Likely, if they hadn't implemented that law in Germany, Germany today would be like Turkey is today about its genocide.
You, good sir, need to consult a neurological expert and have your grey matter checked. Do you really think that a law like that is going to convince anyone? In other words, do you really think a law stating that the earth is round, will convince the flat-earthers?
No. It's about free speech, and the government allowing only the speech that it likes. As the Germans did a few times before. Just check your history books.
You might have missed Twitter's EMEA headquarter in Dublin
Irrelevant. Last time I checked, Twitter's Dublin office was a separate legal entity from Twitter Inc. I'm quite sure that it's Twitter Inc which owns the servers hosting all of Twitter's data.
The fact that Twitter Inc controls Twitter Dublin does not mean that Twitter Dublin gets to control Twitter Inc.
That does not mean that the Irish government cannot require Twitter Dublin to abide by its laws. It can indeed, since the Twitter entity in Dublin falls within their jurisdiction. However, their authority stops at the border. EU laws stop at EU borders, and therefore EU laws have no business trying to control data on a server hosted by a US company in a datacenter on US soil. The US has a pretty strong protection of free speech, unlike the EUSSR.
Basically if you are in Germany the US Constitution grants you free speech in the sense that it protects your free speech from begin censored by the US government, but it doesn't protect you in any way from being censored by the German government...
Which means that the German government has no business impeding on an American entity, such as Twitter Inc, legally incorporated in Delaware, USA.
In short, Germany's authority would (should) only extend to the Twitter user that was in Germany at the time of posting a tweet in violation of German law. But then again, we know that the Germans have a tendency to not care about borders.
I pay people to not screw up so if you do I'm terminating you and finding someone competent.
Which would be stupid. What do you think the chances are that this guy will repeat this mistake?
Here is a story a friend of mine once told me. He was working on an AS migration of a major telco, when he made a big boo-boo causing a huge outage for hundreds of thousands of subscribers, making headline news. The next morning he got called into his boss's office, expecting to be fired. He was not. The reason why?
His boss argued that this mistake made him more valuable, since he would not be making that mistake ever ever again.
These judges should go back to law school and read about the 5th, and why it exists. It's not just about the right to remain silent. It is about the absolute right of a suspect in a criminal case to refrain from any actions which would help the prosecution to convict. A modern day criminal trial is already very uneven with the prosecutor having massive amounts of resources, where a suspect has very limited resources.
These "judges" are criminals themselves and should be thrown in jail for violating this man's human rights.
History will judge these fools the same way as the inquisitors who tortured heretics to extract a confession. This is basically the same. Putting an innocent man (until proven guilty) in jail because he refuses to cooperate with the inquisition. And of course they create a precedent like this with a case involving children, so the public backlash would be limited. Where are alt-right patriots when you need them?
As a customer, I have already paid for all of my data traffic. Now you demand that I pay more for certain bits than for the rest?
You clearly don't know how the internet works. And that's fine. I don't know how a rocket works. I stay out of rocket science. Will you please return the favor and stay out of internet science?
First of all, "The Internet" does not exist. The Internet is a reference to a large number of private networks which decided to connect to each other. That's right, nothing special. That's why there is no central government over the internet. "But what about ICANN and IANA?". Those bodies do nothing but coordinate. They coordinate how domains work, and they coordinate number assignments. Without those two, the internet would be a bit more chaotic, but still exist.
I have some IP space and an AS number, and I rent some rackspace in a data center. My routers speak BGP and announce my IP space to my service provider. I use it to provide free services to friends and family.
I own that network, which is now part of the internet. Why the F would the FCC have anything to do with the way that I choose to steer traffic?
Same thing for your service from Verizon/Comcast/AT&T/Whomever. It is their network, they own it. You buy services from them. If you don't like the way that they provide the services on the network that they designed, bought and operate, you are free to leave any time you want.
The government does not get to interfere in private property, and that is exactly what Net "Neutrality" is trying to achieve.
What about when some peeping tom uses one to film your backyard?
I think that if some boob runs a drone over his neighbors yard the neighbor should be allowed to knock it down.
Are you going to shoot me down in my little Cessna 172 at 1000ft as well? Because I can effectively do the same thing.
When you violate somebody you violate somebody. Both deserve equal punishment.
You are exactly what is wrong with the world today.
And I'm really not going to explain you why flying an unmanned aircraft is different than the act of physically forcing a woman to non-consensual sexual activities.
However, as the chief of the Executive Branch, the President (this, the previous, or the next one) has the ultimate authority over his subordinates. The CIA, FBI and NSA all report to the President, and as such POTUS has the authority to declassify any information he (or she) wishes to, and share it with whomever he feels is needed.
The president doesn't get to arbitrarily break laws, or communicate sensitive information to hostile foreign powers. What next, you will defend him selling the blueprints for the nuclear submarines, complete with highlighted weak points?
I'm far from a fan of the current president. However, as the chief of the Executive Branch, the President (this, the previous, or the next one) has the ultimate authority over his subordinates. The CIA, FBI and NSA all report to the President, and as such POTUS has the authority to declassify any information he (or she) wishes to, and share it with whomever he feels is needed.
Remember that you have no idea what is going on. Maybe those blueprints for nuclear submarines are exchanged for hyperdrives, or the removal of nuclear warheads from Cuba. We don't know, and we have to trust the elected President. If we can't trust this one, we should not have elected him.
While I disagree with the mockery of the dead, 170k salary and 4k rent is far far better than the typical American 45k salary and 1k rent.
You need to rethink your assessment of his income and quality of life.
A 170k salary in SF equates to roughly 8k monthly income (after taxes, 401k, benefits contribution). Of that 8k, in SF and close to SF, 4k will go directly to rent. Add to that utilities etc, and you'll be looking at 4300. That leaves 3700. Add a car payment ($300), car insurance ($100) and preschool for 1 child (~$800) and now you have $2500 left for a family of 4.
San Francisco and San Mateo counties have the highest limits in the Bay Area - and among the highest such numbers in the country. A family of four with an income of $105,350 per year is considered "low income."
Yes, you read that right. A 6 figure income can qualify as "low income" based on ALL the factors.
Falsely claiming to be an engineer or a doctor or a lawyer or any other profession the public has to be able to trust, is exactly like that.
But now the question is: what is "falsely claiming to be an engineer"?.
I work in computer networking. I hold a Master's degree in I.T. networking and I am a Juniper Networks Certified Internet Expert (JNCIE). On a daily basis, I architect, design and implement large scale computer networks. All my neighbors refer to me as "the engineer" because I fix everything from kids toys to iPads and iPhones.
On my linked-in profile, I present myself as a network engineer. However, the California board for professional engineers does not even recognize Network Engineering as a category.
When you've been through H1-B, you can not form an unbiased opinion on the program itself. You can testify to the difficulty and unfair practices by employers.
H1-B by itself is a good program. What's missing is the enforcement of its prerequisites. LCA is way to easy to get, and reported abuse is not investigated (think Disney).
The scam only becomes apparent when viewed with a larger perspective. Let's be honest: most temp workers have immigration intents. Balu from Mumbai who gets an H1-B only wants his employer to sponsor a greencard. And luckily most employers are willing to do so. However, The combination of the H1-B influx and current greencard caps means that Balu now needs to wait up to 10 years for his greencard. That's 10 years without getting a new job easily. That's 10 years without having the same protections and wages. That's 10 years without knowing for sure whether or not he can stay in the country he loves.
That's the scam, and the human cost that nobody realizes when discussing H1-B.
25MAR05 is the current EB-3 priority date for India.
That is the prevailing opinion but I find it extremely dangerous since it means that Americans effectively do not have freedom of expression.
I agree that Twitter is wrong here, but your statement is false. Twitter is paying for the services to keep the platform up, and if they decide not to host something, that's their decision.
Every American is free to shell out $25, pay for a VPS and host whatever the F they want.
It does not matter that he paid for a seat.The man should not feel entitled to fly just because he thinks he is more important than every other passenger on the plane.
You should go and read this again. A medical doctor, flying to a patient for surgery, with a paid ticket, an assigned seat, sitting in that assigned seat after boarding that aircraft, is not entitled to fly?
Congratulations, you just made my top 10 of/. dumbest posters.
I would argue no, because the root causes were very different.
In case of the Gimli Glider, the root cause was fuel starvation because of a switch from retard system to metric system. All of the crew involved failed to spot a calculation error which caused a lot less fuel to be added than requested (only 0.454%, to be exact).
The Air Transat flight had a fuel leak which was caused by inadequate maintenance. During an engine swap, there was a bracket required which was not included with the engine. The technicians improvised by using a similar bracket. This cause two pipes to rub against each other, which caused a fuel like. The crew then made the critical error to open the crossfeed valves, moving fuel from other fuel tanks into the leaking tank.
Both cases were preventable, but are totally not related.
No need for refueling ? Let us know how that works out for you ( hint : you might want to Google "Gimli Glider" ).
I'm sure others will chime in with ridicule, so that's all the time I am going to spend on this utter bullshit.
But TFA says so! </sarcasm>
Not a lot of people realize the need for 45 minutes of flight time required for IFR flights. Not a lot of people realize that a theoretical range of 700 miles does not mean that you can actually plan to fly 700 miles.
Oh, and while Gimli was an impressive one, I'll one up you with Air Transat landing on the Azores.
As outlined in Executive Order 12968, Access to Classified Information, eligibility for access to classified information may only be granted to employees who are United States citizens. However, an exception is allowed in specific situations wherein there are compelling reasons for limited access to be granted to an immigrant alien or foreign national employee who possess a special expertise that is needed for specific programs, projects, contracts, licenses, certificates, or grants.
And isn't that special expertise precisely why people are eligible for an H1-B?
Imagine this: you live in the slums in Mumbai. Your father goes thru trash every day, hoping to find tin cans to sell, and your mother tries to sell home-made bread on the market to feed all of your 6 brothers and sisters. Now you get the opportunity to get a three year degree in software engineering and go to the U.S. to work for a tech company. You have no clue about all the politics surrounding H1-B in the U.S., and you don't know that you will be grossly underpaid comparing to your American peers.
Who would not take this opportunity with both hands?
I've worked with many Indian people on an H1-B, and my anecdotal evidence is that they really are just like everyone else. Some are good, some are a bit less. But all share the same hope and dreams of being able to permanently stay in the U.S. and doing it the legal way.
Instead of only discussing those pesky Indians taking American jobs, let's keep this in mind as well. Let's focus on the companies that are responsible for the abuse of the program. Southern California Edison, Disney, etc. Wipro and Infosys committing visa fraud. These are the bad guys, not Balu from Bombai.
MSc from a regionally accredited U.S. University here.
And for the record, I was not trying to bash the U.S. I was merely trying to point out that it's an individual's intellect and skillset that matters, not where they are born.
Nobody controls where their mom was when they were born. Nobody controls what elementary school, and in most cases what middle/high school they went to. And not everyone was able to even go to college.
I was replying to an AC who effectively asserts that India is a third world country where people poop in the streets, and that because of that, its engineers can't be good. My point is that each individual should be judged on their personal abilities, not on the country they were born in.
Just like not every American is a cousin-marrying hillbilly who shoots up schools. But then again, I live in California so I've rarely even seen a real hillbilly.
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Likely, if they hadn't implemented that law in Germany, Germany today would be like Turkey is today about its genocide.
You, good sir, need to consult a neurological expert and have your grey matter checked. Do you really think that a law like that is going to convince anyone? In other words, do you really think a law stating that the earth is round, will convince the flat-earthers?
No. It's about free speech, and the government allowing only the speech that it likes. As the Germans did a few times before. Just check your history books.
You might have missed Twitter's EMEA headquarter in Dublin
Irrelevant. Last time I checked, Twitter's Dublin office was a separate legal entity from Twitter Inc. I'm quite sure that it's Twitter Inc which owns the servers hosting all of Twitter's data.
The fact that Twitter Inc controls Twitter Dublin does not mean that Twitter Dublin gets to control Twitter Inc.
That does not mean that the Irish government cannot require Twitter Dublin to abide by its laws. It can indeed, since the Twitter entity in Dublin falls within their jurisdiction. However, their authority stops at the border. EU laws stop at EU borders, and therefore EU laws have no business trying to control data on a server hosted by a US company in a datacenter on US soil. The US has a pretty strong protection of free speech, unlike the EUSSR.
Basically if you are in Germany the US Constitution grants you free speech in the sense that it protects your free speech from begin censored by the US government, but it doesn't protect you in any way from being censored by the German government...
Which means that the German government has no business impeding on an American entity, such as Twitter Inc, legally incorporated in Delaware, USA.
In short, Germany's authority would (should) only extend to the Twitter user that was in Germany at the time of posting a tweet in violation of German law. But then again, we know that the Germans have a tendency to not care about borders.
The police are asking them to do something
in order to assist the government in prosecuting and convicting them of a crime.
Exactly. You just made my point.
I pay people to not screw up so if you do I'm terminating you and finding someone competent.
Which would be stupid. What do you think the chances are that this guy will repeat this mistake?
Here is a story a friend of mine once told me. He was working on an AS migration of a major telco, when he made a big boo-boo causing a huge outage for hundreds of thousands of subscribers, making headline news. The next morning he got called into his boss's office, expecting to be fired. He was not. The reason why?
His boss argued that this mistake made him more valuable, since he would not be making that mistake ever ever again.
These judges should go back to law school and read about the 5th, and why it exists. It's not just about the right to remain silent. It is about the absolute right of a suspect in a criminal case to refrain from any actions which would help the prosecution to convict. A modern day criminal trial is already very uneven with the prosecutor having massive amounts of resources, where a suspect has very limited resources.
These "judges" are criminals themselves and should be thrown in jail for violating this man's human rights.
History will judge these fools the same way as the inquisitors who tortured heretics to extract a confession. This is basically the same. Putting an innocent man (until proven guilty) in jail because he refuses to cooperate with the inquisition. And of course they create a precedent like this with a case involving children, so the public backlash would be limited. Where are alt-right patriots when you need them?
Try discussing "Tiananmen Square" online in China. Or, well, nearly anything in North Korea that doesn't portray their history in a glowing light.
You forgot about the Armenian Genocide. I'm sure Baba Erdogan has some laws on his books that prevents that from being discussed.
(And yes Turks, downmod all you want, it won't change the truth).
As a customer, I have already paid for all of my data traffic. Now you demand that I pay more for certain bits than for the rest?
You clearly don't know how the internet works. And that's fine. I don't know how a rocket works. I stay out of rocket science. Will you please return the favor and stay out of internet science?
First of all, "The Internet" does not exist. The Internet is a reference to a large number of private networks which decided to connect to each other. That's right, nothing special. That's why there is no central government over the internet. "But what about ICANN and IANA?". Those bodies do nothing but coordinate. They coordinate how domains work, and they coordinate number assignments. Without those two, the internet would be a bit more chaotic, but still exist.
I have some IP space and an AS number, and I rent some rackspace in a data center. My routers speak BGP and announce my IP space to my service provider. I use it to provide free services to friends and family.
I own that network, which is now part of the internet. Why the F would the FCC have anything to do with the way that I choose to steer traffic?
Same thing for your service from Verizon/Comcast/AT&T/Whomever. It is their network, they own it. You buy services from them. If you don't like the way that they provide the services on the network that they designed, bought and operate, you are free to leave any time you want.
The government does not get to interfere in private property, and that is exactly what Net "Neutrality" is trying to achieve.
What about when some peeping tom uses one to film your backyard? I think that if some boob runs a drone over his neighbors yard the neighbor should be allowed to knock it down.
Are you going to shoot me down in my little Cessna 172 at 1000ft as well? Because I can effectively do the same thing.
With or without AMP you are going to get that shit
Not true. My adblock is not nearly as effective on AMP accelerated pages. AMP should stand for Ad & Malware Pushing.
When you violate somebody you violate somebody. Both deserve equal punishment.
You are exactly what is wrong with the world today.
And I'm really not going to explain you why flying an unmanned aircraft is different than the act of physically forcing a woman to non-consensual sexual activities.
Please remove yourself from the gene pool.
Sincerely,
The rest of the world.
However, as the chief of the Executive Branch, the President (this, the previous, or the next one) has the ultimate authority over his subordinates. The CIA, FBI and NSA all report to the President, and as such POTUS has the authority to declassify any information he (or she) wishes to, and share it with whomever he feels is needed.
Ha!, I think the Time Magazine read my comment: http://time.com/4780593/presid...
The president doesn't get to arbitrarily break laws, or communicate sensitive information to hostile foreign powers. What next, you will defend him selling the blueprints for the nuclear submarines, complete with highlighted weak points?
I'm far from a fan of the current president. However, as the chief of the Executive Branch, the President (this, the previous, or the next one) has the ultimate authority over his subordinates. The CIA, FBI and NSA all report to the President, and as such POTUS has the authority to declassify any information he (or she) wishes to, and share it with whomever he feels is needed.
Remember that you have no idea what is going on. Maybe those blueprints for nuclear submarines are exchanged for hyperdrives, or the removal of nuclear warheads from Cuba. We don't know, and we have to trust the elected President. If we can't trust this one, we should not have elected him.
And for the record, I did not vote for him.
While I disagree with the mockery of the dead, 170k salary and 4k rent is far far better than the typical American 45k salary and 1k rent.
You need to rethink your assessment of his income and quality of life.
A 170k salary in SF equates to roughly 8k monthly income (after taxes, 401k, benefits contribution). Of that 8k, in SF and close to SF, 4k will go directly to rent. Add to that utilities etc, and you'll be looking at 4300. That leaves 3700. Add a car payment ($300), car insurance ($100) and preschool for 1 child (~$800) and now you have $2500 left for a family of 4.
Don't look at the gross income, look at disposable income. See also this: http://www.mercurynews.com/201...
San Francisco and San Mateo counties have the highest limits in the Bay Area - and among the highest such numbers in the country. A family of four with an income of $105,350 per year is considered "low income."
Yes, you read that right. A 6 figure income can qualify as "low income" based on ALL the factors.
Falsely claiming to be an engineer or a doctor or a lawyer or any other profession the public has to be able to trust, is exactly like that.
But now the question is: what is "falsely claiming to be an engineer"?.
I work in computer networking. I hold a Master's degree in I.T. networking and I am a Juniper Networks Certified Internet Expert (JNCIE). On a daily basis, I architect, design and implement large scale computer networks. All my neighbors refer to me as "the engineer" because I fix everything from kids toys to iPads and iPhones.
On my linked-in profile, I present myself as a network engineer. However, the California board for professional engineers does not even recognize Network Engineering as a category.
So, you tell me. I'm I a felon now?
In other words, the headline is worthless click-bait
Yes, this is not much more than the hundreds of "This Is What Trump May Do Now" headlines seen shortly after his inauguration.
If it contains "May", it is nothing but speculation. This is not science, and definitely not newsworthy.
Says someone who has never been through it.
When you've been through H1-B, you can not form an unbiased opinion on the program itself. You can testify to the difficulty and unfair practices by employers.
H1-B by itself is a good program. What's missing is the enforcement of its prerequisites. LCA is way to easy to get, and reported abuse is not investigated (think Disney).
The scam only becomes apparent when viewed with a larger perspective. Let's be honest: most temp workers have immigration intents. Balu from Mumbai who gets an H1-B only wants his employer to sponsor a greencard. And luckily most employers are willing to do so. However, The combination of the H1-B influx and current greencard caps means that Balu now needs to wait up to 10 years for his greencard. That's 10 years without getting a new job easily. That's 10 years without having the same protections and wages. That's 10 years without knowing for sure whether or not he can stay in the country he loves.
That's the scam, and the human cost that nobody realizes when discussing H1-B.
25MAR05 is the current EB-3 priority date for India.
That is the prevailing opinion but I find it extremely dangerous since it means that Americans effectively do not have freedom of expression.
I agree that Twitter is wrong here, but your statement is false. Twitter is paying for the services to keep the platform up, and if they decide not to host something, that's their decision.
Every American is free to shell out $25, pay for a VPS and host whatever the F they want.
It does not matter that he paid for a seat.The man should not feel entitled to fly just because he thinks he is more important than every other passenger on the plane.
You should go and read this again. A medical doctor, flying to a patient for surgery, with a paid ticket, an assigned seat, sitting in that assigned seat after boarding that aircraft, is not entitled to fly?
/. dumbest posters.
Congratulations, you just made my top 10 of
I just "Request Desktop Site" if I have a PM on Facebook, and use the mobile Chrome app to read it like I do the rest of Facebook.
My kingdom for modpoints. This works on iPhone as well. I just deleted that stupid messenger app from my phone.
Both flights originated within Canada.
I would argue no, because the root causes were very different.
In case of the Gimli Glider, the root cause was fuel starvation because of a switch from retard system to metric system. All of the crew involved failed to spot a calculation error which caused a lot less fuel to be added than requested (only 0.454%, to be exact).
The Air Transat flight had a fuel leak which was caused by inadequate maintenance. During an engine swap, there was a bracket required which was not included with the engine. The technicians improvised by using a similar bracket. This cause two pipes to rub against each other, which caused a fuel like. The crew then made the critical error to open the crossfeed valves, moving fuel from other fuel tanks into the leaking tank.
Both cases were preventable, but are totally not related.
No need for refueling ? Let us know how that works out for you ( hint : you might want to Google "Gimli Glider" ).
I'm sure others will chime in with ridicule, so that's all the time I am going to spend on this utter bullshit.
But TFA says so! </sarcasm>
Not a lot of people realize the need for 45 minutes of flight time required for IFR flights. Not a lot of people realize that a theoretical range of 700 miles does not mean that you can actually plan to fly 700 miles.
Oh, and while Gimli was an impressive one, I'll one up you with Air Transat landing on the Azores.
Neither do foreigners....
Wrong. Fake news.
As outlined in Executive Order 12968, Access to Classified Information, eligibility for access to classified information may only be granted to employees who are United States citizens. However, an exception is allowed in specific situations wherein there are compelling reasons for limited access to be granted to an immigrant alien or foreign national employee who possess a special expertise that is needed for specific programs, projects, contracts, licenses, certificates, or grants.
And isn't that special expertise precisely why people are eligible for an H1-B?
Imagine this: you live in the slums in Mumbai. Your father goes thru trash every day, hoping to find tin cans to sell, and your mother tries to sell home-made bread on the market to feed all of your 6 brothers and sisters. Now you get the opportunity to get a three year degree in software engineering and go to the U.S. to work for a tech company. You have no clue about all the politics surrounding H1-B in the U.S., and you don't know that you will be grossly underpaid comparing to your American peers.
Who would not take this opportunity with both hands?
I've worked with many Indian people on an H1-B, and my anecdotal evidence is that they really are just like everyone else. Some are good, some are a bit less. But all share the same hope and dreams of being able to permanently stay in the U.S. and doing it the legal way.
Instead of only discussing those pesky Indians taking American jobs, let's keep this in mind as well. Let's focus on the companies that are responsible for the abuse of the program. Southern California Edison, Disney, etc. Wipro and Infosys committing visa fraud. These are the bad guys, not Balu from Bombai.
It seems you aren't one of those 30%.
MSc from a regionally accredited U.S. University here.
And for the record, I was not trying to bash the U.S. I was merely trying to point out that it's an individual's intellect and skillset that matters, not where they are born.
Nobody controls where their mom was when they were born. Nobody controls what elementary school, and in most cases what middle/high school they went to. And not everyone was able to even go to college.
I was replying to an AC who effectively asserts that India is a third world country where people poop in the streets, and that because of that, its engineers can't be good. My point is that each individual should be judged on their personal abilities, not on the country they were born in.
Just like not every American is a cousin-marrying hillbilly who shoots up schools. But then again, I live in California so I've rarely even seen a real hillbilly.