Ayatollah Khomeini: "We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah. For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let Iran burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world"

There is a difference between rational countries having the bomb and countries run by Islamic fanatics having the bomb.

You have no idea what it was like in the Soviet Union. It's easy to look up but you are too lazy.

Russians will never give up nukes. It's their only defense against China.

Because you aren't looking hard? I'm an H-1B employee, and I moved with my wife (divorced since). Every single person on that visa I know who is in a relationship (which is most of them) have their partners, kids etc with them.

If by "guest workers" you mean all H-1Bs, then you should understand that for many people this is, effectively, the only viable path to green card and citizenship, so they're guest workers in name only (and, coincidentally, handling this is precisely why H-1B is considered a "dual intent" visa).

I can't say for Facebook specifically, but if they're anything like Google and Microsoft in that regard (and I would expect that to be the case), then they sponsor all their H-1B employees for green cards as soon as they're eligible. In which case their stance would be very much pro-immigration in practice.

Because it's the only solution that works long-term.

(I am an immigrant in US, so I would dare say that I have the moral right to judge.)

Thereby creating more jobs. See, it's a win-win! ~

It varies from company to company. Google, Apple and Microsoft all sponsor their H-1Bs for green cards pretty much indiscriminately. I work at MS as an H-1B with a green card application in progress. I know many other people, most at MS, others now at other companies, who are also here on H-1B; every single one of them has been sponsored for a green card (and some have already got theirs).

They're not indentured servants, since they can leave the job (and the country) at any time.

The reason why the system is flawed has nothing to do with slavery. It's because employers are, essentially, allowed to bargain from a different position with H-1Bs compared to citizens. Because the former don't hold citizenship, the promise of sponsoring their green card essentially becomes the part of their compensation, and they will agree to less pay etc relative to someone who is already a citizen. And because the green card process requires them to hold the same job for most of its duration, H-1Bs are incentivized to tolerate more employer abuse than a citizen would. This is not "indentured servitude"; it's just what you get when you have something valuable that some people get for free at birth and others don't. To fix this, you need to make citizenship easier to get, preferably without involving employers at all.

I distinctly recall the positive characters of "Atlas Shrugged" being extremely offended at the notion of anyone giving them anything, so long as it was perceived as an act of altruism (rather than self-gratification on behalf of the giver).

Where was this? It certainly wasn't NYC proper, since 1) you can't own a shotgun there, I'm fairly sure, and 2) people in NYC aren't in unions, unless they're tradespeople--Wall Street brokers and web developers certainly aren't in any unions, and 3) NYC has been electing Republican mayors for over a decade now. Anyway, NYC is nothing like the rest of NY state; it really should be its own state. From what I've heard, much of upstate NY is actually quite rural. Finally, I doubt many people in NYC know their neighbors.

You don't withhold FICA and taxes for housekeepers and landscapers; they're private contractors according to the IRS, not employees.

Have anything else retarded to say?

Don't be ridiculous: why would Paypal not be considered acceptable? Ebay (which owns Paypal) is a huge, multibillion dollar company now, and Paypal already sends reports on you to the IRS if you exceed $20k in transactions per year.

Your post sounds idiotic, BTW? When have "liberals" ever restructured any system in recent memory, in a way that hurt that system? Why would Congress restructure the banking system, when the banking system OWNS Congress (what do you think that bail-out was?). If you're referring to ObamaCare, you're an even bigger idiot: ObamaCare was a giant boon to the insurance industry that did nothing to lower costs, and a lot to increase the profitability of the insurance companies.

You sound like one of those morons who thinks the Democrats are "liberals", rather than being in bed with large corporations.

They know the spec game inside out, right side left and top side down. They will implement a totally useless piece of software and when you complain they will insist they have implemented exactly what was in the original contract. That archaic grammar book by Wren and Martin is God's gift to them. They will endlessly argue what is meant by "shall" and "may" and "will". Most high school teachers in India still swear by this book as the ultimate authority in English grammar. So you will be forced to amend and correct the original specs. That will trigger all sorts of revised estimates and revised costs, and by the time you are done, you would have spent about 50% more than your highest bidder, taken twice as long, and gotten yourself software that does 50% of what you want, and probably 75% of what you wrote in the spec sheet but 100% of exactly what is in the spec sheet according to Messrs Wren and Martin as interpreted by Infosys.

Were they testing the "facial expression recognizing software" by training the camera on themselves as they were developing the software?

One of my friends did his masters thesis project in code quality metrics. As part of it he wrote some code that will find the average LOC per function, code/comment ratio etc etc and spit out a letter grade. His thesis guru was a fiend. He fed the source code of this analysis code into itself. Poor guy graded himself a C-minus or something.