This list is so Garrulous

[James McDonald]

On 7 March 2010 21:29, Yu Meng Chong <chongym at cymulacrum.net> wrote:

>
> Hi Kevin,
>
> ----- "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I teach in a California (USA) state university, where the budget
> > problems
> > have eliminated so many support  services, cut my time (and pay), and
> > although (naturally) under the management edict to maintain academic
> > standards, I find I'm nearly every day making decisions about what to
> > do
> > poorly.
>
> Is the economy really that bad in the US? It's all barreling downhill here,
> but I thought it would be better in the US. Even after the dot-com bust,
> employment and the general state of the economy in the US seemed pretty good
> by Singapore standards. I remember when I was in Atlanta in 2001, I was
> impressed at how prosperous that city was, and how everything is BIG there,
> from buildings to cars to food!
>
> Oh, I almost forgot, I have to mention one thing on this list: Linux!
>
> pascal chong
>
>
Australia so far has dodged the financial meltdown bullet.

My brother in London is flat out (doing financial systems IT) because the
downturn has created a lot churn i.e. a few key people carving several
billion dollars out of a sinking fund to start a new one down the road.

The sad thing is, I'd imagine that it doesn't effect/affect  (can someone
please tell me which word I should have used) the high end so much as the
people that lose their job wrapping widgets in factory X.

Personally I think it was all started by a fork bomb on a stock exchange
server.
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