America's Vanishing science jobs - Josh Bloom (NYPOST.com)

In case you were wondering why I follow H1B 'Immigrant' shills like my little sahib Wadhwa as well as NASSCOM Don Tennant so closely... here's your answer: The decay of American STEM jobs:

"The folks at Scientific American have launched "1,000 Scientists in 1,000 Days" -- a program to bring together scientists, teachers and students to improve America's "dismal" showing among wealthy countries (27th out of 29) in graduating college students with degrees in science or engineering. I'm sure they mean well -- but, at least as it applies to the field of chemistry, "1,000 Unemployed Scientists Living With Their Parents at Age 35 While Working at the Gap" would be a better name.

After earning my PhD, in chemistry, I worked in drug-discovery research for more than 20 years. Aside from being a fascinating profession, it was pretty secure -- until the last decade. Then it became anything but."

(Via [Vanishing science jobs--Josh Bloom - NYPOST.com.)

Josh Bloom's experience on his side of STEM hits REALLY close to home. It pretty much played out the same with MOST of the tech companies in the 90s and 00s.. except for Google and Apple. Now you know why Windows, and most tech inherently sucks. It's the Microsoft model of outsourcing, offshoring, mergers and acquisitions. Mostly due to the 'vision' of Mr. MBA Ballmer.

It's one thing when your cheapy computer crashes. What about your parents, given the "quality" of offshore-researched drugs? America, land of the cheap, reap what you sow, Boomers, yada yada, right?

And what about these out of work STEM folks? As Josh asserts, why aren't they teaching our kids?

"So, what's my solution? Well, Scientific American could tap 1,000 scientists from the pool of the unemployed and bring them into schools. When the kids keep getting the same answer to the question "Where do you work?" they'll figure it out.

We don't need more scientists -- not unless there are jobs for them."

(Via [Vanishing science jobs--Josh Bloom - NYPOST.com.)

I wonder if Vivek Wadhwa can sleep at night, faced with the glaring reality of what STEM in the USA has become, instead of whining about "innovation", tech bubbles & 'startup visas.'

We do not need Fraudy's concept of 'innovation'... unless we'd like to 'innovate' ourselves into the ground. Nor do we need more 'immigrants' who will be discarded as expediently as the locals have before them.

Drunky out.

Michio Kaku Joins the Slavery 2.0-"Brain Drain" Movement to Whore his Lame Book (updated)

(UPDATE: So why would Michio McScience big up H1Bs? Why, to increase the sales of his new, "mixed reviews because of filler" book. Don't believe me? Here's the lame talking point right here in the book itself.)

In a move that's rivaled only by the baseless threats of the Goldman Sachs and others who collected bailout & paid bonuses, now we have Michio Kaku carrying water for the Slavery 2.0 / H1B crowd and threatening the downfall of the USA because of that tired mantra, 'brain drain':

"Without the H1B, the scientific establishment of this country would collapse.  Forget about Google!  Forget about Silicon Valley!  There would be no Silicon Valley without the H1B.  And you know what the H1B is?  It’s the genius visa.  Okay?  You realize that in the United States, 50% of all PhD candidates are foreign born.  At my system, one of the biggest in the United States, 100% of the PhD candidates (in physics) are foreign born.

The United States is a magnet sucking up all the brains of the world, but now the brains are going back.  They’re going back to China; they’re going back to India.  And people are saying, “Oh, my God, there’s a Silicon Valley in India now!”  “Oh, my God, there’s a Silicon Valley in China!”  Duh!  Where did it come from?  It came from the United States.  So don’t tell me that science isn’t the engine of prosperity.

You remove the H1B visa and you collapse the economy."

(Via How come the scientific establishment of the United States hasn’t collapsed? Because it has a secret weapon. | SciGuy | a Chron.com blog.)

Yeah, Kaku-kun, you vill collapse a 3 war no jobs economy if you give up zee slaves.

"I say sir! If you give up the negro slaves in the fields COTTON WILL NO LONGER BE KING!" That's Kaku's argument give or take a hundred years with a different set of serfs.

Vivek Wadhwa was right. The H1B is too toxic to talk about, it's time for a 'real academic' like HorseDeer 馬鹿 Kaku to parrot his talking points about brain so-called drain.

Riddle me this, Dr. Kaku: If all the jobs are taken up by foreigners, why would any American student put money into a STEM education if the resulting debt cannot be serviced?

Why would any American STEM scientist work in in science for a country that has forsaken them for foreigners of questionable ability. Certainly NOT the 'best & brightest?' They wouldn't, and THAT is why you have SO MANY QUANTS on WallStreet. Working on THOSE types of weapons.

"Brain Drain" is a sham, boys & girls. We're not entitled to those brains. As I've said before, there's culture & family that requires these kids to go home and get married. Why would they 'hang around' shriveled old white Boomer managers? Or Oyaji Kaku? To 'do what they're told?' Riiiiiiiiiiiiight.

We should be exporting our values when these students graduate & go back to improve their own home countries. I'm looking at you, Chinese, Japanese, and especially you, Indian kids. Your host countries in the West do not need another Groupon or Facebook clone-- or worse-- YOU helping their increasingly repressive governments make more DARPA bullshit technology.

The next drone that kills YOUR OWN people or the next Internet kill switch that prevents FREE SPEECH could be made by YOUR OWN HAND. And chickenshitting yourself a into WallStreet Quant career does not absolve you. On that point I agree with my little NASSCOM sahib Vivek Wadhwa.

That's why I'm pissed off at Horse.Deer.Kaku. He should know better, if senility hasn't set in. GREED certainly has.

The USA's largest export is war. Instead of ideas. Remember when it used to be the other way around? Good times!

Oh, and Michio Kaku? You should be ASHAMED for contributing to this agenda. And doubly ashamed to promote a lame book on the bodies of American STEM workers.

Drunky out.

Shopliftin' Skippy McLogic Vivek McKundra Calls it Quits

It was only a matter of time:

" The first person ever appointed as the CIO of the federal government, Vivek Kundra, is resigning after two and a half years on the job, the White House said Thursday.

There was no hint in the announcement made by Jack Lew, director of the Office of Management and Budget, that Kundra's exit was prompted by a shift in the White House's view on IT.

Lew, who praised the CIO's work, said Kundra was leaving to take a fellowship at Harvard."

(Via Obama's CIO quits - Computerworld.)

So where exactly is Skippy going?

Lew said Kundra will move to Harvard in mid-August to serve as a joint fellow at the Kennedy School and at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. "We are planning for a smooth transition," said Lew.

(Via Obama's CIO quits - Computerworld.)

I mean seriously. Take a look at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society-- it's been a while since I've seen a this much Web 2.0 masturbation.

In fact it reminds me a lot of the questionable things Vivek not Kundra but Wadhwa did to build his cred: Starting from spoiled young desi douchbag roots in Australia to failing as entrepreneur to scummy UC Berkeley lecturer to Duke University Ivyiot 'expert' slash NASSCOM shill.

So. Here we go again. From Skippy's Shoplifting start to being 'put on leave' for bribery on his watch to becoming a Harvard Ivyiot academic fluffer to his pretty much given next move to expert shill/lobbyist, McKundra's moves show that he's following the same path as my little sahib of another surname.

Skippy will have a LOT of company: other shining shining stars of the beltway like Patriot Act co-author Michael Chertoff, former Head of the DHS, who is now employed as a lobbyist by Rapiscan, a division of Hindiot Corp OSI to help them sell cancerous pornscanners to the agency he himself once lead.

Maybe since they now run in the same Ivyiot circles 'the two Viveks' can swap stories about M1 Bullets, cheap labor, and 'questionable desi ethics.'

Remember kids: It doesn't matter that Skippy grew up here or that he's a NeoCon. What matter is the fruit of his (spoiled, negligent, ethically challenged) labors.

Drunky out.

"Don't Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses" Says Intelligence Squared US Immigration Debate Audience - Business - Press Releases - msnbc.com

Sometimes these blog entries just write themselves. After all, if we must grant blanket amnesty & citizens' rights to lawbreakers in the United States, what's the value of the rule of law?

If we just allow anyone in to lowball the locals in a time of really high unemployment, then what's the value of citizenship?

Like my favorite lobbyist Vivek Wadhwa, the 'immigration at any cost' folks on the panel trotted out their favorite talking points'... and didn't fare so well this time:

"With the first anniversary of Arizona's illegal immigrant law just behind us, last night's debate at Intelligence Squared US, 'Don't give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses', was a rousing, heated exchange on the nation's hottest issue. According to live audience voting, the Kobach/Tancredo team made the more convincing argument by moving the most audience votes to their side at the end of the evening although the Castro/Jacoby team carried 52% of the final vote."

(Via "Don't Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses" Says Intelligence Squared US Immigration Debate Audience - Business - Press Releases - msnbc.com.)

Despite the encouraging signs among the undecided of the audience in a real sample, I fear that it's too late for anyone seeking work over the age of 45. So maybe the Boomers will have no choice but to be cast aside --as they did to the youngs of our country.

If you ARE a young, no matter where you stand, I encourage you to see this debate. This is what the older lobbyists & politicos are debating in the back rooms of DC. And what, in 3-5 years you'll have to live through when you enter the job market to pay off the sins of the (Boomer) past.

Drunky out.

Vivek Wadhwa: Strangely 'Right' on Education? A Nice Guy? This time, Yes!

So kids, it's your Uncle Drunky. Yes, THIS is my 'advice to you about education and going to a foreign country' post. Having done it a number of times. The education thing too. This is a loooong one so bear with me.

I'm kinda scratching my head about my favorite little sahib, Vivek Wadhwa. Who'da thunk? He's actually a nice if harmless academic 'in real life' if you go by these tweets (reversed, of course):

.@auerswald I would readily invest my life savings in providing my children best possible education also. Am talking about them taking debt
8:26 PM May 5th via TweetDeck

@qohort Everyone should get education. But if you can't afford $50K/year from Stanford, why not go to Berkeley or SF State?
8:39 PM May 5th via TweetDeck in reply to qohort

For the record, I would go into debt to get the best education I could--or my children could get. Even though this isn't cost justified.
8:49 PM May 5th via TweetDeck

How is that for contradicting myself real-time? I'm speaking about economics vs. lifetime value.
8:51 PM May 5th via TweetDeck

All my usual sarcasm aside, I recommend my younger readers to seriously look at this part of his timeline on Twitter. It's one of the few times we see Vivek Wadhwa the Professor, and not the lobbyist for India, Inc.

When I read these tweets I see the same 'parental calculus' (fancy words for 'oh shit, I don't want to tell the kids that, because it's a trap I faced') that I got from my own elders when I started off. So let me relate what I know, bearing in mind that YOU have to "make up your own damn minds."

There's ONE 'school of thought' that you SHOULD go into debt as soon as possible, because you'll be paying off that debt later with 'cheaper' inflated money. You know how things were cheaper just 3 years ago? Gas? Starbucks? What if you could pay those debts off with 'today's money?' Sounds GREAT, doesn't it? No!

Now I'll tell you why that model falls flat: It's called 'compound interest', boys and girls. Your debt is not 'linear' like owing your friends a bit extra on a loan. They're COMPOUND in that they accumulate every day, POUNDING you into the ground when you don't pay them off, and they grow at an exponential rate. Learn the difference between SIMPLE (linear) and COMPOUND (exponential) interest, and you'll see why anyone with a brain does NOT hold credit card debt. That the US Debt is compounded at US$14T every day should boggle your mind.

Compound interest is how the banks make money out of air off your young backs. It's also how & why American Universities have no problem having an AMEX or VISA rep in front of EVERY college bookstore without fail. "Easy monthly payments" as they're called here in the US. Anything but!

The other thing is that colleges are now strapped for funds (too many perks for useless administrators, no salary for teachers, etc) so your tuition & book prices are hyper-inflated. Last time I went to a small town campus bookstore they were selling a classic programming book from 1988, Kernighan & Richie ANSI C for over $50. I've seen it on Amazon for 10 times less. Other books that were $40 in my time are now $150-- or, generous them, the college will RENT the book to you for $50. It's a scam.

Now I don't want to discourage you from pursuing your dream. But what I *DO* want to say is that this dream better be your obsession. It better keep you up at night.

It *should* be something that can help you and your family achieve growth in the LONG TERM. And that's not some "innovative" Facebook clone or another way to scrape the web of data.

What you are doing in going to college is learning how to think. I agree with Vivek in that you should get a bachelor's degree, or even an associate's. But these degrees are a start to your life. MAYBE after a few years with some practical experience under your belt you may opt for a Master's degree. But mostly you're learning how to re-tool yourself to the new things that are coming.

Personally, I studied East Asian Languages and Economics from a smaller college as Vivek suggests. Some 15 years later I have a solid background in Infosec, some Unix programming, and web development. The rest of that, I learned myself. And college was the start of that. If you have a fire or drive to really be something: a journalist, a programmer, then by all means GO FOR IT!! Many folks do not have the drive and should.. stop and reconsider.

But if you're JUST doing it 'for the money' you're setting yourself up for big time FAIL. There are a number of displaced Americans working off over US$100,000 to $200,000 of compounding debt, never 'getting ahead'. It may take them DECADES to work it off, or they may default on the debt. They'll NEVER have the 'American Dream' of a house because.. um, if you default, you do not get a loan. No loan, no house. Or even car. I know a number of folks back east in this situation.

If you do emigrate to another country, even the United States, expect flack from the locals. This is true in your country, right? Americans are really no different, EVEN IF they behave 'nicely' on the surface. In that we are all the same. As a shining example I give you the mobs that celebrated what's looking like the execution of Usama (Osama, yeah right) bin Laden. Maybe if they were more educated they would not approve. In fact, some do not, and have seen past US globalist deceit when it's SO OBVIOUS to anyone paying attention.

The globalists are intensely lazy. They do not want to spend money going to the 'emerging markets' --they want YOU to COME to THEM -- accumulate debt, and become a wage slave at a fraction the cost of a local. You cannot hop jobs. But you CAN displace a local whether you can do the job or not. This serves NO ONE except the employer.

Whether you get a green card or not? They do not care. THAT is why there are folks here who have been in 'limbo' for years. Some decades.

That is why there is so much H1B and other VISA fraud, including this new StartUp VISA. It will be abused just like the rest at YOUR expense.

That is why the fraudulent 'body shops' ply their trade.

That is why corporations indenture youngs like you because a 'visa' is considered a perk.

And THAT is why I am so much down on this 'nice Professor' whose agenda became leading young from overseas down a primrose path of VISA slavery.

If you could read to the end of this looooooooong screed, you should continue your education. But take the advice of a nice old professor and a drunk uncle-- and more importantly that of your elders: be pragmatic and have some common sense when you go about continuing your education.

Make your dream happen. Help your family, your friends, your town. That's all that really matters in the end.

That's it, kids. Your Uncle Drunky is out!

Long-Prized Tech Visas Lose Cachet - WSJ.com

What with the stagnant economy among other things, it looks like the worm is starting to turn for beleaguered geeks and other victims of H1B slavery. Ron Hira, of the Rochester Institute of Technology, finally getting some press:

At the House Subcommittee on Immigration, a critic of the program, Ronil Hira, highlighted that Indian companies operating in the U.S., such as Infosys, Tata and Wipro, are among the biggest H-1B users, and that they're bringing in foreigners with ordinary skills.

In an interview, Mr. Hira, a professor of public policy at Rochester Institute of Technology, said that 'because of loopholes, employers can bring in cheaper foreign workers to substitute for American workers and undercut their wages.'

His research indicates only about a third of all H-1B visa holders are 'really highly skilled or graduates of U.S. universities who would be eventually sponsored for green cards,' or permanent U.S. residency, by their employers. Employers have said that the program enables them to tap top talent, whom they seek to hire permanently down the road."

(Via Long-Prized Tech Visas Lose Cachet - WSJ.com.)

Of course, my little sahib Vivek '#Fraudhwa' Wadhwa had his day in the sun. But he didn't say anything we don't already know.

It's a shame. Wadhwa the academic seems to be a nice guy. Fraudhwa the NASSCOM lobbyist? That's another matter.

Drunky out.

It's Raining Hindutva Desi Douchebags... I mean, Criminals

Before I launch into my next screed about the education bubble & college, this is one for all those H1B-wannabes who will 'pay' $20K+ to some dubious Desi so that they can pursue the so-called 'American Dream.'

Here's the message: The hippies in the US government have woken up. Youtube:

And the main story:

"DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Two men, who ran a software company in Clinton, Iowa, are expected to be sentenced on charges they committed visa fraud to bring foreign workers to the U.S.

Fazal Mehmood and Viheet Maheshwari have pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to make false statements and commit visa fraud in connection with several applications to bring foreign workers to the U.S. under H-1B Visas.

Mehmood and Maheshwari ran companies called Worldwide Software Services and Sana Systems.

Federal prosecutors say they applied for H-1B Visas for foreign workers that contained false statements about their jobs and work locations. For instance, they told the government that employees would be working as programmers and analysts, but those jobs did not exist after they arrived in the U.S.

Sentencing is Wednesday at the federal courthouse in Davenport."

(Via 2 men to be sentenced in work visa fraud case - Yahoo! Finance.)

When your Uncle Drunky was in East Asia, specifically China & Japan, he'd be out at night, in the rain, looking for an international phone to call home. 17-19 hour time difference and all.

Anyway, I'd sometimes have pidgin talk with the Philipinas, Africans, Iranians, and other slave labor that these Asian countries would bring in.

Stories like-

"I've got big debt back home with the loan sharks, about US$20K."

"They have my passport and handle everything. I have about four more years to pay off the debt. I've been here for six."

"I can't really talk about it to outsiders. If I do it'll be trouble for me."

These stories and more, being crammed 20 to a 6 person apartment, being moved around a lot, yes, I heard stories. The Jap Yakuza were the worst.

But one thing stood out: these folks chose freely, in their own countries, to be trafficked. And, once in the 'host country,' their choices became severely limited. But yes, some of these folks consented to be repeatedly trafficked. One of the repeaters I knew had a university education.

What I wrote about the Chinese, Japanese, and Indians? And how they deal with each other? Some of it came from these street level experiences back in the day that I'd rather forget.

So when I hear about these Desi Bodyshop Hindutva scum, and what they're doing: To their own people, and the results in my country I think just one thing: Prison or Deportation's too good for them.

Human Traffickers should be dealt with the way the Chinese deal with them: One bullet charged to the family, hold the 'M-1'.

It's also why an increasing number of Americans are raising questions against the Desi Donald Rumsfeld Vivek Wadwha, for promoting tripe like the 'Start Up VISA as if it were the 'American Dream'...

...when it ends in human trafficking and labor arbitrage.

-Drunky out.

H1B Slavery: View from the Inside

Hello kids, it's your Uncle Drunky. Live and direct I bring you a unique perspective of Slavery 2.0. From the inside. If you're an American, unless you're a Boomer, sit down and have your painkiller handy.

Sorry for the length, it would have been very easy for me to cut this up into something 'incriminating' ala Fox News. That is not my intent. I want you to see the motivation as to why H1B slaves would come over to the USA -- rushing down the primrose path laid by the Boomers & corrupt Hindutva shills like Vivek Wadhwa and his snake oil selling of Entreporn.

In a nutshell, 'Everybody's doing it, pile on!'::

"This is typical 'Sab kuch chalta hai' desi attitude. I've gone through my share of visa pangs after completing Masters. The same year Infosys applied H1-B visa for a close relative. My relative got the visa with supreme ease and never boarded the plane to come to USA. Infosys applied for a visa 'just in case' a project came up. As much as I respect Narayan Murty and company for the commendable work they have done to make India the most sought after destination for Information Technology services, it makes me terribly sad to see such abusive practices by bellwethers of Indian IT.

Last week I learned about Cognizant's EB1 practices. A namesake Project Manager who over-promised the client (my company) and rode the consultants to breaking point, has no communication or managerial skills whatsoever, is qualified to apply under EB1. For lack of a better word the guy is a thug. He would ask for farmaish of songs (ask his consultants to suggest songs) after 11.00 PM and say things like, 'you are being entertained, so do your work'. All this while I had a balanced thought process and gave benefit of doubt when it came to certain practices. Now, after spending close to a decade in this country with a Masters and advanced management degree I'm still stuck in line for my legalization process, which is held hostile by anti-immigration community or Congress that gives more importance to discussing equine euthanasia over legalizing people like me. And on the other hand these thugs from Infosys and Cognizant who haven't paid taxes for two full years walk away with a Green Card. Every time I hear about EB1 fraud, I feel someone just kicked me hard in my gut.

Ratting people out is not a solution. A relative who is much younger than me (in terms of number of years of experience) is planning to apply under EB1 by claiming that he is a Project Manager. Let alone people management. The guy has not done anything other than coding C++ and SQL. He is trying to play nice with HR so that they can fudge his credentials.

The way I look at it; if you leave money on the table then everybody would want it. That is what has happened with H1-B fraud, L1 fraud, Green card fraud, all those New Jersey and Bay Area consulting company frauds. If we would have known where to draw the line on misusing the system then Senator Grassley and company would have left us alone. Don't blame them because we fucked up. Own up to our mistakes and live with the consequences. These guys are rightfully squeezing our balls. If you shamelessly took state minimum 65K in paycheck and another 40K in cash transactions and not pay taxes on that then you have no fucking right to complain that American system is broken, blah, blah, blah

We behave like locusts. We rape an option that is provided us to us and move to the next one and the next one until all resources run out. And when that happens we start feeding on each other (EB3 porting, Telugu vs. others, South Indian vs. North Indian). Come on guys, there is a limit to being disgusting. This has to stop on multiple fronts. "

(Via B1 Visa Misuse at Infosys - Immigration Voice.)

Hat tip to 'Ankit Prasad' over at Live N Exist for the linguistic insight. I humbly suggest that any American who's 'stay at home' read this entire IV thread. If you wanted to know what 'human trafficking' is, well...there you are.

Sad to say, this attitude of 'self-centered, en masse, like locusts' dovetails perfectly with the white, liberal Boomers that infest the HR offices of Corporate America-in-name-only. We hear far too much from the 'masters'... tho' now that you've heard from the slaves, who were invited, what do you think of this mess??

Now do you see why I show sarcastic contempt for Hindutva Slavery 2.0 Lobbyists like Vivek Wadhwa & collaborators like "Mumbai" Don Tennant?

Next blog entry is my advice to the H1B'ers. And no, it's not just 'stay out of my country.' That's too easy, and caters to the elites.

Drunky out.

Why is the DHS Lobbying Against USCIS & Americans over H1B Visas?

Today comes yet another attempt by... well, I'll get to that... but it's to resurrect 'VISA reform' to drive down wages & filler'up with Slaves for the 'new economy. It's a yawner worthy of Vivek Wadhwa until you get to two things: One, the punchline:

"The effort to pass the DREAM Act — focusing on those undocumented aliens seeking to enlist in our armed forces or get an education — was in that same spirit. But with that attempt having failed, the visa cap provides another opportunity."

(Via End visa cap on experts - The Boston Globe.)

And Two, just who is putting their name on this copypasta:

Juliette Kayyem, a guest columnist, is former homeland security adviser for Massachusetts and most recently served as assistant secretary at the US Department of Homeland Security.

Former my green posterior. There is no 'former' when you deal with the Feds.

The plot thickens as Ron Hira, of the Rochester Institute of Technology enters the fray. Even he doesn't buy it:

rhira wrote:
It is remarkable that an "expert" who had a high post in DHS doesn't have the basic facts correct. The public should be skeptical about our best and brightest making phony statements about serious policy issues, especially when they are either ignorant or hoping the public is. Where are the editors in these debates?

See the following two statements:
"There is a hard cap on the number of high-skilled (and often US-educated) workers under the H1B visa system; a cap that was filled by US companies in nine months in 2009, and in a matter of days in more prosperous 2008 and 2007."

This is factually incorrect. There are employers that are exempt from any cap. So, it isn't a "hard" cap.

"At MIT alone in the last decade, 53 assistant professors were able to stay in this country on an H1B visa."

MIT is one of those exempt employers and none of the 53 assistant professors were subject to any cap.

Ron Hira
RIT
(via 02/27/2011 10:35 EST

Let that bake as we hear from another REAL STEM person, who has figured out that these H1Bs bring nothing more than 'cheap' to the table:

ronp wrote:
"Juliette Kayyem wants to remove the cap on H1-B visa program because the scientists and engineers on this visa cannot take her job away! I am a US citizen and an experienced PhD chemist. I lost my job in a drug company three years ago. I have not been able to get a similar job. Currently I have a contract job that pays me 25% less than my earlier salary. Most of the good jobs that opened up during the last three years went to H1-B visa holders. Most of these jobs went to docile Chinese who are eager to settle down in USA and hence are willing to work hard for low wages. Yes, the H1 visa is about keeping wages down. Hey, may be the companies should hire foreigners on H1-B visa for the positions of CEOs and other management staff. They can save a huge bundle on salaries and other perks! I wonder what these greedy corporations will do fifty years from now when the foreign scientists and engineers graduate from American universities and go back to their own countries."

(via 2/28/2011 1:09 PM EST)

As I covered back in 2009, these students will go home ANYWAY for marriage or filial piety reasons.

So the real question is, what does the DHS want with foreign students? Who, when they graduate will be saddled with crushing (college) debt? Personally I have my own conclusion, and I do not think you'd like the answer, especially if you happen to be one of these students 'on the hook.'

First we have Vivek Wadhwa shamelessly pushing his tired, old debunked schtick in a PR package for NBC and their parent corp, General Electric, aka 'Generally Outsourcing'.

Now we have the DHS, a Federal agency pretty much in lockstep doing the same. Is this really America?

Ladies & Gentlemen, Boys & Girls.. Citizens & Immigrants... we are being played. Students are not being sent home to spread our values, instead they are RETAINED here as slaves while we EXPORT our soldiers to 'spread our values' at the end of a gun.

This is NOT 'win the future'.. this is WIRED TO FAIL.

Drunky out.

P.S. Don't tell me it's just her opinion. These things have to be cleared, "former" nothing)

P.P.S. The tie-ins with NBC - GE's other property 'Outsourcing' are there and desperate. Given that it's so offensive to normal Americans it's hardly surprising that many think it will be cancelled.

P.P.P.S. Why are GE and NBC so desperate? The answer as always is M & A, bad money after bad.

Wannabe 'Expert' Vivek Wadhwa smears Quora. Humiliated by a *Real* VC!

Perhaps you're wondering who pissed in my little sahib's cheerios this morning. Maybe it's all the flack he's gotten over a half-assed smear piece he wrote about Quora, in order to 'establish' himself there.

Well, since I'm just as much of a partygoer with QA-fora as the next John Galt, I chipped in that I know about my wuvable little sahib:

When dealing with any Vivek Wadhwa post, nay, any post from an academic it helps to read it like a book report: beginning and punchline:

Let me start with a disclaimer: I am not writing this in my capacity as a university professor or researcher; I don’t claim to be an expert on social networking; and I will be happy to be proven wrong—

..and yet he commits poison pen to paper. Or finger to keyboard. Okay, TL d' DR... until we get to the punchline:

Why do the Silicon Valley elite believe that everyone will flock to a U.S.-based tech site like Quora?

Please note that the italics are his and not mine. The whole point of his book report was to hit quora because it did not come from India or China.

That is, if it's not from Hyderabad, it's...bad. He basically made up this straw man about HIS "expectations" of Quora and then knocked it down -- like the last time he tried to do anything in SV.

Wadhwa is the Cramer of Tech. Arrington gave him life, and he's been 'prolific' ever since.

Other than that: You guys still take Scoble seriously. Cute.

(via Uncle Drunky's answer to the obvious tag/pageview whoring on Quora)

I suppose we shouldn't get into using your own students to impersonate Quora users or flagrant violations of their TOS. But hey, even SV heavies like Michael Wolfe ain't buyin' it. Srsly, everyone including Fraudy's students should read this utter pownage of my little sahib:

"I’m not comfortable with this kind of tone and try to avoid it, but I thought that if I were ever going to try it out and see what kind of reaction it got, this would be the place to do it.

(And now that I’ve seen Robert Scoble’s severed head on Quora Review, I’m a bit less worried that I’ve crossed a line!)

My irk is this:

Vivek has a tremendous platform: his TechCrunch distribution gets him in front of millions of users, and his academic credentials give him authority and credibility (maybe not to you guys, but you have some background here). But he starts the article with a half-assed disclaimer ‘I am not an expert’ that let’s him cave later if he is wrong, write a poorly-reasoned piece, but still leverage his enormous pulpit.

He then makes no effort to make his article even internally consistent. He does none of the background research or anticipate any of the obvious counter arguments, then lays out a blanket insult of all of SV as being clueless dilettantes out of touch with what plays on main street, right after he himself essentially says main street is too dumb to spend time reading, research, writing, and upvoting good content.

There are good arguments against Quora, but he makes none of them."

(Via A response to Mr. Wadhwa « The Quora Review.)

Serious confidential to my little sahib: You've been doing this for years. When are you going to settle down to a tenured position in Berkeley with a wife & kids & the curry colored picket fence? Will Berkeley not have you?

-Drunky out.

PS. Love that image of Scoble's severed head. I'm liking this Wolfe guy already.

My Little Sahib Vivek Wadhwa: Keepin' it Classy with ETHICS

Shock! My little sahib! (Feigned) outrage over teh Ethicks!

@RickBullotta Reason for anger in my tweets - implications I had done something unprofessional/unethical. I would never compromise ethics. about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck in reply to RickBullotta

Oh really? After this, this, oh heck, et's just bomb the keywords THIS?

Hey, let's not forget my FAVORITE one, about teh M1 Bullets, life in danger schtick. Or maybe this time-tested 'Is it a PhD, or 8th grade on the Flesch reading scale?

But hey, let's hope you can squeeze in 5 more non-tenured positions by the end of the year, eh?

-Drunky

"The Elements of Style (4th Edition)" (William Strunk, E. B. White)

Vivek Wadhwa, "Hacker", Flauntin' n Flautin' Chicom Law : UPDATE

UPDATE: Mess with the best, die like the rest! My little sahib's twit-tah is back to normal, but:

In Malaysia , out of the clutches of the wretched Chinese firewall! Happy Diwali.less than 20 seconds ago via Echofon

Mysteriously, my laptop stopped working after all my attempts to get around China firewall. Win 7 won't load! Fortunately I have backup.11:43 PM Nov 4th via Echofon

Moral of the story: Take that little Chinese boy with you. He can fix ur Windows!

###

You have to hand it to my little sahib, he's a citizen of the world, and no 'Great Firewall of China' nor outting a Beijing University student is going to stop him from twatting. Read from the bottom:

• ruchitgarg @vwadhwa once a hacker always a hacker :) good luck, i hope chinese authorities doesnt come after you. 10 minutes ago via Seesmic Desktop in reply to vwadhwa Retweeted by vwadhwa
• RT @mcurie: @vwadhwa You shouldn't have tweeted that. Now the authorities will hound that poor student out>he will be ok. We're offsite 9 minutes ago viaEchofon
• vtel001 @vwadhwa Tsinghua rocks We look forward to your TC article about innovation scenario in China, relative to US, Japan, Israel, Brazil & India 23 minutes ago via web Retweeted by vwadhwa and 1 other
• .@cerventus I am leaving Kuala Lumpur for Bangalore on Monday afternoon. Just at event till about noon. 19 minutes ago via Echofon in reply to cerventus
• RT @adityakirang: @vwadhwa how did he crack it???>students here use VPN servers to evade firewall. They are used to censorship 21 minutes ago via Echofon
• RT @landay: . @vwadhwa when/where is talk?>I am teaching 3 hour long class at Tsinghua at 6:30 pm today. Lunch with local entrepreneurs soon 23 minutes agovia Echofon
• .@simonlim88 I am attending the Mad incubator networking event that Toto us at on Monday in Kuala Lumpur 24 minutes ago via Echofon in reply to simonlim88
• Had a student help me crack the China firewall so I could use Twitter! At Tsinghua University. Chinese can't access Facebook or YouTube also 26 minutes ago viaEchofon
• Teaching at Tshingua, Beijing on Thursday evening. Meeting entrepreneurs on campus Thurs/Friday. Look forward to meeting students... 7:15 AM Nov 2nd viaTweetDeck

Smooth move, my little Ex-Lax Sahib. And I thought you were a 'geek.' Methinks "Vivek" also means über.Dumb in Hindii. Either that, or 'Economic Hitman without a clue.'

Here is a prime example of Indu 'Superior Intellect'. And how good Indians are with infosec:

You think Chicom SysAdms cannot correlate logs to public twats? Or that they will be 'delayed' by bureaucracy? Nuh-Uh. Some ex- or current- Honker Union gangsta's prolly on those logs. Right. NOW. So what if you're using a cell.. actually Echofon? An iPhone? With aGPS? Wow, you are *dumb*. Here's a little hint: iPhone, UUID, aGPS. Cell tower triangulation. Your timestamped public twat(s) mentioning a localized area. Dum dum DUM!

Word to the NSA. You wanna see what Chicom dissident proxy-punched Twitter home pages look like? Now's your chance. Get it while it's DUMB.

Oh well, maybe Barry can bail him out on the way to Japan. Big pimpin in AF1, yo! You can meet up with Vivek Kundra! A Vivek bifecta!

-Drunky, friend to Chinese but not all Chicoms, including ones who help your sworn enemy. OUT.

"Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)" (Neal Stephenson)

Vivek Wadhwa's Anticlimatic Anti-American Tour! In November!

Now that his newly hyphenated country seems to be waking up to his blatant lies on this side of the ocean, Vivek Wadhwa, India Inc's lobbyist in American residence, if not their most prominent "Economic Hitman" wannabe is taking his message of "India good, all others bad" on the road. At least if you judge him by his twats. He seems to have a very full November in places that do not share US interests:

Accepted invite by Pres. of Okinawa Institute of Science and Tech to visit on Oct 6/7. Look forward to meeting Japanese followers there!4:50 PM Aug 19th via TweetDeck

Ah, so the first whistle stop on the India Inc tour is those Ryuukuu residing rabble rousers. Ah, Okinawa, the thorn in Japan's side, the final nail in the coffin of the previous PM of Japan -- for not pushing the USA to remove military bases fast enough despite having a mischievous neighbor to the north & west who lobs missiles into the Sea of Japan... a great place to start stirring the pot, if not pro-India, then anti-America.

Tip for making friends: Ask the locals what a 'Soapland' is!

Also accepted invite to give a keynote at NASSCOM in Bangalore in Nov. First time I am meeting NASSCOM people or attending their events.4:52 PM Aug 19th via TweetDeck

Ah, it seems that the NASSCOM Don of the main Bharati Mafia finally wants to meet India Inc's first native EHM (Economic Hitman) face to face and cheek to cheek!

We've all seen 'The Godfather' enough to know why my little sahib is going to see his masters in the flesh: he's risen to prominence and is up for promotion. Summoned to the Main Office. A doff of my skullcap to you, my little sahib. But I think you'll be headed back to the Bangs after your next stop:

Teaching a class on entrepreneurship at Tsinghua University in Beijing in November. Hope to meet Chinese followers while I am there!4:53 PM Aug 19th via TweetDeck

No doubt my little sahib will try the EHM thing on the Chinese, but hist! I think those tales of 'Chindia' will fall on slightly more seasoned, bemused, hand-picked ears. Be sure that you do not tell them about the JooJoo! Mum!

The Chinese probably also promised not to bring up why Apple won't use India for R, D, or manufacturing. But it'll be a nice little junket for you, my little sahib: Now you get to see why China will use India to wipe the floor of the world.

Don't believe me? Pick up this month's Economist. The China-India special is to die for.

Ah, America. There was a reason Australia kicked my little sahib to the curb. But we proud Americans, & her back east / beltway Ivyiots like Mumbai Don Tennant never learn. Le Sigh.

-Drunky out.

[Really, really recommend this as inflight reading for my little sahib]

"Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" (John Perkins)

Vivek Wadhwa: Fraudy Cat scared! Selling his iPad! Linkbait! Drama!

You just can't make this up. The Hindustani PT Barnum of our Time(sm), Vivek Wadhwa is officially scared.

Of his own iPad. And Apple fanatics. A sharp-eyed Drunkeh reader points your bad uncle Drunkeh to this gem:

Dear friends, No you can’t have my iPads. They are for sale! can J Apple fans are more fanatical than the xenophobes I get death threats from. Expecting some scathing comments!

[From Vivek Wadhwa Tries Linkbaiting With The Help Of iPads]

This is a wonderful dissection of my little sahib by someone other than yours truly. If you do not read Mr. Punkish then, by Vishnu, the terrorists & $AAPL fanboys win!

Just one question: What's a 'can J'..? Blue J? J League? J Crew? These are all very scary things indeed containing this menacing letter *J*.

Oh, my little Sahib. No wonder you're seeing things. First Apple fanboys, and now unicorns in the mail. That, and I guess you'll have to find a new schtick because even those hicks in Nyew Yawk ain't fallin' fer it.

Le *sigh*. Carry on, sally forth, and 'bolster' yourself, my little Sahib. And remember to use the same interns you use to sanitize your dissertations when you submit 'linkbait' to TechCrunch.

Doff of my cap and a spill of wine to Mr. Punkish for posting the original gem, later sanitized by one of Arrington's little flunkies. The funny is powerful with this one. Albeit unintentionally.

Drunky out.

[If at first you do not succeed.. misconstrue misconstrue misconstrue again....]

"How To Win Friends and Influence People" (Dale Carnegie)

Vivek Wadhwa: Fraudy Cat! "M1 Bullets!" FBI! Unicorns!

Aw, it looks like my little Sahib Vivek has been busy Dude! So busy that the Fraudy One's LIFE IS IN TEH DANGER!! ... even I can't resist blogging this /OPINION/ from "Local Tech Wire -- sayeth the Fraudy-Cat:

“As I mentioned in my last email, I gave the lunchtime keynote at the ImmigrationWorks conference in Seattle on Thursday,” Wadhwa wrote. “One thing I didn’t say in my e-mail, at the request of the FBI, was that speakers to this event received letters telling them that if they attended ‘the biggest gathering of traitors of the century,’ they would do this ‘at their own peril.’”

To bolster the threat, Wadhwa pointed out:

“Attached to the letters were M1 bullets (a carbine used in semi-automatic weapons by government and paramilitary forces). Security at the event included FBI agents and Seattle police in plain clothes, and a big bouncer at the door.”

How crazy must people be? This is absurd.

[From High-tech visa debate generates deadly threats :: The Skinny at Local Tech Wire]

How crazy (foar teh bullshit) must people be? Let's find out:

* Why are there no Seattle papers running this tripe^h^h^h^h^h story? They seem to know better.

* "M1 Bullets" - You mean .30 calibre generic plinkers that bounce off trees? That you can get from Sears? Ooooooh, SCARY. There's a UNIQUE BULLET foar the 'M1'. You learn something new every day.

* Speaking of which, Fraudy-Cat, um, the M1 Carbine (and variants) have been replaced like, twice over. They're a training gun used by retirees and 12 year-olds to shoot cans off logs. Don't believe me? J.F.Wikipedia.It. Paramilitaries? What, do you think this is India? Bwahhahahahahahahah!!

* Dude the FBI said teh no say the anything!!! Referz u to 'at request of the FBI' partz ofz schitck. Sorry, went a little 'GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD' there. Hard, HARD to resist. Much love to dat shawty!

Finally, and most damning, um, I do not think the US Postal Service would allow live ammunition through the mail. We're not like your native India that allows 61 trucks full of high explosive to up and go poofsie.

You would have been better off saying the gun was a t-16 and that your name was Vivek Womp-rat. Noooooo, and Twit-tah too? Say it isn't so, my little Womp-rat!

High-tech visa debate generates deadly threats http://bit.ly/9VS54h from @LocalTechWire about my conference last weekabout 15 hours ago via TweetDeckRetweeted by 4 people

vwadhwa

Vivek Wadhwa

Oh snap! And only ONE BLOG in North Carolina picked up this story? Probably because everyone remembers this one:

Mouth piece: Vivek Wadhwa's talent for trumpeting his company shines, but observers want to see another kind of performance. (Feature).

Ah, my little Sahib. Always the showman. Seriously, you were barred from Australia for having brown skin? *Shock*

In Season 1, you shined, everyone believing your lies and damned statistics. Tag teaming with has-been pro-globalista wannabe lobbyists like Mumbai Don Tenant.

Season 2, you grew the beard, like every other actor facing the cut.

Now in Season 3, with your ratings down, your 'life is in danger.' Somebody call that 24 guy!

T'heck with retribution. THERE WILL BE COMEDY.

YOU CANNOT RUN FROM THE FUNNY OF THE FRAUDY-CAT. Or his absurd lies. Stay bolstery, my little Sahib!

Memo to Rick Smith: Did you even vet or source this?? Oh wait, this Boomer-joker is writing about vapor like the 'immernet.' Like that even rolls off the tongue.

"This is absurd."

Indeed.

-Drunky out.

"The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead" (Max Brooks)

Been Tumblin...

Over heah: http://mindtaker.tumblr.com/

Yeah, Fraudwa's back in the game. Gonna sit back and see how much jackass he'll dish.

Drunky out.

Reading's Fundamental, Comments're Boring, Popcorn Tubs & the USCG

Since I'm getting tired of dumping my comments from other buh-logs that may be pruned, it's time to get Disqus'd:

http://disqus.com/drunkeneconomist/

Witness the top most comment, that doth not appear (anymore) in the Fake.Steve Blog. Guess Lyons doesn't like being embarassed. Pish.

Also, crib notin' to Tumblr. Just because:

http://mindtaker.tumblr.com

I'd blog some moar, but I'm too busy polishing off the OILY BUTTERY TUB of popcorn that has British Petroleum's logo on it. Top kill = yeah right.

There's SO MUCH that's already blogged elsewhere. Like Vivek not Wadhwa but KUNDRA, and his lil' klepto family keepin' it REAL (over at techinsurgent.com).

That, and Mumbai Don? Refuting what he usually takes as gospel about H1Bs?

My popcorn tub. The US Coast Guard. Something in common at last! Boggle poggle goes mah brain.

-Drunky out.

"Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" (Tim Weiner)

"Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America" (Russ Baker)

"Computer Engineer" Action Figures for the New Millenium

So. Now that Mattel basically understand that by demographics Barbie is neither white nor male, who are her 'Friends' - and by that I mean 'economic clients and competition'? First, to review:

"Computer Engineer Bâ Bí" - Trendy, Asian, Female. Covered most extensively in mah last blog post. Competes with, is better at stealing I.P. on the job, and is more competent than:

"Computer Engineer Vivek" - No, not that other guy, the name Vivek is like 'John Smith' in the homeland. Clothes: Wrinkly suit & tie, worn every day, impossibly white shirt, flip-flops or falling apart leather sandals worn to the office. Accessories: Beat-up old Thinkpad, Keychain full of small, beat up USB Thumb Drives labelled "Network Security Resumes" "SAP Specialist Resumes" "Software Engineering Resumes" and finally "Copy/Pasties from DICE"; key to apartment shared with 15 other Viveks. Unlike Bâ Bí, seems to have no skill with any computer software other than Windows XP, Frontpage, or Office. Keeps trying to 'learn Flash' because there's rupees in that.

"Corrupt NJ Judge Whopper" - He hates teh internets and eats at McDonalds. Accessories include greasy robe, slippery gavel, and penchant for injunctions against abstract things. Like 'blogs'. Shares bar tabs with his friend..

"Desi Bodyshop Overseer Ram / Ricky" - Cheap sunglasses, South Asian slave-labor contracts, and a stack of Passports ('bonded' from H1Bs). Also comes with "The New American Dictionary of Baby Names" for those occasional pesky calls from locals looking for a legitimate job.

"Mumbai Donald" - As in the last blog poste, former boyfriend to Bâ Bí above, taught her English, then dumped. Puffy resume, even puffier logic, white, old, Liberal, Boomer with a suitcase full of rupees from NASSCOM. Central themes: 'How soon to sell out is now?' or 'The Chinese are evil, so what I'm doing is okay.'

"Berkeley Professor Mader" - Or , "Doc Chod" for short, he's a slippery 'research fellow' and 'guest professor' of a number of Universities. But seriously. UC Berkeley will let anyone in, as long as they're not too pale. He shares the same penchant for having thumbdrives full of the copypasta of others, only these are labelled 'Academic Kudos', 'Consultancies', and the largest one 'Research Papers' which should be put in double double quotes. Always a 'guest blogger', never a perm, not even at the blog of the next wooden head:

"Sad Mikey" - Self styled 'Venture Capitalist', actually trust fund baby from the 'bay, boned by a Tamil who renamed & then ran with his idea for vaporous hardware that used to sound like 'munch-sad'. The new vapors now sound like 'Poo-Poo', available real soon, say, before your next bowel movement.

The last three (in)action figures, being male all have 'kung-fu grip'.. but only to the optional 'blogger keyboard' accessory. And remember, you can use these molds for like, 25 years because these pieces of plastic are never going away.

Greetings for the day!!

Mentok out.

"Barbie My Favorite Career Vintage Miss Astronaut Barbie Doll" (Mattel)

The End of Influence: What Happens [UC Berkeley Prof gets an Advance]

So, Alternet posts this article Stephen S Cohen (who? Oh, another yob from UC Berkeley like Vivek Wadhwa) about how we're giving away our ducat to the 3rd world, basically China & India. Talk about painfully obvious; I just had to comment:

I humbly recommend the Drunky Doctrine, since the Neo-(Whoever.Boomers) are out of ideas:

http://mindtaker.blogspot.com/2010/02/drunky-doctrine-how-to-clean-up.html

Simple. The Boomers are trying to mess with China by beefing up India. Old, tired coldwar idea.

We need to go Protectionist like EVERY OTHER COUNTRY and then move from there.

Dismantle the whole ’ship everything, including our $$$$ off to China and India’.

Impose tariffs not only on Imports, but imported students and labor. BIG tariffs.

Why aren’t we cashing in? Because the Neo Cons and Libs are MORONS.

We don’t have a ’Bankster’ problem. We have a ’Boomster’ problem. Basically a generation that spurned their parents and eat their young. They are a cancer on our society.

[Comment on The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have America's Money | World | AlterNet]

We wouldn't have this problem if more of the money supply STAYED INSIDE THE COUNTRY. When did balance of trade go out the window for these yobs?

There. Now you don't have to read that stuffy tenured-professor tome. In fact, don't even kill the tree for this, I'm sure it'll show up in Google Docs or be a PDF in your Trashcan, really really soonish. Seriously:

Get our kids into the pipeline, and start double and triple charging foreigners for our knowledge. That should give the Universities enough money unless the faculty or volleyball team gets into a sexual harassment lawsuit and has to pay hush-hush. Think that won't happen at any Uni? There's a little site called 'texting while intoxicated' l'd like to show you. Hah.

Furthermore, war is inevitably coming. We need to choose the winning horse, that is, China. And cut a deal. As Cohen mentions offhandedly, we're into China bigtime-- how do you erase that kind of debt?

Either cut a deal with the lender or destroy them. It works ALL THE TIME. Just look at the last 200 years of our country and what we did inside our borders and out. China still can't project power much beyond theirs. We can change that either way. Having them as a partner and an ally is less painful. And they know it.

Anyway, Powell's writeup is actually less of a yawner than Alternet's excerpt of the tome itself.

I wonder if the Neo-Libs of Alternet will take this to heart? I'm thinking... no, because they're still hung up on the woof-woof of Red versus Blue, demonizing anyone remotely conservative, neo or no. This ONE article was like a rare breath of fresher than stale air.

The tedious red v blue thing is a tired football game.....it's time to play another game entirely.

Drunky out.

[Not that you'd actually read it.. but here it is]

"The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money" (J. Bradford DeLong, Stephen S. Cohen)

iPad: Y'all been done FUTURE PUNKED by Uncle Steve

[UPDATE: For alla youse who don't wanna sift, here's the link for the best analysis of the iPad to date from Frasier Speirs, the Flickr/Aperture Export guy. Thanks me later.]

Hey clubkids, it's your Uncle Drunky with yet more ranty-ravy gravy for you to drank up on. We're nowhere near 2015 yet, but thanks to Uncle Steve we're well on our way. And here's why...

First, I'm going to introduce you to Uncle Steve's X-Man mutant power. And you heard it here first: Future Punking, aka Future Shocking you little plebes for kicks. And he's sooooo good at it, the troll-fu has always been strong with this one. I have to agree with Frasier Spiers and his assessment of the whole iPad thing. Y'all been done Future Shocked. Punked. Future Punked!