Greed bore the beast and nurtured it to greatness. Now the beast has turned on the very ones who once admired and adored it.

When just the lowly factory workers were losing their jobs, the Beast could do no wrong, but now...

Ask yourself; Is my job transportable? If the answer is "Yes", then it won't be around much longer.

All anybody can do in USA now is shop and support the process of importing, transporting, stocking and selling of goods. That business can't be moved out-of-country, so the government is trying to import foreigners to take those jobs away as well (i.e. Mexican truck drivers).

This is just the beginning, I hope.

What century are you living in? You talk about former British colony. You must be one of those revolutionary war idiots who think some of the former colonies should still be under the British crown.

I wonder what percentage that was?

Face it, in IT more than any other field the 80/20 rule is in effect and extremely evident. 20 percent of the people who the real work, the rest are fluff and got jobs when if you could spell the work computer they'd put you on a help desk.

The IT field has to be one of the easiests to excel in because so many lack either the technical skills that they truly need, or they have the technical skills but lack the social skills to effectively market themselves.

If MS are terrified of the thought of internet standards creeping into their systems through the chrome extension - can you imagine how scared they must be of 150,000 going out and self training (for free of course) in LAMP?
And if they start re-vitalising old machines with it.....

Why pay for an IT staff when you can have a single person, or a few, do the work of many? Let's be honest here: if your job can be shipped overseas, the position is not valuable enough that fine-grained control over the worker is not needed. Code-monkey engineers, redundant IT staff, customer support--these are parts of a company that are disposable and replaceable.

The promise of a job for life is the promise of compacency.

It's greed that got america into the mess in the first place. people buying homes they couldn't afford and banks letting them, people going bankrupt instead of taking responsibility for their choices blah blah, ceo's cutting jobs so they can give theirself a huge bonus. That's the new america and alot of bad things are going to have to happen before it gets better.

Why have the tech jobs fled abroad? It's all about share prices for shareholders. Who are the shareholders? Everyone, including the tech guys. Everyone wants their stock to make money, and whats a great way for them to make money?, cut their IT bill by 50% or more.

Except that now, those people without jobs may be selling their shares if they have to, which then share prices plummit, and now the company looks for more ways to cut cost and get shares back up.

Talking About HARD, Hard Times. Just When enable 4th core seemed synche, Darn Fool thang turned itself Back Into 3 core machine. Went to Bios & l3 cache & Enabled ALL Cores, Still Selected. Stays at 3 cores NOW. Somebody Write President.

now How Would User Feel. However, got 176,000 Read/Write on Sata Circuit. its 3 TB seagate 7200.12.

MAMA MIA, Whats world to Do. End of Processing World As Knew IT. Tears, Whimpers & Shame. Extra Core Must Be Indication of Lots of 4 core 740 cpu where Defective & stymie'd into 3 710/720 core. BE Are Clearly Better Deal, as its hungry for Overclocking, according to ASRock OCTuner.

DRASHEK theDAMN'D