in court. Not if he had the money to fight it. But with our justice system they'll get a conviction out of him. Well, a plea bargain. Hell, guy's house just burned down. One way or the other he's not gonna have the money to pay legal bills.
a. Don't compare the middle east of 1000 years ago to the one of today. There's been 1000 years of scientific advancement.
b. The Middle East was happily partaking in that advancement until we meddled. There are pictures of girls in Iran wearing modern, brightly colored dresses without burkas. We put one of your Theocrats in power to protect our interests and stop communism.
c. Two words: Saudi Arabia. They'd have most favorite nation status if we didn't give it to China.
We do awful, awful things in the middle east for the sake of cheap oil. I suppose it's better than what we do in Central/South America for cheap bananas...
As a rule there's two things that make a moron: lack of education and being mentally slow. In nearly all cases it's not entirely that person's fault. Sure, there's the occasional rich, lazy bum whose parents are well off. But most stupid people were either born that way or at least born into it. It's tough to escape your upbringing. It's even tougher to escape your genetics. We can celebrate the ones that do, but we shouldn't condemn the ones who don't.
when you factor in training. And that's before we talk benefits, since most of these guys work for contractors. Also their young, but being here on work Visas nobody complains about age discrimination when their contracts don't get renewed past 40.
You're massively underestimating how profitable the abuse here is because the scale of it is hard to grasp. It's completely pervasive. Anything less than $300k (adjusted yearly for inflation) isn't enough. Remember: these Visas are suppose to be for geniuses. The best and brightest. It's 2017. A code monkey makes $100k, especially on the West Coast.
last I heard companies were already required to give the jobs to a qualified American first. There's been talk of raising minimum salaries, but it's only to $100k. If you factor in training costs and the extra hours the guys on Visas work it's still a bargain. Given how much it's been abused don't talk to me until the program has been completely dismantled. What I've seen so far is a lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
it's here in case you missed it. I recommend comparing it to say, a package of neosporin. Just glance at them. Pick out the outlines. They looks about the same don't they?
Homeopath companies know what they're pushing is junk science. So they dress it up to look like real medicine. I've tried plenty of actual medicines that people swear by but that do nothing for me. I don't keep trying them, but still. There's a lot of OTC stuff out there. Now, as a nerd I'm intensely cynical (comes from the years of bullying). Take somebody who hasn't been shit on their whole life and it's not too hard to see them making the mistake. Especially if they don't frequent/. and read the stories on Homeopathy.
but from what I've heard there's been some deaths (10?). Why the hell don't we give our FDA enough power to shut this company down? They're still selling the stuff. And in packaging that makes it look like medicine.
Cutting back on bureaucracy and regulations sounds great in theory but, well, this is what it gets you.
but it still doesn't really add up. That much debt doesn't happen overnight. Did they get their market share by giving away their stuff? Did they spend too much on R&D (doubtful)?
Vlasic got Walmarted for lack of a better term. They entered into distribution deals with Walmart, expanded to meet the demand and then when Walmart saw their high debt to income ratio made them vulnerable they threatened to renege on the deal. I remember the CEO being furious because Walmart had them selling gallon jars of pickles for a few bucks when their customers couldn't eat that many pickles before throwing them out.
Either way, something shady's going on and somebody walked off with the money. I wish we'd regulate these companies more. Lot of folks are gonna lose their jobs when the shit hits the fan and prices'll go up when they get bought out by competitors. Bad for everyone but whoever swiped the money.
for the first time in years you can build a decent gaming rig for under $1000. Heck, even if AMD Zen doesn't deliver the G4560 will be a big shot in the arm. Combine that with itty bitty low power 1050 tis from nVidia and you've got a viable gaming PC for around $500 (including a legit copy of Windows, drop that to $400 if you've got a copy to spare). From there you can swap out processors and video cards at your leisure until you've got content.
Avaya is probably 40-50% of the business phones out there and probably 90% of the phones used in call centers. There's no way they shouldn't be profitable. Were they the victim of yet another leveraged buyout (think Bain Capital) scam?
Two guys and a duck? They're moving one tax dodge to another tax dodge. Probably to pressure Ireland to fight the EU off. They'll win out in the end, and the loser will be their taxpayers...
is not "Fake News". Fox I'll give you, but then again, Fox is literally not news. They were sued for disguising editorial content as news and (successfully) made the argument that they were an entertainment network so as to skirt laws regulating news sources. But CNN? NBC? Hell, even with HuffPo I challenge you to give me a bonafide fake news story they didn't later retract in embarrassment.
I'm not sure what's worse, the fact that this nonsense gets modded up +5 or that real news sources have been dragged through the mud by the deluge of fake news.
Not sure how long it'll last, but I just bought a Samsung S7 for $240 and it's got a removable battery and a smart card slot that I put a 32gig card in.
which is kinda annoying. It's because it's a separate data stream that isn't included in the unmetered service. This'd be nice to have for that. That said, there's not a lot of anime or kung fu on netflix anymore...
Twitter and Facebook played a yuge (pun) role in the last US Presidential elections. It'd be silly to ignore the effectiveness of large social networks in various kinds of propaganda. I'm sure that wasn't lost on anyone last year...
and Taxi cab driving is a full time job for adults. Always was, always is.
Burger flipping became a 'real' job when globalism eroded the job market for folks who couldn't make it to college. There's millions of 'em, and last I checked neither you or anyone else in this country has the brass balls to put a slug between their eyes and end their misery. Maybe you do. Either do something about their awful lives or admit you don't care. But enough already with the B.S. about how these jobs aren't jobs for adults. You're saying it to make yourself feel better by looking down on the folks doing them. I'm sure that's working for you. For them? Not so much.
whose commodity (oil) just plummeted in price. Ideally what should be happening right now is the rest of the world should help them pick up their slack until oil prices rise. What's instead happening is the rest of the world is using their crisis to take advantage of them. Sorta like how Pay Day Lenders operate but on a national scale. There's things their government could have done to mitigate or prevent the crisis before it happened but, well, like I said, Socialism is hard because we're solving very hard problems.
Remember, anyone can promise to solve all your problems with their 10 step program plus some principles and beliefs. It's actually _doing_ it that's hard. I'd argue that Obama/Hilary were on the right path until Hilary screwed up by not campaigning in the swing states. But, well, here we are.
if you don't pay your taxes you go to jail. If you speed in your car you get a ticket. If I shoot somebody I go to jail. We're just arguing over where to draw the line, not whether it should be drawn.
You're going got get forced to do things one way or another. If you leave a power vacuum by trying to live with a weak central government then somebody will step in and take the reigns. Central Governments are just too valuable. Somebody sooner or later will create one for their own purposes. The question is never, "Will we have a strong Central Government?" but whether _you_ will participate in it?
and constant adjustments. Here's what makes it so hard for folks to accept real socialism: It's not a system of beliefs it's a system of government. It's a means, not an end. The practical consequences are that a socialist admits when they're wrong and makes constant adjustments and improvements. It's basically the scientific method applied to politics with a bit of Socrates "I know that I know nothing" philosophy mixed in. The short version of all that is Progresivism. Always making progress (and twirling, twirling towards freedom!).
The trouble with all that is branding. When the right wing start a debate they've got simple answers to complex problems. They're always the wrong answers, because if a problem has a simple answer then, well, by definition it's not complex. But those simple answers feel good, sound good, and just got a Demagogue elected President of the United States...
look at India, South America and large parts of China. And that's just the places we pay attention to. This is nothing new and nothing surprising. For most of the world's 6 billion inhabitants this is they way things are and always have been. The best thing you can do it get over the surprise that it's like this while keeping that feeling of disgust. Don't let the fact that these situations are so far outside the norm for you let you turn away from the truth in disbelief. It's like that old quote: The greatest trick the devil ever did was convincing the world he didn't exists.
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in court. Not if he had the money to fight it. But with our justice system they'll get a conviction out of him. Well, a plea bargain. Hell, guy's house just burned down. One way or the other he's not gonna have the money to pay legal bills.
It means grown without pesticides. Walmart's been caught multiple times cheating on this and forced to pull products each time
Usually involving Kirk and Spock. Or maybe Naruto and Sasuke of you're a millennial...
a. Don't compare the middle east of 1000 years ago to the one of today. There's been 1000 years of scientific advancement.
b. The Middle East was happily partaking in that advancement until we meddled. There are pictures of girls in Iran wearing modern, brightly colored dresses without burkas. We put one of your Theocrats in power to protect our interests and stop communism.
c. Two words: Saudi Arabia. They'd have most favorite nation status if we didn't give it to China.
We do awful, awful things in the middle east for the sake of cheap oil. I suppose it's better than what we do in Central/South America for cheap bananas...
As a rule there's two things that make a moron: lack of education and being mentally slow. In nearly all cases it's not entirely that person's fault. Sure, there's the occasional rich, lazy bum whose parents are well off. But most stupid people were either born that way or at least born into it. It's tough to escape your upbringing. It's even tougher to escape your genetics. We can celebrate the ones that do, but we shouldn't condemn the ones who don't.
when you factor in training. And that's before we talk benefits, since most of these guys work for contractors. Also their young, but being here on work Visas nobody complains about age discrimination when their contracts don't get renewed past 40.
You're massively underestimating how profitable the abuse here is because the scale of it is hard to grasp. It's completely pervasive. Anything less than $300k (adjusted yearly for inflation) isn't enough. Remember: these Visas are suppose to be for geniuses. The best and brightest. It's 2017. A code monkey makes $100k, especially on the West Coast.
last I heard companies were already required to give the jobs to a qualified American first. There's been talk of raising minimum salaries, but it's only to $100k. If you factor in training costs and the extra hours the guys on Visas work it's still a bargain. Given how much it's been abused don't talk to me until the program has been completely dismantled. What I've seen so far is a lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
at least for H1-B. Last I heard they were legally required to attest they could not find a qualified American (fat lot of good that does).
it's here in case you missed it. I recommend comparing it to say, a package of neosporin. Just glance at them. Pick out the outlines. They looks about the same don't they?
/. and read the stories on Homeopathy.
Homeopath companies know what they're pushing is junk science. So they dress it up to look like real medicine. I've tried plenty of actual medicines that people swear by but that do nothing for me. I don't keep trying them, but still. There's a lot of OTC stuff out there. Now, as a nerd I'm intensely cynical (comes from the years of bullying). Take somebody who hasn't been shit on their whole life and it's not too hard to see them making the mistake. Especially if they don't frequent
but from what I've heard there's been some deaths (10?). Why the hell don't we give our FDA enough power to shut this company down? They're still selling the stuff. And in packaging that makes it look like medicine.
Cutting back on bureaucracy and regulations sounds great in theory but, well, this is what it gets you.
on a monthly fee for software. It was only a matter of time before the bean counters took notice and started demanding budget cuts.
but it still doesn't really add up. That much debt doesn't happen overnight. Did they get their market share by giving away their stuff? Did they spend too much on R&D (doubtful)?
Vlasic got Walmarted for lack of a better term. They entered into distribution deals with Walmart, expanded to meet the demand and then when Walmart saw their high debt to income ratio made them vulnerable they threatened to renege on the deal. I remember the CEO being furious because Walmart had them selling gallon jars of pickles for a few bucks when their customers couldn't eat that many pickles before throwing them out.
Either way, something shady's going on and somebody walked off with the money. I wish we'd regulate these companies more. Lot of folks are gonna lose their jobs when the shit hits the fan and prices'll go up when they get bought out by competitors. Bad for everyone but whoever swiped the money.
for the first time in years you can build a decent gaming rig for under $1000. Heck, even if AMD Zen doesn't deliver the G4560 will be a big shot in the arm. Combine that with itty bitty low power 1050 tis from nVidia and you've got a viable gaming PC for around $500 (including a legit copy of Windows, drop that to $400 if you've got a copy to spare). From there you can swap out processors and video cards at your leisure until you've got content.
Avaya is probably 40-50% of the business phones out there and probably 90% of the phones used in call centers. There's no way they shouldn't be profitable. Were they the victim of yet another leveraged buyout (think Bain Capital) scam?
Two guys and a duck? They're moving one tax dodge to another tax dodge. Probably to pressure Ireland to fight the EU off. They'll win out in the end, and the loser will be their taxpayers...
or you'll fall prey to the big con. Here in the States we just elected a Simpson's punchline based largely on a private email server.
is not "Fake News". Fox I'll give you, but then again, Fox is literally not news. They were sued for disguising editorial content as news and (successfully) made the argument that they were an entertainment network so as to skirt laws regulating news sources. But CNN? NBC? Hell, even with HuffPo I challenge you to give me a bonafide fake news story they didn't later retract in embarrassment.
I'm not sure what's worse, the fact that this nonsense gets modded up +5 or that real news sources have been dragged through the mud by the deluge of fake news.
Not sure how long it'll last, but I just bought a Samsung S7 for $240 and it's got a removable battery and a smart card slot that I put a 32gig card in.
which is kinda annoying. It's because it's a separate data stream that isn't included in the unmetered service. This'd be nice to have for that. That said, there's not a lot of anime or kung fu on netflix anymore...
Twitter and Facebook played a yuge (pun) role in the last US Presidential elections. It'd be silly to ignore the effectiveness of large social networks in various kinds of propaganda. I'm sure that wasn't lost on anyone last year...
and Taxi cab driving is a full time job for adults. Always was, always is.
Burger flipping became a 'real' job when globalism eroded the job market for folks who couldn't make it to college. There's millions of 'em, and last I checked neither you or anyone else in this country has the brass balls to put a slug between their eyes and end their misery. Maybe you do. Either do something about their awful lives or admit you don't care. But enough already with the B.S. about how these jobs aren't jobs for adults. You're saying it to make yourself feel better by looking down on the folks doing them. I'm sure that's working for you. For them? Not so much.
whose commodity (oil) just plummeted in price. Ideally what should be happening right now is the rest of the world should help them pick up their slack until oil prices rise. What's instead happening is the rest of the world is using their crisis to take advantage of them. Sorta like how Pay Day Lenders operate but on a national scale. There's things their government could have done to mitigate or prevent the crisis before it happened but, well, like I said, Socialism is hard because we're solving very hard problems.
Remember, anyone can promise to solve all your problems with their 10 step program plus some principles and beliefs. It's actually _doing_ it that's hard. I'd argue that Obama/Hilary were on the right path until Hilary screwed up by not campaigning in the swing states. But, well, here we are.
if you don't pay your taxes you go to jail. If you speed in your car you get a ticket. If I shoot somebody I go to jail. We're just arguing over where to draw the line, not whether it should be drawn.
You're going got get forced to do things one way or another. If you leave a power vacuum by trying to live with a weak central government then somebody will step in and take the reigns. Central Governments are just too valuable. Somebody sooner or later will create one for their own purposes. The question is never, "Will we have a strong Central Government?" but whether _you_ will participate in it?
and constant adjustments. Here's what makes it so hard for folks to accept real socialism: It's not a system of beliefs it's a system of government. It's a means, not an end. The practical consequences are that a socialist admits when they're wrong and makes constant adjustments and improvements. It's basically the scientific method applied to politics with a bit of Socrates "I know that I know nothing" philosophy mixed in. The short version of all that is Progresivism. Always making progress (and twirling, twirling towards freedom!).
The trouble with all that is branding. When the right wing start a debate they've got simple answers to complex problems. They're always the wrong answers, because if a problem has a simple answer then, well, by definition it's not complex. But those simple answers feel good, sound good, and just got a Demagogue elected President of the United States...
look at India, South America and large parts of China. And that's just the places we pay attention to. This is nothing new and nothing surprising. For most of the world's 6 billion inhabitants this is they way things are and always have been. The best thing you can do it get over the surprise that it's like this while keeping that feeling of disgust. Don't let the fact that these situations are so far outside the norm for you let you turn away from the truth in disbelief. It's like that old quote: The greatest trick the devil ever did was convincing the world he didn't exists.