Including a (then) sitting congressman: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbn...

If the airline rips you off, you can hire a lawyer, hope you did not agree to some arbitration thing, and spend a lot of money in the hopes that you get compensated. You probably will not be.

If you rip the airline off, the state prosecutes you at taxpayer expense, and they may even lock you in a cage for your transgression.

Civil law for me, criminal law for thee.

The US Justice system everyone, will you please give it a hand.

At least I hope they had a warrant.

Over 98 percent of warrants are approved the first time, and the other 2 percent are usually approved after some administrative issue with the warrant is fixed.

Warrants are trivial to procure, and provide no protection to you whatsoever.

If a warrant is issued, and nothing is found, nobody is punished. So they issue them as a matter of procedure since it is better to be safe than sorry. At least in their eyes.

The notion of an Islamic State would never be accepted

Afghanistan, Brunei, Iran, Mauritania, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen just asked "What about us?"

Right, you did say ethnicity, and not religion (which ethnicity is 'Islamic'?)... and admittedly it is a bit tricker because Jewish is often an ethnic group and religion, while much of the Islamic world, complete with state religions have countries more based on a dominant ethnic group going back some time.

Heck, with Somaliland in the news this week (and it's recognition by Isreal), it's flag contains the Shahada, which is also on the Saudi flag.

For years people here on Slashdot have complained about H1-B abuse and the need to fix the program abuses that allowed companies to use it to cut costs and lay off Americans. So are you happy they are tightening the program, focusing it on experienced hires, and raising the cost to employers? Or is it bad because Trump?

If you are a nurse, you will resent the US importing nurses. If you are a brick layer, you will resent imported bricklayers. Ditto truck drivers, etc. of course, these policies tend not to effect those at the very top, and trust fund kids never really need to worry about starving or going homeless, so it tends to break down along the usual privileged/working people lines.

Points of view always come down to self-interest, and as a person who grew up very poor, never went to college, but taught myself to code ⦠Iâ(TM)ve done okay over the years, but employers markets when competition is high has always been harder for me, because most of the H1Bs I compete with have masters degrees. And while there are some exceptions, I have worked with some really bright Indian workers, many were pushed into the field by their parents who mandated that they become doctors, lawyers, or programmers, and are not all that into it outside of the income. It is very hard to self-assess without being biased, so this is merely my flawed opinion, but the large majority, despite their far better formal education, do not feel significantly more skilled than myself.

What they cannot do, however, is change jobs easily or make demands, so big corporations have developed a preference for them, and they at times make this clear. For instance, I worked at one very large company that you all know, and one day, out of the blue, they mandated that all workers have a passport. My job required no travel. They claimed that this was for security.

Well, a passport is something that one hundred percent of H1Bs have, while only something only 45% of citizens have. The deadline to get one wasnâ(TM)t very long, but it was not the end of the world. Just an inconvenience for many, and what, a hundred and fifty bucks or so.

In addition, though, Indian works got extra time off, especially in the fall for travel back to India for that holiday. They basically got an extra month off that citizens did not get. Then there were the oncalls for things related to the government that required citizenship to work on, meaning Oncallâ(TM)s for citizens came around far more frequently, no pay differential though.

Again, not a huge deal but we did lose people, and the company was fine with it, especially if they were citizens. Best of all, H1Bs pose not threat to unionization. Itâ(TM)s always American rabble rousers.

So, is H1B a benefit to CEOs, shareholders, executives, their children, and people in their general socioeconomic class? Absolutely. Is it a detriment to workers? Of course. I am uneducated and even I understand how supply and demand affects value. If you increase the supply of people like me, the value of people like me goes down. So unless I am financially secure with a support lifeline, I will likely oppose H1B visas, even if I say the opposite to avoid the insults that people will hurl at me.

To argue that people who oppose their own devaluation are evil, is evil itself, IMHO.

But to the question about being happy about it, then no, no I am not. Not yet at least and likely not ever. Anytime the government proposes something that will ostensibly benefit me, it usually does not. It gets watered down with loopholes placed all over the place, and becomes just a -olitical mirage. I mean did CAN SPAM , can SPAM?

So, I am very skeptical, because the US government has never been interested in helping me or people like me, and they have had this lack of interest for so long, that I am completely unable to imagine it ever changing.

It may be a great political football for everyone to wring their hands over, but there is far too much interest, power, and money aimed at preserving the status-quo for it to ever change. Rather, it is just another dividing point for the masses to quibble over thus ensuring that something like Occupy never, ever happens again.

I assume most of you know that was the genesis of the supposed polarization. Everyone was eyeballing the 1 percent as the source of most evils, Brexit won, Trump won, then BAM, out of nowhere gender identity was the most important thing to happen to anyone, and it was very much not an organic hysteria.

Since then, it has been moral panic after moral panic, and the only winners have been the ruling class.

This is just another one.

I just did a build and got 64GB DDR5 for about $500. Same modules were maybe $300 three months ago. It has gone up quite a bit. I donâ(TM)t know if it would kill a new build, depends on how bad I need the rig, but I feel you.

A Plymouth Voyager. Being rather tall, being able to sit upright comfortably is important, rather than trying to lay in something smaller and less safe for my legs/head.

Animal blood is bad for the clear coat, so tying it down to the outside is bad for the vehicle and gets the animal dirty... a tarp in the back works far better.

What, in your unsupported opinion, makes the F150 Lightning "a piece of garbage"?

That was never my opinion, nor have I used the word "garbage" to describe it.

The claim earlier was "It is an excellent vehicle, all around great", some here disagreed, as did I, based on my experience at a Ford dealership. My only shared criticism here was the limited range in winter... how does that translate to me calling it "a piece of garbage"?

I have experienced zero issues over 50,000 miles. It is not a piece of garbage, it may be the best vehicle I've ever owned. I'm not saying its for you or for everyone, certainly not garbage. I wouldn't use it for towing anything very far.

You keep using the same word, over and over again here which only the OP used, once... either you grossly misread what I said here, or you are accidentally revealing your true feelings about the vehicle and expressing regret.

Given the market reaction to the Lightning, and Ford ending production... maybe not everyone is as happy with them as you are? I used to drive a Pontiac Aztek, and loved it (second best hunting vehicle I've owned), and was very sad when it finally died and had to be sold for scrap. I was a minority in that, and I recognize that, and that's ok.

Hmm, mine has a range over 300 miles, real actual miles.

In what climate?

My v8 2019 F150 doesn't flinch at doing 600 miles on a single tankful, in winter.

I bought mine used with 1100 miles, 20% off sticker.

And? You still probably ended up paying 2-4x what I did for mine.

You talked to a dealer that doesn't want to sell EVs,

In your unsupported opinion.

Why wouldn't a dealer want to sell to someone wanting to buy?

in place where most people don't like EVs.

Plenty of Tesla's in Sioux Falls, which includes at least 3 Cybertrucks... again, you keep giving opinions which don't help, or considering that the views you believe others have may have some basis in reality.

Are you surprised you got a low opinion?

No, I listen to what the opinions are of the dealer and consider it along with what else I know, without seeking to influence what they say.

Seriously, drive one.

What am I going to get from the driving experience? What untold amazement will I have that changes my mind and will compel me to go get one?

It is an excellent vehicle, all around great.

And owning and driving one is enough to convince someone of that?

I'll admit, I've never owned or driven one, though last year when shopping for a new pickup I saw one parked on a Ford dealership I was looking at. It was new so out of my price range, so I got chatting with the salesman (and didn't say my limits) about if it was any good. Turns out it was being driven by the manager, who mostly hated it. Max range he said, in winter was 100-150 miles. Maybe for city driving that's ok, but in South Dakota , a drive down to Sioux Falls for a Costco or Target run is going to give quite a bit of range anxiety.

That's 'all around great'?

Again, this was what I was getting from a Ford dealership!

Yes, a clear troll post, well done moderator. I feel lucky to live in a world in which, of the millions and millions of sperm competing for the lone egg, you won! Not only that, but your clear grasp of the concept of TROLL shows that, when all is said and done, mod points are indeed invested in those who are best able to apply them.

If I may ask one small favor, it is that you give yourself a round of applause.

Louder.

More enthusiasm, please.

There it is, thatâ(TM)s just about perfect.

Theoretically, they can use ChatGPT too, except now, it is going to dispute their status as all-seeing, all-knowing beings, essentially turning OpenAI into one big BlasphemyBot.

I do not think they have thought this through.

Oh you you you. Wah there is a tornado on the ground, wah it might hit my house, wah it might carry my annoying little dog off, wah me me me me me!

Everything is about you, is it not?

Did you think about the wants of the corporation? No you did not, you selfish rat bastard! Retaining control of your property is more convenient for them, and it allows them to use said property for their own interests. You want they should give that up so that you can avoid getting killed by a 200 mph wall of wind? What, exactly, makes you so special?

One could also blame you for living in a country, and accepting the status-quo which allows corporations to retain control of the property you purchase by using nefarious licensing schemes for inseparable parts of the property, thus ensuring you own nothing from now until the end of time, unless that thing breaks at which point it is yours all yours and the corporations now explicitly disclaim any and all responsibility for it.

I mean, when your interests have so overtly been subverted to your ruling class superiors, I hardly think you should be surprised to find that your interests have been overtly subverted to your ruling class superiors.

Anyway, Dorothy, enjoy Munchkinland and tell Glenda that I will catch the next twister and be over there around 11 to tap that good witch puhaho with MY magic wand, if you know what I mean.

And I think you do.

Know what I mean, that is.

It is like my mamma always said, life is like Microsoft Windows, you never know what you gonna get; but chances are, it will be a bunch of unstable, poorly-coded ass candy.

My effeminate yet inexplicably brilliant son (my kinda whorish wife was no scholar either so I do not know where he got it from) installed Linux on all our computers, and I use it to buy shoes on the Internet, but now I cannot run my games. I was getting good at shooting motherfuckers but now all I can do is run.

When I tell people I run Linux they call me stupid because I will not have anyone to blame when my computer crashes, but I tell them that at least I can support Unicode in 2025, and that Slashdot cannot, and they get confused because I changed the sub-jekt. Deep down I think they know the part about Slashdot is true. Even Jen-nays daddies children affection blog could support Unicode back in 1995, so stupid is as stupid does.

And that is all I have to say about that.