On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Abhishek Hazraabhishek.ha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Deepa Mohanmohande...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Now *this* is a book review:
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:49 AM, lukhman_khanlukhman_k...@yahoo.com wrote:
2. Is there any evidence of correlation between levels of educational
attainment and quality of democratic governance for countries?
With the present policy of one person one vote, throwing up all sorts of
lousy
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Divya Maniandivya.man...@gmail.com wrote:
Old people want to restrict the vote to more mature voters.
Rich people want to restrict the vote to self sufficient or
propertied voters. Technical people want to restrict the vote to
educated voters. Incumbents want
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:04 PM, lukhman_khanlukhman_k...@yahoo.com wrote:
It was ever thus. The trick is not to restrict the franchise, but
restrict the concentration of power that results from voting and the
pandering to popular taste that is a consequence.
Makes a lot of sense to me.
How
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Suresh
Ramasubramaniansur...@hserus.net wrote:
Indian defence scientists are planning to put one of the world's hottest
chilli
powders into hand grenades.
They say the devices will be used to control rioters and in counter-insurgency
operations.
Except
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:01 PM, sscybers...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday 26 Jun 2009 6:56:46 am Charles Haynes wrote:
Except that pure capsacin oleoresin is already available and used in
non-lethal weapons.
This is silly.
Actually it is not so silly.
Pure capsaicin oleoresin is probably
y
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:30 PM, J. Andrew
Rogersand...@ceruleansystems.com wrote:
On Jun 25, 2009, at 8:17 PM, Charles Haynes wrote:
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:01 PM, sscybers...@gmail.com wrote:
Actually it is not so silly.
Pure capsaicin oleoresin is probably manufactured in some
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:06 AM, Deepa Mohanmohande...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/columnists.nsf/kevinhorrigan/story/F3C3F4A834039140862575DB32A8?OpenDocument
I do like people who make their point with humour (or humor.)
We recently read in The Times about a
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 12:51 AM, Kiran K
Karthikeyankiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
***Click the link first, look at the image and then read the post***
So apparently they have a contest for visual illusions and this is the one
that won the third prize. I found it quite surprising (and
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Deepa Mohanmohande...@gmail.com wrote:
know any culture. I don't know whom to defy...should I be a def-iyer or a
def-iyengar? Everyone seems to have their own ethnic story to support
their own customs.
Serve them pork fried rice.
In my house we learned that
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Deepa Mohanmohande...@gmail.com wrote:
Where are the ones that won second and first prize?
http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/2009/the-break-of-the-curveball/
http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/2009/color-dove-illusion/
All of them are viewable
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/6/2 Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.com
Anyway, enough raving. I was astonished to discover just *how*
unadventurous your average Indian was with respect to trying new and
different food
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Charles Haynes [03/06/09 11:11 +1000]:
So why is it virtually impossible to get pork dishes in Chinese
restaurants in India? It would be like going to a country where none
of the Italian restaurants served pasta
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 9:49 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday 31 May 2009 9:43:17 pm Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote:
Saying no is tough in India.
You are not supposed to say no in India. Its impolite. You are supposed to
say yes and later not do the job and give excuses.
I'm no sure
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote:
And that, my friend, is the biggest problem the Indian (techie) faces.
We are not prone to experiment and want the food that we ate all our
lives.
This was one of the biggest shocks to me of living in Bangalore, and
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Having worked in a few places around the world, I found that the
productivity per hour of an employee in India is about (#include
made-up-math.h) half
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote:
rather than waiting to be told, they'll either bring it up, or fix it
themselves. If they think you (as the boss) are doing something
(technically) incorrectly, or there's a better way - they'll suggest
it.
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Prakash Carrot was confidently prophesying a 3rd front well into today
morning
I think optimism at the 11th hour is standard politics. c.f. John
Currently reading Don't Sleep There Are Snakes by Daniel Everett
about his life among the Pirahã Indians in the Amazon jungle. What
hooked me was the teaser that he had gone there as a missionary to
convert them, and ended up being converted. But what's got me so I
can't put it down is his
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Venkatesh Hariharan ven...@gmail.com wrote:
I am ripe for a lifestyle change. Two hours a day of work sounds
exactly right. Where exactly does this tribe live?
S 7° 21.642' W 62° 16.313' according to the book.
Of course I left out the part where they have no
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/3/31 Venkat Inumella ven...@gmail.com
Welcome. If you're shooting for finishing the IMDB top 250, I might be able
to help
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Amit Somani thesom...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm Amit Somani and I recently returned to India after spending 14 years in
the US. I am presently in Product Management at Google Bangalore.
Hi Amit, I don't know if you remember me, we've worked together a bit
on the
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 4:53 AM, lukhman_khan lukhman_k...@yahoo.com wrote:
Unless, um, there's one small thing. The D80 does not
have a full-frame CCD. So your compositions,
carefully though you might frame them
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Charles Haynes
charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
What are the alternatives ?
http://www.mamiya.com/products/default.asp?ID=49
Mamiya 22 megapixels for $10k? Pah.
Try
http://twitter.com/charleshaynes
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=694789103
http://flickr.com/photos/haynes
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:52 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday 17 Mar 2009 12:03:49 am Vinit B wrote:
Trying to go tribal without geographic location being a factor is pretty
tough.
Tribes always come together due to physical proximity first. Everything
else second.
I agree.
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:21 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday 17 Mar 2009 8:27:51 am Charles Haynes wrote:
While this may have been true in the past, with the advent
of electronic communities, I think you will find tribe-like groupings
that have nothing to do with blood
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Aditya Kapil blue...@gmail.com wrote:
Unless, um, there's one small thing. The D80 does not have a full-frame CCD.
To be picky, full frame and CCD are independent
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com wrote:
Blackened is also a common Cajun/Creole method of cooking.
It's cajun, but not creole. Creole and cajun are quite distinct one
from the other, creole being more french influenced.
Blackened redfish... yum.
-- Charles
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 1:07 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
The reason I posted this news is the fact that wearing kumkum and flowers (and
bangles??) seems to be considered Hindu culture,
Possibly, but it might just have been considered un-Christian
depending on the particular sect of
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:02 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
I put it to you that you know less about free sex, sex outside of marriage or
frequent changes of sexual partners than you claim to know. Perhaps that is
why you take so much trouble to second guess my own sexual history and try
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
Pakistan! Free Sex! Womanhood! Family values! Hand-wringing distress!
Folks, we have ourselves a full-fledged formula movie here!
You left out decadent westerners and their values trying to corrupt
good hearted
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
You do have this bugbear about free, communal sex :-)
Wonder why :-) Worry not, we all missed out on the age of Aquarius :-)
Speak for yourself.
-- Charles
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
No they do not demand fidelity but they do not allow any other males to
have sex with their females. If there is a a difference please tell me.
The females are *already* nesting with other males. Alpha males don't
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:20 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
But hello? It appears that the bonobo model did not work well for many people
who lived through the age of Aquarius and a reversion to Victorian models of
fidelity and morality became a better bet for one's personal life. Why the
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:45 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
Why did Rama reject Sita after her rescue from Lanka?
I was under the impression that scholars thought that particular part
of the Ramayana was a relatively recent accretion, and not
contemporaneous with the rest of the writing?
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:16 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
Support through
physical illness and other times of stress (such as unemployment) is much
better from the family unit rather than the individual unit.
...
Pregnant women, and women with infants need support from others
and
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:04 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday 11 Mar 2009 8:14:05 am Charles Haynes wrote:
As I mention above, even if you believe that children are best raised
in a stable multi-adult environment, it's not clear how that implies
marriage, or even traditional
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
I think it's been ascribed to Mahatma Gandhi, but I don't know who actually
said it :Civilization is when a jewel-bedecked, beautiful woman
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
I have been reading quite a few articles on the harrassment issue, and what
has become evident is that the catalyst for this is not the appeal of
orthodoxy, but economic disparity. I don't like this
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Alok G. Singh alephn...@hcoop.net wrote:
[The study it's based on is not recent.]
The four studies in the paper I assume are of the same timeframe as the
publication of the paper -- 1999. Is that so long ago as to be outdated?
I would think that a study on
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Alok G. Singh alephn...@hcoop.net wrote:
I'm surprised no one has forwarded this to me already with a snarky
comment ...
We knew you wouldn't get it.
[The study it's based on is not recent.]
-- Charles
I'm in Sydney. When and where will you be here? My phone is +61 4 3958 7124
though email is prorbably better. Let's at least have dinner.
-- Charles
On Jan 30, 2009 5:25 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram r.sunda...@gmail.com
wrote:
I'm in Auckland till Wednesday, Feb 4 and in Sydney from then till
[My first post using the gmail client on my android phone. It appears to
force me to top post and I can't seem to trim. Sigh. Time to submit a bug
report]
I appreciate your enthusiasm but what is it that draws you back? As an
outsider not raised in Indian culture (but appreciates the variety of
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:42 AM, Keith Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I asked my girlfriend's father who is a policeman in the UK the reason for
the criminality here...
He believes it is because someone commiting suicide may put someone else's
life in danger e.g. car on a railway line.
Deepa:
Ah. I actually have this theory that making food is as creative an
endeavour as any other art; therefore, really good food cannot be
standardized...if it is, it will lose by that process.
Udhay:
I am not sure I agree.
It is perfectly possible, in my experience, to have chefs turn out food
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:40 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
P.S. As another example of the wrong kind of blind justice, I never
really grasped the need to convict someone for attempted suicide.
I recently read an explanation that finally made sense. In a
historical context in
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
makes some rather bizarre claims, such as the suggestion that the
attackers would have voluntarily dosed themselves with LSD before
going into battle. Anyone with familiarity with the drug would know
that it would
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Um, a friend informs me that despite popular misconceptions about
the effects of LSD, it's actually quite possible to perform complex
spatio-temporal operations while tripping
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:41 AM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 24 Nov 2008 3:07:43 am Charles Haynes wrote:
Certainly that's the impression I got. Please correct me if I'm wrong,
but haven't Brahmins in the past been notorious for behaving exactly
opposite to their professed ideals
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:11 AM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The virtues of not being overly materialistic, and overly greedy are both
actively taught in Brahminical Hinduism ... It is not at all
clear to me that such things are actively taught as part of family culture
among non Brahmins in
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:42 PM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 25 Nov 2008 9:10:07 am Charles Haynes wrote:
How do you feel about the conversion of untouchables to Buddhism then?
Shouldn't that serve to help India preserve a sense of duty, integrity
and immunity to temptation
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 3:23 AM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
immunity to temptation of material
(financial) recompense that Brahminism inculcates.
Is supposed to inculcate right? My impression of events leading up
to partition was that it was at least in part due to rampant
corruption and
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder why no one desires the most popular pastime of mankind when
time and money are no object.
Because it's not a thing I would like to do when I get the time it's
the reason I don't have time to do those other
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I wonder why no one desires the most popular pastime of mankind
Chandrachoodan quoting Ashok:
Your question does raise a rather important point about the current state
of computing and networking technology. The fact that all those bright
people (especially some of them on Silk) are unable to write a simple
function that can determine gender from IP
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Making it aware, alive. A good thing, no?
Intrinsically good? Only as a matter of faith. If you believe more is
better, perhaps so, but destruction is required for new creation to
arise. I'm not sure I believe that the
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Thaths wrote:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
J. Andrew Rogers wrote, [on 11/18/2008 6:59 AM]:
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:38 PM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 28 Oct 2008 1:08:11 am Perry E. Metzger wrote:
Your claim, reproduced above, is that somehow the US has patched its
weak spots in its security and that we are therefore now more
secure. Neither activity you cite has any
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But Charles...if you are spinning counter-clockwise in Australia, isn't that
clockwise Up Here or something?!
It's like that Hitler's Swastika Is The Reverse of The Hindu Swastika
thingy
The Sydney Public Library was
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 3:30 PM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is a perception problem that is affectng security agencies in the US
(IMVHO of course).
The US has never really faced concerted serious terrorist attacks within its
own heartland like India, or for that matter Britain,
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:47 AM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But Greek yogurt available in the UK as some seriously thick stuff is
fantastic to eat.
It's also available in Greece. :) I'm particularly fond of Total
from Phage. I discovered at least one of the reasons it's so thick -
it's made
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just buy the idli batter when I need it now. 25 rupees' worth (that's
about 50 cents?) keeps me in idlis/dosas/uthapams for several days...
Provided as a public service for people who might not have known about
the feature:
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hah! I used to say I'd eat anything that didn't walk, run, fly, crawl or
swim. I've since then altered my definition slightly.
In which direction? Now there are things that do that you will, or
things that
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Lawnun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On a side tangent -- why is it copyright law, to the exclusion of damn near
anything else -- singled out for wholesale execution so frequently ? I
mean, we've got plenty of flawed systems in the world -- governments,
economic
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Giancarlo Livraghi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This isn't really a silly question. I am working on a book and there is a
page where I am quoting examples of myth, legend, folklore, fairy tales,
fiction or whatever where a picture or a statue or an idol or an icon
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do you know it's a spoof?
My bullshit detector was climbing as a I read it, but it pegged at this:
My colleagues told me visit Mac Donalads for Lunch and dinner. Is it cheap?
Even in Hyderabad they have McDonalds.
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't forget the plaid suitcases and the plastic mats which would be tied
around the boom-boxes. I have read accounts of Russian /Italian emigrants
also going back home with similar gifts. So I guess the phenomenon is pretty
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
english spelling is truly idiotic.
Rather, though the lack of any central authority makes it impossible
to reform in practice. (It also is the language's main strength,
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Biju Chacko wrote:
Is Microsoft finally starting to grok Open Source? Or is this just a
few guys in a corner somewhere? Or should I put on my tinfoil hat
because it's all part of some bigger conspiracy?
The first time
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Danese Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
evil anymore (just as very few of us believe that Google isn't evil...sorry
Charles). Publicly traded US Corporations are inherently evil...all of them
are...because by design they exist to pursue profit over all else.
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:44 PM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 23 Jul 2008 7:28:27 am Charles Haynes wrote:
A common error. Religions do not require God. Religions may or may not
require faith but they certainly don't require God. Buddhism is a
religion by any reasonable
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 19:25 +1000, Charles Haynes wrote:
As long as some arbiter of Hinduness can refuse me entry to a temple
because I'm not Hindu enough, then Hinduism is hardly the ultimate
decentralization
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:38 AM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And that is how 'Hinduism was invented and placed artificially and
ignorantly
within a group of social systems called religions. Hinduism is not a
religion in the sense that Islam and Christianity are religions. Religions
require
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 6:32 PM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone ever looked at Hinduism as the ultimate decentralization of
religion, which is what it is.
The ultimate decentralization of religion is each person defining
religion for themselves.
As long as some arbiter of Hinduness
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:44 AM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 20 Jul 2008 2:55:55 pm Charles Haynes wrote:
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 6:32 PM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone ever looked at Hinduism as the ultimate decentralization of
religion, which is what
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:46 PM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
say. The people who turn you away from temples think that they are the
arbiters of Hinduism, But they are not the arbiters of Hinduism any more than
the people who are turned away from temples.
They call themselves Hindu, and who
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 3:31 PM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I also think you may be unaware of other rather more explicitly
decentralized religions. Quakers and Unitarian Universalists come
immediately to mind.
Aren't these people fragments of the greater whole of Christianity?
Unitarians
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Sirtaj Singh Kang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- There is a wide range of bands of thought if sampled across the
population of India, but a given Indian person chooses far too few.
You really think so? Relative to what - the world wide range of
thought? I think that
If you read the article, you see that it is making a distinction
between bi-lingual and bi-cultural. They are seeing a difference
between people who speak two languages but only identify with a single
culture, versus people who speak two languages and identify with two
cultures.
None of the
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jim Grisanzio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But on a more serious note, Japan is dying. Literally. The whole
country. The population today is about 125 million but will be cut in
half in 50 years because people are not
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is that really sustainable? I assume high salaries would alleviate
much of the pain but at some point this 'under'-class will tip over
the barrier of political conciousness. Then what?
Good question. I think it will depend
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Aditya Kapil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All jazz is not good nor is all rock. As I grow older my ability to listen
to rock for long periods of time is withering. I get music fatigue with more
than an hour of rock (at any volume). Like I said this is subjective.
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:34 AM, va [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I even enjoy Carnatic music...
maybe deepa and i should have done an impromptu jig
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:17 AM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 12 May 2008 10:16:56 am Gautam John wrote:
[1] http://www.indianexpress.com/story/307248.html
Quote from the above:
In a free and democratic society, tolerance is vital. This is true
especially in large and complex
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:02 PM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Charles - I am going to say (jokingly of course) that You asked for it. This
is a long and detailed reply. Sorry.
Thanks for the long and detailed reply!
On Thursday 15 May 2008 5:02:35 am Charles Haynes wrote:
I believe
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Casey O'Donnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I recall, Rob Pike built an automatic Derrida generator some years
ago. It used Markov Chains to produce texts with roughly the same word
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 2008-05-03 14:19:38 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
General photography... thats why I want something with a zoom range...
Then the 100-400 ought to be good for you.
I just wanted to comment on your exemplary
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:10 AM, rene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
rene wrote:
I am Rene ... How can you know? You have to trust me.
But that trust works both ways, by deliberately obfuscating your
identity, you created the impression that you were unwilling to trust
us.
va created the
My fairly techie sweetie has one we picked up in Singapore in Feb. She loves it.
-- Charles
I'll be in Bangalore next week. How about meeting at Shiok 7pm on
Monday? Please let me know if you're planning to go so I can give
Madhu some vague idea about how many people will be there.
-- Charles
Madhu asks:
Charles, what exactly did homeschooling involve? Did you personally teach
them everything? Hired private tutors? I'm curious.
My wife taught them most subjects, but we also had access to classes
taught at the local charter school and they took some of those
classes.
Deepa adds:
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been wondering why there is an acute lack of *any* restaurant, in
Bangalore, that serves Mexican food. I'm not sure if this is true of
the rest of India too...
A friend contrasted this to the proliferation of
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:08 AM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 10 Apr 2008 4:39:43 pm Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
Bad parenting + good peers = some hope
Good parenting + bad peers = disaster
Interesting but it sounds like an escape route for parents - a clause that
can
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:12 PM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually this sounds like typical corporate propaganda via an advertorial, of
which one sees a lot in unexpected places and ways.
...
Don't know about computer chips but there is a lot of variation in lots of
products that use
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and i hardly think the attitude is getting worse. if anything, people
are getting more used to seeing more bare skin. it's just that abuses
are talked about more often.
Abuses? That seems like a strong word to
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Rishab Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
charles, was your misunderstand perhaps a result of (not entirely
unjustified) cultural expectations of an indian male :-P
Mea culpa, and I'm happy to be wrong!
Thanks for clearing that up.
-- Charles
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i thought that was brilliant, especially the bit about the rapture. i am
continuously disconcerted by seeing serious looking businessmen in suits
reading the rapture books
When the rapture comes, can I have your
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:48 AM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
He seems to go on and on about prudery in India. But that should not surprise
him. Prudery is Indian
Really? I thought it was a Westernism inherited from the Victorian
sexual mores of the Raj and the Arabic sexual mores of the
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A Quest to Reproduce a Top Chef's Recipes at the South Pole
By MICHÈLE GENTILLE
Special to THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
March 15, 2008; Page W1
Very cool. I forwarded it to my friend who was the cook at NASA's Mars
research
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