Why would you assume that a credit card purchase is for the loan?
I get 2% cash back, and price protection for 60 days.
Meanwhile you're paying 5-10% more than you should.
Do you think banks are giving you money out of the goodness of their hearts... hell no. They're charging the merchant 5-10% for accepting payment by card, they give a pittance back to you to keep you using the card and pocket the rest.
Meanwhile, people using cash or debit are finding retailers who'll give them discounts.
Fools pay with cash. When you pay with credit cards, you get cash back.
(And don't make a stupid argument that the price is increased to pay for the "cash back"........of course it is, but the people who pay with cash pay the same price as those who pay with credit cards, just don't get any cash back).
Actually, fools believe that they get cash back. People who pay cash pay less.
The TV set you paid £400 for on credit, the guy who paid cash got it for £370.
You see there is a reason no-one outside the US does cashback on credit cards... its because we're smart enough to realise that banks do not offer anyone free cash. If they are its because they're getting it from you in a way that isn't immediately obvious. Of course the Machiavellian brilliance of charging the merchant to give you a pittance back is that you'll defend it.
Meanwhile, I'll continue saving with cash. Enjoy your negative feedback loop.
I wonder how many murder / suicides this will result in?
But seriously, do they not load test in the run-up to these extravaganzas?
Have you never worked in retail?
Of course no-one tested it, no-one thought of testing it. Staff on the floor are too busy dealing with stock movement, relentless hagglers and Karen with her 17 kids and a wheelbarrow demanding to speak to the manager. Store managers are too busy dealing with the Karens, over-working the floor staff and dodgy accounting to think of this and senior management are too busy trying to find out why their latest round of staff cuts haven't made them more profitable whilst planning to go for another lot of jobs with a serrated machete.
I hire people all the time, and I promise you everyone at my company just wants to hire someone competent who can get shit done, and we have no interest whatsoever in indentured servants. We require a degree.
For me, requiring a degree was about cutting down on the number of rubbish applicants and overseas applicants without the rights to work locally.
Largely this worked for us, we'd still get applicants who didn't have a degree and even hired a few, but these applicants were of very high quality because they could use their experience and knowledge to compensate for the lack of a degree.
Yeah I know it's fashionable to hate on opiates, but please know what you're talking about instead of repeating what the DEA and its mouthpiece the CDC are saying that runs counter to medical knowledge.
I think that is because people dont understand what an opiate actually is.
Opiates (and opioids, to include synthetic drugs) are quite safe and effective pain killers at low dosages. The problem we have is that when most people hear "opiate" they instantly think heroin where as they include a lot of safe drugs like codeine. Here in the UK you can buy codeine pain killers up to 12.5mg, usually combined with ibuprofen or paracetamol over the counter. However there have been some scare campaigns over the use of codeine in non-prescription pain killers despite no evidence that they're harmful.
The problem with opiate abuse of legal opiates has to do with prescription drug abuse, prescription pain killers like Oxycontin (Oxycodone) being used for recreational use, so called "Hillbilly Heroin" but this isn't really doing much damage. Over in Eastern Europe codeine is being cooked into a quite destructive drug called Krokodil because its cheap but this isn't an issue in western countries because we've got better (and safer) illicit narcotics that are affordable. Krokodil only became used because buying crack, meth or even weed was too expensive for Russian junkies. To make this drug, I'd need copious quantities of the 12.5 mg pills which would require driving to every Boots and Superdrug in the county... and that would get noticed whilst even though the medicine is available over the counter, sales are tracked.
Anyway, what were we talking about... Oh yeah, smoking. Tobacco remains the most destructive drug in our societies and its completely legal. All this hand wringing about the non-issue of Opioids is utter bollocks when we still tolerate tobacco to be consumed in such huge quantities.
Driverless vehicles could follow specific routes and get power from wires -- they could have almost no battery capacity. Minimizing the meet for batteries could be environmentally great.
Basically trams without the rails.
There are already trams that run on wheels. Same overhead wires, but a converted bus underneath like this one from Holland. I believe that there are even ones that can cross from road to rail.
However in Singapore I still see a Chinese taxi driver hanging out the window shouting "what you do, lah" at the bus. Seriously though, this could work in Singapore because they have such little traffic because the number of vehicle registrations they give out are so low. So it's a perfect proof of concept that can't be applied anywhere else... like most of what happens in Singapore.
These twaddles are as old as ISPs.
I just wonder why it took so long.
Most ISPs are advertising the RAW carrier bit-rate rather than the actual net data bit-rate.
DSL Provider show you ATM bit-rate. You can roughly cut 10-12% for the real BPS. And it still represents the raw data rate between your modem and the DSLAM. Even when you get optimal link there, the local collect loop is either deliberately throttled or saturated. By the time your data can travel to or from outside your ISPs internal network, it is already diminished.
Getting VDSL2 here advertised as up-to 100up/30down MBPs.
Lines has 0 loss, 0 CRC, and talks at 90/25 MBs. Even if it is encapsulated in an ATM transmission with 10% loss. That make it still like 80 Down / 25 Up.
In reality ISP is throttling it to 25-30 Down 20 Up because their fiber to the central has not enough capacity in my area.
Sheepples here don't care as long as they can go to Facebook to post their pathetic lolcats.
Good hope some advertising regulators pay attention. Was about time they did.
Well to answer your first questions is that this is the UK, nothing gets done until enough people complain.
The answer to your second question is that advertising exactly what bandwidth is would be far to difficult for the average mouth breather to understand, and our mouth-breathers (Chavs) are far better educated than the average American mouth-breather (redneck, trailer-trash or Trump voter). Most people dont understand the difference between upload speeds and download speeds on ADSL let alone the intricacies of line noise or attenuation.
Basically what the Advertising Standards Agency is not saying that ISP's can no longer present their maximum speed as the average speed, so an ADSL provider cannot say 24 Mbit internet, they must now say "up to" 24 Mbit internet. They might have to put some faff about average speeds in the fine print that flashes up for the minimum mandatory 1.23423 seconds.
This may not seem like much to the average American (my apologies if you're not American) but to the pedantic British, this is a hell of a difference.
In moderate amounts beer and red wine can calm down, as beer contains hops and red wine tannin.
I've also seen people go completely mental from a LLB (Lemon Lime and Bitters, the bitters contains 44% alcohol, but is so diluted that the actual drink only contains trace amounts (as in less than 0.2% ABV).
There's a lot more governing one's reaction to alcohol than just the type of beverage.
I think this has already been shown this is purely a psychological effect, i.e. the type of alcohol affects your mood in precisely the way you expect it to. A scientific study of the actual "real" effects would have done a proper double blind test and given the participants alcohol (or not) without being told what it was exactly instead of filling out a survey form.
This,
Which is why I'm taking it with a grain of salt, shot of tequila and slice of lime.
Seriously though, the causes behind this could be explained in a number of different ways from reactions to taste to stereotypes of the beverages involved.
He also said the study revealed a difference between men and women's emotional relationship with different alcoholic drinks.
He doesn't work for Google does he?
I suspect not, he's using solid research backed by a proper peer review process instead of out of context quotes, poorly supported conclusions and going on alt-right YouTube and whinging.
Interesting - what if I'm trying to sell on eBay, can I no longer say "will post to UK only"? I'm not a merchant, just a private seller who auctions the odd thing off.
(Obviously switch for any EU country there - the question is general.)
This legislation is only for large retailers who use geoblocking on their websites.
You'll be perfectly safe as there is no law requring you to ship to the whole of the EU, you just cant block someone in Romania from seeing it (which you already cant do with fleabay).
I"m guessing that while it is illegal to discriminate with regard to housing to [insert minority here], it is likely NOT illegal to tune your advertising disbursement however you wish.
Where I am, this would be borderline illegal.
But that doesn't matter, its a big PR shitstorm and thatâ(TM)s the damaging part. It doesn't need to be illegal to be immoral or distasteful to your clientele. Many businesses have lost supporters over perfectly legal racist policies because those supporters or advertisers do not want to be tarnished by an affiliated or associated company who has conducted themselves in such a distasteful manner.
Just because it isn't illegal doesn't make it right.
If you had, you'd notice the number of cosmetics that are promoted to make your face whiter.
You see in Asia, dark skin is considered to be a sign of poverty, it means you work outside all day, pale skin is a sign of wealth, it shows you dont need to work oustide.
Nice troll, but you missed two important points. Pale skin is actually quite predominant in China (you fell into the standard casual racism trap of assuming they're all yellow) and that this survey was conducted in the United States, not China. You'll notice there aren't a lot of Chinese stores, certainly few in the Gansu province.
Odd thing is, a healthy set of eyes can adjust to most conditions at night - at least enough to avoid tripping on anything. Under a full moon, you can see pretty much anything you need to (as long as you're not in the deep woods or anything). You just have to sit still in the dark until your eyes adjust.
Trying to put this nicely, you've never seen the full dark.
As you've elluded to, the moon has phases, at the full moon the moon fully illuminated by the sun which reflects back to earth, here there is enough light for someone with good eyes to reliably see objects. At the new moon, it's entirely in the planets shadow, so very little light is reflected, this is when it is properly dark and you definately wont be able to see because there is not enough light for your eyes to operate.
The problem you have is that in populated centres we need street lights to prevent collisions and injuries. Out in the sticks there is less traffic so the risks are negligable. If you disklike the amount of lights in the urban enviroment, move out to the middle of nowhere... but you'll have to give up all the city comforts to do that.
mainly it doesnt allow the coastal elites control of the country. my state of NY is a perfect example of why the electoral college is better than a straight vote. NYC covers an area of what, 30 square miles? if that?? Yet due to its population density, it has control over the entire state, eventhough the entire state minus NYC does not want anything to do with the policies that come through due to the influence of NYC
now imagine the entire country being run by NYC and a few other big cities. No thanks
Compared to a few country bumpkins dictating things to the millions who live in those few cities?
This is why we, in the Westminster system have electorates, each electorate gets one member who votes. the Boroughs in NYC get no more power than the boroughs in Pheonix. The electoral collage in the US is essentially undemocratic as they can vote however they want. It would be tollerable if they voted for the good of the nation like the UK's house of lords, but they dont even do that.
That's interesting.. Apple is doing a computer simulation of a self-driving car while Google is testing self driving cars without safety drivers in Arizona.
That's Apple's MO. Release a product years after everyone else, make it less functional than the competition and profit...
There's no ??? because you're going to buy it no matter how bad it is because it's got an Apple logo. These things could crash (litterally as in into a tree) on a regular basis and fanboys would still buy them.
Net neutrality doesn't mean that you are entitled to free content.
No, it means all content regardless of origin must be given the same priority.
If you think you ISP's are bad now, wait until Net Neutrality isn't a thing. They'll become like your airlines except the base price wont be as low. Hey, you like Netflix, to get Netflix at our Uber fast Ultra High Definision 11G speeds its only a small $5.99 per month. If you like HBO, get our HBOFast package at just $5.99. We've noticed you spend a lot of time on WoW, it would be a shame if you got a lot of lag... we can Guarantee* that wont happen for a mere $9.99 a month.
*Guarantee is decorative only and will not reflect any service level expectation.
Airlines only got the way they are because it's a highly competitive market in a race to the bottom, ISP's are not competitive at all in the US.
Easy enough to fix - don't allow them to hire any H1B that doesn't meet all their stated requirements. If they want to lower the requirements, they must first prove they couldn't find an American that meets those lowered requirements either.
The H1B system is being horribly abused, but simply enforcing the existing rules would eliminate most of the problems. Requiring a public job listing on a single nationwide job board would be a relatively easy way to make sure the companies are actually looking for local talent before resorting to imported labor ("We see 653 Americans applied for this position through the board. Please prove that none of them met your requirements...")
An alternate method I've heard proposed is to require that H1B's be paid at least X% more than the median salary for comparable positions - after all, they're supposed to have such impressive skills that the local job pool can't satisfy the demand.
First thing... a nationalised job board... Isn't that... Communism?
Seriously though, they'll just do what they did in Australia. Advertise a highly skilled job for minimum wage and claim "We cant get an Australian to do the job, give us our 457 (Australia's H1-B)". Under the 457 Visa rules, a company needs to demonstrate that they cannot find an Australian to do the job, after the crackdown on skills loading (advertising a job with impossible to have skills) they just advertised jobs at salary levels vastly lower than Australians at that skill level would accept.
For the record, I think a national (govt funded) job board would be a fantastic idea but I'm not an American.
First off, it's "President Trump" and execution of his platform is pretty much what the voters expect, isn't it? Or have we come to expect less of our voted officials?
First off, you need to get over yourself. There is no law requiring you to attach a title to the person holding the office in any communications... Secondly on that point, I'm sure you didn't bat an eyelid when people said "o bummer" to refer to the previous occupant.
Secondly this is one of the few things we expected him to do... We don't expect it to work. There are no doubt enough loopholes that the outsourcing body shops can continue unabated. Barring that, they'll just move jobs overseas. In fact they're probably doing both.
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Why would you assume that a credit card purchase is for the loan?
I get 2% cash back, and price protection for 60 days.
Meanwhile you're paying 5-10% more than you should.
Do you think banks are giving you money out of the goodness of their hearts... hell no. They're charging the merchant 5-10% for accepting payment by card, they give a pittance back to you to keep you using the card and pocket the rest.
Meanwhile, people using cash or debit are finding retailers who'll give them discounts.
Fools pay with cash. When you pay with credit cards, you get cash back.
(And don't make a stupid argument that the price is increased to pay for the "cash back"........of course it is, but the people who pay with cash pay the same price as those who pay with credit cards, just don't get any cash back).
Actually, fools believe that they get cash back. People who pay cash pay less.
The TV set you paid £400 for on credit, the guy who paid cash got it for £370.
You see there is a reason no-one outside the US does cashback on credit cards... its because we're smart enough to realise that banks do not offer anyone free cash. If they are its because they're getting it from you in a way that isn't immediately obvious. Of course the Machiavellian brilliance of charging the merchant to give you a pittance back is that you'll defend it.
Meanwhile, I'll continue saving with cash. Enjoy your negative feedback loop.
I wonder how many murder / suicides this will result in?
But seriously, do they not load test in the run-up to these extravaganzas?
Have you never worked in retail?
Of course no-one tested it, no-one thought of testing it. Staff on the floor are too busy dealing with stock movement, relentless hagglers and Karen with her 17 kids and a wheelbarrow demanding to speak to the manager. Store managers are too busy dealing with the Karens, over-working the floor staff and dodgy accounting to think of this and senior management are too busy trying to find out why their latest round of staff cuts haven't made them more profitable whilst planning to go for another lot of jobs with a serrated machete.
Fosters. Australian for beer!
No-one in Australia drinks that swill, it's strictly for non-Australian markets because nothing is too bad for the rest of the world.
I hire people all the time, and I promise you everyone at my company just wants to hire someone competent who can get shit done, and we have no interest whatsoever in indentured servants. We require a degree.
For me, requiring a degree was about cutting down on the number of rubbish applicants and overseas applicants without the rights to work locally.
Largely this worked for us, we'd still get applicants who didn't have a degree and even hired a few, but these applicants were of very high quality because they could use their experience and knowledge to compensate for the lack of a degree.
And who makes more money from tobacco sales than anyone, including the tobacco companies themselves??? That's right, friends. The government.
So... They're making smoking less appealing and less affordable. What evil bastards they are.
Yep, I quit smoking in 2000 because John Howard (then Australia's Prime Minister) put up the tax.
Yeah I know it's fashionable to hate on opiates, but please know what you're talking about instead of repeating what the DEA and its mouthpiece the CDC are saying that runs counter to medical knowledge.
I think that is because people dont understand what an opiate actually is.
Opiates (and opioids, to include synthetic drugs) are quite safe and effective pain killers at low dosages. The problem we have is that when most people hear "opiate" they instantly think heroin where as they include a lot of safe drugs like codeine. Here in the UK you can buy codeine pain killers up to 12.5mg, usually combined with ibuprofen or paracetamol over the counter. However there have been some scare campaigns over the use of codeine in non-prescription pain killers despite no evidence that they're harmful.
The problem with opiate abuse of legal opiates has to do with prescription drug abuse, prescription pain killers like Oxycontin (Oxycodone) being used for recreational use, so called "Hillbilly Heroin" but this isn't really doing much damage. Over in Eastern Europe codeine is being cooked into a quite destructive drug called Krokodil because its cheap but this isn't an issue in western countries because we've got better (and safer) illicit narcotics that are affordable. Krokodil only became used because buying crack, meth or even weed was too expensive for Russian junkies. To make this drug, I'd need copious quantities of the 12.5 mg pills which would require driving to every Boots and Superdrug in the county... and that would get noticed whilst even though the medicine is available over the counter, sales are tracked.
Anyway, what were we talking about... Oh yeah, smoking. Tobacco remains the most destructive drug in our societies and its completely legal. All this hand wringing about the non-issue of Opioids is utter bollocks when we still tolerate tobacco to be consumed in such huge quantities.
Driverless vehicles could follow specific routes and get power from wires -- they could have almost no battery capacity. Minimizing the meet for batteries could be environmentally great. Basically trams without the rails.
There are already trams that run on wheels. Same overhead wires, but a converted bus underneath like this one from Holland. I believe that there are even ones that can cross from road to rail.
However in Singapore I still see a Chinese taxi driver hanging out the window shouting "what you do, lah" at the bus. Seriously though, this could work in Singapore because they have such little traffic because the number of vehicle registrations they give out are so low. So it's a perfect proof of concept that can't be applied anywhere else... like most of what happens in Singapore.
Also, driverless busses are nothing new, they've been operating on dedicated busways like Adelaide's O-Bahn for decades.
These twaddles are as old as ISPs. I just wonder why it took so long.
Most ISPs are advertising the RAW carrier bit-rate rather than the actual net data bit-rate.
DSL Provider show you ATM bit-rate. You can roughly cut 10-12% for the real BPS. And it still represents the raw data rate between your modem and the DSLAM. Even when you get optimal link there, the local collect loop is either deliberately throttled or saturated. By the time your data can travel to or from outside your ISPs internal network, it is already diminished.
Getting VDSL2 here advertised as up-to 100up/30down MBPs.
Lines has 0 loss, 0 CRC, and talks at 90/25 MBs. Even if it is encapsulated in an ATM transmission with 10% loss. That make it still like 80 Down / 25 Up.
In reality ISP is throttling it to 25-30 Down 20 Up because their fiber to the central has not enough capacity in my area.
Sheepples here don't care as long as they can go to Facebook to post their pathetic lolcats.
Good hope some advertising regulators pay attention. Was about time they did.
Well to answer your first questions is that this is the UK, nothing gets done until enough people complain.
The answer to your second question is that advertising exactly what bandwidth is would be far to difficult for the average mouth breather to understand, and our mouth-breathers (Chavs) are far better educated than the average American mouth-breather (redneck, trailer-trash or Trump voter). Most people dont understand the difference between upload speeds and download speeds on ADSL let alone the intricacies of line noise or attenuation.
Basically what the Advertising Standards Agency is not saying that ISP's can no longer present their maximum speed as the average speed, so an ADSL provider cannot say 24 Mbit internet, they must now say "up to" 24 Mbit internet. They might have to put some faff about average speeds in the fine print that flashes up for the minimum mandatory 1.23423 seconds.
This may not seem like much to the average American (my apologies if you're not American) but to the pedantic British, this is a hell of a difference.
Uber today has announced a new internal company investigation, to discover which part of their company is not operating illegally and unethically.
In other news, speeding tickets are going to be issued at the Indy 500.
In moderate amounts beer and red wine can calm down, as beer contains hops and red wine tannin.
I've also seen people go completely mental from a LLB (Lemon Lime and Bitters, the bitters contains 44% alcohol, but is so diluted that the actual drink only contains trace amounts (as in less than 0.2% ABV).
There's a lot more governing one's reaction to alcohol than just the type of beverage.
I think this has already been shown this is purely a psychological effect, i.e. the type of alcohol affects your mood in precisely the way you expect it to. A scientific study of the actual "real" effects would have done a proper double blind test and given the participants alcohol (or not) without being told what it was exactly instead of filling out a survey form.
This,
Which is why I'm taking it with a grain of salt, shot of tequila and slice of lime.
Seriously though, the causes behind this could be explained in a number of different ways from reactions to taste to stereotypes of the beverages involved.
Alcoholic beverages can be roughly divided into clockwise and countercockwise. Balance them correctly and the room doesn't spin.
This is why I insist on drinking exactly on the equator, that way my brain won't know which way to fall over.
He also said the study revealed a difference between men and women's emotional relationship with different alcoholic drinks.
He doesn't work for Google does he?
I suspect not, he's using solid research backed by a proper peer review process instead of out of context quotes, poorly supported conclusions and going on alt-right YouTube and whinging.
Interesting - what if I'm trying to sell on eBay, can I no longer say "will post to UK only"? I'm not a merchant, just a private seller who auctions the odd thing off.
(Obviously switch for any EU country there - the question is general.)
This legislation is only for large retailers who use geoblocking on their websites.
You'll be perfectly safe as there is no law requring you to ship to the whole of the EU, you just cant block someone in Romania from seeing it (which you already cant do with fleabay).
I"m guessing that while it is illegal to discriminate with regard to housing to [insert minority here], it is likely NOT illegal to tune your advertising disbursement however you wish.
Where I am, this would be borderline illegal.
But that doesn't matter, its a big PR shitstorm and thatâ(TM)s the damaging part. It doesn't need to be illegal to be immoral or distasteful to your clientele. Many businesses have lost supporters over perfectly legal racist policies because those supporters or advertisers do not want to be tarnished by an affiliated or associated company who has conducted themselves in such a distasteful manner.
Just because it isn't illegal doesn't make it right.
You haven't actually been to China.
If you had, you'd notice the number of cosmetics that are promoted to make your face whiter.
You see in Asia, dark skin is considered to be a sign of poverty, it means you work outside all day, pale skin is a sign of wealth, it shows you dont need to work oustide.
Nice troll, but you missed two important points. Pale skin is actually quite predominant in China (you fell into the standard casual racism trap of assuming they're all yellow) and that this survey was conducted in the United States, not China. You'll notice there aren't a lot of Chinese stores, certainly few in the Gansu province.
Odd thing is, a healthy set of eyes can adjust to most conditions at night - at least enough to avoid tripping on anything. Under a full moon, you can see pretty much anything you need to (as long as you're not in the deep woods or anything). You just have to sit still in the dark until your eyes adjust.
Trying to put this nicely, you've never seen the full dark.
As you've elluded to, the moon has phases, at the full moon the moon fully illuminated by the sun which reflects back to earth, here there is enough light for someone with good eyes to reliably see objects. At the new moon, it's entirely in the planets shadow, so very little light is reflected, this is when it is properly dark and you definately wont be able to see because there is not enough light for your eyes to operate.
The problem you have is that in populated centres we need street lights to prevent collisions and injuries. Out in the sticks there is less traffic so the risks are negligable. If you disklike the amount of lights in the urban enviroment, move out to the middle of nowhere... but you'll have to give up all the city comforts to do that.
mainly it doesnt allow the coastal elites control of the country. my state of NY is a perfect example of why the electoral college is better than a straight vote. NYC covers an area of what, 30 square miles? if that?? Yet due to its population density, it has control over the entire state, eventhough the entire state minus NYC does not want anything to do with the policies that come through due to the influence of NYC
now imagine the entire country being run by NYC and a few other big cities. No thanks
Compared to a few country bumpkins dictating things to the millions who live in those few cities?
This is why we, in the Westminster system have electorates, each electorate gets one member who votes. the Boroughs in NYC get no more power than the boroughs in Pheonix. The electoral collage in the US is essentially undemocratic as they can vote however they want. It would be tollerable if they voted for the good of the nation like the UK's house of lords, but they dont even do that.
That's interesting.. Apple is doing a computer simulation of a self-driving car while Google is testing self driving cars without safety drivers in Arizona.
That's Apple's MO. Release a product years after everyone else, make it less functional than the competition and profit...
There's no ??? because you're going to buy it no matter how bad it is because it's got an Apple logo. These things could crash (litterally as in into a tree) on a regular basis and fanboys would still buy them.
My refusal to support illegal Ponzi schemes continues to pay off.
As they're losing money on every fare, you're only delaying the inevitable by not using them.
Net neutrality doesn't mean that you are entitled to free content.
No, it means all content regardless of origin must be given the same priority.
If you think you ISP's are bad now, wait until Net Neutrality isn't a thing. They'll become like your airlines except the base price wont be as low. Hey, you like Netflix, to get Netflix at our Uber fast Ultra High Definision 11G speeds its only a small $5.99 per month. If you like HBO, get our HBOFast package at just $5.99. We've noticed you spend a lot of time on WoW, it would be a shame if you got a lot of lag... we can Guarantee* that wont happen for a mere $9.99 a month.
*Guarantee is decorative only and will not reflect any service level expectation.
Airlines only got the way they are because it's a highly competitive market in a race to the bottom, ISP's are not competitive at all in the US.
If the POTUS can't do that, than why don't we just elect a cat to sit in as the POTUS.
Bill the Cat for President!
I agree with his sleeping policies, but have reservations about his arse licking policies.
Easy enough to fix - don't allow them to hire any H1B that doesn't meet all their stated requirements. If they want to lower the requirements, they must first prove they couldn't find an American that meets those lowered requirements either.
The H1B system is being horribly abused, but simply enforcing the existing rules would eliminate most of the problems. Requiring a public job listing on a single nationwide job board would be a relatively easy way to make sure the companies are actually looking for local talent before resorting to imported labor ("We see 653 Americans applied for this position through the board. Please prove that none of them met your requirements...")
An alternate method I've heard proposed is to require that H1B's be paid at least X% more than the median salary for comparable positions - after all, they're supposed to have such impressive skills that the local job pool can't satisfy the demand.
First thing... a nationalised job board... Isn't that... Communism?
Seriously though, they'll just do what they did in Australia. Advertise a highly skilled job for minimum wage and claim "We cant get an Australian to do the job, give us our 457 (Australia's H1-B)". Under the 457 Visa rules, a company needs to demonstrate that they cannot find an Australian to do the job, after the crackdown on skills loading (advertising a job with impossible to have skills) they just advertised jobs at salary levels vastly lower than Australians at that skill level would accept.
For the record, I think a national (govt funded) job board would be a fantastic idea but I'm not an American.
First off, it's "President Trump" and execution of his platform is pretty much what the voters expect, isn't it? Or have we come to expect less of our voted officials?
First off, you need to get over yourself. There is no law requiring you to attach a title to the person holding the office in any communications... Secondly on that point, I'm sure you didn't bat an eyelid when people said "o bummer" to refer to the previous occupant.
Secondly this is one of the few things we expected him to do... We don't expect it to work. There are no doubt enough loopholes that the outsourcing body shops can continue unabated. Barring that, they'll just move jobs overseas. In fact they're probably doing both.