You know you should be ineligible for social security as by not having children you have reduced the amount of money that is going to come into social security when you are getting paid social security
A grunt has to kill or be killed so he can easily justify the deaths he causes but what about pilots, submariners, missile techs, predator pilots etc who kill when they personally are in no physical danger. How do these people live with themselves?
Do men get stoned to death in the US when they are unfaitful? For any offense, mind you, but since you brought child support into the mix, well, try staying in that context.
The stoning thing applies to both men and women under sharia so that is a human right issue not a man vs woman issue
Do men in the US are ever subservient to their mothers, their sisters or any female relative?
Yes. US society is one where men are the most susbservient.
Are men in the US forced into forced marriages when they are children?
This is again something which happens to both men and women in Saudi. BTW they are only children by the definition of US . There are countries like Japan where the legal age of consent is 14 and in Saudi marriages happen at 16 so this point is totally irrelevant. Hell lot more US girls have had sex before 16 . Noone is crying that US is a society where girls are forced into underage sex due to the brainwashing of the media.
Can men in the US go anywhere on their own?
This is somewhere where Saudi sucks .
Do men in the US need to cover themsleves head to toe or be arrested by the police?
Womens assets are their looks. Mens assets are their earning capacity. BIology dictates that for successfully playing the mating games women have to look physically attractive hence capable of having healthy offspring while males have to look capable of earning enough to provide for the offspring. So while forcing a woman to hide her looks reduces her options in the mating game, forcing a man to have a reduced income due to compulsory child support and alimony reduces his options in the mating game equally. Men and women are fundamentally different and they get hirt in different ways. Taking income away from a man is the equivalent of throwing acid on a womans face and taking away her looks
Is absolutely espectacular that somebody tries to make a comparison of lives of women in Saudi Arabia and live of men in the US.
Only somebody completly ignorant about life in Saudia Arabia would attempt to do such a ludicrous exercise.
You just go on believing the crap you have been brainwashed by the feminist establishment and your daughters will continue to have better lives than your sons.
Well I was always taught that the second world war was a war fought in Europe between Russia and Germany and in Asia between Japan and America with some smaller theaters like the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and the British invasion of France and the Japanes invasion of India. I dont realize why D Day is such a big deal in the west? It was a minor after show and much smaller than the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and just as meaningless the war was over by the time these two event happened.
When the US constitution was being created it was decided not to have an official language as given the different nationalities of the immigrants at the time the compromise candidate was German not English and the prominent English settlers bankrolling the revolution did not want German as the official language. Hence USA does not have an offical language. Also if you trace the ancestry of Americans the largest group is Germans not English Scottish or Irish. Kind of funny how this country speaks English and fought its two biigest wars against Germany.
Its not a question of people being stupid. Its a question of people being busy. Busy people working full time jobs dont have the time to sit down and analyze everything in the media so they believe whatever the mainstream is talking about. The flip side is in places with high unemployment and youth sitting around all day they have lot of time to debate and figure out how society has screwed them and how anything is justified to change things. Its not a wonder that revolutions are either started by poor unemployed youth (French) or rich people who dont have to work and have time to think (American). Seriously if the Palestinain economy was vibrant and everyone had jobs instead of being stagnated due to Israeli security measures very few Palestinians would be interested in becoming suicide bombers. Ditto for Iraq. You might hate the occupiers but unless you are a college student you dont have time to debate the issueas and you go with the flow.
Whats wrong with that? Its going to be to that persons benefit if he/she can speak French when they come to France and its not as if French is difficult to learn. There are Alliance Francais centers all over the world teaching French. And if you are really in love with a woman you can spend the time teaching her your language cant you?
I am talking about personal civil law where if Saudi is unfair in one direction USA is unfair in the other direction. Why do you bring general human right into the question to muddy the waters. Noone is claiming Suadi is the pinnacle of liberal democracy. You can have a liberal democracy without femino fascism you know.
Thats a load of crap about the adultery. Under Sharia for adultery both men and women are stoned. That might be harsh and some societies may decide adultery is not such a big deal. But the point is its a fair punishment both the man and the woman are stoned. Thats one of the few places you cant blame Sharia. Sharia when introduced in the 6th century was one of the most liberal laws at the time. It actually allowed widows remarriage, divorce and prenuptial agreements (when Muslims get married the man has to deposit a certain amount of money with the mosque which the woman gets if there is a divorce). This was at the time whem if a man got killed or left his wife pretty much the only job open to an Arab woman was to become a prostitute. Also to be able to recruit men for his army Mohammed wanted to assure men their wives will be taken care of so he proclaimed if men died in battle their brothers or other male relatives were to take care of their wives. The only way to ensure this in a hardscrabble society was to allow them to marry the women as even starving men take care of their wife/wives. Thats what the provision on 4 wives was for not for general polygamy.
Anyway what went wrong with Sharia especially in Saudi Arabia was they stopped adapting the law. Any law has to change with the times or it becomes anachronistic. If muslim law had adapted with the times it probably be a fairer law structure than one based on Roman law as is used in the west.
BTW I have read this at many places but never got it confirmed. They say the reason the Saud family are such traditionalists and Saudi is such a fundamentalist country is that the Sauds are actually descended from Baghdadi Jews and they needed to prove their Muslimhood to the general population by adopting the strictest form of Islam possible.
So sure Saudi and Sharia in its unreformed form sucks but just saying that doesnt divert attention from the fact that US law sucks too and the moral thing to do is if you are going to criticize others set your own house in order first. Like they say - "People in glass houses..."
When the father wans the baby and the mother still goes ahead and has an abortion isnt that a forced abortion - one forced on the father? And if forcing someone to carry to term is unreasonable why is forcing someone to become a father reasonable? And its not merely the question of money. Becoming a father has a huge emotional cost too and you might not be ready for the responsibility. Just think of a young man leading a carefree life bungee jumping or parajumping. Suddenly he is a father and society has taught him he has a responsibility and cant take those risks anymore. If he is not a self centered asshole suddenly he has to change his entire lifestyle. This can happen even if the woman tricked him because even if he hates the woman he cant really hate the innocent child as it is his
If the man is responsible for the child he should have say on whether or not the child is to be born. Why does only the woman get to decide on abortion? As you say a woman doesnt get pregnant out of thin air so why does she get all the rights? Also traditionally a husband was supposed to earn the money and the wife was supposed to take care of the children and the house. With the advent of labour saving devices and prepackaged food the amount of housework has drastically dropped so why is the man still supposed to provide support in a divorce . In todays world women even with kids should be able to earn their keep and if they claim they cant as they have to babysit why not just cede custody? But women dont as they know Child Support is a pot of gold. Only about one third of child support is spent on the child itself the rest is used for leading a level of life higher than deserved based on basic competency. What people dont realize is that as children have an instinctively stronger relation with their mothers it is very easy for mothers to use children against the father as a weapon. In traditional society this power was balanced by the fact that fathers would simply stop supporting children who are brainwashed to hate them. With compulsory child support this balance is broken leading to abusive behaviour by women without suffering consequences. I have not said I would like to live in Saudi for my wife is a sensible person and I would never put her in the situation of not being able to even drive but the point is USA is not a fair society. Its an unbalanced society.
Now I will say something which will make the femino fascists gasp. Men are traditionally physically stronger but women have had higher emotional quotients. What this means is as long as there is no violence women always have the upper hand as they are better at manipulating emotions and using words to get their own way. Traditional society has balanced that by the fact that men who are driven to extremes by such pschologically abusive behaviour can respond with physical violence to balnace the scales . As there is a balance both kinds of abuse psychological and physical dont happen commonly. What has happened in US is by outlawing physical domestic abuse but at the same time allowing psychological domestic abuse (in fact even encouraging it by child support and custody laws) families have been made unstable. Thus except for the small number of extremely emotionally stable women and mild tempered men who form couples most American marriages end in divorce. If domestic sparring of a low key kind were legal the divorce rate would be much much lower.
Very funny. What I meant was everyone learns the common language(s) and then their own language and no disrespect to other peoples languages. BTW the economies of China and India will be bigger than the US economy by the time children in kindergarten today are entering the workforce so its not such a bad idea to learn the languages of these countries (note the elites of the NorthEast and the West Coast are hiring Chinese speaking nannies to teach their kids Chinese) Of course since almost everyone in India will be speaking English I dont see Hindi taking off in a big way especially since quite a few Indians resent being forced to learn Hindi and would rather use English for day to day dealings.
Well its probably bad for the Iraqis but for the rest of the world its relief that the USA is too busy in Iraq to get into mischief elsewhere. BTW if you cant defend your country you deserve everything you get. If the Iraqis had been serious about defending their own country they would have spent money on Al Qaeda and funded Osama so he could send more special forces teams aka terrorists to the US so that the US was too busy at home to come mess in Iraq. Instead he wanted to run a secular country and turned down every overture of Al Qaeda and look what happened to him. And for what? Because he didnt want to go the the islamist route and wanted to avoid a culture of suicide bombing? Well it didnt work out that way did it? A lot more Iraqis are having to become suicide bombers in Iraq today than would have had to if Saddam had just sent some 100 suicide bombers into USA and said to USA dont invade me or bombs will start going off in all kinds of inconvenient places in the US. But if you are not willing to do that much to defend your country you deserve all the rape and pillaging that the US marines can send your way.
I hardly ever agree with the Republicans on anything but English as an offical language makes sense. Multiculturalism is a good thing and if it wont be promoted in a nation of immigrants where will it be? At the same time it does cost money to print things in multiple languages. I would think a rich nation like USA should be able to afford the costs but if certain towns and cities are economically depressed and cant afford the cost they should be able to just print in English. At the same time Language is important to people and noone should demean the language of somebody else. USA should follow the Indian model where everyone learns English and Hindi the official languages but they also get to choose a third language to learn in school where people can learn their own mother tongue as the third language. Knowing more never hurt anyone.
Sure your wife or girlfriend wants to live in the US but as a man where would You want to live? In a nation where if a girl gets pregnant she has the right to have an abortion even if the man wants the baby but on the other hand if the man doesnt want the baby the woman can go ahead and still have the baby and have to pay child support for the upkeep of the baby which is used by the mom to enjoy a life of leisure and boyfriend hopping while you work your butt off to pay Child Support. Even assets like Retirment saving and health insurance accounts which are protected even in a bankruptcy are not safe from Child Services. This is also a nation where even if the mother has been cheating in a divorce she still gets custody of the child. Further even if she denies the father child visitation rights the father still has to pay child support. Further when the mothers tricks make the man go crazy (after all he is also working a 9 to 5 job unlike the mother who is sitting at home all day on his money and plotting new ways to use his children against him) and he shouts into a phone it becomes a national scandal that a man shouted into a phone raher than a woman used children as a weapon against their father. You may criticize Saudi for being hard on their woman but USA is equally bad in the other direction. So to rephrase your question where would your husband/ biyfriend like to live USA or Saudi?
You do realize these are very small contracts which are being given out but the really big ones have been reserved for Coalition of Willing countries. Also China and Russia had preexisting contracts with Saddam and if they dont get their money back they are not going to play ball with US on Iran. Given the fact that Russia is the worlds second largest exporter of Oil it would love to see an Iran USA war in the Gulf which stops all Oil exports from the Gulf driving the price of Oil to say 20 dollars a gallon (YOu think I am joking The price of gas in India is 21 dollars a gallon on purchasing power parity). So the US cant piss off everyone especially now that the world has seen how hollow the US army really is - they cant control a country of 25 million despite spending 500 billion a year on the war. I am sure if the US had just given each citizen of Iraq 20000 dollars they would have just elected George Bush president no need for a war. Speaking of preexisting contracts I am sure the Saudis feel really foolish right now. Saddam had been an ally of Saudi and Kuwait in the Iran Iraq war and fought on their behalf as the Sunni and Arab champion against Shite and Persian Iran. In return they gave huge loans to Iraq. When the Iran Iraq war ended Saddam said to them my country is bankrupt I am not paying it back and if you make too much noise I have a battle trained army. They still insisted on payback of loans so Saddam invaded Kuwait to make them back off (he still thought America was his friend). Well the Suadis thought no way are we forgiving 500 billion in loans , lets call in the Americans and pay for the war- its still going to cost less than 500 billion. Well now after having American troops on their soil for 10 years and losing all credibility as an Arab nation at the recent Sharm El Shaikh conference USA asked them to forgive Iraq's loan. They must surely feel stupid now. If they had just forgiven the loans in 1990 there would not have been the first Gulf war and USA would not be sitting on their hands in the gulf.
If you vote for against the West's blue eyed biy Yushchenko there is violence in the streets and the elections are overturned. (Its called Orange revolution as in orange is the color of the Euro notes the CIA passes out to paid demonstrators). The west has got used to overturning elections whenever someone inconvenient gets elected so it was going to be a matter of time before they tried to do the same at home. Personally even though I have leftist beliefs I believe for the rest of the world its better to have the Republicans in power. Why? Well the western standard of living cant be sustained without exploitation of some kind. Republicans and rightists are satisfied to exploit their own people but Democrats play nice at home and go exploit foreigners. If someone wants to say Iraq War let me explain how the Iraq war works. Poor Americans go and fight and risk their lives in Iraq, middle class Americans pay for it through the increasing national debt which they will have to payback by cancelling social security and medicare and rich Americans make money off it by investing in companies like Halliburton and General Dynamics(ticker symbol BOOM) which makes bullet proof vests. (The stock price of BOOM has gone up 20 times since the war in Iraq started). Democrats on the other hand stick to exploiting foreigners by constantly demanding market access but then blocking reciprocal access using a number of different excuses like Human rights, labour rights , environment etc.
What exactly is your point? You seem to be agreeing completely with me that these institutes were setup by 1st world nations at their own cost so as to have a steady pool of recruits for their own economy. What does Green revolution, food imports (btw the PL480 wheat sent by US to India was found to be so badly infected with pests you could almost consider it a form of biological warfare) have to do with IITs? Also Green revolution techniques were developed in Indonesia (See Rice Institute)
All the IITs have done is suck talent out of India. Very few IITians go to ISRO DRDO CSIR or any national institute. Yes some go to IIM but that is a total waste of the IIT training as you dont need to be an Engineer to be a Manager. This shows that even the IITians know IIT is not about being an Engineer; its about getting an IIT stamp which means you are hard working enough to crack the Joint Entrance Exam so you will be hard working enough to crack other exams like GMAT and GRE. What exactly is the payback to Indian society? Even when some IITians give back they mostly give back to IITs not to Indian society. India would be much better off with privatised universities rather than government run recruting stations for MNCs. With a system of private universities if the govt needs some research done they can target funds to private universities in return for results instead of subsidizing the education of people who will serve the economies of other nations.
Hey you speak pretty good English for a non native speaker. BTW I think you are missing the point about IITs. Its not about training people or about doing research. Its about screening out the most hard working intelligent people in every generation of Indians so they can be recruited by various different foreign nations. Why do you think the IITs were built by USA, USSR, Germany and Japan (Yes none were built by the Indian govt). The whole purpose is to suck the best genes out of the Indian genepool in every generation to improve the genepool in the donor nations. Research and the development of India is antithetical to the concept of IITs.
Most Indian villages which dont have grid power , have either solar , wind or most commonly biogas plants. As cows are there in most villages its easy to get methane from cow dung and generators running on methane
Did IISc hire some US returned scientists? People in US academia have been playing this game of overpromising and underdelivering for a long long time.
Given the rate at which the dollar is falling and the time it takes to complete govt projects in India by the time it is finished Rs 1600 will be worth more than 100 dollar. They can still claim to make a Rs 1600 laptop but it would actually be a 100 dollar laptop not a 10 dollar laptop. On the flip side the Chinese flat screen Tvs we get for 400 dollars nowadays will cost us 4000 dollars at Walmart
You could start off by embedding such systems in highways down the middle of each lane. The cars could be pure gasoline or gasoline with EM assist and both could easily travel down the same lane so the new cars could be introduced slowly. Even more interestingly if hybrids are being used and there is a traffic jam and you are just sitting there the EM assist could be charging your battery instead of giving you a push. Also as the assist would be maximum whenever you are exactly straight in the center of the lane it will be an auto regulating system which would push you back to the center of the lane. Probably you could also link up the turn signal with your car magnet so when you switch on a turn signal your magnet switches off and you are back to gas or gas hybrid and can easily change lanes without the system fighting you. Even more fun when enough cars have been converted the power on the underground grid could be pushed up so that basically you travel free on the freeway and only use your gas or hybrid battery on city streets. Most fun during rush hour city traffic controllers could regulate traffic flow by slowing down or speeding up required sections of traffic by pushing up or down the current. Pretty soon people with EM cars could let the navigation on the highway to the system and read newspapers on their morning commute and then take control once they get off the highway. This would be a pretty strong incentive for Gas only people to switch to Gas/EM or Gas/Hybrid/EM systems. Once Gas is being used only inside cities on city street it becomes easy to switch to CNG or Ethanol as stations would need to be there only in the city. Really futuristic would be to have fully computerised systems which prevent accidents by reversing the current polarity on short sections of the highway when a car is about to collide with another. Also futuristic would be to do away with hybrids and let the highway act as your battery. So when you brake instead of the braking force charging the battery it could dump electricity back into the system.
A terrorist attack is small potatoes. I am referring to the day in day out carpet bombing which cities in Europe and Japan saw during WW2 which turned these countries into pacifists. Americans in general dont really know what war does to you when its happening in the street outside your home. Till a long drawn out war happens on American soil , Americans will always be too willing to go to war elsewhere.
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You know you should be ineligible for social security as by not having children you have reduced the amount of money that is going to come into social security when you are getting paid social security
A grunt has to kill or be killed so he can easily justify the deaths he causes but what about pilots, submariners, missile techs, predator pilots etc who kill when they personally are in no physical danger. How do these people live with themselves?
Do men get stoned to death in the US when they are unfaitful? For any offense, mind you, but since you brought child support into the mix, well, try staying in that context.
The stoning thing applies to both men and women under sharia so that is a human right issue not a man vs woman issue
Do men in the US are ever subservient to their mothers, their sisters or any female relative?
Yes. US society is one where men are the most susbservient.
Are men in the US forced into forced marriages when they are children?
This is again something which happens to both men and women in Saudi. BTW they are only children by the definition of US . There are countries like Japan where the legal age of consent is 14 and in Saudi marriages happen at 16 so this point is totally irrelevant. Hell lot more US girls have had sex before 16 . Noone is crying that US is a society where girls are forced into underage sex due to the brainwashing of the media.
Can men in the US go anywhere on their own?
This is somewhere where Saudi sucks .
Do men in the US need to cover themsleves head to toe or be arrested by the police?
Womens assets are their looks. Mens assets are their earning capacity. BIology dictates that for successfully playing the mating games women have to look physically attractive hence capable of having healthy offspring while males have to look capable of earning enough to provide for the offspring. So while forcing a woman to hide her looks reduces her options in the mating game, forcing a man to have a reduced income due to compulsory child support and alimony reduces his options in the mating game equally.
Men and women are fundamentally different and they get hirt in different ways. Taking income away from a man is the equivalent of throwing acid on a womans face and taking away her looks
Is absolutely espectacular that somebody tries to make a comparison of lives of women in Saudi Arabia and live of men in the US.
Only somebody completly ignorant about life in Saudia Arabia would attempt to do such a ludicrous exercise.
You just go on believing the crap you have been brainwashed by the feminist establishment and your daughters will continue to have better lives than your sons.
Well I was always taught that the second world war was a war fought in Europe between Russia and Germany and in Asia between Japan and America with some smaller theaters like the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and the British invasion of France and the Japanes invasion of India. I dont realize why D Day is such a big deal in the west? It was a minor after show and much smaller than the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and just as meaningless the war was over by the time these two event happened.
When the US constitution was being created it was decided not to have an official language as given the different nationalities of the immigrants at the time the compromise candidate was German not English and the prominent English settlers bankrolling the revolution did not want German as the official language. Hence USA does not have an offical language. Also if you trace the ancestry of Americans the largest group is Germans not English Scottish or Irish. Kind of funny how this country speaks English and fought its two biigest wars against Germany.
Its not a question of people being stupid. Its a question of people being busy. Busy people working full time jobs dont have the time to sit down and analyze everything in the media so they believe whatever the mainstream is talking about. The flip side is in places with high unemployment and youth sitting around all day they have lot of time to debate and figure out how society has screwed them and how anything is justified to change things. Its not a wonder that revolutions are either started by poor unemployed youth (French) or rich people who dont have to work and have time to think (American). Seriously if the Palestinain economy was vibrant and everyone had jobs instead of being stagnated due to Israeli security measures very few Palestinians would be interested in becoming suicide bombers. Ditto for Iraq. You might hate the occupiers but unless you are a college student you dont have time to debate the issueas and you go with the flow.
Whats wrong with that? Its going to be to that persons benefit if he/she can speak French when they come to France and its not as if French is difficult to learn. There are Alliance Francais centers all over the world teaching French. And if you are really in love with a woman you can spend the time teaching her your language cant you?
I am talking about personal civil law where if Saudi is unfair in one direction USA is unfair in the other direction. Why do you bring general human right into the question to muddy the waters. Noone is claiming Suadi is the pinnacle of liberal democracy. You can have a liberal democracy without femino fascism you know.
Thats a load of crap about the adultery. Under Sharia for adultery both men and women are stoned. That might be harsh and some societies may decide adultery is not such a big deal. But the point is its a fair punishment both the man and the woman are stoned. Thats one of the few places you cant blame Sharia. Sharia when introduced in the 6th century was one of the most liberal laws at the time. It actually allowed widows remarriage, divorce and prenuptial agreements (when Muslims get married the man has to deposit a certain amount of money with the mosque which the woman gets if there is a divorce). This was at the time whem if a man got killed or left his wife pretty much the only job open to an Arab woman was to become a prostitute. Also to be able to recruit men for his army Mohammed wanted to assure men their wives will be taken care of so he proclaimed if men died in battle their brothers or other male relatives were to take care of their wives. The only way to ensure this in a hardscrabble society was to allow them to marry the women as even starving men take care of their wife/wives. Thats what the provision on 4 wives was for not for general polygamy.
Anyway what went wrong with Sharia especially in Saudi Arabia was they stopped adapting the law. Any law has to change with the times or it becomes anachronistic. If muslim law had adapted with the times it probably be a fairer law structure than one based on Roman law as is used in the west.
BTW I have read this at many places but never got it confirmed. They say the reason the Saud family are such traditionalists and Saudi is such a fundamentalist country is that the Sauds are actually descended from Baghdadi Jews and they needed to prove their Muslimhood to the general population by adopting the strictest form of Islam possible.
So sure Saudi and Sharia in its unreformed form sucks but just saying that doesnt divert attention from the fact that US law sucks too and the moral thing to do is if you are going to criticize others set your own house in order first. Like they say - "People in glass houses..."
When the father wans the baby and the mother still goes ahead and has an abortion isnt that a forced abortion - one forced on the father? And if forcing someone to carry to term is unreasonable why is forcing someone to become a father reasonable? And its not merely the question of money. Becoming a father has a huge emotional cost too and you might not be ready for the responsibility. Just think of a young man leading a carefree life bungee jumping or parajumping. Suddenly he is a father and society has taught him he has a responsibility and cant take those risks anymore. If he is not a self centered asshole suddenly he has to change his entire lifestyle. This can happen even if the woman tricked him because even if he hates the woman he cant really hate the innocent child as it is his
If the man is responsible for the child he should have say on whether or not the child is to be born. Why does only the woman get to decide on abortion? As you say a woman doesnt get pregnant out of thin air so why does she get all the rights? Also traditionally a husband was supposed to earn the money and the wife was supposed to take care of the children and the house. With the advent of labour saving devices and prepackaged food the amount of housework has drastically dropped so why is the man still supposed to provide support in a divorce . In todays world women even with kids should be able to earn their keep and if they claim they cant as they have to babysit why not just cede custody? But women dont as they know Child Support is a pot of gold. Only about one third of child support is spent on the child itself the rest is used for leading a level of life higher than deserved based on basic competency.
What people dont realize is that as children have an instinctively stronger relation with their mothers it is very easy for mothers to use children against the father as a weapon. In traditional society this power was balanced by the fact that fathers would simply stop supporting children who are brainwashed to hate them. With compulsory child support this balance is broken leading to abusive behaviour by women without suffering consequences.
I have not said I would like to live in Saudi for my wife is a sensible person and I would never put her in the situation of not being able to even drive but the point is USA is not a fair society. Its an unbalanced society.
Now I will say something which will make the femino fascists gasp. Men are traditionally physically stronger but women have had higher emotional quotients. What this means is as long as there is no violence women always have the upper hand as they are better at manipulating emotions and using words to get their own way. Traditional society has balanced that by the fact that men who are driven to extremes by such pschologically abusive behaviour can respond with physical violence to balnace the scales . As there is a balance both kinds of abuse psychological and physical dont happen commonly. What has happened in US is by outlawing physical domestic abuse but at the same time allowing psychological domestic abuse (in fact even encouraging it by child support and custody laws) families have been made unstable. Thus except for the small number of extremely emotionally stable women and mild tempered men who form couples most American marriages end in divorce. If domestic sparring of a low key kind were legal the divorce rate would be much much lower.
Very funny. What I meant was everyone learns the common language(s) and then their own language and no disrespect to other peoples languages. BTW the economies of China and India will be bigger than the US economy by the time children in kindergarten today are entering the workforce so its not such a bad idea to learn the languages of these countries (note the elites of the NorthEast and the West Coast are hiring Chinese speaking nannies to teach their kids Chinese) Of course since almost everyone in India will be speaking English I dont see Hindi taking off in a big way especially since quite a few Indians resent being forced to learn Hindi and would rather use English for day to day dealings.
Well its probably bad for the Iraqis but for the rest of the world its relief that the USA is too busy in Iraq to get into mischief elsewhere. BTW if you cant defend your country you deserve everything you get. If the Iraqis had been serious about defending their own country they would have spent money on Al Qaeda and funded Osama so he could send more special forces teams aka terrorists to the US so that the US was too busy at home to come mess in Iraq. Instead he wanted to run a secular country and turned down every overture of Al Qaeda and look what happened to him. And for what? Because he didnt want to go the the islamist route and wanted to avoid a culture of suicide bombing? Well it didnt work out that way did it? A lot more Iraqis are having to become suicide bombers in Iraq today than would have had to if Saddam had just sent some 100 suicide bombers into USA and said to USA dont invade me or bombs will start going off in all kinds of inconvenient places in the US. But if you are not willing to do that much to defend your country you deserve all the rape and pillaging that the US marines can send your way.
I hardly ever agree with the Republicans on anything but English as an offical language makes sense. Multiculturalism is a good thing and if it wont be promoted in a nation of immigrants where will it be? At the same time it does cost money to print things in multiple languages. I would think a rich nation like USA should be able to afford the costs but if certain towns and cities are economically depressed and cant afford the cost they should be able to just print in English. At the same time Language is important to people and noone should demean the language of somebody else. USA should follow the Indian model where everyone learns English and Hindi the official languages but they also get to choose a third language to learn in school where people can learn their own mother tongue as the third language. Knowing more never hurt anyone.
Sure your wife or girlfriend wants to live in the US but as a man where would You want to live? In a nation where if a girl gets pregnant she has the right to have an abortion even if the man wants the baby but on the other hand if the man doesnt want the baby the woman can go ahead and still have the baby and have to pay child support for the upkeep of the baby which is used by the mom to enjoy a life of leisure and boyfriend hopping while you work your butt off to pay Child Support. Even assets like Retirment saving and health insurance accounts which are protected even in a bankruptcy are not safe from Child Services. This is also a nation where even if the mother has been cheating in a divorce she still gets custody of the child. Further even if she denies the father child visitation rights the father still has to pay child support. Further when the mothers tricks make the man go crazy (after all he is also working a 9 to 5 job unlike the mother who is sitting at home all day on his money and plotting new ways to use his children against him) and he shouts into a phone it becomes a national scandal that a man shouted into a phone raher than a woman used children as a weapon against their father. You may criticize Saudi for being hard on their woman but USA is equally bad in the other direction. So to rephrase your question where would your husband/ biyfriend like to live USA or Saudi?
You do realize these are very small contracts which are being given out but the really big ones have been reserved for Coalition of Willing countries. Also China and Russia had preexisting contracts with Saddam and if they dont get their money back they are not going to play ball with US on Iran. Given the fact that Russia is the worlds second largest exporter of Oil it would love to see an Iran USA war in the Gulf which stops all Oil exports from the Gulf driving the price of Oil to say 20 dollars a gallon (YOu think I am joking The price of gas in India is 21 dollars a gallon on purchasing power parity). So the US cant piss off everyone especially now that the world has seen how hollow the US army really is - they cant control a country of 25 million despite spending 500 billion a year on the war. I am sure if the US had just given each citizen of Iraq 20000 dollars they would have just elected George Bush president no need for a war.
Speaking of preexisting contracts I am sure the Saudis feel really foolish right now. Saddam had been an ally of Saudi and Kuwait in the Iran Iraq war and fought on their behalf as the Sunni and Arab champion against Shite and Persian Iran. In return they gave huge loans to Iraq. When the Iran Iraq war ended Saddam said to them my country is bankrupt I am not paying it back and if you make too much noise I have a battle trained army. They still insisted on payback of loans so Saddam invaded Kuwait to make them back off (he still thought America was his friend). Well the Suadis thought no way are we forgiving 500 billion in loans , lets call in the Americans and pay for the war- its still going to cost less than 500 billion. Well now after having American troops on their soil for 10 years and losing all credibility as an Arab nation at the recent Sharm El Shaikh conference USA asked them to forgive Iraq's loan. They must surely feel stupid now. If they had just forgiven the loans in 1990 there would not have been the first Gulf war and USA would not be sitting on their hands in the gulf.
If you vote for against the West's blue eyed biy Yushchenko there is violence in the streets and the elections are overturned. (Its called Orange revolution as in orange is the color of the Euro notes the CIA passes out to paid demonstrators). The west has got used to overturning elections whenever someone inconvenient gets elected so it was going to be a matter of time before they tried to do the same at home. Personally even though I have leftist beliefs I believe for the rest of the world its better to have the Republicans in power. Why? Well the western standard of living cant be sustained without exploitation of some kind. Republicans and rightists are satisfied to exploit their own people but Democrats play nice at home and go exploit foreigners. If someone wants to say Iraq War let me explain how the Iraq war works. Poor Americans go and fight and risk their lives in Iraq, middle class Americans pay for it through the increasing national debt which they will have to payback by cancelling social security and medicare and rich Americans make money off it by investing in companies like Halliburton and General Dynamics(ticker symbol BOOM) which makes bullet proof vests. (The stock price of BOOM has gone up 20 times since the war in Iraq started). Democrats on the other hand stick to exploiting foreigners by constantly demanding market access but then blocking reciprocal access using a number of different excuses like Human rights, labour rights , environment etc.
What exactly is your point? You seem to be agreeing completely with me that these institutes were setup by 1st world nations at their own cost so as to have a steady pool of recruits for their own economy. What does Green revolution, food imports (btw the PL480 wheat sent by US to India was found to be so badly infected with pests you could almost consider it a form of biological warfare) have to do with IITs? Also Green revolution techniques were developed in Indonesia (See Rice Institute)
All the IITs have done is suck talent out of India. Very few IITians go to ISRO DRDO CSIR or any national institute. Yes some go to IIM but that is a total waste of the IIT training as you dont need to be an Engineer to be a Manager. This shows that even the IITians know IIT is not about being an Engineer; its about getting an IIT stamp which means you are hard working enough to crack the Joint Entrance Exam so you will be hard working enough to crack other exams like GMAT and GRE. What exactly is the payback to Indian society? Even when some IITians give back they mostly give back to IITs not to Indian society. India would be much better off with privatised universities rather than government run recruting stations for MNCs. With a system of private universities if the govt needs some research done they can target funds to private universities in return for results instead of subsidizing the education of people who will serve the economies of other nations.
Hey you speak pretty good English for a non native speaker. BTW I think you are missing the point about IITs. Its not about training people or about doing research. Its about screening out the most hard working intelligent people in every generation of Indians so they can be recruited by various different foreign nations. Why do you think the IITs were built by USA, USSR, Germany and Japan (Yes none were built by the Indian govt). The whole purpose is to suck the best genes out of the Indian genepool in every generation to improve the genepool in the donor nations. Research and the development of India is antithetical to the concept of IITs.
Most Indian villages which dont have grid power , have either solar , wind or most commonly biogas plants. As cows are there in most villages its easy to get methane from cow dung and generators running on methane
Did IISc hire some US returned scientists? People in US academia have been playing this game of overpromising and underdelivering for a long long time.
Given the rate at which the dollar is falling and the time it takes to complete govt projects in India by the time it is finished Rs 1600 will be worth more than 100 dollar. They can still claim to make a Rs 1600 laptop but it would actually be a 100 dollar laptop not a 10 dollar laptop. On the flip side the Chinese flat screen Tvs we get for 400 dollars nowadays will cost us 4000 dollars at Walmart
You could start off by embedding such systems in highways down the middle of each lane. The cars could be pure gasoline or gasoline with EM assist and both could easily travel down the same lane so the new cars could be introduced slowly. Even more interestingly if hybrids are being used and there is a traffic jam and you are just sitting there the EM assist could be charging your battery instead of giving you a push. Also as the assist would be maximum whenever you are exactly straight in the center of the lane it will be an auto regulating system which would push you back to the center of the lane. Probably you could also link up the turn signal with your car magnet so when you switch on a turn signal your magnet switches off and you are back to gas or gas hybrid and can easily change lanes without the system fighting you. Even more fun when enough cars have been converted the power on the underground grid could be pushed up so that basically you travel free on the freeway and only use your gas or hybrid battery on city streets. Most fun during rush hour city traffic controllers could regulate traffic flow by slowing down or speeding up required sections of traffic by pushing up or down the current. Pretty soon people with EM cars could let the navigation on the highway to the system and read newspapers on their morning commute and then take control once they get off the highway. This would be a pretty strong incentive for Gas only people to switch to Gas/EM or Gas/Hybrid/EM systems. Once Gas is being used only inside cities on city street it becomes easy to switch to CNG or Ethanol as stations would need to be there only in the city. Really futuristic would be to have fully computerised systems which prevent accidents by reversing the current polarity on short sections of the highway when a car is about to collide with another. Also futuristic would be to do away with hybrids and let the highway act as your battery. So when you brake instead of the braking force charging the battery it could dump electricity back into the system.
If you put a light rail right in the middle of a high traffic freeway how do people get on or off? Fly?
A terrorist attack is small potatoes. I am referring to the day in day out carpet bombing which cities in Europe and Japan saw during WW2 which turned these countries into pacifists. Americans in general dont really know what war does to you when its happening in the street outside your home. Till a long drawn out war happens on American soil , Americans will always be too willing to go to war elsewhere.