they're just making the programmers do their own testing. I'm sure the "tough parenting" consisted of "Ok Jimmy, now if we find bugs we'll fire and replace you".
this is good press. That's all this is. It has no real teeth. Go look up Bernie Sanders if you want to see someone who a) wants to stop H1-B abuses and b) is completely unelectable as a result (:( )
because they'll just cut the corporation's taxes somewhere else (or give them an "incentive" somewhere) to offset. Kill the H1-B program. It's too corrupt. If companies want foreign labor they can leave America. America obviously has something they want or they wouldn't be fighting to bring in H1-Bs.
if the businesses that hire H1-Bs ever had strikes... Tech workers are completely un-Unionized. That just leaves you with layoffs as the blocking condition, but I could see the bill defining "layoffs" rather liberally. Most tech companies make heavy use of "contractors" that are really full time employees without health or unemployment benefits. Companies could just use normal attrition to get rid of proper hires, replace them with phony-baloney contractors and then use that fake contract terms to get out of the "layoff" provision. Book it, done.
No, the H1-B program needs to die. It's too corrupt and too broken to save.
if they could move the jobs offshore they would have. It's still _way_ cheaper to run the jobs out of India. There are other reasons they want the laborers in America; like keeping everyone working on the same time zones and being able to manage employees (yes, for all the Dilbert jokes that just flooded into your mind Management does serve a purpose). Your statement is demonstrably false with even a little bit of care and effort. Please stop spreading that nonsense.
And even if we lived in a bizarro universe where you were right I say let 'em go. America is a country rich in natural resources and good land. If they want to stop employing Americans they can stop being Americans, and forget their land and property. They can leave, but they don't get to take the ball. It's not theirs.
You don't actually believe they're doing this out of the kindness of their hearts do you? This is a meaningless gesture that at best will have no noticeable impact and at worst go unenforced like the rest of the restrictions on the H1-B program. H1-Bs are better than Americans because they're already trained and they were trained on the cheap. They're also better because you can threaten them with deportation and they have no benefits. A bump in pay changes nothing. But it does give Mr Cruz a nice talking point for his presidential run.
because Americans have a ton of benefits H1-Bs don't have and because Americans Expect to work 40, maybe 50 hours a week while the H1-Bs routinely put in 60+. More importantly H1-Bs come pre-trained in whatever specialty skill set you want. You don't spend a dime on training when you hire them, and if their skills become obsolete you just replace them and move on. Nobody clamors for them to be retrained like we did with the mine workers. You just ship 'em back home. Problem solved.
It's a useless bone he's throwing to the American Labor movement. Ignoring the fact that we don't really enforce any of these rules in the first place the problem isn't wages, it's training and benefits. Even at $110k/year an H1-B is still cheaper because they have few benefits and they're trained in third world countries instead of expensive colleges. They're also trained for very, very specific tasks. Then there's the leverage employeers can bring to bear to make them work 60-80/hr weeks.
There's a reason you don't like Cruz. He's two faced. This is just another example. Want someone who'll do something to curtail cheap import labor for real? Vote Bernie.
we've been either stacking our regulatory bodies with captured folks or just plain not funding regulation for decades. We don't like small, local corruption (like being shaken down for money by cops or having your mail stolen) but we ignore big stuff like this. When I point it out to people they just don't believe it's real. I get the same when I point out that the Safety Net was dismantled in the 90s...:(
that the copyright on a song whose melody was composed in 1893 and lyrics in the 30s is _still_ being contested. IIRC nothing has lapsed into the public domain since 2010, and that's not likely to change. Anyone remember when the Mouse is up for another extension?
From plugins? Knock on wood and all but I run my blog/help pages offer WordPress and I don't see a lot of patches or the vulnerabilities that go with them. But it's pretty much stock with a simple theme and a spam filter...
bet heavy on AMD and their multi-core tech. Either Sins of a Solar Empire or Sword of the Stars. There's all sorts of cool shit they could only do on AMD Because of the crazy multi-core performance.
also bet heavy on multi-core? The $180 8350 hangs with a $350 i7 in multi-core applications, but other than a few math programs and PCSX2 I can't think of anything that isn't single threaded...
[Just got an old A10-5800k as a hand me down and it's great but the APU is pointless]
is that this is all very likely a smokescreen for his political and lobbying activities. That's why he doesn't just run it as a real charity. Real charities aren't allowed to do the kinds of things Zuckerberg (probably) wants to do. He's going to use this as a very big stick to get things he wants. He's not doing this out of the kindness of his heart.
The only times I can think of when a Baron genuinely turned to charity are at the end of their lives when a few of them got the fear of God (and more importantly hell) in 'em.
for gas cars? I'm wondering if it's possible for a gas powered car to deliver the performance people want with the fuel economy & emissions standards needed to keep the air in a modern city breathable; at least if we're actually going to enforce it.
and efficiency. This looks to me like some middle manager's desperate attempt to meet an arbitrary metric to make their bonus that year. I could get angry at that but from what I can tell Canada is starting to have the sort of wage stagnation that the US has had for the last 40 years or so. You'll see more and more of this as companies use metrics to wring every last dime out of their workers while pitting them against other workers on the global stage. I know a lot of people who complain about how inefficient gov't and businesses are, but I don't think anyone every really considers the consequences of real efficiency...
Just how much money is out there. The rich don't flaunt their money any more. It keeps the pleebs from noticing and keeps the "We're broke, so we need more Austerity" myth going...
Most prostitutes aren't doing it because they want to, they're doing it because their either forced or it's the only way to make ends meet. Maybe if we had a robust social safety net + basic income so that we could honestly say that no one was coerced into it you'd have a point, but good luck with that.
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they're just making the programmers do their own testing. I'm sure the "tough parenting" consisted of "Ok Jimmy, now if we find bugs we'll fire and replace you".
See here. The amount of effort that went into this is crazy amazing.
this is good press. That's all this is. It has no real teeth. Go look up Bernie Sanders if you want to see someone who a) wants to stop H1-B abuses and b) is completely unelectable as a result ( :( )
because they'll just cut the corporation's taxes somewhere else (or give them an "incentive" somewhere) to offset. Kill the H1-B program. It's too corrupt. If companies want foreign labor they can leave America. America obviously has something they want or they wouldn't be fighting to bring in H1-Bs.
if the businesses that hire H1-Bs ever had strikes... Tech workers are completely un-Unionized. That just leaves you with layoffs as the blocking condition, but I could see the bill defining "layoffs" rather liberally. Most tech companies make heavy use of "contractors" that are really full time employees without health or unemployment benefits. Companies could just use normal attrition to get rid of proper hires, replace them with phony-baloney contractors and then use that fake contract terms to get out of the "layoff" provision. Book it, done.
No, the H1-B program needs to die. It's too corrupt and too broken to save.
if they could move the jobs offshore they would have. It's still _way_ cheaper to run the jobs out of India. There are other reasons they want the laborers in America; like keeping everyone working on the same time zones and being able to manage employees (yes, for all the Dilbert jokes that just flooded into your mind Management does serve a purpose). Your statement is demonstrably false with even a little bit of care and effort. Please stop spreading that nonsense.
And even if we lived in a bizarro universe where you were right I say let 'em go. America is a country rich in natural resources and good land. If they want to stop employing Americans they can stop being Americans, and forget their land and property. They can leave, but they don't get to take the ball. It's not theirs.
You don't actually believe they're doing this out of the kindness of their hearts do you? This is a meaningless gesture that at best will have no noticeable impact and at worst go unenforced like the rest of the restrictions on the H1-B program. H1-Bs are better than Americans because they're already trained and they were trained on the cheap. They're also better because you can threaten them with deportation and they have no benefits. A bump in pay changes nothing. But it does give Mr Cruz a nice talking point for his presidential run.
because Americans have a ton of benefits H1-Bs don't have and because Americans Expect to work 40, maybe 50 hours a week while the H1-Bs routinely put in 60+. More importantly H1-Bs come pre-trained in whatever specialty skill set you want. You don't spend a dime on training when you hire them, and if their skills become obsolete you just replace them and move on. Nobody clamors for them to be retrained like we did with the mine workers. You just ship 'em back home. Problem solved.
It's a useless bone he's throwing to the American Labor movement. Ignoring the fact that we don't really enforce any of these rules in the first place the problem isn't wages, it's training and benefits. Even at $110k/year an H1-B is still cheaper because they have few benefits and they're trained in third world countries instead of expensive colleges. They're also trained for very, very specific tasks. Then there's the leverage employeers can bring to bear to make them work 60-80/hr weeks.
There's a reason you don't like Cruz. He's two faced. This is just another example. Want someone who'll do something to curtail cheap import labor for real? Vote Bernie.
we've been either stacking our regulatory bodies with captured folks or just plain not funding regulation for decades. We don't like small, local corruption (like being shaken down for money by cops or having your mail stolen) but we ignore big stuff like this. When I point it out to people they just don't believe it's real. I get the same when I point out that the Safety Net was dismantled in the 90s... :(
that the copyright on a song whose melody was composed in 1893 and lyrics in the 30s is _still_ being contested. IIRC nothing has lapsed into the public domain since 2010, and that's not likely to change. Anyone remember when the Mouse is up for another extension?
From plugins? Knock on wood and all but I run my blog/help pages offer WordPress and I don't see a lot of patches or the vulnerabilities that go with them. But it's pretty much stock with a simple theme and a spam filter...
and keep your AMD cpu. I've even seen laptops with AMD procs and nVidia gpus.
bet heavy on AMD and their multi-core tech. Either Sins of a Solar Empire or Sword of the Stars. There's all sorts of cool shit they could only do on AMD Because of the crazy multi-core performance.
Here you go. Follow the youtube links.
also bet heavy on multi-core? The $180 8350 hangs with a $350 i7 in multi-core applications, but other than a few math programs and PCSX2 I can't think of anything that isn't single threaded...
[Just got an old A10-5800k as a hand me down and it's great but the APU is pointless]
Or just apt-get lubuntu-desktop.
is that this is all very likely a smokescreen for his political and lobbying activities. That's why he doesn't just run it as a real charity. Real charities aren't allowed to do the kinds of things Zuckerberg (probably) wants to do. He's going to use this as a very big stick to get things he wants. He's not doing this out of the kindness of his heart.
The only times I can think of when a Baron genuinely turned to charity are at the end of their lives when a few of them got the fear of God (and more importantly hell) in 'em.
for gas cars? I'm wondering if it's possible for a gas powered car to deliver the performance people want with the fuel economy & emissions standards needed to keep the air in a modern city breathable; at least if we're actually going to enforce it.
and efficiency. This looks to me like some middle manager's desperate attempt to meet an arbitrary metric to make their bonus that year. I could get angry at that but from what I can tell Canada is starting to have the sort of wage stagnation that the US has had for the last 40 years or so. You'll see more and more of this as companies use metrics to wring every last dime out of their workers while pitting them against other workers on the global stage. I know a lot of people who complain about how inefficient gov't and businesses are, but I don't think anyone every really considers the consequences of real efficiency...
Just how much money is out there. The rich don't flaunt their money any more. It keeps the pleebs from noticing and keeps the "We're broke, so we need more Austerity" myth going...
I'm an American, I don't hand any money in my bank account. Take that Cyber Criminals!
Most prostitutes aren't doing it because they want to, they're doing it because their either forced or it's the only way to make ends meet. Maybe if we had a robust social safety net + basic income so that we could honestly say that no one was coerced into it you'd have a point, but good luck with that.
I've been trying come up with a concrete example of how license plate readers could be abused and here we are.
There's a multi-billion dollar lobbying industry telling them to oppose unions.