You say a generous H-1B program would "create an underclass of workers"
It already has.
And if you as a programmer don't think you're going to be seriously comp[snipped]
There are ways that won't be a problem - non-naturalized/full-blooded(2-3 generations presence) US citizens get first priority over any university slot and funding for all time required for the degree. Have this be conditional for any education required for any US job. When all 250m+ citizens have gotten their degree, then the immigrants can pay full price.
I say, open the borders, let everybody in, in every profession.
...as long as they don't mind a lethal dose of lead administered at 800 f/s. There's a difference between sound immigration policy, and the whoring of our nation. You seem to suggest the latter.
There are many ways to protect domestic jobs that don't drive them all away. It's called covering every single exit, closing every loophole.
1) Register at the place where you bought your tickets for a key. 2) Carry a phone with a data and text messaging plan. 3) Periodically text message or visit a secured site during the movie to send the key.
Failure to do 3) will result in ejection from the theater. You are completely responsible for being able to send the key at the required intervals. Each participant requires their own key regardless of age. Any sharing of keys or reverse engineering is a violation of the DMCA.
The Clintons only listened to the siren song of "free trade", only to see it bite them back. If you don't count Panama and Iran, he'd start to look good compared to recent presidents.
When those from the Rust Belt have their day in 2009, Reaganism will be on its way out.
Apparently you didn't get the memo about thin, 15"(4:3) machines that did 2-3 hours of battery life with FireGL/Quadro cards, and with quality never approached by Asus.
If you wanted thin *and* environmentalist friendly:
The X30/X40 series will outlast those knockoff brands- used, but higher quality for the same (or lower) price.
1) still had Flexview on them. 2) were built to a level of quality that made them actually worth $3000. 3) had features that were functional, and available to all 4) Drove the point home that "Cheapness is weakness". 5) They actually gave a damn about the US citizens.
(even my own pre-selloff T42p came close to that at $2800)
However, google does not have to allow anything on their site. google is not bound by any free speech doctrine. There are no laws stating they have to host anything. They can remove whatever they want at their sole discretion.
Nothing better to kill such a measure when you have 1) the "private entity end run" and 2) the lack of a Fairness Doctrine.
(conservative moderators incoming in 3...2...1...)
Add this to the long line of screwups from "We're from China, we don't have to care" Lenovo.
Well, with IPS (aka Flexview) gone from the R/T series, this isn't going to replace it. I'd rather rip out a T61p 14.1" board and place it where the T60p mainboard was.
Just take a 15" 4:3 T series, put IPS back on it, offer a few rebranded Wacom tablets and call it a day. Call it a T62p. Then recall all W700 units.
File this with the Reserve Edition as "mistakes given the green light".
At least those are still IBM and have well-known hardware. It also helps that they have none of the drawbacks of the ideapad/eee wrt quality and do have some of the missing pieces of the ideapad.
Unions gave you most of what has not taken away in 1981 and onwards. Trying to destroy them only hurts yourself - as these benefits came to places outside unions. It's only gotten worse as unionbusters switched to H1-B/L-1 to finish off the white collar workers.
I'm not sure why unions act like every person should be guaranteed a job.
Business would run over union and non-union workers. They have done so, espcially after the 1981 "open season on workers" call made by Reagan wrt PATCO.
What universe you have to live in for things to be so certain?
Their job is to ensure that business cannot lord over the worker with impunity. If one ensures they do not fear about their job, they can concentrate more on their work. That's something that's happened with union and non-union workplaces.
It is when the union is antagonized inside/outside the workplace(to scare people out), stuffing the deck with vetted "No Union" voters(in case they don't have a solid 51%), security forces that are tasked with agitating union supporters(Vance International being one of them), running betting pools that gauge the vote(to determine who goes/stays afterwards), and making sure the company dies before the union gets a contract.
Problem is that China can't approach quality or reliability unless pushed by the EU or US. When they are pushed, that doesn't always work too well, either.
What good is something that needs constant service, far from anywhere capable of fixing it?
People were OK with Reagan, because even though he was a no tax and spen fiscal liberal, the money he spent was on conservative acceptable WMDs and he solved a problem.
You forget easily on the ongoing damage to worker's rights. Only now do we have a chance to clean up his mess.
for the universal access to a decent education by all students.
That's how it should be for citizens of the US. Full stop.
When it comes to pure, mealy-mouthed, underhanded douchebaggery, it's difficult to beat your basic Far-Easterner. The IOC, of course, is completely infested with the creatures.
You mean like Jimmy Carter? Obama is dangerously close to him both in policies and experience level. And you remember the damage Carter did to us in just four years.
It took less than one for his successor to declare "open season" on workers of all types in the US. 2009 is just a chance to end the damage he's caused.
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You say a generous H-1B program would "create an underclass of workers"
It already has.
And if you as a programmer don't think you're going to be seriously comp[snipped]
There are ways that won't be a problem - non-naturalized/full-blooded(2-3 generations presence) US citizens get first priority over any university slot and funding for all time required for the degree. Have this be conditional for any education required for any US job. When all 250m+ citizens have gotten their degree, then the immigrants can pay full price.
I say, open the borders, let everybody in, in every profession.
...as long as they don't mind a lethal dose of lead administered at 800 f/s. There's a difference between sound immigration policy, and the whoring of our nation. You seem to suggest the latter.
There are many ways to protect domestic jobs that don't drive them all away. It's called covering every single exit, closing every loophole.
Our leaders chastise China for limiting freedom of expression.
They have a longer and more consistent reputation for lack of free expression. They're insisting on keeping it that way, too.
The same thing with the surge and it "working".
To view Spore: The Movie, you are required to:
1) Register at the place where you bought your tickets for a key.
2) Carry a phone with a data and text messaging plan.
3) Periodically text message or visit a secured site during the movie to send the key.
Failure to do 3) will result in ejection from the theater. You are completely responsible for being able to send the key at the required intervals. Each participant requires their own key regardless of age. Any sharing of keys or reverse engineering is a violation of the DMCA.
If you don't count Panama and Iran, Carter starts to look good compared to recent presidents.
Fixed typo.
The Clintons only listened to the siren song of "free trade", only to see it bite them back. If you don't count Panama and Iran, he'd start to look good compared to recent presidents.
When those from the Rust Belt have their day in 2009, Reaganism will be on its way out.
That won't fix the problems related to the lack of Flexview (aka S-IPS).
Apparently you didn't get the memo about thin, 15"(4:3) machines that did 2-3 hours of battery life with FireGL/Quadro cards, and with quality never approached by Asus.
If you wanted thin *and* environmentalist friendly:
The X30/X40 series will outlast those knockoff brands- used, but higher quality for the same (or lower) price.
8 years of peace and prosperity ending with a budget surplus?
...at the cost of killing a perfectly good manufacturing sector in the Midwest/Northeast.
Do not be surprised if those of the Rust Belt(and others similarly affected in other areas of the US) use 2009 to fix what started in 1981.
Except that when Thinkpads cost that much, they:
1) still had Flexview on them.
2) were built to a level of quality that made them actually worth $3000.
3) had features that were functional, and available to all
4) Drove the point home that "Cheapness is weakness".
5) They actually gave a damn about the US citizens.
(even my own pre-selloff T42p came close to that at $2800)
However, google does not have to allow anything on their site.
google is not bound by any free speech doctrine. There are no laws stating they have to host anything.
They can remove whatever they want at their sole discretion.
Nothing better to kill such a measure when you have 1) the "private entity end run" and 2) the lack of a Fairness Doctrine.
(conservative moderators incoming in 3...2...1...)
Of course, if the IOC didn't whore themselves out in 1984, this would have been the correct outcome.
Add this to the long line of screwups from "We're from China, we don't have to care" Lenovo.
Well, with IPS (aka Flexview) gone from the R/T series, this isn't going to replace it. I'd rather rip out a T61p 14.1" board and place it where the T60p mainboard was.
Just take a 15" 4:3 T series, put IPS back on it, offer a few rebranded Wacom tablets and call it a day. Call it a T62p. Then recall all W700 units.
File this with the Reserve Edition as "mistakes given the green light".
At least those are still IBM and have well-known hardware. It also helps that they have none of the drawbacks of the ideapad/eee wrt quality and do have some of the missing pieces of the ideapad.
Unions gave you most of what has not taken away in 1981 and onwards. Trying to destroy them only hurts yourself - as these benefits came to places outside unions. It's only gotten worse as unionbusters switched to H1-B/L-1 to finish off the white collar workers.
I'm not sure why unions act like every person should be guaranteed a job.
Business would run over union and non-union workers. They have done so, espcially after the 1981 "open season on workers" call made by Reagan wrt PATCO.
What universe you have to live in for things to be so certain?
Their job is to ensure that business cannot lord over the worker with impunity. If one ensures they do not fear about their job, they can concentrate more on their work. That's something that's happened with union and non-union workplaces.
It is when the union is antagonized inside/outside the workplace(to scare people out), stuffing the deck with vetted "No Union" voters(in case they don't have a solid 51%), security forces that are tasked with agitating union supporters(Vance International being one of them), running betting pools that gauge the vote(to determine who goes/stays afterwards), and making sure the company dies before the union gets a contract.
That's just as bad as Card Check.
(completely ignoring any issues of intentional inaccuracy)
The difference between DeRaadt and Jobs is how they want things fixed.
DeRaadt gets the issue solved. Jobs takes a page from Cisco and IBM by sending lawyers until the person is gone from the earth.
Admittedly the details of the hack were leaked out in the most stupid manner possible
That's what you get for waiting for a $1000+ convention to do so. A leak and some code for Metasploit.
Karmic justice for his secrecy.
Problem is that China can't approach quality or reliability unless pushed by the EU or US. When they are pushed, that doesn't always work too well, either.
What good is something that needs constant service, far from anywhere capable of fixing it?
...where quality has been a hallmark, not a thing to avoid.
So I'm safe if I refer to it by its proper name, MFN (Most Favored Nation)?
Insufficient means to overcome obstructionist Republicans, such as Coburn.
People were OK with Reagan, because even though he was a no tax and spen fiscal liberal, the money he spent was on conservative acceptable WMDs and he solved a problem.
You forget easily on the ongoing damage to worker's rights. Only now do we have a chance to clean up his mess.
for the universal access to a decent education by all students.
That's how it should be for citizens of the US. Full stop.
When it comes to pure, mealy-mouthed, underhanded douchebaggery, it's difficult to beat your basic Far-Easterner. The IOC, of course, is completely infested with the creatures.
Fixed that for you.
You mean like Jimmy Carter? Obama is dangerously close to him both in policies and experience level. And you remember the damage Carter did to us in just four years.
It took less than one for his successor to declare "open season" on workers of all types in the US. 2009 is just a chance to end the damage he's caused.