You my dear friend, have uncovered the true reason why american companies are outsourcing so much...yes , yes!... must have been that building that got trashed in NY a few years back... Imagine the better part of a companies data (backups and all) its employees and IT structure blown to smokey little bits and pieces. The term crippling blow comes to mind.
Dude nothing to do with your point... and I hate to point this out... but most of the populace in India which lives in rural parts has probably not worn shoes in their entire life. *sigh*. No.. I am not exaggarating.
Unfortunately that is completely incorrect and essentialy a propagandic rewriting of history by the British.
The region now known as in Indian subcontinent had been fragmented into small kingdoms (much like US districts ofcourse)... ruled by small kings (same status as say mayors ? )... now every now and then there would arise some particular king that would conquer the entire sub-continent over his reign i.e. Chandragupta Maurya... or King Bharat and s on... but after their death the smaller kingdoms would break away again. So it went on till the muslim invaders came in and conquered literally all of India, forcing all the smaller kings to pay taxes to them and recognize them as the true ruler.
It was during the period of Emperor Aurangjeb that the British came in and asked permission to set up a trading outpost, from which they went on to capture small kingdoms one by on through their policy of "divide and rule". As such India and Pakistan were actually one country ruled by the Mughal emperors and were a unified nation long before the British. Glad to clear up that piece of propaganda. Feel free to check up on Mughal Emperors and how much of India they governed, on googol or someplace.
As for democratically elected leaders... India and Pakistan actually were all small kingdoms DESPITE the british rule e.g. Hyderabad, Junagarh, Kashmir and so on. They were made to choose to join one or the other country and yes the choices hold even 60 years later as such. Else the alternative is that none of the choices hold and I think neither India nor Pakistan would wish to accept that alternative. i.e. a full redrawing of map
AS for India's being secular... isn't USA supposed to be the same ? Heck it is supposed to treat blacks and whites equally. India to its credit has had a muslim president and a female prime minister. When was the last time US could boast of either or those or a black heading the country ? And despite the declarations of equality and black and whites peacefully coexisting, there have been riots between these two factions often enough.
Heck in the light of current events I would go as far as to say, USA is ruled by a fundamentalst Christian Government. Care to dispute that ? who cares ?
Given the choice Kashmir would leave India *and* Pakistan... and next morning have the Chinese walking in just like Tibbet, costing India a major militarily strategic region, and gaining the Kashmiris nothing as Chinese would be happy to wipe out the local muslim populace to make room for their own.
Oh sure... except that the region in question falls between Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and China and thanks to the high altitude is of tremendous military strategic importance. So spoken truly like someone who never looked at the map of the world.
Kashmir becomes independent...next day China walks in like they did with the part of kashmir pakistan had managed to capture a few decades back, uses the added military advantage to browbeat the three other nations into submission and/or nuke the hell out of them from up there, build up their military might even more and proceed to beat the tar of USA (and this is one country that can actually try it thanks to sheer nuber of cannon fodder they have got... acceptable collateral damage and all) and all other countries over the world.
Sounds unrealistic ? But China has been egging to get a go at that region for years. And you have a president who starts attempting to capture a terrorist in Afghanistan and ends up bombing some dictator in Iraq... so let us leave unrealistic out of it... So goodbye to Indo-pak conflict...hello to World War IV!!
One of them acknowledgedly wrongfully jailed for 25 years, was actually made to pay more than £3000 to the government, for every year he spent in jail.
Start thinking creating treatments which imbue qualities of roaches(which are immune to radiation) to people, to create soldiers that can laugh off anything less than a direct nuclear strike.
At which point you can happily nuke a warzone, killing only enemy soldiers. Paranoidal thinking yes, but military loves to invest in Science fiction stuff like this, if they can get a cost effective edge against the enemy.
Admit it, half a billion radiation-proof soldiers are way better than half a billion normal soldiers.
Yes, I think that is a perfectly legitimate answer to my question. I definitely see the problem with converting cars, trucks etc., and the huge costs involved. Electric cars haven't caught on despite having been introduced for a while now.
Ditto for air transport. You are correct. But I don't see why overhead power lines need to be layed out. Why can't the existing infrastructure be adapted ? What am I missing here ?
And yes, revamping the rail network is going to be costly too. But then again, why can't this be done in stretches ? I mean convert just one stretch and then extend it onwards... I mean this entire network came out to exist in the first place, in steps, right ? Cost benefits ? I dunno... from what I know mining and drilling activities have been proved to lead to increase in the probability of earthquakes, even if we completely ignore the global warming warnings as hype. So how much damage an earthquake can cause ? (How much in damages did the recent one that caused the tsunami in asia, cost?)
I suppose the other half of the equation is answered by that other post regards the power politiics by oil companies etc. I would suspect they are the ones blocking any research into practical nuclear power generation.
Anyhow I guess you have some pretty valid points there.
And I agree with you. Feel free to get the world of dictatorial regimes, if they bother you all that much. World *will* thank you.
But then please please stop recognizing dictators as allies and friends when it suits you. Stop taking sides in wars that do not really concern you and are not about democracy. And at least clean up and actually *leave* when you are done setting up your democracy. Especially when the people you went to save, want you to leave.
I am all for idealism. But don't expect me to cheer for hypocrisy.
Afghanistan was fine as in your actions in Afghanistan were fine and legitimate. Your actions there were perfectly justified and hence world was pretty much with you till that point. Noted how nations were falling over themselves to help you out back then ?
So what changed when you went to Iraq ? Where did all that support go and why ? *I* am not the brainwashed idiot here, considering that *you* are the one who is unable to ask yourself these simple questions and try and find and pinpoint the actual reason why the world seems to be "against you" now.
But no. I think you will rather feel happy in your pipe-induced fantasy that world is just plain old "jealous" of you, and hates you and would never ever support you in anything.
Countries supporting you during the Afghanistan invasion ? That is just some rumour. It never happened. Even if it did, it must not be counted, since believing everyone hates you is much better when you go stamping in on their faces.
I am all for freedom and democracy, but how come *you* were the ones who supported Saddam instead of democracy ? How come you have taken the other dictatorial regime that was just caught spreading WMDs technology around, as an ally ?
Your head is already stuck in sand, from my point of view.
Bush for one, would be happy to drop off his religious veneer, and the US government would be all too willing to do the same for its moral misgivings, the moment China begins working on military applications for this. I mean genetically engineered chimeras to fight wars.
Then, it will become all... "we got to have this because they have it too".
I dunno, if you can look upon the schism, this will create between the US govt. and the catholic churches, as a bright side.
Afghanistan was fine. Noticed how the world was with you and cheering you on when you went there ? But let us cut the crap. You didn't really go there to "extend freedom and democrocy". You went there to catch terrorists who had attacked you and to topple a regime which harboured these terrorists, and world agreed that you had the right. Freedom and democracy ? Well that was incidental. You *are* supposed to clean up after the mess you cause. If you create a power vaccum you would definitely be expected to protect the innocent civilians there from anarchial looting and rioting, by helping set up a democratic government.
As for Iraq... for the umpteenth time, how was it a problem for you ? There are hundreds of tyrannical regime. Last I checked one of them actually became an ally despite having WMDs and caught profilerating the nuke technology *and* being a dictatorial regime, which had actually toppled the previous democratic government via a military coup.
You seem to be the only one buying into your fairytales about "extending freedom and democracy", when in reality you just support dictators usually.
It wasn't about oil, it wasn't really directly about WMD, it was about changing the situation so the US can actually *get-out* of the Middle East.
Ok I will bite. Why is USA *still* there then ? You have toppled the EVIL REGIME. You have setup a new government. Any attacks still happening are because the chaps there *want* you out. So what is stopping you from leaving now ?
I will buy your rant, when I see you actually leaving.
I will grant you that. I am not saying Americans did NOTHING. I am merely objecting to the self-congratulatory thinking most Americans I come across subscribe to, namely that USA won the WWII all by itself.
If anything it cost the Britishers their entire empire to bring down the Germany's world conquest campaign. They paid the highest price of all. As history records it, prior to pearl harbour, USA refused to enter the war claiming that it was not their problem and they will just supply weapons etc. at most(for a profit ofcourse).
Feel free to mod me as flamebait, but let us be fair. While American war efforts did help in the WWII, they hardly defeated Germany by themselves.
Or what about the US military being there to assist in the Indian Ocean after the Tsuamni?
Hmm so if you extend humanitarian aid, that gives you the moral right to play global cop and invade other countries and causing deaths of thousands of civilians ?
Now I applaud the wisdom of the Indian Government refusing any aid from USA towards the Tsunami cleanup.
Not trying to troll but I didn't know US had *that* many nuclear reactors. Not to mention the world's largest pile of nuclear material(in form of weapons which are *theoretically* supposed to be never used).
So despite all this potential for generating more than enough energy for decades to come... why bother resorting to all kind of foreign policy antics to obtain the tradional heavily polluting energy sources ?
Only in the western world would they spend a bundle on inventing complex technological devices to prevent people from taking photographs, but rake up a major controversy trying to ban something called burka.
I'll buy on your satire dear sir, when you show me a cellphone using php or python to run applications.
I am not sure when someone speaks about portability, why people instantly visualize it as running it on just windows or *nix. There *are* other architectures you know ? And there *are* other things, that java can be used for beyond servlets to generate webpages.
In other words kind sir, the world is bigger than the small pond you have been living in.
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You my dear friend, have uncovered the true reason why american companies are outsourcing so much ...yes , yes! ... must have been that building that got trashed in NY a few years back ... Imagine the better part of a companies data (backups and all) its employees and IT structure blown to smokey little bits and pieces. The term crippling blow comes to mind.
Dude nothing to do with your point ... and I hate to point this out ... but most of the populace in India which lives in rural parts has probably not worn shoes in their entire life. *sigh*. No .. I am not exaggarating.
The region now known as in Indian subcontinent had been fragmented into small kingdoms (much like US districts ofcourse)... ruled by small kings (same status as say mayors ? )... now every now and then there would arise some particular king that would conquer the entire sub-continent over his reign i.e. Chandragupta Maurya ... or King Bharat and s on... but after their death the smaller kingdoms would break away again. So it went on till the muslim invaders came in and conquered literally all of India, forcing all the smaller kings to pay taxes to them and recognize them as the true ruler.
It was during the period of Emperor Aurangjeb that the British came in and asked permission to set up a trading outpost, from which they went on to capture small kingdoms one by on through their policy of "divide and rule". As such India and Pakistan were actually one country ruled by the Mughal emperors and were a unified nation long before the British. Glad to clear up that piece of propaganda. Feel free to check up on Mughal Emperors and how much of India they governed, on googol or someplace.
As for democratically elected leaders... India and Pakistan actually were all small kingdoms DESPITE the british rule e.g. Hyderabad, Junagarh, Kashmir and so on. They were made to choose to join one or the other country and yes the choices hold even 60 years later as such. Else the alternative is that none of the choices hold and I think neither India nor Pakistan would wish to accept that alternative. i.e. a full redrawing of map
AS for India's being secular ... isn't USA supposed to be the same ? Heck it is supposed to treat blacks and whites equally. India to its credit has had a muslim president and a female prime minister. When was the last time US could boast of either or those or a black heading the country ? And despite the declarations of equality and black and whites peacefully coexisting, there have been riots between these two factions often enough.
Heck in the light of current events I would go as far as to say, USA is ruled by a fundamentalst Christian Government. Care to dispute that ? who cares ? Given the choice Kashmir would leave India *and* Pakistan... and next morning have the Chinese walking in just like Tibbet, costing India a major militarily strategic region, and gaining the Kashmiris nothing as Chinese would be happy to wipe out the local muslim populace to make room for their own.
So much for that theory of yours ...
Kashmir becomes independent...next day China walks in like they did with the part of kashmir pakistan had managed to capture a few decades back, uses the added military advantage to browbeat the three other nations into submission and/or nuke the hell out of them from up there, build up their military might even more and proceed to beat the tar of USA (and this is one country that can actually try it thanks to sheer nuber of cannon fodder they have got... acceptable collateral damage and all) and all other countries over the world.
Sounds unrealistic ? But China has been egging to get a go at that region for years. And you have a president who starts attempting to capture a terrorist in Afghanistan and ends up bombing some dictator in Iraq... so let us leave unrealistic out of it... So goodbye to Indo-pak conflict ...hello to World War IV!!
You are so brilliant...
One of them acknowledgedly wrongfully jailed for 25 years, was actually made to pay more than £3000 to the government, for every year he spent in jail.
Start thinking creating treatments which imbue qualities of roaches(which are immune to radiation) to people, to create soldiers that can laugh off anything less than a direct nuclear strike.
At which point you can happily nuke a warzone, killing only enemy soldiers. Paranoidal thinking yes, but military loves to invest in Science fiction stuff like this, if they can get a cost effective edge against the enemy.
Admit it, half a billion radiation-proof soldiers are way better than half a billion normal soldiers.
Ditto for air transport. You are correct. But I don't see why overhead power lines need to be layed out. Why can't the existing infrastructure be adapted ? What am I missing here ?
And yes, revamping the rail network is going to be costly too. But then again, why can't this be done in stretches ? I mean convert just one stretch and then extend it onwards... I mean this entire network came out to exist in the first place, in steps, right ? Cost benefits ? I dunno... from what I know mining and drilling activities have been proved to lead to increase in the probability of earthquakes, even if we completely ignore the global warming warnings as hype. So how much damage an earthquake can cause ? (How much in damages did the recent one that caused the tsunami in asia, cost?)
I suppose the other half of the equation is answered by that other post regards the power politiics by oil companies etc. I would suspect they are the ones blocking any research into practical nuclear power generation.
Anyhow I guess you have some pretty valid points there.
But then please please stop recognizing dictators as allies and friends when it suits you. Stop taking sides in wars that do not really concern you and are not about democracy. And at least clean up and actually *leave* when you are done setting up your democracy. Especially when the people you went to save, want you to leave.
I am all for idealism. But don't expect me to cheer for hypocrisy.
So what changed when you went to Iraq ? Where did all that support go and why ? *I* am not the brainwashed idiot here, considering that *you* are the one who is unable to ask yourself these simple questions and try and find and pinpoint the actual reason why the world seems to be "against you" now.
But no. I think you will rather feel happy in your pipe-induced fantasy that world is just plain old "jealous" of you, and hates you and would never ever support you in anything.
Countries supporting you during the Afghanistan invasion ? That is just some rumour. It never happened. Even if it did, it must not be counted, since believing everyone hates you is much better when you go stamping in on their faces.
I am all for freedom and democracy, but how come *you* were the ones who supported Saddam instead of democracy ? How come you have taken the other dictatorial regime that was just caught spreading WMDs technology around, as an ally ?
Your head is already stuck in sand, from my point of view.
Then, it will become all ... "we got to have this because they have it too".
I dunno, if you can look upon the schism, this will create between the US govt. and the catholic churches, as a bright side.
Afghanistan was fine. Noticed how the world was with you and cheering you on when you went there ? But let us cut the crap. You didn't really go there to "extend freedom and democrocy". You went there to catch terrorists who had attacked you and to topple a regime which harboured these terrorists, and world agreed that you had the right. Freedom and democracy ? Well that was incidental. You *are* supposed to clean up after the mess you cause. If you create a power vaccum you would definitely be expected to protect the innocent civilians there from anarchial looting and rioting, by helping set up a democratic government.
As for Iraq ... for the umpteenth time, how was it a problem for you ? There are hundreds of tyrannical regime. Last I checked one of them actually became an ally despite having WMDs and caught profilerating the nuke technology *and* being a dictatorial regime, which had actually toppled the previous democratic government via a military coup.
You seem to be the only one buying into your fairytales about "extending freedom and democracy", when in reality you just support dictators usually.
Oh wait! "if you are not with us..."
Ok I will bite. Why is USA *still* there then ? You have toppled the EVIL REGIME. You have setup a new government. Any attacks still happening are because the chaps there *want* you out. So what is stopping you from leaving now ?
I will buy your rant, when I see you actually leaving.
If anything it cost the Britishers their entire empire to bring down the Germany's world conquest campaign. They paid the highest price of all. As history records it, prior to pearl harbour, USA refused to enter the war claiming that it was not their problem and they will just supply weapons etc. at most(for a profit ofcourse).
Feel free to mod me as flamebait, but let us be fair. While American war efforts did help in the WWII, they hardly defeated Germany by themselves.
Hmm so if you extend humanitarian aid, that gives you the moral right to play global cop and invade other countries and causing deaths of thousands of civilians ?
Now I applaud the wisdom of the Indian Government refusing any aid from USA towards the Tsunami cleanup.
With your kind of thinking, Germany could have been the #1 super power
I am just trying to find a silver lining to all the gloom and doom.
So despite all this potential for generating more than enough energy for decades to come... why bother resorting to all kind of foreign policy antics to obtain the tradional heavily polluting energy sources ?
Not to mention your cities' power supplies experiencing a DoS attack.
I am not sure when someone speaks about portability, why people instantly visualize it as running it on just windows or *nix. There *are* other architectures you know ? And there *are* other things, that java can be used for beyond servlets to generate webpages.
In other words kind sir, the world is bigger than the small pond you have been living in.
Shhh ... Not so loud! You will end up having a law passed against slashdot then!
I'd say the chances of their winning are rather slim.
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I rest my case.