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India has also had an active thorium research program for several years. They happen to have the the second or third largest deposits of thorium sands in the world - some of it's actually the beach! :)

There is a project proposed to build a canal several miles from one of the best deposits to a deepwater port location, however this canal has some resistance on both cultural and environmental grounds.

I get the impression from various reading that most of India's work has been on a solid thorium-based reactor, rather than the molten salt method. This article is from October, but the Indians have been working since at least 2007, as I have seen some blogs from back then by folks who want to prevent export of this resource. If I read this article correctly, India's work on LFTR was one of the factors behind the deal with the US (the "so-called 123 Agreement") signed in 2007, allowing India some slack on nuclear fuel, materials and equipment, despite not being a signatory of the non-proliferation treaty.

Again if I read things right, India has at least one, maybe two reactors in operation that presently use solid Thorium as part of the fuel. They also have a successful design for a thorium based fast breeder reactor - but my personal issue with that is its ability to make U-233 which is a potential bomb material. See also this.

Warren Buffett and Ahmadinijad agree!

2009 http://www.zerohedge.com/article/here-why-dollar-now-effectively-worthless

2008 http://www.marketwatch.com/story/warren-buffett-says-us-dollar-worthless-if-account-deficit-persists

2007 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21870271/ns/business-world_business/ ...

2003 http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/12-16g-04.asp

Hey, if I had that many double-consonants in my full name, would I be rich, too?

We know for a fact that geomagnetic reversals (including a period of dozens to hundreds of years without a significant magnetic field) happen several times every million years. They are not accompanied by mass extinctions. Therefore, we would not fry.

Don't you read any scientific journals? http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/1753.asp

Seems if you want something not to be pirated in China, how about adding extras like the Dalai Lama, Falon Gong or Tiananmen Square? Software makers, be sure to feature a Falon Gong extra in the tutorials. Movie makers: How about a cameo by the Dalai Lama in the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie? Google Maps: when you zoom in on Tiananmen, show perspective mapped photos of what really happened.

Seriously: I have a friend who just got back from a visit in China. He said the Communist Party is very scared about losing its grip on society. They've very, very worried about losing control. Something you haven't heard in the mainstream media: Chinese, particularly the poorer ones, are really sick of the rich getting richer. When the Chinese Government wants to build a road, they pick a poor area, flatten it and kick the poor locals out. Increasingly, people are getting sick of it and the government is worried: This is why they're banning things left, right and center: http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/2275.asp http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK165285 .htm http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/21/world/asia/21cnd -china.html?ex=1337400000&en=578ee101ec63e955&ei=5 090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

India has a "home grown" polar satellite launch vehicle now so if Gates wants people to take his stand in favor of unlimited H-1b engineers imported to the US seriously, he should launch himself to space on that vehicle.

"A lot of research is focusing on creating an opening into the higher dimensional Hyperspace that contain innumerable universes. If it can be done, our whole world will change. We will leap forward in the advancement of science and technologies by millions of years.

Every black hole has a central singularity. These are points where mathematical modeling fails. That is because we assume every thing is 3-D. But the fact of the matter is these centers of black holes are singularities in 3-D but are actually simply transition points in higher dimensions..." [source]

Whoa

after all, they oursource too. What are you going to buy, Cyrix? *snicker*.

So an article on /. and yahoo makes it true? well aren't you just a gullible liberal lunatic.

Guess what!? THE EARTH IS GOING TO EXPLODE!!! BOOM

*Shrug*. My country has been targetted by Islamic terrorists for about two decades. They are backed by a Chinese/US/Saudi Arabia supported, armed and funded nuclear power. The Islamic terrorists already have nukes. Believe me, it really can't get worse from where I sit.

http://www.kashmir-information.com/Terrorism/
https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/ornet/2002 -June/004544.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_Kashmir
http://www.kashmirherald.com/january2002/kashmirte rrorismupdate.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10958641/
http://www.brookings.edu/views/op-ed/fellows/beher a_20020525.htm
http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/publication/faultlin es/volume16/Article1.htm
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/pakistan/nuke/index. html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/12/terror/m ain648733.shtml
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/1577.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_and_weapons_ of_mass_destruction
http://www.parapundit.com/archives/000575.html
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20040104-102921-916 6r.htm

And you think I worry about teeny little things like giving nukes to Lebanon forcing Israel to openly declare its nuclear status? I suspect you need to learn a little bit more about the rest of the world.

Sorry to bust your bragging about Indian women but lately, the sex ratio of the country has dropped to around 930 which implies nearly 40 million Indian women have been wiped off the planet (no, Nazis don't come close even though the colonial and post-colonial genocides by the British and Americans might): http://www.indiatogether.org/2004/apr/hlt-csratio. htm .

Yes, many Indians from the Indian upper middle class have managed to launch themselves into US (and elsewhere in the West) and grab enough merited jobs to cause panic amongst Americans (read "racist white christian males") but the vast majority of Indians are still rotting in an unimaginably socially oppressive environment that is based on casteism and anti-women practices. As per the human development report, http://hdr.undp.org/statistics/data/indicators.cfm ?x=24&y=1&z=1 , almost 80% of Indians live below the US$ 2/day income level. And yes, Iran and Saudi Arabia have higher HDI than India. Not to mention India now has 5+ million AIDS cases and is only 2nd to Africa in AIDS. And did I forget to mention that in your vaunted Indian law rape within marriage is not considered a crime ( http://www.intersectworldwide.org/statistics.html ). And rape is on its way up there ( http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/2554.asp ). Need I go on?

BTW, your "voluntary dowry" phrase made me laugh! Just shows that an entire society (including the "educated" elite) has succumbed to the social evil instead of fighting it.

The parent's link that got lost.

Outsourced the shuttle to a private company
Nasa is looking to outsource even more!
The article title made me laugh in light of your comment.

Like almost every other branch of the government, NASA does outsource. They contract out the building of almost any sort of vehicle out to private companies who are all competing for it.

Now if you think I'm just picking apart your statement for fun, you're only half right, look at this:

In light of this article, scary.

My dad - yes yes he does NOT live in China - has an even stronger opinion than I have. He firmly believes that people are getting paid by the US government to bash the Chinese government. When the Chinese government does something, everybody yells 'OMG those communist bastards are 3v1l!!!'. But when the US government does something, almost nobody says a word.

In China people actually do get paid to write bad things about the American, Tawianese and Japanese government. Admittedly, they don't make up stories as a pure propagandist would, but they do exagerate them in exactly the manner you complain of - Not to excuse US reporters who employ this tactic.

Take the gigantic nationalistic protests against Japan. Spurred mostly by inflated or outright false reports concerning two textbooks published by a private company used in at most a handful of school districts. These textbooks were in no way ever endorsed by the Japanese government or supported by the majority of the Japanese populace. The chearleaders of these textbooks are the same in proportion to Neo Nazis in Germany.

Why would the Chinese government want to add fuel to this fire you ask? Because it gave them ammo to deny Japan on a cherished seat on the UN security council. At the same time China supports Germany's (ever heard of the holocaust?) bid for a seat on the security council... something doesn't add up

Manmade problem or overheating sun, it won't matter much if we lose 100 miles of coastland to rising ocean levels

I think this is a very good point , as is the fact of our sun getting hotter year after year .

Their are plenty of other reasons to stop burning fossil fuels, like the poisons that enter
our air, water, and soil .

Also it has been found that underwater volcanic activity is on the rise as well .

http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/1904.asp

Something to consider indeed .

Major geological shifts and release of heat .

I am not saying this to nullify the negative aspects of human vehicles, but it does make one
wonder how rapid the climate shift is about to be .

I think 2012 will interesting .

Ex-MislTech

First of all, they are charging $10,00 for that. OSS need not apply.

Second of all, even though there is boat loads of it, I doubt the documentation is comprehensive. Note that the DoJ is upset that Microsoft has not released documentation it agreed to do so in the 2001 settlement

Furthermore, all avaliable evidence suggests that the Documentation currently offered to the EU is effectively broken

Aliens entering their war machines, SUV drivers, or seismic activity.
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/6320.asp

"The Physical Universe is connected with the underlying Hyperspace by some sparsely distributed particle size small windows called Fermions. These Fermions literally connect our universe with the 5-D Hyperspace."

India Daily reported this back in July.

Keep up Westerners!

http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/3799.asp
""The superstring theory in contemporary physics proves the existence of parallel universe with many higher dimensions where advanced alien civilizations prosper ""

Certainly this is nothing to do with quantum physics, in fact it is more disinformation than negative information, but you know the old line about the best lies being hidden in between two truths?...well take this as an example:

www.indiadaily.com

Looks like the web-site of an Indian newspaper right?
Wrong, I'm afraid, although at first it seems to be the completely legitimate web-site of a real newspaper, it is in-fact not even Indian, it is run from San-Jose, in the United States of America!
AND it is run by just one person!

How is this negative information, I hear you ask?
Well look more closely - at the technology pages in particular:

http://www.indiadaily.com/comp.asp

Haha! Are you freaked out yet?

Now needless to say if you have checked the links, this site is the worst piece of yellow journalism you are ever likely to see, although the term 'science fiction' would be more appropriate.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism)

However I think this is a good example of real-world negative information, think about it for a moment, and you will realize that this 'news' site is not designed for people in India, as it is written in the English language, with no other languages available.
My guess is that it is most likely designed for immigrants living in other country's where they have little or no access to printed news material in there own language.

As for the negative (or dis-) information - well most of it is very clearly spotted, however there is also much on this site that is yet more delusional fantasy, even in the 'world news' and 'politics' sections, the simple way to tell what's fact from distorted fiction, is the name of the writer / reporter, The delusional fantasy crap has either regular (Indian) names, or is marked at 'indiadaily technology team' where as all the real news, is simply marked as 'media release' and 99% of the time is copy and pasted from other *real* news sites.

As for the Effect this negative information would have on any mentally vulnerable person or even someone who is not so well educated and who is separated from his home country, one doesn't really want to imagine.

Any script-kiddies out there willing to *cough* *cough*.....did I say something?

Who says that they're not being paid fairly? Are you comparing their pay to the local norm or what they would get paid for doing the job in Berlin?

Brits in Indian call centres?
Indian pay rises highest in Asia
Call centre is my dream job

Some call centres in India no doubt pay badly but then so do some call centres and many other employers in Europe/US.

Any particular reason then why you think call centres have to be in the country they support?

Who says that they're not being paid fairly based on the local economy? You're not expecting them to earn the same as someone working in Berlin?

Brits in Indian call centres?
Indian pay rises highest in Asia
Call centre is my dream job

Any particular reason then why you think call centres have to be in the country they support? Personally, as long as the other country can do it cheaper and provide an adequate level of service, it should go overseas. There's no reason why the consumer should be subsidising jobs for the natives.

But you do have faith in aircraft components or software from India? If not, you're out of luck...

How do you think outsourcing got presidential support? (link from last year)

is here.

Better working conditions? If their work life was like this, I might forgive them for fantasizing about stealing:

Work life in India - one view
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/2145.asp

Britain should export unions as well as jobs: Conditions don''t always fit the public image when UK call center jobs go to India, as trade union activist Michael Cooke discovered on a recent trip
Michael Cooke, The Guardian - UK
Apr. 2, 2005

Gagan Sameer shakes his head slowly as he recalls the moment he realized he couldn''t take any more.

The crunch came last July towards the end of another all-night shift at one of Delhi's giant call centers.

"I pleaded with my line manager: ''I have literally put in all my energy, without food and water for the past seven hours, and all I am seeking is a 10-15 minute break to allow myself to finish the shift''.

"To which she said, 'see what happens now'' and called the call center's process manager on his cell phone. She told him in front of me ''Gagan Sameer is refusing to take calls''."

Two months later, he was sacked. Today he is out of work, minus his car and with a career in tatters. But, he says, he simply had no choice.

Before he was sacked in September after protesting about working conditions, the 28-year-old graduate was an experienced technical consultant at leading Indian outsourcer Wipro Spectramind, part of a 35-strong team troubleshooting IT problems for employees at a large US investment company.

Wipro refuses to discuss the details of individual company processes. A company spokesperson said Gagan Sameer was asked to leave the company for "compromising company integrity". He also said Mr Sameer failed to take his grievances through the company ombudsperson.

Parent company Wipro Technologies is fast becoming a major global IT player. It is unlikely to ever be a household name in the UK, but it is proving popular with major British companies, such as Prudential, Friends Provident and Thames Water which use its offshore software development. This Bangalore-based operation accounted for three-quarters of Wipro Technologies'' $1bn revenue in 2004.

Prudential says it has always found the company to be consistently professional. Friends Provident and Thames Water declined to comment.

But Mr Sameer's experience is as much part of the Indian call centre scene as the glowing faces seen in Jobs & Money earlier this year when we told the stories of two young British graduates who swapped their jobs here for what they said were rewarding and lucrative jobs in Indian call centres.

Like many other call centre and back office processing centres, Wipro's Spectramind Indian division is growing quickly. It alone has a workforce of 14,000, part of an industry which barely existed a decade ago and yet which now employs more than 300,000 across India - and is growing by 50% a year.

However, its call centre in Delhi's Okhla industrial park is far from the gleaming towers of some rivals. I saw some 2,000 people work in the squat, whitewashed, dusty building.

Inside, ceilings are low and there is little natural light. Space feels cramped and the atmosphere stale and heavy. Signs on the wall warn staff that loss of their ID tag will cost them the equivalent of half a day's pay. On my visit, groups of tired-looking agents were being debriefed by team leaders in "huddles" which follow every nine and a half hour shift. There were few smiles.

Mr Sameer's nine months at Wipro went wrong right from the outset. He says he was told he would earn more than at his job with rival outsourcer vCustomer - although the big bucks never materialised. But it wasn''t just lack of breaks or pay.

Mr Sameer and his colleague Rohit Kharbanda (not his real name) say they experienced a series of problems from phone rage, enforced, unpaid overtime, to constant pressure and bullying. They say they were not the only ones.

Well there is no need to bother about this claim.In india everything can be done.Like story of this guy who topped NASA's examination.(which NASA does not conduct) (This story appeared sometime back in the entire Indian media) http://www.indiadaily.com/breaking_news/25602.asp then this http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/102 3507.cms (Times of India is considered to be the most reputable from India) Now appears the real story on BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4283733.stm so wait for BBC :p cheers

Yes, but where did Pakistan get it's nuke technology? China was the root of the problem.