We geeks are the doers.
We make things.
We create new stuffs.
We come up with new and exciting ideas.
But we are *NOT* tools for anyone.
That "pepsi consultant" can go eat shit and die - if he or she thinks he/she can push geeks to do whatever he/she likes.
Before the death of Mr. Steve Jobs, Apple Inc had, for some time, running without Mr. Jobs.
And their product ? Apple Newton.
Remember the "newtons" ?
What I am looking forward to - the new offerings from Apple Inc. sans Steve Jobs - are Apple Newtons, version 2.0
And I am not being sarcastic nor joking.
Would you mind elaborating in which ways you think it's fucked up? Seriously, you didn't make it clear and I would like to know your opinion on this.
I am no lawyer. I am obviously *NOT* an immigration expert.
But I did leave some points in my previous comment ---
1. The current system allows *ONE* person who has a greencard (not even have to be a citizen) to import his parents.
And then his parents, when they got their greencards, can start importing their other children (the original person's siblings).
And that opens up the floodgate - those siblings (plural) can import their wives, their children, and their wives importing their own parents, and so on, and so forth, until *THE WHOLE CLAN* ended up on the American soil.
2. There is *NO* strict requirement for eligibility - be it IQ level or education or whatever.
Right now, the immigration laws allow people to get greencard *AS LONG AS THEY HAVE STAYED INSIDE AMERICA FOR X-NUMBER OF YEARS LEGALLY* and that *THEY HAVE A SPONSOR*.
Plus, with the Obama administration's tricks - we will be looking at a whooping 12 Million illegal migrants suddenly all become legal !
I am not against people who risked their lives travelling to America (most of them do) but I do have a problem with the government allowing a whooping 8-figure people (more than 10 million) to suddenly become legal.
3. America is running a *VERY SILLY* and *VERY DANGEROUS* "refugee program" --- and ending up importing *DANGEROUS REFUGEES* from Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen (you get my point).
Those people might be "refugees" but the *BELIEVE SYSTEM" they subscribe to --- that the *INFIDELS MUST CONVERT TO ISLAM OR DIE* --- clash violently with what America stands for (I am not talking about Islam vs Christianity - I am talking about FORCED CONVERSION UNDER THEOCRACY vs a SECULAR DEMOCRACY, which America supposed to be).
Do you guys know that *MANY* of the 2nd and 3rd generations of those "refugees" ended going back to Somalia / Yeman / North Africa / Pakistan-Afghanistan and *JOIN THE ISLAMIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS* ??
And that is *NOT* the worst thing --- those people have *THE RIGHT TO COME BACK TO AMERICA* as they were BORN in America - now, those are BATTLE-HARDENED ISLAMIC TERRORISTS we are talking about, and the LAWS can NOT prevent them from coming home, to America.
All these are the result of the TOTALLY FUCKED UP IMMIGRATION SYSTEM that the current America has.
Of course, there are many more equally important issues - but I will stop here so that this message won't go on for too long.
As for why I blame the Liberals for the fucked up ?
It was the Liberals who, being "bleeding hearts", decided that the immigrants have the right to "IMPORT THEIR FAMILIES" and that the refugees, *NO MATTER HOW FUCKING DANGEROUS THEY ARE*, are welcome to stay inside America.
The first time the tech bubble bust was during the dot-com bust, back in the late 1990's.
And I am looking at the second wave coming, and this time, it will be worse, much worse.
I started my tech companies in the 1980's and sold most of them before the tech bust of the late 1990's, and I sold them for *HUGE* profits.
Since the mid 1990's I have been an investor, investing in many start-up companies, more or less related to technology.
Throughout these years, especially since 2010, I am seeing the building of another bubble.
It used to be that the technology evolved around PC / Mac. With the desktop (and later laptop) having powerful processors, many tasks that were done in the big irons were transferred to the PC platform.
And with this move, many *MORE* creative endeavors happened, prolonging and enlarging the user base of the PC.
Nowadays PC are in decline. Everyone and their great great grannies are running around with smartphones / tablets, and tech companies, with most of their executives being morons, took the easy path ---
"Hey, everything is shrinking, from PC to Tablets to Smartphone, so why don't we shrink it *SOMEMORE* and make them "WEARABLES" ?"
Yeah, right !
Mr. Steve Jobs is dead. There can only be one Steve Jobs - and without Steve Jobs, the tech scene is running around as if its a headless chicken.
The "wearables" are *NOT* going to be a boom, simply because we are *NOT* robots.
We are *HUMANS* and we do not *NEED* wearables which interrupts with our daily-lives with useless information (such as emails, phone calls, and so on)
Do you know why we use the phone for phone call ?
Because when we, as humans, decide that we do NOT want to be interrupted by phone calls we put the phone aside.
With wearables, you can't.
It *WILL* keep on disturbing you.
Do I hear "shut it down", or "keep it silent mode" ?
Yeah, right.
Just because you do not want to be disturbed, you need to *DISTURB YOURSELF GOING THROUGH THE MOTION OF SHUTTING DOWN THE WEARABLES*
I guess that makes a ton of FUCKING SENSE to those moronic tech execs.
Mark my word, second tech-crash is coming.
I am an American, but I was not born inside America. I am a naturalized American - so I think I might have something to add to this H1-B debate.
First of all, the entire H1-B scheme is ludicrous but it was a necessity, because the immigration system for America is totally fucked up.
What America needs (and what the world needs) are talents, *REAL* talents, but the American immigration laws have been fucked up, thanks to the liberals.
Now, as I have already mentioned, I am a *NATURALIZED* American citizen - which means, I also went through the official immigration channel to obtain my American citizenship. The only difference is that I got it some 30-odd years ago.
At that time, migrating to America wasn't easy - especially for non-Whites. One can say that it was "biased against the non-Whites" (if you prefer to look it that way) but what I see (and I have been through this) is that the process in that time, yes, *VERY TOUGH* for Asians, but that had a very strange side effect --- *MOST OF THE ASIANS ACCEPTED AS CITIZENS BACK IN THOSE TIMES WERE REAL TALENTS*.
And after those Asians (me included) got their citizenships, they re-invest in the American society, starting businesses or invent new stuffs - and in the process, most of the Asians who obtained citizenship created *MORE JOBS FOR THE AMERICANS* after they have become citizens.
But as I said - the immigration system has been TOTALLY FUCKED UP - and it is so bad now that if one Tom, Dick, or Harry gets his citizenship he can legally *IMPORT* an entire *CLAN* into America.
Now I am not going to talk about other races who got into America - I am a Chinese, and I will only talk about Chinese.
Last time, most Chinese I know lived in Chinatown. Most of them worked very very hard, earned enough money and they put their second / third generations through college.
Today, most of the Chinese from back then, who still stay in America are professionals. They are bankers, doctors, engineers, lawyers, business persons, and so on.
Those Chinese are in contrast with the *NEW CROP* of Chinese who are coming into America.
Most of the new crop of Chinese who are going to America are *REJECTS* from China - in a way, I was a "reject from China" too, back then, but I digress - what I am saying is this --- these Chinese coming into America are not the typical hard working type, not those who can use their body as well as they use their mind.
I have seen with my own eyes how some of the new crops of Chinese immigrants into America are doing - they are abusing the welfare system.
Last time when I first came to America, the Chinese, even the very poor ones, refused to apply for any welfare aid, because to them, "welfare" means "beggars", and those Chinese preferred to work their ass off, day after day, struggling through lives with meager wages, and *STILL* refuse to apply for any kind of welfare aid.
The new crops of the Chinese immigrants to America ? Huh !
As soon as they are eligible for *any* kind of welfare aid, they make sure they get it, because, to them, if everybody is abusing the system, and if they don't, that would be *STUPID*.
No more dignity, everything comes down to "what I can get from the system", not "what I can contribute to the system".
Do *NOT* get me wrong, though.
As bad as the *NEW CROP OF CHINESE IMMIGRANTS INTO AMERICA*, they are still rated *AMONG THE MOST EFFECTIVE IMMIGRANTS*.
Which means, no matter how much these new crops of Chinese immigrants abusing the welfare system, they still end up contributing to the system *FAR MORE* than what they got from it.
As for other groups of immigrants, I have seen worse !
I have seen Muslims who came from Morocco or Egypt or Turkey or India or one of those "stan" countries have as many as 10 children.
Yes, TEN FUCKING CHILDREN !
And they have no work.
They do not need to.
The American welfare system *PAYS THEM WELL*. With their 10 children, they got all the money they get, plus, they get "sponsorship", as in "funding", from some "middle eastern countries" (yes, there are many secret channels of money flowing through the Muslim communities inside America that you guys do not even realize).
The more "zeal" towards their religion (which means, the more RADICAL they are, in term of Islam), the more funds they got from those middle eastern countries.
And
In other words, America is feedomg future generations of ISLAMIC TERRORISTS inside America, and their number is multiplying.
Enough of that
That H1-B was a necessity because the immigration system has been SO FUCKED UP that most who come in today are *NOT* talented.
So, America needs to find a way to attract the talents.
Instead of scrapping all the insane immigration laws, they came up with "H1-B", as a stop-gap measure.
Is it working ? Somewhat.
But, as TFA has pointed out, the H1-B program itself is being abused, but none other than FOREIGN CORPORATIONS !!
That Zuckerberg fella is a moron. Yes, he is the perfect example of how an executive can be a moron.
Instead of lobbying for H1-B, he should lobbying scrapping *ALL* immigration laws altogether and *START FROM SCRATCH*.
No more a single person importing an entire talent-less clan into American.
No more letting radical fuckers, especially those religious fuckers, to come inside America.
But would that Zuckerberg fella do so ? Of course not !
He is a *LIBERAL* and a *LIBERAL* can't do something like that. He must do everything within the "POLITICAL CORRECT" construct - which means, he must lobby for more of the H1-B visas, even though he knows quite well that its the TWO INDIAN COMPANIES which are abusing the H1-B program.
Okay, I can step off my soapbox now.
I am just getting too sick and tired seeing the country that I have adopted turning into a total shitpool because of those liberal assholes.
Japan is a country in which "truth" means nothing.
They can say that the "experiment" they carried out in their whaling exercises are for "scientific research" but all of us know that the whale meat that you can get in many sushi restaurant inside Japan came from those whaling "experiments".
And the whales are *NOT* the only animal that they killed. They kill dolphins too !
You do not have to believe me, just click on the following link to find out what them Japanese are doing
What we need now is not more "exchanges" for virtual coins but a "central bank" in charge of the virtual coins.
If they are successful in accumulating 10% of all Bitcoins they may want to use them as the base of the first ever Virtual Central Bank
As the central bank for virtual coins, they can function much more than the "exchanges" that we've heard so much about.
They can manipulate the value of any virtual coins via "buying" and "selling".
Back in the 1920's when that great depression struck, many banks folded, and people who had money in banks ended up with nothing.
No matter for what reason the banks folded depositors were the ones left holding the empty bag.
Kinda like what is happening in the various Bitcoin exchanges. No matter if it's stupidity, lack of security, or malice, it's the depositors (whoever parked their Bitcoins in that exchange) ended up losing it all.
Well
When the banks folded, did people abandon the greenbacks ? Yes or no ?
Same situation here
True, some of the "rules" are flawed ( I kinda have a sense something is amissed ever since Bitcoin came out, back in 2009, but I just couldn't pin-point what is wrong with it, but thanks to those scientists at least now I know, but I digress
Many people are digging at Bitcoin, trying their best to make it sounds as if it's something uncertain, something ephemeral, something "flash in the pan" but if we are to look at the alternative to Bitcoin, ie, the FIAT MONEY SYSTEM, it too has been damaged beyond repair --- as so much money was created out of thin air, which means, the value of the fiat money is no longer valid.
I must have missed something - I searched and searched but I just can't find that live blog address.
They say that they are going to carry out the test on 25th, March, 2014, (presumably Hong Kong time, as the research team is in Hong Kong) and I want to see/read how they carry out that experiment.
... I moved out.
Currently I stay outside of America, only go back for business reasons (and for voting).
Oh yes, I, an American citizen, couldn't stand the way my country which is turning into a police state.
And the most disgusting thing that I see is, *MOST* of my fellow Americans still think it's good to trade in their liberties so that the BIG BROTHER get to "protect" them.
What can I do ? I have thought very long and hard at it, and still, I can't come up with a solution.
But even this child's play get results. Lots of low hanging fruit
I couldn't believe my eyes when I read TFA (not the paywalled one).
Before we get any understanding of the function of our brain they already are messing it up with currents.
What kind of consequences are we willing to risk ? I mean, no matter how mild the electric current turn out to be, at the cell level (neuron level) that current is still a SHOCK to them.
How much stress must we put the neurons under ? What would happen to the neurons after repeat electric shock treatments ????
making money without working for it
How many of them on the Congressional Hill work for the people who pay them their salaries ??
The last two POTUS also never had the interest of the Americans in their minds.
Which word ? "Soviet" ?
In my youth we learned Russian in schools, and if I do not know what that word means, I might as well be blind.
The current situation in America is such that the councils are filled with people such as Feinstein / Obama who want to change the United States into a Police State.
And we have nothing else to fall back on...
Used to be that the congress / the court system and the White House are the three prongs of our government, and each of one is used to check the other two.
No more.
Nowadays the courts are being populated by judges who think we ought to give up our liberty in exchange for "security".
Congress ? That place is filled with dead woods who do nothing but looking for ways to create even more pork barrel projects.
White House ? You kiddin' ???
Laws are for the commoners, not the elite. You should know that by now
Now you know why Steve Jobs' cars had no license plate ?
A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours. -- Milton Berle
