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2016: “You’re Watching The Linux Channel.”

July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an... ...full story at digg

from digg on Thu, Jul 24 2008

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