I've been watching politics since I was about 12. Trump, despite being a repugnant individual, has been the only one to have the balls to touch trade or H1B and other immigration issues ever. At this point, it would take a LOT for me not to vote for him again, if nothing else I'd do it just to watch all the news media and far left burst into tears again, and I'm not even a right-winger: just a fan of karma. I don't give a fuck how much pussy he's grabbed if he can keep out the foreigner flood. I've had enough of this shit, already.
I agree. I'm done upgrading Windows. I'll use Win7 and all my GOG games till the end of time. I already have more games than I'll every be able to play. However, the level of spying-asshole-acceptance I've got to reach in order to "upgrade" to Windows 10 is just too high. I'll check out realtime raytracing when it hits the PS5 or whatever... or not. Gameplay always trumps graphics anyway. If I need a real OS, I've got BSD. No EULA required.
Where are the weaponized exploits that were going to sweep the internet and the zillion-unpatched-windows hordes? *YAWN* Again, I've gotta kick the news habit. What a hyperventilating waste of time this has been watching IT news and vendors nearly faint.
The risk of being surveilled, robbed, and redirected is too high. You want maps? Learn to fucking read one. You want chat, do that after you park your fucking car. Anyone who cares about freedom or privacy shouldn't own a smartphone. I use a phone that doesn't have have a TCP/IP stack and all it can do is text and call. Even that is too much since the phone company can and does track your position. Fuck a smartphone. I don't care what convenient features it has. I'm glad all these children have smartphones though. It means they will never be any threat to my job. Nobody who grows up addicted to one will learn to code or be any good with real computing. The smartphone fucking ruins their little mind before it ever had a chance. Too bad there isn't a job for Angry Birds or Weechat champions, eh kids?
Companies stopped doing W@H since hiring Indians was a cheaper alternative and they figured "remote is remote" as if there is no difference between one tech worker and another. So what if they don't know your language, aren't awake when you need to talk to them, or have shit-standard skills. Bean counting business suit weasels don't care. They'll just pound the table to get "less with more" from the folks left behind.
I never said "stop trading". Ever. I'm saying stop trading with cheaters, liars, and bullies. Your patronizing trade explanations completely ignore things like subsidies. If China decides they want to dominate the world in the manufacture of carbon fiber they subsidize it with direct government funding. So, to put it in your terms, what costs $100 to make costs $50 as a finished product. The government just eats the $50 loss in the hope that dumping the product in the West will destroy the manufacture of carbon fiber everywhere else. Once everyone else is out of business, they can charge whatever they want and the free-traders will say "Oh we can't mess with trade or how else can we get carbon fiber!?" That's why I said there is no such thing as free trade. There is always some cheating factor which blows up the Adam Smith laissez faire free trader fantasy. Our government does it, too (farm subsidies that destroy small farmers in our trading partner countries - this is well documented). If "free trade" isn't closely watched at the border, your partners can abuse the arrangement to their benefit and your loss. That's what's happened to the USA, and politicians that took graft from the corporations to do it (and their rich puppeteers) need some guillotine fear to straighten that out. They are too comfy having their media outlets that "globalism is impossible to stop." Bullshit.
Well, at least you didn't say "job training". Your oversimplified A,B,C model at least shows some engagement with reality. I have some ideas for solutions, too. How about we absolutely refuse to trade with any country that won't agree to an all-new policy of reciprocity? That still leaves quite a few partners who we can trade with in good faith. Even if it's not dirt-cheap-China, trade continues. I have another idea, let's prosecute the living dogshit out of anyone who participates in shipping trade secrets or classified info to China. Hand out a few 1000 year jail sentences on prime time TV while the other globalists watch in horror (or hang them from lightposts like the French did). Withdraw completely from the WTO (and all UN-based trade treaty's as well) and announce that trading partners will be expected to obey US trade policy or just get the fuck out of the market. Renegotiate NAFTA or bail out. Stringently enforce existing customs laws and policy and been up the enforcement. It's funny how compliant rich assholes can become when you roll out the guillotines or any type of threat. However, nobody is ever going to remind these leeches that we are a country "of the people" unless the people themselves grow the balls to do what's needed. Alas, balls are in short supply these days.
Well, nearly every mainstream economist in the 1920's said the good times would last forever and that it was "a new normal". Economists are the single most full-of-shit professional fortune-tellers there are, and history pretty well bears that out. Their predictions suck and their prescriptions rarely help. If you could plan out an economy for an entire country then the communist polit-bureaus would have taken over the world already. I'm not suggesting to de-automate anything (now or in my original post). I am saying we should restrict trade to countries that offer us trade reciprocity and zero subsidized goods (including from our side). It's overwhelmingly big-agro that gets the subsidies. I'm anti-corporate, and anti-letting-foreigners-sell-us-shit-we-can-and-should-make-ourselves. I'm also saying that companies in the USA that are predicated on foreign labor arbitrage to near-slave-states like China should go out of business. If that happened to Wal Mart you don't think the local grocery store would fire back up? Yeah, the prices would rise, and so would fucking wages for once.
If you take the concept to extremes, then it's easy to make straw-man arguments against a ridiculous premise of your own making. Why not use the example of hiring a new person to pick every kernel of corn separately or fill holes like the other genius suggested? Then your asinine arithmetic questions become even more dramatic, though you've completely altered the scale of the argument.
So, what's your solution? Cede our markets to China and the WTO? Let people dump endlessly subsidized products in *OUR* market? Float some "We are helpless to stand before the globalists because [insert lack of reason here]" bullshit? Some far-fetched fantasy about the government doing job re-training for all the folks who's jobs have been shipped overseas? Claim "It's really automation, not fat cats doing labor arbitrage" and join the lies and the liars? I think you need a job at the UN as an economist. You'd fit right in.
There is no such thing as free trade. The liars that push that narrative are just sock puppets for the rich. They continually try to float the Great Depression as being due to trade wars rather than their casino market games in the 1920's and *still* referring to discredited idiots like Irving Fisher. You ever notice that when the rich tell us through their media puppets that "the USA is the biggest marketplace in the world." they also push this irrational dichotomy that we are powerless to control trade in *our* own fucking backyard. Bullshit. Fuck that. We are anything but powerless and that's what they are afraid of. America has nearly every natural resource and most of the rest of the world is literally dying to trade with us. Trade is currently optimized for rich-asshole profits, not good jobs and high standards of living for everyone. Anyone who says different is willingly or unwilling selling the rich-guy narrative "Oh noes, without trade we'll all get poor. Some Economist article says so, see?" Naval blockade the ships from China and see how fast Wal Mart fails and Joe's Corner Mart starts back up. It's less efficient to have a zillion independent stores versus a few thousand Wal Marts you say? Yes, but it's much more job-intensive. So, only the rich-leeches and lawyer class will howl via their media shills.
I know a number of guys who got a bonus-cat with a relationship. They tend to have accidents far from home. However, in my favorite case, my buddy got blamed for disappearing a worthless misbehaving cat but he pled innocent. He really had no idea what happened to ol' Frisky until one day a fireman came up to the door with an animal control officer. They related that they'd just raided the nest of an owl and found about two dozen cat collars. His wife's cat had been nailed at about 180 MPH from the sky by a big owl and learned she wasn't quite as tough as she was when she was scratching and biting everyone in the household. Talons + beak > domesticated claws + teeth.
I know I'm a bad person for wanting to see the blood, but where are the fireworks?? I mean this is supposed to be the biggest, baddest, least-detectable, most-exploitable thing since rpc.statd and Sendmail! C'MON you Chinese commie pinko robot exploit h0x0xr army! Hit me with everything you got! To quote an old sage, "I'll tell you what you cocksucker. You try to hit me and I will kill you. Don't try to hit me."
Seriously though, has this not been the shit-talker-est set of exploits of the century? Where's the fire folks? In. The. Wild. They are already being reported and they don't seem to be doing 4/5ths of 5/8ths of fuck all. Oh, noes! They are going to dump my ring buffer! Call the president! Holy fuck! If it's that bad then do it through OpenSSH on an OpenBSD host or I call bullshit.
Either way, I'm not going to sit here feeling responsible (I don't have kids, that makes me *much* greener than 90% of the planet, even if they drive a Prius). I'm not a denier. I believe man-made climate change is real. When things suck bad enough, folks just can't be bothered to care. Many of us have more germane issues in our own lives to worry about. If you are making time for the left-wing guilt trip about Gaia/Mother-Earth you probably have too good a life in the first place. I'd like to see you spouting about that shit when you are in my shoes. Get some *real* problems.
Silvergun, my man, I think it might be even worse. Eventually, the rich will fear those thrown-out-of-work for what they are: a threat to their hegemony. I'd guess that a little crispr virus here or there with a $5000 vaccine would filter "their" world and make more lebensraum for the fat cats. I mean, why should all those poor people get to clog up the best surfing beaches? Why should homeless people get in their way on the ride to the downtown arts district? There are so many cheap and easy ways to kill people coming online (thinking drones, genetics, etc..), is someone going to tell me they aren't going to notice and prefer those to the unwashed masses bringing pitched battles in the street in front of their gated community after robots cleanly take over the lower-class jobs? History says people will try to kill you before they let their kids starve. I think the rich know this, too.
Their servers had no lights-out management (at least the ones I tested). Their nicest feature was a brushed metal facade; they made sure to include that. I'm surprised it didn't come with a black turtleneck and a pair of horn-rimed glasses. OSX server is (soon to be "was") a pathetic hybrid that shamelessly bastardized whatever they felt like and sucked more as they went along despite borrowing from their betters FreeBSD, OpenStep, and Mach. They went for years without any real volume management, pimped HFS+ as something worthwhile for years before deigning to release APFS (which still sucks in nearly every way compared to ZFS), conformed to POSIX only when they felt like it, and had very few RAS features that defines server. They said fuck all the proven traditions of Unix, they were Apple, they were going to show us how it's really done and bring a new level of user-friendliness to systems administration.
The whole thing is ending as it began, as the IT weaklings at Apple learn that same lesson Jobs himself forgot: "Those who do not learn from Unix are doomed to re-invent it... poorly." Apple is trying to make sure they learn the hard way.
Also, the processor simply doesn't have branch prediction at all. So, I'm pretty damn sure it's immune. However, there aren't countermeasures for Stingray. So, if you are into crime take a page from the mob: don't be a dumbass that does bidness over the phone (or texting). If you don't avoid phones, it's just a matter of time before you are caught.
Uhm, my cell phone doesn't have Wifi or a TCP/IP stack of any kind and has some rinky dink Sharp processor running Symbian. You'll need to go stand at the cell tower if you want try hacking it. Good luck. Oh for computing? I use a fucking computer with a real keyboard that I can type 118 WPM on. Face it phones are for chumps. You ain't writing code on that little turd, you're consuming media.
If they can spy, they will. They've fully monetized the spying. Nobody seems to be able to "just" make something honest anymore. It's made me pathologically distrust every thing made in the last few years. There must be enough folks who just don't care if they are being used like that so that these scammy corporates can keep the system floating.
I don't deny climate change or the man-made CO2 volume. What I deny is that I give a fuck. I might have cared before it became an SJW pet issue and another reason for the far-left to shake their finger in my face. The extremists on both sides made it partisan. The international idea that Americans should compensate the rest of the word for emitting CO2 earlier than them. If my grandparents had a white picket fence and a CO2 monster V8 Corvette, then GOOD. I'm glad they weren't living in fucking mud huts and collecting wives.
He's obviously trolling. I suspect the tone of the thread-starting-post keyed him off to the SJW status of the poster. So, he threw in the "okay to be white" comment as a Scanners-like plot to cause their head to explode. You took the bait and it worked great for him.
However, the point is that racial issues are not coupled with software and programming topics. This idea that any SJW has the right to trample on someone's work or ideas because they disagree with their unrelated ideals as a person isn't acceptable to everyone. People have value systems that weight different issues. That includes how much someone feels like taking up the sword of racial justice versus doing something else that they think is important. Not everyone gives a flying fuck about your cause and they won't acquiesce to trying to couple things they care about to your stupid politics. Put more bluntly: some people don't give a fuck and that's their right.
No. They. Are. Not. The whole reason that specifically Indian firms are the most egregious outsourcers is because they have over 100 dialects and the British decided they'd rather not have to fuck with all that, and forced them to learn English universally. Indian English is an official English dialect and they speak it quite frequently in India, too. If someone from Tamil Urdu met someone from, say Calcutta, it's likely the only language they have in common is English. So, if you had chosen places where there is six years of English as a second language were taught (ESL) then I might take your statement seriously. That's not the case in Vietnam. Now, in the Philippines the problem is less about spoken language and more about the fact that they have 1/12th of India's population and per-capita have fewer IT workers than India. So, it's not just a simple race to the bottom like making shirts. There is a lot more to it, and making it a lot more difficult actually does dissuade IT managers and suit-weasels looking to sell us out from wanting to screw with the offshoring process.
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I've been watching politics since I was about 12. Trump, despite being a repugnant individual, has been the only one to have the balls to touch trade or H1B and other immigration issues ever. At this point, it would take a LOT for me not to vote for him again, if nothing else I'd do it just to watch all the news media and far left burst into tears again, and I'm not even a right-winger: just a fan of karma. I don't give a fuck how much pussy he's grabbed if he can keep out the foreigner flood. I've had enough of this shit, already.
There ya go... Okay, Alexa and Siri. Now name famous men in nursing. Whoops! Times up!
I agree. I'm done upgrading Windows. I'll use Win7 and all my GOG games till the end of time. I already have more games than I'll every be able to play. However, the level of spying-asshole-acceptance I've got to reach in order to "upgrade" to Windows 10 is just too high. I'll check out realtime raytracing when it hits the PS5 or whatever... or not. Gameplay always trumps graphics anyway. If I need a real OS, I've got BSD. No EULA required.
Where are the weaponized exploits that were going to sweep the internet and the zillion-unpatched-windows hordes? *YAWN* Again, I've gotta kick the news habit. What a hyperventilating waste of time this has been watching IT news and vendors nearly faint.
The risk of being surveilled, robbed, and redirected is too high. You want maps? Learn to fucking read one. You want chat, do that after you park your fucking car. Anyone who cares about freedom or privacy shouldn't own a smartphone. I use a phone that doesn't have have a TCP/IP stack and all it can do is text and call. Even that is too much since the phone company can and does track your position. Fuck a smartphone. I don't care what convenient features it has. I'm glad all these children have smartphones though. It means they will never be any threat to my job. Nobody who grows up addicted to one will learn to code or be any good with real computing. The smartphone fucking ruins their little mind before it ever had a chance. Too bad there isn't a job for Angry Birds or Weechat champions, eh kids?
Companies stopped doing W@H since hiring Indians was a cheaper alternative and they figured "remote is remote" as if there is no difference between one tech worker and another. So what if they don't know your language, aren't awake when you need to talk to them, or have shit-standard skills. Bean counting business suit weasels don't care. They'll just pound the table to get "less with more" from the folks left behind.
They'd thwang off the side of the compression tubes. That'd learn 'em. Maybe that was the plan?
I never said "stop trading". Ever. I'm saying stop trading with cheaters, liars, and bullies. Your patronizing trade explanations completely ignore things like subsidies. If China decides they want to dominate the world in the manufacture of carbon fiber they subsidize it with direct government funding. So, to put it in your terms, what costs $100 to make costs $50 as a finished product. The government just eats the $50 loss in the hope that dumping the product in the West will destroy the manufacture of carbon fiber everywhere else. Once everyone else is out of business, they can charge whatever they want and the free-traders will say "Oh we can't mess with trade or how else can we get carbon fiber!?" That's why I said there is no such thing as free trade. There is always some cheating factor which blows up the Adam Smith laissez faire free trader fantasy. Our government does it, too (farm subsidies that destroy small farmers in our trading partner countries - this is well documented). If "free trade" isn't closely watched at the border, your partners can abuse the arrangement to their benefit and your loss. That's what's happened to the USA, and politicians that took graft from the corporations to do it (and their rich puppeteers) need some guillotine fear to straighten that out. They are too comfy having their media outlets that "globalism is impossible to stop." Bullshit.
Well, at least you didn't say "job training". Your oversimplified A,B,C model at least shows some engagement with reality. I have some ideas for solutions, too. How about we absolutely refuse to trade with any country that won't agree to an all-new policy of reciprocity? That still leaves quite a few partners who we can trade with in good faith. Even if it's not dirt-cheap-China, trade continues. I have another idea, let's prosecute the living dogshit out of anyone who participates in shipping trade secrets or classified info to China. Hand out a few 1000 year jail sentences on prime time TV while the other globalists watch in horror (or hang them from lightposts like the French did). Withdraw completely from the WTO (and all UN-based trade treaty's as well) and announce that trading partners will be expected to obey US trade policy or just get the fuck out of the market. Renegotiate NAFTA or bail out. Stringently enforce existing customs laws and policy and been up the enforcement. It's funny how compliant rich assholes can become when you roll out the guillotines or any type of threat. However, nobody is ever going to remind these leeches that we are a country "of the people" unless the people themselves grow the balls to do what's needed. Alas, balls are in short supply these days.
Well, nearly every mainstream economist in the 1920's said the good times would last forever and that it was "a new normal". Economists are the single most full-of-shit professional fortune-tellers there are, and history pretty well bears that out. Their predictions suck and their prescriptions rarely help. If you could plan out an economy for an entire country then the communist polit-bureaus would have taken over the world already. I'm not suggesting to de-automate anything (now or in my original post). I am saying we should restrict trade to countries that offer us trade reciprocity and zero subsidized goods (including from our side). It's overwhelmingly big-agro that gets the subsidies. I'm anti-corporate, and anti-letting-foreigners-sell-us-shit-we-can-and-should-make-ourselves. I'm also saying that companies in the USA that are predicated on foreign labor arbitrage to near-slave-states like China should go out of business. If that happened to Wal Mart you don't think the local grocery store would fire back up? Yeah, the prices would rise, and so would fucking wages for once.
If you take the concept to extremes, then it's easy to make straw-man arguments against a ridiculous premise of your own making. Why not use the example of hiring a new person to pick every kernel of corn separately or fill holes like the other genius suggested? Then your asinine arithmetic questions become even more dramatic, though you've completely altered the scale of the argument.
So, what's your solution? Cede our markets to China and the WTO? Let people dump endlessly subsidized products in *OUR* market? Float some "We are helpless to stand before the globalists because [insert lack of reason here]" bullshit? Some far-fetched fantasy about the government doing job re-training for all the folks who's jobs have been shipped overseas? Claim "It's really automation, not fat cats doing labor arbitrage" and join the lies and the liars? I think you need a job at the UN as an economist. You'd fit right in.
There is no such thing as free trade. The liars that push that narrative are just sock puppets for the rich. They continually try to float the Great Depression as being due to trade wars rather than their casino market games in the 1920's and *still* referring to discredited idiots like Irving Fisher. You ever notice that when the rich tell us through their media puppets that "the USA is the biggest marketplace in the world." they also push this irrational dichotomy that we are powerless to control trade in *our* own fucking backyard. Bullshit. Fuck that. We are anything but powerless and that's what they are afraid of. America has nearly every natural resource and most of the rest of the world is literally dying to trade with us. Trade is currently optimized for rich-asshole profits, not good jobs and high standards of living for everyone. Anyone who says different is willingly or unwilling selling the rich-guy narrative "Oh noes, without trade we'll all get poor. Some Economist article says so, see?" Naval blockade the ships from China and see how fast Wal Mart fails and Joe's Corner Mart starts back up. It's less efficient to have a zillion independent stores versus a few thousand Wal Marts you say? Yes, but it's much more job-intensive. So, only the rich-leeches and lawyer class will howl via their media shills.
I know a number of guys who got a bonus-cat with a relationship. They tend to have accidents far from home. However, in my favorite case, my buddy got blamed for disappearing a worthless misbehaving cat but he pled innocent. He really had no idea what happened to ol' Frisky until one day a fireman came up to the door with an animal control officer. They related that they'd just raided the nest of an owl and found about two dozen cat collars. His wife's cat had been nailed at about 180 MPH from the sky by a big owl and learned she wasn't quite as tough as she was when she was scratching and biting everyone in the household. Talons + beak > domesticated claws + teeth.
I know I'm a bad person for wanting to see the blood, but where are the fireworks?? I mean this is supposed to be the biggest, baddest, least-detectable, most-exploitable thing since rpc.statd and Sendmail! C'MON you Chinese commie pinko robot exploit h0x0xr army! Hit me with everything you got! To quote an old sage, "I'll tell you what you cocksucker. You try to hit me and I will kill you. Don't try to hit me."
Seriously though, has this not been the shit-talker-est set of exploits of the century? Where's the fire folks? In. The. Wild. They are already being reported and they don't seem to be doing 4/5ths of 5/8ths of fuck all. Oh, noes! They are going to dump my ring buffer! Call the president! Holy fuck! If it's that bad then do it through OpenSSH on an OpenBSD host or I call bullshit.
Either way, I'm not going to sit here feeling responsible (I don't have kids, that makes me *much* greener than 90% of the planet, even if they drive a Prius). I'm not a denier. I believe man-made climate change is real. When things suck bad enough, folks just can't be bothered to care. Many of us have more germane issues in our own lives to worry about. If you are making time for the left-wing guilt trip about Gaia/Mother-Earth you probably have too good a life in the first place. I'd like to see you spouting about that shit when you are in my shoes. Get some *real* problems.
Silvergun, my man, I think it might be even worse. Eventually, the rich will fear those thrown-out-of-work for what they are: a threat to their hegemony. I'd guess that a little crispr virus here or there with a $5000 vaccine would filter "their" world and make more lebensraum for the fat cats. I mean, why should all those poor people get to clog up the best surfing beaches? Why should homeless people get in their way on the ride to the downtown arts district? There are so many cheap and easy ways to kill people coming online (thinking drones, genetics, etc..), is someone going to tell me they aren't going to notice and prefer those to the unwashed masses bringing pitched battles in the street in front of their gated community after robots cleanly take over the lower-class jobs? History says people will try to kill you before they let their kids starve. I think the rich know this, too.
Their servers had no lights-out management (at least the ones I tested). Their nicest feature was a brushed metal facade; they made sure to include that. I'm surprised it didn't come with a black turtleneck and a pair of horn-rimed glasses. OSX server is (soon to be "was") a pathetic hybrid that shamelessly bastardized whatever they felt like and sucked more as they went along despite borrowing from their betters FreeBSD, OpenStep, and Mach. They went for years without any real volume management, pimped HFS+ as something worthwhile for years before deigning to release APFS (which still sucks in nearly every way compared to ZFS), conformed to POSIX only when they felt like it, and had very few RAS features that defines server. They said fuck all the proven traditions of Unix, they were Apple, they were going to show us how it's really done and bring a new level of user-friendliness to systems administration.
... poorly." Apple is trying to make sure they learn the hard way.
The whole thing is ending as it began, as the IT weaklings at Apple learn that same lesson Jobs himself forgot: "Those who do not learn from Unix are doomed to re-invent it
Also, the processor simply doesn't have branch prediction at all. So, I'm pretty damn sure it's immune. However, there aren't countermeasures for Stingray. So, if you are into crime take a page from the mob: don't be a dumbass that does bidness over the phone (or texting). If you don't avoid phones, it's just a matter of time before you are caught.
Uhm, my cell phone doesn't have Wifi or a TCP/IP stack of any kind and has some rinky dink Sharp processor running Symbian. You'll need to go stand at the cell tower if you want try hacking it. Good luck. Oh for computing? I use a fucking computer with a real keyboard that I can type 118 WPM on. Face it phones are for chumps. You ain't writing code on that little turd, you're consuming media.
If they can spy, they will. They've fully monetized the spying. Nobody seems to be able to "just" make something honest anymore. It's made me pathologically distrust every thing made in the last few years. There must be enough folks who just don't care if they are being used like that so that these scammy corporates can keep the system floating.
I don't deny climate change or the man-made CO2 volume. What I deny is that I give a fuck. I might have cared before it became an SJW pet issue and another reason for the far-left to shake their finger in my face. The extremists on both sides made it partisan. The international idea that Americans should compensate the rest of the word for emitting CO2 earlier than them. If my grandparents had a white picket fence and a CO2 monster V8 Corvette, then GOOD. I'm glad they weren't living in fucking mud huts and collecting wives.
He's obviously trolling. I suspect the tone of the thread-starting-post keyed him off to the SJW status of the poster. So, he threw in the "okay to be white" comment as a Scanners-like plot to cause their head to explode. You took the bait and it worked great for him.
However, the point is that racial issues are not coupled with software and programming topics. This idea that any SJW has the right to trample on someone's work or ideas because they disagree with their unrelated ideals as a person isn't acceptable to everyone. People have value systems that weight different issues. That includes how much someone feels like taking up the sword of racial justice versus doing something else that they think is important. Not everyone gives a flying fuck about your cause and they won't acquiesce to trying to couple things they care about to your stupid politics. Put more bluntly: some people don't give a fuck and that's their right.
Maybe he meant more Java and PHP "hackers". If so, I can live with that.
No. They. Are. Not. The whole reason that specifically Indian firms are the most egregious outsourcers is because they have over 100 dialects and the British decided they'd rather not have to fuck with all that, and forced them to learn English universally. Indian English is an official English dialect and they speak it quite frequently in India, too. If someone from Tamil Urdu met someone from, say Calcutta, it's likely the only language they have in common is English. So, if you had chosen places where there is six years of English as a second language were taught (ESL) then I might take your statement seriously. That's not the case in Vietnam. Now, in the Philippines the problem is less about spoken language and more about the fact that they have 1/12th of India's population and per-capita have fewer IT workers than India. So, it's not just a simple race to the bottom like making shirts. There is a lot more to it, and making it a lot more difficult actually does dissuade IT managers and suit-weasels looking to sell us out from wanting to screw with the offshoring process.
Dear Trump. I'm not tired of winning yet. Please send another million or so Indians packing. Then we can talk.