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d@nish wrote: Most of all, my cook is very much suspicious that his lay off is coming
soon.
Ok, you're going to piss everyone in the 1st world off there by flaunting the fact that you have a cook! 
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That was intentional. 
When I told my Western colleagues about the cooks and maids we have in India, they were amazed. More so, I was amazed with the look on their face. They felt as if I am a really rich guy. It took me real hard to try convince them I am not. They still don't buy it. On the other hand, I ended up buying lunch for them that day. 
"The worst code you'll come across is code you wrote last year.", wizardzz[ ^]
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Yeah, I've seen some shocked faces too when I tell people we had multiple maids/cooks/chauffeurs back home 
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I was also accused of being lazy and spoiled brat.
"The worst code you'll come across is code you wrote last year.", wizardzz[ ^]
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In some ways that is true. Most upper middle class Indians have never mowed the lawn, cleaned a bathroom, cooked a meal, vaccumed the floor, washed dishes, done the laundry, ironed clothes, etc.
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I used to love gardening. We had a lot of space in my parents home which we converted into gardens. I used to spent about 3 hours a day and a lot more on Sundays. But now, there is no space to do gardening where I live. 
Apart from that, I have ironed clothes few times. I guess that's it.
But now I am a pro. I hate it when I have to go abroad since I have to things on my own. Last time I was out, it as great. I stayed in superb hotels all the time. 
"The worst code you'll come across is code you wrote last year.", wizardzz[ ^]
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Laundry and housekeeping were designed to be outsourced.
/ravi
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I grew up in the middle east (as an expat), so we a couple of servants. I had to clean my own room though. I still shock people here (now scandinavia) when I mention Salvraj, or Dagavan.
A colleague of mine from Manchester and I had very different reactions to India when we went for work. He was shocked by the poverty and pecking order, and I just thought "Fine, I'll slot myself in near the top".
I'm largely over it now, but I had a pseudo-racist upbringing. White europeans did the managing and technical work, Arabs either were related to royals or were peasants, while Sub-continentals [*] did the labour. I suppose it would be much the same growing up in South Africa.
Iain.
[*] Is there a polite way of lumping together India, Pakistan and Bangladesh? When I was 9, they meant the same to me. Just slightly different food habits.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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Calvin: Why are you crying mom?
Mom: I'm cutting up an onion.
Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthropomorphize your vegetables.”
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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I had reason to cut down on salt and have two options that work pretty well.
The first, adding onions near the end of cooking so that they maintain more sharpness, works. This is of rather limited utility as everything will taste much the same. Yummy, Savory. But always clearly Onion-y.
The second is the use of garlic+hot pepper. You can add them in varying amounts, thus having garlic or heat dominate, be more gentle and or let them both have at it. The way they work (I presume) is that as a pair, they mimic the two properties that salt distinctly imbues to food: mellow and sharp. You need to use judgement and gain experience to amaze and amuse your oral audience.
The latter method, in particular, can even allow salt-free cooking wherein no one misses the salt. The bottom line for all of this is the same: the taste.
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Not as much fun as Kipling.
Henry Minute
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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d@nish wrote: I get real tough time cutting
onions.
You need the Dice-o-matic!
Check out the infomercials on TV!
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I'm always seeing ads on the web like this:
"Dermatologists are angry at a Lansing woman for this simple age defying trick"
OR
"Lansing mother of 4 makes $72 an hour online. Learn how!"
Obviously, the add company is using my IP address to get a rough estimate of my geographical location so that they can localize the ad. I know that it is true because when I travel it turns out Dematologists are angry at local gals in every city that I visit. Either they're a bunch of hot-heads or the ads are localized.
The thing that bothers me about the ad is that I suspect that Dermatologists in my area aren't smokin' hot angry with a local woman. The ad is a lie.
So if I had lots of extra cash I'd confront these companies and make them produce the angry dermatologists and the local woman who is stirring up all of this troube. Maybe if they had to do that couple of times the nonsense would stop.
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Yeah, dermatologists really get under your skin.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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That was a rash response.
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You were itching to say that!
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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Stop it!
Warts wrong with you?
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MehGerbil wrote: So if I had lots of extra cash I'd confront these companies and make them
produce the angry dermatologists and the local woman who is stirring up all of
this troube. Maybe if they had to do that couple of times the nonsense would
stop.
That's why you have lawyers who take cases on contingency.
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. -- Steve Landesberg
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and the girl shown in the photo either moves frequently or has doppelgangers in every city I've been to this past year 
Steve
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I C(++) therefore I am
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What kills me is that for a the longest time it was always a "single mom".
Dunno whats up with the "single mom" thing but apparently the marketing department for these people think that's an important point to repeat.
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Many apps on Windows 7 including Adobe Acrobat reader, Live messenger, Adobe Flash, etc. do automatic updates. Doing this requires UAC elevation and these apps popup a fancy looking bubble popup asking you for permission to update. You click yes, and it then asks for UAC elevation (Windows native dialog pops up).
Problem here is there is no easy way to verify that the app requiring UAC elevation is indeed what it claims to be. So a rogue app that somehow installs itself in user-mode (using a browser/flash exploit) can detect when you run say Live messenger and then popup the same bubble and then when you click yes, it can run a rogue binary asking for UAC elevation. The unsuspecting user clicks yes and now you have a possible Trojan installed with full administrator privileges.
My safety approach is to always click no to such dialogs. If I really want the update I go to the official website and download and install the latest version.
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I have configured my SpyBot to prevent any activities from Adobe products, including making changes in the registry. Also about a year ago I cleaned my PC from any kind of Java. This pretty much are 90% of the annoying updates one can get. Now everything is quiet. Can’t wait for a Flash Player to be replaced entirely from something else and my PC will be both Java and Adobe free!
There is only one Vera Farmiga and Salma Hayek is her prophet!
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I have so often thought the same thing... it's similar in a way to the banks who phone and ask for your date of birth or something... I have in the past patiently explained that if they're doing it, somebody else could be (and do they understand?  )
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I try and avoid picking up calls from the bank. The genuine calls leave a message and then I can call back their main # (not the # left in the message) if I feel that's needed.
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They get very puzzled when you refuse to answer, and ask them questions about you... Verification!
Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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