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Yep your spot on here and I did make that point that when it comes to business I didn't think that working with canadians would matter. What I think I was trying to point out was that despite the geographic closeness the cultures of North America and Canadian are pretty different. I can't help smirking as I eat my Strong & Bitey cheese and vegemite sandwich that if you where from Canada we would be swapping monty python cheese shop sketch jibes :)

more like 'taking the piss' out of the comment americans are like canadians and have a lot in common. ps: read the link carefully to see what I mean.

now for this I'd agree. In Diamond Age there's a line that really rings true here ... something about people are the same the whole world over but cultures are totally different.

Ahhh number 2 business as it's called. I'll give you an example of this from and Indian mate who fronted customs in India and was told in no uncertain terms ...this is not your face on you pasport as he was to board a plane. The inference being I'll let you board if you pay me. Charming. But guess what it's there culture and if they don't want to play the Marquess of Queensberry of business in their country so be it; Not much you can do about it.

outsourcing is a serious problem for technical staff this side of the pacific,across the Atlantic in the UK and back in the US. Ff you read tofler for instance you will see that in his powershift ~ knowledge, wealth at the edge of the 21st century you can see that he proposes that less workers will be able to do more. This is a trend is likely to continue. So more to use the ugly phrase *e-workers* (knowledge, meta, creative, digilog workers). Outsourcing could be seen as a way for business to be more efficeint. But why isn't business offshoring to cheap, easy to understand Canada, taking advantage of the stable, legal economy for instance? .... (though I think the revenge of English Raj was the fluency of Indians with english.) The time difference is minimal (maybe whey take advantage of 24 day processing) or is it for some kind of tax minimisation reasons? Have you any opinion on this?

Heh, sounds a bit like the ol' Monty Python Cheese Shop sketch. Always thought it was funny.

We all know we'll be able to get a thsirt with a penguin on it here, but what about some penguins for the top of my tv? :-)

Now that's more like it. A/V devices have a REASON to be networked. Unless maybe... you could get the VCR could make toast. Oh wait, Vyvyan already did that.

You know, the best thing about this article is that it's uncontaminated by cheese.

Which cheese?

All of my Cricket knowledge comes from 'The Young Ones" episode, Summer Holiday, where Vyvyan and Mike use Rick as the stumps, then light Rick's pants on fire after the match. Two points for knocking over a hippie, but would have been six if Vyvyan would have killed Neil.

Depends.. isn't one spam enough? Who would want two? Either the meat or the mail.

I know of someone who wanted spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, and spam...