No researcher would be so reckless as to actually screw with an airplane's engines mid-flight. The fact that the FBI alleges that he did means that they know damn well they have nothing to do on, but need to paint this guy as a terrorist in order to save themselves looking like idiots for arresting a guy based on a single twitter message.

The only jobs that are "offshore-proof" are jobs that require a *very* high security clearance and can't be done by non-citizens for reasons of law and national security or jobs that literally cannot be done from a remote location, such as janitorial work. So, you have to either be the absolute top in your field or switch to menial labor.

Or, and I know this might sound ridiculous if you buy into right-wing politics, you could actually support politicians, laws, and unions that work towards ensuring that every American has a good paying job and that penalize companies for sending jobs out of the country.

If you prefer to use PDFs for *security* reasons then you're an idiot. PDFs have been the attack vector for a crapload of malware.

If you think someone is going to die because they had regular headlights instead of these headlights then you're an absolute fucking retard.

Oh bullshit. If there's no right to employment then how do we have the responsibility to pay in order to live? You can either give people a right to employment and a right to be able to support themselves, or you have to give people a responsibility to pay for those who are denied work. You can't have it both ways. I prefer the former, although there are arguments for the latter as well. But this attitude that we can refuse to employ people and then get upset when they can't afford to live is just asinine.

There's also a loophole. You just transfer the skilled American to a "non-technical" position a day before you let them go. Yeah, maybe you can battle it in court, but good fucking luck hiring an attorney to battle a huge corporation when you have no job.

Actually, no. A common tactic is to take out a classified ad in a low-circulation newspaper. The ad is, of course, poorly written and looks like a scam. (Generally accepted practice is to run it in two news papers one day per week for two weeks) This is to reduce the chances of an American applying to the position. After all, what professional actually reads the classified ads? None that I can think of. And writing the ad poorly and like a scam is designed to dissuade any professional from calling about the job even if they happened to somehow stumble across it.

Nevertheless, sometimes an American will respond to the ad, which is where the "qualifications" section comes in. The company will publish a laundry list of qualifications that no one has. sometimes they'll demand more years of experience with a particular piece of software than the piece of software has been in existence for. (e.g. 10 years experience with Windows 8). More frequently, they'll just chain together arbitrary pieces of software that are totally unrelated. This allows them to trash the applications of any Americans. The foreign workers, however, know to put this huge list on their resumes, even if they don't actually have the experience. Importantly, there is no requirement for the company to verify the experience of any applicant. However, if an American attempts this same tactic, they'll exercise their *option* to call employers and check references to prove that the American is lying.

There are a fuckload of comments here that are making similar errors. It's a grammatical wasteland (more so than usual).

I wouldn't be surprised if the company mentioned by OP got a bunch of their workers, particularly the ones located outside of the US, to jump on here and try and help defend them.

No, you're wrong.

We have to look at *all* cases, because the justice system is designed to punish the guilty and only the guilty. By letting innocent people be punished, you're destroying the entire reason for its existence.

It's bad enough that car manufacturers intent to install synchros into transmissions because the poor, coddled generation cannot handle the "complexity" of double-clutching and rev. matching. I hate modern manual transmission vehicles because I lose nothing of value, except the ability to feel superior to everyone who hasn't used one.

They had to get through 30 whole verdicts and some of them are less than intuitive. Less than half an hour per crime is plenty reasonable.

They really do, though. It's only a matter of time before governments start paying out these randoms using taxpayer funds to cover up the cost of IT staff incompetence. If it were illegal to pay them out then we'd see more idiots get fired and more competent people hired to clean up the mess instead of paying randsom money to shady criminals.

WRITE TO YOUR GOVERNOR! Explain the situation and how you've found a way to save thousands of taxpayer dollars, they'll be eager to hear about that.

Unfortunately, the people that most school districts can afford don't know what any of the stuff you just mentioned actually is. Most of the people willing to do IT for $15/hr. are the kind of people who list "good with computers" on their resume and think that tinkering with AD makes them qualified to work as a system administrator.

People are going to disagree with you, but this is true. Universities employ some good people, but K-12 education is the absolute bottom of the barrel for IT staff. The schools that buck this trend are few and very far between.