Re: Today (Feb 26) IBM announcements

On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 23:44:39 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>In article <sb4js3lgi47m8enl6nhl5vdr486dtjrum5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>Robert  <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 08:20:18 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>In article <uifhs3pvo0bguqpnokkhmtqgm0r536f5jb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>>Robert  <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:48:37 -0700, Howard Brazee <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>>>
>>>[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
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>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?

Salaried consultants sold out to the man. They're like house slaves.