[TriLUG] Job Found...

[Sinner from the Prairy]

El dia Wednesday 16 January 2002 02:59 pm, no tenies res mes que fer i vas i 
m'envies aquest mail:

> Q. I got switched here from an ISP that went out of business.
>    What's to stop you from going out of business also?
> A. We have a long term growth plan so there's no need to worry.

> Yeah, right!  His current ISP's long term growth plan apparently
> includes trading their stock at about $0.80 for the last few
> months and losing $141 million this past quarter.  I wonder
> just what exactly they mean by long-term...

> Tanner

Actually...

Before coming to the US I had the chance to read "The Stuff Americans Are 
Made Of" and "Distant Mirrors: America as a Foreing Culture".

There perfectly explains what "long-term" means for Mary Average and Joe 
Sixpack: exactly 9 months. Extremely conservative folks, like farmers and 13 
original colonies' inhabitans can go as much as 2 years. But those are 
extreme and, obviously, most rare cases.

No kidding.

Once and again, in my 10 years relationship with people form the US of A has 
prooved that just right. When I read the book, I said out load "exactly!" 
when readiong about "American time".

For me, long term means... well, something in between 5 to 20 years. The same 
for anyone from my culture.

Hope you appreciate this antropologic off-topic in a Linux list.



Salut,
Sinner
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