I just bought a new Macbook pro and Apple TV two weeks ago. Yes, I know they're always coming out with new products, but I didn't expect the Macbook to be so much different, for less money, and I didn't expect the Apple TV price drop of 30%.
I think two weeks is inside the apple return policy.
"When enough blacks are in positions of management to deny white people opportunities because they feel that for arbitrary reasons, they just don't fit in, talk me to death about the social acceptance of black racism"
Have a look at most of the films that are for black people and by black people and have at most the token white in them.
Justice? Fair?
Whatever - it's still racism.
"It's not racism because when a black person calls you names to hurt your feelings"
Bullshit. It's socially accepted racism.
I'm not a "Greek", and I never have been or wanted to be, but your characterization of them is not consistent with what I have known.
Neither was I, and I agree to a *small* extent. Mind you, I'm from Arkansas and it was a long time ago, but there were still frats (and sororities) that were, shall we say, a wee bit on the exclusionary side of things, and the exclusions were occasionally based on religion, skin color, ethnic origin...
As for TFA? As much as I myself detest racism and bigotry based on someone's religion/ethnicity/etc... Personally, I think they *should* be allowed to be total asshats about it. Seriously - as long as there's no assualt or other crimes against others, let them chant whatever the hell they want.
I say this for two reasons:
1) College is supposed to be a place where all viewpoints and ideas are explored - even the ugly and stupid ones. Freedom of speech should hold highest priority in such a place.
2) The video (and anything like it) can serve as an example to point at and instruct against; a competent prof can debate the racist activity into the dirt, in a setting that educates everyone else, and (hopefully) teaches the racists in question along the way.
By kicking out the frat charter, you only drive the problem deeper underground... and where is the frickin' benefit in doing that among a body of kids that are going to be naturally rebellious in the first place? You only make it more attractive to such a mindset.
By not kicking out the frat charter you are condoning what was done, implicitly - which the school won't do.
Additionally I think it's an excellent lesson to be learned - being stupid has consequences. If they don't get kicked out, they don't get punished...no lesson learned except that they can get away with it.
Yes, exactly. So why don't the employers understand that? I mean, I have had my hands on 20 different technologies over the last 25 years of my career. The fact that I don't know their special inhouse purpose built software package should not be held against me because it is "just a tool", right?
They don't want to hire you. They have written the requirement specifically so that you, and other highly qualified, highly paid local resource, can 'justifiably' not be hired so they can pay half as much for imported labor.
Rate: 30/hr on W2
This got me. Is this actual market rate for an expert in ANYTHING?
A secondary question being...can you actually have a decent live in Nashville on what you keep out of 30/hr on W2 ?
B. Want specific experience with technology that hasn't existed long enough to create it
THIS!!
I cant tell you how many job postings I read that said things like you need 5 years experience with X,Y, and Z.... only problem is Y and Z have only been out for 2 years and 4 years respectively.
2 plus 4 is 6. Problem solved.
Might as well be an insider trading as the risk / return ratio seems a hell of a lot better.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
yet Border Services thinks they need to inspect the data on everyone's phones?
No, not everyone's phones, just phones of people they suspect of something.
It's the same deal with inspecting the contents of suitcases. They don't inspect everyone's suitcases, just some of them.
They suspect everyone who isn't just like them.
I have no doubt that they would certainly inspect every suitcase if they could.
With enough people using SnoopSnitch ( https://play.google.com/store/... ), which detects Stingray cell phone trackers, and a collection site on Facebook or any other social media site (Reddit sounds like a good candidate), the locations of these things could be mapped and published in jig time.
Except that they're mobile perhaps?
I became a US citizen in my teens and left when I was in my 20s. FACTA has made banking next to impossible. I'm legitimately thinking of ditching it at this point but I can't afford the fees (yes it costs money to renounce your citizenship). FACTA only screws over the low wage earning US citizens abroad, it does nothing but turn us into criminals while those it was meant to catch (rich tax evaders) are able to pay accountants and lawyers to navigate the laws both at home and abroad.
I've never filed taxes in the US, upon discovering that I had to submit a return I emailed the IRS and explained my situation. Their response was to threaten me with hundreds of thousands in fines for not complying AND not answering my question (which was "What exchange rate do I use when filing? Yearly average? Year end?'). Honestly, fuck the United States government.
It may also be worth mentioning that many banks outside the US are flat out refusing to take US citizens as clients - or dumping us if they already have us, because they don't want to have to deal with the reporting (and penalties, etc) that go along with it.
For all the hate the US gets on Slashdot, it's still the country of record. It's hitting the big time. Top finance jobs are centered in the US. Top technology jobs are centered in the US. The movie and TV industries are largest in the US. 9 of the world's 10 best universities are in the US. Sure, such jobs are available in Nigeria, but the best most and the most talented tend to work in the US, and you're limiting your kid's future by not allowing it.
I know so, so, so many Chinese people (both PRC and Taiwan, Malaysia, etc.) killing themselves to get their kids in the US because it has the best school and the top jobs. Not to mention, my wife's parents, several of my best friend's parents, etc. NOT doing it, when it would be easy to fill out paperwork, just seems like irresponsible parenting.
Apples and oranges.
You're comparing developing countries to the US where the question posted is about European to US.
Why is this here? How is any of this related to what Slashdot is supposed to be about? I'm usually pretty lax about what's posted on Slashdot, but this question should be posted on a forum somewhere else, not on a news site for "nerds".
Slashdot is also for 'news that matters' and by the number of posts on this topic it matters to a lot of us.
No. Never.
I'm an Australian who has lived in a few countries and currently live in the US on a visa. I'd like to get my greencard, BUT NEVER CITIZENSHIP. The tax headache alone is NOT WORTH IT.
If the IRS ever changes its laws on citizens, then maybe, but that is not currently the case.
Green card holders also fall under FATCA and so are also fucked.
http://riyadh.usembassy.gov/se...
You've kind of skipped the entire nightmare of FATCA which, unless you're quite poor, is a total fucking nightmare.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
If you're not aware of this already and are obligated to but haven't been filing...try not to have a heart attack.
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor... is to discourage... from expecting too much from mathematics. -- N. Wiener
