Re: [silk] Diaspora

2010-12-21 Thread Calvin
If anyone have any invitations left, I would love to have one. TIA. Calvin

Re: [silk] Close the Washington Monument

2010-12-21 Thread Calvin
A more poignant reminder would be to body search everyone who enters the building, Congressmen included. - Original Message http://bit.ly/gx7cDA An empty Washington Monument would serve as a constant reminder to those on Capitol Hill that they are afraid of the terrorists and what

Re: [silk] Miss India..NOT representative of her country

2007-02-04 Thread Calvin
Neha Viswanathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An aggregate of human judgment is not the same as one human making a choice. I perfectly understand how one human being can be altruistic. For their own selfish reasons or otherwise. Through our actions, we hope to achieve what we think we are capable

Re: [silk] Pdf coversion software

2007-02-04 Thread Calvin
Have you tried pdf995 (http://www.pfd995.com)? Just in case you're a privacy freak, the 'free' version is an adware though. Aditya Kapil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a software that converts Microsoft Office documents to pdf while retaining information such as formulas in Excel

Re: [silk] Miss India..NOT representative of her country

2007-02-01 Thread Calvin
OK, self-confessed male lurker speaks... Udhay I hope you were sitting down when you read this... At least call centre employees are consciously made to sound like someone from another country, as opposed to being a representative of his/her own... TBH, I tend to agree that the article could

Re: [silk] Miss India..NOT representative of her country

2007-02-01 Thread Calvin
Ah, but they only make a profit because we, the consumers, let them, so in that sense, we are the conscience... An example that I can relate to is the classic MGB sports car - in 1974 they changed from having chrome bumpers to rubber bumpers with a higher ride height in the name of safety.

Re: [silk] Miss India..NOT representative of her country

2007-02-01 Thread Calvin
Neha Viswanathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Still, the seller doesn't have a conscience on his or her own. Only the astuteness to perceive the consumer's conscience. Of course, the word conscience continues to bother me. So does the word Spiderman. :) -- Neha Viswanathan +44(0) 77695 65886

Re: [silk] Yahoo! News Story - Holocaust Denier Gets Three Years in Jail - Yahoo! News

2006-02-21 Thread calvin
So this guy was convicted based on comments he made in 1989, under a law that wasn't enacted until 1992, by which time his view had changed based on 'new evidence'.He may be a moron (and does look like a nazi), but that's not a crime... so - is he a criminal or victim of politics in a world

Re: [silk] Yahoo! News Story - Holocaust Denier Gets Three Years in Jail - Yahoo! News

2006-02-21 Thread calvin
Frank ok, how about I saw some of the German language documentation and talked to survivors? They were all liars, yes?Possibly, how'd you know they weren't? So it shows you did some research on which you are basing your opinion, nothing more. Yahoo! Mail Use Photomail to share

Re: [silk] 100 best first lines from novels

2006-02-20 Thread calvin
Not so much favourite first line but rather first line from my favourite novel:"I have been here before," I said; I had been there before; first with Sebastian more than twenty years ago on a cloudless day in June, when the ditches were creamy with meadowsweet and the air heavy with all the

[silk] What is 'rude' anyway (was Indian history spat hits US)

2006-02-19 Thread calvin
hindi / tamil / cantonese among each other, especially clippedI would consider myself to be rather "citified", however, I'm not ashamed of my roots/race/language and would never confuse the two.Now I know why Uhday made the comment "now is a good time to get involved&qu

Re: [silk] Indian history spat hits US

2006-02-19 Thread calvin
Very simple - the companies have clients with European/Japanese/Korean operations, and therefore people who speak those languages are in demand. I have seen this in several companies so far, including two that I have worked at.Udhay-- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com))

Re: [silk] Indian history spat hits US

2006-02-19 Thread calvin
You see, Frank, you should have become a mechanic after you left school - ok you wouldn't speak multiple langauges, but at least you'd be rich... especially if you thought lawyers were paid in gold bars..."Car mechanics overtake barristers' hourly rate", it's official

Re: [silk] What is 'rude' anyway (was Indian history spat hits US)

2006-02-19 Thread calvin
).Rgds, Calvin ps - my Chinese sucks egg too...Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: calvin wrote: the backcountry ones at least .. like the chinese from hong kong's huge hinterland There're rude people everywhere you go man, that's just a fact of life... I've seen all sor

Re: [silk] What is 'rude' anyway (was Indian history spat hits US)

2006-02-19 Thread calvin
see you sometime. sooner, if you happen to find yourself in madras.Hopefully one day for the Chennai Carnatic Festival :) Brings words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail.