First any remains of a dwarf are automatically dubbed "hobbit" by the media and now a giant ape remains are dubbed "King Kong"
What is the fetish of present-day media with dubbing scientific discoveries and news with hollywood inspired names ????
What is up next ?
"antique car found in a warehouse!" - "WE FOUND HERBIE!!!! "
"Giant crocodile remains found"- "GODZILLA LIVES! IT IS TRUE!!! REMAINS BEING SENT TO TOKYO!!!"
"150 years old skeleton of a cowboy discovered" - "THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MAN WITH NO NAME!!!"
"broken phone instrument found lying around the crime area" - "E.T. FINALLY PHONED HOME!!!"
You're off the mark. Even a beginner in a BPO (call centre) makes more than Rs. 14,000 (and in the IT industry, that's as low as you can get).
It is a big chunk of the monthly salary (a WinXP licence), but the avg salary isn't that low.
Please take off the rose-tinted glasses. Not everyone in India works in a BPO. Most of the lesser-skilled programmers(which are a vast number actually) tend to make between just Rs. 5000 and Rs 10000 on average. Yes they still manage to own a computer by either borrowing money from parents or saving money(as computers are still available for even as low as around Rs. 15000). But buying a legal copy of windows is almost same as one month's salary
And that is not even taking into consideration the non-PC posessing group, where average salary is below Rs. 3000-5000(US$60- US$100) on average.
You're off the mark. Even a beginner in a BPO (call centre) makes more than Rs. 14,000 (and in the IT industry, that's as low as you can get).
It is a big chunk of the monthly salary (a WinXP licence), but the avg salary isn't that low.
Please take off the rose-tinted glasses. Not everyone in India works in a BPO. Most of the lesser-skilled programmers(which are a vast number actually) tend to make between just Rs. 5000 and Rs 10000 on average. Yes they still manage to own a computer by either borrowing money from parents or saving money(as computers are still available for even as low as around Rs. 15000). But buying a legal copy of windows is almost same as one month's salary
And that is not even taking into consideration the non-PC posessing group, where average salary is below Rs. 3000-5000(US$60- US$100) on average.
Germs and viruses. Diseases. I don't know about you but anybody with the slightest amount of idea about farming and the world knows that plant diseases for example, evolve all the time. They build immunity to treatements for example. That is short-term evolving for you, or mutation as you might choose to call it.
Weird. People like you would believe when you are told that SARS or some disease X has evolved into a different form and old treatments dont work on it, but would challange evolution.
First, if there were no internet and someone were to "invent" it today, it would be very similar to the Internet that was created years ago.
I beg to humbly differ.
If there was no internet and someone were to invent it today, they would immediately run off to patent it, and that will be all we will get to hear about it.
but I'd rather spend the money and have an email intercepted that contains a tip to the CIA who then goes after a friend of a friend of a friend (you get the point), than to have 3000 more people die on our own soil.
Oh Dear.
Just wanted to sort of ask, when does the all-powerful US Government that is sworn to "protect" all its citizenship, goes after Katrina ? It killed like 1000 people.
I bet it is installing same mega-gadgets to prevent any hurricanes/tsunamis/earthquakes from ever happening again ?
If you still lack a clue here is one : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_toll
Check the number of people who have died in things like wars between Governments etc. Or Earthquakes. Or Tsunamis. And then take a look at the numbers that are dead due to terrorist acts. Did the penny drop yet ?
I honestly don't want to belittle the deaths of people due to terrorism. All life is precious. But you realize that more people have died historically by allowing Governments to assume too much power(as happened once upon a time in Germany), than by terrorists acts ?
Oh, I forget. You only care about the people that die on "your" soil. "Your" people. Hey let us narrow it down even further, and make it your specific community even(say "blacks" or "whites" or "elites"). Well, sorry then.
Ah welcome! you have accidentally uncovered the Grand Plan. We creationalist have been so far unsuccessful in subverting science textbooks being teached in the classrooms. George Bush has declared that we are one nation under god and by God we are going to bring everyone under our God. Yes, even those damned atheists! Everybody knows science and religion don't mix, and so we have finally decided that if we cannot be allowed to teach creationilism in the class rooms, then we sure as hell are going to ban the other things being taught there. The best way to do so is ofcourse by banning all those other books.
We all know that the bible was THE original book. EVERYTHING follows from the bible. That is a fact! Bible is prior art! Hence through USPTO we will finally see to it that only the bible, which is the ORIGINAL BOOK, is taught in our schools and colleges and we will ban all the other irrelevant stuff like medicine, physics, chemistry and maths.
We are one nation under God, and only God can help us now. Amen.
Erm, i'd severely doubt that, let me email 5,000,000 messages in 5 minutes and see if your server/network dies.
Dude, if you can get a server/network which lets you email 5,000,000 messages in 5 minutes then I am pretty sure he can get a server/network to handle them.
The conversation around the dinner table thing only works until you find out that your son is gay, your daughter a democrat, and your wife cares about black people.
When TV gets turns off, expect a jump in the domestic violence rate.
In that case, why not cut straight to the chase and start supplying marijuana etc. drugs to the people ?
If you are zoned out/passed out on your sofa all day, presto! no domestic violence!
Seriously, is DNS control even necessary? My 'utopian' internet future doesn't see much need for DNS. Bit-torrent doesn't need it, Google lets me find information anywhere without needing to remember domain names, and portable bookmarks make my life simple.
And how do you propose to locate www.google.com itself in the first place, according to this nice scheme of yours ?
Now I dont really see a "buy this product" link on the site. All these guys are doing is buying publicity for themselves. Firefox is supposedly free. So if they put an advertisement on google, like the one in NYT, there would not really be any credit card transaction!
So how does google get paid in this respect ?
There is no magic bullet or one-size-fits-all solution to this problem.
Hate to break this to you... but China has already taken a chunk of Kashmir from the part that Pakistan had managed to grab. So no, China taking over kashmir is not so odd. Coincidentally Tibbet was captured by the british some 200 years back or so rather. China never could hope to fight the british, but saw an opportunity when British left and a nascent India was too weak to protect its territories. India had its butt handed to it in that war, at least.
As for secular... my whole point is that *no* country is perfect... least of all, the ones that pretend to be so. So it is pretty stupid to point out a fault in a third world nation that still exists in one of the most developed countries in the world. Feel free to debate that.
And yes, Kashmiris have the right of determining their own fate. But such rights only go along with your capability to defend them. Which they dont have. If India pulled out, China or Pakistan will march in the next day. An external UN polce force can't really defend the region either for a long period. It has not really been working in Iraq. Eventually soldiers want to go home and get done with being bombed all the time by terrorists.
Right now Kashmiris just want the right to not to be bombed to smitertheens. And a place where 14 year old girls aren't shot in the knee for just wearing a pair of jeans(against muslim edicts somehow).
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Hmm pratchett... has a fan newsgroup where he regularly interacts. What a geek!
qualified!!!
The book has been around for ages ... but this current fetish for caling everyone vertically-challanged a hobbit surfaced only after the movie :p
What is the fetish of present-day media with dubbing scientific discoveries and news with hollywood inspired names ????
What is up next ?
"antique car found in a warehouse!" - "WE FOUND HERBIE!!!! "
"Giant crocodile remains found"- "GODZILLA LIVES! IT IS TRUE!!! REMAINS BEING SENT TO TOKYO!!!"
"150 years old skeleton of a cowboy discovered" - "THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MAN WITH NO NAME!!!"
"broken phone instrument found lying around the crime area" - "E.T. FINALLY PHONED HOME!!!"
Sheesh!!!
Please take off the rose-tinted glasses. Not everyone in India works in a BPO. Most of the lesser-skilled programmers(which are a vast number actually) tend to make between just Rs. 5000 and Rs 10000 on average. Yes they still manage to own a computer by either borrowing money from parents or saving money(as computers are still available for even as low as around Rs. 15000). But buying a legal copy of windows is almost same as one month's salary
And that is not even taking into consideration the non-PC posessing group, where average salary is below Rs. 3000-5000(US$60- US$100) on average.
Please take off the rose-tinted glasses. Not everyone in India works in a BPO. Most of the lesser-skilled programmers(which are a vast number actually) tend to make between just Rs. 5000 and Rs 10000 on average. Yes they still manage to own a computer by either borrowing money from parents or saving money(as computers are still available for even as low as around Rs. 15000). But buying a legal copy of windows is almost same as one month's salary
And that is not even taking into consideration the non-PC posessing group, where average salary is below Rs. 3000-5000(US$60- US$100) on average.
So he is in violation of US rules. Correct ?
But is he an American citizen ? Or do US rules apply to all of the world ? Or is this a rule under some international treaty ?
Where did the "forced" part come from ?
Germs and viruses. Diseases. I don't know about you but anybody with the slightest amount of idea about farming and the world knows that plant diseases for example, evolve all the time. They build immunity to treatements for example. That is short-term evolving for you, or mutation as you might choose to call it.
Weird. People like you would believe when you are told that SARS or some disease X has evolved into a different form and old treatments dont work on it, but would challange evolution.
with the exception of the deprived dad ofcourse.
They want their zero back from your binary system. :)
P.S. The Britishers are asking about their railway stuff.
5* I would not be replying to you.
I beg to humbly differ.
If there was no internet and someone were to invent it today, they would immediately run off to patent it, and that will be all we will get to hear about it.
Oh Dear.
Just wanted to sort of ask, when does the all-powerful US Government that is sworn to "protect" all its citizenship, goes after Katrina ? It killed like 1000 people.
I bet it is installing same mega-gadgets to prevent any hurricanes/tsunamis/earthquakes from ever happening again ? If you still lack a clue here is one : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_toll
Check the number of people who have died in things like wars between Governments etc. Or Earthquakes. Or Tsunamis. And then take a look at the numbers that are dead due to terrorist acts. Did the penny drop yet ?
I honestly don't want to belittle the deaths of people due to terrorism. All life is precious. But you realize that more people have died historically by allowing Governments to assume too much power(as happened once upon a time in Germany), than by terrorists acts ?
Oh, I forget. You only care about the people that die on "your" soil. "Your" people. Hey let us narrow it down even further, and make it your specific community even(say "blacks" or "whites" or "elites"). Well, sorry then.
You are wondering why Scientist want to go to Mars ? Self Explanatory. They want to escape all this bizzareness :P
Ah welcome! you have accidentally uncovered the Grand Plan. We creationalist have been so far unsuccessful in subverting science textbooks being teached in the classrooms. George Bush has declared that we are one nation under god and by God we are going to bring everyone under our God. Yes, even those damned atheists! Everybody knows science and religion don't mix, and so we have finally decided that if we cannot be allowed to teach creationilism in the class rooms, then we sure as hell are going to ban the other things being taught there. The best way to do so is ofcourse by banning all those other books.
We all know that the bible was THE original book. EVERYTHING follows from the bible. That is a fact! Bible is prior art! Hence through USPTO we will finally see to it that only the bible, which is the ORIGINAL BOOK, is taught in our schools and colleges and we will ban all the other irrelevant stuff like medicine, physics, chemistry and maths.
We are one nation under God, and only God can help us now. Amen.
Erm, i'd severely doubt that, let me email 5,000,000 messages in 5 minutes and see if your server/network dies.
Dude, if you can get a server/network which lets you email 5,000,000 messages in 5 minutes then I am pretty sure he can get a server/network to handle them.
Just imagine...
First time an IRC room got slashdotted ...just now :)
The watchers of the watchers of the watchers.
Next Question please.
A weapon is a weapon. It doesn't cares who it is being pointed at.
When TV gets turns off, expect a jump in the domestic violence rate.
In that case, why not cut straight to the chase and start supplying marijuana etc. drugs to the people ?
If you are zoned out/passed out on your sofa all day, presto! no domestic violence!
Sheesh!
Seriously, is DNS control even necessary? My 'utopian' internet future doesn't see much need for DNS. Bit-torrent doesn't need it, Google lets me find information anywhere without needing to remember domain names, and portable bookmarks make my life simple. And how do you propose to locate www.google.com itself in the first place, according to this nice scheme of yours ?
"Make me famous Check out Indie 101 and listen to one of my songs. Help me win. www.indie101.net"
The link took me to this site. http://www.indie101.net/artists/johnnyrome/
Now I dont really see a "buy this product" link on the site. All these guys are doing is buying publicity for themselves. Firefox is supposedly free. So if they put an advertisement on google, like the one in NYT, there would not really be any credit card transaction!
So how does google get paid in this respect ? There is no magic bullet or one-size-fits-all solution to this problem.
As for secular ... my whole point is that *no* country is perfect... least of all, the ones that pretend to be so. So it is pretty stupid to point out a fault in a third world nation that still exists in one of the most developed countries in the world. Feel free to debate that.
And yes, Kashmiris have the right of determining their own fate. But such rights only go along with your capability to defend them. Which they dont have. If India pulled out, China or Pakistan will march in the next day. An external UN polce force can't really defend the region either for a long period. It has not really been working in Iraq. Eventually soldiers want to go home and get done with being bombed all the time by terrorists.
Right now Kashmiris just want the right to not to be bombed to smitertheens. And a place where 14 year old girls aren't shot in the knee for just wearing a pair of jeans(against muslim edicts somehow).