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More complaints not mine about lousey BLS data.... 3512
Yes, necessarily. I said above that the data is completely accurate. Your statement that someone made a mistake shows lack of clear thinking about other alternatives for the...
More complaints not mine about lousey BLS data.... 3513
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, alexy You could be lying. You could by lying and not know that you are lying. You are also buttuming that YOU are, or you are claiming to...
More complaints not mine about lousey BLS data.... 3514
This is a statistics problem. That is not getting you any closer to the answer. Nor is that. So you say. Why...
More complaints not mine about lousey BLS data.... 3515
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, alexy This is trying to change the subject and you refuse to consider the possibility of...
More complaints not mine about lousey BLS data.... 3516
And by asking one, you could clearly show either that you understood why the reporter's couldn't draw the conclusion he did, or you may just restate you original impression...
More complaints not mine about lousey BLS data.... 3517
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, alexy I have never denied that reporters often make mistakes during the preparation of articles based on misreading...
More complaints not mine about lousey BLS data.... 3518
Okay, I'll buttume this is as close to "I don't know" as your ego will let you get. The missing question is "what is the exposure?" But that might be lingo particular to measurement...
More complaints not mine about lousey BLS data.... 3519
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, alexy Well, you didn't spell out any of them, but in...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3520
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Kamal R. Prasad I will not be surprised at the 50% poverty, 50% ignorance, and 50% no electricity in India...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3521
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Kamal R. Prasad No thanks, I'll stay here in the States. Because its not completely true. I've said this before many times; the studies are...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3522
Kamal R. Prasad The modern economical processes (globalization, free trade etc) equip the cheap workers from the Thirld World with the capability to come...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3523
It is cheap in terms of USD required to buy those products. When you have an inflated currency at your end, it allows you to buy a ton of imported...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3524
That's one scenario, and some people suggest the process is already happening. It will kill the...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3525
I agree with most of what was said above. There are other things going on, too...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3526
Yes, a hopeless ideal to achieve in fullness, but that doesn't mean it can't be a guiding principle. Most of us have...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3527
You are correct that we may may never see a "completely neutral" enforcement of the law. But do you think that changing your goal to "completely fair" makes it more doable and realistic...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3528
I agree. I see it as more a directional goal, not something that is expected to be fully achievable...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3529
On Sat, 3 Dec 2005, alexy This is not the whole story. All of the rich who formed monopolies, engaged in anti-compebreastive business practices (there are a...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3530
Absolutely. Yes. But then it is no longer risk taking. Pure greed is often masked as payoff on the risk-reward tradeoff. But if there is no risk, there should be no commensurate reward (at...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3531
alexy I am a bit slow toward the end of the year and so, does anybody care...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3536
While I agree with most of this post, I think you started it out with a bit of an overstatement. Of course there...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3537
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Old Pif I'm not sure I would use the word "favors" but one of the typical scenarios is the formation of a business...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3538
Old Pif I have to congratulate you for this post. You debunked exceptionally well one of the mythologies circulating today. The truth is that all this slogans...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3539
USA I agree here. There is a big game here to socialize risk while holding the rewards (profits!) to be held strictly private. There are many success...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3540
There may well be some good examples like that. I can't think of any off the top of my head...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3542
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, alexy I'm not sure I'd call it "charm." Perhaps "attempted cajolery...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3545
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, alexy On a simple level, yes. But you, again, have chosen to avoid discussing what "fair" means. And, again, governments can...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3546
On Sat, 2 Dec 2005, Kamal R. Prasad Actually, if you stand anywhere in the USA, you will see still a large amount of work being done...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3547
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Old Pif Michael Lewis in his book "The Money Culture" said a lot of interesting things...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3548
On Thu, 30 Nov 2005, Kamal R. Prasad 2-3 billion have a long way to go yet and it will not happen in the next 1-2 years. And, how...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3549
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Old Pif You have made a remarkably important post here. It is almost the identical story to that which I'm almost finished with...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3550
Old Pif This is a very interesting point of view. And mostly valid. I also believe that this is what...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3551
Im not sure if one man's idea can be taken for granted. But I have reasons to believe that :- (a) the US does not have any...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3552
Can you cite some facts & figures of how much wealth is generated by those natural resources per year...
The Problem of Virtual Immigration 3553
On Thu, 30 Nov 2005, Kamal R. Prasad 1. Can you? 2. What is wrong with including non-natural resources? 3. Does India have any natural resources? Or...
deja vu... how many of you remember the movie "Minority Report" 3554
It sounds like the U-6 underemployment rate: Table A-12. Alternative measures of labor underutilization "U-6 Total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers, plus total employed part time for economic...
deja vu... how many of you remember the movie "Minority Report" 3555
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, alexy Well, there was, somewhere on the NSF website some numbers on...
deja vu... how many of you remember the movie "Minority Report" 3556
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, alexy Well, you brought up Randy and I brought up what I already...
deja vu... how many of you remember the movie "Minority Report" 3557
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, alexy One has to come up with bogus theories about unemployment statistics when so many observers and reporters perceive the unemployment statistics as bogus to begin...
deja vu... how many of you remember the movie "Minority Report" 3558
Actually, you can get just about any figure you want. We had an "expert" on a.c.c a while back who had seen a...
deja vu... how many of you remember the movie "Minority Report" 3559
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, alexy And, with the labor force at (WSJ says) 146 mil, population...
deja vu... how many of you remember the movie "Minority Report" 3560
See at bottom... On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, alexy Well, one short book I recently read is "Shifting...
deja vu... how many of you remember the movie "Minority Report" 3561
Well said! The idea that there is such a thing as THE CORRECT unemployment rate tends to...
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GM's $437M plant in India, hiring 4,000
Dr.Raina uttered around 27-11-2005 18:06 (pbuh) Freed child workers put Delhi to shame Amelia Gentleman in New Delhi Sunday November 27, 2005 The Observer Child welfare officers are struggling to decide what to...
Catch ya' with a big lie
Look how easy is to catch corporations that tell a lie. " National buttociation of Manufacturers, the Manufacturing Insbreastute and Deloitte Consulting LLP found 81 percent of companies surveyed reported difficulties finding workers with...
Same old lies about "shortages" 3567
Do you have any link to support these, or it coming from your posterior orifice. This is like asking, if Americans are...
Same old lies about "shortages" 3568
pooh. I am not dismissing those who do not like outsourcing. Like you I also live here and own a house. I have...
Same old lies about "shortages" 3569
May be true. May be true. May be true. May be true. No they're no, if they're true. Yes there is...
Same old lies about "shortages" 3570
Sure. Similarly it may be true that some americans find that the indians working on the offshore project are smarter than the americans who worked on it onshore. Surely you and other americans...
Same old lies about "shortages" 3571
Ahhh. There it is. You're in here aren't you twit? CEO's get sacked just like others. And you just proved that you have no...
uhah more bashing of "skills shortage" 3572
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Threeducks deleted... The DuPont experimental labs in Wilmington, DE, were shut down, totally, earlier this...
uhah more bashing of "skills shortage" 3573
On Wed, 22 Nov 2005, Entropy Fighter I've tried to find some people, too. Some (Russians that I knew) that ended up at NIH are still there. Are they happy? Maybe, maybe...
uhah more bashing of "skills shortage" 3574
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, rrc I'll offer some speculative and partial and tentative explanations-comments: 1. I (and my wife) are moving into a retirement phase of life (I am mucho grateful that...
Join Hitech City Java User Group, Hyderabad, INDIA
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