On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:43:51 -0600, Ray Shahan 
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>Here is an excerpt from an article describing Bill Gates' visit to the
>UT CS department last week:

>             How on earth does the Labor Dept. come up with a staggering
>number like 300,000 unfilled IT jobs? 

Smoke, mirrors, and heapin' helpin's of (as one of my former cow-orkers when 
I was at the Response Center put it) "caca del toro".

>            What constitues a technology related job these days (just
>about everything if you count the reqirements of having to know how to
>use MS products?)?

They are whatever it takes for Big Bidness (God bless Molly Ivins!) to get their 
H-whatever visas approved so they can pay neat-subsistence wages to their 
importees.

[ .. snip .. ]

>Me thinks 300,000, is, umm, a crock of dung?

Or just a heapin' helpin' of (see above).

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