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Posted by vivek | 14 May 2004, 11:16pm

I found out something silly today.

Today morning i placed a page 'Congratulate your leader' in my site. The response was good. However, people wrote messages in Hindi and telugu for which we translated and post.  Thinking about translation i just wanted to see how this google translation system works and the following is what i found.

Original message in English

We should really appreciate the guts of Sonia Gandhi who despite being branded as a foreigner has not succumed to pressure. Being from a foreign nation, she has now managed to come the next prime minister of the country. This is not a simple thing to do. I must say she has guts and perseverence of the highest order. If she uses this for the benifit of the nation, i am sure there will be light everywhere. She will be the next indra gandhi of congress.

Translated to French using the google tool

Nous devrions vraiment appr

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Posted by vivek | 12 May 2004, 9:15pm

Yesterday things got me thinking. What if the entire youth of the nation acted responsibly and actually voted. Given the fact that 40% of the nation is below 25 years of age. That would easily make India the youngest nation in the whole world. Take for instance all of us between 20 and 25 decide to vote and we vote. That itself would be close to 23 Lakhs ( 4 – 5 seats). This 23 lakhs would have the power to influence others between 10 to 20 ( 41 Lakhs) to vote. Even if 50% find time out of girl friends and multi-plexs we have at least 20 lakhs more votes. That’s the kind of number which can create a swing wave. As in influence the people above 25 years to vote.

My point is, the 40% rural mass don’t really understand the real importance of the elections. They are unable to comprehend the seriousness. When they vote and we – the educated and urban hip- happy 5% of the population don’t. The result is a fractured mandate. Now, can the 5% save the inevitable – of a fractured mandate. Yes, not the numbers that we 5% would bring in, but by the trickle down effect that causes others to vote and perhaps vote every time.

Sounds like this is bull crap, well what do you know the ‘ 5%’ rarely votes. We want good roads, more multi-plexes and an out-going law that permits smooching in a coffee pub. But we don’t wanna vote.

Shame on us

Anyway, I always vote.

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Posted by vivek | 12 May 2004, 2:48am

guys

apart from the infinite supply of email IDs that i can generate from my website ( you know!) http://www.themavericks.net i have added another external mail Id somemailid@sify.com ( this one i paid lot of money to get a jumbo mail box, the premium one but later found this F***in mailbox does'nt delete mails. The delete function does not work!..i was like..pooh my themavericks.net mail always deletes mails when u want em'..anyways like i was saying..sify mailbox does not delete mails and i ended-up charging my credit card to get a pop3 enabled mail box..i found two things..

1. Guys and Satyam get sify premium mail box for free ( which means i wasted my money through credit card with 2.5% service charge)..all tough i doubt this..very much.
2. www.spymac.com give 1Gb mailbox for free, which means i was an idiot

Anyway, the sify box which i bought gives me 15 Mb box. Now that this does not delete mails ( i mean i click on delete and the mails re-appear!) almost 76% of the box is full with mails like ' Free viagra shipping to your doorstep or that some one in Africa needs money for Heart Transplant. Or that, how can i show my 'member' effectively on the evening date. I paid money for these.

I called up the customer service guys of SIFy for which i automatically become the premiem member and they know nothing about the so called 'Sify power mail account' The only reply i got was, ' Sir, please access www.mail2web.com and delete all your mails. mail2web.com lets you access any pop3 box via the browser. That means i have to go to mail.sify.com to read my mails and mail2web.com to delete my mails. And then i paid for all these!

I said, i think i paid money to work entrely with sify environment. Then can't i get my mails deleted. Then i was put on hold which said " Your call is important to us..please be on the line...our customer service representative will be with you shortly..your call is important to us..(loop a million times)" After 100 years, the guy came back and said. " Sir, can your please be on hold?". I hung-up.

Now that COngress has won and the talks are going round of re-installing prohibition i can't buy beer and delete my mails.

vivek

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Posted by vivek | 6 May 2004, 8:31pm

Warner Bros

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Posted by vivek | 4 May 2004, 11:18pm

That

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Posted by vivek | 4 May 2004, 11:38am

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