Of course that's what it says.

As much as I have shares in the Brooklyn Bridge to sell you, BullshitCone.

Libertarian fuckwittery. Because having single payer health care (which provides far better care for a far lesser cost) is the same thing as the NSA spying on every person on the planet.

Since Congress has zilch to do with Treaties till it comes ratification time (negotiating Treaties is an Executive Branch thing), it matters not at all that Congress is being kept in the dark about them.

As facile as stating a president has nothing to do with legislation until it arrives on his desk for a signature.

Not really, see "unbalanced employment negotiation"

It's really a matter of directing its creation. Mere ideas aren't copyrightable, and merely coming up with one doesn't matter. If you use someone else's idea but are the only creative participant, they won't get rights in tor work.

And if you direct creation, you don't have to be the person who literally brings it about, either. But this is more than just paying someone a commission, or giving them the basic idea. It means that the other active participant isn't contributing anything creative.

So for example, if you tell a photographer that you want a photo of some subject, the photographer will end up being the author. If you tell him exactly what camera settings to use, what lighting, choose the subject, pose the subject, etc., then you're engaging in authorship.

No, they're not. Being the author means having sole artistic control. Being a joint author would involve two parties having artistic control, and an intent to produce a joint work. And a work for hire, in which authorship is attributed to an employer requires more than merely commissioning a work. It requires actual employment, with all the relevant indicia (tax forms, insurance, providing the tools and work area, etc.) or in a handful of cases, contractual language.

You might be interested in Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony and Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid.

I think you mean Johnny Depp.

Apples and oranges, logically.

By that logic, the burger flipper at McDonald's should be able to pocket all the money McDonald's brings in.

Only if the burger flipper in question was also the person who invented Big Macs or Chicken McNuggets.

Unfortunately I see far less fear mongering and fraudulent reporting on Fox than I do on MSNBC or CBS.

Then you don't watch Fox. Name something from either of those networks that comes close to the Fox penchant for labeling Republicans in scandal as Democrats, or using footage from an old Glenn Beck rally to make it look like large crowds turned out for a newer one.

You believe the status quo must be kept as is, even in a shifting global economy.

Oh, so we're free to buy goods and housing at third world prices? All the CEO's that make more than $500k a year have been fired and replaced with MBA's from India? No and no you say? Then it sounds like the "global economy" is still really a "capitalist crock of shit".

What are you smoking?

Apple's entry-level Software Engineer title makes an average base pay of $119,268, plus $34kish in additional incentives.

And you could cut that in half and it would still seem to be a vast sum to supporting a family on $30,000 a year as an auto mechanic. This defense of companies that have more money than God is bizarre, and a complete non-response to the issues of wage suppression the business talk of "free markets" going out the window the second they benefit the working class.

The companies listed Apple, Cisco, Verizon pay wages most of America could only dream of

And in the 30's, baseball players 'had jobs most America could only dream of'. Does nothing to change the fact that they were paid far less than they were worth due to anti-competitive practices from team owners.

Since H1Bs are, by law, required to be paid the same salaries as their American citizen counterparts, if anything

Increasing the size of the labor pool = reduced "prevailing wages". It matters not a whit that the Indian programmer is getting $40k a year, same as his American counterpart in the next cube, if the American's wage would be $48k a year without H1B labor.

Reverse is true. Even if you aren't a member of a union, you benefit from a union forcing employers to pay more wages and benefits in your industry. But 'Murricans like yourself would prefer to make less money and be more expendable rather than pay fifty bucks a month in dues.

It's like not wanting to pay taxes for public roads while at the same time enjoying the benefits they provide.

Did reality run over your cat when you were five? I know you two haven't been on speaking terms for a while, but this is ridiculous.

You should pay a tax on top of the H1B employees wages that makes the full package 20% more costly than employing a US worker.

But if the wage suppression resulting from H1B results in a 30% reduction in the prevailing wage, it's still worth it for them. It's like the banks that get fined a few hundred million for practices that made them billions in profits - they actually have an incentive to go on abusing the system.

A very well written non-response to the issue of wage suppression. As if everyone is free to pull up stakes and move, and there will be a nice six figure job waiting for you at the end of said move. And, if you've spent time in the Bay area, maybe you've heard of how rents have more than trippled in the last few years?

The H1-B program is designed for abuse. It was designed by politicians.

H1-B was designed to expand the labor pool and thus lower costs for corporations, while the working stiff still has to compete with third world labor.

Handjobs for corporations are unpopular when conglomerates are sitting on mountains of cash while real unemployment remains high. So, expanding the H1-Facscist program will be postponed until after the midterms, so Democrats running for office wont have to answer pesky questions about why we should be importing more workers when so many Americans are out of work.

Why didn't you simply say "I'm a serf in favor of feudalism" and save yourself a few dozen self-centered words?