Mercury News playing games

Date: Monday, November 27, 2006 10:35 PM

<<<<< JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER No. 1595 -- 11/27/2006 >>>>>

The Mercury news "editorial" starts out as an analysis on video consoles
such as the PlayStation 2. It ends up being a plug for increasing H-1Bs.
Columns such as this one are idiotorials because they are nothing but H-1B
shilling that masquerades as the editorial opinion of the newspaper.

The Mercury should be ashamed of playing games like this one!

On a different note, this article about the Lou Dobbs show is long but
worthwhile to read. It's somewhat adversarial and gossipy but has some
great inside information.

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/061204fa_fact1?page=1
MAD AS HELL
Lou Dobbss populist crusade

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http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/columnists/16106454.htm

PlayStation: Healthy dose of skepticism this time

By the Mercury News
In March 2000, just before Sony launched the PlayStation 2 video game
console, Newsweek magazine published a glowing cover story on the machine
dubbed ``The Amazing PlayStation 2.'' The story predicted that the PS2
would sell more than 100 million units. That part was correct, but it also
hyped the PS2 by saying it could be ``the most successful consumer product
ever launched'' (even more so than, say, milk?). The PS2, the article said,
may ``supercharge interactive entertainment, democratize e-commerce,
explode the DVD market and make the Sony company a dominant force in the
Internet age.''

The story properly used the phrase ``gushes'' in reference to a comment by
Ken Kutaragi, head of the Sony games business worldwide, who said, ``You
can communicate to a new cybercity. This will be the ideal home server. Did
you see the movie, `The Matrix'? Same interface. Same concept. Starting
from next year, you can jack into the `The Matrix'!''

The PS2 clearly fell short of some of its goals of becoming an e-commerce
powerhouse. Sony is touting the same goals for the PS3. Now wiser, Newsweek
has a story on the PlayStation 3 in its Nov. 20 issue. The article isn't a
cover story and includes a healthy dose of skepticism about how Sony could
lose market share to Nintendo.

`POGO' SAID IT BEST: The greatest challenge to America's competitive edge
comes not from overseas, but policies crafted in Congress.

That's what Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said during a recent visit to
Silicon Valley.

Like many tech executives, Gates believes the federal government should
expand the H-1B visa program to allow for more foreign workers to sit in
cubicles on American soil.

``The H-1B visa, green card quotas are so low today that they're literally
forcing the jobs to be done elsewhere,'' he said. ``And so that's an
important thing.''

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