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Microsoft Poland Photoshops Black Guy To White One
wanted writes "If you look at Microsoft's Poland business solutions Web site, you will probably not notice anything odd about the main picture. However, when you compare it with the original English version, you can see that someone decided that showing black people in Poland is probably not going to be convincing to business. They just Photoshopped the head of a white guy in for the black one, in an amateurish way, leaving his hand unchanged. (Here's a mirror in case something should happen to the original.)" We noted a few months back that the city of Toronto had done something similar.
Perhaps it was just a spray on tan?
is the white macbook in the picture......
If you're going to doctor it, at least have some fun with it....
That the guy had actually been "photo shopped" white, rather then just a different person!
# cat
Damn, my RAM is full of cats. MEOW!!
Maybe it's Microsoft's way of celebrating the 50th anniversary of the writing of Black Like Me.
I find this very rude and discriminatory. How do we know this guy wasn't Gimped?
You should see the real original picture before MS photoshopped in those two non-Busey guys.
(Yes, stolen from reddit.)
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Rule 34?
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
I literally was on the floor dieing when i saw this...
My favorite from Microsoft was for Visual C++ Express Edition. They used to have a couple of 17-18 year old Asian girls smiling and pointing at a computer screen as the headline picture for Express Edition's website. Who smiles and laughs at code with a friend anyway? Not hot Asian chicks.
WHO NEEDS SHIFT WHEN YOU HAVE CAPSLOCK/ DAMN1
Notice that they fixed it so hastily they forgot to extend the orange bar for the text like they did the first time around.
The government can't save you.
The racism flag seems to get trotted out a little too often these days.
Come on. Everyone known those stupid polacks are dirty racists :o)
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
If they Photoshopped in a white guy over the black guy, what about the Asian guy? I mean, how likely are you to see a Korean guy walking the streets of Poland? ( Or maybe I just don't know the streets of Poland).
Korean? He's Canadian, just like a lot of Asians in Poland. However, the sex change operation threw me for a loop, his name is Brenda.
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Well if Michael Jackson could do it...
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I can't remember the man's name right now, but one American pilot was finally freed some years back, and living in Chicago. I read an interview that he did with someone, but can't even remember who interviewed him.
+5 Informative.
Squirrel!
It's on the bed right next to the 9; 8 is supposedly filming.
In the previous scene, 7 ate 9.
Squirrel!
The fuck? Now the god damn porn has to be PC?!
You really don't want Mac porn!
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
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A woman complemented me on my amazing Japanese
Thats nothing. An American complimented me on my English after I told her I was from Australia. Toughen up!
Couldn't they have just made him 'whiter' ? White Obama Senator Obama
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"An American complimented me on my English after I told her I was from Australia."
Well if any of you guys have actually learned English that is worth of praise indeed! *g*
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
And if you won't listen to Snaller, listen to Admiral Adama.
I'd rather you rationally disagree than irrationally agree.
Luckily I use Gmail, sent it to a friend when I saw it, and thus still have it:
Here.
WHO NEEDS SHIFT WHEN YOU HAVE CAPSLOCK/ DAMN1
A polish man finds a lantern laying on the ground.
He takes it home and while cleaning it a genie appears.
The Genie says:
"For freeing me from the lantern, I shall grant you three wishes."
The polish man thinks for a second and says "I wish for a mongol invasion of Poland, please."
The Genie grants him his wish, the mongols invade, and then leave.
The Genie says "Name your second wish."
The man thinks for a moment and says "I wish for a mongol invasion of Poland, please."
The Genie looks at bit puzzled, but grants him his wish.
The Mongol invade, and then leave.
"Now name you third wish"
The man thinks for a bit and says "I wish for a mongol invasion of Poland, please."
The confused Genie says "I'll grant you your wish, but would you tell me why you keep wishing for this?"
The polish man says "Sure, each time the mongols invade Poland they have to go through Russia twice."
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