"Trump Administration Tightens Scrutiny of Skilled Worker Visa Applicants "
Past tense. Deed is done.
"There are two big regulatory changes looming that would undo actions by the Obama administration...that (existing) regulation is being challenged in court "
Future tense. Not yet done. Subject to change or revision.
I never knew it decreased. When I check, I see that I still get tons, but my spam filters keep it at bay for the most part. If anything, the new kind (random phone calls on my cell/mobile everyday) is even worse than the old kind.
Why do you assume there'll be spending of more resources on older people? If the gene expands their live spans and general health, they are functional for longer and can retire later in life. Besides, while older age is certainly no guarantee of maturity or wisdom, you'll more likely to find it there. Careful what you wish for; Logan's Run, ever hear of it?
I love how when Real Life doesn't fit the purely ideological narrative, it's dismissed as "personal anecdote". But your second line...so many logical fallacies there, I'm thinking maybe I deserve a "whoosh"..does my sarcasm detector needs a tune up?
I alluded to no such thing. I just said if anyone is in that situation, it's not MacDonald's fault. Most everyone I went to school with did in fact use fast food as a stepping stone, then moved on. Just like when I had a paper route when I was 12 years old. Should that pay $15 a hour too?
Look at the promise that television offered the world, and look what a cesspool that is now. TC garbage is popular enough that it's self-sustaining, even when it's managed by "professionals" who had better perform well or lose a paycheck. So apparently this is what the people want. There's even less motivation to be professional on the web.
Well I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you. So now they call it "social engineering" to make it sound more scary. The original word is "propaganda", and whether it's delivered via radio broadcast, dropped leaflets, or the interwebs doesn't really matter. It's still propaganda and the idea has been around for millennia.
Not at all. The barrier to entry to go a U.S. university for a foreign student is higher, and they have to be better than the average American student to overcome it.
Oh really? They don't just buy their way in like the Saudis?
"THE" alternative? False dichotomy is false. Protectionism is the polar opposite, but far from the "only" alternative. It's also a false presumption that all foreign students are the best and brightest and will only improve the US by their presence, which is what this article subtly suggests. Sound more to me like the less than the best and brightest will now realize they haven't got a sure thing and will be discouraged, but the true cream of the crop should still have good motivation for coming over. How would education be more expensive if not for foreign students?
I came here to say this. It's the primary logical fallacy of the article, assuming all foreign students are the "best and brightest"; and by extension, saying cutting off foreign students will hurt the US also assumes that domestic US students are not among the best and brightest, which is a subtle insult. It's utterly inane. What we'll be weeding out are the opposite of the best and brightest; those who really are however will be welcomed.
Funny, definitely! As if Verizon, Time-Warner, and Comcast aren't already loaded. They have more than enough resources with which to "invest", but they choose not to. Removing the regulations will only serve the shortsighted shareholders further. I was stunned one time, a few years back, when we got a call because our payment was late; at the time, the economy was lousy and I was having to deal with some furlough days on top of that; but the rep actually had the gall to try to shame me, suggesting poor, wittle, Comcast would struggle without my payment because times were hard. Unfrigginbelievable.
I've worked as a manager for or subcontractor with a number of small businesses, including Danby Radio in Phila, PA, (moved to Ardmore), and a small private owned music shop in NJ. Not that it's any of your business. At most I made about $18k a year. But see, not being a little bitch about it, I saw why my wages were low, and how the owners worked day and night and had expenses out the wazoo to cover. It wasn't their fault, they were struggling. Eventually I found better paying employment.
That's not MacDonald's fault that they're nearly all, as you claim, "single parent and college dropouts". Or is that on their application: "Only single parents and college dropouts need apply" -? Long live the proletariat, right komrade?
Why not?? Not every job is supposed to be one you can live off of. Low wage jobs are often a way to break into the labor force and gain some experience, perfect for kids and students. Trying running your own small business, I think your attitude would change quickly, once you see how labor costs stack up quickly, but have to deal with responsibility of handling x number of customers, managing inventory, managing the books.. one person can only do so much; then there's paying lease, heat, electricity, water/sewer, worker's comp, business tax, inventory tax, etc.. It's especially hard for small businesses because many of the federal regulations that are no financial obstacle for MegaCorp are quite difficult for Ma and Pa Corner Store. On top of that, because they tend to be smaller, when they order wholesale, they don't get the quantity discounts that MegaCorp gets.
It's something people look past (indeed, have to), but I prefer to envision the physical reality of a situation: valance electrons in a metallic medium (conductor) are loosely bound to their nuclei and via an applied difference of potential (voltage), are easily coerced to move A) towards a net positive charge and B) away from a net negative charge; that's the just the physical reality of what's happening in electrical current. I find it odd that you'd say the truth is basically holding me back, but perhaps you're right, if charge is really an arbitrary designation. (I never 'got' what really defined a negative charge vs a positive charge, DeVry Tech instructors couldn't or wouldn't answer that.) OTOH, I don't do electronics anymore, I left it all behind and went into sys and net administration, so it's kinda moot for me. In the mid 90s I specialized in repairing VCRs, about 8 a day, for Circuit City. Imagine trying to make a living doing that today.:-D
I could be wrong, but I believe thorn represents an unvoiced, soft "th", as in "thought", or "thorough"; and eth represents a voiced, hard "th" as in "there", "then".
That's not a change in speech? People still say "thee" ? Clearly I'm harking back to colonial days. And if you're going to be that technical, no, it's not thorn, it's y. Print engravers didn't have a thorn typeface so they used y instead.
I agree. That just made it harder to reconcile everything when I went to tech for electronics. Every little bit of logic and consistency helps. Among other things, diodes face the "wrong" way in schematics. Now instead of looking at them as directional arrows, you need to look at them as funnels, if you want to envision the actual electron flow.
Agreed, I don't see any evidence it's "going away", in fact, the opposite: just in the past few years, we've seen the videos of massively overcrowded stores and malls opening at 4am or earlier where people are going apeshit and resorting to fistfights over limited items. It's madness. I'd much rather shop from the comfort of home; namely Amazon, or in some cases, even eBay. Or, at least, wait a few days. I'm maybe lucky that there's almost nothing I really need to get on a Black Friday on sale that I can't get some other day, on another sale before Christmas, my son doesn't want the latest PS4 or Nintendo Classic whatever the "new item of the year" is, y'know, the one that's always "limited release". It's like manufacturer's do that crap on purpose just to see people suffer.
True, technically. Old English = Anglo Saxon; during the time of Chaucer there was briefly a "Middle English"; by Shakespear's time we had Modern English, even if a lot stiffer than the language is today. I think he meant "Old" English as spoken during colonial times, i.e. "ye olde days". In that sense, the AC was not really wrong; over the past 200 hundred years, British English has changed. However, as something of an American Anglophile, I hope it stays the way it is now, I love it. I'd hate to see that dissolve already. I think Harry Potter actually did a lot to bring British culture and language more popularity, so I'd be a little surprised if this was really the case.
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"Trump Administration Tightens Scrutiny of Skilled Worker Visa Applicants "
Past tense. Deed is done.
"There are two big regulatory changes looming that would undo actions by the Obama administration...that (existing) regulation is being challenged in court "
Future tense. Not yet done. Subject to change or revision.
I never knew it decreased. When I check, I see that I still get tons, but my spam filters keep it at bay for the most part. If anything, the new kind (random phone calls on my cell/mobile everyday) is even worse than the old kind.
Why do you assume there'll be spending of more resources on older people? If the gene expands their live spans and general health, they are functional for longer and can retire later in life. Besides, while older age is certainly no guarantee of maturity or wisdom, you'll more likely to find it there.
Careful what you wish for; Logan's Run, ever hear of it?
I love how when Real Life doesn't fit the purely ideological narrative, it's dismissed as "personal anecdote".
But your second line...so many logical fallacies there, I'm thinking maybe I deserve a "whoosh"..does my sarcasm detector needs a tune up?
I alluded to no such thing. I just said if anyone is in that situation, it's not MacDonald's fault. Most everyone I went to school with did in fact use fast food as a stepping stone, then moved on. Just like when I had a paper route when I was 12 years old. Should that pay $15 a hour too?
Look at the promise that television offered the world, and look what a cesspool that is now. TC garbage is popular enough that it's self-sustaining, even when it's managed by "professionals" who had better perform well or lose a paycheck. So apparently this is what the people want. There's even less motivation to be professional on the web.
Well I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you.
So now they call it "social engineering" to make it sound more scary. The original word is "propaganda", and whether it's delivered via radio broadcast, dropped leaflets, or the interwebs doesn't really matter. It's still propaganda and the idea has been around for millennia.
Not at all. The barrier to entry to go a U.S. university for a foreign student is higher, and they have to be better than the average American student to overcome it.
Oh really? They don't just buy their way in like the Saudis?
"THE" alternative? False dichotomy is false. Protectionism is the polar opposite, but far from the "only" alternative.
It's also a false presumption that all foreign students are the best and brightest and will only improve the US by their presence, which is what this article subtly suggests. Sound more to me like the less than the best and brightest will now realize they haven't got a sure thing and will be discouraged, but the true cream of the crop should still have good motivation for coming over.
How would education be more expensive if not for foreign students?
I came here to say this. It's the primary logical fallacy of the article, assuming all foreign students are the "best and brightest"; and by extension, saying cutting off foreign students will hurt the US also assumes that domestic US students are not among the best and brightest, which is a subtle insult.
It's utterly inane. What we'll be weeding out are the opposite of the best and brightest; those who really are however will be welcomed.
Funny, definitely!
As if Verizon, Time-Warner, and Comcast aren't already loaded. They have more than enough resources with which to "invest", but they choose not to. Removing the regulations will only serve the shortsighted shareholders further.
I was stunned one time, a few years back, when we got a call because our payment was late; at the time, the economy was lousy and I was having to deal with some furlough days on top of that; but the rep actually had the gall to try to shame me, suggesting poor, wittle, Comcast would struggle without my payment because times were hard. Unfrigginbelievable.
Define higher quality of life.
I've worked as a manager for or subcontractor with a number of small businesses, including Danby Radio in Phila, PA, (moved to Ardmore), and a small private owned music shop in NJ. Not that it's any of your business. At most I made about $18k a year. But see, not being a little bitch about it, I saw why my wages were low, and how the owners worked day and night and had expenses out the wazoo to cover. It wasn't their fault, they were struggling. Eventually I found better paying employment.
My what now? What are you even ranting about?
That's not MacDonald's fault that they're nearly all, as you claim, "single parent and college dropouts".
Or is that on their application: "Only single parents and college dropouts need apply" -?
Long live the proletariat, right komrade?
Why not?? Not every job is supposed to be one you can live off of. Low wage jobs are often a way to break into the labor force and gain some experience, perfect for kids and students.
Trying running your own small business, I think your attitude would change quickly, once you see how labor costs stack up quickly, but have to deal with responsibility of handling x number of customers, managing inventory, managing the books.. one person can only do so much; then there's paying lease, heat, electricity, water/sewer, worker's comp, business tax, inventory tax, etc..
It's especially hard for small businesses because many of the federal regulations that are no financial obstacle for MegaCorp are quite difficult for Ma and Pa Corner Store. On top of that, because they tend to be smaller, when they order wholesale, they don't get the quantity discounts that MegaCorp gets.
It's something people look past (indeed, have to), but I prefer to envision the physical reality of a situation: valance electrons in a metallic medium (conductor) are loosely bound to their nuclei and via an applied difference of potential (voltage), are easily coerced to move A) towards a net positive charge and B) away from a net negative charge; that's the just the physical reality of what's happening in electrical current. :-D
I find it odd that you'd say the truth is basically holding me back, but perhaps you're right, if charge is really an arbitrary designation. (I never 'got' what really defined a negative charge vs a positive charge, DeVry Tech instructors couldn't or wouldn't answer that.)
OTOH, I don't do electronics anymore, I left it all behind and went into sys and net administration, so it's kinda moot for me. In the mid 90s I specialized in repairing VCRs, about 8 a day, for Circuit City. Imagine trying to make a living doing that today.
I could be wrong, but I believe thorn represents an unvoiced, soft "th", as in "thought", or "thorough"; and eth represents a voiced, hard "th" as in "there", "then".
That's not a change in speech? People still say "thee" ? Clearly I'm harking back to colonial days.
And if you're going to be that technical, no, it's not thorn, it's y. Print engravers didn't have a thorn typeface so they used y instead.
Take the red pill.
I'm sure people were more chewy and stringy back then .. *munch munch*
I agree. That just made it harder to reconcile everything when I went to tech for electronics. Every little bit of logic and consistency helps.
Among other things, diodes face the "wrong" way in schematics. Now instead of looking at them as directional arrows, you need to look at them as funnels, if you want to envision the actual electron flow.
Agreed, I don't see any evidence it's "going away", in fact, the opposite: just in the past few years, we've seen the videos of massively overcrowded stores and malls opening at 4am or earlier where people are going apeshit and resorting to fistfights over limited items.
It's madness. I'd much rather shop from the comfort of home; namely Amazon, or in some cases, even eBay. Or, at least, wait a few days. I'm maybe lucky that there's almost nothing I really need to get on a Black Friday on sale that I can't get some other day, on another sale before Christmas, my son doesn't want the latest PS4 or Nintendo Classic whatever the "new item of the year" is, y'know, the one that's always "limited release". It's like manufacturer's do that crap on purpose just to see people suffer.
That's silly. Even in Great Britain, there are several very different dialects, from Received Pronunciation to Cockney.
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True, technically. Old English = Anglo Saxon; during the time of Chaucer there was briefly a "Middle English"; by Shakespear's time we had Modern English, even if a lot stiffer than the language is today. I think he meant "Old" English as spoken during colonial times, i.e. "ye olde days".
In that sense, the AC was not really wrong; over the past 200 hundred years, British English has changed.
However, as something of an American Anglophile, I hope it stays the way it is now, I love it. I'd hate to see that dissolve already. I think Harry Potter actually did a lot to bring British culture and language more popularity, so I'd be a little surprised if this was really the case.
Good luck if you ever want to download a youtube video using a simple extension.