Re: Warload of a US aircraft carrier

"Glenn Dowdy" <glenn.no.dowdy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Arved Sandstrom" <asandstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You delude yourself. We buy your *** because we now make better ***,
which you guys are not good at making. When your countries stop being so
fucked up, you can join us in making good ***. In the meantime, go ahead
and churn out 19th century Industrial Age goods.

China produces a substantial of the world's electronic goods, not just
19th century goods. Bought any US made televisions lately?

No. My current electronics suite is all Asian. So is my car. That to me is
not indicative of anything other than the fact that China uses cheap labour.

Besides, China is training her people in the US, Canada and other Western
countries. There must be a reason for that. Namely, we are better at
innovation.

I am relatively unconcerned about Russia, India and China. India is hobbled
by caste, and that goes back centuries - they won't shrug that off any time
soon. Russia is dysfunctional like it's been for nearly a millennium. China
is like the Arabs - a glorious heyday way away back when, but now pretty
weak as a society...and also communist, which screws them from the gitgo.

Like I said in another post, I've worked with Indians and Chinese
practically off the boat. Come to think of it, Russians also. The ones that
come over here are presumably fairly good, but they by no means outshine
native North Americans. I could program their asses into the dirt. They are
hierarchical, submissive, and unimaginative. As long as their cultures stay
the way they are, we have little to fear from them.

I recall one contract I had in 2004, in Houston. One of the co-workers was
an Indian. Very bright, well-spoken. One of the project leads was also
Indian, also high-caste. It just so happened that one of the other
programmers was a fellow Nova Scotian, and he was struggling a bit. The
Indian dude was treating him like a slave. I guess over in India the
untouchables get used to that.

Finally I snapped a bit, and I did it in public in front of every person in
the room, which was about 20 people. The team included in total 5 Indians. I
reamed his ass like a Marine NCO can do. I just basically told him that if
he tells my buddy one more time that he's slow and stupid (that is the
language that he was using), he can eat knuckles and knees. I told him that
he was a pisspoor team lead (which he was), and I told him why. I also let
him know that the *** he programmed might not stand up well to a code
review.

At the end of it, he was very quiet. High caste Indians don't expect to be
brutalized verbally that way.

The funny thing is, at the end of the day, my popularity went up with all
the non-Indians, and everyone of the other Indians. Because he'd been
treating the other Indians like dirt also, except for the project lead. The
project lead just thought he was an ***, so she enjoyed seeing him taken
down a few pegs.

Point being, we are not screwed up the way those societies are. The fact is,
the majority of Russians, Chinese and Indians are dirt poor. They can build
my TV, but they can't feed most of their people properly.

Considering that they use what amounts to slave labour, the best thing the
President could do is just announce a trade embargo on India and China. It
might *** up Walmart (which wouldn't bother me), but it would get jobs back
here.

AHS


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