HasGeek is organizing a GeekUp with Erica Hagen of the GroundTruth
Initiative on 1st March, 5 PM, at the Centre for Internet and Society
(CIS), Domlur.
Erica will speak on the theme: From Information to Empowerment: Unpacking
the Equation. Below is the gist of Erica's talk.
Interested persons
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Cheeni found that ironic :). And for every such empire builder type who died
poor, there's no shortage of his peers who started out poor but died filthy
rich. I wish we could say this was about natural justice
Yes but how much education do you actually need to swing a sword and get
whatever rudimentary amount of military tactics you'd need in those days, much
before the series of 17th - 19th century wars that built a corps of
professional soldiers whose officers treated war as a science to be
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Yes but how much education do you actually need to swing a sword and get
whatever rudimentary amount of military tactics you'd need in those days,
much before the series of 17th - 19th century wars that built a
Cheeni wrote:
If they were a better educated lot, they could even have declared independence
and broken away from Spain and Portugal and formed a United State of South
America
on a democratic model, but they didn't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_de_las_Casas
Pizzarro's
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Pizzarro's brother Gonzalo did try - and defeated and killed a viceroy that
the king sent to replace him.
Rebellion to form a feudal state is some thing else - we are talking
in hypotheticals here - the reality is
Well .. you're describing sort of what happened in India in your first
paragraph.
You didn't quite get my point - the Napoleonic wars were a later instance of
the same thing you mention - a rebellion against spain.
That rebellion by Pizzarro failed. Mainly because most of his supporters
On 2/23/12 11:20 AM February 23, 2012, Thaths wrote:
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org
mailto:eu...@leitl.org wrote:
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 06:28:48AM -0800, Thaths wrote:
Off topic. A question about netiquette. So Is it no longer
gauche to
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Heather Madrone heat...@madrone.com wrote:
This is pushing me in the direction of top-posting.
Why not push you in the direction of a new email program? What
features are becoming important in email programs these days? I know
that for me the decision to move to
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd had enough of the silliness of
pine/eudora/mulberry/outlook/mutt/thunderbird madness.
Should really read:
I'd had enough of the silliness of
pine/eudora/mulberry/outlook/mutt/thunderbird data migration madness.
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Pizzarro's brother Gonzalo did try - and defeated and killed a viceroy that
the king sent to replace him.
Rebellion to form a feudal
I find bottom posting gauche and insensitive. Its difficult to read, and I
really can't understand why its still relevant today. I suppose its one of
those quaint vestigal remnants of an early form of netiquette?
--Original Message--
From: Eugen Leitl
Sender:
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:44 PM, thew...@gmail.com wrote:
I find bottom posting gauche and insensitive. Its difficult to read, and I
really can't understand why its still relevant today. I suppose its one of
those quaint vestigal remnants of an early form of netiquette?
Bottom posting makes
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:44 AM, thew...@gmail.com wrote:
I find bottom posting gauche and insensitive. Its difficult to read,
Please explain why bottom posting is difficult to read.
and I really can't understand why its still relevant today. I suppose its
one of those quaint vestigal
There's this deep seated inverse relationship between cultural
diversity and trust that is going to be a challenge when we undeniably
face increasing globalization, and personal mobility.
Cash on delivery is quite common in India; and it's small businesses
that often work this way - you can call
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
There's this deep seated inverse relationship between cultural
diversity and trust that is going to be a challenge when we undeniably
face increasing globalization, and personal mobility.
On college campuses, which
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Well .. you're describing sort of what happened in India in your first
paragraph.
Also the USA.
Gmail on the web has its own idiosyncracies and some context sensitive
advertising that occasionally tends to the bizzarre
So while you may not want to use anything else, or someone else may not want to
move beyond mutt and emacs (both of which I use and top post with too..) -
there's little
Yes but either or both could have gone an entirely different way
Like the USA might easily have ended up with a junta of initially enlightened
types like jefferson and ben franklin, or maybe split into lots of little
states like the Balkans.
And if 1857 or some of the earlier wars had
On Saturday 25 Feb 2012 4:07:57 am Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
Switzerland (where I live now) has such little cultural diversity, and
the government does such a good job of generally keeping the bad guys
out that most spheres of life have a sort of blind trust. You can get
on a train and almost
On 24-Feb-12 8:05 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
you perform what was seen as (and declared by the pope as) your sacred duty
to make Christians out of poor benighted pagans, saving them from eternal
flames by torturing a guy here, executing a guy there ..
This explains why it is so
Except perhaps for the missionary position, I doubt whether they contributed
anything useful at all in general.
eoe specific contributions by more scholarly types (fr. Constantine Joseph
Beschi in tamil etc) of course.
--Original Message--
From: Udhay Shankar N
Sender:
Glomped from the Oct 2011 edition of Vogue India--
If aliens ever attempted to decipher India through contemporary Hindi
movies, they would be forced to conclude that the entire country is
Punjabi. Which also apparently means that all of us are exuberant,
boisterously affectionate affectionate
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