I'm not talking about foreign-born, or 1st generation American. I'm talking foreign students on VISAs. I went to Boston University for a while, and there were a LOT of ethnic Asian kids in business classes ... but most of them were American citizens! I worked tech support at Harvard Medical School and there were a lot of ethnic Asians ... and most of them were American citizens!
So, they can come here and get an education and then have to become a slave to the US for it?
I don't see a problem with anyone wanting to better themselves and gaining an education. Whether they want to do that in another country or not.
I don't support the idea of slavery or indentured servitude of any kind.
Instead, I think it would be better to see WHY they want to leave. What is it about the US economy that makes them see opening a business in their home country more viable? Are our taxes too high? Are the unions creating too costly of a workforce? Is the minimum wage making running a low profit business impractical? Are there too many government licensing costs & restrictions in place to enter a market? Are the incumbent companies keeping out competition through lobbyists? Are patents, copyrights, or trademarks creating too hostile of a marketplace to run a business?
Instead of just opening a window to let the smoke out, find out where the fire is and put that out. Forcing students to stay is attacking the symptom without even looking at the cause.
But a psychopath could go to Google before taking the test, and get the same images from thousands of websites. They could stop by the library or a bookstore on the way to the doctor's office and see the very same ink blots.
The secrets of the test are already out. They're public domain. The People of the United States own the rights to the ink blot test, not the psychologists.
There is a science to psychology. Introduction of certain chemicals creates a chain reaction of chemical reactions that can alter the psychological state of the patient/user/victim.
The problem is, we don't have enough understanding of how the physical make-up of the brain directly leads to things like consciousness, memory, and personality.
There is science, but it's incomplete. We know we can fiddle with certain parts, and in certain people get certain results. But we don't understand enough to have solid theories and laws that explain what's going on.
I'm not talking about things like ESP, telekinesis, etc, but in terms of being able to control moods, improve memory & concentration, etc. I know the introduction of THC into my body chemistry alters my psyche leveling out my moods to keep manic depressive tendencies from getting too severe, improves concentration, harms short-term memory, etc. It's not pretend, it's science.
But to say that since we don't understand the causes and effects and there still exists lots of guess work that there is no science at all to psychology (or its "pretend") is a gross over exaggeration. At one time, the concept of microscopic germs making people sick was ridiculed and brushed off as non-sense ... and as we learn, we refine.
But the post said "No one should have a problem with a foreigner coming here, obtaining an education, and staying here" with emphasis on "staying here" ...
I just don't see why that last bit should be there at all, particularly emphasized. Why can the sentence not end with:
"No one should have a problem with a foreigner coming here, obtaining an education."
If the person wants to leave and doesn't want to get a work VISA, then does that mean we SHOULD have a problem with someone coming from out of the country to get an education here and wanting to return home?
There is no shortage of space at schools. If too many foreign students show up, they open up an extra class. Most colleges are having problems filling the slots they have.
No college has 25% of its students with student VISAs.
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Not necessarily, because then the cost of the items or services they're providing will increase with the increase in business overhead (usually in government licensing costs, industry regulations, union demands, mandatory minimum wage, etc).
So, they may spend their salaries and pay taxes here, but then every other person in the US has to spend a little bit more of their money which gets filtered into the government coffers instead of personal bank accounts.
So, better for government, yes. But far worse for the average person.
Why should they have to stay here? Is getting several hundred thousands of dollars out of them for an education not enough? Then, they pay for housing, food, goods & services to live.
At what point have they put in their indentured servitude that they can return to their families in their home countries with their American education & cultural assimilation?
They did not transition to digital photos well at all. They were too associated with analog film, and allowed the tech companies and steal their association with photography in general from under them. And now single-use cameras are dominated by generic brands & Kodak isn't really sought after for much of anything anymore.
Where as Polaroid has innovated tremendously in both the remaining analog film niche markets as well as the digital markets, and has maintained at least some level of mindshare. And they were in particular threat as the previous leader in instant photography that digital cameras were aggressively attacking with LCD screens & portable photo printers.
Really good example to point out, and I find an interesting contrast against Polaroid. Fujifilm is another example of a company that was able to make a successful transition from analog to digital photography.
Sparks: I've got something for you.
Debbie: What is it?
Sparks: A book.
Debbie: What's the book?
Sparks: A Modest Proposal.
Debbie: By whom?
Sparks: Jonathan Swift.
Debbie: And what is the book about?
Sparks: Eating babies.
Debbie: ...the hell is that supposed to mean?
Sparks: It's like veal, only babies.
Debbie: That's sick!
Sparks: I'm talking real baby back ribs.
((long pause))
Debbie: ...the foulest thing I've ever heard!
Sparks: RIBS!!! Dripping with sauce!!! Falling off the bone!!!
Debbie: You're sick!!
Sparks: Just trying to help out a single mom
And then that would need to be a server cache, not a local cache.
When a user visits a web page, the computer can call up on the saved local version instead of getting a fresh new copy. So, a user could go back and see the mess up still, even if Sears fixed their website.
The web developers would have needed to implement server caching. And if they were caching user entered information (through the query string), saving that on the server, and then redishing it out to other users ... then that's a much more serious security risk. Particularly if another user DIDN'T do the URL trick, then they're seeing a cache from a different URL, and that's just REALLY bad programming.
One done by the developers, not the hackers, who would have had nothing to do with server caching.
A person added some words to the URL of the website.
The way the website was coded, these extra words were displayed inside of the web page that was displayed to the person who used that URL with the added words only.
At no point was the server accessed, or any changes saved for other to view.
A screencapture was made to show everyone else what the URL tampering did to the rendered HTML.
At no point would anyone who didn't mess around with the URL in the same way this person did ever see what they saw. It's not a hack in terms of someone gaining access to a remote system and wreaking havoc. It's a hack in the sense that someone found a bug in the website coder's query string paramater usage where the website didn't properly handle user supplied information.
It does seem like the RIAA is looking to get paid 3-4 times for a song to be played:
1. Pay for the physical format that houses the song
2. Pay to play the song in front of people
3. Pay to listen to the song
4. Pay a flat fee for all the people that could have but didn't listen to the song
5. Pay a huge fee because you left the disc laying around that someone could have walked by and copied while you weren't looking (the going rate in the US is $980,000 per CD's worth of music)
The lyrics are not a scarcity, so they are not AT ALL what Mike has been talking about with "Reason to Buy". All it takes is to LISTEN to the song, and TRANSCRIBE what is being said.
How is that a scarcity? Some people are just better at accurately hearing lyrics and transcribing them than others.
We're not talking about lyric sheets (which may or may not be what is actually said in the song) or linear notes. We're talking about lyric sites that transcribe a song, and make those fan transcriptions available to other people.
Except you grew up listening to music on LP, cassette tape, and then CDs. I knew people in the '90s who bemoaned CDs because it sounded too crisp and empty ... it lost the warm fuzziness of the tape or LP ... it felt less organic.
As far as I'm concerned, most MP3s that are properly encoded display no noticeable difference in sound quality to me from the CD source. It's people who encode at crappy settings or with crappy software that get crap out in the end.
Well, the thing is the disc in the store comes with 12-20 songs. The back-up discs people create store several hundred. Thousands on a DVD.
If I could legally purchase discs of hundreds or thousands of MP3s instead of a dozen at a time, that would make the commercial purchase of the disc format more interesting.
As it stands, a whole disc for a dozen songs is a complete waste of physical storage space. I've sold off most of my CDs because I got tired of storing and moving them around. An entire box of commercial CDs fits on one DVD-R.
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I don't see a problem with anyone wanting to better themselves and gaining an education. Whether they want to do that in another country or not.
I don't support the idea of slavery or indentured servitude of any kind.
Instead, I think it would be better to see WHY they want to leave. What is it about the US economy that makes them see opening a business in their home country more viable? Are our taxes too high? Are the unions creating too costly of a workforce? Is the minimum wage making running a low profit business impractical? Are there too many government licensing costs & restrictions in place to enter a market? Are the incumbent companies keeping out competition through lobbyists? Are patents, copyrights, or trademarks creating too hostile of a marketplace to run a business?
Instead of just opening a window to let the smoke out, find out where the fire is and put that out. Forcing students to stay is attacking the symptom without even looking at the cause.
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The secrets of the test are already out. They're public domain. The People of the United States own the rights to the ink blot test, not the psychologists.
On the post: Doctor Who Uploaded Rorschach Images Now Being Investigated
Re: Hoodoo Voodoo
The problem is, we don't have enough understanding of how the physical make-up of the brain directly leads to things like consciousness, memory, and personality.
There is science, but it's incomplete. We know we can fiddle with certain parts, and in certain people get certain results. But we don't understand enough to have solid theories and laws that explain what's going on.
I'm not talking about things like ESP, telekinesis, etc, but in terms of being able to control moods, improve memory & concentration, etc. I know the introduction of THC into my body chemistry alters my psyche leveling out my moods to keep manic depressive tendencies from getting too severe, improves concentration, harms short-term memory, etc. It's not pretend, it's science.
But to say that since we don't understand the causes and effects and there still exists lots of guess work that there is no science at all to psychology (or its "pretend") is a gross over exaggeration. At one time, the concept of microscopic germs making people sick was ridiculed and brushed off as non-sense ... and as we learn, we refine.
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I just don't see why that last bit should be there at all, particularly emphasized. Why can the sentence not end with:
"No one should have a problem with a foreigner coming here, obtaining an education."
If the person wants to leave and doesn't want to get a work VISA, then does that mean we SHOULD have a problem with someone coming from out of the country to get an education here and wanting to return home?
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No college has 25% of its students with student VISAs.
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Re: Re: They wont necessarily be competing - just working for less
So, they may spend their salaries and pay taxes here, but then every other person in the US has to spend a little bit more of their money which gets filtered into the government coffers instead of personal bank accounts.
So, better for government, yes. But far worse for the average person.
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At what point have they put in their indentured servitude that they can return to their families in their home countries with their American education & cultural assimilation?
On the post: Reminder From The Innovator's Dilemma: Markets Change Whether You Like It Or Not
Re: Kodak Moment
Where as Polaroid has innovated tremendously in both the remaining analog film niche markets as well as the digital markets, and has maintained at least some level of mindshare. And they were in particular threat as the previous leader in instant photography that digital cameras were aggressively attacking with LCD screens & portable photo printers.
Really good example to point out, and I find an interesting contrast against Polaroid. Fujifilm is another example of a company that was able to make a successful transition from analog to digital photography.
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Re: Meat o freaking Rama!
On the post: Reddit, Sears, Grills That Cook Babies... And The Streisand Effect
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Sparks: I've got something for you.
Debbie: What is it?
Sparks: A book.
Debbie: What's the book?
Sparks: A Modest Proposal.
Debbie: By whom?
Sparks: Jonathan Swift.
Debbie: And what is the book about?
Sparks: Eating babies.
Debbie: ...the hell is that supposed to mean?
Sparks: It's like veal, only babies.
Debbie: That's sick!
Sparks: I'm talking real baby back ribs.
((long pause))
Debbie: ...the foulest thing I've ever heard!
Sparks: RIBS!!! Dripping with sauce!!! Falling off the bone!!!
Debbie: You're sick!!
Sparks: Just trying to help out a single mom
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When a user visits a web page, the computer can call up on the saved local version instead of getting a fresh new copy. So, a user could go back and see the mess up still, even if Sears fixed their website.
The web developers would have needed to implement server caching. And if they were caching user entered information (through the query string), saving that on the server, and then redishing it out to other users ... then that's a much more serious security risk. Particularly if another user DIDN'T do the URL trick, then they're seeing a cache from a different URL, and that's just REALLY bad programming.
One done by the developers, not the hackers, who would have had nothing to do with server caching.
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Re: Re: ...
Those babies & their freakishly big heads. It's unsettling. But tasty.
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The way the website was coded, these extra words were displayed inside of the web page that was displayed to the person who used that URL with the added words only.
At no point was the server accessed, or any changes saved for other to view.
A screencapture was made to show everyone else what the URL tampering did to the rendered HTML.
At no point would anyone who didn't mess around with the URL in the same way this person did ever see what they saw. It's not a hack in terms of someone gaining access to a remote system and wreaking havoc. It's a hack in the sense that someone found a bug in the website coder's query string paramater usage where the website didn't properly handle user supplied information.
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Re: Keep it straight...
1. Pay for the physical format that houses the song
2. Pay to play the song in front of people
3. Pay to listen to the song
4. Pay a flat fee for all the people that could have but didn't listen to the song
5. Pay a huge fee because you left the disc laying around that someone could have walked by and copied while you weren't looking (the going rate in the US is $980,000 per CD's worth of music)
Rinse & Repeat
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How is that a scarcity? Some people are just better at accurately hearing lyrics and transcribing them than others.
We're not talking about lyric sheets (which may or may not be what is actually said in the song) or linear notes. We're talking about lyric sites that transcribe a song, and make those fan transcriptions available to other people.
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Re: What are you people? 12-year-olds?!?
As far as I'm concerned, most MP3s that are properly encoded display no noticeable difference in sound quality to me from the CD source. It's people who encode at crappy settings or with crappy software that get crap out in the end.
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If I could legally purchase discs of hundreds or thousands of MP3s instead of a dozen at a time, that would make the commercial purchase of the disc format more interesting.
As it stands, a whole disc for a dozen songs is a complete waste of physical storage space. I've sold off most of my CDs because I got tired of storing and moving them around. An entire box of commercial CDs fits on one DVD-R.
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