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Offline Stryke 9

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It's wierd, you know, but when I come to think of it the "dot bomb" didn't really seem to happen until much later than when the newspapers were going on about it. All I've really got to base that on is personal experience, but it seemed to me that most of the entrepeneurial tech companies symptomatic of the bubble I saw went up after the supposed "crash", with plenty of venture capital to go around, and that the jobs only started vaporizing right and left a couple years ago.

Not going to claim my anecdotal evidence is particularly compelling, but I wonder if anybody else noticed anything similar...

 

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I was on the inside of the dot com crash, Stryke. Unix and Windows systems administration in internet server farms is my stock in trade. I'm not good for much else.
 The bubble started to inflate before I got out of the Navy and pretty much hit its critical point in 1998. That's when VCs were willing to put up money for monitor-brightness-tuning-over-TCPIP and other such stupidity. Here in Research Triangle Park, we got to watch as company after company was started, got over funded, proceeded to hemmorhage money, and finally disappeared. We didn't have it as bad as Silicon Vallley though. Our local economy isn't entirely hard tech based. Pretty soon the VCs wised up and you actually had to show you had a product before you could get money. That was the beginning of the end. Around the middle of 1999, VCs started demanding immediate ROI, and when none was forth coming, started bringing in the lawyers. Add millennial stupidity on top of it, and it was an orgy of stupidity. Dot coms crashed and burned left and right.
Overnight, my field went from commanding $120k/yr to being lucking to get $60k (usually more like $30k-45k). Tech support people got really screwed, going from a $18/hr job to a $8.
It could have been worse though. The tech bubble could have vomited over the entire economy and taken more industries with it. It was all over before the 2001 election and its been pretty much stable ever since.

Mind you, the numbers I quote above are for my area. They're higher in Silicon Valley.
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Offline Stryke 9

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All right then. Where I used to live was always a few years late in everything, anyway, maybe that had something to do with it. :D

 
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Good news. I had a stop at the library during my lunch hour which I skipped solely to have something for everyone. I went ahead and did a PAC search on the legacy of Ronald Reagan, and as a result got a fair sized book. I didnt read all of it, but I got through some of it. It CLEARLY states that Jimmy Carter left the US as he ran it, and tried desperately on the last days of election time to get the hostages released. (You know, that 444 day hostage crisis)

I just find it ironic how when Reagen said he planned to do something (not specifically) the guys just let him go some time after the innauguration. ;7

But, the shocking truth I learned was that the tax system benifited only 1 million of the populous while the rest lost about 350 bucks. MY OH MY!

 

Offline Grey Wolf

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IIRC, the reason that the Iranians released the hostages on the day of Reagan's inauguration was basically designed to be an insult to Carter.
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw

 

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When Rupert Murdoch owns a media empire, and uses it to totally do away with journalistic integrity, I don't hear you saying anything. Does it not worry you that the man in charge of a significant portion of Western news services is also a staunch Republican? That would tend to put a *slight* bias on the news.


You could say the same thing about Ted Turner being a loyal, boot-licking Demoncat...er, Democrat.

Sadly, the question has become, who do you believe bends, or outright destroys, the truth?  For my part, the staff at Fox, upto and including Mr. Alan Colmes, my second favorite liberal, have at least attempted to maintain some form of integrity, instead of becoming shills for whoever the Democrat'de jour is.
So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

There are only 10 types of people in the world , those that understand binary and those that don't.

 

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Okay, no more drugs for you.
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Offline Stryke 9

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Could go either way, really. Too many drugs or too few.

 

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Trust me, when his brain is that damaged, it's too many.
"I.....don't.....CARE!!!!!" ---- an0n
"an0n's right. He's crazy, an asshole, not to be trusted, rarely to be taken seriously, and never to be allowed near your mother. But, he's got a knack for being right. In the worst possible way he can find." ---- Yuppygoat
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Offline 01010

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But the scary thing is that it might be that he's done none at all.
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Offline Stryke 9

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Does religion qualify as an opiate in these circumstances?

 

Offline 01010

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Karl Marx seemed to think so.
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"It's a tough one."

 

Offline 01010

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What? A guy who ducked out of his service dressing like a pilot and a guy who doesn't play American football failing to catch a ball. I fail to see a point.
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Offline Stryke 9

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That anybody over eight years old should be capable of catching a ball without shutting their eyes and throwing up their hands like it's a concrete block, particularly when attempting to run a country as preoccupied with gender roles as ours?


Maybe the football's full of concrete. That would change matters entirely.

 

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Concrete eh? You've just given me an idea.
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What you don't see in those pictures is that Kerry was missing a pass from a 5 year old to make the kid feel better about his own feebleness; And the charred corpses of the two airmen who Bush just ordered to go bomb a Red Cross building.
"I.....don't.....CARE!!!!!" ---- an0n
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Wh? How did the airmen become charred corpses?

And why does Kerry, no matter what the intention of the cameraman, always look like an utter dork?

 

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The entire post was a criticism of the American armed forces and Bush's policies.
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