With a comic about genocide, you have to draw delineations between ethnicities once in a while. I think the Indians come off rather good, on the whole. Yes, they hate our hero Jacob — but they hate G.U.S. more, and if Zoey’s right then the Indian government was actively working against the global union at some point. Everyone’s a shade of grey in this comic; I think the Indians are wearing mostly white hats. (Abhik’s may be a little greyer than most.)
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Roger: I think Jacob is planning an escape.
Zoey: Maybe we should help him.
Roger: Sounds risky. Why aren't we already in a jail cell?
Zoey: Abhik is a blowhard, but he isn't dumb. He needs me. I'm a prisoner with privileges...and you're my pet.
Roger: Uh, thanks.
Zoey: But to the Indian government, I'm an asset. I cut my teeth at Texas Tech learning old programming languages. That's how I found that the Undernet is an old Indian military project -- a secret platform for launching cyber-attacks on G.U.S. Some cultures do not like being colonies of a western empire.
Roger: Wow. I never did trust tech support guys.
Zoey: Maybe we should help him.
Roger: Sounds risky. Why aren't we already in a jail cell?
Zoey: Abhik is a blowhard, but he isn't dumb. He needs me. I'm a prisoner with privileges...and you're my pet.
Roger: Uh, thanks.
Zoey: But to the Indian government, I'm an asset. I cut my teeth at Texas Tech learning old programming languages. That's how I found that the Undernet is an old Indian military project -- a secret platform for launching cyber-attacks on G.U.S. Some cultures do not like being colonies of a western empire.
Roger: Wow. I never did trust tech support guys.
“I cut my teeth at Texas Tech learning old programming languages.”
That line is so fitting. This TTU alumni can attest that is about all you could do back when he was there. Their computer tech was at least 10 to 20 years behind the times when I was there. Each student was allotted the equivalent of a half-floppy disk of storage space on the (antique) server back in the days when the Pentium I & II ruled personal computers. I had to download my research date onto my PC every night to keep from going over quota on the server. Has it changed there any in the past 20 years? I have my doubts. (chuckle)
Yeah, I can see how the GUS, especially with Kevin at the head of the political section and ruling from the HQ in London, might piss off the Indians a bit.
The Indians have the Churchill engineered Bengal famine(6 millions dead) to remember…
http://i.imgur.com/RHyokLj.jpg
Moxie: You probably now get a *whole* floppy disk of storage.
Everyone have their own agenda, there are no innocents.
Maybe I’m repeating myself with this:
“Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
Tim: And probably no USB port upgrades AND you still need a 28.8 modem to connect and download.