At some point, not protecting our domestic industries will damn us all. You aren't helping your case by trying to paint the "durrr, unions are evil!" brush.
Shutting those people out is not a option of first resort, but a last resort. We have the people, we just need the ability to put the screws to resistant employers.
Most Americans want... to become 'Functional Consultants'
You miss the mark completely about people wanting consultancy. Consultancy makes you disposable(in favor of the business), not flexible. People want stable work.
They're US citizens and they do deserve whatever they ask, not be driven down to Third World standards and wages. It is a shame that your enablers dont get tried for treason.
Virtualization and companies like ODesk...
Hell no, and perhaps with a law requires US-friendly operations and standards. Otherwise, let US citizens lie as badly about their qualifications, with no consequence.
"Back in 2008, the Department of Homeland Security enacted a controversial 'emergency' rule to allow foreign students earning tech-related degrees in the U.S. to work for American employers for 29 months after graduation without a work visa.
While citizens who could use the training and work, are given the short shaft, thanks to various loopholes in need of closure. They have the skills, it's time we made companies actually recognize that.
Think about it before you throw your exception to the rule about a specific thing not being found.
The program would allow U.S. companies to recruit and retain the 'best' science and tech students
Bullshit. We have all the people we need, we just aren't willing to engage in fraud. Businesses however, are.
But two-and-a-half years later, it turns out the top U.S. universities are getting schooled by less-renowned institutions. Computerworld reports the DHS program is dominated by little-known, for-profit Stratford University, whose 727 approved requests for post-graduate Optional Practical Training (OPT) STEM extensions tops all schools and is more than twice the combined total of the entire Ivy League -- Brown (26), Columbia (105), Cornell (90), Dartmouth (18), Harvard (27), Princeton (16), Penn (50), and Yale (9). In second place, with 533 approved requests, is the University of Bridgeport. In another twist, the program's employers include IT outsourcing and offshoring 'body shops' like Kelly Services, whose entities snagged about 50 approvals, more than twice the combined total of tech stalwarts Google (15), Amazon.com (2), Yahoo (2), and Facebook (3)."
This might be the real story. Either the fraud's moved over to those universities, or the fraud shops got seriously blindsided.
It is an attempt to dictate when they can cause damage by their departure. Those companies are political creatures, and should not be given a pass just because they're "a business".
The company can threaten the locality with loss of tax revenue and larger amounts of joblessness. This would put the region's government(s) in a world of hurt with eventual budget shortfalls and tons of people on government assistance.
...since a company wants to hold your country hostage to its demands.
If they want to leave, make it hurt badly(if not something that outright kills the company). Then make the company an example of how things can go wrong in a robbery. The government isnt there for the company, it is for the people that end up getting hit when the company decides to leave.
If they can't seem to get the idea of not dealing with China or other like countries, then these companies need to be punished for dealing with our enemies.
Not while it's ripping out jobs and industries for a few trinkets. The only thing they'll do in the long term is have the First World consider military action against that country.
The same junk, just in a new industry. No real quality to speak of.
He won't be able to use the ballot box (until a pardon or commutation), but he isn't financially blocked. He would be free to donate to anyone he wished, and support any candidate he wished. The laugh's on his opponents.
Especially if it means that he can help get someone to make Tennessee recognize his right to vote. Or get enough support for a politically inconvenient (for Kernell's attackers) pardon.
He isn't going to suffer as much as you would want him to.
They probably did - which is sort of ironic, considering the reason for the scandal. The not-a-real-hack revealed that Palin had been using her private Yahoo email account to conduct government business in order to hide from FOIA requests and such accountability.
The more reason to see that Palin's family wanted blood, and got Kernell.
It's a shame that the messenger with politically unsavory evidence got shot. While Kernell's opposition gets away clean for doing the very same thing.
Truth, it burns Palin fans as much as it burns Chicago Machine politicians.
I'm not a high-profile political figure that puts on a charade about how average I am, yet is not afraid to politically destroy someone with not-so-average-person power.
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At some point, not protecting our domestic industries will damn us all. You aren't helping your case by trying to paint the "durrr, unions are evil!" brush.
Shutting those people out is not a option of first resort, but a last resort. We have the people, we just need the ability to put the screws to resistant employers.
Yes, we are. We don't believe in Third World conditions or wages either.
However, you may have benefited from a fellow traveller that helped take a US job and made it yours, by fraud.
Most Americans want ... to become 'Functional Consultants'
You miss the mark completely about people wanting consultancy. Consultancy makes you disposable(in favor of the business), not flexible. People want stable work.
They're US citizens and they do deserve whatever they ask, not be driven down to Third World standards and wages. It is a shame that your enablers dont get tried for treason.
Virtualization and companies like ODesk...
Hell no, and perhaps with a law requires US-friendly operations and standards.
Otherwise, let US citizens lie as badly about their qualifications, with no consequence.
"Back in 2008, the Department of Homeland Security enacted a controversial 'emergency' rule to allow foreign students earning tech-related degrees in the U.S. to work for American employers for 29 months after graduation without a work visa.
While citizens who could use the training and work, are given the short shaft, thanks to various loopholes in need of closure. They have the skills, it's time we made companies actually recognize that.
Think about it before you throw your exception to the rule about a specific thing not being found.
The program would allow U.S. companies to recruit and retain the 'best' science and tech students
Bullshit. We have all the people we need, we just aren't willing to engage in fraud. Businesses however, are.
But two-and-a-half years later, it turns out the top U.S. universities are getting schooled by less-renowned institutions. Computerworld reports the DHS program is dominated by little-known, for-profit Stratford University, whose 727 approved requests for post-graduate Optional Practical Training (OPT) STEM extensions tops all schools and is more than twice the combined total of the entire Ivy League -- Brown (26), Columbia (105), Cornell (90), Dartmouth (18), Harvard (27), Princeton (16), Penn (50), and Yale (9). In second place, with 533 approved requests, is the University of Bridgeport. In another twist, the program's employers include IT outsourcing and offshoring 'body shops' like Kelly Services, whose entities snagged about 50 approvals, more than twice the combined total of tech stalwarts Google (15), Amazon.com (2), Yahoo (2), and Facebook (3)."
This might be the real story. Either the fraud's moved over to those universities, or the fraud shops got seriously blindsided.
Not if it is communicated properly that the company tried to buy off the government, and that there are legitimate ways to set up shop in the country.
It is an attempt to dictate when they can cause damage by their departure. Those companies are political creatures, and should not be given a pass just because they're "a business".
The company can threaten the locality with loss of tax revenue and larger amounts of joblessness. This would put the region's government(s) in a world of hurt with eventual budget shortfalls and tons of people on government assistance.
...since a company wants to hold your country hostage to its demands.
If they want to leave, make it hurt badly(if not something that outright kills the company). Then make the company an example of how things can go wrong in a robbery. The government isnt there for the company, it is for the people that end up getting hit when the company decides to leave.
Serial ATA, Networked. Put that all together, you have something worse than USB :P
Sort of my point. If he wants to argue against rail or threaten to run people over with a bus, he can do it on Mars.
Or try to piss off the other colonists by getting into the business of trading water and oxygen futures.
...by sending Wall Street and some of the Lehman Bros. folks over.
(yes, modbombers, that includes Kasich)
Chinese Tianhe-1A system at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin
Try again, with a country that doesn't have extensive First World knockoffs.
If they can't seem to get the idea of not dealing with China or other like countries, then these companies need to be punished for dealing with our enemies.
Not while it's ripping out jobs and industries for a few trinkets. The only thing they'll do in the long term is have the First World consider military action against that country.
The same junk, just in a new industry. No real quality to speak of.
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Tim Wu has a piece up at the Wall Street Journal
They speak of hating monopolies, yet that's what Murdoch wants to be.
I can always cook up whatever distro I want. Despite the issues with nmap and friends, I can always build an image with things like SQLNinja.
Sanity in sentencing(or even letting the charge stand) wouldn't satisfy the Palin's desire for political destruction.
He won't be able to use the ballot box (until a pardon or commutation), but he isn't financially blocked. He would be free to donate to anyone he wished, and support any candidate he wished. The laugh's on his opponents.
Especially if it means that he can help get someone to make Tennessee recognize his right to vote. Or get enough support for a politically inconvenient (for Kernell's attackers) pardon.
He isn't going to suffer as much as you would want him to.
Yes, the evidence is there, despite what O'Keefe's lawyer might try to claim.
They probably did - which is sort of ironic, considering the reason for the scandal. The not-a-real-hack revealed that Palin had been using her private Yahoo email account to conduct government business in order to hide from FOIA requests and such accountability.
The more reason to see that Palin's family wanted blood, and got Kernell.
It's a shame that the messenger with politically unsavory evidence got shot. While Kernell's opposition gets away clean for doing the very same thing.
Truth, it burns Palin fans as much as it burns Chicago Machine politicians.
I'm not a high-profile political figure that puts on a charade about how average I am, yet is not afraid to politically destroy someone with not-so-average-person power.
Their mask slipped, but anyone who says anything about it gets silenced. Such is life.
I guess someone else's nerve got hit close by asking for consistency.
Pardon Kernell, or recognize O'Keefe as a felon. Same kinds of deeds, except Kernell didn't have Murdoch at his side to clean up loose ends.
It might not be politically favorable to someone, but it'd at least mitigate the damage.
Kernell's only crime was his political alignment. It would only be consistent to do that, or make O'Keefe a felon as well.
...since O'Keefe did just about the same thing and came up clean for it.
Pardon Kernell, who's only crime was crossing Palin.