I think very many people are confusing H1B and straight outsourcing of talent. While there is some overlap, they are not nearly the same.
Ive worked with both, and very few of the H1bs were below average. Otherwise they aren't worth sponsoring.
There was a time in the mid 2000s when the Infosys/TCS/wiPros of the world were gaming the H1B to bring offshore bodies onshore.. but most of that died off as far as I see.
They are also a huge, unfunded public liability in many jurisdictions, like mine (Alberta). Companies disappear but their rec-rem responsibilities last forever.
If you know they are out there (and we do know) then hiding your head in the sand until someone stuffs proof up your behind seems rather.... well, you get the point.
In my opinion, that is like not fixing roads until someone collects data on potholes and forces you to, instead of actually keeping an eye on roads and bridges. A very American POV I'd say.
Your opinion is very European in that it assumes you can just walk around and find these. The US west where this is focused is vast expanses of open un occupied land and cannot just be inspected to find the abandoned wells from a century ago. Same for large parts of Australia, so no surprise the Australian commenters also find this interesting.
Fine them at rates that dwarf whatever cost it would take to fix them. That would be the motivation necessary. Tell them they have 30 days after being notified before the fines start. Someone else on some other thread mentioned the ideas of exponentially increasing fines. Do that here.
The system in place in the US means they mostly do not. A fund holding the amount of money it would take to clean up whatever you do on the land should be mandatory. Leave the land as — or better — than you bought it. Of course, that's very un-American.
Huh, in my energy industry experience, we always remediated sites. And set aside funding for it before any construction was done. The cost estimation and funding of it was part of the initial planning and approval. I thought it was mandatory and mostly did happen. Some quick research says it is legally required, but IANAL nor an expert.
Of course, that has not always been the case, and things falls through the cracks, but I would not immediately dismiss the entire industry as being non-compliant. I would dismiss the entire industry as flawed and needing change, but not on this specific point - it is vastly improved over past decades.
> Of course, that has not always been the case, and things falls through the cracks, but I would not immediately dismiss the entire industry as being non-compliant.
There's a point in time where this changed and permits needed at least a plausible expectation of remediation. If I had to guess that would have been late 1980s to mid 90s.
Most of the sites abandoned without remediation are from permits obtained before that time. I'm sure there's some cases where there was a setaside for remediation and it wasn't sufficient and the corporate entities involved went bankrupt, so it wasn't finished; but IMHO, most of the problem is older sites. Older sites also tend to have worse records, so there's that too.
While I'm sure they discontinued the service on whatever cellular device transmits the data back it is a curious question about the legality of if they left the service in place and continue to track the vehicle long after they sold it
I'm kind of with you, but I think you may be leaving out the impact of defaults and the cascading effect when country B ends up not being able to satisfy that debt?
It's interesting to me, as if you read Benjamin Franklins biography, he mentions creating a literary circle being super important. I suspect many of our important thoughts leaders through history created small social circles where they hyperfocused on their domain with friends in a more social way
I've seen vendors offering this technique or similar, but making it "opt-in".
For example, Okta Access Gateway used to perform a reverse tunnel out to an Okta managed IP, but you had to enable the "Support VPN" option on the device.
https://help.okta.com/oag/en-us/content/topics/access-gatewa...
Seems like they dropped the feature, not sure if from customer backlash, or their security engineering teams finally realizing that it's risky.
However, it was at least documented, and customer toggleable.
Actually,I don't think you ever need to be profitable, as long as you are cash flow positive, there isn't really a reason to stop the merry-go-round. It sounds weird, but if every month you collect more cash, and you pile it into future investments/raw materials, it just turns into more cash flow later.
Huh? The ways to be cash flow positive but unprofitable are borrowing/investors putting money in, depreciation adjustments, or growing accounts payable. All of which eventually stop.
The vast majority of automotive buses use differential signaling over multiple conductors for EMI reasons. The only common exception is LIN and maybe SWCAN if we're exceedingly generous with our definition of "common".
Ive worked with both, and very few of the H1bs were below average. Otherwise they aren't worth sponsoring.
There was a time in the mid 2000s when the Infosys/TCS/wiPros of the world were gaming the H1B to bring offshore bodies onshore.. but most of that died off as far as I see.
reply