Does this mean by extension that the "bloggers" who contribute to the Huffington Post are employees?

> If corporations still treated employees as value-adding assets rather than cost liabilities, crap like H1-B wouldn't exist.

I would say, if corporations recognized that employees are value-adding assets rather than cost liabilities. Because we are. We're not asking corporations to "spread the wealth", we're asking them to recognize the reality that what we do is important to the company.

Every outsource disaster points up the fact that management really had no idea what contribution their employees were making. Somehow they got sold (usually by some outsource salescritter) on the idea that, no, it's a dead simple job. An orangutan could do it. Just hire the cheapest labor you can find, have your old crew write out a few procedures before you kick them out, and, $$profit$$!

And then... later they have to use creative accounting to show that yes, we really did save money. Really. Trust me.

Ok, so you thoroughly demotivate your workers. You insult them. You treat them like idiots. Yeah, we think so little of your jobs that we're going to import untrained minimum wage foreigners to replace you, and oh, by the way, before you leave, you have to train them which button to push when the light comes on.

You even complete the layoffs of one division. (Florida.)

And then, responding to Bad Press, as part of damage control, you tell the remaining employees that they get to keep their jobs. At least, for now, until the news cycle passes.

What employee in their right mind would *not* spend every moment looking for a new job at that point? What responsible individual (financially responsible to self and family) would *not* use this opportunity as paid job search?

So, Disney may have quieted down some small portion of the uproar. But they're still going to lose all of that tribal knowledge, guaranteed. And they're going to have the most disgruntled, (old workers) and nonfunctional (imported workers with no training or support) IT department of any company still in business.

I foresee a time when the Pirates of the Caribbean ride is populated with live H1-B actors, because nobody can figure out how to make the animatronics work anymore. Might be an improvement, except the guests will have to swim through the moat.

Apparently, one of which is to become a much smaller company.

Jurassic World was a direct sequel to Jurassic Park, not a reboot.

Sadly, a lot of law practice is like that these days -- you pay not because it's just, but because it's cheaper than going to court.

All restaurants should switch to that fake "teenage" music from 1970's sitcoms.

Some locations are more unique than others.

Apropos of almost nothing, I am reminded of the scene in Jurassic World where the operator was dressed down by his boss for wearing a vintage Jurassic Park t-shirt to work.

It keeps me warm.

You probably owe something to Warner Brothers now. (Or was it EMI?)

If I'm understanding TFA, it seems like a restatement of one aspect of the three laws of security -- of Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, the last one. That if "security" results in legitimate users not having sufficient access (availability) to achieve assigned goals, it's not really security. Kind-of the opposite, actually.

I'm self-employed and generally get paid through Paypal. If that means getting forced robocall ads, that will be the end of our relationship. This is not negotiable.

My primary workstation is an ATX enclosure from the turn of the century populated by a motherboard from about 2005 with an early Intel quad core processor, 8 GB memory (I do a lot of work with photoshop and similar tools) a 2 GB system drive, a 3 GB data drive, a hot swappable slot in which I can temporarily plug a 3 GB drive for backups, USB 3.0 controller card (faster uploading from memory cards) and some video card I inherited from a gamer after one of his continuous upgrades. Plugged into an elderly but color-accurate 24" monitor. This will do me until something breaks that can't be fixed or swapped out. I'm not a fan of upgrading for its own sake. Internet provided by fiber to the house.

In the last 15 years I've lost 3 power supplies. I've learned to keep one in stock for rapid repair.

I was a late adopter of Windows 7, will stick with that until further notice. I installed Win8 on a test machine, decided it did not meet my needs. Haven't looked at 10 yet, don't see the need at this time. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank every Win10 early adopter for their valuable QA service.

...doesn't mean you aren't a dick.