To backtrack a little, Consumer Reports magazine, for what it's worth, gives HP the lowest rating of all the manufacturers for customer support. See the feature on computers in the September issue. Apple gets best rating. But HP have the most attractive prices and value for money. As for keeping the jobs at home, the "native" workforce have priced themselves out of the picture. If there are people at home who would kill for a job, nobody's stopping them from applying. John Original Message: ----------------- From: David Grossman dgrossman@xxxxxxxxxx Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:19:00 +0300 To: pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [PCWorks] Should I re-install Windows XP? > But > in your case, if one is calling from Israel, then they should > not only have people than can easily speak and comprehend > English, but Hebrew as well. (And you can transpose > "homeless American vets" to "homeless Israeli vets" in your > case ;-), and they'd be getting the work. FAIK you don't have > that kind of problem over there, it's bad here). <snip> > I'm going off on > a tangent here, because FAIK most Israelis speak English <snip> > -Clint > > God Bless You mean that dot-IL ending in my address means Israel? The guys kept telling me that IL stood for Illinois. I was wondering why everybody here talks from right to left :-) Actually, Clint, my own English does not represent that of the typical Israeli. Some people in Israel speak English as a second language, and they can (sort of) manage with tourists. However, their written English is usually on the rudimentary level of HP tech support. David Grossman -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web LIVE ? Free email based on Microsoft® Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE ========================= The list's FAQ's can be seen by sending an email to PCWorks-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with FAQ in the subject line. To unsubscribe, subscribe, set Digest or Vacation to on or off, go to //www.freelists.org/list/pcworks . You can also send an email to PCWorks-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with Unsubscribe in the subject line. Your member list settings can be found at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi/l=pcworks . Once logged in, you have access to numerous other email options. The list archives are located at //www.freelists.org/archives/pcworks/ . All email posted to the list will be placed there in the event anyone needs to look for previous posts. -zxdjhu-