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Re: Letter from Russia

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From: William McIver Jr.
Date: Fri, 01 May 1992 02:00
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In article <1992Apr30.194812.21148@csn.org> dcm@csn.org (David C. Menges) writes:

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>>Hi, everybody:
>>
>>We are two graduated students which are working at a information commercial
>>company (Khabarovsk, Russia). We'd like to get contact to any commercial
>>enterprises or any Universities in the U.S.A. We'd like mainly to have
>>many different metting with Americans and have lots of fun of it.
>>We can speak a little English.
>>
>>What do you think of it ? We are interested in your opinion.
>>
>>Thank you.
>>
>>Best regards,
>>Eugene Filckin   eugene@hpicnit.khabarovsk.su
>>Sergei Moiseev   chrisc@uafhp.uark.edu
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>
>I hope you don't mind if I repost this to co.general.
>
>Dave Hughes (dave%oldcolo@csn.org has employed c programmers from that 
>country (via the Internet, of course) and says they are excellent and 
>incredibly cheap.
 ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^

Ah yes!  Cheap labor!  Is that the *real* benefit of the fall of the
Eastern bloc?  Dan Rather had me thinking that I
should be happy because it was becoming more democratic.

I can see it now: a 60 minutes expose' on David C. Menges' software
sweat shop in Boulder.

Please answer another question. Does Free_Market_Economy ==> Democracy ?


WJM

p.s. I guess I should eat more Apple Pie.


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William J. McIver, Jr.          mciver@cs.colorado.edu
Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado @ Boulder	
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