--- ritu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Erik Reuter wrote: > > > > I'll be *really* heretical and repeat something > Gord told me: > > > apparently South Korea has better internet > connectivity and > > speed than > > > even the North American Continent... > > > > Why is that heretical? I would think it would be > obvious, considering > > the population density. > > Um, the heretical bit was a joke... > I found the information surprising though and > although the population > density bit looks obvious now, it still hasn't > worked out quite that way > here yet. > > Ritu
Also, the South Korean government has made a _huge_ push for internet connectivity, far more than any other in the world. I wanted to point out that the best estimates for total jobs lost to outsourcing to India in the US are that the number is substantially less than 500,000 - in other words, below the "noise" level in the statistics? That doesn't include the (many more) jobs _created_ by offshoring to India, but just the losses. So all Jan's arguments are about so few jobs that if they weren't going to Indians - that is, if they were disappearing because of technology, or, on a darker note, if they were going to Germans, say - there would be no attention paid to it at all. One other point. The _US_ is a primary offshoring location. Every Japanese car factory in the US is offshoring, after all. I'm curious if Jan objects to that as well. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you�re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
