However, some non-American hiring managers will want to hire only people from their own countries, because of feelings of patriotism for their countries. So we should have a law that states that "guest" hiring managers must hire at least 50% Americans.
So now immigrants can't become managers... That's not racist at all:)
Well, considering that I don't have a job, 65,000 seems like 65,000 too many.
Are you "competing" for a tech job. Do you have an MSc in CS from an internationally recognized institution?
I put "competing" in quotation marks, because my inbox has emails from a lot of recruiters who just wants to talk (they aren't all job offers).
Actually, if you happen know your way around open source projects and has some experience with js, linux, python, node, aws and release engineering, + a non-empty resume; feel free to drop me a line...
Either of 11.5M unemployed Americans I suspect most people don't compete for the tech jobs.. Oh, and btw, I know that my employer will hire anywhere in the world, and have people working remotely. In fact I'm an H1B, and paying taxes in the US; but if I weren't H1B I would just be working remotely from Denmark. To be honest, the uncertainty of being on an H1B, does often make me consider if I should continue to work out of the US (especially when 4 people are gunned down 20 blocks from my crappy over-priced San Francisco apartment - which is in the nice part of town).
To sum up, yes some companies are trying to get cheap workers; but the bay area wouldn't be a tech hub if it weren't for immigrants (they would just go somewhere else - say London or Toronto); and most of the unemployed Americans aren't looking/qualified for tech jobs...
Since the current unemployment rate is about 6%
Being unemployed, you probably don't want to here this, but the unemployment rate can also be too low.
Keep in mind that the unemployment rate counts people in-between jobs, and that an extremely low unemployment rate means that it's hard to hire, and, hence, hard to grow the economy. This is likely no the case in the US, as many people are under-employed (and/or under-paid); partly due to the very low minimum wage.
3 - FORCE HONEST PRICING make Service Contracts ILLEGAL.. you can not find anywhere on comcasts website the real prices of internet, only their special sale prices that go up from 100 to 600% at a later date. No more of this bullshit, honest prices prominently displayed. no Contracts allowed in any way for any reason.
Agree, the free market cannot work under circumstances such as these.
Service contracts makes sense, if the company is putting something in the ground and, hence, wants to make sure you remain a customer for a while before they undertake the investment of connecting you. But once connected and no physical work is involved it makes no sense.
Either way, special sale prices never makes any sense, and wouldn't be allowed in many other countries, because it's dishonest and doesn't facilitate competition.
I do believe that Sweden is on a dangerous path when they prosecute artists for hate speech (who draws the line).
Courts draws the line...
But to be honest, freedom of speech is somewhat more limited in Europe than in the USA.
Mostly it's only corner cases... Like special laws about special events.
By the way, under the human rights article 12: "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary... attacks upon his honour and reputation."
That is I have right not to have false accusations made against me.
I'm pretty sure the US doesn't tolerate people inciting violence and terrorism, which is likely what this is all about.
Of course, we have to take away freedom of speech in order to protect freedom of speech, don't you get it? Duh....
They are not talking about censorship... Nor are they talking about people making bad cartoons... They are talking about videos encouraging young extremists to up arms against innocent civilians.
This is perfectly reasonable, one is not allowed to encourage criminal activities. We often tolerate bloggers encouraging people to disregard speed limits, disregard copyright law, or participate in civil disobedience, etc... But if you encourage murder, terror, violence, it is perfectly reasonable to prosecute you.
Note, free speech, does not imply speech without consequences. It is not okay to incite violence, perpetrade fraud, spread false rumours about people (UDHR Article 12). Also speech crime does not equal censorship.
Actually, the reason to take them alive would be to gather information about their network.
Assuming there is one... Granted assault rifles and bullet proof vests aren't easy to come by (in Europe). This still isn't at a level of sophistication that indicates the support of a larger organization.
One question that is left on my mind is how much did French intelligence know up front; did they know about the assault rifles...
Not that I would expect them to catch every terrorist and stop every crazy person; that is not realistic.
In my state they made preschool "free". Within the year the tuition costs tripled from previous levels that were flat the previous 5 years.
Why doesn't the state negotiation favorable terms.. Or if institutions refuse to do so, launch their own institutions.
Most preschools, boarding schools, universities, child care institutions in my country are self owned (not-for-profit) institutions. The government rarely/never works with institutions that has private financial interests (read investors, stockholders, owners).
Either way, aren't state schools not-for-profit self-owning institutions (or state owned)? I ask because I don't know.
That's the only definition of "free" that exists. Even the sunlight isn't "free" by your useless definition. How many innocent Hydrogen atoms died to light your day?
If you look down in the corner of the horizon you'll sometimes see a little note with the text: "Your daylight is brought to you by God Inc.":)
As usual, it's poor people providing subsidies for the rich.
Rich people pay more in taxes... If not, maybe you should address that... But let it be a separate issue.
I'm constantly surprised at how Americans manage to see the bad in every government service provided. In most other modern countries services such as this is what enables poor people to climb. It's the thing that reduces negative social heritage (you have a lot of that in the US)..
Note, just because a government makes it easier to climb out of poverty does not make it trivial. I've never been poor, but because tuition and living expenses was covered for me during university, doesn't mean I didn't have to work hard to earn a degree.
In most places it constitutes fraud... Prosecuting it is hard (and often impossible), but it is still illegal to commit fraud. Or sell a product under false advertisement which is what they do here, the product being a license to the work that is allegedly infringed.
Fraud, false advertising, etc... call it what you want, lying is rarely legal.
Nobody accepts openly carried firearms. It's just stupid, insecure men trying to show off. I think almost everyone should have a gun but CONCEALED on them. Otherwise guess who the criminal is shooting first. There's no point in carrying a gun unless nobody knows it's there.
Yeah, because people are more likely to use the gun successfully against an attacker, than getting shut by their kid while browsing walmart...
try not to look so nervous, or you might find yourself being seen as a threat.
Ha, ha, That's good advice, along with: "try not to look so black":)
Or when in a bad neighbourhood: "try not to look so rich"...
All sounds advice, we should all abide by:)
Yeah... I don't see the point in what they are doing either..
I do find it hilariously stupid that the first thing Americans decide to print when they get 3d printers is guns... Thank you (America) for confirming my prejudice:)
I think it is time we join the rest of the industrialized world and start treating DUI as a felony-level offense. Put some fear of real punishment into the hearts of the people who can't control their drinking and they might be less inclined to try their luck.
Lol, that is so American... Let's just punish more - instead of trying to help:)
Adding to your already over-populated prisons isn't going to do anything.
Instead try with awareness campaigns, interlock devices and/or put people on antabus:)
If you must punish for no reason go with community service (cheaper and less invasive than prison).
Drunk driving is mostly a crime of stupidity, locking people up won't help them or society... It's much cheaper and effective to use less invasive punishments; ideally something that helps people too: ie. allows them to keep their job and remain contributing members of society.
Btw, no where in the "rest of the industrialized world" employs prison sentencing like the US. You're better at locking people up than Stalin; maybe you should rethink your approach.
There's a level in risk in life that most people are willing to accept in order to live life the way they want. Just because some people are happy wrapped up on cotton wool and kept away from any possible harm doesn't mean that sort of life should be inflicted on the entire population.
True.... But on the other hand, just because some people thinks is cozy to send telegrams doesn't justify that the government keeps a telegraph network running:) Well, some countries does have things like a ministry of culture, that subsidizes theaters and other useless things...
With regard to the whole risk thing... I don't know.... The US is remarkably bad at being rational about that... Just consider the excessive airport/plane security vs. poor car standards, shitty roads, lack of driver education, crazy traffic laws and poor enforcement, etc... Or how you violate human rights (on many levels) in the fight on terrorism, while allowing people to own guns and refuse to talk gun regulation after a school shooting.
Just saying, the discussion of risk in the US is very irrational:)
Now this might come as a surprise to some of the technokids out there - but some of us actually *like* driving and don't want a computer doing it for us.
Well... The public roads aren't for joy riding. It's infrastructure for transportation. One might very well argue that you do not have the right to subject other people to unnecessary risk, just because you want to have fun.
Luckily the US has plenty of desert and car-crazy people, so if public roads were closed to human drivers, I'm sure there'll be lots of race tracks and open areas were human drivers are still allowed, etc...
Why should public roads be a government subsidized joy ride arena?
That's not the worst that can happen... When wages goes down, there will be a lot more projects that will suddenly be feasible to implement.
Sure it's possible to float the market... but it's not likely that we'll get enough people interested in CS anytime soon:)
CS is still a very boring field, and you can't sell it as anything else...
The right of EU politicians to erase old scandals trumps free speech & the public's right to know.
There are two sides of that... If you let politicians throw mud the way it's done in the US, you get a political system where all the politicians contemplate how to make each other look bad. Take a look at US politics, it's not like anything gets done...
Crazy baseless accusations and non-scandals/mud should be forgotten...
Note, I certainly see the right to be forgotten as an let's call it interesting experiment... We'll see how it plays out...
Either way, please don't claim that all EU politicians are conspiring to control the internet so their sex scandals can be deleted from public record. That's crazy talk...
Why all the Linux zealots modding good posts down, mod parent up! Great comment. I agree Android is pretty much the only good Linux software out there these days.
you can simply trade with those who can (Russia? China? ISIL?) for profit or favors.
Please don't categories ISIL along with Russia and China. Neither Russia or China is interested in a conflict with the US, but both of them do have some resources. ISIL is pretty much the opposite...
Most western government have rather low bang-for-the-buck
It's easy to forget just how much waste there is the private sector too.
Mostly because when a private company waste money, the general public doesn't care all that much...
But look at the crazy start-up investments made in Silicon Valley (VC for an app like YO). I could go on, but I'm sure we all have stories about waste in the private sector.
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However, some non-American hiring managers will want to hire only people from their own countries, because of feelings of patriotism for their countries. So we should have a law that states that "guest" hiring managers must hire at least 50% Americans.
So now immigrants can't become managers... That's not racist at all :)
Well, considering that I don't have a job, 65,000 seems like 65,000 too many.
Are you "competing" for a tech job. Do you have an MSc in CS from an internationally recognized institution?
I put "competing" in quotation marks, because my inbox has emails from a lot of recruiters who just wants to talk (they aren't all job offers).
Actually, if you happen know your way around open source projects and has some experience with js, linux, python, node, aws and release engineering, + a non-empty resume; feel free to drop me a line...
Either of 11.5M unemployed Americans I suspect most people don't compete for the tech jobs.. Oh, and btw, I know that my employer will hire anywhere in the world, and have people working remotely. In fact I'm an H1B, and paying taxes in the US; but if I weren't H1B I would just be working remotely from Denmark. To be honest, the uncertainty of being on an H1B, does often make me consider if I should continue to work out of the US (especially when 4 people are gunned down 20 blocks from my crappy over-priced San Francisco apartment - which is in the nice part of town).
To sum up, yes some companies are trying to get cheap workers; but the bay area wouldn't be a tech hub if it weren't for immigrants (they would just go somewhere else - say London or Toronto); and most of the unemployed Americans aren't looking/qualified for tech jobs...
Since the current unemployment rate is about 6%
Being unemployed, you probably don't want to here this, but the unemployment rate can also be too low.
Keep in mind that the unemployment rate counts people in-between jobs, and that an extremely low unemployment rate means that it's hard to hire, and, hence, hard to grow the economy. This is likely no the case in the US, as many people are under-employed (and/or under-paid); partly due to the very low minimum wage.
3 - FORCE HONEST PRICING make Service Contracts ILLEGAL.. you can not find anywhere on comcasts website the real prices of internet, only their special sale prices that go up from 100 to 600% at a later date. No more of this bullshit, honest prices prominently displayed. no Contracts allowed in any way for any reason.
Agree, the free market cannot work under circumstances such as these.
Service contracts makes sense, if the company is putting something in the ground and, hence, wants to make sure you remain a customer for a while before they undertake the investment of connecting you. But once connected and no physical work is involved it makes no sense.
Either way, special sale prices never makes any sense, and wouldn't be allowed in many other countries, because it's dishonest and doesn't facilitate competition.
Agreed
I do believe that Sweden is on a dangerous path when they prosecute artists for hate speech (who draws the line).
Courts draws the line...
But to be honest, freedom of speech is somewhat more limited in Europe than in the USA.
Mostly it's only corner cases... Like special laws about special events. ... attacks upon his honour and reputation."
By the way, under the human rights article 12: "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary
That is I have right not to have false accusations made against me.
I'm pretty sure the US doesn't tolerate people inciting violence and terrorism, which is likely what this is all about.
Of course, we have to take away freedom of speech in order to protect freedom of speech, don't you get it? Duh....
They are not talking about censorship... Nor are they talking about people making bad cartoons...
They are talking about videos encouraging young extremists to up arms against innocent civilians.
This is perfectly reasonable, one is not allowed to encourage criminal activities. We often tolerate bloggers encouraging people to disregard speed limits, disregard copyright law, or participate in civil disobedience, etc... But if you encourage murder, terror, violence, it is perfectly reasonable to prosecute you.
Note, free speech, does not imply speech without consequences. It is not okay to incite violence, perpetrade fraud, spread false rumours about people (UDHR Article 12). Also speech crime does not equal censorship.
leave the existing people alone, mmm'kay?
If you had chosen a search engine it would have... Only the default changed.
IMO, I don't see a way to do this painlessly...
Either way, I've actually started using yahoo in Firefox, and barely notice the difference.
Actually, the reason to take them alive would be to gather information about their network.
Assuming there is one... Granted assault rifles and bullet proof vests aren't easy to come by (in Europe). This still isn't at a level of sophistication that indicates the support of a larger organization.
One question that is left on my mind is how much did French intelligence know up front; did they know about the assault rifles...
Not that I would expect them to catch every terrorist and stop every crazy person; that is not realistic.
In my state they made preschool "free". Within the year the tuition costs tripled from previous levels that were flat the previous 5 years.
Why doesn't the state negotiation favorable terms.. Or if institutions refuse to do so, launch their own institutions.
Most preschools, boarding schools, universities, child care institutions in my country are self owned (not-for-profit) institutions. The government rarely/never works with institutions that has private financial interests (read investors, stockholders, owners).
Either way, aren't state schools not-for-profit self-owning institutions (or state owned)? I ask because I don't know.
That's the only definition of "free" that exists. Even the sunlight isn't "free" by your useless definition. How many innocent Hydrogen atoms died to light your day?
If you look down in the corner of the horizon you'll sometimes see a little note with the text: "Your daylight is brought to you by God Inc." :)
As usual, it's poor people providing subsidies for the rich.
Rich people pay more in taxes... If not, maybe you should address that... But let it be a separate issue.
I'm constantly surprised at how Americans manage to see the bad in every government service provided. In most other modern countries services such as this is what enables poor people to climb. It's the thing that reduces negative social heritage (you have a lot of that in the US)..
Note, just because a government makes it easier to climb out of poverty does not make it trivial. I've never been poor, but because tuition and living expenses was covered for me during university, doesn't mean I didn't have to work hard to earn a degree.
It is not illegal to lie
In most places it constitutes fraud... Prosecuting it is hard (and often impossible), but it is still illegal to commit fraud. Or sell a product under false advertisement which is what they do here, the product being a license to the work that is allegedly infringed.
Fraud, false advertising, etc... call it what you want, lying is rarely legal.
Nobody accepts openly carried firearms. It's just stupid, insecure men trying to show off. I think almost everyone should have a gun but CONCEALED on them. Otherwise guess who the criminal is shooting first. There's no point in carrying a gun unless nobody knows it's there.
Yeah, because people are more likely to use the gun successfully against an attacker, than getting shut by their kid while browsing walmart...
try not to look so nervous, or you might find yourself being seen as a threat.
Ha, ha, That's good advice, along with: "try not to look so black" :) :)
Or when in a bad neighbourhood: "try not to look so rich"...
All sounds advice, we should all abide by
Yeah... I don't see the point in what they are doing either..
:)
I do find it hilariously stupid that the first thing Americans decide to print when they get 3d printers is guns... Thank you (America) for confirming my prejudice
Another human that you create is not a "semi-autonomous bot". It is a self-aware person, and is held responsible for its own actions.
Can you prove that your teenage kid is sentient and fully autonomous? :) And at what age does this happen?
Actually that an interesting question
I think it is time we join the rest of the industrialized world and start treating DUI as a felony-level offense. Put some fear of real punishment into the hearts of the people who can't control their drinking and they might be less inclined to try their luck.
Lol, that is so American... Let's just punish more - instead of trying to help :)
:)
Adding to your already over-populated prisons isn't going to do anything.
Instead try with awareness campaigns, interlock devices and/or put people on antabus
If you must punish for no reason go with community service (cheaper and less invasive than prison).
Drunk driving is mostly a crime of stupidity, locking people up won't help them or society... It's much cheaper and effective to use less invasive punishments; ideally something that helps people too: ie. allows them to keep their job and remain contributing members of society.
Btw, no where in the "rest of the industrialized world" employs prison sentencing like the US. You're better at locking people up than Stalin; maybe you should rethink your approach.
There's a level in risk in life that most people are willing to accept in order to live life the way they want. Just because some people are happy wrapped up on cotton wool and kept away from any possible harm doesn't mean that sort of life should be inflicted on the entire population.
True.... But on the other hand, just because some people thinks is cozy to send telegrams doesn't justify that the government keeps a telegraph network running :)
:)
Well, some countries does have things like a ministry of culture, that subsidizes theaters and other useless things...
With regard to the whole risk thing... I don't know.... The US is remarkably bad at being rational about that... Just consider the excessive airport/plane security vs. poor car standards, shitty roads, lack of driver education, crazy traffic laws and poor enforcement, etc... Or how you violate human rights (on many levels) in the fight on terrorism, while allowing people to own guns and refuse to talk gun regulation after a school shooting.
Just saying, the discussion of risk in the US is very irrational
Now this might come as a surprise to some of the technokids out there - but some of us actually *like* driving and don't want a computer doing it for us.
Well... The public roads aren't for joy riding. It's infrastructure for transportation. One might very well argue that you do not have the right to subject other people to unnecessary risk, just because you want to have fun.
Luckily the US has plenty of desert and car-crazy people, so if public roads were closed to human drivers, I'm sure there'll be lots of race tracks and open areas were human drivers are still allowed, etc...
Why should public roads be a government subsidized joy ride arena?
well, of course, more labor decreases wages.
That's not the worst that can happen... When wages goes down, there will be a lot more projects that will suddenly be feasible to implement.
:)
Sure it's possible to float the market... but it's not likely that we'll get enough people interested in CS anytime soon
CS is still a very boring field, and you can't sell it as anything else...
The right of EU politicians to erase old scandals trumps free speech & the public's right to know.
There are two sides of that... If you let politicians throw mud the way it's done in the US, you get a political system where all the politicians contemplate how to make each other look bad. Take a look at US politics, it's not like anything gets done...
Crazy baseless accusations and non-scandals/mud should be forgotten...
Note, I certainly see the right to be forgotten as an let's call it interesting experiment... We'll see how it plays out...
Either way, please don't claim that all EU politicians are conspiring to control the internet so their sex scandals can be deleted from public record. That's crazy talk...
Why all the Linux zealots modding good posts down, mod parent up! Great comment. I agree Android is pretty much the only good Linux software out there these days.
Yes, let's use windows on the server, ha ha :)
you can simply trade with those who can (Russia? China? ISIL?) for profit or favors.
Please don't categories ISIL along with Russia and China. Neither Russia or China is interested in a conflict with the US, but both of them do have some resources. ISIL is pretty much the opposite...
Most western government have rather low bang-for-the-buck
It's easy to forget just how much waste there is the private sector too.
Mostly because when a private company waste money, the general public doesn't care all that much...
But look at the crazy start-up investments made in Silicon Valley (VC for an app like YO).
I could go on, but I'm sure we all have stories about waste in the private sector.
I'm sure the press release didn't have the same sensational headline... This is probably another case of bad journalism...