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  1. Re:So now under Trump... on DC Inauguration Protestors Are Being Hit With Facebook Data Searches (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The irony is that these idiots decide that because their person did not win, they are going to break windows, assault people, and burn cars in a town where 92.3% voted for THEIR candidate. They might as well have stabbed themselves in the eyeball with a fork if they just wanted to punish Hillary supporters.

  2. Re:only have second hand knowledge on Amazon Now Has More Than 341,000 Employees -- Added 110,000 People Last Year (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    must be, the people I know work at a distribution center nearby. They describe the climate as walmart on pms. Maybe just the corp headquarters is fun?

  3. Thats exactly what I am hoping for. Displacing an existing worker because an H1B is 60% cheaper is the sort of abuses that drive me crazy. Whenever some asshat like zukerburger, bezos, microsuck, etc are whining about these visa's its not because they cant find someone here to write code. If the cost was more expensive than hiring a US employee, then obviously it would only be used in the case of rare, unable to fill, highly needed, and highly skilled positions. Ever hear the phrase, those that ignore history are doomed to repeat it? These assclowns are asking for an entire proletariat revolution all over again. That sure as hell did not end well for aristocracy.

  4. Re:Still Not AI on Facebook's AI Unlocks the Ability To Search Photos By What's in Them (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Probably a good thing it's not too intelligent. Can you imagine if google was a person, the kind of sanity destroying crap it would have to deal with? Facebook's poor AI will be bombarded by dubious requests.

    My opinion of the average Facebook user is about as high as my opinion of people on AOL back in the 90s. If it were a full fledged AI there is no doubt that the assumption it drew from its average sampling of humans would definitely make it go SkyNet on all of us.

  5. Re:Interesting for global investors on Cutting H-1Bs Could Mean More Competition From China and India, Says GoDaddy CEO (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I dont know... I saw this self cleaning toilet the other day... lol surely those are going sell like wildfire.

  6. Dont forget Edison Electric in california... they did the same thing while drawing state and federal subsidies.

  7. said every undocumented mexican immigrant never. The goal is to make a shit ton of money here and move back and live life like a king in a 3rd world shithole. A Hundred thousand goes a long way in some of these places.

  8. Re:reprioritizing, not cutting on Cutting H-1Bs Could Mean More Competition From China and India, Says GoDaddy CEO (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    im beginning to suspect that the acting rashly is all part of the scam. II read excepts of his book, the art of the deal, and it seems like this scam is used consistently to rattle and get the opponent to make negotiating mistakes. I suppose its possible that he's not hot tempered and just masterful and playing one, but the image of Yosemite Sam is still pretty funny.

  9. Re:Ahem.... on Cutting H-1Bs Could Mean More Competition From China and India, Says GoDaddy CEO (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    this is not about getting another Albert Einstein. We would fast-track citizenship for something like that. This is about TEMP workers you can churn through and discard back to india or wherever they want to discard them when they are done getting the milk for free.

  10. We the elists CEOs who like fucking over US programmers are going seriously take it in the ass if we eliminate H1B visa's! We may be forced to close and live on the same crap income we planned for our programmers! Whaaaaahh.. my pussy hurts! Make it stop!

  11. Re:only have second hand knowledge on Amazon Now Has More Than 341,000 Employees -- Added 110,000 People Last Year (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably the same reason people find themselves living with people that treat them like shit. Sometimes they just feel stuck. You have a job, benefits suck, hours suck, they force you to work overtime and not claim the time for fear of losing the job (alleged by a 5 people i know). You're paycheck to paycheck, you've got a family to support, your spouse also works but the two incomes still barely keep the bills paid. You're so strapped that you even go in sick for fear of missing a days pay will put you short on daycare expenses. You're worked enough hours that its impossible to look for new work without quitting, but its already established quitting isn't a financial option now. You're healthcare expenses keep going up, not just premiums but out of pocket because the coverage keeps getting worse. There are quite a few companies that fit this bill, but some stories I've been told put them in a class of their own. One story was from someone who said they knew for a fact that certain items are kept in multiple bins, but because they flag someone as someone they want to quit (to avoid paying unemployment) they deliberately schedule the item pulls in a manner to cause excessive bending and reaching to induce back injury. It wasnt the employee they were trying to get to quit that told me this, it was middle management that said the place was soulless.

  12. Re:Labor intensive jobs on Amazon Now Has More Than 341,000 Employees -- Added 110,000 People Last Year (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    well the cost-of-living and lifestyle demands of a emerging country used to be a check-and-balance. It is what slowed the outsourcing of jobs to japan, taiwan, and hong kong in the 80s and 90s. China was more of a concern since they had a population in the billions. Demanding a middle-class lifestyle falls apart when there are still billions lined up to take your job. I call it a quality-of-life inflation, but china and india have too much population for this to work in a fashion of self correction.

  13. only have second hand knowledge on Amazon Now Has More Than 341,000 Employees -- Added 110,000 People Last Year (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know personally, but have spoken to more than a few of their employees who claim that Amazon has a huge reputation for abusing, overworking, and underpaying their employees. I guess its more important to build that mars lander, than to treat employees like humans.

  14. Re:Why don't H1Bs simply build companies at home? on Indian IT Sector Warns Against US Visa Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    actually I think its more propaganda from Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Micro$oft. Its hard to buy that next-worlds-most-expensive-luxury-yacht if you have to actually pay your programmers what they are worth.

  15. Re:brain gap on Indian IT Sector Warns Against US Visa Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not taking into account that many people can come in as a foreign student and get a college degree for free or severely reduced cost, meanwhile the skyrocketing costs of college for even in-state tuition is going further and further out of reach of many americans. If the US shored up all the foreign aid dispersal until after higher education dispersal to all that wish to have it, each year, thereby paying in foreign at only what was remaining, we would not have that gap. Before you take that first sentence and decide it is somehow selfish or nationalistic, consider this is the same forumla france employs and they give college to just about all their citizens that can pass an entry exam.

  16. There is no labor shortage in IT on Indian IT Sector Warns Against US Visa Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    we dont have a labor shortage in our IT industry... what we have in an over abundance of assholes like Mark Zuckerfuck that want to pay pennies on the dollar for skilled labor while he goes and buys an other fucking island or yaht or something.

  17. How Expensive? on Tostitos' Breathalyzer Bags Can Detect If You're Drunk -- Then Call Uber · · Score: 1

    Just how damn expensive is this bag of Tostito's? IF they didnt raise the price they've got to be taking a loss. Note to self, buy a couple to ebay later.

  18. Re:Voice assistants are another fad on More Than 8M People Own an Amazon Echo As Customer Awareness Increases 'Dramatically' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    is it me being paranoid, or is the idea of a semi autonomous machine with a hot mic in the house, ready to broadcast everything you say, something right out of 1984 the novel?

  19. Re:Gov't data on Ask Slashdot: Can US Citizens Trust Government Data? (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course its partisan! Its The Washington Post AKA Mark Bezos AKA "lets pretend to give a shit about immigration so i can fuck american programmers out of a good paying jobs by exploiting the H1B Visa program. Oh if it wasnt for that damned Trump and his anti-immigration stance!" Yea, of course they are going to pretend like this is a new threat.

    The government has been whitewashing things for a long time. Don't trust a thing they say at face value. They only look out for their self interests. Look at the bullshit statistics about 'gun' violence. Why do they always only quote gun violence that results in death but not ALL homicides and suicides? Is being killed by a gun vs a knife or baseball bat make you any more or less dead than the other? Nope. That's like patting yourself on the back because you did an amazing job cracking down on drinking on college campus. You banned kegs. Now your statistic of 'college parties with kegs' shows that almost nobody on campus now drinks at parties. Nobody is bring cans/bottles of beer, packages of wine, bourbons, vodka, jello shots .... you get the idea; thanks to our amazing legislature of banning kegs.

    President Reagan summed it up quite well in 1986 when he said "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

    Gerald Ford, the 38th President of the United States.
    "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."
    Presidential address to a joint session of Congress (12 August 1974)

    President Dwight D Eisenhower
    "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

    We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together." in his Farewell Adress to the Nation, Jan 17, 1961

    This is definitely not something NEW that people feel the government would just as soon lie to you than give you the real data.

    Examples?
      How about the full report of the Warren Commission ? Parts are still sealed in the interest of 'national security'. Even the JFK Act was written to keep everyone in the dark until 2017. Doesn't sound too terribly honest to me.

      Or more recently how about the downplaying of the ISIS threat by the former president by calling them the JV team of terrorists. "The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a JV team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant."

    or even the made up report on Benghazi that it was people upset over a video some Jewish guy released. They even arrested him and charged him with a crime as a scapegoat. Only after the records were subpoenaed did we learn that they in fact knew the entire time it was a 9/11 anniversary attack.

    the reports of WMD in Iraq?? Granted we did learn later that Sadham was as guilty as anyone else for these bad reports, since he admitted to lying about having them to terrify Iran. But if I recall, it was a 'slam dunk'

    How about "we are going to be the most honest and open congress in american history" Just a few years before their infamous The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) [aka Obamacare] where the 1000+ page bill was put to a vote without letting the voting members get to read it first. This was the famous Pelosi quote "But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it"

    No sir, I do not trust any government to sacrifice self interest in favor of public interest.
     

  20. Re:Gov't data on Ask Slashdot: Can US Citizens Trust Government Data? (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe that if you add up all those not currently in the labor force, whom at one time drew unemployment but have since stopped looking, along with those who feel they had to take a crap job and large pay cut, then it might be believable that as many as 2 in 5 are out of work. My wife had the misfortune to get her masters degree in teaching before acquiring tenure only to suffer the 2009 fallout from the banking collapse and bailouts. Magically every non tenured teacher with more than 2yrs teaching got pink slipped. To this day they still adhere to the practice of only hiring 1 and 2 yr teachers who are in the lowest pay scale (bachelors with teaching certification only). Those that fly under the radar for 5yrs can find themselves with tenure and then have 5yrs remaining in which to get their mandatory masters requirement completed. My wife definitely counts herself as out of work because a job in a hospital scheduling surgeries only pays 1/3rd of what she used to make a year while working 30% more days of the same year.

    I don't think that's the same thing as deliberately changing the data.

  21. hopefully more of a WiiU where the gamepad IS the console. 3DS games, even for the same titles, are watered down half-ass versions of the same full-featured counterparts. I dont like PS Vita or 3DS games, because the games are gimped. The argument that it was a limitation of space and size has been crap since ipad2/iphone4 era. If I can play the full version of FinalFantasy IV on the ipad2 3yrs ago why does the 3DS version suck so bad? The hardware in a 3DS blows the doors off the SNES. No excuse besides laziness and convenience IMO. Its about time someone at these game companies came to the same realization.

  22. you really have drank the coolaid if you think any member of congress is for workers and workers rights. Do yourself a huge favor and avoid the bullshit mantra that dems are somehow behind the working man. They just pander to get their money. In 2008 they controlled half the supreme court, the executive branch, and all of congress. If there was a chance to do ANYTHING for the constantly shrinking middle class that was 4 years they chose to sit on their asses and pretend everything including tropical storms and cancer was bush's fault. Its SOOO much easier to point fingers and deflect failures than to actually solve problems. They were, at the time, paid higher than any previous session of congress yet held substantially fewer days in session than any previous term also. Considering how dire our economy was, they should have taken a 20% pay cut to send a message that they too were not without feeling the pain of financial impact.. AND they should have worked 2x the normal number of sessions to try and brainstorm a fix to that mess. Instead we got record setting number of golf trips. Shakespear had a few things right...

    1) first thing to do is kill all the lawyers
    2) a pox on both your houses.

  23. even paper ballots are faked. Such as the 300 abantee ballots 'accidentally' delivered to a person's house, all filled out with different residents names. The only non-corrupt voting method is the one where you have to appear in person and ink-thumbprint your selection on a large paper ballot. Thats how the UN does it. It also takes a very long time to count the ballots. Everyone has sacrificed their freedoms in favor of political expedience.

  24. Re:Popcorn time! on Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    not even close, you must be young. She is unpopular by damn near every veteran who served in the last 20 years. Her disdain for those who put their lives on the line in service to their country is well known. Even when she was first lady her disdain was apparent. Its amazing how times have changed and what used to be a small thing would shame someone into having to resign. 15 years ago Trent Lott was forced to resign because he told Strom Thurmond (someone older than dirt), at his 100th birthday party, gave a toast to try to make that old bastard feel good. Considering that it had been many decades since we had segregation, it didnt even occur to him that Strom ran on a segregation platform. So he was forced to resign. Consider how much dirt is on so many people thanks to silent whistle blowers and Wikileaks. Trent Lott never:

    - got caught in Lie after Lie after Lie and later confirmed by Wikileaks
    - complicit in the 1990s in denying constitutional rights to 150k veterans because they were drawing social security benefits so there they MIGHT be unstable
    - promised to raise the taxes on the MIDDLE CLASS because 'its time they pay their fair share'
    - Praised the 'Australian Solution' for gun control and promise the same thing here
    - get caught in saying one thing publicly and then privately to the real masters (Goldman Sachs)
    - Set up a private mail server. Lie and say its only for personal use. Delete what we now know turned out to be 650k email messages. Violate federal laws which regulate communication under the freedom of information act. Violate federal laws as to who can view classified information and how its secured and handled. Later in presidential debate insist that only those with clearance ever got sent those unencrypted, plain-text, highly classified, email messages only to get caught lying AGAIN when it was discovered she sent her worthless trust-fund daughter highly classified documents.
    - Publicly call EVERY SINGLE ONE of your opponents supporters as the absolute DREGS of society (supporters you would want to sway to your side and win their vote btw)
    - be so self centered and conceited that even the campaign slogan says it all "I'm with HER". Its ALWAYS about her not the suffering american worker.
    - get caught Colluding with the mainstream media and STEALING the primary election.
    - get caught organizing an ex-parte communication with an official presiding over her criminal investigation
    - get caught cheating during debates because the campaign was being fed nearly ALL the questions in advance
    - get outed by DNC favorite Michael Moore in 2007 as being the most corrupt politician by expressly stating that HRC took more donations by pharmaceuticals than every single other senator COMBINED.

    so YES .. she IS that unpopular. Even people who are the CLOSEST to her cant stand her as a person. She has the personality of a rattle snake and twice the bite. She should have stopped when the FIRST screw-up hit the light of day. Its pure arrogance and selfishness to become the FIRST woman president that kept her from standing aside and letting a more qualified, or at LEAST significantly less tainted, person have a real shot.

    Let me put it this way... she is so unpopular that DONALD TRUMP, an egotistical bastard with no background in politics, won an election against her. She and those around her represent the very essence of the disgusting Animal Farm behavior coming out of government over the last 20 years. The american people are sick of electing more pigs.

    I would say there were more Never-Clintons and Never-Trump participants than those ACTUALLY in EITHER of their campaigns. My guess is that there were more Never-Clintons than Never-Trump's. Especially when the MSM ordered the staff to cut the feed any time Wikileaks got mentioned. That is yellow journalism and blatant coverup. People will not stand for some self appointed elitist class making such a thinly veiled attempt to manipulate, misguide, and mislead. It only enforces our oppositi

  25. how about first we start with all the lawyers (per shakespear) and then we kill all the bankers..

    Maybe after that we can work on DST