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Time was running out for India to declare itself as an ASAT power to join the US, Russia and China. The United Nations Conference on Disarmament is discussing a new treaty banning militarisation of space. Once the treaty is done and had India not carried out the ASAT test it would put New Delhi at a serious disadvantage, as it would then only be able to negotiate on such a new treaty as an “outsider” rather than an “insider” with ASAT capability.

and their cars catch fire

At least they weren't big fires. They were Nano fires.

and their cars catch fire

To that I can only respond with an actual image of a Telecom New Zealand bill:

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020218/login/bill.jpg

what about this http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20041201/dl2.jpg

Jerks. Your comments were very supple; argue with this:

http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/develop/2002/1 112starvation.htm
http://members.aol.com/frost11030/fightingfuturefa mine/AndyAlkon.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2000/ASIANOW/south/12/15/in dia.starvation.reut/
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20021102/edit.htm #1
http://bpark.ahrchk.net/

Where is your respect for human life?

What????? Simpler and more secure? A bullet in your ass is simpler, but is it more secure as well? Label me a troll for saying this, but go live there and bitch how USA sucks then come back and suck my dick.

Just like the artist of the music couldn't be found guilty of copyright infringement on music they created.

I wouldn't be so sure about that...

More importantly though, how much of the song must be downloaded for it to stand as proof of illegal distribution? The whole song? Half? A second or two? What if the first two seconds of the song is silence... a mislabeled file might indicate guilt where there is none. For that matter, how do you know from two seconds of a download if you have a complete song, or just a sample mashed into another song entirely?

Well maybe one of these will suit...

or one of these

omg, lmfao, i can't believe it.. a f*ckin indian terrorist is speaking about Hindus right in Pakistan? omg.. after writing up all the false information on wikipedia, he is giving the links to the same article! oh and just look at the level of jealousy of these indians! they simply can't believe it that Pakistan is developing the worlds largest WiMAX network! hahahahahaha! he surely is in denial. Now you talk about democracy? tell me where is democracy? Your nazi facist terrorist Goverment kills thousands of innocent kids and rape women in Kashmir, there are uncountable Freedom movements in India, for example in Assam, Kashmir etc. How a nation can be a democracy when there are strict caste rules? It's India who have done the largest Muslim genocide in world's history. THOUSANDS of Muslims were massacred in Indian Gujarat. These racists and hypocrites just try to name the freedom movements as terrorist organizations. i'll uncover the truth, WITH SOLID Proofs and some wikipedia links with all false information.

"Documentary India Final Solution: True Face of Indian Nazism
By rakeshfilm.com

Final Solution is a study of the politics of hate against Pakistan and Muslims. Set in Gujarat during the period Feb/March 2002 - July 2003, the film graphically documents the changing face of right-wing politics in India through a study of the 2002 genocide of Muslims in Gujarat. It specifically examines political tendencies reminiscient of the Nazi Germany of early/mid-1930s. Final Solution is anti-hate/ violence as "those who forget history are condemned to relive it".

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8892825445 819740962
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Church Burned, Christians Attacked in Manipur, India: http://www.christianresponse.org/articles/161/chur ch-burned-christians-attacked-in-manipur-india

"Lower caste hindus convert to Islam and become Christians on daily basis because of the fact that their own hindu Brahmin Extremists do not treat them as humans. Now, we have Hindu extremists attacking others for choosing their own faith. Sadly, the victims this time are the Christians in India. Brahmin terrorism continues, does any body care?

BHUBANESWAR: Christians in several tense Indian states were weighing their options Tuesday, January 17, after churches were attacked and believers apparently pressured to return to Hinduism.

In the Indian state of Orissa at least 136 persons of 25 families returned to Hinduism Monday at a what nationalist Hindu groups described as a 'home-coming' ceremony in Sundargarh district, about 400 kilometres (250 miles) from the state capital Bhubaneswar."

http://www.india-facts.com/indianterrorism/hindute rrorism/article000074.php
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INDIAN MUSLIMS - AN OPPRESSED MINORITY: http://www.india-facts.com/indianterrorism/hindute rrorism/article000021.php
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Heres a video showing what's really going on in Kashmir - The indian terrorism.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-551772270 2246333713&q=India+is%3Afree
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and about all the militants, which india brag about, actually, they are the agents of their own army and intelligence agencies..

Surrender by fake militants embarrasses Army: http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20041205/j&k.htm# 1
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Police admits killing of civilians by armed agents:

I don't think you know how fast 40 billion can go in the business world.

Let's look at Microsoft's second fiscal quarter, ending December 31, 2002 (I know, it's far back, but I this source has all the info I need for this example).

Net profit: 2.28 billion
Revenue: 7.78 billion

This means that they had 5.5 billion in expenses during 3 months, or about 22 billion in that year. (Assuming all quarters were equal, which they weren't.) If Microsoft didn't have any revenue, their 40 billion dries up in 2 years. In a business the size of Microsoft, this is not a very long time to make decisions that will adjust you to the new situation.

Incorrect. In any case, adding Curcurmin to the mix would solve that
problem -- http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20010221/cth3.htm .

http://www.thepowerhour.com/curcumin/Turmeric.pdf (warning pdf)

I love it.

um...Duh?

Yeah, Bush sure does hate women and minorities!

Here's another reference to the capacity of a DVD-ROM.. Older, I know.

Roughly 15 gigs per layer my friend.

I don't know. I think the Chinese have got that one covered.

Maybe you're thinking of the out-of-control media reaction to a dumbly over-hyped press release my university made over a patent I filed a few years ago.
It was for a way to print circuits using a regular laser printer and specially treated parer. By the time it hit the newsstands, it was about disposable paper cell phones that you can download from the internet.
See what I mean?

The only question now is whether Giuliani will take the job as Bush Enforcer, or wait to be installed as a Supreme Court Justice. He'll probably go for Enforcer, because he's used to running a "Chief Prosecutor for Emperor" race, setting him up comfortably for 2008. Unless Sir Giuliani runs afoul of the Constitution:

Article I, Section 9, Clause 8:
" No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State."

IANAL and I don't know about India's legal system, but I don't think they have the sue-for-every-mistake mentality we do here. Two recent developments, One where doctors fall under the Consumer Protection Act. Here complaints are handled by a consumer forum, ie., headed by a retired judge and other experts and the doctor & the patient have to trash it out. its quicker than going through the courts. Secondly, the Supreme court in a judgement has ruled that a doctor cannot be held liable for criminal negligence for the death of a patient during the treatment due to error of judgement or an accident.

It started two decades ago...
The Tribune
America.edu
Google for more...

Showing your ID at the gate along with a ticket with your name on it allows the airline to tell your family that yes, you boarded the plane that is currently burning, sinking, or that shattered into a million pieces, but no, we haven't found the body yet. Nor do we expect to, since the largest piece of that particular plane is about the size of a tire. Which, incidentally, is still burning, having been doused by 24,000 gallons of airline fuel that covered it when it fell apart 1/2 hour ago. Sorry. We'll of course pay you for your loss, instead of ... I don't know... making you wait a month or two for us to find the pocket in which your family members stored their ID card, which of course will survive the fire.

What any of this has to do with your freedom, right to privacy or anything else is completely secondary to the reason the airlines started recording who was on which flight.

Kinetic Energy = 1/2 * Mass * Velocity ^ 2

Double the velocity, and you get four times the impact energy.

From here - "In June, 1983, the windscreen of US shuttle Challenger had to be replaced after it was chipped by a fleck of paint, measuring 0.3mm, that impacted at 4 km per second." Note that this is considered a lower bound - up to 14 km/s is considered a "typical" impact speed.

The mass of the fleck has been estimated as 0.001 grams. So after conversion to SI units we have:

Kinetic Energy = 1/2 * 0.000001 * 4000 ^ 2 = 8 Joules

This about equivalent, in terms of impact energy, to a 1Kg object hitting the windscreen at 4m/sec (only with the impact focused into an area 0.09cm^of 2).

It is hardly surprising that it caused considerable damage. Perhaps the surprise should be that it did not penetrate the shuttle.

Q.

• Quality healthcare? (good enough that your leaders get treated in the damn country as opposed to wasting taxpayer money and scurrying to the US for medical treatment? I might add: lots of sorry India-originated Asses there too!) Or is world-class healthcare the right of India's top 0.1% only?
  
  
• Good education for their kids? India's education system is a purgatory: great talent filtration but little teaching. Of course, with the crowds you have this is acceptable.
  
  
• Higher education? little innovative work, and what innovation happens is mostly "cost innovation" -- a ceaseless struggle to "optimize" generally available tech to suit "deshi" budgets: Simputer, Cordect. No wonder *good* IITians sneer at doing graduate school there.
  
  
• Somewhat less seriously - a BMW Series 5? Surely the 44X people should be able to afford it? Why do they keep driving stuff like the Hyundai Accent and the Corolla (rock bottom cars here?)
  

In India they can't get enough wires.

It is legal for me to carve a replica of a wooden chair with a sawblade.

Are you sure? IANAL, but just because it would be easy and very unlikely that you would be sued, this action wouldn't necessarily be legal if the wooden chair design was patented (with utility or design patent). This might not be usual case today, but I wouldn't be surprised if it became more common in the future -- certainly I've seen a number of simple automotive parts (brackets, etc.) that are covered by design patents, probably to prevent pirating.

Of course it would still be very easy to do, and maybe a good case for showing the inadequacies of patents. A great example of a very important but very simple physical design that was extensively "pirated" was Eli Whitney's patented cotton gin. The cotton gin is considered a precursor to the the mass production age and delivered unprecedented southern prosperity, but could easily be copied with a simple wooden box and a bunch of nails. This was technically illegal, but the device was such an important innovation and even Eli couldn't keep up with the demand, so after fighting to receive his patent, he either didn't renew it or the government didn't let him depending on which story you read.

With recent improvement in L.E.D., it came back on the car manufacturers' menu. Automakers used it as chimsels -- or the high mounted tail light. The reason: L.E.D. illuminates about 200 milliseconds faster than a normal light bulb. Says the G.M authorities, "It does not sound like much but it equals a full car length at 65 m.p.h." This ability to light up faster means more notice to the following driver. The other plus points for L.E.D. is it is not fuse-prone, it lasts longer, it uses only 20 per cent of the electricity used by a normal bulb. It emits less heat.

An American programmer goes nuts trying to work within a group of Indian programmers who in his mind "write half-assed code, cut corners, and cover up mistakes."

Meanwhile, an Indian programmer goes nuts trying to work within a group of American programmers, who in his mind are slow, lazy and underproductive team members.

In India after the Bhopal disaster, were new enforced laws brought into existence that would prevent a repeat? No. That BP/Amoco gas pipe that everyone in Nigeria was told NOT TO GO NEAR. What happened? Boom and lots of people died. Quoting,

There have been similar incidents in other parts of Africa. More than 30 Kenyans died in July as they collected petrol from an overturned tanker lorry. In Cameroon, about 120 died as they gathered fuel at the scene of a railway accident.

Did I miss something, or have the scenes from Mad Max with the fuel shortages become reality? To give a more measurable indication of this, third world driving is world famous, neither the right nor the left side is reserved for cars driving in a particular direction. Instead vehicles are just grateful that a road exists at all and drive in a haphazard way. If you watch Lonely Planet on the Discovery Travel & Leisure channel you will see that head-on collisions occur far more than any other in all countries except developed ones. Here are some statistics (scroll down to automobiles). From this same source, I quote,

Ferries in places like Bangladesh, Haiti, The Philippines and Hong Kong have had major disasters from capsizing due to overloading and collision. In roughly an eight-year period, there were more than 360 ferry boat accidents killing 11,350 people.

Like in the US, if you picked up a dog and ripped his heart out in the mall everyone would be like "Oh my God!" but if you do it in a market in China/India it's, well, it's like pointing out that the sky is blue. This lack of respect for animal life and human life (road crash statistics) is indicative of the peoples' thinking. Anyone says, "but eberybody is different" is wrong to some degree. There's always some level of conformity. Even a staunch anarchist in the US can drive, he doesn't "disobey" red lights all the time and "ignore" stop signs all the time. A true anarchist would sit at the roadside and throw roadkill at passing vehicles, would piss in the middle of the freeway stopping all the cars, would attack a drive-thru bank with a sledgehammer, would walk in the street with a long knife in his hand, would throw a lit cigarrete on the floor at the gas station so he doesn't have to pay for his gas, etc.

I could fill this post with my personal experiences whilst visiting India e.g. electrician "If it catchs fire, then I give you half your money back and I fix it". Suffice it to say that look at my website to see the conditions your Indian software is written under. Notice the walls inside the houses - no wallpaper, shredded paint. But that's normal and natural, npbody notices it, it doesn't occur to them, just as making dangerous shortcuts whilst designing & coding don't occur to them. Same as that lost puppy look that you get when you tell a newbie that his PC has been fried because he opened an email with an attachment. He then says "What's an attachment" the thought never occurs, same as nobody *demands* to look at a company's balance sheet in the middle of a job interview. Read this to find out what these countries are actually like. No marketing trash. News like this happens all the time. I mean skyscrapers collapse by themselves all the time - they don't need Osama binLaden.

I am shocked. Shocked!

Nigger-loving WHORE

And can Jupiter be said to have a real surface?

Possibly.

As anyone who has read 2010 will know, it seems quite likely that the core of Jupiter may well be a solid diamond the size of the earth.

Look out, De Beers...

This from canadanews.about.com
and
another from www.indiatribune.com