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In article PButg.16834$Wh7.7743@trnddc07,
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"Joe" wrote in message
.net...
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...explain why I
posted the unemployment figures for the "hightech"
west coast vs North Carolina.
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Well, just to poke the bear and keep this highly entertaining dust-up
alive
(aka stirring the ****) I'll point out that North Carolina's Research
Triangle is every bit as much a "hightech mecca" as California's Silicon
Valley or Oregon's Silicon Forest or Washington's whatever cutsie tech
nickname they use for the Micro$oft HQ area. In each case those areas
make
up only a small portion of their respective states, are not the driving
force of the state's economy, and do not make up anything approaching a
majority of the workforce in their states. So a strong case can be made
that
the west coast is not materially more "hightech" than North Carolina.

Bob Weinberger

I hate to contribute to extending this waste of electrons, but I think
the point was "why post the west coast #s" if he thought that Opie was
saying that he was the one living in the high-tech region.

I don't personally think that where I live qualifies as a high-tech
mecca.

Someone said that it does?

Silicon Valley, absolutely.

Well, yeah, if you believe the rumors.

You can't cross the street without running into a high-tech
company there.

Hm......maybe they should get a couple more streets.

Where I live, there is really
only one major high-tech company.

Nary a one in my house.......but then, we've got lots of streets here in
Curdistan.

It's debatable,

What's debatable?

but I can't even get
the two stooges to read a simple sentence let alone debate something
more subtle.

Mark and I haven't fared any better at getting them to read a simple
sentence. What chance could you possibly have? And "stooges" is certainly
the right term.......hell, one of them WROTE it and he STILL doesn't have
any clue of what it says.

EOT for me, I promise.

Excellent! One less dumbass to contend with in one thread. I know, it
ain't much, but a start is always at least that.

Wolfgang
of course, it'll always crop up again somewhere else. vigilance and
tenacity remain the best defenses......well, that and a command of the
language.