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Outsourcing To Rural America
An anonymous reader writes "News.com is running a story about Rural Sourcing, a company attempting to make outsourcing to rural America as cost effective as sending jobs to India."
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My two passions are literature and IT. I also live in Amarillo, TX. I know it is fun to bash on midwest/southern people for being ignorant, but I feel it is that the south has always been more agriculture based than the North due to the longer growing season etc. When I was growing up I worked on a ranch throwing hay, mucking stalls, branding cattle, and doctoring animals. This obviously put me at a bit of a disadvantage skill wise from kids that worked at their dads office, but I believe I have a better work ethic than most of those folks because I know what I could be doing instead.
I challenge anyone in the country to call Amarillo people and not be able to understand what they are saying. In fact the most annoying thing I have heard about our accents in Texas is that we talk slower. Our tech support department where I work is one of the finest I have ever seen because of this. If you are trying to describe something then speaking slowly (no matter how annoying it is) is better than rattling off something so fast the person on the other end of the phone can't jot it down.
Well, the bombs are primarly for destroying their military framework: weapons caches, factories, tanks, etc. It's their fault that they purposely hide weapons inside of hospitals, schools, mosques, etc. I don't think anyone today would argue that we drop bombs solely for the sake of killing people. We drop bombs because we are trying to neutralize the military threat in the area ... whether that be a tank or some guy carrying an AK 47.
As for the bullets laced with plutonium: please explain. I've never heard of this. Although, I find it hard to believe that a bullet laced with plutonium is any worse than a bullet that has just pierced your lung or heart. So why go to the effort of lacing them with plutonium?
Completely off topic... this is in regards to your sig, "Will slashdot ever drag itself into the year 2004 and provide the ability to edit posts?"
Why would they? There are way too many other issues to sort out first. What happens if I make a post and get modded +5 insightful (Ok, I know it'll never happen, but this is hypothetical), then I decide to edit it into a 5 page GNAA rant? Does it keep the +5 insightful? Does it lose all mod points? Would those mod points go back to the moderator? Way too much stuff to manage for a feature taht will just get abused. Like the box says (paraphrased), if you see a typo, you should have used the preview button!
"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his." - Patton
I have proposed simple solutions to these issues several times. 1. No editing after 10 minutes. 2. If, within that 10- minute period the post is edited, any mod received up to that point points are lost. 3. No need for points to go back to a moderator. Simple stuff.