Some of the ills and evils of society afflicted on you, yours, and us by the effects of illegal immigration and immigrants are truly wrong, maddening, saddening, and outright anger-inducing. I give you all credit for what little patience you manage to bear.
I come from a country where healthcare is "free" (an extra 1 or 1.5% income tax, based on your income), so I feel the frustration on ER care. That being said, it's a greater issue than illegal immigration (there's plenty of legal citizens doing the same thing), but not the point of discussion.
"So go home" is something I've read in this thread alone. I always describe it thusly: "There are things I dislike about America. But there are things I dislike about Australia, and Europe (both where I have citizenship), and if I was to let them drag me down, I'd not be happy anywhere in the world, most likely. BUT, I like America enough to want to be here, despite the frustrations and hardships, and stay here."
Realize that as a legal immigrant, I have immense frustration and anger for illegals, I'm entirely with you. I also have a great deal of frustration for the federal governments handling of legal immigration, and while I do not begrudge the burden upon me for becoming a citizen (another, that I am required to pay social security tax but ineligible to use it), but it would only be human to begrudge these burdens being waived for others.
I am not telling you to get fucked, but rather venting anger at the government (and although it is the federal government, Arizona is also a target, being willing to use me as a pawn in its dragnet to make a point to the federals). I work regularly in Arizona, as it happens (though I reside in Washington state). I also have many military friends and see first hand the sacrifices they make (regardless of what anyone may think of the cause of the war). To a man, to the best of my knowledge, they feel my frustration, and recognize it as an expression of annoyance at the imperfections of politicians, rather than an attack on the freedoms they fight valiantly to protect. It may also be helped by the fact that they know I am a (currently volunteer, soon to be career) firefighter/EMT/paramedic who gives of my time, effort and energy, and possibly up to and including my life to fight for and protect people in the community in their hours of need (whilst genuinely trying not to make that sound immodest).
You had the insight to put thought into your words. So much better to reply to than "go home, asshole".:)
Absolutely. Above all else, I want to be here, and think that it's a good place for me to be. Otherwise, my wife and I would have lived in Australia (where I immigrated from), or Europe (as I have citizenship there by virtue of Scottish birth).
And on one hand I get that Arizona is fed up, frustrated, and with great merit, at the federal immigration system.
But I am entitled to be annoyed to know that I am someone who Arizona is comfortable sweeping up in a dragnet to make their point about such policies, especially when my job involves regular travel to Arizona (at least I have the good fortune not to be of darker skin).
If you REALLY want to be here, go through the correct process, and shut the hell up, or leave.
LMAO. "Land of the free" indeed.
Guess what? I like it here. It's a great place.
Guess what? It's not perfect.
Guess what? I seem to recall one of the founding principles of this country being the right to free speech, to express opinions on the imperfections, not to "go through the correct process" (which I am) and "shut the hell up or leave".
Those bumper stickers always alternately amuse and annoy the shit out of me, "If you don't like it, leave". The assumption that nothing going on could possibly be anything less than perfect, that no mistakes could ever be made, and that if you have a problem with that assumption, that's all it is, your problem, not something you could talk or do something about.
Very much so. Consider my "fuck you Arizona" to be something of a swipe at government ideas like that (and for having policies currently in place that can make it easier/ quicker/ cheaper to come here "improperly" and be made "proper" than properly in the first place).
In theory, yes.... the intention of the government is not to force people in a 'genuine, sincere relationship' to be parted. There are interviews as part of the process, for anyone doing this, and they do attempt to establish that (one of the final interviews can be done separately, where they'll ask things like "when did he last take a day off work", "who usually takes the garbage out, and on what night?" "what did your wife want to be when she was growing up", etc).
This would be accurate. My anger is at various people or groups - the federal government for double dipping while underfunding, the people who think they can queue jump, etc, but also at Arizona for putting a law into effect that negates a large part of the presumption of innocence on many grounds, one of which is not their fault, but hardly a surprise, the delays of USCIS.
I came here at the end of 2006 on a K-1 visa. I know all about I-129Fs, NOAs, 485, 765s, 131s, 751s.
I <3 visajourney.com - however: of course it's fraud. But if you can put forward a compelling case, you will not be deported. You may have to leave temporarily while the application is in process, but VJ's own forums on K-3/IR-1/CR-1 will show plenty of people who admit to doing largely that. Of course, few will say "oh, yes, it was my intention", and of course true love is true love, and you may just find the person of your dreams and "can't wait"... but the fact remains.
Speaking as someone who is "in between" (I have a 2 year green card, which is in the process of 'removing limitations', i.e. being issued as a 10 year green card), there are things you should know:
Backups are so bad that you are advised to send in your paperwork four to five months before your current papers expire. They will not accept paperwork more than six months prior. However, tThis is no guarantee that your new ones will be issued by the expiry. Indeed you might find yourself waiting an additional YEAR or more after expiry before new cards are issued
During this time, you are "on a stay authorized by the Attorney General", in essence, "until your application is accepted or declined". However, this status is not one of record. You will get a letter from USCIS stating that your application is in process, and that this letter does not suffice as a visa, etc, etc. If you contact USCIS, you will be told that you can NOT get a letter confirming that you are in that period - that, essentially, you are at the mercy of the various bureaucracies and service centers.
Do you know that if you are a foreigner who wishes to marry a US citizen, it is both QUICKER/and/ CHEAPER for you to come here on a tourist visa, sign a waiver saying you have no intention of marrying a citizen, get married anyway, and fill out a visa application that basically says "Oops. Can I stay anyway?" than it is for you to actually go through the process the "proper" way? Just one of the reasons immigration is... "problematic".
Despite having paid nearly $1000 two years ago for "processing" (just part of the nearly $15,000 my immigration has cost me in fees and direct expenses alone, not counting airfares, moving, etc) and biometrics, you now get stung for another biometrics to the tune of a few hundred dollars (in case, for example, your fingerprints have changed...)
So, really, fuck you Arizona - through no fault of my own, you feel entitled to detain me because of the failings of the government system? Because I can't get documentation of my status?
Our clients get these from ad pop-ups. Generally, the 3rd party ad servers get hacked to serve out these fake AVs. So, sites such as CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and Drudge Report is often thought to be the vector. They are not, but their 3rd party ad subscriptions are!
Generally, no. Generally, the reason is that the advertisers and their site owners rarely truly care. Have you seen the utter shit, spam, fakes, frauds that masquerade as Facebook ads, however often you click "X" and report it as "misleading / deceptive". Seriously, go to apple.com/store. Look for the neon green MacBook Air. You know, the one you can "test/review then keep for free"...
It's lip service. They. Just. Don't. Care. The advertisers are paying the bills, not you.
LMAO. Do you think that the police verify that items you pawn aren't stolen? Seriously?!?
No, if they hold them, it's so that if you report something as stolen, and the police warrant it as sufficiently serious as to actually allocate resources, and it seems like something someone would likely try to pawn, they can contact the pawn shop and say, "Hey, did anyone bring in a XXX in the last few days?"
or rental agreements (which can override a renters right to privacy (i.e. your landlord gets a key to your place if the agreement says so)).
Interesting. In fact, I'd ask YOU for a citation. For example, in Washington state, RCW 59.18.230, "Waiver of chapter provisions prohibited", specifically prohibits, and voids, any clause in any rental agreement that is an attempt to extend privileges of the landlord over the tenant beyond what is allowed within the Residential Landlord Tenancy Act. For example, Washington requires three days written notice for a landlord to make an inspection. My landlord can't put a clause in my lease that says "24 hours notice required", and even if I sign it, it is unenforceable. Any remedy by the landlord (withholding deposit, assessing a fee, beginning eviction processes) as a result of distress from such is also null and void, and can even be grounds for the tenant to claim damages from the landlord.
"I doubt you could even list 30 companies who have had their EULAs slapped down by a court."
"I could keep going on but I'm not allowed to talk about pending litigation."
LMAO. "Pending litigation" indeed. In other words, cases whose merits HAVE NOT been decided by the court, who may well rule in favor of the licensor...
And it's already licensed, and TI will also have an ARM Cortex A9 license, and probably already have a license for whatever is coming after that.
These licenses will not be reversible.
Because you, of course, have seen the licensing contracts between ARM and TI, and/or are privy to the usual clauses in such licensing agreements... right?
there are intermediates between Apple and its concurrents. Thus it will be hard for Apple to cut concurrents' supplies short.
Yeah, I can imagine it would be quite difficult and onerous for an company to request of its -wholly-owned- -subsidiary- to change policy, procedure or practice, or discontinue licensing upon contract renewal. I can't imagine how anyone would possibly think that that would be easily doable...
Also, consider whether the Terms and Conditions you agreed to when you got your credit card should apply, rather than a revised one released after the fact.
Bad example. If your card provider changes the T&C after the fact, and you dislike the changes, you can close your account without the balance becoming due immediately, only being required to make payments per the T&C that you did agree to.
Having high margins whilst others in the same industry have a lot slimmer margins can definitely be indicative of a monopoly or near monopoly. It is not the only plausible explanation, certainly, but it is one of them.
Yeah, because news of Apple attempting to buy Adobe outright would do absolutely nothing to Adobe's stock price...
Oh wait.
And I can see absolutely every investor, institutional or otherwise, being hap-hap-happy about a company pissing away a huge percentage of it's liquidity on the acquisition of a much smaller adjunct.
And this just in, newsflash: someone else who thinks that "market cap" is the be-all and end-all of "company value", rather than just equity value.
Sick of the Apple / Google / MSFT fanboys who say "Oh, we could just buy them tomorrow with our checkbook". Witness MSFT and Yahoo, for one recent example.
I love how you mentioned Aperture and Final Cut, and forgot the three, three-and-a-half elephants in the room, InDesign, which is far and away pretty much the only page layout game in town, Illustrator, Flash (for many graphic designers are required to work extensively, if not exclusively, with Flash, whatever the average Slashdot geek might fume about)... oh, what was that other one you didn't mention... oh yeah...
Photoshop.
Yeah, if there was no Photoshop for Mac, millions of designers would ditch the foremost image edit suite in the world for what, exactly? Or would they ditch Mac? "Adobe screwed", indeed... *eyeroll*
They killed Premiere but that was after Apple came out with FCP since Premiere on the Mac sucked so bad. Then putting out Lightroom after Apple came out with Aperture.
Aperture came out in December 2006. Lightroom was available to the public 6 weeks later, mid January 2007. I think it's a bit of a stretch to claim that Lightroom was a response to Aperture - I somehow think it had been in development for a bit more than a month (indeed, prototypes were in software form in 2003).
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Don't worry, it's Wikipedia - you probably won't.
I come from a country where healthcare is "free" (an extra 1 or 1.5% income tax, based on your income), so I feel the frustration on ER care. That being said, it's a greater issue than illegal immigration (there's plenty of legal citizens doing the same thing), but not the point of discussion.
"So go home" is something I've read in this thread alone. I always describe it thusly: "There are things I dislike about America. But there are things I dislike about Australia, and Europe (both where I have citizenship), and if I was to let them drag me down, I'd not be happy anywhere in the world, most likely. BUT, I like America enough to want to be here, despite the frustrations and hardships, and stay here."
Realize that as a legal immigrant, I have immense frustration and anger for illegals, I'm entirely with you. I also have a great deal of frustration for the federal governments handling of legal immigration, and while I do not begrudge the burden upon me for becoming a citizen (another, that I am required to pay social security tax but ineligible to use it), but it would only be human to begrudge these burdens being waived for others.
I am not telling you to get fucked, but rather venting anger at the government (and although it is the federal government, Arizona is also a target, being willing to use me as a pawn in its dragnet to make a point to the federals). I work regularly in Arizona, as it happens (though I reside in Washington state). I also have many military friends and see first hand the sacrifices they make (regardless of what anyone may think of the cause of the war). To a man, to the best of my knowledge, they feel my frustration, and recognize it as an expression of annoyance at the imperfections of politicians, rather than an attack on the freedoms they fight valiantly to protect. It may also be helped by the fact that they know I am a (currently volunteer, soon to be career) firefighter/EMT/paramedic who gives of my time, effort and energy, and possibly up to and including my life to fight for and protect people in the community in their hours of need (whilst genuinely trying not to make that sound immodest).
You had the insight to put thought into your words. So much better to reply to than "go home, asshole". :)
And on one hand I get that Arizona is fed up, frustrated, and with great merit, at the federal immigration system.
But I am entitled to be annoyed to know that I am someone who Arizona is comfortable sweeping up in a dragnet to make their point about such policies, especially when my job involves regular travel to Arizona (at least I have the good fortune not to be of darker skin).
LMAO. "Land of the free" indeed.
Guess what? I like it here. It's a great place.
Guess what? It's not perfect.
Guess what? I seem to recall one of the founding principles of this country being the right to free speech, to express opinions on the imperfections, not to "go through the correct process" (which I am) and "shut the hell up or leave".
Those bumper stickers always alternately amuse and annoy the shit out of me, "If you don't like it, leave". The assumption that nothing going on could possibly be anything less than perfect, that no mistakes could ever be made, and that if you have a problem with that assumption, that's all it is, your problem, not something you could talk or do something about.
Way to go, AC.
Very much so. Consider my "fuck you Arizona" to be something of a swipe at government ideas like that (and for having policies currently in place that can make it easier/ quicker/ cheaper to come here "improperly" and be made "proper" than properly in the first place).
In theory, yes.... the intention of the government is not to force people in a 'genuine, sincere relationship' to be parted. There are interviews as part of the process, for anyone doing this, and they do attempt to establish that (one of the final interviews can be done separately, where they'll ask things like "when did he last take a day off work", "who usually takes the garbage out, and on what night?" "what did your wife want to be when she was growing up", etc).
This would be accurate. My anger is at various people or groups - the federal government for double dipping while underfunding, the people who think they can queue jump, etc, but also at Arizona for putting a law into effect that negates a large part of the presumption of innocence on many grounds, one of which is not their fault, but hardly a surprise, the delays of USCIS.
I <3 visajourney.com - however: of course it's fraud. But if you can put forward a compelling case, you will not be deported. You may have to leave temporarily while the application is in process, but VJ's own forums on K-3/IR-1/CR-1 will show plenty of people who admit to doing largely that. Of course, few will say "oh, yes, it was my intention", and of course true love is true love, and you may just find the person of your dreams and "can't wait"... but the fact remains.
Birth certificate? Yes. Unless you'd formally renounced your citizenship of the US, your citizenship is a birth right.
Uhh, I have a driver's license, and fire department ID... I'm not a US citizen...
So, really, fuck you Arizona - through no fault of my own, you feel entitled to detain me because of the failings of the government system? Because I can't get documentation of my status?
Blah.
Generally, no. Generally, the reason is that the advertisers and their site owners rarely truly care. Have you seen the utter shit, spam, fakes, frauds that masquerade as Facebook ads, however often you click "X" and report it as "misleading / deceptive". Seriously, go to apple.com/store. Look for the neon green MacBook Air. You know, the one you can "test/review then keep for free"...
It's lip service. They. Just. Don't. Care. The advertisers are paying the bills, not you.
Hey, look everyone, it's the author of the iFart app!
No, if they hold them, it's so that if you report something as stolen, and the police warrant it as sufficiently serious as to actually allocate resources, and it seems like something someone would likely try to pawn, they can contact the pawn shop and say, "Hey, did anyone bring in a XXX in the last few days?"
Apropos of the validity or accuracy of your point, let's be clear:
You were, in fact, actually being entirely elitist.
Interesting. In fact, I'd ask YOU for a citation. For example, in Washington state, RCW 59.18.230, "Waiver of chapter provisions prohibited", specifically prohibits, and voids, any clause in any rental agreement that is an attempt to extend privileges of the landlord over the tenant beyond what is allowed within the Residential Landlord Tenancy Act. For example, Washington requires three days written notice for a landlord to make an inspection. My landlord can't put a clause in my lease that says "24 hours notice required", and even if I sign it, it is unenforceable. Any remedy by the landlord (withholding deposit, assessing a fee, beginning eviction processes) as a result of distress from such is also null and void, and can even be grounds for the tenant to claim damages from the landlord.
LMAO. "Pending litigation" indeed. In other words, cases whose merits HAVE NOT been decided by the court, who may well rule in favor of the licensor ...
Because you, of course, have seen the licensing contracts between ARM and TI, and/or are privy to the usual clauses in such licensing agreements... right?
Yeah, I can imagine it would be quite difficult and onerous for an company to request of its -wholly-owned- -subsidiary- to change policy, procedure or practice, or discontinue licensing upon contract renewal. I can't imagine how anyone would possibly think that that would be easily doable...
Bad example. If your card provider changes the T&C after the fact, and you dislike the changes, you can close your account without the balance becoming due immediately, only being required to make payments per the T&C that you did agree to.
Having high margins whilst others in the same industry have a lot slimmer margins can definitely be indicative of a monopoly or near monopoly. It is not the only plausible explanation, certainly, but it is one of them.
A viable open-source competitor, since Apple would have to release the source code to the world.... don't see that happening, do you?
Oh wait.
And I can see absolutely every investor, institutional or otherwise, being hap-hap-happy about a company pissing away a huge percentage of it's liquidity on the acquisition of a much smaller adjunct.
And this just in, newsflash: someone else who thinks that "market cap" is the be-all and end-all of "company value", rather than just equity value.
Sick of the Apple / Google / MSFT fanboys who say "Oh, we could just buy them tomorrow with our checkbook". Witness MSFT and Yahoo, for one recent example.
Photoshop.
Yeah, if there was no Photoshop for Mac, millions of designers would ditch the foremost image edit suite in the world for what, exactly? Or would they ditch Mac? "Adobe screwed", indeed... *eyeroll*
Aperture came out in December 2006. Lightroom was available to the public 6 weeks later, mid January 2007. I think it's a bit of a stretch to claim that Lightroom was a response to Aperture - I somehow think it had been in development for a bit more than a month (indeed, prototypes were in software form in 2003).