I absolutely agree. The point of getting a second or third opinion is not to have them use the first opinion in their diagnosis. Not even your auto mechanic should do that. If you take your car in and say it sounds like the transmission and all your mechanic does is check the transmission, he's a shitty mechanic.
Records are good, but they are of limited use for most people, most of the time. Sure that medica-alert bracelet is almost ALWAYS useful in medical emergencies, so would a bracelet with USB/MicrSD card attached, but the ER nurse really doesn't need to know you had crabs last year to set your broken bone.
Imagine you are walking across a big bridge during a rainstorm and get swept over the railing through wind and clumsiness. As you are being wheeled into the ER, that is exactly the wrong time for them to read that you once tried to overdose on aspirin 25 years ago, as a 14 year old. I know, bizarre example, but there are others. I want medical staff diagnosing my problem, not my record.
How long before DNA sequencing becomes cheap enough to quickly add it to your records? What are the dangers of that?
With any luck at all, when it is discovered exactly how the Universe truly works, it will be based on a patent applied for by the folks at Xerox PARC and now owned by IBM is being LGPL'd. Soon after, Hollywood will team up with big pharmaceutical companies to produce movie pills that change your reality hologram for a couple of hours for the nominal price of $50/pill. The porn industry will be the innovators once again, producing their own pills that are not restricted to the color white. The first to be released will be a little blue pill, followed by pills with combinations of colors in brown, pink, yellow, etc. Some pills will be very big oblong shapes as well.
The Wachowski brothers will insist they have patent rights, and begin selling blue pills to employers across the globe.
The resultant confusion will cause a work based clusterfuck that rivals even the most intolerable of all-hands meetings known to exist today.
A matrix of possible probabilities from the Heisenberg foundation will be required for you to determine why you are in court on charges of sexual assault on the HR girl, yet the judge is wearing a pink see-through bikini, and your attorney appears to be eating a bowl of ice cream with a bent spoon while ignoring the mayhem in the court room.
Well, it 'works' if you call it that. It seems like the buffering is done on some other machine... in India or something. I can download with flashgot etc. and all plays fine. For some reason the buffering SUCKS. Also, not all flash plays. If anyone has really good links for help, it would be appreciated. I'm not finding the bestest latest greatest tutorials on this.
Sorry, are you talking about those curmudgeons, The Women's Christian Intemperance Union?
There are, in general, a great number of "traditions" that most people take for granted and never question their origin. Those same tempe-rant women celebrate their god's birthday (which in and of itself is awesomely insane) on the wrong day and never question why. It defies explanation that our 'creator' would give us bodies made in his image, replete with with the need to seek pleasures of every kind, then make most everything that feels good a sin. I could go on an on about it all, but it depresses me, and I was just feeling cheery about how I have a case of local brew waiting for 5 p.m. to roll around.
If that made you laugh, now you can cry: WTF are they wanting to drink someone's blood for? Isn't that a bit.. well, odd? I don't care if it has alcohol or not. Play acting like you're taking part in some blood sacrifice is probably illegal if you aren't in some sanctioned building called a church. WTF?
Really? 1 in 3? That's the most optimistic statement I've heard in a month, and that includes a 5 year old's wish list.
This morning, I'm lamenting the issues I'm having with flash video on AMD-64 Ubuntu 8.10... then I read the story of the latest "Worm on Windows"(tm) and thought "thank fsck I am using Linux".
Yeah, I know that abbreviates to WoW... so what? I don't play games.
Which is great for me. They've been telling me for years that I'm overdoing things. meh Drink a few beers, lower stress levels, drink coffee all day at the keyboard, eat only when I'm hungry. Exercise now and then. Stay away from pharmaceuticals. Normal sorts of stuff. Dreams? Hallucinations? Sleep problems? Not me, and I can sleep anywhere. Dreams are good, hate the recursive ones where you dream you woke up, but it's all good.
I knew if I waited long enough there would be a study that showed what I do is not only not bad for me, but in all likelihood good for me. Shame that one study about semen preventing cervical cancer if taken orally was fake!
I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought WTF? MD5? Didn't we just agree that it was not secure? So, 2.5 million per year to implement broken security? Yep, that's the DHS we've all come to know and hate.
--- ceiling cat says DHS = don't haz sents... which is odd if you think about it. A fscking Internet meme with more intelligence than DHS? hmmm
Politics is an amazing thing. When I tell people here in the US that I'd like to see an even mix of about 5 different parties in both the Senate and House they look at me oddly and ask how in the world such a group would ever get anything done. At that moment, staring at the look on their faces like I've just contracted autism, I want to pull out a club from my back pocket and split their skull wide open. When a government is paralyzed with petty bickering, the ONLY thing they get done is stuff that is important enough to all the parties that it must be resolved.
That, in a single statement, is the best that can be hoped for in a governing body such as most of us on this planet under representative democracies enjoy... The next step up the ladder is when they are too full of fear of the governed to do anything stupid. I dream and hope.
Can someone explain something to me? If they want to block things harmful to children, and theoretically such things are illegal already, why don't they just arrest those responsible for all this horrible activity?
Oh yeah, the Internet allows you to see stuff from other countries. Hmmm Isolationist much? When does the book burning start? I don't think there is anything new about this kind of world order... except the information media. Sounds like regular old fashioned authoritarianism, or whatever 'ism' you'd like to call it.
It's a shame that it won't work, and sometimes kind of fun watching idiots attempt to nail gelatin to the wall.
Has anyone set up an unofficial official mockery site? Or perhaps a farm of servers that proxy information past the censoring systems? Sort of a pirate bay for censored material?
Being in the USA myself, and hearing how bad the USA has become, I wonder how people justify such remarks in contrast to Australia and the UK?
Perhaps some folk would care to compare what is available in the UK and Australia and what is not, list those links on a website to show the world exactly how much is being censored. When the world can see how much is being withheld from the citizenry, it's probable that the UN and other countries will disagree with such censorship. I'm reasonably certain that you'll find instances of political censorship, and that would not look good.
Even wiki entry editing is a form of censorship and we've seen how that is not viewed as a good thing.
I wonder if anyone has any idea how much Australia and the UK are spending to censor the Internet.
I wonder how much (kiddy)porn is actually being censored. Is Al Jezzera on the black list? How about bloggers from Isreal?
Since there is probably already a way around the censoring mechanisms, does anyone know what it/they is/are?
The whole 'Virgin Killer' thing is stupendously idiotic. A picture which has been in the public view for decades gets banned? WTF? If Brits are getting any American television at all, there are far worse things to be seen there, every day. period. Not sure if anyone has seen Little Britain, but what I've seen of it outpaces the Virgin Killer album by miles. I fail to see how they justify that censorship, or any for that matter. Thought police!
I don't have mod points, but I hope you get modded up quick. This is exactly what parents are supposed to do with their kids... teach them, watch for mistakes, and go from there.
My kids are all legal adults now, and can I teach them anything.... F no. They don't want to learn anything, just want someone else to do it. Step kids BTW. If you can teach a 6 month old how to swim, you can teach a 2 year old how to use the computer.
Keep speaking bro, I'm right there with you and trying to do something about it. America needs to hear it. Even if I don't agree with all you said, I know that is how a lot of the world views America, and they are right for the most part. Try living here and dealing with ignorance of the facts as part of life. Sure, I know that dealing with lack of food is more difficult, but keeping on the level you were speaking on, it's not easy dealing with people that are so blind they can't see truth when it's biting them in the ass.
I think the only thing you missed was wars/empire, education, and immigration, but a good job anyway.
Nice goals they set, and predict benefits in creating jobs. Some of those jobs will be temporary staff to transcribe paper records to digital form, then they'll be unemployed again.
Google will step in with scanning software that does this with little to no extra workers... if they can mine the data sans personeal information.
Government types will lap this up (while on vacation paid for by insurance lobbyists) because now tracking teh crimsnals will be easier. Can you say massive genetics database?
Meanwhile, back at your local patch, you are paying a surcharge for the 'enhanced records' of the new service as required now by your insurance company. Your insurance rates go up to cover the costs so your co-pay doesn't increase but your monthly/yearly costs do. (frogs in boiling water effect)
Now, all that is happening and you have no more control over your health record than you did before, in fact less control because now all these other people can access your data extremely easily and you still have to pay to get an updated copy.
The only possible upside in this is having a more complete record so that when malpractice occurs you might have a better chance of winning in court.... oops, unless your record is doctored.
Okay, someone please explain the upsides to this for joe public?
I don't know, I had a pretty good greasemonkey script that got rid of his submissions. When I first saw this story, I quickly checked to see if greasemonkey was disabled somehow. My first thought, WTF? How did that get there? Please tell me he has not changed something to get around the filter!
Sorry that he died, don't wish death on anyone... well, not most people anyway. Won't miss the stories either... I haven't been reading them, so not much affect.
I kind of feel sorry for these scientists. I'm guessing these scientists are not familiar with the dating scene?
'It is an amazing creature â" it is one of the most evolutionary distinct mammals in the world.'.... it is the only living mammal that can actually inject venom into their prey...
Yep, in the movie 'Species' when they are explaining to Madson why the alien is a female... he replies "you don't get out much, do you?"
Judge Roy Bean would say the thief 'gave back your stuff' as it fell from his hands shortly after his heart stopped working.
Isn't there some room for a counter suit based on harassment of a frivolous litigation? Trained and experienced lawyers 'should' know better than to initiate frivolous litigation. Isn't that an act that can be penalized?
I certainly hope that there is a punishment dished out to the RIAA legal team. It might put a lot of this to rest quickly, and subdue any plans to have ISPs start bollocking their own customers.
Wrong. There were several airlines that suffered complaints that laptops were failing on their planes. The table/trays were magnetic so they could be folded and stowed away. Turns out if you sit a laptop on top of a magnet, the hard drive soon fails.
Funny enough, previous discussions on this topic took exactly that form. Cellular phones with test kit additions to make field labs for common tests is a fair assessment of a pre-beta tricorder. One of the fantastic things about such devices is that while many developing countries might afford cellular infrastructure, they won't devote huge sums of money for a clinic than can only be reached by foot, and then only after 2+ hours of walking. This would put a big knowledge base and reasonable field testing in quick reach of such places. IMO it is an altogether superior answer to the problem. Further development of the field test kits will only improve medical care for those who have historically been too far in the boonies for any to get to them.
Imagine someone who is 4 hours away from a road, never mind a clinic getting advice from a Boston specialist? I think that is awesome! If they can do it cheap enough for developing countries, perhaps it will catch on in the US. That would cut waiting times, costs, and probably revive better parts of common medical care giving.
As someone who has not only applied to work in countries outside of the USA, but actually have worked in countries outside the USA I believe that I have a fair understanding of what I'm saying. Having been on both ends I have seen just exactly what other countries H1B type programs look like. Believe me, it's easier to get work in the USA more often than not compared to other countries. There is an imbalance that has been guided by poor governmental decisions. I don't blame the applicants or H1B visa holders. I dislike any sense of entitlement that they seem to have. Trust me, they have no reason to have any. No such thing exists the other way around.
The last time I contacted one of my government representatives was yesterday. Why doesn't matter. I expect the same canned form-letter reply as always. I think less than little of that particular elected official. The next time I contact anyone about government it will be by attending a campaign for liberty inspired meeting. It is MY government, and I take that duty seriously.
The solution to many problems lay in fixing the one in front of you the hard/right way rather than import some cheap quick fix. We'll see what 'yes we can' can do for us. I'm not holding my breath since he's in all the same clubs as Bush and Clinton. In either case, yes, I am doing what I can to change the way our government is run.
Whether an H1B visa holder is spending money here or not, it does take a job from a citizen. Argue semantics if you wish, but the free market will redistribute qualified workers as necessary to meet the requirements... unless poor legislation allows businesses to import cheap, quick answers for the problem. Using an H1B visa is tantamount to saying Fuck Americans, we don't want to pay you a good wage or train you or... blah blah. It's fairly unpatriotic IMO. There are obviously cases where there simply is no one else that is qualified. I'm not saying there are no qualified H1B visa holders. It's unfortunate but true that an American with a lot of work experience, quality reputation and skills is overlooked for the chance to hire an H1B visa applicant with no experience or skills per se that has a degree. The quality of their work is no better, sometimes worse than the skilled American who did not get the job. I've been in this situation also. Remember that a degree is simply a piece of paper. Skills are formed and proven in the workforce. If you graduate at the bottom of the class, you've still got a degree.
My original post and intent in all posts in this thread is that US tax dollars used for bailout (unconstitutional) should benefit citizens first. If there is any left over... hmmm there shouldn't be leftovers. Citizens should get the benefit for that since the debt will be hanging over our heads for many years to come.
This has devolved into a discussion about H1B visas. The original was that I wanted all the bailout money to stay in the USA, to benefit only USA operations. There is much to be said against foreign workers whether they are in country or work is outsourced to a foreign country. India isn't doing so good right now, and that outsourced phone support sucked so bad that Dell has offered (at a cost) tech support with native English speaking reps. Then we can talk about just why in the hell the IRS is outsourcing work to a foreign country. This can go on and on. All I wanted was that the bailouts stipulate that the money is to be spent only in the US etc. and not to benefit foreign countries.
Taking care of business at home first is not xenophobic BTW. Hope that helps clear it up some.
I don't think it's that huge of a hill for Google. Remember the iPod? Came from nowhere. Google has a pretty good brand name. If their product slips out and performs well, there is no reason to believe that it won't be accepted as fast and widely as other Google products.
And some will say 'why not make the people already here smart?'
Fix the education system, train indigenous workers, you know... support your neighbors, keep it in the family. Yes, everyone wants a shot at the American dream, but it won't be much of a dream soon the way things are going. Americans should get the first shot at it, even if that means spending to train people. Employers that want to bring in foreign workers should have to contribute to education funds for US citizens for the duration of the foreign worker's stay. If it's _that_ important to bring in a foreign worker, it's important enough to mandate more spending on education at home.
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I absolutely agree. The point of getting a second or third opinion is not to have them use the first opinion in their diagnosis. Not even your auto mechanic should do that. If you take your car in and say it sounds like the transmission and all your mechanic does is check the transmission, he's a shitty mechanic.
Records are good, but they are of limited use for most people, most of the time. Sure that medica-alert bracelet is almost ALWAYS useful in medical emergencies, so would a bracelet with USB/MicrSD card attached, but the ER nurse really doesn't need to know you had crabs last year to set your broken bone.
Imagine you are walking across a big bridge during a rainstorm and get swept over the railing through wind and clumsiness. As you are being wheeled into the ER, that is exactly the wrong time for them to read that you once tried to overdose on aspirin 25 years ago, as a 14 year old. I know, bizarre example, but there are others. I want medical staff diagnosing my problem, not my record.
How long before DNA sequencing becomes cheap enough to quickly add it to your records? What are the dangers of that?
Yeah, but retinal damage only occurs when using P2P protocols to share pr0n according to this flashy brochure the preacher man gave me.
With any luck at all, when it is discovered exactly how the Universe truly works, it will be based on a patent applied for by the folks at Xerox PARC and now owned by IBM is being LGPL'd. Soon after, Hollywood will team up with big pharmaceutical companies to produce movie pills that change your reality hologram for a couple of hours for the nominal price of $50/pill. The porn industry will be the innovators once again, producing their own pills that are not restricted to the color white. The first to be released will be a little blue pill, followed by pills with combinations of colors in brown, pink, yellow, etc. Some pills will be very big oblong shapes as well.
The Wachowski brothers will insist they have patent rights, and begin selling blue pills to employers across the globe.
The resultant confusion will cause a work based clusterfuck that rivals even the most intolerable of all-hands meetings known to exist today.
A matrix of possible probabilities from the Heisenberg foundation will be required for you to determine why you are in court on charges of sexual assault on the HR girl, yet the judge is wearing a pink see-through bikini, and your attorney appears to be eating a bowl of ice cream with a bent spoon while ignoring the mayhem in the court room.
That got hijacked by the neocons:
people were only seeing a shadow of reality and it was up to politicians to see the reality and describe it to the masses?
Well, it 'works' if you call it that. It seems like the buffering is done on some other machine... in India or something. I can download with flashgot etc. and all plays fine. For some reason the buffering SUCKS. Also, not all flash plays. If anyone has really good links for help, it would be appreciated. I'm not finding the bestest latest greatest tutorials on this.
Sorry, are you talking about those curmudgeons, The Women's Christian Intemperance Union?
There are, in general, a great number of "traditions" that most people take for granted and never question their origin. Those same tempe-rant women celebrate their god's birthday (which in and of itself is awesomely insane) on the wrong day and never question why. It defies explanation that our 'creator' would give us bodies made in his image, replete with with the need to seek pleasures of every kind, then make most everything that feels good a sin. I could go on an on about it all, but it depresses me, and I was just feeling cheery about how I have a case of local brew waiting for 5 p.m. to roll around.
If that made you laugh, now you can cry: WTF are they wanting to drink someone's blood for? Isn't that a bit.. well, odd? I don't care if it has alcohol or not. Play acting like you're taking part in some blood sacrifice is probably illegal if you aren't in some sanctioned building called a church. WTF?
Really? 1 in 3? That's the most optimistic statement I've heard in a month, and that includes a 5 year old's wish list.
This morning, I'm lamenting the issues I'm having with flash video on AMD-64 Ubuntu 8.10... then I read the story of the latest "Worm on Windows"(tm) and thought "thank fsck I am using Linux".
Yeah, I know that abbreviates to WoW... so what? I don't play games.
Which is great for me. They've been telling me for years that I'm overdoing things. meh Drink a few beers, lower stress levels, drink coffee all day at the keyboard, eat only when I'm hungry. Exercise now and then. Stay away from pharmaceuticals. Normal sorts of stuff. Dreams? Hallucinations? Sleep problems? Not me, and I can sleep anywhere. Dreams are good, hate the recursive ones where you dream you woke up, but it's all good.
I knew if I waited long enough there would be a study that showed what I do is not only not bad for me, but in all likelihood good for me. Shame that one study about semen preventing cervical cancer if taken orally was fake!
I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought WTF? MD5? Didn't we just agree that it was not secure? So, 2.5 million per year to implement broken security? Yep, that's the DHS we've all come to know and hate.
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ceiling cat says DHS = don't haz sents... which is odd if you think about it. A fscking Internet meme with more intelligence than DHS? hmmm
Politics is an amazing thing. When I tell people here in the US that I'd like to see an even mix of about 5 different parties in both the Senate and House they look at me oddly and ask how in the world such a group would ever get anything done. At that moment, staring at the look on their faces like I've just contracted autism, I want to pull out a club from my back pocket and split their skull wide open. When a government is paralyzed with petty bickering, the ONLY thing they get done is stuff that is important enough to all the parties that it must be resolved.
That, in a single statement, is the best that can be hoped for in a governing body such as most of us on this planet under representative democracies enjoy ... The next step up the ladder is when they are too full of fear of the governed to do anything stupid. I dream and hope.
Can someone explain something to me? If they want to block things harmful to children, and theoretically such things are illegal already, why don't they just arrest those responsible for all this horrible activity?
Oh yeah, the Internet allows you to see stuff from other countries. Hmmm Isolationist much? When does the book burning start? I don't think there is anything new about this kind of world order... except the information media. Sounds like regular old fashioned authoritarianism, or whatever 'ism' you'd like to call it.
It's a shame that it won't work, and sometimes kind of fun watching idiots attempt to nail gelatin to the wall.
Has anyone set up an unofficial official mockery site? Or perhaps a farm of servers that proxy information past the censoring systems? Sort of a pirate bay for censored material?
Being in the USA myself, and hearing how bad the USA has become, I wonder how people justify such remarks in contrast to Australia and the UK?
Perhaps some folk would care to compare what is available in the UK and Australia and what is not, list those links on a website to show the world exactly how much is being censored. When the world can see how much is being withheld from the citizenry, it's probable that the UN and other countries will disagree with such censorship. I'm reasonably certain that you'll find instances of political censorship, and that would not look good.
Even wiki entry editing is a form of censorship and we've seen how that is not viewed as a good thing.
I wonder if anyone has any idea how much Australia and the UK are spending to censor the Internet.
I wonder how much (kiddy)porn is actually being censored. Is Al Jezzera on the black list? How about bloggers from Isreal?
Since there is probably already a way around the censoring mechanisms, does anyone know what it/they is/are?
The whole 'Virgin Killer' thing is stupendously idiotic. A picture which has been in the public view for decades gets banned? WTF? If Brits are getting any American television at all, there are far worse things to be seen there, every day. period. Not sure if anyone has seen Little Britain, but what I've seen of it outpaces the Virgin Killer album by miles. I fail to see how they justify that censorship, or any for that matter. Thought police!
RIAA: Haha, just kidding, can't you take a joke?
Judge Roy Bean: BANG!... ermmm NO
I posit that if the RIAA had to hire bullet proof lawyers there would be very little litigation on their behalf.
I don't have mod points, but I hope you get modded up quick.
This is exactly what parents are supposed to do with their kids... teach them, watch for mistakes, and go from there.
My kids are all legal adults now, and can I teach them anything.... F no. They don't want to learn anything, just want someone else to do it. Step kids BTW. If you can teach a 6 month old how to swim, you can teach a 2 year old how to use the computer.
Awesome.
Keep speaking bro, I'm right there with you and trying to do something about it. America needs to hear it. Even if I don't agree with all you said, I know that is how a lot of the world views America, and they are right for the most part. Try living here and dealing with ignorance of the facts as part of life. Sure, I know that dealing with lack of food is more difficult, but keeping on the level you were speaking on, it's not easy dealing with people that are so blind they can't see truth when it's biting them in the ass.
I think the only thing you missed was wars/empire, education, and immigration, but a good job anyway.
Thanks
Leraning how to cope with rejection? Fuck, what are those students going to do if they fail that class?
God forbid they have to struggle through life like the rest of us... FUBAR was meant for this kind of thing.
Nice goals they set, and predict benefits in creating jobs. Some of those jobs will be temporary staff to transcribe paper records to digital form, then they'll be unemployed again.
Google will step in with scanning software that does this with little to no extra workers... if they can mine the data sans personeal information.
Government types will lap this up (while on vacation paid for by insurance lobbyists) because now tracking teh crimsnals will be easier. Can you say massive genetics database?
Meanwhile, back at your local patch, you are paying a surcharge for the 'enhanced records' of the new service as required now by your insurance company. Your insurance rates go up to cover the costs so your co-pay doesn't increase but your monthly/yearly costs do. (frogs in boiling water effect)
Now, all that is happening and you have no more control over your health record than you did before, in fact less control because now all these other people can access your data extremely easily and you still have to pay to get an updated copy.
The only possible upside in this is having a more complete record so that when malpractice occurs you might have a better chance of winning in court.... oops, unless your record is doctored.
Okay, someone please explain the upsides to this for joe public?
I don't know, I had a pretty good greasemonkey script that got rid of his submissions. When I first saw this story, I quickly checked to see if greasemonkey was disabled somehow. My first thought, WTF? How did that get there? Please tell me he has not changed something to get around the filter!
Sorry that he died, don't wish death on anyone... well, not most people anyway. Won't miss the stories either... I haven't been reading them, so not much affect.
I kind of feel sorry for these scientists. I'm guessing these scientists are not familiar with the dating scene?
'It is an amazing creature â" it is one of the most evolutionary distinct mammals in the world.' .... it is the only living mammal that can actually inject venom into their prey...
Yep, in the movie 'Species' when they are explaining to Madson why the alien is a female... he replies "you don't get out much, do you?"
Judge Roy Bean would say the thief 'gave back your stuff' as it fell from his hands shortly after his heart stopped working.
Isn't there some room for a counter suit based on harassment of a frivolous litigation? Trained and experienced lawyers 'should' know better than to initiate frivolous litigation. Isn't that an act that can be penalized?
I certainly hope that there is a punishment dished out to the RIAA legal team. It might put a lot of this to rest quickly, and subdue any plans to have ISPs start bollocking their own customers.
Wrong. There were several airlines that suffered complaints that laptops were failing on their planes. The table/trays were magnetic so they could be folded and stowed away. Turns out if you sit a laptop on top of a magnet, the hard drive soon fails.
Funny enough, previous discussions on this topic took exactly that form. Cellular phones with test kit additions to make field labs for common tests is a fair assessment of a pre-beta tricorder. One of the fantastic things about such devices is that while many developing countries might afford cellular infrastructure, they won't devote huge sums of money for a clinic than can only be reached by foot, and then only after 2+ hours of walking. This would put a big knowledge base and reasonable field testing in quick reach of such places. IMO it is an altogether superior answer to the problem. Further development of the field test kits will only improve medical care for those who have historically been too far in the boonies for any to get to them.
Imagine someone who is 4 hours away from a road, never mind a clinic getting advice from a Boston specialist? I think that is awesome! If they can do it cheap enough for developing countries, perhaps it will catch on in the US. That would cut waiting times, costs, and probably revive better parts of common medical care giving.
Excellent post.
As someone who has not only applied to work in countries outside of the USA, but actually have worked in countries outside the USA I believe that I have a fair understanding of what I'm saying. Having been on both ends I have seen just exactly what other countries H1B type programs look like. Believe me, it's easier to get work in the USA more often than not compared to other countries. There is an imbalance that has been guided by poor governmental decisions. I don't blame the applicants or H1B visa holders. I dislike any sense of entitlement that they seem to have. Trust me, they have no reason to have any. No such thing exists the other way around.
The last time I contacted one of my government representatives was yesterday. Why doesn't matter. I expect the same canned form-letter reply as always. I think less than little of that particular elected official. The next time I contact anyone about government it will be by attending a campaign for liberty inspired meeting. It is MY government, and I take that duty seriously.
The solution to many problems lay in fixing the one in front of you the hard/right way rather than import some cheap quick fix. We'll see what 'yes we can' can do for us. I'm not holding my breath since he's in all the same clubs as Bush and Clinton. In either case, yes, I am doing what I can to change the way our government is run.
Whether an H1B visa holder is spending money here or not, it does take a job from a citizen. Argue semantics if you wish, but the free market will redistribute qualified workers as necessary to meet the requirements ... unless poor legislation allows businesses to import cheap, quick answers for the problem. Using an H1B visa is tantamount to saying Fuck Americans, we don't want to pay you a good wage or train you or ... blah blah. It's fairly unpatriotic IMO. There are obviously cases where there simply is no one else that is qualified. I'm not saying there are no qualified H1B visa holders. It's unfortunate but true that an American with a lot of work experience, quality reputation and skills is overlooked for the chance to hire an H1B visa applicant with no experience or skills per se that has a degree. The quality of their work is no better, sometimes worse than the skilled American who did not get the job. I've been in this situation also. Remember that a degree is simply a piece of paper. Skills are formed and proven in the workforce. If you graduate at the bottom of the class, you've still got a degree.
My original post and intent in all posts in this thread is that US tax dollars used for bailout (unconstitutional) should benefit citizens first. If there is any left over... hmmm there shouldn't be leftovers. Citizens should get the benefit for that since the debt will be hanging over our heads for many years to come.
This has devolved into a discussion about H1B visas. The original was that I wanted all the bailout money to stay in the USA, to benefit only USA operations.
There is much to be said against foreign workers whether they are in country or work is outsourced to a foreign country. India isn't doing so good right now, and that outsourced phone support sucked so bad that Dell has offered (at a cost) tech support with native English speaking reps. Then we can talk about just why in the hell the IRS is outsourcing work to a foreign country. This can go on and on. All I wanted was that the bailouts stipulate that the money is to be spent only in the US etc. and not to benefit foreign countries.
Taking care of business at home first is not xenophobic BTW. Hope that helps clear it up some.
I don't think it's that huge of a hill for Google. Remember the iPod? Came from nowhere. Google has a pretty good brand name. If their product slips out and performs well, there is no reason to believe that it won't be accepted as fast and widely as other Google products.
And some will say 'why not make the people already here smart?'
Fix the education system, train indigenous workers, you know... support your neighbors, keep it in the family. Yes, everyone wants a shot at the American dream, but it won't be much of a dream soon the way things are going. Americans should get the first shot at it, even if that means spending to train people. Employers that want to bring in foreign workers should have to contribute to education funds for US citizens for the duration of the foreign worker's stay. If it's _that_ important to bring in a foreign worker, it's important enough to mandate more spending on education at home.