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Entrepreneurs Pitch "Code Boat" For Near-Shore IT Outsourcing
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Posted on 05/06/2005 11:44:31 PM PDT by freepatriot32
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posted on
05/06/2005 11:45:31 PM PDT
by
freepatriot32
(If you want to change government support the libertarian party www.lp.org)
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posted on
05/06/2005 11:50:25 PM PDT
by
freepatriot32
(If you want to change government support the libertarian party www.lp.org)
To: freepatriot32
Nothing like bringing the sweatshops to the customer instead of the customers to the sweatshop. I don't like the idea of a cruise ship with a bunch of engineers and software hackers, many from foreign lands, just off the shore of America in war time.
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posted on
05/06/2005 11:55:04 PM PDT
by
dannyboy72
(How long will you hold onto the rope when Liberals pull us off the cliff?)
To: dannyboy72
I don't like the idea of a cruise ship with a bunch of engineers and software hackers, many from foreign lands, just off the shore of America in war time.
Fortunately, we have sufficient stocks of the antidote just down the coast in San Diego:
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posted on
05/07/2005 12:12:40 AM PDT
by
A Balrog of Morgoth
(With fire, sword, and stinging whip I drive the Rats in terror before me.)
To: freepatriot32
I guess "seamen" means anyone who works on a boat? That's the only way this could fly.
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posted on
05/07/2005 12:16:36 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
To: freepatriot32
Sounds like the "abortion boat" in Europe has been re-tasked.
To: freepatriot32
Can anyone say "SLAVE SHIP"?
To: freepatriot32
And "by the end of the year," they and their clients will be losers.
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posted on
05/07/2005 2:20:47 AM PDT
by
familyop
("Let us try" sounds better, don't you think? "Essayons" is so...Roman.)
To: freepatriot32
Unless these IT specialists want to handle lines and work the engineering spaces, the Seamen's Union ain't gonna go for this.
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posted on
05/07/2005 3:41:38 AM PDT
by
dread78645
(Sarcasm tags are for wusses.)
To: freepatriot32; television is just wrong; CROSSHIGHWAYMAN; piceapungens; TXBSAFH; Cagey; putupjob; ..
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posted on
05/07/2005 4:19:21 AM PDT
by
risk
To: risk
I've heard of this. Apparently it has Hannity's shorts in a twist, a local talk show guy was up in arms about it, and I still think that it's about the stupidist idea I've ever come across. These people will be competing with IT resources in India and Europe, they are taking on the additional expense of providing room and board for their IT staff, and for what? What is the benefit supposed to be?
I'm an IT project manager. I've managed projects for a couple of companies where the software developers were based overseas. I'm currently working on a outsourcing for a large retail company located in another state. I manage 4 projects made up of people located in all four time zones as well as resourced located in India, and I do not see the benefit of this scheme. It's a virtual world in IT, thanks to instant communications. I telecommute. My people in India are available when I need them, we communicate easily through email and using Lotus Note's Sametime online chat. I communicate with my U.S. staff almost exclusively through conference calls, email, and online chat. If my overseas resources were located 50 miles off the California coast that wouldn't make my job any easier. It wouldn't make it harder. It wouldn't change it at all. This sounds like the kind of idea that came out of an all night MBA school drinking session.
To: dread78645
Unless these IT specialists want to handle lines and work the engineering spaces, the Seamen's Union ain't gonna go for this. Foreign-flag the boat and the Seaman's Union can go hang.
To: Non-Sequitur
They sure got a lot of attention!
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posted on
05/07/2005 4:51:02 AM PDT
by
risk
To: risk
They sure got a lot of attention! Somehow I think that was their plan all along.
To: freepatriot32
"If not for the captain and the crew the Minnow would be lost"
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posted on
05/07/2005 4:57:26 AM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: Jimmy Valentine
I don't mean to pick nits, but you messed up one of the classics. It is
fearless crew.
To: Joe Driscoll
Sorry. Sometimes I get that tune in my head and can't get it out. The words don't come back though....
Time to search the reruns. I love Bob Denver, he was great all the way back to "Toby Gillis."
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posted on
05/07/2005 5:44:34 AM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: Non-Sequitur
You got it.
If you are an Indian making 20k per year, you can live like a prince in India. Why would you go work on this boat? Dumb idea.
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posted on
05/07/2005 7:15:55 AM PDT
by
eno_
(Freedom Lite - it's almost worth defending.)
To: freepatriot32
This shows how ridiculous the laws of this country are. A perfect illustration.
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posted on
05/07/2005 8:00:15 AM PDT
by
traviskicks
(http://www.neoperspectives.com/charterschoolsexplained.htm)
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