Thanks for the link!

The article you linked was Spanish-speaking vs English, and that IMO is totally different then what we are discussing here. When you call a call center from India, you are going to speaking with someone that also speaks English. Do they sound like the back-woods-hillbilly that works in a Alabama call center? Someone that works in a Boston call center? No.. they are going to have an Indian accent. That does not automatically make them any less intelligent as most like to believe.

Just like when I speak to some hilly-billy-ebonics-back-woods-redneck support center rep in Texas... If i am having a hard time understanding what they are saying, I polity ask them to slow down. I then know I need to slow down when I speaking to them, as I am sure they are having just as hard time understanding me. To my point... If most were to STFU and listen and use some manners... Everything would be ok.

What ticks me off is when I hear some red-neck American IT go on about how he hates talking to them "brown bastards" in India. Its good to learn that the people that work in India call centers just brush us off as a bunch of racist American assholes. :)

I am sure I will get moded down for this, but "whateva"... (yes I am American)

I am so tired of American IT workers bitching about Indian tech support. First off... It seems that most of the time, the American IT guy bitching about the support he is getting actually has no clue WTF he is talking about in the first place. Second... Why don't you shut your American-I-am-always-right mouth for one second and actually LISTEN. If you are too stupid to realize that your speaking with a person whose first language is not English and you need to slow down, then you're probably fall into my first point.

"These" people that you are speaking with are not trained monkeys. I believe in TFA most of the people he spoke with were top of their class or had higher education.

Wooosh!

"Pretend"??? Are you sure that glass is not a liquid?

http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/mirrors/physicsfaq/General/Glass/glass.html

1-800-GOOG-411 its free and grandma can thing she is talking to a real person!

That's how much HP my dumb ass neighbour thinks his Honda Civic has now that he has that dumb ass loud muffler on it!

I agree. I can't imagine how the meeting at Toyota went when they came up with this idea...

Boss) We need to come up with an edgy new marketing scheme...
Guy 1) Hey, let scare the shit out of some lady.
Guy 2) Yeah, Lets make up a fake stalker!!!
Guy 1) Sweet... Lets make him a criminal too!
Guy 2) Serial Killer?
Guy 1) Naw, Just a regular criminal.. Maybe petty theft?
Guy 2) From a different country?
Guy 1) Oh I like the way you think!!!
Boss) This is a GREAT idea, nothing can possibly go wrong! We will have people all over the US wanting to buy our new cars!

Guy 1 and Guy 2) HIGH FIVE!!! **slap**

I suggest Goatse!

Last time I went into a Radio Shack "The Shack" to pick up some barrel connectors, the woman at the counter had no idea what I was talking about. When I spoke with the wandering sales kid, he at least knew were the tiny little bin of electronic components were. When I asked the kid, he made a joke about not knowing anything about electronic, but he could help me buy a cell phone.

That was the last time I will go into a Radio Shack...

Someone should let them in on a little secret. Called VMware!!!

Yup, I understand what you're saying. My point still being... As long as they can point a finger at a person (executives or peons) when the shit hits the fan, and your companies name is in the paper, and the lawsuits soon follow, the SA can say... "Hey, SA did everything we could. It's not our fault Mr Executive wrote down the password. He knows better then that."

It's all smoke and mirrors. It all boils down to whose ass is going to be on the line when shit hits the fan. It's hard to fire a policy.

The Security Analyst can care less if you can remember your passwords or not. The real issue is whose fault it's going to be when the system does get compromised. I can tell you right now, it's not going to be the SA. Its all you, the end user! You can fight the good fight for admins and end users, but in the end, SA can care less if you have you password on a sticky note on your monitor. They have covered their ass, and when all your business gets owned. They are going to point their finger right at you. They will keep their job... You wont.

"My password is a. a like apple" http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/

RTFM?

"Pixel-lensing, or gravitational microlensing was developed to look for MAssive Compact Halo Objects MACHOs in the galactic halo of the Milky Way. Because light rays are bent when they pass close to a massive object, the gravity of a nearby star focuses the light from a distant star towards Earth. This method is sensitive to finding planets in our own galaxy, ranging is sizes from Jupiter-like planets to Earth-sized ones."

So yes...

Killing yourself is chicken shit. Your dead, and you have only hurt the ones that care for you.

From your comment, it seems that you are someone that has never been a victim of someone close to you committing suicide.

I am, and I can tell you that suicide is the most selfish act that a person can commit. The pain that it causes for years to come to your loved ones it not only selfish but preventable. I can understand that if you are mentally handicapped, but you can't go a day without seeing some kind of depression commercials, add, billboard offering to get you help. From my experience, family and friends can tell when you are upset and offer to help as well.

Suicide is the easy way out, and I have 0 respect for anyone that has committed suicide.