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OT: toll collections



On Wednesday 24 November 2004 1:16 pm, Rich Braun wrote:

> So the permanent solution to avoid future strikes is to install a Linux
> box at each toll booth, put in a flat-screen monitor and a webcam, link
> it up to a DSL line, bill the government about $2.6 million per booth,
> and ship the jobs to India.
>
> Even if the outsourced workers working from 6000 miles away do go on
> strike someday, at least they can't block the streets in protest.  ;-/
Why not, don't airplanes fly from India to Pennsylvania or is Pennsylvania a 
no fly  zone these days :-)
-- 
Jerry Feldman <gerald.feldman at hp.com>
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Hewlett-Packard Co.
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