For freelancers, pretty much the only way is the visa lottery. I know people from Europe who did that. A couple of caveats: - there is a proposal on the table to get rid of the visa lottery. - People born in some countries, e.g., the UK, are not eligible for it.
The usual work visas, H1 and L1, require employment and don't work for freelancing. If you are really good, you may be able to self-petition yourself for a Greencard, but you probably would have to have a couple patents, etc.
In 1993, I tried to get gcc compiled on a SCO Xenix installation we had bought. It was a nightmare. They had a bunch of ideosyncracies that resulted in lots of problems. They were just not in the same league as HP-UX or SunOS (Sun only changed the name to Solaris with SunOS5.) Then I heard of Linux, installed version 0.12, and it already had gcc. I never went back.
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That's of course not true. Examples: - Foreign professors get H1s. - People with PhDs get H1s. - People like Linus Torvalds get H1s (Linus has a Greencard now, afaik). - etc.
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You know wrong... There is a special category (H1-C) for registered nurses.
A study that lumps together people working in high-salary areas like Silicon Valley and people in areas that aren't as overhyped as the Valley is fundamentally flawed.
In particular if the regex is completely ignored... Is it worse than sendmail? I don't know. The last time I touched sendmail was 10 years ago. Nowadays you would have to hold a gun to my head to have me even look at it.
Being a former sysadmin of SCO systems, I remember them fondly from the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Hmm, their stuff already sucked in the early 90ies. In '93, I tried to get the GNU toolchain compiled on SCO Unix. It gave me nothing but trouble. Then I heard about Linux, with the toolchain already up and running, and I immediately threw out that POS SCO, although the Linux kernel was "only" at 0.12 at that point.
As usual with such a topic, the latent anti-immigrant sentiment of the American programmer shows its ugly face again... Why don't you guys complain about Open Source as reason for losing your jobs? After all, everybody using Open Source means that proprietary software companies can't pay their employees anymore. And, Open Source software is written all over the world, by all those pesky foreigners... So, why don't you complainers go and "buy American"? Idiots. If you want to keep the American economy competitive, you should welcome lots more H1s. Because if you don't, they go and start the next big companies in India and China, and they are smarter as you whiners and they will produce better software than what some whiny, lazy-ass Americans produce. There are more smart people outside the US than inside. Real programmers don't whine.
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Apparently, you know about as much about the US tax system as about the European one. In Germany, France, and most other countries in the EU you have to file yearly tax returns. And they actually check every one of them (unlike in the US.)
This borders at the ridiculous... So, all you have against svn is that you need to set up https??? Give me a break... This is probably the most stupid excuse I've ever heard.
For a dead man (Google cache), he looks pretty alive...
I wonder how he is going to explain it to his Lexus buddies who even donated money for his "widow."
I did PRK, the predecessor to LASIK, over 12 years ago, and still love it.
After reading about LASIK, I personally would not do it. It does more damage to the eye than PRK. PRK takes longer to heal, but it has much less risk of infection.
We got some good spots as near to the takeoff and landing as possible
Where was that? I was right on the taxiway as close as possible to the hangar. The northern-most corner. I think that was the best spot (except for the VIP area...)
At about 6:40 the low altitude chase plane took off, it was a bright red little single engine plane
An Extra (German-manufactured airobatics plane).
Next (I think) came the medium altitude chase plane, which was this really cool and modern looking craft with propellers in the back and a little wing on the nose.
The StarShip, a canard plane (the canard is the little wing at the front), a design which was made popular by Rutan.
It taxied along the tarmac that ran past the crowd did a U turn then sped up and soared off of the runway to a cheering crowd.
Standard thing: taxi on the taxiway towards the end, then turn on the runway (parallel to the taxiway.)
As everybody watched the ship gain altitude, the high altitude chase taxied and lifted off. This jet was pretty interesting, It sort of looked like a fighter jet
If I remember right, it was an Alpha Jet.
After that, the low altitude chase plane made a flyby
And that even though they said at the start that this is not an airshow...
Well, then you are supporting spam-friendly ISPs and deserve to be blocked. Plain and simple. Consider this: if your ISP does not terminate spammers, they obviously does not care about their legitimate customers. Why would any legitimate business be in a business relationship with them?
I guess SPEWS disagrees with you. An ISP wpuld not be listed in SPEWS if they terminate the spammers on their network. ISPs get only listed if they ignore the problem. If your IP block got in the blacklist, then your ISP put their head in the sand, and if you didn't complain to your ISP and changed ISP when they didn't act, you put your head in the sand as well.
You have done something wrong: you continue to support an ISP that doesn't terminate spammers.
"opposing ineffective databases that do more damage than they solve does not make me pro-spam."
No, but opposing the only thing that seems to work makes you pro-spam. If you don't like SPEWS and similar blocklists, come up with your own solution. Until then, SPEWS and other blocklists are the most effective way to get rid of spam. Of course they are not ideal. But they work.
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They are anything but fast.
The court decision was in summer of last year. They needed 1/2 year to release this.
For freelancers, pretty much the only way is the visa lottery. I know people from Europe who did that.
A couple of caveats:
- there is a proposal on the table to get rid of the visa lottery.
- People born in some countries, e.g., the UK, are not eligible for it.
The usual work visas, H1 and L1, require employment and don't work for freelancing.
If you are really good, you may be able to self-petition yourself for a Greencard, but you probably would have to have a couple patents, etc.
In 1993, I tried to get gcc compiled on a SCO Xenix installation we had bought. It was a nightmare. They had a bunch of ideosyncracies that resulted in lots of problems. They were just not in the same league as HP-UX or SunOS (Sun only changed the name to Solaris with SunOS5.)
Then I heard of Linux, installed version 0.12, and it already had gcc. I never went back.
That's of course not true.
Examples:
- Foreign professors get H1s.
- People with PhDs get H1s.
- People like Linus Torvalds get H1s (Linus has a Greencard now, afaik).
- etc.
You know wrong...
There is a special category (H1-C) for registered nurses.
A study that lumps together people working in high-salary areas like Silicon Valley and people in areas that aren't as overhyped as the Valley is fundamentally flawed.
Adblock seems to work as well. Thank god. I can't live without that. Everytime I have to use IE or another browser without ad blocking I freak out...
You have to click on Start to get to the shutdown button.
In particular if the regex is completely ignored...
Is it worse than sendmail? I don't know. The last time I touched sendmail was 10 years ago. Nowadays you would have to hold a gun to my head to have me even look at it.
Hmm, their stuff already sucked in the early 90ies.
In '93, I tried to get the GNU toolchain compiled on SCO Unix. It gave me nothing but trouble.
Then I heard about Linux, with the toolchain already up and running, and I immediately threw out that POS SCO, although the Linux kernel was "only" at 0.12 at that point.
in Beta here. They also clarified the "Linux 8" stuff, by putting Redhat in front of it...
As usual with such a topic, the latent anti-immigrant sentiment of the American programmer shows its ugly face again...
Why don't you guys complain about Open Source as reason for losing your jobs? After all, everybody using Open Source means that proprietary software companies can't pay their employees anymore. And, Open Source software is written all over the world, by all those pesky foreigners...
So, why don't you complainers go and "buy American"? Idiots.
If you want to keep the American economy competitive, you should welcome lots more H1s. Because if you don't, they go and start the next big companies in India and China, and they are smarter as you whiners and they will produce better software than what some whiny, lazy-ass Americans produce. There are more smart people outside the US than inside.
Real programmers don't whine.
Subversion's Open Letter on this topic:l
http://subversion.tigris.org/subversion-linus.htm
Not the Beatles, Apple Records aka Apple Corps.m ark_dispute_with_Apple_Corps
They were there first.
For details, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer#Trade
Apparently, you know about as much about the US tax system as about the European one.
In Germany, France, and most other countries in the EU you have to file yearly tax returns.
And they actually check every one of them (unlike in the US.)
http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=152h tml
http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=155
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/ramasastry/20041215.
And lots more... Google is your friend...
This borders at the ridiculous...
So, all you have against svn is that you need to set up https??? Give me a break...
This is probably the most stupid excuse I've ever heard.
- You can use whatever authentication Apache uses, including MD5, LDAP, what-have-you.
- You can use HTTPS. I do. Much easier to set up than CVS with a tunnel.
I moved my CVS archives over to Subversion when svn hit 1.0 and I never looked back. svn is sooo much better.Here.
For a dead man (Google cache), he looks pretty alive...
I wonder how he is going to explain it to his Lexus buddies who even donated money for his "widow."
I did PRK, the predecessor to LASIK, over 12 years ago, and still love it.
After reading about LASIK, I personally would not do it. It does more damage to the eye than PRK. PRK takes longer to heal, but it has much less risk of infection.
Where was that? I was right on the taxiway as close as possible to the hangar. The northern-most corner. I think that was the best spot (except for the VIP area...)
At about 6:40 the low altitude chase plane took off, it was a bright red little single engine plane
An Extra (German-manufactured airobatics plane).
Next (I think) came the medium altitude chase plane, which was this really cool and modern looking craft with propellers in the back and a little wing on the nose.
The StarShip, a canard plane (the canard is the little wing at the front), a design which was made popular by Rutan.
It taxied along the tarmac that ran past the crowd did a U turn then sped up and soared off of the runway to a cheering crowd.
Standard thing: taxi on the taxiway towards the end, then turn on the runway (parallel to the taxiway.)
As everybody watched the ship gain altitude, the high altitude chase taxied and lifted off. This jet was pretty interesting, It sort of looked like a fighter jet
If I remember right, it was an Alpha Jet.
After that, the low altitude chase plane made a flyby
And that even though they said at the start that this is not an airshow...
"I'm not willing to switch my companies ISP"
Well, then you are supporting spam-friendly ISPs and deserve to be blocked. Plain and simple.
Consider this: if your ISP does not terminate spammers, they obviously does not care about their legitimate customers. Why would any legitimate business be in a business relationship with them?
"and my ISP isn't pro-spam either."
I guess SPEWS disagrees with you. An ISP wpuld not be listed in SPEWS if they terminate the spammers on their network. ISPs get only listed if they ignore the problem.
If your IP block got in the blacklist, then your ISP put their head in the sand, and if you didn't complain to your ISP and changed ISP when they didn't act, you put your head in the sand as well.
You have done something wrong: you continue to support an ISP that doesn't terminate spammers.
"opposing ineffective databases that do more damage than they solve does not make me pro-spam."
No, but opposing the only thing that seems to work makes you pro-spam.
If you don't like SPEWS and similar blocklists, come up with your own solution. Until then, SPEWS and other blocklists are the most effective way to get rid of spam. Of course they are not ideal. But they work.