On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Vivek J. Patankar wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > > BTW, I've heard that the suicide rate in India has risen sharply since the > > dawn of outsourcing.... :-) > > Never heard that one before. On the contrary, things are getting > better here. I only read about farmers committing suicide due to > failed crops in the papers. i just recently heard a news report on the overwhelming stress levels at indian call centres. it's easy enough to google on the subject if you want to know more: http://www.google.com/search?q=stress+india+%22call+centers%22&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-10,GGGL:en but that's wandering kind of far afield from fedora. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================