Since when does private party A doing something "unlawful" compel private party B to take some action?

Ever since the first time someone pointed a loaded gun as B's face and said "do what I say or else I'll kill you" and B did as ordered, instead of accepting their death.

I think it was sometime around 1234567 BC.

I donâ(TM)t remember the last time I had a power outage. It definitely hasnâ(TM)t been as many as few times in the last fifteen years. I donâ(TM)t remember any power outages in our current flat, which we bought 13 years ago.

Everyone I know who makes my equivalent AGI, except for my household, has 1+ dogs, work crazy hours, and have been told that their dogs are lonely and depressed.

Not one or two people.

EVERYONE. Dozens upon dozens of my clients, colleagues, peers, friends from grade school, etc, have a dog or two, and then they have to have someone come spend time with said dog when they're putting 10+ hours away from them.

Wag/Rover/etc is part of their crazy consumer spending. I always am shocked to hear they're spending $1000 a month on their pets.

Americans are insane about their pets. Instead of buying a dog, I invest in corporate veterinary hospitals, because it's crazy profitable.

Do you mean macOS? OSX (OS 10) was discontinued and went out of support years ago.

How much do we subsidise the oil industry? Just look at the military deployments in the Persian Gulf guaranteeing supply.

That would be an interesting law to pass: You can only publish a WARN list if the CEO is on it....

Translation, I want a $.25 bump in my stock options to pay for my wife's haircuts, so you need to lose your job.

One puts her fitbit on the dog

When we had Vitality healthcare at work, they explicitly said that they had ways to detect this very trick. Not so good when at detecting that it's your child with your running around with your phone though ;). Never mind that some of these health companies are also involved in pensions and, as a healthy and active person, I don't think I want them making decisions about what annuity I might possibly get later in life. The less data you share with these companies, the better. Also, never mind that Vitality was about three times the cost of Bupa, which I guess is how they fund all of their incentives.

Working from home is slowly killing you! As is owning a car. According to my phone, I've averaged about 10,000 steps per day over the last six months. Last time I worked from home, I barely made 600. I sold my car in 2008 and go to the office every day (lucky to have a short commute at the moment), which I'm sure are both beneficial to my health.

I suspect that depends on your height. 7,000 steps is more like 3.5 miles for me, based on the averages for steps and distance from my phone.

Technically, it's both. It straddles the mid-Atlantic ridge and sits on both the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates. There is no continental slope or abyssal plain between Scotland and Iceland, which is maybe what you were saying about the continental shelf (it sits on the same continental shelf).

Nope, conspiracies don't ever happen.

The 9/11 hijackers did not plan their actions in advance. Just by sheer coincidence, 19 people just happened to be taking those four plane flights. And by coincidence (no coordination) they all got the same spontaneous idea at the same time, an idea they had never spoken about before: let's hijack the plane and crash it.

Crazy people babble on about "evidence" like people taking flight lessons, sharing vehicles, etc. but we know those things cannot possibly be true, because conspiracies are not real.

If you have a hypothesis of x and then find lots of supporting evidence for x and it becomes the prevailing explanation, that creates a theory of x, but there's one exception: when x is a conspiracy. Conspiracies are a special case, because they don't really happen.

No. I was replying to somebody who wrote about H1b and I had an H1b in the late 90s. Not sure if anything's changed in the requirements since then, but it wasn't just an any old route in to the US. It was a bit of pain all around. Probably not worth the hassle of the expense and time to apply for one, unless there's no enforcement of the prevailing wage requirements for example and it really is used for undercutting local talent. I was certainly on a fair wage at the time.

That kind of defeats the purpose of bringing in people who have specific skills. Furthermore, as a former H1b myself, I know that the salary has to satisfy the Department of Labor's prevailing wage. If you want to make the salary threshold higher, no need to turn it in to an auction, just set the bar higher.

I decided the US wasn't for me after three years and moved overseas. I then worked 1099-MISC for another American company for four years (until it was bought by a company with an international office near me). If I can do that, what's the point of capping H1b numbers?

I was taught to write quotes as 66 and 99 when I was at school, but they graduated in to straight quotes that lean to the left or the right. Straight (vertical) quotes was always viewed as a limitation of typewriters and not done when writing by hand, and those typewriters of course have gone the way of the dodo.

This whole discussion reminds me of 1990's and early noughties flame wars on the Usenet from grumpy people who didn't like HTML. Thanks Netscape! Hmmm, that reminds me of the dodo again ;)