offshoring costs you 1/4 the money, and you get 1/2 the performance.
that means, you are getting twice the efficiency.
in a few years, these 'noobs' in Mumbai will have experience and it wont take them twice as long to do the work.
their cost of living is not going to magically increase by 50%, but their productivity just might increase that much with experience. especially for niche crap like 'design a custom joomla extension for me'.
its already happening on sites like freelancer.com
look at all these people whose livelihoods depends on the defense-industrial-natl'security complex.
do you expect any of them to have a reasonable, disinterested attitude when it comes to analyzing this question?
when such a large percentage of society is corrupted by the corrupt system, then real change becomes very difficult. the body of people receiving the largesse of the greed and corruption (the nomenklatura) will continue to support it, regardless of all evidence and facts, while the people suffering under it will continue to get ridiculed and called morons. (or, if they attempt to exercise their constitutional rights to free association and speech, be beaten and gassed and shot in the head with teargas canisters)
a certain ideology or a certain model of the world that may or may not actually resemble reality.
if the '21st century' wants to abandon the '19th century' notions like, say, empiricism, and the scientific method, (which actually go back hundreds of years BC) then i think the 21st century may be the last century.
in iraq, in afghanistan, in the BP oil spill, in Katrina, in the Texas refinery explosions, in the West Virginia coal mine explosion,... i can see "useful" and "saving lives" right around the corner with all this "training" and "education" we give "the warfighter" and our "men and women in uniform".
gimmicks, it should be spending it on something that provides actual value to someone, somewhere, hopefully that the private economy isn't producing. it would be like if the government decided to start manufacturing bottled water. 1. nobody needs any more bottled water, the shelves are overflowing with it 2. its a pointless, idiotic product in the first place, and 3. its a complete waste of taxpayer dollars. wasting money is not the same thing as stimulating the economy.
this is very similar to the conversation that marketing people have at Dell and Best Buy when figuring out what sort of useless garbage they can load on PCs they are selling to people.
if federal agents have the responsibility of frisking babies at the entrace to a sporting event, im wondering how it is not their responsibility, in some level, to make sure the interstate-highway system, which was a federal project, and funded with federal money, is safe.
in every way that bradley manning did. i hope you don't receive life in prison. if they strip you naked in prison, look up this organization in the phonebook: "ACLU".
since real meat and fake meat are interchangable, manufacturers will use whichever 'supply stream' is cheapest, based on the current world market prices... which will be set at places like NYMEX and ICE.
Then Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan will be able to hoard and manipulate prices. If you were able to find out which 'supply stream' went into your 'protein product' this would screw everything up, as it would remove the illusory 'fungibility' of the commodity.
the major 'protein retailers' like McDonalds would simply mix it all together, much like they now mix beef from several different continents together to get a single patty.
1. the soviets knew they could never compete with US on conventional force levels 2. the soviets decided that ICBMs would be the only way to counter a US threat 3. Korolev managed to pack a lot of sciency hippie carl-sagan type shit in under their noses 4. Eisenhower had almost no interest in the exploration of space.
so in essence, the soviets 'started it' to compete with our conventional forces. why did the soviets do that? well there was this gigantic asshole called Karl Marx...
indeed. bill gates pulled him self up by his boot straps, worked 5 jobs through his public school education, went to a land grand university, and was lucky enough to sell enough copies of BASIC out of the back of computer magazines, before he and his friend Steve Ballmer were able to create the first IBM computer, running Windows. Then Steve Jobs, with his liberal hippie turtleneck, got poor Bill to smoke a "joint" and then stole his ideas while Bill was passed out on the couch. Then President Clinton forced Microsoft to sell Apple products and sell subprime mortgages. This really pisses me off, that people think the government was involved in creating computers and the internet. It was all Bill, and his creations were stolen by the same kind of latte sipping, unemployed lazy hippies who are Occupying Wallstreet or whatever it is they call it.
what these fucking morons forget is that the only ONLY ONLY reason we went into space was because the Soviet Union did. the ONLY reason we went to the moon was to beat the Soviet Union.
there hasn't been a Soviet Union in 20 years. there is not going to be another space program.
it would be worse than ever. they would be finding 'scientific research' that proved cocaine was good for you, and then make money investing in for-profit addiction treatment clinics, selling 'addiction recovery bonds' to investors, etc etc etc.
thats basically what they have done with fat and sugar... make delivery as efficient as possible and profit from the problems it causes (obesity etc).
not that im all against it. but it should heavily regulated.
the drug cartels have infiltrated the local police, the federal police, the media, and the politicians. the mexican authorities arent going to 'launch war' against their own agents.
as for the US authorities... i just... they are utterly incompetent. you have to realize the guys we are supporting in afghanistan "against the taliban" are drug lords (the taliban are also drug lords).
we are basically propping up the same guys we want to kill in mexico, its called 'realpolitik'. in other words, nobody cares if a bunch of bloggers get beheaded as long as the 'larger US strategic interests' are protected.
for Mexico, that means cheap labor in mequilladoras (for products we can ship) and cheap immigrant labor (for labor that has to be done on site).
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would love to hear more about your story.
we have seen inside chryslers situation a little bit.. thanks to 'extreme programming'
offshoring costs you 1/4 the money, and you get 1/2 the performance.
that means, you are getting twice the efficiency.
in a few years, these 'noobs' in Mumbai will have experience and it wont take them twice as long to do the work.
their cost of living is not going to magically increase by 50%, but their productivity just might increase that much with experience. especially for niche crap like 'design a custom joomla extension for me'.
its already happening on sites like freelancer.com
yup. sounds about right.
look at all these people whose livelihoods depends on the defense-industrial-natl'security complex.
do you expect any of them to have a reasonable, disinterested attitude when it comes to analyzing this question?
when such a large percentage of society is corrupted by the corrupt system, then real change becomes very difficult. the body of people receiving the largesse of the greed and corruption (the nomenklatura) will continue to support it, regardless of all evidence and facts, while the people suffering under it will continue to get ridiculed and called morons. (or, if they attempt to exercise their constitutional rights to free association and speech, be beaten and gassed and shot in the head with teargas canisters)
a certain ideology or a certain model of the world that may or may not actually resemble reality.
if the '21st century' wants to abandon the '19th century' notions like, say, empiricism, and the scientific method, (which actually go back hundreds of years BC) then i think the 21st century may be the last century.
in iraq, in afghanistan, in the BP oil spill, in Katrina, in the Texas refinery explosions, in the West Virginia coal mine explosion, ... i can see "useful" and "saving lives" right around the corner with all this "training" and "education" we give "the warfighter" and our "men and women in uniform".
gimmicks, it should be spending it on something that provides actual value to someone, somewhere, hopefully that the private economy isn't producing. it would be like if the government decided to start manufacturing bottled water. 1. nobody needs any more bottled water, the shelves are overflowing with it 2. its a pointless, idiotic product in the first place, and 3. its a complete waste of taxpayer dollars. wasting money is not the same thing as stimulating the economy.
because , as far as our government is concerned, the drone program doesnt even exist?
or are you dealing in CLASSIFIED material here? oh, then, expect a knock from the FBI to take you away any day now
the penguin king demands it, justin!
this is very similar to the conversation that marketing people have at Dell and Best Buy when figuring out what sort of useless garbage they can load on PCs they are selling to people.
and people have died.
if federal agents have the responsibility of frisking babies at the entrace to a sporting event, im wondering how it is not their responsibility, in some level, to make sure the interstate-highway system, which was a federal project, and funded with federal money, is safe.
awesome
then you would understand what im talking about.
i like your comment best.
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in every way that bradley manning did. i hope you don't receive life in prison. if they strip you naked in prison, look up this organization in the phonebook: "ACLU".
since real meat and fake meat are interchangable, manufacturers will use whichever 'supply stream' is cheapest, based on the current world market prices... which will be set at places like NYMEX and ICE.
Then Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan will be able to hoard and manipulate prices. If you were able to find out which 'supply stream' went into your 'protein product' this would screw everything up, as it would remove the illusory 'fungibility' of the commodity.
the major 'protein retailers' like McDonalds would simply mix it all together, much like they now mix beef from several different continents together to get a single patty.
the book i read described it as follows.
1. the soviets knew they could never compete with US on conventional force levels
2. the soviets decided that ICBMs would be the only way to counter a US threat
3. Korolev managed to pack a lot of sciency hippie carl-sagan type shit in under their noses
4. Eisenhower had almost no interest in the exploration of space.
so in essence, the soviets 'started it' to compete with our conventional forces.
why did the soviets do that? well there was this gigantic asshole called Karl Marx...
indeed. bill gates pulled him self up by his boot straps, worked 5 jobs through his public school education, went to a land grand university, and was lucky enough to sell enough copies of BASIC out of the back of computer magazines, before he and his friend Steve Ballmer were able to create the first IBM computer, running Windows. Then Steve Jobs, with his liberal hippie turtleneck, got poor Bill to smoke a "joint" and then stole his ideas while Bill was passed out on the couch. Then President Clinton forced Microsoft to sell Apple products and sell subprime mortgages. This really pisses me off, that people think the government was involved in creating computers and the internet. It was all Bill, and his creations were stolen by the same kind of latte sipping, unemployed lazy hippies who are Occupying Wallstreet or whatever it is they call it.
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what these fucking morons forget is that the only ONLY ONLY reason we went into space was because the Soviet Union did.
the ONLY reason we went to the moon was to beat the Soviet Union.
there hasn't been a Soviet Union in 20 years. there is not going to be another space program.
it would be worse than ever. they would be finding 'scientific research' that proved cocaine was good for you, and then make money investing in for-profit addiction treatment clinics, selling 'addiction recovery bonds' to investors, etc etc etc.
thats basically what they have done with fat and sugar... make delivery as efficient as possible and profit from the problems it causes (obesity etc).
not that im all against it. but it should heavily regulated.
the drug cartels have infiltrated the local police, the federal police, the media, and the politicians. the mexican authorities arent going to 'launch war' against their own agents.
as for the US authorities... i just... they are utterly incompetent. you have to realize the guys we are supporting in afghanistan "against the taliban" are drug lords (the taliban are also drug lords).
we are basically propping up the same guys we want to kill in mexico, its called 'realpolitik'. in other words, nobody cares if a bunch of bloggers get beheaded as long as the 'larger US strategic interests' are protected.
for Mexico, that means cheap labor in mequilladoras (for products we can ship) and cheap immigrant labor (for labor that has to be done on site).
do it to slow you get a less-powerful, incredibly dangerous radioactive criticality event
do it fast enough, you get a big boom
it was so simple, they didnt even need to test one before they dropped it on hiroshima.
the 'gadget' test at trinity was only of the plutonium implosion system, and that was only because they were a little short on uranium.
the problem has never been design. the problem has been scraping together enough enriched uranium.
and you will understand why Germans have a stick up their ass about this sort of thing.