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Russian Chief to Bureaucrats-Use that Computer or Else

zogger
Sat Jul 19 19:27:00 -0700 2008
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Russian President Medvedev is using a bit of the authority his position grants him and is warning luddite bureaucrats they have to enter the information age and get some computer using skills or they'll be out checking the help wanted ads.

"They either should learn or, as they say, goodbye," Dmitry Medvedev said yesterday in a meeting with officials in Petrozavodsk, north-west Russia. "We don't hire people who can't read and write. Computer literacy today is the same."

Russian Chief to Bureaucrats-Use that Computer or Else
Uncle Entity
Sat Jul 19 22:22:58 -0700 2008
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The mail order brides are back, Russian this time.

Russian Chief to Bureaucrats-Use that Computer or Else
GuyFawkes
Sun Jul 20 02:40:40 -0700 2008
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<fx> hurriedly disables adblock and noscript...</fx>

Russian Chief to Bureaucrats-Use that Computer or Else
GuyFawkes
Sun Jul 20 02:41:31 -0700 2008
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bugger, still can't see em......  oh well

Russian Chief to Bureaucrats-Use that Computer or Else
Michael Smith
Sun Jul 20 17:16:15 -0700 2008
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If its the pictures you want...

Russian Chief to Bureaucrats-Use that Computer or Else
GuyFawkes
Mon Jul 21 08:11:48 -0700 2008
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hell now, it's the dowry H^H^H^H^ babes innit

Russian Chief to Bureaucrats-Use that Computer or Else
Uncle Entity
Sun Jul 20 20:43:49 -0700 2008
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They're still there for me.

Maybe the UK isn't the target market for this Russian dating service as they can just hop on a train and find themselves a Brit to shack up with.

Strange thing is that my net connection goes through Canada, maybe with the plummenting dollar they are targeting our nothern neighbors these days.

Russian Chief to Bureaucrats-Use that Computer or Else
Michael Smith
Sun Jul 20 22:13:28 -0700 2008
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Maybe the UK isn't the target market for this Russian dating service

I am seeing that advert here in Australia. The alogrithms behind adwords are presumably so complex now that nobody, not even Google know how they work.

Maybe Guy's Degree of Crotchetiness has flipped something in google and is denying him pictures of Russian beauties on economic grounds.

Russian Chief to Bureaucrats-Use that Computer or Else
GuyFawkes
Mon Jul 21 08:08:41 -0700 2008
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oh noes, g00g7e is blackholing me.... teh suxxorz...

Russian Chief to Bureaucrats-Use that Computer or Else
Michael Smith
Sun Jul 20 00:20:45 -0700 2008
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Given the number of talented hackers available in Russia I might have expected their bureaucrats to be a bit more switched on. Perhaps they chould be persuaded to use something with a bit more of a steampunk look about it.

Russian Chief to Bureaucrats-Use that Computer or Else
Sasha S.
Sun Jul 20 02:18:33 -0700 2008
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Coming from former Yugoslavia, I remember the similar situation back in the 1980's. The problem in this case is not that russian bureaucrats don't want to use computers - the problem is that they have not yet mastered using computer technology to do their same bag of tricks - with ultimate result to be able to stay in power.

 

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