Labor costs have nothing to do with profit margins? That is way wrong.

I think that if companies have a choice between people of comparable skills they will hire people that cost less. If you believe otherwise well okay.

If you believe that companies wouldn't take the opportunity to lower their costs and at same produce high quality products well I guess we'll just have to disagree.

Thanks.

You seem to be implying that I resent companies somehow trying to maximize profits. I don't at all. I think it is perfectly rational. I have worked with Devs on H1-Bs that do excellent work. Hiring highly productive people that cost less is like perfectly understandable. So if you are claiming that is nonsense well okay.

No that isn't it. Tbh big companies like MSFT and INTC have a lot of projects that go round the clock with people working on them in multiple continents. So I don't think outsourcing is that big of a deal.

INTC laid off 12,000+ direct workers in 2016, many in Oregon where they have a huge facility and in Silicon Valley. It is absolutely astounding how many contracting reqs they have now. I have no doubt that INTC sees contingent workers as being better for the bottom line. Many of the agencies that are doing the recruiting are Indian companies. I actually see nothing wrong with doing that. I think INTC is a great company too btw FWIW. I just think the meme that they are starving for talent is baloney.

Michelle. Other than that, I don't know. There are only so many Obama's out there.

Corey Booker maybe.

Zombie Sanders? Is Warren still in her heyday? No idea.

All I know is the republicans best chance was their joke candidate and they won. They have nothing in the hole. Assuming Trump screws the pooch the next 4 years the republicans have everything to lose.


Whoever pulls a random decent person out of the crowd and coronates them has a decent chance to win it.

Kirsten Gillibrand? I don't really know anything about her other than she's the one voting no for most nominees so far.

Ironically, if there's going to be scrutiny at all, there should also be scrutiny on the ones who bet AGAINST assassination. The way bookies work is that a bet will offer better odds when more bets are accumulated against it. Then a potential "bounty hunter" can just make his bet before carrying out the act. This means that betting against the assassination is akin to paying a hitman for a job. And if he fails to accomplish it, the bettor gets paid for his trouble.

It's not entirely clear what the law has to say about all this, or what it should have to say about it. When you take out a life insurance policy, you're essentially making a bet that you (or someone you know) is gonna die, and that's perfectly legal. When an insurance company offers life insurance, they're making a bet against that person dying, and again it's perfectly legal.

Of course that's way wrong. It's also not what I said.

Obviously true. And not what I asked.


Again, this isn't what we're talking about.


I'm not implying that at all. I don't think you do that.

But its pretty clear you either didn't read what I wrote or didn't understand it. So... cool.

no, his sentence will be commuted by mike pence

Sublime.

lol no. you realize that boot camps all over the country (like even in cleveland ohio theres at least 3 of these places) or just pumping out jr devs like a freakin assembly line. most are 3 months, a few are 6, and the job rate is like 96%.

i hope trump eliminates presidential debates before i have to watch him stammer through 3 more of them

www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-impeachment-bets-234931

"Ladbrokes, the British oddsmaking giant, has Trump’s chances of leaving office via resignation or impeachment and removal at just 11-to-10, or just a little worse than even money. The odds of Trump being impeached this year in the House of Representatives are only 4-to-1, according to the Irish bookmaker Paddy Power, despite GOP control of the chamber. You can win $180 on a $100 bet with Bovada, the online gaming site, that Trump won’t make it through a full term — though the bet is off if Trump passes away during the next four years."

...

"Perhaps the most unusual — and certainly most lurid — wager is the 4-to-1 odds offered by Paddy Power that the alleged Russian video of Trump outlined in the dossier compiled by a former British intelligence agent will appear on a pornographic website."

Wondering if anyone would like to change their answer. Since Trump is going to be proved an agent of the Russian government and sentenced to live out his days in Ft Leavenworth(?)

https://www.inverse.com/article/2629...peachment-odds

Bumpity

My original brash prediction was going to be o/u on 3 months. I didn't say it out loud though, it seemed too crazy. Was it?

Let's see: Health Care dead, Travel Ban down, Wiretapping face slap, excessive wkends costing $3m/per, Major FBI Investigation in yo house, 37% approval. I can only imagine it slips to low 30's after this health care disaster?

Even if he's smart enough to change and adapt to the climate of 'governance' over his natural dictatorial/business tendencies, do the sins of the campaign which will be unearthed swallow him up regardless of what moves he makes. In other words is he FATED to impeachment or resignation now.

Current odds:

No -150
Yes +110

Either he quits gets impeached or just dies because he's an old imo. Hard to see him going for re elect in 2020

He's already filed for re-election.

Yeah man, obviously Donald Trump has never gone back on a promise, so if he's filed for reelection, that's it.

One reason the the odds for impeachment should drop is because an overwhelming majority of the republican party has made it very clear they have no backbone whatsoever and are more than willing to turn a morally blind eye towards setting the constitution on fire if necessary as long as it cuts taxes for the rich, gets rid of Obamacare, and wipes out whatever gains women, gays, and minorities have made the last 8 years.

Does anyone still doubt that it's party before country in their view?

Be careful getting all giddy about Trump's low approval rating. Last I read, the democrat's favorability ratings aren't looking too good. I know that makes me a Trump voting racist for bringing that up, but just a warning to be careful.

Yes is free money