I think you're missing the process called 'narrative'. His point was exactly that NO ONE is condemning the 'poor baby making factories' even though they do EXACTLY the same thing that moralists are condemning - destroying potentially viable embryos. His use of 'rich white women' and 'thumbs up / thumbs down' is used to put his story into a more enjoyable context, not necessarily a statement about elitism or race. I found it quite entertaining, and saw his point clearly. You, however, have had a _personal_ reaction to his eloquent use of the english (or perhaps "Ameri-can") language, specifically the "rich" or "white" words, which means that those words are charged with additional meaning in your mind. You should look to that.
And everyone knows the Mexicans are the dredges. Or the French, depending on which year of which animal those crazy Chinamen are in... are we back to Indians yet?
Cat 6 is supposed to do gig speeds (1000), cat 5 won't be reliable over 100. or so they say...
All of it makes great speaker wire - MUCH better than the cheap but impressive looking fatties at circuit city.
"...an entirely different product in a non-competing market."
They're in the same market - the software market. Vista makes software for small business. Windows Vista is an operating system for a PC (sort of...), which will be used in small business. Vista is facing brand dillution at the very least.
Case in point; one of my in-laws owns a small finance business who's moving off of SCO-Unix to Windows. Why? Because he was told by his technology guy that 'everything runs on windows' - not his programs, mind you, which all have to be re-written, but 'everything' [I didn't get it either...]. A year from now, if I told him about Vista, what are the chances his response will be 'yeah, that's what we're getting.'? Vista will have to work a lot harder for each sale because the small business owner (or his tech guy) will want to know what they have to do with windows. And when they say 'nothing' the business will become suspicious about why this company is trying to capitalize on Microsofts' good name.
in Soviet Russia, your money launders YOU!
(jesus... I'm sorry. I don't know what happened there but I couldn't stop myself...)
A right to privacy _is_ guaranteed (currently), and you don't have to defend your use of tools to help insure your privacy. This guy wasn't protecting his privacy, he was trying to hide his illegal child pr0n. Your right to privacy isn't going to protect you if you have a safe full of cocaine either, but if your on welfare and have a $3000 safe full of coke... you bought the safe to protect your coke, not your privacy (and it'll be used as evidence that you weren't just 'holding it for a friend'...). The guy that locks his pr0n in a safe is a guy who knows it's not normal pr0n. Or he's way too into bondage...
[btw - I didn't RTFA, i'm just assuming they meant he's encrypted the files on his hard drive that held those files, so... ah, there you go.)
It simply converts documents to PDF when you click it.
Oh no no no... it does plenty of things.
Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded -- with what caution -- with what foresight, with what dissimulation, I went to work! I was never kinder to the registry during the whole week before I killed it. And every night about midnight I turned on the back door and opened it oh, so gently! And then, when I had made an opening sufficient for my edits, I put in a dark comment, commented so that no bits came out, and then I thrust in my command. Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in! I moved it slowly, very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the backups. It took me an hour to place my whole script within the opening so far that I could see the library as it lay within its folder. Ha! Would a madman have been so wise as this? And then when my script was well in the folder I executed it cautiously -- oh, so cautiously -- cautiously (for the hard drive creaked), I launched it just so much that a single thin electron fell upon the vulture toolbar. And this I did for seven long nights, every night just at midnight, but I found the toolbar always closed, and so it was impossible to do the work, for it was not the toolbar that vexed me but this Evil Icon. And every morning, when the day broke, I went boldly into my applications and spoke courageously to them, calling them by name in a hearty tone, and inquiring how they had passed the night. So you see it would have been a very profound program, indeed, to suspect that every night, just at twelve, I looked in upon the toolbar while it slept.
I had my head in, and was about to open the folder, when my pinky slipped upon the enter key, and the program sprang up in the toolbar, crying out, "MAKE PDF?" And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? With a loud yell, I threw open the script and leaped into the registry. It err'd once -- once only. In an instant I dragged it to the trash, and emptied it quickly. I then smiled gaily, to find the deed so far done.
Yet, upon the next reopening, first and formost it mocks me. It was open, wide, wide open, and I grew furious as I gazed upon it. I saw it with perfect distinctness -- all a dull grey with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in my bones, but I could see nothing else of document's font or margin, for I had directed my sight as if by instinct precisely upon the damned spot.
I paced the floor to and fro with heavy strides, as if excited to fury, but the toolbar remained. O God! what COULD I do? I foamed -- I raved -- I swore! I swung the chair upon which I had been sitting, and bounced upon my cube, but the toolbar arose over all applications and continually increased. It spawned over -- over -- over! And still the office chatted pleasantly , and smiled. Was it possible they saw not? Almighty God! -- no, no? Adobe saw! -- Adobe suspected! -- Adobe KNEW! -- they were making a mockery of my horror! -- this I thought, and this I think. But anything was better than this agony! Anything was more tolerable than this derision! I could bear those hypocritical responses no longer! I felt that I must scream or die! -- and now -- again -- hark! louder! louder! louder! LOUDER! --
"Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! -- tear up the registry! -- here, here! -- it is the beating of his hideous icon!"
With profound apolgies to Poe, this is the truth of that toolbar.
Touché (yeah, sorry for the off-topic). You right though, my argument reduces to exactly what you said it did, and it was a false analogy (either / or) and for that... I'm sorry.
Had I more eloquent skills, I would have left at 'some people need to be killed'. That's not fascism though, which would be more about silencing the opposition through terror and censorship. The 'some people' I'm talking about aren't really 'opposition' so much as damaging to the fabric of society as a whole. While accepting your moral absolute, my position is not moral in basis. It's that there are some crimes that warrant the death penalty. Rape, pedophilia, kidnapping, and pretty much any crime motivated by the overwhelming urge to dominate or abuse another person would be my personal first picks. The destruction these simple acts leave in their wake for everyone (parents, loved ones, friends, family, communities) is overwhelming, and is a self replicating problem - a person abused at a young age is likely to commit a similar act later in life. Some background statistics on the kind of crime I'm talking about; http://www.theawarenesscenter.org/statisti cs.html
This is a self propagating, nearly 'incurable', and widespread problem, and it creates an atmosphere of extreme mistrust and fear in the general population - fear of each other and a deep mistrust of the government. Sometimes more than is at all logical, but it exists. This report does better job of explaining the repeat offender problem and its impact on the populace; http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/? &db_id=cp10 5&r_n=hr157.105&sel=TOC_0&
For me, the death penalty isn't about morality or fear or as a deterrent to crime, it's about self defense on the macro level of society. The death penalty (if carried out on the class of crime I'm talking about) would have saved 26,000 people in 1991 - people were murdered or raped by persons who were supposedly safe to be back in the community. That's an unacceptable yearly toll on fabric of our society, preventable by the killing perpetrators of that kind of violence. If morality must be considered, I would consider it far more immoral for the state to stand by and let more crimes be committed by the same person over and over when it is within their power to stop it. At least on a case by case basis.
Well... with that information it's clear she's an alien. Or at the very least she was created by some kids with bras on their heads using a commodore 64 attached to a barbie doll with roach clips.
Some people need to be killed. By the state. It's not fascism, it's justice. You can't have a functional society if it allows people to wage the worst kind of crimes against their fellow citizens and walk away after token amounts of time behind bars (often to do the same crime again) - or walk on technicalities. The people who have been victimized, and their families, friends and neighbors won't feel safe, secure, or fully able to pursue their dreams with that kind of fundamental betrayal of any real consequence or retribution for the attacker. They will feel frustrated, angry, and completely disillusioned of the system. And what you will eventually get from that kind of society is a totalitarian regime that is truly and deeply fascist supported and put in place by the masses of disillusioned retribution seekers who will be easily swayed by the promise of justice.
Even a little bit of history will clearly show that nearly every fascist regime started out by simply promising to restore order and hold people accountable for crimes they should have been punished for. Whether or not it was true, or the people they punished actually deserved it is irrelevent. All you need is an overwhelming feeling that _someone_ needs to be punished because you're tired of hearing about criminals walking free, and to believe that the dictator your about to put in place can do it.
First book you should buy and read RIGHT FSCKING now is called "The first 90 days" by Michael Watkins. This one didn't just save my career, it launched it.
The second book is called "Sun Tzu was a sissy" by Stanley Bing. Hysterical, and has the attitude you NEED if your going to protect your people, yourself and your company from any number of threats. Mostly internal.
*Disclaimer, I'm also a former Marine (Sgt... obviously) so I had a great deal of leadership training. Leadership and management are NOT the same thing, but they should compliment each other... Figure out which one you're weaker on and start working on it!
And if your not committed to the managers path, get out now. It's not worth it. If you are committed (and for the right reasons), it'll pay in spades.
...it's a charitable trust. All the money came from Bill.
... well, spank me and call me embarrassed, I did not know that. I am, officially, impressed. That's twice he's done that to me - the first was his commitment to help police fight child porn by donating both time and resources.... I hate when I can't totally hate him.
First, this is the 'B&M Gates Foundation' - a charity, not a software company. They get donations from a lot of places - other than Microsoft - and use it for their causes. Their reason for being is to do what they're doing, which is without question a wonderful thing and deserves nothing BUT respect and admiration. But the foundation is NOT Microsoft, nor is it exclusively Bill Gates' personal wealth and effort. Melinda maybe, but I'm not sure if she plays a pivotal role in that organization...
Microsoft and the open source community both make software - neither is dedicated to charitable causes exclusively. The challenge is totally misplaced.
And finally, I donate close to 10% of my money every year to charities I believe in. I'd say that in comparison to Microsofts' billions, the.15 percent (NOT 15%, not 1.5%..15%!) donation per year over 10 years is a palid and sad compared to my 10%. Nyah.;)
Costs too much (polling stations, paper, pencils, administrators, staff and so on) and takes too much time in a country as big as the US. And some people don't have decent hand writing, which would cause recounts, arguments, and so on.
Automation is a great answer, but Diebold in particular is at best an incompetent company being trusted with our most valuable service. At worst, depending on who you listen to, they're committing organized treason (or possibly an insurrection).
Yeah, actually, it is how I run my life. (Of course, I had the good fortune to have the sense slapped into me by my drill instructors lo those many years ago...)
Let me give you an idea of what I'm talking about - my wife and I are getting our visa's and applying to work in either South Korea, Chile or London some time in the next 2 - 3 years for 2 or 3 years. We'll get to see the surrounding country(ies) on whatever holidays or weekends we can manage, get paid to be someplace that most Americans PAY to get to for 2 weeks or month (before running back to their overbearing PHB's), probably learn a language, get an outstanding bit of experience for the resume, not to mention the experience itself. I'm sure someone in those countries probably feel like you do, but good lord get over it. Your life sucking isn't my fault or problem. Nor is it the fault or problem of whomever I go to work for, PH or not.
The point isn't "take whatever your employer gives you and be thankful you have a job...", it's "Quit wasting your life waiting for a fscking handout and pat on the back from some company that won't remember your employee ID come Christmas".
LIVE for Christ's sake. Lamenting for one second that some kid in India stole your job (or that America OWES you a job by some unfathomable exercise in confused logic) is a pathetic waste of time and energy. I'm not flaming you here for having a bad job (or for losing your job if that's what happened), I'm flaming you for actually wasting the time to articulate it as if it were some sad truth. You don't have to have your soul crushed by an overbearing PHB who will reap the reward for your lost life, but if you choose to do so, and further do nothing about it... at least have the decency to spare us your whinning.
PS - if you do start a company, then sure, I'd come work for you. As long as the pay is good, I get to be the best in my field (or at least try to be), and your not an abusive employer...;)
just so people can get jobs that born/raised Americans need
What a bunch of horse shit - even if your a NATIVE American, which I suspect you are not. You'll have to excuse the hostility of the following, but you're not 'entitled' to a job because you were born here any more than I'm 'entitled' to any special treatment because I'm a Marine. Money, like respect, is earned. Unless you get lucky paying the stupid tax (lottery).
You want to take a job back from that Indian company then work harder, or smarter, or give your employer something he can't get from the other guy. What's that? Your company isn't willing to pay you as much as you think you deserve for that work? They don't want what your offering? The other guy is cheaper? Well that sucks, but it's not WRONG. What's wrong is thinking that your company or country OWES you something. The only thing your "owed" is the chance to make something of yourself. Hopefully someone is buying it. If they aren't, it's not because they're wrong, or the country is being unfair, it's because you've misjudged the situation. Find another way.
Maybe I'm just a getting old hard ass, but seriously - Adapt. Improvise. Overcome.
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I think you're missing the process called 'narrative'. His point was exactly that NO ONE is condemning the 'poor baby making factories' even though they do EXACTLY the same thing that moralists are condemning - destroying potentially viable embryos. His use of 'rich white women' and 'thumbs up / thumbs down' is used to put his story into a more enjoyable context, not necessarily a statement about elitism or race. I found it quite entertaining, and saw his point clearly. You, however, have had a _personal_ reaction to his eloquent use of the english (or perhaps "Ameri-can") language, specifically the "rich" or "white" words, which means that those words are charged with additional meaning in your mind. You should look to that.
And everyone knows the Mexicans are the dredges. Or the French, depending on which year of which animal those crazy Chinamen are in... are we back to Indians yet?
riiiight - thanks!
Cat 6 is supposed to do gig speeds (1000), cat 5 won't be reliable over 100. or so they say... All of it makes great speaker wire - MUCH better than the cheap but impressive looking fatties at circuit city.
Imagine a beowolf cluster of those running quake...
They're in the same market - the software market. Vista makes software for small business. Windows Vista is an operating system for a PC (sort of...), which will be used in small business. Vista is facing brand dillution at the very least.
Case in point; one of my in-laws owns a small finance business who's moving off of SCO-Unix to Windows. Why? Because he was told by his technology guy that 'everything runs on windows' - not his programs, mind you, which all have to be re-written, but 'everything' [I didn't get it either...]. A year from now, if I told him about Vista, what are the chances his response will be 'yeah, that's what we're getting.'? Vista will have to work a lot harder for each sale because the small business owner (or his tech guy) will want to know what they have to do with windows. And when they say 'nothing' the business will become suspicious about why this company is trying to capitalize on Microsofts' good name.
Dude... you mean 'if "alot" works as well as "a lot"...'? Sheesh!
(I'm just kidding - I don't know which one is more betterer...)
A right to privacy _is_ guaranteed (currently), and you don't have to defend your use of tools to help insure your privacy. This guy wasn't protecting his privacy, he was trying to hide his illegal child pr0n. Your right to privacy isn't going to protect you if you have a safe full of cocaine either, but if your on welfare and have a $3000 safe full of coke... you bought the safe to protect your coke, not your privacy (and it'll be used as evidence that you weren't just 'holding it for a friend'...). The guy that locks his pr0n in a safe is a guy who knows it's not normal pr0n. Or he's way too into bondage...
[btw - I didn't RTFA, i'm just assuming they meant he's encrypted the files on his hard drive that held those files, so ... ah, there you go.)
Seven was so much hotter.
Technically I'd say the moderators are right. The article is clearly flamebait, and overrated. ;)
Oh no no no... it does plenty of things.
Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded -- with what caution -- with what foresight, with what dissimulation, I went to work! I was never kinder to the registry during the whole week before I killed it. And every night about midnight I turned on the back door and opened it oh, so gently! And then, when I had made an opening sufficient for my edits, I put in a dark comment, commented so that no bits came out, and then I thrust in my command. Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in! I moved it slowly, very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the backups. It took me an hour to place my whole script within the opening so far that I could see the library as it lay within its folder. Ha! Would a madman have been so wise as this? And then when my script was well in the folder I executed it cautiously -- oh, so cautiously -- cautiously (for the hard drive creaked), I launched it just so much that a single thin electron fell upon the vulture toolbar. And this I did for seven long nights, every night just at midnight, but I found the toolbar always closed, and so it was impossible to do the work, for it was not the toolbar that vexed me but this Evil Icon. And every morning, when the day broke, I went boldly into my applications and spoke courageously to them, calling them by name in a hearty tone, and inquiring how they had passed the night. So you see it would have been a very profound program, indeed, to suspect that every night, just at twelve, I looked in upon the toolbar while it slept.
I had my head in, and was about to open the folder, when my pinky slipped upon the enter key, and the program sprang up in the toolbar, crying out, "MAKE PDF?" And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? With a loud yell, I threw open the script and leaped into the registry. It err'd once -- once only. In an instant I dragged it to the trash, and emptied it quickly. I then smiled gaily, to find the deed so far done.
Yet, upon the next reopening, first and formost it mocks me. It was open, wide, wide open, and I grew furious as I gazed upon it. I saw it with perfect distinctness -- all a dull grey with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in my bones, but I could see nothing else of document's font or margin, for I had directed my sight as if by instinct precisely upon the damned spot.
I paced the floor to and fro with heavy strides, as if excited to fury, but the toolbar remained. O God! what COULD I do? I foamed -- I raved -- I swore! I swung the chair upon which I had been sitting, and bounced upon my cube, but the toolbar arose over all applications and continually increased. It spawned over -- over -- over! And still the office chatted pleasantly , and smiled. Was it possible they saw not? Almighty God! -- no, no? Adobe saw! -- Adobe suspected! -- Adobe KNEW! -- they were making a mockery of my horror! -- this I thought, and this I think. But anything was better than this agony! Anything was more tolerable than this derision! I could bear those hypocritical responses no longer! I felt that I must scream or die! -- and now -- again -- hark! louder! louder! louder! LOUDER! --
"Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! -- tear up the registry! -- here, here! -- it is the beating of his hideous icon!"
With profound apolgies to Poe, this is the truth of that toolbar.
I believe I'll rule this planet while I'm still alive... does that count?
Touché (yeah, sorry for the off-topic). You right though, my argument reduces to exactly what you said it did, and it was a false analogy (either / or) and for that... I'm sorry.
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Had I more eloquent skills, I would have left at 'some people need to be killed'. That's not fascism though, which would be more about silencing the opposition through terror and censorship. The 'some people' I'm talking about aren't really 'opposition' so much as damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.
While accepting your moral absolute, my position is not moral in basis. It's that there are some crimes that warrant the death penalty. Rape, pedophilia, kidnapping, and pretty much any crime motivated by the overwhelming urge to dominate or abuse another person would be my personal first picks. The destruction these simple acts leave in their wake for everyone (parents, loved ones, friends, family, communities) is overwhelming, and is a self replicating problem - a person abused at a young age is likely to commit a similar act later in life. Some background statistics on the kind of crime I'm talking about;
http://www.theawarenesscenter.org/statist
This is a self propagating, nearly 'incurable', and widespread problem, and it creates an atmosphere of extreme mistrust and fear in the general population - fear of each other and a deep mistrust of the government. Sometimes more than is at all logical, but it exists. This report does better job of explaining the repeat offender problem and its impact on the populace;
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/
For me, the death penalty isn't about morality or fear or as a deterrent to crime, it's about self defense on the macro level of society. The death penalty (if carried out on the class of crime I'm talking about) would have saved 26,000 people in 1991 - people were murdered or raped by persons who were supposedly safe to be back in the community. That's an unacceptable yearly toll on fabric of our society, preventable by the killing perpetrators of that kind of violence.
If morality must be considered, I would consider it far more immoral for the state to stand by and let more crimes be committed by the same person over and over when it is within their power to stop it. At least on a case by case basis.
Well... with that information it's clear she's an alien. Or at the very least she was created by some kids with bras on their heads using a commodore 64 attached to a barbie doll with roach clips.
Some people need to be killed. By the state. It's not fascism, it's justice. You can't have a functional society if it allows people to wage the worst kind of crimes against their fellow citizens and walk away after token amounts of time behind bars (often to do the same crime again) - or walk on technicalities. The people who have been victimized, and their families, friends and neighbors won't feel safe, secure, or fully able to pursue their dreams with that kind of fundamental betrayal of any real consequence or retribution for the attacker. They will feel frustrated, angry, and completely disillusioned of the system. And what you will eventually get from that kind of society is a totalitarian regime that is truly and deeply fascist supported and put in place by the masses of disillusioned retribution seekers who will be easily swayed by the promise of justice.
Even a little bit of history will clearly show that nearly every fascist regime started out by simply promising to restore order and hold people accountable for crimes they should have been punished for. Whether or not it was true, or the people they punished actually deserved it is irrelevent. All you need is an overwhelming feeling that _someone_ needs to be punished because you're tired of hearing about criminals walking free, and to believe that the dictator your about to put in place can do it.
First book you should buy and read RIGHT FSCKING now is called "The first 90 days" by Michael Watkins. This one didn't just save my career, it launched it.
The second book is called "Sun Tzu was a sissy" by Stanley Bing. Hysterical, and has the attitude you NEED if your going to protect your people, yourself and your company from any number of threats. Mostly internal.
*Disclaimer, I'm also a former Marine (Sgt... obviously) so I had a great deal of leadership training. Leadership and management are NOT the same thing, but they should compliment each other... Figure out which one you're weaker on and start working on it!
And if your not committed to the managers path, get out now. It's not worth it. If you are committed (and for the right reasons), it'll pay in spades.
First, this is the 'B&M Gates Foundation' - a charity, not a software company. They get donations from a lot of places - other than Microsoft - and use it for their causes. Their reason for being is to do what they're doing, which is without question a wonderful thing and deserves nothing BUT respect and admiration. But the foundation is NOT Microsoft, nor is it exclusively Bill Gates' personal wealth and effort. Melinda maybe, but I'm not sure if she plays a pivotal role in that organization...
.15 percent (NOT 15%, not 1.5%. .15%!) donation per year over 10 years is a palid and sad compared to my 10%. Nyah. ;)
Microsoft and the open source community both make software - neither is dedicated to charitable causes exclusively. The challenge is totally misplaced.
And finally, I donate close to 10% of my money every year to charities I believe in. I'd say that in comparison to Microsofts' billions, the
Dear God, why would anyone want that? (Unless maybe we want to know how NOT to write a program...)
ALL YOUR GOV. BELONG TO US...
Costs too much (polling stations, paper, pencils, administrators, staff and so on) and takes too much time in a country as big as the US. And some people don't have decent hand writing, which would cause recounts, arguments, and so on. Automation is a great answer, but Diebold in particular is at best an incompetent company being trusted with our most valuable service. At worst, depending on who you listen to, they're committing organized treason (or possibly an insurrection).
Blah blah blah... It's not that I won't trust my daughter, it's that I don't trust everyone else. Which is why I'm raising her to be an assassin.
Let me give you an idea of what I'm talking about - my wife and I are getting our visa's and applying to work in either South Korea, Chile or London some time in the next 2 - 3 years for 2 or 3 years. We'll get to see the surrounding country(ies) on whatever holidays or weekends we can manage, get paid to be someplace that most Americans PAY to get to for 2 weeks or month (before running back to their overbearing PHB's), probably learn a language, get an outstanding bit of experience for the resume, not to mention the experience itself. I'm sure someone in those countries probably feel like you do, but good lord get over it. Your life sucking isn't my fault or problem. Nor is it the fault or problem of whomever I go to work for, PH or not.
The point isn't "take whatever your employer gives you and be thankful you have a job...", it's "Quit wasting your life waiting for a fscking handout and pat on the back from some company that won't remember your employee ID come Christmas". LIVE for Christ's sake. Lamenting for one second that some kid in India stole your job (or that America OWES you a job by some unfathomable exercise in confused logic) is a pathetic waste of time and energy. I'm not flaming you here for having a bad job (or for losing your job if that's what happened), I'm flaming you for actually wasting the time to articulate it as if it were some sad truth. You don't have to have your soul crushed by an overbearing PHB who will reap the reward for your lost life, but if you choose to do so, and further do nothing about it... at least have the decency to spare us your whinning.
PS - if you do start a company, then sure, I'd come work for you. As long as the pay is good, I get to be the best in my field (or at least try to be), and your not an abusive employer... ;)
What a bunch of horse shit - even if your a NATIVE American, which I suspect you are not. You'll have to excuse the hostility of the following, but you're not 'entitled' to a job because you were born here any more than I'm 'entitled' to any special treatment because I'm a Marine. Money, like respect, is earned. Unless you get lucky paying the stupid tax (lottery).
You want to take a job back from that Indian company then work harder, or smarter, or give your employer something he can't get from the other guy. What's that? Your company isn't willing to pay you as much as you think you deserve for that work? They don't want what your offering? The other guy is cheaper? Well that sucks, but it's not WRONG. What's wrong is thinking that your company or country OWES you something. The only thing your "owed" is the chance to make something of yourself. Hopefully someone is buying it. If they aren't, it's not because they're wrong, or the country is being unfair, it's because you've misjudged the situation. Find another way.
Maybe I'm just a getting old hard ass, but seriously - Adapt. Improvise. Overcome.
I have to add that... well... I want that island. I have wanted that island my whole life. And it's not on Ebay. AAAARRGGGHHH!
so... what your saying is... I can drink the same 6 pack OVER AND OVER?! Time-space rocks...