Re:Jobs is like General MacArthur, "I" vs "We" ...
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Outstanding post on MacArthur!!!
My great-uncle also survived the Bataan Death March (aviator/officer type) and had a very unfavorable opinion of MacArthur - as did many, many others - contrary to popular opinion.
MacArthur ignored the intel that the Japanese forces were massing for an invasion of the P.I., just as he ignored the intel that warned of the Chinese massing to cross the Yalu in Korea.
I've no problem understanding his being the cousin to that other MacArthur (and crooked bastard - selling phony insurance policies during the Great Depression) who founded the MacArthur Foundation....
Thanks for the backup - but I've no doubt "squared up circle" dude really believes Bush took his very own SAT test and didn't hire someone to take it for him, a common activity among Yalie legacy types who will be getting in regardless of their scores.
What scares us more...that Bush is just a puppet and someone or some group is actually running things...or that Bush is the one actually "running" things????? Holy Mother of God!!!!
Gee, there's a s**tload of corporations - from small to mega-multinational that haven't got your message yet. And the Parent post is correctly reading the loophole Bush put into his Guestworker bill - which was shot down, thank goodness...
The ant is unaware of the larger patterns that the human can observe - unfortunately, too few humans can observe the ever more complex patterns. You remind me of the dullard corporate attorney I once ran into that didn't know the SEC used to publish a Directory of Interlocking Directorships (during the period we met).
Actually, that same sort of description (sans the exact percentage) could be used with regard to the solar output of our sun.
Not a good sign with our sun, and probably not a good sign about future employment - as the majority of next hires will be what it was last year, either IT workers in foreign countries, or foreign IT workers imported to America by the traitorous corps.
Exactly so, Mr. V-dude! Unfortunately, I noted that Senator Boxer (in the neoliberal camp) is pushing for an increase in H-1B quotas, along with every single Republican in Congress, of course!
[Well, as Bush has violated the National Security Act, Treason Act, RICO Act and the War Crimes Act - I would say super-traitor is more the proper term.]
Well..if Negroponte doesn't like it he should just get his death squads after it! Oops...wrong Negroponte...getting him confused with the Bushco's Negroponte in Iraq.
From your linked article: Microsoft Corp. increased its pace of hiring in the past year, adding nearly 4,400 employees worldwide.
And those IT people they article mentioned being hired "in" the Puget Sound area, that would cover the H-1Bs, H-2Bs, H-2Cs, O-1s, L-1s, etc., etc., etc.
Yeah? And I'll bet I know some of the truly technoid geniuses that have been turned down by this typically-incompetent CEO's typically-incompetent Human Resources department.
And they'll end up outsourcing the work to India, sight-unseen (as far as the coders and software architects are concerned)!
Contrary to your dismal opinion, I have a fair amount of knowledge of economics coupled with advanced mathematics; something far too many "professional economists" are lacking.
I repeat, the ITAA, IBM, various and sundry fronts for the neocon movement (such as the Institute for International Economics and its lackeys) have made the outrageous and unsupportable claim that the act of offshoring jobs creates more jobs in the USA. End of discussion.
Congratulations! Build those weapons' systems to kill the innocents (a k a "collateral damage") and feel no remorse about your guilt in the matter. Years ago I had an excellent job offer to do missile telemetry programming - Gee, I guess my combat experience got the better of me and I turned it down as quickly as possible....
Yes, it sounds like it is meant to be a ratio - but again, there is insufficient data to make such a completely grandiose claim - as the corporations have refused to answer the government-funded interrogatives for this data.
But I'm sure that the poster suggested that implication because the ITAA - which IBM belongs to - along with IBM (in past articles) and many other tech companies - have claimed that offshoring of jobs creates jobs at home (actually, it does create jobs in the offshore industry - but that's usually overseas in regard to the USA!).
Thanks again for what should be obvious by now (yeah..I know...someone's always going to post about all those great jobs out there going begging....)
One of the few instances of the Bureau of Labor Statistics telling the truth in the last 10 years was when the Dems called them on the rug about those 2 million jobs Bush claimed to have created - they finally admitted that the majority of those 2 million jobs were part-time, but couldn't say how many of that majority (51%..66%...99%) were actually part-time.
And thanks for mentioning Milton Friedman - a great evangelist for the free market place - while he always kept his tenured day job.....sounds like an early neocon to me.....
Thank you for pointing out what should be obvious to anyone with an IQ above a door knob.....do ya suppose the number of such a cohort is shrinking dramatically?? No wonder Bush (assuming no digital voting machine fraud - and THAT's a hugh assumption) was reelected.
Thank you. First of all Gina claims that a government study says such and such....but fails to mention that all of these government studies to date have been voluntary, meaning that the corps that actually bothered to respond was a very small percentage of those sampled, meaning the VAST majority refused to respond the the government study.
Insufficient data is never a grounds for any quantifiable protocol!!!!!
So far, all those companies that have actually offshored IT jobs (along with other categories) cannot be sufficiently tracked as there are no procedures in place to track them - you will find that all information is pretty much voluntary, and nothing in my life has ever provided me with much faith in corporations. And that phony McKinsey Institute report those clowns cite as proof of offshoring creating jobs and revenue inflow are based up unproven assumptions, nothing more than fiction.
Be uncomfortable...be very uncomfortable.
[What is...is wrong - Veblen] [Corporatism is fascism - me]
As a middling artist, I greatly appreciate all Adobe (and a few other) aids to illustration, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.
But I also recall that one of the most outstanding fine-point ink illustrators, Dorian Vallejo (I believe the son of Boris Vallejo) changed from doing Science Fiction covers to straight portraiture as he saw the effect of computer illustration on the overall illustration genre. (Some of Dorian's covers were the best works of art I've ever seen - I forget the exact titles, but his evil aliens were the best, and the one cover for that compilation of SF and Martial Arts done by Roger Zelazny, was outstanding.)
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My vote is for beriberi....
My great-uncle also survived the Bataan Death March (aviator/officer type) and had a very unfavorable opinion of MacArthur - as did many, many others - contrary to popular opinion.
MacArthur ignored the intel that the Japanese forces were massing for an invasion of the P.I., just as he ignored the intel that warned of the Chinese massing to cross the Yalu in Korea.
I've no problem understanding his being the cousin to that other MacArthur (and crooked bastard - selling phony insurance policies during the Great Depression) who founded the MacArthur Foundation....
What scares us more...that Bush is just a puppet and someone or some group is actually running things...or that Bush is the one actually "running" things????? Holy Mother of God!!!!
Gee, there's a s**tload of corporations - from small to mega-multinational that haven't got your message yet. And the Parent post is correctly reading the loophole Bush put into his Guestworker bill - which was shot down, thank goodness...
Strangely, they no longer publish it...I wonder why? But for another interlocking directors site.
And great job to the FBI for their crack background check on that serial pervert, Brian Doyle, formerly with the Department of Homeland Security!!!!!
[If the Target Police and Florida police are busting criminal Republicans, and Eliot Spitzer is busting criminal corps..What's the FBI doing???]
Not a good sign with our sun, and probably not a good sign about future employment - as the majority of next hires will be what it was last year, either IT workers in foreign countries, or foreign IT workers imported to America by the traitorous corps.
[Well, as Bush has violated the National Security Act, Treason Act, RICO Act and the War Crimes Act - I would say super-traitor is more the proper term.]
Ya know...it has been a few decades since I read Orwell's 1984, but the verbiage looks mighty similar.....
Well..if Negroponte doesn't like it he should just get his death squads after it!
Oops...wrong Negroponte...getting him confused with the Bushco's Negroponte in Iraq.
[Where Negroponte is....death squads follow!]
The only reason I could think of not to be worried is if Halliburton was rewarded the contract for development of such weaponry....
And those IT people they article mentioned being hired "in" the Puget Sound area, that would cover the H-1Bs, H-2Bs, H-2Cs, O-1s, L-1s, etc., etc., etc.
And they'll end up outsourcing the work to India, sight-unseen (as far as the coders and software architects are concerned)!
Boy oh boy....are you ever out of the loop......
I repeat, the ITAA, IBM, various and sundry fronts for the neocon movement (such as the Institute for International Economics and its lackeys) have made the outrageous and unsupportable claim that the act of offshoring jobs creates more jobs in the USA. End of discussion.
And yes, I've no doubt it IS obvious to both the faux interviewer and the subject. These guys are paid chiefly to spread the BS.
Congratulations! Build those weapons' systems to kill the innocents (a k a "collateral damage") and feel no remorse about your guilt in the matter. Years ago I had an excellent job offer to do missile telemetry programming - Gee, I guess my combat experience got the better of me and I turned it down as quickly as possible....
Further, for every job outsourced from the U.S., nine new jobs are actually created in the U.S.'"
I would truly like to see the original source for such an assertion....
I guess that's why Gina's a PiMP (certified Project Management Professional)!
But I'm sure that the poster suggested that implication because the ITAA - which IBM belongs to - along with IBM (in past articles) and many other tech companies - have claimed that offshoring of jobs creates jobs at home (actually, it does create jobs in the offshore industry - but that's usually overseas in regard to the USA!).
One of the few instances of the Bureau of Labor Statistics telling the truth in the last 10 years was when the Dems called them on the rug about those 2 million jobs Bush claimed to have created - they finally admitted that the majority of those 2 million jobs were part-time, but couldn't say how many of that majority (51%..66%...99%) were actually part-time.
And thanks for mentioning Milton Friedman - a great evangelist for the free market place - while he always kept his tenured day job.....sounds like an early neocon to me.....
Thank you for pointing out what should be obvious to anyone with an IQ above a door knob.....do ya suppose the number of such a cohort is shrinking dramatically?? No wonder Bush (assuming no digital voting machine fraud - and THAT's a hugh assumption) was reelected.
Insufficient data is never a grounds for any quantifiable protocol!!!!!
So far, all those companies that have actually offshored IT jobs (along with other categories) cannot be sufficiently tracked as there are no procedures in place to track them - you will find that all information is pretty much voluntary, and nothing in my life has ever provided me with much faith in corporations. And that phony McKinsey Institute report those clowns cite as proof of offshoring creating jobs and revenue inflow are based up unproven assumptions, nothing more than fiction.
Be uncomfortable...be very uncomfortable.
[What is...is wrong - Veblen] [Corporatism is fascism - me]
But I also recall that one of the most outstanding fine-point ink illustrators, Dorian Vallejo (I believe the son of Boris Vallejo) changed from doing Science Fiction covers to straight portraiture as he saw the effect of computer illustration on the overall illustration genre. (Some of Dorian's covers were the best works of art I've ever seen - I forget the exact titles, but his evil aliens were the best, and the one cover for that compilation of SF and Martial Arts done by Roger Zelazny, was outstanding.)
The Wired article explains it slightly better.....