I think you're simplifying a little bit. I don't know the history of the H1-B legislation, so it's possible it was passed as a rider on some completely unrelated piece of law, or was porked out with special interest payouts. I don't know, but I'm sure there wasn't just *one* reason it got voted through.
It was passed at 2:00am after all the Democrats had been told there would be no more legislation proposed that evening- they woke Clinton up at 6:00am to sign it into law, by the time most of the opposition came into the office it was a done deal.
I had a huge write-up here that I decided against posting. If you really believe that the US has too much immigration of skilled workers, then no amount of statistics will convince you otherwise. Suffice to say, I believe the US benefits from it, and greater immigration is one way to solve the looming social security crisis. Raising taxes, increasing borrowing or cutting benefits are other possible solutions.
Skilled workers ARE preferable to unskilled- don't get me wrong. But we can certainly fit ALL of the current H-1b immigration (even the artificially high 2000-2003 limits) into the 500,000 limit of replacement immigration.
It's not a loophole. There's nothing wrong with the legislation as written. Really. Read it, and the associated Federal Register articles - you may be surprised. The problem is INS is grossly underfunded and so does not adequately enforce the existing legislation. People with legitimate claims are kept waiting for years, and people with illegitimate claims are getting through. It's purely an enforcement problem.
I have read it- and I've got MANY complaints ranging from not contributing to the green card limit to rates of pay allowed and regulations about job postings. But as you say, it can all boil down to an enforcement problem- or, as I suspect, a bribed politician and bureaucrat problem.
I think you missed my point. Who the people vote for just doesn't matter anymore- voting is a fake, a show of support for a system that simply doesn't exist. The real election is decided in the back room tabulators- machines that have serious enough bugs in them to be utterly unsure of anything that comes out of them. Garbage In, Garbage Out, there's no reason left to trust that every vote will be counted or that every vote was counted. Sure, we've got great participation in the farce, but that doesn't make it any less of a farce.
The time to do something about it is over 100 years in the past now. Unless somebody can build a time machine and assassinate the SCOTUS judges who awarded Southern Pacific Railroad "Personhood" status in 1886- we're stuck with Corporatism as the default for at least the next 1000 years.
The *ONLY* reason anbody votes for a "guest worker" program of any sort is for the campaign contributions from the businesses that will profit from the cheap labor. We've got well beyond the immigration we can handle for the main purpose that the United States needs open borders to begin with (replenishing a dying population that spends more time working than raising families). If the real purpose was to encourage immigration, it would be far better just to hand out green cards to the intended targets of immigration to begin with- and cut out the rigamarole and mess of the H-1b visa.
Which means that this is just yet another loophole- like the fact that nobody seems to check Labor Condition Applications against State Unemployment Offices (or else I'm sure they'd find more Americans to work retrainable to those skills, especially post 2/2001).
Don't worry- the NYT rag on the Left and the WSJ on the Right will still be there for you when you are elderly and elitist. Maybe only in print form- but they will still be there.
No, not the movie itself. The pacing is what's overly optimistic. In ten years, I guarantee you that NYT will not be a paper-only rag that services the elite and the elderly. NYT is not only an institution, it's a brand, like Nike. And if the mediascape becomes useless due to convergence like this author predicts, I'd think filtered/controlled organizations like NYT become even more powerful.
Hate to say it- but that brand is already well destroyed in my mind as a rag for the elite and the elderly. And no self-righteous conservative listens to it today- it's largely considered to be a left-wing elitist rag, just as the Wall Street Journal brand is a right-wing elitist rag for the elderly.
What some futurists seem to forget is that what happens with new technology (and convergence-delivered media would be a new form of tech) is that it doesn't replace anything. Yeah, CDs replaced cassettes, but are cassettes gone? Nope, still around, and still doing a damn fine job when you want to perform a linear recording. Did TV replace radio? Did the Internet replace TV? No, no, no. I like some of what this author said -- freelance reporters getting a cut of Google's Ad fee -- but all this will be is another option and nothing more. Is it possible that TNY will be reduced when mega-convergence happens? It's possible, but not likely.
Digital Audio Recorders have largely replaced tapes in my life, TV has replaced radio whereever I don't need to keep my eyes on the road (and even then, I'd almost rather listen to my MP3 player than radio). At home, my TV time is reduced to times when I need my hands for other tasks while eating- otherwise it's the Internet all the way.
And the bit about the Supreme Court in 2011 (or whenver it was) ruling for Googlezon? Please! Does this author even realize who just got elected as Pres for the next four years? The court's gonna be stacked with as many conservatives as Bush can muster.
And given what passes for "news" in the NYT as of late, most of those conservatives will already be prejudiced against the NYT.
And bots will not have the intelligence to manipulate words into coherent sentences. Not by 2014.
Hell, I had an interpreted Basic Script in 1982 that could manipulate words into coherent sentences. It was called "Poetry Generator" and it was widely used to teach 4th graders basic spaghetti coding and weighted random access read routines. True, the source text wasn't a text file, just a bunch of words in DATA statements, but it worked fine.
I thought this way- until my freedom was directly attacked and I was not *allowed* to work for 26 months (finally broke that by saying goodbye to the corruption of private industry and hello to government contracting, it's a hell of a lot more stable).
I learned in that 26 months that my life was not my own, that I have almost no control whatsoever.
Mr. Joe I tend to think youre just upset that a majority of Americans do not agree with you.
Given the revelations of ballots thrown out due to shreded voter registration cards, I challenge you to prove that a majority of Americans believe anything at all- as opposed to a minority of hackers, programmers, and high level business men with the power to have our central tabulators say whatever the hell they want them to say.
If you haven't guessed, as far as I'm concerned the only thing the 2000, 2002, and 2004 elections proved is that DEMOCRACY IS DEAD.
Nah- the multinational corporations will still have power in the Confederacy of Five United States- it's just that fewer people in the old USA will still have the money for their Googlezon subscriptions is all. Doesn't matter- our downfall will be the gain of China and India, so there will be about two billion Epic subscribers in Southeast Asia...
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Hindu is likely older- certainly has older than 6000 year scriptures. And it's widely practiced.
Including the freedom to defraud (my penis enlargement pills always work), the freedom to yell "fire" in a crowded room
Absolutely- there's no real reason to stiffle freedom of speech. Just as there's no guarantee that your speech will be listened to, or believed.
China and Cuba are not economically free as you describe either; after all, will they let me purchase guns or drugs?
Depends, which country are you talking about? But those are, of course, luxuries- not needs. Still, drugs are free in both countries as a part of the communisitic health plan- and guns are free in Cuba, you get issued your free gun with your mandatory armed service, just like Switzerland. You're expected to maintain it against the possibility of foreign invasion. Ecconomic freedom means to a large extent being free of need. Are you free of need in the United States?
If you think that the point is irrelevant, you need to think again. Because that's the real choice offered by current forms of capitalism and communism- a government of, by, and for the corporations, or a government of, by, and for the government. NEITHER one can be voted out of office- and the people you vote for under capitalism are all bought & paid for, it's just a scam.
Very true. How does any of that support your point at all? Last I remember, we were talking about whether governments are obligated to provide people free stuff. We were not talking about corporate abuse any more than we were talking about teen pregnency...
There's only ONE reason why socialism isn't the standard in any given democracy- because corporations have taken over to the point where socialism is no longer possible because taxes have been lowered below the point needed to pay for it.
Governments are obligated to take care of their citizens- but when corporations take over, it's in the best interests of the corporations to keep people tired and hungry. Ready to buy at any price, ready to work to provide that price, ready to sacrifice their lives to corporate profit. That's the only reason for a government being stingy and not supporting it's people in a populist fashion- to make sure the corporations have a ready labor force and a ready consumer force. Anything that interferes with that is destroyed.
If so- then that means that H-1b which was sold to congress as an NIV (non-immigrant Visa) isn't- it's a back door process for getting more green cards out, increasing the population of the country out of control (we're already nearly three times the number of people that the land can sustainably feed- which is why we're using these highly destructive agricultural techniques and importing food as well). Opening yet another loophole is a bad idea to begin with- at least until we can get immigration below replacement level.
Part of it is that I still believe in the concept of the Just Price- do not fleece the customer unless it's needed to save the business. Excessive markup is a lack of justice- and a lack of justice will eventually come back to you in some other form, like terrorism, war, and crime.
That would help a good deal- but I fear it would take a lot of regulation to KEEP it abolished. Now that the idea of limited liability has been planted, any attempt to abolish it will be met with a lot of deep-pockets resistance; any successfull legislation at abolishing it snuck through in the dead of night will simply have hundreds of politicians getting "campaign contributions" to reestablish it the next day. So before we can abolish it, we need some MAJOR reworking of our campaign financing (and maybe even bringing back the Sherman Anti-Trust laws that prevented corporation chains and corporate campaign contributions).
I wouldn't doubt it- there's got to be some instincts in there somewhere. I seem to remember a theory about mitochondrial memory some time back- wouldn't surprise me a bit if a protist had enough mitochondrial DNA to form some sort of a memory structure to carry that form of information.
As I remember- it was the RNA stuff that I read about, basically switching from base-2 to base 4 (GATC) encoding to get extremely dense storage.
Protists are awesome; our trick, as multicellular organisms, is that we build houses out of lots of bricks. But protists build an entire house out of just *one* brick. I think thats impressive.
I agree- it's amazing how much is packed into a single cell organism.
Your post makes sense in some sense. However, it also shows one of the things this book is about.
We should examine the assumptions a bit closer then.
You assume immediately that I took someone's job! That remains to be seen, not all H1B's are programmers. I might have some programming skills, but that was not why I was hired. Furthermore, it seems that there are still not enough Americans to do the job I do, when I look at the number of open positions.
Programmer or not is immaterial- the question is could any American have been trained to have that skill, thus keeping the skill "in house" so to speak, before going overseas. I put forth that the number of open positions is completely artificial- that in reality, the open positions are caused by a depression of wages in relation to the cost of the training, as opposed to any real measure of whether or not one of the 8 million unemployed Americans could be trained to do the job instead, thus keeping the business onshore. If so, that's not your fault, and it's not my fault- it's the greed of the corporations to keep profits high that is causing the situation.
Even the fact that you have to stay with the employer that hired you can be used. It can be argued that you have a temporary contract and that your employer must keep his/her end of the bargain. It does take "foreigners" some time to figure this out that you do have recourse and can't be sent home just like that.
The fact that you have recourse means that the system is broken. The fact that no recourse should be available is ALSO a sign that the system was never intended to be right. The principle idea is one of fairness- some of my ancestors were here hunting deer already several thousand years before the white man came. Those of my ancestors that were white came into this land after other branches of my family had died off- and carved out of the wilderness a civilization. For that civilization to grow up and toss out her children into the cold with NO RECOURSE at all other than bankruptcy and homelessness- just so you and your buddies can come in and "fill jobs that no American would do" (the unspoken, but very important, part is "at those wages") is not fair either.
Should there be a path for talented foreigners to still become citizens? Of course- we need 500,000 a year just to keep the population stable. But should we put Americans out of work to make room for them? I say NEVER- but the corporations whom we have sold our government to say differently, that thier profit is FAR more important than my citizenship, and therefore they need the cheaper labor instad of paying for training.
Actually I know people that have done that; to my knowledge only leading groups in prayer is forbidden.
The fact that any speech is restricted is a given removal of rights.
On an unrelated note, it is curious that you praised Cuba and China earlier for being more free than the US in one sense, and then mention public prayer - an activity that can get you jail time in Cuba and China.
I only mentioned Cuba and China as examples of ECONOMIC, not CIVIL, freedom. AFAIK, there is no example of a country that offers both.
Oh, ok- so more like nanotechnology than actual biomatter data storage. The only data being stored in the DNA itself is the PATTERN of the storage material- which in turn stores the data AFTER the DNA has been wiped away.
Just a different form of slavery- you can't vote Microsoft out of office either. Linus Torvalds has been trying for quite some time now, and has yet to succeed.
They're not engaged in a scam at all: they offer a product at a price that some people are willing to pay and others aren't.
How does that make it any less of a scam?
If you think you can do better, then open a burger joint with 75% markup and eat their lunch (so to speak).
A little company called Hot and Now tried this- and promptly got sued out of existance by the larger franchises. Corporations have too much power in our system for there to be no barriers to entry into a given market.
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I think you're simplifying a little bit. I don't know the history of the H1-B legislation, so it's possible it was passed as a rider on some completely unrelated piece of law, or was porked out with special interest payouts. I don't know, but I'm sure there wasn't just *one* reason it got voted through.
It was passed at 2:00am after all the Democrats had been told there would be no more legislation proposed that evening- they woke Clinton up at 6:00am to sign it into law, by the time most of the opposition came into the office it was a done deal.
I had a huge write-up here that I decided against posting. If you really believe that the US has too much immigration of skilled workers, then no amount of statistics will convince you otherwise. Suffice to say, I believe the US benefits from it, and greater immigration is one way to solve the looming social security crisis. Raising taxes, increasing borrowing or cutting benefits are other possible solutions.
Skilled workers ARE preferable to unskilled- don't get me wrong. But we can certainly fit ALL of the current H-1b immigration (even the artificially high 2000-2003 limits) into the 500,000 limit of replacement immigration.
It's not a loophole. There's nothing wrong with the legislation as written. Really. Read it, and the associated Federal Register articles - you may be surprised. The problem is INS is grossly underfunded and so does not adequately enforce the existing legislation. People with legitimate claims are kept waiting for years, and people with illegitimate claims are getting through. It's purely an enforcement problem.
I have read it- and I've got MANY complaints ranging from not contributing to the green card limit to rates of pay allowed and regulations about job postings. But as you say, it can all boil down to an enforcement problem- or, as I suspect, a bribed politician and bureaucrat problem.
I think you missed my point. Who the people vote for just doesn't matter anymore- voting is a fake, a show of support for a system that simply doesn't exist. The real election is decided in the back room tabulators- machines that have serious enough bugs in them to be utterly unsure of anything that comes out of them. Garbage In, Garbage Out, there's no reason left to trust that every vote will be counted or that every vote was counted. Sure, we've got great participation in the farce, but that doesn't make it any less of a farce.
The time to do something about it is over 100 years in the past now. Unless somebody can build a time machine and assassinate the SCOTUS judges who awarded Southern Pacific Railroad "Personhood" status in 1886- we're stuck with Corporatism as the default for at least the next 1000 years.
The *ONLY* reason anbody votes for a "guest worker" program of any sort is for the campaign contributions from the businesses that will profit from the cheap labor. We've got well beyond the immigration we can handle for the main purpose that the United States needs open borders to begin with (replenishing a dying population that spends more time working than raising families). If the real purpose was to encourage immigration, it would be far better just to hand out green cards to the intended targets of immigration to begin with- and cut out the rigamarole and mess of the H-1b visa.
Which means that this is just yet another loophole- like the fact that nobody seems to check Labor Condition Applications against State Unemployment Offices (or else I'm sure they'd find more Americans to work retrainable to those skills, especially post 2/2001).
Don't worry- the NYT rag on the Left and the WSJ on the Right will still be there for you when you are elderly and elitist. Maybe only in print form- but they will still be there.
No, not the movie itself. The pacing is what's overly optimistic. In ten years, I guarantee you that NYT will not be a paper-only rag that services the elite and the elderly. NYT is not only an institution, it's a brand, like Nike. And if the mediascape becomes useless due to convergence like this author predicts, I'd think filtered/controlled organizations like NYT become even more powerful.
Hate to say it- but that brand is already well destroyed in my mind as a rag for the elite and the elderly. And no self-righteous conservative listens to it today- it's largely considered to be a left-wing elitist rag, just as the Wall Street Journal brand is a right-wing elitist rag for the elderly.
What some futurists seem to forget is that what happens with new technology (and convergence-delivered media would be a new form of tech) is that it doesn't replace anything. Yeah, CDs replaced cassettes, but are cassettes gone? Nope, still around, and still doing a damn fine job when you want to perform a linear recording. Did TV replace radio? Did the Internet replace TV? No, no, no. I like some of what this author said -- freelance reporters getting a cut of Google's Ad fee -- but all this will be is another option and nothing more. Is it possible that TNY will be reduced when mega-convergence happens? It's possible, but not likely.
Digital Audio Recorders have largely replaced tapes in my life, TV has replaced radio whereever I don't need to keep my eyes on the road (and even then, I'd almost rather listen to my MP3 player than radio). At home, my TV time is reduced to times when I need my hands for other tasks while eating- otherwise it's the Internet all the way.
And the bit about the Supreme Court in 2011 (or whenver it was) ruling for Googlezon? Please! Does this author even realize who just got elected as Pres for the next four years? The court's gonna be stacked with as many conservatives as Bush can muster.
And given what passes for "news" in the NYT as of late, most of those conservatives will already be prejudiced against the NYT.
And bots will not have the intelligence to manipulate words into coherent sentences. Not by 2014.
Hell, I had an interpreted Basic Script in 1982 that could manipulate words into coherent sentences. It was called "Poetry Generator" and it was widely used to teach 4th graders basic spaghetti coding and weighted random access read routines. True, the source text wasn't a text file, just a bunch of words in DATA statements, but it worked fine.
I thought this way- until my freedom was directly attacked and I was not *allowed* to work for 26 months (finally broke that by saying goodbye to the corruption of private industry and hello to government contracting, it's a hell of a lot more stable).
I learned in that 26 months that my life was not my own, that I have almost no control whatsoever.
Mr. Joe I tend to think youre just upset that a majority of Americans do not agree with you.
Given the revelations of ballots thrown out due to shreded voter registration cards, I challenge you to prove that a majority of Americans believe anything at all- as opposed to a minority of hackers, programmers, and high level business men with the power to have our central tabulators say whatever the hell they want them to say.
If you haven't guessed, as far as I'm concerned the only thing the 2000, 2002, and 2004 elections proved is that DEMOCRACY IS DEAD.
Nah- the multinational corporations will still have power in the Confederacy of Five United States- it's just that fewer people in the old USA will still have the money for their Googlezon subscriptions is all. Doesn't matter- our downfall will be the gain of China and India, so there will be about two billion Epic subscribers in Southeast Asia...
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Hey, that's worth 20 minutes on a callabike....unless it's a hackabike in which case you've overpaid.
Hindu is likely older- certainly has older than 6000 year scriptures. And it's widely practiced.
Including the freedom to defraud (my penis enlargement pills always work), the freedom to yell "fire" in a crowded room
Absolutely- there's no real reason to stiffle freedom of speech. Just as there's no guarantee that your speech will be listened to, or believed.
China and Cuba are not economically free as you describe either; after all, will they let me purchase guns or drugs?
Depends, which country are you talking about? But those are, of course, luxuries- not needs. Still, drugs are free in both countries as a part of the communisitic health plan- and guns are free in Cuba, you get issued your free gun with your mandatory armed service, just like Switzerland. You're expected to maintain it against the possibility of foreign invasion. Ecconomic freedom means to a large extent being free of need. Are you free of need in the United States?
If you think that the point is irrelevant, you need to think again. Because that's the real choice offered by current forms of capitalism and communism- a government of, by, and for the corporations, or a government of, by, and for the government. NEITHER one can be voted out of office- and the people you vote for under capitalism are all bought & paid for, it's just a scam.
Very true. How does any of that support your point at all? Last I remember, we were talking about whether governments are obligated to provide people free stuff. We were not talking about corporate abuse any more than we were talking about teen pregnency...
There's only ONE reason why socialism isn't the standard in any given democracy- because corporations have taken over to the point where socialism is no longer possible because taxes have been lowered below the point needed to pay for it.
Governments are obligated to take care of their citizens- but when corporations take over, it's in the best interests of the corporations to keep people tired and hungry. Ready to buy at any price, ready to work to provide that price, ready to sacrifice their lives to corporate profit. That's the only reason for a government being stingy and not supporting it's people in a populist fashion- to make sure the corporations have a ready labor force and a ready consumer force. Anything that interferes with that is destroyed.
If so- then that means that H-1b which was sold to congress as an NIV (non-immigrant Visa) isn't- it's a back door process for getting more green cards out, increasing the population of the country out of control (we're already nearly three times the number of people that the land can sustainably feed- which is why we're using these highly destructive agricultural techniques and importing food as well). Opening yet another loophole is a bad idea to begin with- at least until we can get immigration below replacement level.
Part of it is that I still believe in the concept of the Just Price- do not fleece the customer unless it's needed to save the business. Excessive markup is a lack of justice- and a lack of justice will eventually come back to you in some other form, like terrorism, war, and crime.
That would help a good deal- but I fear it would take a lot of regulation to KEEP it abolished. Now that the idea of limited liability has been planted, any attempt to abolish it will be met with a lot of deep-pockets resistance; any successfull legislation at abolishing it snuck through in the dead of night will simply have hundreds of politicians getting "campaign contributions" to reestablish it the next day. So before we can abolish it, we need some MAJOR reworking of our campaign financing (and maybe even bringing back the Sherman Anti-Trust laws that prevented corporation chains and corporate campaign contributions).
I wouldn't doubt it- there's got to be some instincts in there somewhere. I seem to remember a theory about mitochondrial memory some time back- wouldn't surprise me a bit if a protist had enough mitochondrial DNA to form some sort of a memory structure to carry that form of information.
As I remember- it was the RNA stuff that I read about, basically switching from base-2 to base 4 (GATC) encoding to get extremely dense storage.
Protists are awesome; our trick, as multicellular organisms, is that we build houses out of lots of bricks. But protists build an entire house out of just *one* brick. I think thats impressive.
I agree- it's amazing how much is packed into a single cell organism.
Your post makes sense in some sense. However, it also shows one of the things this book is about.
We should examine the assumptions a bit closer then.
You assume immediately that I took someone's job! That remains to be seen, not all H1B's are programmers. I might have some programming skills, but that was not why I was hired. Furthermore, it seems that there are still not enough Americans to do the job I do, when I look at the number of open positions.
Programmer or not is immaterial- the question is could any American have been trained to have that skill, thus keeping the skill "in house" so to speak, before going overseas. I put forth that the number of open positions is completely artificial- that in reality, the open positions are caused by a depression of wages in relation to the cost of the training, as opposed to any real measure of whether or not one of the 8 million unemployed Americans could be trained to do the job instead, thus keeping the business onshore. If so, that's not your fault, and it's not my fault- it's the greed of the corporations to keep profits high that is causing the situation.
Even the fact that you have to stay with the employer that hired you can be used. It can be argued that you have a temporary contract and that your employer must keep his/her end of the bargain. It does take "foreigners" some time to figure this out that you do have recourse and can't be sent home just like that.
The fact that you have recourse means that the system is broken. The fact that no recourse should be available is ALSO a sign that the system was never intended to be right. The principle idea is one of fairness- some of my ancestors were here hunting deer already several thousand years before the white man came. Those of my ancestors that were white came into this land after other branches of my family had died off- and carved out of the wilderness a civilization. For that civilization to grow up and toss out her children into the cold with NO RECOURSE at all other than bankruptcy and homelessness- just so you and your buddies can come in and "fill jobs that no American would do" (the unspoken, but very important, part is "at those wages") is not fair either.
Should there be a path for talented foreigners to still become citizens? Of course- we need 500,000 a year just to keep the population stable. But should we put Americans out of work to make room for them? I say NEVER- but the corporations whom we have sold our government to say differently, that thier profit is FAR more important than my citizenship, and therefore they need the cheaper labor instad of paying for training.
Actually I know people that have done that; to my knowledge only leading groups in prayer is forbidden.
The fact that any speech is restricted is a given removal of rights.
On an unrelated note, it is curious that you praised Cuba and China earlier for being more free than the US in one sense, and then mention public prayer - an activity that can get you jail time in Cuba and China.
I only mentioned Cuba and China as examples of ECONOMIC, not CIVIL, freedom. AFAIK, there is no example of a country that offers both.
Oh, ok- so more like nanotechnology than actual biomatter data storage. The only data being stored in the DNA itself is the PATTERN of the storage material- which in turn stores the data AFTER the DNA has been wiped away.
Just a different form of slavery- you can't vote Microsoft out of office either. Linus Torvalds has been trying for quite some time now, and has yet to succeed.
They're not engaged in a scam at all: they offer a product at a price that some people are willing to pay and others aren't.
How does that make it any less of a scam?
If you think you can do better, then open a burger joint with 75% markup and eat their lunch (so to speak).
A little company called Hot and Now tried this- and promptly got sued out of existance by the larger franchises. Corporations have too much power in our system for there to be no barriers to entry into a given market.