You know you hate me?

When the voice with India-accent started to ask my social security number and my password, that’s when I hung up. Don’t the customer service reps in India know that’s a no-no. And then I thought, that was a damn good way to make me hang up and call back and be someone’s else problem. Is that what was going on?

This outsourcing of customer service has been written about ad nauseam. We know that automated customer service can’t think. And I’m beginning to think the human kind can’t think either. But the new advanced procedure is to combine the two of them.

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Gitmo Rendition Camp.

The prisoners know from day one the proposed torture ain’t going to work. How so? Listen, say, Randolph will tell you why:

What is this? They put a blindfold on me, ball gag in my mouth, wrap duct tape around my head, put a hood over my head and put large head phones over my ears. I can’t see, I can’t smell, I can’t hear, I can’t talk. I feel vibrations so I’m going somewhere. No matter. I can, though, think. Let me see, if they were going to kill me…hmmm. They wouldn’t bother with all that shit, would they? Nope. That means they don’t want me to know where I’m going. Which, thank the Heavens, means they won’t kill me. They may torture me, but they won’t kill me because I’m coming back alive. Hoo-waaa! Isn’t that grand? Isn’t life grand? Now, what kind of secrets can I make up that will spin these mother-muckers around? Ah, here’s something that will knock their shoes off. WMD — Whopper from McDonald’s. Yeah, I’ll tell them about WMD’s. Yeah!

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Beware of these jobs!

There have been articles on b4b about online dating, it’s pitfalls, photos that grew younger, and especially, the safety issue. A lot of horror meet-ya stories there. (See article by Unum called “Beware: Online Dating Deceptions and Scams”)

Well, get ready for our list of the Top Ten Bogus Online Jobs. You may have thought about/actually did apply for a bogus job. These fakers just want access to your social security number and resume info. Okay, then. Sharpen your knowledge of bogus online jobs listed here in order to avoid getting taken in. And, most welcomed, would be 10 plus 1, 10 plus 2…if you wish to contribute. Sooooo, what’s your bogus job entry? Here are our ten online bogus job listings. All are fake job postings.

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Snipped from Wired.com.

Do you remember all the commotion earlier this year about Congress giving the White House the go on wiretapping America, ILLEGALLY? Well, Congress (Democratic of course, spineless weasels!) not only extended it back in August by granting the NSA “emergency” temporary power, but they are now introducing the RESTORE Act (the Responsible Electronic Surveillance That is Overseen Reviewed and Effective Act of 2007). ” [RESTORE Act] allows the nation’s spies to maintain permanent eavesdropping stations inside United States switching centers. Telecom and internet experts interviewed by Wired News say the bill will give the NSA legal access to a torrent of foreign phone calls and internet traffic that travels through American soil on its way someplace else.” says Wired.com.

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Snipped from ScientificBlogging.com.

Have you ever dreamed of being a superhero? Want to shed your mere mortal traits and take on some superhuman ones like flying, super-strength, invisibility or cling to vertical surfaces like a spider? Well, science may have gotten you much closer to your childhood dreams. Especially for the Spiderman fans among us. It all boils down to the reproduction of a quantum physics attribute called the van der Waals force.

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Snipped from the HuffingtonPost.com.

Well, here we go again. Japan is surpassing us and this time it’s in broadband access. Compared to the U.S. Japan has access that is 30 times faster than the U.S. As a result, we are being left in the dust when it comes to “experiencing innovation and enjoying applications that Americans simply don’t have access to.” In Japan, you can watch broadcast-quality, full-screen television over the internet. All we have is grainy, wallet-sized images. With Japan’s ultra-high-speed applications, they are introducing into the market low-cost, high-definition teleconferencing and telemedicine which allows doctors to diagnose diseases remotely. And, their advanced telecommuting is helping Japan reach their target of doubling the number of people who work from home by 2010. So, what happened to the U.S.?

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