Post #100,738
5/7/03 12:13:45 PM
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Re: But, the'll do much of it in India. :(
Well, it's not like I didn't warn everyone - poor Ross, ranting again :)
-drl
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Post #100,739
5/7/03 12:21:09 PM
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Naw, we half agreed with you...
...the threat of outsourcing was real. No argument from any of us here.
What we took umbrage to for the most part was the charactarization of Indians as being somehow doing something wrong, as opposed to the owners of the companies exploiting them and us.
The real key is to get them to unionize. :)
After 9/11, Bush made two statements:
1. "Terrorists hate America because America is a land of freedom and opportunity."
2. "We intend to attack the root causes of terrorism."
Sounds like everything is going according to plan.
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Post #100,781
5/7/03 5:11:06 PM
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I know how to fix that -
Union Rule #1:
Every Indian programmer gets a free SUV, fuelled by the home-company 'leasing' him/her. And meds, cel-fone, joystick.
Spread the US Joy just Everywhere. Teach the world about umm congestion. And er 'equal pay for equal work'.
Oh wait: we're already Doing that.
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Post #100,809
5/7/03 9:53:45 PM
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Re: Naw, we half agreed with you...
The thing with India is the Final Solution to the Aryan problem. It's in a way extremely excellent, because it may be saying that underneath all the Iceman BS - the US people themselves are very comfortable with their very distant cousins.
But, I get irked at this PHB myth that they are better than us - they are NOT. Those jobs for Americans, to enable raising more Americans, are gone, and it's a tragedy.
For myself, I can't really worry - but nerds are sensitive and I can only guess what a lot of people are going through.
Does that make my position clear?
-drl
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Post #100,822
5/7/03 11:01:18 PM
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Clear as mud.
Now what I *think* you're saying now is a) PHBs think that Indians make better developers and b) they aren't better developers.
The real issue isn't actually a) - it's c) they cost a hell of a lot less than U.S. developers, and PHBs haven't gotten their mind around the idea that throwing more manpower at a project doesn't make it come in quicker or better. They just see the x*y math, and that's it.
It's like the pot full of crabs. None of them escape because they all knock each other down trying to climb out.
After 9/11, Bush made two statements:
1. "Terrorists hate America because America is a land of freedom and opportunity."
2. "We intend to attack the root causes of terrorism."
Sounds like everything is going according to plan.
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Post #100,840
5/8/03 1:07:51 AM
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In the long run, this will actually help us.
Look, far too many "white-collar workers" (WCW) in this country think the "blue-collar workers" (BCW) got what they deserved in the 70's and 80's. The WCW reasoned, "If only they had educated themselves... We don't need the 'stupid jobs' here...They only lost their jobs because 'they didn't keep up'..., etc."
Now it's our turn. And the sooner we realize that we, the educated class, have far more in common with the uneducated working class and, most importantly, that we have a common enemy in Corporate Murica, the closer we will be to righting the ship. The Marxist Revolution will come, it will just take longer than many expected.
bcnu,
Mikem
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice and always has been...We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism.
- Mark Twain, "Monarchical and Republican Patriotism"
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Post #100,854
5/8/03 2:54:29 AM
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Yes, but in the short run I have to learn to like MGD. X{
Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance -
Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation.
BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
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Post #100,886
5/8/03 10:00:17 AM
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Is that "bitter beer face"?
Miller used to be good beer! Don't know what happened. It was light and airy and tart, now it's thick and heavy like Bud.
-drl
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Post #101,011
5/8/03 9:07:36 PM
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How can you put miller and good beer in the same sentence?
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Post #101,074
5/9/03 11:35:08 AM
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Well ... *you* just did ...
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Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
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Post #101,375
5/12/03 3:07:50 AM
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Answer to both: "The way Jake just did, for instance." :-)
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