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Angry programmers riot, shouting 'Death to India'
The Daily Redundancy ^

Posted on 03/14/2008 11:46:02 AM PDT by chordmaster

SAN JOSE, CA (TDR) - Hundreds of angry programmers took to the streets burning Indian flags, and chanting anti-Indian slogans after Wednesday morning production meetings. The protesters - mostly young males - have reached a boiling point after years of technological imperialism and failed Indian programming policies. Busy midday traffic came to a halt as this once proud high-tech mecca was transformed into raging, socially-challenged powder keg of humanity...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Humor
KEYWORDS: computers; h1bvisa; india; offshoring; outsourcing; programmers; satire; siliconvalley
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To: NCjim
Well, it has been nearly 30 years since I had to break out my green card... You know, the yellow one?

Mark

101 posted on 03/15/2008 3:54:26 PM PDT by MarkL
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To: MarkL
Green - S/360, White - S/70 w/o DAT, Yellow - S/370 w/DAT. We still called them green cards...

And the beauty is that a program that ran on the first S/360 made will run on the latest zSeries processor today. Now, finding a card reader may be more of a challenge...

102 posted on 03/15/2008 4:06:58 PM PDT by NCjim (The more I use Windows, the more I love UNIX)
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To: NCjim
Green - S/360, White - S/70 w/o DAT, Yellow - S/370 w/DAT. We still called them green cards...

Green - S/360, White - S/370 w/o DAT, Yellow - S/370 w/DAT. We still called them green cards...

Still can't type, after many decades - wasted a lot of 5081s in my day! :-)

103 posted on 03/15/2008 4:09:08 PM PDT by NCjim (The more I use Windows, the more I love UNIX)
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