Personal bankruptcy is still legal. So debt is forgivable. Obviously, the it's not an easy procedure nor is it painless. If it were, credit would not exist because it would be meaningless. We don't have debtor jails. And it's illegal for smaller administrative entities (towns and counties) to pass laws which would result in imprisonment as a result of debt.
College is only a nominal barrier to employment at this point because most majors do not prepare students for work-related skills so even student debt is not something that needs to become a burden for anyone with a good personal aptitude for learning and a good work ethic.
No one can restrict a person's normal functioning in the society as a result of foolishly assumed debt. H1B visas, however, do restrict people's rights down to effectively nothing. So there is a de facto indentured servitude (you must work for X number of years before your company agrees to petition to make you a bona fide "resident" of the US rather than a "visiting" worker). But this cedes immigration decisions to employers of IT, and often higher technical skills, workers.
Immigration decisions are an effective cudgel to keep workers inline and to restrict their movement. As much as I am against unions, as long as they do exist, humor me this hypothetical question: what is more likely to stop workers from organizing in a union? A large amount of debt or the fact that they are on H1B visas? It's not about salaries or other fringe benefits. It's about work conditions.
It also reduces the pace of innovation because workers have much less opportunities to leave their employers and start their own companies to solve problems which they know exist in the market place. Then you get the argument that a lot of the innovation comes from college graduates coming up with new ideas. But that's not true. An indentured servant has no reason to innovate. He only risks innovating himself out of a job. If he could leave his employer and take a risk (the way a resident alien could), he would be able to take a chance on his idea succeeding in a mark place. Capitalism itself is being undermined by a poorly conceived immigration policy which only exists to perpetuate status quo, but which, in fact, exacerbates many of the problem which its proponents claim to try to solve.
Jesus H Christ! You are both so full of shit! Debt is hardly indentured servitude. You are sooooooo very much deflecting from the the actual slave class -- the H1B visa holders. If they were given Green Cards instead of H1B visas it would solve the tech gap, the lack of STEM education and all the rest.
Nah. Everyone has debt. Hell, even the government has "debt". Let's call it "work visas". H1B. You get fired = you get deported. You wouldn't want your family (hehe, just kidding... you don't have time for a family, but say you do) to get uprooted because you are too lazy to work 14 hour days, would you?
And Russia will lead the world in railroad shipping in the mid 20th century unless we something NOW (int the early 1900s) to lay down as much railroad infrastructure as we can. It doesn't matter than we must produce a 2nd class of citizens living in indentured servitude as they lay down these rails along our West Coast. They are just Chinamen. We need to realize the urgency of creating this essential infrastructure or we'll be overwhelmed from the west. Oh, wait, duh. Wrong century. I mean Internet... not railroad... oh, and those garlic eating Eastern Europeans and the curry-smelling Indians... THEY must be made into an indentured servant class to protect our vital national interests. Hmm... so how do we create indentured servitude without calling it "indentured servitude"?
We are not trying to understand the messages. We are trying to understand whether there are any messages. And scientists from 50 years ago would most definitely be able to detect that our radio waves are not pure noise (and therefore are highly improbable to be naturally-occurring).
Snowden should really, really know better than to make this argument. Compression will always be necessary because the amount of information transferred generally outpaces the throughput capacity of data transfer channels. Encryption may increase the entropy of messages, but compression minimizes the entropy. So detecting lower-than-expected entropy in received information should occur fairly regularly if there is any intelligence communicating.
She is a Democrat, so no one will call out the hypocrisy of those defending her. If she were a Republican, everyone would be trying to pin this on her whole party.
California (or at least in LA county) already has increased penalties for criminal association (ie, gang membership). This isn't RICO-type penalties. These don't criminalize advise-and/or-coordination of criminal activities. They simply add jail time, if convicted, to acts already recognized as criminal acts. In other words, having friends who are gang members could potentially be used against a person to increase their penalty (years in jail) for non-coordinated criminal activity. This is not in Texas. This is in the "liberal" LA.
I am not a lawyer, but I am paraphrasing anecdotal story told my by a lawyer (practicing in LA). The key is that because gang "affiliation" is difficult to prove because gang members might be to scared to testify against other gang members, gang "association" (being seen together with a known gang members during non-criminal acts) is enough to imply that a person is a more hardened criminal.
I actually thought the 6% figure was shocking. Government employees (past and present) account for ~20% of the US GDP. This figure doesn't take into account the money paid by the government to other citizens (then the figure goes up to 35%). So if 6% of the population were consuming 20% of the GDP, they'd be considered a fairly wealthy class. Turns out it's less than 6% of the population (almost none of the past government contractors are on government pensions).
maybe they are just negotiating with the individuals in possession of the information to um... sort it out so that the government itself can have efficient access to it? maybe even make it... umm... searchable... so they can figure out who's who? probably cheaper to pay terrorists to do it than the government contractors.
They make a profit. The fact that their stock is overvalued doesn't mean they aren't successful. I don't know where you got the idea that their profit margins on the cloud business are thin. Just because they reinvest their profits into R&D, doesn't mean they are not successful, either, btw.
Ok, sure, it's anecdotal, but if we do want to talk about some measurement as silly as salary levels, I've gotten calls from recruiters trying to hire for Infosys in the US and the salaries they offered were at least %30-%40 lower than the market wages in the US. You can call it anecdotal, but Infosys is the largest outsourcing company in India. And now they are trying to prove that they local American workers are not available by pretending to try to hire locals at much lower wages.
They still talk about absolute employee counts and salaries. Well, why H1B visas, then? Why not give them green cards instead? If they are legal resident aliens, don't make them indentured servants. They prefer indentured servants because indentured servants are more likely to cope with poor management (which is also the cause of more highering... poor management means longer working hours and less efficient organization in general).
It's not about the money. Tech workers still make plenty of money compared to other professions. It's about work-place conditions. The 24 lachs figure that gets quoted (~$40,000) is a lot of money in India... much more than $150,000 in the US. It's about uprooting a family and forcing a deportation if the worker gets fired. This makes H1B visa an indentured servitude (even if it is well-paid). The only solution is to say that anyone who deserves an H1B visa should get a Resident Alien card instead (because it's what they are). Oh, and Resident Alien card isn't green color anymore. A person should not be afraid to go home after less than 10 hours of work lest he gets deported. If he gets fired, he should get unemployment benefits and look for a new job without begging for sponsorship. Otherwise, it's still indentured servitude. And as long as US workers are forced to compete with indentured servants on work conditions, they'll stay away from STEM career if they are smart enough to do anything else. That's why there is a shortage of local workers. It's artificially created.
Most houses in Seattle don't have air conditioning. Seattle simply isn't used to temperatures that high. It's pretty far north, you know. About 2 hours from the Canadian border.
I guess that's why Amazon invented the cloud as a successful business model (as opposed to esoteric gedanken experiment which was IBM or even Rackspace) and NYTimes invented they myth that there are "real" journalists as opposed to bloggers. NYTimes will ruthlessly smear anyone if there is red meat in it and then when they are done chewing, they'll go out and do leveraged buyout of smaller papers... all the under the guise of fighting for social justice while supporting dictators abroad and the most corrupt of the politicians at home.
Even if you do only send network traffic when there is a lot of other network traffic (to avoid obvious consistent network use), it means more buffering. Which means more memory/storage use. It's still detectable through purely statistical tools.
Yes, I am definitely arguing that someone who can bring in a $4.5 billion contract which takes less than a billion to fulfill is, in fact, someone who deserves their 30% billion dollar paycheck. If someone threw $3.5 billion in free money my way, yeah, I'd say they deserve their $1 billion finder's fee.
You are not getting it. It's not about bandwidth. It's about latency. Correctly lost information requires round trip. If the drop rate is so high that it requires a few round trips, it can cause some of the info to arrive too late (even though a lot of the info would be arriving on average). Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truckload of backup tapes moving at 60mph on a highway, just don't forget it's latency.
Good luck getting lawyers who could get a top government contract for $1000,000 a year. This is what top divorce lawyers will bill nowadays. Top Fed-contract requisition lawyers are probably asking at least 10x as much. But they could be asking 100x or a 1000x as much. Because they'd still be worth it if they return this much on their effort.
There is no ethernet cable in the world which is sufficiently bad, that there are enough retransmits for mere audio to stutter or stall.
Oh? Why not? Most people will be able to hear 1/50th of a millisecond of missing data. Regardless of bandwidth, if your transmission drop requires a round-trip re-request of data, the latency of the connection can delay the arrival of the data past the point where it is needed to be played.
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Personal bankruptcy is still legal. So debt is forgivable. Obviously, the it's not an easy procedure nor is it painless. If it were, credit would not exist because it would be meaningless. We don't have debtor jails. And it's illegal for smaller administrative entities (towns and counties) to pass laws which would result in imprisonment as a result of debt.
College is only a nominal barrier to employment at this point because most majors do not prepare students for work-related skills so even student debt is not something that needs to become a burden for anyone with a good personal aptitude for learning and a good work ethic.
No one can restrict a person's normal functioning in the society as a result of foolishly assumed debt. H1B visas, however, do restrict people's rights down to effectively nothing. So there is a de facto indentured servitude (you must work for X number of years before your company agrees to petition to make you a bona fide "resident" of the US rather than a "visiting" worker). But this cedes immigration decisions to employers of IT, and often higher technical skills, workers.
Immigration decisions are an effective cudgel to keep workers inline and to restrict their movement. As much as I am against unions, as long as they do exist, humor me this hypothetical question: what is more likely to stop workers from organizing in a union? A large amount of debt or the fact that they are on H1B visas? It's not about salaries or other fringe benefits. It's about work conditions.
It also reduces the pace of innovation because workers have much less opportunities to leave their employers and start their own companies to solve problems which they know exist in the market place. Then you get the argument that a lot of the innovation comes from college graduates coming up with new ideas. But that's not true. An indentured servant has no reason to innovate. He only risks innovating himself out of a job. If he could leave his employer and take a risk (the way a resident alien could), he would be able to take a chance on his idea succeeding in a mark place. Capitalism itself is being undermined by a poorly conceived immigration policy which only exists to perpetuate status quo, but which, in fact, exacerbates many of the problem which its proponents claim to try to solve.
Jesus H Christ! You are both so full of shit! Debt is hardly indentured servitude. You are sooooooo very much deflecting from the the actual slave class -- the H1B visa holders. If they were given Green Cards instead of H1B visas it would solve the tech gap, the lack of STEM education and all the rest.
Nah. Everyone has debt. Hell, even the government has "debt". Let's call it "work visas". H1B. You get fired = you get deported. You wouldn't want your family (hehe, just kidding... you don't have time for a family, but say you do) to get uprooted because you are too lazy to work 14 hour days, would you?
And Russia will lead the world in railroad shipping in the mid 20th century unless we something NOW (int the early 1900s) to lay down as much railroad infrastructure as we can. It doesn't matter than we must produce a 2nd class of citizens living in indentured servitude as they lay down these rails along our West Coast. They are just Chinamen. We need to realize the urgency of creating this essential infrastructure or we'll be overwhelmed from the west. Oh, wait, duh. Wrong century. I mean Internet... not railroad... oh, and those garlic eating Eastern Europeans and the curry-smelling Indians... THEY must be made into an indentured servant class to protect our vital national interests. Hmm... so how do we create indentured servitude without calling it "indentured servitude"?
We are not trying to understand the messages. We are trying to understand whether there are any messages. And scientists from 50 years ago would most definitely be able to detect that our radio waves are not pure noise (and therefore are highly improbable to be naturally-occurring).
Snowden should really, really know better than to make this argument. Compression will always be necessary because the amount of information transferred generally outpaces the throughput capacity of data transfer channels. Encryption may increase the entropy of messages, but compression minimizes the entropy. So detecting lower-than-expected entropy in received information should occur fairly regularly if there is any intelligence communicating.
She is a Democrat, so no one will call out the hypocrisy of those defending her. If she were a Republican, everyone would be trying to pin this on her whole party.
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The problem with you and other people who says stuff like this is that they don't think they are racist.
California (or at least in LA county) already has increased penalties for criminal association (ie, gang membership). This isn't RICO-type penalties. These don't criminalize advise-and/or-coordination of criminal activities. They simply add jail time, if convicted, to acts already recognized as criminal acts. In other words, having friends who are gang members could potentially be used against a person to increase their penalty (years in jail) for non-coordinated criminal activity. This is not in Texas. This is in the "liberal" LA.
I am not a lawyer, but I am paraphrasing anecdotal story told my by a lawyer (practicing in LA). The key is that because gang "affiliation" is difficult to prove because gang members might be to scared to testify against other gang members, gang "association" (being seen together with a known gang members during non-criminal acts) is enough to imply that a person is a more hardened criminal.
I actually thought the 6% figure was shocking. Government employees (past and present) account for ~20% of the US GDP. This figure doesn't take into account the money paid by the government to other citizens (then the figure goes up to 35%). So if 6% of the population were consuming 20% of the GDP, they'd be considered a fairly wealthy class. Turns out it's less than 6% of the population (almost none of the past government contractors are on government pensions).
maybe they are just negotiating with the individuals in possession of the information to um... sort it out so that the government itself can have efficient access to it? maybe even make it... umm... searchable... so they can figure out who's who? probably cheaper to pay terrorists to do it than the government contractors.
They make a profit. The fact that their stock is overvalued doesn't mean they aren't successful. I don't know where you got the idea that their profit margins on the cloud business are thin. Just because they reinvest their profits into R&D, doesn't mean they are not successful, either, btw.
Ok, sure, it's anecdotal, but if we do want to talk about some measurement as silly as salary levels, I've gotten calls from recruiters trying to hire for Infosys in the US and the salaries they offered were at least %30-%40 lower than the market wages in the US. You can call it anecdotal, but Infosys is the largest outsourcing company in India. And now they are trying to prove that they local American workers are not available by pretending to try to hire locals at much lower wages.
They still talk about absolute employee counts and salaries. Well, why H1B visas, then? Why not give them green cards instead? If they are legal resident aliens, don't make them indentured servants. They prefer indentured servants because indentured servants are more likely to cope with poor management (which is also the cause of more highering... poor management means longer working hours and less efficient organization in general).
It's not about the money. Tech workers still make plenty of money compared to other professions. It's about work-place conditions. The 24 lachs figure that gets quoted (~$40,000) is a lot of money in India... much more than $150,000 in the US. It's about uprooting a family and forcing a deportation if the worker gets fired. This makes H1B visa an indentured servitude (even if it is well-paid). The only solution is to say that anyone who deserves an H1B visa should get a Resident Alien card instead (because it's what they are). Oh, and Resident Alien card isn't green color anymore. A person should not be afraid to go home after less than 10 hours of work lest he gets deported. If he gets fired, he should get unemployment benefits and look for a new job without begging for sponsorship. Otherwise, it's still indentured servitude. And as long as US workers are forced to compete with indentured servants on work conditions, they'll stay away from STEM career if they are smart enough to do anything else. That's why there is a shortage of local workers. It's artificially created.
Most houses in Seattle don't have air conditioning. Seattle simply isn't used to temperatures that high. It's pretty far north, you know. About 2 hours from the Canadian border.
I guess that's why Amazon invented the cloud as a successful business model (as opposed to esoteric gedanken experiment which was IBM or even Rackspace) and NYTimes invented they myth that there are "real" journalists as opposed to bloggers. NYTimes will ruthlessly smear anyone if there is red meat in it and then when they are done chewing, they'll go out and do leveraged buyout of smaller papers... all the under the guise of fighting for social justice while supporting dictators abroad and the most corrupt of the politicians at home.
maybe from a linux user's perspective or even a win 8.1 user's. from a win7 user's perspective, win10's UI is a clear regression.
Even if you do only send network traffic when there is a lot of other network traffic (to avoid obvious consistent network use), it means more buffering. Which means more memory/storage use. It's still detectable through purely statistical tools.
oh. you are one of those. ok. i guess i should have known better than to argue with a millennial.
Yes, I am definitely arguing that someone who can bring in a $4.5 billion contract which takes less than a billion to fulfill is, in fact, someone who deserves their 30% billion dollar paycheck. If someone threw $3.5 billion in free money my way, yeah, I'd say they deserve their $1 billion finder's fee.
You are not getting it. It's not about bandwidth. It's about latency. Correctly lost information requires round trip. If the drop rate is so high that it requires a few round trips, it can cause some of the info to arrive too late (even though a lot of the info would be arriving on average). Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truckload of backup tapes moving at 60mph on a highway, just don't forget it's latency.
Good luck getting lawyers who could get a top government contract for $1000,000 a year. This is what top divorce lawyers will bill nowadays. Top Fed-contract requisition lawyers are probably asking at least 10x as much. But they could be asking 100x or a 1000x as much. Because they'd still be worth it if they return this much on their effort.
Good luck finding lawyers competent with the government's requisition procedure who work for as little as 200k a year.
There is no ethernet cable in the world which is sufficiently bad, that there are enough retransmits for mere audio to stutter or stall.
Oh? Why not? Most people will be able to hear 1/50th of a millisecond of missing data. Regardless of bandwidth, if your transmission drop requires a round-trip re-request of data, the latency of the connection can delay the arrival of the data past the point where it is needed to be played.