I think if I had a nickel for every time I read that I could be playing golf with Bill Gates instead of spending 10 hours a day dealing with issues on his stupid little OS.
Perhaps it is due to the intellectual and moral superiority of India's leadership as noted in so many posts today that the following events have occured:
1) The massive influx of American workers, both professional and unskilled, to India.
2) The rampant outsourcing of Indian technical jobs to offshore companies, many of them located in the United States, and the resultant strain that it has placed on the traditionally strong Indian IT labor market.
3) The incredibly generous work visas that have been issued by the Indian government to support and encourage the points mentioned above. In fact, a google search on "India" and "Visas" will produce dozens of websites specifically geared towards Americans seeking temporary work visas in India.
4) India's current position as the only superpower in the world, reviled and yet relied upon by all nations to take an active part in resolving all of the Earth's problems and conflicts be they of a socioeconomic or geopolitical nature.
Need I continue? The signs are everywhere, from the points that I have listed above to the Indian cultural influence that has taken the world by storm! In every nation one will find Sari wearing teenyboppers blasting the latest hits from Ravi Shankar while sucking down tons of Lamb Vindaloo... and don't forget the blockbusters coming out of Baliwood these days.
I hope I'm not trolling, on this, my very first post to/.. I love the tech talk, but the flagrant anti-Americanism i have seen today gets me right here.
There is one last point I would like to make to all those who feel that Dubya is a "Simian" (Direct quote from a post that received an unwarrented rating of 5) -- he passed a tax cut that has already shown signs of bolstering the economy and set it to "Expire" in five years unless the decision is made to renew it. Hmmm... does that mean that a full year before he is up for re-election he has already set the agenda for the next race? The main issue will have to be whether or not the cut will be renewed, thereby either raising taxes or keeping them at what will by then be the level people are accustomed to. We already know what his platform will be... lets see how many Democrats will be forced into saying "I'm going to raise your taxes... vote for me!" Is that the act of a simian or of a shrewd and clever politician?
Slashdot Mirror
Great ... just what we needed was another special interest group
I think if I had a nickel for every time I read that I could be playing golf with Bill Gates instead of spending 10 hours a day dealing with issues on his stupid little OS.
Perhaps it is due to the intellectual and moral superiority of India's leadership as noted in so many posts today that the following events have occured: 1) The massive influx of American workers, both professional and unskilled, to India. 2) The rampant outsourcing of Indian technical jobs to offshore companies, many of them located in the United States, and the resultant strain that it has placed on the traditionally strong Indian IT labor market. 3) The incredibly generous work visas that have been issued by the Indian government to support and encourage the points mentioned above. In fact, a google search on "India" and "Visas" will produce dozens of websites specifically geared towards Americans seeking temporary work visas in India. 4) India's current position as the only superpower in the world, reviled and yet relied upon by all nations to take an active part in resolving all of the Earth's problems and conflicts be they of a socioeconomic or geopolitical nature. Need I continue? The signs are everywhere, from the points that I have listed above to the Indian cultural influence that has taken the world by storm! In every nation one will find Sari wearing teenyboppers blasting the latest hits from Ravi Shankar while sucking down tons of Lamb Vindaloo ... and don't forget the blockbusters coming out of Baliwood these days.
I hope I'm not trolling, on this, my very first post to /.. I love the tech talk, but the flagrant anti-Americanism i have seen today gets me right here.
There is one last point I would like to make to all those who feel that Dubya is a "Simian" (Direct quote from a post that received an unwarrented rating of 5) -- he passed a tax cut that has already shown signs of bolstering the economy and set it to "Expire" in five years unless the decision is made to renew it. Hmmm ... does that mean that a full year before he is up for re-election he has already set the agenda for the next race? The main issue will have to be whether or not the cut will be renewed, thereby either raising taxes or keeping them at what will by then be the level people are accustomed to. We already know what his platform will be ... lets see how many Democrats will be forced into saying "I'm going to raise your taxes ... vote for me!" Is that the act of a simian or of a shrewd and clever politician?