It isn't just the "company" involved in the request. The problem is that these are "outsourcing" agencies that are doing it. In other words, they are contracting to other companies. At worst that simply means next year for the H1B's, they register a new company that is no longer banned, and place the requests. These applicants in many situations will be contracted to another company or to a parent company that then supplies outsourcing services to other companies.

The way you fix it is to make H1B's what they were intended to be in the first place, a ranked system of people of extreme technical proficiency that doesn't exist in the USA. Rand order the applicants based on having advanced degrees (PhD, Masters) from prestigious, world renoun, accredited institutions (i.e. not some mom+pop degree mill that someone paid $500 to have a piece of paper with their name on it and a "transcript" of their "classes" they took).

And on top of that, require that the job could not be handled by existing population at up to 2x the pay for the position (almost every case, there is someone who would fill these positions if the pay was actually what it is worth for the location, but these companies try to pay based on what it would cost to have someone who is living in a commune shack/house and saving all the money to send back to their home country as a month's work here is equivalent to 1 year or more back home). And require the H1B position to as filled be payed a rate 20% higher than that 2x price.

Make that kind of change and all of a sudden you will find that we are really only bringing in the highest quality of foreign skilled workers, like the program is suppose to be used for, and not the high school grad equivalent that many are and filling jobs that do not pay the going rate for a US worker and as such can only be filled by someone from overseas that the "low" US pay rate is well above what their rates are in their country.

I suspect that Apple will just say we are done in GB and pull opperations. I also believe some of the others will consider it as well. They will then let their customers in GB complain to their reps to have this bill changed/removed.

It comes down to conflicting religions for using the bible as source materals. The original authors of the bible were Jewish, a celebrate the 7th day of creation from biblical book of Genesis on the day currently called Saturday. From this interpretation, Saturday is in fact the last day of the week, as it is the 7th day, and the day of rest and worship.

Unfortunately, Christianity shifted their day of worship to the day of the week where Christ was raised from the dead (or more to the point, discovered to have been raised from the dead). For Christ and his followers were Jewish, and he was crucified on a Friday and hastily burried (the day of rest officially begins at sunset on Friday, and according to Catholic tradition, Christ died at ~3pm, and was hastily burried before sunset). No one could go to the tomb on Saturday since it was their day of rest, and the first oppertunity to provide a proper internment was Sunday, when they found the tomb open and the body missing.

So now that you had your little religious lessons, Christinanity changed the day of worship to Sunday, the day of Christ's rebirth, thus leading to the inconsistencies in what day of the week is the actual week end, Saturday or Sunday, as for thousands of years before Christinanity for all the people who ascribed to the 7 day week, Saturday was the last day of the week. Christianity celebrating a rebirth and renewal really shouldn't change that message, as thus worshiping the "beginning" as opposed to the "end" would seem to fit their message better and was probably one of the original reasonings for the shift.

Similarly, Islam, which is also based in part by the books in the bible (particularly Genesis), decided to use Friday as opposed to Saturday or Sunday to also distinguish themselves as different from the Jewish and Christian traditions.

However, the calendar we use that you are discussing is the Julian calendar, based on the Roman system which became Christian system when the Roman Emperor converted and mandated the change. This then leads to some of the deliema as to the end of the week, as the Roman's were using a 7 day week, and aligning the last day of the week, the 7th, with Sunday (obviously previously the day celebrating the Sun, and often the main day of worship in the pre-Christian religions across the Roman Empire).

So to make a long story short, blame religions and the conflict between the Book of Genesis and the newer religions for when the week ends, Saturday or Sunday....

Well, at least with the Seagate drives they know they are actually getting that 1TB, as opposed to a 64GB chip programmed to say it has 1TB....

I certainly wouldn't say something like a record is "low fi" like you are making it out to be. CDs are good, and excellent for multiple playbacks with minimal noise floor and get the vast majority of the song/music/audio capture. But they do it at a price, which was loss of signal in the frequency response, as it can not record a 1Hz or less frequency (and have difficulty with frequencies below 22.5), and lose of frequencies above 21KHz. They also quantize the frequencies, as it can't record the exact actual response as it is limited to the steppings inherent to the mathematical digital units in the range (as there are an infinite number of numbers between 0 and 1, a digital representation of that can not actually reflect the exact value throuought that entire range).

The analog recordings on records can in fact capture those exact frequencies and reproduce them. The downside is the method to read and playback those signals is prone to signal strength loss, and the easy introduction of noise due (from dust, micro-scratches, wear, and warpage/distortion of the media). Some of these imperfections even occur at production time as the record is stamped from a heated metal master disc and pressure is applied to the heated vinyl blank, with the metal master slowly deforming with each stamping, uneven pressure, incorrect temperatures, and contamination in the air (such as dust or other particles) being pressed into the vinyl disk. But the benefits of frequency range capture especially in overtones and harmonic frequencies simply can not be reproduced on CD.

That said, SACD format helps some, increasing the number of bits for storing the frequency range from 16bit to 24bit, having a wider dynamic range, and able to capture frequencies up to 100KHz (but in reality/practicality it is usually only about 50KHz in practice due to multiple reasons). In anycase, this covers a lot more of what the human ear is capable of perceiving, and gives the people mastering the audio of the recording more freedom which typically results in a much better overall recording.

That wouldn't help you if you are in a truck/SUV that has ground clearance until your tire hits the sensor. If it started closing as you were just a couple feet from entering, you could easily hit the door with the windshield before the door stops and starts reversing from your front tire triggers the optical sensor. And don't just say, well move the sensor up higher, because if you did that your door wouldn't detect if someone fell and was knocked out across the threshold of the garage door (or toddler, or baby crawling, or small cat/dog).

Why are you stopping at Aspirin? What about sugar, alcohol, caffeine, salt, heck even WATER has side effects that are debilitating if too much is taken. I mean really, if you are proposing the whole nanny state, then do it right, take it to it's proper logical solution. Become the government from "Demolition Man" (salt is bad for you, hence it is outlawed.... and fine people for cursing because it can cause emotional damage to those who hear it, and physical contact it banned because it spreads disease...). I can't believe I had to bring up a reference to this movie (it gets close to the so bad it is good, but really it was just bad, but we are getting closer to some of it's insights into what the future could become if we take these kinds of changes to their logical conclusions).

I think they are marketing these things wrong. Go back to standard colors, no LED bling, and double down focus on the audio. A smartphone with forward firing stereo speakers will appeal to quite a few people...

Nuclear can react to demand, the question though is always, is it worth it to do so. The way nuclear can react to demand is to shutoff (bypass), or turn on turbines from the hot water/steam loop/turbine loop. There is a max number of turbines that a nuclear plant design can handle due to the total heat energy carried by the hot water in the turbine loop. You can easily remove a turbine and not use that energy to generate electricity and let it dump as waste heat in the cooling towers, or you can use it to generate some additional electricity. Now that does have some ramifications on the reaction occurring if the cooling system can't handle the additional load of dumping waste heat as opposed spending some of it turning turbines/generating electricity. So that would mean building enough cooling capacity to handle the full load of the reactor without generating any electricity, or just building enough excess cooling capacity to handle situations where you have a turbine or two down for maintenance/upgrades....

Trying to figure out what State University is highly subsidized... If you look at the actual data, on a per student basis per year, on average it is $7500. I'm not saying that isn't nothing, but most colleges will be $40-50,000 a year (with elite schools going into the $60,000 range now). In other words, that subsidization is barely 15-20% which is a FAR cry from "highly subsidized" which would be something over 50% at least.

No, the mRNA vaccines did in fact work. What doesn't work is not understanding science. The initial vaccines worked well on the initial virus. Unfortunately, this virus mutates fairly quickly, a lot more quickly than the vaccines could be developed, manufactured, and administered, especially in an environment where there was an entire political party that was downplaying the virus and the science because the pandemic wasn't going to be good for the economy which wouldn't be good for their re-elections, and as such it wasn't good for them. And so they spent the precious early days in the pandemic not using the already developed tests for covid and curtailing the use of the test kits even when they finally developed them so as to keep the number of people infected artificially low, and thus allow them to point and say that there is no pandemic, life is good, nothing to see here, go about things as normal, when that was the absolute worst thing possible to do.

We could have stopped it in the beginning. Strict quarantining would have worked in January/February 2020 to prevent a large outbreak. But no, heads went into the sand until the deaths in New York couldn't be ignored or dismissed away, and by then it was too late, as it had spread too far. With that spread, it allowed the virus to mutate, and new strains develop, which then were different than what the initial vaccine could work against. And even then, getting the vaccine became a political statement. There are people who still have not been vaccinated 2 years after they became available, and that is letting the virus continue to mutate and the vaccine continue to possibly become less effective against a new mutation.

Lets look at vaccines in history that have worked well at eradicating the virus it was designed to prevent, vaccines for polio, small pox, mumps, measles... You know what they all have in common? They were widely distributed and administered to the population. In fact, many of them are still REQUIRED for you or your child is allowed to go to school. Unfortunately these viruses are much more stable and are not mutating. Something that is more like covid, would be the flu vaccines. Guess what, we get one of those every year because it is a fast mutating virus. The vaccine is also not 100% effective, but what it does do is lessens the likely-hood of needing to be hospitalized or die from the flu each year (wow, sounds kind of familiar, like what the vaccines for covid does....).

I suspect you do not have any 4k streaming occurring, and/or if you do, your "4k streams" are highly compressed with lots of quality loss. A high quality 4k stream uses 128mbps for the video alone. Not only that, a lot of people are looking for 8k streaming now, so 512bpbs for the same compression as the 4k streams, but most are using different compression algorithms to get it in the 56mbps - 128mbps range since most home users don't have network speeds that can handle the lossless stream.

A surge can occur if something suddenly turns off that was previously pulling a high load. Some cutoff switches can cause a surge in the supply side (especially if there are any automated switches).

California has blackouts because someone decided that the power utilities can be sues if a storm/wind/heat cause a power line to fall and start a fire. Once they were sued for homes destroyed by a forest fire started from a downed line, and held liable, the utilities decided that they will simply cut all power to all lines that are being hit or could be hit with wind or other conditions strong enough to down a power line.

Now it doesn't help that they also have stopped building power plants in their state, forcing the power to be transferred over extremely long distances....

It is very important to also understand some of the distinctions in what WotC is saying about the new OGL even in this latest communication. They are saying that they won't own the derivative works and that you, the content creator, still own those rights. That is true, we would still own those rights, but by signing the new version of the OGL you would also be granting the right to WotC to have a perpetual usage right in which they can then use to publish those works in their own products which they can sell WITHOUT giving you and compensation. And that is still the problem.

We do need to wait and see still, but even the latest info they are saying about these changes, they are still giving themselves plenty of legal room to do exactly everyone is backlashing against. They are just stating it in a way that makes it seem to someone who is not a lawyer that they have relented and given in. Yes, you still own the rights, but you granted us the ability to use them for free....