How many hours per month did they want you to work? If 30-40 hrs/week, then the rate of $800/mo would mean below the legal minimum wage in any state here, which means you probably misunderstood something. Or did you typo $800/week?
That's just stupid. Before we start screwing around with our healthcare, I suggest we need to do a test run. Take the profit motive out of the sports industry first.
If socialism works out well for SuperBowl and such, we might do the same for healthcare.
Yes, a company like Microsoft exporting the non-renewable supply of American bits (0's and 1's) in return only paying a tiny pittance of $5,000,000,000 in taxes (in 2007).
So if they can find such a person willing to work for $50K, what's the problem?
It's good for the company, since they got the job filled for less. It's good for their customers, since they pay less for the product/service. It's good for America, since there's one extra tax payer who did not consume taxpayer-funded primary/secondary/college education. It's even good for you, since you are now able to invest your high skills, education, and intelligence into a higher-paying job for a different company (or start your own), instead being underpaid.
Right. But I'd imagine that's why we have the incredibly expensive stealth bombers: once the enemy air defences are down, it would really be much more cost effective to run the drones. The drones should cost less to run and would be cheaper to replace.
We can already stream DVD-quality movies encoded at 1 mbps or so, well within the current consumer "broadband" offerings. I'd assume that would be in the target range.
But even if you wanted for some reason to go uncompressed, then 8-bit 800x600 at 25 fps would still be less than 100 mbps, not totally unreasonable.
I would imagine the latency would be a much bigger problem than bandwidth. If you ever used VNC you probably know what I mean.
So you are assuming there's a chance (ANY chance) that the stocks will go up in the next 50+ years? On what do you base this optimism, might I ask?
-The American manufacturing base is declining. -High school graduations and the overall literacy is down the tubes. -The Baby Boomers are about to retire. -The 50+ trillion National Debt (by 2020) needs to be paid, or at least serviced, which means much higher taxes (and much more job loss)
What exactly does America have going for her here? And what do you think Obama can do? Do you think his voodoo reaganomics will spend us out of trouble?
If I were you, I'd convert your stocks into gold and get the hell out of here. Starving dudes with loose nukes, that's what it's coming to.
Government provided apartments for token rent, so when you moved to another city you had to go through official channel
I think that's exactly the parent's point: Russian citizens had (have?) no Freedom of movement. The fact that you see nothing wrong with that is what's scary.
To me one of the biggest things invalidating the hypothesis of the "Truth" movement is that WE SAW IT COMING.
I think you have a problem with your logic. If I may: 1. The hypothesis: our government paid off the terr'sts to do 911. 2. A fact: WE SAW [the terror plot involving planes, etc.] COMING.
The capitalist pigs want me to pay for the stuff they keep pushing on me. The socialist assholes want me pay for the stuff they keep taking for themselves.
To improve America, an immigrant must over better than an average American. So how about we use this "better than average" as a threshold and hand out green cards to anyone above it?
1) IQ over 100 pts 2) Speaks and reads English above average 3) Can earn over $44,000 (annual household income) 4) Less than $90,000 debt (per household) 5) Younger than 37
That would depend on what they mean by "fraud," wouldn't you say? The devil's in the details, my friend. The real fraud (such as undercutting the prevailing wage) was pretty low.
Most of their "fraud" was things like giving the wrong address for the LCA (corporate vs workplace), or making the immigrant personally pay for the visa when the law says the companies should pay for it... See the PDF I linked to in the GPP, starting page 9 if you care.
Sure, this fraud is unpleasant, but it's just not that big of a deal compared to the number of Americans in prison right now. Or the number of drug users, rapists, illiterates, gang members, citizens of welfare, paedophiles walking the street, etc. etc.
OMG 20% fraud is a nice headline grabber, but the actual results of the study mean that the H1-B program is working rather well:
- Only in 15 out of 246 cases the employee is paid less than the actual prevailing wage. ( i.e. 94% are paid at or above) - Only 10 out of 246 applicants lied about their degrees or experience ( 96% )
The bottom line is, there are US citizens who can do your job. Get the fuck out and go back to your socialist paradise.
Right, and people that can do his job already have a job.
You might be confusing employment with entitlement. Personally, I already pay more in taxes than an average person earns a year; I don't owe you a job on top.
In a welfare/socialist society, polygamy and promiscuety make more (evolutionary) sense for men.
Which would you rather be: 1) the guy that sleeps around with lots of women and gets lots of kids, or 2) the guy that stays with a single woman and gets taxed to death to support all the single mothers, left over from the first guy.?
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How many hours per month did they want you to work?
If 30-40 hrs/week, then the rate of $800/mo would mean below the legal minimum wage in any state here, which means you probably misunderstood something.
Or did you typo $800/week?
What do you think happens in a socialist healthcare system? You think the party writes a blank check for each patient?
I know I'd rather get my healthcare from a well-compensated doctor than a forced laborer.
That's just stupid. Before we start screwing around with our healthcare, I suggest we need to do a test run. Take the profit motive out of the sports industry first.
If socialism works out well for SuperBowl and such, we might do the same for healthcare.
How does immigration currently help to "build the country"?
Einstein, Tesla, Bell, Borh, von Braun, Teller, the less famous dudes that co-founded IBM and Google, or co-invented the Transistor, etc.
Yes, a company like Microsoft exporting the non-renewable supply of American bits (0's and 1's) in return only paying a tiny pittance of $5,000,000,000 in taxes (in 2007).
Those evil corporatings raping America, man...
I am please you support my idea of mandatory abortions.
We wouldn't want those kids to grow up and steal my jerb. And even less mouths to feed.
Eventually we can nuke the place from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
So if they can find such a person willing to work for $50K, what's the problem?
It's good for the company, since they got the job filled for less.
It's good for their customers, since they pay less for the product/service.
It's good for America, since there's one extra tax payer who did not consume taxpayer-funded primary/secondary/college education.
It's even good for you, since you are now able to invest your high skills, education, and intelligence into a higher-paying job for a different company (or start your own), instead being underpaid.
It's good for everybody, so quit your bitchin'
I am just curious, what is it you think they do with their tax-free money?
Right. But I'd imagine that's why we have the incredibly expensive stealth bombers: once the enemy air defences are down, it would really be much more cost effective to run the drones. The drones should cost less to run and would be cheaper to replace.
Yes, you can. You need to use the correct ethernet cables with high-level tin alloy shielding and vibration elimination: http://www.usa.denon.com/ProductDetails/3429.asp
We can already stream DVD-quality movies encoded at 1 mbps or so, well within the current consumer "broadband" offerings. I'd assume that would be in the target range.
But even if you wanted for some reason to go uncompressed, then 8-bit 800x600 at 25 fps would still be less than 100 mbps, not totally unreasonable.
I would imagine the latency would be a much bigger problem than bandwidth. If you ever used VNC you probably know what I mean.
So you are assuming there's a chance (ANY chance) that the stocks will go up in the next 50+ years?
On what do you base this optimism, might I ask?
-The American manufacturing base is declining.
-High school graduations and the overall literacy is down the tubes.
-The Baby Boomers are about to retire.
-The 50+ trillion National Debt (by 2020) needs to be paid, or at least serviced, which means much higher taxes (and much more job loss)
What exactly does America have going for her here? And what do you think Obama can do? Do you think his voodoo reaganomics will spend us out of trouble?
If I were you, I'd convert your stocks into gold and get the hell out of here. Starving dudes with loose nukes, that's what it's coming to.
You know, some of us actually create these "good jobs."
Then there are the entitled little shits like you that purport to tell us who gets those jobs.
Why do you hate America so much?
So what percentage of their income do the Russians pay for their government-assigned housing and utilities?
Government provided apartments for token rent, so when you moved to another city you had to go through official channel
I think that's exactly the parent's point: Russian citizens had (have?) no Freedom of movement. The fact that you see nothing wrong with that is what's scary.
To me one of the biggest things invalidating the hypothesis of the "Truth" movement is that WE SAW IT COMING.
I think you have a problem with your logic. If I may:
1. The hypothesis: our government paid off the terr'sts to do 911.
2. A fact: WE SAW [the terror plot involving planes, etc.] COMING.
How does #2 invalidate #1, exactly?
That math is correct, except you forgot that the aforementioned countermeasures generally reduce this kill probability by a factor of 100-1000.
And the whole point of this test was to see if the system is able to deal with countermeasures. Since this failed, it indeed does invalidate the test.
Here you go: "missile failed to deploy its countermeasures."
That's just classic:
The capitalist pigs want me to pay for the stuff they keep pushing on me.
The socialist assholes want me pay for the stuff they keep taking for themselves.
Just outlaw apathy.
I think we can fix our "broken" education system overnight if we started throwing irresponsible parents in jails.
I'd say $120,000 is way too much.
To improve America, an immigrant must over better than an average American. So how about we use this "better than average" as a threshold and hand out green cards to anyone above it?
1) IQ over 100 pts
2) Speaks and reads English above average
3) Can earn over $44,000 (annual household income)
4) Less than $90,000 debt (per household)
5) Younger than 37
That would depend on what they mean by "fraud," wouldn't you say? The devil's in the details, my friend. The real fraud (such as undercutting the prevailing wage) was pretty low.
Most of their "fraud" was things like giving the wrong address for the LCA (corporate vs workplace), or making the immigrant personally pay for the visa when the law says the companies should pay for it... See the PDF I linked to in the GPP, starting page 9 if you care.
Sure, this fraud is unpleasant, but it's just not that big of a deal compared to the number of Americans in prison right now. Or the number of drug users, rapists, illiterates, gang members, citizens of welfare, paedophiles walking the street, etc. etc.
There is no overlap; check out their methodology section here: http://grassley.senate.gov/private/upload/100820081-3.pdf
OMG 20% fraud is a nice headline grabber, but the actual results of the study mean that the H1-B program is working rather well:
- Only in 15 out of 246 cases the employee is paid less than the actual prevailing wage. ( i.e. 94% are paid at or above)
- Only 10 out of 246 applicants lied about their degrees or experience ( 96% )
The bottom line is, there are US citizens who can do your job. Get the fuck out and go back to your socialist paradise.
Right, and people that can do his job already have a job.
You might be confusing employment with entitlement. Personally, I already pay more in taxes than an average person earns a year; I don't owe you a job on top.
I think you might be wrong there.
In a welfare/socialist society, polygamy and promiscuety make more (evolutionary) sense for men.
Which would you rather be: 1) the guy that sleeps around with lots of women and gets lots of kids, or 2) the guy that stays with a single woman and gets taxed to death to support all the single mothers, left over from the first guy.?