There isn't really a "pipeline" now. Most would-be immigrants flat out don't qualify to legally immigrate. They don't illegally immigrate to skip the line, they illegally immigrate because there is no line for them to get into. If you create more legal ways to enter the US, then these potential immigrants would be paying the processing fees (same as legally-applying immigrants today) so the government could hire more employees to process the increased workload, so the "line" should stay about the same length.
All of my great-grandparents entered the US legally too. The immigration rules at the time were: 1) Show up at the US border 2) You're white? Welcome to America.
The rules for a Mexican today? Go the the US embassy with a lawyer and prove you fall into one of these categories: 1) You have a couple million dollars to invest in the US (buying yourself a mansion counts as "investing in real estate") 2) You are a model/actor/singer/pro-athlete/celebrity of some sort. 3) You have at least a bachelor's degree in technology/hard science and an employer sponsoring you for H1b 3) You have parents/children/siblings/a spouse (or fiancee) already legally in the US (this is a much harder and takes much longer than the visas that are about money)
Don't fall into those categories?* Then you can't come to the US, at all, period, no mater how long you wait or how much paperwork you fill out.
*OK there are a couple other ways to legally immigrate, but they are pretty unlikely for your average Jose from Mexico.
I just don't know, and your post makes me depressed. The problem is there isn't anything I like doing all the time. And even choosing from among the various things I like doing, they generally don't line up between what I want to do now, and what my employer needs done now. It's not really the activities of work that I don't like, it's the fact that I don't get to decide when to start or stop them.
Um, a naturalized citizen is someone who traveled to the USA (usually legally getting a green card and all) and later took the civics test and did the little ceremony to become a US citizen. Anyone born on US soil (regardless of their parents status) is native born citizen, not a naturalized citizen.
Hmm, to me "cord cutter" always brings to mind umbilical cords. Thus a cord cutter is someone who finally gained independence from a parent. The idea seems pretty positive to me, the cable subscriber was clinging to and dependant on mommy cable company, but now they finally are ready to provide for themselves (entertainment wise).
That is flat out nonsense. The United States alone has over 4% of the world's population. So even if everyone else in the world is poorer than everyone in the United States (everyone in Europe? Australia? Japan? And let's not forget Saudi princes, the Kim family in North Korea, and all the other 3rd world rich elites) you would still need to be in the top 25% of the USA to be a global 1%. I'm pretty sure the top quartile of the USA makes a lot more than $10 per day
$1000/year! Wow, I'm moving to Canada now! Heck I'm willing to pay $1000/month (that's half of my mortgage now) which should get me a mansion with about a dozen rooms at that rate.
Because as long as I don't sleep with anyone's wife or owe money to anyone, I have no reason to fear murders who kill for those reasons. If folks kill someone because they are white, I'm screwed.
Now wait a minute, I was in college 20 years ago, and I was never taught this. Not even in that one "cultural pluralism" class you are required to take, which seemed to be the only thing keeping the anemic Ethnic Studies department in existence.
I've found several things work against being friends with your co-workers outside of work compared to school. In college, you have a bunch of (semi-)free time in between and after classes, most everyone is about the same age, hardly anyone is married or has kids, and most everyone lives within a mile or two of campus (and thus pretty close to each other). In the real world, you work 8 (or 10 or 12) hours with a one-hour commute before and after work, the ages range from 22 to 65, nearly everyone is married and most have kids, and everyone lives somewhere within 30-40 miles of work (generally not in the same direction as each other).
No, we don't bag our own groceries here in the US. It seems from my travels that this is a unique US thing. Here, either the cashier bags the groceries as she scans them, or a second person (usually a teenager) bags them as the cashier sends them down the counter. I think this might be influenced by the fact that Americans are usually buying huge amounts of food on each trip. Most of us make one grocery trip for our large families every week or two. And of course, we over-eat a lot. We tend to wheel a large size (much bigger than other parts of the world) grocery cart to fill up the back of our SUVs each trip. I get the impression that the rest of the world uses what I call the "city" model of shopping where you buy smaller amounts more frequently, maybe going to the butcher shop Monday, grabbing some bread from the baker Tuesday, etc. Americans try to get all their food for a week or two from one trip to one store. Also note that until recently, the grocery stores provided free disposable plastic bags (and maybe they still do in the non-California parts of the country?) so most grocery stores had a sort of bag dispenser/rack pre-loaded with disposable plastic bags. But until self-checkout started becoming a thing these dispensers usually were placed where the cashier could reach them, not the customer. So in short, we tend to buy huge amounts of stuff and we don't (collectively) have much practice bagging.
It is generally understood (at least in the US) that a condo can be individually bought and sold, i.e. each unit has its own parcel recorded with the government, while apartments in an apartment complex are all owned by a single entity and only rented to individual tenants. You can rent a condo, but you would be renting from the individual homeowner of that unit rather than the owner of the building/complex (because condos buildings don't have a singular owner, just an HOA that manages the common structure/area).
Which makes no goddamn sense. Bicycles are vehicles that typically go about 6 miles per hour (maybe 10 if the rider is in a hurry and willing to "run" on the peddles). They don't belong on the roads where vehicles typically do at least 45 miles per hour.
Nope, Southern California here. Plenty of building and development going on all the time. Still can't afford the house I lived in as a teenager (which was also in Southern California).
I've heard ideas like this a lot recently, but it's bullshit. I could never afford the same actual house that my parents owned 30 years ago, despite the fact that the structure is now 30 years older than when I lived there. According to Zillow, that home has 1500 square feet, and it's located on a.25 acre lot. Such luxury is well beyond what I, someone who barely makes six figures, could possibly afford. Instead i limp along, struggling to afford a 1000 square foot townhouse with no land in a much less desirable neighborhood than where that house we had when I was a teenager is.
I honestly don't understand how people manage on such little sleep, even 8-hours seems marginal. It seems to me that I need 80 hours total per week (average 10 per day). If I skimp on that by sleeping "only" 8 (or fewer) hours a day, I just end up sleeping in even more on the weekend to make it up.
I was diagnosed with sleep apnea, and putting me on a CPAP eliminated my snoring but did nothing for the duration of sleep I seem to desire. I typically wake 2-3 times in the early morning (that I am aware of) but I desperately want to get back into whatever I was dreaming about (hate leaving whatever I was urgently doing unfinished) and in the absence of interruptions I usually fall right back to sleep.
I the morning (after 10 or so hours) I don't feel refreshed at all, more bleary-eyed and hyper-sensitive to light and sound (no, I don't drink alcohol) with heavy, lethargic limbs that don't want to move. I also desperately want to get back into the last dream and finish whatever it was I was doing, which is extra-frustrating when the memory of what I was doing quickly fades leaving me with the vague sense that I was doing something really important but now I've forgotten what it even was.
The only thing that seems to help is a late wake-up time. It seems like if I can sleep in all the way until 7:00-7:30-ish I wake up much easier and it almost doesn't matter how late I go to bed. But of course that's incompatible with job-having.
I think you have to distribute shares in the robot owning companies, so everyone owns the robots and is entitled to a share of the profits. It gets a bit tricky how exactly that works though, and I haven't quite thought out all the ramifications of doing that.
If Farmer Bob owns a lot of fields, it might pull him up into being one of the rich elites (hell he might already be a rich elite if he's running a big agribusiness now). Smaller farmers might be able to rent access to their fields and scrape by, but I bet sooner or later some misfortune hits like a cancer that some rich elite will happily have his robo-doctors cure... if Farmer Bob sells his field. Of course, those of us who don't own farm fields (you know, the vast majority of us) won't be leveraging farm fields in the robo-future.
I remember the maps changing over in the mid-Eighties. Seventies and early-Eighties all the world maps in school were centered (left to right) on Kansas, with Asia and Australia on the left, and Europe and Africa on the right. That meant there was a split somewhere in the middle-east. If you looked carefully, you could tell that the left and right edges overlapped a little bit. In the mid-Eighties the "old" maps slowly got replaced with "international" maps with the Americas on the left and Eurasia on the right. Some grumpy old conservatives complained (yes even back then) that this was all a plot to take away American pride.
No dummy, you don't need to eliminate the lunch hour. Just move it to a different time! Make it one hour later, when there are far fewer pedestrian accidents!
I work in a pretty broad cross-section of industries, and the start time for almost everyone is 7:00am. If they don't start at 7:00am, it's because they start at 6:00am. It's only office types (which I know are over-represented here on Slashdot) that get to wait until after the sun is up before work starts.
Ah, I would still call that a dating. Dating doesn't strictly require going out. That's just the normal mode, since it's a bit less intimidating for women than going to a stranger's house or inviting a stranger into her house.
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There isn't really a "pipeline" now. Most would-be immigrants flat out don't qualify to legally immigrate. They don't illegally immigrate to skip the line, they illegally immigrate because there is no line for them to get into. If you create more legal ways to enter the US, then these potential immigrants would be paying the processing fees (same as legally-applying immigrants today) so the government could hire more employees to process the increased workload, so the "line" should stay about the same length.
All of my great-grandparents entered the US legally too. The immigration rules at the time were:
1) Show up at the US border
2) You're white? Welcome to America.
The rules for a Mexican today?
Go the the US embassy with a lawyer and prove you fall into one of these categories:
1) You have a couple million dollars to invest in the US (buying yourself a mansion counts as "investing in real estate")
2) You are a model/actor/singer/pro-athlete/celebrity of some sort.
3) You have at least a bachelor's degree in technology/hard science and an employer sponsoring you for H1b
3) You have parents/children/siblings/a spouse (or fiancee) already legally in the US (this is a much harder and takes much longer than the visas that are about money)
Don't fall into those categories?* Then you can't come to the US, at all, period, no mater how long you wait or how much paperwork you fill out.
*OK there are a couple other ways to legally immigrate, but they are pretty unlikely for your average Jose from Mexico.
I just don't know, and your post makes me depressed. The problem is there isn't anything I like doing all the time. And even choosing from among the various things I like doing, they generally don't line up between what I want to do now, and what my employer needs done now.
It's not really the activities of work that I don't like, it's the fact that I don't get to decide when to start or stop them.
Um, a naturalized citizen is someone who traveled to the USA (usually legally getting a green card and all) and later took the civics test and did the little ceremony to become a US citizen.
Anyone born on US soil (regardless of their parents status) is native born citizen, not a naturalized citizen.
Hmm, to me "cord cutter" always brings to mind umbilical cords. Thus a cord cutter is someone who finally gained independence from a parent. The idea seems pretty positive to me, the cable subscriber was clinging to and dependant on mommy cable company, but now they finally are ready to provide for themselves (entertainment wise).
That is flat out nonsense. The United States alone has over 4% of the world's population. So even if everyone else in the world is poorer than everyone in the United States (everyone in Europe? Australia? Japan? And let's not forget Saudi princes, the Kim family in North Korea, and all the other 3rd world rich elites) you would still need to be in the top 25% of the USA to be a global 1%. I'm pretty sure the top quartile of the USA makes a lot more than $10 per day
Of course we need polymaths, they're the only ones who can open the Chamber of Secrets!
I might have mis-read the summary...
Nursing and teaching DO try to recruit men. You just don't see it here because this isn't "slashnurse" or "teacherdot".
$1000/year! Wow, I'm moving to Canada now!
Heck I'm willing to pay $1000/month (that's half of my mortgage now) which should get me a mansion with about a dozen rooms at that rate.
Because as long as I don't sleep with anyone's wife or owe money to anyone, I have no reason to fear murders who kill for those reasons. If folks kill someone because they are white, I'm screwed.
If you killed someone to steal their stuff, that would be a "greed crime".
Now wait a minute, I was in college 20 years ago, and I was never taught this. Not even in that one "cultural pluralism" class you are required to take, which seemed to be the only thing keeping the anemic Ethnic Studies department in existence.
I've found several things work against being friends with your co-workers outside of work compared to school.
In college, you have a bunch of (semi-)free time in between and after classes, most everyone is about the same age, hardly anyone is married or has kids, and most everyone lives within a mile or two of campus (and thus pretty close to each other).
In the real world, you work 8 (or 10 or 12) hours with a one-hour commute before and after work, the ages range from 22 to 65, nearly everyone is married and most have kids, and everyone lives somewhere within 30-40 miles of work (generally not in the same direction as each other).
No, we don't bag our own groceries here in the US. It seems from my travels that this is a unique US thing.
Here, either the cashier bags the groceries as she scans them, or a second person (usually a teenager) bags them as the cashier sends them down the counter.
I think this might be influenced by the fact that Americans are usually buying huge amounts of food on each trip. Most of us make one grocery trip for our large families every week or two. And of course, we over-eat a lot. We tend to wheel a large size (much bigger than other parts of the world) grocery cart to fill up the back of our SUVs each trip. I get the impression that the rest of the world uses what I call the "city" model of shopping where you buy smaller amounts more frequently, maybe going to the butcher shop Monday, grabbing some bread from the baker Tuesday, etc. Americans try to get all their food for a week or two from one trip to one store.
Also note that until recently, the grocery stores provided free disposable plastic bags (and maybe they still do in the non-California parts of the country?) so most grocery stores had a sort of bag dispenser/rack pre-loaded with disposable plastic bags. But until self-checkout started becoming a thing these dispensers usually were placed where the cashier could reach them, not the customer.
So in short, we tend to buy huge amounts of stuff and we don't (collectively) have much practice bagging.
It is generally understood (at least in the US) that a condo can be individually bought and sold, i.e. each unit has its own parcel recorded with the government, while apartments in an apartment complex are all owned by a single entity and only rented to individual tenants.
You can rent a condo, but you would be renting from the individual homeowner of that unit rather than the owner of the building/complex (because condos buildings don't have a singular owner, just an HOA that manages the common structure/area).
Which makes no goddamn sense. Bicycles are vehicles that typically go about 6 miles per hour (maybe 10 if the rider is in a hurry and willing to "run" on the peddles). They don't belong on the roads where vehicles typically do at least 45 miles per hour.
Nope, Southern California here. Plenty of building and development going on all the time. Still can't afford the house I lived in as a teenager (which was also in Southern California).
I've heard ideas like this a lot recently, but it's bullshit. I could never afford the same actual house that my parents owned 30 years ago, despite the fact that the structure is now 30 years older than when I lived there. .25 acre lot. Such luxury is well beyond what I, someone who barely makes six figures, could possibly afford. Instead i limp along, struggling to afford a 1000 square foot townhouse with no land in a much less desirable neighborhood than where that house we had when I was a teenager is.
According to Zillow, that home has 1500 square feet, and it's located on a
I honestly don't understand how people manage on such little sleep, even 8-hours seems marginal. It seems to me that I need 80 hours total per week (average 10 per day). If I skimp on that by sleeping "only" 8 (or fewer) hours a day, I just end up sleeping in even more on the weekend to make it up.
I was diagnosed with sleep apnea, and putting me on a CPAP eliminated my snoring but did nothing for the duration of sleep I seem to desire. I typically wake 2-3 times in the early morning (that I am aware of) but I desperately want to get back into whatever I was dreaming about (hate leaving whatever I was urgently doing unfinished) and in the absence of interruptions I usually fall right back to sleep.
I the morning (after 10 or so hours) I don't feel refreshed at all, more bleary-eyed and hyper-sensitive to light and sound (no, I don't drink alcohol) with heavy, lethargic limbs that don't want to move. I also desperately want to get back into the last dream and finish whatever it was I was doing, which is extra-frustrating when the memory of what I was doing quickly fades leaving me with the vague sense that I was doing something really important but now I've forgotten what it even was.
The only thing that seems to help is a late wake-up time. It seems like if I can sleep in all the way until 7:00-7:30-ish I wake up much easier and it almost doesn't matter how late I go to bed. But of course that's incompatible with job-having.
I think you have to distribute shares in the robot owning companies, so everyone owns the robots and is entitled to a share of the profits. It gets a bit tricky how exactly that works though, and I haven't quite thought out all the ramifications of doing that.
If Farmer Bob owns a lot of fields, it might pull him up into being one of the rich elites (hell he might already be a rich elite if he's running a big agribusiness now). Smaller farmers might be able to rent access to their fields and scrape by, but I bet sooner or later some misfortune hits like a cancer that some rich elite will happily have his robo-doctors cure... if Farmer Bob sells his field.
Of course, those of us who don't own farm fields (you know, the vast majority of us) won't be leveraging farm fields in the robo-future.
I remember the maps changing over in the mid-Eighties. Seventies and early-Eighties all the world maps in school were centered (left to right) on Kansas, with Asia and Australia on the left, and Europe and Africa on the right. That meant there was a split somewhere in the middle-east. If you looked carefully, you could tell that the left and right edges overlapped a little bit.
In the mid-Eighties the "old" maps slowly got replaced with "international" maps with the Americas on the left and Eurasia on the right. Some grumpy old conservatives complained (yes even back then) that this was all a plot to take away American pride.
No dummy, you don't need to eliminate the lunch hour. Just move it to a different time! Make it one hour later, when there are far fewer pedestrian accidents!
I work in a pretty broad cross-section of industries, and the start time for almost everyone is 7:00am. If they don't start at 7:00am, it's because they start at 6:00am.
It's only office types (which I know are over-represented here on Slashdot) that get to wait until after the sun is up before work starts.
Ah, I would still call that a dating. Dating doesn't strictly require going out. That's just the normal mode, since it's a bit less intimidating for women than going to a stranger's house or inviting a stranger into her house.