Re: [silk] Fascism?

2007-10-04 Thread Deepa Mohan
On 10/4/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is allowed always associated with a government? Can it not be that the people don't allow someone to write crap by telling him to stop doing it? I say allow in the humblest form, if there is one, where people tell a writer to cease and

Re: [silk] 9/11 again

2007-10-04 Thread ashok _
On 10/4/07, shiv sastry wrote: The US has responded robustly to one single attack on one September day. Would there have been another attack? Your guess is as good as mine - but the US was ripe for a terrorist attack (in my view). The US was sitting pretty and secure in its relative

[silk] HELP! retrieve lost archives

2007-10-04 Thread Aditya Kapil
Folks, A mailing list that I have been part of for 7 years has been scrapped by the owner in a fit of anger. We have convinced him to resurrect the forum. But we are being told that retrieving archives (mails, docs, photos) may not be possible. Does anyone here know differently and how to go about

Re: [silk] 9/11 again

2007-10-04 Thread shiv sastry
On Thursday 04 Oct 2007 12:46 pm, ashok _ wrote: in the abscence of such tactics they can never win.  you would just need another attack to halve the statistical success of we havent had another attack. This is obvious. I just need to have one affair for my wife to understand that she is only

Re: [silk] presenting online

2007-10-04 Thread ashok _
On 10/4/07, Aditya Kapil wrote: what is the best was to present slides in real time over the net while allowing both ends to edit? Adit http://show.zoho.com maybe ?

Re: [silk] presenting online

2007-10-04 Thread Charles Haynes
On 10/4/07, Aditya Kapil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is the best was to present slides in real time over the net while allowing both ends to edit? shameless plug Google Docs of course. Expecially since you already have a GMail acct. http://docs.google.com /shameless plug -- Charles

Re: [silk] HELP! retrieve lost archives

2007-10-04 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Aditya Kapil wrote [at 02:17 PM 10/4/2007] : A mailing list that I have been part of for 7 years has been scrapped by the owner in a fit of anger. We have convinced him to resurrect the forum. But we are being told that retrieving archives (mails, docs, photos) may not be possible. Does anyone

[silk] presenting online

2007-10-04 Thread Aditya Kapil
what is the best was to present slides in real time over the net while allowing both ends to edit? Adit -- ...But always remember that irritation is what allows oysters to create pearls. Thank goodness for oysters because ulcers make crappy necklaces [Scott Adams]

Re: [silk] Fascism?

2007-10-04 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 10/3/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Of course she should be allowed to write. Of course it was an opinion piece. It may have some truth in it. But it is misleading and the gullible believe it to be the truth. If they believe in the rapture, this is much more believable.

Re: [silk] Online SCM and Shopping

2007-10-04 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
Gautam John said the following on 04/10/2007 13:27: As part of my work, I'm helping to try and institute systems for CRM and SCM because we work with many local branch offices, Also, is there a way I can/should combine inventory/SCM management and CRM/donor management? I explored this a

Re: [silk] presenting online

2007-10-04 Thread Aditya Kapil
Plugs don't bother me. I need to get this done pronto. I have not figured out how both sides edit and see changes: for both google and zoho. I have the same problem with Thinkfree and Structures Data. Adit. On 10/4/07, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/4/07, Aditya Kapil [EMAIL

[silk] Online SCM and Shopping

2007-10-04 Thread Gautam John
Hello, I've just started work with Pratham Books [1] and they are a non-profit organization and are the largest publishers of children's books in India and publish over a million copies of a hundred titles in over twelve languages each year. As part of my work, I'm helping to try and institute

Re: [silk] presenting online

2007-10-04 Thread Gautam John
On 10/4/07, Aditya Kapil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not figured out how both sides edit and see changes: for both google and zoho. I assume it will not reflect in real-time. You'll need to save it for the other side to see it. -Gautam

Re: [silk] Online SCM and Shopping

2007-10-04 Thread Gautam John
On 10/4/07, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://civicrm.org/ Thanks. Looks like they also have a hosted version. But its based on drupal (www.drupal.org) Will take a look. Seems intimidating! Cheers! -Gautam

Re: [silk] Online SCM and Shopping

2007-10-04 Thread Gautam John
On 10/4/07, Ramakrishnan Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If managing inventory is key, I'm afraid you have no option but one of the ERP products. Maybe you can hire one of Compiere's implementation partners to do it for you? I have sent them a mail. The one thing I've noticed about US

Re: [silk] Online SCM and Shopping

2007-10-04 Thread Gautam John
On 10/4/07, Ramakrishnan Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My conclusion was that the only way to do something efficiently was to implement an OSS ERP system like Compiere. Thanks. I looked at that and Vtiger [1] but the level of complexity scared me. [1] http://www.vtiger.com/

Re: [silk] Online SCM and Shopping

2007-10-04 Thread Biju Chacko
On 10/4/07, Ramakrishnan Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gautam John said the following on 04/10/2007 13:27: As part of my work, I'm helping to try and institute systems for CRM and SCM because we work with many local branch offices, Also, is there a way I can/should combine

Re: [silk] Online SCM and Shopping

2007-10-04 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
Gautam John said the following on 04/10/2007 13:56: I looked at that and Vtiger [1] but the level of complexity scared me. [1] http://www.vtiger.com/ While I haven't used vtiger, I've used SugarCRM, which it is forked from, extensively. It's not complex at all, but won't serve your purpose -

Re: [silk] presenting online

2007-10-04 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Take a look at Yugma. (www.yugma.com) Venkat Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: On 04/10/2007, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In google docs, the updates happen pretty quickly and are reflected on all participant versions, though I find it helpful to have an open teleconference at the same

Re: [silk] Fascism?

2007-10-04 Thread Venky TV
On 10/3/07, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/3/07, ashok_ wrote: If people are gullible enough to believe something, they should be allowed to. Well..I would take exception, on principle, to that word gullible, which I think is a value judgement. In matters of religious faith,

Re: [silk] Fascism?

2007-10-04 Thread Biju Chacko
On 10/4/07, Venky TV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/3/07, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/3/07, ashok_ wrote: If people are gullible enough to believe something, they should be allowed to. Well..I would take exception, on principle, to that word gullible, which I think is

Re: [silk] Fascism?

2007-10-04 Thread Venky TV
On 10/4/07, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd say gullibility would be belief in something illogical without realising it's illogical. Religious belief (very often) is a conscious choice to believe in something irrational. Fair enough, though I'd expect the majority of the hard-core

Re: [silk] Fascism?

2007-10-04 Thread Thaths
On 10/3/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is allowed always associated with a government? Can it not be that the people don't allow someone to write crap by telling him to stop doing it? I say allow in the humblest form, if there is one, where people tell a writer to cease and

Re: [silk] 9/11 again

2007-10-04 Thread shiv sastry
A little OT but two Indian army majors were killed in action to eliminate 9 armed intruders from Pakistan a couple of days ago A cousin of one of those Army officers has made this blog entry: http://bohemianfreespirit.blogspot.com/2007/10/saying-goodbye-is-another-way-of-saying.html shiv

Re: [silk] Fascism?

2007-10-04 Thread shiv sastry
On Thursday 04 Oct 2007 3:05 pm, ashok _ wrote: AIDS actually originated from an american polio vaccine trial gone wrong. Isn't the polio vaccine designed to make Muslims infertile? shiv

Re: [silk] 9/11 again

2007-10-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
A little OT but two Indian army majors were killed in action to eliminate 9 armed intruders from Pakistan a couple of days ago A cousin of one of those Army officers has made this blog entry: http://bohemianfreespirit.blogspot.com/2007/10/saying-goodbye-is- another-way-of-saying.html

Re: [silk] 9/11 again

2007-10-04 Thread shiv sastry
On Thursday 04 Oct 2007 8:36 pm, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: What exactly was the size of the Rashtriya Rifles detachment going after these militants? Majors command a whole battalion if am not wrong - that's at least two companies in strength, about 150..200 people each, right?  What were

Re: [silk] 9/11 again

2007-10-04 Thread Nandkumar Saravade
shiv sastry wrote: On Thursday 04 Oct 2007 8:36 pm, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: What exactly was the size of the Rashtriya Rifles detachment going after these militants? Majors command a whole battalion if am not wrong - that's at least two companies in strength, about 150..200 people

Re: [silk] 9/11 again

2007-10-04 Thread ashok _
On 10/4/07, Nandkumar Saravade wrote: entire world! To lead from the front, this is the officers creed, not Rs 15,000 a month! (http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/showcolumns.aspx?id=COLEN20070021325)/ One of the reasons why the army is experiencing a severe shortage of officers. Also why ,

Re: [silk] 9/11 again

2007-10-04 Thread shiv sastry
A related article http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Young_officers_lead_from_the_front/articleshow/2430534.cms BTW Nandakumar - I saw you on NDTV re cybercrime. I sent an SMS saying that the govt should shift to OSS but NDTV ignored my SMS. So much for my importance in the scheme of

Re: [silk] Fascism?

2007-10-04 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Venky TV wrote: I know only one other Venky here. The other one is a Venkat. Nah nah nah nah naaah nah! So there! This is the other Venkat. You are right, I prefer Venki not Venky.

Re: [silk] Fascism?

2007-10-04 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Thaths wrote: Because the tyranny of the masses is still a tyranny. Where did tyranny come into the picture? Don't remember anybody ordering someone to cease and desist. I used tell someone to cease and desist. Not allow was used in the sense of using public outcry to make a person stop.

Re: [silk] Fascism?

2007-10-04 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-10-05 09:04:40 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because the tyranny of the masses is still a tyranny. Where did tyranny come into the picture? [...] Not allow was used in the sense of using public outcry to make a person stop. Oh, you mean those genteel demonstrations of

Re: [silk] 9/11 again

2007-10-04 Thread Nandkumar Saravade
shiv sastry wrote: A related article http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Young_officers_lead_from_the_front/articleshow/2430534.cms BTW Nandakumar - I saw you on NDTV re cybercrime. I sent an SMS saying that the govt should shift to OSS but NDTV ignored my SMS. So much for my

Re: [silk] Fascism?

2007-10-04 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 10/4/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 04 Oct 2007 3:05 pm, ashok _ wrote: AIDS actually originated from an american polio vaccine trial gone wrong. Isn't the polio vaccine designed to make Muslims infertile? Timba! Cheeni

[silk] Thoughts during a meeting..

2007-10-04 Thread Gautam John
Something that we all experience http://www.joethepeacock.com/2007/10/unordered-list-of-thoughts-i-had-during.php... ___ An unordered list of thoughts I had during a conference call with a potential client today - There's no way in hell this is going to be under thirty minutes.