R&D Starts to Move Offshore - Outsourcing evolves beyond low-wage programming jobs

ComputerWorld ^ | 3/1/2004 | Patrick Thibodeau and Sumner Lemon

[ZeitgeistSurfer]

Yesterday, another article indicated that there was a 30% drop in native born applications to graduate school in computer science. Yup, no problem with free trade here.

[Lazamataz]

Yesterday, another article indicated that there was a 30% drop in native born applications to graduate school in computer science. Yup, no problem with free trade here.

YYYYAAAAAYYYYYY TEAM! We're becoming a second-rate technological innovator! YAAAYYYYY! Free Trade is the answer to (all of the rest of the world's) problems! America will finally be humiliated and made into a third-world country! YAAAAAYYYYYY TEAM!

Boy, that GW Bush is the best thing that ever could have happened to America, huh? Now if we can only get a few more H1-B's over here, export a little more technology, and coax a few more illegal aliens to come here, then we'll finally be there!

[GraniteStateConservative]

We just need to retrain, Laz. Haven't you listened to anything Dane has told you? We'll all train to be DC politicians-- that's the last job to be outsourced.

[Poohbah]

YYYYAAAAAYYYYYY TEAM! We're becoming a second-rate technological innovator!

After decades of second-rate education in every subject except "self-esteem" and how to use a condom properly...you expected something different to happen?

[ovrtaxt]

We used to generate federal funds from tariffs. (Remember the Constitution?) But now we have the good ol' income tax. When's the last time you heard a relevant political debate over tariffs? Higher tariff levels would protect us from this type of hemorrhaging job loss.

The dark creeps that forged the Fed (Morgan, Rockefeller, et al) really screwed us a hundred years ago, and nobody even knows it.

[Living Free in NH]

I was listening to Boston radio talk show host Jay Sevrin on WTKK, 96.9 FM, and he mentioned that when you have x-rays taken at a hospital or doctor's office, quite often, the results are sent digitally to India for review by specialists who then send theie prognosis to your doctor.

If this is true, could this be illegal (assuming the Indian doctors areen't licensed to practice medicine in the US)?

I know that I'll be asking questions the next time I have x-rays taken.

[Lazamataz]

After decades of second-rate education in every subject except "self-esteem" and how to use a condom properly...you expected something different to happen?

Well, you've got a point there, FRiend. But what about the rest of us who have educated ourselves? Are we all destined to live in the squalor as America devolves?

I think that was a rhetorical question.

[Redcoat LI]

Magwa read very good x-rays.

[Lazamataz]

I am going to offshore your picture-posting job.

Then maybe we won't get the GD'med little box with the GD'med little red x. >:^(

[Poohbah]

Higher tariff levels would protect us from this type of hemorrhaging job loss.

I believe the word you're looking for is "juche."

[Lazamataz]

We just need to retrain, Laz. Haven't you listened to anything Dane has told you? We'll all train to be DC politicians-- that's the last job to be outsourced.

Naw, I prefer to listen to Texas_Dawg. He tells me we'll all be sports-team owners.

Haha.

[RogueIsland]

But what about the rest of us who have educated ourselves? Are we all destined to live in the squalor as America devolves?

The Maytag boxes hold up better than the Whirlpool, but you need to pick out a good overpass early before all the good ones are taken. The ones around here for I-95 are very nicely constructed, and the climate is mild most of the year.

[Lazamataz]

I believe the word you're looking for is "juche."

I couldn't find that word, until I looked in the Indian-English dictionary:

Ju·ché
n. pl. Juché or Ju·chés

1. An Indian phrase meaning, "Thank you stupid American for lowering all your tariffs, while we keep ours up and manipulate our currency to your detriment."
2. The act of stealing jobs from another country by artificial manipulation of trade barriers and currency values between two nations. (See: Free Traitors)

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[Poohbah]

Wrong language--it's Korean. It's one of the central pillars of the ideology of that Pacific Rim economic giant...North Korea.

[disclaimer]

The dark creeps that forged the Fed (Morgan, Rockefeller, et al) really screwed us a hundred years ago, and nobody even knows it.

Exactly.

[Lazamataz]

Wrong language--it's Korean.

Sometimes languages have similar words. The Indian word is the one I'm most worried about.

[Wolfie]

It ain't just IT anymore. Wall Street has begun outsourcing financial analyst jobs to India. Wonder if those guys still think its worth a few upticks on the exchange.

[DManA]

They have the R&D expertise, they have the marketing expertise, they've got the manufacturing expertise. Tell me again why they need $50 mill a year exectutives to tell them what to do?

[Alouette]

But what about the rest of us who have educated ourselves?

If you're over 50, Walmart prefers friendly middle-aged greeters to surly teenagers.