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2001-02-05 Thread Redvers Davies
Dammit, we are *not* third world! Highest rate of child poverty in the developed world. An estimated 40% of the population have no healthcare.

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2001-02-05 Thread Greg McCarroll
* Redvers Davies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Dammit, we are *not* third world! Highest rate of child poverty in the developed world. An estimated 40% of the population have no healthcare. where are you talking about Red, Indonesia? Ethyopia? China? ;-) -- Greg McCarroll

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2001-02-05 Thread David H. Adler
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 09:17:26AM +, Redvers Davies wrote: Dammit, we are *not* third world! Highest rate of child poverty in the developed world. An estimated 40% of the population have no healthcare. That's 'cause we have lousy dictators... dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL

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2001-02-05 Thread Redvers Davies
That's 'cause we have lousy dictators... I think its cultural - and I think its a trend we are seeing all over the world. The saddest manifestation of that I saw was with GW Bush's inaugaration speech when he talked about improving schools, improving this, doing that and lowering taxes.

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2001-02-04 Thread David H. Adler
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:22:26AM +, David Cantrell wrote: Working on various defence projects for dodgy third world dictatorships (including Indonesia and the US) Dammit, we are *not* third world! dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "I was under

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2001-02-01 Thread Matthew Jones
so who else has had cool non-IT jobs in the past? I walways had crappy non-IT jobs. The absolute worst was when I went to work in a plastics factory. As new boy, it fell to me to make sure that all the waste plastic was disposed of as efficiently as possible. Translated, that meant dragging

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2001-02-01 Thread Dave Cross
At Thu, 1 Feb 2001 09:44:28 +, Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so who else has had cool non-IT jobs in the past? I was the social secretary at City University for a year - 1981/2. Does that count? Interesting stories that I can be persuaded to tell after a few beers: 1/ Turning

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2001-02-01 Thread Redvers Davies
so who else has had cool non-IT jobs in the past? Security guard at a site which was under constant threat from animal rights bombers. with the name and we need to ``leverage'' it (sorry) now in all aspects of the company, from sales/marketting to programming Hmmm, skills... A healthy

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2001-02-01 Thread Neil Ford
so who else has had cool non-IT jobs in the past? Operations Manager, Wizards of the Coast Limited next best thing to being a crack dealer :-) Neil. -- Neil C. Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.binky.ourshack.org

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2001-02-01 Thread David Cantrell
so who else has had cool non-IT jobs in the past? Being a bus conductor during the summer holidays when I was in the sixth form was fun. Working on various defence projects for dodgy third world dictatorships (including Indonesia and the US) was not, but we had wonderful toys. You wouldn't

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2001-02-01 Thread Simon Wistow
Matthew Jones wrote: so who else has had cool non-IT jobs in the past? I walways had crappy non-IT jobs. The absolute worst was when I went to work in a plastics factory. As new boy, it fell to me to make sure that all the waste plastic was disposed of as efficiently as possible. I