I am not too sure about the quality and skill in companies but I find the basic education here in US terrible. As a informatics grad student I take classes here. Many of Master Students I find can't do even basic math properly - let alone biology. Even for simple calculations they need the most advanced TI calculator. I accept there are certainly a few bright guys around in my class but on average the standard is poor - far less than the equivalent you will find in India. (Yes, I agree many in India still do not go to school...)
Well depends on your definition of democracy. Just saying it isnt enough. I agree they have a various mix of of ethnicities but have problems in each one of those. Whether its Hindu-Muslim riots in Gujrat, or Tamil guerrilas in the South and others.
With a population of 1 billion how many you think took part in the violence. Had India not been secular, democratic and tolerant the whole of the country must be in chaos. Just because the numbers are huge (in any riot) does not effectively mean the intensity of the problem. The per cent of people who did the violence is fractional. Even less % than the % of misbehaved soldiers of Abu Gharib.
And by the way the Tamil guerrilas are in a different country called Sri Lanka.
I feel the current rule in Pakistan is the most democratic and modern government for some time.
Yes, as you said above "it depends on the definition of democracy". But it is not the democracy "by,for, to the people".
Fundamentalists? Well is that why they have captured more fundamentalist AQ/Taliban operatives than the US forces there?
This is because 'the current regime' was the creator sponsor of Taliban and they know the territory and the AQ members. One must remember Pakistan was the last country to maintain ties with the Taliban.
According to US, developing countries like India should not develop nuclear power as they might use it for weapons, whereas GM wants to sell as many cars in China and India to make these crowded countries even more polluted. The EU is a lame duck which is trying a put up a brave face to the US while the individual govts surrender behind the scenes to the US. I think the day ozone layer depletes above the White house the US will start: War on Pollution .
Across the atlantic here (I am in Germany) we don't have any manufacturer supplying linux-based notebooks. I enquired with HP but they said that not many customers are interested. Anyways to ship it from there?
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I am not too sure about the quality and skill in companies but I find the basic education here in US terrible. As a informatics grad student I take classes here. Many of Master Students I find can't do even basic math properly - let alone biology. Even for simple calculations they need the most advanced TI calculator. I accept there are certainly a few bright guys around in my class but on average the standard is poor - far less than the equivalent you will find in India. (Yes, I agree many in India still do not go to school...)
The train sequences are set in Assam (North-Eastern state). Not in Assam
Finally a cool idea to permanently destroy the data from my old hard drive!
With a population of 1 billion how many you think took part in the violence. Had India not been secular, democratic and tolerant the whole of the country must be in chaos. Just because the numbers are huge (in any riot) does not effectively mean the intensity of the problem. The per cent of people who did the violence is fractional. Even less % than the % of misbehaved soldiers of Abu Gharib.
And by the way the Tamil guerrilas are in a different country called Sri Lanka.
I feel the current rule in Pakistan is the most democratic and modern government for some time.
Yes, as you said above "it depends on the definition of democracy". But it is not the democracy "by,for, to the people".
Fundamentalists? Well is that why they have captured more fundamentalist AQ/Taliban operatives than the US forces there?
This is because 'the current regime' was the creator sponsor of Taliban and they know the territory and the AQ members. One must remember Pakistan was the last country to maintain ties with the Taliban.
According to US, developing countries like India should not develop nuclear power as they might use it for weapons, whereas GM wants to sell as many cars in China and India to make these crowded countries even more polluted. The EU is a lame duck which is trying a put up a brave face to the US while the individual govts surrender behind the scenes to the US. I think the day ozone layer depletes above the White house the US will start: War on Pollution .
Across the atlantic here (I am in Germany) we don't have any manufacturer supplying linux-based notebooks. I enquired with HP but they said that not many customers are interested. Anyways to ship it from there?
For Soviets socialism was the reason; W blames terrorism.