they want. Also, I never said anything about compulsory attendance.
Same as someone else wanting to order vegan when others are eating meat - both sides have to respect the right of the others to make their own choices. Vegans who go "OMG I refuse to sit at the same table as someone eating a pizza with pepperoni, sausage, salami, bacon, and more pepperoni" can go fuck themselves.
The first guy in the story went for an engineering degree. With all the uproar about supposed shortages in STEM
STEM != a specific sub discipline of one of the 4 acronyms it covers. Just because a mechanical engineer can't get a job because of the resources crash doesn't mean the ST and M aren't still in short supply.
And yet they ARE in oversupply. That's why we continuously berate the H1B scams. There is no general shortage of STEM workers.
How much do you think an old pensioner really makes?
In the US, 1 out of 4 seniors lives in poverty. And the older they get, the higher the ratio rises. It's also biased against women, with women being more likely to be living in poverty.
Seniors don't have under-18 children living with them to bring in supplementary entitlements to boost their household income. You don't hear anyone carping about seniors who are "welfare queens". Just doesn't exist. There are families on welfare who make more than many seniors.
Try using it to dictate on your phone. It works. No headphones and noise-cancelling microphones, and google trains it to your voice as you use it. And they have far more cpu to throw at any single sentence than that expensive commercial rig can pump out.
Unless you're on of a few dozen government-recognized regulated professions, you have a job, not a profession. Applies to both Canada and the USA. Doesn't matter how much education you have.
These professions regulate who can and cannot practice the profession. Smart move if you're a member of one of those - it's even better than being in a union in terms of job protection.
He's a CEO - little people problems are beneath his status in life.
Why should some kid's employment problem be his? He at least offered useful advice to people still in college.
No, he's not. Obviously you didn't read the article. The "advice" he gave doesn't work in today's jobs market, where the jobs you're getting an education for are disappearing. Doesn't matter how much prep you do - you're competing with people already working who are losing their jobs. And they have experience that no number of co-ops can replicate. And they're scared shitless.
What the HELL does navigation have to do with speech to text replacing typing your messages? Oh, right - absolutely sweet fuck all. Which is easier - to type on a phone screen or to dictate your message? Hint - speech to text is quicker and more accurate.
Because Berkeley lied when they said that they had to provide transcripts or remove the material. Section 107 of the copyright act 1976 allows for fair use for teaching materials, and this allows 3rd parties to make available all such materials in more accessible forms, and for Berkeley to use the results of such work.
They weren't interested in doing this. It's about monetization and artificial scarcity, pure and simple. This was just a smokescreen to remove the material.
The blind will be using TTS screen readers such as non-visual desktop access anyway, and deaf people can still read the materials, and use STT software for converting speech to text (and to all those idiots who continue to say that speech-to-text doesn't work because it didn't when you tried it in 1995, try dictating your SMS messages - it's quicker and more accurate than trying to use an on-screen keyboard).
Closed captioning for live events (such as news) is text-to-speech. Easily detectable if you read the captions and listen to the words - the mistakes aren't from typos, but closely sounding words. Manually entered also takes a few seconds delay, same as simultaneous translation is not really simultaneous, there's a second or so delay (but the translator can often anticipate what's about to be said by context - and then when they goof, you get to hear it when they correct themselves).
The closed-captioning does speech-to-text, not lip reading. It's advanced to the point that you can dictate your SMS messages more reliably than fumbling around with an on-screen keyboard and auto-uncorrect.
That cry of dismay was the sound of thousands of blind gynecologists realizing they will be out of a job reading lips.:-)
Of course the reality is grim - even more surveillance by marketers and the state - especially with TVs and webcams and (if you believe Trump) microwaves watching everything you say and do.
I live in an at-will state, where people can be fired for anything.
The ironic thing, from what I was told by someone still working there, a month after I got the boot, some skulker went from office to office and "liberated" a number of laptops, with nobody challenging the person because of what happened to me.
"Someone." So, I assume you got good money for those laptops:-)
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Show me how many advanced mathematicians come in on a H1B visa. While you're at it, show me anyone who comes in on a H1B visa IN CANADA.
Actually, Canada is seeing H1B holders wanting to move to Canada - thank you Mr. Trump. Same as Canada is seeing a rise in people fleeing the states to claim refugee status in Canada. Weird, but that's what happens when a whole country decides en masse to live in Trumplestiltskin's universe, where his small hands are especially helpful in pulling factoids out of his arse.
They could have pointed out that since these are fair use materials, there are agencies whose mandate is to make them ADA compliant . They didn't.
Note for Americans - "putain" is a street sex worker, often shortened to just "pute".
Or cancelled cheque, or tax receipt from the charitable organization (which includes the amount and the charity's tax registration number). However, he doesn't have to show any of this to actually claim the tax deduction - only needs it on hand if he's audited. In Canada you don't file receipts with your tax returns.
If you go driving without a license or with one but ignoring safety for you and/or others then you are likely to get put in jail.
The likelihood of getting caught is pretty low provided you don't do something to attract attention, and the car you're driving is properly registered so it doesn't trigger a red flag when checked. And driving without a license is a fine, not jail, unless the revocation was because of drunk driving or another offence. Judges aren't going to throw people in jail for such minor offenses - that costs money. Fines make money.
Divide and conquer is a tactic of leaders, not followers. Beat cops are not leaders engaged in making decisions wrt divide and conquer. Trump, on the other hand, did a really good job on that. Look at how divided the republican party is today. So what if it's an "own goal"?
Those unionized bus drivers will be collecting their big early retirement pensions, as per their UNION CONTRACT. Something IT workers were too stupid to get because "IT is different."
Your answer demonstrates the hostage mentality of IT workers. You're still eligible for the same severance package - it's the law. You cannot be denied it because you refused to do a job you were not hired for and never agreed to as part of your job description. Also, they have to give you a reference no matter what. Most employers nowadays will, as a matter of policy, limit it to "yes, we can confirm that Jane Smith worked here from YYYY.MM.DD to YYYY.MM.DD" because they don't want lawsuits. Get your personal references from co-workers, not your bosses.
Another "moving the goalpost" response. You're the one with reading comprehension problems. I pointed out that all the "solutions" that coders are offering are impractical for mechanical engineers. Coders in general ARE fucktards - that's why they've been opposed to unions, same as poor people who voted for Trump. Just more turkeys voting for Thanksgiving. I'm the only coder I know who ever tried to organize a union - and it failed because people in IT are generally a bunch of chickenshits afraid that they will be fired for doing something perfectly legal.
Same as they obediently train their H1B replacements. "But I need my separation pay!" They have to pay it to you even if you refuse. "But I have to - I need the extra 3 months work!" So you stab your co-workers in a back instead of saying "ain't happening." Funny how blue-collar workers are smarter about that.
Those unionized bus drivers? Great pensions, and when they're replaced by self-driving buses, they'll get big payouts and early retirement. Not "1 week for every year of service and don't let the door hit you on the way out."
What you describe in your last paragraph is "Stockholm Syndrome." Retarded, but I guess employers WANT employees who feel they are hostages to their jobs.
Do you really believe that students aren't trying to find summer jobs to help pay their expenses? Doing free co-ops is for the rich kids, whose parents can afford it.
The guy is a mechanical engineer. What sort of "open source projects" do you want him to participate in?
An open source design for a household cleaning robot would be cool. An open source sexbot would also be nice. The real killer app would be to combine them both into one device.
Already been done. Just look for stories about guys damaging their penises in vacuum cleaners, like this Darwin Awards story about the guy who permanently chopped off part of his penis that way, which has this note added:
Johannes Schya says such events are common in Germany. A graduate dissertation at the University of Munich details this strange kind of injury, and includes case studies and interviews with the involuntary volunteers. The dissertation was made public by members of the "Chaos Computer Club" of Hamburg, and has been referenced in Der Spiegel, Nr 5 1986. Those interested can read "Penisverletzung bei Masturbation mit Staubsaugern" Theimuras, Michael Alschibajy Von der Universitt Mnchen.
Ecclesiastes: There is nothing new under the sun.
Same as someone else wanting to order vegan when others are eating meat - both sides have to respect the right of the others to make their own choices. Vegans who go "OMG I refuse to sit at the same table as someone eating a pizza with pepperoni, sausage, salami, bacon, and more pepperoni" can go fuck themselves.
The first guy in the story went for an engineering degree. With all the uproar about supposed shortages in STEM
STEM != a specific sub discipline of one of the 4 acronyms it covers. Just because a mechanical engineer can't get a job because of the resources crash doesn't mean the ST and M aren't still in short supply.
And yet they ARE in oversupply. That's why we continuously berate the H1B scams. There is no general shortage of STEM workers.
How much do you think an old pensioner really makes?
In the US, 1 out of 4 seniors lives in poverty. And the older they get, the higher the ratio rises. It's also biased against women, with women being more likely to be living in poverty.
Seniors don't have under-18 children living with them to bring in supplementary entitlements to boost their household income. You don't hear anyone carping about seniors who are "welfare queens". Just doesn't exist. There are families on welfare who make more than many seniors.
Try using it to dictate on your phone. It works. No headphones and noise-cancelling microphones, and google trains it to your voice as you use it. And they have far more cpu to throw at any single sentence than that expensive commercial rig can pump out.
Unless you're on of a few dozen government-recognized regulated professions, you have a job, not a profession. Applies to both Canada and the USA. Doesn't matter how much education you have.
These professions regulate who can and cannot practice the profession. Smart move if you're a member of one of those - it's even better than being in a union in terms of job protection.
He's a CEO - little people problems are beneath his status in life.
Why should some kid's employment problem be his? He at least offered useful advice to people still in college.
No, he's not. Obviously you didn't read the article. The "advice" he gave doesn't work in today's jobs market, where the jobs you're getting an education for are disappearing. Doesn't matter how much prep you do - you're competing with people already working who are losing their jobs. And they have experience that no number of co-ops can replicate. And they're scared shitless.
What the HELL does navigation have to do with speech to text replacing typing your messages? Oh, right - absolutely sweet fuck all. Which is easier - to type on a phone screen or to dictate your message? Hint - speech to text is quicker and more accurate.
Quit moving goalposts.
Because Berkeley lied when they said that they had to provide transcripts or remove the material. Section 107 of the copyright act 1976 allows for fair use for teaching materials, and this allows 3rd parties to make available all such materials in more accessible forms, and for Berkeley to use the results of such work.
They weren't interested in doing this. It's about monetization and artificial scarcity, pure and simple. This was just a smokescreen to remove the material.
The blind will be using TTS screen readers such as non-visual desktop access anyway, and deaf people can still read the materials, and use STT software for converting speech to text (and to all those idiots who continue to say that speech-to-text doesn't work because it didn't when you tried it in 1995, try dictating your SMS messages - it's quicker and more accurate than trying to use an on-screen keyboard).
if you believe Trump
You should! He never lies, and he's always right
Except when his lips move ....
Closed captioning for live events (such as news) is text-to-speech. Easily detectable if you read the captions and listen to the words - the mistakes aren't from typos, but closely sounding words. Manually entered also takes a few seconds delay, same as simultaneous translation is not really simultaneous, there's a second or so delay (but the translator can often anticipate what's about to be said by context - and then when they goof, you get to hear it when they correct themselves).
The closed-captioning does speech-to-text, not lip reading. It's advanced to the point that you can dictate your SMS messages more reliably than fumbling around with an on-screen keyboard and auto-uncorrect.
That cry of dismay was the sound of thousands of blind gynecologists realizing they will be out of a job reading lips. :-)
Of course the reality is grim - even more surveillance by marketers and the state - especially with TVs and webcams and (if you believe Trump) microwaves watching everything you say and do.
It's called the Peter Principle. It's one reason why so many companies become top-heavy with incompetents.
I live in an at-will state, where people can be fired for anything.
The ironic thing, from what I was told by someone still working there, a month after I got the boot, some skulker went from office to office and "liberated" a number of laptops, with nobody challenging the person because of what happened to me.
"Someone." So, I assume you got good money for those laptops :-)