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Brigitte
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 Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 1:36 am Post subject: Is Dell good for Texas? |
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| With all the negativity surrounding Dell, I'm wondering if it has affected Texas in any way. Please do share your thoughts on this. |
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sickofdell
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| Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:39 am Post subject: Re: Is Dell good for Texas? |
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| Brigitte wrote: | | With all the negativity surrounding Dell, I'm wondering if it has affected Texas in any way. Please do share your thoughts on this. |
What is good for Texas  is my question. They have 2 Pro Football, Baseball and Basketball teams plus a pro Hockey team and that is still some of the trashiest land in all of the US. Maybe close off your borders so the neighbors to the south can't get in. That might help things get cleaned up a little.
Did you all see the King of the Hill when Hank and Bobby went up to Northern Texas to see the Dallas Cowboys training camp and those rednecks selling Propane were Cheering for Oklahoma. HAHA. that's my impression of Texas right there. That was good stuff.
Anyway, to answer your question, the only thing Dell is good for is the Indian Economy.
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Rocke_T_Sinetist
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| Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:17 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | What is good for Texas is my question. |
Did you mean to ask 'what is Texas good for?'? By every measure of 'what states are good for', Texas is in the BOTTOM THREE. Wait--I spoke hastily--large parts of the state have very mild winters (that's why I'm here)--although we pay for them with 4 months of ~100 degree high humidity.
Like Dell was good for computers at one time, Dell was 'good for Texas' at one time. They recruited talent from all over the country (indeed, the world), doubling the IQ average of state residents to an all-time high of 80. (Cheap shot.  The numbers don't work like that.)
Wonder why Dell is in Austin's bedroom (Round Rock) instead of Austin? Dell could bulldoze/bullshit Round Rock into giving them the land tax-free. For sales within the state, Dell pays their sales tax income to Round Rock, which DOES more than double the size of Round Rock's economy.
So Dell was good for Round Rock? Not if you live there. Or in Hutto, Taylor, Georgetown...where you have to drive through Round Rock to get to Austin. What good is a bedroom community if Dell's traffic load keeps you from getting in or out?
So I voted 'no'.
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FallenAngel
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| Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 11:00 am Post subject: |
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Thay may have been good for Texas once upon a dream. Now, not so much at all. A blight is more accurate these days. They can scrape by if they want, or reclaim some lost glory. It's how they're making decisions that is making this company suck @$$.
I mean, how many times have we seen the name Dell being used as a verb?  |
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Brigitte
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| Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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To summarize...
Dell was good for Texas in the beginning because they provided jobs but now they aren't anymore because they cause traffic.
How about for the Texas environment? |
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Rocke_T_Sinetist
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| Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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Other than stalled traffic burning gas and going nowhere (which there probably would be anyway) Dell has no environmental impact on Texas. After all, they don't 'manufacture' anything. All the dirty work is done in China where there's no regulation (and that's WHY the work is done there, plus $3-per-day labor).
The petrochemical guys around Houston/Baytown have toxicity sewn up. Texas is the number 1 polluted/pollution-generating state. Y-a-a-a-a-y! We beat Alabama and Mississippi at something!
We're also the number 1 illiterate state. Not just people who can't read and write English, people who can't read and write ANY language.
We're third-lowest in school teacher pay, and eighth-highest in school administrator pay. The picture getting clearer?
This is all public knowledge; I got it out of the newspaper. And yet decade after decade, Texas voters don't see anything wrong with that. The "80-IQ" crack wasn't all that exaggerated, was it?
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sickofdell
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Wow, Texas is dumber than I thought. I really get ticked off when teachers don't make much money. They have to deal with 20-30 little rugrats for 8 hours who would probably kill each other if left alone long enough, and the person has to babysit, i mean, help them learn new info everyday. I don't know how they do it, but congrats to all of them and thanks.
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Brigitte
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| Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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| So Texas was bad way before Dell came to Texas. |
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hiwaystar
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| Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:21 pm Post subject: Why in the hell |
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why in the hell did the bastards have to come to NC you must have pissed mikey off what did you do stick a size 14 cowboy boot up his faggot ass.
if you didn't thats what he needs. 
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FallenAngel
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| Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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| NC threw money and concessions at the company like a crackwhore throwing her panties to the floor. Shameless. |
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Brigitte
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What will Dell move to North Carolina?
Which will stay in Texas? |
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dimension dummy
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| Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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Don't mean to hijack the thread, but is President Bush good for Texas  |
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i_escaped_dell
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| Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 5:59 am Post subject: |
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| dimension dummy wrote: | | Don't mean to hijack the thread, but is President Bush good for Texas |
As a president or a business man? |
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sickofdell
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FallenAngel
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| Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 8:58 am Post subject: |
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| Yea, I had to choke back some dry heaves when I read the article when it first came out. Multi billion dolar company and they need handouts. Nice. |
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