What you're suggesting is that when a bill is unconstitutional, rather than rejecting the bill the court must twist the meaning of the bill until they have something which is not unconstitutional, no matter how ridiculous that result may be.
For example: like how the Obamacare penalty isn't a tax? The intent was to call it a "mandate" and Obama outright rejected the idea it was a tax increase - so the intent was clear - until it was necessary for the SCOTUS to call it one to pass constitutional muster. So the court itself twisted the meaning against intent in this particular case.
Hey, we had a pipeline going across Alaska since the late 70's. With drunken idiots with guns trying to shoot holes in it and the occasional maintenance mishap leading to spills, Alaska has somehow not turned into a barren oil-soaked wasteland yet.
It still bothers me the FAA knowingly tried to land grab, and forced a lot of people to pay for a registration, that they had no right to mandate.
Putting aside whether they had the right to do it or not, they allowed free registrations - and the free registration period did not expire until after the holidays, where lots of people would have gotten drones for presents. So everyone that had a drone on or before Jan 20, 2016 could register it for free. Even paid, we are talking $5 here. They could have easily made the fee so expensive it would have killed the market.
Saying you see no problem with someone getting an infection is very very far from threatening political violence.
The poster said nothing about "getting" an infection. The poster said they would not see anything wrong with "giving" him an infection. There's a difference between wishing ill on someone and supporting the idea of actively causing harm to someone.
"Julian Assange himself said the Russians didn't give him the emails"
MY SIDES!
Well if Julian said it it must be true right?
Yes, I remember all those bombshell announcements about Hillary's emails on the lead up to the election, all live streamed late at night (in the US). In the end, it was just another opportunity to watch some talking heads chat a while - and at the very end, Assange would briefly appear, pontificate about Wikileaks' mission, then auto-fellate himself.
They released a new model in 2015 that was thinner and more comfortable to use compared to the older ones.
It's still ridiculous they have a $149 MSRP on these things. Better calculators can be had for less, but when you have a monopoly locked in the schools, you charge what you want.
If they ban laptops and tablets, we can revisit the 90's where they charged for in-flight entertainment. No sense to do it now, but if the choice is to sit there for 8+ hours and stare at the free lice capades show on the seat in front of you or pay a fee for the use of the screen in front of you. Or they'll just bring back the weird headphone with the hollow tubes again.
I've travelled so much over the past few years I've finally learned to sleep on planes. So I actually don't use IFE anymore. I just put on my noise-cancelling headphones and read a book until I get tired if I don't just zonk out before the plane leaves the gate.
Saraba Yamato (Japan) is one of my personal favorites, even with the late 70's style animation. It's currently going through a reboot. The original Yamato, known as Star Blazers in the US, went through a reboot as well a few years ago (Yamato 2199). It's not bad either - arguably better than the original.
Lots of treasure from that era. Leiji Matsumoto made wonderful films/series: Harlock - not the 2013 one, the 1970's one - (standing up for one's beliefs) and Galaxy Express 999 (what is it to be human?) are masterpieces.
Then again, I'm one of those old curmudgeons who felt the show "lost it" when Joel departed. Not that Mike's episodes were bad - they weren't, but I more personally connected with Joel's style on the show and missed it greatly. Who didn't go to the theater in the 70's and 80's and didn't appreciate this?
On the newest series, the biggest shock was not the new host, but when Gypsy spoke. I don't know if that voice changed happened earlier in the older series (I never watched the SyFy run), but when I did stop watching, Gypsy was still using that weird falsetto.
With the "stop him at all costs" mantra in the press and running at all levels of the government, combined with the recent court cases regarding the executive orders targeting certain Muslim-majority countries, I'd expect California, Washington, and any other state with a lot of tech companies to file similar lawsuits because an H1-B ban would obviously be targeting people of Indian ancestry.
It would probably be a safer bet for him to get the SCOTUS back to a 5-4 conservative majority first, get his E.O. upheld, then pursue these goals.
And for all the years I've been prodded by Verizon to sign up for their rewards program that gives you points in exchange for data mining your usage. They leave the balance sitting there, tempting me whenever I log in.
I should sign up and cash out all those points quickly before they shut it down, because there's no need for them to give up anything for this data now.
The Mac is a general purpose computing device. The dev tools (Xcode) are free. Yes, owning a Mac is a barrier to entry, same as a PC would be for other development targets, but Macs and PCs have many other uses aside from development.
You can write iOS apps at zero cost to you and test them in a decent simulator on the Mac. If you think you have something, you can then fork over the $99 and put it on the App Store. If you own a PC instead of a Mac, then the cost of entry is based on your personal choice of computer and your target market. Obviously Android or Microsoft targets are more cost-effective for you if you run Windows, not so much for me (aside from Android).
I'm a one man shop that does App development as a hobby while simultaneously maintaining a full time job. Having someone handle 24/7 hosting and billing and a sort of rudimentary QA on the final product (so the users will trust it better) is something of value. In many cases, costs and time would be prohibitive for a new, small shop to do all these things itself. So they do something for that 30% other than rubber stamp it.
Also, $99 is a pittance - how much do dev kits from Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft cost?
Now another poster pointing out that the rules are different for larger companies that develop on Apple's platform - yes they are. I see competing apps that violate the backgrounding policies (for good reasons) that I could never get away with if I tried.
One example is playing silent audio while streaming via DLNA from the iOS device to prevent the OS from putting the app to sleep after 10 minutes or so. A big company just does it and has done it for years without consequence. Another small developer in my niche needed to do this as well, but was forced by Apple to remove it unless there was a specific function for it. So the developer instead added a useless "visualizer" that made graphic effects to music picked up by the microphone which is then put in the background and hidden - just to get around the rules. I have not added DLNA streaming yet because of these headaches.
Back before PayPal was merged with eBay and CC use became common, I used this method. Only drawback is that it's slower.
Buyer sends M.O., When it arrives, go to the P.O. to mail the item. Cash the M.O. and pay the postage. If the M.O. is bad or counterfeit, you know right then before your item leaves your hands.
What's in it for the buyer? Proof of payment. Besides, using the P.O. for fraud is a bad idea (for either party).
In the end, the employed will be US workers. So it's solving one issue. I'm just pointing out that stemming the flow of H1-Bs will shift the problem elsewhere. Employers really want to lower salaries - the whole purpose of H1-Bs - but getting US tech workers back to work is a good first step.
Lots of the layoffs that are occurring now are displacement of US workers to bring in outside consulting firms. These firms "just happen" to employ lots of H1-B workers. The consulting firms offer a lower cost to companies to run their IT departments because of their cheaper labor. Hiring the firm is loophole in the law, because the a US worker is not being displaced to bring in an H1-B, instead their department is being eliminated and outsourced.
What is proposed will bring the salaries of the workers at these firms up considerably, and they will no longer be able to offer any labor cost savings as a tool. They will have to use the skill set of their workforce instead. Let's see how that works out for them.
If a company truly can't find American workers with the required skills, if the imported labor actually has special skills, the company will be willing to *pay* for those skills. Companies wanting to import cheaper entry-level prpgrammers won't pay them $180,000 / year. That's why Trump's order is to prioritize H1-Bs by salary. You want to import someone and pay them $40K? Go to the back of the line. You're willing to pay $200K salary because there truly aren't any Americans available with those skills? You're at the front of the line.
I'm all for reforming the H1-B program, but the way this will be gamed -and it will, it's just a matter of time- is to find more ways to reduce salaries for tech workers.
Shortly after this reform goes into effect, there'll suddenly be a mysterious glut of previously non-existent qualified IT workers and software programmers that will "magically" appear out of thin air overnight, many hungry for a job. Hiring will slow down as companies hold off hiring looking for the cheapest candidates to cherry-pick, depressing wages and benefits in the process.
Not everywhere. One civilized country omitted from the list is Japan.
$10/day would be great compared to how much it would cost otherwise - it costs at least that much to rent a phone with service on top of that.
Why?
Because of their "screw you gaijin" laws that prevent non-residents from buying prepaid SIM cards for voice and text. You can get data SIMs, but they noticed the VOIP loophole and the days for that are now likely numbered. Why not do it like the EU where a passport is good enough ID?
I wonder what they'll do for the Olympics in 2020 when people visiting realize their phones will only work on expensive international roaming plans ($45 for 100MB, 100 min calls, and 100 outbound texts).
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Thieves will smash a car window to get a few coins in a car's cupholder.
There's no amount that's too little for them.
There are around 50 muslim-majority countries out there. Are you suggesting the EO banned all of them?
Are there any differentiating factors other than religion that separates the ones on the EO from the rest?
What you're suggesting is that when a bill is unconstitutional, rather than rejecting the bill the court must twist the meaning of the bill until they have something which is not unconstitutional, no matter how ridiculous that result may be.
For example: like how the Obamacare penalty isn't a tax? The intent was to call it a "mandate" and Obama outright rejected the idea it was a tax increase - so the intent was clear - until it was necessary for the SCOTUS to call it one to pass constitutional muster. So the court itself twisted the meaning against intent in this particular case.
We are talking pipelines, not the Exxon Valdez.
You don't want oil tanker spills? Make up your mind then.
Hey, we had a pipeline going across Alaska since the late 70's. With drunken idiots with guns trying to shoot holes in it and the occasional maintenance mishap leading to spills, Alaska has somehow not turned into a barren oil-soaked wasteland yet.
Republicans have never been big on consent.
Taken out of context. The line he said just before this was: "And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything." (emphasis mine)
This shows he has consent. Since he became a celebrity, he noticed women will let him do whatever he wants to do with them.
This is not sexual assault. It's the boorish behavior of a grade-a asshole.
Those guys all switched already. Back on January 20, 2017, to be exact.
No, they switched on June 5, 2004, April 22, 1994, and April 15th, 1865, respectively. That's how the Democrats roll..
It still bothers me the FAA knowingly tried to land grab, and forced a lot of people to pay for a registration, that they had no right to mandate.
Putting aside whether they had the right to do it or not, they allowed free registrations - and the free registration period did not expire until after the holidays, where lots of people would have gotten drones for presents. So everyone that had a drone on or before Jan 20, 2016 could register it for free. Even paid, we are talking $5 here. They could have easily made the fee so expensive it would have killed the market.
Saying you see no problem with someone getting an infection is very very far from threatening political violence.
The poster said nothing about "getting" an infection. The poster said they would not see anything wrong with "giving" him an infection. There's a difference between wishing ill on someone and supporting the idea of actively causing harm to someone.
"Julian Assange himself said the Russians didn't give him the emails"
MY SIDES!
Well if Julian said it it must be true right?
Yes, I remember all those bombshell announcements about Hillary's emails on the lead up to the election, all live streamed late at night (in the US). In the end, it was just another opportunity to watch some talking heads chat a while - and at the very end, Assange would briefly appear, pontificate about Wikileaks' mission, then auto-fellate himself.
They released a new model in 2015 that was thinner and more comfortable to use compared to the older ones.
It's still ridiculous they have a $149 MSRP on these things. Better calculators can be had for less, but when you have a monopoly locked in the schools, you charge what you want.
I do miss the old HP's though.
Why would you care? You'd be anesthetized and have a catheter inserted for the duration of the flight.
If they ban laptops and tablets, we can revisit the 90's where they charged for in-flight entertainment. No sense to do it now, but if the choice is to sit there for 8+ hours and stare at the free lice capades show on the seat in front of you or pay a fee for the use of the screen in front of you. Or they'll just bring back the weird headphone with the hollow tubes again.
I've travelled so much over the past few years I've finally learned to sleep on planes. So I actually don't use IFE anymore. I just put on my noise-cancelling headphones and read a book until I get tired if I don't just zonk out before the plane leaves the gate.
Oh yeah. That DARPA X-plane we saw only a few days ago here. Only the Germans made it a tad less ugly.
So how is this one different? Looks like exactly the same technology.
Saraba Yamato (Japan) is one of my personal favorites, even with the late 70's style animation. It's currently going through a reboot.
The original Yamato, known as Star Blazers in the US, went through a reboot as well a few years ago (Yamato 2199). It's not bad either - arguably better than the original.
Lots of treasure from that era. Leiji Matsumoto made wonderful films/series: Harlock - not the 2013 one, the 1970's one - (standing up for one's beliefs) and Galaxy Express 999 (what is it to be human?) are masterpieces.
Wow. The link got totally mangled by the editor.
Here's the original link that was messed up. The old GCC Theater skit. I still laugh when I see it.
I felt the same way.
Then again, I'm one of those old curmudgeons who felt the show "lost it" when Joel departed. Not that Mike's episodes were bad - they weren't, but I more personally connected with Joel's style on the show and missed it greatly. Who didn't go to the theater in the 70's and 80's and didn't appreciate this?
On the newest series, the biggest shock was not the new host, but when Gypsy spoke. I don't know if that voice changed happened earlier in the older series (I never watched the SyFy run), but when I did stop watching, Gypsy was still using that weird falsetto.
Perhaps,
But you can look at it this way:
With the "stop him at all costs" mantra in the press and running at all levels of the government, combined with the recent court cases regarding the executive orders targeting certain Muslim-majority countries, I'd expect California, Washington, and any other state with a lot of tech companies to file similar lawsuits because an H1-B ban would obviously be targeting people of Indian ancestry.
It would probably be a safer bet for him to get the SCOTUS back to a 5-4 conservative majority first, get his E.O. upheld, then pursue these goals.
Yes.
And for all the years I've been prodded by Verizon to sign up for their rewards program that gives you points in exchange for data mining your usage. They leave the balance sitting there, tempting me whenever I log in.
I should sign up and cash out all those points quickly before they shut it down, because there's no need for them to give up anything for this data now.
The Mac is a general purpose computing device. The dev tools (Xcode) are free. Yes, owning a Mac is a barrier to entry, same as a PC would be for other development targets, but Macs and PCs have many other uses aside from development.
You can write iOS apps at zero cost to you and test them in a decent simulator on the Mac. If you think you have something, you can then fork over the $99 and put it on the App Store. If you own a PC instead of a Mac, then the cost of entry is based on your personal choice of computer and your target market. Obviously Android or Microsoft targets are more cost-effective for you if you run Windows, not so much for me (aside from Android).
Let's see:
I'm a one man shop that does App development as a hobby while simultaneously maintaining a full time job. Having someone handle 24/7 hosting and billing and a sort of rudimentary QA on the final product (so the users will trust it better) is something of value. In many cases, costs and time would be prohibitive for a new, small shop to do all these things itself. So they do something for that 30% other than rubber stamp it.
Also, $99 is a pittance - how much do dev kits from Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft cost?
Now another poster pointing out that the rules are different for larger companies that develop on Apple's platform - yes they are. I see competing apps that violate the backgrounding policies (for good reasons) that I could never get away with if I tried.
One example is playing silent audio while streaming via DLNA from the iOS device to prevent the OS from putting the app to sleep after 10 minutes or so. A big company just does it and has done it for years without consequence. Another small developer in my niche needed to do this as well, but was forced by Apple to remove it unless there was a specific function for it. So the developer instead added a useless "visualizer" that made graphic effects to music picked up by the microphone which is then put in the background and hidden - just to get around the rules. I have not added DLNA streaming yet because of these headaches.
Be a Luddite and use US postal money orders.
Back before PayPal was merged with eBay and CC use became common, I used this method. Only drawback is that it's slower.
Buyer sends M.O., When it arrives, go to the P.O. to mail the item. Cash the M.O. and pay the postage. If the M.O. is bad or counterfeit, you know right then before your item leaves your hands.
What's in it for the buyer? Proof of payment. Besides, using the P.O. for fraud is a bad idea (for either party).
Not at all.
In the end, the employed will be US workers. So it's solving one issue. I'm just pointing out that stemming the flow of H1-Bs will shift the problem elsewhere. Employers really want to lower salaries - the whole purpose of H1-Bs - but getting US tech workers back to work is a good first step.
Lots of the layoffs that are occurring now are displacement of US workers to bring in outside consulting firms. These firms "just happen" to employ lots of H1-B workers. The consulting firms offer a lower cost to companies to run their IT departments because of their cheaper labor. Hiring the firm is loophole in the law, because the a US worker is not being displaced to bring in an H1-B, instead their department is being eliminated and outsourced.
What is proposed will bring the salaries of the workers at these firms up considerably, and they will no longer be able to offer any labor cost savings as a tool. They will have to use the skill set of their workforce instead. Let's see how that works out for them.
If a company truly can't find American workers with the required skills, if the imported labor actually has special skills, the company will be willing to *pay* for those skills. Companies wanting to import cheaper entry-level prpgrammers won't pay them $180,000 / year. That's why Trump's order is to prioritize H1-Bs by salary. You want to import someone and pay them $40K? Go to the back of the line. You're willing to pay $200K salary because there truly aren't any Americans available with those skills? You're at the front of the line.
I'm all for reforming the H1-B program, but the way this will be gamed -and it will, it's just a matter of time- is to find more ways to reduce salaries for tech workers.
Shortly after this reform goes into effect, there'll suddenly be a mysterious glut of previously non-existent qualified IT workers and software programmers that will "magically" appear out of thin air overnight, many hungry for a job. Hiring will slow down as companies hold off hiring looking for the cheapest candidates to cherry-pick, depressing wages and benefits in the process.
Now it's business as usual.
Not everywhere. One civilized country omitted from the list is Japan.
$10/day would be great compared to how much it would cost otherwise - it costs at least that much to rent a phone with service on top of that.
Why?
Because of their "screw you gaijin" laws that prevent non-residents from buying prepaid SIM cards for voice and text. You can get data SIMs, but they noticed the VOIP loophole and the days for that are now likely numbered. Why not do it like the EU where a passport is good enough ID?
I wonder what they'll do for the Olympics in 2020 when people visiting realize their phones will only work on expensive international roaming plans ($45 for 100MB, 100 min calls, and 100 outbound texts).