H1-Bs are already supposed to be paid at least prevailing wages, but that's easy enough to get around when you can give them whatever job title you want and run wage surveys pretty much however you want. That employee that's essential to our basic functioning and oversees the technical development of our entire company? He's a PC Maintenance Technician I.
You have that a little wrong. God *can* (in principle) be proven. If the sky breaks open, choirs of angels break forth, a 10km-long arm reaches down from the skies and an 8km golden-haired, bearded face looks down upon humanity and utters words of unshakable truth...then God is proven.
Then again, that could just be very powerful aliens playing a practical joke on Earth. You know, sufficiently advanced technology and all.
Then you get a somewhat bigger fortress that won't collapse from external forces (instead it'll be the King demanding materials that don't exist causing every dwarf to be arrested or one careless death causing a tantrum spiral).
Yeah, when was the last time they took up a case about quartering troops in people's houses or made damn sure that suits at common law for $20 would be tried by juries? Oh, wait, you probably mean the second amendment. The one that already has the NRA standing up for it with twice the total budget of the ACLU. But if it makes you feel better, the ACLU has actually defended gun owners before:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04...
People already do speed to beat the light. The only difference with a timer is that fewer people will be a few seconds late and speed past when it's red.
Is that before or after companies just can't happen to find an American candidate with 10 years experience in Rust and 15 years experience in Windows Server 2013 and fluent in 3 different foreign languages and willing work 80 hour weeks for $40,000 a year? But they can sure find some H1b visa candidate who's a perfect fit and a candidate in Elbonia who's even willing to undercut that. But the American worker is bad for wanting to put food on their table.
If it were just the 4-5 times the number of unique visitors expected, then I'd say that it's probably just curious people trying to understand the mechanics for themselves. But if there's a 100,000 visitor spike for no good reason, yeah, that doesn't pass the sniff test.
Do you keep full insurance on a 20-year-old Buick? Especially insurance that covers every mechanical and electrical system in the car?
If a 20 year old Buick were dying on you, would you take it to the closest mechanic you could find as soon as humanly possible and not ask the price of fixing it or even if there was a realistic chance of fixing it? No, but that's because a 20 year old Buick going kaput isn't the end of the world. A 40 year old body going kaput very much is the end of someone's world.
No, that's the whole idea behind Obamacare. The idea behind insurance is that it is a personal choice to have it or not. Now it's just a tax that unfairly impacts young healthy people.
Young people get sick. Young people get injured. Young people do not have enough assets to pay for any kind of hospital bills. It can easily cost thousands of dollars just to get diagnosed with something, even if it ends up being a relatively minor thing. Do you know a lot of 20 somethings that can absorb that kind of hospital bill?
Then again, I'd much prefer single payer, because I'm not fucking insane.
Whether or not turning my phone (and presumably all such communication tech) off for a week would bother me depends on what's happening. If I'm specifically away on vacation, then whatever, doesn't bother me at all (other than maybe not having music to listen to). If it's a normal week where I might expect calls or text messages from friends, then yeah, it'd kinda suck to not have any idea what's going on. For better or worse, most people don't live within walking distance of all their friends, nor do most people want to just stop by unannounced.
I'd say it's way more like a suspected bookie that's writing down bets in code. Maybe you've cracked some of the code to figure out that there's a bet on one page of a book. Using that, you're trying to get the bookie to divulge his method of encrypting all the books found in his office. The question is whether the bookie has to give you a) the code b) decoded versions of the books or c) nothing at all.
Stuff that isn't science that is sure it "knows" is prejudice. By pretending to be science such "stuff" gets to deprive you of you liberty in a court based on prejudice because you're a bit socially eccentric and someone else doesn't like that for "moral" reasons or whatever and wants to "straighten you out" whatever that means to them. Do you dress funny? Have sex? The wrong skin colour? These kinds of things...
To my knowledge, the only way to be forced into any kind of treatment at all (at least in America) is to threaten the life of yourself or of others or if you use insanity as a defense in a crime. The latter one is pretty obviously following due process. The former one is often a pretty high bar to meet and emergency psychiatric beds are in short supply so they tend to be reserved for people who are a real danger. No one in America is getting sent to a padded room for dressing funny, sleeping around too much, or being the wrong skin color (though if you match those criteria, you can get a spot on the Maury to find out who's your baby daddy).
Psychoanalysis has not been checked carefully by experiment
Basically no one does psychoanalysis anymore. Drawing conclusions about the field of psychology based on an outdated model would be like drawing conclusions about physics based on the theory of luminiferous aether or the phlogiston theory.
I could point out that some research on both sides are utterly crap. funding the study of beetles migration habits? yeah I dont think we need to waste money on that one
Unless you care about how it could affect agricultural production. The boll weevil alone does $300 million in damage to cotton crops. The bark beetle and elm leaf beetle carry Dutch elm disease, which has devastated elm trees in both Europe and North America. Another beetle damages potato crops in Idaho. On the other hand, there are beetles that eat pests and the dung beetle saves the cattle industry $380 million every year in dung disposal costs.
It's interesting to hear people talk about "productivity of the economy going up while employees who grow the productivity aren't ripping the reward, instead the owners do". Well excuse me, the owners created the productivity, not the employees.
Employees are not adding to productivity, it is the owners, the investors, the capitalists that are improving their productivity. In case of the noodle restaurants the productivity of the owner (investors) of the restaurant is going up, he can serve more noodles with fewer labourers doing manual work, but it costs him the original investment into the labour saving device - the robot.
Except that the labor saving measures tend to require better trained and educated employees. Take an adult from 100 years ago, put them in front of a computer, and you'll get all of nothing.
Now, I know what you're thinking: "Surely that's just a matter of training. The person from 100 years ago had different skill that were probably quite useful." And I'll say "Sure did, and capital had expensive equipment that became obsolete too."
which places US citizens into the unique and perverse situation of moving abroad and still paying Uncle Sam taxes, despite getting no services for that tax.
Except that you can exclude the first $90000 or so of income from taxation and generally deduct foreign income taxes from your US taxes.
Corporations seem to work awfully hard to lobby against taxes they supposedly don't pay for.
Of course, you're also forgetting rule 0 about corporations: charge so as to maximize profits at all times. Raising prices from that would mean reduced sales and lower profits.
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H1-Bs are already supposed to be paid at least prevailing wages, but that's easy enough to get around when you can give them whatever job title you want and run wage surveys pretty much however you want. That employee that's essential to our basic functioning and oversees the technical development of our entire company? He's a PC Maintenance Technician I.
You have that a little wrong. God *can* (in principle) be proven. If the sky breaks open, choirs of angels break forth, a 10km-long arm reaches down from the skies and an 8km golden-haired, bearded face looks down upon humanity and utters words of unshakable truth...then God is proven.
Then again, that could just be very powerful aliens playing a practical joke on Earth. You know, sufficiently advanced technology and all.
Then you get a somewhat bigger fortress that won't collapse from external forces (instead it'll be the King demanding materials that don't exist causing every dwarf to be arrested or one careless death causing a tantrum spiral).
Yeah, when was the last time they took up a case about quartering troops in people's houses or made damn sure that suits at common law for $20 would be tried by juries? Oh, wait, you probably mean the second amendment. The one that already has the NRA standing up for it with twice the total budget of the ACLU. But if it makes you feel better, the ACLU has actually defended gun owners before: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04...
I always knew that the Red Cross was implemented by communists! See, they even have "red" in their name!
Oh wait, that's General Ripper territory.
People already do speed to beat the light. The only difference with a timer is that fewer people will be a few seconds late and speed past when it's red.
Not just "a federal judge". The Supreme Court said it. Kyllo v. United States
Is that before or after companies just can't happen to find an American candidate with 10 years experience in Rust and 15 years experience in Windows Server 2013 and fluent in 3 different foreign languages and willing work 80 hour weeks for $40,000 a year? But they can sure find some H1b visa candidate who's a perfect fit and a candidate in Elbonia who's even willing to undercut that. But the American worker is bad for wanting to put food on their table.
If it were just the 4-5 times the number of unique visitors expected, then I'd say that it's probably just curious people trying to understand the mechanics for themselves. But if there's a 100,000 visitor spike for no good reason, yeah, that doesn't pass the sniff test.
Do you keep full insurance on a 20-year-old Buick? Especially insurance that covers every mechanical and electrical system in the car?
If a 20 year old Buick were dying on you, would you take it to the closest mechanic you could find as soon as humanly possible and not ask the price of fixing it or even if there was a realistic chance of fixing it? No, but that's because a 20 year old Buick going kaput isn't the end of the world. A 40 year old body going kaput very much is the end of someone's world.
No, that's the whole idea behind Obamacare. The idea behind insurance is that it is a personal choice to have it or not. Now it's just a tax that unfairly impacts young healthy people.
Young people get sick. Young people get injured. Young people do not have enough assets to pay for any kind of hospital bills. It can easily cost thousands of dollars just to get diagnosed with something, even if it ends up being a relatively minor thing. Do you know a lot of 20 somethings that can absorb that kind of hospital bill?
Then again, I'd much prefer single payer, because I'm not fucking insane.
Whether or not turning my phone (and presumably all such communication tech) off for a week would bother me depends on what's happening. If I'm specifically away on vacation, then whatever, doesn't bother me at all (other than maybe not having music to listen to). If it's a normal week where I might expect calls or text messages from friends, then yeah, it'd kinda suck to not have any idea what's going on. For better or worse, most people don't live within walking distance of all their friends, nor do most people want to just stop by unannounced.
Oddly enough, they can (in some systems). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_trading
Yet Scalia cites the Federalist Papers, which is basically one side of a pretty damn spirited ideological debate between the founding fathers.
The Empire State Building used 48000 cubic meters of concrete. The Burj Khalifa used 330000 cubic meters of concrete.
I'd say it's way more like a suspected bookie that's writing down bets in code. Maybe you've cracked some of the code to figure out that there's a bet on one page of a book. Using that, you're trying to get the bookie to divulge his method of encrypting all the books found in his office. The question is whether the bookie has to give you a) the code b) decoded versions of the books or c) nothing at all.
To be illegal in the US, CP has to involve actual children.
Stuff that isn't science that is sure it "knows" is prejudice. By pretending to be science such "stuff" gets to deprive you of you liberty in a court based on prejudice because you're a bit socially eccentric and someone else doesn't like that for "moral" reasons or whatever and wants to "straighten you out" whatever that means to them. Do you dress funny? Have sex? The wrong skin colour? These kinds of things...
To my knowledge, the only way to be forced into any kind of treatment at all (at least in America) is to threaten the life of yourself or of others or if you use insanity as a defense in a crime. The latter one is pretty obviously following due process. The former one is often a pretty high bar to meet and emergency psychiatric beds are in short supply so they tend to be reserved for people who are a real danger. No one in America is getting sent to a padded room for dressing funny, sleeping around too much, or being the wrong skin color (though if you match those criteria, you can get a spot on the Maury to find out who's your baby daddy).
Psychoanalysis has not been checked carefully by experiment
Basically no one does psychoanalysis anymore. Drawing conclusions about the field of psychology based on an outdated model would be like drawing conclusions about physics based on the theory of luminiferous aether or the phlogiston theory.
Marissa Mayer put a private nursery right next to her office. Not exactly a luxury afforded company wide.
So, what happened to change that?
Mongols invaded Baghdad, destroying their center of learning and culture, not to mention destroying irrigation systems that took thousands of years to build up.
I could point out that some research on both sides are utterly crap. funding the study of beetles migration habits? yeah I dont think we need to waste money on that one
Unless you care about how it could affect agricultural production. The boll weevil alone does $300 million in damage to cotton crops. The bark beetle and elm leaf beetle carry Dutch elm disease, which has devastated elm trees in both Europe and North America. Another beetle damages potato crops in Idaho. On the other hand, there are beetles that eat pests and the dung beetle saves the cattle industry $380 million every year in dung disposal costs.
It's interesting to hear people talk about "productivity of the economy going up while employees who grow the productivity aren't ripping the reward, instead the owners do". Well excuse me, the owners created the productivity, not the employees. Employees are not adding to productivity, it is the owners, the investors, the capitalists that are improving their productivity. In case of the noodle restaurants the productivity of the owner (investors) of the restaurant is going up, he can serve more noodles with fewer labourers doing manual work, but it costs him the original investment into the labour saving device - the robot.
Except that the labor saving measures tend to require better trained and educated employees. Take an adult from 100 years ago, put them in front of a computer, and you'll get all of nothing.
Now, I know what you're thinking: "Surely that's just a matter of training. The person from 100 years ago had different skill that were probably quite useful." And I'll say "Sure did, and capital had expensive equipment that became obsolete too."
which places US citizens into the unique and perverse situation of moving abroad and still paying Uncle Sam taxes, despite getting no services for that tax.
Except that you can exclude the first $90000 or so of income from taxation and generally deduct foreign income taxes from your US taxes.
Sounds a bit like saying that your fire alarm is a problem because it keeps beeping and meanwhile your house is a raging inferno.
Corporations seem to work awfully hard to lobby against taxes they supposedly don't pay for.
Of course, you're also forgetting rule 0 about corporations: charge so as to maximize profits at all times. Raising prices from that would mean reduced sales and lower profits.
Beholder mages put out their central eye, though yes, the average beholder has a giant eye in the middle of their head.
I'll go back to not getting laid now.