Yes, in fact, this is what most of them do. It allows them to play innocent. It is also how many manufacturers in the United States employ illegal aliens.

We all know that this won't change, and the only vote that matters is the one you cast with your wallet. The actual solution is to not do business with companies that use H1-B workers at all, whether those workers are employees of the company or "contractors" who are actually employed by InfoSys, Tata, and so on. For example, Harley-Davidson got rid of its IT department and contracted InfoSys to do the work. And, of course, InfoSys brought in nothing but Indians for the jobs. Not surprisingly, someone brought a discrimination suit against them, but I don't know how that turned out; more than likely InfoSys bought the judge. H-D can then claim that they just hired InfoSys, and InfoSys is the one hiring the workers. In this way, H-D's hands are clean, legally.

What we actually need is a comprehensive list of companies that have done this (think Disney, etc), to facilitate boycotting those companies.

And every single generation bitches about the one that immediately follows it, in much the same way that high school sophomores bitch the most about the freshmen. My generation was labelled as a bunch of shoe-gazing fuck-offs, but that stopped once we became adults. Then, of course, we turned around and called the next generation entitled garbage. Some Gen-Xers were (and are) slackers, some have a great work ethic; likewise, some Millenials are entitled shits and always will be, others are decent people with a good grip on reality. Most of the Millenials I know (nieces, nephews, and coworkers) fall solidly into the latter category.

It looks like a redundant post, but that's what I get for allowing myself to get sidetracked by work while I'm posting on /.

China's so-called ghost cities are actually just very, very new. http://blogs.reuters.com/great... What actually seems to happen is that developers (the real estate kind, not the Steve Ballmer kind) buy land for cheap because it's far from any existing population center, but Chinese law requires them to build something rather than sitting on it. So all these developers build all this stuff, and after a few years people start moving in and the ghost cities become just plain cities.

Because the Syrians aren't refugees at all?

You would think so, but then you would remember that there is a 100% chance that IBM has farmed out the actual work to InfoSys, Tata, or some such shit-tier company.

You mean H1B workers from India who never wrote a line of code before being assigned to a massive government project with a million moving parts? Seems likely, considering:

and the fact that it's years overdue and billions of dollars over budget.

Not directly, anyway. We can still take an indirect approach, though, for example by looking at how many ISPs have been gobbled up and merged into each other over the last few years, at what point were there only a handful of real options left, when these caps started appearing, and so on. It also might help to remember that we've already been through this with the cell phone providers and their price gouging/fixing. Many of those providers are now ISPs as well, or have merged with them. Typically, once there isn't any real competition, prices start to go up. So to answer the question: Everybody should have seen this coming once all the mergers and acquisitions got going full force.

There is nothing new about people who challenge the consensus being shouted down, called crackpots, idiots, and so on. People who claimed the NSA was spying on everybody got the same treatment for years. Some people are terrified of the idea of reality being so malleable; others just always want to be right. There was a Norwegian television program called Hjernevask (Brainwash) that allows some "social scientists" to make complete fools out of themselves. Their reactions when shown evidence that contradicts their cherished beliefs is good comedy, and an even better reminder that people who call themselves scientists are not impervious to falling into dogma. There are several episodes. Here's the first one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You need to scroll down to see the whole article. Don't worry, I'm sure you'll win a prize of some sort some day.

You are attempting to put words in my mouth in a bid to bolster your argument. That is a logical fallacy (straw man, if I'm not mistaken). I said that mental instability is the problem, not words. Words will never affect a mentally stable human being to the point where they'd commit murder or suicide, no matter how desperately you want to believe otherwise. If it did, the sheer volume of shit being flung around on the Internet would have ensured 7 billion deaths by now.

For the record, and in case you missed it, the key phrase here is "mental instability".

Was it also frustrating for you to see a woman and her children being threatened by extreme left-wing lunatics for being a GamerGate supporter? Or does your sympathy extend only to those who have the correct politics?

Also, this:

is the most hilarious thing I've read on here all day. You did no such thing. Get over yourself.

Straw man? You either don't know what that means, or you pay no attention at all to the words that drool out of your brain onto the screen of your iPhone.

I'm going to guess it's some combination of the two.

Yes, I've noticed. In that case the mental instability is the problem, not the words. Why do you need this explained to you?