He usually will be competing not agains a person, but against the possible employer company whining that they need more H1-B Visas because they can't fill the position with domestic employees.

Uhm yes. Hans Reiser showed that first you do FOSS development, and THEN commit a felony... OK, bad jokes aside, his problem will be to find time between the three burger flipping jobs he has to to, to actually do something meaningful for any FOSS project.

I agree with the problem that Lawrence_bird noticed: a state deciding to NOT take all of your money is not exactly giving a "tax break"

But there is another problem: You don't need countries to actually GIVE a tax break: Unfair tax advantages might be created by simple differences between tax systems that are fair and balanced within themselves.

That held true for maybe the car companies of yore but does not help the economy if a) the relation between jobs created and revenue gets out of hands (just stick with the google example: we here have rather few engineers responsible for the ernings of one of the worlds biggest companies) and b) the jobs created aren't in the same country where the revenue is created.

I'm concerned about the Bing filter not working (or people maliciously manipulating their pages into being displayed as CC when Bing searches it) and then being sued. With the current clipart library, I knew it came with a licencse to be used.

And any company with a brain in theirl legal department will add an additional filter to filter out those. At least the advantage of the CC licences is that they are machine readable. (ok. "readable" is a bit misleading. Can be represented by a combination of machine readable flags)

But still, with the old clipart, you knew that the images belonged to the Offce package and you were fine to include them into documents generated with that office package. (same for Corel Draw. No one bought that for the actual software but rather the clipart library!)

You now have at least to think about licences. (Like checking for the "sharealike" flag that sums up the "viral" part of the CC)

No, for most people out there it's more like they WOULD HAVE to think about licences, but rather are enforced in their believe that what comes up in Bing (or Google) image search is public domain. Or else it wouldn't be on the interweb!

That's at least not hypocritical until they are acting surprised that China wants to do the same.

Oh wait... they did that when they declared that "cyper attacks" are considered as hostile as regular military attacks. Wow, I'm glad that no one actually measures them by what they say....

We could send them through something called "training" before we let them loose on the streets. Where can I collect my Nobel Prize?

Just in one word. sad.

As a dev myself, I'm absolutely fine working with vague specs. As long as my manager accepts a few iterations for fine tuning. And considering the time that is spent for planning the smallest of details, that may even be more productive.

Just don't give vague specs and complain about not sticking to them exactly.

Yes, yes, and yes, it could be a Kaspersky-Hype, too.

Thank you for that US centric point of view.

Who cares if Amazon damages the US, France or Italy? (again: what damage do they actually take compared to WHAT? Counting taxes a company should have payed as damage makes as much sense as filing an insurance claim for the Picasso that COULD have bin in the trunk of your totaled car)

The biggest damage also isn't for the US at all, because as you mentioned, they create at least some high paying jobs there. But from all other states, Amazon (in this example - replace with any other company) funnels money out of those countries.

The damage is on every shop that is too small to be able to take any (granted: legal) tax avoidance strategy and is undercut by Amazon.

Well, then I'm supposed to say "thank you" fot this "defense" that allows to pay these companies much less than they "should" have to pay?

Sorry, but that is pure rubbish as there is no objective view on how many taxes a company SHOULD have to pay. (This holds for my above example, too, of course)

Entities have to pay as many taxes as the laws require them to pay. But defining how many taxes someone SHOULD have to pay, depends on who you're asking. Me for example, shouldn't have to pay any taxes, because I'm simply awesome.

I rather think the lesson should be that you need to give your employees the tools they need for their work (or the ones they work with best) - which for some reason for these channel employees were not the surfaces.

And basically all passender accessible areas have a view to the outside. (Except the cheaper cabins which you want to avoid if you have a tendency towards motion sickness)

I can tell from my cruise experience that I could feel a slight vertigo comming up the smaller the room was. Noticeable in the (windowless) cabin, and starting to become slightly unpleaseant in the shower. It helped imaging the whole ship rolling on the ocean to help my brain explain the motion felt.

I'd dare you put that to a test.

even when not looking out of the window, they give you a visual link to the outside as a point of reference for your sense of motion. Being put in a small room that itself is moving is one of the best ways to induce nausea.