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Comrade, You Are So Not Getting a Dell
theodp writes "At the World Economic Forum, Michael Dell's pitch to help Russia with its computers got the cold-as-Siberia shoulder from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. 'We don't need help,' shot back Putin. 'We are not invalids. We don't have limited mental capacity' (video — rant starts at 1:24). 'Our programmers are some of the best in the world,' Putin continued. 'No one would contest that here — not even our Indian colleagues.'"
"childish diatribe"? Thanks for illustrating the very thing that I hate about modern American pussies. You people label anything that is not 100% polite, refined, politically correct, and/or free of emotion to be "childish." Ridiculous.
The Soviets probably got around 90% of their technology through corporate theft and spying. It's not like they could have come up with something innovative. There at the end there was so much brain drain, or so little incentive, that some government agency was caught with stolen plans for a US washing machine.
Lol, when people cold call me I tell them to go fuck themselves. If it is a woman I tell her she is a malodorous cunt and should die giving birth to the Antichrist and if it is a man I tell him I hope his prostrate is filled with writhing-gnawing worms and the next time he voids it in his wife's mouth they consume all the flesh from her skull.
Once, when a persistent salesman came to the office and attempted to hoodwink his way past the front desk he called the police because we were lampooning him so bad. The police were not as amused. I however could not stop laughing.
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
"We don't have limited mental capacity"
He's just doing an amazing simulation.
Putin's rhetoric is pretty empty considering that Russia cannot make its own consumer desktop microprocessors and has no domestic operating system. Russia cannot make it own hard drives or RAM, or many other basic computer components. Dell doesn't make those either, but accusing others of idiocy when you cannot even make a x86 CPU is pretty dumb.
A NYC lawyer blogs. http://www.chuangblog.com/
What happened to the scientific prowess of the Soviet Union?
The Soviets had scientific prowess ?
What did they do, other than steal Western innovations and pour massive state resources into enhancing them ?