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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (392670)	6/19/2008 10:44:56 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1579686

"I've seen high-tech execs make boneheaded decisions. And the high-tech industry is supposedly one of the most sophisticated in the world." Not really. Tech still has a large share of cowboys. The oil industry, despite its image, doesn't. Now the smaller exploration companies used to be dominated by them. But, they are all gone now. It is a low margin business. A single boneheaded decision can turn billions in profits into 10s of billions in losses. And that means no perks, no multi-million dollar bonuses, no job.