When you have hundreds of demographic variables correlated against economic deterioration, and the variable with the highest correlation of them all is immigration, you are going to have a hard time coming up with a variable that will have a higher correlation.
Life as an immigrant programmer is full of culture shocks both minor and major (would you know the first time around how to dress when flying from Bombay to Pittsburgh via Los Angeles, in winter?)
Different than being an early British immigrant to the New World when the odds of dying in the first year were 25%.
The rest of the subject is a similarly shallow treatment of the way pioneering technologists are left without anything to show for what they gave to the world -- not even children.
Since we have now redefined nanotech to include anything that deals in nanometer scale structures, rather than artificially constructed mechanisms with molecules as components, how far back in time can we claim "nanotech" to have been practiced? The first crystal growth? Perhaps to the first time a crystal was cleaved along certain atomic planes?
Perhaps we could do something similar with "space settlement" and just sort of forget that 1973 was the year that western civilization turned away from its destiny in space and began threatning the planet with globalist growth.
You'll get a few years in the state pen, but then you'll be a hot commodity.
Yeah -- fevered with one of the several opportunistic infections that comes from being raped by HIV-positive inmates.
If you want to engage in violations of the "law" you might consider replacing the current de facto government with a constitutional government. Hell, who knows, if you did that you might make civil disobedience more viable than violence.
Given all the young H-1bs that were used by Enron corporation's IT department, it appears one of the best ways to get your hands on sensitive data is to become an Indian.
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Santschii
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I use the following amusing/horrifying anecdote from Dawkins in the Genetic Omnidominance Hypothesis that sheds light on the real connection between ant colonies, brains and cities:
...scholars of revolutions may find the following
passage from chapter 4, "Arms Races and Manipulation" particularly
interesting:
"Several species of ant have no workers of their own. The queens invade nests
of other species, dispose of the host queen, and use the host workers to bring
up their own reproductive young. The method of disposing of the queen varies.
In some species, such as the descriptively named Bothriomyrmex regicidus and
B. decapitans, the parasite queen rides about on the back of the host queen
and then, in Wilson's (1971) delightful description, 'begins the one act for
which she is uniquely specialized: slowly cutting off the head of her victim'
(p. 363)."
"Monomorium santschii achieves the same result by more subtle means. The
host workers have weapons wielded by strong muscles, and nerves attached to
the muscles; why should the parasite queen exert her own jaws if she can subvert
the nervous systems controlling the numerous jaws of the host workers? It
does not seem to be known how she achieves it, but she does: the host workers
kill their own mother and adopt the usurper. A chemical secreted by the parasite
queen seems the likely weapon, in which case it might be labeled a pheromone,
but it is probably more illuminating to think of it as a formidably powerful
drug. In line with this interpretation, Wilson (1971, p 413) writes of symphylic
substances as being 'more than just elementary nutritive substances or even
analogues of the natural host pheromones. Several authors have spoken of a
narcotizing effect of symphylic substances.' Wilson also uses the word 'intoxicant'
and quotes a case in which worker ants under the influence of such a substance
become temporarily disoriented and less sure of their footing."
"Those who have never been brainwashed or addicted to a drug find it hard
to understand their fellow men who are driven by such compulsions. In the
same naive way we cannot understand a host bird's being compelled to feed
an absurdly oversized cuckoo, or worker ants wantonly murdering the only being
in the whole world that is vital to their genetic success. But such subjective
feelings are misleading, even where the relatively crude achievements of human
pharmacology are concerned. With natural selection working on the problem,
who would be so presumptuous as to guess what feats of mind control might
not be achieved?"
When we see words such as "prejudice" and "discrimination" used in
morally perjorative and even medically diagnostic ways that are
otherwise indistinguishable from "knowledge", "wisdom" and
"discernment" -- particularly in the areas of thought about "genes" --
who would be so presumptuous as to assert no genetic interests are at
work generating emotional confusion of clear headedness?
Finally, Dawkins completes this paragraph on mind control with a warning:
"Do not expect to see animals always behaving in such a way as to maximize
their own inclusive fitness. Losers in an arms race [genetic omni-recessives
-- jab] may behave in some very odd ways indeed. If they appear disoriented
and unsure of their footing, this may be only the beginning."
Where I see the big stupidity with regards new technology is not so much in "old programmers stuck on Cobol" but younger Java programmers aspiring become bureaucrats through type declarations.
The authors of Perl and TIBET(tm) are all over 40. The authors of Rails are largely under 30 but they aren't stuck on Java's marching moronism.
Having consulted with SAIC for 15 years and worked on its software process committee I guess I must have missed that. Or maybe it was that defense acquisition priority 1 project I worked on when several of us were called in to solve a problem that had halted the oil tankers in the Persian gulf, and the Joint Chiefs were giving us daily reviews -- a "pig fuck" I believe the crew was calling it...
Look, genius -- NASA managed to figure out how to violate President Reagen's policy that no payloads that could be launched via commercial launch service would be launched via the Shuttle, continued to do so under Bush, who had the same policy, and then even when Congress acted and Bush signed into public law 101-611 what was already presidential policy, NASA STILL proceeded to launch the Advanced Communication Technology satellite on the Shuttle.
With such creative interpretation of Presidential policy as well as very specific public law, I'm sure NASA bureaucrats can come up with ways of interpreting the FAR so that they are geting performance for taxpayer dollars. I don't see anything in that 800+ page document prohibiting performance-based awards of contracts. You just don't have what it takes to be a real bureaucrat when you throw up your hands and go ask Congress to write yet another law because you don't see a specific provision written up for "X-Prize-like Contract Awards" or whatever it is you are expecting Congress to do to make the FAR compatible with prize awards.
It would hardly make any difference anyway if NASA weren't being embarrassed all to hell by the private sector doing what they should have been doing from the get go.
The stories that NASA wants to pursue prize awards in a big way but just can't because of Congressional resistance is a copout.
Every single time NASA puts out a request for proposals it sets the criteria for awarding the contracts. It can set the criteria for awarding the contracts to be objective criteria such as "2 manned launches with the same vehicle within the same week" or whatever.
The only reason NASA doesn't do so is it would take power out of the hands of the people doing the contract awards and put the power in the hands of mother nature and those who know best how to coax her to perform as desired.
Why is the US so involved in the Israel vs Palestinian conflict at all?
Israel is the outpost of "freedom and democracy in the middle east"?
Zionists control the middle east US foreign policy?
The US needs middle east oil?
Or do you deny the US is any more involved in that local dispute than it is in any other dispute?
PS: If you read the letter from Bussard at the provide link you would see the erroneous fusion energy policy of attempting to get a big Apollo or Manhatten style government program going extends at least to the early 1970s.
The attitude reflected by the Senate when they were going to try to prevent people from taking risks with their lives is indicative of the need to impose an unambiguous limit on legislative bodies that can't be avoided.
One thing we can all agree on is the need to require adult citizens abide by the laws claiming jurisdiction over them. Fine. So how much "law" can every citizen be expected to learn by the time they are 18 years of age?
That should set the limit on the amount of "law" permitted at any given time. You want to pass a new law? Get rid of an old one.
It's called refactoring.
PS: Who knows, if it catches on even Microsoft might start doing it.
Setting up bureaucracies to "grant licenses" to some applicants while denying licenses to other applicants is directly violating the first amendment to the constitution. They could have amended the constitution but they chose to simply give over the most powerful means of indoctrinating populations ever conceived by any ruler in history, to groups with political acumen and connections while effectively silencing the vast majority of the US.
More like mirthful contempt for the likes of you
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Re-read what you wrote and you may start to get an idea why my mirthful contempt for people like you is merely increased by your anonymous attempts at "argument"
There is no company in the US which doesn't have H1b workers.
Oh, so if we had group A) 50 Fortune 100 companies that outsourced/H-1b'ed.0001% of their work and group B) 50 Fortune 100 companies that outsourced/H-1b'ed 30% of their work, and observed that investors in group A did 10 times better than did investors in group B, you would say it was "management".
I suppose next you'll say something like "Correlation does not imply causation." like some sophomoric dipshit.
Look, just take your money and invest it in the wonderful companies that have "vision" and ignore their employment policies. You'll get what you deserve. Preferably you'll buy long.
Outsourcers are dying.
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Both of these companies were not just major users of H-1b and outsourcing -- they were the leaders of this trend.
This isn't ironic or puzzling -- it is entirely predictable and it was predited by people who are now going to take the information industry back from the brainiacs who thought they were being very clever and cosmo and, above-all, fashionable, by throwing open the doors of the US to the world.
I am fighting with our government to allow H1B visas cap to be raised.
I was in at the White House talking to the chief of staff to get the
H1B visa cap raised. We already half way through the fiscal year,
capped out on the number of really bright Israelis and Indians.
It has been downhill for Sun as well as the entire computer industry.
The only reason Yahoo Groups, Deja Groups and now Google Groups get away with their evil shit is because usenet group creation is too encumbered. The evil ones make it easy to create groups but then own our collective butts.
If you really want to mess with the evil bastards, just create an interface for creation of new Usenet groups, similar to the way the evil systems let you create groups, but then have it go into Usenet as the repository rather than into a privately held Library of Alexandra.
The milestones toward profitable fusion technology include stages that are either unprofitable or so environmentally nasty that there is no hope of making a profit from them. Moreover, when venture capitalists look for a return of 5 years on high risk investments and the ITER program advocates say they're 20 years from a profitable reactor, the normal profit incentives are not working for fusion.
The legislaton's prizes focus on performance and are agnostic as to technology. If CF is snake-oil then so be it.
In fact, there is at least one prize, out of the lot of milestone prizes proposed, that would almost certainly not be within the reach of any form of cold fusion people have proposed. It is for high energy density fusion systems -- systems that would most probably be useful for propulsion rather than mere energy production.
Twelve years ago fusion prize award legislation was proposed. It had the support not only of cold fusion researchers but of one of the three primary founders of the US fusion program supported the legislation. Prizesactuallywork. Let the DoE go ahead and do its skeptical measurements and the let private sector do what it does best -- take risks and compete -- peacefully -- while we still can compete peacefully.
Over the last four years 50% of the jobs of programmers over the age of 40 disappeared due to a combination of events.
Since 20 years in the future is basically what 20 year olds of today are looking at as the time period over which they are going to lose half of their jobs -- it doesn't seem significant compared to what just happened. In fact such worries about a long-term reduction seem like a red herring to distract from what just happened to career programmers who actually built the software industry from the origins of "C" and Unix to today.
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That's what case law is about. Courts set precedents and other courts tend to follow them with departure on a case by case basis.
It just doesn't make sense for legislators to dive into this sort of detail.
What is the point of a law like this anyway? Why not leave it up to the courts to calculate this stuff on a case by case basis?
When you have hundreds of demographic variables correlated against economic deterioration, and the variable with the highest correlation of them all is immigration, you are going to have a hard time coming up with a variable that will have a higher correlation.
Practice of this type is known as science.
Different than being an early British immigrant to the New World when the odds of dying in the first year were 25%.
The rest of the subject is a similarly shallow treatment of the way pioneering technologists are left without anything to show for what they gave to the world -- not even children.
Perhaps we could do something similar with "space settlement" and just sort of forget that 1973 was the year that western civilization turned away from its destiny in space and began threatning the planet with globalist growth.
That should make everyone feel better too.
Yeah -- fevered with one of the several opportunistic infections that comes from being raped by HIV-positive inmates.
If you want to engage in violations of the "law" you might consider replacing the current de facto government with a constitutional government. Hell, who knows, if you did that you might make civil disobedience more viable than violence.
Given all the young H-1bs that were used by Enron corporation's IT department, it appears one of the best ways to get your hands on sensitive data is to become an Indian.
The authors of Perl and TIBET(tm) are all over 40. The authors of Rails are largely under 30 but they aren't stuck on Java's marching moronism.
Having consulted with SAIC for 15 years and worked on its software process committee I guess I must have missed that. Or maybe it was that defense acquisition priority 1 project I worked on when several of us were called in to solve a problem that had halted the oil tankers in the Persian gulf, and the Joint Chiefs were giving us daily reviews -- a "pig fuck" I believe the crew was calling it...
Look, genius -- NASA managed to figure out how to violate President Reagen's policy that no payloads that could be launched via commercial launch service would be launched via the Shuttle, continued to do so under Bush, who had the same policy, and then even when Congress acted and Bush signed into public law 101-611 what was already presidential policy, NASA STILL proceeded to launch the Advanced Communication Technology satellite on the Shuttle.
With such creative interpretation of Presidential policy as well as very specific public law, I'm sure NASA bureaucrats can come up with ways of interpreting the FAR so that they are geting performance for taxpayer dollars. I don't see anything in that 800+ page document prohibiting performance-based awards of contracts. You just don't have what it takes to be a real bureaucrat when you throw up your hands and go ask Congress to write yet another law because you don't see a specific provision written up for "X-Prize-like Contract Awards" or whatever it is you are expecting Congress to do to make the FAR compatible with prize awards.
It would hardly make any difference anyway if NASA weren't being embarrassed all to hell by the private sector doing what they should have been doing from the get go.
Every single time NASA puts out a request for proposals it sets the criteria for awarding the contracts. It can set the criteria for awarding the contracts to be objective criteria such as "2 manned launches with the same vehicle within the same week" or whatever.
The only reason NASA doesn't do so is it would take power out of the hands of the people doing the contract awards and put the power in the hands of mother nature and those who know best how to coax her to perform as desired.
So F1 is the NASA of car racing.
Sorry, I didn't mean to insult the F1 people like that.
If all the engineering energy that goes into NASCAR suddenly went into rockets -- we'd be the last generation bound to the earth.
- Israel is the outpost of "freedom and democracy in the middle east"?
- Zionists control the middle east US foreign policy?
- The US needs middle east oil?
Or do you deny the US is any more involved in that local dispute than it is in any other dispute?PS: If you read the letter from Bussard at the provide link you would see the erroneous fusion energy policy of attempting to get a big Apollo or Manhatten style government program going extends at least to the early 1970s.
If someone causes you damange you have a right to pursue them under existing criminal and civil law.
Look to court precedent if you're worried about how to applyl existing law in the complex real world.
One thing we can all agree on is the need to require adult citizens abide by the laws claiming jurisdiction over them. Fine. So how much "law" can every citizen be expected to learn by the time they are 18 years of age?
That should set the limit on the amount of "law" permitted at any given time. You want to pass a new law? Get rid of an old one.
It's called refactoring.
PS: Who knows, if it catches on even Microsoft might start doing it.
For example, why don't they compare 8th grade Minnesota students against Czech students I wonder?
Probably because they'd find out things that are politically incorrect.
Setting up bureaucracies to "grant licenses" to some applicants while denying licenses to other applicants is directly violating the first amendment to the constitution. They could have amended the constitution but they chose to simply give over the most powerful means of indoctrinating populations ever conceived by any ruler in history, to groups with political acumen and connections while effectively silencing the vast majority of the US.
I suppose next you'll say something like "Correlation does not imply causation." like some sophomoric dipshit.
Look, just take your money and invest it in the wonderful companies that have "vision" and ignore their employment policies. You'll get what you deserve. Preferably you'll buy long.
Both of these companies were not just major users of H-1b and outsourcing -- they were the leaders of this trend.
This isn't ironic or puzzling -- it is entirely predictable and it was predited by people who are now going to take the information industry back from the brainiacs who thought they were being very clever and cosmo and, above-all, fashionable, by throwing open the doors of the US to the world.
Ever since Scott McNealy said:
It has been downhill for Sun as well as the entire computer industry.Guess what, suckers?
You lose.
If you really want to mess with the evil bastards, just create an interface for creation of new Usenet groups, similar to the way the evil systems let you create groups, but then have it go into Usenet as the repository rather than into a privately held Library of Alexandra.
The milestones toward profitable fusion technology include stages that are either unprofitable or so environmentally nasty that there is no hope of making a profit from them. Moreover, when venture capitalists look for a return of 5 years on high risk investments and the ITER program advocates say they're 20 years from a profitable reactor, the normal profit incentives are not working for fusion.
In fact, there is at least one prize, out of the lot of milestone prizes proposed, that would almost certainly not be within the reach of any form of cold fusion people have proposed. It is for high energy density fusion systems -- systems that would most probably be useful for propulsion rather than mere energy production.
Twelve years ago fusion prize award legislation was proposed. It had the support not only of cold fusion researchers but of one of the three primary founders of the US fusion program supported the legislation. Prizes actually work. Let the DoE go ahead and do its skeptical measurements and the let private sector do what it does best -- take risks and compete -- peacefully -- while we still can compete peacefully.
Since 20 years in the future is basically what 20 year olds of today are looking at as the time period over which they are going to lose half of their jobs -- it doesn't seem significant compared to what just happened. In fact such worries about a long-term reduction seem like a red herring to distract from what just happened to career programmers who actually built the software industry from the origins of "C" and Unix to today.