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In California Biomed industry overtakes computers and telecommunications as the State's top employer. Have we really lost "electronics, computers and telecom"?

Meanwhile the annual U.S. COMDEX 2004 computer industry trade show has been cancelled this year. Running for almost 25 years in Las Vegas, the "Computer Dealers Exposition" was the computer show for about two decades, where everyone in the industry would introduce new products and services. For whatever reason, attendance by both exhibitors and convention goers had collapsed in the past few years. [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology]
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Hindu Business Line of India in an analysis of U.S. monetary policy notes that in the U.S. "jobs are getting created in low-wage and not high-wage jobs". While politicians boast of a rebounding economy with new job creation, they always leave out this metric that we are now exporting high paying jobs and creating low paying jobs. There are a few long term problems with this economic strategy ... for the U.S., that is.

Even the Indians working in the U.S. on H-1B visas do not do so well. Job shops routinely mark up what the worker is paid by an average of 250%. The software engineer is paid $20 per hour in the U.S., but is billed out by agencies at up to $90 per hour.

In India 1/2 billion people are under the age of 25. Do you suppose offshoring work to India is now likely to be a long term growth industry? [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology]
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Bush official says we can beat offshoring IT work by training and educating more IT workers, for non-existent jobs? Of course, the real goal is to flood the job market to drive down salaries. Free marketeers believe in free markets except when its convenient to manipulate the market to achieve their own goals. [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology]
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Worries over alternative medicine [BBC: Health] "The World Health Organization warns the unregulated use of alternative medicines can cause unpleasant or potentially dangerous reactions." And prescription medicines do not have these problems? That's a lie, not a laugh. Prescription meds also have unpleasant and potentially life threatening reactions. So your point is? [Edward Mitchell: Common Sense Technology]
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A recount of the technical problems on SpaceShipOne.  [John Robb's Weblog]
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