RTFA, the thing has a freakin' chainsaw ! An eating robot with a chainsaw. Who would win the apocalypse war, the zombies or the robots ? We have the answer now, the robots obviously, they would saw through the zombies and eat them.
Companies want to pay 0, they can't find employees at this rate. Your point is moot. The idea that they can't find people is bullshit of course, it's just used to fight politicians who think in term of "need" and "can / can't".
So H1B are more competitive ? If a lot of very intelligent people were parachuted over the US they would be more productive and overcompete the population, yet you wouldn't argue that it's bad for the economy. *Of course H1B are not necesseraly more intelligent*, you claim the productivity gain is just an artifact of social security (don't know if that's true, I'm surprised that employers don't pay FICA & SS since the h1-b employees pay it, but for I'll grant you benefit of doubt). If that's true, but it's real productivity nonetheless. There will be more goods and services produced at a cheaper price. This will not be at the expense of the taxpayer nor will it be at the expense of American employees, this increased productivity will come from money being diverted from wasteful government programs to the private economy. It's a Good Thing.
Now it is unfair to Americans that they can't enjoy their full wages, but you don't fix unfairness with more unfairness. Attack the social security taxes, not the migrant workers who are not doing anything wrong.
Rights are not privileges, they're rights. You don't need to have contributed anything to have the right to work, it's not a reward, it's a natural right.
You're the kind of asshole that prevent lovely associations between employers and employees. Mind your own fucking business will you?
No, we are not! We are people, but we are not in same group.
Yes I was being sarcastic.
Government does not grant employment to people that are citizens of it's country, nor right to rent or own house.
So if you're not a citizen (the govt thinks you're not cool enough to be in the club) it will prevent you from renting a house to a willing landlord or work for a willing employer. WTF !?
People on H-1B are not part of this country, but part of companies that hire them. I know it sounds harsh, but if we (USA) have high unemployment rate, it would be unfair to hire people from other countries and let our people struggle.
You're free to hire only Americans, but telling companies who they can hire or not hire is tyranny. Besides, unemployment has no correlation with immigration.
Heh, H-1B workers don't vote. Now of course, if the senator had asked them to fire gay people first...
The gut reaction of many slashdotters to migrant workers is simply disgusting. It combines basic misguided tribalism ("Yeah we're in the same group of 300M people") with a rent seeking behavior ("I want a higher wage at the expense of the consumers")
I won't even get started on the total immorality of the concept that the govt grants you or not a "right" to work for a willing employer, grants you or not a "right" to rent a house from a willing landlord, etc.
Sure and hire a few civil servants to work on this. Then a commission will have to be formed to prevent malware in the browsers. More people will be hired to go through the source code of each build and decide if it's safe or not. Then Microsoft will lobby the government to only approve of browsers which are DRM compliant. Bribes will be paid and Opera will sue. More civil servants will be hired to work on the case. At this point, France will argue that browsers should not be able to display pages with hate speech and require a lock on browsers. After all, if browser enjoy the right to be offered to consumers, they should have social duties too.
Wait, what problem were you trying to solve in the first place ?
Imagine the total demand for computers shrink 10%. If you're Dell, you car a lot. If you're Apple, you can still double your sales, you simply grow in market share.
State sponsored slavery is taking people's money to pay for prisoner's housing. Prisoners should be charged for their living expenses, and pay with forced labor if they can't afford. That's assuming they should be in jail in the first place, which is clearly not the case of the 500M prisoners on drug related charges.
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Hum Zombie Robots...
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RTFA, the thing has a freakin' chainsaw ! An eating robot with a chainsaw. Who would win the apocalypse war, the zombies or the robots ? We have the answer now, the robots obviously, they would saw through the zombies and eat them.
Companies want to pay 0, they can't find employees at this rate. Your point is moot. The idea that they can't find people is bullshit of course, it's just used to fight politicians who think in term of "need" and "can / can't".
Which law of physics need the government break to leave me alone ?
Uh what?
I don't want a nasty custom officer at the border keeping me or other people out merely because they might *gasp* find work
Yes
Secession is all I'm asking for.
Firemen rock and it's a shame that this profession has been sucked in by the govt.
Yes.
Lovely strawman, I never claimed that. However H1-B restrictions deny my right to compete.
As a foreigner I want no protection from the US government and I want no privileges. However I DEMAND that it lives me the fuck alone.
The government is not "giving visa" you moron, it is refreigning from deporting a subset of people. Laissez-faire, laissez-passer.
Rights are not collective, individuals do. You have a right to fence your garden and not hire me. Period.
So H1B are more competitive ? If a lot of very intelligent people were parachuted over the US they would be more productive and overcompete the population, yet you wouldn't argue that it's bad for the economy. *Of course H1B are not necesseraly more intelligent*, you claim the productivity gain is just an artifact of social security (don't know if that's true, I'm surprised that employers don't pay FICA & SS since the h1-b employees pay it, but for I'll grant you benefit of doubt). If that's true, but it's real productivity nonetheless. There will be more goods and services produced at a cheaper price. This will not be at the expense of the taxpayer nor will it be at the expense of American employees, this increased productivity will come from money being diverted from wasteful government programs to the private economy. It's a Good Thing.
Now it is unfair to Americans that they can't enjoy their full wages, but you don't fix unfairness with more unfairness. Attack the social security taxes, not the migrant workers who are not doing anything wrong.
Rights are not privileges, they're rights. You don't need to have contributed anything to have the right to work, it's not a reward, it's a natural right.
You're the kind of asshole that prevent lovely associations between employers and employees. Mind your own fucking business will you?
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/Jasaydog.html
Yes I was being sarcastic.
So if you're not a citizen (the govt thinks you're not cool enough to be in the club) it will prevent you from renting a house to a willing landlord or work for a willing employer. WTF !?
You're free to hire only Americans, but telling companies who they can hire or not hire is tyranny. Besides, unemployment has no correlation with immigration.
Heh, H-1B workers don't vote. Now of course, if the senator had asked them to fire gay people first...
The gut reaction of many slashdotters to migrant workers is simply disgusting. It combines basic misguided tribalism ("Yeah we're in the same group of 300M people") with a rent seeking behavior ("I want a higher wage at the expense of the consumers")
I won't even get started on the total immorality of the concept that the govt grants you or not a "right" to work for a willing employer, grants you or not a "right" to rent a house from a willing landlord, etc.
Sure and hire a few civil servants to work on this. Then a commission will have to be formed to prevent malware in the browsers. More people will be hired to go through the source code of each build and decide if it's safe or not. Then Microsoft will lobby the government to only approve of browsers which are DRM compliant. Bribes will be paid and Opera will sue. More civil servants will be hired to work on the case. At this point, France will argue that browsers should not be able to display pages with hate speech and require a lock on browsers. After all, if browser enjoy the right to be offered to consumers, they should have social duties too.
Wait, what problem were you trying to solve in the first place ?
Also AAPL is good to own in a recession.
Imagine the total demand for computers shrink 10%.
If you're Dell, you car a lot.
If you're Apple, you can still double your sales, you simply grow in market share.
The light *itself* is supposed to have more momentum...
read 500k of course
State sponsored slavery is taking people's money to pay for prisoner's housing. Prisoners should be charged for their living expenses, and pay with forced labor if they can't afford. That's assuming they should be in jail in the first place, which is clearly not the case of the 500M prisoners on drug related charges.
Have you *ever* been through the hell of US customs?
This is truly annoying, I have sometimes had to travel to the US on a few hours notice, I couldn't possibly register 72 hours prior to that.
Weird... the slower the light the higher the momentum then ? What was Minkowski argument ?
Father knows best hey ? Prick.
I'm glad we're on the same page.
And yes, forcing people to pay for something is theft, and yes theft is wrong, and no majority rule or institutions doesn't make it right.