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  1. Outsourcing is bad for the U.S. on The Hidden Cost of Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    "The capitalists of the world and their governments, in the pursuit of the conquest of the Soviet market, will close their eyes to the indicated higher reality, and thus will turn into deaf, mute, blind men. They will extend credits in giving us the materials and technology we lack. They will restore our military industry, indispensible for our future victorious attacks on our suppliers. In other words, they will labor for the preparation for their own suicide." -- Vladimir Lenin

  2. Then perhaps on Is IP Property? · · Score: 1

    all those liberal book authors won't mind when people copy their books freely and profit off of their work. Non-protection of IP discourages 'creativity' because it destroys one's ability to profit from one's own creative work. Without that profit, no one could make a living on their work. This article falsely assumes that the only ones creating things are corporations. What about writers, musicians, artisits, and everyone else who works freelance for themselves. Should we let them create and then give others the right to copy and profit from it? If that happens, I don't think we'll see anything being created since no one will be able to earn a living from their work. Non protection of IP is Communism.

  3. What are they thinking? on Port-A-Nuke · · Score: 1

    More stupidity from the Federal Government. This is a proliferation nightmare waiting to happen. Watch as the reactors go missing, are busted open despite alarms, and 3rd world countries all over the world building the bomb. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

  4. soundcore on Cellphones Usable on Airplanes in 2006? · · Score: 1

    Wait a minute, I thought we already had this capability. After all, the 9/11 passengers on the hijacked planes were supposedly able to make calls.... hmmmm.......

  5. Re:And all at once on Tech Turnover Rate Lowest Since The 80's · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but screw the taxes!!!!!!!

  6. Of course on Tech Turnover Rate Lowest Since The 80's · · Score: 1

    turnover is low! IT positions are now held by indentured H-1Bs which CAN'T change jobs.

    Just what the companies wanted: workers who can't quit. Nice. Thank you Congress and Bill Clinton!

  7. It's "shimbun" not "shinbun" on 10Gbit to the Home by 2010 · · Score: 1

    Shame on you commander - not knowing such a simple word as "newspaper" in Japanese.

  8. Re:Robert Cringely on Need a Job? Move to India · · Score: 1

    No country except the U.S. that is. MILLIONS of people 'just stroll in here' every single YEAR. PLUS hundreds of thousands who come in ILLEGALLY (12 million and counting curently). How many other nations allow MILLIONS of people to emigrate every single year? NONE: except the U.S. CLASS DISMISSED.

  9. Re:1800's Flashback on Need a Job? Move to India · · Score: 1

    It's not outsourcing folks, it's IMPORTED GUEST WORKERS. 2.4 MILLION of 'em in IT alone on H-1B since 1998. Plus UNLIMITED NUMBERS on L-1, J-1, etc. I live in Silicon Valley. The place is FLOODED with Indians who are WORKING while Amercians are not. Don't be such media slaves and parrot everything they media tells you. "jobs going overseas" is the smokescreen. The real issue is BRINGING CHEAP LABOR HERE. For that reason, we need to END all guest workers programs for skilled workers, we need to DEPORT all guest workers on visas, and we need to GIVE THOSE JOBS BACK TO AMERICANS. WAKE UP AMERICA.

  10. Re:America is Doomed on Need a Job? Move to India · · Score: 1

    If America is so dumb then why was IT invented in America by Americans? Why wasn't it invented in India if Indians are so much more educated? The idea of incapable dumb Amercians is a myth. Amercians INVENTED IT.

  11. Re:"India" as the buzzword of the day on Need a Job? Move to India · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So in other words, corporatons are rigging the labor markets. I think as Amercians we need to put a stop to this. Amercians need to FORCE the government to pass laws requiring Amercians to hire Amercians before they hire imported guest workers in Amercia. That, and not "jobs going overseas" is the real problem.

  12. Re:Seems obvious to me.. on Need a Job? Move to India · · Score: 1

    Americans have the RIGHT to DICTATE immigration policy. NOT the government. Not CORPORATIONS. Eject all "temporary guest workers" NOW.

  13. Re:sad day on Need a Job? Move to India · · Score: 1

    You've got it wrong, The Amercian Dream hasn't gone to India - India has come here to GRAB it away from Amercians. Wake up Amercia. 400,000 imported H-1bs EVERY YEAR since 1998. MILLIONS of Indians are here now working jobs that used to belong to Amercians. DOnt buy the media lie that youa re out of work because your job WENT to India. India came here and TOOK it. EJECT ALL GUEST WORKERS NOW.

  14. Re:Moving to India? on Need a Job? Move to India · · Score: 1

    I thought the CNN article said India is a great place to live now? I guess India isn't the 1st world country the media is making it out to be.

  15. Re:So this means.. on Need a Job? Move to India · · Score: 1

    I agree 100%. Other countries need to learn to develop their OWN industries as America has - instead of other countries PLUNDERING what Americans have built. If 3rd world labor was so great, the 3rd world would not BE the 3rd world.

  16. Re:So this means.. on Need a Job? Move to India · · Score: 1

    While you are right about it's not the purpose of corporations to provide jobs, there is one small fact youa re overlooking: it's not the purpose of corporations to control the U.S. government - which is what they are doing. It is THE AMERCIAN PEOPLE who have the right to determine who and how man people can be brought into the U.S. to work. The American people have the RIGHT to force the government to EJECT all imported "guest workers". And we should do so. Corporations should have no say in the matter. But that is exactly what corproations are doing: bribing the governemtn to rig the labor markets. Siemens paid Congressional Rep John Mica of Florida to vote for increases in the H-1B cap in 1998 and 2000. That's how our labor market right here in the U.S. got FLOODED. And now we wonder why we are out of work. It's not about jobs going to India, it's about MILLIONS of imported 'guest workers' from India coming HERE. Wake up America! You don't even know when you are being PLUDNERED right in your own backyard. EJECT ALL FOREIGN GUEST WORKERS NOW.

  17. Re:So this means.. on Need a Job? Move to India · · Score: 1

    Well, you've bought the media line hook-line and sinker. While some jobs are going overseas, Americans' job woes are much more caused by the mass importation of cheap labor HERE. 400,000 H1-B workers PER YEAR, EVERY year since 1998. Plus unlimited numbers of L-1s, and J-1s for their spouses. That's like close to 1.2 MILLION imported workers per year. The fact of the matter is, until 5 years ago and we trained them in the U.S. India could not compete in IT. Now they can because we have brought them HERE and trained them. The more we bring HERE, the more Americans will be out of work. If India wants to build up its OWN industries IN INDIA FROM INDIA, then fine. But until All Americans are back to work in America, we should eb DEPORTING ALL GUEST WORKERS NOW.

  18. Re:So this means.. on Need a Job? Move to India · · Score: 1

    India is building a 310-mile long WALL along the Kashmir border to KEEP FOREIGNERS OUT. Maybe U.S. needs to build a wall along the U.S. Mexico border to KEEP FOREIGNERS OUT. While a few Americans might emigrate to India every year, the numbers are negligible. Let's let close to TWO MILLION AMERICANS into India each year at wages lower than India's own IT workers. When India does that, come back and talk 'free trade'. Until then, free-trade is still a myth. The only thing that is free right now is the rest of the world's access to PLUNDER what Amercians have built up through hard work. Where was Indian from 1978 to 1998 when Amercians were building the IT industry? Hmmmmm.... Indians were mysteriously absent during that time period. Try developing your OWN industries in your OWN country for a change instead of blaming the west for your miserable problems.

  19. Re:So this means.. on Need a Job? Move to India · · Score: 1

    Another crock. We don't have free trade. We only have free trade for other countries to take what Americans have created. Where are the 400,000 guest worker visas EVERY YEAR for Amercians to come to India? Don't see any of those. Amercian GIVES India $150 MILLION every single YEAR in financial aid. Where is India's financail aid to the U.S. If we are going to have free trade, then India needs to OPEN its labor market to the U.S. Not 10,000 people here and there. Americans want the equivalent of H-1B (400,000 per year), L-1 (unlimited number per year), J-1 (spouses and children of all emigrating Amercians). When India does that, and stops taking free handouts from America, come back and we will talk. Until then, stop spouting off about 'free trade' which doesn't exist. OPEN INDIA'S MARKETS TO THE WEST NOW.

  20. Re:So this means.. on Need a Job? Move to India · · Score: 1

    Want to talk 'free trade'? 400,000 H-1Bs imported to U.S. every YEAR from 1998 to 2003. Meanwhile it's still illegal for Americans to work in India - unless of course there is a payoff from the likes of Microsoft opening shop there. In China the west is not allowed to sell WiFi chips. In China if you employ 15 LOCAL CHINESE workers the government gives you free office space. In China foreign firms are REQUIRED by law to employ 50% local Chinese people. How's that for 'free trade'. The U.S. is the most wide open country on earth. The entire world can flood into American to take jobs and industries that AMERICANS have built but the instant Amercians want to work in other countries, or sell to other countries all kinds of restrictions are put up. Who are the real PROTECTIONSISTS? India is building a 310-mile wall along Kashmir border to keep FOREIGNERS OUT. Who are the real PROTECTIONSIST NOW. If India can build a 310-mile wall along Kashmir border, then the U.S. needs to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to KEEP FOREIGNERS OUT. It appears that under WTO rules, some countries are more equal than others. India and China cannot compete with the U.S. so they have to rig their markets to keep the U.S. and Americans out. I think the U.S. should ban all imported Chinese clothes because they might have SARS on them and pose a national security threat to the U.S. It's funny that India and China cannot invent NEW SECTORS so they all have to come pouring into the U.S. to GRAB what AMERICANS invented. People on the streets of Mumbai are poor because India is corrupt and the people are lazy and stupid. If 3rd world labor was so brilliant the third world would not be THE THIRD WORLD. CLASS DISMISSED.

  21. Re:Good luck getting a visa... on Need a Job? Move to India · · Score: 1

    What a crock. Only a few of the millions of Indians who try to come to the U.S. make it? You haven't been payign attention the labor statistics. According to DOL stats, over *400,000* people have come to the U.S. from India EVERY YEAR since 1998 alone. ANd that's just on H-1b and doesn't count L-1, J-1, etc. So the number is really like close to a MILLION a year. And again, that's just from India. Not counting other countries. That's SIX million in FIVE years. And those are just the official numbers. The real numbers might be twice that - close to TEN MILLION. So your assertion that of the "many millions" who try to come don't make it is a crock. The U.S. is being FLOODED with MILLIONS of Indians. How many Americans are allowed to emigrate to India? 100? 10,000? It's time for reciprocity. India needs to import 6 MILLION Americans or else it's time to DEPORT all guest workers from the U.S.

  22. Re:Good luck getting a visa... on Need a Job? Move to India · · Score: 1

    1978 - 1998: American IT explosion. Industry dominated by 98% single white males. 1998-2004: American IT collapse. Stagnant innovation, collapsing companies. Industry dominated by 98% imported guest workers, 78% of which are from India. You connect the dots. It's ok to be arrogant if you are the best. Where is the Microsoft, Apple, and Intel of India? Nowhere to be found. Americans are the only decent IT workers on the planet. Indians are IT wannabes and wealth drainers. The globalists are afraid that the American IT boom would cause such a huge surplus that we would pay off the national debt. Then the globalists bankers won't make any money off the $7 trillion U.S. Debt. So the globalists decided to throw a bomb into the American IT market to destroy it in order to preserve their investment. That is why the media is all abuzz with 'Indian IT'. India has created NOTHING in 1000 years of history. Americans have created the greatest civilization on earth in a mere 225 years. We created, you plunder. That is what Indian IT workers are good at: pludner, not innovation. We will see if India long term can live up to its promise. So far it hasn't had a good track record. Once all the cost cutting is over and the American IT execs have made off wither thier bonuses what will they do then. Ultimately IT will be forced to turn back to the American worker.

  23. Re:Good luck getting a visa... on Need a Job? Move to India · · Score: 1

    Don't kid yourself thinking Kerry will fix this. The H-1B visa caps were raised in 1998 (115,000 per year) and 2000 (195,000 per year) under BILL CLINTON. Bush inherited this mess but is too dumb to know that he needs to DEPORT all the imported workers. The Repubs or Dems aren't any different from each other. They ALL work for the corporations. We are getting screwed by greedy corporations who run the government. The government is supposed to be run by the PEOPLE not corporations. What we need are laws making it illegal to layoff an American and replace that worker with an imported worker. PERIOD. We need laws that say that ALL Americans must be fully employed before ANY workers can be imported. PERIOD. Wake up and DEMAND that your government represent you or else you livlihood will be given away to the greediest bidder. BTW, I posted my resume on Dice three weeks ago (I update it every month or so). Every time I post it my phone rings off the hook - all calls from INDIAN recruiters. I go on the interviews, and never get hired. I've been programming for 21 years. I've written and shipped EIGHT commercial software projects. Just try to tell me I am not qualified. The fact of the matter is, Indian recruiters in the U.S. interview American engineers so that they can CLAIM they looked for American candidates, then shove all of their own Indian engineers into companies so that they can collect the fees. And most of these Indian workers have NEVER shipped a commercial product. That is what is happening fellow Americans: invasion and job PLUNDER on a MASSIVE scale. WAKE UP AND DEPORT ALL GUEST WORKERS NOW.

  24. Re:Good luck getting a visa... on Need a Job? Move to India · · Score: 1

    Yeah and U.S. companies are falling all over themselves to import workers from India. *1.9* MILLION on H-1B alone since 1998 and 65,000 more every single year. What I wan to know is: what is the NUMBER of guest worker visas India has issued to Americans per year? How many? What is the number? 400,000 *per year* like the U.S. has? If not then we need to DEPORT all H-1Bs in the U.S. now and give the jobs back to their rightful owners: Americans.

  25. Re:Good luck getting a visa... on Need a Job? Move to India · · Score: 1

    Give me a break. From 1998 to 2003 *400,000* imported "guest workers" came to the U.S. on H-1B alone. Plus their spouses on J-1, all their kids, and an unknown number of L-1s which have NO cap. 78% of those H-1bs went to Indian. That's *1.9* MILLION imported guest workers in FIVE years. And they are still flooding in: 65,000 MORE every year on H-1B. Don't tell me how hard it is to get a visa in the U.S. Companies are falling all over themselves to import workers. One guy just to test the H-1B system last year filed 20 LCAs for non-existent positions for non-existent workers at $5/hr and ALL 20 were approved by the DOL. Anyone can virtually walk into America. It's a total joke. We are the only country on earth that creates something of value and then just lets anyone walk right in and take it from us. Now the Japanese GET IT. Try to get a job and work in an IT company in Japan. Some people understand that when you create something of value you DO want to protect it. Deport all guest workers on visas NOW. Give all those jobs back to unemployed Americans. Lock of the American IT sector like a vault. And then let super-brilliant India compete ALL on its OWN *from* India.