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Monday, December 15, 2003 |
 Robert Paterson likes John Boyd too. Boyd's ideas are very astute.
7:24:33 PM 
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Question. If Iraq doesn't even have a constitution, how can it have a legal system?
5:01:45 PM
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Personally, I don't really care if Saddam gets a fair trial. However, I wonder how many US lawyers would love to get their hands on Saddam as a client. The process would certainly be much more informative than if it was a simple rubber stamp process (and not to mention, one hell of a show).
4:30:30 PM
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Dan Gillmor: China isn't just reluctant to pay what amount to taxes to the developed-world owners of global technology standards. With the largest domestic market on the planet, at least potentially, plus an increasingly creative and well-educated workforce, China is creating its own competitive set of standards for its own market, although the global potential is obvious.
11:39:59 AM
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Of course, the loss of 4,730 high paying software jobs is worse than it appears. There is a cascade of job loses in other sectors of the economy as the result of each job lost in the technology sector. For each new employee at Micrsoft, it is estimated 6.7 jobs are created (4.0 for other segments of the tech sector). Assuming that IBM can mimic the Microsoft effect, 31,691 jobs will be lost. @ an average salary/wage of $50,000 a year, that is a net impact of ~$1.6 billion a year to our economy.
11:28:30 AM
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Will the recent surge in offshore software jobs start a new wave of unionization in the software industry? Not the old type of union, but a new one built on the same technologies that are being used by Dean and others to build a strong and aggressive community (it could grow quickly if done correctly). All it takes is for IBM to lose a couple of sales due to IT managers that are part of the community for them to get Ford's religion (pay your workers well enough to enable them to buy your products -- or in IBM's case, buy products from companies that buy IBM products and services).
10:56:13 AM
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WSJ. In one of the largest moves to "offshore" highly paid U.S. software jobs, International Business Machines Corp. has told its managers to plan on moving the work of as many as 4,730 programmers to India, China and elsewhere... Some workers are scheduled to be informed of the plan for their jobs by the end of January. After that they will be expected to train an overseas replacement worker in the U.S. for several weeks... Unlike low-wage manufacturing, the U.S. computer-services jobs to be moved overseas by IBM typically pay $75,000 to $100,000 or more a year, according to one person familiar with the operations. In contrast, hiring a software engineer with a bachelors or even a masters degree from a top technical university in India may cost $10,000 to $20,000 annually, analysts say.
10:50:07 AM
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