Here in the USA, we recognize that some cultures are inferior to others. For example, Mexico is the product of Mexican culture. Japan is the product of Japanese culture, which is now part of Western culture. Mexico is inferior to Japan due to the values of Mexicans.
Mexico is rife with corruption because its people are fundamentally dishonest. By contrast, the phenomenal honesty of the Japanese (even compared to traditional Westerners like the Americans) helped Japan to succeed. Police stations in Japan are "littered" with lost-and-found items because strangers frequently submit items (e.g. cash, umbrellas, etc.) that they find.
The fact that England has strong opposition against the national ID card shows, yet again, why Westerners are different from folks like the Chinese and the Koreans. According to a recent article distributed by SlashDot, the Chinese in Hong Kong already have a national ID card. By 2005, the South Koreans will have a national ID card.
Chinese society and Korean society are failures because of the choices that the Chinese and the Koreans made. We should reject the false belief that the Chinese and the Koreans are just financially poorer versions of Westerners. On the contrary, the Chinese and the Koreans are radically different from us.
They embrace invasion of privacy.
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This survey is biased. France bans the Fox News Channel.
Fundamentally, the issue is that the United States of America should trade only with other Western nations. Right now, the West is Japan, Canada, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe. Trade includes goods, services, and labor.
Nearshoring is not a problem.
Once Canada is destroyed, we ban Canada from the table of Western nations. Canada will serve as a warning to other Western nations.
If companies from India ultimately destroy Canada and Canadians turn their back on Western values, then we simply shut down trade with Canada. There really is no problem here. Canadians have a right to determine their own destiny. If they want to admit hordes of non-assimilating Indians and Chinese, the Canadians are entitled to do so, destroying their own society.
We will not allow the rot in Canada to creep into the USA.
The lesson from SGI is that workstations and servers based on commodity chips have extremely low margins. With such low margins, the only way to compete is to slash your company into a shell -- a screwdriver factory with almost no R&D budget. Dell is precisely such a factory.
In the case of IBM, it sells its hardware at a loss but recoups the loss by bundling hardware as part of a total systems solution that includes software and consulting services. Further, IBM hardware has no close competitor in terms of performance and reliability. Look at the Power5. It crushes the UltraSPARC III/IV in performance and is competitive in raw performance with Madison by Intel.
Sun has no chance to survive. Its software division and services divison are still a tiny percentage of the company's revenue. Also, more than 50% of Sun's workforce is former or current H-1B's.
By contrast, less than 5% of IBM's consulting division is H-1B's. American employees speak English well and understand American sensibilities, so when American companies outsource their information-technology operations, such companies almost always hand the operations over to HP or IBM.
Sun literally destroyed itself by botching the UltraSPARC III. Due to its inferior technology, Sun has had much trouble in selling highend servers, the bread and butter of Sun's operation. Sun was eventually forced to handover its highend server and processor development to Fujitsu.
Note that Fujitsu almost never hires foreign workers. Its native engineering workforce is almost exclusively Japanese citizens and designed a processor that outperforms Sun's own UltraSPARC, which was designed by a predominantly H-1B workforce. Fujitsu shutdown Hal Computers, the American subsidiary, because it was designing processors that performed even worse than the UltraSPARCs. Hal Computers was about 60% H-1Bs as well. After the native engineers at Fujitsu in Japan took over processor development, they designed a stunning processor.
Both the might of Korean engineering and Japanese engineering prove that H-1B engineers are unnecessary. In Korea, Korean companies almost never hire foreign engineers. Ditto for Japanese companies.
Sun got what it deserved. It cannot survive. Good riddance.
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Mexico is rife with corruption because its people are fundamentally dishonest. By contrast, the phenomenal honesty of the Japanese (even compared to traditional Westerners like the Americans) helped Japan to succeed. Police stations in Japan are "littered" with lost-and-found items because strangers frequently submit items (e.g. cash, umbrellas, etc.) that they find.
Chinese society and Korean society are failures because of the choices that the Chinese and the Koreans made. We should reject the false belief that the Chinese and the Koreans are just financially poorer versions of Westerners. On the contrary, the Chinese and the Koreans are radically different from us.
They embrace invasion of privacy.
The margin of error of this survey is +/- 25.
Nearshoring is not a problem.
Once Canada is destroyed, we ban Canada from the table of Western nations. Canada will serve as a warning to other Western nations. If companies from India ultimately destroy Canada and Canadians turn their back on Western values, then we simply shut down trade with Canada. There really is no problem here. Canadians have a right to determine their own destiny. If they want to admit hordes of non-assimilating Indians and Chinese, the Canadians are entitled to do so, destroying their own society.
We will not allow the rot in Canada to creep into the USA.
In the case of IBM, it sells its hardware at a loss but recoups the loss by bundling hardware as part of a total systems solution that includes software and consulting services. Further, IBM hardware has no close competitor in terms of performance and reliability. Look at the Power5. It crushes the UltraSPARC III/IV in performance and is competitive in raw performance with Madison by Intel.
Sun has no chance to survive. Its software division and services divison are still a tiny percentage of the company's revenue. Also, more than 50% of Sun's workforce is former or current H-1B's.
By contrast, less than 5% of IBM's consulting division is H-1B's. American employees speak English well and understand American sensibilities, so when American companies outsource their information-technology operations, such companies almost always hand the operations over to HP or IBM.
Sun literally destroyed itself by botching the UltraSPARC III. Due to its inferior technology, Sun has had much trouble in selling highend servers, the bread and butter of Sun's operation. Sun was eventually forced to handover its highend server and processor development to Fujitsu.
Note that Fujitsu almost never hires foreign workers. Its native engineering workforce is almost exclusively Japanese citizens and designed a processor that outperforms Sun's own UltraSPARC, which was designed by a predominantly H-1B workforce. Fujitsu shutdown Hal Computers, the American subsidiary, because it was designing processors that performed even worse than the UltraSPARCs. Hal Computers was about 60% H-1Bs as well. After the native engineers at Fujitsu in Japan took over processor development, they designed a stunning processor.
Both the might of Korean engineering and Japanese engineering prove that H-1B engineers are unnecessary. In Korea, Korean companies almost never hire foreign engineers. Ditto for Japanese companies.
Sun got what it deserved. It cannot survive. Good riddance.