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Giant Sucking Noise

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ross-perot-was-ahead-of-his-time dept.

bsharma writes "The next round of globalization is sending upscale jobs offshore. They include basic research, chip design, engineering--even financial analysis. Can America lose these jobs and still prosper? Who wins? Who loses?" News.com has a related story about outsourcing.

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  1. Yeah! then mabee we culd spell by Ghengis · · Score: 2, Funny
    and have correk grammer in our posts so we culd be competitiv with oter countries,,,

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    "The best laid plans of mice and men gang oft agley..." - ROBERT BURNS

  2. Re:we're screwed by ReelOddeeo · · Score: 3, Funny
    It should be no big surprise. As we keep pushing things out of the US we have less and less real value.
    We, as a nation, actually build very little on our own shores.
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    Don't be so negative. Look at the profitable things we are good at, which we are keeping...
    • Marketing
    • Management
    • Litigation
    • Buzzwords
    • TLA's
    • Entertainment
    • Intellectual property licensing
    • Patents
    • Creative Accounting Practices
    • Monopoly building and maintenance
    Because of these strengths, I predict that the countries with strong economies that need some of these functions, are not good at them (or don't want to touch them), and don't have local talent in these areas will outsource these functions back to the US.
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    Those who would give up liberty in exchange for security and DRM should switch to Microsoft Palladium!
  3. Re:we're screwed by IvyMike · · Score: 2, Funny

    "When it gets down to it--talking trade balances here--once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries... there's only four things we do better than anyone else: music, movies, microcode (software), high-speed pizza delivery." -- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash.

    Unfortunately, Neal was wrong, and software is moving to India, movies are moving to Australia, and our music sucks right now. But thank god, at least we still have the high-speed pizza delivery, and we probably always will.

  4. Giant Sucking Noise by certsoft · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, it's about the Ross Perot type of giant sucking noise. For a moment I thought that Lewinsky and Clinton were at it again.

  5. In India they have a comic strip called Asok... by Colonel+Panic · · Score: 2, Funny

    And Asok has an intern named Dilbert.