[silk] Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature

2007-07-08 Thread Udhay Shankar N
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20070622-02.xml Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature Why most suicide bombers are Muslim, beautiful people have more daughters, humans are naturally polygamous, sexual harassment isn't sexist, and blonds are more attractive.

[silk] Do we really need government issued ID to fly in the United States? Evidently not...

2007-07-08 Thread Venkat Mangudi
http://www.thetraveljunkie.ca/articles.php?articleid=146 I am not sure if other governments have passed any regulations in this matter. Does anybody know? Venkat

Re: [silk] Do we really need government issued ID to fly in the United States? Evidently not...

2007-07-08 Thread Binand Sethumadhavan
On 08/07/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.thetraveljunkie.ca/articles.php?articleid=146 I am not sure if other governments have passed any regulations in this matter. Does anybody know? No regulation in India, as far as I'm aware. One can fly without showing any sort of

Re: [silk] Douglas Adams

2007-07-08 Thread Venkatesh Hariharan
Another Venky on this list? Reminds me of the time when I worked in a cubicle farm for Citicorp way back in 1992. When someone shouted Venky, five heads would pop up :-) You could shout Subbu with the same results. Welcome to Silk List. Venky (The original one on this list. I hope.) On 7/7/07,

Re: [silk] Douglas Adams

2007-07-08 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Venkatesh Hariharan wrote: Another Venky on this list? Reminds me of the time when I worked in a cubicle farm for Citicorp way back in 1992. When someone shouted Venky, five heads would pop up :-) You could shout Subbu with the same results. Welcome to Silk List. Venky (The original one

[silk] Hits a little too close to home, this one...

2007-07-08 Thread Venkat Mangudi
http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2007-06-03--this-modern-life.png

Re: [silk] Do we really need government issued ID to fly in the United States? Evidently not...

2007-07-08 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 08-Jul-07, at 9:06 PM, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: No regulation in India, as far as I'm aware. One can fly without showing any sort of ID by buying one's ticket for cash at airline ticketing desks or travel agent's. FWIW, I don't always get asked for id even with e-tickets. J.

Re: [silk] Douglas Adams

2007-07-08 Thread Venky TV
Another Venky on this list? Reminds me of the time when I worked in a cubicle farm for Citicorp way back in 1992. When someone shouted Venky, five heads would pop up :-) You could shout Subbu with the same results. Oh yeah! That happens all the time! I have a slightly more interesting problem

Re: [silk] Douglas Adams

2007-07-08 Thread Sriram Karra
On 7/9/07, Venky TV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: will pop up - dad, brother and me. My family is remarkably unimaginative when it comes to names. Talk of unimaginative naming, and I can think of only one thing. Check out the number of Delhis there are in the USA: http://tinyurl.com/ysla6o ...

Re: [silk] 1 lakh car spurs environment worries

2007-07-08 Thread Charles Haynes
On 7/6/07, Chris Kantarjiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But my point about scale is not the cities themselves, but the surrounding area. The larger the city, the larger the required food infrastructure to support it. The larger that infrastructure, the more vast the distance between the housing to

Re: [silk] Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature

2007-07-08 Thread Charles Haynes
On 7/8/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... 4. Most suicide bombers are Muslim Suicide missions are not always religiously motivated, but according to Oxford University sociologist Diego Gambetta, editor of Making Sense of Suicide Missions, when religion is involved, the

Re: [silk] Gates interview on world health c

2007-07-08 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Just over a year ago, I posted the below (though the source was from 2003) On Sat Jun 24, 2006 11:59 am, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Please note that this is an unedited transcript, so it doesn't flow as well as an article. But it's an incredibly interesting read. Note also that this interview

Re: [silk] Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature

2007-07-08 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Charles Haynes wrote [at 10:16 AM 7/9/2007] : Suicide missions are not always religiously motivated, but according to Oxford University sociologist Diego Gambetta, editor of Making Sense of Suicide Missions, when religion is involved, the attackers are always Muslim. This is factually

Re: [silk] Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature

2007-07-08 Thread Gautam John
On 7/9/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is factually untrue. Suicide bombing was invented by the LTTE and is still used by them. Just picking a nit: the LTTE bombers don't seem to be doing it for religious causes, so the above quote is not necessarily untrue. Wouldn't the

Re: [silk] china to beat india in outsourcing?

2007-07-08 Thread Biju Chacko
There may be something in this. However, Bangalore is ever on the lookout for new outsourcing opportunities. For example, it looks like Al Qaida figured out that there would be better RoI if they outsourced the Glasgow terrorist attack to Bangalore -- with predictably bad results. ;-) -- b On

Re: [silk] Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature

2007-07-08 Thread shiv sastry
For some reason I am getting all the replies to this thread but I don't seem to have received the first - the original starting post of this topic. Could someone please forward that to me? shiv