Sunday, July 09, 2006

US seeks "Made in China" tag against North Korea

US today asked China to take over production of "pressure", that could be delivered to the North Koreans against missile testing. A top diplomat said that Chinese manufactured 'pressure' is more likely to succeed in the market than the locally produced American pressure products.

Of late, US market position in the global arena has been sliding owing to brand erosion, mostly due to poor quality marketing and product delivery of Iraq War. To make matters worse, US has refused to issue a recall of the Iraq War.

More problems were in store for the US when South Korea asserted that wrong type of pressure was being delivered to the North Koreans. South Koreans believe that the Diplo-mx type product is required, whereas the US is keen on marketing the more pricier UN-sanctx type.

China, however, is in no mood to produce or manufacture these products for North Korea because it does not believe that there is a viable market. US, in contrast, is keen to see the "Made in China" sticker that it sees in almost every product that the US consumes, with the exception of war-mongering product lines.

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World Cup over, NASA OKs Shuttle return

Space shuttle Discovery's astronauts got some happy news on Sunday: World Cup is over, so it is safe to fly home.

Mission Control informed the crew of six that the World Cup is over, so all the television monitors, that were tuned in for finals, can now be used for mission critical work, such as monitoring the shuttle progress.

"Boy, that is great news, that's fantastic," shuttle commander Steve Lindsey said.

"Everyone here around the room, as you can imagine, is most happy...", Mission Control replied, "... with the World Cup results".

Only one heat sheild issue had remained going into the late afternoon mission, a 2-inch-long piece of fabric filler sticking out about an inch from the thermal tiles on Discovery's belly.

Engineers determined, after a lunch of pizzas to honor Italian win, that it wasn't necessary to have an astronaut pluck the strip as the issue had self resolved. Chief Scientist of NASA cited the classic butterfly effect for the resolution. "When Zidane head-butted Materazzi, the chaos theory in effect fixed the shuttle problems".

NASA is extermely worried that issues with shuttle reentry will trigger a jumbo sales event on Ebay, something they dont wish to repeat.

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Thursday, July 06, 2006

Europe to outsource population growth

Citing recent trends in population decline, Europe today announced that it is developing a comprehensive plan to outsource population enhancement work to China and India. The report said that women are no longer willing to have children and thus the job of population enhancement needs to be shipped overseas.

The opposition however blamed the government for not giving enough incentives for local population expansion experts to do their jobs. The opposition was also critical of the process, saying that outsourced population expansion will not have the same quality as indigenously produced population.

Infosys and Wipro welcomed the announcement saying that they will train the workforce to produce the same quality of population that the customer nation needs. Both the compaines went on to upgrade their yearly revenue estimates. The NSE and BSE rose 5% on the news, while the Euronext index fell 10 points.

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Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Still on life support...

This blog is still brain dead. Hopefully it will get a new life soon.

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Saturday, February 25, 2006

Blog 911

Paramedic 1: Charge to 100 Joules
Paramedic 2: Charging to 100 Joules... Clear!!

... touches the defibrillator to the blog ...

Paramedic 1: No heart beat. Charge to 200 joules...
Paramedic 2: Charging to 200 Joules... Clear!!

... touches the defibrillator to the blog ...

Paramedic 1: I hear faint heart beat.. Call MedEvac now!!

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