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If you are an Indian or if you live in the U.S, you can’t but help be impacted by outsourcing.

Yes, we are referring to that insidious process by which your American job is snatched from you and handed to an Indian or Chinese coolie so that some gluttonous corporation may appease the gods on Wall Street with a higher earnings per share in the upcoming quarters.

Tens of thousands of middle class Americans have lost their comfortable jobs to tens of thousands of Indian coolies, you know, the call center workers, programmers, radiologists, analysts and copy editors who are happy to work for much lesser wages to the delight of soulless U.S. corporations and the distress of U.S. workers. 

Outsourced (directed by John Jeffcoat) is not a Michael Moore style trenchant documentary looking at the damaging effects of outsourcing on the Americans but a mildly interesting, Continue reading »

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Boy, this is straight out of Ripley’s Believe it or Not. 

Fans of the heavy metal band Metallica are whining that the music is getting too loud! 

Today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has an interesting front page piece on Metallica fans complaining that the music in the band’s latest album Death Magnetic is too loud.

Here’s an excerpt from the WSJ piece:

“Death Magnetic” is a flashpoint in a long-running music-industry fight. Over the years, rock and pop artists have increasingly sought to make their recordings sound louder to stand out on the radio, jukeboxes and, especially, iPods.
Turning It Up

But audiophiles, recording professionals and some ordinary fans say the extra sonic wallop comes at a steep price. To make recorded music seem louder, engineers must reduce the “dynamic range,” minimizing the difference between the soft and loud parts and creating a tidal wave of aural blandness. Continue reading »

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We have read reports in Indian newspapers that the Tamil Nadu government is providing a subsidy to Tamil movies.

According to a report in the Hindu newspaper (dt July 8, 2008), the Tamil Nadu government has earmarked Rs 4.9 crore as subsidy for quality Tamil movies with Tamil names.

Venkat Prabhu’s recent movie Saroja is nothing but an outright theft of Judgment Night and to provide a subsidy for it would be to condone blatant plagiarism and an insult to other Tamil film-makers who are working Continue reading »

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