I think that your example is missing the response from the question "are some free trade restrictions necessary?". Currently there are multibillion dollar companies because these corporations are able to act without consequence in most cases because of the limited liability. The sleezy actions you described that corporation could use to bully the little guy would be much riskier actions there was a serious threat of imprisonment for executives and stockholders of that company. As it currently stands, a guy gets 10 years for selling crack to a handfull of people because he is personally responsible. The executives at Enron get a slap on the wrist for fucking millions of investors, employees, and the state of California with price gauging because they're part of a multibillion dollar company with no personal liability.
I was reading wired and they were talking about how after people leave their jobs after being interviewed in Wired. Barry Diller left Vivendi right after he was interviewed, and some other that I can remember because I left the issue at home. This was in the letters to the editor section for anyone that has a copy. One of the editors guessed that since Linus was getting interviewed in this months article, he was going to leave. He said something to the point of " anyone looking for a decent Unix programmer" in reference to Linus. Somebody should have the damn article.
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Is this what you call a troll or whatever? I'm a COBOL programmer and I'm 25. I'm not sure where everyone gets this idea that young people have no lives and can work +60 hours a week. I got concerts to go to, ass kicking to attend to in jiu-jitsu class, beach parties to enjoy, and lots of bars to blow my money at. Most people on this site forget that there is another world outside of programming and Slashdot. Yeah I know heresy! Whatever this will either not get read or fall on deaf ears.
Trends like this help weed out the crappy workers who leech off of a booming industry like IT. Competition fuels innovation, plus the more America outsources it's menial labor, we will be able to put the saved capitol into R&D. Sooner or later Indians, Asians, and Latin Americans will get of being the world's janitor. Then they will have the equavalent of the labor riots America had in and around the turn of the 20th century. Maybe one day all countries will be on a level playing field, and then we really get to see who's smarter than who.
I received a bobble-head of our chief investment strategist a year back. I don't have a picture but I do have a link to the guy and the commentary of Dr. Bob Froehlich. Maybe it's the new trend in corporate ego.
In college my school had a deal with IBM to teach Mainframe skills to students from developing countries. IBM sells all of there old obsolete systems to developing nations at discount prices. Somebody has to program them, so they send students to Northern Illinios, and they learn the mainframe. Contrary to what people believe, stuff like COBOL and JCL are still taught. It's boring but it pays the bills.
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I think that your example is missing the response from the question "are some free trade restrictions necessary?". Currently there are multibillion dollar companies because these corporations are able to act without consequence in most cases because of the limited liability. The sleezy actions you described that corporation could use to bully the little guy would be much riskier actions there was a serious threat of imprisonment for executives and stockholders of that company. As it currently stands, a guy gets 10 years for selling crack to a handfull of people because he is personally responsible. The executives at Enron get a slap on the wrist for fucking millions of investors, employees, and the state of California with price gauging because they're part of a multibillion dollar company with no personal liability.
I was reading wired and they were talking about how after people leave their jobs after being interviewed in Wired. Barry Diller left Vivendi right after he was interviewed, and some other that I can remember because I left the issue at home. This was in the letters to the editor section for anyone that has a copy. One of the editors guessed that since Linus was getting interviewed in this months article, he was going to leave. He said something to the point of " anyone looking for a decent Unix programmer" in reference to Linus. Somebody should have the damn article.
Is this what you call a troll or whatever? I'm a COBOL programmer and I'm 25. I'm not sure where everyone gets this idea that young people have no lives and can work +60 hours a week. I got concerts to go to, ass kicking to attend to in jiu-jitsu class, beach parties to enjoy, and lots of bars to blow my money at. Most people on this site forget that there is another world outside of programming and Slashdot. Yeah I know heresy! Whatever this will either not get read or fall on deaf ears.
Trends like this help weed out the crappy workers who leech off of a booming industry like IT. Competition fuels innovation, plus the more America outsources it's menial labor, we will be able to put the saved capitol into R&D. Sooner or later Indians, Asians, and Latin Americans will get of being the world's janitor. Then they will have the equavalent of the labor riots America had in and around the turn of the 20th century. Maybe one day all countries will be on a level playing field, and then we really get to see who's smarter than who.
I received a bobble-head of our chief investment strategist a year back. I don't have a picture but I do have a link to the guy and the commentary of Dr. Bob Froehlich. Maybe it's the new trend in corporate ego.
In college my school had a deal with IBM to teach Mainframe skills to students from developing countries. IBM sells all of there old obsolete systems to developing nations at discount prices. Somebody has to program them, so they send students to Northern Illinios, and they learn the mainframe. Contrary to what people believe, stuff like COBOL and JCL are still taught. It's boring but it pays the bills.
Thanks for the heads up, I'm in the market for a new job.