You perceive what you say to be the absolute truth, but it is your perception .
A breakdown from another perspective...
we were able to pay our employees 3 to 4 times what they would make at a decent job.
And for that, they would work 6 or 7 days a week, sometimes over 12 hrs.
My take on this is, they see the high pay as the incentive, and know that if they do not work above and beyond the call of duty they will be canned as there are many ppl that would like to be paid enough to fix all their financial problems and those of their families they care dearly about .
I havent seen such a good work ethic in any other IT department and I dont think my wife has either
I don't know how many IT companies you have worked for, but for one thing, they have similarities and differences, they are not apples and apples .
Some IT companies are very professional, and some are chaotic maelstroms of disaster, I have worked for those two kinds and some in between .
As a business owner you may have many years of experience with many different companies before you started your own business, but I am going to guess you have been at this only since the internet came to fruition in the EU, ie. roughly 10 years or less .
Your making a blanket statement about US coders, scroll over to the SE portion of the US of this inter-linked high resolution multi-radar 3d OpenGL radar display .
You cannot view the 3D ability of it via the web, only the NOAA and NSSL ppl can via their OpenGL terminals with the special display system the lets them peel away layers of the clouds by wind speed or moisture content .
To me this shows that some heavy coding is going on even in places as lax as the.GOV .
I think the biggest issue is how lax one becomes when politics achieves what abilities need not.
I think a lot of ppl in the US are busy doing coding that gets them paid well, so they can go home to their families, and call it a day .
Mental Mind Games are great, but it is not what keeps the USA moving forward .
Once someone said necessity is the mother of invention, and it is that mindset that seems to work well here, check our results to verify our abilities .
I feel in Europe due to the large numbers of ppl struggling to make a better life for themselves they have to get noticed any and every way possible .
Here you just post your resume' on the major search engines, and you get sick of the phone ringing if your fairly adept .
It is not that we cannot enter these contests of the mind, it is that over 96% of the US is employed, and a fair portion of those either have multiple jobs, work overtime, or long hours on salary or are futhering their education while working in hopes of promotion .
Online schools, night classes, and vo-techs number in the hundreds nation wide as ppl work longer hours and do school/training to get that next promotion or a better job .
This is also why it doesnt surprise me that you see so many 'rogue' programmers with nefarious intents in these countries either.
Giving the option of no job, and working menial labor these ppl use their talents to make money anyway they can . I do not condone it, but when some one is faced with hardship for them and their family, they will chose their family 9 times out of 10 . Many of these ppl live in countries where their government was or is horribly corrupt, and if you are a fan of Darwin then you know the phrase "products of their environment"
I'm sure all the CIO's are collectively cringing thinking about how much is going to cost them to retrain their work force.
Unless M$ offers some serious incentive to upgrade to Vista then you may see ppl hold back for quite awhile, and some Corporations are still running a Win2k domain versus moving to XP and were 1/3rd of the way into 2006 .
They'd rather take the money and spend it elsehwere .
A good example of how some major corporations hate to spend money on IT .
Conoco corporate in Ponca City Oklahoma in 2001 had 10 Base-T hubs for most of their network at their Administration facility their for that refinery, and had a cmpus of several bldgs, and basically ignored the 5-4-3 rule .
It was so bad to ghost the machines we had to haul them to the basement and hook them up to a seperate LAN in a lab, and when we got there they were trying to back up 25 machines at once thru one cat5e strand , lol .
The network was hideous, and crashed, and was miserably slow because they did not want to do the right thing and lay the network out right .
The network went up and down so much I nicknamed it Yo-Yo net .
Thus why I say unless it affects them drastically they are not going to squat and drop a thin dime for IT, and look at IT as burden not a benefit .
Some smarter companies realize their is a threshold and spend enough to keep it working well, but most look for any excuse to cut corners .
Very simple, works well, even clear across the world network neighborhood works if you tweak your firewall and port forwarding requirements if using NAT .
Encrypted, simple, fast speeds over LAN, and can connect long haul as well .
Network neighborhood even works clear across the world as long as you can configure the special conditions for firewalls .
You just need some kind of common forum for ppl to register and get on the network, and periodically do a total reset, perhaps even schedule them amongst known users .
They keep pushing and it is just going to drive us to crypto, and underground communities online that are like friendster, where you cannot get in unless your invited and vouched for .
A 2 tier referral system would be very brutal, ie. 2 referrals to get in .
Package this with auto updating black list firewalling like peer guardian 2 and its gonna make life pretty hard for the RIAA/MPAA and whoever else .
In a way a setup like this would remind me of the BBS days .
Look, if your not earning a "living wage" then adapt.
Basic algebra for you...
"X" number of ppl in workforce "Y" number of jobs that pay above poverty level "Z" number of ppl that will live in poverty because all the good jobs are taken
X - Y = Z
The exact value of the variables is variable, but it is impossible statistically that X = Y as we know that Z exists in the millions .
Keep in mind also the unemployment rate is not based on the number of ppl out of work its based on some survey that is not pursued aggressively, and does not have truly random sampling .
In the summer of 2003 it is presumed that the rate was almost 11% of the country had no job at all and many were working below the level of their education .
In practice it doesn't work like that. There's no perfect markets, only various aproximations. And that's a good thing -- if it wheren't so, then only a single producer could survive in any market, the one with the lowest costs.
The steel industry is gone here, thus billy joel's song allen town .
The mercantile industry is not totally gone yet, but its going to china and malaysia .
Farming got so bad here that many bands got together to do farmaid for the bankrupt farmers and we now subsidize thru tax money some farms by paying them to not grow anything at all .
GM recently shuttered 5 major facilities, and opened a new one in India, with more to come from all US auto manufacturers .
When GM closed the plants here Delphi a supplier also had huge layoffs, and other suppliers got hit by trickle down effect as well .
It is my opinion and that of others as well that soon the US will make nothing here .
We will have zero manufacturing, and with that the engineering for it will follow suit .
India and China have engineers being trained "right here" in our schools , funded with our tax dollars + the students tuition . Yes, some tax dollars still go to pay for the university and its expansion . Look it up, me and my frieds did .
Wal-mart is building the largest building on earth in china for direct warehousing of products to come from china .
Like in rome, all the ppl cared about before the fall was "Bread and Circuses"
* Soybean: 40 to 50 US gal/acre (40 to 50 m/km)
* Rapeseed: 110 to 145 US gal/acre (100 to 140 m/km)
* Mustard: 140 US gal/acre (130 m/km)
* Jatropha: 175 US gal/acre (160 m/km)
* Palm oil: 650 US gal/acre (610 m/km) [2]
* Algae: 10,000 to 20,000 US gal/acre (10,000 to 20,000 m/km)
Ex-MislTech
Bio diesel from Algae has this beat by a long ways
on
Tiny Biodiesel Reactors
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· Score: 4, Informative
Nothing compares to the output from Algae as far as bio oil goes .
* Soybean: 40 to 50 US gal/acre (40 to 50 m/km)
* Rapeseed: 110 to 145 US gal/acre (100 to 140 m/km)
* Mustard: 140 US gal/acre (130 m/km)
* Jatropha: 175 US gal/acre (160 m/km)
* Palm oil: 650 US gal/acre (610 m/km) [2]
* Algae: 10,000 to 20,000 US gal/acre (10,000 to 20,000 m/km)
The plan on the table is not to change to another fake paper system, but to sell oil for gold directly, a physical tangible asset vs. monopoly money that is printed at a whim and carries no ties to a physical valued object .
Most if not all of the world's banks went off the gold standard long ago .
I think ppl are missing the point, this is like the old virus CMOS death in some ways .
The twist the virus can set the overheat temp very low, so its easy to trigger via the virus, and the virus also does something akin to a bios flash that uploads a custom bios instead of just nuking the bios like cmos death did .
Its kinda like the firmware vulnerabilities that were present in some cheap routers .
and in cisco's case not so cheap...and you don't have to be hands on to trigger it, it can be done remotely .
Fiber Optics has been around for quite some time, after the DOT COM bust it became relatively cheap . And the majority of fiber in the ground is not even lit . It is known as dark fiber .
If we want internet access like a regulated utility, but without the the government screwing it up, our best option is a Coop .
A good example of this banking and insurance wise is USAA for military ppl .
When power was deregulated in california it just ended up a giant mess .
The FCC has been manipulated by companies like sprint that tried their best to keep the GSM cellular system used by the rest of the world out of the US so their proprietary version could maintain a monoply .
This is common knowledge among those that worked in Telecom, and there are other examples of the corporations using strong arm tactics and lobbyists to get what is best for their bottom lines .
When lobbyists and corporate greed mold the policy for our telecom system nationwide it will not be in the best interest of the ppl at large, just the largess of a corrupt few, like the piece of crap CEO from global crossing .
Millions and billions of dollars just pissed away due to greed, corruption, and poor management of resources . The status quo is not getting it done right .
1) Bio-panel - a panel that uses algae to produce either hydrogen or bio-deisel oil based off hybrid algae, a variant replacement for conventional solar panels .
2) Nanite memory - non-volatile ram that is 10 - 20 times faster than current DD2, and and Ipod could have 10 Tera-bytes of a module the size of a sugar cube . No power required to maintain the bit state either .
5) LED based wall projectors to reduce electrical power usage world wide . Imagine all display systems in the world going from 100 wats plus to 1- 3 watts .
6 billion ppl, probably over 2 billion display systems world wide with a over 100 fold reduction in power usage, it could have a major impact . (Tv's, monitors, etc )
Take it a step further, the American ppl had their tax money stolen to the tune of 200 billion of which the broadband providers did not deliver on their promise ON TOP OF the higher bills we pay for it than other places of the world .
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe someone will invent a Bio-panel...
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An Algae solar panel that produces hydrogen by depriving it of oxygen
like Mr. Melis's research indicates .
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70273-0.ht
http://www.green-trust.org/2000/algaehydrogen.htm
Be pretty wild to see huge areas covered in some green translucent liquid paneling, lol .
I had same idea for Bio-diesel from Algae paneling .
Ex-MislTech
Perception is reality...
...
.GOV .
You perceive what you say to be the absolute truth, but it is your perception .
A breakdown from another perspective
we were able to pay our employees 3 to 4 times what they would make at a decent job.
And for that, they would work 6 or 7 days a week, sometimes over 12 hrs.
My take on this is, they see the high pay as the incentive, and know that if they do
not work above and beyond the call of duty they will be canned as there are many ppl
that would like to be paid enough to fix all their financial problems and those
of their families they care dearly about .
I havent seen such a good work ethic in any other IT department and I dont think my wife has either
I don't know how many IT companies you have worked for, but for one thing, they have similarities
and differences, they are not apples and apples .
Some IT companies are very professional, and some are chaotic maelstroms of disaster, I have
worked for those two kinds and some in between .
As a business owner you may have many years of experience with many different companies
before you started your own business, but I am going to guess you have been at this only
since the internet came to fruition in the EU, ie. roughly 10 years or less .
Your making a blanket statement about US coders, scroll over to the SE portion of the US
of this inter-linked high resolution multi-radar 3d OpenGL radar display .
You cannot view the 3D ability of it via the web, only the NOAA and NSSL ppl can via
their OpenGL terminals with the special display system the lets them peel away layers
of the clouds by wind speed or moisture content .
http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php
To me this shows that some heavy coding is going on even in places as lax as the
I think the biggest issue is how lax one becomes when politics achieves what abilities need not.
I think a lot of ppl in the US are busy doing coding that gets them paid well, so they
can go home to their families, and call it a day .
Mental Mind Games are great, but it is not what keeps the USA moving forward .
Once someone said necessity is the mother of invention, and it is that mindset that seems
to work well here, check our results to verify our abilities .
I feel in Europe due to the large numbers of ppl struggling to make a better life for
themselves they have to get noticed any and every way possible .
Here you just post your resume' on the major search engines, and you get sick of the phone ringing
if your fairly adept .
It is not that we cannot enter these contests of the mind, it is that over 96% of the US is employed,
and a fair portion of those either have multiple jobs, work overtime, or long hours on salary
or are futhering their education while working in hopes of promotion .
Online schools, night classes, and vo-techs number in the hundreds nation wide as ppl work longer
hours and do school/training to get that next promotion or a better job .
This is also why it doesnt surprise me that you see so many 'rogue' programmers with nefarious intents in these countries either.
Giving the option of no job, and working menial labor these ppl use their talents to make money
anyway they can . I do not condone it, but when some one is faced with hardship for them and
their family, they will chose their family 9 times out of 10 . Many of these ppl live in countries
where their government was or is horribly corrupt, and if you are a fan of Darwin then you
know the phrase "products of their environment"
Ex-MislTech
Paul is that you ?????
. htm
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/bios/otellini
Ex-MislTech
And ....Keep in mind with your good statements, the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
was a Bird Flu, thou the 1918 variety had a lower mortality rate...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H1N1
Ex-MislTech
I'm sure all the CIO's are collectively cringing thinking about how much is going to cost them to retrain their work force.
Unless M$ offers some serious incentive to upgrade to Vista then you may see ppl
hold back for quite awhile, and some Corporations are still running a Win2k domain
versus moving to XP and were 1/3rd of the way into 2006 .
They'd rather take the money and spend it elsehwere .
A good example of how some major corporations hate to spend money on IT .
Conoco corporate in Ponca City Oklahoma in 2001 had 10 Base-T hubs for most of
their network at their Administration facility their for that refinery,
and had a cmpus of several bldgs, and basically ignored the 5-4-3 rule .
It was so bad to ghost the machines we had to haul them to the basement
and hook them up to a seperate LAN in a lab, and when we got there
they were trying to back up 25 machines at once thru one cat5e strand , lol .
The network was hideous, and crashed, and was miserably slow because they
did not want to do the right thing and lay the network out right .
The network went up and down so much I nicknamed it Yo-Yo net .
Thus why I say unless it affects them drastically they are not going to
squat and drop a thin dime for IT, and look at IT as burden not a benefit .
Some smarter companies realize their is a threshold and spend enough to
keep it working well, but most look for any excuse to cut corners .
Ex-MislTech
LAN oriented simple VPN that could be shared between known friends .
http://www.hamachi.cc/
Very simple, works well, even clear across the world network neighborhood works
if you tweak your firewall and port forwarding requirements if using NAT .
Ex-MislTech
http://www.hamachi.cc/
Encrypted, simple, fast speeds over LAN, and can connect long haul as well .
Network neighborhood even works clear across the world as long as you can
configure the special conditions for firewalls .
You just need some kind of common forum for ppl to register and get on the network,
and periodically do a total reset, perhaps even schedule them amongst known users .
They keep pushing and it is just going to drive us to crypto, and underground
communities online that are like friendster, where you cannot get in unless
your invited and vouched for .
A 2 tier referral system would be very brutal, ie. 2 referrals to get in .
Package this with auto updating black list firewalling like peer guardian 2
and its gonna make life pretty hard for the RIAA/MPAA and whoever else .
In a way a setup like this would remind me of the BBS days .
Peace,
Ex-MislTech
Look, if your not earning a "living wage" then adapt.
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Basic algebra for you
"X" number of ppl in workforce
"Y" number of jobs that pay above poverty level
"Z" number of ppl that will live in poverty because all the good jobs are taken
X - Y = Z
The exact value of the variables is variable, but it is impossible statistically that X = Y
as we know that Z exists in the millions .
Keep in mind also the unemployment rate is not based on the number of ppl out of work
its based on some survey that is not pursued aggressively, and does not have truly
random sampling .
http://www.underreported.com/modules.php?op=modlo
In the summer of 2003 it is presumed that the rate was almost 11% of the country had no
job at all and many were working below the level of their education .
Their shirt of choice :
http://www.cafepress.com/overeducated
The stories of ppl qualified to do more, but are losing their homes :
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0930/p09s01-coop.ht
The so called soft landing, and recovery economy is a load of crap .
Ex-MislTech
This has need to be said for a long time, most ppl I know feel we are voting
for one bought and paid for crony or the other .
So damn near half the ppl eligible to vote don't even bother .
The two parties put up their marionette of choice and the funders pull their strings .
The rest of us go back to our distraction of choice because of a sense of hopelessness .
They play their us vs. them rhetoric , but some feel it is just a charade .
Peace
Ex-MislTech
Bush has protectionist leanings whenever it suits his purpose.
Well whatever the hell his purpose is, it isn't the workers .
It must be the corporate whores that are getting corporate welfare on top
of offshoring and selling out .
Ex-MislTech
Yes India is doing smashingly well feeding its ppl .
http://www.ipsnews.net/fao_magazine/indian.shtml
Ex-MislTech
In practice it doesn't work like that. There's no perfect markets, only various aproximations. And that's a good thing -- if it wheren't so, then only a single producer could survive in any market, the one with the lowest costs.
...
Ohhh kinda like Wal-mart
Ex-MislTech
Yes,
The steel industry is gone here, thus billy joel's song allen town .
The mercantile industry is not totally gone yet, but its going to china and malaysia .
Farming got so bad here that many bands got together to do farmaid for the
bankrupt farmers and we now subsidize thru tax money some farms by paying them
to not grow anything at all .
GM recently shuttered 5 major facilities, and opened a new one in India,
with more to come from all US auto manufacturers .
When GM closed the plants here Delphi a supplier also had huge layoffs,
and other suppliers got hit by trickle down effect as well .
It is my opinion and that of others as well that soon the US will make nothing here .
We will have zero manufacturing, and with that the engineering for it will follow suit .
India and China have engineers being trained "right here" in our schools , funded
with our tax dollars + the students tuition . Yes, some tax dollars still go to pay for
the university and its expansion . Look it up, me and my frieds did .
Wal-mart is building the largest building on earth in china for direct warehousing
of products to come from china .
Like in rome, all the ppl cared about before the fall was "Bread and Circuses"
Oh well...
Ex-MislTech
common sence
I think this puts your intellect in perspective .
Since you are the sensing kind, trying spellcheck .
Ex-MislTech
Well the funny thing about the bush family is they are transplants to texas .
Originally from connecticut .
So it makes me wonder if he is doing the accent on purpose .
ie. dumb like a fox .
Ex-MislTech
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru
If you read blog entry you see it links your article DIRECTLY.
Sorry I got your panties in a wad, maybe you got mad
before you bothered to read that I direct link your article .
As for those stats you question, they are DIRECTLY CTRL+C, CTRL+V from
the Wikipedia Article, drama not included(tm) .
So if the "m/km" is off its just a carbon copy of your mistake .
Ex-MislTech
We don't need corn, we can use Algae and the pollution from the salton sea .
http://blog.myspace.com/ex_misltech
* Soybean: 40 to 50 US gal/acre (40 to 50 m/km)
* Rapeseed: 110 to 145 US gal/acre (100 to 140 m/km)
* Mustard: 140 US gal/acre (130 m/km)
* Jatropha: 175 US gal/acre (160 m/km)
* Palm oil: 650 US gal/acre (610 m/km) [2]
* Algae: 10,000 to 20,000 US gal/acre (10,000 to 20,000 m/km)
Ex-MislTech
http://blog.myspace.com/ex_misltech
Nothing compares to the output from Algae as far as bio oil goes .
* Soybean: 40 to 50 US gal/acre (40 to 50 m/km)
* Rapeseed: 110 to 145 US gal/acre (100 to 140 m/km)
* Mustard: 140 US gal/acre (130 m/km)
* Jatropha: 175 US gal/acre (160 m/km)
* Palm oil: 650 US gal/acre (610 m/km) [2]
* Algae: 10,000 to 20,000 US gal/acre (10,000 to 20,000 m/km)
Ex-MislTech
Opec: Oil for Euros...
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The plan on the table is not to change to another fake paper system,
but to sell oil for gold directly, a physical tangible asset vs. monopoly
money that is printed at a whim and carries no ties to a physical valued object .
Most if not all of the world's banks went off the gold standard long ago .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard
They fiat currency of the Euro and the Dollar are all monopoly money, ie. fake .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_currency
A more detailed and possibly over zealous dissertation on it :
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/davis/davis1.ht
This I feel is what the Iranians and Indonesia have decided in which they no
longer want to participate, and it may spread to Opec as well .
In fact Iraq did it shortly before we went to war with Iraq .
http://www.safehaven.com/article-1251.htm
Ex-MislTech
I think ppl are missing the point, this is like the old virus CMOS death in some ways .
...and you don't have to be hands on to trigger it,
The twist the virus can set the overheat temp very low, so its easy to trigger via the virus,
and the virus also does something akin to a bios flash that uploads a custom bios
instead of just nuking the bios like cmos death did .
Its kinda like the firmware vulnerabilities that were present in some cheap routers .
and in cisco's case not so cheap
it can be done remotely .
Ex-MislTech
No where did it say hiring increased .
Just less lay offs .
Under those conditions and terms a natonwide job freese could be
in effect at most places, and still some lay offs occuring .
What the trend is typically is to hire more L1, H1-B's ,
and offshore or near shore .
Some countries have setup cruise ships off the coast ,
and this is called near shoring .
Bizarre indeed .
http://www.adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=10959&page=
Fiber Optics has been around for quite some time, after the DOT COM bust
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it became relatively cheap . And the majority of fiber in the ground
is not even lit . It is known as dark fiber .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fiber
What would be best is for the ppl to do an end around the greed matrix .
Make a Internet Cooperative, some already exist now and are doing well .
http://www.coop.net/ and http://www.ncic.net/
As tax payers we paid $200 billion USD in taxes to the major telcos to deploy
fiber to every major US city, we were defrauded, the details are here :
http://www.newnetworks.com/ShortSCANDALSummary.ht
If we want internet access like a regulated utility, but without the the government
screwing it up, our best option is a Coop .
A good example of this banking and insurance wise is USAA for military ppl .
When power was deregulated in california it just ended up a giant mess .
The FCC has been manipulated by companies like sprint that tried their best to
keep the GSM cellular system used by the rest of the world out of the US
so their proprietary version could maintain a monoply .
This is common knowledge among those that worked in Telecom, and there
are other examples of the corporations using strong arm tactics and
lobbyists to get what is best for their bottom lines .
When lobbyists and corporate greed mold the policy for our telecom
system nationwide it will not be in the best interest of the ppl at large,
just the largess of a corrupt few, like the piece of crap CEO from global crossing .
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/2/1
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/2/1
http://www.newsmax.com/scripts/showinside.pl?a=20
Millions and billions of dollars just pissed away due to greed, corruption,
and poor management of resources . The status quo is not getting it done right .
Ex-MislTech
1) Bio-panel - a panel that uses algae to produce either hydrogen or bio-deisel oil based
, 00.html
off hybrid algae, a variant replacement for conventional solar panels .
My idea based on already known uses for algae .
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,54456
http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html
2) Nanite memory - non-volatile ram that is 10 - 20 times faster than current DD2,
and and Ipod could have 10 Tera-bytes of a module the size of a sugar cube .
No power required to maintain the bit state either .
http://www.nantero.com/
3) Growing human organs with the recepients DNA markers on the backs of mice,
already been done, think it through to its full possibilities .
3rd pic down http://www.pbs.org/saf/1107/features/body.htm
4) Next Gen Fuel Cell vehicles .
http://www.japancorp.net/Article.asp?Art_ID=11628
5) LED based wall projectors to reduce electrical power usage world wide .
Imagine all display systems in the world going from 100 wats plus to 1- 3 watts .
http://www.lightblueoptics.com/
6 billion ppl, probably over 2 billion display systems world wide with a over
100 fold reduction in power usage, it could have a major impact . (Tv's, monitors, etc )
Ex-MislTech
Take it a step further, the American ppl had their tax money stolen to
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the tune of 200 billion of which the broadband providers did not deliver
on their promise ON TOP OF the higher bills we pay for it than
other places of the world .
http://www.newnetworks.com/ShortSCANDALSummary.ht
Either party may have a grand idea, but when the corporate vultures
are circling its your carcass they want .
Greed knows no morality or ethics, and it does not have your best
interest in mind either .
Ex-MislTech