I migrated from the UK to live in California 10 years ago. I've been a permanent resident for over 5 years now. I can tell you that when you go through H1-B or any type of employment based VISA the INS checks your salary falls within a range and will deny your application if you are not in band.
This report is bogus trolling, utter rubbish.
I can also tell you when I moved here I was making more than many of my American counterparts, experience counts baby !
An H1-B fresh out of Uni will definitely be paid less than an H1-B with 20 years experience, same goes for citizens. Companies are also not this dumb. The INS WILL investigate your company and WILL cause a whole pant load of trouble if you do this. However, I suspect H1's are not asking for signing bonuses, massive stock grants and obscene moving expenses.
In the UK I was blissfully unaware of all of those. I moved here by fedexing my most treasured possesions, sold the rest and showed up with a suitcase and re-bought everything I needed.
I think they reimbursed me for around a total of $500 - $600 and paid for the air ticket. I've hired people moving from Seattle to the bay area that have presented me with $20k in moving expenses.
$49.95 here for the order of the phoenix and $249 for the complete potter.
I've recently realized that the audibooks I was buying from iTunes were less than optimal. I bought all the twilight zones and several physics books, including the fabric of spacetime.
I discovered that many of them can be rented on CD from BlackStoneAudio.com for 30 days at a time for about $18 The Dracula I was itching to buy from iTunes ($50) is $18 to rent on CD from BlackStone It also turns out that my local library has a bunch of audio books on CD to loan out.
Maybe these suggestions can help you source it for a more reasonable cost.
It's a fascinating peice of commentary, but it leaves the reader wondering who is really the magha ?
Is it the fat well off white American in his middle class 4 bedroom house in a nice neighborhood, mercedes in the garage, or is it the scamming black kid living in squalor with some other scammer trying to sell his house from underneath him ?
It's a rhetorical question, clearly something is wrong in Nigeria and these supposedly smart kids are just making it worse for their fellow countrymen.
They could be using their computer skills for the betterment of their country, rather than trying to rob and fuckover the better off.
I suspect the real Magha here are the 419'er themselves, for every dollar they steal from an American they are hurting the own country 10 times.
Your $6+ a gallon in the UK has lead to major protests and road blockages costing the UK taxpayer billions of pounds. Do you even know how much tax you pay on a gallon (well, litre in the UK) ? I bet not. I know EXACTLY how much I pay on a gallon of 91 here in California, it's printed on the gas pump, by law. 18cents to California, 18.9 to the Feds, plus 8.25% sales tax.
I also happen to know that out of your (last I heard 95p / litre) you pay around 70p in tax. Something is seriously wrong with this picture.
I'm a Brit, I live in California now, but I'm absolutely disgusted everytime I go back to the UK and see how much the government is reaming the average guy. I mean, you have much more economical cars than us, but you are still paying huge amounts of tax on your fuel.
As much as people here disagree, Thompson is, in fact, correct.
I also believe these games are glorifying violence against not only cops, but others too. I happen to own GTA and Vice City and have played them both on many occasions and they certainly are obsessive games. I can image someone of weaker mind or great obession could easily be lead by this to do something horrific and not really know the difference between it and real life.
And, yes, the kids on PennyArcade probably are hassasing him for his point of view, which differs from theirs.
I'm happy with Vim. I use it all the time, it's my editor of choice. I've worked in many shops, some emacs and some vi, and heard all the religious comments about both (over the last 20 years)
I have to say that the above is probably the silliest I've heard in a long time though. Just because you have not taken the time to learn either of these great editors, but instead are happy to pipe X over an SSH connection so you can 'point-click-drool', doesn't really qualify you to dismiss them.
You really don't need to learn much to make good headway on both these editors, you'll become a capable very quickly, assuming you have the capacity in you to begin with.
Also, it'll improve your sex life, make your cell phone battery last a month and you'll be able leap tall buildings in a single bound.
I've written many letters of complaint to various orgs (BBB, FTC, Local Police) etc about both Ebay and PayPal, especially PayPal. Ebay and PayPal are rife with fraud and do nothing to protect their customers. These companies should be held responsible for the staggering amount of fraud their companies facilitate.
Write to your local congressman, the FTC and BBB and tell them that you think PayPal behaves like a bank and you believe it should be treated like a bank. Also let them know that Ebay is littered with fraud and does shockingly little to stop it, despite being in the best position to do so.
It seems all my spam comes from China and Europe. I'm trying to think of a reason why I give a crap if they go it alone.
Seriously, it's not in their interests, they are just bluffing. The US is the biggest consumer in the world and a large amount of money is spent on the internet. If the EU and others decide to cut themselves off, then so be it, the US market will buy locally, from the US (which I can't help but think is a good idea anyway).
So, bring it on EU, cut yourselves off (at the knees)
Perhaps the issue at heart here is not that Apple bought chips at below market levels (Yes, I've seen the Toshiba posts), but perhaps that some Korean company has complained (lobbied the government) that they now are having to buy chips at an increased rate and the christmas goodies are not in jeopardy.
This seems more likely to me. I'm sure apple has bought futures on flash and can ride out any price differential, just like the smart airline companies (should) have done with jet fuel (not American, United, Southwest etc).
I'd be surprised if apple does not have people that work global analysis of such purchases and buy up options. I know I would if I were buying up 40% stock of flash from some companies.
If it were me (and I'm not a finance person) I'd buy up options on more than I needed and sell those options at many times the face value once the world realized (as we approach christmas) that there is a shortage of flash because "apple" is buying them all. I bet Apple is not only making $199 on your ipod nano purchase, but also a few extra bucks per nano on the futures market just because your ipod is sucking up flash.
I wish I'd taken finance at school instead of dicking around with a liquid lunch and an irrational particle accelerator.
Then, before posting, why don't you actually go ahead and RTFA, maybe you could answer your own questions. This place is full of too many armchair econmists, armchair politicians, armchair etc...
Not aiming at you individually, but I do wish people would actually read the fucking article before talking about it.
Presumably you ended up buying a verizon or sprint phone that are notoriously crippled. Consider buying a more mainstream GSM based phone. The GSM phones are less likely to be futzed with by the carriers.
I'm a contractor (just switched about a month ago actually) Firstly, I really enjoy it (I'm a firmware guy) and so far I've spent massive amounts of time just getting my own gear to work in my home office. Dead boards, making damn cables, etc all eat into your time.
Anyway, my health care is through ehealthinsurance something or other (google it)
I got it online and it was approved within a couple of days. I'm a single fella, 37, non smoker, fairly active chap and a PPO with a $4k deductible and PPO dentist costs me $101 / month. Pretty good I think. I have no kids or anything like that though.
Heads up, it IS theft, get used to it.
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No doubt some pseudo mod here will mod me down, but I have a point to make and make it I shall.
I know that a number of individuals here believe that copyright infringement is not theft but I think they are not understanding what they are doing.
1. They take something that does not belong to them (whether material or not) - That's theft. 2. They take a legally purchased CD and upload it onto some shabby p2p network although they didn't get permission from the author. - That's copyright infringement, which is a crime.
What part of this is not illegal ?
Show me somewhere in the law that states this is OK. I'll point at someplace it's stated that it's not OK... like right on the back of the damn CD's folks.
It's theft. Theft is illegal. The lawyers (no matter how heavy handed they appear) are going to make you pay. The P2P networks know it, the majority of people know it, I know it, but somehow the dullards here believe it's 'morally' ok and so the law should not apply to them.
I know it tastes bad that a 14 year old kid is in court and probably going to have the worst time of her life, but basically she IS old enough to have known better.
a) Not many, SWIFT detects between 30 and 300 a year, only a handful a year from our galaxy (I think) b) From less than a second, to a few seconds. VERY brief. c) A decent magentar flare or decent neutron merger within 10 light years would be enough to disrupt life (read species would die out)
The nearest magnetars are 4000-5000 light years away.
It does beg the question thoughL Which poor people got burned on this burst ?
A GRB of this size within 10 light years would be enough to disrupt (read species die out) on earth. The nearest worrying sources, magnetars, around 4000-5000 light years away.
Please, please, please, do a little google searching before opening your mouth.
A quick google search shows this text everywhere, still funny though.
I love the part about "Chistian Rock" - Amazing. I suppose my current Black Sabbath track would have me going "straigh to hell", shame, I wanted to take the scenic route.
I've never had a problem getting cingular to unlock a phone. I've done 5 or 6 with them. You have to be in good standing with them. The only people that have trouble are ex AT&T customers as AT&T had a policy of zero unlocking.
I doubt that it's Cingular the article is referring to.
Since the poster mentioned (linked no less) several items in the original post to his church, god and all that general voodoo stuff one can only assume he's heading down to recruit.
The last thing I'd want if I was in the same position would be some bible thumper pestering me to "repent" and accept "jesus as my savior" while I'm attempting to dig a hole bury the remains of the family cat and slop out the entire downstairs of human exrement and oil.
I'm an athiest, and I've found that most of the SMART people are too. It's the dummies that need a moral crutch or something to blame that need the incessant chanting from these witch doctors.
First off, I signed up for the DNC list and still got calls. Didn't work for me. I don't really get angry at these people I simply lead them on and ask lots of questions, keep em on the phone for absolutely AGES and AGES and then finally tell them I'm not interested and please remove me from their lists.
On several occasions the caller has got really pissed off and used abusive language to me and then hung up. I'm cool with that, it's them that called me and attempted to waste my time. Well, now we both wasted time, and since it's on their dime, tough luck buddy.
If a chick calls you, ask her what she's wearing - I guarantee she'll hang up.
For all the telemarketers here that are defending the practice, shees, when you grow up and get past 18 years of age you will realize what the rest of us are talking about.
My second approach, after I got bored of pretending I was 90 years old and didn't understand or using amazingly awful foriegn accents or making them wait on the phone for 10 mins while I made a cup of tea or I pretending I was a retard or something, was to dump my home phone and just use my mobile as my only number.
I never get calls on that, the telemarketers are well aware that this is a big no no.
I don't see a problem with the RIAA suing people. If someone steals the programs I write for a living then whether they like my employer or not I'd like to see them sued. Your argument of saying the RIAA doesn't support the rights of the artist (your comment about the $0.01 to $0.03 - which I don't beleive anyway) is flawed. The person stealing (downloading) the music is compounding the effect, not somehow magically ethically being right.
If the 13 year old kid across the street was caught stealing my net connection or leeching off my electricity or cable, I'd expect him to have his ass handed to him.
The problem is that the kids today are not disciplined and are brought up to believe that they can have anything they want and that the establishment is bad. They believe that because they don't feel bad stealing the music (they believe, as you seem to, that's it's not very high on the ethically wrong scale) that they are in the right and somehow legitimatized because so many people are also doing it.
I'm older than most here on Slashdot, I'm 37, and I use iTunes to buy all my music now, I don't use any of the illegal sites and actively want to support the artists that make the music I like. Just because they get a small amount of the $0.99 I pay, doesn't mean they get 0.
I'd bet that this kid will be sued directly by the RIAA now. Guess what, the RIAA will win the case too, (if she did in fact steal the music).
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Last time I looked at VS it was impossible to open two code windows on the screen at once and cut and paste code between them.
That would be high on my list of things to need. Oh, and I don't care about drag n drool interfaces.
I migrated from the UK to live in California 10 years ago. I've been a permanent resident for over 5 years now.
I can tell you that when you go through H1-B or any type of employment based VISA the INS checks your salary falls within a range and will deny your application if you are not in band.
This report is bogus trolling, utter rubbish.
I can also tell you when I moved here I was making more than many of my American counterparts, experience counts baby !
An H1-B fresh out of Uni will definitely be paid less than an H1-B with 20 years experience, same goes for citizens.
Companies are also not this dumb. The INS WILL investigate your company and WILL cause a whole pant load of trouble if you do this.
However, I suspect H1's are not asking for signing bonuses, massive stock grants and obscene moving expenses.
In the UK I was blissfully unaware of all of those. I moved here by fedexing my most treasured possesions, sold the rest and showed up with a suitcase and re-bought everything I needed.
I think they reimbursed me for around a total of $500 - $600 and paid for the air ticket.
I've hired people moving from Seattle to the bay area that have presented me with $20k in moving expenses.
Doh !
$49.95 here for the order of the phoenix and $249 for the complete potter.
I've recently realized that the audibooks I was buying from iTunes were less than optimal.
I bought all the twilight zones and several physics books, including the fabric of spacetime.
I discovered that many of them can be rented on CD from BlackStoneAudio.com for 30 days at a time for about $18
The Dracula I was itching to buy from iTunes ($50) is $18 to rent on CD from BlackStone
It also turns out that my local library has a bunch of audio books on CD to loan out.
Maybe these suggestions can help you source it for a more reasonable cost.
Count yourself luck there is no paypal.
PayPal are a bunch of lying theiving scumbags.
That's OK, because it appears you pay 26% less for your education "than what the americans do".
It's a fascinating peice of commentary, but it leaves the reader wondering who is really the magha ?
Is it the fat well off white American in his middle class 4 bedroom house in a nice neighborhood, mercedes in the garage, or is it the scamming black kid living in squalor with some other scammer trying to sell his house from underneath him ?
It's a rhetorical question, clearly something is wrong in Nigeria and these supposedly smart kids are just making it worse for their fellow countrymen.
They could be using their computer skills for the betterment of their country, rather than trying to rob and fuckover the better off.
I suspect the real Magha here are the 419'er themselves, for every dollar they steal from an American they are hurting the own country 10 times.
Your $6+ a gallon in the UK has lead to major protests and road blockages costing the UK taxpayer billions of pounds.
Do you even know how much tax you pay on a gallon (well, litre in the UK) ? I bet not.
I know EXACTLY how much I pay on a gallon of 91 here in California, it's printed on the gas pump, by law. 18cents to California, 18.9 to the Feds, plus 8.25% sales tax.
I also happen to know that out of your (last I heard 95p / litre) you pay around 70p in tax. Something is seriously wrong with this picture.
I'm a Brit, I live in California now, but I'm absolutely disgusted everytime I go back to the UK and see how much the government is reaming the average guy. I mean, you have much more economical cars than us, but you are still paying huge amounts of tax on your fuel.
Why ?
WindRivers vxWorks debugger is GDB, just like Linux.
As much as people here disagree, Thompson is, in fact, correct.
I also believe these games are glorifying violence against not only cops, but others too.
I happen to own GTA and Vice City and have played them both on many occasions and they certainly are obsessive games.
I can image someone of weaker mind or great obession could easily be lead by this to do something horrific and not really know the difference between it and real life.
And, yes, the kids on PennyArcade probably are hassasing him for his point of view, which differs from theirs.
I'm happy with Vim. I use it all the time, it's my editor of choice. I've worked in many shops, some emacs and some vi, and heard all the religious comments about both (over the last 20 years)
I have to say that the above is probably the silliest I've heard in a long time though.
Just because you have not taken the time to learn either of these great editors, but instead are happy to pipe X over an SSH connection so you can 'point-click-drool', doesn't really qualify you to dismiss them.
You really don't need to learn much to make good headway on both these editors, you'll become a capable very quickly, assuming you have the capacity in you to begin with.
Also, it'll improve your sex life, make your cell phone battery last a month and you'll be able leap tall buildings in a single bound.
I've written many letters of complaint to various orgs (BBB, FTC, Local Police) etc about both Ebay and PayPal, especially PayPal.
Ebay and PayPal are rife with fraud and do nothing to protect their customers. These companies should be held responsible for the staggering amount of fraud their companies facilitate.
Write to your local congressman, the FTC and BBB and tell them that you think PayPal behaves like a bank and you believe it should be treated like a bank. Also let them know that Ebay is littered with fraud and does shockingly little to stop it, despite being in the best position to do so.
It seems all my spam comes from China and Europe.
I'm trying to think of a reason why I give a crap if they go it alone.
Seriously, it's not in their interests, they are just bluffing.
The US is the biggest consumer in the world and a large amount of money is spent on the internet. If the EU and others decide to cut themselves off, then so be it, the US market will buy locally, from the US (which I can't help but think is a good idea anyway).
So, bring it on EU, cut yourselves off (at the knees)
Perhaps the issue at heart here is not that Apple bought chips at below market levels (Yes, I've seen the Toshiba posts), but perhaps that some Korean company has complained (lobbied the government) that they now are having to buy chips at an increased rate and the christmas goodies are not in jeopardy.
This seems more likely to me.
I'm sure apple has bought futures on flash and can ride out any price differential, just like the smart airline companies (should) have done with jet fuel (not American, United, Southwest etc).
I'd be surprised if apple does not have people that work global analysis of such purchases and buy up options.
I know I would if I were buying up 40% stock of flash from some companies.
If it were me (and I'm not a finance person) I'd buy up options on more than I needed and sell those options at many times the face value once the world realized (as we approach christmas) that there is a shortage of flash because "apple" is buying them all. I bet Apple is not only making $199 on your ipod nano purchase, but also a few extra bucks per nano on the futures market just because your ipod is sucking up flash.
I wish I'd taken finance at school instead of dicking around with a liquid lunch and an irrational particle accelerator.
Then, before posting, why don't you actually go ahead and RTFA, maybe you could answer your own questions.
This place is full of too many armchair econmists, armchair politicians, armchair etc...
Not aiming at you individually, but I do wish people would actually read the fucking article before talking about it.
Presumably you ended up buying a verizon or sprint phone that are notoriously crippled.
Consider buying a more mainstream GSM based phone. The GSM phones are less likely to be futzed with by the carriers.
I'm a contractor (just switched about a month ago actually)
Firstly, I really enjoy it (I'm a firmware guy) and so far I've spent massive amounts of time just getting my own gear to work in my home office.
Dead boards, making damn cables, etc all eat into your time.
Anyway, my health care is through ehealthinsurance something or other (google it)
I got it online and it was approved within a couple of days.
I'm a single fella, 37, non smoker, fairly active chap and a PPO with a $4k deductible and PPO dentist costs me $101 / month.
Pretty good I think. I have no kids or anything like that though.
No doubt some pseudo mod here will mod me down, but I have a point to make and make it I shall.
I know that a number of individuals here believe that copyright infringement is not theft but I think they are not understanding what they are doing.
1. They take something that does not belong to them (whether material or not) - That's theft.
2. They take a legally purchased CD and upload it onto some shabby p2p network although they didn't get permission from the author. - That's copyright infringement, which is a crime.
What part of this is not illegal ?
Show me somewhere in the law that states this is OK. I'll point at someplace it's stated that it's not OK... like right on the back of the damn CD's folks.
It's theft. Theft is illegal. The lawyers (no matter how heavy handed they appear) are going to make you pay.
The P2P networks know it, the majority of people know it, I know it, but somehow the dullards here believe it's 'morally' ok and so the law should not apply to them.
I know it tastes bad that a 14 year old kid is in court and probably going to have the worst time of her life, but basically she IS old enough to have known better.
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a) Not many, SWIFT detects between 30 and 300 a year, only a handful a year from our galaxy (I think)
b) From less than a second, to a few seconds. VERY brief.
c) A decent magentar flare or decent neutron merger within 10 light years would be enough to disrupt life (read species would die out)
The nearest magnetars are 4000-5000 light years away.
It does beg the question thoughL Which poor people got burned on this burst ?
Did you read the article at all ?
This gamma ray burst was from within our galaxy !
A GRB of this size within 10 light years would be enough to disrupt (read species die out) on earth.
The nearest worrying sources, magnetars, around 4000-5000 light years away.
Please, please, please, do a little google searching before opening your mouth.
If I had mod points I'd mod this as funny.
A quick google search shows this text everywhere, still funny though.
I love the part about "Chistian Rock" - Amazing. I suppose my current Black Sabbath track would have me going "straigh to hell", shame, I wanted to take the scenic route.
I've never had a problem getting cingular to unlock a phone. I've done 5 or 6 with them.
You have to be in good standing with them.
The only people that have trouble are ex AT&T customers as AT&T had a policy of zero unlocking.
I doubt that it's Cingular the article is referring to.
Since the poster mentioned (linked no less) several items in the original post to his church, god and all that general voodoo stuff one can only assume he's heading down to recruit.
The last thing I'd want if I was in the same position would be some bible thumper pestering me to "repent" and accept "jesus as my savior" while I'm attempting to dig a hole bury the remains of the family cat and slop out the entire downstairs of human exrement and oil.
I'm an athiest, and I've found that most of the SMART people are too. It's the dummies that need a moral crutch or something to blame that need the incessant chanting from these witch doctors.
First off, I signed up for the DNC list and still got calls. Didn't work for me. I don't really get angry at these people I simply lead them on and ask lots of questions, keep em on the phone for absolutely AGES and AGES and then finally tell them I'm not interested and please remove me from their lists.
On several occasions the caller has got really pissed off and used abusive language to me and then hung up. I'm cool with that, it's them that called me and attempted to waste my time. Well, now we both wasted time, and since it's on their dime, tough luck buddy.
If a chick calls you, ask her what she's wearing - I guarantee she'll hang up.
For all the telemarketers here that are defending the practice, shees, when you grow up and get past 18 years of age you will realize what the rest of us are talking about.
My second approach, after I got bored of pretending I was 90 years old and didn't understand or using amazingly awful foriegn accents or making them wait on the phone for 10 mins while I made a cup of tea or I pretending I was a retard or something, was to dump my home phone and just use my mobile as my only number.
I never get calls on that, the telemarketers are well aware that this is a big no no.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Ha, ha, ha, ha ha ha.
Hope they all enjoy it in jail.
I don't see a problem with the RIAA suing people.
If someone steals the programs I write for a living then whether they like my employer or not I'd like to see them sued.
Your argument of saying the RIAA doesn't support the rights of the artist (your comment about the $0.01 to $0.03 - which I don't beleive anyway) is flawed. The person stealing (downloading) the music is compounding the effect, not somehow magically ethically being right.
If the 13 year old kid across the street was caught stealing my net connection or leeching off my electricity or cable, I'd expect him to have his ass handed to him.
The problem is that the kids today are not disciplined and are brought up to believe that they can have anything they want and that the establishment is bad. They believe that because they don't feel bad stealing the music (they believe, as you seem to, that's it's not very high on the ethically wrong scale) that they are in the right and somehow legitimatized because so many people are also doing it.
I'm older than most here on Slashdot, I'm 37, and I use iTunes to buy all my music now, I don't use any of the illegal sites and actively want to support the artists that make the music I like. Just because they get a small amount of the $0.99 I pay, doesn't mean they get 0.
I'd bet that this kid will be sued directly by the RIAA now. Guess what, the RIAA will win the case too, (if she did in fact steal the music).