4) Public Health - while there is currently no such thing as a Public healthcare system like Canada and Europe have, You won't be denied treatment because you can't pay for it. You might, however, have to quit your job if you don't make enough or the employment benefits are woefully inadequate...
Half of all bankruptcies in the US are due to medical bills.
I'm not turning my anger on anyone, as I don't have any anger about it. I'm just saying that H1B visas are legislation, laws of the land. And if the American people are getting screwed by companies who are able to obtain cheap labor on US soil by importing that labor, than the law needs to be changed. Companies don't like that? Move your ass elsewhere. Others will fill the manufacturing/service vacuum. People should not have to work below a living wage, and CEOs/upper management who make an end run around market rates by importing their labor via H1Bs deserve a particularly gruesome fate.
Your argument assumes foreign workers are going to spend more money domestically. I find that argument to be incorrect. I argue that foreign workers will live extremely frugal in the US while sending the bulk of their earnings back to their home country. The best example of this is migrant Mexican workers.
As they should. When millions of people in your country are without jobs, you want your government to protect your ability to get a job, not a corporation's ability to get cheap labor from somewhere else. At least, last time I checked the government is supposed to work for the people.
Disclaimer: I'm a small business owner who despises organizations using H1B visas, since it's only used to get high quality talent at dirt cheap wages.
Wow, I guess you haven't been around long enough to pay Microsoft huge yearly amounts for support contracts to have them say to one of your problems "We have no idea. Good luck." Give me OSS anyday.
That would kick ass if we could swap out thermal reactors for IFRs, and the waste onsite at all these reactors become fuel suddenly. Sounds like Christmas to me.
Google for "Plan B 3.0". To cover all of our energy needs (the US), we would only need to cover North and South Dakota with wind turbines. If you don't want to put them on land, you can also do off-shore wind farms (such as the one being permitted currently off the coast of Nantucket/Martha's Vineyard).
For your house or a utility? For your house, you'd probably spend $500-1000 on batteries, depending if you go with lead acid or lithium ion. Also, if most of your power consumption is during the day, you need less battery capacity to get your through the night. For a utility, you don't even need batteries if you're producing power with solar. There's so much demand that you just pump as much into the electric grid as you can to get paid. BUT! when the point is reached where renewables provide more power than the grid can soak up, there are large scale battery systems that aren't expensive for wind farms/solar farms. These battery systems operated on the same principle as lead-acid batteries, but with pumpable electrolyte. Several wind farms today use these systems to store wind power from the night until the day when the wholesale rate is higher for selling power.
Nanosolar (http://www.nanosolar.com) has apparently broken the $1/watt mark with their printed panels. You don't even need to slap them onto glass. Too bad they're sold out for the next year.
I had a large decal made for the back of my Jeep that says "A typical coal-fired plant puts out more radiation than a nuclear power plant. The more you know". Want one? =)
I don't want to shit on your parade (as I'm a nuclear proponent). But energy demand and supply will eventually need to come to an equilibrium. There is only so much sunlight hitting the earth, and only so many resources already on this rock. Standard of living can continue to climb, with conservation and energy efficiencies. This does not mean we need to live in a cave. Incandescents made way for CFLs, CFLs will make way for LEDs. Just going from incandescents to LEDs provides a HUGE power savings. I digress though. Please don't go around saying we need more and more power. Eventually, we'll need to deal with the fact that there's only so much power to go around.
And then watch as the federal government steps in and takes your patents under eminent domain (or whole sale invalidates them). Don't think it's happened? Google for "patents national security". It's done quite often.
Keep in mind those European nations could start getting their gas the same way we in parts of the US do: LNG tankers. It ain't that much more expensive than piping.
You're very right. I watched the original Office on Netflix, and thought the dry humor was fantastic. Tried to watch the US version of the Office. Very disappointing.
You wouldn't believe the number of times someone has paid a secured loan off (house, car, boat, motorcycle, etc) and the bank lost the records, and someone had to go digging to prove the loan had been paid off. So do I think the reverse is possible? Definitely.
I wish there was a -1 Retard moderation option for your posts in this thread. Yes, CFLs get recycled. Yes, it's extremely easy to do it. Get with the times.
Yeah, because it's not like I have to breathe the air near coal plants or anything. You'd be surprised how many coal plants are near major urban areas.
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As someone who was bitching about the H1-B system further up in the thread, I cannot agree more with your post.
http://www.google.com/search?q=H1B+fraud
Or get used to the fact that cheap products and energy are going the way of the dodo.
4) Public Health - while there is currently no such thing as a Public healthcare system like Canada and Europe have, You won't be denied treatment because you can't pay for it. You might, however, have to quit your job if you don't make enough or the employment benefits are woefully inadequate ...
Half of all bankruptcies in the US are due to medical bills.
I'm not turning my anger on anyone, as I don't have any anger about it. I'm just saying that H1B visas are legislation, laws of the land. And if the American people are getting screwed by companies who are able to obtain cheap labor on US soil by importing that labor, than the law needs to be changed. Companies don't like that? Move your ass elsewhere. Others will fill the manufacturing/service vacuum. People should not have to work below a living wage, and CEOs/upper management who make an end run around market rates by importing their labor via H1Bs deserve a particularly gruesome fate.
Problem is, the next 20-30 years are going to be nothing like the last 20-30 years.
Your argument assumes foreign workers are going to spend more money domestically. I find that argument to be incorrect. I argue that foreign workers will live extremely frugal in the US while sending the bulk of their earnings back to their home country. The best example of this is migrant Mexican workers.
Disclaimer: I'm a small business owner who despises organizations using H1B visas, since it's only used to get high quality talent at dirt cheap wages.
Wow, I guess you haven't been around long enough to pay Microsoft huge yearly amounts for support contracts to have them say to one of your problems "We have no idea. Good luck." Give me OSS anyday.
That would kick ass if we could swap out thermal reactors for IFRs, and the waste onsite at all these reactors become fuel suddenly. Sounds like Christmas to me.
Google for "Plan B 3.0". To cover all of our energy needs (the US), we would only need to cover North and South Dakota with wind turbines. If you don't want to put them on land, you can also do off-shore wind farms (such as the one being permitted currently off the coast of Nantucket/Martha's Vineyard).
For your house or a utility? For your house, you'd probably spend $500-1000 on batteries, depending if you go with lead acid or lithium ion. Also, if most of your power consumption is during the day, you need less battery capacity to get your through the night. For a utility, you don't even need batteries if you're producing power with solar. There's so much demand that you just pump as much into the electric grid as you can to get paid. BUT! when the point is reached where renewables provide more power than the grid can soak up, there are large scale battery systems that aren't expensive for wind farms/solar farms. These battery systems operated on the same principle as lead-acid batteries, but with pumpable electrolyte. Several wind farms today use these systems to store wind power from the night until the day when the wholesale rate is higher for selling power.
Nanosolar (http://www.nanosolar.com) has apparently broken the $1/watt mark with their printed panels. You don't even need to slap them onto glass. Too bad they're sold out for the next year.
I had a large decal made for the back of my Jeep that says "A typical coal-fired plant puts out more radiation than a nuclear power plant. The more you know". Want one? =)
I don't want to shit on your parade (as I'm a nuclear proponent). But energy demand and supply will eventually need to come to an equilibrium. There is only so much sunlight hitting the earth, and only so many resources already on this rock. Standard of living can continue to climb, with conservation and energy efficiencies. This does not mean we need to live in a cave. Incandescents made way for CFLs, CFLs will make way for LEDs. Just going from incandescents to LEDs provides a HUGE power savings. I digress though. Please don't go around saying we need more and more power. Eventually, we'll need to deal with the fact that there's only so much power to go around.
And then watch as the federal government steps in and takes your patents under eminent domain (or whole sale invalidates them). Don't think it's happened? Google for "patents national security". It's done quite often.
Keep in mind those European nations could start getting their gas the same way we in parts of the US do: LNG tankers. It ain't that much more expensive than piping.
Damn. Beat me to it.
Thanks for the backup =)
Your intelligence fails. What retard thinks they need more than one CFL to replace one incandescent bulb?
But the coal fired power plant is going to put out less mercury running four CFLs then it would running four incandescent bulbs. Your logic = FAIL
You're very right. I watched the original Office on Netflix, and thought the dry humor was fantastic. Tried to watch the US version of the Office. Very disappointing.
You wouldn't believe the number of times someone has paid a secured loan off (house, car, boat, motorcycle, etc) and the bank lost the records, and someone had to go digging to prove the loan had been paid off. So do I think the reverse is possible? Definitely.
I wish there was a -1 Retard moderation option for your posts in this thread. Yes, CFLs get recycled. Yes, it's extremely easy to do it. Get with the times.
Yeah, because it's not like I have to breathe the air near coal plants or anything. You'd be surprised how many coal plants are near major urban areas.