H-1B visas used to require salaries of $60K or more - Trump is bumping that up, but I forget the new number - will unemployed Comp Sci/Programmers work for that pay level? What are all those workers holding out for, $100K/yr jobs?
US universities cranked out tens of thousands of mediocre programmers who are going to be squeezed out of industry by AI tools, not imported programmers.
Slashdot commenters used to be very anti-H-1B visa, there was a time when there seemed new H-1B visa-related story's on a near daily basis, now we think it's important to bring every engineer we can find to America? Really? Why?
The whole employment-at-will thing was a big driver of H-1B visas. Bosses don't like the employment laws in the rest of the world they crave the power to fire someone for any reason or no reason whatsoever. So they import bodies to the USA so they are subjected to the shitty employment laws the United States has.
That literally makes no sense.
H-1B visas became popular because you could hire foreign workers for less money than US-born workers, it was to save money. You really think corporations sponsored H-1B workers, relocated them, dealt with all the cultural and linguistic issues just so they could fire them at will? Really? Had the corporations gotten bored of firing Americans at-will, so they imported a bunch of foreign workers just for the thrill of being able to fire them without cause?
That is non-sensical.
Not quite sure how the proximity of programmers to end-users benefits the corporation.
I think this is a good thing, expand opportunities in other countries, Indian engineers and professionals can earn a good income and not have to drag their family half-way around the world to further their careers.
This should worry the state governments where Google currently has large numbers of workers that will be re-sourced back in to India - for example, CA will lose a lot of jobs I suspect...
The Secretary of X and Supreme Court judges in the US are all "unelected" as well. In principle PROTUS is "unelected" by that difinition. But they are all appointed by someone elected.
Uh, what?
"The Secretary of X"? What are you on about? Is this an anti-Musk thing, or are you referring generically to all cabinet members in the US gov't?
"Supreme Court judges in the US are all "unelected" - Uh, yeah - do you really want the people to vote in Supreme Court Justices? Yeah, major decisions involving serious issues should be decided by someone that hires campaign consultants, takes polls, and makes decisions to win voter support, not based on actual laws - sounds awesome. Every SCOTUS decision should really be a popularity contest, and decisions based on polling results...
"In principle PROTUS is "unelected" by that difinition." Do you mean POTUS? You don't seem to understand how US elections work - presidential candidates win states, states have Electoral votes that reflect the population in their state (big states more, smaller states less), and the candidate that wins the greatest number of Electoral votes wins the Presidency. So sure, the Presidency isnt a simple straight-forward "popularity contest" but that doesn't mean the President in "unelected."
"But they are all appointed by someone elected." No, President isn't appointed, we have an election. SCOTUS Justices aren't appointed, they are nominated by POTUS and confirmed by Senators, as are Cabinet Secretaries. We have political appointees in our government, but not any of the positions you listed...
2003 Europe "We don't want to depend on US GPS systems!"
2006: EU mints Galileo collectible coin! (/snort)
(2 decades follow)
Dec 2026: 26 of 30 operational satellites.
Dec. 2026 - really? Checks calendar...
So we should expect this new SATCOM program to be operational by...2049... maybe?
I guess you missed this line:
SpaceNews notes the new government program GOVSATCOM pools capacity from eight already on-oribit satellites from France, Spain, Italy, Greece and Luxembourg — both national and commercial.
The folks in the EU all banded together to be able to do big things like this collectively - that's great. I don't see this so much as a rejection of all things American, but instead an evolution of the EU states becoming more independent, more self-reliant.
Why should EU member-states rely on other countries for satcom, when collectively they have the ability to meet their own needs - that's great!
It's simply amazing that the U.S. was somehow able to accomplish this without being a party to the Paris Climate Accord. Well, actually we only JUST left the Paris Accord last week.
The word of the decade, is audit. Followed closely by accountability.
You forgot "affordability," but that only really became an issue when Biden needed to get re-elected and he tried to act like the three years of crazy-high inflation rates was somehow someone else's fault, and it got intensified when Trump took office and the democrats attacked him over egg prices (until they dropped), then the tried gasoline prices (until they dropped), now they complain that Trump hasn't been able to wind prices back to pre-Biden levels (ignoring Biden's responsibility for the crazy inflation during his administration - remember when they tried to distract with the word "transitory"?).
Norfolk Naval Base was created to protect the off-shore turbine farm? Wow, talk about long-range planning!
I like how dismiss the possibility of wind turbines interfering with radar by pointing out that experts are currently busy working on the problem you just dismissed... what?
The "block" was trivial, it paused 18 turbines while 44 were already in operation.
Seems to "reduction" or "limited" were better words to describe Trump Admin's actions.
https://slashdot.org/comments....
I mean there's solid evidence that Republican voter suppression prevented 7 million Americans from voting.
Linking to someone saying 7 million votes were suppressed is not proof votes were suppressed - you understand that, right?
What is the 'solid evidence'?
If they had the evidence so many here claim, why was Trump "unindicted"?
These are the people that turned every installment payment to his lawyer into a literal felony, but they just sat on their hands and didn't charge Trump despite a mountain of evidence? Why? It makes no sense.
There was more than enough to stop Trump without even touching the Epstein stuff.
Then why isn't Waltz VP to President Harris?
Why couldn't Democrats bring him down? Are they really that incompetent?
Joe Biden, being a man of principles
And that's where you lost me.
This is the Joe Biden that had the Ukrainian Prosecutor fired before giving Ukraine $1BN in much needed aid while Vice President?
The Joe Biden that had classified documents in his Philadelphia office tgat was paid for by Chinese front companies?
The Joe Biden that called and took calls from Hunter at random times "just to discuss the weather" while Hunter was meeting with foreign business leaders?
The Joe Biden that claims to be intimately involved in his Sons life, but for a decade or more claims to have never asked Hunter who he works with/for, because...
No, Joe Biden has several redeeming features, but "Joe Biden, being a man of principles"? Uh, no.
"If there isn't a population problem, why is the government putting cancer in the cigarettes?" -- the elder Steptoe, c. 1970
