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Years ago, when American air travel was not inconvenienced by D.B. Cooper, side trips to Havana, and Middle East terrorists; when airline passengers dressed well; when the government’s oversight kept the industry relatively stable and when airlines pampered their customers with meals, drinks, pillows, blankets, cigarettes and kindness; traveling was comfortable to the point of boredom. It was in the late 1960s that I had proposed something called PORTHOLE HORROR. Each window seat passenger had the option of pressing a button to begin a steady stream of air combat action which would fill the inside of the plane’s window. Obviously, those days are past and Airbus floated an idea for which the only other standee passengers kept parachutes on their backs and carbines in their hands. I had assumed that the thousands of lives and millions of frightened passengers would have kept the airline industry from attempting to squeeze more money from its flying public. Not so. Good taste and business? The bus left the station. »
 

Hey, Bill. You were about 17 when we left, but we’ve already outsourced more than 50,000 young men and women in Vietnam and they never came back. That’s overtime pay even you could not afford.

Microsoft’s Gates Sees Vietnam Outsourcing Potential (Update2)

April 22 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Vietnam has the potential to develop as an outsourcing center similar to India, during the first visit by the world’s richest person to the Southeast Asian nation.

Gates, 50, met Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai and President Tran Duc Luong in Hanoi, before crossing town to take questions from students at the Hanoi University of Technology. The visit by the founder of the world’s biggest software company takes place two months after Intel Corp., the world’s biggest semiconductor maker, said it would build a plant in Vietnam.

While the U.S. government says infringement of intellectual property rights is rampant in Vietnam, the nation of 84 million people is attracting the attention of global technology companies, lured by economic growth exceeding 8 percent a year and an estimated literacy rate of at least 90 percent.

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