Agreed Btdt! On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 3:40 PM, btdt100 <[email protected]> wrote:
> A good number of those countries are headed by immigrants. They care > nothing about this country or its peoples but like all the opportunities > the US offers them to exploit it. > > > On Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at 12:04:31 PM UTC-6, Perplexed wrote: >> >> >> F*ck every single one of these tech companies. They haven't given a shit >> about this country or its people for some time. It's always been about >> profits. >> >> What I find fascinating is that after railing against offshoring jobs for >> over a decade, now the loser left is siding with the biggest offenders >> wanting to sell off what's left in the way of jobs in America. >> >> On Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at 11:24:45 AM UTC-5, btdt100 wrote: >>> >>> Wasn't it the NAZIs who buddied up with the government so to get slave >>> labor from the concentration camps? >>> >>> >>> Nearly 100 Tech Companies Join Forces In Court To Oppose Donald Trump's >>> Immigration Ban >>> >>> >>> >>> *http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2017/02/06/nearly-100-tech-companies-join-forces-to-oppose-donald-trumps-immigration-ban/#50f6910c124b >>> <http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2017/02/06/nearly-100-tech-companies-join-forces-to-oppose-donald-trumps-immigration-ban/#50f6910c124b>* >>> >>> >>> *UPDATE: Feb. 6, 5:55 pm. Tesla Inc. and SpaceX were among 31 companies >>> added to the brief late Monday afternoon. Elon Musk, CEO of both Tesla and >>> SpaceX, is the last remaining technology executive on Trump's business >>> council.* >>> >>> The biggest names in Silicon Valley lined up over the weekend to support >>> a high-profile legal battle against President Donald Trump's recent >>> executive orders banning immigrants from seven mostly Muslim countries. >>> Having already publicly denounced Trump's orders >>> <http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2017/02/03/silicon-valley-giants-joins-forces-again-to-oppose-donald-trumps-immigration-orders/#56ca2ad794f5>, >>> which were temporarily blocked last week by a federal judge, leaders in the >>> technology industry joined a friend of the court brief opposing the ban. >>> >>> Trump's orders represent "a significant departure from the principles of >>> fairness >>> and predictability that have governed the immigration system of the United >>> States for more than fifty years," reads the amicus brief, written by >>> Andrew Pincus of the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Mayer Brown LLP. "The >>> Order makes it more difficult and expensive for U.S. companies to >>> recruit, hire, and retain some of the world’s best employees. It >>> disrupts ongoing business operations. And it threatens companies’ >>> ability to attract talent, business, and investment to the United States." >>> >>> The amicus brief, filed in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San >>> Francisco late Sunday, is in support of a lawsuit against Trump's >>> immigration orders by Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson. >>> Seattle-based Amazon had previously filed a declaration of support >>> <http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2017/01/30/amazons-jeff-bezos-issues-strong-statement-opposing-trumps-immigration-order/#781dcb47284e> >>> in >>> the case, and as a result was not on the list of firms who joined the >>> friend of the court brief. Notably absent as well were Oracle, Palantir >>> (co-founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel), Qualcomm and IBM. In a statement to >>> FORBES, a spokesperson for IBM said its CEO, Ginni Rometty, "conveyed >>> the company's views directly" to Trump at an in-person meeting last week. >>> That >>> meeting >>> <http://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2017/02/05/brash-elon-musk-tweets-a-moderate-course-as-he-adapts-to-trump-era-challenges/#2f3df514f01e>, >>> also attended by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, was originally to include >>> other Silicon Valley leaders who pulled out after intense public >>> backlash >>> <http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2017/02/02/uber-ceo-quits-trump-advisory-council-after-deleteuber/#468b7ba111e0> >>> against >>> the immigration orders. >>> >>> The last time tech companies joined forces on this scale was nearly a >>> year ago, when dozens of firms signed friend of the court briefs in >>> support of Apple >>> <http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2016/03/03/silicon-valley-backs-apple-in-fight-with-fbi/#411a035d2521> >>> in >>> the smartphone maker's encryption battle with the federal government. At >>> the time, the unifying thread for companies was a shared resistance to >>> government-imposed orders on software security built into devices. Now, >>> it's the widely-held belief in Silicon Valley that immigrants have and >>> continue to be a driving force in the American economy - or at least, for >>> the Valley's own bottom line. >>> Recommended by Forbes"Immigrants are leading entrepreneurs," Sunday's >>> brief reads. "Some of these businesses are large. Immigrants or their >>> children founded more than 200 of the companies on the Fortune 500 list >>> ... Collectively, these companies generate annual revenue of $4.2 >>> trillion, and employ millions of Americans." >>> >>> It's unclear exactly how the brief came together over the weekend, and >>> which technology trade organizations, if any, were involved. Pincus >>> declined to comment beyond the order Monday morning. >>> >>> Many of the same companies who signed the brief are still expected to >>> send a public letter to Trump's administration >>> <http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2017/02/03/silicon-valley-giants-joins-forces-again-to-oppose-donald-trumps-immigration-orders/#329c71fe94f5> >>> regarding >>> the ban. >>> >>> >>> Here is a complete list of the companies who signed the order, in >>> alphabetical order: >>> >>> 1. AdRoll, Inc. 2. Aeris Communications, Inc. 3. Airbnb, Inc. 4. >>> AltSchool, PBC 5. Ancestry.com, LLC 6. Appboy, Inc. 7. Apple Inc. 8. >>> AppNexus Inc. 9. Asana, Inc. 10. Atlassian Corp Plc 11. Autodesk, Inc. 12. >>> Automattic Inc. 13. Box, Inc. 14. Brightcove Inc. 15. Brit + Co 16. >>> CareZone Inc. 17. Castlight Health 18. Checkr, Inc. >>> >>> 19. Chobani, LLC 20. Citrix Systems, Inc. 21. Cloudera, Inc. 22. >>> Cloudflare, Inc. 23. Copia Institute 24. DocuSign, Inc. 25. DoorDash, Inc. >>> 26. Dropbox, Inc. 27. Dynatrace LLC 28. eBay Inc. 29. Engine Advocacy 30. >>> Etsy Inc. 31. Facebook, Inc. 32. Fastly, Inc. 33. Flipboard, Inc. 34. >>> Foursquare Labs, Inc. 35. Fuze, Inc. 36. General Assembly 37. GitHub 38. >>> Glassdoor, Inc. 39. Google Inc. 40. GoPro, Inc. 41. Harmonic Inc. 42. >>> Hipmunk, >>> Inc. 43. Indiegogo, Inc.44. Intel Corporation 45. JAND, Inc. d/b/a >>> Warby Parker 46. Kargo Global, Inc.47. Kickstarter, PBC 48. KIND, LLC >>> 49. Knotel 50. Levi Strauss & Co. 51. LinkedIn Corporation 52. Lithium >>> Technologies, Inc. 53. Lyft, Inc. 54. Mapbox, Inc. 55. Maplebear Inc. >>> d/b/a Instacart 56. Marin Software Incorporated 57. Medallia, Inc. 58. A >>> Medium Corporation 59. Meetup, Inc. 60. Microsoft Corporation 61. Motivate >>> International Inc. 62. Mozilla Corporation 63. Netflix, Inc. 64. NETGEAR, >>> Inc. 65. NewsCred, Inc. 66. Patreon, Inc. 67. PayPal Holdings, Inc. 68. >>> Pinterest, >>> Inc. 69. Quora, Inc. 70. Reddit, Inc. 71. Rocket Fuel Inc. 72. SaaStr >>> Inc. 73. Salesforce.com, Inc. 74. Scopely, Inc. 75. Shutterstock, Inc. >>> 76. Snap Inc. 77. Spokeo, Inc. 78. Spotify USA Inc. 79. Square, Inc. >>> 80. Squarespace, Inc. 81. Strava, Inc. 82. Stripe, Inc. 83. SurveyMonkey >>> Inc. 84. TaskRabbit, Inc 85. Tech:NYC 86. Thumbtack, Inc. 87. Turn Inc. >>> 88. Twilio Inc. 89. Twitter Inc. 90. Turn Inc. 91. Uber Technologies, Inc. >>> 92. Via 93. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 94. Workday 95. Y Combinator >>> Management, LLC 96. Yelp Inc. 97. Zynga Inc. >>> >>> Added later Monday: >>> >>> 97. Adobe Systems Incorporated 98. Affirm, Inc. 99. Ampush LLC 100. >>> Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. 101. Bungie, Inc. 102. Casper Sleep >>> Inc. 103. Cavium, Inc. 104. Chegg, Inc. 105. ClassPass Inc. 106. Coursera >>> 107. EquityZen Inc. 108. Evernote 109. Gusto 110. Handy Technologies, Inc. >>> 111. HP Inc. 112. IAC/InterActiveCorp 113. Linden Lab 114. Managed By Q >>> Inc. 115. MobileIron 116. New Relic, Inc. 117. Pandora Media, Inc. 118. >>> Planet Labs Inc. 119. RPX Corporation 120. Shift Technologies, Inc. 121. >>> Slack Technologies, Inc. 122. SpaceX 123. Tesla, Inc. 124. TripAdvisor, >>> Inc. 125. Udacity, Inc. 126. Zendesk, Inc. 127. Zenefits >>> >> -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PoliticalForum" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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