theH1b program was designed to provide workers to supplement the workforce here because there weren't enough engineers to fill available positions
It was very definitely designed to drive down salaries by bringing back indentured servitude despite whatever sugar coating you may have been told it has.
Notice how something big happened in 2008 which had aftershocks in Europe a couple of years later. Everything was going down. Not so spectacularly as the freefall of Nokia after Elop though.
Don't blame the feminists for some overboard policy designed for unwanted rapid correction instead of a sensible hiring policy that merely insists women be given fair consideration for a job along with all the guys. There's plenty of other HR idiocy in large places to show where the problem really lies, typically empire building and pointless busywork for HR to maintain headcount and have power in the org.
I'm sure they have many millions of blames in their bank accounts due to choosing to be more loyal to Microsoft than the company they were supposed to be working for. Remember that they didn't pick Elop from a list of successful CEOs - they were offered him by Microsoft and there was nothing at all in his history to recommend him as being suitable to run a company of such a size.
I suggest talking to your priest/pastor/loud evangelical tool about this problem you have with framing completely disconnected aspects of reality in the form of religion.
Given the size of the Texas economy, that means he's had vastly more impact than Linus, even if his actual impact was only a few percent of the whole.
You really think so? Have you seen the size of the IT sector these days? Definitely bigger than Texas. A LOT bigger than Texas. Even considering Texas, in international terms far more people are going to have heard of Cruz than Perry.
All this is showing is that you have a political axe to grind and consider elected representatives, even ones seen internationally as an worthless joke such as Chris Christy, to be more important than anybody else. That's one view but you should accept that outside of political circles it's not universal. Since the posters here are often IT types it should be obvious that we are going to be biased in thinking of Torvolds, Jobs and Gates instead of Christy, Santorum and Trump. In fact due to us considering physical things instead of influence we may consider Trump as not just worthless but vast negative worth since he still owes a lot that he managed to avoid paying for.
Also what's with the "Travois" thing? Is that some way of calling Linus a dirty Gypsy to go along with your "Jew Jersey" comment above?
Why are you persisting in attempting to give me a lecture when it's very clear that you are just looking up snippets on the net without gaining any actual understanding from the process?
The sensitivity of nuclear measurement tools is hard to comprehend.
Ones used for radiation safety or checking imports are the ones we are discussing and they are very easy to comprehend. Set a threshold low enough to be triggered by a box of bananas and it's going to be giving you false positives all day.
The opensource/OS wars are no different than any other religion
Ever considered that my just mean you are blurring the difference between where religion stops and other things start? eg. What would Jesus do? Starbucks didn't exist back in those times, so no, that question makes zero sense when ordering a coffee at Starbucks.
"Too much drama" from the guy who cannot refer to Linus without adding in a personal nickname of "Travois" in every case, which looks a lot insulting him as a "dirty gypsy"?
Apart from jealous "I could have been a contender if I'd only been born 15 years earlier" types, that may or may not work at RedHat on something ending with "d", I have no idea.
You could say that about anybody. Newton - nothing special, if he wasn't around a dozen or so people would have covered all he did given a few decades:)
Once is a typo... but twice needs correcting: Torvalds not Travois.
The "Jew Jersey" bit above from that poster suggests that it's another deliberate insult and not a mistake. He's here on a personal mission to put the geeks in line and tell us that we do not matter as much as we think we do. So I don't think we can really take his "economic impact" line at face value or even stick to his goalposts of that being the best measure of influence.
Who's to say that Linus would even have had the idea to code his own version of Minix if not for Microsoft's work in the 80's to make the OS a separate thing
Do you seriously think that hadn't been done several times before Bill Gates wrote his first line of code? A very good example is CP/M - the thing that MSDOS was a cut down clone of when Bill Gates bought it from Tim Paterson.
Yes, I had a source in the newspapers of the day, another one speaking to me a couple of decades later, and some books, but there wasn't a lot of internet in 1975 was there? There's not even a lot of internet in Timor Leste today. Plus isn't it obvious? If your country is going to become independent don't you expect people to start working on a constitution so you've got a government framework for when the colonists leave? It wasn't an instant process with the Portuguese walking out the door without warning. So in this case they looked to the US constitution as a template, as several other countries have done. That's just one of a long list of things that identified them as not being "commie scum" as it became convenient for Ford and Kissenger to label them with after the fact.
Getting back to the main point, if you think Ford was an example of a perfect President then you have a lot more problems then implying that anyone who brings up examples from history is a liar. I'll see if I can find a link about the "donation" from online newspapers around the date Ford died, the story may have been revived, but I suspect if you really care about the issue you are going to have to get off your behind and look at things on paper.
Credible to you maybe. When was the airstrike or even raid by Mexican or Canadian police? Didn't happen, thus not credible to me.
By taking the fantasies of these people so seriously you are helping them. File that with your accusations of "treason" that don't match the actual definition.
You've posted quite a lot on this topic so I'm curious about your views on a related one. What is so special about Assange that makes him so much worse than an actual convicted child rapist evading justice such as Roman Polanski? Why so much effort chasing one and not the other? Such a vast difference in attention appears to indicate that the actual crime is not seen as important but getting revenge for the political embarrassment caused by Assange is. Do you agree or have some different view?
Actually, eating one banana per day increases your risk of getting a cancer as much as smoking half of a cigarette per year.
WTF does all this shit come from? How does such a misunderstanding of background radiation balloon into something so beyond the far side of crazy as claiming eating bananas are more of a health risk than Big Macs? I can only assume that somebody has assumed that all of the potassium in a banana is the very rare radioactive isotope and run from there. Also the detector shit is a fairytale since human beings contain more radioactive material than a banana.
Only perfect if you have a cutoff date sometime after one was spread over a bit of Canada when a Russian Kosmos spy satellite came down. It was very widely reported. When even "The Readers Digest" can refute the claims of someone it's very clear that they are not even trying.
You are describing the constitution of the new country founded recently and not the nation invaded in 1975. No point blaming me if you can't tell the difference.
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It was very definitely designed to drive down salaries by bringing back indentured servitude despite whatever sugar coating you may have been told it has.
Notice how something big happened in 2008 which had aftershocks in Europe a couple of years later. Everything was going down. Not so spectacularly as the freefall of Nokia after Elop though.
Don't blame the feminists for some overboard policy designed for unwanted rapid correction instead of a sensible hiring policy that merely insists women be given fair consideration for a job along with all the guys.
There's plenty of other HR idiocy in large places to show where the problem really lies, typically empire building and pointless busywork for HR to maintain headcount and have power in the org.
I'm sure they have many millions of blames in their bank accounts due to choosing to be more loyal to Microsoft than the company they were supposed to be working for.
Remember that they didn't pick Elop from a list of successful CEOs - they were offered him by Microsoft and there was nothing at all in his history to recommend him as being suitable to run a company of such a size.
You mean sugar, fat, salt and caffeine are not enough to make us happy with junk food?
Heresy!
I suggest talking to your priest/pastor/loud evangelical tool about this problem you have with framing completely disconnected aspects of reality in the form of religion.
You really think so? Have you seen the size of the IT sector these days? Definitely bigger than Texas. A LOT bigger than Texas. Even considering Texas, in international terms far more people are going to have heard of Cruz than Perry.
All this is showing is that you have a political axe to grind and consider elected representatives, even ones seen internationally as an worthless joke such as Chris Christy, to be more important than anybody else. That's one view but you should accept that outside of political circles it's not universal. Since the posters here are often IT types it should be obvious that we are going to be biased in thinking of Torvolds, Jobs and Gates instead of Christy, Santorum and Trump. In fact due to us considering physical things instead of influence we may consider Trump as not just worthless but vast negative worth since he still owes a lot that he managed to avoid paying for.
Also what's with the "Travois" thing? Is that some way of calling Linus a dirty Gypsy to go along with your "Jew Jersey" comment above?
Will you at least admit that I am more likely to be aware of the situation than your knee jerk insult of "communists"?
Why are you persisting in attempting to give me a lecture when it's very clear that you are just looking up snippets on the net without gaining any actual understanding from the process?
Ones used for radiation safety or checking imports are the ones we are discussing and they are very easy to comprehend. Set a threshold low enough to be triggered by a box of bananas and it's going to be giving you false positives all day.
Ever considered that my just mean you are blurring the difference between where religion stops and other things start?
eg. What would Jesus do? Starbucks didn't exist back in those times, so no, that question makes zero sense when ordering a coffee at Starbucks.
"Too much drama" from the guy who cannot refer to Linus without adding in a personal nickname of "Travois" in every case, which looks a lot insulting him as a "dirty gypsy"?
That's a vast amount of drama!
Apart from jealous "I could have been a contender if I'd only been born 15 years earlier" types, that may or may not work at RedHat on something ending with "d", I have no idea.
You could say that about anybody. Newton - nothing special, if he wasn't around a dozen or so people would have covered all he did given a few decades :)
The "Jew Jersey" bit above from that poster suggests that it's another deliberate insult and not a mistake. He's here on a personal mission to put the geeks in line and tell us that we do not matter as much as we think we do.
So I don't think we can really take his "economic impact" line at face value or even stick to his goalposts of that being the best measure of influence.
The tollboth guy? He STILL has his job? Now that's a broken system.
Who? Does he really think he's as important to the economy as the CEO of Halliburton or a pile of other companies with headquarters in his state?
Do you seriously think that hadn't been done several times before Bill Gates wrote his first line of code? A very good example is CP/M - the thing that MSDOS was a cut down clone of when Bill Gates bought it from Tim Paterson.
Yes, I had a source in the newspapers of the day, another one speaking to me a couple of decades later, and some books, but there wasn't a lot of internet in 1975 was there? There's not even a lot of internet in Timor Leste today.
Plus isn't it obvious? If your country is going to become independent don't you expect people to start working on a constitution so you've got a government framework for when the colonists leave? It wasn't an instant process with the Portuguese walking out the door without warning.
So in this case they looked to the US constitution as a template, as several other countries have done. That's just one of a long list of things that identified them as not being "commie scum" as it became convenient for Ford and Kissenger to label them with after the fact.
Getting back to the main point, if you think Ford was an example of a perfect President then you have a lot more problems then implying that anyone who brings up examples from history is a liar. I'll see if I can find a link about the "donation" from online newspapers around the date Ford died, the story may have been revived, but I suspect if you really care about the issue you are going to have to get off your behind and look at things on paper.
Credible to you maybe. When was the airstrike or even raid by Mexican or Canadian police? Didn't happen, thus not credible to me.
By taking the fantasies of these people so seriously you are helping them. File that with your accusations of "treason" that don't match the actual definition.
You've posted quite a lot on this topic so I'm curious about your views on a related one. What is so special about Assange that makes him so much worse than an actual convicted child rapist evading justice such as Roman Polanski? Why so much effort chasing one and not the other?
Such a vast difference in attention appears to indicate that the actual crime is not seen as important but getting revenge for the political embarrassment caused by Assange is.
Do you agree or have some different view?
Some people will not get the joke and think that was a serious suggestion.
WTF does all this shit come from? How does such a misunderstanding of background radiation balloon into something so beyond the far side of crazy as claiming eating bananas are more of a health risk than Big Macs? I can only assume that somebody has assumed that all of the potassium in a banana is the very rare radioactive isotope and run from there. Also the detector shit is a fairytale since human beings contain more radioactive material than a banana.
Only perfect if you have a cutoff date sometime after one was spread over a bit of Canada when a Russian Kosmos spy satellite came down. It was very widely reported.
When even "The Readers Digest" can refute the claims of someone it's very clear that they are not even trying.
You are describing the constitution of the new country founded recently and not the nation invaded in 1975. No point blaming me if you can't tell the difference.
Reality is made of deeds and not words.