There must be clearly a second class of H1-B holders I've not encountered before, those that are actually planing to go back to their country of origin. Most H1-B people I've worked with used the H1 process to clear any immigration hurdles due to their previous F and J visa, which often required return to the homeland for a certain amount of time. The H1-B than gave them a period to get permanent residence.

I've seen the "live on the cheap" version before, typically with Indian and Chinese graduate students, so it might very well exist in the DBA H1-B world too. And maybe DBAs are more interchangeable than scientists, and having true short term employees is not a detriment for Microsoft. But in most fields you want to keep your technical staff around, not having to replace it every 3 - 6 years due to visa rules.

That's amazing, as the quote is only 85,000 annually, with a maximum of 6 years (not sure if the renewal after 3 years counts against the quota). So there shouldn't be more than 510,000 in the US at any given time. But the real reason we use the H1-Bs is that most US graduates won't stay in school for the advanced degrees the industry requires. You can't run a research oriented business with BS. You need the PhDs and MS, and there are probably less than 25% of those with US citizenship.

So, the H1-B worker, by your calculation, lives of donuts he steals in the break room and sleeps on a park bench? While there are probably some H1-B workers who remit a fraction of their income to their home country, most live in the community like every one else, renting a house, buying a car and groceries, and try to get ahead in the new country. As for the "stealing American's jobs", we graduate some 5,000,000 people a year from US colleges. Compare that to the 85,000 total H1B visa given out annually, less than 2% of the total job market entries.

Since the legitimate government of Iran was overthrown and the current cycle of extremist leaders/newly rich plutocrats was engineered by the US and UK in Operation Ajax not so long ago

If you define 1953 as not so long ago you must be in it for the long run. Waiting for the return of Zoroaster?

I'm sure it works great against any kind of wired equipment (as the leads work as great antennas to pick up the pulse), but what of those fancy laptops with aluminum cases? Cell phones, especially if off? You'd think that people who are important enough for the government to go after them with something like this would be aware of it and harden their communications against it. If you're unsophisticated enough to be susceptible to this you're probably not enough of a threat to warrant its use.

For each photon recycled you get a one electron credit on your electric bill.

Actually, this obfuscation works against apple, or better, defeats the "limit tracking" trick's usefulness. As you will most likely only find the setting upon reading instructions, you will have been warned about the misleading button. If they'd put it as a clear privacy setting for people to set themselves, most would have probably allowed the tracking due to confusion about the correct setting.

Article 5 has a "Gesetzesvorbehalt", making the right of freedom of expression subject to "general laws, laws for the protection of children and laws for the protection of personal honor". With other words, you have the right to say everything someone doesn't find objectionable. And against the right, there are special laws outlawing anything that could be considered putting the Nazis in a good light, including denial of Nazi crimes, and anything against any people, race or religion. They also have very wide reaching blasphemy laws. The only thing they don't have is censorship prior to publication, but that's about it for freedom of expression in Germany.

Other than Pangaea not forming until 300 million years ago and the moon impact happening 4.5 billion years ago I don't see any problem with your theory.

The treaties do not say what you think they do. There is a voluntary moratorium in place that might be violated by the experiment, but there are no national laws and no true enforceable bans in place yet. And the groups opposing it are of the kind that want environmental protection at all cost, and if that means we have to get rid of half the people in the world because we can't feed them without chemical fertilizers, tough luck for them. So I will wait for some more balanced report, maybe even hard scientific data, before picking a side here.

And how long until the students learn to stick the ID into a piece of aluminum foil to disable the RFID? Your school reported 1200 kids in attendance that day, but your electronic records only show 1 kid (you know there's always one who doesn't get the message). Here's your $30.

Nvidia makes it money with high-end graphic cards. Who buys high-end graphic cards? Gamers. How many gamers are there on Linux? Nvidia was offering to up the performance of Linux computers, a small fraction of their low-profit mass produced card sales, by optimizing their drivers for a Linux feature that makes Linux look good. Now you have lawyers telling them they can't do it, marketing predicts a loss of $3.25 in sales, and they move on. Probably making up for the lost profit by laying off the engineer who wasted his time implementing the feature. But the purity of the GPL has been preserved. Victory all around.

Sorry, it's clearly a mammalian product and as such off-limits to the vegan.

Your username says it all... For the record, as long as you obey rules on minimal length, maximal caliber and marking it you can make your own firearms all day long (from a Federal point of view at least). You cannot legally SELL or TRADE them, but making is legal. You can even buy 80% kits that are mostly machined for you and come with guides on where to drill the remaining holes, and you're still, under Federal law, legally making your own gun. And you don't have to register it with the federal government either. The only question in this case was the invisible weapons rule which makes it illegal to manufacture a weapon for the purpose of avoiding metal detectors which an all-printed gun might trigger.

True, but most of our chile doesn't really qualify as spicy (so Sadie's sometimes has good days). I found Trader Joe's Habanero sauce a good capsaicin source to add some heat.