From: Bajo (bajoalex@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jan 16 2006 - 06:05:16 GMT-3
Agree Chuck,
Why not we just see it as a techie gladly convinced an old and non-techie
executive that the company network is secured and the old guy is saying "how
did they do it?" ?
On 1/15/06, Church, Chuck <cchurch@netcogov.com> wrote:
>
> Hold on everyone, I think we're reading a little too far into this. The
> commercial does show an engineer of possible Indian heritage, and an
> older boss (who has a striking resemblance to Yoda!). But these are
> just characters in a commercial, probably chosen by marketing people.
> Marketing people are not really human, they are a species that Dilbert
> regularly (and rightfully) makes fun of. They could easily have picked
> circus clowns, the Blue Man Group, Britney Spears, or David Spade
> instead. There's no racism involved, from what I can tell.
>
>
> Chuck
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Victor Cappuccio
> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 8:26 PM
> To: kwasi-ccie@comcast.net; 'Jamie Caesar'; 'D R'
> Cc: 'Cisco certification'
> Subject: RE: OT: The pic on www.cisco.com right now
>
> It's incredible that in these days the racism still exist.
>
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] En nombre de
> kwasi-ccie@comcast.net
> Enviado el: domingo, 15 de enero de 2006 21:19
> Para: Jamie Caesar; D R
> CC: Cisco certification
> Asunto: Re: OT: The pic on www.cisco.com right now
>
> I guess you haven't seen the security commercial on TV. Indian techie
> ???
> That borders on racism....
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: Jamie Caesar <jamie.caesar@gmail.com>
>
> > I thought the exact same thing, but I've heard they are part of a TV
> ad
> > campaign, although I've never seen the commercials myself. Apparently
> they
>
> > run on ESPN.
> >
> > On 1/14/06, D R wrote:
> > >
> > > wtf? what's that pic trying to convey? What's Cisco trying to do
> with
> that
> > > pic? I'm not smoking anything funny but really, why's this pic on
> the
> main
> > > page of the world's biggest internetworking company? maybe that old
> man
> is
> > > about to die and that indian techie is happily thinking "oooh i'm
> going
> to
> > > put a wireless webserver on this guy's grave so his family can
> conduct
> > > services remotely".
> > >
> > > weird.
> > >
> > >
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-- Kind Regards,Bajo
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