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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by frank_black_francis[/i] [br]There is this book, “The Silicon Valley of Dreams” that came out last year that is a pretty interesting indictment of Silicon Valley. Thus far, it has been the assumption that the valley consists of local, renegade, entrepreneurs, golf-shirt wearing, environmentally friendly, hip office environments, etc…. This book shows that the organizational structure and production organization there is ecologically disastrous and working conditions for women and minorities are horrible. It basically uncovers the image to be a lie, the idea that most of the companies consist of what were once garage-start-up businesses, and that the actual percentage of the t-shirt and jeans wearing hip working environments are extremely low. It kinda harkens back to the 1920’s where the prevailing notion was that all a man needed was an idea, and he’d make a million bucks. Has anyone read this book? "Dated Dean, Married Kerry....Finger-Banged Kucinich" (John Stewart) [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.