IBM CEO Ginni Rometty's Letter to the U.S. President-Elect
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Re: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty's Letter to the U.S. President-Elect
#2Almost none of these measures can be unilaterally actioned by the President. They will all require Congress to pass bills. The very same Congress who have been completely incapable of addressing the biggest issues facing the country.
Great ideas though and relevant in many countries in particular around a combined high school/vocational education program.
Re: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty's Letter to the U.S. President-Elect
#3Just a reminder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Re: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty's Letter to the U.S. President-Elect
#4Just a reminder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Please don't drop flamewar-style comments into unrelated threads like this.
Re: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty's Letter to the U.S. President-Elect
#5This is transparently a government sales marketing flyer. Why are we discussing it?
Re: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty's Letter to the U.S. President-Elect
#6Almost none of these measures can be unilaterally actioned by the President. They will all require Congress to pass bills. The very same Congress who have been completely incapable of addressing the biggest issues facing the country. Great ideas though and relevant in many countries in particular around a combined high school/vocational education program.
It remains to be seen how Trump will use "Executive Orders" if things don't go his way. As things are going, there's hopefully 2 groups of people in his cabinet. One to tell him what he can do and another to tell him what he cannot.
Re: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty's Letter to the U.S. President-Elect
#7Just a reminder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Please don't drop flamewar-style comments into unrelated threads like this.
I'm not sure this qualifies as that. IBM's role in politics has been historically fraught. Is everyone here really aware of IBM's role in the Holocaust? That really happened.
The whole thread is problematic. I dug into some of the claims --- for instance, I'd like to see IBM's "15 ideas" for saving 900 billion in healthcare costs (I was unable to find anything other than anti-Obamacare spam sites suggesting IBM had offered to foot the bill for the whole system in exchange for running it on IBM hardware).
I'm not sure there's much to this story, and so I don't think there will be much to the thread.
Re: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty's Letter to the U.S. President-Elect
#8This read to me like:
"We need to be relevant! We are not one of the FAANGS! Please hook us up with some sweet, sweet deals!"
Re: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty's Letter to the U.S. President-Elect
#9I would imagine their consulting arms placement on the H1B listing might be a concern for them which makes point 1 of their letter a bit disingenuous.
Hard to really tell what the policies will be until the secretaries are actually picked.
Re: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty's Letter to the U.S. President-Elect
#10Hey IBM, maybe instead of offering to create "new collar" jobs, you should stop shipping your existing jobs to India:
http://insights.dice.com/2013/09/27/justice-department-hits-...