I was afraid the legalism in the USA would kill innovation. Looks like Japanese are just as stupid. Oh well, good for Brazil, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, or some other country that fosters innovation.
I hereby file an antipatent on all ideas that take action one and chain it to action two. Furthermore, I think it is completely possible to extend this idea and chain more actions. Furthermore, I belive any set of actions may be treated as one action and chained to other actions. I antipatent that all chaining can be any relationship from the set of data delete, update, insert, and select as well as other relationships between computer software programs and or data.
CIA...CHIA...CHINA, 20 years, yup
on
In the Year 2020
·
· Score: 1
Save the study money, fly over to China.
USA rights are and standards of living are headed there at break-neck pace - just hope you can hang on so the neck ain't yours.
David Ricardo's Iron Law of Wages: $5/yr for everybody!
Of course my statement that the US government knowingly and actively breaks its contract with Americans is accurate as the ruling by the Supreme Court against the Patriot Act shows the US Government was actively defending its illegal activities. To pretend it is not so or to silently allow freedom to be usurped is unAmerican. Those who surrender their freedom dor security deserve neither freeom nor security. (do you even know who this last sentence paraphrases?)
BTW, it would be beyond silly to assume the best and most advanced computer sytems are provided to the American consumer first! And what you can conceive on your few thousand dollar budget is a distant cry from what can be concieved on $100B budgets. I think you are the kook to believe the nonsense rather than think analytically about the facts.
I disagree with the last statement. In practice, I do not think the NSA and passive attack have sensible coexistence as NSA probably has access to all backbone routers. Doubtless the USGov does. Traffic is simple encrypted IP traffic and easy enough to intercept decrypt and transmit. Maybe there are issues with changing the transmitted data (I assume SSL does some sort of checksum across packets to prevent packet tampering) but consider the simple case of a bank account. 1. NSA intercepts the traffic and gets the username and password. 2. Later on they share the info with another agency who logs into the account and looks at past account statements and, whamo, we now know the criminals sold short before 911. This is beyond easy to do if you have access to a router somewhere in the data flow and have the keys. What I am not sure is how the browser behaves if one enters https: but unencrypted http is transmitted. That is, does IE require all port 443 to use SSL? Not sure.
The scary part is the suspician that the mafia approaches these capabilities. But not too scary when you don't have much of anything for them to rip off anyways;-) Well, that's why the mafia buys and sells passwords because trying passwords is easier than decrypting packets.
What's the legality on these and also on encryption algorithms? My friend told me 1) encryption algorithms are weapons and must be registered 2) did not say if using a larger key is legal but said it was illegal to export tools to allow people to use large keys ? Thanks!
I believe SSL certificates issued from the common authorities are registered with the NSA so, no doubt, agree that asking an ISP to log is redundant as the NSA can log all net traffic itself as it can decrypt all web input.
The act of searching after the fact, that is searching through past logs when the person what not aware of the logging, possibly would not hold in court as the search is without a warrant and a collusion between the ISP/ASP and the searching entity has been made to effect an illegal search; of course, the fine print of the ISP/ASP contract may cover this and I am not sure how fine print holds in court but sure has costed me lots with those darn cell phone companies! That the US Government requires the logging is, in effect, causing the search and so doing without warrant. I seriously think this information would be illegal according to the contract between the people and the federal government called the Constitution of the United States of America.
This legal "gotcha" maybe why the logging effort is pushed onto the ISP/ASP rather than simply done by a government entity. The ISP/ASP is not bound by the Constitution in its actions between itself and the customer.
I presume the threads of this article have agents of mis-information or some people are just totally uninformed. I ask them to please research "carnivore" and get a clue about what happened in the late 90's. The US Government is on shakey ground when it searches emails without a warrant. Legally one may argue the states or other governments can do this but the Constitution clearly states the US government cannot without warrant or oath and specifically describing what is to be searched. Legally, can your ISP/ASP can do this?
Some clueless people, eh? Gov's been monitoring communications, even cabbie radios, since the '40's. You dudes need to watch some history channel. Probably do not even remember when people used to put words like "bomb" and "whitehouse" in their.sigs in a protest to the governemnt's automated filtering of electronic communications which is a direct violation of Amendment IV of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States of America: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Well, golden rule. Today the Corporate Aristocracy has the gold.
Just proves one doesn't have to be good at math to be a top astronaut!
It is well worth noting that flu and measles kill more people each year than AIDs and mankind knows fairly well how to treat these. AIDs grows geometrically while a deadly flu grows exponentially. The efforts to disseminate the flu through not-always-dead vaccines is almost surely a much more deadly event for each of us to plan around than an asteroid or super-volcano.
I think it's alot of fun to talk about colonizing Mars but only a group that can extract maximum funding from mankind will be able to fund this: e.g. government, monopoly, or social contract group. You see, they see mankind as a self replicating machine to use for their endeavors, the death of millions from treatable diseases is not a problem to them as it does not seriously affect the performance of the machine. Self replicating machines can afford fatalities. Children in African countries die from dehydration from diarehea because the warlords do not value human life.
Anyways, the article is nice. Extremely silly but nice. The whole evolution argument is inconsistent with the global catastrophe argument. It's just embarassing to see someone we pay with our tax dollars talk about science and say something as silly as "The statistical risk of humans getting wiped out in the next 100 years due to a super volcano or asteroid or comet impact is 1 in 455."
Of course, the lack of species elsewhere and the abundance of life on the earth would mean the evolution theory is statistically ridiculous and the "1 in 455" is reasonable; therefore one must conclude that life abounds on Mars (or God exists)! But spouting nonsense like "1 in 455" or "mega climate change" are ways to motivate the politicians that control our lives into actually doing something scientific like colonizing Mars.
Wow, they must have gone to the a business plan template site... reminds me of the quote on the Apache Struts page that one had to use Struts to be able to build business web sites or some such speak.
BTW, I've got some twj-names for $24 if you want to save a buck. And for a century!!!
I visited the site but couldn't figure out what it was besides "gimme $25" so gave up after 30 seconds.
Great, thought-provoking discussion. I didn't know if you were in the USA or not so I guessed.
As to what I am doing? #1 trying to create income without salary. The income tax is detroying the American worker as it forces Offhsoring. The USA is hellbent on shipping all middle class jobs to Offshore locations as import taxes are zero to 1/10 of the tax that would occur if the work was done here. I heard GB is a tax hell worse than here but at least VAT/sales tax seems a more fair tax as it taxes imports. #2 trying to determine how to expatriate. At least to work for an offshore company. 100's of major US companies have expatriated and no longer bear the tax burden.
Here's the deal in the USA. US Government is driving inflation through massive debts and betting the farm the world still trades in dollars. Meanwhile the middle class is being decimated by higher taxes, costs, and lower pay. E.g. people are leaving tech jobs and taking a couple of part-time jobs. We are all living on savings and debt financing for now. The Jobs Exportation cancer will spread massively to the other industries in '05.
Anyone with wherewithal and any foresight is looking to expatriate before the debt comes due. Most all major companies have and are mostly only investing overseas. E.g. MSFT is investing Billions in India rather than in the USA!
I agree that revolt is the end game but this is why the US government granted itself illegal rights through the Patriot Act (already some of it was declared illegal by the courts) and otherwise is attempting tighten control of the populous. Mandatory auto tracking devices. Mandatory person tracking devices in schools. Outlaw body armor. Et cetera. But who wants to stay around for that?
Clearly they have a multi-decade, multi-century plan to enslave all people of the Earth in massive debts. The model here, falling pay and inflating prices is being effectively exported to China and India from what I gather. In the end, the working person can work harder and harder but never actually gain financial ground. Falling pay WRT price inflation in India and China I suspect. That and literally falling pay here in the USA.
What are the image selling options? I am building a site, http://www.youart.net, that is ore focused on photo chopping but including the ability to sell your uploaded photos. Well, my initial thoughts were:
1) free 2) fee per copy used on shirt or other item 3) fee per usage on another media like a website (do I need to make this "per hit" or "per reader"?) 4) Cost for unlimited usage.
So is your rhetorical question whether the government will allow its phones to be tapped and its emails scanned in exchange for violations of Ammendment IV of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States of America?
Doesn't matter. The government has no legal grounds for unreasonable searches. They have no contract with the people that gives them this right. The USA government does not rule the USA citizens because they have been conquered but only rules by contract to which the citizens agree. Ammendment IV expressly denies them the right of invasion of privacy even while Ammendment X denies them any ungranted rights at all.
By punishing violations such as the blatant acts of NYC and blatant approval by the state of NY and the USA government for the wrongful imprisonment of Americans exercising their First Ammendment rights to assemble and of free speech (and even the imprisonment of some innocent bystanders and tourists) the American people can enforce this contract. Perhaps the legal system should imprison the government officials who condoned this action for a time equal to the time served illegally. Surely the people of the city of New York should be ashamed.
Mod down would make sense if you are part of the group attempting to destroy America. The current government is systematically removing the rights of the citizenry. As Americans, we have to speak out against this when we can.
#1, WTO is legislating immigration law for the USA. I cannot find the link just now but they are mandating immigration law for the USA on the grounds of "trade governance". I suspect this is 100% illegal as immigration is a sanctimonious right of government. Furthermore, India is lobbying the WTO to require the USA to open its borders for unfettered immigration. Probably a needless lobby given the USA's national debt as the debt will probably be financed by massive immigration as this is the most obvious source for increasing tax revenue especially if the average pay in the USA continues to fall. WTO is being used by the multinationals to establish a world government controlled by the elites through their businesses.
#2, RNC in NYC. Innocent protestors were imprisoned - a direct violation of freedom of speech and assembly. Litle more needs to be said on that matter as this is such a blatant and obvious violation of the bill of rights. The current acts of our government cannot be defended; albeit a city government yet the state of NY and the national governments watched with an approving eye. Of course one may also point to monitoring of email and other communications which is also a direct violation of the Bill of Rights Ammendment IV. Last I checked, the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States of America were still the governing contract between the federal government and signees of the Constitution in representation of the people of the United States.
The USA government has willfully broken this contract. Inasmuch as Freedom of Speech no longer exists, one can expect all other rights to be vaporized at will by the current Corporate Aristocracy. Just the facts.
Only by holding the government to the contract can their behavior be controlled. The prosperity of the citizenry measures the success of a government. How are we doing? Standard of living is falling. Prices are rising about doubled for autos and housing in the last 30 years while minimum wage would need to be about $8/hr to be equal to what it was 30 some years ago. Statistically, the USA government is failing in this regard. #1. Job Creation numbers fall even below new worker numbers (maturation and immigration) and do not even touch the past job losses; yet the government continues to tout a strong economy and future jobs. #2. 1.4M more people without health insurance this year. #3. 1.3M or so more USA citizens fell into poverty last year. #4. Average pay is falling. #5. Extreme, probably treasonous, debts. These will end the USA unless fixed. Bankruptcy has led to IMF enslavement for many countries. #6. Irresponsible inflation which steals the fruits of the labor of the hardworking and responsible and rewards the bankers. Research it: historically inflation is no more normal than deflation or equilibrium. #7. Reduced national income. Research the share of income taxes paid by corporations as it has fallen over the last 50 years from about equal with the share paid by individuals and around 45% (if I remember correctly) to around 5% (again, if I rememeber correctly). An estimated $30B was avoided/evaded in taxes via Bermuda alone last year. #8 Severe taxes on workers in the USA and zero to little tax on imports. This is first and foremost the tool being used to destroy the USA. Such a stupid system can only be intentional. It will lead to the collapse of the USA as most all production is moving/has moved ex-USA where the net tax load per worker hour is 1/10th or less of what the load is in the USA. In the end, lost tax revenue but extreme spending means the USA is in for total collapse. The USA government is chopping at the dam that holds back a flood of job loss and pay drops. The dam has been breached: tech jobs will fall by no less than 10% over the next 5-20 years and full
I recently watched a Dijkstra video wherein he relates he had to come to America for decent technology growth. Go figure if the USA fits that bill today! Surely nobody can argue that the USA is growing anywhere near the rate of China or even India. Mayhap the American dream has expatriated as well. -- http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/videos/Noorderl ichtVideo.html
On the subject of freedom, ever boil a frog? One has to wonder what all those Jews were thinkning staying in Germany and those Ukrainians in Ukraine in the early '40's. Guess they never saw their rights slipping into the hands of the government until it was too late. Even as the forward-thinkers may have been able to escape Germany and the surrounding area, are people yet escaping America?
Without a doubt, the upper 0.5% have moved substantial parts of their assets ex-USA. Guess Bill Gates is the most well-informed person in the world and that explains his investment in India instead of the USA.
Once the WTO takes over (already has been granted immigration authority over the USA which is quite interesting as this was a key point the states reserved in the Constitution for a period) then will citizens of the USA even be able to point to consitutional rights? Surely Ammendment X of the Bill of Rights of the Consitution of America expressly deny much of the authority the USA government claims and without a doubt absolutely deny WTO and other world government authority over citizens of the USA.
Only a complete dismissal of the Constitution would legalize the current governance of the WTO. The dismissal has come in the form of "might is right" and double-speak on behalf of the USA government.
Oh well, you pay your money and place your bets. For now, the USA is the best and we still can voice our opinions openly. Unlike China!
I interviewed with a company in Beaufort, SC that was already doing this for FOX. Searching old seinfeld's and other shows for few-second clips for ads and other such stuff. No surpirse to see the big boys want to take over the established market. Bet it will somehow be included in the OS or in the Internet access software.
I call you on that one. That has been the case ZERO times out of the dozen to two dozen with whom I've worked directly. As for interviewing, I have interviewed a few with about five years of experience but by and large these are at most three or four years of experience and these were probably part-time though not indicated as such. The typical case is less than two years IME.
But I've only worked with this process in companies that hire H1's since 1995 so maybe things were different before then.
It's just natural that people are willing to rough it the first several years of their career to get experience, a green card, et cetera.
How many years of experience does an H1 usually have? Your argument makes no sense. H1's are in practice inexperienced programmers with less than three years of experience. You are NOT hiring on skill when you hire people with only a few years of experience. It's a gamble and more related to background and expected performance.
And to tell me you cannot find such people in the USA is total bullshit. I've taught in two year tech programs with people who could code way better than many H1Bs with Masters degrees. And worse. You must forget that not everyone in the USA can afford college and all that.
Recruiters look at keywords. If you used tool X for 2 years then you get hired. Period. Dumbheads often just toss that on the resume and get the job. So, yippee, the people talking to you about hiring H1 will never even consider you without that keyskill. To them a good candidate is someone who can talk about tool X [though probably cannot correctly answer ten basic computer science questions].
But you want to work for a real company with real engineers. Ask them how many experienced people they have versus H1 and new hires. If they have ANY L1 then forget about it. That is a sure sign they are replacing senior people with scab workers and probably planning to move the whole shootin gmatch overseas. The experience ratio is a good teller if its a headshop or there is some real engineering going on in the company.
FYI, a large number of new grads from CS et al just dropped out of the industry. With three plus years of telling them they could only get a job if no cheap H1 was available, they figured out that waiting tables and teaching English in Japan pay better than that. BTW, lots of old timers too.
Saying there are lotsa jobs is BS when there are large numbers of old timers not even absorbed back into the market. That someone wrote OS kernel code, network layers, et cetera but hasn't pussy-footed around with some Java tool is probably the silliest reason to say an H1 is qualified and they are not. In reality, the old timers are still unemployed because they will not work for $35/hr.
You and I both know that. And a 1/2 generation of American programmers have dissolved into other industries. And nobody with any sense is recommending ever-dropping pay rates of programming to his or her relations. That's just facts.
Buddy works near there. They are trying to "get into the India market". Woohoo, let the hook of H1 pull the whole company overseas. Hang on to your skis.
And since most of you are not up on what is really going on you would do well to read some articles on the India newspaper websites. Their view is quite different. IF, you can find a company there in their perspectus saying they have some hundreds or thousands of unworking H1 visas just awaiting the USA economy to rebound. Don;t have the link handy.
It won't, of couse, cause any MBA worth his spit realizes that 1/4 or better productivity at 1/10 the tax load always means Offshoring is better. H1 and L1 only make sense for non-Offshorable jobs and to repalce senior techies, especially in government contracts where the money is a hand out and no retribution for failed work is made.
This idea was posted on http://www.shouldexist.org a while back as well. I think related ideas were using "jacked up" trainbus so there is no need for raised rails and all that cost. The trainbus wheels raise on hydraulics at each intersection such that the bus never has to stop for traffic. Either another set of wheels extends to allow it to "step over" or else another extends horizontally to allow it to mount onto a track just for the section of the track crossing a road. Let's hope we see some things like this.
I filed a patent back in Jan 2001 and it still is an Application! I called this Jan and they said they'd get to it in June! Well, actually we filed some time in 2000 to tell the truth!
Drastic biological diversities seem to require separations within a species; yet Asia and Europe have not been separated. Probably Asians, or Whiteys, originated in the Americas. One or the other. Not both.
Slashdot Mirror
I was afraid the legalism in the USA would kill innovation. Looks like Japanese are just as stupid. Oh well, good for Brazil, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, or some other country that fosters innovation.
I hereby file an antipatent on all ideas that take action one and chain it to action two. Furthermore, I think it is completely possible to extend this idea and chain more actions. Furthermore, I belive any set of actions may be treated as one action and chained to other actions. I antipatent that all chaining can be any relationship from the set of data delete, update, insert, and select as well as other relationships between computer software programs and or data.
Save the study money, fly over to China.
USA rights are and standards of living are headed there at break-neck pace - just hope you can hang on so the neck ain't yours.
David Ricardo's Iron Law of Wages: $5/yr for everybody!
Of course my statement that the US government knowingly and actively breaks its contract with Americans is accurate as the ruling by the Supreme Court against the Patriot Act shows the US Government was actively defending its illegal activities. To pretend it is not so or to silently allow freedom to be usurped is unAmerican. Those who surrender their freedom dor security deserve neither freeom nor security. (do you even know who this last sentence paraphrases?) BTW, it would be beyond silly to assume the best and most advanced computer sytems are provided to the American consumer first! And what you can conceive on your few thousand dollar budget is a distant cry from what can be concieved on $100B budgets. I think you are the kook to believe the nonsense rather than think analytically about the facts.
I disagree with the last statement. In practice, I do not think the NSA and passive attack have sensible coexistence as NSA probably has access to all backbone routers. Doubtless the USGov does. Traffic is simple encrypted IP traffic and easy enough to intercept decrypt and transmit. Maybe there are issues with changing the transmitted data (I assume SSL does some sort of checksum across packets to prevent packet tampering) but consider the simple case of a bank account. 1. NSA intercepts the traffic and gets the username and password. 2. Later on they share the info with another agency who logs into the account and looks at past account statements and, whamo, we now know the criminals sold short before 911. This is beyond easy to do if you have access to a router somewhere in the data flow and have the keys. What I am not sure is how the browser behaves if one enters https: but unencrypted http is transmitted. That is, does IE require all port 443 to use SSL? Not sure.
The scary part is the suspician that the mafia approaches these capabilities. But not too scary when you don't have much of anything for them to rip off anyways
Tim
Simply to monitor all communications. (I assume by "passive attack" you mean using the keys to read the data.)
What's the legality on these and also on encryption algorithms? My friend told me
1) encryption algorithms are weapons and must be registered
2) did not say if using a larger key is legal but said it was illegal to export tools to allow people to use large keys
?
Thanks!
I believe SSL certificates issued from the common authorities are registered with the NSA so, no doubt, agree that asking an ISP to log is redundant as the NSA can log all net traffic itself as it can decrypt all web input.
The act of searching after the fact, that is searching through past logs when the person what not aware of the logging, possibly would not hold in court as the search is without a warrant and a collusion between the ISP/ASP and the searching entity has been made to effect an illegal search; of course, the fine print of the ISP/ASP contract may cover this and I am not sure how fine print holds in court but sure has costed me lots with those darn cell phone companies! That the US Government requires the logging is, in effect, causing the search and so doing without warrant. I seriously think this information would be illegal according to the contract between the people and the federal government called the Constitution of the United States of America.
This legal "gotcha" maybe why the logging effort is pushed onto the ISP/ASP rather than simply done by a government entity. The ISP/ASP is not bound by the Constitution in its actions between itself and the customer.
I presume the threads of this article have agents of mis-information or some people are just totally uninformed. I ask them to please research "carnivore" and get a clue about what happened in the late 90's. The US Government is on shakey ground when it searches emails without a warrant. Legally one may argue the states or other governments can do this but the Constitution clearly states the US government cannot without warrant or oath and specifically describing what is to be searched. Legally, can your ISP/ASP can do this?
Some clueless people, eh? Gov's been monitoring communications, even cabbie radios, since the '40's. You dudes need to watch some history channel. Probably do not even remember when people used to put words like "bomb" and "whitehouse" in their
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Well, golden rule. Today the Corporate Aristocracy has the gold.
Best wishes and Merry Christmas,
TimJowers
You forgot
6. US tax payers subsidize healthcare etc. for Wal-Mart employees. For corporate America there truly is a free lunch.
BTW, VIA seems to have expat'ed from CA to Taiwan. Are all hardware companies now, for the most part, ex-USA?
Just proves one doesn't have to be good at math to be a top astronaut!
It is well worth noting that flu and measles kill more people each year than AIDs and mankind knows fairly well how to treat these. AIDs grows geometrically while a deadly flu grows exponentially. The efforts to disseminate the flu through not-always-dead vaccines is almost surely a much more deadly event for each of us to plan around than an asteroid or super-volcano.
I think it's alot of fun to talk about colonizing Mars but only a group that can extract maximum funding from mankind will be able to fund this: e.g. government, monopoly, or social contract group. You see, they see mankind as a self replicating machine to use for their endeavors, the death of millions from treatable diseases is not a problem to them as it does not seriously affect the performance of the machine. Self replicating machines can afford fatalities. Children in African countries die from dehydration from diarehea because the warlords do not value human life.
Anyways, the article is nice. Extremely silly but nice. The whole evolution argument is inconsistent with the global catastrophe argument. It's just embarassing to see someone we pay with our tax dollars talk about science and say something as silly as "The statistical risk of humans getting wiped out in the next 100 years due to a super volcano or asteroid or comet impact is 1 in 455."
Of course, the lack of species elsewhere and the abundance of life on the earth would mean the evolution theory is statistically ridiculous and the "1 in 455" is reasonable; therefore one must conclude that life abounds on Mars (or God exists)! But spouting nonsense like "1 in 455" or "mega climate change" are ways to motivate the politicians that control our lives into actually doing something scientific like colonizing Mars.
Wow, they must have gone to the a business plan template site... reminds me of the quote on the Apache Struts page that one had to use Struts to be able to build business web sites or some such speak.
BTW, I've got some twj-names for $24 if you want to save a buck. And for a century!!!
I visited the site but couldn't figure out what it was besides "gimme $25" so gave up after 30 seconds.
Great, thought-provoking discussion. I didn't know if you were in the USA or not so I guessed.
As to what I am doing? #1 trying to create income without salary. The income tax is detroying the American worker as it forces Offhsoring. The USA is hellbent on shipping all middle class jobs to Offshore locations as import taxes are zero to 1/10 of the tax that would occur if the work was done here. I heard GB is a tax hell worse than here but at least VAT/sales tax seems a more fair tax as it taxes imports. #2 trying to determine how to expatriate. At least to work for an offshore company. 100's of major US companies have expatriated and no longer bear the tax burden.
Here's the deal in the USA. US Government is driving inflation through massive debts and betting the farm the world still trades in dollars. Meanwhile the middle class is being decimated by higher taxes, costs, and lower pay. E.g. people are leaving tech jobs and taking a couple of part-time jobs. We are all living on savings and debt financing for now. The Jobs Exportation cancer will spread massively to the other industries in '05.
Anyone with wherewithal and any foresight is looking to expatriate before the debt comes due. Most all major companies have and are mostly only investing overseas. E.g. MSFT is investing Billions in India rather than in the USA!
I agree that revolt is the end game but this is why the US government granted itself illegal rights through the Patriot Act (already some of it was declared illegal by the courts) and otherwise is attempting tighten control of the populous. Mandatory auto tracking devices. Mandatory person tracking devices in schools. Outlaw body armor. Et cetera. But who wants to stay around for that?
Clearly they have a multi-decade, multi-century plan to enslave all people of the Earth in massive debts. The model here, falling pay and inflating prices is being effectively exported to China and India from what I gather. In the end, the working person can work harder and harder but never actually gain financial ground. Falling pay WRT price inflation in India and China I suspect. That and literally falling pay here in the USA.
What are the image selling options? I am building a site, http://www.youart.net, that is ore focused on photo chopping but including the ability to sell your uploaded photos. Well, my initial thoughts were:
1) free
2) fee per copy used on shirt or other item
3) fee per usage on another media like a website
(do I need to make this "per hit" or "per reader"?)
4) Cost for unlimited usage.
But what are the pricing methods desired?
Thanks!Tim
So is your rhetorical question whether the government will allow its phones to be tapped and its emails scanned in exchange for violations of Ammendment IV of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States of America?
Doesn't matter. The government has no legal grounds for unreasonable searches. They have no contract with the people that gives them this right. The USA government does not rule the USA citizens because they have been conquered but only rules by contract to which the citizens agree. Ammendment IV expressly denies them the right of invasion of privacy even while Ammendment X denies them any ungranted rights at all.
By punishing violations such as the blatant acts of NYC and blatant approval by the state of NY and the USA government for the wrongful imprisonment of Americans exercising their First Ammendment rights to assemble and of free speech (and even the imprisonment of some innocent bystanders and tourists) the American people can enforce this contract. Perhaps the legal system should imprison the government officials who condoned this action for a time equal to the time served illegally. Surely the people of the city of New York should be ashamed.
Sure,
Mod down would make sense if you are part of the group attempting to destroy America. The current government is systematically removing the rights of the citizenry. As Americans, we have to speak out against this when we can.
#1, WTO is legislating immigration law for the USA. I cannot find the link just now but they are mandating immigration law for the USA on the grounds of "trade governance". I suspect this is 100% illegal as immigration is a sanctimonious right of government. Furthermore, India is lobbying the WTO to require the USA to open its borders for unfettered immigration. Probably a needless lobby given the USA's national debt as the debt will probably be financed by massive immigration as this is the most obvious source for increasing tax revenue especially if the average pay in the USA continues to fall. WTO is being used by the multinationals to establish a world government controlled by the elites through their businesses.
#2, RNC in NYC. Innocent protestors were imprisoned - a direct violation of freedom of speech and assembly. Litle more needs to be said on that matter as this is such a blatant and obvious violation of the bill of rights. The current acts of our government cannot be defended; albeit a city government yet the state of NY and the national governments watched with an approving eye. Of course one may also point to monitoring of email and other communications which is also a direct violation of the Bill of Rights Ammendment IV. Last I checked, the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States of America were still the governing contract between the federal government and signees of the Constitution in representation of the people of the United States.
The USA government has willfully broken this contract. Inasmuch as Freedom of Speech no longer exists, one can expect all other rights to be vaporized at will by the current Corporate Aristocracy. Just the facts.
Only by holding the government to the contract can their behavior be controlled. The prosperity of the citizenry measures the success of a government. How are we doing? Standard of living is falling. Prices are rising about doubled for autos and housing in the last 30 years while minimum wage would need to be about $8/hr to be equal to what it was 30 some years ago. Statistically, the USA government is failing in this regard. #1. Job Creation numbers fall even below new worker numbers (maturation and immigration) and do not even touch the past job losses; yet the government continues to tout a strong economy and future jobs. #2. 1.4M more people without health insurance this year. #3. 1.3M or so more USA citizens fell into poverty last year. #4. Average pay is falling. #5. Extreme, probably treasonous, debts. These will end the USA unless fixed. Bankruptcy has led to IMF enslavement for many countries. #6. Irresponsible inflation which steals the fruits of the labor of the hardworking and responsible and rewards the bankers. Research it: historically inflation is no more normal than deflation or equilibrium. #7. Reduced national income. Research the share of income taxes paid by corporations as it has fallen over the last 50 years from about equal with the share paid by individuals and around 45% (if I remember correctly) to around 5% (again, if I rememeber correctly). An estimated $30B was avoided/evaded in taxes via Bermuda alone last year. #8 Severe taxes on workers in the USA and zero to little tax on imports. This is first and foremost the tool being used to destroy the USA. Such a stupid system can only be intentional. It will lead to the collapse of the USA as most all production is moving/has moved ex-USA where the net tax load per worker hour is 1/10th or less of what the load is in the USA. In the end, lost tax revenue but extreme spending means the USA is in for total collapse. The USA government is chopping at the dam that holds back a flood of job loss and pay drops. The dam has been breached: tech jobs will fall by no less than 10% over the next 5-20 years and full
Dude, why is Tesla always omitted?
l ichtVideo.html
I recently watched a Dijkstra video wherein he relates he had to come to America for decent technology growth. Go figure if the USA fits that bill today! Surely nobody can argue that the USA is growing anywhere near the rate of China or even India. Mayhap the American dream has expatriated as well.
-- http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/videos/Noorder
On the subject of freedom, ever boil a frog? One has to wonder what all those Jews were thinkning staying in Germany and those Ukrainians in Ukraine in the early '40's. Guess they never saw their rights slipping into the hands of the government until it was too late. Even as the forward-thinkers may have been able to escape Germany and the surrounding area, are people yet escaping America?
Without a doubt, the upper 0.5% have moved substantial parts of their assets ex-USA. Guess Bill Gates is the most well-informed person in the world and that explains his investment in India instead of the USA.
Once the WTO takes over (already has been granted immigration authority over the USA which is quite interesting as this was a key point the states reserved in the Constitution for a period) then will citizens of the USA even be able to point to consitutional rights? Surely Ammendment X of the Bill of Rights of the Consitution of America expressly deny much of the authority the USA government claims and without a doubt absolutely deny WTO and other world government authority over citizens of the USA.
Only a complete dismissal of the Constitution would legalize the current governance of the WTO. The dismissal has come in the form of "might is right" and double-speak on behalf of the USA government.
Oh well, you pay your money and place your bets. For now, the USA is the best and we still can voice our opinions openly. Unlike China!
I interviewed with a company in Beaufort, SC that was already doing this for FOX. Searching old seinfeld's and other shows for few-second clips for ads and other such stuff. No surpirse to see the big boys want to take over the established market. Bet it will somehow be included in the OS or in the Internet access software.
I call you on that one. That has been the case ZERO times out of the dozen to two dozen with whom I've worked directly. As for interviewing, I have interviewed a few with about five years of experience but by and large these are at most three or four years of experience and these were probably part-time though not indicated as such. The typical case is less than two years IME.
But I've only worked with this process in companies that hire H1's since 1995 so maybe things were different before then.
It's just natural that people are willing to rough it the first several years of their career to get experience, a green card, et cetera.
How many years of experience does an H1 usually have? Your argument makes no sense. H1's are in practice inexperienced programmers with less than three years of experience. You are NOT hiring on skill when you hire people with only a few years of experience. It's a gamble and more related to background and expected performance.
And to tell me you cannot find such people in the USA is total bullshit. I've taught in two year tech programs with people who could code way better than many H1Bs with Masters degrees. And worse. You must forget that not everyone in the USA can afford college and all that.
Do it if you like it.
Recruiters look at keywords. If you used tool X for 2 years then you get hired. Period. Dumbheads often just toss that on the resume and get the job. So, yippee, the people talking to you about hiring H1 will never even consider you without that keyskill. To them a good candidate is someone who can talk about tool X [though probably cannot correctly answer ten basic computer science questions].
But you want to work for a real company with real engineers. Ask them how many experienced people they have versus H1 and new hires. If they have ANY L1 then forget about it. That is a sure sign they are replacing senior people with scab workers and probably planning to move the whole shootin gmatch overseas. The experience ratio is a good teller if its a headshop or there is some real engineering going on in the company.
Go intern at a company doing something you like.
FYI, a large number of new grads from CS et al just dropped out of the industry. With three plus years of telling them they could only get a job if no cheap H1 was available, they figured out that waiting tables and teaching English in Japan pay better than that. BTW, lots of old timers too.
Saying there are lotsa jobs is BS when there are large numbers of old timers not even absorbed back into the market. That someone wrote OS kernel code, network layers, et cetera but hasn't pussy-footed around with some Java tool is probably the silliest reason to say an H1 is qualified and they are not. In reality, the old timers are still unemployed because they will not work for $35/hr.
You and I both know that. And a 1/2 generation of American programmers have dissolved into other industries. And nobody with any sense is recommending ever-dropping pay rates of programming to his or her relations.
That's just facts.
Buddy works near there. They are trying to "get into the India market". Woohoo, let the hook of H1 pull the whole company overseas. Hang on to your skis.
And since most of you are not up on what is really going on you would do well to read some articles on the India newspaper websites. Their view is quite different. IF, you can find a company there in their perspectus saying they have some hundreds or thousands of unworking H1 visas just awaiting the USA economy to rebound. Don;t have the link handy.
It won't, of couse, cause any MBA worth his spit realizes that 1/4 or better productivity at 1/10 the tax load always means Offshoring is better. H1 and L1 only make sense for non-Offshorable jobs and to repalce senior techies, especially in government contracts where the money is a hand out and no retribution for failed work is made.
This idea was posted on http://www.shouldexist.org a while back as well. I think related ideas were using "jacked up" trainbus so there is no need for raised rails and all that cost. The trainbus wheels raise on hydraulics at each intersection such that the bus never has to stop for traffic. Either another set of wheels extends to allow it to "step over" or else another extends horizontally to allow it to mount onto a track just for the section of the track crossing a road. Let's hope we see some things like this.
Thanks, been wondering how to tell that.
I filed a patent back in Jan 2001 and it still is an Application! I called this Jan and they said they'd get to it in June! Well, actually we filed some time in 2000 to tell the truth!
Any tricks for getting it reviewed and approved?
Argh!
Drastic biological diversities seem to require separations within a species; yet Asia and Europe have not been separated. Probably Asians, or Whiteys, originated in the Americas. One or the other. Not both.