[NTLUG:Discuss] Hidden Malware in offshore productsraisesconcerns

[Tom Adelstein]

Lance Simmons <lance at lsimmons.net> wrote:

>* Tom Adelstein <adelste at netscape.net> [030913 15:20]:
>> 
>> Next, watch the US stop exporting jobs and watch them bring them all
>> back here.
>
>Speaking as someone who has always worked outside the tech sector, I
>think this is quite unlikely.  Free trade was a major national issue in
>'92 and '96, and the matter was settled decisively.  Perhaps if tech
>workers had been politically engaged back then, things would have turned
>out differently, but they weren't.  The rest of America, which has long
>since paid its free trade dues in excelsis, is quite prepared to watch
>the tech sector get its comeuppance.
>
>I wouldn't mind being wrong about this, but I don't think I am.
>
>-- 
>Lance Simmons
>

I can promise that "organizing" is taking place in a BIG way. The publicity and motivation will have great appeal to people in this country. If you saw the turnout for the Constitutional Amendment today, you'd understand. It was 10 times normal at 3PM and something like that in early voting.

I wouldn't underestimate the feelings 9-11-2001 engendered.

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