I'm not a fan of the current H-1B system by a long shot but the question of "why India?" seems foolish to me. When there is a billion people in a country it doesnt matter how bad the education system is, there are going to be a good number of people worth recruiting, especially since they can make a lot more here. Plus, while their national average on math science test scores are quite low the parts of their education system that work are quite good at turning out degrees in the sciences. Their education system just doesnt work for well over half their population (which still leaves a recruiting pool maybe around the same size as the US in population size).
I'll start this with stating the fact that i've never used twitter and have zero interest in it. It just seems like a platform made for oversimplified comments at best and trolls at worse. I'm also not a big fan of outright censorship like the banning of any type of speach that doesnt constitute an immediate threat.
With all that said, from everything I've heard, right wing views are very much alive and well on the platform.
Separate Twitters based on ideology? I couldnt disagree with that idea more. There's way too much of that on the internet already. There's a reason right wing and left wing nut jobs are so noticable today and it's precisely because they increasingly have their own echo chambers that accomplish zero in actual discourse on anything of substance and only serve to rile people up and demonize the "other"
People call the Nazi's conservative because their social policies (what everyone remembers them for and judges them on) were conservative. No one cares about German economic policy leading up until WW2, although at the time they were held up as a model of strong economic growth during a global recession.
Nice stab at historic revisionism though. I suppose the Civil War wasn't really about slavery either even though every state that wrote a justification letter to go along with their articles of succession mention slavery.
Maybe your perception that the American school system demonizes conservatives is due to a lack of proper grounding in the real world.
You can't throw a dead cat over your shoulder without hitting a video on how he was treated unfairly by Twitter
I feel like twitter is very much like pro sports or celebrity gossip. It's so self obsessed it can't conceive of a world outside of its self. "Did you see the game!?" "I don't even know what sports season it is let alone what game you're talking about". "Can you believe twitter banned Milo Yiannopoulos, EVERYONE is talking about it!?" "Who or what is a Milo Yiannopoulos?"
So what if he did or did not invent anything. So what if what he made was not inventive at all. So what if his parents pushed him to create the confrontation.
The fact is the kid brought a clock to school and was arrested for it. I've seen pictures of the "device". I literally have no background in tinkering with electronics and I can tell it isn't a bomb.
So what? Pretty much every stupid way to die has be done by people in all sorts of catagories. Do we need a voice message on the cubard telling us not to eat that donut because it contributes to heart disease? Waaay more people die due to that then the 15 - 25 (according to your linked to article) kids who die due to being left in the car. In fact, there are thousands of things in this country that kill people of even just children at higher rates than this. Maybe we just need to mount speakers everywhere to nag us?
Or maybe a nag speakers would just be ignored because they're nag speakers. No one reads signs, why would anyone listen to some repetitive message they hear every day?
So I refuted the points brought up in the article as not being applicable to the common person and you bring up brand new points as a means of refuting mine?
Anyone whose seen rail in action knows it takes multiple lanes worth of traffic space to operate safely. Sure, you still need safe boarding areas and room for the tracks for this but the bulk of the machine operates above existing roadways. The passengers are carried above roadways thus all of the cabin space (the bulk of a mass transit machine) is absorbed by elevated space that doesnt impact the surrounding areas.
I'm not saying the concept is flawless but on this point I don't understand the doubt.
Literally never happened to me. When some one says "hey, you should listen to this" I don't break social scene, I make a note and listen to it at home.
First line, I was addressing points from the article. You're bringing up new material.
Second line, what type of household has multiple smart phones but cant afford headphones for all of them? They're a few bucks.
Third line, who loans or borrows headphones? A) No one wants other peoples ear wax in their ears B) If you're the type of user who finds they need headphones then you probably already have them
Yeah, that was my point. By repeating the other persons "first world problems" point in response to theirs i was mocking it. Of course the whole discussion is first world problems which is why I was making fun of the person.
While I'm not thrilled at seeing the headphone jack disapear the author's reasons for keeping it apply to maybe.001 of the population. How many people really have a reason to carry both an iphone and a droid on them? Using my headphones on some one else's phone? How often does THAT come up for a normal person?
Yeah, but as some one else stated above, people eat McDonald's. If it only amounts to cheap protein for the masses it still has a lot of potential to offer in terms of cost, efficiency, and health.
Yes, some one who is a vegetarian MUST be out to attack your meat eating ways and could ONLY being doing it to feel morally superior. I happily eat meat and can tell you you're being ridiculous. Yes, there is the occasional vegetarian asshole who like to demonize an entire group of people for disagreeing with them but there's meat eaters like you who do literally the exact same thing.
I don't have a problem with gmo produce but it seems to me to be a far bigger departure from what we usually eat then lab grown meat. They're not genetically changing the the meat as far as I understand it, they're just finding out ways to grow muscle tissue without all the extra baggage. Meanwhile we have crops being engineered to be resistant to highly toxic pesticides.
My problem with that advice is what if the employee is the problem in this scenario and not the boss or the work place. Now we have a great way for a problem employee to be more of a problem.
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I'm not a fan of the current H-1B system by a long shot but the question of "why India?" seems foolish to me. When there is a billion people in a country it doesnt matter how bad the education system is, there are going to be a good number of people worth recruiting, especially since they can make a lot more here. Plus, while their national average on math science test scores are quite low the parts of their education system that work are quite good at turning out degrees in the sciences. Their education system just doesnt work for well over half their population (which still leaves a recruiting pool maybe around the same size as the US in population size).
I'll start this with stating the fact that i've never used twitter and have zero interest in it. It just seems like a platform made for oversimplified comments at best and trolls at worse. I'm also not a big fan of outright censorship like the banning of any type of speach that doesnt constitute an immediate threat.
With all that said, from everything I've heard, right wing views are very much alive and well on the platform.
Separate Twitters based on ideology? I couldnt disagree with that idea more. There's way too much of that on the internet already. There's a reason right wing and left wing nut jobs are so noticable today and it's precisely because they increasingly have their own echo chambers that accomplish zero in actual discourse on anything of substance and only serve to rile people up and demonize the "other"
What you point out in saying what you are is that it's missing all the parts that make it a bomb and not a clock which is exactly my point.
People call the Nazi's conservative because their social policies (what everyone remembers them for and judges them on) were conservative. No one cares about German economic policy leading up until WW2, although at the time they were held up as a model of strong economic growth during a global recession.
Nice stab at historic revisionism though. I suppose the Civil War wasn't really about slavery either even though every state that wrote a justification letter to go along with their articles of succession mention slavery.
Maybe your perception that the American school system demonizes conservatives is due to a lack of proper grounding in the real world.
You can't throw a dead cat over your shoulder without hitting a video on how he was treated unfairly by Twitter
I feel like twitter is very much like pro sports or celebrity gossip. It's so self obsessed it can't conceive of a world outside of its self. "Did you see the game!?" "I don't even know what sports season it is let alone what game you're talking about". "Can you believe twitter banned Milo Yiannopoulos, EVERYONE is talking about it!?" "Who or what is a Milo Yiannopoulos?"
"Flipping radar transponder switch sounds much easier ..
THANKYOU. Unfortunatly my mod points expired yesterday.
Why this guy got modded up for suggesting more complex solutions to a problem that was already solved is beyond me
So what if he did or did not invent anything. So what if what he made was not inventive at all. So what if his parents pushed him to create the confrontation.
The fact is the kid brought a clock to school and was arrested for it. I've seen pictures of the "device". I literally have no background in tinkering with electronics and I can tell it isn't a bomb.
So what? Pretty much every stupid way to die has be done by people in all sorts of catagories. Do we need a voice message on the cubard telling us not to eat that donut because it contributes to heart disease? Waaay more people die due to that then the 15 - 25 (according to your linked to article) kids who die due to being left in the car. In fact, there are thousands of things in this country that kill people of even just children at higher rates than this. Maybe we just need to mount speakers everywhere to nag us?
Or maybe a nag speakers would just be ignored because they're nag speakers. No one reads signs, why would anyone listen to some repetitive message they hear every day?
So I refuted the points brought up in the article as not being applicable to the common person and you bring up brand new points as a means of refuting mine?
Brilliant....
You can't be serious.
Anyone whose seen rail in action knows it takes multiple lanes worth of traffic space to operate safely. Sure, you still need safe boarding areas and room for the tracks for this but the bulk of the machine operates above existing roadways. The passengers are carried above roadways thus all of the cabin space (the bulk of a mass transit machine) is absorbed by elevated space that doesnt impact the surrounding areas.
I'm not saying the concept is flawless but on this point I don't understand the doubt.
Literally never happened to me. When some one says "hey, you should listen to this" I don't break social scene, I make a note and listen to it at home.
Because this is far more space efficient as it runs over existing infastructure rather than replacing or taking up even more space.
Your slashdot signature says it all here btw :).
I literally have never run into "I want to listen to a song on your phone" and I am a mild audiophile.
I'll state it again. I don't like the jack disappearing but the author of the linked to article is not making the proper arguments.
First line, I was addressing points from the article. You're bringing up new material.
Second line, what type of household has multiple smart phones but cant afford headphones for all of them? They're a few bucks.
Third line, who loans or borrows headphones? A) No one wants other peoples ear wax in their ears B) If you're the type of user who finds they need headphones then you probably already have them
Your post is nonsense. You literally point out you're an outlier which makes my point but then you seem to be trying to refute it?
*slaps hand to forehead*
Yeah, that was my point. By repeating the other persons "first world problems" point in response to theirs i was mocking it. Of course the whole discussion is first world problems which is why I was making fun of the person.
So says the person supporting the person posting anonymously on a first world topic forum.
What's your point?
While I'm not thrilled at seeing the headphone jack disapear the author's reasons for keeping it apply to maybe .001 of the population. How many people really have a reason to carry both an iphone and a droid on them? Using my headphones on some one else's phone? How often does THAT come up for a normal person?
Yeah, but as some one else stated above, people eat McDonald's. If it only amounts to cheap protein for the masses it still has a lot of potential to offer in terms of cost, efficiency, and health.
Yes, some one who is a vegetarian MUST be out to attack your meat eating ways and could ONLY being doing it to feel morally superior. I happily eat meat and can tell you you're being ridiculous. Yes, there is the occasional vegetarian asshole who like to demonize an entire group of people for disagreeing with them but there's meat eaters like you who do literally the exact same thing.
I don't have a problem with gmo produce but it seems to me to be a far bigger departure from what we usually eat then lab grown meat. They're not genetically changing the the meat as far as I understand it, they're just finding out ways to grow muscle tissue without all the extra baggage. Meanwhile we have crops being engineered to be resistant to highly toxic pesticides.
My problem with that advice is what if the employee is the problem in this scenario and not the boss or the work place. Now we have a great way for a problem employee to be more of a problem.
It must be bliss being you
You mean like in the US where cheap Southern labor undermines the rest of the country?