I understand what the H1B program is supposed to accomplish, but one of the great mistakes is to judge a program or policy based upon its intentions rather than its actual results.
War on Drugs, anyone?
The H1B system should either be fixed so that only qualified personel are admitted after an American could not be found to do the job or the job should be outsourced. Right now companies place fake job postings on job boards with impossibly long lists of qualifications that almost no human being could meet, just to meet the statutory requirement that no American fit the bill (of course, the H1B they eventually import doesn't match those qualifications either, but nobody actually checks up on that once the application has been approved). They make sure that their job posting fails to find an American candidate because they have already made up their minds, before even posting that they don't want to hire an American for the job. That is just one further example of the perverse sorts of incentives created by the present H1B program.
Sounds a lot like trying to find a non-tech job in this part of Arizona. Go down to the local DES office (Arizona Department of Economic Security), you'll find tons of listings for jobs that just don't exist. I've gone on dozens of interviews that were posted on the very same day as the interview, filled out the application, gave them a copy of my resume, hell, even cut my hair & trimmed back my beard, and got told that there were no jobs at that company at that time, and said job was listed merely to keep a stack of applications and resumes available just in case. So, I consult a bit.
Expect to see a lot of the H1B jobs exported to the applicant's native countries as the US economy heads further down the toilet.
You are an idiot. You clearly have no idea how the US gov't works. Please refrain from expressing anymore stupid opinions until you have educated yourself.
Actually, Macfox hit the thumb on the head with the hammer with that one. The US government doesn't work, at least, not for the citizens. It hasn't in a long time, either. What it does work for is the corporations. And itself, of course ('PATRIOT USA Act', anyone? Such a marvelous tool for removing any political enemies...). Where Macfox dropped the ball is, he was assuming there were real candidates and real differences to vote on. That hasn't been true in quite awhile, either.
Hell, if voting could change anything other than which bunch of crooks were ripping off the public, they'd make it illegal. And none of this talk about the 'lesser of the two evils', either. The lesser evil is still evil, and there's no choice to be made to do away with either of them come election day. No third party candidates in sight or hearing range, nothing. Not even a 'None Of The Above' option on the ballots. I haven't even heard of any Socialist Workers Party candidates, for instance, in this election cycle. Why not?
You make it sound like it used to in the past. The very teatrical progression of events which ended in the present situation was carried put to the rhythm of your periodical voting...
Once upon a time, it did. The last 'real' Republican president was Nixon. Since then, the Party has become more and more 'faith-based'. Why bother fixing anything when Jebus is coming?
For it to be considered "criminal", they would most likely have to show you are making a profit on your pirating, such as selling burned copies of IronMan at a streetcorner stand or something like that on a larger scale.
Naw, they just have to show that you didn't buy a ticket to see Iron Man, or the DVD, thus 'stealing' from them. Theft is a crime, and this legislation goes a long way toward making copyright infringement a crime as well.
1. Countries without extradition treaties to the US, as the act makes pirating a criminal offense - one that you can be extradited for.
Which of course won't stop the Alphabet Agencies from kidnapping you from said non-extradition treaty country if they deem it a Good Thing. Remember Panama? Sure, Noriega was a scumbag that the United States put in power, but sending armed men across borders to forcibly remove him at gunpoint wasn't the height of diplomacy, it was outright invasion.
2. Countries without friendly relations with the US, as part of this act involves convincing other nations to join.
Outside of the UK, Afghanistan ('friendly' government installed at gunpoint by the US), and Iraq (see 'Afghanistan'), that's just about everywhere on the planet.
On a serious note, it's nice to know that with the economy in the crapper, rather than trying to correct problems with the US banking system, they've instead decided that the US's biggest concern is people downloading MP3s.
No, this is just a bait and switch from the Powers That Be to draw attention away from the fact that we're in a depression. It gives said Powers That Be the excuse to squeeze yet more taxes, spend more money, and do nothing but make examples of people who do not have the means to fight back without the ancillary effect of making a certain class of criminals ('drug dealers') rich in the process.
And of course, it has the Seal of Approval from the Senator from Disney.
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There's a build option that will parse the old config, and only prompt you for new/changed options.
Unless of course you Brits have cost overruns that make the low bidder richer than Gates like we do here in the States. If so, expect your taxes to exceed 110% of your annual income one of these days to pay for the priviledge of being spyed on...
The future is 'brown'? What kinda white supremacist shit is this?
Err, again without looking it up.. if you interbred all the different races equally, you'd end up with a brown skin race. Not exactly sure why you think that's white supremacist.
Read TFA. The author warns us that we have stopped evolving, that we're 10,000 times more numerous than we 'should be', and finishes TFA by warning us all that our grandkids are gonna be 'brown'. As in, 'brown' skin is a bad thing. As in, 'whites' will be nonexistant.
As new mutations arise in the population - and let's pretend we buy his argument that such mutations are less frequent now than they were 250,000 yrs ago - they will confer fitness (in a biological sense) not because they confer better survival; in industrial societies, few people literally die before reaching childbearing age. They will confer biological fitness if they are associated with a strong reproductive drive.
I doubt that mutations are less frequent now than they were 250,000 years ago. Our environment has become more toxic, more mutagenic compounds have entered it. More mutagenic compounds means more mutations.
but seriously, I think in a couple decades there will be a slashdot story (on my holographic visor with wifi) about the first set of humans were found taht have been determined to be too genetically dissimilar to have offspring.
And when we kill them, the neocon menace will finally be over. Too bad we'll have just killed the last Neanderthals.
Also, our global society and rapid global travel means the entire species is a single breeding population. Speciation is nigh impossible, and genetic drift is (ISTM) unlikely due to the incredibly large population.
All this means is, the human species will evolve in unison, rather than splintering off into different daughter species. How is this a bad thing?
Also, keep in mind that genetic engineering is coming online, so the human species can effectively take control of its own evolution. Personally, I don't see this as a bad thing, either. Getting rid of genetic conditions such as Taye-Sachs, color blindness, sickle-cell anemia, and hemophilia is a good thing. Why not breed this stuff out?
TFA also states:
"Humans are 10,000 times more common than we should be, according to the rules of the animal kingdom, and we have agriculture to thank for that. Without farming, the world population would probably have reached half a million by now - about the size of the population of Glasgow.
More individuals means more chances for the species to survive. Wasn't there an article a month or so ago that said the human race got knocked down to like 2,000 members or less and almost became extinct?
More from TFA:
"Small populations which are isolated can evolve at random as genes are accidentally lost. World-wide, all populations are becoming connected and the opportunity for random change is dwindling. History is made in bed, but nowadays the beds are getting closer together. We are mixing into a global mass, and the future is brown."
The future is 'brown'? What kinda white supremacist shit is this?
And who says I justify "driving" at over 80mph? I rarely go above 110 km/h (70 mph, it seems). But there are short moments when doing, say, 90 is actually SAFER. Overtaking column of trucks is a prime example, I believe.
Getting around some guy who should be in a nursing home rather than doing 20 MPH weaving all over the place down a 2 lane road with a speed limit of 55 is another. I get behind one of these guys, I wanna get to hell AWAY from him before he gets me killed. And yeah, I see this every day on the road to the main highway.
How is a parent deciding to give their child a key that limits a car's full potential giving the government control?
TFS says nothing about the government forcing parents to give minors these keys.
I can see insurance companies offering a discount if the parents do give the kids one of these keys, and jacking the premiums up past Mars if they don't. How much you wanna bet the mandated 'black box' won't be able to log which key is in use?
I give this device 24 hours on the street before some Norwegian hack's it and posts a howto on the internet. (Don't ask me how the Norwegian got his hands on an American Ford)
I give it 48 hrs before Ford files a DMCA takedown notice.
I give it 48 hrs and 2 minutes before it's downloaded and multiplies by 10,000.
I give it 72 hours before you can buy the shirt with the howto from ThinkGeek.
Then everyone will know how to defeat them, and render another stupid bit of DRM useless. Except in this case it's not actually DRM per se, or is it?
I give it 96 hours before the insurance companies change the conditions of their policies to deny payouts if the device is damaged in any way, including damage from an accident.
People that live where it snows use tire chains, not some sort of "rock the wheels" technique. If you are driving a ford focus in the snow without tire chains, you have bigger things to worry about than the ability to turn traction control off.
Traction control and ABS brakes are for people who want to feel safe without being safe. ABS won't let you lock your brakes up at all, which can get you mangled up in rush hour traffic if you're not used to it. If you have to make a panic stop, for instance, the semi in front of you with the defective brake lights stops dead on the highway, ABS brakes will put you under the trailer. Locking the brakes up might stop you from being decapitated by stopping your car from going under that trailer to begin with. You are wearing that mandated seat belt, yes? Ever try to think of unbuckling it so you can dive for the floor in a panic situation?
Traction control, by playing with the brakes, will wear them out faster. JUST what you need when you need to make that panic stop. Oops, forgot, ABS system.
FWIW, I lived in the Cleveland/Cuyahoga County area for 25 years without needing snow chains. In my part of town (far east side), we'd get 2 to 3 times the snow that the West Side got, and it got deeper the further east and south you went. Good thing I learned to drive in Colorado, where the winters got really bad (late 60's, early 70's). It's my opinion that ABS and traction control are NOT needed if the driver is properly trained in local conditions.
I'm feeling positively negative about this year's election.
With the election only a month away, I'm going to have to stop insulating myself from the coverage. I'm thinking a few days watching CNN will jolt me back to reality...
I think I see the problem with that logic. By your reasoning, the best time to invest ever would have been October 29, 1929.
IIRC, that's what JD Rockefeller did, waited til the market totally tanked, then walked in with a suitcase full of money and bought up everything in sight at the fire sale...
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Sounds a lot like trying to find a non-tech job in this part of Arizona. Go down to the local DES office (Arizona Department of Economic Security), you'll find tons of listings for jobs that just don't exist. I've gone on dozens of interviews that were posted on the very same day as the interview, filled out the application, gave them a copy of my resume, hell, even cut my hair & trimmed back my beard, and got told that there were no jobs at that company at that time, and said job was listed merely to keep a stack of applications and resumes available just in case. So, I consult a bit.
Expect to see a lot of the H1B jobs exported to the applicant's native countries as the US economy heads further down the toilet.
Actually, Macfox hit the thumb on the head with the hammer with that one. The US government doesn't work, at least, not for the citizens. It hasn't in a long time, either. What it does work for is the corporations. And itself, of course ('PATRIOT USA Act', anyone? Such a marvelous tool for removing any political enemies...). Where Macfox dropped the ball is, he was assuming there were real candidates and real differences to vote on. That hasn't been true in quite awhile, either.
Hell, if voting could change anything other than which bunch of crooks were ripping off the public, they'd make it illegal. And none of this talk about the 'lesser of the two evils', either. The lesser evil is still evil, and there's no choice to be made to do away with either of them come election day. No third party candidates in sight or hearing range, nothing. Not even a 'None Of The Above' option on the ballots. I haven't even heard of any Socialist Workers Party candidates, for instance, in this election cycle. Why not?
No, if they confiscate some kid's iPod, that means the kid just has to buy >b>another one. This is a Good Thing for Apple...
Once upon a time, it did. The last 'real' Republican president was Nixon. Since then, the Party has become more and more 'faith-based'. Why bother fixing anything when Jebus is coming?
Dude, where's my Party????????
Naw, they just have to show that you didn't buy a ticket to see Iron Man, or the DVD, thus 'stealing' from them. Theft is a crime, and this legislation goes a long way toward making copyright infringement a crime as well.
Which of course won't stop the Alphabet Agencies from kidnapping you from said non-extradition treaty country if they deem it a Good Thing. Remember Panama? Sure, Noriega was a scumbag that the United States put in power, but sending armed men across borders to forcibly remove him at gunpoint wasn't the height of diplomacy, it was outright invasion.
Outside of the UK, Afghanistan ('friendly' government installed at gunpoint by the US), and Iraq (see 'Afghanistan'), that's just about everywhere on the planet.
No, this is just a bait and switch from the Powers That Be to draw attention away from the fact that we're in a depression. It gives said Powers That Be the excuse to squeeze yet more taxes, spend more money, and do nothing but make examples of people who do not have the means to fight back without the ancillary effect of making a certain class of criminals ('drug dealers') rich in the process.
And of course, it has the Seal of Approval from the Senator from Disney.
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Unless of course you Brits have cost overruns that make the low bidder richer than Gates like we do here in the States. If so, expect your taxes to exceed 110% of your annual income one of these days to pay for the priviledge of being spyed on...
Read TFA. The author warns us that we have stopped evolving, that we're 10,000 times more numerous than we 'should be', and finishes TFA by warning us all that our grandkids are gonna be 'brown'. As in, 'brown' skin is a bad thing. As in, 'whites' will be nonexistant.
I doubt that mutations are less frequent now than they were 250,000 years ago. Our environment has become more toxic, more mutagenic compounds have entered it. More mutagenic compounds means more mutations.
And when we kill them, the neocon menace will finally be over. Too bad we'll have just killed the last Neanderthals.
All this means is, the human species will evolve in unison, rather than splintering off into different daughter species. How is this a bad thing?
Also, keep in mind that genetic engineering is coming online, so the human species can effectively take control of its own evolution. Personally, I don't see this as a bad thing, either. Getting rid of genetic conditions such as Taye-Sachs, color blindness, sickle-cell anemia, and hemophilia is a good thing. Why not breed this stuff out?
TFA also states:
More individuals means more chances for the species to survive. Wasn't there an article a month or so ago that said the human race got knocked down to like 2,000 members or less and almost became extinct?
More from TFA:
The future is 'brown'? What kinda white supremacist shit is this?
The bitch is the sudden stop at the end of it. Now if they could only engineer something like that to work on the street, we'd be golden...
Getting around some guy who should be in a nursing home rather than doing 20 MPH weaving all over the place down a 2 lane road with a speed limit of 55 is another. I get behind one of these guys, I wanna get to hell AWAY from him before he gets me killed. And yeah, I see this every day on the road to the main highway.
What, no camera on the stop light at the intersection to catch people blowing through the intersection? They have tons of these in California...
I can see insurance companies offering a discount if the parents do give the kids one of these keys, and jacking the premiums up past Mars if they don't. How much you wanna bet the mandated 'black box' won't be able to log which key is in use?
Hell, most kids I know these days couldn't roll a cigarette to save their asses. They all use bongs. What's the world coming to????
I give it 96 hours before the insurance companies change the conditions of their policies to deny payouts if the device is damaged in any way, including damage from an accident.
Traction control and ABS brakes are for people who want to feel safe without being safe. ABS won't let you lock your brakes up at all, which can get you mangled up in rush hour traffic if you're not used to it. If you have to make a panic stop, for instance, the semi in front of you with the defective brake lights stops dead on the highway, ABS brakes will put you under the trailer. Locking the brakes up might stop you from being decapitated by stopping your car from going under that trailer to begin with. You are wearing that mandated seat belt, yes? Ever try to think of unbuckling it so you can dive for the floor in a panic situation?
Traction control, by playing with the brakes, will wear them out faster. JUST what you need when you need to make that panic stop. Oops, forgot, ABS system.
FWIW, I lived in the Cleveland/Cuyahoga County area for 25 years without needing snow chains. In my part of town (far east side), we'd get 2 to 3 times the snow that the West Side got, and it got deeper the further east and south you went. Good thing I learned to drive in Colorado, where the winters got really bad (late 60's, early 70's). It's my opinion that ABS and traction control are NOT needed if the driver is properly trained in local conditions.
Next time, get the 2.0 liter 4 cylinder model with the sports suspension, better response...
Yeah, somebody forgot to sufficiently bribe^Hcontribute to the party the Board of Elections is from.
With the election only a month away, I'm going to have to stop insulating myself from the coverage. I'm thinking a few days watching CNN will jolt me back to reality...
And the stock market differs from the online offshore poker sites how? Or does the phrase 'insider trading' not mean anything to you?
IIRC, that's what JD Rockefeller did, waited til the market totally tanked, then walked in with a suitcase full of money and bought up everything in sight at the fire sale...