At least one of those is bullshit "photography featuring the iconic âoeWelcome to Fabulous Las Vegasâ sign are not restricted by copyright⦠photos of all of the famous Las Vegas Hotels on the strip are."
Photos of architecture taken from public property are not subject to copyright in the United States. 17 USC 120(a).
Also, the Hollywood sign is not copyrighted, though the owners of the trademark do try to push their rights as if it's a copyright and trademark.
Silicon Valley tech companies that hire H-1Bs won't care much. Very few of their H-1B employees make less than $110K anyway. If the definition of "wage" includes not just base salary but also bonus (actual awarded amount) and stock (actual value, not some notional future value), then it's likely that all of their H-1B employees already meet this requirement.
Which would tend to return the program to its stated purpose. It's not people who would otherwise be working at big tech companies who are being hurt by H-1B. It's the people who would be doing business programming if H1-B body shops weren't lowballing them with "programmers by the pound".
The big losers under this proposal would be Infosys, Tata, Wipro, and IBM Global Services (despite the parent company, still a body shop),
Don't forget the zealoutous, intentionally-ugly, gold-digging feminists! That's what makes living in Northern California a real joy!
Ah, this is why I love New York. The gold-diggers are cold-eyed Russian women who won't give you a second look if the first look doesn't say "8 figures net worth", but at least they're actually hot.
Basically, there are people who think the Hawai'i should secede from the US and Hawaiian Kingdom should be re-established.
Fine. As soon as they secede the US can invade and re-annex, and declare all the prior agreements with the seceding parties void either by reason of their violation (secession) or just by right of conquest.
Given the pervasive use of cars one would consider that having more people killed by guns than by cars should be quite a concern.
Apples and oranges.
21,175 of the Y2013 firearm deaths were suicide. 11,208 were homicide. Only 505 were accidental.
There probably were a few motor vehicle homicides included in the figures, but not a statistically significant number. More suicides, it's hard to say how many... but certainly the vast majority were accidental.
So, completely different concerns. Easiest way to reduce your risk of death-by-firearm is not to deliberately shoot yourself with one. There isn't any similarly easy way of reducing your chance of death by motor vehicle; staying off the roads is rather limiting.
She also wants to ban radio-controlled model aircraft, and not just guns but body armor. If there's a horrible idea that Feinstein _isn't_ strongly in favor of, it's probably just because she hasn't heard it yet.
At some point it makes sense to say cars are safe enough that, barring an order-of-magnitude improvement, we should stop adding ever more expensive measures for ever diminishing returns in safety.
Of course there was an increase in deaths in 2015; miles driven are trending up again, having dropped in 2008-9 and then leveled off for a while. It's the raw rate that's up 8%; the per-mile-driven rate is up ~5%... after being down 5% the year before, and another 5% the year before that, which was up 6% from the year before that.
Oh, come on, if you're going to imagine GMO producers as mustachio-twisting villains (and we're including Monsanto, so it can't be ruled out) then about a year before the patent runs out, a new strain of the disease appears that ends up attacking the nearly-public-domain banana strain. But, the GMO producers just happen to have yet another strain ready for planting....
If you really want an example of a disaster of a fruit, let's talk about American strawberries or worse, blackberries. Those enormous things are... I don't know what they are, but they certainly don't taste like real strawberries and blackberries.
There's nothing wrong with large blackberries. You can pick them wild that way, if you can get to them before the birds do. I suspect the reason they're often tasteless is they've got a ridiculously short shelf life, so most of the ones you get are past prime.
$10 says that if the defendant wasn't a cop, the conviction wouldn't have been overturned in the first place, and if it were appealed, the appeals court would side with the prosecution.
Moonies are the best recruiters of engineers. Their recruiting technique is for a bunch of good looking Korean girls to sit down next to a nerdy-looking guy eating alone. The only reason their technique is still not all that successful is most engineers hate having their lunch interrupted more than they like hot Korean girls pay attention to them on an obvious pretext.
Has anyone read it? Freedom from religious persecution is the #1 reason this country was founded. True, but for some of the groups involved, the "religious persecution" they were escaping was being denied the ability to persecute OTHER religious groups, which once they got here they happily engaged in. Rhode Island was founded by someone banished from Massachusetts for his religious beliefs.
In early America "Christmas" wasn't celebrated in any real way
George Washington celebrated it by rowing an army across a half-frozen river in small boats during a storm at night, so there must have been plenty of eggnog involved.
in fact in Boston you were fined if you showed any holiday spirit
Now there's a bit of Puritanism I can get behind. Corporal punishment for caroling, too.
It's worth noting that the ACM dissolved a joint venture with the IEEE over the question of licensing software engineers. The ACM opposed it while IEEE desired it. The IEEE claims 30 states now require it for software engineers "working on systems that affect the health, safety, and welfare of the public"; I think that's not so; they never list the 30 states. Certainly when I worked on Class II medical devices I was not licensed nor did any licensed engineer sign off on the code.
There is professional licensing for software engineers in at least one state, Texas. To show ridiculous it is, originally it took 16 years to get it without an engineering degree -- e.g., with only a CS degree. Now that's down to 8, of supervised work.
It's not about individuals, it's statistics. If there is no bias against women then you would expect approximately equal numbers of women in all professions.
Really? There are no other factors at all? The only possible reason for a gender disparity in employment statistics is bias, specifically bias against women?
That's a simplification a lot harder to swallow than the proverbial spherical cow.
I agree. It's terrifying (well, more disappointing) that completely unsubstantiated claims from someone who was chatting anonymously on IRC are being taken seriously by anyone, ESPECIALLY someone who is seen as a thought leader in the OSS community
The source wasn't anonymous to esr; he knows who it is.
Few seem to be asking why tech giants are tripping over themselves with promotions and initiatives to encourage more women to code. It's not done out of the goodness in their hearts.
In some cases, it is. Those are the most frightening ones. (Insert C.S. Lewis tyranny quote here)
Paying off debt early doesn't make your rating bad. It can slightly affect the rating by changing the average and (if it's the oldest debt) oldest account age, but it's not going to change it a lot.
Having no credit history is a problem, but it's one which is easy to avoid for anyone with a job: Get a credit card, or multiple cards. Use them for stuff. Pay them off. (It's *not* true that paying your credit cards off in full every month hurts your credit score.) By the time you've got the down payment for a house, you'll have a credit history.
Here is a life lesson for you kids, picking a fight only starts wars, it does not solve problems, until you have totally destroyed the people you attack by which time you have become what you hate.
SJWs start out as what they claim to hate, so they're way ahead of you there.
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At least one of those is bullshit "photography featuring the iconic âoeWelcome to Fabulous Las Vegasâ sign are not restricted by copyright⦠photos of all of the famous Las Vegas Hotels on the strip are."
Photos of architecture taken from public property are not subject to copyright in the United States. 17 USC 120(a).
Also, the Hollywood sign is not copyrighted, though the owners of the trademark do try to push their rights as if it's a copyright and trademark.
I'd bet on an illegal alien cook that she paid less than minimum wage to.
Which would tend to return the program to its stated purpose. It's not people who would otherwise be working at big tech companies who are being hurt by H-1B. It's the people who would be doing business programming if H1-B body shops weren't lowballing them with "programmers by the pound".
The big losers under this proposal would be Infosys, Tata, Wipro, and IBM Global Services (despite the parent company, still a body shop),
Ah, this is why I love New York. The gold-diggers are cold-eyed Russian women who won't give you a second look if the first look doesn't say "8 figures net worth", but at least they're actually hot.
I believe they started with Mexico, life + 100. By the time 2023 rolls around they'll have gotten a few other countries to "harmonize" with Mexico
Fine. As soon as they secede the US can invade and re-annex, and declare all the prior agreements with the seceding parties void either by reason of their violation (secession) or just by right of conquest.
Apples and oranges.
21,175 of the Y2013 firearm deaths were suicide. 11,208 were homicide. Only 505 were accidental.
There probably were a few motor vehicle homicides included in the figures, but not a statistically significant number. More suicides, it's hard to say how many... but certainly the vast majority were accidental.
So, completely different concerns. Easiest way to reduce your risk of death-by-firearm is not to deliberately shoot yourself with one. There isn't any similarly easy way of reducing your chance of death by motor vehicle; staying off the roads is rather limiting.
She also wants to ban radio-controlled model aircraft, and not just guns but body armor. If there's a horrible idea that Feinstein _isn't_ strongly in favor of, it's probably just because she hasn't heard it yet.
At some point it makes sense to say cars are safe enough that, barring an order-of-magnitude improvement, we should stop adding ever more expensive measures for ever diminishing returns in safety.
Of course there was an increase in deaths in 2015; miles driven are trending up again, having dropped in 2008-9 and then leveled off for a while. It's the raw rate that's up 8%; the per-mile-driven rate is up ~5% ... after being down 5% the year before, and another 5% the year before that, which was up 6% from the year before that.
Oh, come on, if you're going to imagine GMO producers as mustachio-twisting villains (and we're including Monsanto, so it can't be ruled out) then about a year before the patent runs out, a new strain of the disease appears that ends up attacking the nearly-public-domain banana strain. But, the GMO producers just happen to have yet another strain ready for planting....
There's nothing wrong with large blackberries. You can pick them wild that way, if you can get to them before the birds do. I suspect the reason they're often tasteless is they've got a ridiculously short shelf life, so most of the ones you get are past prime.
And we have a woosh!
$10 says that if the defendant wasn't a cop, the conviction wouldn't have been overturned in the first place, and if it were appealed, the appeals court would side with the prosecution.
Moonies are the best recruiters of engineers. Their recruiting technique is for a bunch of good looking Korean girls to sit down next to a nerdy-looking guy eating alone. The only reason their technique is still not all that successful is most engineers hate having their lunch interrupted more than they like hot Korean girls pay attention to them on an obvious pretext.
George Washington celebrated it by rowing an army across a half-frozen river in small boats during a storm at night, so there must have been plenty of eggnog involved.
Now there's a bit of Puritanism I can get behind. Corporal punishment for caroling, too.
So is this milestone due to an increase in current temperatures, or a decrease in temperatures in pre-industrial times?
It's worth noting that the ACM dissolved a joint venture with the IEEE over the question of licensing software engineers. The ACM opposed it while IEEE desired it. The IEEE claims 30 states now require it for software engineers "working on systems that affect the health, safety, and welfare of the public"; I think that's not so; they never list the 30 states. Certainly when I worked on Class II medical devices I was not licensed nor did any licensed engineer sign off on the code.
There is professional licensing for software engineers in at least one state, Texas. To show ridiculous it is, originally it took 16 years to get it without an engineering degree -- e.g., with only a CS degree. Now that's down to 8, of supervised work.
Really? There are no other factors at all? The only possible reason for a gender disparity in employment statistics is bias, specifically bias against women?
That's a simplification a lot harder to swallow than the proverbial spherical cow.
The source wasn't anonymous to esr; he knows who it is.
In some cases, it is. Those are the most frightening ones. (Insert C.S. Lewis tyranny quote here)
Paying off debt early doesn't make your rating bad. It can slightly affect the rating by changing the average and (if it's the oldest debt) oldest account age, but it's not going to change it a lot.
Having no credit history is a problem, but it's one which is easy to avoid for anyone with a job: Get a credit card, or multiple cards. Use them for stuff. Pay them off. (It's *not* true that paying your credit cards off in full every month hurts your credit score.) By the time you've got the down payment for a house, you'll have a credit history.
Shut up, Wesley.
Your footnote is a perfect example of the SJW credo of "Do as we say, not as we do".
German?
SJWs start out as what they claim to hate, so they're way ahead of you there.