Perhaps you need to do just a little hint of what actually happened then. I realize that being scared may seem like your right, but being scared because you're ignorant makes your ignorance really stand out. The FCC did EXACTLY their job, using the tools they had which WERE given to them by congress... just not the fucking asswipe, do nothing, government hating, fringe dickwads we have in there right now.

Shifting the burden of proof. These logical fallacies are out in force today. I guess that's why you posted AC. No, I'm not going to go prove each and every one of those jobs exist, because that's why we have the US Dept of Labor, etc, to collect this information. Go look it up, it's trivially easy.

You do realize only the new ones change the job pool, right? Durrr...

Also, close your mouth? Not all of us move our lips when we read and write, AC.

No, that hasn't been covered on /. extensively because it's just not true. Look it up. There were 40,000 CS degrees last year, and almost 4,000,000 openings in various engineering and IT fields. I'm pretty sure 2 orders of magnitude could be considered "a shortage".

And I'm not sure where you are working, but SW engineering salaries have quite literally exploded over the past 5 years or so. It's not at all uncommon to see $400-500k+ offers (including benefits) these days.

Well, now we see why you were arguing without facts - racism is at the root of a lot of these debates, huh?

Oh, that's just silly. VPs at many Bay Area companies aren't making $750k, and I'm pretty sure they aren't being outsourced or competing with H1-Bs. You aren't going to be offered $750k unless the job requires skills that are in such high demand and low supply they are practically unique - which is very rare in this industry.

And even more importantly - I assume you already have a job (I assume anyone claiming they should be paid in the top 0.01% of engineers isn't unemployed except by choice). So what good does that do to fill the hundreds of thousands of openings given a current 2-4% unemployment rage for software engineers? All it does is shift the job somewhere else. Doesn't solve the problem in the slightest.

Your point is yet another logical fallacy. So many on this topic today...

Calling someone a paid shill because you disagree with them is the lowest form of argumentative fallacy, usually reserved for anti-vax, tea partiers, and global warming deniers.

Nope, I haven't seen that. I and most of my friends and coworkers are getting constant calls from recruiters, and usually have 5 offers and a counteroffer within a couple weeks when looking around. And my company always has a half dozen open recs we are trying desperately to fill, and we pay the same - very competitive - salary whether you were born in the US or elsewhere.

The tech job market in the Bay Area is the best for employees that I have seen in my 25 years here. Good new college grads (which are rare) can make $150k, experienced developers $250k+, and architects $400-500k with bonuses (and that's not including stock options/grants). And WHY is that the case? Just because companies like throwing large amounts of money at employees? No, it's capitalism as usual, and when demand goes up but supply doesn't, prices go up as well.

I already answered this, but again to state FACTS vs your complete guessing: the software engineer unemployment rate in the SF Bay Area is now under 2%, and hiring growth was up 17% last year. There are something like 150,000 unfilled software engineering openings. And before you say "hire from outside of the Bay Area" - nationally it's still only 4%.

Either your company hires from the bottom of the barrel or you are writing from 2007. Clearly you are not at a Bay Area software company, because no one says "engineering firms" here, that's just bizarre.

The last 10 candidates we made offers to had multiple competing offers. I think we hired 3 of them, which was pretty damn good when you take into account these offers are in the $200k+ range, sometimes significantly more with bonuses and benefits. One was American born, one a Chinese citizen with a green card, and one Indian with an H-1B and a PhD from UC Berkeley. All had similar years of experience and were offered with ~5% of the same salary. The same is true of most of the highly competitive software companies here, so your "cheap labor" argument in this case is - utter bullshit.

Anyway, you need to provide some FACTS before you can hope to have a credible argument. Here are a few: the software engineer unemployment rate in the SF Bay Area is now under 2%, and hiring growth was up 17% last year. There are something like 150,000 unfilled software engineering openings. And before you say "hire from outside of the Bay Area" - nationally it's still only 4%.

The FACT is it's a huge growth industry in the US right now and there just aren't enough experienced software engineers in the US to fill the openings (nor are we educating nearly enough smart new developers to compensate).

I've always preferred a hybrid explanation for the event. Prior to the whole Theia hypothesis, one of the main ideas for the moons creation was it simply accreted with Earth as a binary planet system. The Theia hypothesis (man doesn't that sound like a good name for a sci-fi book) simply started off saying there was an impact and the moon was re-coalesced around the remaining Theian core from some of the ejecta.

That required, as you alluded to, that another planet/proto-planet was just kinda wandering through our systems disk due to whatever reason, such as gravitational pull from one of the gas giants; certainly a valid possibility, but it just seemed to me that the hybrid of Theia forming in our orbital path and eventually impacting with us was an easier event to explain... more one of those "just happen to be cleaning our surroundings" than "lucky shot from the rough" type of things.

This composition analysis seems to support the dual formation in the same/near same orbit idea.

If you were alive when your great great grandfather Herr Shultz tried to come over you'd have kicked his ass out and you wouldn't have even been born.

The H1-B Visa program only allows 65,000 per year (which is insanely low considering there are over 500,000 open tech jobs that currently can't be filled with competent domestic workers). I can guarantee you the company I work for would pay the same for an American worker as a foreign H1-B worker, if we could actually fine ANY worker that we found competent to do the job...

Why should anyone take your word that this is the "norm"? Because it's absolutely NOT.

I work in tech with many foreign born coworkers and the only ones who have not tried as hard as humanly possible to get their green card and citizenship are the Europeans (because yes, being middle class German, British, French, etc will pretty much guarantee you comfortable retirement and health care). Not a single one of my Indian or Chinese coworkers have any interest in going back to their home country after making American tech salaries. They are the same as anyone else here, wanting to buy a house, raise a family, etc.

The only difference between 100 years ago and today is that many immigrants can actually MAKE enough money to send some back to their families. In fact that's often the case because (legal) immigration is now so picky we only accept those who can make upper middle class salaries... So, wow, is that so horrible to your sensibilities that not all modern immigrants are minimum wage workers who can barely support themselves?

If you seriously think the current American workforce can fill the positions that many of the H1-B Visas are taking, you have not been involved in any significant tech hiring in the last few years. My company is only moderately competitive and we have been almost totally unable to find competent engineers to hire in the last year...

Absolutely!

It's amazing that the same people who (actually, no - who's GRANDPARENTS or beyond) built themselves up as immigrants working hard are now claiming that we are letting "foreigners" come in and "take our jorbs!"

"Brain drain" aka immigration of the brightest and most motivated around the world is what always has and will drive American innovation. The myth of "American Exceptionalism" is that it is somehow based on being BORN on the North American Continent. That's absurd. It's based on people wanting to COME to the North American Continent because at some point in history we actually welcomed smart, motivated people who wanted to work hard to achieve their own dreams.

....if both planetary bodies formed in the same area of the accretion disk.

https://medium.com/@PresidentO...

The text, because this "news" article couldn't seem to post a link: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the...

There's people even on the reddit thread pointing out that the person mentioning Snowden has no basis for the assumption. As with all things, follow the money; in a couple days if that link to "Snowden" donations turns out to be some fat fuck padding his own bank account by preying off mental midgets, i will not be surprised in the least.

From what the EO actually looks like, i'd suggest the only ones who are going to be hating it are the hackers and thieves stealing personal data.... oh, and the numbnuts who have such a kneejerk reaction of hating anything Obama does so much that if he came out in favor of breathing, they'd all hold their breaths till dead.

Remember what they say about assuming. The title of the article should be something along the lines of: "Potential con-man fleecing more anti-Obama idiots by scaring them again."

A point your leaving out, however, is that that general, and those Hezbolla fighters were headed to a Syrian outpost that the Iranians helped to build, to defend against rebels.... you know, those guys with the ever changing initials of ISIS, IS, or whichever way they go together this week. Additionally, while those more cowardly or rabid fear the "inevitable" attack of Iran against Israel, Israels attack against those fighters fighting ISIS was inside a different sovereign nation. This was not a defensive strike, it was an attack.

A lot of the rhetoric from Iran the past decade has been blown up because of poor translations, and the complete lack of ability to understand any nuanced speech at all by a certain segment of sociopath war-mongers in the US. Overall though, when you compare what Israel has done in countries other than Israel, to what Iran has done in countries other than Iran.. for the past 50 years.... Israel is by far and away more likely to start wars, although they always try to call them "defensive actions," which the gullible, or the sociopaths, gobble up.

Actually, they already have very specific rules for captioning Internet streaming content that Netflix and all other streaming companies follow (the misunderstanding that Netflix "doesn't do captions" is totally wrong - the vasty majority of their content is captioned):

http://www.fcc.gov/guides/capt...

This lawsuit was trying to claim that those already extensive rules aren't enough and the ADA requires all content to be captioned. Luckily the courts didn't agree...

It's common for movies that are distributed in a country that generally doesn't speak the movie's language, of course. Though they are called subtitles in that case.