If they're working illegally, they're almost certainly not even making minimum wage.
It is estimated that about half of illegal immigrants make at or more than the minimum wage.
Keep in mind that in 2009, employers reported wages of $72.8 billion for 7.7 million workers who could not be matched to legal Social Security numbers. All of these workers were making minimum wage or more.
Only the other half of illegal aliens are working "off the books" potentially for less than the minimum wage, but even some of those make more.
Whereas an American is not even allowed to own property in Mexico, they can only rent it.
I believe that only applies to land within a certain distance from the coast or the border ("restricted zone"). However the land can be owned by a fideicomiso (bank trust), which in turn you can purchase the right to be a primary beneficiary of. As primary beneficiary of the trust, you have essentially all the rights of fee-simple ownership, including the right to name an heir.
DC vs. Heller is revisionist regarding the second amendment
So if it is "revisionist", show the historical documents that say the 2nd Amendment was designed specifically to not give an individual right to keep and bear arms.
Most of the states at the time put an explicit individual right to keep and bear arms in their Constitutions...so it was not an alien concept at the time.
the entire civilized world will hang its head in shame over how long this abomination has been allowed to exist.
NK is a cult. I'm not sure how you can deprogram an entire country. It is true that dissenters are dealt with harshly, but most people in NK never dissent, not out of fear of punishment, but mainly because they buy into the regime's religion.
There were plenty of "true believers" in the USSR as well.
The second amendment was created to grant the states freedoms to have their own militias,
That is a nice opinion for you to have, however the Supreme Court has disagreed with your interpretation at least twice: District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) and McDonald v. Chicago. (2010), the latter held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Second Amendment right recognized in Heller.
Heller's decision says:
The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.
The first salient feature of the operative clause is that it codifies a "right of the people." The unamended Constitution and the Bill of Rights use the phrase "right of the people" two other times, in the First Amendment's Assembly-and-Petition Clause and in the Fourth Amendment's Search-and-Seizure Clause. The Ninth Amendment uses very similar terminology ("The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people"). All three of these instances unambiguously refer to individual rights, not "collective" rights, or rights that may be exercised only through participation in some corporate body.
Moreover...
Between 1789 and 1820, nine States adopted Second Amendment analogues. Four of them - Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, and Missouri - referred to the right of the people to "bear arms in defence of themselves and the State." See n. 8, supra. Another three States - Mississippi, Connecticut, and Alabama - used the even more individualistic phrasing that each citizen has the "right to bear arms in defence of himself and the State."
LAPD chopper shot down, "The apparent shooter eventually was subdued by his family members, Villanueva said. A semi-automatic rifle was recovered, he said."
You should get an Arduino because there is a huge amount of data out there on how to use it to do pretty much anything. Any hackerspace will be full of a hundred people who have messed with Arduino, and Arduino classes are everywhere.
Raspberry Pi is interesting for more complex embedded tasks, especially ones that require a network connection, or specific Linux software, but it lacks things like a built-in A/D converter.
They don't seem to give a crap when local jurisdictions subvert immigration law in the other direction.
The enforcement of immigration rules is the exclusive domain of the federal government since 92 U.S. 275 (1875)
The powers which the [California] commissioner is authorized to exercise under this statute are such as to bring the United States into conflict with foreign nations, and they can only belong to the federal government.
My wife is a software product manager. Her product development is split between the "tough stuff" and closely synchronized systems interfacing work done by American citizens, and the "easy stuff" which is mainly HTML and JavaScript web GUI stuff done by a large Indian consulting company. The Indian company (an investor in the product) keeps a project manager for their Indian folks in the US to coordinate on the product better, and the actual coders are in India.
The Indian project manager has been in the US for years with his family (I suspect his kids feel as American as Indian). But his H1-B is around to run out. He and his family has to go back to India.
But not to worry! The Indian consulting company is sending a new H1-B guy over for project management.
My great-grandmother stepped off a ship with no skills, looked around for work, and then got citizenship after a few years. It is insane that we are bringing skilled folks (and their smart kids) into the US and kicking them out again.
I've been involved in several incidents where immigration rules have messed with my industry. There was a German engineer who had to do the "go back to Germany" thing for a few years because of a screw up. I've seen Canadian tech people turned around at the border by immigration when going to fix a system in Detroit. This is not helping us.
And no, everyone else didn't get jack shit. Just look on your desk right now. You have what at one time would have been considered a supercomputer attached to a global network that you use to bitch about how exploited you are.
OMG this is the best thing I have ever read on Slashdot!
The judge is the arbiter of the law, and the jury is merely the arbiter of the fact.
You may want to read up on Jury Nullification. Though controversial, New Hampshire recently passed a law explicitly allowing defense attorneys to inform juries about Jury Nullification.
One reason I am pro-Raspberry Pi is that is has a huge user base. When you are dealing with trying to get Linux stuff to run on ARM and the lower system capabilities of an embedded system, it is nice to have 100,000 friends who are messing with the same system and already worked out the issues.
Given that the last couple of rounds of quantitative easing had zero impact on inflation
But the Fed continues to pay interest on excess reserves of banks held by the Fed. If they stopped doing this, it would free up this tremendous amount of money, and I suspect you would see inflation.
We can tell from other parts of the world that simply focusing on austerity makes things worse, not better.
The track record is that tax cuts cause stimulus, but there is no evidence that spending increases cause economic stimulus, and there are many counter examples where cutting spending in combination with tax cuts has been stimulative.
That said, the US probably has more leeway to raise taxes than say Greece, as we actually have a ton of wealth, and Greece just doesn't.
It is true that Mediterranean countries would likely be better off massively deregulating their labor rules and selling off state owned enterprises than "austerity".
In a perfect world, we'd all grow our own food in our own backyard and we'd probably all be healthier for it.
I'd like to see you live off of only the produce of your back yard! I suspect you'd starve.
Which, unsurprisingly, it what often happens in countries with small-plot subsistence agriculture as opposed to massively efficient mega-farm corporate agribusiness.
Plus, call me crazy, I rather save the time in tending my fields and work on a Raspberry Pi project:)
Production quality is low as well. The simple thing of making the text as Sal scribbles easier to read, even something as simple as abandoning the black background and using slightly wider lines, would help.
Are Khan Academy original video sources available for download? If we could crowdsource people using video editing software to simply cut out his "umms" and "ahhhs" I think it would be a good start!
When did monopolies official become not only OK, but pretty much government enforced.
AT&T president Theodore Vail wrote in 1907 that the telephone by the nature of its technology would operate most efficiently as a monopoly providing universal service, and that government regulation, "provided it is independent, intelligent, considerate, thorough and just," was an appropriate and acceptable substitute for the competitive marketplace.
The United States government accepted this principle, initially in a 1913 agreement known as the Kingsbury Commitment. As part of this agreement, AT&T agreed to connect non-competing independent telephone companies to its network and divest its controlling interest in Western Union telegraph. The 1921 Willis Graham Act effectively established telephone companies as natural monopolies, citing that "there is nothing to be gained by local competition in the telephone industry." This repealed the Kingsbury Commitment, allowing AT&T to merge with or acquire competing telephone companies if the ICC approved.
All I can say is that Internet access on a plane (even with limited speed) is awesome!!!! It completely changes how I view air travel as I can still get work done.
(Also one needs to consider that many salaried positions in the US are also compensated with private health insurance that doesn't show up on your paycheck - mine is about $10,000/year of health insurance benefits).
How can you say that when so much of the world population (typically the more starving part) is working the land in small, inefficient plots. The world is going to start looking more like the US soon - people will sell their farmland to giant companies that can produce more food with efficient, huge farms, and the rural people will move to the cities and get service jobs. There will be plenty more food produced.
This will only happen in countries that grant secure private ownership to land. For example, most Ethiopian farmers do not own their land - it is owned by the government, and they can not mortgage nor sell it.
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If they're working illegally, they're almost certainly not even making minimum wage.
It is estimated that about half of illegal immigrants make at or more than the minimum wage.
Keep in mind that in 2009, employers reported wages of $72.8 billion for 7.7 million workers who could not be matched to legal Social Security numbers. All of these workers were making minimum wage or more.
Only the other half of illegal aliens are working "off the books" potentially for less than the minimum wage, but even some of those make more.
Whereas an American is not even allowed to own property in Mexico, they can only rent it.
I believe that only applies to land within a certain distance from the coast or the border ("restricted zone"). However the land can be owned by a fideicomiso (bank trust), which in turn you can purchase the right to be a primary beneficiary of. As primary beneficiary of the trust, you have essentially all the rights of fee-simple ownership, including the right to name an heir.
In the 2009â"10 academic year, the number of foreign students enrolled in bachelor's degree programs in the US was 206,000.
Total enrollment of international graduate students in the US was 197,000 in 2012.
So I'd say the foreign undergrad/grad ratio is close to 1:1.
DC vs. Heller is revisionist regarding the second amendment
So if it is "revisionist", show the historical documents that say the 2nd Amendment was designed specifically to not give an individual right to keep and bear arms.
Most of the states at the time put an explicit individual right to keep and bear arms in their Constitutions...so it was not an alien concept at the time.
In 1791, most people were gun nuts!
the entire civilized world will hang its head in shame over how long this abomination has been allowed to exist.
NK is a cult. I'm not sure how you can deprogram an entire country. It is true that dissenters are dealt with harshly, but most people in NK never dissent, not out of fear of punishment, but mainly because they buy into the regime's religion.
There were plenty of "true believers" in the USSR as well.
That is a nice opinion for you to have, however the Supreme Court has disagreed with your interpretation at least twice: District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) and McDonald v. Chicago. (2010), the latter held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Second Amendment right recognized in Heller.
Heller's decision says:
The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.
Scalia argues in Heller:
The first salient feature of the operative clause is that it codifies a "right of the people." The unamended Constitution and the Bill of Rights use the phrase "right of the people" two other times, in the First Amendment's Assembly-and-Petition Clause and in the Fourth Amendment's Search-and-Seizure Clause. The Ninth Amendment uses very similar terminology ("The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people"). All three of these instances unambiguously refer to individual rights, not "collective" rights, or rights that may be exercised only through participation in some corporate body.
Moreover...
Between 1789 and 1820, nine States adopted Second Amendment analogues. Four of them - Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, and Missouri - referred to the right of the people to "bear arms in defence of themselves and the State." See n. 8, supra. Another three States - Mississippi, Connecticut, and Alabama - used the even more individualistic phrasing that each citizen has the "right to bear arms in defence of himself and the State."
LAPD chopper shot down, "The apparent shooter eventually was subdued by his family members, Villanueva said. A semi-automatic rifle was recovered, he said."
You should get an Arduino because there is a huge amount of data out there on how to use it to do pretty much anything. Any hackerspace will be full of a hundred people who have messed with Arduino, and Arduino classes are everywhere.
Raspberry Pi is interesting for more complex embedded tasks, especially ones that require a network connection, or specific Linux software, but it lacks things like a built-in A/D converter.
The Indian PM willingly was employed in the US following H1B restrictions. He, nor the company is victim here; his family is victim of his naivety.
And Rosa Parks knew sitting in the front of the bus was against the law as well.
Some laws are stupid. Our immigration law is stupid.
They don't seem to give a crap when local jurisdictions subvert immigration law in the other direction.
The enforcement of immigration rules is the exclusive domain of the federal government since 92 U.S. 275 (1875)
The powers which the [California] commissioner is authorized to exercise under this statute are such as to bring the United States into conflict with foreign nations, and they can only belong to the federal government.
It should be noted that before 1900, there were many states where non-citizens could legally vote.
Most inflation-adjusted compensation over the last 10-15 years has been in nontaxed benefits, not wages, especially health insurance.
Look at Nonfarm Business Sector: Real Compensation Per Hour (COMPRNFB).
My wife is a software product manager. Her product development is split between the "tough stuff" and closely synchronized systems interfacing work done by American citizens, and the "easy stuff" which is mainly HTML and JavaScript web GUI stuff done by a large Indian consulting company. The Indian company (an investor in the product) keeps a project manager for their Indian folks in the US to coordinate on the product better, and the actual coders are in India.
The Indian project manager has been in the US for years with his family (I suspect his kids feel as American as Indian). But his H1-B is around to run out. He and his family has to go back to India.
But not to worry! The Indian consulting company is sending a new H1-B guy over for project management.
My great-grandmother stepped off a ship with no skills, looked around for work, and then got citizenship after a few years. It is insane that we are bringing skilled folks (and their smart kids) into the US and kicking them out again.
I've been involved in several incidents where immigration rules have messed with my industry. There was a German engineer who had to do the "go back to Germany" thing for a few years because of a screw up. I've seen Canadian tech people turned around at the border by immigration when going to fix a system in Detroit. This is not helping us.
And no, everyone else didn't get jack shit. Just look on your desk right now. You have what at one time would have been considered a supercomputer attached to a global network that you use to bitch about how exploited you are.
OMG this is the best thing I have ever read on Slashdot!
Farming jobs are now somewhere around 5% of the total employment base.
It is less than that now...US agricultural workers as percent of labor force:
1790: 90%
1840: 69%
1900: 38%
1950: 12.2%
1970: 4.6%
1990: 2.6%
The judge is the arbiter of the law, and the jury is merely the arbiter of the fact.
You may want to read up on Jury Nullification. Though controversial, New Hampshire recently passed a law explicitly allowing defense attorneys to inform juries about Jury Nullification.
One reason I am pro-Raspberry Pi is that is has a huge user base. When you are dealing with trying to get Linux stuff to run on ARM and the lower system capabilities of an embedded system, it is nice to have 100,000 friends who are messing with the same system and already worked out the issues.
Given that the last couple of rounds of quantitative easing had zero impact on inflation
But the Fed continues to pay interest on excess reserves of banks held by the Fed. If they stopped doing this, it would free up this tremendous amount of money, and I suspect you would see inflation.
We can tell from other parts of the world that simply focusing on austerity makes things worse, not better.
The track record is that tax cuts cause stimulus, but there is no evidence that spending increases cause economic stimulus, and there are many counter examples where cutting spending in combination with tax cuts has been stimulative.
That said, the US probably has more leeway to raise taxes than say Greece, as we actually have a ton of wealth, and Greece just doesn't.
It is true that Mediterranean countries would likely be better off massively deregulating their labor rules and selling off state owned enterprises than "austerity".
In a perfect world, we'd all grow our own food in our own backyard and we'd probably all be healthier for it.
I'd like to see you live off of only the produce of your back yard! I suspect you'd starve.
Which, unsurprisingly, it what often happens in countries with small-plot subsistence agriculture as opposed to massively efficient mega-farm corporate agribusiness.
Plus, call me crazy, I rather save the time in tending my fields and work on a Raspberry Pi project :)
Are Khan Academy original video sources available for download? If we could crowdsource people using video editing software to simply cut out his "umms" and "ahhhs" I think it would be a good start!
When did monopolies official become not only OK, but pretty much government enforced.
AT&T president Theodore Vail wrote in 1907 that the telephone by the nature of its technology would operate most efficiently as a monopoly providing universal service, and that government regulation, "provided it is independent, intelligent, considerate, thorough and just," was an appropriate and acceptable substitute for the competitive marketplace.
The United States government accepted this principle, initially in a 1913 agreement known as the Kingsbury Commitment. As part of this agreement, AT&T agreed to connect non-competing independent telephone companies to its network and divest its controlling interest in Western Union telegraph. The 1921 Willis Graham Act effectively established telephone companies as natural monopolies, citing that "there is nothing to be gained by local competition in the telephone industry." This repealed the Kingsbury Commitment, allowing AT&T to merge with or acquire competing telephone companies if the ICC approved.
There have been cases in history where cultural lobotomy has been a good thing. So, 100k cases of polio win hands down.
The problem is that most "cultural lobotomies" have been performed by ethnic discrimination, terror, or simply mass killing.
The font (on OS X Chrome) on this article really makes the headline look like "Pollo Eradication", which I suppose is what they do at "Pollo Campero"!
All I can say is that Internet access on a plane (even with limited speed) is awesome!!!! It completely changes how I view air travel as I can still get work done.
I'm paid more now than when I lived in the US
Even after taxes?
(Also one needs to consider that many salaried positions in the US are also compensated with private health insurance that doesn't show up on your paycheck - mine is about $10,000/year of health insurance benefits).
The era of the global food surplus has passed.
How can you say that when so much of the world population (typically the more starving part) is working the land in small, inefficient plots. The world is going to start looking more like the US soon - people will sell their farmland to giant companies that can produce more food with efficient, huge farms, and the rural people will move to the cities and get service jobs. There will be plenty more food produced.
This will only happen in countries that grant secure private ownership to land. For example, most Ethiopian farmers do not own their land - it is owned by the government, and they can not mortgage nor sell it.