Yes, point taken. One has to wonder why the Mars icon appears to be casting a shadow as if it were resting on a flat surface. Somebody at Slashdot likes that drop shadow effect way too much.
This is off-topic, but I want to ask you about it since you don't have a Firefox button on your web site.
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My post was not meant to give an exhaustive explanation for India's problems. I just listed a couple of things that came to mind first. I agree with the factors you listed.
I cannot believe you are comparing the richest country in the world to one of the poorest countries in the world.
Unemployment in the U.S. holds at a steady 5% (give or take), which is far better than even in the EU. In India, by contrast about 300 million people, or 29% of the population, live on less than a dollar a day. (Note that the entire U.S. population is about 280 million.) These are the people who do have jobs. The government was able to count 40 million workers who cannot find jobs at all. While this makes for an impressive 3.8% unemployment rate, as mentioned above, many jobs pay very poorly. The conditions are so bad that as many as 3,000 Indian farmers in a single state (Andhra Pradesh) have killed themselves over the last six years because of debt and drought.
This is not to say that India should not be building a space program. Indian universities produce more than 1.5 million graduates each year. There are nowhere near enough jobs to employ all these people entering the workforce. India's tech industry employs only 1 million people total. Industry and grand capitalistic vision will help to produce jobs.
Capitalism is not a zero sum game. India's "pie" is increasing rapidly and will continue to get bigger. Its economy is forecast to grow 8 percent this year. India is already home to thousands of millionaires and nine of the world's richest billionaires. By the way, another name for rich people is "employers." That's good news for the lower classes.
The sad reality is that there is no quick fix to India's massive poverty, space program or not. India has more people in poverty (we're talking literally dirt poor) than any other country. It's been that way a long time, and it's not going to get better by scrapping a space mission.
If priorities are your concern, consider this: Indian teenagers spend $3 billion a year on fashion accessories. And you've heard of Bollywood, which churns out twice as many movies per year as Hollywood. But then again, if Indians were to restrain spending on fashion accessories and movies, those industries would shrink, and many Indians would lose their jobs. Consumerism is the engine of wealth.
There are many things hindering India's progress. The people speak hundreds of languages; religions and customs also vary wildly by region. It is like several countries within a country. Its population of 1.07 billion is both a blessing and a curse; it is a reservoir of great potential, but right now, it is dragging the country down because most are uneducated (or undereducated) and poor.
Source: "India Surprises," The Commission, November 2004, pp. 30-35. (printed magazine article contains more information)
"It is the government that has given me a second life," Wang said. "I have totally woken up and I think I should persuade people still addicted to Falun Gong to wake up, too.
Disclaimer: I do not support Falun Gong's ideology; only its freedom to exist.
We're just a little bit smarter and better at making and using tools
No kidding. The non-human animals have yet to break 850 on the SAT, so they're stuck in low-paying blue collar jobs. The dolphins have made abacuses out of shells and driftwood, but I'll be impressed when they implement function keys.
Anyway, I gotta go now. I have a chimp friend who's getting married at a church downtown. His mom was going to make him one of those fancy, three-level wedding cakes like humans have. However, she wasn't quite smart enough to do it, so it ended up as a big heap of cake. Then she flung handfuls of icing at it. I think she's upset because of the recent stock market decline. Chiquita and Dole took a hit.
After watching for a year, the US become more and more unfriendly towards the rest of the world
What?? Examples, please. $Billions to Asia for tsunami relief, $billions to Africa for AIDS relief, $billions to the Middle East to liberate two countries (despite the Left's attempts to sustain the tyranny), attempts to strengthen NATO (despite Turkey sabotaging it), attempts to strengthen the UN (despite France sabotaging it with a preemptive veto of all future Iraq diplomacy), NASA/ESA cooperation, etc., etc.
That's interesting. 90% of D.C. voters went for Kerry. Among all states, D.C. (which is a virtual state in the electoral college) consistently has the highest percentage of votes in favor of the Democrat candidate in presidential elections. It is probably the most liberal city in the whole U.S. If it weren't for conservative lobbying groups and the President's own family and administration, I'm guessing its population would be near 100% liberal.
There is an inauguration every four years, no matter whom the president is. Inaugurations are always expensive. They always have big corporate donors. It's not surprising that some donors are in high tech. I see Qualcomm on the list, too.
Is there something special we're supposed to be inferring? Slow news day?
A friend of mine showed me an interesting essay that starts with a mention of the Jackson wardrobe malfunction, and goes into European culture, morality, the censorship of art, and other issues.
Is good art suppressed more by rules of public decency (even when applied with a heavy hand) or by the barbarism of a culture whose sensibilities have become so debauched by constant exposure to the scabrous and the vile as to have become incapable of any discrimination, or of any due appreciation of subtlety or craft?
I stated the rule. There are reasonable exceptions for the sake of preserving life and health. And even this is done as decently and discreetly as possible. You're not going to have testicular surgery as a public exhibit. That would be wanton disgrace.
The body is not shameful. However, it is shameful for a person to expose his/her body to those who do not have the exclusive marital privilege of seeing it. A naked statue is a model of whorish disrespect for the inherent intimacy and sexuality of the body.
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By default, the Default profile is set to use Netscape/Gecko. The Local Files profile is set to display like IE.
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I'll add to what phantasma6 said since non-churchgoers have a lot of misconceptions about what goes on in churches.
The King James Only (KJO) movement is a small minority in Protestantism. I don't think any serious Evangelical scholars, including Southern Baptists, agree with the KJO proponents.
The New International Version (NIV) is by far the most popular translation in American Protestant churches. King James Version (KJV) comes in second place. It is almost completely neglected by the younger generations except in very traditional churches. New American Standard Bible (NASB) is also very popular, because it's a modern, literal translation, unlike most others.
In a group Bible study, it's not unusual to have four or more different translations among the participants. This is good, as it helps to flesh out a fuller meaning of the original text.
Teacher: Class, today we are going to study Evolution. A long time ago, undetermined chaotic occurrence(s) generated life using super, natural powers unknown to science.
At 81, after decades of insisting that belief is a mistake, Antony Flew has concluded that some sort of intelligence or first cause must have created the universe. A super-intelligence is the only good explanation for the origin of life and the complexity of nature, Mr. Flew said in a telephone interview from England.
[...]
Flew told The Associated Press his current ideas have some similarity with American "intelligent design" theorists, who see evidence for a guiding force in the construction of the universe. He accepts Darwinian evolution but doubts it can explain the ultimate origins of life.
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This criticism is brought to you from the party that doesn't know what the definition of "is" is.
Yes, point taken. One has to wonder why the Mars icon appears to be casting a shadow as if it were resting on a flat surface. Somebody at Slashdot likes that drop shadow effect way too much.
It is, but it can also use IE's rendering engine. I am a beta tester. See my post under the last Netscape story.
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My post was not meant to give an exhaustive explanation for India's problems. I just listed a couple of things that came to mind first. I agree with the factors you listed.
Unemployment in the U.S. holds at a steady 5% (give or take), which is far better than even in the EU. In India, by contrast about 300 million people, or 29% of the population, live on less than a dollar a day. (Note that the entire U.S. population is about 280 million.) These are the people who do have jobs. The government was able to count 40 million workers who cannot find jobs at all. While this makes for an impressive 3.8% unemployment rate, as mentioned above, many jobs pay very poorly. The conditions are so bad that as many as 3,000 Indian farmers in a single state (Andhra Pradesh) have killed themselves over the last six years because of debt and drought.
This is not to say that India should not be building a space program. Indian universities produce more than 1.5 million graduates each year. There are nowhere near enough jobs to employ all these people entering the workforce. India's tech industry employs only 1 million people total. Industry and grand capitalistic vision will help to produce jobs.
Capitalism is not a zero sum game. India's "pie" is increasing rapidly and will continue to get bigger. Its economy is forecast to grow 8 percent this year. India is already home to thousands of millionaires and nine of the world's richest billionaires. By the way, another name for rich people is "employers." That's good news for the lower classes.
The sad reality is that there is no quick fix to India's massive poverty, space program or not. India has more people in poverty (we're talking literally dirt poor) than any other country. It's been that way a long time, and it's not going to get better by scrapping a space mission.
If priorities are your concern, consider this: Indian teenagers spend $3 billion a year on fashion accessories. And you've heard of Bollywood, which churns out twice as many movies per year as Hollywood. But then again, if Indians were to restrain spending on fashion accessories and movies, those industries would shrink, and many Indians would lose their jobs. Consumerism is the engine of wealth.
There are many things hindering India's progress. The people speak hundreds of languages; religions and customs also vary wildly by region. It is like several countries within a country. Its population of 1.07 billion is both a blessing and a curse; it is a reservoir of great potential, but right now, it is dragging the country down because most are uneducated (or undereducated) and poor.
Source: "India Surprises," The Commission, November 2004, pp. 30-35. (printed magazine article contains more information)
Sounds like a thorough brainwashing to me
Disclaimer: I do not support Falun Gong's ideology; only its freedom to exist.No kidding. The non-human animals have yet to break 850 on the SAT, so they're stuck in low-paying blue collar jobs. The dolphins have made abacuses out of shells and driftwood, but I'll be impressed when they implement function keys.
Anyway, I gotta go now. I have a chimp friend who's getting married at a church downtown. His mom was going to make him one of those fancy, three-level wedding cakes like humans have. However, she wasn't quite smart enough to do it, so it ended up as a big heap of cake. Then she flung handfuls of icing at it. I think she's upset because of the recent stock market decline. Chiquita and Dole took a hit.
What's in a name?
What?? Examples, please. $Billions to Asia for tsunami relief, $billions to Africa for AIDS relief, $billions to the Middle East to liberate two countries (despite the Left's attempts to sustain the tyranny), attempts to strengthen NATO (despite Turkey sabotaging it), attempts to strengthen the UN (despite France sabotaging it with a preemptive veto of all future Iraq diplomacy), NASA/ESA cooperation, etc., etc.
That's interesting. 90% of D.C. voters went for Kerry. Among all states, D.C. (which is a virtual state in the electoral college) consistently has the highest percentage of votes in favor of the Democrat candidate in presidential elections. It is probably the most liberal city in the whole U.S. If it weren't for conservative lobbying groups and the President's own family and administration, I'm guessing its population would be near 100% liberal.
Is there something special we're supposed to be inferring? Slow news day?
To clarify, I'm talking about only the "private parts" of the body.
Freedom and Decency -- Here's a sentence pulled from the middle.
I stated the rule. There are reasonable exceptions for the sake of preserving life and health. And even this is done as decently and discreetly as possible. You're not going to have testicular surgery as a public exhibit. That would be wanton disgrace.
The body is not shameful. However, it is shameful for a person to expose his/her body to those who do not have the exclusive marital privilege of seeing it. A naked statue is a model of whorish disrespect for the inherent intimacy and sexuality of the body.
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By default, the Default profile is set to use Netscape/Gecko. The Local Files profile is set to display like IE.
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For for foreseeable future, you'll have your "Science of the gaps" do it.
1980s - Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
1990s - Global Warming
2000s - Global Dimming
*yawn*
"When life gets complicated, I like to take a nap in a tree and wait for dinner." - Hobbes
The King James Only (KJO) movement is a small minority in Protestantism. I don't think any serious Evangelical scholars, including Southern Baptists, agree with the KJO proponents.
The New International Version (NIV) is by far the most popular translation in American Protestant churches. King James Version (KJV) comes in second place. It is almost completely neglected by the younger generations except in very traditional churches. New American Standard Bible (NASB) is also very popular, because it's a modern, literal translation, unlike most others.
In a group Bible study, it's not unusual to have four or more different translations among the participants. This is good, as it helps to flesh out a fuller meaning of the original text.
Pope John Paul II himself also declared that The Monster was "more than just a leader" (paraphrased).
How did natural processes create life? Science works in mysterious ways.
No, they are not.
Evidence compels long-time atheist/evolutionist to lose belief in materialist cause of life
We'll do that when you put "Evolutionism is a religion" on your textbooks.