When a tech company outsources and offshores expensive jobs to a cheap 2nd or 3rd world labor location, they give that new place a lofty name, as if it's god's gift to their future success, while it generally displaces US or other western (expensive) workers.
They'll trade one a $100k/yr Java coder stateside for a half dozen Sanjeev's in the Center of Excellence in Bangalore.
The Center of Excellence contributes directly to shareholder value, i.e. executive bonuses.
The Center of Excellence is in Bangalore. That makes Austin the Center of Expensive Mediocrity.
The Center of Excellence contributes directly to shareholder value, i.e. executive bonuses.
The Center of Excellence is in Bangalore. That makes Austin the Center of Expensive Mediocrity.
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A sexual act in which two men 69 and the man on top proceeds to defacate on his partner. The man on top is "in command" as he weilds his partner's penis like a joystick.
As Toby and Tavis were engaged in a 69, Tavis upped the experience by turning it into a Command Center.
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P1: Why do people love to be self-centered?
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P2: Because some people don't like to lose, they love to feel fact that they are never wrong and are HIGHER then everyone else. When in truth they are evil people that need to remove the cock from their ass and learn to accept the judgement from others and quit only thinking of their own ways and to take the judgement of other friends like my douchebag of a friend Eric and...
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i know a great place to get E
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she**y is pregnant
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Bill Gates: Liek omg!! Security Center rulezzzz!!!
Average user: Oh, do you mean that control panel that slows down your PC even more? That shit is trashed!
Average user: Oh, do you mean that control panel that slows down your PC even more? That shit is trashed!
by Home slice May 23, 2005
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