Dell is moving its call center operations for the Latitude and Optiplex computers back to the US from Bangalore, India after an onslaught of complaints from dissatisfied customers who couldn't cope with the differing accents and scripted responses.
Unfortunatly, if you rise up against the US Government, you are a terrorist, and such a movement would likely be crushed by the military, which is mostly right-wing.
And over 100 years from now, you can enjoy quaint little re-enactments between the 'insurgents' and the 'government'.
Oh yeah, when the get around with a novel, have a couple of British actresses play a couple of the insurgent-born rich girls.
I've seen a BSOD on the local access cable channel.
Our Local Access Channel had a Win95 BSoD left up over the weekend, as if no one would/could come in and just reboot the damn thing.
Story: my Uncle was an TV/Radio Electrical Technician in Upstate NY during the 50's and 60's, highly skilled and sought after for troubleshooting. According to my mom, he was watching a station where he worked, and he noticed something miniscule in the reception. He called up the on-site technician, asked about Obscure Part Whosis-Dash-Whatever That Needed a Full Diagnosis To Test and said that it was starting to fail and needed to be replaced.
Gee - imagine if you will a place where 15 year old girls are NOT as net savy as you or your friends. Imagine that, just for a sec, it is the same place where 15 year old girls think that Brittney Spears is great, and that parents (except Mom sometimes) suck, that thongs are underwear, and pregnancy happens to 'Bad Girls' still. Are you there yet? Imagine, just for a second being 15, when federal laws dont exist, and every program on your computer is fun, and helps you do what you want to do, and imagine for a moment why we dont procecute 15 year olds as adults.
The current AOL 9.0 Commercials lean toward this: "You can be a cute, hip, young girl, and not *need* to have to ask those icky nerds to help set up and fix your computer, because you can do it with a click of a button. Whee! Bilss is FUN and Kewl!"
Side note: Latest RIAA prosecutes teenager story: Bored now. Come back to me on the haphazard "suing someone without a computer" instance where they have no legitimate leg to stand on.
Not only should they show the bully bullying the kid, they should then bring in Mr. T who will proceed to beat the crap out of the little $#*@#&#, or at least give him a wedgie.
Talk shows have been doing this for years: "Boot Camp". Get big ass dude dressed up like a DI yelling at bully. 2003 version of the Two Minute Hate.
Oh, one flaw: show video to Bully's parents, parents counter by getting lawyer to draw up C&D and sue for damages and humiliation.
1) Bully hurts nerd 2) Nerd makes website insulting bully 3) Nerd gets arrested, expelled from school, and/or shuffled off to mandatory counseling sessions, in order to prevent another Columbine. 4) Bully, needless to say, goes completely unpunished.
5) Bully grows up, gets MBA, becomes Pointy-Head Boss, gets paid by company for professional bullying. 6) Bully becomes Corporate Executive, makes political contributions, raids 401K accounts.(*) 7) Prof- oh hell. You know.
(*)6a) Female Bully gets TV show, Corporate Empire, cries on Diane Sawyer when called on bullying tactics.
how many of you parents taught your kids how to fight? and how many taught your kids how to block, but not fight? and how many of you just dont condone any of that? i wanna know how the 2003 slice rates up.
I know that, with the advent of zero-tolerance, even 'blocking' is considered fighting and grounds for suspension/expulsion. It's to a point where the victim can be half-dead and in a coma and still the administrator can only wring his/her hands, say that s/he has no leeway, that it's School Policy, and that the victim must also be given a three-day suspension (but it can be appealled).
I wouldn't be surprised if this "zero tolerance" extended to cyber-bullying ("You know, Johnny, you also contributed by leaving this E-mail Address out for anyone to find, plus you didn't patch your computer system....")
If a teacher/principal/administrator tries to deal with a cyberbully, s/he will find a knock on their door, courtesy of Ashcroft for the Patriot Act, and/or RIAA/SBA lawyers for violation of the DMCA.
* Have it installed by Kasava and Shapiro * New source of funding for ISS, although the currency exchange between euros and cigarettes will have to be determined.
I've seen only a portion of the trilogy (saw part of "The Two Towers" while snowbound at a con in Baltimore), but my feeling has been to wait until "Return of the King" comes out on DVD, and then collect the set in a Super Extended mode.
My wife brought up a good point: if the DVD(s) is will be stoked with so many "extra features", how much of an effect will that have on getting people to see the movie? Why bother going at all?
(There is, however, an effort to build a microwave weapon for controlling crowds; a person subjected to it definitely feels pain and is forced to retreat.)
Mass-tazering unruly crowds. Interesting concept.
Unless it's just overcooking a semi-rancid Hot Pocket into a portable microwave. Then I'm not so impressed.
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Just don't give them gifts that are directly related to their daily work - it'll seem cheap (ie, never give your wife a vacuum cleaner as a 'gift', under pain of death)
*Unless* your wife not only *specifies* a vacuum cleaner as a gift, but a specific model and type.
I'd also include not giving your wife a gift that you really want, but I still remember the funny look she gave me when she opened her Season 1 "South Park" DVD set....
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I agree with them on this one, not because it's the mark of the beast, but because I don't like the idea of something in my body being money.
Aside from the quarter shoved up the nose on a double-dog dare when we were kids.
According to Mothers Against Violence in America, they can link the Green River Killer to Violent Video Games, and vice versa.
Right.
Back in Old School, they used to call these "old wives' tales."
Dell is moving its call center operations for the Latitude and Optiplex computers back to the US from Bangalore, India after an onslaught of complaints from dissatisfied customers who couldn't cope with the differing accents and scripted responses.
Watch that they relocate to Louisiana...
You insensitive clod!
Hey! Clods have rights and feelings, you insensitive clod-oppressor!
Unfortunatly, if you rise up against the US Government, you are a terrorist, and such a movement would likely be crushed by the military, which is mostly right-wing.
And over 100 years from now, you can enjoy quaint little re-enactments between the 'insurgents' and the 'government'.
Oh yeah, when the get around with a novel, have a couple of British actresses play a couple of the insurgent-born rich girls.
When is somebody going to stand up and say enough is enough?
Sorry. FBI Gag Order prohibits it.
What's next? iPodders describe music they listen to as they poo? And we get to read about it? Ugh.
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I've seen a BSOD on the local access cable channel.
Our Local Access Channel had a Win95 BSoD left up over the weekend, as if no one would/could come in and just reboot the damn thing.
Story: my Uncle was an TV/Radio Electrical Technician in Upstate NY during the 50's and 60's, highly skilled and sought after for troubleshooting. According to my mom, he was watching a station where he worked, and he noticed something miniscule in the reception. He called up the on-site technician, asked about Obscure Part Whosis-Dash-Whatever That Needed a Full Diagnosis To Test and said that it was starting to fail and needed to be replaced.
Picture cleared up after said part was replaced.
Gee - imagine if you will a place where 15 year old girls are NOT as net savy as you or your friends. Imagine that, just for a sec, it is the same place where 15 year old girls think that Brittney Spears is great, and that parents (except Mom sometimes) suck, that thongs are underwear, and pregnancy happens to 'Bad Girls' still. Are you there yet? Imagine, just for a second being 15, when federal laws dont exist, and every program on your computer is fun, and helps you do what you want to do, and imagine for a moment why we dont procecute 15 year olds as adults.
The current AOL 9.0 Commercials lean toward this: "You can be a cute, hip, young girl, and not *need* to have to ask those icky nerds to help set up and fix your computer, because you can do it with a click of a button. Whee! Bilss is FUN and Kewl!"
Side note: Latest RIAA prosecutes teenager story: Bored now. Come back to me on the haphazard "suing someone without a computer" instance where they have no legitimate leg to stand on.
It just shows how much balls the producers had that they would allow 30 seconds of what was essentially dead air.
Sideshow Bob. Rake Scene.
Bully get's publically humiliated on national TV.
Not only should they show the bully bullying the kid, they should then bring in Mr. T who will proceed to beat the crap out of the little $#*@#&#, or at least give him a wedgie.
Talk shows have been doing this for years: "Boot Camp". Get big ass dude dressed up like a DI yelling at bully. 2003 version of the Two Minute Hate.
Oh, one flaw: show video to Bully's parents, parents counter by getting lawyer to draw up C&D and sue for damages and humiliation.
Unless your lawyer can beat up their lawyer.
1) Bully hurts nerd
2) Nerd makes website insulting bully
3) Nerd gets arrested, expelled from school, and/or shuffled off to mandatory counseling sessions, in order to prevent another Columbine.
4) Bully, needless to say, goes completely unpunished.
5) Bully grows up, gets MBA, becomes Pointy-Head Boss, gets paid by company for professional bullying.
6) Bully becomes Corporate Executive, makes political contributions, raids 401K accounts.(*)
7) Prof- oh hell. You know.
(*)6a) Female Bully gets TV show, Corporate Empire, cries on Diane Sawyer when called on bullying tactics.
how many of you parents taught your kids how to fight? and how many taught your kids how to block, but not fight? and how many of you just dont condone any of that? i wanna know how the 2003 slice rates up.
I know that, with the advent of zero-tolerance, even 'blocking' is considered fighting and grounds for suspension/expulsion. It's to a point where the victim can be half-dead and in a coma and still the administrator can only wring his/her hands, say that s/he has no leeway, that it's School Policy, and that the victim must also be given a three-day suspension (but it can be appealled).
I wouldn't be surprised if this "zero tolerance" extended to cyber-bullying ("You know, Johnny, you also contributed by leaving this E-mail Address out for anyone to find, plus you didn't patch your computer system....")
If a teacher/principal/administrator tries to deal with a cyberbully, s/he will find a knock on their door, courtesy of Ashcroft for the Patriot Act, and/or RIAA/SBA lawyers for violation of the DMCA.
Tattling is Fun *AND* Patriotic!
the ISS, so they can look at all the pretty wimmins here on earth.
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* Have it installed by Kasava and Shapiro
* New source of funding for ISS, although the currency exchange between euros and cigarettes will have to be determined.
Just leave it on Jay Leno's doorstep. He made enough on jokes about the "nearsighted" HST before it was fixed.
I'm ever so happy the matrix-within-a-matrix theories were unfounded.
As was the theory that "Neo" wakes up after a Wyld Stallyns concert.
I've seen only a portion of the trilogy (saw part of "The Two Towers" while snowbound at a con in Baltimore), but my feeling has been to wait until "Return of the King" comes out on DVD, and then collect the set in a Super Extended mode.
My wife brought up a good point: if the DVD(s) is will be stoked with so many "extra features", how much of an effect will that have on getting people to see the movie? Why bother going at all?
D'OH!
Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot, by Lady Antonia Fraser, chronicles the events leading up to the Gunpowder Plot, and the effects afterwards on the English psyche. According to an excerpt from the book, even Shakespeare's Macbeth was influenced indirectly by the conspiracy.
Had Fawkes and company been able to pull it off, it would have rivaled the reaction of New Yorkers after 9/11.
It's been discussed over the years...
Three better words:
Immunity From Prosecution.
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Alfred Bester envisioned the same in "The Demolished Man", calling his weapon a 'harmonic gun'.
Essentially, sound wave would hit mass, causing it to vibrate at a certain point to cause molecular instability and breakdown.
Quite nasty effect on organic material, moreso if the material was still alive. Bester was very graphic and detailed in that area.
From the article:
(There is, however, an effort to build a microwave weapon for controlling crowds; a person subjected to it definitely feels pain and is forced to retreat.)
Mass-tazering unruly crowds. Interesting concept.
Unless it's just overcooking a semi-rancid Hot Pocket into a portable microwave. Then I'm not so impressed.
Just don't give them gifts that are directly related to their daily work - it'll seem cheap (ie, never give your wife a vacuum cleaner as a 'gift', under pain of death)
*Unless* your wife not only *specifies* a vacuum cleaner as a gift, but a specific model and type.
I'd also include not giving your wife a gift that you really want, but I still remember the funny look she gave me when she opened her Season 1 "South Park" DVD set....