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IBM Adding Almost 19,000 Jobs
cyngus writes "IBM has announced they will add 18,800 jobs worldwide in 2004. They say about a third will be in North America. I don't know how many they have added this year so far. After the new hires IBM will employ about 330,000 people worldwide." More good news for the unemployed techie. Although things are far from the halcyon days of dot-com yesteryear, it's good to see companies doing better.
People have given up looking for work.
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The Dems are hardly scared of Bush's record.
http://www.centrists.org/pages/2004/03/5_lemieu
However, the continuing decline in labor force participation is troubling. If the labor force participation rate had remained steady at its March 2001 level, there would now be 2.8 million additional people counted as jobless, and the unemployment rate would be over 7 percent.
President Bush says the economy is on the mend. GDP growth has been robust in recent quarters, and few economists predict a return to slow growth or recession any time soon.
Meanwhile, Senator Kerry and former Democratic candidate John Edwards complain that the number of jobs is still down by over 2.3 million since employment peaked in March of 2001.
If you do websphere, thats all you do.
Websphere is a catch-all for a dozen products. MQSeries is now "Websphere MQ", etc.
I have not problem with you in particular (other than you mean "you're" and "than," not "your" or "then") but you're facts are false. The mods I don't like.
Wait a minute -- mods mostly Republican? You must be new here.
Or really slow.
everything in moderation
I lied, I got +5. You challenged with proof you get -1.
Whatever party they are, they are really "special"
Maybe we will even out in a few days, but the article will be off the front page and everyone will think i'm right.
But anways, I guess moderators are mostly republican. (So if I get modded down you'll know why.)
Maybe we will even out in a few days, but the article will be off the front page and everyone will think i'm right.
So you are saying that you got modded down because most of the mods are republicans, yet you also stated that you'll end up with more points in the end. Aren't you contradicting yourself? Beside, if you need more points for some reason, just make a "Linux rocks, Windows sucks" post.
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I got modded up.
I got modded up for complete BS I made up in my head.
People are still rolling in because its a +5.
Does this make me feel special? Kinda, but it also angrys me how much moderation affects peoples response.
Why?
Because I didn't follow the "Linux rocks, Windows sucks" rule. That pisses me off, so this is to prove that this weeks moderators are morons. How dare I suggest an operating system the guy is already familiar with and direct him to some experts that can supply him with the hardware at a really good price and even help him create his custom operating system image. Mr librarian wants to become a systems administrator!
The problem is that most slashdotters have some bias. I honestly believe that there are people here that write down the names of other slashdotters that they dislike, and mod them down as soon as they gain some mod points.
I can't really blame Slashdot this because it is owned by OSTG and some bias is expected. In fact, I don't believe that there is a such thing as a totally unbiased board, group, media, etc...
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