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Comment: Re: Fuck that (Score 1) 311

I looked around a bit and saw a few citations that back your assertion that "Parents of children born in the U.S. are not allowed to stay here just because their kid is a citizen" Do you know of any firm numbers? Say the number of births in the US with non-citizen parents? Of perhaps more interest to me would be the numbers of deportations of these parents. And are the children returning to the home country of the parent(s) or are they staying in the US and entering various foster care situations?

Comment: Verboten (Score 1) 6

by gmhowell (#46503649) Attached to: Why are these not all banned, then?

Many who oppose homosexual behavior also oppose some of the items on your list, especially vasectomies and tubal ligation. Does the gender reassignment surgery really even need to be addressed in regards to this?

In fact, the only one of interest that you mentioned was intercourse with post-menopausal with. IIRC, this is usually explained as being more or less a gift to the couple for being in a union. There's a bit more to it, but you have to accept the postulation that marriage is a joining of man and woman under God.

Comment: Absolute top of 1925... (Score 4, Funny) 311

People who are absolutely at the top of the scale in 1925, for instance, would be getting food stamps today, said Greenspan.

Has Greenspan blown the dust off his Rolodex lately? I can't think of anybody with the last name "Rockefeller" or "Vanderbilt" in 2014 that's hurting for cash.

Comment: Just how out of touch is Greenspan? (Score 5, Insightful) 311

"If we're not going to educate our kids, bring in other people who want to become Americans," said Greenspan, in arguing for an increase of H-1B workers.

H-1B is not a path to citizenship, apparently by design. Green card holders can say "Screw you, I quit" without deportation, which is not what companies want when they reach for H-1B's.

In the context of income inequality, Greenspan put the H-1B program in his light: If the program were expanded, income wouldn't necessarily go down much, "but I bet you they would go down enough to really make an impact, because income inequality is a relative concept.

H-1B's are competing for the bottom. Executives don't bring in indentured servants to be their own replacement, nor are meaningful numbers being placed into "rock star" slots (rock stars can command perks like actual green card status anyway). H-1B's only drive down the wages of the bottom, not the top, exacerbating wealth disparity.

Comment: Re:What he's really saying (Score 1) 214

by fermion (#46501835) Attached to: Eric Schmidt On Why College Is Still Worth It
I was listening to a converstaion between aTeach for America and a student teacher at the store the other day. They were talking about how hard it was to teach. One complained that a student walked in when she was student teaching and yelled 'Party!'. This seemed to really make the student teacher think twice about teaching. Seriously, if you are going to be a teacher you need to know these are kids. The don't have a lot of impulse control. That is one of the things you are supposed to be teaching. You need to be at school everyday, if possible. The kids need to set consistent boundaries that only you, not a sub, can set. So here is the problem. Good experienced teachers are being replaced with teachers who are just going to put in their two years and then get free graduate school. These 'teachers' have no incentive to build the trade craft of teaching, to learn how to manage themselves so they can model proper behavior to students. Watching a first year teacher, no matter how good they are, is like watching a train wreck. Watching a teacher who has been at it for 20 or 30 years is usually a thing of beauty. Not to the student who tends to prefer inexperienced teacher who cannot encourage them to do anything meaningful, but to someone who knows what is going on, it is. And realize that many of the people teaching the people like TFA have only a few years experience in the classroom

Comment: Re:Going bust not unique to drop-outs (Score 1) 214

by GreyWolf3000 (#46501153) Attached to: Eric Schmidt On Why College Is Still Worth It

At some point in your career, everyone is their own snowflake. I'm never going to compete against a candidate that is my equal in every other way but has a degree.

I'm fortunate to be a programmer, though, because it's one of the few industries that has woken up and seen what a worthless institution our higher education system has become.

Debug is human, de-fix divine.