said by PX Eliezer:Have folks heard of the "Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands"?
It is an area in political union with the United States.
The fine people there are US citizens.
Yet most Americans are NOT aware of this. It's just not on their radar screens.
In a similar way, the senior management at Google is NOT really aware of what's going on at GoogleVoice.
Well, just because most Americans are unaware does not mean "senior management" is unaware. Thanks to our friend Jack Abramoff, Congress exempted the Northern Marianas from US labor standards so that his sweatshop clients could thrive. It worked out real well for Jack, his clients, and the government officials who benefitted from his largess. It just wasn't so good for the workers in this country or in CNMI. Similarly, Google may be allowing G5 to test out a variety of screwball scams to see which ones it can benefit from.
