HAHA! you see we have a charter as well.
Darwinian theory will be replaced by Intelligent design.
Eliminate Science and Engineering from Schools and teach theology.
Attack another little known country and claim to get freedom for them.
There was a time when US used to invent. The rate at which we are seeing DMCA and patent infringement cases these days, it is a sorry state of affair. What would they copyright next. I think FART should be a good candidate. OK guys I am ready file a copyright for farting. Any one having an urge to fart, better have a good cash reserve.
My employer recently cut back on the medical plan. Now that I have to pay part of my prescription, I think I was better off in India. In the name of R&D the prices, the Pharmaceutical companies are asking are ridiculous. Give you an example of a generic drug Tylenol sells for 50 cents for a pack of 10 500mg. Here I have paid as high as $8 for the same thing. When you have a system where you are not allowed to buy drugs without prescription, why the hell do they advertise. One extra expense that the consumers have to bear.
Slightly off topic : How many of you know what a Hindu is. I am in US and interacted with a lot of folks here who think all Brown skins Indian looking folks are Muslims. Never realizing that 80% of Indians are Hindu's, a religion older than Christianity or Islam. Buddhas are an offshoot of Hinduism. Another interesting fact in Terms of numbers India has the largest population of Muslims.
This is insane, and would have been funny if I was not in this country. Spyware, popups and all are all used in insecure and inferior Windows & Internet Explorer. Why don't people get rid of both, and why don't the retarded lawyers get this. You can get nasty obscene popups even if you go to a news site. Why won't the regulators control that. Its not a hidden fact who advertises throught these popups. Go after the roots and have a policy in place to safeguard the end-user.
First off you have your facts messed up, despite that Slashdot readers have made this post insightful(WTF). H1B can not be underpaid, it is against immigration policies. If you are unaware of anything don't talk on that subject matter. Employers have to specifically declare the salary and screen US citizens before they can go outside. INS will be behind their ass if they bypass this.
Having said that don't talk about strawberry pickers and hi-tech workers in the same breath. It's two different topics. While hi-tech workers are on H1-B the strawberry pickers would work under guest worker program. For H1-B there is already a system in place, guest worker system is still being talked about.
I guess the debate should not be why foreigners are taking over but, why are tehy taking over. I work for a chemical company and it is customary for us to wait for US Citizens to fill the post before opening the position for H1B.
"IBM to run nine proof-of-concept open source trials designed to mesure the cost-benefits"
Must have used an Opensource Word processor to spell "measure" as "mesure"
You know what, this is one time I am proud to be an Indian. If you transpose the same to an Indian school, the cops might have been lynched for touching a student. Terrorism is a ploy, and who the fuck doesn't forget ID's.
I heard CNN's views around this issue "US SPY SATELITES BLINDED". They tried to link this to trade with CHINA. Why would any nation be OK with spying. Why even talk about countries; would you be comfortable, if your neighbour snooped on you? Trade in no means gives USA free reign into spying on that country.
I moved from my apartment to my new house. I wanted to transfer my account to my new address. The rep on the phone looked up the address and couldn't find it. I asked for a cancellation and the dude on the phone went circles with veryfying the SOC, Last name, First name addreses. And supposedly he was suggesting I keep paying Adelphia the cable & internet bill for the apartment I no longer lived in. Finally, I started repeating that "I wanted to cancel my account" everytime he paused.
I got this e-mail from Verizon after I complained that my old username was not working. In the name of "SECURITY" they want me to have 8 character passwords and 8 character username. All for turning the phone records to NSA, now that is Funny.
"Thank you for contacting Verizon Wireless through our website.
I understand your inquiry and I will be happy to address your concerns regarding the My Account online feature's new and most recent updates to the website.
For the protection of your online account information, we have recently made security enhancements to our website which will require you to use an 8-20 digit alpha-numeric Password, create a Username that can only be 9 digits or 6 to 20 characters in length, and establish a Security Question. I regret the inconvenience.
During the updating/creating process, if the system is telling you that something is not in a valid format, this could refer to the Password or Security Question.
You will have the option of selecting the radio button next to one of eight pre-determined questions or you will have the option to select the radio button to create your own Question. Please be sure that you are selecting the appropriate radio button. If you are creating your own Security Question, it must be between 6-80 characters and can contain underscore, period, dash (hyphen), @, apostrophe, question mark, and spaces, but no other special characters will be allowed. The question will be stored exactly as is entered.
Your answer must be between 3-40 characters and can include letters, numbers, spaces (count as characters) and a period. No other Special characters will be permitted, and the answer will not be case sensitive. Although the answer is not case sensitive, the answer must be inputted exactly as it is created. For example, if your answer is "Peanut Butter and Jelly." than "peanut butter and jelly." would be correct, but "peanutbutter and jelly" is incorrect.
When creating a login Password, it must be 8-20 alphanumeric characters (must contain at least one number and one letter) with no spaces or special characters.
If you are still unable to access your online account after completing the procedures listed above, please respond to this email and include your current login Password and the login Password you would like to change to (that meets the login Password requirements), and the Username you would like to change to, in order to investigate this issue further. Be sure to also include the last four digits of the Social Security Number listed on the account for verification/authorization purposes.
If you prefer, you can contact the E-Services and Support Department at 800-350-2830, and select option 1. Our hours are Monday through Friday, 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time.
We appreciate your business. Thank you for using Verizon Wireless products and services.
Sincerely,
Jasmine
Verizon Wireless
E-Services and Support"
"First off, Mac users on average pay more for their computers, are self-selected because they tend to know more about technology than your average PC buyer"
How dumb can this comment be. I guess mac zealots should do a realty check now. You are paying twice for a laptop that is painted WHITE, oh yes and it has a white half bitten apple. Regarding knowing more about technology than PC users, I could concur if you meant Windows users, but PC linux users.
Going by your argument of who comes first. I guess Ameria belong to the native Indians and they should be getting preference in anything. Immigrant are immigrants and it does not change whether they are coming today or they came 100 years back. Why should US be any different today as a land of opportunity as it was for today's Citizens Forefathers.
Outsourcing brings the jobs that the people in USA don't want to do. You will realize that in the address above that it belong to one of the Economic zones. Besides why don't you allow access to Connecticut on google Maps. If the indian subcontinent is volatile why the fuck would you give another tool to the Terrorists.
The direction this is going is certainly not pleasent. I guess ther should be large scale demonstration against these scare tactics. Music is a form of entertainment and it should be like that. If you have to flip through law books merely for listening to a song FUCK THAT MUSIC. I guess we should avoid like cancer any music or music label that is affiliated to these Scumbags.
In my case I heard Western music all my life but when I moved to US I switched to classical music from my own country. The reason, well CD - 5 bucks Cassette -- 2 bucks, here CD - 16-20 bucks and download $1.
A professor gave a presentation on Global warming in our company yesterday. One of the key points he raised was that we contribute 5.5 times carbon di-oxide as compared to the rest of the world. He also gave a statistics on what is the best fuel, turns out it is not Hydrogen but rather it is Natural gas. He painted a piture where by 2300 Toronto would be like A(Hot)tlanta.
I hope Bush thinks twice before neglecting the Global warming. I hope he does not attribute it to some other Intelligent Design.
The tactics of killing a Suicide bomber in the head makes sense in Israel or some other States that are infested with Suicide Bombers. But UK c'mon they had two small incidents and they are ready to shoot their own people.
Besides the first news in was that a Pakistani looking Asian man was killed. Going by this logic I think all Asians in UK should be scared and Dammit leave the country and go back where thay came from.
I recently got my photographs taken at Walmart. To my surprise on the corner was the copyright statement. I was surprised its my face, I am paying for it and now it is someones eleses property. What a retarded policy. I am glad back home we still have the system where a negative is handed over once business is done. What a shame, in the name of protecting IP this is the lowest point one can go.
Stay at leat a mile away from wireless mouse. I got the Mx Laser Logitech wireless mouse. It worked well for 1 week after which it decided to freeze on me at random. I was told Monitor radiation can be one of the problems. However after 2 replacements I did what I should have done to start with - I use a wired mouse.
Just becaue/. has linux zealots does not mean that you can claim anything. And since when has OpenOffice become snappy. I read a similar article in OSNEWS recently where they were praising java's speed(LMAO).
Bottomline I use Openoffice because it is free and MSWord does not run on linux natively.If Openoffice is so superior we would see StarOffice sales go up.
PS: How many drinks did you have before wrting this , Talk of Weekends.
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You must be Kidding right! India is the largest democracy in the world. At least Indians are 10 times more free than US counterparts.
HAHA! you see we have a charter as well. Darwinian theory will be replaced by Intelligent design. Eliminate Science and Engineering from Schools and teach theology. Attack another little known country and claim to get freedom for them.
There was a time when US used to invent. The rate at which we are seeing DMCA and patent infringement cases these days, it is a sorry state of affair. What would they copyright next. I think FART should be a good candidate. OK guys I am ready file a copyright for farting. Any one having an urge to fart, better have a good cash reserve.
My employer recently cut back on the medical plan. Now that I have to pay part of my prescription, I think I was better off in India. In the name of R&D the prices, the Pharmaceutical companies are asking are ridiculous. Give you an example of a generic drug Tylenol sells for 50 cents for a pack of 10 500mg. Here I have paid as high as $8 for the same thing. When you have a system where you are not allowed to buy drugs without prescription, why the hell do they advertise. One extra expense that the consumers have to bear.
Slightly off topic : How many of you know what a Hindu is. I am in US and interacted with a lot of folks here who think all Brown skins Indian looking folks are Muslims. Never realizing that 80% of Indians are Hindu's, a religion older than Christianity or Islam. Buddhas are an offshoot of Hinduism. Another interesting fact in Terms of numbers India has the largest population of Muslims.
This is insane, and would have been funny if I was not in this country. Spyware, popups and all are all used in insecure and inferior Windows & Internet Explorer. Why don't people get rid of both, and why don't the retarded lawyers get this. You can get nasty obscene popups even if you go to a news site. Why won't the regulators control that. Its not a hidden fact who advertises throught these popups. Go after the roots and have a policy in place to safeguard the end-user.
First off you have your facts messed up, despite that Slashdot readers have made this post insightful(WTF). H1B can not be underpaid, it is against immigration policies. If you are unaware of anything don't talk on that subject matter. Employers have to specifically declare the salary and screen US citizens before they can go outside. INS will be behind their ass if they bypass this. Having said that don't talk about strawberry pickers and hi-tech workers in the same breath. It's two different topics. While hi-tech workers are on H1-B the strawberry pickers would work under guest worker program. For H1-B there is already a system in place, guest worker system is still being talked about. I guess the debate should not be why foreigners are taking over but, why are tehy taking over. I work for a chemical company and it is customary for us to wait for US Citizens to fill the post before opening the position for H1B.
Hell, to start with 99% of computers ran pirated windows, no revenue for Microsoft anyway. Why should one care if they migrate to OSS.
"IBM to run nine proof-of-concept open source trials designed to mesure the cost-benefits" Must have used an Opensource Word processor to spell "measure" as "mesure"
I thought it mentioned in the article that this person was born in US *PUNK*
You know what, this is one time I am proud to be an Indian. If you transpose the same to an Indian school, the cops might have been lynched for touching a student. Terrorism is a ploy, and who the fuck doesn't forget ID's.
I heard CNN's views around this issue "US SPY SATELITES BLINDED". They tried to link this to trade with CHINA. Why would any nation be OK with spying. Why even talk about countries; would you be comfortable, if your neighbour snooped on you? Trade in no means gives USA free reign into spying on that country.
OSNEWS repeated the same story about virtualization, which I pointed out in the post only to be suspended from posting any more comments.
I moved from my apartment to my new house. I wanted to transfer my account to my new address. The rep on the phone looked up the address and couldn't find it. I asked for a cancellation and the dude on the phone went circles with veryfying the SOC, Last name, First name addreses. And supposedly he was suggesting I keep paying Adelphia the cable & internet bill for the apartment I no longer lived in. Finally, I started repeating that "I wanted to cancel my account" everytime he paused.
I got this e-mail from Verizon after I complained that my old username was not working. In the name of "SECURITY" they want me to have 8 character passwords and 8 character username. All for turning the phone records to NSA, now that is Funny. "Thank you for contacting Verizon Wireless through our website. I understand your inquiry and I will be happy to address your concerns regarding the My Account online feature's new and most recent updates to the website. For the protection of your online account information, we have recently made security enhancements to our website which will require you to use an 8-20 digit alpha-numeric Password, create a Username that can only be 9 digits or 6 to 20 characters in length, and establish a Security Question. I regret the inconvenience. During the updating/creating process, if the system is telling you that something is not in a valid format, this could refer to the Password or Security Question. You will have the option of selecting the radio button next to one of eight pre-determined questions or you will have the option to select the radio button to create your own Question. Please be sure that you are selecting the appropriate radio button. If you are creating your own Security Question, it must be between 6-80 characters and can contain underscore, period, dash (hyphen), @, apostrophe, question mark, and spaces, but no other special characters will be allowed. The question will be stored exactly as is entered. Your answer must be between 3-40 characters and can include letters, numbers, spaces (count as characters) and a period. No other Special characters will be permitted, and the answer will not be case sensitive. Although the answer is not case sensitive, the answer must be inputted exactly as it is created. For example, if your answer is "Peanut Butter and Jelly." than "peanut butter and jelly." would be correct, but "peanutbutter and jelly" is incorrect. When creating a login Password, it must be 8-20 alphanumeric characters (must contain at least one number and one letter) with no spaces or special characters. If you are still unable to access your online account after completing the procedures listed above, please respond to this email and include your current login Password and the login Password you would like to change to (that meets the login Password requirements), and the Username you would like to change to, in order to investigate this issue further. Be sure to also include the last four digits of the Social Security Number listed on the account for verification/authorization purposes. If you prefer, you can contact the E-Services and Support Department at 800-350-2830, and select option 1. Our hours are Monday through Friday, 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time. We appreciate your business. Thank you for using Verizon Wireless products and services. Sincerely, Jasmine Verizon Wireless E-Services and Support"
"First off, Mac users on average pay more for their computers, are self-selected because they tend to know more about technology than your average PC buyer" How dumb can this comment be. I guess mac zealots should do a realty check now. You are paying twice for a laptop that is painted WHITE, oh yes and it has a white half bitten apple. Regarding knowing more about technology than PC users, I could concur if you meant Windows users, but PC linux users.
Going by your argument of who comes first. I guess Ameria belong to the native Indians and they should be getting preference in anything. Immigrant are immigrants and it does not change whether they are coming today or they came 100 years back. Why should US be any different today as a land of opportunity as it was for today's Citizens Forefathers.
Outsourcing brings the jobs that the people in USA don't want to do. You will realize that in the address above that it belong to one of the Economic zones. Besides why don't you allow access to Connecticut on google Maps. If the indian subcontinent is volatile why the fuck would you give another tool to the Terrorists.
Sony, I had ordered a Camcorder from them after a lot of research. Going by their shitty attitude I just cancelled the order.
The direction this is going is certainly not pleasent. I guess ther should be large scale demonstration against these scare tactics. Music is a form of entertainment and it should be like that. If you have to flip through law books merely for listening to a song FUCK THAT MUSIC. I guess we should avoid like cancer any music or music label that is affiliated to these Scumbags.
In my case I heard Western music all my life but when I moved to US I switched to classical music from my own country. The reason, well CD - 5 bucks Cassette -- 2 bucks, here CD - 16-20 bucks and download $1.
A professor gave a presentation on Global warming in our company yesterday. One of the key points he raised was that we contribute 5.5 times carbon di-oxide as compared to the rest of the world. He also gave a statistics on what is the best fuel, turns out it is not Hydrogen but rather it is Natural gas. He painted a piture where by 2300 Toronto would be like A(Hot)tlanta. I hope Bush thinks twice before neglecting the Global warming. I hope he does not attribute it to some other Intelligent Design.
The tactics of killing a Suicide bomber in the head makes sense in Israel or some other States that are infested with Suicide Bombers. But UK c'mon they had two small incidents and they are ready to shoot their own people.
Besides the first news in was that a Pakistani looking Asian man was killed.
Going by this logic I think all Asians in UK should be scared and Dammit leave the country and go back where thay came from.
I recently got my photographs taken at Walmart. To my surprise on the corner was the copyright statement. I was surprised its my face, I am paying for it and now it is someones eleses property. What a retarded policy. I am glad back home we still have the system where a negative is handed over once business is done. What a shame, in the name of protecting IP this is the lowest point one can go.
Stay at leat a mile away from wireless mouse. I got the Mx Laser Logitech wireless mouse. It worked well for 1 week after which it decided to freeze on me at random. I was told Monitor radiation can be one of the problems. However after 2 replacements I did what I should have done to start with - I use a wired mouse.
Just becaue /. has linux zealots does not mean that you can claim anything. And since when has OpenOffice become snappy. I read a similar article in OSNEWS recently where they were praising java's speed(LMAO).
Bottomline I use Openoffice because it is free and MSWord does not run on linux natively.If Openoffice is so superior we would see StarOffice sales go up.
PS: How many drinks did you have before wrting this , Talk of Weekends.