A 'Funky A.T.M.' Lets You Pay for Purchases Made Online

Tyler Durden camera_lumina at hotmail.com
Tue Jul 22 13:41:47 PDT 2003


"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 <hseaver at cybershamanix.com>
>To: cypherpunks at 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:
> > On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Steve Furlong wrote:
> >
> > > (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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