So long as they have an underclass of ultra cheap labor to support their middle class while they're getting trained they will always be cheaper than Americans. H1-B isn't just about driving tech wages down, it's about eliminating training costs. The Indians get trained in a very, very narrow skill set for pennies. Then they get cycled in and out and you don't worry about investing in them as employees.
We've built our society around a social contract where you work hard, make your employer rich, and get a little bit for yourself. That's the whole "American Dream". If you honestly think the 1% won't break that social contract first chance they get you haven't been paying attention. They did it for thousands of years save for one brief period after WWII when we'd killed enough working males and blew up enough infrastructure that they didn't have a choice but to pay top dollar for workers.
The solution to these problems is Democratic Socialism & Basic Income. The 1% are going to break the social contract. It's a "When" not "If". Restructure society so that when they do it doesn't matter. Either that or enjoy your race to the bottom...
It's not the health benefits. They've already said they'd give them those. But in every IT job I know of companies work you like a dog. Usually low level hourly work goes to contractors or outsources so companies can treat those employees like crap w/o having to admit the fact. Maybe this is just to get some good press? Or maybe this lets them pay people for 30 that they give the usual 60/hours of work to.
The Pirate Movie. Treasure Island. Cutthroat Island. Captain Blood. At least these classics will get the audience they deserve. For too long Pirate movies have fallen under the radar (not the least because Pirates don't have radar). Bringing these movies to a wide audience... hang on... oh waited. Pirate_d_ movies. Well then. Carry on.
I'm terrified. Most of this tech is going to cost jobs. In most of the world your entire quality of life is based on your job. Our society simply isn't set up to desk with the sudden mass unemployment that's coming in the next decade or two. People really, really hate the idea of somebody getting paid to loaf around all day. But if there's no jobs the only alternative is mass starvation...
they were calling him out on a ton of shady business deals he had. Gawker did quite a bit of real journalism and used crap like Hogan's sex tape to pay the bills. That's sort of the trouble with modern journalism. It's tremendously beneficial to have them watching the 1%ers for us but these days it's tough to get that paid for. It doesn't help that we've let Murdoch buy up just about everything out there. Here, go watch this.
because of the _reason_ they're going under. They got targeted by a billionaire who used the Hogan lawsuit & his incredible wealth the crush one of his journalistic enemies. As a former journalist you should probably be horrified by that.
if you're relying on the savings from home ownership to make up for your stagnant wages and fund your kid's future than adding a $50k mortgage on top of it just so you can have electricity is going to hurt. A lot. If you don't already own a home that $50k is going to put a mortgage out of reach and put you in a exploitative position in relation to landlords who can....:(.
usually mobile homes or manufactured homes but sometimes ones they build or maintain themselves (being blue collar). The houses might be shabby and falling apart, but they own them. In America home ownership is the only way to get ahead if you're not already rich. You lock in a rate (usually a reasonable one) for your housing costs. Rent goes up anywhere from 4-8% a year (they 8% spikes are recent and brought on by a lack of new building because we're running out of land that was developed before we stopped infrastructure spending).
My worry is the poor (especially the Working Poor) are either going to be completely shut out of home ownership and trapped in the cycle of increasing rents. Moreso when a $50,000 solar battery system is part of the minimum barrier for entry on a home.
That's the only thing that worries me. The current system requires lots and lots of public infrastructure. That keeps prices down for the poor (economies of scale and whatnot). That's not gonna last If even the upper middle class doesn't want/need that infrastructure. The folks most able to pay for it aren't going to want to. They won't be using it. But it'll mean going back to the dark ages for the lower class...
This looks like a masterful play to undermine Trump. Or at least I'd like it to be. I'm a Democrat and I'm used to having these sorts of things done _to_ my party, not by it. I know, I know, nobody likes to think about these kind of shenanigans. The subtle ways you can instill doubt in voters to win elections. I'd like to believe they're not necessary, but then I remember Trump was clobbering Hilary for a week or so and then after one bad week of press it was completely reversed.
Basically, a sizable portion of voters vote on what they're feeling at that moment. They're what everybody calls "swing" voters. It's usually folks too wishy-washy to make up their minds. That means any successful campaign is about managing those voters feelings.
I suppose it's possible I'm reading too much into things and giving the Dems way to much credit. But if I'm not and they embrace the sort of tactics the other side has been using for 20 years expect a _lot_ more Democrats in office.
Is the press bias to the left or ideologically neutral to a fault? You can't really be both, ya know? They're polar opposites.
Anyway here the reality: the press is left on social issues (guns, abortion) and right on economic ones (e.g. the ones that actually matter). Outside of Mother Jones you won't find anyone seriously investigating income inequality or the massive wealth grab that happened post 2008. My favorite are a bunch of stories I keep reading about why the middle class' spending isn't going up. Since the press won't talk about income inequality they just kinda trail off when it comes time to talk about why.
and I'd argue Bush / Cheney either, but several of Trumps staffers have been quietly telling folks that it's OK if Trump wins because his VP will run the show. John Kasich spilled the beans when he turned Trump down for Veep (he's hoping to run in 2020 against Hilary). Basically a vote for Trump is a vote for Pence. If you like Pence, go for it, but don't kid yourself that you're gonna get a Trump presidency in anything but name.
"Whistle-blowers go to significant efforts to get us material and often very significant risks," Assange said. "As a 27-year-old, works for the DNC, was shot in the back, murdered just a few weeks ago for unknown reasons as he was walking down the street in Washington."
He's strongly implying that the deceased man gave him information and that he was killed in retaliation. It's impossible for any reasonable person to conclude anything else when the quote is taken in context. Saying anything else is just being dishonest.
The same is true for Donald's comment about Second Amendment Solutions. He was suggesting (in jest?) someone should assassinate Hilary if she wins. If you're not American and lack the proper context then you might have missed that. But there isn't a man or woman alive in the United States who didn't get his message loud and clear.
The press is reporting exactly what both Assange and Donald said and meant. I'm sorry if that makes you uncomfortable but it doesn't change facts. Hell, it makes me _very_ uncomfortable. There is no way in hell either man should be saying things like this for a variety of reasons. Donald's just a blow hard and an a-hole. I still don't what Assange is up to. Maybe he's given up on making the world a better place and wants it to burn...
This isn't whistle blowing anymore. For one thing a whistle blower _never_ reveals a source. Even if they're dead the sources family might be targeted. He's after Hilary. I can't say he doesn't have good reason ( she's part of the administration that arranged the false rape allegations ). I'm just not sure what he'll get out of this. Trump (and more importantly Mike Pence who's going to be the real president) aren't exactly favorable to Assange.
and went to a shit school. I know of several people who committed suicide. My brother, who was in a band (read:drugs,sex,rock n roll) knows even more. It's more common than people like to acknowledge (sorta like unwanted children).
But keep pushin' that nonsense. If nothing else it's a great/. troll.
and after building it handed to private companies for free. After that Government paid $500 Billion to various telecoms for high speed internet and they never delivered.
I'm all for letting the gov't manage critical infrastructure we all want and need. I don't want Facebook & Google building my roads. But why lease it out so that some lucky a-hole can skim 20% off the top? Just socialize it already and be done with it. Trying to privatize stuff like this doesn't lead to efficiency, it just lets some rent-seeker get paid some scratch in exchange for adding no value.
and then cigarettes that make me drink more Coffiest which in turn makes me drink more Popsi and the Cycle of Consumption completes (doesn't anyone get the reference? am I just too old?)
I could be mistaken, but I'm already seeing the ruling class clamping down on the free flow of information. Police shot a black woman and had her Facebook feed disabled. I half got my hopes up that everyone having cameras would change that sorta thing but the cops learned to take the phones. But it took 'em a while to learn that. They seem to have learned the Facebook video lesson much quicker...
If I have a hope for technology it's that birth control (particularly for men) will force birth rates low enough that the rich will have to treat labor OK because there won't be enough to abuse. But then with automation they have no use for labor. So unless we're gonna drive the population to around 10,000 I think we still have a problem. After all, what good is being rich if nobody's poor to boss around?
is are you going to stop using Facebook. It's child's play to break adblockers. Just serve the ads up from your site instead of with an iframe.
A lot of/.ers will stop. But I'm guessing the general populace won't. I know one of my buddies who's a table top gamer absolutely hates facebook but lives with it because that's how tournaments and even pickup games are organized. Back in the 'good old days' you showed up at a store and got a pickup game. Now it's all coordinated over Facebook.
You might be thinking "Well, there'll be an ad free social network, I'll join that!". Go ahead. If you can't get everybody on it then it's useless. Google learned that with G+. Meanwhile your cut off from a significant portion of society. You can bitch & moan all you want that those folks are sheeple but it doesn't change the practical reality of the situation.
is you're the beneficiary of decades of workers fighting for better wages via Unions and now that things are less that completely awful for you personally you've completely lost site of all the misery and horror that were visited on the working class for close to 5000 years. It'd be one thing if you didn't have the internet and couldn't see how things work right now, but man... The sad thing is this crap gets modded up on/.
I could spend hours pointing out the thousands of ways you benefit from Unions but I'll mention just one: Unions got the laws passed that make it illegal for companies to collude to lower wages. How high do you think your wages would be if every one of those job creators got together and agreed to lower them? Google and Apple just got caught doing that, ya know? And they're lobbying congress (and you, btw) to get those laws revoked.
when I moved once I was in a new city by myself. I went out and bought a game for PC. Mindful that I didn't have internet I picked up Dragon Age Origins. I looked the box over and there was some vague note about an internet connection on the DVD case. Figuring I was home free I took it home and found I couldn't play it w/o internet (and no refunds on open software, of course).
To be fair I knew I was taking a risk. The game was already discounted for clearance. But it still would have been nice to have a big read label with something like "DRM. No Internet, No Worky" instead of a vague sentence in print best read with IBM's scanning electron microscope.
worst case you close the LLC and open another one. Now, doing that is tricky as all hell get out. Ever wonder why folks like Romney spend so much time in school? It's learning the difference between the letter of the law and the spirit.
they're working with what they have. It's easy as hell to blame the little guy, but shit runs down hill. Having worked in a few "real" call centers (the nasty sort) I can tell you that if you don't make your sales quota you get fired. Not for missing your quota (heaven forbid), but for any one of the dozens of minor infractions that exist. Doesn't help that the pay is so low it's either cheat on your sales or skip eating this week.
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So long as they have an underclass of ultra cheap labor to support their middle class while they're getting trained they will always be cheaper than Americans. H1-B isn't just about driving tech wages down, it's about eliminating training costs. The Indians get trained in a very, very narrow skill set for pennies. Then they get cycled in and out and you don't worry about investing in them as employees.
We've built our society around a social contract where you work hard, make your employer rich, and get a little bit for yourself. That's the whole "American Dream". If you honestly think the 1% won't break that social contract first chance they get you haven't been paying attention. They did it for thousands of years save for one brief period after WWII when we'd killed enough working males and blew up enough infrastructure that they didn't have a choice but to pay top dollar for workers.
The solution to these problems is Democratic Socialism & Basic Income. The 1% are going to break the social contract. It's a "When" not "If". Restructure society so that when they do it doesn't matter. Either that or enjoy your race to the bottom...
It's not the health benefits. They've already said they'd give them those. But in every IT job I know of companies work you like a dog. Usually low level hourly work goes to contractors or outsources so companies can treat those employees like crap w/o having to admit the fact. Maybe this is just to get some good press? Or maybe this lets them pay people for 30 that they give the usual 60/hours of work to.
The Pirate Movie. Treasure Island. Cutthroat Island. Captain Blood. At least these classics will get the audience they deserve. For too long Pirate movies have fallen under the radar (not the least because Pirates don't have radar). Bringing these movies to a wide audience... hang on... oh waited. Pirate_d_ movies. Well then. Carry on.
I'm terrified. Most of this tech is going to cost jobs. In most of the world your entire quality of life is based on your job. Our society simply isn't set up to desk with the sudden mass unemployment that's coming in the next decade or two. People really, really hate the idea of somebody getting paid to loaf around all day. But if there's no jobs the only alternative is mass starvation...
they were calling him out on a ton of shady business deals he had. Gawker did quite a bit of real journalism and used crap like Hogan's sex tape to pay the bills. That's sort of the trouble with modern journalism. It's tremendously beneficial to have them watching the 1%ers for us but these days it's tough to get that paid for. It doesn't help that we've let Murdoch buy up just about everything out there. Here, go watch this.
because of the _reason_ they're going under. They got targeted by a billionaire who used the Hogan lawsuit & his incredible wealth the crush one of his journalistic enemies. As a former journalist you should probably be horrified by that.
I presume this would use the browser engine to render the screenshot giving you WYSIWYG screengrabs.
if you're relying on the savings from home ownership to make up for your stagnant wages and fund your kid's future than adding a $50k mortgage on top of it just so you can have electricity is going to hurt. A lot. If you don't already own a home that $50k is going to put a mortgage out of reach and put you in a exploitative position in relation to landlords who can.... :(.
usually mobile homes or manufactured homes but sometimes ones they build or maintain themselves (being blue collar). The houses might be shabby and falling apart, but they own them. In America home ownership is the only way to get ahead if you're not already rich. You lock in a rate (usually a reasonable one) for your housing costs. Rent goes up anywhere from 4-8% a year (they 8% spikes are recent and brought on by a lack of new building because we're running out of land that was developed before we stopped infrastructure spending). My worry is the poor (especially the Working Poor) are either going to be completely shut out of home ownership and trapped in the cycle of increasing rents. Moreso when a $50,000 solar battery system is part of the minimum barrier for entry on a home.
That's the only thing that worries me. The current system requires lots and lots of public infrastructure. That keeps prices down for the poor (economies of scale and whatnot). That's not gonna last If even the upper middle class doesn't want/need that infrastructure. The folks most able to pay for it aren't going to want to. They won't be using it. But it'll mean going back to the dark ages for the lower class...
This looks like a masterful play to undermine Trump. Or at least I'd like it to be. I'm a Democrat and I'm used to having these sorts of things done _to_ my party, not by it. I know, I know, nobody likes to think about these kind of shenanigans. The subtle ways you can instill doubt in voters to win elections. I'd like to believe they're not necessary, but then I remember Trump was clobbering Hilary for a week or so and then after one bad week of press it was completely reversed.
Basically, a sizable portion of voters vote on what they're feeling at that moment. They're what everybody calls "swing" voters. It's usually folks too wishy-washy to make up their minds. That means any successful campaign is about managing those voters feelings.
I suppose it's possible I'm reading too much into things and giving the Dems way to much credit. But if I'm not and they embrace the sort of tactics the other side has been using for 20 years expect a _lot_ more Democrats in office.
Is the press bias to the left or ideologically neutral to a fault? You can't really be both, ya know? They're polar opposites.
Anyway here the reality: the press is left on social issues (guns, abortion) and right on economic ones (e.g. the ones that actually matter). Outside of Mother Jones you won't find anyone seriously investigating income inequality or the massive wealth grab that happened post 2008. My favorite are a bunch of stories I keep reading about why the middle class' spending isn't going up. Since the press won't talk about income inequality they just kinda trail off when it comes time to talk about why.
and I'd argue Bush / Cheney either, but several of Trumps staffers have been quietly telling folks that it's OK if Trump wins because his VP will run the show. John Kasich spilled the beans when he turned Trump down for Veep (he's hoping to run in 2020 against Hilary). Basically a vote for Trump is a vote for Pence. If you like Pence, go for it, but don't kid yourself that you're gonna get a Trump presidency in anything but name.
Here it is:
"Whistle-blowers go to significant efforts to get us material and often very significant risks," Assange said. "As a 27-year-old, works for the DNC, was shot in the back, murdered just a few weeks ago for unknown reasons as he was walking down the street in Washington."
He's strongly implying that the deceased man gave him information and that he was killed in retaliation. It's impossible for any reasonable person to conclude anything else when the quote is taken in context. Saying anything else is just being dishonest.
The same is true for Donald's comment about Second Amendment Solutions. He was suggesting (in jest?) someone should assassinate Hilary if she wins. If you're not American and lack the proper context then you might have missed that. But there isn't a man or woman alive in the United States who didn't get his message loud and clear.
The press is reporting exactly what both Assange and Donald said and meant. I'm sorry if that makes you uncomfortable but it doesn't change facts. Hell, it makes me _very_ uncomfortable. There is no way in hell either man should be saying things like this for a variety of reasons. Donald's just a blow hard and an a-hole. I still don't what Assange is up to. Maybe he's given up on making the world a better place and wants it to burn...
This isn't whistle blowing anymore. For one thing a whistle blower _never_ reveals a source. Even if they're dead the sources family might be targeted. He's after Hilary. I can't say he doesn't have good reason ( she's part of the administration that arranged the false rape allegations ). I'm just not sure what he'll get out of this. Trump (and more importantly Mike Pence who's going to be the real president) aren't exactly favorable to Assange.
and went to a shit school. I know of several people who committed suicide. My brother, who was in a band (read:drugs,sex,rock n roll) knows even more. It's more common than people like to acknowledge (sorta like unwanted children).
/. troll.
But keep pushin' that nonsense. If nothing else it's a great
present facts?
and after building it handed to private companies for free. After that Government paid $500 Billion to various telecoms for high speed internet and they never delivered.
I'm all for letting the gov't manage critical infrastructure we all want and need. I don't want Facebook & Google building my roads. But why lease it out so that some lucky a-hole can skim 20% off the top? Just socialize it already and be done with it. Trying to privatize stuff like this doesn't lead to efficiency, it just lets some rent-seeker get paid some scratch in exchange for adding no value.
and then cigarettes that make me drink more Coffiest which in turn makes me drink more Popsi and the Cycle of Consumption completes (doesn't anyone get the reference? am I just too old?)
I could be mistaken, but I'm already seeing the ruling class clamping down on the free flow of information. Police shot a black woman and had her Facebook feed disabled. I half got my hopes up that everyone having cameras would change that sorta thing but the cops learned to take the phones. But it took 'em a while to learn that. They seem to have learned the Facebook video lesson much quicker...
If I have a hope for technology it's that birth control (particularly for men) will force birth rates low enough that the rich will have to treat labor OK because there won't be enough to abuse. But then with automation they have no use for labor. So unless we're gonna drive the population to around 10,000 I think we still have a problem. After all, what good is being rich if nobody's poor to boss around?
is are you going to stop using Facebook. It's child's play to break adblockers. Just serve the ads up from your site instead of with an iframe.
/.ers will stop. But I'm guessing the general populace won't. I know one of my buddies who's a table top gamer absolutely hates facebook but lives with it because that's how tournaments and even pickup games are organized. Back in the 'good old days' you showed up at a store and got a pickup game. Now it's all coordinated over Facebook.
A lot of
You might be thinking "Well, there'll be an ad free social network, I'll join that!". Go ahead. If you can't get everybody on it then it's useless. Google learned that with G+. Meanwhile your cut off from a significant portion of society. You can bitch & moan all you want that those folks are sheeple but it doesn't change the practical reality of the situation.
is you're the beneficiary of decades of workers fighting for better wages via Unions and now that things are less that completely awful for you personally you've completely lost site of all the misery and horror that were visited on the working class for close to 5000 years. It'd be one thing if you didn't have the internet and couldn't see how things work right now, but man... The sad thing is this crap gets modded up on /.
I could spend hours pointing out the thousands of ways you benefit from Unions but I'll mention just one: Unions got the laws passed that make it illegal for companies to collude to lower wages. How high do you think your wages would be if every one of those job creators got together and agreed to lower them? Google and Apple just got caught doing that, ya know? And they're lobbying congress (and you, btw) to get those laws revoked.
when I moved once I was in a new city by myself. I went out and bought a game for PC. Mindful that I didn't have internet I picked up Dragon Age Origins. I looked the box over and there was some vague note about an internet connection on the DVD case. Figuring I was home free I took it home and found I couldn't play it w/o internet (and no refunds on open software, of course).
To be fair I knew I was taking a risk. The game was already discounted for clearance. But it still would have been nice to have a big read label with something like "DRM. No Internet, No Worky" instead of a vague sentence in print best read with IBM's scanning electron microscope.
worst case you close the LLC and open another one. Now, doing that is tricky as all hell get out. Ever wonder why folks like Romney spend so much time in school? It's learning the difference between the letter of the law and the spirit.
they're working with what they have. It's easy as hell to blame the little guy, but shit runs down hill. Having worked in a few "real" call centers (the nasty sort) I can tell you that if you don't make your sales quota you get fired. Not for missing your quota (heaven forbid), but for any one of the dozens of minor infractions that exist. Doesn't help that the pay is so low it's either cheat on your sales or skip eating this week.