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Yes, they have the right to use it but that doesn't mean that it's good for us

Posted By: trans2 on 2005-07-07
In Reply to: What is your point? These folks have a perfectly good right to use - .

More and more companies are using it, as well as their own programs they are designing, which do the same thing. I've seen it first hand. The workload slows, what is left is all awful doctors that you can't understand, or that say uhmmm after every word so it takes 10 minutes to type a 1-paragraph report.


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