On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 08:03 +0530, Mahesh Murthy wrote:
Once again, I'm glad to see your sexist, misogynist, low IQ and
completely
bullshit comments on a well-researched piece.
Once again, just because it contrasts with your equally bullshit
theories
of Ram Rajya and Ye Olde English Way Of
On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 18:38 +0530, Mahesh Murthy wrote:
Hey Shiv, no anger at all :-) Just calling a spade a spade, an act
that
often results in pleasure, actually.
Oh, I've been on this list for a decade I think.
So I might know a little about how it supports a little more of
rational
On Sun, 2014-10-05 at 15:59 +0530, Shenoy N wrote:
FWIW: The problem with deciding to follow one part of religion because
it
makes sense and jettisoning another because it doesn't is that the
follower
comes up against the very reasonable question - if parts of it are
silly,
is it really
On Sun, 2014-10-05 at 22:37 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Perhaps because science only concerns itself with making falsifiable,
repeatable predictions. (Continuing your anthropomorphism to make a
philosophical point)
Mostly, no disagreement with that.
But science has spread itself over a
On Sat, 2014-10-04 at 18:47 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Spencer Tracy’s character,
fashioned after the defense attorney Clarence Darrow, stands in the
empty courtroom, picks up a Bible in one hand and Darwin’s “Origin of
Species” in the other, gives a knowing smile and claps them together
On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 07:14 -0700, Radhika, Y. wrote:
I second Alaric's viewpoint. I did and am in the process of the same - you
have to let go of ego, money and all other impediments if you really want a
different life. If you try to keep the status quo regarding money you will
merely
On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 00:39 -0700, Heather Madrone wrote:
I always thought that prolactin, not oxytocin, was the magic joy
juice
That was yesterday
Today it's oxytocin
Wait for something else tomorrow...
Personally I am sceptical about these single wonder molecules because
the number of
Yo! What's up doc!
shiv
On Sun, 2014-09-21 at 15:20 +0530, John Marshall Johnson wrote:
Dear Friends,
Fiddler on the Roof a broadway style musical, by Bangalore's premier
theatre group is being staged at
Venue: St. John's Auditorium, Koramangala
Date: Sunday, the 28th of September
On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 22:07 -0400, Bruce A. Metcalf wrote:
This is obvious, yet many will continue to insist that history can
offer
relevant answers. I do not believe that it can.
... I am looking for ostensibly neutral and academic and
broad-based
studies.
But they aren't
On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 10:22 +0530, Mahesh Murthy wrote:
I would imagine you can covet whatever you like. Its your right to
have any
desire. Freedom of thought.
Acting on that covetousness is a compact between you and the coveted
person, at the very least. But freedom of thought doesn't
On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 20:56 -0400, Bruce A. Metcalf wrote:
Indeed, much good science fiction is just that; sociological
treatises
on the human condition, viewed through a literary if filter.
These traditional if filters for SF being, What if, If Only,
and
If this goes on. The latter in
On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 10:27 +0530, Ingrid wrote:
Do also see the reading list for this Political Science course:
http://jakebowers.org/PS300S14/ps300s14syl.pdf
Thanks. That reading list is interesting - it includes among other
things a book by Cory (Doctorow) and Jared Diamond (Collapse)
On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 10:14 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Again, not really. It turns out that the pace of change is such that
such studies are not the most useful way to deal with the future.
Udhay the pace of change is exactly what I am talking about. Who does
the studies that tell us how
On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 08:55 +0530, Mahesh Murthy wrote:
Shiv, read Heinlien.
Thanks. Will do
shiv
I have had an amateur interest in the subjects that (I thought) were
studied under the headings anthropology and sociology.
After a couple of decades of imbibing information by osmosis and random
diffusion, it seems to me that these fields deal primarily with people
and societies as they exist.
John Sundman wrote:
Shiv says In Britain the state attempts to protect vulnerable
children from physical and emotional abuse by parents, and then
insinuates, if I understand him correctly, that this impulse to
protect children from abusive parents is somehow correlated to the
kidnapping
On Sat, 2014-09-06 at 21:29 +0530, Ingrid Srinath wrote:
Consider also the possibility that victims of child sex abuse who are
of Asian origin in the UK are less likely to report abuse.
Because of strict control - I think abuse among Asian girls, Pakistani
or not, is often by a family member.
On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 11:47 +0800, Chew Lin Kay wrote:
Stephenson said that science fiction guides innovation because
young readers later grow up to be scientists and engineers.
Here are two videos - one from the 1920s and the other from the 1960s
predicting the future.
The story in the link below, which reveals how 1400 girls were sexually
abused in Rotherham, England over a 16 year period is, to my mind,
sociologically interesting.
On Wed, 2014-08-27 at 11:25 +0800, Dibyo wrote:
I found this -
http://www.vox.com/2014/8/20/6040435/als-ice-bucket-challenge-and-why-we-give-to-charity-donate
- which looks at some stats on deaths vs. money raised.
It's interesting that Diabetes and Chronic Pulmonary Obstructions (is this
On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 10:42 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Production delays I believe, caused by bungling at HAL. So the iaf
imported
sukhoi su7s in a hurry.
The aircraft was also tough as hell but underpowered, so rapidly
became
obsolete without further development, especially as
On Fri, 2014-08-22 at 09:26 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
One answer to that (which is, obviously, not the only answer) is
'whim'.
Actually it isn't. Found out yesterday
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/426812/man-behind-ice-bucket-challenge.html
Griffin, who worked in finance, had
On Fri, 2014-08-22 at 11:20 +0530, Sriram Karra wrote:
You might as well be asking Of all the videos mankind makes every
day, why
did Gangam Style go viral?
And unless one asks, one has little chance of finding out.
shiv
On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 23:57 -0400, John Sundman wrote:
I think it's a combination of things.
-- ALS is a syndrome with which many people are at least passively aware --
it's Lou Gehrig's Disease, etc. So raising awareness is more a matter of
reminding people (easy) than educating them
On Fri, 2014-08-22 at 11:42 +0530, Sumant Srivathsan wrote:
Speaking of whom:
http://www.salon.com/2014/08/20/co_founder_of_als_ice_bucket_challenge_drowns_at_age_27/
From this link
The young man began actively raising money to fight amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou
On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 21:20 +0530, Kingsley Jegan Joseph wrote:
donations to the ALS Association
Why ALS?
Not saying that its not a good cause but it's not the first thing that
springs to mind when I think of the burdens of mankind.
shiv
On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 14:29 -0400, John Sundman wrote:
Surely humankind is capable of addressing more than one problem at a
time?
Yes, but that is a general reply that does not answer my specific
question? Why ALS? Why not, for example, Pontine Glioma?
shiv
On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 13:09 +0530, Sriram Karra wrote:
Just in case anyone did not notice: Krish Ashok (the main singer of
the
linked piece) is an old timer on silk.
Age and time do funny things.
It's been over 40 years since I first heard Riders on the Storm. The
aura of mystery and
Link sent to me by Pooja sitting in the next room
https://soundcloud.com/krishashok/riders-on-the-auto
A Chennai recontextualized version of The Doors' Riders on the Storm,
with lyrics by Gurunarayana Ravi (twitter.com/raghuthaatha). This song
is about the Auto drivers on the Chennai storm,
On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 21:01 -0400, John Sundman wrote:
Absent her becoming with child, who knows if we would have stayed
together? So it was, in that sense, a marriage arranged by Fate
Hindu dharma (Hindu morality) states that it is the duty of a husband to
care for his wife and child, even if
On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 08:48 -0700, Heather Madrone wrote:
I feel utterly incompetent to arrange a marriage for another person!
How
do parents proceed in this business? Has anyone on this list been
involved in arranging a marriage for their children?
Arranged marriages are almost
On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 08:48 -0700, Heather Madrone wrote:
I feel utterly incompetent to arrange a marriage for another person!
How
do parents proceed in this business? Has anyone on this list been
involved in arranging a marriage for their children?
Sorry. I forgot to mention, in my last
On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 01:08 +0530, harry wrote:
Is family incompatibility really relevant anymore ? I don't see many
couples living with their parents in the same house. Also, if you are
from
different countries - chances are even if your families are completely
incompatible - language
On Wed, 2014-07-09 at 06:58 -0700, Heather Madrone wrote:
Or it could be that salvation is just another pretty fairy tale that
human beings use to paper over death.
Perhaps there is nothing to be saved from, no true enlightenment, no
great mystery or puzzle to solve except for the ones we
There is a flip side to arranged marriages that may not be documented. I
was having an offline discussion on the sane subject with someone who
wrote the following sentence
I do see many arranged marriages that are just shells floating along.
I will cross post my reply here and more.
My own
On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 11:07 +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
I'm amazed that I can even talk about it now...the wound was so deep,
that
I just couldn't, for a long time. But I am glad my spouse broke it up,
rather than have us in the meaningless shell of a marriage.
I'm glad you wrote this Deepa.
On Thu, 2014-07-03 at 18:18 +0530, Lavanya Mohan wrote:
one year
and 4 days actually,
A belated happy anniversary to you.
shiv
The interesting thing about Radhika's list (quoted below this post) is
that of the 12 factors,only 5 relate to the individuals. 7 relate to the
family.
Arranged marriages are (ideally) designed to remove family related
incompatibilities, leaving the couple to sort out personal
incompatibilities.
On Mon, 2014-06-30 at 09:18 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:05 AM, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
Science decreased death rates and increased life-spans, causing a
population explosion like never before. The same science responded to
that by decreasing birth rate
On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 15:50 +0530, Deepa Agashe wrote:
I'm a scientist, but I don't think most what I do has any direct
impact on
people at all. My work (understanding how evolution works, in a
nutshell)
makes some people happy and some angry, but mostly people don't care.
The
state of the
On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 11:49 +0100, Mahesh Murthy wrote:
98% of the statistics quoted online are false
Including this :-)
On 01-Jul-2014 2:54 pm, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:49 PM, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
http://www.ukessays.com/essays/criminology/domestic-violence-during-football-season-criminology-essay.php
Bebber (2008) documents that for centuries, violence against women and
children has not only been tolerated and accepted as normal practice,
but it has also been encouraged. In
On Sun, 2014-06-29 at 18:31 +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
It's all very well to create these shapes...but what will they mean
for us?
I like the word USAnian
Deep you need to look at the triangles formed by the populations of
Pakistan, Syria, Nigeria, Somalia, Bangladesh, to an extent India as
On Sun, 2014-06-22 at 20:18 +0530, Vinay Rao wrote:
Have always thought that Reverse Osmosis plants were the Cup of
Jamshid, as far as water purification goes. And also small and low
power enough that a system in a cargo container can be air dropped,
and run off solar cells, in a disaster
On Sat, 2014-06-14 at 22:07 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
This is a very USAnian viewpoint on a very universally human issue. I
wonder how much of this is cultural and how much is intrinsic.
It is very USAnian indeed apart from carrying a hefty dose of cognitive
bias and What will others think?
For some reason I did not receive John Sundman's original mail.
I'm willing to bet you're all going to experience less cognitive
decline than I will.
Not necessarily.
Lots of other factors including how much I smoke, drink, smoke pot, or
use cocaine or heroin,fail to exercise myself and my
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 07:21 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Idly wondering, and I thought the folks here might have some insight:
Does the alphabet used by any Indian language have the concept of
upper and lower case? (for the purposes of this query, let us
explicitly exclude the Roman alphabet)
On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 21:58 -0400, Bruce Metcalf wrote:
I did not stay retired. Within a year I had two part-time jobs, and
a
decade later took on a full-time post in addition. All three were
for
love of the work, so I'm not sure if this means I unretired or not.
If you like what you are
On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 08:37 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
This is a fun list. Please add your own discoveries here.
Udhay
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/03/01/opinion/sunday/what-you-learn-in-your-40s.html
In my 20s I was learning. In my 30s I knew what I knew but was puzzled
by odd
On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 22:00 -0700, Danese Cooper wrote:
5. Sleep Is NOT For Sissies. Your body will carry you further if
you
moderate all things (food, exercise, recreation and sleep).
Well said.
I can only add, if you find yourself awake at night and tossing and
turning. Don't get up and
On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 13:02 +0530, Mahesh Murthy wrote:
8. I don't know if I can retire. Really.
If someone tells you that he is going to retire at 45 it means
1. He is tired of what he doing now - he thinks he is successful
2. He will not retire at 45 because he has not found out what he really
On Wed, 2014-04-09 at 09:56 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
- Opportunity costs: Real estate typically (say over a 10+ year
period) lags behind the stock market in rate of return. Given
inflation rates in India, it probably lags behind inflation as well -
making it a net losing proposition.
On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 19:18 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
WHAT ELSE SHOULD I DO WITH MY MONEY?
Udhay, that was a thought provoking article with plenty that I agreed
with. Both money and materialism are considered evil by a segment of
Indian society. A segment, but not everyone though. I found
On Sun, 2014-04-06 at 08:27 -0400, John Sundman wrote:
Remember, I had seen my grandfather alive and apparently well only 2
weeks earlier.
But I stopped, and thought, and, it seems, I knew. No, I said. I
don't think he is.
Two weeks later I received a letter from my father informing me of
On Sat, 2014-04-05 at 07:43 -0400, John Sundman wrote:
He died when I was in Africa in 1974. I have a story to tell about a
quasi-mystical experience related to that, but I don't have time to
tell it now.
Would love to hear it when you have time
shiv
On Sat, 2014-03-29 at 08:28 +1000, Charles Haynes wrote:
So many breathless announcements of treatments that work in vitro, or
in
animal studies, and are never heard from again. Wake me up after human
trials.
+1
I believe that most of us probably don't even glance at news that
reports a few dozen bomb blasts and scores of deaths in Iraq. It turns
out that these are part of an age old conflict between shia and sunni
Muslims.
Closer to India, Pakistan is being used for proxy war between shias and
sunnis -
On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 18:29 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Allowed according to whom?
Fair enough. As far as my knowledge goes entities such as Facebook,
Twitter and Youtube have monitoring mechanisms to pick up and block
child pornography. The cynic in me asks Whose idea was that?
Even more
On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 18:49 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Indeed. Facebook, twitter and youtube are private entities, and you
are (typically) a free user of their offering. They can make whatever
rules they want, consistent with their legal and fiduciary
responsibilities.
By the same token,
On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 10:54 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Age is the number one risk factor for every disease, but it's not
treated as a disease on its own, says Venter.
I have one problem with this statement.
AFTER being born human, by a series of completely chance events going
back several
On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 11:00 +0530, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote:
Don't agree with this observation by the Kerala HC, but the article
below[1] posted by Madhu yesterday on Facebook demonstrates how
ingrained
playing as a team is in India.
Kiran
[1]
On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 11:00 +0530, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote:
Don't agree with this observation by the Kerala HC, but the article
below[1] posted by Madhu yesterday on Facebook demonstrates how
ingrained
playing as a team is in India.
From a Hindu (also Jain and Sikh) viewpoint, team play is
On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 13:00 -0800, Raj Shekhar wrote:
What I see here is that you are using the model laid out in the Indian
texts (I assume the Hindu religious texts). Using this model has
benefits, but the bias that might creep in there is that the good of
many outweigh the needs of few.
On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 13:00 -0800, Raj Shekhar wrote:
What I see here is that you are using the model laid out in the Indian
texts (I assume the Hindu religious texts). Using this model has
benefits, but the bias that might creep in there is that the good of
many outweigh the needs of few.
On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 07:53 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Pasted here so I can refer to it later, in case of bitrot. But you
should really read this at the URL below, with all illustrations.
Comments?
Udhay
http://oliveremberton.com/2014/life-is-a-game-this-is-your-strategy-guide/
I
Call me a crank if you like. Not an issue.
But there is something that I have felt for ages that I have never
written down, but I will do it now.
First I need to write a (very) brief primer on the Hindu view of the
universe and creation.
Fundamentally, the entire universe, and creation itself
On Sun, 2014-02-23 at 13:21 +0530, gabin kattukaran wrote:
I'm trying to get my head around that as well. I suspect that it is
only a matter of perspective but standing on my head is not helping
(as yet.)
LOL. Might be easier if you lived in Australia. Or Argentina maybe.
I am reaching the
On Sun, 2014-02-23 at 13:21 +0530, gabin kattukaran wrote:
On 23 February 2014 13:13, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
If that is correct, what is the real world significance of the unit km/l
which can be broken down to the reciprocal of area - i.e. 1/area
I'm trying to get my head around
On Sun, 2014-02-23 at 19:00 +0530, gabin kattukaran wrote:
Up in heaven, three great physicsts were playing hide and go seek:
Newton, Pascal, and Einstein. It was Einsteins turn to seek, so
Einstein closed his eyes and counted to 10 while pascal and newton
went to hide. Pascal hid behind a
On Sat, 2014-02-22 at 08:46 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
The length/height of the column is exactly the distance the car
travels. The area referred to above gives the other two dimensions.
That is the problem. If there are 3 dimensions, it is not area
If the column has a length/height as
On Sun, 2014-02-23 at 11:48 +0530, gabin kattukaran wrote:
Consider the cross sectional area of the column to be the
minimum amount of fuel that the vehicle consumes to move an
infinitesimal distance. To do this, the vehicle consumes a
sliver/wafer of fuel. In reality, this area would probably
On Sun, 2014-02-23 at 13:07 +0530, gabin kattukaran wrote:
On 23 February 2014 12:44, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
So does this real world area represent the area occupied by a one
molecule thick layer of fuel needed to make the car travel some unit
distance? As far as I can figure out
On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 21:21 +1000, Charles Haynes wrote:
It's the area of the column of fuel necessary and sufficient to keep
the
car moving.
A column is always 3 dimensional. Area is 2D. How high would that column
be? One molecule thick/high?
The other point is, fuel consumption is usually
On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 10:29 +0530, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote:
I should read your postings on BR more often.
Ram I have been off BR for 6 months- but am back for a short while
after the custodial rape of Devyani Khobragade.
Meanwhile this is what I have been doing with some new toys.
http://www.aadisht.net/blog/2014/01/31/why-hindutva-is-like-dog-breeding/
Provocative title. Boring and overly long article.
I can understand the words Dog Breeding and here is something I wrote
a year or so ago and posted in various places, but not yet on Silk IIRC
CHIKKAMUNIVENKATAMMA
We
On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 13:53 +1100, Thaths wrote:
And this overabundance seems to go back to ancient times. Here is what
Herodotus had to say about India:
... Indians, who are more numerous than any other nation with which
we are acquainted
The explanation is fairly simple. India is
On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 20:15 -0800, Tim Bray wrote:
Obvious when one thinks of it, but I hadn’t; the adoption of various
mobile-device form-factors is likely climate-sensitive. But I bet
it’s
also gender-linked; the sizes of the purses and bags women carry seems
fairly orthogonal to the
On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 20:20 -0800, Tim Bray wrote:
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/10/06/Edmonton#p-3
The conundrum at the end is apt.
I think e-text sharing gives more people access to written texts than
ever before, and I do believe that scientific journals should all be
On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 20:34 -0800, Tim Bray wrote:
Cargo pants, jackets with internal
chest pockets, or vests (waistcoats I mean, for
Commonwealth-speakers)
Ambient temperatures over most of India mean that we wear what people in
northern latitudes call summer clothes 365 days a year.
No
On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 09:51 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
To be clear: I am not, by any means, giving up on actual paper books.
But this seems to be a useful additional option.
I believe I have exactly the same motivation as you to get a Kindle. but
it will probably be a Kindle (if at all)
On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 20:26 -0800, Mahesh Murthy wrote:
As a sideways punt on the topic, has anyone noticed how quickly Google
Play
Books has become a real contender to Kindle?
Books here are almost always cheaper (often 50% or more) than on
Amazon
Kindle, and the Google magazine newsstand
On Mon, 2013-12-30 at 10:39 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
So I got myself a Kindle. And whether it is the novelty or the
device-specific aspects (doesn't need ambient light, sufficiently
booklike that one can read sprawled in bed, etc) - I have consumed 3
books in 3 days, more than in the
On Fri, 2013-09-06 at 09:29 +0530, Kingsley Jegan Joseph wrote:
You know, sometimes I think that Mr. Mahadevan may be as
over-enthusiastic in finding dravidian connections for Indus script
Problem is that there are very profound linkages between Dravidian and
non Dravidian Indian languages
On Fri, 2013-09-06 at 10:43 -0700, Thaths wrote:
What is to explain? For populations to exist side by side exchanging
cuisines, culture, genes and words is self explanatory and not
profound.
One sees Tamil and Malayalam blending in Palghat. Telugu and Tamil
blending
in Tirupathi. There are
On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 12:23 +0530, Kingsley Jegan Joseph wrote:
where I grew up (Cuddalore)
Interesting.
I used to pass through Cuddalore (which I believe should be spelt
Cuddle-oor, which is how it is pronounced :) ) with reasonable
frequency. I studied in Pondicherry a long time ago and
On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 18:22 +0530, Kingsley Jegan Joseph wrote:
ಕನ್ನಡ, तोडा सा
हिंदी
Welcome
Two comments
The first language seems to read Kannada but uses Telugu (or some
other unfamiliar) script if I am not mistaken. It seems to read K-N-N-D
which is like a transcription of the English
On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 18:22 +0530, Kingsley Jegan Joseph wrote:
read Brahmi and some Tamil
inscriptions
If you read Brahmi and are interested in ancient scripts here is
something that might interest you:
1. A man called Wim Borsboom has developed a hypothesis to say how
modern Roman alphabet
On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 08:39 -0700, Thejaswi Udupa wrote:
Ted Chiang's new story touches upon some of these aspects --
http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_of_fact_the_truth_of_feeling_by_ted_chiang
Well what the heck?
I recently wrote an article for my medical college
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 21:14 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote
http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/08/17/our-brains-pay-price-for-gps/d2Tnvo4hiWjuybid5UhQVO/story.html
My first instinct was to turn the GPS back on so I could stop being
lost.
snip
How GPS affects OUR natural ability to
On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 12:37 +0530, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote:
Perhaps I've just met the wrong demographic among those who read
self-help
books, but most of those who have pushed such books at me were fairly
successful - and I wasn't aware of any failure that prompted them to
read
such
On Sat, 2013-08-24 at 12:38 +0530, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
I agree parenting support and the money cushions rich kids from
life's
problems. I used those three as examples of grown up problems that hit
successful people in their thirties these days.
The college admission, the career, the
On Sun, 2013-08-25 at 06:14 +0530, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
India is a damn good one-trick pony in the survival game. I fear this
time
that trick won't be good enough.
There is one problem about throwing such articles at Indians. They will
pull philosophy into the argument and wrestle you
On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 23:23 +0530, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
Privileged kids don't usually face serious hardship that shatters
their confidence until their start-up fails, their marriage tanks or
their addictive habits get the better of them.
While I agree with the general point you make
On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 14:31 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
If you embrace the system then there cannot be any subterfuge.
Technically yes. Subterfuge would be a criminal act.
Forget the criminals.
No. Criminals are important here. Only an intention to be a criminal
would make one attempt
On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 21:20 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Groklaw has decided to shut shop.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130820/02152224249/more-nsa-spying-fallout-groklaw-shutting-down.shtml
Here's a quote from the above link:
The people talked about how it stopped them from being
On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 07:47 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Shades of if you aren't doing anything wrong, why do you object? in
your response. I'll revisit this later.
Yes, but I will explain below. First let me respond to this quote
its currency in a society. The Haunted Land, a book that
On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 18:19 +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
Rajeev Srinivasan on how Indians are satisfied with illusions, not
reality.
A punishingly long rant from Srinivasan who appears to have been in a
black mood when he wrote that
And yes - on that note, as is my wont, I will attempt to
On Sun, 2013-08-11 at 00:00 +0530, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
Do LEDs cause blindness?
Call me unscientific, but I worry about LEDs. I tend to read reports as
they come (like anyone else) and I have been reading reports about
cellphones for over a decade. There is some concern and I take some
On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 17:01 +0800, Chew Lin Kay wrote:
Am curious--a) do viewers expect dance scenes in foreign locales? Are
films
made exclusively in India seen as cheap/inferior/not-so-good? b) how
does
film financing work?--ie how much of the expenditure goes towards
foreign
shoots,
On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 17:49 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Thoughts?
I would say watch out! Don't take this stuff too seriously. Linguists
have done a lot of bullshitting in the past and will continue to do so
for the foreseeable future. University language departments don't get
funding easily
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