If the economic state of the channel has got you channel guys in the
doldrums, have you ever wondered where else you could put to work your
technical or marketing know-how? Well, as ever, PC Squealer is delighted to
offer a suggestion - the lucrative world of international drugs trafficking.
A. DRUG DEALERS:

1. Refer to their clients as users
2. Have a first one's free offer
3. Have important South-East Asian connections (to help move the stuff)
4. Use strange jargon:
Stick
Rock
Wrap
E
Stash
Drive by
Hit (LSD)
Source
The Pigs
5. Realise there's cash in the 14-to-25-year-old market
6. Find their users really like their stuff when it works, but want to kill
   them when it doesn't
7. Have their job assisted by the industry producing newer, more potent
   product
8. Are often seen in the company of pimps, hustlers and low-lives
9. Find that when things go wrong, a fix is just a phone call away, but may
   be expensive
10. Are a lot of successful people getting rich in the industry while still
    teenagers
11. Sell products which cause unhealthy addictions - cocaine, heroin, weed.
    'Nuff spliffed
12. Find that if they do their job well they get to sleep with sexy movie
    stars who depend on them


B. PC DEALERS:

1. Refer to their clients as users
2. Download a free trial
3. Have important South-East Asian connections (to help debug the code)
4. Use strange jargon:
RTFM
SCSI
Packet
C
Cache
CTRL ALT DE
Hit (WWW)
Sourcecode
Microsoft
5. Realise there's cash in the 14-to-25-year-old market
6. Find their users really like their stuff when it works, but want to kill
   them when it doesn't
7. Have their job assisted by the industry producing newer, more potent
   products
8. Are often seen in the company of marketing people, venture capitalists
   and fund managers
9. Find that when things go wrong, a fix is just a phone call away, but may
   be expensive
10. Are a lot of successful people getting rich in the industry while still
    teenagers
11. Sell products which unhealthy addictions - Doom, Quake, SimCity, Seven
    Kingdoms. 'Nuff said
12. Damn! Damn! DAMN!!!

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