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Awesome.
But it might also be the grand opening of healthcare.gov?
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Mike Hankey wrote: But it might also be the grand opening of healthcare.gov?
Finland has had a system of publicly funded health care for decades, superior to what we have in the United States: they would have absolutely no reason to reproduce our fiasco.
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Gregory.Gadow wrote: they would have absolutely no reason to reproduce our fiasco.
Would anyone? 
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I am slated with the task of arranging video meetings with people all over the world.
Who has done this in their life before me ?
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I've done this more than a few times. Depending how many people you want, you might want to just schedule a Google Hangout.
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C-P-User-3 wrote: meetings with people all over the world.
At the same time? Welcome to timezone hell.
/ravi
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...limits the group to 10, IIRC. Something to keep in mind.
/ravi
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Facebook Page[^]
A Yemeni man has to get 1,000,000 followers as a dowry request.
Here is the story[^]
I have clicked.
I am happy to help a chap get married.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: I am happy to help a chap get married.
Share the misery joy!
speramus in juniperus
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Marriage is a fine institution. But who wants to spend their life in an institution?
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She's at work, and apparently their corporate mail system (which was changed a few weeks ago) is not working as it should.
She says that whenever they mention that it's not working, all that happens is that the IT guy comes around, taps a few times on the computer and scratches his head...
Well, as I said to her: Anyone can see that that is not going to help!
He also needs to drink a cup of coffee and scratch his balls for a while!
Incompetent sunshine!!! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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And he didn't even ask if she'd turned it off and back on again?
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I told you he is incompetent... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Now see your missus should be grateful that she doesn't work for the parent company where I work.
for an IT problem you call a number in Delhi and register your problem.
That problem is then filtered through to the first line support in delhi who usually try to remote login to your machine that day (did I say that there is a maximum response time of one working day). if it is something as simple as an account lock out or email issues they then contact the local IT at your site (longest know time to resolve these is 2 working days).
If the Dehli support team can't solve this problem then you can raise this to Accenture + IMB after 3 days. Who then will start to look into it.
Apparently there is a black market at the parent company to resolve IT issues..
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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How the heck can you work like that? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Luckily at the moment we don't.
The parent company don't want to mess up out infrastructure at present. But visitors are envious of the support that we give.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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I worked on a site 'managed' by IBM back in the late 90's. To get anything out of them you had to log a call which would be prioritised at the morning managers' meeting.
The alternative that most of the bank's staff learned was to call my colleagues and I [we were sub-contracted] and then we'd go in and do some desk thumping tot get the issue resolved.
speramus in juniperus
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: most of the bank's staff learned was to call my colleagues and I [we were sub-contracted] and then we'd go in and do some desk thumping tot get the issue resolved.
Perfect! I'll tell the wife to call you right away!  
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Wasn't the Bank of Ireland was it?
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Where I used to work we had an even better system. We called the help desk in India (no idea where) and after a while they suggested getting an engineer to visit. So they called the level 2 support office and asked an engineer to walk across the road to our building.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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Simon_Whale wrote: Accenture
We deal with them. 
For most things, I can just call one of the Network / System admins.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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And of course utter "We're working on it"!
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Simon_Whale wrote: for an IT problem you call a number in Delhi and register your problem.
That problem is then filtered through to the first line support in delhi who usually try to remote login to your machine that day (did I say that there is a maximum response time of one working day). if it is something as simple as an account lock out or email issues they then contact the local IT at your site (longest know time to resolve these is 2 working days).
Sounds like my new company. All along i have worked in an environment where me the sole dev, one sys support guy & one network admin(our boss) sit in one cubicle & we are all collectively called "IT Department".
So after a round 5 years in that kind of setup, i thought well it could be time to move on but then the experience is elephanting bull.
Simon_Whale wrote: for an IT problem you call a number in Delhi and register your problem.
in my case you register a problem to a support desk that i guess may only be virtual, no one knows where that guy sits.
Johnny J. wrote: all that happens is that the IT guy comes around, taps a few times on the computer and scratches his head...
at-least for you the guy comes around but not straight. here you(the applicant) and the guy have to sign 42  request & authorization forms (hint: my recent tor post).
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