The Case of the Outsourced IT Survey or, The Ugly American answers the phone 1081

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"Become"? I'm female, not married, and not financially dependent on anyone else. Close enough? I've been making my own financial noticing any particular male disapproval. No idea why your experience and mine would be so different in this respect ....

This must be a state ERA? since you wouldn't have been voting on the federal amendment, and it doesn't seem to contain any such holes. (Complete text as found by a quick Google search: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of love.")

How so?

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That does sound a little misguided. (But how would September have been better?)

I still find it really hard to imagine anyone in this country explicitly saying that they were following Bin Laden's instructions. Can you point me to references? newspaper articles, letters to editors, Usenet postings, rants on personal Web pages, ....?

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Well .... What if the choices are between a predictable subsistence income and an income that fluctuates between subsistence and affluence? That would be a better analogy, though granted I can't think of any companies that pay their workers that way.

My other point is that we didn't know in 2000 what Bush would do in response to a major person attack. If something equally unimagined happens in the next four years, how will he react? We don't know.

-- B. L. Mbuttingill ObDisclaimer: I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.