Do you defend every company which charges premium prices for a product where they limit your ability to do something every computer has been able to do for the last 50 years
Of course.
I will happily defend IKEA for selling me a chair that is limited from being able to do *anything* "every computer has been able to do for the last 50 years".
Except, you know, being sat on. If I can't sit on the chair, I'd be pretty unhappy. On the other hand, not every computer in the last 50 years has been large enough or flat enough to sit on. You gotta draw that line somewhere!
The article reports a drone altitude of 800-900 feet. Let's take the most pessimal separation from these numbers: 800 - 200 = 600. That gives them a buffer of 100 feet in which this was *NOT* even classifiable as a near miss; there was no danger of a drone to aircraft collision, unless you are claiming that the drone pilot intended to fly the drone into the DC-10 airtanker.
You will find elsewhere on the AHSAFA site that the aircraft do not "dive-bomb" the fires; a fully loaded airtanker had a heck of a lot of inertia, and it's not really an option; they are long, low runs. I refer you to the site however, because I doubt you'd trust my (anecdotal) personal experience with U.S. Forest Service airtankers.
How about we turn this around: Other than pirating commercial software or installing spyware, what do you lose by an inability to side-load without a jailbreak?
Really? That is a question? Is that how far we've fallen down the dumb consumer hole? How about being able to create and share programs on phones without the blessing of some magical corporate entity, or without someone having to fork over money for a developers license?
Perfectly doable, if you have source code to what's being shared, or if what's being shared is being distributed as linkable object files. Have you really not looked into current iPhone software development tools? It doesn't require paying the $99 fee to install whatever crap you want on your own device. The fee is for the ability to list on the App Store.
As opposed to downloading a remote access program from the store?
These programs have to be explicitly launched by the user themselves after each boot. In other words, they are about as dangerous as a tethered jailbreak, shich is to say: Not very.
This is about as FUD as it gets. The ability to side load is not a physical security exposure. If you have a lock screen then access is blocked in any case. If you don't have a lock screen, then the mythical walled garden won't protect you. Blocking side load only makes sense when it comes to protection from user error, and even then on Android you can side load single apps without enabling universal installation of apks so the only thing you're left with is user stupidity.
How about we turn this around: Other than pirating commercial software or installing spyware, what do you lose by an inability to side-load without a jailbreak?
the only thing i can think of that would get me to switch to ios over android would be if they came out of the box with the ability to sideload apps without jailbreaking
It has this. Just enroll the device as a developer device, and compile the code, or enroll it as a corporate device, if you want to use precompiled code you trust but that Apple won't allow into the App store because Apple doesn't trust it.
If you mean thing like side-loading just random crap, like if I were a private detective hired by your wife, and had 60 seconds of access to your iPhone, I could sideload some serious backdoor onto your phone to enable me to monitor your texts, phone calls, email, Facebook, and so on... I'm pretty sure no one wants someone else to be able to load that kind of crap on their phones, but if you can do it, they can do it, too.
I have an iPhone 1; it was given to me in 2007 as part of the Apple iPhone giveaway to employees.
It is now 8 years old. And using the original battery, and not having charge or capacity problems.
The only people who care about removable batteries are the people who want to have multiple batteries so that they can replace them in order to maintain a more or less continuous duty cycle for the device.
For those people, there are cases with integrated batteries they could use as an external power source.
If my church were being torn down for a telescope, I would of course protest.
However, I would protest when they were first tearing it down in 1967, and not wait until 37 years later, in 2004, to start protesting.
They've only been protesting about how holy the site is since about 2004. When it benefitted them in ways other than piety for them to do so. This is about trying to garner international attention for the monarchist movement in Hawaii, who would like to bring back the Kingdom of Hawaii, and are still pissed off about the deposition of Queen Liliuokalani, and the effective annexation of Hawaii in 1893.
Protesting a telescope gets media attention, even though there are already 13 telescopes on the site, operated by 11 nations, and they are in fact already the largest astronomical observatory on the planet. The only thing new about this one is that it was easier to latch onto the media attention, since the telescope in question was going to be very large, and was therefore already getting media attention.
Of course, assuming this was granted (thus setting the precedent for all non extinct indian nations to reclaim their lands within the U.S. as well), there would immediately be internecine warfare as to *who*, of the 10 groups claiming to have the "rightful" king or queen among their members, got to be the "official" one.
The specific primary issue was whether or not slavery would be prohibited in new territories when they became states, changing the balance of power between slave-holding and non slave-holding states. Prior to the election of Lincoln, the balance was maintained by inducting one non slave-holding state and one slave-holding state at the same time (paired statehood grants).
The South was not fearful of the existing slave states losing their slaves, they were fearful in a change in relative power between the two power blocks, and the election of Lincoln made this inevitable.
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was in fact a punitive action relative to the secessionists only, and only applied to the ten states then currently in rebellion. It is widely regarded as the proverbial "straw that broke the camels back", and was issued under the president's war powers, and thus necessarily excluded those areas not in rebellion. In other words, of the 4 million slaves currently held at the time, about 1 million of them were *not* freed by the proclamation, as they were within states not in open rebellion.
But nice try on your straw man argument.
Note: as a technical note, free persons who commit criminal acts *could* in fact be made slaves today through court action, since you may deny someone their liberty through due process of law. We just don't use this particular loophole within our justice system.
Once all the data is in the cloud... the only data breaches will be to the cloud itself. Because it becomes a tasty, tasty target.
I'm also positive that government regulators couldn't possibly find financial irregularities by grabbing you documents from the cloud service provider, since there's no such thing as contradictory laws which make it impossible to not be in violation of one or the other of them...
Perhaps they use thumbprints as opposed to swipe cards that students lose? When I was in elementary school we had the cards for our cash accounts and a friend lost his almost every week.
A little privation does wonders for a kids tendency to "lose" things...
"Sorry, Timmy... we see here that you were eating unhealthy food in 3rd grade which, even if we didn't know it at the time, was later determined to be a primary cause of hepatic liver failure 35 years later; under the provisions of the ACA 17.3, we're sadly going to have to deny you that new liver. If only you'd eaten the lime, instead of the cherry jello..."
Imagine a world where Wesley Snipes cuts off your poor innocent child's thumb to get a free lunch, instead of stealing their social security number and taking out a loan for a house, or something!
Actually, imagine a world where children are effectively indoctrinated from a young age to assume an unreliable and insecure technology is a valid means of personal identification, and therefore fail to question the validity of its pervasive use in later life.
Kinda like bank cards and PIN numbers, or using your credit card at Target, or assuming that chip-and-pin will fix all avenues of fraud and abuse.
All this means is that someone is willing to series 'B' a company for some absurd amount, which pumps up the TVPI, but since the companies feel no need to exit from their privately held status via IPO or allowing themselves to be acquired, the VCs are unable to cash out.
Typically this is true... but it's also an excuse the GPs (general partners, the people who control the financial decisions for the VC fund that did the backing) give to the LPs (limited partners, the people who fronted the money into the fund in the first place).
In general, this ignores two things:
(1) Private placement of the equity held by the fund.
Because the VCs are either seed round (typically, VCs are not seed round; they leave seed rounds to angel investors, unless they really believe in the team, have worked for them before, and think they can leverage the product they're working on to -- god, you made me say it! -- build synergy) or series A.
If they are series A, a private placement will net them a large profit. On the other hand, they have preferred shares, and if they can structure an acquisition or IPO exit, they can expect a 5-50X return compared to a private placement of the equity, because they get paid at whatever higher rate that can structure for their stock class.
So VC fund GPs are really reluctant to exit via private placement when they believe they have a huge payday on the horizon.
(2) Private fund equity exchange by one or more LPs.
In general, an LP is permitted to find someone to buy out their equity in the fund. This lets them realize a smaller return earlier, while allowing the GPs to keep the equity in their pocket until an IPO/acquisition exit. I am not aware of a fund LP agreement that doesn't permit this, but practically speaking, I'm sure there's some first time investors who have been snookered into this without having consulted a lawyer or an accountant. In practice, however, the LPs can get out, and realize some of the equity from the so-called "dry bubble gap", as a replacement LP comes in to assume the latency of the GPs waiting around. The catch on this is that most fund LPs are all-or-nothing, meaning you can only exit the fund, you can't exit only the unicorn part of the fund, and the GPs may not like you doing this enough that you are not asked to participated in the next fund.
So practically speaking, there's really no such thing as a "dry bubble gap"; the only reason they exist (and are called "dry") is that the funds are illiquid until such time as the GPs agree to exit, by whatever method. This prevents them from investing in new things, so a unicorn can soak up all of the theoretical equity value (as opposed to the initial fund value), preventing them from releasing DPI, and taking their LPs into the next fund so they can do new investments.
This is not a bubble. It's no fun for the VCs because they can't go out hunting new things to invest in because all of the LP capital they could theoretically spend is tied up... because of the decision by the VCs (fund GPs).
How exactly does the revenue destruction leverage calculation work as a business model? Blackmail?
How about "We'd like to get more customers out of India; we're willing to partner with you to deliver limited Internet service to a lot more people, which you can then use the fact that they now have mobile devices to upsell them on full Internet service, and to upsell them on SMS/MMS services. Alternately, our other option for increasing our customer base is to decrease the cost of WhatsApp in order to attract more customers. This would have the unfortunate side effect of you losing even more SMS/MMS revenue than you've already lost".
So... "That's not blackmail; that's such a dirty word; that's just smart business! Plus, you kn
You aren't going to get a Tier 1 unless you are an Olympic athlete, Linus Torvalds, or Craig Venter, etc.. Cap is 1,000/year.
You could *possibly* get a Tier 2, if you already had a job offer from a UK company. Cap is 20,700/year.
Intra-company transfers for an existing employer (e.g. IBM), limited to a year if you are making £40,000/year; call it $63,500 at todays exchange rate; this is generally not hard for someone employed by IBM, actually; I have a friend who went to the UK for IBM on one of those, and got her MBA at Oxford (IBM also paid for that, since it was business related).
If you have money (£200,000 for the business, plus your own living expenses), and can start a viable business, a Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) Visa is an option. It has to employ 2 EEA people, or you get kicked out after 2 years.
If you have *lots* of money (£1million), you can get an investment visa; you are not permitted to work any other job, other than managing your investments. I believe this means you can not do international consultancy or remote management of other assets. This is basically similar to the U.S. EB-5 "millionaires visa", by which you are able to (effectively) buy a U.S. green card if you are rich enough, and willing to pump a $750K or $800K house price up to $1M in the outer Sunset in SF (it's basically the reason real estate prices are so high in SF: 5,100 home sales in the Bay area this way each year, 1/3 go to 1,700 EB-5 visa winners, with the remaining 8,300 EB-5's going to other areas of the U.S. and inflating housing prices there, instead. Hint: it's not gentrification that's doing it.
Tier-3 you can't get (program is suspended); it's for things like swinging a hammer and other labor which is considered unskilled.
Tier-4 is a student visa; you aren't allowed to work more than 10 hours a week in most cases, generally granted for only one year, requires 15 hours/week study, you must agree to go home after, as a condition of the visa. This is probably not what you want.
Tier-5 is a temporary work visa with a sponsor; mostly, this is the artist/entertainer visa, but can also be for charity workers and things like Mormon missionaries. If you want one of these, your best bet is to run away and join the circus.:)
So basically: a heck of a lot less opportunity to go to the U.K. from the U.S. than the other way around.
"Can you drop Carol and Benji at the mall on your way to pick up the rest of the kids?
But it is on substantially the same route, just like other carpooling. Plus Mom might get gas money, but doesn't turn a profit no matter how many kids get dropped at the mall. No taxi medallion for Mom.
Just because one mom says "on your way" doesn't mean it's actually on the other mom's way.:) And potentially, it could turn a profit; it depends on how many kids she transports, and how many parents give her gas money for the entire journey simultaneously.
Generally, the soccer moms I knew made out enough to buy a bottle of wine.
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That's last year. It's been replaced by systemd.
Is systemd written in JQuery?
The obvious solution is to just make sure they never go out of business. Too big to fail.
I think you maybe mean "Too much personal data to fail"... which is an incredibly disturbing thought.
Do you defend every company which charges premium prices for a product where they limit your ability to do something every computer has been able to do for the last 50 years
Of course.
I will happily defend IKEA for selling me a chair that is limited from being able to do *anything* "every computer has been able to do for the last 50 years".
Except, you know, being sat on. If I can't sit on the chair, I'd be pretty unhappy. On the other hand, not every computer in the last 50 years has been large enough or flat enough to sit on. You gotta draw that line somewhere!
A near miss is defined as 500 feet:
http://flighttraining.aopa.org...
According to the American Helicopter Services & Aerial Firefighting Association, airtankers fly between 150 and 200 feet:
http://www.ahsafa.org/?page_id...
The article reports a drone altitude of 800-900 feet. Let's take the most pessimal separation from these numbers: 800 - 200 = 600. That gives them a buffer of 100 feet in which this was *NOT* even classifiable as a near miss; there was no danger of a drone to aircraft collision, unless you are claiming that the drone pilot intended to fly the drone into the DC-10 airtanker.
You will find elsewhere on the AHSAFA site that the aircraft do not "dive-bomb" the fires; a fully loaded airtanker had a heck of a lot of inertia, and it's not really an option; they are long, low runs. I refer you to the site however, because I doubt you'd trust my (anecdotal) personal experience with U.S. Forest Service airtankers.
How about we turn this around: Other than pirating commercial software or installing spyware, what do you lose by an inability to side-load without a jailbreak?
Really? That is a question? Is that how far we've fallen down the dumb consumer hole?
How about being able to create and share programs on phones without the blessing of some magical corporate entity, or without someone having to fork over money for a developers license?
Perfectly doable, if you have source code to what's being shared, or if what's being shared is being distributed as linkable object files. Have you really not looked into current iPhone software development tools? It doesn't require paying the $99 fee to install whatever crap you want on your own device. The fee is for the ability to list on the App Store.
As opposed to downloading a remote access program from the store?
These programs have to be explicitly launched by the user themselves after each boot. In other words, they are about as dangerous as a tethered jailbreak, shich is to say: Not very.
This is about as FUD as it gets. The ability to side load is not a physical security exposure. If you have a lock screen then access is blocked in any case. If you don't have a lock screen, then the mythical walled garden won't protect you. Blocking side load only makes sense when it comes to protection from user error, and even then on Android you can side load single apps without enabling universal installation of apks so the only thing you're left with is user stupidity.
How about we turn this around: Other than pirating commercial software or installing spyware, what do you lose by an inability to side-load without a jailbreak?
"This is a strength tester app. When I say 'go!', tap the screen as hard as you can!"
the only thing i can think of that would get me to switch to ios over android would be if they came out of the box with the ability to sideload apps without jailbreaking
It has this. Just enroll the device as a developer device, and compile the code, or enroll it as a corporate device, if you want to use precompiled code you trust but that Apple won't allow into the App store because Apple doesn't trust it.
If you mean thing like side-loading just random crap, like if I were a private detective hired by your wife, and had 60 seconds of access to your iPhone, I could sideload some serious backdoor onto your phone to enable me to monitor your texts, phone calls, email, Facebook, and so on ... I'm pretty sure no one wants someone else to be able to load that kind of crap on their phones, but if you can do it, they can do it, too.
The plane did not *have* to divert, the plane *chose* to divert, to make a point about drones.
If the drone was operating between 800 and 900 feet off the ground, it was well out of any potential collision zone.
An airtanker on a retardant run operates at an altitude of 150 to 200 feet.
I have an iPhone 1; it was given to me in 2007 as part of the Apple iPhone giveaway to employees.
It is now 8 years old. And using the original battery, and not having charge or capacity problems.
The only people who care about removable batteries are the people who want to have multiple batteries so that they can replace them in order to maintain a more or less continuous duty cycle for the device.
For those people, there are cases with integrated batteries they could use as an external power source.
You gotta explain how the ""straw that broke the camel's back"" occurred in the third year of the war.
It was more or less a series of border skirmishes (including a few port cities), until the proclamation.
This map animation demonstrates it better than I could with just words:
http://storymaps.esri.com/stor...
The proclamation more or less gave a mandate to penetrate deeply into the Southern states in order to enforce it.
If my church were being torn down for a telescope, I would of course protest.
However, I would protest when they were first tearing it down in 1967, and not wait until 37 years later, in 2004, to start protesting.
They've only been protesting about how holy the site is since about 2004. When it benefitted them in ways other than piety for them to do so. This is about trying to garner international attention for the monarchist movement in Hawaii, who would like to bring back the Kingdom of Hawaii, and are still pissed off about the deposition of Queen Liliuokalani, and the effective annexation of Hawaii in 1893.
Protesting a telescope gets media attention, even though there are already 13 telescopes on the site, operated by 11 nations, and they are in fact already the largest astronomical observatory on the planet. The only thing new about this one is that it was easier to latch onto the media attention, since the telescope in question was going to be very large, and was therefore already getting media attention.
Of course, assuming this was granted (thus setting the precedent for all non extinct indian nations to reclaim their lands within the U.S. as well), there would immediately be internecine warfare as to *who*, of the 10 groups claiming to have the "rightful" king or queen among their members, got to be the "official" one.
See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States
http://www.civilwar.org/educat...
The specific primary issue was whether or not slavery would be prohibited in new territories when they became states, changing the balance of power between slave-holding and non slave-holding states. Prior to the election of Lincoln, the balance was maintained by inducting one non slave-holding state and one slave-holding state at the same time (paired statehood grants).
The South was not fearful of the existing slave states losing their slaves, they were fearful in a change in relative power between the two power blocks, and the election of Lincoln made this inevitable.
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was in fact a punitive action relative to the secessionists only, and only applied to the ten states then currently in rebellion. It is widely regarded as the proverbial "straw that broke the camels back", and was issued under the president's war powers, and thus necessarily excluded those areas not in rebellion. In other words, of the 4 million slaves currently held at the time, about 1 million of them were *not* freed by the proclamation, as they were within states not in open rebellion.
But nice try on your straw man argument.
Note: as a technical note, free persons who commit criminal acts *could* in fact be made slaves today through court action, since you may deny someone their liberty through due process of law. We just don't use this particular loophole within our justice system.
If the Interior Ministry is upset about disruption of commerce, perhaps they should crack down on the taxi drivers?
Once all the data is in the cloud... the only data breaches will be to the cloud itself. Because it becomes a tasty, tasty target.
I'm also positive that government regulators couldn't possibly find financial irregularities by grabbing you documents from the cloud service provider, since there's no such thing as contradictory laws which make it impossible to not be in violation of one or the other of them...
And they own the current president.
Good way to load up on other kids' germs just before eating. Would you like some hepatitis with that?
Please mod parent either funny or insightful
Sadly, I am not sure which one is the better option.
They're trying to boil the frog, to slowly implement Beta... It never went away they're trying to fo
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Perhaps they use thumbprints as opposed to swipe cards that students lose? When I was in elementary school we had the cards for our cash accounts and a friend lost his almost every week.
A little privation does wonders for a kids tendency to "lose" things...
Just sayin'.
"Sorry, Timmy... we see here that you were eating unhealthy food in 3rd grade which, even if we didn't know it at the time, was later determined to be a primary cause of hepatic liver failure 35 years later; under the provisions of the ACA 17.3, we're sadly going to have to deny you that new liver. If only you'd eaten the lime, instead of the cherry jello..."
Imagine a world where Wesley Snipes cuts off your poor innocent child's thumb to get a free lunch, instead of stealing their social security number and taking out a loan for a house, or something!
Actually, imagine a world where children are effectively indoctrinated from a young age to assume an unreliable and insecure technology is a valid means of personal identification, and therefore fail to question the validity of its pervasive use in later life.
Kinda like bank cards and PIN numbers, or using your credit card at Target, or assuming that chip-and-pin will fix all avenues of fraud and abuse.
So... repair and refuel Hubble?
Or if they can't do that, let SpaceX go up on their own dime and claim salvage?
Or let Google contract a SpaceX flight or two, go up, and claim salvage?
Not just Cuban:
https://www.enterpriseirregulars.com/99491/dry-bubble-may-means/
Check out the charts.
All this means is that someone is willing to series 'B' a company for some absurd amount, which pumps up the TVPI, but since the companies feel no need to exit from their privately held status via IPO or allowing themselves to be acquired, the VCs are unable to cash out.
Typically this is true ... but it's also an excuse the GPs (general partners, the people who control the financial decisions for the VC fund that did the backing) give to the LPs (limited partners, the people who fronted the money into the fund in the first place).
In general, this ignores two things:
(1) Private placement of the equity held by the fund.
Because the VCs are either seed round (typically, VCs are not seed round; they leave seed rounds to angel investors, unless they really believe in the team, have worked for them before, and think they can leverage the product they're working on to -- god, you made me say it! -- build synergy) or series A.
If they are series A, a private placement will net them a large profit. On the other hand, they have preferred shares, and if they can structure an acquisition or IPO exit, they can expect a 5-50X return compared to a private placement of the equity, because they get paid at whatever higher rate that can structure for their stock class.
So VC fund GPs are really reluctant to exit via private placement when they believe they have a huge payday on the horizon.
(2) Private fund equity exchange by one or more LPs.
In general, an LP is permitted to find someone to buy out their equity in the fund. This lets them realize a smaller return earlier, while allowing the GPs to keep the equity in their pocket until an IPO/acquisition exit. I am not aware of a fund LP agreement that doesn't permit this, but practically speaking, I'm sure there's some first time investors who have been snookered into this without having consulted a lawyer or an accountant. In practice, however, the LPs can get out, and realize some of the equity from the so-called "dry bubble gap", as a replacement LP comes in to assume the latency of the GPs waiting around. The catch on this is that most fund LPs are all-or-nothing, meaning you can only exit the fund, you can't exit only the unicorn part of the fund, and the GPs may not like you doing this enough that you are not asked to participated in the next fund.
So practically speaking, there's really no such thing as a "dry bubble gap"; the only reason they exist (and are called "dry") is that the funds are illiquid until such time as the GPs agree to exit, by whatever method. This prevents them from investing in new things, so a unicorn can soak up all of the theoretical equity value (as opposed to the initial fund value), preventing them from releasing DPI, and taking their LPs into the next fund so they can do new investments.
This is not a bubble. It's no fun for the VCs because they can't go out hunting new things to invest in because all of the LP capital they could theoretically spend is tied up ... because of the decision by the VCs (fund GPs).
How exactly does the revenue destruction leverage calculation work as a business model? Blackmail?
How about "We'd like to get more customers out of India; we're willing to partner with you to deliver limited Internet service to a lot more people, which you can then use the fact that they now have mobile devices to upsell them on full Internet service, and to upsell them on SMS/MMS services. Alternately, our other option for increasing our customer base is to decrease the cost of WhatsApp in order to attract more customers. This would have the unfortunate side effect of you losing even more SMS/MMS revenue than you've already lost".
So ... "That's not blackmail; that's such a dirty word; that's just smart business! Plus, you kn
Relatively difficult to get a work visa for the UK:
http://www.visabureau.com/uk/i...
You aren't going to get a Tier 1 unless you are an Olympic athlete, Linus Torvalds, or Craig Venter, etc.. Cap is 1,000/year.
You could *possibly* get a Tier 2, if you already had a job offer from a UK company. Cap is 20,700/year.
Intra-company transfers for an existing employer (e.g. IBM), limited to a year if you are making £40,000/year; call it $63,500 at todays exchange rate; this is generally not hard for someone employed by IBM, actually; I have a friend who went to the UK for IBM on one of those, and got her MBA at Oxford (IBM also paid for that, since it was business related).
If you have money (£200,000 for the business, plus your own living expenses), and can start a viable business, a Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) Visa is an option. It has to employ 2 EEA people, or you get kicked out after 2 years.
If you have *lots* of money (£1million), you can get an investment visa; you are not permitted to work any other job, other than managing your investments. I believe this means you can not do international consultancy or remote management of other assets. This is basically similar to the U.S. EB-5 "millionaires visa", by which you are able to (effectively) buy a U.S. green card if you are rich enough, and willing to pump a $750K or $800K house price up to $1M in the outer Sunset in SF (it's basically the reason real estate prices are so high in SF: 5,100 home sales in the Bay area this way each year, 1/3 go to 1,700 EB-5 visa winners, with the remaining 8,300 EB-5's going to other areas of the U.S. and inflating housing prices there, instead. Hint: it's not gentrification that's doing it.
Tier-3 you can't get (program is suspended); it's for things like swinging a hammer and other labor which is considered unskilled.
Tier-4 is a student visa; you aren't allowed to work more than 10 hours a week in most cases, generally granted for only one year, requires 15 hours/week study, you must agree to go home after, as a condition of the visa. This is probably not what you want.
Tier-5 is a temporary work visa with a sponsor; mostly, this is the artist/entertainer visa, but can also be for charity workers and things like Mormon missionaries. If you want one of these, your best bet is to run away and join the circus. :)
So basically: a heck of a lot less opportunity to go to the U.K. from the U.S. than the other way around.
"Can you drop Carol and Benji at the mall on your way to pick up the rest of the kids?
But it is on substantially the same route, just like other carpooling. Plus Mom might get gas money, but doesn't turn a profit no matter how many kids get dropped at the mall. No taxi medallion for Mom.
Just because one mom says "on your way" doesn't mean it's actually on the other mom's way. :) And potentially, it could turn a profit; it depends on how many kids she transports, and how many parents give her gas money for the entire journey simultaneously.
Generally, the soccer moms I knew made out enough to buy a bottle of wine.