I can already picture a Chinese family's dinner table scene:

Son: Mom there's this "Knights" event.

*Father looks up and scoffs*

Father: Waste of time. Son, no girls until you grow older. I shouldn't have to tell you again.

Mother: Eat your dinner. Don't talk so much.

Uh...yup. That event's gonna *really* see a huge amount of attendance.

Seriously - especially during a time period when young men are beginning to assert their independence and manhood? Not to mention very often, a rebellious and know-it-all attitude? Going to an event where you promise virginity to YOUR MOTHER?! Are you crazy?

You either go to the event with your son or you don't.

One of the success indicators of any event is attendance. If attendance is poor, then there's no incentive to have another. If the event goes well, ie excellent attendance, well organized, positive reviews from the attendees, then OK job well done.

Doesn't have to be political.

Let's not forget other places besides India too, like Vietnam.

India is definitely catching up and realizing their ability - it's cetainly a funny thing to see Indian companies aka Wipro looking for employees outside. They're extremely competitive wtih skillsets that are becoming all the more diverse. True we may still be ferrying all the grunt paperwork tasks over to them, but that's still building valuable knowledge and experience.

You might argue that we're still taking jobs away from people here. Even though a job might be grunt paperwork stuff, that position is exactly what a new employee needs to get his/her foot in the door towards a better position, (ie. climb the ladder). How does a kid fresh out of school get his/her start as a helpdesk rep, when all those roles are farmed out to India? How do you get the 2 - 3 years of IT experience when all the "lesser" roles simply don't exist on our soil? Say, the junior accountant role?

The answer might be to find jobs with smaller companies that don't pay very much, but will give you the experience you need - then after a few years of experience you can start applying towards the bigger and better jobs.

Keep it simple. She is accusing you of something you didn't do. And the accusations are serious too. This is infidelity we are talking about, and things are escalating.

You're away on extended leave much of the time, leaving her alone to herself. If I would you I'd consult a lawyer, because your options are becoming limited fast. Military buddies of mine have been through the following types of scenarios:

Upon their return -

- Wife has cleaned out their bank account and disappeared

- Wife has already slept with another man

There's probably nothing you can do about losing 50% of what you own. What probably happened is your wife married you, thinking how handsome and romantic you look in your uniform, not fully considering what it really means to marry a serviceman. The hottie police officer, fireman and such may look real fine in uniform in front of her, but there's always a chance that he may not come back all in one piece one day. When/if that happens...that's the true test of loyalty and faithfulness to the marriage.

...besides it would be fun to read about Harry Potter getting it on with various people ;)

Those of you condemners conveniently exclude your own times of drunken excess or other activities of excess.

What we're seeing here is nothing more than clubhoppers puking, big deal. These girls are safe enough - they stick together in groups, and female friend ain't far away when the stuff happens.

Everyone's done it, it gets forgotten, moving along. To assert that every single employer is gonna check Facebook to measure how good an employee you might be, according to photos showing a night out on the town, is absurd. By that logic no hippies would have become lawyers if their bosses knew they spread free love once upon a time.

If you think your Mac or PC will last you all the way through 5 years, and you hope to be able to play the best and latest games - at full resolution, with all graphic details turned to the max - on your 5-year old Mac, you're a liar.

Don't even try the "I don't play games on my Mac because Macs aren't for games" excuse.

The hardware is the same, Intel-based stuff. A computer is a computer. Only difference now is the software. The lowest common denominator is the hardware.

Wait 5 years and try to play a brand new game on your 5-year PC, then try the same game on the 5-year Mac. Not so great is it, for both sides, correct?

Forward this to your boss:

Chain letters serve the following purposes:

- Take up space on your company's mail storage servers which would have been better utilized for actual business and company purposes. NOT for personal emails which serve no value to the bottom line.

- Provide the perfect vehicle for spammers with confirmed email addresses that they can collect and exploit.

- In general of waste of IT resources. Think of the IT worker who comes by your desk and spends hours cleaning email-induced viruses, keyloggers, and other resource-consuming junk like webshots from your machine. When they could be doing stuff that's more useful and proactive, instead of reactive user-created crap. It wastes his/her time, your time, and in general everytime's time.

Get on it.

To those of you who say it's ok for her to cheat but not him -

What makes it OK for her to cheat? Answer that question. He cheated after she did. To get even. But now suddenly she's blameless and innocent?

Can't believe you guys.