"Remember when the manufacturing jobs starting going south and they said "don't worry, this is an information economy now, and they'll all be information workers"? Not that I believed that at all, but now that all the information jobs are going south (or rather east and west), what are they claiming people will do here? Other than work at Hardee's, I mean." Well, there should be some Telecom contracts coming out of Iraq soon. And when those dry up maybe we'll find some more terrorists in, say, some of the 'stans. -TD

From: Harmon Seaver To: cypherpunks@lne.com Subject: Re: A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:39:41 -0500

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:25:59AM -0400, Sunder wrote:

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On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Steve Furlong wrote:

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(I won't be able to observe directly, as I was fired from that company because I'm an incompetent slacker (boss's view) or because the boss was a jack-booted jackass (my view).)

Shit happens. Just be happy you're not working at IBM. It was leaked that they're outsourcing to India, etc...

see: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10613

Remember when the manufacturing jobs starting going south and they said "don't worry, this is an information economy now, and they'll all be information workers"? Not that I believed that at all, but now that all the information jobs are going south (or rather east and west), what are they claiming people will do here? Other than work at Hardee's, I mean.

-- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com

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