This list is so Garrulous

[Leon Goldstein]

James McDonald wrote:

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> On 7 March 2010 21:29, Yu Meng Chong <chongym at cymulacrum.net 
> <mailto:chongym at cymulacrum.net>> wrote:
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>     Hi Kevin,
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>     ----- "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman at gmail.com
>     <mailto:kogorman at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     > 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
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> Australia so far has dodged the financial meltdown bullet.
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> 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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>  
>
Effect is a noun; affect is a verb.  As in: "The effect of Linux has 
affected the evolution of Windows."


-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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