It assumes that nearly every job taken by an H1B is one less job for an American
It is for places like IBM where the outgoing people "made redundant" train their guest worker replacement. Some places have no strong evidence either way but the places we do have strong evidence of are enough of the total to matter.
I'm not so sure about that. For example, the 1960s tape drive used in the movie "The Dish" as a prop was a working unit that had been on display at a University in Melbourne. The procedure to recover from a very old and brittle tape on the other hand is a lot more than just putting it in the right drive.
I, personally, have tapes over 25 years old that are still perfectly readable
I'm not trying to be topper here (since the data recovery company say they do it a lot) but last year I had a few reels from the 1980s transcribed with no apparent data loss. The newer stuff is on a better plastic so is likely to last even longer. To keep with the topic there have been some massive improvements with tape storage technology. LTO7 is 6TB per tape. That's something you don't have to handle like eggs as you need to do with a hard drive.
FFS - are those tiny little lithium batteries with a massive charge in your phone not proof enough that there has been breakthroughs? Did you whine "wake me up" about those a bit over ten years ago?
A very good point. I'd say distracting animation is overused and powerpoint generally sucks for illustrative animation. Others may disagree because after all you can even get an animated GIF to do something useful.
I don't use Sharepoint, so I could not possibly comment. I don't see a problem storing documents in a DB though,
It caused massive performance problems every time it hit something hundreds of MB in size until they stopped storing the documents directly in the database. It certainly was not using something as decent as an oracle database, but instead something expecting items to be in the single digit megabyte size. That is according to some people who were unfortunate enough to use it at that stage and not myself.
Another one who thinks UBI is welfare. Get over it. It's not welfare.
That's the entire problem. It's a money funnel to both the top and bottom end of town from the diminishing number of taxpayers in the middle. Welfare has a good purpose. The purpose of UBI is just to fuck over everyone that has too small an income to afford a very good accountant.
Google identity theft and tax evasion to get some idea of what of was referring to. Expecting a small pool of taxpayers to fund payments to everyone (including wastefully to themselves) is the core problem with UBI, but it's a greed driven idea from people who are already well off but want a "prize" from others while paying less tax than the "prize". IMHO it's a sign of both amoral greed and being so out of touch that welfare is seen as a "prize" instead of something that stops people starving on the streets of your community.
Since UBI rewards tax evaders that means testing step can't be avoided entirely either - unless it's all done as a trick to take from the middle and reward the wealthy, which I think is what some UBI proponents want. Without something like means-testing to discourage tax evasion and punish outright illegal tax avoidance UBI would collapse as a diminishing number of taxpayers not only have to fund the bottom end of town but the top end of town as well.
Oh yes I forgot - no crime or dishonesty in a libertarian world. You would of course be correct given a perfect society full of perfect people.
Since UBI would disproportionately reward tax evasion and identity theft it's going to cost a bit to run it in less than a perfect world unless it's run as nothing but a rort for the 1% to keep on hammering the rest of the income earners (which IMHO is why this idea comes from the "right" in the first place).
Indeed. I just had a discussion with someone who seemed to think that a steampunk hydraulic robot is something that can be put together in an afternoon instead of a project of years with a string of inventions over those years to get it to the point where electronic robots are.
Smelting is typically the act of reducing a metal oxide to get metal. Some of the asteroids have metal in an unoxidized state so that makes the mineral processing a bit easier, or at least removes a step. I've mentioned this here before, but some (maybe rare but at least one has been found) are in a state where all you have to do is forge the thing you want out of a bit of metallic asteroid. The "sky iron" in fantasy stories is based on things like Tutenkamen's dagger which was forged from part of a meteorite. I should add, in case some readers don't know, is that forging is just heating a piece of metal up until it is soft enough to work and then hammering it into the shape you want. Think of making horseshoes which you've probably seen on TV if not in real life.
Forging in space would not be trivial but it's easier than melting stuff and a hell of a lot easier than getting metal combined with something else out of an ore. I can't see any of the above happening until there is a moonbase. A furnace on a space station is a bit of a risk while one in a separate building at a moonbase is less likely to kill everyone around.
Actually, the current systems are the ones that reward tax evaders
Yes, but a UBI increases that reward. IMHO it's a scam so that the tax avoiding top end of town can get more money at the expense of taxpayers under the excuse designed to fool liberals of "it will help the homeless". If the the purpose is to help the homeless why not just do that without everyone getting a prize (that is going to be a lot less than the honest pay per person directly into the scheme), it's a fuck of a lot cheaper. The far right, which is where this idea comes from, want to leech off us (99% of the people with an income) with the camoflage of it all being "for the children".
Many things (including Owncloud just because I was doing stuff with it the other day not because it's the best) fit that description so there is no need to be locked in to Sharepoint. I suppose are least Sharepoint have fixed that incredibly fucking stupid (yes it deserves a great deal of profanity) design choice of embedding the documents in the database. They just did not think that people would be using multi-gigabyte sized files did they?
Isn't it funny how all this crap was acceptable to progressives under Obama
Nice strawman you are building in my name, again, but no, I didn't think it was a good idea last year either AS THE LINK I PROVIDED ABOVE FROM LAST YEAR CLEARLY DEMONSTRATED MANY POSTS AGO.
There is a thing called CVS. There are many others like it. Even Owncloud does the job you are suggesting without having to have something feature for feature compatible with Sharepoint.
Why twist requirements to match a package? That way lies problems when the vendor decides to make changes.
So maybe we should try giving money to the folks who need money
That's the sane way to do things but not what UBI is about. It's about hitting taxpayers for extra cash just to give some back to them and those who don't pay tax - a huge burden compared with trying to give money to the folks who need money. Can the vanishing middle class really pay enough for a handout to everyone who does not pay tax? Why should a bus driver take an extra hit to give money to millionaires who have arranged their finances so that they do not pay tax?
What is there to study? It's simplistic drivel that would reward tax evaders and punish ever other person with an income. All just to fuel a fucking stupid "every child gets a prize" mentality.
A UBI is very simple to administrate and requires very little bureaucracy
I don't think I misunderstand at all. I think you do not understand that checking far more recipients for fraud is going to be be harder than checking a few. I don't think you understand the implications of identity theft in this situation. Perhaps look up the bodies in barrels welfare fraud in Snowtown for one of the extremes to watch for.
The animation tools in powerpoint and similar suck so badly that something actually designed to produce or display video files does a much better job IMHO. In my workplace a capture tool that produces AVI files is the software of choice instead of attempting to feed a lot of screenshots into MS Powerpoint.
As for your sig - wow, I never noticed that since the King James Bible really downplays it. In other versions it stands out like donkeys balls. And no, I don't care if you can animate that in MS Powerpoint.
Basic income for the unemployed - fine IMHO. Basic income for the employed who are already earning a decent amount - now that's where I think things have gone to the far side of crazy. The only people who will come out ahead on a lossy scheme of being taxed to get it paid back to them are the tax evaders. Welfare is not a "reward" with some stupid every kiddie gets a prize thing, it's to help out people who need it.
Maybe it's meant to be a clever end run around those folks who think homeless people don't deserve any help because their personal Jesus hates the poor (prosperity doctrine weirdness - if God loves you he makes you rich but if you stay poor God hates you and "Christians" should hate you too). Giving money to everyone will help those homeless people too, but giving it to everyone is an incredibly wasteful way to go about it especially if you are being taxed to pay yourself back. It's going to drive up taxation and/or result in a lot of cuts in government services. Personally I think it's better to tell those people who hate the poor to fuck off and help people when they are down - it's a fuck of a lot cheaper than giving money to everyone.
It's not that, it's something even worse. People who don't need the income still get it to jack up their total income, but to support the lossy system of them being taxed to pay themselves they end up losing more than they get. A safety net of welfare for people who need it is several times more sane and would be vastly cheaper.
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It is for places like IBM where the outgoing people "made redundant" train their guest worker replacement.
Some places have no strong evidence either way but the places we do have strong evidence of are enough of the total to matter.
I'm not so sure about that. For example, the 1960s tape drive used in the movie "The Dish" as a prop was a working unit that had been on display at a University in Melbourne. The procedure to recover from a very old and brittle tape on the other hand is a lot more than just putting it in the right drive.
I'm not trying to be topper here (since the data recovery company say they do it a lot) but last year I had a few reels from the 1980s transcribed with no apparent data loss. The newer stuff is on a better plastic so is likely to last even longer.
To keep with the topic there have been some massive improvements with tape storage technology. LTO7 is 6TB per tape. That's something you don't have to handle like eggs as you need to do with a hard drive.
FFS - are those tiny little lithium batteries with a massive charge in your phone not proof enough that there has been breakthroughs?
Did you whine "wake me up" about those a bit over ten years ago?
A very good point. I'd say distracting animation is overused and powerpoint generally sucks for illustrative animation. Others may disagree because after all you can even get an animated GIF to do something useful.
It caused massive performance problems every time it hit something hundreds of MB in size until they stopped storing the documents directly in the database. It certainly was not using something as decent as an oracle database, but instead something expecting items to be in the single digit megabyte size. That is according to some people who were unfortunate enough to use it at that stage and not myself.
Another one who thinks UBI is welfare. Get over it. It's not welfare.
That's the entire problem.
It's a money funnel to both the top and bottom end of town from the diminishing number of taxpayers in the middle. Welfare has a good purpose. The purpose of UBI is just to fuck over everyone that has too small an income to afford a very good accountant.
Google identity theft and tax evasion to get some idea of what of was referring to.
Expecting a small pool of taxpayers to fund payments to everyone (including wastefully to themselves) is the core problem with UBI, but it's a greed driven idea from people who are already well off but want a "prize" from others while paying less tax than the "prize".
IMHO it's a sign of both amoral greed and being so out of touch that welfare is seen as a "prize" instead of something that stops people starving on the streets of your community.
Since UBI rewards tax evaders that means testing step can't be avoided entirely either - unless it's all done as a trick to take from the middle and reward the wealthy, which I think is what some UBI proponents want.
Without something like means-testing to discourage tax evasion and punish outright illegal tax avoidance UBI would collapse as a diminishing number of taxpayers not only have to fund the bottom end of town but the top end of town as well.
Oh yes I forgot - no crime or dishonesty in a libertarian world.
You would of course be correct given a perfect society full of perfect people.
Since UBI would disproportionately reward tax evasion and identity theft it's going to cost a bit to run it in less than a perfect world unless it's run as nothing but a rort for the 1% to keep on hammering the rest of the income earners (which IMHO is why this idea comes from the "right" in the first place).
Indeed. I just had a discussion with someone who seemed to think that a steampunk hydraulic robot is something that can be put together in an afternoon instead of a project of years with a string of inventions over those years to get it to the point where electronic robots are.
Smelting is typically the act of reducing a metal oxide to get metal.
Some of the asteroids have metal in an unoxidized state so that makes the mineral processing a bit easier, or at least removes a step.
I've mentioned this here before, but some (maybe rare but at least one has been found) are in a state where all you have to do is forge the thing you want out of a bit of metallic asteroid. The "sky iron" in fantasy stories is based on things like Tutenkamen's dagger which was forged from part of a meteorite.
I should add, in case some readers don't know, is that forging is just heating a piece of metal up until it is soft enough to work and then hammering it into the shape you want. Think of making horseshoes which you've probably seen on TV if not in real life.
Forging in space would not be trivial but it's easier than melting stuff and a hell of a lot easier than getting metal combined with something else out of an ore.
I can't see any of the above happening until there is a moonbase. A furnace on a space station is a bit of a risk while one in a separate building at a moonbase is less likely to kill everyone around.
Yes, but a UBI increases that reward.
IMHO it's a scam so that the tax avoiding top end of town can get more money at the expense of taxpayers under the excuse designed to fool liberals of "it will help the homeless". If the the purpose is to help the homeless why not just do that without everyone getting a prize (that is going to be a lot less than the honest pay per person directly into the scheme), it's a fuck of a lot cheaper.
The far right, which is where this idea comes from, want to leech off us (99% of the people with an income) with the camoflage of it all being "for the children".
Many things (including Owncloud just because I was doing stuff with it the other day not because it's the best) fit that description so there is no need to be locked in to Sharepoint.
I suppose are least Sharepoint have fixed that incredibly fucking stupid (yes it deserves a great deal of profanity) design choice of embedding the documents in the database. They just did not think that people would be using multi-gigabyte sized files did they?
Nice strawman you are building in my name, again, but no, I didn't think it was a good idea last year either AS THE LINK I PROVIDED ABOVE FROM LAST YEAR CLEARLY DEMONSTRATED MANY POSTS AGO.
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There is a thing called CVS. There are many others like it. Even Owncloud does the job you are suggesting without having to have something feature for feature compatible with Sharepoint.
Why twist requirements to match a package? That way lies problems when the vendor decides to make changes.
That's the sane way to do things but not what UBI is about. It's about hitting taxpayers for extra cash just to give some back to them and those who don't pay tax - a huge burden compared with trying to give money to the folks who need money. Can the vanishing middle class really pay enough for a handout to everyone who does not pay tax? Why should a bus driver take an extra hit to give money to millionaires who have arranged their finances so that they do not pay tax?
What is there to study? It's simplistic drivel that would reward tax evaders and punish ever other person with an income. All just to fuel a fucking stupid "every child gets a prize" mentality.
If you are going to be critical of the spelling of others perhaps you should learn how to spell "management" :)
I don't think I misunderstand at all. I think you do not understand that checking far more recipients for fraud is going to be be harder than checking a few. I don't think you understand the implications of identity theft in this situation. Perhaps look up the bodies in barrels welfare fraud in Snowtown for one of the extremes to watch for.
The animation tools in powerpoint and similar suck so badly that something actually designed to produce or display video files does a much better job IMHO.
In my workplace a capture tool that produces AVI files is the software of choice instead of attempting to feed a lot of screenshots into MS Powerpoint.
As for your sig - wow, I never noticed that since the King James Bible really downplays it. In other versions it stands out like donkeys balls.
And no, I don't care if you can animate that in MS Powerpoint.
Basic income for the unemployed - fine IMHO.
Basic income for the employed who are already earning a decent amount - now that's where I think things have gone to the far side of crazy. The only people who will come out ahead on a lossy scheme of being taxed to get it paid back to them are the tax evaders. Welfare is not a "reward" with some stupid every kiddie gets a prize thing, it's to help out people who need it.
Maybe it's meant to be a clever end run around those folks who think homeless people don't deserve any help because their personal Jesus hates the poor (prosperity doctrine weirdness - if God loves you he makes you rich but if you stay poor God hates you and "Christians" should hate you too). Giving money to everyone will help those homeless people too, but giving it to everyone is an incredibly wasteful way to go about it especially if you are being taxed to pay yourself back. It's going to drive up taxation and/or result in a lot of cuts in government services. Personally I think it's better to tell those people who hate the poor to fuck off and help people when they are down - it's a fuck of a lot cheaper than giving money to everyone.
It's not that, it's something even worse. People who don't need the income still get it to jack up their total income, but to support the lossy system of them being taxed to pay themselves they end up losing more than they get. A safety net of welfare for people who need it is several times more sane and would be vastly cheaper.
Increasing the number of people on welfare is going to reduce the amount of bureaucracy? Seriously?