Being dutch myself, i rather enjoy that comment ;)

We do have some work to do at home where we have the counterpart of the RIAAAAAA called BREIN (brain). The same lame attempts to save the companies some money.

If these same companies would significantly lower their prices instead of keeping at record heights we wouldn't have the urge to DL everything and actually buy some stuff. They can also start with stopping to pay BREIN, that will probably save them a lot of money too.....

I find it interresting that the CD-rom seems to be the only media that has stayed close to the same price as when it was launched, in comparison to other products. The normal way is to lower the prices once the 'novelty value' goes down. Since the production costs are around 1 dollar one would expect lower pricings then 20+ dollar in some cases.

I am afraid you are correct,

Also a worrying sidenote is that the pension system in the US is based on Stock from the company you work for (and thus based on the illusion that companies last forever). All the pensions of all the people that worked for, working for these bankrupted companies now have an empty pension or at least a lot less (not sure if its 100% stock based or part of).

This is long from over, my only hope is that people learn from this of course but i am afraid that the greed is so infested in the culture that it may take many more years or decades to change.

I couldnt agree more. Working in IT is always having to prove yourself afterwards if a client starts complaining you agreed on something.

Also there are legal requirements, think of SOXA for example, you need proof of certain statements.

Too much info going back and forth, you cant remember everything.

Working in a Change Management position at the moment and i need to track, at every given time, around 70 to 80 changes that we are handling and 100+ that are run by other groups. Verbal communication is impossible at that scale. Also gathering evidence of approvals etc need to be administrated.

Email is my working ground, it is my "business critical" application.

In private life i tend to check EMail every other day or so, i rather talk to friends.