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On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 14:46:07 -0800, Uncle Al wrote:

> jsp wrote:
>> 
>> During the past two years, the salaries of
>> most scientists including physicists have decreased significantly.
>> See
>> http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/sciencesalaries.html
> 
>    1) Why do you need technical personnel,
>    2) Why do you need senior technical personnel,
>    3) Why do you need domestic hires,
>    4) Why is your infrastructure in the US?
> 
>    1) You must innovate or the competition wins.  The MBA solution is
> the cigarette adverising model - if everybody agrees not to do it,
> then nobody has to foot the bill.
> 
>    2) You absolutely don't.  MBAs know chrome domes are as fungible as
> computer cards.  Pull one, insert a newer cheaper one.  As long as
> everybody plays by the rules... see (1).
> 
>    3) You absolutely don't.  Bring something in from Russia, India, or
> China and trade opportunity (not on a spreadsheet) for costs (on a
> spreadsheet).  You are going to dump them in five years anyway, see
> (2).
> 
>    4) No sane person would do R&D in the US:  OSHA, EPA, Haz-Mat,
> BATF, War on Drugs, Homeland Severity, wages, benefits, retirement,
> general liability, sex and race lawsuits.  Go to British Colombia and
> all that crap vanishes, plus the Canuckistan government gives you a
> major blowjob for importing economic incentives.  A chemist getting
> $25K/annum in Canada is hot shit.  Folks speak English, too, and there
> is British Common law.  Avoid the Canukistan East Coast like the
> plague.
> 
> The MBA model is like an eggshell.  If anybody external flips a finger
> at it, it shatters.
> 
> -- 
> Uncle Al
> http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
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Don't bullshit at your own expense jackass. Reason American
scientists are near-slaves is that they're militarized.
Spirit of military runs the science show in USA. 

Enjoy the consequences. 
 
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                         "Jalal Ale-Ahmad"