A large part of the work was done in the US, even if it was just the freaking hardware, software design, that's where most of the resources are. But it was designed, a large sum of the components manufactured (rtfa), and packaged here. Like someone else said, that's more than many of the so called "American" car companies. Because some of the components weren't made here, doesn't mean it wasn't made in the US. That's like bitching that someone put a made in china label on their device but some of the parts came from taiwan...

Yeah you did! It's what they like to the 'certificate of satisfaction'. Nothing like a happy ending :).

Oh man, that planet money piece was really great! For those of you who haven't heard of it, it basically explains how lobbyists actually dodge congressmen calls because a congressman has to find something like $10k/day to stay elected. It also talks about how money is appropriated by the party and how what committee you stand on makes a huge difference. I think this is it http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/01/27/145923803/the-friday-podcast-a-former-lobbyist-tells-all (can't verify at work) it's a pretty bad ass story.

A fraction? It's a process of queing, if you are faster than every one of your competitors then you are first in line. That means you might be buying a stock for $20/share vs $25/share and when buying on the magnitude of millions of shares it can make a huge difference.

Think about it this way
1 - $20, fastest: 10million shares of company X, starting value $20, market cap: 1billion shares. Cost raised 1%
2 - $20.20, 1.1ns slower: 50million shares of company X, cost raised 5%

The second purchaser cost just went up 10million dollars, when you are making trades hundreds of millions of times a day the difference can be billions of dollars easily. Then again, it's making rich guys richer, but a fraction richer, I'd say no. It's a huge deal worth paying for the best programmers, engineers, etc.

That's mostly my problem is lack of good available phones. ExEn a windows mobile xna converter to Android and iOS makes me really like Windows Mobile as a development platform. I'd really like to get a good Windows Mobile phone, but simply my provider (Sprint) only carries one phone and it's terribad. Someone needs to create the equivalent of the Samsung Note for Windows Mobile and give it to Sprint, I'd be all over that like a fat man on fudge.

Really I've found out this tends to have more to do with the radio in the phone then the provider. Don't get me wrong, when I was on verizon I really did get reception everywhere. But with Sprint, my service seems to be dependent on the phone I have, the new Motorola phone is impressive 4g everywhere and signal even on the local campus (because the buildings are basically built out of led or something unnatural no cell service really get's through here).

KC Metro area, I own my home and most houses through out Johnson County have multiple options for providers. Apartments are another deal, they tend to lock in with a certain provider and you can only use said provider.

Not only all of the above, but the copyright laws make it hard to create a valid small business with new ideas and concepts. You have to fight and essentially be ventured by the RIAA or MPAA to start a media serving company. They crush any new ideas that aren't restriction on media access, and if they can't crush them they fight tooth and nail to allow them. See iTunes when it was originally released, the RIAA fought it hard to stop apple. Pandora ended up in court several times with the RIAA before they allowed it to go through. And this is just the RIAA, let's not even start with the MPAA and their content restrictions. How they've destroyed many online rental companies, forcing companies like Hulu (which is owned by the MPAA) to check if you have cable (coming soon to a computer near you!).

I may switch to Comcast! (I don't live in a monopoly oddly enough I have the choice of Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T, several other cable and dsl companies like everest).

Check out Sprint, believe it or not they have real unlimited data and reception is really good (esp if you have a phone with a good radio). I never lose 4G and I'm in Kansas, the middle of nowhere.

Yes and no, what someone puts in there body should be of nobody elses concern. If they are a bad parent because of this (such as abusive or neglectful) than like any other parent that falls in this category their kids should be taken away. If they are driving intoxicated on lsd, they should get a DUI, if they show up to work high as hell, it should be treated like showing up to work drunk. Alcohol is no different than most opiates, speed, etc etc etc. However, like a functioning drunk, you can become a functioning addict.

So from that point of view, a supplier doesn't force you to take meth, heroin, crack. They don't hunt you down and ask if you want a hit, if the government taxed the hell out of it and sold it legally like they do alcohol, the fda could regulate it which means a drop in drug related crime (turf wars, such as those for alcohol running in the 30's), and cleaner safer drugs. Also means more money to pharmaceutical lobbyists (not that I support these guys, but it's more amercian jobs). It would also drop the prison population by apparently 48% (I thought it was in the 70's to be honest, so that shocks me to) which means half the money we spend each year on prisons. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/12/01/8394995/index.htm (37billion, much lower than I expected). There's also the sociological effect to take into account, legalizing it would make the drug trade less "cool". It doesn't mean we won't have overdoses, addiction, neglect, etc. But we already have all that with alcohol, so how is this really different?

What do we bring to the table? Creativity, when you were studying all those books, you were taught to think inside a tiny box and asking you to break out of that box is like begging a greedy man to spare a penny. No matter how many times we go over a creative solution you keep referencing bad design patterns, your code uses a ton of a nested for loops, and is hard for everyone else to understand. You think every problem can be solved by using 1 + 1 = 2. However, while a logical pattern can be found, a GOF pattern doesn't have to be used; if a pattern is used there's a good chance a solution has already been created. Why not use that solution? Why must you constantly recreate the wheel, is because you still have your head stuck in those math books instead of staying up to date with your practice?

Sweeping generalization, I spent 3 months in Hyderabad training a team, then another 9 months working with said team back home. It was one of the most painful experiences of my life, the concept of learning on the job and thinking outside of the box seemed so far away from these guys. However, by what you listed above, I don't believe you are an indian, I'd go with asain. Most of the indian's (H1B or not) are also very lazy, not all, just most. You talk about strive, which makes me think you are part of an east asain country. In which case I say fair game and learn how to think outside of the box.

By the way, I graduated High School with an extremely low gpa (barely graduating), dropped out of college, missed only one question on the SAT, scored over 100 on the AMC, speak fluent Japanese, English, and conversational french. To graduate high school in the US you are required to take a foreign language (not claiming that would make you fluent), arts class, and are asked to think in more than a logical structure. It's part of why we (in the US) are complaining about No Child Left Behind. It focuses on standardized tests, I'd rather solve a word problem which makes me think how to solve it and gives reality to it, than have to just solve a problem laid out before me.

We emphasize every kid is different here, then every kid is the same to be taught the same way. It really doesn't work that way, and it's what brings the uniqueness of an American to the problem. While coding may be repetition, how to approach a problem should be thought out.

Lastly, communication is key, while you may have the language down, if people can't understand you then you might as well be dead wood for anything beyond code monkey. I've met a lot of H1B visas that I couldn't understand for the life of me. Understand this is after living in India, living in Tokyo, living in the Netherlands. This is our problem with you guys, but as all Americans don't fit your case, neither does all H1B visas meet my above case. I've met some wonderful H1B visas that are simply amazing at coding. Far better than I will ever be, and to them I say "great job", but they also usually make more than I do so your point of being better for less doesn't really hold water. Or maybe it does, just not in my own anecdotal (or the stereotypical) background.

If it is a publicity grab, it went seriously south. Unless this get's reversed their companies are illegal.

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And the Tea Party is just another name for republicans. It started out as a neat idea but then all of the republicans flocked to it and made it the same old party.