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Immigration and Customs Enforcement shops for less-lethal armaments
BTW from the strange but true department, the officer who did the spraying at UCD has somehow been awarded $38,000 as a result of his suffering as a result of the incident. Crazy world. http://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/articl…— November 3, 2013 1:27 p.m.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement shops for less-lethal armaments
I think this may be a good thing for agents to have at the border in order to respond to rocks and bottles with effective but non-lethal force. Certainly pepper spray shouldn't be used to disperse crowds when no threat of violent force exists.— November 2, 2013 9:21 p.m.
Indian company Infosys to pay record immigration fine
I guess you don't need to do anything illegal when you can get the laws changed to what you want them to be.— November 1, 2013 8:57 p.m.
Indian company Infosys to pay record immigration fine
Yes. If there is a shortage of a good in limited supply (e.g. STEM labor) the price goes up. Basic, basic, basic, basic economics. You know this. I know this. Mark Zuckerberg knows this. Irwin Jacobs knows this. Most of the people in Congress know this. They just choose to ignore it.— November 1, 2013 11:23 a.m.
Indian company Infosys to pay record immigration fine
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Spectrum magazine had a good article on this recently: http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-st…. Basically for decades everyone has been saying there's going to be a severe shortage of engineers but we never see rapidly escalating salary bidding wars nor companies unable to fill positions.— October 31, 2013 9:36 p.m.
Indian company Infosys to pay record immigration fine
We'll see what happens with the immigration bill in Congress. While they were debating path-to-citizenship/amnesty and enforcement issues, the Senate threw in about a zillion more temporary visas - both for high tech and low tech workers. I think the latest version of the Senate bill had an increase to 180,000 for H1-B visas. Maybe the Infosys case will shine a little more light on why raising the H1-B visa limit isn't such a great idea.— October 31, 2013 9:14 p.m.
Indian company Infosys to pay record immigration fine
I doubt if Qualcomm is worried about this. It seems Infosys was blatantly breaking some rules. Qualcomm certainly uses a lot of H1-B employees as a tactic to lower labor costs but from my (very limited) understanding of the H1-B laws it would probably be hard to prove QCOM was doing anything illegal. QCOM can always spin the data a little bit to make it look OK. It's not like QCOM is paying engineers minimum wage - maybe they pay an H1-B engineer 90K when a similarly qualified American might make 100K? But who really knows? I don't know the exact numbers because it's all based on my speculation and rumors I've heard. Maybe QCOM doesn't even know the numbers themselves.— October 30, 2013 6:11 p.m.
Indian company Infosys to pay record immigration fine
Clearly the main short-term motivation is to lower high-tech labor costs - which is definitely an issue, but I think the biggest problem with this is the eventual transfer of American technical superiority overseas. As Prof. Ron Hira says of firms like Infosys, "What these firms have done is exploit the loopholes in the H-1B program to bring in on-site workers to learn the jobs [of] the Americans to then ship it back offshore," he says. "And also to bring in on-site workers who are cheaper on the H-1B and undercut American workers right here." http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/0…— October 30, 2013 5:38 p.m.
San Diego mayoral debate abruptly canceled...due to pension truth?
I feel that the people making these decisions don't consider risk vs. reward adequately. Everyone always wants to hit some big home run and see 25% returns. But I don't think this is wise in the long run. In general I tend to believe in Bogle's principles - with the exception of a few geniuses (Buffet, etc) or inside traders most fund managers do no better than wide diversification. Except that diversification has a lower management fee. So the investment strategy should be geared towards how to diversify funds in a way to minimize risk. What you suggest seems like it would be a pretty good baseline formula for a city like San Diego.— October 29, 2013 11:16 a.m.
San Diego mayoral debate abruptly canceled...due to pension truth?
I think you are making a "red herring" argument by bringing up CEO and financial sector pay - it's not dirctly related to public employee pensions. Personally, I think there have been some poor public policy choices at the federal level which have allowed CEO's and financial sector executives do make too much money and there should be changes. But that's not particularly relevant to the issue of public employee pensions. I think what is common between CEO, financial sector compensation, and public employee unions is that many public officials have been unduly influenced by these groups.— October 28, 2013 10:56 p.m.