when i saw pictures of anna (a "sponsored" anti-corruption crusader who is being pitched up in teh air by the media daily since God-knows-when) hazare in the newspaper. What was interesting was that no matter what kind of headline (pro or anti anna) it was in the paper daily, his picture was always put in such a way and such a pose was selected so as to make him get pity and be looked upon as a hero, which is not the case i think, he is just a fast-to-death-for-hire-guy (seriously, he has now done so many fasts-to-deaths that now only when he actually dies from hunger on another fast, will people believe him, but that's not gonna happen) But the media or the people who sponsor his articles ensure that good pictures of him feature at prominent parts of the newspaper. On the other hand some genuinely good but maybe slightly controversial people who are not doing The-Man's bidding or being defiant, get featured with bad pictures, even if the article/headline vindicated them or proves them right. The picture does its job of making even a hero look bad and a villian look like some kinda hero. Just as journalists are required to just report and not give personal opinions there should be some restriction on teh kind of pictes you can post on priominent headlines - you cannot use pictures as a way of falsely showing people in good or bad light, i think only passport pictures (i.e.:| pose) with no expressions should be used for celebrities other than filmstars.
lol nice burn, the OP's comment "Might as well have a world's greatest virgin competition..." was really really stupid, why do stupid cmments get shown up first on/.?
noob anonymous coward, let us not even start talking about fictional characters, we have obama to discuss who we can see on tv and touch in real life and see, but anyway, why are u assuming he/she whoever is paki? ur just a troll here trying to stir about bs about nothing. if a point is made about 3 billion projected budget going to 16 billion then it is A POINT. They however need to realise that obviously similar scams happen in their country but just 30 times more expensive (just like everything else when compared to buying power of Indians vs that of Americans) What no one is asking here however, shockingly, is why does it STILL COST 30 TIMES CHEAPER in India despite the corruption? Because labour here is treated to subhuman working condition (almost little to no protection security training nutrition) and the worst pay to construction workers in the world probably only 2nd to China. I just wish they had a better minimum wage, builders should build their people and not just make the people or some people from here there anywhere (like how it is happening in the Gulf Dubai with imported slave labour) the labour should progress and their kids should have the choice to go academically forward, or sports, or employee or entrepreneur or whatever, but not limited to labour, but that doesn't happen in India, coz labour is the 1st Votebank of the most corrupt politicians, easily swayed by 1 time concessions around election year and fooled for the other 4 years, they continue to be trampled. Clash of Capital and Socialist histories of India.
aaah the lawyers, their breed is the same worldwide, the ones in US, as u said enjoy the patronage of the you-know-whos that run your country from another far-off country.
tipping the waiter is not of course, but tipping the gate-bitch to get u in before those who are also waiting and who were earlier than u, is corruption. But shows like Friends and other sitcoms did their job of telling the populace to embrace corruption and be like the producers of the show, when they feature deliberately-stuffed wannabe-comic scenes like chandler trying and failing at bribing the french-restaurant maitre-de or whatever (the one who takes ur name down as u wait).
ty too, i do agree that graft and corruption are almost synonymous - i recently started noticing this term Graft in the Indian Media after that joke of a movement IAC-Anna-Ramdev started. And i agree only Indians and that too those who have been reading the news events of the last couple of years might want to differentiate what is defined as graft from what is defined as corruption. Actually i don't want to, i want corruption to be called corruption, dividing the severity of the crime in two different words, is like saying, it is okay to do the less severe crime. I wish India, all of it, starts thinking like that before i die.
hi ive been lurking a lot on/. but only recently started posting while logged in, how do i "mod" or +1 ur comment. For the first time i understood the meaning and difference between Graft and Corruption and even such a simple definition (Graft is bribes to do your job, corruption is bribes to break the law.) changes my perspective on India. Ty.
something as scary as a kid being arrested for posting views on...a website, and you guys go on making jokes in the first visible thread (deliberately?) i can go Conspiracy Keanu on you'll and say the people (you-know-who) who want such a police state (where anyone who criticizes them has the sword of prison hanging on their head) can easily create a corporation that just employs witty comment posters to subvert any meaningful discussion online on such grave developments, that they themselves cause. Thus they do a crime and they employ all the jesters in the court to ensure any discussion on their crime is held in jest. Ha ha. Ha.
perhaps if there was no internet - then 3 missed-calls or 3 days of missed-network-television certainly might throw the people in chaos - but we have tablets, batteries, generators, and the 3G service provider obviously has to have backup-power-generator. So no sweat about 3-missed-meals>>>barbarianism.
let me say this once and for all. The speaker of Hindi is a better judge of English grammar than any other person, even the English - for the English Language. Why? First let's talk about "accent", which in India comes into play even when speaking the national language Hindi (directly derived from Sanskrit with the least amount of transmission-loss in any of the 100s of Indo-European languages spoken through Asia and Europe (and of course by u, the immigrants from Europe - Team USA)). Since India is a country of many countries every state speaks Hindi with a different twang and accent. Hence it is obvious that some of that will also happen when speaking English sometimes, for some people who do not speak even Hindi-regularly, they speak their state language at home. (as is the case when one is less than a few years in the BPO business). Since these call center people do not talk in English (why should they? Their own language Hindi (along with Secondary languages of each region) are higher in the tree of language-development than English (whose dominance can ONLY be attributed to the British Colonialism and the current American Imperialism and Colony-lootism acts). So we don't need to, or feel like speaking in the inferior language of English all the time. We can express and live much better with the Mother language of English - Hindi. Got that u twats? sorry for the many ( ( ) ( ) ) but this particular subject has a lot of subtexts.
Now, about Indians being joked as having bad accents? We speak the best pronounced, most grammatically perfect English today - forget u Americans, we speak their language better than even the English.
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i read the lotr book, it was nothing but little imaginition combined with lots and lots and lots and endless lots of nouns and namesm u can make 90 sequels, i saw the first one for curiosity and the other 2 for special effects, that's it, the fan love for that much would just digest 1 more, let's say Hobbit, but they thought hey lets make 2, now they made the 2 into 3, who cares, only numbnuts will go watch these "sequels". Aren't there other new stories that can be produced instead?
My PeeChee Cleeeean lulz, rofl comment man, uh let's talk about the jew whos trying to joo out of his tax here shall we, hey mod, remove this phucking spam
i'm 100 percent sure that a computer can write tech news stories from my little stint at a "tech news portal" in Bombay, it was lulz, total mechanical job any software written by a school programmer would be able to write articles, i.e. read articles on/. and rewrite them to make them google-unique
exactly, i got a fake Rupee 500 note from God knows who, and i can't do shit about it, can't go to police, can't go to bank to exchange it it must be torn and thrown, what a waste!
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when i saw pictures of anna (a "sponsored" anti-corruption crusader who is being pitched up in teh air by the media daily since God-knows-when) hazare in the newspaper. What was interesting was that no matter what kind of headline (pro or anti anna) it was in the paper daily, his picture was always put in such a way and such a pose was selected so as to make him get pity and be looked upon as a hero, which is not the case i think, he is just a fast-to-death-for-hire-guy (seriously, he has now done so many fasts-to-deaths that now only when he actually dies from hunger on another fast, will people believe him, but that's not gonna happen) But the media or the people who sponsor his articles ensure that good pictures of him feature at prominent parts of the newspaper. On the other hand some genuinely good but maybe slightly controversial people who are not doing The-Man's bidding or being defiant, get featured with bad pictures, even if the article/headline vindicated them or proves them right. The picture does its job of making even a hero look bad and a villian look like some kinda hero. Just as journalists are required to just report and not give personal opinions there should be some restriction on teh kind of pictes you can post on priominent headlines - you cannot use pictures as a way of falsely showing people in good or bad light, i think only passport pictures (i.e. :| pose) with no expressions should be used for celebrities other than filmstars.
lol nice burn, the OP's comment "Might as well have a world's greatest virgin competition..." was really really stupid, why do stupid cmments get shown up first on /.?
trust India mate. It has continued to prosper the tides of 1000s of years, it is an invincible investment destination.
noob anonymous coward, let us not even start talking about fictional characters, we have obama to discuss who we can see on tv and touch in real life and see, but anyway, why are u assuming he/she whoever is paki? ur just a troll here trying to stir about bs about nothing. if a point is made about 3 billion projected budget going to 16 billion then it is A POINT. They however need to realise that obviously similar scams happen in their country but just 30 times more expensive (just like everything else when compared to buying power of Indians vs that of Americans) What no one is asking here however, shockingly, is why does it STILL COST 30 TIMES CHEAPER in India despite the corruption? Because labour here is treated to subhuman working condition (almost little to no protection security training nutrition) and the worst pay to construction workers in the world probably only 2nd to China. I just wish they had a better minimum wage, builders should build their people and not just make the people or some people from here there anywhere (like how it is happening in the Gulf Dubai with imported slave labour) the labour should progress and their kids should have the choice to go academically forward, or sports, or employee or entrepreneur or whatever, but not limited to labour, but that doesn't happen in India, coz labour is the 1st Votebank of the most corrupt politicians, easily swayed by 1 time concessions around election year and fooled for the other 4 years, they continue to be trampled. Clash of Capital and Socialist histories of India.
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exactly :p
aaah the lawyers, their breed is the same worldwide, the ones in US, as u said enjoy the patronage of the you-know-whos that run your country from another far-off country.
tipping the waiter is not of course, but tipping the gate-bitch to get u in before those who are also waiting and who were earlier than u, is corruption. But shows like Friends and other sitcoms did their job of telling the populace to embrace corruption and be like the producers of the show, when they feature deliberately-stuffed wannabe-comic scenes like chandler trying and failing at bribing the french-restaurant maitre-de or whatever (the one who takes ur name down as u wait).
very well said, someone please tell me how to +1 a comment so i can show that it is appreciated?
ty too, i do agree that graft and corruption are almost synonymous - i recently started noticing this term Graft in the Indian Media after that joke of a movement IAC-Anna-Ramdev started. And i agree only Indians and that too those who have been reading the news events of the last couple of years might want to differentiate what is defined as graft from what is defined as corruption. Actually i don't want to, i want corruption to be called corruption, dividing the severity of the crime in two different words, is like saying, it is okay to do the less severe crime. I wish India, all of it, starts thinking like that before i die.
hi ive been lurking a lot on /. but only recently started posting while logged in, how do i "mod" or +1 ur comment. For the first time i understood the meaning and difference between Graft and Corruption and even such a simple definition (Graft is bribes to do your job, corruption is bribes to break the law.) changes my perspective on India. Ty.
something as scary as a kid being arrested for posting views on...a website, and you guys go on making jokes in the first visible thread (deliberately?) i can go Conspiracy Keanu on you'll and say the people (you-know-who) who want such a police state (where anyone who criticizes them has the sword of prison hanging on their head) can easily create a corporation that just employs witty comment posters to subvert any meaningful discussion online on such grave developments, that they themselves cause. Thus they do a crime and they employ all the jesters in the court to ensure any discussion on their crime is held in jest. Ha ha. Ha.
perhaps if there was no internet - then 3 missed-calls or 3 days of missed-network-television certainly might throw the people in chaos - but we have tablets, batteries, generators, and the 3G service provider obviously has to have backup-power-generator. So no sweat about 3-missed-meals>>>barbarianism.
let me say this once and for all. The speaker of Hindi is a better judge of English grammar than any other person, even the English - for the English Language. Why? First let's talk about "accent", which in India comes into play even when speaking the national language Hindi (directly derived from Sanskrit with the least amount of transmission-loss in any of the 100s of Indo-European languages spoken through Asia and Europe (and of course by u, the immigrants from Europe - Team USA)). Since India is a country of many countries every state speaks Hindi with a different twang and accent. Hence it is obvious that some of that will also happen when speaking English sometimes, for some people who do not speak even Hindi-regularly, they speak their state language at home. (as is the case when one is less than a few years in the BPO business). Since these call center people do not talk in English (why should they? Their own language Hindi (along with Secondary languages of each region) are higher in the tree of language-development than English (whose dominance can ONLY be attributed to the British Colonialism and the current American Imperialism and Colony-lootism acts). So we don't need to, or feel like speaking in the inferior language of English all the time. We can express and live much better with the Mother language of English - Hindi. Got that u twats? sorry for the many ( ( ) ( ) ) but this particular subject has a lot of subtexts. Now, about Indians being joked as having bad accents? We speak the best pronounced, most grammatically perfect English today - forget u Americans, we speak their language better than even the English. T
all these places u listed, are they like inhabited by lots of young people or lots of unskilled people? I am just curious.
i read the lotr book, it was nothing but little imaginition combined with lots and lots and lots and endless lots of nouns and namesm u can make 90 sequels, i saw the first one for curiosity and the other 2 for special effects, that's it, the fan love for that much would just digest 1 more, let's say Hobbit, but they thought hey lets make 2, now they made the 2 into 3, who cares, only numbnuts will go watch these "sequels". Aren't there other new stories that can be produced instead?
Success Kid will ddos them all, all the 3-4 letter things, because he can, because fuck you
first i want them to DDoS the hell out of prizes.org, they're stealing people's money AND ideas
lol good call
My PeeChee Cleeeean lulz, rofl comment man, uh let's talk about the jew whos trying to joo out of his tax here shall we, hey mod, remove this phucking spam
really good idea, if the US really does this though, most jews would be back in europe, hey that'd be great maaaaaan
how does one give +1 maaan?
i'm 100 percent sure that a computer can write tech news stories from my little stint at a "tech news portal" in Bombay, it was lulz, total mechanical job any software written by a school programmer would be able to write articles, i.e. read articles on /. and rewrite them to make them google-unique
exactly, i got a fake Rupee 500 note from God knows who, and i can't do shit about it, can't go to police, can't go to bank to exchange it it must be torn and thrown, what a waste!