A wonderful initiative from both a social and developmental
perspective. Infrastructure in Kerala could do with some improvement.
I'm not aware of any country where standard banking and Islamic
banking regulations coexist and it would be very interesting how
regulations will change to accomodate
Kiran,
Apologies for the top post (blame it on blackberry).
I am assuming as one of the target population, I found this an intersting
develpment. I have to admit that I came across a report on Forrester on islamic
banking, I am gald that kerala gov has taken the initiative for right or wrong
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:24 PM, anish.moham...@gmail.com wrote:
Kiran,
Apologies for the top post (blame it on blackberry).
I am assuming as one of the target population, I found this an intersting
develpment. I have to admit that I came across a report on Forrester on
islamic banking, I am
2009/10/8 anish.moham...@gmail.com
Co-existance of islamic ( this definition is gray area) with normal banking
exists in some european countries, I believe there is even a few operating
in US (according to report).
I'm aware of co-existence to the extent that they are available, but are
they
Apolpgies for top post again, the concept of insurance (as we know it) is
unislamic (with my limited knowledge), so I be suprised if one would expect
such a thing. The key with islamic banking is investor shares ur risk ( again
limited knowledge)
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:55 PM, anish.moham...@gmail.com wrote:
Apolpgies for top post again, the concept of insurance (as we know it) is
unislamic (with my limited knowledge), so I be suprised if one would expect
such a thing. The key with islamic banking is investor shares ur risk (
again
On Thursday 08 Oct 2009 10:02:51 am Udhay Shankar N wrote:
I hope that when the time comes, I will choose life. ALS kills only
motor neurons, which carry signals to the muscles.
I wish this man well.
My own father chose death. I was by his side and fed him his last meal - much
of which went
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 03:01:45PM +0530, ss wrote:
My own father chose death. I was by his side and fed him his last meal - much
of which went into his lungs. The thing that died was not really my father,
who had gone some months earlier.
Sad to hear that. Nasogastric tube or parenteral
On Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 10:05:23 am Shoba Narayan wrote:
October 17 is Diwali day, I cannot. If the day can be moved, please
let me know.
ditto for me
shiv
On Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 2:04:21 pm Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Indeed, China appears to be the most enthusiastic of
all the financial powers involved, not least because of its enormous
trade with the Middle East.
What's in it for China? If China can't trade oil in US$ what will China do
with the
ss wrote, [on 10/8/2009 3:24 PM]:
Indeed, China appears to be the most enthusiastic of
all the financial powers involved, not least because of its enormous
trade with the Middle East.
What's in it for China? If China can't trade oil in US$ what will China do
with the $ 1 trillion its
Udhay Shankar N [08/10/09 15:30 +0530]:
Very good question, that I was wondering about too. Maybe we'll find out
more over the next few weeks.
It depends - how much do we want to hurt ourselves while hurting the USA
might be one potential question that gets asked. Or a way to drive down $
Amidst this talk of silkmeets c., something that has been on my mind:
Silklist will be 12 years old in December. A fair while to keep chugging
along.
Any thoughts on things to do?
Udhay
--
((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
2009/10/8 Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com
Amidst this talk of silkmeets c., something that has been on my mind:
Silklist will be 12 years old in December. A fair while to keep chugging
along.
Any thoughts on things to do
Get a cake with 12 inextinguishable candles and ask all habitual top
This time on the mouse over text
http://xkcd.com/527/http://xkcd.com/527/
Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Any thoughts on things to do?
Let's all toast to silk... drink a 12-yr old single malt...
V
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm aware of co-existence to the extent that they are available, but are
they also covered by regulations, deposit insurance etc.? Are there for
example, different capital adequacy norms for Islamic
2009/10/8 ss cybers...@gmail.com
On Wednesday 07 Oct 2009 2:04:21 pm Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Indeed, China appears to be the most enthusiastic of
all the financial powers involved, not least because of its enormous
trade with the Middle East.
What's in it for China? If China can't trade
On Thursday 08 Oct 2009 3:12:53 pm Eugen Leitl wrote:
Sad to hear that. Nasogastric tube or parenteral feeding was not an option?
No. My father was a brave man in his life. But he was chicken when it came to
surgery. He died the night before I was to have a feeding gastrostomy done.
How are
On Thursday 08 Oct 2009 3:34:08 pm Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Any thoughts on things to do?
Hang in there for another 12 years?
shiv
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 04:26:39PM +0530, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote:
The problem that China faces is that with its $200 billion trade surplus
with the US, and most of the foreign direct investment into China being in
$, and the fact that it doesn't want to devalue its own currency means it
On Thursday 08 Oct 2009 3:34:08 pm Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Silklist will be 12 years old in December. A fair while to keep chugging
along.
The thread title actually reminded me of a (beautiful, classic) Hindi song
yodeled by Kishore Kumar
Pach rupaiya
barah anna
Marega bhaiya
na baba na..
2009/10/8 Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org
Oh, and I'm still working on the pirate party program:
http://eugen.leitl.org/pirateprogram.txt and could use some input.
No inputs, but I like symmetric upstream/downstream. In India,
upload is usually less than half of the download bandwidth, though one
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 04:52:36PM +0530, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote:
No inputs, but I like symmetric upstream/downstream. In India,
upload is usually less than half of the download bandwidth, though one
ISP has a symmetric plan now.
It is obvious why assymetric bandwidth is the norm, people
--- On Thu, 8/10/09, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
From: ss cybers...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [silk] Barah anno
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Thursday, 8 October, 2009, 4:42 PM
On Thursday 08 Oct 2009 3:34:08 pm
Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Silklist will be 12 years old in December. A
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Aadisht Khanna aadisht.gro...@gmail.com wrote:
[1] Only mild exaggeration. The Islamic Banking division of my former
employer was run by a TamBrahm. The most senior Muslims were the advisory
council who passed judgement on whether the products devised were halal
Apologies for top post
Hi That's,
I had concerns along similiar lines ( there is lot of grey area in this space,
if it is regular bankers (implying not influenced by sharia), then practice
would be different from theory/advice )
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
-Original
Udhay (no this is NOT a top-post)...who was the second person on the list?
The first ten people...or 12 people?
Valid, though not pc question to ask...are all the members alive?
And how did you celebrate the tenth anniversary?
Deepa.
No No - I was spouting Hindu philosophy there. Death is not the end of
life.
Death is an essential and unavoidable component of life.
I learnt a little more about this disease when I went for this walk:
http://walkcsoh.alsa.org/site/TR?sid=4340type=fr_informationalpg=informationalfr_id=5837
Deepa Mohan wrote, [on 10/8/2009 7:50 PM]:
Udhay (no this is NOT a top-post)...who was the second person on the list?
I was, I think, or maybe it was Ram. Bharath was the first person on the
list [1] - he was the list admin (as opposed to the cat-herder) for
several years.
The first ten
Would anyone nearabouts Indiranagar , Airport road bangalore be having the
Dell Cd for this model ? I have a laptop given to me without the CD but am
not able to proceed after Windows installation. it does not recognize the
network card and some other peripherals
I have tried downloading the
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
[...]
What are your thoughts around how to commemorate this anniversary?
When and where is the annual meetup, i.e foucamp? I might want to
combine it with a trip to India.
Cheeni
Deepak Misra wrote:
Would anyone nearabouts Indiranagar , Airport road bangalore be having the
Dell Cd for this model ? I have a laptop given to me without the CD but am
not able to proceed after Windows installation. it does not recognize the
network card and some other peripherals
I have
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.comwrote:
This time on the mouse over text
http://xkcd.com/527/http://xkcd.com/527/
I got a 404 on that
Deepa.
Srini RamaKrishnan wrote, [on 10/8/2009 9:30 PM]:
When and where is the annual meetup, i.e foucamp? I might want to
combine it with a trip to India.
Still open - no fixed date, so throw in your India dates and we'll work
something around it.
Udhay
--
((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com))
Deepa Mohan wrote:
http://xkcd.com/527/http://xkcd.com/527/
I got a 404 on that
A-ha, I see the problem. I pasted the link twice. Try this please...
http://xkcd.com/527/
V
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.comwrote:
Deepak Misra wrote:
Try Ubuntu! You'll not miss anything. :-) As a bonus, your devices
should work right away.
If you insist on sticking with Windows, let me find out if anybody I
know can help.
Ubuntu is the
Deepak Misra wrote:
Ubuntu is the fall back plan. This is for my children who are die hard
windows supporters due to familiarity. I do have Ubuntu installed on my
desktop
If you have enough memory, install Ubuntu and Virtual Box. Run windows
within Virtual box. All devices should work, I
2009/10/8 Deepak Misra dee...@deepakmisra.com:
Would anyone nearabouts Indiranagar , Airport road bangalore be having the
Dell Cd for this model ? I have a laptop given to me without the CD but am
not able to proceed after Windows installation. it does not recognize the
network card and some
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/10/8 Deepak Misra dee...@deepakmisra.com:
Would anyone nearabouts Indiranagar , Airport road bangalore be having
the
Dell Cd for this model ? I have a laptop given to me without the CD but
am
2009/10/8 Kiran K Karthikeyan kiran.karthike...@gmail.com:
and the fact that it doesn't want to devalue its own currency means it
has to keep buying $ to keep it at its current level.
Correction - buying $ actually leads to the value of the Yuan
decreasing. What they don't want is it
2009/10/8 Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ab/dying_outside/
I may even still be able to write code, and my dream is to
contribute to open source software projects even from within an
immobile body. That will be a life very much worth living.
Though it is not clear
Kiran K Karthikeyan [09/10/09 01:07 +0530]:
Though it is not clear from the article, I wonder if the rationale is
based on economics i.e. the justification for the costs of being kept
alive is that he is still able to contribute to such projects.
The rationale is to find a reason, any reason
This is one of the standard models in my company. So I should be able
to get the drivers from my IT dept. My office is in Diamond District
on Old Airport Rd so that should work. Contact me offlist to
co-ordinate.
-- b
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Deepak Misra dee...@deepakmisra.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
This is one of the standard models in my company. So I should be able
to get the drivers from my IT dept. My office is in Diamond District
on Old Airport Rd so that should work. Contact me offlist to
co-ordinate.
-- b
http://xkcd.com/647
This happens to me everyday at work. I'll toss out a reference to Top
Gun or Bladerunner and somebody'll ask why they should recognise a
reference to something that happened before they were born.
-- b
work. Quite likely that i installed them in the wrong order.
The correct order is here:
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?docid=1A0C0937D62A8739E0401E0A55174744
Ram
It happens to me a lot with He-Man and Giant Robot.
That said, everyone recognizes Star Wars quotes (though that came out even
before I was born).
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
http://xkcd.com/647
This happens to me everyday at work. I'll toss out
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