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Subject:Re: Definition of Tech Writer, was STC is broken From:Mike Starr <mikestarr-techwr-l -at- writestarr -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 01 May 2008 00:10:47 -0500
It's not just STC and the US Government... it's also the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission.
Mike
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Ned Bedinger wrote:
> Not having "writer" in the US Labor definition is evidence of collusion
> between the STC and the governmemt. Writer is not needed in the
> definition, but not because they're maroons (technical sense, low IQ),
> but quite the contrary, because they're blithering criminal masterminds
> poised to pull off the latest crime of the century. They are planning to
> offshore technical writing. All of it.
>
> In anticipation of someone someday asking "Why?", let me now invite you,
> my hounds, to follow the money.
>
> Doing away with tech writing in the US:
>
> o will give US high tech companies a respite from our high wages.
>
> o will breathe new life into STC, bringing in membership dues of a
> bazillion ESL conscripts questing for the secret tricks and handshakes
> of a tech com-mi-you-n'k8r. Intercom back-issues and reprint sales will
> soar.
>
> o will put an end to the whole "communicator" debate here at home,
> because it is a strawman, purpose-built and set into motion to keep us
> busy while they get the true and nefarious master thing done.
>
>
> Please wake up. Yo, we're gonna be spaced!
>
> Sign me,
>
> Just kidding, otherwise unable to
> grasp a writer-less definition in
> Seattle
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