RE: job offer from SAUDI ARABIA

Jim,

Pacific Micronesia will be under water due to global warming.

(there are many hits to choose from, but...) http://www.unescap.org/mced2000/pacific/SoE-pacific.htm

Let's not go there until we have Amphibious SUVs. ( God forbid we change our "way of life". )

• Ross "WaterWorld" Mohan

|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: jhawkins_at_primary.net [mailto:jhawkins_at_primary.net]
|| Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 10:37 AM
|| To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
|| Subject: RE: job offer from SAUDI ARABIA
||
||
|| Totally agree with everything said here. I blame it all on
|| lawyers and the
|| media.
||
|| I've got an idea - how about a bunch of us move our families
|| to a secluded
|| Pacific island with no lawyers or televisions. We'll sit
|| around a monitor
|| fully-cached databases with no users or developers...ah....Utopia!
||
|| Jim
||
||
|| > That's sort of the whole nature vs nurture argument and it
|| could very well
|| > last the rest of our lives. Fact is, you could be raiesed
|| in the United
|| > States by a fine upstanding family, but you could still
|| turn around and go
|| > gun everyone down at school the next day. It's not
|| necessarily how you
|| were
|| > raised or who raised you. Personally, I think one of the
|| biggest problems
|| > in the United States is the media. They put everything
|| right in your
|| face,
|| > they manipulate the truth. Kids are subjected to movies
|| of violence, and
|| > yes it goes to nurture here, and their parents are letting
|| them watch this
|| > crap on tv. We live in a law suit happy society, everyone
|| is angry at
|| > everyone else if they have something that that person
|| wants and in todays
|| > society it appears as though people will go to any extent
|| to get what they
|| > want. Personally I am quite sick of it, watching the news
|| does nothing
|| but
|| > bring me down. (whoo, that's enough of that, too early in
|| the morning)
|| > Kev
|| >
|| > -----Original Message-----
|| > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 9:00 PM
|| > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
|| >
|| >
|| > Just as a coin has two side, every thing has two sides -
|| I'd say - good
|| and
|| > bad.
|| > What you are is determined by your behaviour
|| > Your behaviour is determinied by your surroundings - be it
|| parents ,
|| > friends or foes.
|| > Similarly, what a nation is determined by its ruler and
|| its neighbours.
|| >
|| > So, It largely depends on our attitude - how we take it.
|| > As, one poet says -
|| > "Our attitude determines our altitude in life"
|| >
|| > So, to sum it up - if you are going to make a living from
|| Saudi - then you
|| > have to trust them and befriend them and respect them -
|| and you will get
|| > respected..
|| >
|| > I can keep writing like this on and on - but.... I think
|| I'll stop here..
|| >
|| > Bye now,
|| > Rajaram.
|| >
|| >
|| >
|| > -----Original Message-----
|| > From: Eric D. Pierce [SMTP:PierceED_at_csus.edu]
|| > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 8:06 PM
|| > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
|| > Subject: RE: job offer from SAUDI ARABIA
|| >
|| > reality check.
|| >
|| > Consider the poignant implications of the recent anniversary of the
|| > Oklahoma city terrorism.
|| >
|| > The simple fact is that a very high percentage of
|| professional women
|| > that have jobs like real estate sales requiring isolated
|| contact with
|| > strangers *are* armed (as you state, many with "boutique" designer
|| > guns). it is because they have been assaulted or threatened, or are
|| > close to women that have told vivid stories of such.
|| >
|| > Employees at this campus are required to take *mandatory* "campus
|| > violence" workshops now. Last year a professor was severly
|| beaten by
|| > some petty thieves after leaving a night class about 2 minutes walk
|| > from my office. Several years ago, someone held an admission
|| > counselor hostage at gun point in the building I work in.
|| The person
|| > was upset that they weren't admitted to the university.
|| >
|| > regards,
|| > ep
|| > (unarmed, but unrepentantly politically incorrect)
|| >
|| > On 17 May 2001, at 13:16, Marianne Brooks wrote:
|| >
|| > Date sent: Thu, 17 May 2001 13:16:06 -0800
|| > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
|| > <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
|| >
|| > > SET MODE SILLY ON
|| > >
|| > > Damn, I *knew* I forgot to buy something on my last
|| shopping trip to
|| > > Nordstroms!
|| > >
|| > > Note to self: - buy gun I didn't know I needed.
|| Remember to purchase
|| > > extras for friends who don't have them
|| either(the gift
|| > > that keeps
|| > > on taking?)
|| >
|| > ...
|| >
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