<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 2:42 AM, James McDonald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james@jamesmcdonald.id.au" target="_blank">james@jamesmcdonald.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On 7 March 2010 21:29, Yu Meng Chong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chongym@cymulacrum.net" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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><br></div></div></blockquote></div><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></blockquote><div><br>Is it that we might affect change, which might have an effect?<br><br>[All our Widget Wrapper jobs moved to the Far East, and we are too proud
to do the jobs that are left in labor and service. We throw $zillions at
banks and wars, import labor to do the work, but squabble over
providing decent education, and health care to poor people. Those who
point out the inconsistancies are called unpatriotic or communist.
Congress is dis-functional and wholly owned by trans-national
corporations. The country is a mess. It's a fun time here. (Don't get me
started...)<br>
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However, the tide may have turned economically, as job losses were
minimal in spite of the terrible weather in the east.]<br>
<br>Writing this using gmail (actually google apps) on Windows7 installed in VMPlayer on my Debian 64-bit testing install using Firefox. VMplayer is pretty sweet. <br></div></div><br>This is getting garrulous... better quit.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Ken Moffat<br>
kmoffat at modizzle dot net<br>