🚀 go-pugleaf

 >The State of New Jersey wants to License Computer Professionals!!!!
 >THIS IS A CROCK OF *&()*^!!!!
 >The time to act is now! Contact Govenor Jim, your Assembly and Senate
 >representatives and tell them how you feel.
 >I am working on obtaining a copy of the bill & may post it if feasible.

 >Excerpts from a Newark Star-Ledger article (July 12, pp 31-32) explain:
 >
 >                 "Licensing bill rattles industry"
 >
 >    An astonished software industry is moving to stop a programmer licensing
 >bill that is already halfway to becoming law in New Jersey.
 >   The licensing program is primarily aimed at those who hire out their
 >services as computer program designers, but industry experts said it could
 >affect thousands more who work for companies that provide software and
 >services.

Ok, I'll bite.  What's the problem?  Licensing merely mandates a minimum
level of competency.  Many other professions have licensing procedures
for exactly that reason.  Would you prefer to be treated by a doctor who
did not have a license to practice medicine?

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					Conway Yee, N2JWQ
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