If I used Instagram I'd probably be very concerned about this. But alas, my selfie-whoring days are long past, so I think I'll just go have a sandwich and then take a nap.
There's a stark difference between outsourcing jobs and importing more foreign workers under a visa program. In one case the government is still getting tax revenue from people with jobs in the country. In the other, it isn't. Whatever your stance on the H1-B visa program, it's obviously preferable to bring in someone to take a job here than it is to export that job there. It would be better still to education and train citizens than either, but with a global economy there's going to be economic osmosis.
Spoken like a true manager whose only concern is the bottom line and whose job is in no danger of being outsourced or replaced by an H-1B visa worker.
This means the best insurance coverages, wages, stock options, company transport, company provided housing, relocation funds, retirement packages, etc. Remember the companies say they desperately need these people and don't have time to train a US worker so they are obviously more critical than anyone in management or sales. To avoid some possible doggedness make it so that this compensation is the highest one calculated from the company they are employed by or are doing work for.
Do this and I say that we can remove the cap on H-1B visas. We will then see just how critical these people are to companies.
Works for me. If they're so incredibly rare and skilled, they should be paid like kings and queens.
You use a free service you have to accept their structure and design. Seriously, I'm tired of all the bitching about Facebook, don't like it, don't use it.
I don't use it, but I still enjoy bitching about it.
I also don't rape children, but I still talk shit about people who do.
NEWS FLASH: Not doing or using something doesn't mean you give up the right to bitch about it.
I think the point is that H-1B visas are not necessarily a bad idea, in fact they are a very good idea,... The problem is that the program seems to be HEAVILY abused
Yes, I know. But expanding the program will only lead to more abuse. The H-1B was supposed to be a very selective, very restricted program, and as you point out, now it's abused routinely. It needs to be scaled way, way back to its original levels, more or less.
So if you take what he says "But I’m the one that knows how to change it. Nobody else on this dais knows how to change it like I do, believe me.", one could translate that to mean basically
Yeah, sure, you could translate it to mean that, you could translate it to mean anything you want, but given his nature, past performance, predatory business practices, and previous use of the H-1B program, I doubt that's what he'd do. Like any politician he'll say anything to get elected, but I think in this case it's easy to see where he would go with it seeing as he's a big fan of it and has used it to his own benefit for years and years.
Then maybe you should think about it, because how it happened it seems fairly straightforward to me.
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you do know that one way to stop the H1B abuse would be to "expand" immigration law so that H1B workers are less tied to their employer than currently, right? From what you posted above, it seems you agree with Trump, only you don't realise it.
No, I don't realize that, because it's not true. Expanding immigration law so that H1B workers are less tied to their employer would mean that more H-1B visas are issued, unless you have some radical definition of "expand" that actually means "reduce".
The H-1B visa program should be radically reduced, not expanded.
Here's an anecdote: I'm selling my wife's car. One of the potential buyers is an Indian guy, about 30 years old. He's working here on an H-1B in the Seattle/Redmond area as a Java API programmer for Disney.
Now ask yourself: do you really think that there are no qualified American programmers who know Java, in Seattle or Redmond of all places? Did Disney really have to go all the way to India and import this guy just so they could have someone who can code in Java? Was there really not a single American programmer who could do what he's doing?
Of course not, and we both fucking know it. The H-1B program is a fucking scam designed to allow employers to import cheap labor at the expense of Americans who could do the job but who would want to be paid more. That's all it fucking is, and everyone knows it.
...Trump keeps saying he'll do something about it.
Yeah, and what he'll do is expand it. Trump loves the whole H-1B idea, and he's said so repeatedly.
Trump: “I’m in favor of people coming into this country legally. And you know what? They can have it any way you want. You can call it visas, you can call it work permits, you can call it anything you want...."
Trump: "We need highly skilled people in this country, and if we can’t do it, we’ll get them in. But, and we do need in Silicon Valley, we absolutely have to have."
Trump’s answer during the Megyn Kelly interview was consistent with his answer during the CNBC debate. He said again that Silicon Valley needs highly skilled workers, and showed his support for the H-1B program. Further, he appeared to support employers sponsoring H-1B workers for green cards, saying, “We absolutely have to be able to keep the brain power in this country.”
Also, he said, “I know the H-1B. I know the H2B. Nobody knows it better than me. I’m a businessman. These are laws. These are regulations. These are rules. We’re allowed to do it. I will take advantage of it; they’re the laws. But I’m the one that knows how to change it. Nobody else on this dais knows how to change it like I do, believe me.”
It will hopefully remain at 0 as it is misinformed at best. No Islam isn't what cause this, local customs are.
Bullshit. As someone else said, "Islam is the mother lode of bad ideas", and they were spot-on.
Islam demands brutal retribution for the most ridiculous, insignificant things, and there's no wiggle room.
Infidels? They gotta die, period. Blasphemers? They gotta die, period. Apostates? They gotta die, period. Adulterers? They gotta die, period. Insult Allah or Mohammed? You gotta die, period. Draw a picture of Mohammed? You gotta die, period. Eat pork? You gotta die, period. Throw the Koran on the floor? You gotta die, period. Deny Allah in any way? You gotta die, period. Bandits, i.e., al-muhaarib, the one who wages war against Allaah? They gotta die, period. Spying? Spies gotta die, period. Homosexuality? You gotta die, period. Drug offenses? You gotta die, period. Practicing sorcery or witchcraft? You gotta die, period.
On the other hand, marry and rape a 6-year old? That's okay. Use a toddler for "thighing"? That's okay. Beat your wife? That's okay.
Don't believe me? Great, don't take my word for it- look it up and see for yourself.
Maybe Islam will have mellowed in another 1000 years, but by that time with any luck religion itself will be dead, and only studied by professors of Ancient History.
Gates said, "We've made more progress in the last five years than at any time in history."
Yes, but that's true of nearly ANY scientific field of study or development.
There are almost certainly exceptions, but we've learned more about atomic structure or battery technology or river ecology in the last 5 years than at any time in history. This is normal scientific progress and advancement.
It differs based on location and how old you are. No matter where you live you'll need more to retire at 50 than at 70, assuming you want to live to reach 80 (for example).
Even a dumb phone tracks you as your phone does signal its handoffs from one cell tower to the next as you move around (even if you're not calling anyone).
It may not be the pinpoint accuracy you'd get from google but it's easy to follow your movements down the freeway, through town, or even in less populated areas.
Leave your own cell phone at home, and use a disposable cell phone while you are out engaging in wrong-doing. Then even if you are correctly accused of a crime, you have an alibi...
Yup, that's how you do it. Uhh, I mean, that's what I hear.
That's about 6 million rubles is that enough to retire?
No, not nearly enough unless you're already 75 years old, and maybe not even then. It works out to just under $90K ($89,413 according to google). You could live in style for a while but it's hardly retirement-level money.
If they only sell to 0.01% of the richest and stupidest of possible customers, that's a billion dollars of sales.
Maybe, but I've seen this wishful statistical thinking before. Let's say I decide to sell my special super-pencils for $1000 a piece...all I need to do is sell 10 of them and I've made $10,000! Whoo hoo! That would be fantastic, except no one pays $1000 for a pencil, not even NASA. In reality my sales will be zero and I'll make nothing. This "you-only-need-to-sell-a-few" idea is great in theory, but doesn't usually translate well into reality.
Now this phone may be different, but to find that 0.01% of the richest and stupidest of possible customers AND to convince them to buy it is probably not going to happen in reality. They may sell a few, but I'll be surprised if they manage to sell more than that. People that can afford a $14,000 secure phone are probably already using something that's meeting their needs, i.e. encrypted sat phones or military-grade scrambler sets. But again, who knows, I may be totally underestimating the market for this bit of bling.
Heck, if they just sell seventy or eighty of them, that's a million dollars.
I could be mistaken, but I suspect it has already cost more than a million dollars to get the finished product to market.
Sounds like a marketing scam to me, or perhaps just a scam.
I'd suspect the market for a $14,000 phone is kinda slim. Unless it lets me talk to my future self in my domed habitat on Mars, I'll pass.
I'd also suspect that anyone buying a $14,000 "privacy" phone will immediately go on a heightened surveillance list because, you know, terrorism.
In addition, who's to say it's not a front company for the CIA/FBI/DHS floated out there as a way to lure in the suckers who want a secure phone to conduct illegal business? Buying one is like sticking a bright orange patch on your back that says "WATCH ME CLOSELY, I'M UP TO NO GOOD".
My Stupid-O-Meter just blew out the back of the case, achieved escape velocity, and will probably knock a chunk out of one of Saturn's rings on its way to deep space.
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The FBI is the ENEMY of the American people...
I dunno....they're pretty good at setting up fake terrorism busts.
If I used Instagram I'd probably be very concerned about this. But alas, my selfie-whoring days are long past, so I think I'll just go have a sandwich and then take a nap.
Sounds like someone is getting fired...and by "fired" I mean "literally burned alive".
There's a stark difference between outsourcing jobs and importing more foreign workers under a visa program. In one case the government is still getting tax revenue from people with jobs in the country. In the other, it isn't. Whatever your stance on the H1-B visa program, it's obviously preferable to bring in someone to take a job here than it is to export that job there. It would be better still to education and train citizens than either, but with a global economy there's going to be economic osmosis.
Spoken like a true manager whose only concern is the bottom line and whose job is in no danger of being outsourced or replaced by an H-1B visa worker.
Bravo, sir, well played!
This means the best insurance coverages, wages, stock options, company transport, company provided housing, relocation funds, retirement packages, etc. Remember the companies say they desperately need these people and don't have time to train a US worker so they are obviously more critical than anyone in management or sales. To avoid some possible doggedness make it so that this compensation is the highest one calculated from the company they are employed by or are doing work for.
Do this and I say that we can remove the cap on H-1B visas. We will then see just how critical these people are to companies.
Works for me. If they're so incredibly rare and skilled, they should be paid like kings and queens.
The apps are huge battery hogs - Facebook on Android is one of the worst offenders. Removing it virtually doubled my battery life.
That's nothing....removing the Facebook app doubled my actual life.
(In truth, I never actually used Facebook or had the app installed.)
You use a free service you have to accept their structure and design. Seriously, I'm tired of all the bitching about Facebook, don't like it, don't use it.
I don't use it, but I still enjoy bitching about it.
I also don't rape children, but I still talk shit about people who do.
NEWS FLASH: Not doing or using something doesn't mean you give up the right to bitch about it.
I'm like, so shocked that Facebook would use its influence and power to lock its users into its own ecosystem!
I think the point is that H-1B visas are not necessarily a bad idea, in fact they are a very good idea, ... The problem is that the program seems to be HEAVILY abused
Yes, I know. But expanding the program will only lead to more abuse. The H-1B was supposed to be a very selective, very restricted program, and as you point out, now it's abused routinely. It needs to be scaled way, way back to its original levels, more or less.
So if you take what he says "But I’m the one that knows how to change it. Nobody else on this dais knows how to change it like I do, believe me.", one could translate that to mean basically
Yeah, sure, you could translate it to mean that, you could translate it to mean anything you want, but given his nature, past performance, predatory business practices, and previous use of the H-1B program, I doubt that's what he'd do. Like any politician he'll say anything to get elected, but I think in this case it's easy to see where he would go with it seeing as he's a big fan of it and has used it to his own benefit for years and years.
I'm not sure how you got modded insightful;
Then maybe you should think about it, because how it happened it seems fairly straightforward to me.
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you do know that one way to stop the H1B abuse would be to "expand" immigration law so that H1B workers are less tied to their employer than currently, right? From what you posted above, it seems you agree with Trump, only you don't realise it.
No, I don't realize that, because it's not true. Expanding immigration law so that H1B workers are less tied to their employer would mean that more H-1B visas are issued, unless you have some radical definition of "expand" that actually means "reduce".
The H-1B visa program should be radically reduced, not expanded.
Here's an anecdote: I'm selling my wife's car. One of the potential buyers is an Indian guy, about 30 years old. He's working here on an H-1B in the Seattle/Redmond area as a Java API programmer for Disney.
Now ask yourself: do you really think that there are no qualified American programmers who know Java, in Seattle or Redmond of all places? Did Disney really have to go all the way to India and import this guy just so they could have someone who can code in Java? Was there really not a single American programmer who could do what he's doing?
Of course not, and we both fucking know it. The H-1B program is a fucking scam designed to allow employers to import cheap labor at the expense of Americans who could do the job but who would want to be paid more. That's all it fucking is, and everyone knows it.
...Trump keeps saying he'll do something about it.
Yeah, and what he'll do is expand it. Trump loves the whole H-1B idea, and he's said so repeatedly.
Trump: “I’m in favor of people coming into this country legally. And you know what? They can have it any way you want. You can call it visas, you can call it work permits, you can call it anything you want...."
Trump: "We need highly skilled people in this country, and if we can’t do it, we’ll get them in. But, and we do need in Silicon Valley, we absolutely have to have."
Trump’s answer during the Megyn Kelly interview was consistent with his answer during the CNBC debate. He said again that Silicon Valley needs highly skilled workers, and showed his support for the H-1B program. Further, he appeared to support employers sponsoring H-1B workers for green cards, saying, “We absolutely have to be able to keep the brain power in this country.”
Also, he said, “I know the H-1B. I know the H2B. Nobody knows it better than me. I’m a businessman. These are laws. These are regulations. These are rules. We’re allowed to do it. I will take advantage of it; they’re the laws. But I’m the one that knows how to change it. Nobody else on this dais knows how to change it like I do, believe me.”
It will hopefully remain at 0 as it is misinformed at best. No Islam isn't what cause this, local customs are.
Bullshit. As someone else said, "Islam is the mother lode of bad ideas", and they were spot-on.
Islam demands brutal retribution for the most ridiculous, insignificant things, and there's no wiggle room.
Infidels? They gotta die, period.
Blasphemers? They gotta die, period.
Apostates? They gotta die, period.
Adulterers? They gotta die, period.
Insult Allah or Mohammed? You gotta die, period.
Draw a picture of Mohammed? You gotta die, period.
Eat pork? You gotta die, period.
Throw the Koran on the floor? You gotta die, period.
Deny Allah in any way? You gotta die, period.
Bandits, i.e., al-muhaarib, the one who wages war against Allaah? They gotta die, period.
Spying? Spies gotta die, period.
Homosexuality? You gotta die, period.
Drug offenses? You gotta die, period.
Practicing sorcery or witchcraft? You gotta die, period.
On the other hand, marry and rape a 6-year old? That's okay.
Use a toddler for "thighing"? That's okay.
Beat your wife? That's okay.
Don't believe me? Great, don't take my word for it- look it up and see for yourself.
Maybe Islam will have mellowed in another 1000 years, but by that time with any luck religion itself will be dead, and only studied by professors of Ancient History.
Wow, these code reviews are murder....
Err, I mean, well, ah....I guess that's what I mean.
Gates said, "We've made more progress in the last five years than at any time in history."
Yes, but that's true of nearly ANY scientific field of study or development.
There are almost certainly exceptions, but we've learned more about atomic structure or battery technology or river ecology in the last 5 years than at any time in history. This is normal scientific progress and advancement.
I have no idea how the cost of living differs
It differs based on location and how old you are. No matter where you live you'll need more to retire at 50 than at 70, assuming you want to live to reach 80 (for example).
"Samsung: Don't install Windows 10"
Translation:
"Samsung: We Can't Code Drivers Worth A Shit"
that makes me glad I use a dumb phone.
Even a dumb phone tracks you as your phone does signal its handoffs from one cell tower to the next as you move around (even if you're not calling anyone).
It may not be the pinpoint accuracy you'd get from google but it's easy to follow your movements down the freeway, through town, or even in less populated areas.
Leave your own cell phone at home, and use a disposable cell phone while you are out engaging in wrong-doing. Then even if you are correctly accused of a crime, you have an alibi...
Yup, that's how you do it. Uhh, I mean, that's what I hear.
That's about 6 million rubles is that enough to retire?
No, not nearly enough unless you're already 75 years old, and maybe not even then. It works out to just under $90K ($89,413 according to google). You could live in style for a while but it's hardly retirement-level money.
I totally trust the guy when he says he only will sell it to one customer. Why would he want to sell it to many customers? To get more money? Never!
Exactly. Russian hackers are known for their unfailing honesty and fair dealings in their business practices.
That's nothing. I've got a zero-day bug called "Norton Anti-Virus" that pwns all versions of Windows and it's only $49.99.
If they only sell to 0.01% of the richest and stupidest of possible customers, that's a billion dollars of sales.
Maybe, but I've seen this wishful statistical thinking before. Let's say I decide to sell my special super-pencils for $1000 a piece...all I need to do is sell 10 of them and I've made $10,000! Whoo hoo! That would be fantastic, except no one pays $1000 for a pencil, not even NASA. In reality my sales will be zero and I'll make nothing. This "you-only-need-to-sell-a-few" idea is great in theory, but doesn't usually translate well into reality.
Now this phone may be different, but to find that 0.01% of the richest and stupidest of possible customers AND to convince them to buy it is probably not going to happen in reality. They may sell a few, but I'll be surprised if they manage to sell more than that. People that can afford a $14,000 secure phone are probably already using something that's meeting their needs, i.e. encrypted sat phones or military-grade scrambler sets. But again, who knows, I may be totally underestimating the market for this bit of bling.
Heck, if they just sell seventy or eighty of them, that's a million dollars.
I could be mistaken, but I suspect it has already cost more than a million dollars to get the finished product to market.
I've been more traumatized by not seeing boobs when I hoped I would. :(
I was just about to see them, but then something happened and didn't. I was depressed for weeks.
Seeing boobs would have uplifted me and buoyed my spirits.
Sounds like a marketing scam to me, or perhaps just a scam.
I'd suspect the market for a $14,000 phone is kinda slim. Unless it lets me talk to my future self in my domed habitat on Mars, I'll pass.
I'd also suspect that anyone buying a $14,000 "privacy" phone will immediately go on a heightened surveillance list because, you know, terrorism.
In addition, who's to say it's not a front company for the CIA/FBI/DHS floated out there as a way to lure in the suckers who want a secure phone to conduct illegal business? Buying one is like sticking a bright orange patch on your back that says "WATCH ME CLOSELY, I'M UP TO NO GOOD".
My Stupid-O-Meter just blew out the back of the case, achieved escape velocity, and will probably knock a chunk out of one of Saturn's rings on its way to deep space.