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I am convinced he is living in the studio now.

I don't think that it will move everything, but for most industries it is smart for them to do so. And if the US wants to focus on White collar jobs for future generations they need to regulate the cost of colleges also. Outsourcing itself wouldn't be such a problem but combined with a already strained job market, then education cost rising each year at 3-4 times that of inflation, making it almost impossible for those that lose their jobs due to outsourcing to receive additional training, its a pretty messed up situation.

If Britney regained her sanity and made a comeback album, naked or no, it would fucking sale. Have some people right some songs about alcoholism, going insane, leaving her husband (look at what Cry me a River did for Timberlake) one song about having a kid and something upbeat that she can dance her ass off to and that shit will sell like rubbers. Like her or not, she can perform her ass off, one awards show and the press will get over crazy girl brit.

I'd like to know what you're basing this on, as nowhere in that longass post of yours did you refute anything I said regarding business practices, or even mention really. Actually that post was to Daryl. Your name is only there because of the shot at Jingus when if I had to pick one of the two having a more realistic view on business practices, I would go with Jingus (and I don't even agree with alot of what he said) And I am not trying to paint the business owners in a negative light here either by the way. If you or I had a business and saw a way to legally make more money selling the same product, you would. My problem is that there is absoloutely no incentive to keep business here in America and outsourcing is not working the way that delusional theory of its benefits says its supposed to. There are actually some tax breaks to outsourcing your jobs, and there are so many work arounds to importing goods, it would be incredibly stupid for most businesses not to just move all their business other places.

What ever. I do graphics and shit and I hate fucking Macs. The day I start using Maya or Max on a fucking mac is the day...well...nevermind. I just won't. Fuck those things.

More like a mediocre pretty phone got paired with a medicore phone company. Its a match made in heaven. Iphone: The Vista of PDA phones.....if Vista had removed alot of features that XP had....

I am not saying that they should, but DARRYLXWF seems to think that they are doing it, passing on the savings to consumers and making America a better place. Thats not the case, that isn't their goal. So basically, if you want to go with the outsourcing = good argument, you are going to have to come from another angle. It is not difficult to see the jobs created are not close to being on par with jobs outsourced. And the jobs created stat REALLY does count those that lost a 40k per year job and had to go and work at McDonalds for minimum wage. It really does count that as a new job created. And it STILL doesn't come close to being on par. Its not difficult to see that product cost and profit margins are not going in line with inflation. Of course I can't complain too much because I get paid by a company that takes all these avenues to save money, but lets not act like: Outsourcing....its for 'merica.

I don't do that quoting crap. Find what I was refering too. First that whole "if you were a student in the 60's" thing about the calculator, its all about cost of production and cost of product. Profit margins are growing on products produced due to outsourcing. The savings are NOT passed on to the consumer. Outsourcing SOLE purpose for companies is to increase their profit margin. Go read a fucking history book is a retarded statement. It literally would cost over 10-20 thousand dollars to make a computer in the 50's. It cost about 75 bucks now. It would cost about 75 bucks 10 years ago, only there weren't companies that low balled everyone so they were still selling shitty computers for 1000 bucks. NO ONE is attempting to pass savings on to consumers. They are either following a marketing plan of "make prices so low we put the other guys out of business" or they are keeping up with someone with that marketing plan. The profit margin in some consumer electronic products right now are over 90%. The same product profit margin was 60-70% not to long ago. And once again, factory jobs are not the highest amount of outsourced jobs. Customer service and IT jobs are the highest. Companies like say, cell phone companies, have cut billions of dollars by outsourcing. Cell phone plans have gone up across the board. And then they have the nerve to justify increase in plans with "offsetting the cost of customer service" which they are getting for sub minimum wage levels! This is not a abnormality either. This is a business model that most businesses are following right now. There are no increase in savings to customers and there is no new job market being created for the jobs lost in the customer service field. As for your "check you unemployment rates" thing. Here is a fun fact. The US only count's the unemployment rate as those that are actively enrolled and recieving unemployment benefits. Thats right, if your unemployment runs out before you find another job, according to the US Unemployment rates, you aren't unemployeed. If you were laid off from a non profit organization(who don't pay unemployment insurance) you are not actually unemployed apparently. customer service (one of the biggest job markets in america) people who were "temp" employees(which most companies do now to avoid the cost of unemployment insurance and health insurance) when their jobs are outsourced, they offically aren't unemployed. So if a company cuts 1-2 thousand temps from their payroll not a single one of them is counted as unemployed. Our unemployment rate is way higher than the percentages that are reported, and you would have to be naive to believe so. I expect Popick to come around at anytime to refute this with his economic reasoning, but the truth of the matter is there are millions of unemployed americans that don't get counted in our unemployment rate. And the how old am I shit...really? Dude, product quality has eroded in recent years and anyone not retarded knows that. Anyone here has had a TV conk out on them but still has one from 10-15 years ago that is still chugging. (I have a TV from 1982 that works perfectly. Current televisions have a life expectancy of 3-5 years). You can apply that to most common consumer electronics and automobiles right now. Companies are setting up cheaper production and use cheaper parts to make inferior products. And they know this. Which is why the warrenty business became so big and that puts even MORE money in the companies pockets. And I might be confused about this, but I think I once read that factoring in inflation, cars still are more expensive now than they were 30 years ago by a few thousand dollar. Yet we all know that making a car has become considerably less expensive. You seem to think that US companies are these good guys that only want to make a little money and pass the savings on to the consumer and make america better and that a few jobs have to be lost to make that happen. In reality, this is a "make more money" world and millions have lost jobs to so that companies can up their profit margins and the cost is inferior products and customer service. YPOV can put down Jingus all he wants, but he definately seems to have a better and more realistic view of business practices than you do.

Man. Don't let Eric see that.

Suns should pick him up. Seriously.

Manning struck me as an asshole in that sexual harrasment case he had against him. Of course, it could have been not true. Edit: the case was against the school. My fault.

I have been playing The Hulk Ultimate Destruction lately since my 360 is a goner. I never really played it before, but man, this pretty much Crackdown.

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon was a pretty good movie. The Tripper was okay for a over the top anti-Republican flick. It was heavy handed and could be annoying to most, but it was a okay horror flick. Oh yeah...I saw Nomad before they redid some stuff for a US release. I am still not sure if I liked it or not.

Yes...until Nov of next year. You have to know there are going to be some PISSED off people because some are going to make it RIGHT past that Three year mark. I do have to say, that call to get mine replaced was one of the more annoying calls I have ever been on. Not that it was difficult or anything. Just the guy was annoying and kept saying "Okay" after ever sentence and wouldn't go on until I said "okay".

Ah Skinwalkers. That movie was available for download like 3 months. Plus, it sounds stupid (werewolves....AT WAR). THEN they alienated half of the people that would have gone to see it by butchering it down to get a PG-13 rating. Yeah....that was doomed to fail.

Washington was not on a 50 win pace. They lost Gil in the middle of a massive losing streak. I think they were in like 6th place when he went down after being in first place for a good amount of the season. Gil missed like the last 4-5 games. They would have went 42-40 or 43-39 tops. Ray Allen was averaging 26 points a game before that ankle surgery too BTW. Pierce had a elbow injury that is now completely healed. They should be fine.

I don't think most people are against out-sourcing all together, however what we are told is that when companies outsource jobs, it is good for American workers. I am just eagerly awaiting to see how it is good for us. Like I said, in theory it is the bad jobs we are sending overseas in order to make room for good jobs over here, but it doesn't seem like that is what is happening. Instead it seems like the companies are taking the extra profit and investing it overseas and opening everything out of america in order to avoid taxes. The correct argument is that it has long term benefits for American workers. As companies and other businesses move to countries where their production costs are the smallest, it means their products will be cheaper for Americans to consume. As goods become cheaper, people are able to obtain a better standard of living by being able to purchase more goods, and so new markets are created, and hence new jobs a created to meet the demand of these new markets. It's extraordinarily easy to identify jobs that move out of the country. It's damn near impossible to identify which businesses opened because of freer trade. That's why it is politically difficult to make the argument for outsourcing without going into the economic logic of it all. All a protectionist has to do is point to a closed down steel mill and play a Springsteen song, and the whole room is sobbing. This my friend is bullshit. Find me a case where products have been come cheaper due to outsourcing. One case. Companies outsource to get more profit, not to pass the savings on to consumers. They also use cheaper parts that will crap out sooner to drive their warrenty programs, or better yet, address out of warrenty repair cost which is also counted on by most companies to turn a profit. They also have all these loopholes where they don't have to pay any importing cost on the product outsourced. And the prices of all these product stay the exact same until viable competition or greater technology drive the want for their product down. Show me, once again, where the new jobs are being created. Its been, what 10-15 years now since outsourcing really became the norm. Where are the new jobs? I know you said it is impossible to identify the businesses that opened because of freer trade, but thats because there are so very very very very few of them. Outsourced customer service jobs don't work in this model you are talking about and those are the hardest hit by outsourcing. This also isn't helping in the IT field. So the two biggest areas that are being raped by outsourcing are not going to create more work because that isn't the nature of those businesses.

I also find it insane to raise the cost of getting a green card. People want to bitch about good people trying to make aliving here "illegally" yet all the time making it more difficult for them to do it legally. Almost a 1000 dollars? Thats insane. This country really is built around fucking poor people in as many ways possible.

Yeah, but I say, to balance it out, they should be able to punch those people. Its only fair.

No lucky would be it dying now before your warrenty is up. Because it WILL die.

No lucky would be it dying now before your warrenty is up. Because it WILL die.

They made elites back then?

I don't think it curious. Tucker is a better actor than Chris rock, who, well...is a shitty actor. Yeah, that I'm gonna get you sucka scene was hilarious but honestly, you coulda given that part to about 1000 other black comedians and they would have nailed that. That was just a well written joke. I wouldn't call Tucker a poor mans Rock. I wouldn't compare them at all honestly.

That would have been great. That was a great uni. Pac-man jersey rules. But honestly, save that shitty one with the Hawk flying at you, they have had some decent unis. I am just not a fan of this one. At all.

Christ Tucker was a incredible stand up comic, and was funny in Rush Hour, funny in Money Talks (although a little over the top) and was pretty funny in Fifth Element (Corbin DALLAAAAAAAASSSSSS) and was funny in the first Rush Hour(Rush hour 2 was the same damn movie just in China instead of LA.) Chris Rock, also an incredible stand up comic, was funny in Kevin Smith movies (all two of them) but hasn't gotten one smirk out of me in any other movie he has ever done. Ever. Wait. He made me laugh twice in Pooty Tang. Both times I laughed during that movie.