So the people whose decisions can actually make or break a company are not and the folks who got the post because they are buddies with the board and couldnt screw up even if they tried get paid the big bucks. Ah Crony Capitalism. It smells like fresh fields in the morning - full of manure.
Understand that India gets most of its rains from Monsoons. They depend on the interior of the continent getting superhot to create a low pressure to pull in the moisture laden winds. A higher temperature would mean more Monsoon Rains. Also a warmer earth means a higher water vapour load in the atmosphere so almost everywhere it would be rainier. Think Warming as in Rain Forest Warm rather than Desert Warm.
Clean Coal means coal plants with electrostatic precipitators which only emit steam and CO2. And CO2 is good for plants. As our aim is to promote Global Warming and a greener planet (more plants) CO2 emission is a good thing.
Hint the 2 most expensive things in the US are rent and health insurance. Other costs like food and cars are actually cheaper than many developing nations. Both the high rent and the high cost of medical care are artificial scarcities created due to Environmental and Medical lobbies. USA has a lot of natural resources and well educated folks. Life should be a paradise in the US instead of being a constant struggle.
I would invest in land in Nunavat and Siberia. Also in companies like Caterpillar which will be building Dikes. Also short real estate firms like Euity who are mostly on the coasts Buy Rail compnies like BNR. Once the Sea comes upto the coastal ranges the interior will get populated and rail will be important for the relocation
Well you can count the Syrian, Ethioian and Eritrean refugees as Climate refugees. Mega droughts have triggered the fighting in Syria and the exodus from the Horn of Africa
The wall is getting built but its not going to be made of concrete. Its going to be made of overpriced US made Carrier ACs that noone will buy . Donald probably guaranteed Carrier he will buy all the ACs they make . (Not really different from the Department of Agriculture guarnteeing to buy all the corn farmers can grow). And the illegal Mexicans? He will give them jobs building the wall but he will ask them to work from the Mexican side. When the wall is finished they will be on the right side. And since he will refuse to pay them (as he has done to many workmen) they will complain to Mexico and Mexico will pay for the wall.
In other news the wall is getting built but its not going to be made of concrete. Its going to be made of overpriced US made Carrier ACs that noone will buy . Donald probably guaranteed Carrier he will buy all the ACs they make . (Not really different from the Department of Agriculture guarnteeing to buy all the corn farmers can grow). And the illegal Mexicans? He will give them jobs building the wall but he will ask them to work from the Mexican side. When the wall is finished they will be on the right side. And since he will refuse to pay them (as he has done to many workmen) they will complain to Mexico and Mexico will pay for the wall.
Republicans want to build walls to stop an imaginary flow of terrorists who are taking their jobs (Are all republicans terrorists?) Democrats want to build walls to stop an imaginary rising sea due to an imaginary global warming (Definitely all Environmentalists are republicans)
When will a sane party come to power in this country?
A high labor participation rate means you have a society where salries are not high enough for one parent to stay at home and instead both need to work and children need to go to day care. Not a rich society.
I am surre all those infants and toddlers are really crying about the lack of jobs they can go to. Most population growth is in the bootom of the pyramid. If you want to talk about population growth talk about the number in the adult population and dont forget to subtract those in college, retired, sick, caring for relatives . Once you do that you get a number and its called the U3 umemployment rate and that went down from 4.9 to 4.6
While in general I support the ACAs insurance exchanges as they allowed many people to try their own business whereas earlier they could not because of preexisting medical conditions which made them ineligible, there are many things wrong with the ACA. The problem in US is the out of control medical costs and a culture of throwing everything at a medical problem which can not be fixed. 5% of medical users - mostly the born defectives and the dying - who consume 80% of the healthcare budget. Insurance just tends to hide this by spreading the cost over everyone else. The problem to be solved was the high cost of medicine. Instead we got corporate welfare for the insurance companies, pharma companies and hospitals. Everyone has to have insurance and if they cant afford it the govt will pay for it and since everyone has insurance hospitals and pharma can charge up the wazoo.
If I compare the costs of a procedure in India and US the amount to be paid in India at market rates at a private hospital is less than the copay in the US with silver insurance. This is totally out of whack. In other industries the price difference between US and India is 1:3. In Medicine it is 1:20. Doctors and Engineers earn roughly the same in other countries given the difficulty of both education. However in the US Doctors earn vastly more. Also pharma companies in the US make windfall profits and Hospital directors earn in the millions. What is needed is competition. The govt should have abolished health insurance and provided medicare for all and only covering catastrophic illneses (something requiring admission). Everything else to be paid by customer. It should also have regulated to make the costs more transparent - everything should be on a menu upfront rather than a bill later (There would be more prssure for this if most people were not using insurance to pay). Also mandate that Medicare will pay for flying a patient to a foreign country if the cost of transport and treatment is less than the cost of treatment in the US (for elective and non-emergency surgery). This would put market pressure on the cost of elective surgery and bring that cost down. Also Medicare should create guidelines on when we should stop spending money on people who will not have any quality of life even if you spend money on it. I would even advocate paying every couple who is diagnosed as carrying a genetically defective child 1 million dollar to abort. It would be vastly cheaper than paying for health services over a lifetime. And yes we need death panels. Way too much money is spent on dying people. This raises costs for everyone and the most affected are the most vulnerable - the children. Endangering children who will grow up to be productive citizens to prolong the lives of half dead vegetables is ridiculous. Doctors love to do it because its risk free work. if the old die after spending a million on them they can just shrug and say death comes to all. However spending a million on childhood nutrition and preventive medicine better shouw results or heads will roll. Also there is no boost to the hero complex from improving the health of a 100 children but there is a boost in keeping alive for one more day a half dead person - Yeah I beat the Grim reaper for one more day!!!
BTW Taking the medical insurance away from employers means employers would more easily grow and reduce payroll as needed without all the gimmicks of 29.5 hour weeks for part time workers who then have to find another job.
We always used to support 50% of the adult population who used to work at home and not be counted (housewives). Now we are only supporting 33% of the adult population. . On the other hand a lot of the caregiving which was given at home earlier is now given via take out food, day care, laundry and cleaning services. Now that these are provided by 3rd parties they count in employment whereas earlier these were invisible so they may make up a part of the 16% rise in labor participation. Of course the supported/caregiving population now contains both housewives and househusbands but in general salaries have gone down so that it requires 2 salaries to live while earlier one was enough and children have to make do with daycare instead of a dedicated caregiver. I dont believe its a good thing. While I support women having careers salaries shoud be high enough to raise a family so that both parents dont have to work - one either the mother or the father should be able to stay at home.
I am not conflating outsourcing and offshoring. In this case First outsourcing happens to HCL America. HCL America as an American company may then decide to use whatever workforce they have onsite or offshore to fulfill the outsourced function. Outsourcing automatically doesnt mean offshoring. Also very few functions are moved completely offshore. There are always people onsite. These are the people who have to take knowledge transfer (this is not training. They already know the tech. They need to know the particular configuration the tech has been put in at the present installation). These folks in turn may or may not work with offshore teams. These folks are already in the US on visas for previous projects and moving to a new project.
Further many things which should be allowed under B1 like KT have come under fire in recent years so companies have started getting H1s for people who will be on site for short periods. The correct visa the H3 (training visa) is hardly ever used and companies just go for B1 or H1.
I think your point on communication is important but its not the language. People working in software speak English. Its the empathy. To work well with offshore you have to have worked offshore and know the work culture. Send fresh American grads for a year of internship offshore and then they would be able to work well as onsite reps.
CEOs justify their huge salaries saying that their decisions have multi-million dollar affects on a company. Well in this case the CEO gave up a 740 million deal and has to settle for a 40 million dollar deal so he lost 700 million for the company. The employees should sue him in a personal capacity for everything's hes got.
Actually Indian politicians have sold out to the west and are doing a lot about global warming. However India should not be fighting Global Warming. A hotter world means a better monsoon and more rains in India. India is water deficient a problem Global Warming could fix. Instead of Solar India should be putting in clean coal plants(clean as in the only emissions are CO2)
Night time load is lower than day time load in a hot country where the major load is airconditioning. Solar provides the peak load electircity when its needed.
India already has a national grid of HVDC lines which link the 4 regional grids together. There just need to be more lines added as more plants are brought online
If I was looking for a really disastrous Politician to compare with I would not choose Stalin, Pol Pot or Hitler. Raegan and Bill Clinton were bad enough for the country. One with his trickle down economics (wear adult diapers for gods sake grandpa) and the other with his crackdown on crime and his war mongering around the world (sanctions on Iraqi vaccines anyone?)
America is a democracy where the last Democratically elected President has been totally hamstrung by a Parliament and not been able to do anything of note (Hitler's slogan was a Govt which actually does something). It is also a very Angry country which has lost a lot of jobs due to automation and is looking for a scapegoat (foreigners, immigrants whatever). People are hurting and find it difficult to believe this is the new normal and you need to get a college education to have a middle class life now. So they are vulnerable to anyone who promises them a quick fix at the cost of the other. I find lot of similarities with Weimar Germany.
I would choose a communist over a fascist any day. Communism is inefficient and eventually goes bankrupt so you get a chance to replace it. Fascism which is basically rule by big businessmen doing crony capitalism can last forever as the rich keep getting richer and poor keep getting poorer. It is far more difficult to escape fascism and needs a war or some other disaster to get out. BTW Cuba's human development indicators improved vastly under Castro. Education and healthcare access improved . They may not have the newest cars but people dont avoid going to the doctor because they dont have insurance in Cuba. Depends whats more important to you.
Did the Disney employees apply for the job at TCS? No. So TCS can say noone applied for the job so they had to use H1Bs. In any case most H1Bs are not brought in during a full replacement project. The senior folks are already in the US working at other clients. Hence their H1 application is not linked to the Disney deal. They are employees of TCS and not Disney. TCS may have hundreds of projects and for many of them there will be no local candidates. Once the H1B are working in the US TCS as a company has every right to transfer them from project to project even if the project is a vendor replacement of an existing department.
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So the people whose decisions can actually make or break a company are not and the folks who got the post because they are buddies with the board and couldnt screw up even if they tried get paid the big bucks. Ah Crony Capitalism. It smells like fresh fields in the morning - full of manure.
Understand that India gets most of its rains from Monsoons. They depend on the interior of the continent getting superhot to create a low pressure to pull in the moisture laden winds. A higher temperature would mean more Monsoon Rains. Also a warmer earth means a higher water vapour load in the atmosphere so almost everywhere it would be rainier. Think Warming as in Rain Forest Warm rather than Desert Warm.
Clean Coal means coal plants with electrostatic precipitators which only emit steam and CO2. And CO2 is good for plants. As our aim is to promote Global Warming and a greener planet (more plants) CO2 emission is a good thing.
Hint the 2 most expensive things in the US are rent and health insurance. Other costs like food and cars are actually cheaper than many developing nations. Both the high rent and the high cost of medical care are artificial scarcities created due to Environmental and Medical lobbies. USA has a lot of natural resources and well educated folks. Life should be a paradise in the US instead of being a constant struggle.
Its interesting that you mention Qaddafi. He led a low carbon lifestyle living in a tent in the desert
I would invest in land in Nunavat and Siberia.
Also in companies like Caterpillar which will be building Dikes.
Also short real estate firms like Euity who are mostly on the coasts
Buy Rail compnies like BNR. Once the Sea comes upto the coastal ranges the interior will get populated and rail will be important for the relocation
Well you can count the Syrian, Ethioian and Eritrean refugees as Climate refugees. Mega droughts have triggered the fighting in Syria and the exodus from the Horn of Africa
I am buying land in Nunavat.
The wall is getting built but its not going to be made of concrete. Its going to be made of overpriced US made Carrier ACs that noone will buy . Donald probably guaranteed Carrier he will buy all the ACs they make . (Not really different from the Department of Agriculture guarnteeing to buy all the corn farmers can grow). And the illegal Mexicans? He will give them jobs building the wall but he will ask them to work from the Mexican side. When the wall is finished they will be on the right side. And since he will refuse to pay them (as he has done to many workmen) they will complain to Mexico and Mexico will pay for the wall.
In other news the wall is getting built but its not going to be made of concrete. Its going to be made of overpriced US made Carrier ACs that noone will buy . Donald probably guaranteed Carrier he will buy all the ACs they make . (Not really different from the Department of Agriculture guarnteeing to buy all the corn farmers can grow). And the illegal Mexicans? He will give them jobs building the wall but he will ask them to work from the Mexican side. When the wall is finished they will be on the right side. And since he will refuse to pay them (as he has done to many workmen) they will complain to Mexico and Mexico will pay for the wall.
Republicans want to build walls to stop an imaginary flow of terrorists who are taking their jobs (Are all republicans terrorists?)
Democrats want to build walls to stop an imaginary rising sea due to an imaginary global warming (Definitely all Environmentalists are republicans)
When will a sane party come to power in this country?
By a Polish Scientist working in Paris. Marie Curie? You might have heard of her?
A high labor participation rate means you have a society where salries are not high enough for one parent to stay at home and instead both need to work and children need to go to day care. Not a rich society.
I am surre all those infants and toddlers are really crying about the lack of jobs they can go to. Most population growth is in the bootom of the pyramid. If you want to talk about population growth talk about the number in the adult population and dont forget to subtract those in college, retired, sick, caring for relatives . Once you do that you get a number and its called the U3 umemployment rate and that went down from 4.9 to 4.6
While in general I support the ACAs insurance exchanges as they allowed many people to try their own business whereas earlier they could not because of preexisting medical conditions which made them ineligible, there are many things wrong with the ACA.
The problem in US is the out of control medical costs and a culture of throwing everything at a medical problem which can not be fixed. 5% of medical users - mostly the born defectives and the dying - who consume 80% of the healthcare budget.
Insurance just tends to hide this by spreading the cost over everyone else.
The problem to be solved was the high cost of medicine. Instead we got corporate welfare for the insurance companies, pharma companies and hospitals. Everyone has to have insurance and if they cant afford it the govt will pay for it and since everyone has insurance hospitals and pharma can charge up the wazoo.
If I compare the costs of a procedure in India and US the amount to be paid in India at market rates at a private hospital is less than the copay in the US with silver insurance. This is totally out of whack. In other industries the price difference between US and India is 1:3. In Medicine it is 1:20.
Doctors and Engineers earn roughly the same in other countries given the difficulty of both education. However in the US Doctors earn vastly more.
Also pharma companies in the US make windfall profits and Hospital directors earn in the millions.
What is needed is competition.
The govt should have abolished health insurance and provided medicare for all and only covering catastrophic illneses (something requiring admission). Everything else to be paid by customer. It should also have regulated to make the costs more transparent - everything should be on a menu upfront rather than a bill later (There would be more prssure for this if most people were not using insurance to pay).
Also mandate that Medicare will pay for flying a patient to a foreign country if the cost of transport and treatment is less than the cost of treatment in the US (for elective and non-emergency surgery). This would put market pressure on the cost of elective surgery and bring that cost down.
Also Medicare should create guidelines on when we should stop spending money on people who will not have any quality of life even if you spend money on it. I would even advocate paying every couple who is diagnosed as carrying a genetically defective child 1 million dollar to abort. It would be vastly cheaper than paying for health services over a lifetime.
And yes we need death panels. Way too much money is spent on dying people. This raises costs for everyone and the most affected are the most vulnerable - the children. Endangering children who will grow up to be productive citizens to prolong the lives of half dead vegetables is ridiculous. Doctors love to do it because its risk free work. if the old die after spending a million on them they can just shrug and say death comes to all. However spending a million on childhood nutrition and preventive medicine better shouw results or heads will roll. Also there is no boost to the hero complex from improving the health of a 100 children but there is a boost in keeping alive for one more day a half dead person - Yeah I beat the Grim reaper for one more day!!!
BTW Taking the medical insurance away from employers means employers would more easily grow and reduce payroll as needed without all the gimmicks of 29.5 hour weeks for part time workers who then have to find another job.
We always used to support 50% of the adult population who used to work at home and not be counted (housewives). Now we are only supporting 33% of the adult population. . On the other hand a lot of the caregiving which was given at home earlier is now given via take out food, day care, laundry and cleaning services. Now that these are provided by 3rd parties they count in employment whereas earlier these were invisible so they may make up a part of the 16% rise in labor participation.
Of course the supported/caregiving population now contains both housewives and househusbands but in general salaries have gone down so that it requires 2 salaries to live while earlier one was enough and children have to make do with daycare instead of a dedicated caregiver.
I dont believe its a good thing. While I support women having careers salaries shoud be high enough to raise a family so that both parents dont have to work - one either the mother or the father should be able to stay at home.
I am not conflating outsourcing and offshoring. In this case First outsourcing happens to HCL America. HCL America as an American company may then decide to use whatever workforce they have onsite or offshore to fulfill the outsourced function. Outsourcing automatically doesnt mean offshoring. Also very few functions are moved completely offshore. There are always people onsite. These are the people who have to take knowledge transfer (this is not training. They already know the tech. They need to know the particular configuration the tech has been put in at the present installation). These folks in turn may or may not work with offshore teams. These folks are already in the US on visas for previous projects and moving to a new project.
Further many things which should be allowed under B1 like KT have come under fire in recent years so companies have started getting H1s for people who will be on site for short periods. The correct visa the H3 (training visa) is hardly ever used and companies just go for B1 or H1.
I think your point on communication is important but its not the language. People working in software speak English. Its the empathy. To work well with offshore you have to have worked offshore and know the work culture. Send fresh American grads for a year of internship offshore and then they would be able to work well as onsite reps.
CEOs justify their huge salaries saying that their decisions have multi-million dollar affects on a company. Well in this case the CEO gave up a 740 million deal and has to settle for a 40 million dollar deal so he lost 700 million for the company. The employees should sue him in a personal capacity for everything's hes got.
Actually Indian politicians have sold out to the west and are doing a lot about global warming. However India should not be fighting Global Warming. A hotter world means a better monsoon and more rains in India. India is water deficient a problem Global Warming could fix. Instead of Solar India should be putting in clean coal plants(clean as in the only emissions are CO2)
Night time load is lower than day time load in a hot country where the major load is airconditioning. Solar provides the peak load electircity when its needed.
India already has a national grid of HVDC lines which link the 4 regional grids together. There just need to be more lines added as more plants are brought online
After 18 years on Slashdot I am not hurting for Karma. Let them troll . Let them troll....
If I was looking for a really disastrous Politician to compare with I would not choose Stalin, Pol Pot or Hitler. Raegan and Bill Clinton were bad enough for the country. One with his trickle down economics (wear adult diapers for gods sake grandpa) and the other with his crackdown on crime and his war mongering around the world (sanctions on Iraqi vaccines anyone?)
America is a democracy where the last Democratically elected President has been totally hamstrung by a Parliament and not been able to do anything of note (Hitler's slogan was a Govt which actually does something). It is also a very Angry country which has lost a lot of jobs due to automation and is looking for a scapegoat (foreigners, immigrants whatever). People are hurting and find it difficult to believe this is the new normal and you need to get a college education to have a middle class life now. So they are vulnerable to anyone who promises them a quick fix at the cost of the other. I find lot of similarities with Weimar Germany.
I would choose a communist over a fascist any day. Communism is inefficient and eventually goes bankrupt so you get a chance to replace it. Fascism which is basically rule by big businessmen doing crony capitalism can last forever as the rich keep getting richer and poor keep getting poorer. It is far more difficult to escape fascism and needs a war or some other disaster to get out. BTW Cuba's human development indicators improved vastly under Castro. Education and healthcare access improved . They may not have the newest cars but people dont avoid going to the doctor because they dont have insurance in Cuba. Depends whats more important to you.
Did the Disney employees apply for the job at TCS? No. So TCS can say noone applied for the job so they had to use H1Bs. In any case most H1Bs are not brought in during a full replacement project. The senior folks are already in the US working at other clients. Hence their H1 application is not linked to the Disney deal. They are employees of TCS and not Disney. TCS may have hundreds of projects and for many of them there will be no local candidates. Once the H1B are working in the US TCS as a company has every right to transfer them from project to project even if the project is a vendor replacement of an existing department.