Hello!
How are you people today?
Well all my people are out in the field today, working and studying, well not exactly studying my oldest has a day off to go play in the snow with her class. Apparently we had registered her for this event today and we forgot about it but thank God for reminders from school, we got her snow pants and some good books give her 10 bucks and away she went.
We finally finished the visa thing yesterday, it is so freaking hard to figure out how to apply for a visa today. Mind you in my days it was my mother who took care of this and I don't know how hard it was but back then I know you were able to talk to a live person, today it it's absolutely freaking impossible! I like to apologize here because I was one of those guys who was pushing this technology all this time, I used to implement and support speech recognition. Heck, I went to Mexico to install such an application at a major bank where they fired 34 operators because of this technology! I feel real guilty about that one and I pray every night for those people, who would have thought that Mexicans would have fire people that could be used somewhere else?! Here in Canada and in the United States when one of those systems goes in the operator is assigned to something else, but in Mexico the ideology is: "If we replaced the operator, why keep them around?" Well yesterday it was really crappy trying to get this thing done and it just brought back memories of my trip to Mexico.
Needless to say that this comes at the right moment, my wife saw a film called "Presume guilty (Presunto Culpable)" that shows how crappy the Mexican judicial system is. This guy got 20 years for killing someone even though all the evidence pointed against it. If it wasn't for the filmmakers this guy would still be in jail. My advice to you if you find this film on the Internet you have to see it, the version I saw had subtitles in English. No wonder Mexico is where it is, people don't help the country to get better...
Take care people!
PS I wasn't talking about the Mexican people but the bureaucracy that exist over there. Also I am not giving a black eye to speech recognition but rather the implementation of it.
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