--- Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Jan Coffey wrote:
> >
> >You should never make such assumptions. I do not make typographical
> errors. I
> >make spelling errors becouse I am Dyslexic. This topic has been beat to
> death
> >but if you want to learn more about dyslexia or why spell checkers do not
> >solve the problem , i would be glad to entertain the conversation.
> >
> Yesterday I watched a program in _Discovery Health_ about dyslexia. It
> seems that they were tracing the cause to some substance deficit, that
> can be found in nuts. [or something else].
There is a condition simmilar to Dyslexia that is caused by a deficit in a
nurro transmiter. This consition, (cant remember the name) although simmilar
to dyslexia has other very disturbing consequences Dyslexis do not
experience.
Be carefull when you hear the word "Dyslexia", the word has been overloaded,
and used in the discription of many conditions having nothing at all to do
with real Dyslexia.
That said, there is now even the acknolegment that there are several types of
Dyslexia, and that it is a gray scale rather than boolean (you have it or you
don't is not the case, you can have it mildly).
The form I have is caused most probably by a diffenece in brain achitecture.
Perhaps brought on by certain parts of the brain developing earlier than
normal.
This form makes phonetic, non logical accociations difficult becouse the part
of the brain that does phonem recal has been programmed for some other
function. This means that I can not read or write on automatic. I must
perform these functions in the same way that many others would do long
devision in their head.
It is not a condition that can be solved by eating oats.
> >I was angry when majority of Indeans made it into managment positions they
> >had no quams about continuing their class system and racesism in the
> >workplace. They treated women deploribly, and worked people like slaves.
> >
> Is this legal?
Effectivly yes. It is very difficult to prove than a class system is being
used when all of the buisness is being done in Hindi.
It is dificult to show that racism is happeing for the same reason, and
becouse the software development process is not something that judges or
juries understand, (many software developers don't understand it properly).
Esentialy you have to -proove- guilt. (this is a good thing). But to proove
guilt you have to prove that the reason Indeans were advanced and Americans
were not was race related and not Performance related. To do this the Judge
and Jury would have to understand what good and bad performance were.
Many Indean women are very subservient to men. It would require one of these
women to simply stop acting in that way and demand better treatment. Since
most of them act so subservient and have it beat into them, they would never
think of taking action against the kind of treatment they indure...Well, that
~was~ the case. The Oracle lawsuit may lead the way for more. But even then
the Oracle deal was much more extream. Being forced to perform felacio to
maintain ones job (be able to stay in the US) is one thing. Software
Engineers who get all the men on a team coffee and biscuts, and are expected
to keep their cubes and offices neet and aranged is something less dificult
to do anything about. Especialy when the Woman does it without being asked,
comunicated in Hindi, and when asked says that she "likes to see here teams
work area neet and the team functionin well together".
Working people like slaves is actualy legal. The law that set the work week
at 40 hours was repealed for technical workers.
It's not like the managament doesn't know what is happening, it's just that
it's so much cheeper to hier someone who has to keep their job or go back to
Indea.
And yes there did use to be a law that forced companies to hire US citizens
or Perminant Residents first. But this is avoided easily. It has to do which
the requirment to proove that you did look for USC's and GCs first. All you
have to do is find the H1 you want to hier, make sure their resume has so
much stuff on it that no one other person could truthfully compare. Then you
put out the add for someone to fill the postion who has all of these skills
and knowledge. Now if anyone calls you on it, they would have to proove to a
judge and jury that the H1 actualy does not all of the stuff he said he did.
Since they probably wont even understand the explination for these skills and
knowledge, how are they going to decide whether of not the H1 knows it or
not?
> >I was angry when 7 groups at Seible were asked to train the Indeans who
> would
> >replace them, all the while being promised that they were not going to
> loose
> >their jobs.
> >
> And I imagine that they trained them? <evil grin>
I don't know what you mean with that <evil grin> but yes they did and yes
they were layed off directly after doing so. Since many of the people left in
positions that were being moved off shore are on H1s and there ability to
stay in the US is dependent on their job, the next time it happened they also
didn't get deserters. The one manager who stood up and said that this wasn't
right had his whole department cut from him down. It's extortion.
> >And this makes me angry becouse just as the DotCom failed becouse of over
> >zelous expectations coupled with crap for code,
> >
> I think the DotCom failed because they were siren-talked by the
> Evil Capitalists to believe in the stock system, and were involved in
> some pyramid schemes.
That had something to do with it, it's the explination that the everyman can
understand. But what was going on was VCs etc. would come up with some idea
for a .com which might require 4 or 5 years to accomplish, but they wanted it
in 6 months. They would then go out and get whoever to hack it up in no time.
Many of the really neet adias for companies that were comeing into existence
here in the bay area were doable, were not pyramid schemes, and could have
been profitable. But not in the amount of time that was wanted, and not with
the level of quality the code was at.
It's like what would have happened if the ancient Egyptians had tried to
build the pyramids in the shape and hight of the sears tower in halph the
time it took to build the sears tower. Even if you had time warped a sear
tower architect back to Ancient Egypt with all his books and know how.
> >You don't think that when that happens they will hier Americans there, let
> >our culture take over their company, and shift all buisness to being
> spoken
> >in English...do you?
> >
> Me no speak English, me speak Portuguese.
Or portuguese then. Nationalism may be bad, but not being nationalistic only
workes when the all sides are not.
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