Who says that the free stuff "utopia" is not the terrible future.
The term you are looking for is "distopia". See: 1984, Animal Farm, Hunger Games, Brave New World, and Agenda 21, for starters.
Soon the market for US based programmers will be flooded by a new wave of corporate-sponsored graduates fresh and ready to be burned out, thus driving programmer wages down to "competitive" levels.
Thanks Google!
Thanks, Obama!
But not elsewhere. So why in the wide wide world of sports would they hire American's? It just doesn't make any sense. It is not life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and a guaranteed 6 figure income. That is not how any of this works.
How come all the shills in this thread defending hiring 3rd world workers for 1st world company jobs are all Anonymous Cowards? Are they all Social Media Strategists for ManPower and Infosys? Just asking.
It probably will not go over well in this venue, but I just don't see how people can get so worked up at companies for doing what's in the company's best interests
Well part of the issue is that often times it is clearly not in the company's best interest - certainly not in the long term, and even more often not if the company relies on any decent level of customer satisfaction to survive and compete.
There's a reason they don't want to hire American's, and it's because they cost too much. The fact that people in other countries are lining up to do the same work for cheap is concrete proof that it isn't as difficult work as you think.
And yet, clearly, they are NOT doing the same work. Sure, they're lining up - with worthless 3rd world degrees handed out from a corrupt system and paper qualifications that make them appear qualified while they can't figure out how to poor piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel.
Recent labor statistics show that productivity in the US has dropped significantly in the last few years. Want to know why? American workers replaced with cheap labor. It's been happening for more than 5 years, but the results are now starting to be felt in the labor market as a whole.
There is no getting around the fact that you can find skilled workers from anywhere, and you will find paper-qualified workers that are incompetent boobs from anywhere, but I've been in IT for a long time, and the fact is, if you want decent skills, you have to pay for it. Period.
While it is true that businesses create job descriptions specifically designed to eliminate American workers, it is *also* true that plenty of American IT workers think they are super-awesome and really aren't.
Yes, I've seen lots of these folks. It's not just "American IT workers", though, this phenomenon knows no nationality bounds.
...what does that make beavers?
A dam nuisance.
What gives whales the right to alter the environment? Whales should be regulated so their engineering impact to the oceans can be controlled.
I am shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you, that there are absolutely NO federal regulations on whale activities. Next they'll be deregulating the growing of vegetables!
There is something else that makes connector contacts less than desirable for maximum reliability, I don't remember what that is.
Vibration?
Wow. Mods on this are pretty telling. +1 Informative, +1 Interesting, -1 Overrated, -1 Troll, -1 Troll
AGW really is like a religion.
" Don't forget about the Polar Bears Drowning
You lose a lot of credibility repeating the fraudulent "polar bears in danger from AGW" claim. It's bogus. The polar bear population is no in danger, it's increasing. As far as specifically drowning / brown bear mating, those phenomenon have not changed significantly and have nothing to do with AGW.
4) Man spews giga-tonnes more CO2 then can be absorbed back into the system. This is becasue we dig up stored CO2 and release it in the air.
This shows a basic misinterpretation of the carbon cycle. CO2 does not stay around forever as CO2. Estimate range widely from somewhere around 5.4 years to 30 years or more. You can look at the NOAA's video that shows the fluctuating concentrations of CO2 and see the cycle is quite dynamic. Much of it is absorbed by the ocean and land sinks, but isotope studies point to the CO2 molecules from any point source are short-lived, and do rarely re-enter the atmosphere, if ever.
SO more CO2 in the air, more energy it absorbs. Energy(heat) continues to rise.
Maybe. Typically. Certainly in a closed system with no other cooling / heating effects going on. Sorry, but the science is not "settled", neither on the specific calculations on the global temperature for a given CO2 concentration, nor on the ways and amounts that human activities can impact the climate directly.
Of course it's not going to be a problem on American mega-intersections with parking lots on all sides and the nearest home miles away
You people in Canadia are hilarious!
Yes; Scientologists object to psychiatric medication, and JW's object to blood transfusions. By "carefully" limiting their bullshit rationalizations to contraceptives - just as their bullshit Bush v Gore ruling was "limited" to that one election - they favored one religion over another. This is the most blatantly unconstitutional ruling since Citizens United.
And the government has not told Scientologist-owned companies to supply psychiatric medication, and have not told Jehovah's Witnesses they have to buy health insurance for anyone at all. The didn't limit anything to contraceptives - in fact it was about specific types of contraceptives that the business OWNERS objected to. Far from "unconstituional" (which the court has UNANIMOUSLY told your Dear Leader his actions have been 13 times now), this decision protected the Constitutional rights of people, even if they own a corporation. Citizens United did the same thing - it would be asinine to tell someone you have to fund a multi-million dollar movie out of your pocket, because if you form a corporation to do it we can ban your movie.
Your philosophy is just as valid as my philosophy... or at least it was. Now one philosophy is paramount in the eyes of the law.
False. Nobody said Hobby Lobby's employees can't go buy "morning after" pills. Only that the government can't force Hobby Lobby to pay for it.
And then talk about ignoring the constitution by complaining that a law was intended only to help a very small subset of the citizenry and how it got all out of whack by being applied universally. Wow, just wow!
First Amendment rights are intended for only a very small subset of the citizenry??
I think NOT. At least until Reid and the tyrants in the Senate figure out how to pass their new Amendment, and define "the press" as only people holding a federal license to speak, like they keep heading toward with crap like this.
When you say corporations have the same legal rights as people, you're giving them the cake and letting them eat it, too. Saying they ARE people is a power grab, and all of a sudden there is no trade off for the idea of limited liability.
It's a distinction without a difference. All that's established is that corporations have the same legal protections under the law as individuals. That's important in an age where every financial transaction, possession, and and property has hundreds of rules and regulations attached to it by various agencies of the Federal government. It's important for the government to include all types of organizations as subject to the same rules as individuals, too, considering all the social engineering baked into the tax code.
Did you know most celebrities are corporations? Labor unions? Non-profits and NGOs? All these organizations need to be subject to, and protected by, a common set of standards. Without that, jurisprudence would be even more chaotic than it is now.
On a different matter, did you just add me to your foes list today after reading my rant about how badly the ribbon interface sucks?
No, it must have been a long time ago.
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