Re: Today (Feb 26) IBM announcements

In article <sb4js3lgi47m8enl6nhl5vdr486dtjrum5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Robert  <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 08:20:18 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 () wrote:
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>>In article <uifhs3pvo0bguqpnokkhmtqgm0r536f5jb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>Robert  <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:48:37 -0700, Howard Brazee <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
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>>[snip]
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>>>In the 1990s, most contractors were salaried. They were in a pool of
>>>workers that was
>>>moved from one client to the next. They were on a team.
>>
>>I used to refer to such folks as 'stable consultants', 'stable' in the 
>>sense of 'group under central management', as in 'a stable of horses'.
>>
>>Some of them seemed not to like indies.
>
>Uncle Tom  
>
>A black man who will do anything to stay in good standing with "the
>white man" including
>betray his own people.
>
>'Leroy is such an Uncle Tom; he told the boss I took a 2 hour lunch.'
>http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Uncle+Tom

I'm uncertain what conclusion(s) you intend to be drawn from this, Mr 
Wagner; how do you see mentioning that 'some 'stable consultants' seemed 
not to like indies' leading to a reference to a character from a novel by 
Harriet Beecher Stowe?

DD