Want to know why you, or your kids don't have journeyman jobs in the USA? Because of a corporate SUBSIDY/ HANDOUT called the H1B VISA. We have PLENTY of workers in the USA!
We're the ONLY country that GIVES AWAY middle class jobs to China & India.
END THIS PROCESS.
SIGN THIS PETITION. (link goes to Whitehouse.gov)
Your Uncle Drunky thanks you for your time.
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."
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."
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.
(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."
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.
In other words, Mr Boomer: Your kids are screwed if this bill passes and you do not share in the pain. Oh, you don't want to hear it? Again? Okay, then I'll talk to anyone born after 1964 in the US:
Looks like the Boomers will get one last fuck in on the anyone GenX & under before they move on to bedpans & broomhandles -- and the occasional midnight toke in the nursing home:
"So who are the losers in the Graham, Paul, Lee plan? The answer is that anyone born after 1966. If you’re younger than 47 today, bend over. (the math is off, read below. -DE) The Boomers are going to screw you. You’re going to pay more than you should and you’re going to get less than the boomers got.
How could that possibly happen? Easy. It’s the demographics. Those who will “win” this age war out vote those who will lose. There are some very powerful lobbies at work as well. The AARP has a very big stick; they use their weapons on the Pols very effectively.
I will be sad if this comes about. This would be the greatest “Pass the Trash” for any generation in history. While the proposed changes would take SS off the discussion table for another decade or so it will come back into the headlines in a very big way at some point. There is absolutely no fairness in a plan that protects Boomers at the cost of the rest of society. "
(Via Senators Graham, Paul & Lee on Social Security Reform– “If you're under 47 - bend over” | zero hedge.)
While I disagree with the math, it's anyone born after 1964 who's going to get the screwing, I agree with the article. Anyone GenX'er (face it, there weren't many of us) is going to get screwed by this bill. The Boomers' kids of GenY? Doubly so, as there are no STEM or 'intern' jobs for them -- those are all offshore or H1B'd by their parents. If not that then Vivek Wadhwa's 'entrepreneurs from China & India will save us?' Please.
Personally I wouldn't mind if the parasites who have held the political power for the past 20 years (US POTUS's Clinton, Bush, Obama), who got us into $14 trillion in debt, mostly for war & pet entitlements, who gave us their cold war fear in the form of a "War on Terror" (which I call a war on guys in caves), who gave us a security & surveillance apparatus that dwarfs the Stasi, and a denunciation framework of 'if you see something say something'... and finally who gave us the scam of the century, currently marketed as 'Climate Disruption' ... The 'worst generation' that will be remembered for all these bad, repressive things...
...nevermind all the compliant H1B slaves that they imported, jobs they offshored, or immigration laws that they were 'too busy to enforce...'
Don't you think they could take at least some responsibility for the mess they caused? Maybe sacrifice some of their ill-gotten gains? Or should we just 'toke up' and worship them?
Nah. It'll never happen. Don't trust anyone over 47, folks..
Drunky out.
"Wow,MumbaiDon sinks to new lows for his NASSCOM employers:
1/ Whoring out his entire family on a shaky premise of 'Asian ethics'.. whatever that is.
2/ Considering Indians 'Asians' when they have more in common with Afghani Pashtuns than Chinese, Japanese or Koreans. INDIANS ARE NOT ASIANS. Figure it out, Donny Boy.
3/ Oh, and then there's the myth that Chinese and Indian universities & schools are 'superior'.. even Vivek Wadhwa can't make that pile of shit stand.
For being a general whore, I now dub you NASSCOM DON. Evermore. You can double down, try to promulgate this tripe, but no one is buying it.
Or forgetting this. Ever. Oh, and congratulations on besmirching whatever 'service' your sons did to this country by being an agent for a foreign power. Because that's what you are, Donny.Boy."
(Via Why the U.S. Technology Work Force Needs the Asian Influence | Blogs | ITBusinessEdge.com.)The last time we heard this tripe was when the Japanese were high on the yen-weak dollar 90s. Are memories really that short? Do we need to be resold our OWN management practices? Because that's what the Chinese & Japanese use: Peter Drucker etc.
Bearing in mind that "India is the Outsourcing Leader," this comes as no surprise. At all:
"May 11, 2011 - A new survey from Lieberman Software Corporation, taken at the recent Infosecurity Europe 2011 event in London and mirrored at RSA Conference 2011 in San Francisco, shows that the relationship between many outsourcing companies and their clients is at a breaking point. According to the survey, an astonishing 77% of IT professionals who work in organisations that use outsourcing say their outsourcers have ‘...made up...’ work in order to earn extra money."
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“Given that the advice came from a ‘credible source’ these executives were able to achieve remarkable reductions in cost and liability for a while, until business challenges began to appear that required flexibility, corporate knowledge, and dedication to the company. The experts never considered dedication and loyalty as elements in their ‘process reengineering’ - it was deemed as not quantifiable.”
(Via Survey Finds 77% Of IT Staff Say Their Outsourcers Invent Work For Profit - Darkreading.)
American tech workers have learned that 'loyalty' has been 'out of the equation' or 'not quantifiable' for a long time now.
-Drunky out.
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
@qohort Everyone should get education. But if you can't afford $50K/year from Stanford, why not go to Berkeley or SF State?
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.
via TweetDeckHow is that for contradicting myself real-time? I'm speaking about economics vs. lifetime value.
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!
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.
This is NOT my 'advice to Indian Youngs and others who can't afford college'. This is just something that's been in my Drafts folder since... last month. Uncle Drunky, you're a lazy fcuk. Aye, guilty as charged. This is more for the Amelickan kids who are being played by Barry O'Blackbush anyway.
So. Here we are: This is Slavery 2.0, and the 'Slumdogs' are the slaves whether they're onshore or offshore. Up to 22% real unemployment in the US, more police powers for the DHS, the TSA at a mall near you, "if you see something say something" Stasi type denunciations ...WTF gives, Uncle Drunky?? Hell if I know. But if I were a betting man-
This is part of a MUCH "bigger idea", it's more of a demographic war on our own young. With a number of scapegoats. There are a LOT of 'Big Lies' going around, and questions you should ask your Hippy Managers:
The Indians didn't just up and spontaneously 'invade' us, they were INVITED. By whom?
"China, Inc" is no more our enemy than 'Japan, Inc' was in the 90s. But they're CONVENIENT to the Boomsters & their idea of racism. Ask Apple why they don't stop using China for manufacturing.. or WHICH China 'calls the shots' for Apple (Honhai, Taiwan, ROC). And, because of this, Apple gets hit in the tech press by TechCrunch etal.
I said demographic, right? Ladies n Gents, Mark Steyn:
Okay, why is a Muslim who wants to kill Americans holding down a job at a European airport? That’s slightly easier to answer. Almost every problem facing the Western world, from self-detonating jihadists to America’s own suicide bomb — the multi-trillion-dollar debt — has at its root a remorseless demographic arithmetic.
In the U.S., the Baby Boomers did not have enough children to maintain their mid-20th-century social programs. I see that recent polls supposedly show that huge majorities of Americans don’t want any modifications to Medicare or Social Security.
So what? It doesn’t matter what you “want.” The country’s broke, and you can vote yourself unsustainable quantities of government lollipops all you like, but all you’re doing is ensuring that when, eventually, you’re obliged to reacquaint yourself with reality, the shock will be far more devastating and convulsive.
So there it is: In addition to flooding our shrinking birthrate population with less savvy more easily pliant, and oh-so-corruptable 'immigrants' the Boomsters think they can keep all their entitlements. They know that GenX & below won't go along with this, so 'we' have been replaced.
The PRC is the 'defined enemy' of this Cold War 2.0. So who's the bulwark / proxy of brown folks to stem 'Yellow Peril 2.0? India. And OF COURSE they have to be financially pumped up. If this was the Boomers' plan, then we're all fcuked.
The Hills are Alive.. but that ain't the 'Sound of Music.'
Unless it's disco.
Fcuking Boomers.
Drunky out.
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. "
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.
So, sad Mikey Arrington sold out to AOL. Boooooooring. What about that fight he was having with Chandra DipShitABlowHornCamelCode boy? It’s enough to make someone spend the rest of his life moping in a cube at AOL when the blogosphere uses you as a chew toy.
So, “win the future” happened? It’s ‘JooJoo’ follow up time — and I, your humble Drunky? I’m here to lulz ^h^h^h help.
Okay, here we go:
Mader McChod issues a statement last year: “Poo Poo iz ded”
Oooooh he shipped SOMETHING: Only 64 tablets “shipped”.
It probably didn’t help that Priya Rai ^H ^H ^H okay not THAT gal but some intern at WIRED didn’t like it.
And the latest is that Fusion Garage is getting spanked over their so called ‘OS’ which is dum DUM DUM! GPL’d code that they don’t wanna share back.
Another fine South Asian product ware o' vapor. So says Wikipedia, so say we all.
Mmmmmm…. Priya Rai. Hey, at least South Asia has ONE EXPORT I want.
-Drunky fap ^h^h^h out.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that "IT (so-called) pundit" Mumbai Don Tennant would pipe in to regurgitate the NBC GE thing. Not like any of the commenters are having any of it-- especially this guy, 'Doc Savage':
(snip)
"I am sure back in post civil war America, when the European and Caribbean immigrants were being used to replace the newly freed slaves, as America's primary agricultural workforce, someone was out there talking it up as being the best way to get America back on track to be the most successful Industrialized nation. But Frederick Douglas brought to the attention of the nation through his writings about the issue, that it was harmful to the worker. He referred to this labor type as 'Coolie Labor' and compared it to 'Slave Labor' in it's value and moral corruption.
Don - If you are truly a globalist, then your focus should be for the manifestation of equality for all workers in the world through FAIR TRADE, not free trade, Equal pay for equal work should be your mantra, not the chant of 'MORE NON-IMMIGRANT LABOR'.
If you can't see this then you are as blind as the Indian Agent of the 19th century that believed taking the Native American from his ancestral home and civilize him would mean sustaining their people for generations to come.
We all know how that turned out.
As for the fiery rhetoric of people over this issue, well Don, if the government were to come into your home and replace your wonderful wife with a sow and your kids with mindless zombie piglets, would you consider that fair trade, being that it would be cheaper to have pets than family? Would you not fight against such a fascist idea? Would you not have ripe vernacular for those forcing you to accept such a ridiculous exchange?
Now you can see why people like myself would rather see you and those other pundits of the labor replacement cult hung by your thumbs and see the livestock you are forcing onto us turned into sausages."
(Via Why the Anti-H-1B Argument Isn’t Being Taken Seriously | Blogs | ITBusinessEdge.com.)
I'm liking this Doc Savage guy. And recommend you read his entire comment for historic context. Something Mumbai Don seems to lack in his "posts".
Personally, I'm not to partial to sausage tho'. Unless I'm peckish.
Drunky out.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:
And Two, just who is putting their name on this copypasta:"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."
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.
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)
So, as almost everyone knows, the stories about Pasha Barry's Fabulous World Slavery 2.0 Tour and its "move a 0 million, move a 0 billion" originated from NDTV and MAYBE 1-2 other media sources.
From just a little bit of digging, it turns out that NDTV has as much success in 'embedding reporters' as CNN does, this taken from blogs reacting to coverage of Mumbai's "26/11" fiasco:
Barkha Dutt and NDTV: A Terrorist's DREAM COME TRUE
Mumbai attacks ! Shoddy Journalism .for example our star person Ms. Barkha Datt
and just for comedy's sake:
Barkha Dutt's "...top c*cks..." blooper on NDTV
Judging by the above posts you'd almost think Barkha was on the other side. In fact NDTV looks like a curried-up version of CNN or FOX, right down to the somewhat interesting Desi "Rupert" character that owns it.
So NDTV has a history of spilling the beans & gaffery. But fabrication? I guess no more than CNN or FOX.
Hmm, let's do a whois on NDTV:
Administrative Contact:
Bedi, Kawaljit kawaljit@ndtv.com
NDTV Convergence
207, Okhla Industrial Estate, Phase-3
New Delhi -110020
New Delhi, New Delhi 110020
IN
+91-11-26446666
Okay, that looks normal enough. There should be an Indian tech contact as well..let's look at their technical contact:
Technical Contact:
Hostmaster, Comcat hostmaster@COMCAT.COM
7109 Timberlake Road
Suite 201
Lynchburg, VA 24052
US
434-239-4272 fax: 215-489-8867
Yup that's right, Lynchburg, VIRGINIA, the Home of all Spooks(sm). Comcat, when it resolves, points to a web page that looks like it hasn't been touched since 1995. I guess they've been... uh, 'busy.' It may not even matter except that no other Indian media outlet (like TimesOfIndia) hosts in the USA. Why would they?
If you listen to 'No Agenda' sometimes you hear Curry & Dvorak floating the idea that sometimes the POTUS is in conflict with the CIA... Well. If you wanted to troll Emperor Barry, stir the pot, how would YOU do it? Probably using the media, and maybe a CIA/RAW connection.
Makes you wonder why Barry needs all that security if the 'threat' is akin to "10 men in inflatable speedboats".
-Drunky out
UPDATE: Mess with the best, die like the rest! My little sahib's twit-tah is back to normal, but:
Moral of the story: Take that little Chinese boy with you. He can fix ur Windows!
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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.
- 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
- vtel001 @vwadhwa Tsinghua rocks We look forward to your TC article about innovation scenario in China, relative to US, Japan, Israel, Brazil & India
- .@cerventus I am leaving Kuala Lumpur for Bangalore on Monday afternoon. Just at event till about noon.
- RT @adityakirang: @vwadhwa how did he crack it???>students here use VPN servers to evade firewall. They are used to censorship
- 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
- .@simonlim88 I am attending the Mad incubator networking event that Toto us at on Monday in Kuala Lumpur
- 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
- Teaching at Tshingua, Beijing on Thursday evening. Meeting entrepreneurs on campus Thurs/Friday. Look forward to meeting students...
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.
Ah, it looks like Obama is going to move his ENTIRE caliphate as well as 215 US CEOs to Mumbai for 4 days in November. From SHTFPlan:
As tens of millions of American families struggle to pay the rent and put food on the table, President Obama and about 3000 of his closest friends and security personnel will spend an estimated $200 million dollars per day when he visits Mumbai, India for four days from November 6th through November 9th.
Though the total won’t exactly reach $1 Billion dollars for his four day stay, it comes pretty close, and with government being government, we can always add a good 20% to 30% to estimates they put forth.
[From Taxpayers to Pay Nearly $1 BILLION For Emperor’s Visit to Mumbai]
As one of my readers astutely wrote to me, it would seem that "Vivek" (Kundra or otherwise) really DOES mean 'Fraud' or 'Shoplifter' in Hindustani. Now ask either the Caliph or his underling about their 'carbon footprint' of hauling around "40 planes & 6 armored cars". UPDATE: We have an answer from 'Watts Up With That? :: 8,469 metric tons of the stuff you exhale. Oh Barry, hast thou remove-d thy GreenShirt? Seems so.
UPDATE: How could so much money be spent and on what? Here's your answer:
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/over-200-top-chief-executives-coming-with-obama/134013-7.html
"With trade high on his agenda, some 200 odd top US business chiefs, including soft drink giant Pepsico's India-born CEO Indra Nooyi, are expected to join US President Barack Obama on his India visit next month."
Actually, the number, cited elsewhere, is 215 executive slaveowner asses that must be wiped with the finest silk. (you really have to follow that link, commenter 'Satish Chandra' is a hoot!).
UPDATE2: Every junket needs a trade show, right? Here it is:
http://business.rediff.com/report/2010/oct/18/obama-to-address-biz-summit-in-mumbai.htm
That's right, boyz n girlz.. you're being sold down the road at 'The US-India Business & Entrepreneurship Summit' courtesy of the Hindustani version of AIPAC, aka the USIBC. Let's just call 'opening markets' what it really is-
Slavery 2.0: This time the slave is... YOU!
And they say "da Jewz" control everything? Please. Israel got nuthin' on Bharat or their new BFFs: Barry & Duh CEOs.
Oh, and hark: It's a 10 day junket according to reader Frank Flag:
Mumbai just bein' a 4-day 'whistle stop' foar the Pimpsta in Chief! Even if it's cheaper to gaffe, bow & scrape to allies than the 'superior Industanis' Barry's still gonna pimp $2 Billion OPM--- iz 10 Day Azn pimp Tour, yo!
Now we know one major reason for TimTim's QE2. Walkin' around money! Gaffsta in Chief gotta have wurds to the client-states about them eevil Chinese!
SemiSeriously. $2 Bil almost buys India HALF of its first rusty Russian aircraft carrier. Or it could feed a lot of serfs at home.
Boggle.Poggle.Mind. Sorry!
-Drunky out.
(as heard on NoAgenda. Frequently. Read it, learn it, live it)
"Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century" (Thomas E. Woods Jr.)
Saw this on TV the other day. Very powerful, very apropo, tho' the source is questionable:
Thanks for trying, CAGW, but I think you're a bit too late. Just another day in Weimar Republik 2.0, spinning up the proles for a war with creditor numbah one.
Ooopsie, CAGW is pro-Microsoft, anti-Open Source Software. China is of course anti-Microsoft, pro-Apple, anti-Indian. Why else do you put permanent bases in Pakistan?
What a delightful pro-Indian anti-Chinese dovetail you have there, CAGW. You stay classy.
If you guys're really into squicking 'waste' maybe you should have wurds with Vivek Kundra and his pornmonkeys in the public sector.
-Drunky out.
If you really want to leave the USSA without leaving the country, fire up bittorrent and download media from other countries. But if you work for the government it’s probably NOT a good idea to do this at work. Or to leave machine on, day & night doing this for days on end.
And certainly not files that match the terms ‘Asian’ and ‘Teen’. And not even Pentagon PedoPorn, but the ‘normal’ “adult” stuff.
Let me tell you something: US Government employees LOVE THEIR SMUT. Don’t believe me? Think the *fap* *fap* cases at the Pentagon & the SEC put a stop to that? ORLY? Take a look at Uncle Drunky’s block log:
Explanation:
[day.month.year.PacificStandardTime] [DHT] {the ip range blocked} was in the range {their name}
US Public School Administrations:
[16.10.2010 03:31:38] [DHT] 168.216.165.23 was in range WV Department of Education : 168.216.0.0 - 168.216.255.255
[16.10.2010 03:44:55] [DHT] 165.155.194.254 was in range New York City Public Schools : 165.155.0.0 - 165.155.255.255
[16.10.2010 04:59:33] [DHT] 195.161.25.65 was in range Federal Agency of Education : 195.161.25.0 - 195.161.25.255
[16.10.2010 07:37:05] [DHT] 199.248.173.248 was in range Mountain Brook City Schools : 199.248.173.0 - 199.248.178.255
[16.10.2010 09:59:43] [DHT] 206.78.213.254 was in range Kings County Office of Education, Fresno County Of : 206.78.0.0 - 206.78.255.255
US State City Councils:
[16.10.2010 10:21:27] [DHT] 65.242.35.130 was in range CITY OF RICHMOND : 65.242.35.128 - 65.242.35.255
[16.10.2010 10:22:30] [DHT] 209.251.138.85 was in range City of Gainesville, North Central Florida Regiona : 209.251.128.0 - 209.251.159.255
[16.10.2010 10:24:25] [DHT] 167.7.160.74 was in range State of South Carolina : 167.7.0.0 - 167.7.255.255
[16.10.2010 09:31:21] [DHT] 208.101.197.202 was in range City of Elberton : 208.101.192.0 - 208.101.198.255
[16.10.2010 04:40:22] [DHT] 192.248.248.215 was in range City of Riverside : 192.248.128.0 - 192.248.255.255
16.10.2010 06:07:14] [DHT] 193.200.201.135 was in range Ventspils City Council : 193.200.201.0 - 193.200.201.255
Tex-Ass Donut Eaters:
[16.10.2010 04:27:39] [DHT] 24.227.222.5 was in range TWC-CENTRAL-TEXAS-DIVISION—-RIVERSIDE-HUB—-KORCE : 24.227.222.0 - 24.227.223.255
REMF:
[16.10.2010 05:34:33] [DHT] 14.102.126.151 was in range DoD Network Information Center : 14.0.0.0 - 14.255.255.255
[16.10.2010 05:56:38] [DHT] 14.96.63.14 was in range DoD Network Information Center : 14.0.0.0 - 14.255.255.255
[16.10.2010 04:22:28] [DHT] 14.102.126.151 was in range DoD Network Information Center : 14.0.0.0 - 14.255.255.255
[16.10.2010 09:24:04] [DHT] 14.96.163.194 was in range DoD Network Information Center : 14.0.0.0 - 14.255.255.255
So, boyz n girlz, what are we seeing here? Well. Your Uncle Drunky had a few smut files running in Vuze; which has an IP Blocklist *and log* of domains that, uh, should not be torrenting. This is from a 8-odd hour block with ONLY smut files. No ‘normal’ files to speak of. The blocklist is updated every couple days, so the nameblocks should be valid.
I also cut out all the other countries government offices, like the Muslim countries, the UK, the kinky Japanese, and our Chicom friends in high places. You were all there, yo. But I’m interested in the ugly ‘mericans, so you gets off.
I understand that the mil types are in Muslim countries and that downloading is die rigeur for ‘the moral of our troops. To that end I’ve cut all the listings except for the useless REMFs at the DoD.
Heeeey, Vivek Kundra! Uncle Drunky ‘found’ some of your errant ‘data centers’…. downloading “teh smut”.
What I do not understand is why Departments of Education for Public School Offices like West Virginia, New York and Kings County, you know, that deal with KIDS are downloading teh *fap* *fap* via bittorrent. Day and Night. Oh, and city councils in the deep south? Same-o.
I also do not understand why domestic ‘cyber security’ organs like the DoD (hah!) need to *fap* off. Is this what ‘Cyber Defense’ is? Oh.
And here’s a special one: Tata Consulting in the US? Who does IT for the US public & private sectors? Ever wonder what they’re doing instead of their jobs? That’s right, even Desis have the *fap*:
[16.10.2010 09:55:10] [DHT] 203.124.151.98 was in range Verestar, Tata InfoTech Ltd, Software Devlopment U : 203.124.150.0 - 203.124.152.255
And the interesting thing? I have a country block on India. And Tata InfoTech STILL showed up. Our Desi friends are nothing if not tenacious. About getting their fill of porn.
And what were the files? Hint from the Bloodhound Gang. Yeah, Chinese girls. Xie Xie! Sai Jian!
-Drunky out.
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:
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!
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:
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]
