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Politico reports that the government is having secret meetings with big corporations about bringing overseas technology workers into America. This report quotes the usual anonymous sources, so take it for what it's worth.
Compare the list of corporations mentioned in this article to the top 25 list of H-1B visa sponsors for 2014: Other than the lobbying groups (Fwd.US and Compete America), the names of Microsoft, Accenture, and Oracle appear on both. Cisco is not on the list, but is partnered with Tata which is.
Should the government be meeting in secret with corporations about bringing in more foreign workers to take American jobs? Why aren't these meetings and what topics are discussed on the public record?
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by sudo rm -rf on Wednesday August 20 2014, @11:46AM
Sorry to post offtopic, but I was just reading a (newly posted) story here on SN about "Hacienda" (on heise online) and had to close it (boss calling), and now it's gone. I think there are a few more missing, i just can't put my finger on it...
(Score: 1) by n1 on Wednesday August 20 2014, @11:49AM
The story you are looking for: http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/08/19/1237229 [soylentnews.org]
Not aware of the issue you're talking about, will forward your comment to the dev team.
(Score: 1) by sudo rm -rf on Wednesday August 20 2014, @12:28PM
Thank you, everything seems to have returned to normal, maybe some weird Firefox caching "feature"...
(Score: 2) by RobotMonster on Wednesday August 20 2014, @01:10PM
While we're hijacking threads, I've noticed some oddness with a story submission I made earlier today (Australia's tax office announces it will not treat Bitcoin as money).
It has disappeared out of the "submission queue", and if I use "Search Submissions" I can see it has a state of rejected.
What's weird is that on My User Page [soylentnews.org] the story is listed as Accepted, and if I click on the link in that list [soylentnews.org], it is characterised as an "Accepted submission by RobotMonster".
To summarise, some parts of the system view the submission as accepted, and others view it as rejected. I don't mind which state, but pick one! :-)
(Score: 2) by RobotMonster on Wednesday August 20 2014, @01:16PM
Looking at this further, it appears to be more that the "submission queue" does not show stories that have been accepted but not yet published, compounded by the way that the submission search results all run together and it's impossible to see where one result ends and the next begins...