...because they made the decision to lay some of their people off and outsource the project to Bangalore.
And then they had no choice about how Bangalore decided to code the project. Bangalore decide to use IE-specific coding, no questions are asked because the bean counters on the US side see that Bangalore will work all day and all night, for less. (eventually, more bean counters and 'process' people can get hired)
When you pay less, you get what you pay for. TANSTAAFL.
It's happening, how can you stop 'creeping fascism' with a few eMails? I was a student activist 25 years ago during the Reagan years, only to get my name on enough blacklists that I couldn't be hired for anything more cerebral than dishwasher. Do you think that the computer systems which keep track of people are _more_ efficient than 25 years ago, or _less_ ??
I don't want my child to grow up in this fascist police state... only to get drafted... We're thinking about Canada, En Zed, Australia, anywhere which still has the benefit of British justice and the presumption of innocence. That leaves out Pakistan and the US, which broke it down by force.
> I'm tired of the illegal justice system in the US. > The one that lets the rich go free and throws the poor in jail
Please correct that to:
> throws the middle class in jail...as you seem to be stuck in 1969.
The 'poor' of today, who get free legal assistance, free health care and free university education, can afford to jaunt about in SUVs whilst blabbering into a cell phone. The middle class have to pay the taxes to support this; whilst paying out-of-pocket for university and marginal health insurance, and struggling to make ends meet. No wonder the middle class vote Republican so often... the Dems with their endless social programs ensure this.
I sincerely doubt that this kid was 'poor'. There would be an army of lawyers who couldn't wait to get their names in the newspapers, if it were so.
(But the Dems are rich too. Living in a gated community, one may actually think that the 'poor' need more help, at the expense of the middle class of course.)
...but as Americans, we wish to feel safe and protected, and are willing to give up whatever rights we still have that haven't already been converted into priveleges.
Oops, that's old news, could have been written at the close of the 18th Century, or again during the 1920's Red Scare, or again during the Cold War, when the terrorists were the good guys.
This story is funny in that it's a reaction to very old news. Only part of the average university professor's income comes as salary. The balance comes from consulting.
Sometimes entire courses are designed around a research contract. The professors use students work verbatim... if the work is really good, the professor will tear off the title page and affix his own, and collect the check.
This is why the professors are so adamant, before approving your research, to know what the results will be. The 'A' student is one who is good at massaging the statistics to produce the correct results. The 'B' student is one who does the above, but also challenges the professor, engages in debate, tries to learn and understand. I was a 'B' student before burning out to 'C' level because I no longer cared. Later on as an intern with a government agency, I saw one of _my_ papers with the professor's cover page instead, on file. As it was research into land speculation, it was very sensitive. I played dumb and found out that the City had paid $100,000 for it (in 1988 dollars).
The picture's changed today; in that universities are paying speculative baseball-player salaries to big name professors, and don't care that it pushes middle-class kids out of an education (they're cannonfodder anyway, why bother?). But the Academic Research Mill keeps turning.
What the american university system is really teaching you is that those who make the rules almost never have to live by them. Makes sense, then, that this particular news is coming out of Canada, which never had that ill-advised Colonial Rebellion which converted Rights under the British system, into mere Priveleges.
You gave that up with that ill-advised colonial rebellion of 1776, after which the junta got itself in permanently; no change of government, ever. Government agencies are above the law, not answerable to the same regulations that they make to micromanage _your_ life.
Get with it. This 'freedom' crap which Bush keeps spouting was always a ripoff from the French without the substance; a thin candy-coating over a grim reality.
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...because they made the decision to lay some of their people off and outsource the project to Bangalore.
And then they had no choice about how Bangalore decided to code the project. Bangalore decide to use IE-specific coding, no questions are asked because the bean counters on the US side see that Bangalore will work all day and all night, for less. (eventually, more bean counters and 'process' people can get hired)
When you pay less, you get what you pay for. TANSTAAFL.
It's happening, how can you stop 'creeping fascism' with a few eMails? I was a student activist 25 years ago during the Reagan years, only to get my name on enough blacklists that I couldn't be hired for anything more cerebral than dishwasher. Do you think that the computer systems which keep track of people are _more_ efficient than 25 years ago, or _less_ ??
I don't want my child to grow up in this fascist police state... only to get drafted... We're thinking about Canada, En Zed, Australia, anywhere which still has the benefit of British justice and the presumption of innocence. That leaves out Pakistan and the US, which broke it down by force.
> I'm tired of the illegal justice system in the US.
...as you seem to be stuck in 1969.
> The one that lets the rich go free and throws the poor in jail
Please correct that to:
> throws the middle class in jail
The 'poor' of today, who get free legal assistance, free health care and free university education, can afford to jaunt about in SUVs whilst blabbering into a cell phone. The middle class have to pay the taxes to support this; whilst paying out-of-pocket for university and marginal health insurance, and struggling to make ends meet. No wonder the middle class vote Republican so often... the Dems with their endless social programs ensure this.
I sincerely doubt that this kid was 'poor'. There would be an army of lawyers who couldn't wait to get their names in the newspapers, if it were so.
(But the Dems are rich too. Living in a gated community, one may actually think that the 'poor' need more help, at the expense of the middle class of course.)
...but as Americans, we wish to feel safe and protected, and are willing to give up whatever rights we still have that haven't already been converted into priveleges.
Oops, that's old news, could have been written at the close of the 18th Century, or again during the 1920's Red Scare, or again during the Cold War, when the terrorists were the good guys.
> vendors openly sell pirated movies on the streets of Hong Kong
Heck, they're selling them openly on the streets of New York City. But the way immigration is going, they're probably the exact same people.
This story is funny in that it's a reaction to very old news. Only part of the average university professor's income comes as salary. The balance comes from consulting.
Sometimes entire courses are designed around a research contract. The professors use students work verbatim... if the work is really good, the professor will tear off the title page and affix his own, and collect the check.
This is why the professors are so adamant, before approving your research, to know what the results will be. The 'A' student is one who is good at massaging the statistics to produce the correct results. The 'B' student is one who does the above, but also challenges the professor, engages in debate, tries to learn and understand. I was a 'B' student before burning out to 'C' level because I no longer cared. Later on as an intern with a government agency, I saw one of _my_ papers with the professor's cover page instead, on file. As it was research into land speculation, it was very sensitive. I played dumb and found out that the City had paid $100,000 for it (in 1988 dollars).
The picture's changed today; in that universities are paying speculative baseball-player salaries to big name professors, and don't care that it pushes middle-class kids out of an education (they're cannonfodder anyway, why bother?). But the Academic Research Mill keeps turning.
What the american university system is really teaching you is that those who make the rules almost never have to live by them. Makes sense, then, that this particular news is coming out of Canada, which never had that ill-advised Colonial Rebellion which converted Rights under the British system, into mere Priveleges.
Rebellion?
You gave that up with that ill-advised colonial rebellion of 1776, after which the junta got itself in permanently; no change of government, ever. Government agencies are above the law, not answerable to the same regulations that they make to micromanage _your_ life.
Get with it. This 'freedom' crap which Bush keeps spouting was always a ripoff from the French without the substance; a thin candy-coating over a grim reality.