Are you direct with Msoft?
My experience is the abuse of the H1B system comes from indirect hires through contract agencies. Basically, if you have a pimp, you're treated like a whore.
If you spring for a membership fee, the lowest of which is $29.
Is there anywhere we can get this government information for free?
They need to work on adding taxes that will cover electric plug ins, etc.
The government is reluctant to do so; however, funding for transportation infrastructure has to come from somewhere ---- and it should come in proportionate amounts from those who use that infrastructure most heavily.
Which reverses your original comment. It's the electrics that are being relatively subsidized, when compared to gas/diesel powered cars.
(Note that electrics are also "fossil fueled", as approximately 70% of grid power comes from fossil fuels. )
You originally wrote:
The problem is the government is already unfairly picking winners and already subsidizing fossil fuel vehicles by failing to require that manufacturers and operators of fossil fuel vehicles pay for the pollution they generate in order to internalize the externalities.
Approximately 2/3 of the layoffs are from Nokia. Msoft is also restructuring to clear out middle management, and refocus the business to devices and cloud services.
I'm not a big fan of the H1B program, but this announcement by Msoft is just the wrong horse to be flogging over the H1B program.
Step one is decriminalizing getting stoned without approval from the state.
Step two would be decriminalize taking medicine without approval from the state.
A free man doesn't expect his employer to be his mommy too - that's how a serf thinks.
Look around you. Do you see people who *want* to be free men, or *want* to be serfs?
I think the government has a legitimate national security interest in developing a transportation system that does not completely grind to a halt the day someone sets off a few nukes in the major oil-producing areas of the world.
Hybrid and electric technology is what could make the difference between an event like that being a serious problem and it being a complete disaster.
Powered by abundant local reserves of coal! Yay!
The problem is the government is already unfairly picking winners and already subsidizing fossil fuel vehicles
by failing to require that manufacturers and operators of fossil fuel vehicles pay for the pollution they generate in order to internalize the externalities.
Have they done any math to check this? Any thought?
A quick trip to La Wik:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
The United States federal excise tax on gasoline is 18.4 cents per gallon and 24.4 cents per gallon for diesel fuel.[1][2] On average, as of April 2014, state and local taxes add 31.5 cents to gasoline and 31.0 cents to diesel, for a total US average fuel tax of 49.9 cents per gallon for gas and 55.4 cents per gallon for diesel.[3]
About a 15% tax on energy for gas powered vehicles. What's the energy tax on all those shiny electric plug ins?
What, intruding actual scale and proportion into a political argument?
Off with his head!
Thor is a male god.
Thor is an established character, based on the mythical Thor.
Making Thor female is just a publicity stunt.
Female Jesus and Muhammad, coming soon to a comic near you.
But I kid. They wouldn't even dare to draw Muhammad, let alone slap tits on him.
Like all good bureaucrats, they're all about their power, and don't give a shit about the law, because they're above it.
The NSA, the IRS, the EPA, the FDA, the FAA, all just spitting in our faces because they can, they know it, and they want to make sure that we do too.
They are the Tax Ranchers, we are the Tax Cattle.
Say it with me.
"Moo".
This is too hilarious. Explains a lot, though.
"Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took the exam in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent of an IQ of 125. But New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training.
Most Cops Just Above Normal The average score nationally for police officers is 21 to 22, the equivalent of an IQ of 104, or just a little above average."
So, put high IQ society membership on resume? Probably would turn off some people, but it sounds like Zuckerberg would like it.
And how long did evolution take to make an ant? How long from there to a human?
Nope, not following instructions. I think all of those were based in machine learning.
I guess Google's car is following instructions too, like "drive me to New York", but most would still count that as AI.
"Engineering without management is art." -- Jeff Johnson
