Reply #31: Does the position require vector math? [View All]

If your positions require vector math that's certainly a good tactic. But I can tell you that I can go to lots of 4th year math majors ask them to do vector math and they won't be able to do it without refreshing themselves first. Memory and intelligence are not the same thing. When you don't do something for a long time, you forget the method. Why would you find it odd that a person who has immersed themselves in discrete methods for a VERY long time might forget formulas that they have not needed since they took the class?

Back to the H1-Bs. I think we're placing ourselves in a VERY difficult position here. Demand creates high wages and supposedly this is what is supposed to motivate kids to learn math and science. If you take away the higher then ordinary salaries, where is the motivation to educate one's self?

H1-Bs are systematically dumbing down this country. The lower we can keep them, the better off we'll be. Don't kid yourself. When aero grads were getting dig letters in the early 90s everybody new. And certainly the freshman aero students quickly figured some things out about where they wanted to be and what they wanted to invest there life efforts in. If the science and engineering grads are getting dinged, why bother going through all that hard work?

The irony here is that the very people who advocate the "free market" are the very same ones who are trying to circumvent it by changing the laws to import cheap labor from overseas. They simultaneously depress wages domestically while redirecting foreign service to multi-national corporations rather then their home countries.

The net effect of NAFTA/WTO is not to bring the world standard of living to the US. The effect is to demolish the American middle class and turn America into a sprawling slum with small pockets of wealth like India and China.