Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-07-15 19:23:50 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Since you have been a decent person who does not post like a troll I > will try and give you a decent reply. That's very nice of you. But as an indecent troll, I can barge into your nice people's club (reducing the doorman to tears en rout

Re: [silk] buying off-brand camera batteries

2007-07-15 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Madhu Menon wrote: > Deepa Mohan wrote: >> And the other thing is, these kind of >> cameras do not have the long-life batteries that the higher-end DSLR's >> carry. > > Buy higher capacity rechargeable batteries perhaps? My Canon A95 runs on > 4 AA batteries, and the ones I use have a 2300 mAh cha

Re: [silk] buying off-brand camera batteries

2007-07-15 Thread Neha Viswanathan
Buy higher capacity rechargeable batteries perhaps? My Canon A95 runs on 4 AA batteries, and the ones I use have a 2300 mAh charge. Lasts me about 300+ shots, with the display on. One of the reasons I chose a Canon (have an S2 IS) was that it takes AA batteries - rechargeable or otherwise. So

Re: [silk] buying off-brand camera batteries

2007-07-15 Thread Madhu Menon
Deepa Mohan wrote: And the other thing is, these kind of cameras do not have the long-life batteries that the higher-end DSLR's carry. Buy higher capacity rechargeable batteries perhaps? My Canon A95 runs on 4 AA batteries, and the ones I use have a 2300 mAh charge. Lasts me about 300+ shots,

Re: [silk] A new car for £30

2007-07-15 Thread ashok _
Its a great market for real estate. I know a few opportunistic people who have made trips to harare and bulawayo over the last 2 years and snapped up massive villas and chalets for next to nothing of course if there is a radical change in government or imminent collapse (both of which are lik

Re: [silk] buying off-brand camera batteries

2007-07-15 Thread Deepa Mohan
On 7/16/07, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 03:55:04AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Seems like that's quite enough without needing a spare battery unless > you're like kalyan and going out for months into a dense forest .. Not necessarily Rishab,

[silk] A new car for £30

2007-07-15 Thread Gautam John
http://www.guardian.co.uk/zimbabwe/article/0,,2127297,00.html Mugabe's price cuts bring cheap TVs today, new crisis tomorrow Police and Zanu-PF lead bargain hunt after officials order shops to act Chris McGreal in Harare Monday July 16, 2007 The Guardian Zimbabweans are shopping like there's no

Re: [silk] Rest in Pieces

2007-07-15 Thread Gautam John
http://www.cargolaw.com/2007nightmare_ital.florida.html Another one that a friend sent. Looks pretty much how trucks in India are loaded.

Re: [silk] Rest in Pieces

2007-07-15 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Udhay Shankar N wrote [at 10:39 AM 7/16/2007] : PS: a virtual beer to the first person who decides the subject line (no, it's not as obvious as you might think) I meant *decodes*, of course. -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

[silk] Rest in Pieces

2007-07-15 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Shipping casualties of various kinds: http://www.containershipping.nl/casualties.html Udhay PS: a virtual beer to the first person who decides the subject line (no, it's not as obvious as you might think) -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

[silk] A gift from Gandhi

2007-07-15 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/10/AR2007071002055_pf.html A Gift From Gandhi Frustrated Green Card Applicants From India Use Methods Of Master By Xiyun Yang Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 11, 2007; D01 Shyam Bindingnavale had spent years of anguish in

Re: [silk] buying off-brand camera batteries

2007-07-15 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 03:55:04AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Seems like that's quite enough without needing a spare battery unless > you're like kalyan and going out for months into a dense forest .. true... which i shouldn't do unless i get this impressive camera protector [1]. -ris

Re: [silk] buying off-brand camera batteries

2007-07-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
This review for the e410 has stats for e510 battery life - 650 shots. Seems like that's quite enough without needing a spare battery unless you're like kalyan and going out for months into a dense forest .. http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/olympus/e410-review/index.shtml Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote

[silk] buying off-brand camera batteries

2007-07-15 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
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 (digipower, american power, etc) that claim to provide the same bat

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread Ingrid
going back to the original outlook article, why do you think women in tamil nadu are reporting such disproportionately high levels of spousal violence? *How Women-Friendly?* *In TN, 69.2% have a say in family matters * *A.P* *T.N* *Kerala* * Karnataka* *INDIA* *U.P* *Gujarat* No. of females per

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread ashok _
On 7/13/07, Venkat Mangudi wrote: My point is that till the RSS raised its ugly head, Hindu fanatics were unheard of. There were no holy wars with other religions. Yes, the caste There is plentyof hindu literature to suggest the opposite. Examples (described with great relish) can be found f

Re: [silk] firework physics

2007-07-15 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
huh? the link only confirms that fireworks were invented in china. getting objects to move with steam (what was apparently invented "by Archytas [in] Tarentum" is certainly not similar to fireworks or rockets. waterworks, perhaps! On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 15:18 +0200, Giancarlo Livraghi wrote: > I'd

[silk] Diamonds are for ever(y) bride?

2007-07-15 Thread Venkat Mangudi
http://www.slate.com/id/2167870/

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread Udhay Shankar N
shiv sastry wrote: [ on 07:08 PM 7/15/2007 ] > >Thapar is a blithering idiot. Please don't inflict her upon us. > > What a curious statement. Care to expannd? Gladly. We all have our opinions on who is or is not an idiot. For example On Friday 13 Jul 2007 9:28 pm, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: >

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread shiv sastry
On Sunday 15 Jul 2007 7:38 pm, Thaths wrote: > On 7/15/07, shiv sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 15 Jul 2007 2:09 pm, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: > > > Quoted from "Somanatha, The Many Voices of a History", Thapar 2004, > > > > Thapar is a blithering idiot. Please don't inflict her upon

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread Thaths
On 7/15/07, shiv sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 15 Jul 2007 2:09 pm, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: > Quoted from "Somanatha, The Many Voices of a History", Thapar 2004, Thapar is a blithering idiot. Please don't inflict her upon us. That is right! We want more learned sources like Drs.

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread shiv sastry
On Sunday 15 Jul 2007 4:15 pm, Gautam John wrote: > > Thapar is a blithering idiot. Please don't inflict her upon us. > > Why pray? Much criticism has come her way for opposing the communal > revisions of Indian history but I've never heard of her described as a > 'blithering idiot'. You might ha

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread shiv sastry
On Sunday 15 Jul 2007 3:47 pm, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > >Thapar is a blithering idiot. Please don't inflict her upon us. > > What a curious statement. Care to expannd? Gladly. We all have our opinions on who is or is not an idiot. For example On Friday 13 Jul 2007 9:28 pm, Abhijit Menon-Sen w

[silk] More on teleportation

2007-07-15 Thread Udhay Shankar N
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22048954-2,00.html Scientists find way to teleport atoms on optic fibres By Mark Schliebs July 10, 2007 11:55am AUSTRALIAN physicists have discovered a method that could see atoms being teleported between Sydney and Perth and pave the way for possible St

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread Gautam John
On 7/15/07, shiv sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thapar is a blithering idiot. Please don't inflict her upon us. Why pray? Much criticism has come her way for opposing the communal revisions of Indian history but I've never heard of her described as a 'blithering idiot'.

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-07-15 14:47:19 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thapar is a blithering idiot. Please don't inflict her upon us. Oh, very good. I did wonder if that's how you would contrive to ignore contrary evidence once again. And of course, you're only stating your own opinion, so you're free from t

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread Udhay Shankar N
shiv sastry wrote: [ on 02:47 PM 7/15/2007 ] > Quoted from "Somanatha, The Many Voices of a History", Thapar 2004, Thapar is a blithering idiot. Please don't inflict her upon us. What a curious statement. Care to expannd? Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.co

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread Sriram Karra
On 7/13/07, Charles Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But the various kingdoms traded with and invaded each other as well, so was there actually any "inside" there? That there was never a coherent India even remotely resembling the modern nation state of is more or less accepted as fact. The

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread shiv sastry
On Sunday 15 Jul 2007 2:09 pm, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: > Quoted from "Somanatha, The Many Voices of a History", Thapar 2004, Thapar is a blithering idiot. Please don't inflict her upon us. shiv

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread Sriram Karra
[Disclaimer: I being no original researcher on such matters, rely on easily available 'authentic looking' material to guide my thinking] On 7/13/07, Charles Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Which outsiders? Isn't that begging the question? It assumes an already agreed upon "outside" and "insid

Re: [silk] Outlook feature on S. India

2007-07-15 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-07-14 23:11:22 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Let me get this straight... Your conjecture is [...] Bzzt. Just because I made a somewhat-related conjecture in the same thread does not make what I said about pilgrims a conjecture. Quoted from "Somanatha, The Many Voices of a History",