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[TempAcc]

Nice ~clock~ Ahmed, bring it to my house and inspire me with your ~clock~

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I'm sorry}

[Jopax]

So EA in all their charitable glory offered RA2+Yuris Revenge today on Origin, for free. It was a pretty sweet deal all in all. Or it would've been if it actually worked. As is, it took me a bit to figure out which e-mail I used to register there and reset the password for that but that was ok. Then I tried several times over about an hour to download the free games, but it kept coming up with some sort of non-descript issue, asking that I try again later. This continued until one point, there was no longer a free game offer, instead the link redirecting you to the store to buy the C&C collection bundle thing.

Real smooth EA, real smooth.

Of course there were other, sads today but I don't feel like talking about those, so have some petty problems.

[RedKing]

Just found out that HP (or the remnant of it which I belong to) just announced ANOTHER 30,000 layoffs. On top of the 50,000 layoffs we've already gone through the last couple of years. And while they won't say where the layoff will be targeted, they did say that they intend to reach a 40-60 onshore ratio (40% of positions in the US). Currently it's 58%. So you tell me where the fuck those layoffs are going to be.

All so the stock price can tick up a few percent and our illustrious CEO can take home a bigger quarterly bonus. I've said it before, now I'm screaming it: FUCK CAPITALISM.

[Bohandas]

Just found out that HP (or the remnant of it which I belong to) just announced ANOTHER 30,000 layoffs. On top of the 50,000 layoffs we've already gone through the last couple of years. And while they won't say where the layoff will be targeted, they did say that they intend to reach a 40-60 onshore ratio (40% of positions in the US). Currently it's 58%. So you tell me where the fuck those layoffs are going to be.

All so the stock price can tick up a few percent and our illustrious CEO can take home a bigger quarterly bonus. I've said it before, now I'm screaming it: FUCK CAPITALISM.

We really need some kind of punitive tax on outsourcing. And a higher capital gains tax. Really what we need is to get together with other nations and make a treaty to increase the capital gains tax the world over, so that there can be no escape

[RedKing]

Y'know, it's even tougher to be a fair-minded tolerant liberal and go through this shit. If I were a typical conservative, I could just rail about them damn furriners taking mah jerb.
But shit, it's not like these guys wake up in the morning and say "How can I steal a job from an American today?"
They wake up and thank Krishna/Allah/whoever that they were able to get a college education and training and certifications and have a job better than elephant dung-scooper. They want a better life for them and their family, and there's absolutely no reason to be mad at them.

But all the same, I can't help feeling conflicted considering that I started training one of our new project managers this week, a very nice guy a little younger than me from Tamil Nadu who lives in Mumbai. The idea that I might be training someone who will one day displace me, through no fault of either of us....it's just weird. (And it wouldn't be the first time I've done that.)

And I can (and do) rail against senior management, but in a purely economic rationale, it makes sense. There's a big labor cost disparity between US/European labor and offshore labor, especially Indian offshore labor. The problem is that taken to the logical extreme, eventually no one in the US will have a job because we're all too expensive. Which means no one to buy all those fancy gadgets and services that the Third World is now making for us. The only thing left will be jobs that cannot be outsourced or automated.

It's going to be a weird fucking inversion when there's thinktanks and advanced fab plants in Africa, and the bulk of jobs in the US and Europe are subsistence farming and arts/crafts.

[Helgoland]

Dude, linear extrapolation is a cardinal sin in the economic prophecying business.

[Worldmaster27]

school + friend drama = stressful sads

but it's whatever

[Bohandas]

Y'know, it's even tougher to be a fair-minded tolerant liberal and go through this shit. If I were a typical conservative, I could just rail about them damn furriners taking mah jerb.
But shit, it's not like these guys wake up in the morning and say "How can I steal a job from an American today?"
They wake up and thank Krishna/Allah/whoever that they were able to get a college education and training and certifications and have a job better than elephant dung-scooper. They want a better life for them and their family, and there's absolutely no reason to be mad at them.

But all the same, I can't help feeling conflicted considering that I started training one of our new project managers this week, a very nice guy a little younger than me from Tamil Nadu who lives in Mumbai. The idea that I might be training someone who will one day displace me, through no fault of either of us....it's just weird. (And it wouldn't be the first time I've done that.)

And I can (and do) rail against senior management, but in a purely economic rationale, it makes sense. There's a big labor cost disparity between US/European labor and offshore labor, especially Indian offshore labor. The problem is that taken to the logical extreme, eventually no one in the US will have a job because we're all too expensive. Which means no one to buy all those fancy gadgets and services that the Third World is now making for us. The only thing left will be jobs that cannot be outsourced or automated.

It's going to be a weird fucking inversion when there's thinktanks and advanced fab plants in Africa, and the bulk of jobs in the US and Europe are subsistence farming and arts/crafts.

What's really required is a pro-union movement in India and southeast asia

[TD1]

Colonies are the answer.

[Yoink]

Nuclear war is the answer.

[Tawa]

Nuclearpunk colonies are the answer.

[Orange Wizard]

We really need some kind of punitive tax on outsourcing.

Yeah, bring back mercantilism.

[RedKing]

Working for less shitty companies may also be the answer.

I should use those contacts and see if Planetary Resources is hiring....

[Rubidium]

I imagined a picture of Lanthanum playing the violin. I wanted to draw it.
Sadly I'm not a very good drawer, so I can't draw it.

Spoiler: lanthanum looks like this (click to show/hide)

Disappointed at this.

[Rolan7]

He's one of my favorites from your rotator, for what it's worth.
The justified smugness of a skilled showman.  I can imagine him playing the violin, and playing it well.