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Podcast for 07-23-2012

Started by MrBogosity, July 22, 2012, 04:11:16 PM

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July 22, 2012, 04:11:16 PM
[mp3]https://bogosity.podbean.com/mf/web/up36q/BogosityPodcast-2012-07-23.mp3[/mp3]


News of the Bogus:
Biggest Bogon Emitter: Barack Obama http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/13/remarks-president-campaign-event-roanoke-virginia
Idiot Extraordinaire: Diana Carew http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJzBGNQbHwc

This Week's quote: "I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there." —Petronius
July 23, 2012, 12:35:47 PM #1
For some reason this episode doesn't appear on iTunes for me--I'm subscribed to this podcast, but no matter how many times I hit "refresh" or "show all available podcasts" it doesn't show.  Did you forget to put it on iTunes?
"When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world—'No. You move.'"
-Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man 537
July 23, 2012, 05:14:56 PM #2
It's supposed to happen automatically.

EDIT: It's showing up in the iTunes preview for the podcast: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bogosity-podcast/id427659100
July 24, 2012, 03:36:07 AM #3
Quote from: MrBogosity on July 23, 2012, 05:14:56 PM
It's supposed to happen automatically.

EDIT: It's showing up in the iTunes preview for the podcast: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bogosity-podcast/id427659100

Yeah, later on after I posted that it finally went up.  Awesomeness!
"When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world—'No. You move.'"
-Captain America, Amazing Spider-Man 537
July 25, 2012, 08:03:33 AM #4
I think there's some inaccurate terminology being used in the podcast, and it starts from Obama (not surprisingly).

He talks about 'outsourcing' as being the movement of jobs from inside the US to outside the US.  This is incorrect.  Outsourcing is one firm hiring another to carry out some of its' business functions.  For instance, a firm (particularly a small one) might hire a payroll company to do the number crunching and produce pay cheques (and tax slips) for the employees because it's cheaper to have a specialist firm do that than have the people and software to do it internally.

What he (and Shane) describe is properly called 'offshoring'.  As transportation and communications have improved over the last few decades, it's been happening more and more.

They often happen together, where the firm the work is outsourced to may be in a different country, and some business functions (like customer contact centers or certain types of manufacturing where the startup cost is very high but can produce vast quantities of goods of multiple types easily once set up) are more likely to be outsourced to companies that specialize in that kind of function than some others.  There are some quite large companies that do nothing but supply the corporate outsourcing market.  At the extreme end, individual contractors are outsourced labor, since they are not employees of the firm they contract with.  (At least, not in most jurisdictions, provided the terms of the contract are such that they don't fall into the definitions of an employee.  In Ontario, for instance, there are a list of requirements for a person to be a contractor, such as setting their own work hours and being able to freely substitute qualified persons to carry out the work, which must be met for the relationship to be a contractor one instead of an employee one.)
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