Just for the record, the bombings did NOT influence diddly-squat in Spain. After Aznar gave his support to Boosh when he talked about war with Iraq, nearly the entire Spanish population called for his head. I've never seen anti-Aznar/anti-Bush/anti-war protests like the ones I saw in Madrid - ever.
That's the little detail the western media likes to leave out or deny....
What if you were to just wag your ass at the extortion demand of the RIAA, allow yourself to get sued, and do the jail time? How much jail time might be given to someone who fully refused to cooperate with both the "justice" system, and the RIAA?
A question for the uber-cool and helpful NY Country Lawyer: Would you think you might get Allenwood or some other minimum security prison? Or would I be doin the Tango with some crosseyed murderer in a supermax (living one cell over from the Deadhead who got caught with 5 hits of acid, of course)?
"If Ken Lay was killed by, oh, say a falling circus elephant accidentally dropped out of a plane, would that make you more or less likely to believe the death was faked?"
The parent was making a comparison towards people's (and some large-ish black birds') fascination with things that are shiny, and the way many people react in a similar fashion to "leaked" software/code...The ^h was a "backspace".
Hey, I remember having about 10 or 20 seconds of a He-man cartoon in just about the same vid quality of that XT demo, but on a Commodore 64 in about 1987 as well...
Hey, I'm not defending Moro666, but I do have to interject that it is now indeed a crime to speak of harming the president, and although I don't have facts, I have heard something recently about that speaking ill of the President and perhaps his administration is illegal under the new PATRIOT-ACT (THESE ARE NOT TWO WORDS, IT'S AN ACRONYM) laws.
Moro666 isn't the best person to represent the unhappy natural-born-citizens in the US, but he is one on the, albeit dimmer, side of a rapidly growing group of disillusioned Americans and non-Americans affected by the US policies.
It's OK for you patriots to love your country, but it's when people don't object when the leaders do things that contradict what your heart knows is right and wrong, that I have a problem with them.
That kind of attitude just helps 1780's socio-political philosophy remain as the paradigm.
Many, if not all, of the call centres in Hyderbad, Bangalore, etc. do integrate "accent and regional terminology" instruction into their employee training. Maybe the person you speak to is new, and is still trying to get the new accent down (I'd ask "How's YOUR Hindi, but given 15+ years of The Simpsons, and people imitating Apu, I figure that 90% of Americans do a pretty damn good Indian accent...Mine is awesome...:/ )
It's not about speaking English. English is a major language in India. The accent, hey, nothing wrong with nicely asking the tech to repeat, and then even to say it back to them once you get it...They'd probably listen to your pronunciation of it and try to better say it like that.
I read all the flack India's call centre population get, and I don't understand it...I've got mad respect for that whole scene. Granted, the choice of giving "them" "our" jobs, I can understand as being a bitching point, but we should aim that at the folks who in a greedy negative move, decided to screw over their countrymen for a buck. But the bright side is that they also accidentally did something good by giving localities in such an economically screwed, yet, intellectually RICH country a chance to come out into the tech sector like this, and really improve local economies that definitely could have used a little jumpstart..In a few years, when all those Indian call centre employees are working for (or perhaps owning) the giant Indian software megalith corporations that will soon be emerging, the call centre jobs will come back to the US...Maybe when they do, you'll even be getting trained to speak at your call centre job with a more understandable INDIAN accent.
I can't wait to visit India...Stopping into a call centre is one of my plans... (Getting screaming drunk with as many of the techs as I can is another)
Will the SlashPowers that be please reconsider my submission asking for help in halting my U.S. citizenship and obtaining citizenship in another country?
I wonder if it would be possible to mod an *entire thread* "Redundant"....
I love bashing the RIAA as much as anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together (I've got SIX), but couldn't we all just discuss something a bit more original, like how Linusx is better than MicroSnoopy?
Just for the record, though -
* RIAA bad * M$ ba-a-a-ad * Open source goood * FIRE BAAAAAD! * Rocky CAN beat up Rambo *....and yes, I *do* own the road.
Yeah, I was a C-64 twerpo as well, and as I load up my emulator to play Castle Wolfenstein, I am flooded with fond memories of things like:
Say-It S.A.M, and using it to make crank phone calls
Using ML Monitor to make a blue box tone program
and, something I think every c-64 user has been through, taking 6 hours to try to download Jumpman Jr. or similar game, and dealing with those "bad blocks", watching the dashes and colons, only to have Grandma unplug the computer as it's ALMOST done (i.e 2 more hours to go!) so she can run the vacuum cleaner.
GGRRRAAANNNNMMAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
How about ALTOS/ALTGER/QSD? Or multi-padding on an pwned Prime:):):)
Jeez, if I let myself, I could fill up a whole megabyte with my nostalgia....Phone Man 4.0 anyone?
OK one more....I ran a CCGMS, and was proud to boast that, with the aid of 8 C-1541 drives, I could boast 1.5 megs of G-Files. Best thing was when I went to sleep, all the LED's made my room look like a little city as seen from a helicopter at night....OK, I'm off to get a bowl of Croonchy Stars..
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They not-so-much kicked MS's ass as much as kicked MS *in* the ass......
:)
Step two is to kick MS's ass.
Just for the record, the bombings did NOT influence diddly-squat in Spain. After Aznar gave his support to Boosh when he talked about war with Iraq, nearly the entire Spanish population called for his head. I've never seen anti-Aznar/anti-Bush/anti-war protests like the ones I saw in Madrid - ever.
That's the little detail the western media likes to leave out or deny....
"It's like putting a big coffee-can tailpipe on a stock Civic."
Ahh so you've been to Hawaii, have ya?
Sorry if I wasn't clear, since, well, I'm not exactly clear....
What I meat to ask was, what would happen if one were to just thumb their nose at the whole demand for money, lawsuit, etc...
I feel pretty Thoreau about the whole thing.....
What if you were to just wag your ass at the extortion demand of the RIAA, allow yourself to get sued, and do the jail time? How much jail time might be given to someone who fully refused to cooperate with both the "justice" system, and the RIAA?
A question for the uber-cool and helpful NY Country Lawyer: Would you think you might get Allenwood or some other minimum security prison? Or would I be doin the Tango with some crosseyed murderer in a supermax (living one cell over from the Deadhead who got caught with 5 hits of acid, of course)?
Homeslice said:
"If Ken Lay was killed by, oh, say a falling circus elephant accidentally dropped out of a plane, would that make you more or less likely to believe the death was faked?"
Now THAT'S what I'd call *justice*
Oh you're all such a bunch of NERDS! ;) love ya
The parent was making a comparison towards people's (and some large-ish black birds') fascination with things that are shiny, and the way many people react in a similar fashion to "leaked" software/code...The ^h was a "backspace".
Somebody gimmie an a-men and mod this muuhfugguh up
What gym do you go to? Home Depot?
What a woman!!!!
Hey, I remember having about 10 or 20 seconds of a He-man cartoon in just about the same vid quality of that XT demo, but on a Commodore 64 in about 1987 as well...
3 to 5 odds that the one who mods me 0:Troll isn't jewish :)
Why you gotta use insults, schmuck?
Hey, I'm not defending Moro666, but I do have to interject that it is now indeed a crime to speak of harming the president, and although I don't have facts, I have heard something recently about that speaking ill of the President and perhaps his administration is illegal under the new PATRIOT-ACT (THESE ARE NOT TWO WORDS, IT'S AN ACRONYM) laws.
Moro666 isn't the best person to represent the unhappy natural-born-citizens in the US, but he is one on the, albeit dimmer, side of a rapidly growing group of disillusioned Americans and non-Americans affected by the US policies.
It's OK for you patriots to love your country, but it's when people don't object when the leaders do things that contradict what your heart knows is right and wrong, that I have a problem with them.
That kind of attitude just helps 1780's socio-political philosophy remain as the paradigm.
Homeboy in the parent says:
;)
"I can operate my mp3 player without looking at it, even if it's in my pants pocket."
That must look *great* out in public.
This man is very dangerous.
Many, if not all, of the call centres in Hyderbad, Bangalore, etc. do integrate "accent and regional terminology" instruction into their employee training. Maybe the person you speak to is new, and is still trying to get the new accent down (I'd ask "How's YOUR Hindi, but given 15+ years of The Simpsons, and people imitating Apu, I figure that 90% of Americans do a pretty damn good Indian accent...Mine is awesome... :/ )
It's not about speaking English. English is a major language in India. The accent, hey, nothing wrong with nicely asking the tech to repeat, and then even to say it back to them once you get it...They'd probably listen to your pronunciation of it and try to better say it like that.
I read all the flack India's call centre population get, and I don't understand it...I've got mad respect for that whole scene. Granted, the choice of giving "them" "our" jobs, I can understand as being a bitching point, but we should aim that at the folks who in a greedy negative move, decided to screw over their countrymen for a buck. But the bright side is that they also accidentally did something good by giving localities in such an economically screwed, yet, intellectually RICH country a chance to come out into the tech sector like this, and really improve local economies that definitely could have used a little jumpstart..In a few years, when all those Indian call centre employees are working for (or perhaps owning) the giant Indian software megalith corporations that will soon be emerging, the call centre jobs will come back to the US...Maybe when they do, you'll even be getting trained to speak at your call centre job with a more understandable INDIAN accent.
I can't wait to visit India...Stopping into a call centre is one of my plans... (Getting screaming drunk with as many of the techs as I can is another)
Thank you, come again.
I love my brick!
Aaaaaaaaah feckit!
Fed up with briiiiiick!
Will the SlashPowers that be please reconsider my submission asking for help in halting my U.S. citizenship and obtaining citizenship in another country?
I can't be the only one.
Thanks for the 0 score, anonymous fuckwit.
Goes to show that genius can bring one to new heights, or new depths...
I dont need negative karma cos some genuine nerd (the antisocial types that most everyone does not like) decided to mod me down...
IT WAS A LITTLE BLAST OF HUMOR, ASSHEAD.
I'll just go back to not contributing, than trying to please the Uber-Jerks
I wonder if it would be possible to mod an *entire thread* "Redundant"....
....and yes, I *do* own the road.
I love bashing the RIAA as much as anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together (I've got SIX), but couldn't we all just discuss something a bit more original, like how Linusx is better than MicroSnoopy?
Just for the record, though -
* RIAA bad
* M$ ba-a-a-ad
* Open source goood
* FIRE BAAAAAD!
* Rocky CAN beat up Rambo
*
Don't take drugs, kids...
I guess MS reckons that controlling language will be the best way to stop people from making "Microsoft bites the whanger"-type comments...
Yeah, I was a C-64 twerpo as well, and as I load up my emulator to play Castle Wolfenstein, I am flooded with fond memories of things like:
:) :) :)
...OK, I'm off to get a bowl of Croonchy Stars..
Say-It S.A.M, and using it to make crank phone calls
Using ML Monitor to make a blue box tone program
and, something I think every c-64 user has been through, taking 6 hours to try to download Jumpman Jr. or similar game, and dealing with those "bad blocks", watching the dashes and colons, only to have Grandma unplug the computer as it's ALMOST done (i.e 2 more hours to go!) so she can run the vacuum cleaner.
GGRRRAAANNNNMMAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
How about ALTOS/ALTGER/QSD? Or multi-padding on an pwned Prime
Jeez, if I let myself, I could fill up a whole megabyte with my nostalgia....Phone Man 4.0 anyone?
OK one more....I ran a CCGMS, and was proud to boast that, with the aid of 8 C-1541 drives, I could boast 1.5 megs of G-Files. Best thing was when I went to sleep, all the LED's made my room look like a little city as seen from a helicopter at night.
Perhaps Evilpiper would have gotten a few mod points and a "funny" if only he'd put his "list" in a different order, forming a different acronym...