A new PJM video on the subject of the Google – Yahoo – China is up at China Syndrome. I hope people like this one. Tom Lantos was quite an impressive fellow to interview and I think he’s on the side of the angels on this one. We interwove our interview with some CSPAN clips of the Congressional hearing in which he grilled the Yahoo lawyer who doesn’t look too happy to be there. Lantos’ personal history – he is a Holocaust survivor – gives his commitment to human rights extra weight.
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1. Pat Curley:He hit your question about “constructive engagement” right out of the park. I agree with your assessment; an impressive individual.
Feb 24, 2006 - 5:14 pm 2. quickrob:Very nice. It’s good not only to see PJMedia out there getting important interviews but also to see Lantos taking some time out of his day to grant an interview to PJMedia.
Roger, you held your own for being a newbie as far as being an interviewer goes. Congrats!
Feb 24, 2006 - 7:40 pm 3. It Insider:But, but, who is Lantos, who are we, to make visible the hand of grobalization?
My company stands to increase its EPS by 2 pennies if we can simply, quietly, and cooperatively transfer some mere modest technology to our excellent and gracious trading partner China.
In fact, we have developed a pogrom with our partner to shift software developments for our US equities system away from vastly overpaid ($75,000) American coders to extremely cost efficient ($7500) technologists in Beijing / Peping / Peking. The savings we attain, while substantially offset by increased military expenditures by the US federal government, have accrued to significantly larger bonuses for our senior management “helmsmen” team.
Feb 24, 2006 - 8:20 pm 4. Steven Mitchell:IT Insider,
Ignoring for the moment the condescending first sentence and the rather nasty typo, “pogrom”?, and the anonymous new post, I’ll just say this:
“In fact, we have developed a program with our partner to shift software developments for our US equities system away from vastly overpaid ($75,000) American coders to extremely cost efficient ($7500) technologists in Beijing / Peping / Peking.”
You’ll get what you pay for. I hope your customers are happy. I speak with some experience on the matter.
Feb 25, 2006 - 1:13 pm 5. It Insider:Mr. Mitchell,
I take it that you are pleased, then, with the work product, given your experience.
It is simply a fact of life that we of the ruling classes enjoy the perogatives of a post-national consciousness, where we have managed to appropriate the Rainbow Coalition’s multicultural pieties for our own uses, and immunize ourselves from criticism for employing red Chinese over Americans by tagging the complainers as “racist” and “nativist.”
Yes, there are problems with guaranteeing security, and quality, and all that, but I will not be sitting in the same chair when that bill comes due.
We are now considering placing a new regional data center in China, to displace our all-too-costly operations in New York and Texas. The short term benefits will be immense : a substantial reduction in our labour costs, and most importantly, escape from the onerous U.S. regulatory nonsense that plagues state-side operations. If this migration is successful, I stand to make an enormous amount of money.
Feb 25, 2006 - 5:58 pm