Re: [tlug] OT: interesting NY times article:High-Tech Japanese, Running Out of Engineers

[Christian Horn <chorn@example.com>]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:26:06AM +0900, Zuco Pietro wrote:
> 
> > Specialists can also currently work in germany - but have to approve
> > like 80.000eur (1.256.000 yen) earnings per year, lobby wants this to
> > come down or be dropped.
> 
> 80,000 eur = 12,970,000 yen ;-)

Right, thanks for pointing out.

Should open my eyes when taking over output of
  perl -we 'print 80000*157'
from the console..

Christian