He said should. I have to agree with his sentiment. When people go into prison, they spend years learning from the worst of society. When they get out, no one will hire them for a serious job with their record. So when you put people in prison who are not dangerous, you are consciously deciding to transform them into a dangerous person. This is about as counter productive of a justice system as you can get.

Where the hell do you live that you need to pay property taxes on a lawnmower?

You can't seriously think large corporations like that don't run such ideas through their legal advisors.

That's new? Where have you been?

Sounds like you are at a company that probably values longevity of employment. Problem is there is a growing trend of companies that do not value long employment and drop their employees at a moments notice when the annual financials don't meet guidance. Consequently, us younger folk have no notion of company loyalty in us and will jump ship as soon as we get offered something better. Eventually you get to a point where you have moved up too high and are too old. You either find one of the rare senior positions, or you drop out once your employer spits you out.

Bad example. There is a push, but we're looking at pure protectionism. Doctors have the AMA guild with enough money to make it near impossible for a doctor without an MD from a US institution to get a license to practice medicine in the US. You could be a naturalized citizen with a MD from a top British med school and have no hope of ever practicing medicine in theUS without going back to school.

I have never seen a company have a problem getting an H1B visa for a highly skilled worker. Sometimes it takes a year, but I have never seen a company acting in good faith (paying very well for a unique relevant background) have trouble with this.

I don't understand. You point out that if companies just wanted cheap labor, they would outsource. But then you go on to point out exactly why you frequently would not want to outsource. But you use both to explain why cost of labor is probably not the issue?

This already exists for H1Bs and it is still being widely abused. They need to require companies pay them 150% the normal rate. If they are so desperately needed for their skills, this should not be a problem. We would also get to see how much of a shortage we really have.

The thing most people seem to fail at understanding is that training children is a lot like training dogs. They are habitual creatures (even adults are to a large extent) and learn a lot of behavior through mimicking and repetition. You don't always need to explain with words. Taking a toddlers hand when they are calm and stroking the family cat nicely while explaining with a very positive tone is the same as teaching the child to not hit the cat. Hitting a child for negative behavior is teaching them to hit others for behavior they personally find disagreeable. Its not a perfect 1:1 corellation of behavior because we all have conflicting habits that balance each behavior like a neural net.

Oh man that link has me clutching my sides in laughter. Thank you. The idea that anyone would be concerned about metal getting "sanitized" when it's already such a fringe industry is hilarious. The labels are small and don't care. The musicians don't care. Most of it is sold outside of major chain stores anyways, and most of them probably do not care.

What? I think you replied to the wrong person.

Actually there have been quite as number of people killed striking. The Homestead Strike immediately comes to mind.

So if I can't afford to buy ammo, do I lack these rights?

So you would prefer to be robbed at gun point by a corporation instead of by a government? If that's true it is OK, I am just verifying your preferences.