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  1. Then initiate no-recourse quits. on University of California's Outsourcing Is Wrong, Says US Lawmaker (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If your job is being handed off after a training/etc. period, the job is effectively gone at that point. Should one wish to quit, they should be able to quit without fear of losing unemployment eligibility, any pre-existing good reputation, or any other negative consequence of refusing training. Any retaliation, no matter how minor or subtle is to be met with severe penalties (read: ones that discourage offshoring) towards the company and any involved contractors.

  2. No phone jack makes it a non-starter.

    Hopefully Android phones have the sanity to keep theirs.

  3. Re:TSA's bad enough without a middleman. on Long TSA Delays Force Airports To Hire Private Security Contractors (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    More than the adjustment in pay for being San Francisco?

  4. While ignoring HRCs scandals on US Investigating Potential Covert Russian Plan To Disrupt November Elections (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    This is just another deflection off of the painful truth about Clinton's corrupt activities.

    Besides, isn't the DNC and the media the greater threat wrt their attempts to smear, silence or bribe opponents?

  5. TSA's bad enough without a middleman. on Long TSA Delays Force Airports To Hire Private Security Contractors (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Given that the salaries are already $14k-$29k +/- regional adjustments for TSO's, what makes the private contractors any better? You're going to get even less motivated individuals given that contractors would expect a cut out of the already-abysmally low wage, never mind the higher instability of a contract job.

  6. Well, Twitter does side with ISIS. on Revived Lawsuit Says Twitter DMs Are Like Handing ISIS a Satellite Phone (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Given some of Twitter's investors and their lack of removal of ISIS/pro-Islamist material - while eagerly purging sources of inconvenient truths (e.g. Milo Y.) - should be enough proof of their loyalties.

  7. More Citizen Hatred. on White House Is Planning To Let More Foreign Entrepreneurs Work In the US (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    How many of these results in citizens being hired versus non-citizens? Not enough.

    If the guest worker programs are any guide, these individuals would just hire from likeminded non-citizens.

  8. So basically, nothing will happen to Mylan? on US Patients Battle EpiPen Prices And Regulations By Shopping Online (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    How about taking care of Mylan first instead of letting them off the hook?

  9. They have to so they can effectively censor. on Facebook Knows Your Political Preferences (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    How else would they figure out how efficiently and effectively suppress conservative content while retaining SOCJUS adherents?

  10. Why do you refuse to believe fact from non-SJW's on Twitter Announces New Blocking and Filtering Features (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    Traditionally unreliable sources (like blogs and social media) are treated like gospel when it comes from leftists. Same sources, same material, same conversation, wrong person == unreliable in the SOCJUS world, even if it is fact.

    It's been played the same time over and over. Perhaps it's you that should reconsider repeating your lies a thousand times.

  11. The SOCJUS in you can't get facts straight on Twitter Announces New Blocking and Filtering Features (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't work that way. Oh, and get your facts straight, since Nyberg is a different person.

  12. Selective Harassment Defense, nothing more on Twitter Announces New Blocking and Filtering Features (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Twitter has gone from openness to protection of the leftist message with these updates.

    If you're a minority, a certain leftist bent, or even a terrorist, they will let you harass to your heart's content. If you're anyone else, you get called on it.

  13. Your Icarian arrogance precedes you. on How the H-1B Visa Program Impacts America's Tech Workers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Lots of people are incapable of thinking like the owner of a business

    That doesn't mean you imply they're wrong for not having the proper perspective.

    As an owner, having fewer admin grunts means more money to reinvest in higher-return activities (which as an employee you can help drive, if you're so inclined) and/or return to shareholders, who, after all, own the damn business and expect something from it.

    When your wings melt from flying in rarified air, don't be surprised when people cheer.

    But this hard-nosed perspective, for some reason, strikes people as cruel, or you're viewed as the villain or whatever.

    The problem is that they're right.

    It's just how the world works and you have to adapt accordingly, even if it's annoying and extra work at times.

    So you support the fraud and abuse that devalues citizenship of a First World country? You are the problem and deserve anything coming to you that stops it.

  14. Re:Up to date? on How the H-1B Visa Program Impacts America's Tech Workers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly if the visa program did not exist companies would be forced to hire the maybe less qualified US workers

    That is the only valid goal, since the citizen would more likely be qualified for a given role than his non-citizen equivalent. If we're going to have "less qualified" people in there anyway, why not have them be our own?

    The problem is that people in the US tend to be much more complacent about living up to that greatness than highly motivated people in other countries.

    In general, we don't believe in being made desperate. Lack of desperation is not to be mistaken as "complacency". The US standard of living truly is not negotiable.

  15. Complete, utter bullshit. on How the H-1B Visa Program Impacts America's Tech Workers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    There are jobs out there. A lot of them.

    For the ones that are real and hire citizens, employers are getting way too picky.

    Training

    The only training done these days is for non-citizen entities. Anyone else is required to satisfy the entitlement mentality of an employer's unrealistic qualifications.

  16. Re:The skill they need to teach in IT school... on How the H-1B Visa Program Impacts America's Tech Workers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Having been involved in hiring in the Ohio area, the average is around 70K->85K

    That's not considering the near-impossibility of landing something entry-level despite having a reasonably good background.

    If you're lucky enough to be without a security clearance, SW Ohio is dead for anything not already being moved Somewhere Else.

  17. Kill it & its parent 1965 Immigration Act w/ f on How the H-1B Visa Program Impacts America's Tech Workers (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Get rid of the program and its enabling acts. Hard, but that's what has to happen. It, along with every single other program of its class, solely exists for fraud and abuse - and that anything else is a convenient side effect. Whether it is the US, Australia, Germany, the UK, or any other country free enough to need a supply of perpetually desperate labor, the purpose remains unchanged.

    Naturally, this might be an issue with the pro-hellhole, anti-citizen part of /. that justifies it as "competitiveness". These people are largely outside the US and have no business in doing anything other than learning that it will happen to them.

  18. Benefit dodging by Amazon? on Amazon To Experiment With Part-Time Tech Teams (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless they readjust pay to offset the reduced hours, it's still a wash.

    Then again, this is Amazon, where backstabbing is encouraged.

  19. Diversity quotas make things *worse* on WSJ: Facebook's Point System Fails To Close Diversity Gap · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not only do you get people that are worse off, it tends to overcorrect to remove non-minorities.

    Then you wonder why your bigoted policy ends up with lots of incompetent diversity candidates.

  20. You mean illegals. on Univision To Buy Gawker Media For $135 Million (recode.net) · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's no immigration in illegal alien.

  21. One Left Wing partisan saves another. on Univision To Buy Gawker Media For $135 Million (recode.net) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now we get to hear a slant that's not only left-wing, but also pro-illegal to boot.

  22. Dead people with too common of a thread do. on Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    People don't just die naturally or accidentally for having too much knowledge about their employer. Never mind that the reflexive excuses seem to come out when people dare question what happened.

  23. You mean like Leslie's racism and homophobia? on Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Secretly Censored Abusive Responses To President Obama, Says Report (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    By all account of her standards, she was prejudiced against Milo for his background.

  24. Only for rich people if Apple's any guide. on Tim Cook: Privacy Is Worth Protecting (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The only reason they ever bothered is that some people of means were hurt by the lack of it. They don't care about ordinary people or what happens to them.

  25. Fox actually has been steered left. on Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Secretly Censored Abusive Responses To President Obama, Says Report (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks to Ailes' departure, Fox has gone quite far in the MSM direction.

    How about you explain why harassers have been given protection on Twitter when they're of the correct political bent?