<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 March 2010 21:29, Yu Meng Chong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chongym@cymulacrum.net">chongym@cymulacrum.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Hi Kevin,<br>
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----- "Kevin O'Gorman" <<a href="mailto:kogorman@gmail.com">kogorman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I teach in a California (USA) state university, where the budget<br>
> problems<br>
> have eliminated so many support services, cut my time (and pay), and<br>
> although (naturally) under the management edict to maintain academic<br>
> standards, I find I'm nearly every day making decisions about what to<br>
> do<br>
> poorly.<br>
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</div>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!<br>
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Oh, I almost forgot, I have to mention one thing on this list: Linux!<br>
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pascal chong<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Australia so far has dodged the financial meltdown bullet. <br><br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>Personally I think it was all started by a fork bomb on a stock exchange server. <br><br><br></div></div>