Posts by tommy_qwerty

We had to listen to four years of constant screeching about Russian troll farms hacking our election for Trump, then suddenly we have the most secure elections in history. Surely it's his fault people don't trust the system.

Re: "Always carry a burner phone when visiting the USA"

>Why on God's Green Earth would you want to do that ?

Because New York City is safer than London in the Trump era, that's why.

Not really a fanboy here

But I can't get this to replicate on my own system, no matter what I do. How many times is a few?

Re: So Google told them to fuck off

Google is basically a monopoly at this point and should be regulated like a public utility. And yes, currently as a private company, they have the right in a purely legalistic sense to tell people to fuck off, however if you do not see the wider problem of companies (especially near-monopolies) censoring things they don't like, you have an extremely narrow vision and may find yourself without any right to speak.

One last thing, you are misusing the word "bigot". Bigotry is not an essential characteristic of racists, it is simply the bull-headed attitude of a person who is obstinately committed to his own ideas and unwilling to listen to others (strangely, an attitude one notices a lot from people overusing and misusing the word "bigot").

Re: Alarm bells were ringing from the start of the article...

> I'd add that another red flag would be in the Craigslist posting.

My experience with Craigslist job postings has been pretty good (selling my junk, not so much). If they're posting on Craigslist, it's a good indication they are actually looking to fill the position with a new local and not posting it either for some legal reason while looking to hire internally or bring in some H-1B gomeril. I'm convinced half the companies posting on Dice, Monster, Indeed and the like have no intention of actually hiring anyone through their job ads.

The longer you listen, the funnier it gets...

You're missing out by not listening to it to the end. No, nothing really changes, you'll just laugh more.

Re: In my experience, there's always a shortage of the highly-skilled workers ...

If there's a shortage of skilled IT workers (which I don't believe there is) then I think it's actually more advantageous in the long run for both the company and the country if they train a citizen to do the jobs they can't find people for. A trained citizen doesn't have to go back to their country after a few years, losing that skill to the visa holder's home country.

In addition, many employers of my parents' generation whine endlessly about the job hopping and lack of loyalty from younger workers, when I've never felt much loyalty from them on my end. Training employees to fill in gaps that college left or for very recent technologies will show they take care about the employees and the employees may be more likely to take care of them.

This may also solve the problem of the lack of women in STEM. Radical feminists constantly moan about the gender imbalance while in my college classes, there was rarely more than one woman. If there's really a shortage of STEM graduates, then maybe they can hire a few of the unemployed Wymyn's Studies and other humanities type graduates and train them to do the jobs that computer science and information systems graduates don't care to do.

Re: I thought that the USA was highly in favour of Free Trade in every form?

American corporations and their puppets in elected offices maybe. The average American worker and consumer, not so much. The American tech worker gets screwed because they're laid off or simply not hired (while the people laying them off complain they can't find anyone so they need to get people from overseas). The consumer gets screwed when a company like Target finds its customer information leaked because the H1B worker they hired got his degree from a mill and/or cheated on the certification and writes code as well as I did just getting out of high school. They'll probably keep him on too, because management sees all IT people as interchangeable.

I think most average Americans are at least dimly aware of this kind of corruption going on with any free trade or open border agreement. It's never to the advantage of the American worker or consumer, just the major multinationals. The Washington Post ran an article a while ago containing a quote from a congressional representative about free trade and visa expansion. He patted himself on the back because he supported the bill, calling it an act of courage as nearly 90% of his constituents were against it. That's the kind of gulf that exists here between the citizens and government.