And you are willing to pay triple or quadruple in the store right?
I always see this kind of comment where people seem to think that cost won't be passed down to their wallet but the reality is you don't want the increased cost any more than the growers do. So why don't you put your money where your mouth is the next time prices jump and remember your comments above.
Let's correct a few things for you here...
We ignore the law
Correction... Businesses ignore the law when they hire the illegals. The state of Georgia implemented the strictest sanctions on employers of illegal immigrants and the end result was was a huge failure! ( http://www.forbes.com/sites/re... ). And where were the so called "American workers" to take up the slack? Well, let's just quote that article:
Despite high unemployment in the state, most Georgians don't want such back-breaking jobs, nor do they have the necessary skills. According to Dick Minor, president of the Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Grower's Association, immigrants "are pretty much professional harvesters" with many specializing in particular crops.
To even further disillusion you:
Georgia's experience is consistent with economic research on immigration. Although many Americans believe immigrants "steal" our jobs and push down our wages, economists find little evidence of that.
Immigration policy is designed to control the entry of immigrants, it's time we started treating that way.
They are trying to do that with modifications to a law that really, really needs fixing. The example of Georgia shows that isolation such as you are proposing doesn't work and in fact leads to economic harm. So exactly what would you propose? Would you work in the fields to enforce your vision when the immigrants all leave?
Although that is true, there are also many states that have laws on the books regarding police officers "moonlighting" since so many of them got caught double dipping claiming their police salary at the same time they were working their security stint. My state of WV is one such state because of the massive amounts of abuse like that going on. It got so bad in fact that there is legislation that was passed forbidding state police officers from moonlighting.
That would be Blackwater not Blackwatch...
There is just so many things wrong with this concept it is hard to know where to begin...
If they are private corporations, then where is their proof that they complied with the open bidding laws every state has to gain the contract for the SWAT services? Where is the contract that specifies the services to be rendered? Where is the contract that specifies the amounts to be paid for those services? Where is the assurances that they won't use state resources in providing those services? Since it is tax dollars paying for the services, where is the state audit trails required of all grants and contracts that ensures proper spending is occurring and that any over-runs or under-runs are not being exploited? If federal grant money is used, where is that audit trail and if the amount is over $25,000 where is the FFATA reports on the federal share spent as required by https://www.fsrs.gov/ ?
I am in state government and have to deal with these issues daily. By them saying they are private corporations, it throws them into the same category as any other private corporation having to contract for their services which kicks in so many laws it will make your head spin.
No plugin Auto-run for untrusted sites.
Well, you have 2 flaws right there. First, the verification method for "trusted sites" and second, the trust and verification of the trust authority. So you should have stopped at "no plugin auto-runs."
Or because the FAA holds the airplane manufacturers to an extremely high standard for their software.
Although that may be true, the FAA also requires all the backup systems to software driven indicators to be mechanical. So for example, the flight level indicator is duplicated as a mechanical instrument in case the electronic one fails. Same thing with the airspeed indicator, fuel gauges and other critical gauges. Especially if you are talking passenger aircraft. Many even have mechanical backups for hydraulic failures.
I honestly think that texting and cell phone bans are just using the "third brake light" effect.
I would agree with you IF the intention of those laws were truly about safety. They are not. It is all about revenue. In my state of WV the cell phone ban went into effect last year. It is a primary offense, meaning they can pull you over just for that, with fines starting at $200 for the first offense and increasing from there for subsequent offenses. And of course, like any other moving violation, your insurance rates will skyrocket after getting caught.
On a similar note, is there any state that doesn't require automotive insurance anymore? Or how about auto inspection stickers? I also see those as revenue generators for the police. They too also have a safety implication but when you look at the big picture they are more often used as a means of balancing budgets.
From TFS...
City officials released the data in response to a public records request and specifically obscured the drivers' hack license numbers and medallion numbers...
How many of you here have had to deal with a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request which is what a "public records request" is? I have had the pleasure over a dozen times. You have 10 days to respond to that request in my state. Some states it is even less. Failure to do so can result in stiff penalties. 10 days is hardly enough time to contract out to someone and have the job "done right".
It means you hire knowledge and experience, you hire expert skills, and those cost money.
And you are happy to have your taxes raised to pay those fees? Riiiight!
This is one of the many reasons I don't go anywhere near the ocean. It is a food chain out there and I don't need to be the weakest link.... GOODBYE!
Wow... Where to begin... Well, let's start from the top...
In reality, neither - older people or the best for the job - get the job. Because if it were the most capable for the job, then new college grads would never get hired, would they?
You started off great but then made the assumption that all college grads would never get hired. It all depends on the college they graduated from. MIT, Stanford, Harvard and Yale graduates don't have nearly the difficulty getting employment as other grads. Now the question you need to ask is why? It boils down to colleges failing in their responsibility to the community they serve. Failing to teach the skills necessary for success.
It takes a couple of years experience to become good and productive.
Poppycock! It only takes years because the colleges are failing at producing the quality employee and the company ends up having to re-teach what the grad was supposed to learn in school. Worse, they now may have to unlearn bad habits that the student was taught in that rotten school.
Some big currently successful corp starts basing its hiring on some metric someone pulls out of their ass, and then everyone does it in the hopes of aping the success of that firm.
When you have 5,000 applicants for 5 positions you have to have some way of telling those that must lose why. Especially since you have agencies like the EEO looking over your shoulder.
Google and Microsoft has fucked up hiring for everyone with their idiotic interview questions that they ended up getting rid of anyway.
The bigger the employer, the more scrutiny they come under. Again, you need some metric to weed out the chaff in a way that won't get you sued in any of a thousand different ways. Some metrics work, some don't.
See, the fact is companies have no clue how to get the best. They make metrics up, buy cute tests, hire consultants with their Ouija boards or whatever, and follow what currently successful companies are doing - who are also pulling shit out of their asses.
Again, it is trying to work within the hiring laws that skew the tables with things like affirmative action How many times has
The best way to hire? Get a development manager with a long contact list in his smart phone and have him start calling people he knows can deliver and throw money at them.
Never fails.
Yet when government does that you get upset??? Throwing money at a problem isn't only foolish it is a quick way to the poor house. What you are calling for is cronyism or nepotism where the only way to get a job is to be in that one person's contact list. That's no way to hire someone and you really don't know why that person may be in that contact list.
If you or your company can't get "qualified people", it's because YOU suck - pay too low, having HR recruit or just being lemmings and following the herd on how to hire.
Way to put your head in the sand and ignore the fact that the universities and colleges are failing in their task of producing qualified students. Or that the current hiring laws are skewed to favor less qualified people simply because they fit a diversity metric. Way to put the failure of the job seekers to manage their expectations on the employer with them wanting to be paid the same as the CEO on their first day.
Until we fix our education system to produce students that can actually serve the communities they are in, stop pitting one group against another such as we have in this story, we will continue to see the types of stories on
And if you MUST use Facebook then add in F.B. Purity to really clean up the mess and not see any ads on Facebook (as well as other useless shit)..
wait... what... I thought most homosexuals were Democrat.
Just the ones in the open... The Republicans just have a wide stance....
I can see stiffer sentences if the hacking leads to loss of life DIRECTLY. For example, hacking into a hospital system and bringing down critical life saving systems.
But to me, and I don't know how the UK manslaughter laws are rigged, it would be more helpful to update those laws instead of this one.
Having said that, national security combined with unauthorized computer access can and will be used against whistleblowers of government abuse. Watch for that to happen.
This seems to be the net outcome of the society we've chosen today, to let the few have 80% of our assets, and the rest just work as slaves for the 10-20% rich elite. I must stress that I am not a socialist or communist by a long shot, but there is something wrong with a society that can't pay their workers a proper wage.
The problem is who decides what is a "proper" wage? To employers, slavery is a proper wage since nothing beats free. To the employee, getting the same as the CEO is fair. The truth is somewhere in the middle.
This whole argument disregards the fact that sales will always follow what the market can bear. Raising the minimum wage causes the price of everything to go up.
On the flipside, if people aren't paid enough to afford what is being sold, how long will that business stay in business?
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
