I frequently make and receive overseas calls. Most of us do.

[Ian David]

Remember the last time you needed to call Tech Support because you couldn't synchronize your porn collection onto your PalmPilot?

Or when you couldn't get your WiFi network set up?

Or when you activated your new XM Radio?

If even just ONE person in a Tech Support call center in Bangladesh is "suspected" of terrorist ties...

[KittyWampus]

1. never thought of that.

[aquart]

2. I want one question answered:

How many American citizens are engaged in plotting mass murder of their fellow citizens? THAT's what I want them to tell me to my face.

[Ian David]

5. That's easy. Twenty-five percent. Or, 20 Million.

The Foreign Policy of 20 Million Would-Be Immortal
Tuesday, November 29, 2005 at 2:53 AM EST
By Gary North

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north188.html

The title of this essay appears on first reading to be a joke – an attempt, perhaps, at satire or maybe irony. It is neither. It is not a joke. It is quite real. I am deadly serious about the 20 million would-be immortals.

An immortal is someone who does not die. There are approximately 20 million people in the United States who devoutly believe that there is a very real possibility that they will not die. Their belief rests entirely on the existence of the State of Israel. This is why they regard current affairs in the Middle East as a life-and-no-death matter.

I am speaking of American fundamentalists. More specifically, I am speaking of those fundamentalists who are users of the Scofield Reference Bible (Oxford University Press, 1909, 1917) and who have read Hal Lindsey's 1971 best seller, The Late, Great Planet Earth, which at latest count – depending on who is doing the counting – has sold between 28 million and 35 million copies. (Mr. Lindsey continues to weave his eschatological tapestry on the improbably named Web site, www.hallindseyoracle.com.)

There is some vague awareness within the community of journalism that the support that the government of Israel receives from American fundamentalists has something to do with what is called eschatology: "the last times." But the details of this eschatology are a blur for investigators who have not spent many hours reading the publications, past and present, of fundamentalist leaders, a task not on most columnists' top-priority list. I offer this brief report as an introduction to the closed books of a very large voting bloc.

More:
http://htdaw.blogsource.com/post.mhtml?post_id=50678

[redqueen]

9. They don't have to tell us SHIT.

Ain't it cool?

[jazzjunkysue]

3. From now on, when I call Mom in Canada, we'll use pig latin. That'll

confuse them....

[Ian David]

6. Speak Klingon.

http://dictionary.klingonreference.com/

[datadiva]

10. I have the Klingon language CD

How to speak Klingon! I can't remember where I got it, probably at startrek.com

[babylonsister]

4. Damn! The porn collection!

[NeedleCast]

7. Wait...

so I can transfer my porn to my palm pilot?

[Ian David]

8. No, not you. Those things can only hold just so much. n/t

[NeedleCast]

15. I'll have to make sub folders again

[Turbineguy]

11. Hmmm....

I just called my Aunt. Someone in her asssited-living apartment building died this morning. It did not appear to terror related. I therfore did not inform Fox News.

[AlCzervik]

12. it probably doesn't count when you're calling in on a 1800 number.

sorry bout your porn problems though.

[blogslut]

13. Think the call centers get to opt out?

After all, the corps are making mad money with the outsourcing of support services.Then again, the corps probably hand over call records without the govt even asking.


Gad. Sigh.

[Ian David]

18. No, I bet they don't. What if some tech support is for a "suspicious" activity?

Also, don't forget-- Gonzo intentionally re-routed domestic calls through Canada and other foreign countries, just so they could "legally" spy on purely domestic calls.

Thanks, AT&T!

[roamer65]

14. Don't forget to say "hi" to Agent Mike.

:hi:

:sarcasm:

[Reciprocity]

16. I think everyone making an overseas call should.....

use the words explosives, god is great, drugs, and death to the infidels. That way it would overwhelm their resources.

[old guy]

17. It has little to do with overseas calls IMO.

This is a set up for domestic surveillance. It is data mining against those who appose this misadministration, plain and simple.

[Wilber_Stool]

19. Have you ever given advice on this site's Computer help?

Where were they from? Worst case. Someone with terrorist ties posts a problem and you help them with it. Are you responsible when they use it to blow something up.

[MasonJar]

20. Half the people who call us are outsourced to India. I think we

should all find a pen pal or two in Europe and call them. Jam the lines for the next month.

[Fleshdancer]

21. I work for an international association with chapters all over

While I don't usually have to place many calls, I do send out a ton of email to people all over the world. My boss on the other hand is in constant overseas communication by phone, fax, email and voip. Fun fun fun.

[libodem]

22. What about our overseas DU'ers

We chat daily with people from foreign countries on this message board. We could be hooked up already. Plus, I think this administration hates 'liberals' more than radical middle-easterners. Hi, agent Mike.:hi: