On 7/26/07, Venkatesh Hariharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I cannot think of anything more immoral than patents on surgical procedures.
Really? Wow. How about the Armenian Genocide, Stalin's starvation of
the Ukraine, the Rape of Nanking, the Holocaust, Pol Pot in Cambodia,
Rwanda, or the ethnic
On 7/20/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 20 Jul 2007 9:45 am, Biju Chacko wrote:
Shiv,
Do you mind not shaking a virtual fist at everyone that disagrees with
you? It's getting tiresome.
thanks,
I think you are being unfair to me. It is one thing to disagree with what I
On 7/20/07, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
perhaps we should all become calvinists.
What, you don't like Hobbesianism?
-- Charles
On 7/20/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for being frank. I will be frank too. It appears to me that you were
disinterested even before you said this because you do not seem to have read
what Ashok said about me and my not having travelled to Pakistan. That in
fact is what
On 7/17/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 17 Jul 2007 10:22 am, Charles Haynes wrote:
At the very least you can expect such a
person to distort the facts, and leave out observations that do not
fit their agenda. In other words you cannot take anything they say at
face value
On 7/18/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 18 Jul 2007 12:05 pm, Charles Haynes wrote:
That word, honest I do not think it means what you think it means.
Nevertheless I still disagree with the convoluted reasoning you use to justify
calling someone an idiot.
Idiot wasn't
On 7/16/07, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
for the cameraheads on silk -
i just got an olympus e-510 as an early birthday gift... i'm wondering
if i should get an extra battery and, mainly, if it's a good idea to get
the olympus battery than one of the many knock-off brands
On 7/14/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
Why is he a bloody idiot? Because he has a different set of beliefs?
No, it's because his beliefs are idiotic. Wanting to trash the work of
^^
Isn't that just your
On 7/13/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe that people who grow up within the restrictive confines of
monotheistic thought processes require a leap in imagination to see why a
faith does not need active protection by humans.
Eh? Where did this come from? It seems like a bit of
On 7/12/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 12 Jul 2007 4:03 pm, Badri Natarajan wrote:
We weren't even one country till 1947.
And what were the many countries known as to the outsider who wanted to trade
or invade?
Which outsiders? Isn't that begging the question? It
On 7/13/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 13 Jul 2007 8:55 am, Charles Haynes wrote:
Which outsiders? Isn't that begging the question? It assumes an
already agreed upon outside and inside does it not?
Yes.
In fact there are accounts of people wanting to trade with India
On 7/13/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So the people of old India were just people who did not see themselves as
India or Hindu which were both externally derived names.
In particular derived from the Persian pronunciation of al-Sind, no?
But national, religious, ethnic or cultural
On 7/9/07, Dave Long [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
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
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
On 7/6/07, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why a message saying find a fuckbuddy tonight makes
it past a spam filter, I will never understand.
For some of us, that's email from our friends, not spam...
-- Charles
On 7/6/07, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am still ignorant of what actually *happens* (or ought to happen)
when I send tick that box, marking messages as spam. Does the software
mark down the IP address of the sending computer? Does it mark the
words in the subject title for future
On 6/21/07, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 07:19:37AM +0530, Charles Haynes wrote:
I will bet you up to US$10,000 that the US will not default on any
I will bet you ten trillion chickens that there's a wart on
your nose.
significant fraction (10%) of its public
On 6/21/07, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 6/21/07, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 07:19:37AM +0530, Charles Haynes wrote:
I will bet you up to US$10,000 that the US will not default on any
I will bet you ten trillion chickens that there's a wart
On 6/20/07, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:59:29PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
the chance that the US will not repay debt is negligible.
In effect, that was my point. Partly, by implying that the threat of
How can the US repay its debt? Why should it do
On 6/19/07, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 08:51:33AM +0530, Gautam John wrote:
Saw this via BB:
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/
It's their official Public Policy blog.
I rather read http://www.fuckedgoogle.com/
too bad it's down again.
You can still
On 6/8/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Like the subject says. This started off as a conversation with a friend.
I did the usual trolling of shopping sites, etc, but I have no means
of figuring out which options are good. Will the cameraheads here weigh in?
Can you narrow it down
Another article touching on some of the same themes, but with respect
to Muslim silence in the face of Muslim extremism:
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/05/23/200608.php
The Myth of Muslim Silence
Written by Sean Aqui
Published May 23, 2007
That's the title of an interesting piece by
On 5/23/07, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now, with added natural protein!
-Gautam
On 5/23/07, Ramakrishnan Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Gautam John said the following on 23/05/2007 13:59:
Anyone have any ideas? I found it in
Hi,
I'm offering my place as a place for us to get together, have some
takeout from Imperial, swap books, have a few drinks.
My house, Wed May 16, food at 8pm, show up any time after 7pm. RSVP
for directions so I can get an idea of how much food I should send
Udhay out for.
Looking forward to
On 5/20/07, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Charles Haynes wrote:
My house, Wed May 16, food at 8pm, show up any time after 7pm. RSVP
for directions so I can get an idea of how much food I should send
Udhay out for.
I would like to know where I can find a time travel device, thanks
On 5/21/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If 23rd it is too tempting to pass up. I would like to be in - but please say
if the crowd is too large or if there is anything I can bring with me to ease
things - eg booze and disposable plates??
I'll have beer and wine, but if people have
On 5/16/07, Aditya Chadha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
so, what happened? I keep thinking about this -- how did we go from
kama sutra - shiv sainiks beating up couples on Valentine's day for
holding hands?
I blame the Raj. Damn Victorians and their cultural imperialism.
-- Charles
On 5/16/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
shiv sastry wrote: [ on 09:23 PM 5/16/2007 ]
Art can mean a lot of things, but a picture of Jesus Christ's dick
or the cunt
of a Hindu goddess is pushing the definition of art to areas where some
people may be a little unhappy.
So?
On 5/17/07, Shyam Visweswaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What exactly are the confines of Indian culture?
There is no ancient unified Indian arts,
architecture, literature or language that is
representative of the entire Indian subcontinent.
Indian is an abstraction that is too coarse to be
of
Having recently seen a number of Rothko's works up close at personal
at the Tate. I now get him, and have to agree. You cannot (I could
not) appreciate Rothko from reading about him, seeing his work
reproduced in art books, or viewing reproductions of his work. However
once I was actually *there*
On 3/21/07, Dave Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, if the political class in india (whether governmental or NG) tends
to be khadi clad, that pretty much speaks to a different demographic than
punk.
Does it? What about the tradition of coopting the trappings and
symbols of power in order to
On 3/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Charles,
My problem is that a significant fraction of the spam I get are
challenges to some forged email purporting to be from a domain I
control. To the point where *all* challenges are immediately bit
bucketed.
It's not that my
On 3/13/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ on 09:54 PM 3/13/2007 ]
You're not creating extra traffic. You're sending unsolicited
bulk email.
My on average, my confirm challenge is about 800 bytes.
Your reply will cost a few bytes too. Let's
user: toi.silk
password: toi
-- Charles
On 3/8/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Vinayak Hegde wrote:
On 3/8/07, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would you have a link to this article handy?
Go to epaper.timesofindia.com
pick the economic times - bangalore edition.
On 3/5/07, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
this is the part that i dont get : games that begat movies.
i have yet to see a real film born out of a video game...
I'm not sure what you mean by real film but there've been a few
movies that were derived from games. Final Fantasy The Spirits
I've got two Rs 1000 tickets to this for sale - I accidentally got duplicates.
99 007 55622 (or email)
-- Charles
From: Arundhai Biswas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Sharmila [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:17:42 +0530
Subject: Two Maestros Ustad Amjad Ali Khan Ustad Zakir Hussain's Live
Sold! That was fast.
-- Charles
On 3/2/07, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got two Rs 1000 tickets to this for sale - I accidentally got duplicates.
99 007 55622 (or email)
-- Charles
From: Arundhai Biswas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Sharmila [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007
Ok I'm assuming plan is to go to Shiok after Vint's Tak. At least
that's my plan. Mobile in case people need to get in touch:
99 007 55622
-- Charles
On 2/14/07, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Oh and Charles - can you get Vint along to the meet by any
I guess mint. A lot of spices you wouldn't otherwise suspect are part
of the mint family. Square stalk, pairs of opposing leaves, most
likely a mint. Besides plants called mint like peppermint and
spearmint you also have basil, oregano, sage, rosemary, thyme and
marjoram all in family Lamiaceae.
Did the computer term semaphore come from train semaphores? I have
always assumed so.
-- Charles
On 2/20/07, Dave Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rail cars will indeed provide an adequate current path to shunt the rail
circuit and trigger the signal system. That's the whole point.
and in case
On 2/21/07, Divya Sampath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did the computer term semaphore come from train semaphores? I have
always assumed so.
Possibly - though semaphores stared out as a military signaling system (in
France, about the time of the French
Sorry, my in expired last week. :(
-- Charles
On 2/17/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Charles Haynes wrote:
On 2/10/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Udhay Shankar N wrote:
There is a suspicious silence from the person who is involved in the
organization
On 2/14/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh and Charles - can you get Vint along to the meet by any chance?
I'll get right on that...
Though maybe if I can promise steaks at Shiok he'll agree.
-- Charles
It looks like invitations for this event are closed. I put in my
requests, but I don't know if they made it in time. Good luck
everyone.
-- Charles
On 2/12/07, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/10/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Udhay Shankar N wrote
Good question! I'll ask.
-- Charles
On 2/13/07, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Charles Haynes wrote:
It looks like invitations for this event are closed. I put in my
requests, but I don't know if they made it in time. Good luck
On 2/10/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Udhay Shankar N wrote:
There is a suspicious silence from the person who is involved in the
organization of this event. ;-)
Personalized invites based on work-ex make it sound suspiciously like
GOOG's on another round of
let me find out if the invites have been sent out yet or not.
On 2/12/07, Alok G. Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12 Feb 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW if anyone on silklist bangalore would like to go to this talk
and hasn't gotten a reply to your invitation let me know.
I would. I
On 1/30/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Charles Haynes wrote:
eat anything, I thought the Andhara food at Nandhini was nicely hot
but I prefer hotter... Who has favorite places to recommend to the
newbie?
Looks like we belong to the same category. Come home sometime and I
On 1/29/07, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, most of us are just passionate about food and *eating*.
;-)
Welcome Charles! (Chuck? Charlie? Chas? Charles seems so formal -- I
feel like I'm addressing a beheaded English king.)
Thanks! My father was Charles too and he was the one
On 1/28/07, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Charles Haynes wrote:
http://edgeplay.blogspot.com/ I'll warn you it's mostly about food so
far, I'm pretty passionate about food and cooking.
Oh good. We could use a few people like that. ;)
Hah! We had already planned to visit Shiok even
Hi everyone,
I just joined silklist and Udhay asked me to post an introduction. I'm
Charles Haynes, I'm an engineering manager at Google. I've known Chris
Kantarjiev for, well, a few decades now. I've worked for Apple, Xerox,
DEC, various startups, and now Google. I cook, I ride a motorcycle, I
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