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  1. Re:Isn't the upshot the same? on FWD.us Wants More H-1B Visas, But 50% Go To Offshore Firms · · Score: 1

    I think the problem is that there actually is already enough workers, the shortage is mostly myth caused by either requiremenrs that are not needed or location. More foreign workers are happy to relocate for mediocre pay than US workers.

    This also tips the employment numbers in so that the wages can remain lower due to more workers that jobs. Low unemployment usually raises wages as employers need to attract and keep worker from a short supply. With more VISAs, instead of raising wages, they can import more supplies of workers. This also happens to be why so many people who think immigragration is ok but cannot tolorate illegal immigration.

  2. Re:Because on FWD.us Wants More H-1B Visas, But 50% Go To Offshore Firms · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You say that like you don't believe it. Well it is true. Except you have to understand that your work has to creath value in order to accumulate wealth. Doing eveything twice because you screwed up the first time usually doesn't make you lots of money but you sure would be working hard. Now doing everything twice as fast and correctly will if your salary is not locked by a contract or union.

    Sometimes you have to change jobs to see the money too. A whopper flopper is going to ve limited in tge amount of pay a lot more than an assembly worker at a factory that gets a base pay plus peice work . Eventually, you may even need to change jobs again when your potential is maxed out.

    I'm not fox news but you can believe me. If you work hard and create value, you can make a lot of money

  3. Re:Because on FWD.us Wants More H-1B Visas, But 50% Go To Offshore Firms · · Score: 1

    A good amount of management salary is based on performence/ percentage of profits and stock options. This is what drives long term incompetance and low salaries because the more profit, the more the bonuses as well as higher stock value.

    There really isn't a good way to apply this to all employees ecept in mabufacturing were a piece count can be had. That introduces its own issues.

    So no, talent in management will only perpetuate the problem not solve itself.

  4. Re:April First????? on Ask Slashdot: Experiences With Free To Air Satellite TV? · · Score: 2

    It iss probably because of the story about Mel Brooks finally getting around to mAking history of the world part two.

    A lot of people were pissed to find it was a prank.

  5. Re:Watch the news ... on Adaptation From Flash Boys Offers Inside Look at High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    Ha.. up date:: face down in a ditch. Hands and feet duct taped behind him. The investigating officer say it is an appearant suicide.

  6. Re:Bailouts for them, crumbs for us on Adaptation From Flash Boys Offers Inside Look at High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    First, there is already a mechanism built into the ACA that requires the government to bail out participating insurance companies. So this premise is a given considering that quite a few of the uninsured could already afford some sort of insurance but chose to spend the money elsewhere and such a low penalty doesn't provide a significant incentive to change thst.

    Second, a little debt on the national level is good. It is a primary function of bonds and how the government funds certain aspects of itself in emergencies.

    I do not think there is a clear rule to how much is too much. Currently, the interest paid on the debt alone will be a significant amount of the federal budget. This means either cutting programs, significantly raising taxes, going further into debt, or a combination of that. This is where debt becomes a clear problem. When the majority of the budget is tied up paying interest, the debt can easily run out of control or massive cuts wil be had like in greece where the ability to even pay on the debt and have a functioning government came into question and the amount of lenders dried up drastically.

    So the harm is being put into a ditustion where government basically collapses due to needing to borrow and no one to borrow from.

  7. Re:not private on New Australian Privacy Laws Could Have Ramifications On Google Glass · · Score: 1

    Yes. Then we can ban electtical tape, markers, paint, and anything else that can be used to conceal that bright led light.

    Of course people would need to know what that bright red light is. I think a series of prime time commercials explaining the concept of the idiots with bright red lights mean should ensue so everyone knows when they are being watched.

  8. Re:Information is not for you on New Australian Privacy Laws Could Have Ramifications On Google Glass · · Score: 2

    I would think a law banning a specific use is better thsn a ban on the devices or technology.

    It is very dificult to force someone to behave other than they already would without a penalty of some sort. You getting mad won't do it for me. You getting violent will likely fail and result in the episode being all over the net or as the star witnesd at your trial. A law on the other hand would either deter me, stop me from making it public, or make it the star witness at my trial.

    So how would you like to see it implemented?

  9. Re:Old News on Researchers: Rats Didn't Spread Black Death, Humans Did · · Score: 1

    The real interesting thing was that i was told it wasn't the rats but the fleas on the rats which is why employing cats and terriers (dogs) didn't help much.

    I don't remember where i picked that up but think it was in highschool. I asked a school chum what he knew sbout it and he had the same ideas. Of coursr highschool for us was over 25 years ago

    Perhaps fleas infected animals they ate but were immune to it

  10. Re: @people from the US on GCHQ and NSA Targeted World Leaders, Private German Companies · · Score: 1

    I think we found something we agree on. There were a couple good starts ig seemed. But that may have just been me trying go find the good in people before i get to know them very well.

  11. Re: @people from the US on GCHQ and NSA Targeted World Leaders, Private German Companies · · Score: 1

    Lol.. i'm not disputing how history played out. I'm saying that a minor change- one that would cause you to label a country a bully- would have made a huge difference in how it played out.

    Spying on allies as well as adversaries, taking actions before they turn into another world war or perhaps even a significant war is what you call being a bully. Getting reelected is insignificant to doing the right thing. This is how you can tell the real leaders from the snake charmers. Although sometimes it takes some time to sort the truth from fiction and do an honest evaluation.

  12. Re:@people from the US on GCHQ and NSA Targeted World Leaders, Private German Companies · · Score: 1

    When you are ignorant of history, you are doomed to making the same mistakes. I never said anything about the greatness of government. I said when we ignore others we historically have regreted it.

    You post seems to be includimg a lot that was never said. If you want to keep that fantasy, stick with ready fiction and let the adults converse

  13. Re: @people from the US on GCHQ and NSA Targeted World Leaders, Private German Companies · · Score: 1

    I don't really care that they were humiliated. Part of the terms for ending WWI was restrictions on Germany's military and their military industry. If those restrictions would have been enforced indtead of ignored, germany could never have became a powerhouse that it did and there wouldn't have been a war that consummed most of Europe, northern africa, or the baltic states and Russia.

    All we are doing is dancing with the same facts. You are focused on the why and i'm saying if we didn't allow them to gain the capabilities, the wouldn't have had the ability to make war on a world scale. WWII wouldn't have happened.

    Now war may have happened. But the scale, death, damage, and destruction would have been greatly reduced. The coordinated power of the axis would have either not existed or been severely limited.

  14. Re:@people from the US on GCHQ and NSA Targeted World Leaders, Private German Companies · · Score: 1

    Nothing you said invalidates what i said or contradicts my knowlege of history.

    All you did was state details of what i stated. Perhaps your definition of flawed is different from the rest of the world's.

    Oh, and BTW, the significance of Germany building an army and that being ignored is that the treaty of versalles forbid them from building a military or militarizing their manufacturing sector. If this wasn't ignored, WWII would have been stopped before it happened.

  15. Re:@people from the US on GCHQ and NSA Targeted World Leaders, Private German Companies · · Score: 1

    Even if what you say is remotely true, which it is not, one of those wars was only possible because of the coruption in the UN.

    And that is rich

  16. Re:@people from the US on GCHQ and NSA Targeted World Leaders, Private German Companies · · Score: 1

    I would thimk taining delusionally ignorant of history would be more funny to people looking at you instead of yourself. But yes, it is a well known fact that Germany violated conditions of their treaty in order to raise the military might before invading other countries.

    And sactions o. Iraq were neccedary because they weren't complying with the terms of the cease fire from the first gulf war.

    I take it you went to public school in the US. I understand why you post AC. I would be embarrased to have you post associate with any online persona associated with me too.

  17. Re:@people from the US on GCHQ and NSA Targeted World Leaders, Private German Companies · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nonsense. WWII could have been completely avoided if we knew about the plans to remilitarizr the rhine before it happened. A german genersl wrote in his diary that if any of the countries party to the treaty of versalles would have enforced the terms of the treaty, germany would have been stopped well before it became a war.

    We now know that Russia tried to colapse the US dollar in 2008 and china took steps to avoid it because of how heavily invested they were at the time. We know sanctions did not work on Iraq leaving war as a likely option because France and Russia exploited the oil for food program to get sweat deals on oil from Iraq in excess of sanctioned amounts with corruption in the UN reaching as far up as the family of Kofi Annan- the then secretary general of the UN (the highest ranking position there).

    Spying on friendly countries is a neccesity. Those counties mrntion were all friendly at the time. Taking actions specifically keeps conflicts to a smaller scale unlike with WWII. You have a lot to learn it would seem. Even your so called comparisons of school yard bullies are off.

  18. Re:Feelings hurt on GCHQ and NSA Targeted World Leaders, Private German Companies · · Score: 1

    This spying happened before the "we will nevrr do it again" line that came from Obama.

      It is yet another of Snowden's whistle blowing leaks that only exposed domesttic spying and illegal activities that i was rrvently told was all he exposed.

  19. Re:"....essentially broke OPEC..." on Technocrat James Schlesinger Is Dead At 85 · · Score: 1

    Then you would be proving to the world how much of a biasef idiot you are who abuses mod points because of political dreams not based in reality.

    Wait, you just did that.Well, now we know and as GI Joe used to say, knowing is half the battle.

  20. Re:RMS mentions a comparable situation on Ask Slashdot: How To Handle Unfixed Linux Accessibility Bugs? · · Score: 0

    I'm sorry, the irony tag must have attached itself yo a magnet traveling doen a rail at high speeds or something.

    I'm assuming with those conditions they are not living in an isolated bomb shelter in the middle of nowherestan. If that is indeed the case, then i can also assume that like the beatles song says, i'll get by with a little help ftom my frieds.

    Or in other words, its kind of like zipping your dick up in your zipper. You can't come back doen all by yourself so you need a good friend with a quaalude and a blindfold. You know, someone helping with something that you wouldn't normally have them doing for you.

  21. Re:"....essentially broke OPEC..." on Technocrat James Schlesinger Is Dead At 85 · · Score: 0

    Wow, your post sounds like a partisan troll or an idiot repeating the rantings of one.

    First, Reagan ripped the pannels off in order to repair the roof under them- most likely damages and having its working life reduced because of them. Second the pannels were rediculously expensive so in an era of deficit spending not putting them back made sense regardless of how many people were laughing at them. Finally, they didn't produce electricity, they heated water and not very well. We would have to wait untill Bush (g.w) was in office before we got anything cost effective or efficient installed.

    The same can be said about funding too. But Jesus- how much more needs speny. I mean solar has been around since yhe 1800s and wind was the primary source of electricity in the west until the 50s. You act as if none of this existed before Carter and Reagan tried to hide it ot something.

    Tell me, with such a biased bent view, why should anything else you said be taken seriously? I mean for all we know, your entire post is a troll.

  22. Re:go Windows on Ask Slashdot: How To Handle Unfixed Linux Accessibility Bugs? · · Score: 1

    With two distant cousins with disabilities, i have noticed that they primarily use Macs and most of the usable software works on that platform.

    Well, things may have changed a bit since i last worked with their computers. It was circa 2000-2005 or so. I helped one of their schools refurbish a bunch of system 9 ( I 5 i think) systems for their students. They ran a chatrity drive whrn OS X came about giving a huge tax deduction reciept for people upgrading to the OSX on intel hardware.

  23. Re:What did you expect? on Ask Slashdot: How To Handle Unfixed Linux Accessibility Bugs? · · Score: 1

    I don't remember if it was softwsre itself or the government entity using it, but there have been some lawsuits that i can remember hearing about concerning accesability features. It had to do with government using software.

  24. Re:RMS mentions a comparable situation on Ask Slashdot: How To Handle Unfixed Linux Accessibility Bugs? · · Score: 1

    Use the old outdated software.

    Of course this shouldn't even be an issue. You would think accesibility features would be a priority within the community or some segment of it.

  25. Re:And then Reagan fucked it all up. on Technocrat James Schlesinger Is Dead At 85 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Its bad form to put your post in the subject but i think you should know it was Carter that deregulated the banks. He worked eith the democrat controlled congress to pass into law the depository institutions deregulatiom and monitary sometjing act in 1980 before Reagan took office.

      So lets proced from there if you still pretend outrage.