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Deep within a dolphin's body it's temperature is normally 35 degrees to 36.9 degrees, while it's outer body temperature is usually cooler. In comparison, man's body temperature is 37.3 degrees

http://www.indianchild.com/dolphins.htm

Maybe dolphins evolved that way because sperm's ideal temperature is constant across species. IANAB so can only speculate.

Or as Thomas Jefferson, founder of the Democratic Party put it more eloquently - "To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. Their maxim is boni judicis est ampliare jurisdictionem [good justice is broad jurisdiction], and their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots." (1820)

and...

"the Federal Judiciary - an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scarecrow), working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into just one. When all government... in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated. (1821)

More - http://www.indianchild.com/thomas_jefferson.htm

MMS is basic. Like *really* basic: SMS and WAP. See http://www.indianchild.com/mms_sms_gateway.htm for an explanation. No hardware requirements other than having a screen and audio to display low-quality media messages. This is why it's been in all GSM handsets made in the last 10 years or so.

"Because of a permanent underclass of slaves and near slaves the developers get all their needs for housing, food, clothing etc met dirt cheap"

Where did you get that drivel from? I've grown up in India and I have several dozen friends who work there in the technology sector, and I've yet to meet or hear of this "permanent underclass of slaves or near slaves".

"If India ever outlaws child labor.."

Child labor is already outlawed in India. [Official policy][Unofficial report] It's a huge country and child labor does happen occassionally in city underbellies or in far flung rural regions, but no one can legally do it, and it is not a prevalent phenomenon.

"In actually a plummer gets just as much money as a code monkey if not more and your job is not likely to be outsourced. Think about it"

Plumbers will make as much money as code monkeys only in an economy where there is a shortage of plumbers. In a country like India where there is no shortage of skilled labor, plumbers will never be able to charge the big bucks that the average American plumber can. Think about that.

Because that's far less practical to sustain. And I'm pretty sure your calculation's off. 1 in six people in India for $200m? At $100 subsidy per laptop, you'd be providing 2m laptops, which, if your assertion is correct, would put the population of India at ~12m. According to http://www.indianchild.com/population_of_india.htm , the population of India is over 1 billion. to outfit 1 in 6 people with a laptop you would then be providing 1.67 x 10^8 laptops, which at $100 subsidy a laptop will cost ~$1.7 billion.

The Earth is apparently "a little over 7,600 miles in diameter", which equates to about 2,400 miles down.

A comic strip, a Washington Post editorial, and using the Slashdot community as an example ... doesn't sound like much of an argument to me. If you're saying the western world hasn't come a long, long way from how women used to be treated, I ain't buying it.

The world I know - the third world - is on its way. It's happening. We're going slowly - there's a lot of history, a lot of stereotypes, a lot of social rules to get over - but you know what? We'll get there someday. The cosmopolitan upper classes, they're *there*. The rest will take time to catch up - maybe a lot of time - but there are people working at it.

Advice to parent poster: relax. We can only change the world one person at a time. If you're in a hurry, you can always help out.

Given the these facts About 70% of the people live in more than 550,000 villages, and the remainder in more than 200 towns and cities.
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With one billion people in India, what is being done to increase the number of employable people? Granted, while we in the US may not like our jobs leaving, it must be helpful to Indians. What is being done to increase the employability of the average Indian?

India's received trillions in AID. Now that it looks like India's all grown up, it's time to keep that money for the poor in the donor's home countries.

Nuclear weapons? Missile technology? Yeah that's exactly what India needs to feed its teeming masses!

I wish governments could be more people-serving. But I guess as people climb the food chain they inevitably forget how important silly little things like food and shelter are at the bottom.