I'm wondering if this is actually news (e.g. that enforcement is starting to happen) or if this has been going on and just not reported? H1-B visa fraud is nothing new. There's videos on youtube with lawyers talking about strategies to game the system. I've known people laid off and promptly replaced by H1-Bs, which by definition is illegal since there was already a qualified American.
So I gotta ask, is this really news? Or just reporting?
Yeah, they kinda do. They own the House, Senate & Presidency. They mostly own the Supreme Court and will after Gourch gets appointed (Dems don't have the votes to stop it and the Repubs can change the filibuster rules with their votes).
Face it, we handed them a blank check when we elected Trump. They don't always have the balls to cash it (their first round of billionaire tax cuts in the guise of Health Care failed) but they've got it. In two years time we've got a chance to revoke that check in the mid-terms. But I'm guessing the Dems will make us feel bad (nobody likes paying taxes) and you'll let it roll...
There just aren't a lot of games coming out if you don't count download only indies. Gamestop's built off used games. But if there's only 3-5 new games a month and more than half are shovelware with low resale values you're gonna hurt. Add to that most of the big releases are multi-player focused (Overwatch, Battlefield One, For Honor, Star Wars Battlefront) and that DLC is driving the industry (EA makes more off DLC than the original game sales). Also people play the same games a _lot_. For Honor is designed for about 5000 hours of play before everything unlocks (Ubisoft's getting flak for that).
The game industry is changing and retailers are getting pushed out. I don't think there's really a solution to that.
that's not how it works. You make a guess about how likely you are to get in trouble for those people's deaths and use that to decide how many times to measure. If somebody's irreplaceable (either because they're a genius or just really,really rich) you don't risk them. I'm not being flippant. That really is how it works. And we've got centuries of business rules and relations to fall back on as proof. Hell, looks at Flint MI's water supply. Or the process of approving drugs and the high profile failures there. Or if you want to get really famous that monologue from the beginning of Fight Club.
I made a mess of my life and don't have a college degree. OTOH if I'd graduated college I probably wouldn't have noticed how bad things are in America. I'd be making enough money I could have weathered the storms that hit me. OTOH again if I was the sort of person that coulda got through a college degree I probably wouldn't have had those storms (which were mostly caused by bad decisions made by family members I couldn't see myself abandoning. Shit happens).
That's the trouble with there being no safety net...
for a fraction of the cost of a boxed retail release. Usually around 87% off (no kidding, $5-$7.50 vs $60). Either that or I'm buying a niche title (like GG Xrd) where I can't really complain about the premium I'm paying since the base sales will be low. On a console if I buy a used disk I might get $20-$30 off that $60 price point (I paid $27 for a copy of Marvel vs Capcom 3 for PS3 used years after release).
So yeah, I'm giving up the ability to sell/share it but I'm paying a fraction of the cost.
They've been trying to murder Netflix for years and replace them with their own (pay-per-play) systems. That's not escalating tensions, that's a life or death battle. You saw the same thing when the ACA threatened to bring single payer to the insurance companies here in the states. They're fighting for their life.
not sure what that means. Anyway, of course the quality is low. They're suffering brain drain to other countries. You're not gonna work as a rank & file programmer for $8600 when you can get an H1-B an earn 13 times that in San Francisco, do that for a few years and either get a green card or come back to your home country loaded. It doesn't help that India is a sub-optimal place to live (dirty air, rampant corruption at the local level, etc, etc).
The Win 10 uninstall was pretty painless. This smacks of a bunch of lawyers ready to get a nice big payout anyway. It's exactly the sort of thing a class action shouldn't be granted for.
what do the ruling class, who are ordering all this, care about a few dead cops? That guy with the sniper rifle accomplished less than nothing. He's put the police on edge and given credit to the notion that blacks are dangerous thugs. He'll be used by the right wing pro-corporate press to push their agenda for decades to come. Meanwhile the folks that set up the system he wanted to bring down are safe and snug in their compounds with private security carrying military grade weapons.
in America. We pretend to. We've been attacking 'useless bureaucracy' for 30+ years. Mostly because we don't like waiting in line t the DMV. But instead of shorter lines for our kids' drivers license we get phony medicine and lead in our water.
in the thread, but that's not how youtube sells the service. They tell advertisers that their analytics will target advertising exactly as the advertiser wants. And it will. Google will fix this and it'll become part of youtube. And yes, that means you won't be able to make money spouting controversial opinions without qualification on Youtube anymore unless you start a patreon.
and it hasn't been. Ever. You're full of it and spouting a right wing talking point used to shut down attempts to attack what is very plainly attempts to legitimize violent racism once again. Piss off.
I care about productivity. It's easy enough to measure that and if this works, businesses will do it. In the few places where there's competition for workers left you won't see this crap, but for us rank and file we'll suck it down. Especially as outsourcing, H1-Bs and automation devour job opportunities in a world where quality of life is increasingly tied to your job.
Since you're basically asking for more government intervention (stronger privacy laws) to government style takeovers (e.g. Communism).
Yeah, I'm baiting you. But I'm doing it because I'm annoyed that you're instantly equating something you don't like (being monitored by a private company you work for) with something else you don't like (government telling you to do things you don't want to do).
It's something I see a _lot_ here in America. Folks are all for Government doing the things they want but if it's something their opposed to (Gun Control, Abortion legislation/regulation, paying your taxes so folks can have clean water, take your pick) they cry out oppression and demand somebody cut, cut cut that evil bureaucracy. It's hypocritical and it's one of the reasons why we can't have Nice Things (tm).
Basically, everybody wants government on their side but as soon as they have to pony up tax dollars to make it work for somebody else they're all being oppressed.
I want it wrecked. It's destruction would benefit me, and after 30 years of taking it in the shorts on wages, benefits, education, healthcare and everything else that really matters I don't care anymore. Let it burn. Let it all burn.
And that, ladies and gents, is what elected Trump. Americans _want_ that wrecking ball.
they're thinking long term too. H1-Bs let them cut education funding without losing their trained workforce. It moves the training costs overseas. It also makes employees disposable. You don't care if they quit, there's another batch ready and waiting.
As an employee and a member of the working class you're only thinking in terms of wages. The ruling class have a much, much broader picture of the economy...
because of a temporary drop in oil prices (we're a long way off from oil becoming worthless) why the heck are they doing so bad? I'm not gonna chuck if up to gov't corruption because _everywhere_ has that. Usually the rest of the world will send some aid to a country floundering like this. Heck even Greece got some. Did they piss everybody off somehow?
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I'm wondering if this is actually news (e.g. that enforcement is starting to happen) or if this has been going on and just not reported? H1-B visa fraud is nothing new. There's videos on youtube with lawyers talking about strategies to game the system. I've known people laid off and promptly replaced by H1-Bs, which by definition is illegal since there was already a qualified American.
So I gotta ask, is this really news? Or just reporting?
Yeah, they kinda do. They own the House, Senate & Presidency. They mostly own the Supreme Court and will after Gourch gets appointed (Dems don't have the votes to stop it and the Repubs can change the filibuster rules with their votes).
Face it, we handed them a blank check when we elected Trump. They don't always have the balls to cash it (their first round of billionaire tax cuts in the guise of Health Care failed) but they've got it. In two years time we've got a chance to revoke that check in the mid-terms. But I'm guessing the Dems will make us feel bad (nobody likes paying taxes) and you'll let it roll...
of winning.
There just aren't a lot of games coming out if you don't count download only indies. Gamestop's built off used games. But if there's only 3-5 new games a month and more than half are shovelware with low resale values you're gonna hurt. Add to that most of the big releases are multi-player focused (Overwatch, Battlefield One, For Honor, Star Wars Battlefront) and that DLC is driving the industry (EA makes more off DLC than the original game sales). Also people play the same games a _lot_. For Honor is designed for about 5000 hours of play before everything unlocks (Ubisoft's getting flak for that).
The game industry is changing and retailers are getting pushed out. I don't think there's really a solution to that.
that's not how it works. You make a guess about how likely you are to get in trouble for those people's deaths and use that to decide how many times to measure. If somebody's irreplaceable (either because they're a genius or just really,really rich) you don't risk them. I'm not being flippant. That really is how it works. And we've got centuries of business rules and relations to fall back on as proof. Hell, looks at Flint MI's water supply. Or the process of approving drugs and the high profile failures there. Or if you want to get really famous that monologue from the beginning of Fight Club.
I made a mess of my life and don't have a college degree. OTOH if I'd graduated college I probably wouldn't have noticed how bad things are in America. I'd be making enough money I could have weathered the storms that hit me. OTOH again if I was the sort of person that coulda got through a college degree I probably wouldn't have had those storms (which were mostly caused by bad decisions made by family members I couldn't see myself abandoning. Shit happens).
That's the trouble with there being no safety net...
for a fraction of the cost of a boxed retail release. Usually around 87% off (no kidding, $5-$7.50 vs $60). Either that or I'm buying a niche title (like GG Xrd) where I can't really complain about the premium I'm paying since the base sales will be low. On a console if I buy a used disk I might get $20-$30 off that $60 price point (I paid $27 for a copy of Marvel vs Capcom 3 for PS3 used years after release).
So yeah, I'm giving up the ability to sell/share it but I'm paying a fraction of the cost.
laws. And Regulation. And Enforcement for both of those. Plus jail sentences for regulatory capture.
I mean, it wasn't a great movie but to ban it outright seems harsh...
They've been trying to murder Netflix for years and replace them with their own (pay-per-play) systems. That's not escalating tensions, that's a life or death battle. You saw the same thing when the ACA threatened to bring single payer to the insurance companies here in the states. They're fighting for their life.
not sure what that means. Anyway, of course the quality is low. They're suffering brain drain to other countries. You're not gonna work as a rank & file programmer for $8600 when you can get an H1-B an earn 13 times that in San Francisco, do that for a few years and either get a green card or come back to your home country loaded. It doesn't help that India is a sub-optimal place to live (dirty air, rampant corruption at the local level, etc, etc).
The Win 10 uninstall was pretty painless. This smacks of a bunch of lawyers ready to get a nice big payout anyway. It's exactly the sort of thing a class action shouldn't be granted for.
what do the ruling class, who are ordering all this, care about a few dead cops? That guy with the sniper rifle accomplished less than nothing. He's put the police on edge and given credit to the notion that blacks are dangerous thugs. He'll be used by the right wing pro-corporate press to push their agenda for decades to come. Meanwhile the folks that set up the system he wanted to bring down are safe and snug in their compounds with private security carrying military grade weapons.
is a terrorist suspect.
in America. We pretend to. We've been attacking 'useless bureaucracy' for 30+ years. Mostly because we don't like waiting in line t the DMV. But instead of shorter lines for our kids' drivers license we get phony medicine and lead in our water.
in the thread, but that's not how youtube sells the service. They tell advertisers that their analytics will target advertising exactly as the advertiser wants. And it will. Google will fix this and it'll become part of youtube. And yes, that means you won't be able to make money spouting controversial opinions without qualification on Youtube anymore unless you start a patreon.
and it hasn't been. Ever. You're full of it and spouting a right wing talking point used to shut down attempts to attack what is very plainly attempts to legitimize violent racism once again. Piss off.
I care about productivity. It's easy enough to measure that and if this works, businesses will do it. In the few places where there's competition for workers left you won't see this crap, but for us rank and file we'll suck it down. Especially as outsourcing, H1-Bs and automation devour job opportunities in a world where quality of life is increasingly tied to your job.
Since you're basically asking for more government intervention (stronger privacy laws) to government style takeovers (e.g. Communism).
Yeah, I'm baiting you. But I'm doing it because I'm annoyed that you're instantly equating something you don't like (being monitored by a private company you work for) with something else you don't like (government telling you to do things you don't want to do).
It's something I see a _lot_ here in America. Folks are all for Government doing the things they want but if it's something their opposed to (Gun Control, Abortion legislation/regulation, paying your taxes so folks can have clean water, take your pick) they cry out oppression and demand somebody cut, cut cut that evil bureaucracy. It's hypocritical and it's one of the reasons why we can't have Nice Things (tm).
Basically, everybody wants government on their side but as soon as they have to pony up tax dollars to make it work for somebody else they're all being oppressed.
I want it wrecked. It's destruction would benefit me, and after 30 years of taking it in the shorts on wages, benefits, education, healthcare and everything else that really matters I don't care anymore. Let it burn. Let it all burn.
And that, ladies and gents, is what elected Trump. Americans _want_ that wrecking ball.
they're thinking long term too. H1-Bs let them cut education funding without losing their trained workforce. It moves the training costs overseas. It also makes employees disposable. You don't care if they quit, there's another batch ready and waiting.
As an employee and a member of the working class you're only thinking in terms of wages. The ruling class have a much, much broader picture of the economy...
and I always wondered how they stayed in business. You'd think word would get around.
because of a temporary drop in oil prices (we're a long way off from oil becoming worthless) why the heck are they doing so bad? I'm not gonna chuck if up to gov't corruption because _everywhere_ has that. Usually the rest of the world will send some aid to a country floundering like this. Heck even Greece got some. Did they piss everybody off somehow?
Don't worry, I'm sure EMACs has a mode for it (and VI can emulate that mode).
and after 20 years of outsourcing, H1-Bs and a complete lack of protectionism... I'll get them.