There is a firefox ipkg for openzaurus & familiar for pocketpc's. Just search at
http://ipkgfind.handhelds.org/
. There was some talk at the developer forum for building Microsoft pocketpc bins for firefox, but dunno if anything came of it...
Even though Kazaa may have spyware, you don't need to use that particular client to access the network to which kazaa connects (the fasttrack network). You can us eopensourse clients like mldonkey or apollon/giFT to do the same, & not worry abt any spyware or whatever.
1.Run a webserver, ssh server, ftp server, vnc server, QTopia server, or any other kind of opensource server for any reason whatsoever
2.Compile C programs
3.Run iptbles firewall for better protection when networked
3.Not worry so much about any important information in your PDA being stolen while networked
4. Familiar & Openzaurus are updated more quickly than pocketpc or whatever.
5. Better package management systems
6. Databases
In short, with Linux, your PDA can serve more likea regular personal compu than it could with pocketpc. I mean, all that pocketpc really does is
store addresses & phone numbers, and costs $200 to boot! With Linux in my Zaurus I'm getting my money's worth as far as the capabilities of the hardware are concerned.
What's wrong with a Sharp Zaurus?
It's cheap,runs embeddix Linux (2.4 as of now) by default, has a keyboard & has a cf slot for wifi cards.
Only problem is you don't get too many WAP's in third world countries if you are travelling there. Also, carrying a small 10" laptop is not too much trouble. Sony sells them.
Yes, but the momentum is not increasing monotonically. The radiation pressure is (1/3) the energy density, & as energy density depends on radiation intensity , and intensity falls off as (1/r^2), the radiation pressure will also fall off as you go away from the sun. The ship will escape if (but not iff) this fall off is slower than the inverse-squared fall off of gravity,else gravity will drag it back. Even if the engineers have taken care of that, if you write out the differential equation and plot the 1-d pseudopotential, you will see that the velocity will eventually saturate,just like it would with a rocket when it runs out of fuel.
So, it is incorrect to say that it will gain momentum "faster". This is unlike a Bussard Ramjet (in theory,anyway) which has (ideally) a constant density meduim to draw from. So the solar sail offers only some advantages over rockets, but a Bussard ramjet is better and more efficient (provided you can surmount it's other problems).
>>>>Like the caste system, the communist system sounded great in the beginning. Everyone owns everything jointly and we all just get along. But, it turned into an ugly, brutal system that just installed dictators into absolute power.
Hell, If you want to go logic-chopping, I could argue that Democracy sounds great on paper. Everybody is equal and nobody can claim superiority over anybody else. But, it turned into an ugly, brutal system under the Greeks that just installed dictators like Selecus into power, or the French that just installed dictators like Napoleon into absolute power. Both societies were essentially the founders of modern democratic principles.
>>>>>Unless you are harboring terrorists, we have no interest in invading your country.
That's so inherently racist I can almost hear Luftwaffe planes in the background! As it happens, we ARE harboring "terrorists" (though not necessarily by our choice) , in the form of the Lashkar-e-Toiba in Kashmir and the LTTE in the south. There's the difference between us, we are trying to stop them from killing people, but not from expressing their views, even though they are inherently dangerous (The Lashkar-e Toiba wants to convert all of India into Islam at gunpoint, and the LTTE want a separate country for upper caste Hindu Brahmins, and are willing to kill for it). We fight back only when they take to arms, but not when they express their views, to which they have a right. We do not stop them from doing so because of color. This is in contrast to your country, where even regular non-white muslims are beaten, brutalized and persecuted, but white supremacists like the KKK and the Aryan Nations, who are no different from the IRA or the al-Qaeda are permitted to practice on account of them being white. The Aryan Nations has even gone so far as to publicly declare sympathy for al-Qaeda (check their website), because of common anti-semetic beliefs, but are STILL allowed to practice, despite the efforts of Jewish organizations to declare them illegal and seditious, when muslims that have nothing to do with al-Qaeda are murdered. If, after these atrocities, you have the audacity to claim that you are a superior culture to ours, then all I can say is that, unlike the words of E.R. Braithwaite, you can't educate the uneducable.
If you want to use that as a pretext for murdering us, then bear in mind that WE are not Iraq. In Iraq, a substantial fraction of the population was hostile to the government. Thus, you were able to get intelligence with their help and cooperation from them during the invasion.
There is a reason why we were able to blow our nukes RIGHT under the collective noses of your CIA, and they knew nothing of the matter until they saw the clouds on their sats. This was because no American military or political cabal will ever get any kind of support, intelligence or cooperation from our countrymen, who have elected their government into power. Thus, your bureaus have no intelligence base in our country, nor does the People's Republic. If you invade us, you will have an army of one billion martyrs who will be ready to taste your blood in the battlefield, for we will not repeat the mistakes of the past and divide ourselves under a foreign invasion, like we did under the British.
In a way, it would be a good thing if you invaded, as then we will show the world that , whether Hindu or Muslim, high caste or low caste, we can unite under an alien threat owing to the lessons of history, and kill some white people.That'd be fun.
>>>>We could have ruled Mexico when we took over that country, but we didn't
You might as well have. They are nothing but a vassal state to your country, with no real sovereignty
>>>>>We could have ruled Japan when we took over that country, but we didn't.
You tried, but failed! You had troops in Japan for many years. The Japanese have proven themselves to be smar
Oh, & I suppose the billionaire's rich kid actually "earned" his position as CEO of daddy's company? Please!
And if I don't like my job at a large company, I can always go out, get a advanced degree, and get a better job.
What a joke! Somebody over 40 who just got booted from his company due to "downsizing" & offshoring (that's one point on which I am in partial agreement with the rednecks, that offshoring is ruining both our economies) can actually get an accredited degree that people won't laugh at? Gimme a break. Ever hear of "wage slaving"? Notice the work SLAVE in it?
Eventually, I could even become CEO
Sure, sure! Anybody can get rich! Then why isn't everybody???
There is no working up to be King in a feudal system.
Nonsense! I did mention the Nanda dynasty before, I believe (c 350 bc). They were commoners and low-caste, but by being smart and enterprising, they rose to the title of kings (they were also tyrannical oppressors, but that is not relevant to this discussion), at a time when, by your simplistic view, the caste system would have rendered such things "impossible". The same was true of Iltutmish, who was a bonded soldier under Qutb Ould-Din Aibak , but became an Emperor after rising among the ranks, gaining popularity, and eventually deposing and assassinating Aibak, and forming the first Muslim Imperial dynasty in India. In fact, Iltutmish was originally from nigeria (or thereabouts) and he became a powerful emperor who was quite popular among muslims and hindus of all castes! They didn't even CARE about his color (barring a few rebels and extremistsm who were all eventually beheaded. When have you ever had African emperors in your history)? Ever hear of hostile takeovers? It's basically the same thing (& people even die in those sometimes). The same was true (in varying degrees) of Julius Caesar, Chengiz Khan, Napoleon Bonaparte, and, though I hate to admit it, even Adolf Hitler (he was a cruel subhuman mass-murderer, but he was also very smart and ambitious and achieved a great deal of power, despite humble beginnings).
Understand this. The caste system was SUPPOSED to be LOOSE set of rules. It was not MEANT to be a rigid orthodoxy. The problems we have wrt caste is the result of the DOGMA generated by the RIGIDITY of the caste system by some bad people, not by the SYSTEM itself. Hitler and George Bush were elected into power by the democratic process of election. Just because they are bad does not mean that the democratic process is bad, is it?
To eliminate the PROBLEMS of the caste system, we have to work to simplify it to it's original form. It is too integrated into our way of life to be eliminated altogether. To suggest anything like that is naive and absurdly idealistic.
Uncompromising people are easy to admire, because it looks like they have courage and conviction, but so do dogs! It is the ability to COMPROMISE is what makes a man civilized. Thinking people will realize that a democratic caste system is possible. It will not be fully democratic, nor will it be a rigid caste system. The goal of our politicians, lawyers, and statesmen is to compromise within the caste system and try to minimize it's ill effects, while still preserving the order that it brought to our society. They have been successful in some places (like West Bengal and Western Maharashtra, where the caste system has all but disappeared beyong it's superficial distinctions), and they have yet to succeed in others (like Bihar and coastal Tamil Nadu, where that post-tsunami caste thing that you cited has happened). What is required is TIME. We are a 600 year old civilization. You can't hurry stuff there. You have to wait a few generations.
The frightening thing is that people like you don't even CARE about that. You just want an excuse to invade and murder us, like the British did. They,too, said the caste system was so
Well.... Perhaps so, in order to understand the detailed field theory of their interactions,and the Grassmann algebra of the operators, and to calculate their amplitudes, and diagonalize their hamiltonian. But I don't think that a well-educated and intelligent chap (any of them around in/.?) needs to understand these specialized topics in detail to know what they are, how they behave qualitatively and why they are so important to our understanding of natural phenomena (least that's what I think).
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It's called dark matter 'cause those particles have significantly smaller scattering cross-sections with photons than other forms of matter. A related and interesting thing is the idea of "Dark Energy" and it's connection with the cosmological constant problem, in which a lot of data has been gathered by CMBR measurements by KOBE & other such sats.
>No, you can't. You can describe the movement of every electron (or photon or turnwheel or whatever a particular >computer uses), but that is completely irrelevant. What is actually happening, the important part, is that one dataset >is being changed to another. The physical processes involved are just a byproduct. The important thing is >happening in a world of concepts, not in the world of matter.
While you have a point in your argument, remember that "God" (blech!) lies in the details as much as in the process, so we need to give equal importance to both, else we'll wind up like the armchair "scientists".
>I suggest you actually watch it a few times before making statements like that >again. I don't watch American news for the same reasons that you DO watch it. I don't have to time to factor out all the ignorance and bigotry present in CNN/NBC/FOX/whatever to get the real facts, and, unlike you, I am not obsessed with the problems of another culture unless it affects me. Hence, I have done a detailed study of Caucasian racism, and the logistics of traffic in central Texas, but never bothered to watch the "news" programs about how to make the perfect bowl of chili, or the corruption of country music by the introduction of digital media, or the latest sexual conquest of Britney Spears, or any of that stuff.
>When the caste system is gone, then we will praise you.
And when you stop murdering muslims, then we will listen to you and consider you to be men, instead of killers.
>The caste system does not need tempering. It needs elimination just like America >eliminated the feudal system.
YOU ELIMINATED THE FEUDAL SYSTEM?!?!?!?! This is news to me! What do you call ENRON? The RIAA/MPAA ? Microsoft? The Republican Party in general? They don't seem any better than the Mughal Mansabdars of the 17th century to me!
>America's action in Afganistan were against Al Queda terrorists.
Sure! And if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a bloody wagon! Please, who do you think you're fooling? The fact is that Bush:
1. Is a born-again Christian who thinks that Christ is about to descend from heaven to Jerusalem and so no Muslims should be around, and
2. Big Brother Jeb's prospective oil pipelines have to pass through Afghanistan, a country whose name he probably can't even spell!
Trust an American to hail white terrorist thugs like the IRA as noble freedom fighters, but when other races do the exact same thing, and get in the way of buying gas for their brand new SUV's, they're "evil".
And it's spelled Al-Qaeda, as in "The Stronghold". You do use updated spellcheckers, right?
>History is not a science such as physics or chemisty or biology. You look it up since >you're the one making such a claim.
I have. In fact, unlike you (obviously, from your comments) I am actually a reader of history myself. History is not a hard science like Physics or chemistry is, but it is still a science, in the sense that it still employs the scientific method, where data is collected and analyzed and inferences and conclusions are made.
It is not a hard science because it does not and cannot be based on fundamental laws like physics and chemistry are, since history is a study of human nature by other humans, and Godel's incompleteness theorem shows that you cannot have a complete and exhaustive set of equations to describe a system of which you are a part. I think your comments come from your lack of exposure to real historical study. I've read a representative cross-section of your public school history books, they're pretty sad content-wise (though they have nice pretty covers) in comparison to the history texts of the Central Board of Secondary Education in India, which are written by our most eminent historian, Romila Thapar, who was recently offered the Padmabhushan, which she rejected. I know what I'm talking about w.r.t Indian and 5th cent + European history thanks to her knowledge on the subject.
With that I shall now end this debate, as I have to get back to a real life.
While we're getting offtopic a tad, here is my rebuttal.
News flash: most people do not "breed" outside their "race". This is not limited to white people.
Not true, we have been interbreeding for thousands of years. The 2 races that predominantly comprise the Indian population have intermixed their blood so much that the distinctions are purely academic. We have the blood of Greeks, Scythians, Jews, Yuezhi, Arabs, Afghans, and Turkic-Mongols (we've even humped a few white people during the Raj).
Your overall argument is thus:
Yes, there's "racial hatred" and "religiuos persecution" in the US, but that's perpetrated by a small minority (that just elected the Christian Reich to power and murdered ~100,000 women & childred, btw). The majority of us "Americans" are enlightened people that do not do such things and offer equal opportunities to everybody. No, we don't burn African Americans alive, or treat them as though they were less than human, then try to compensate for that by insulting their culture through "affirmative action" (claiming that they need "special treatment" and implying the same bigotry that they suffered from the slave owners) or have companies like Resistance Records that mass-produce anti-semetic multimedia games.You Indians, on the other hand, are a primitive barbaric "people" (i.e subhuman race, but I don't mean that really) because you have a caste system.
**** Man, even the British did not have the effrontery to tell us how to be Hindus!
Hey, aren't you late for your Deepak Chopra seminar?
The interesting logical absurdities in your statements paraphrased above are that you claim that your atrocities are the actions of a minority, but refuse to believe the same for another race. The extreme acts of caste related bigotry, are the actions of about 200-300 million people. In a nation of 1.05 billion people (200 million of whom are Muslims; the same people that your countrymen are butchering in other countries, who don't have a caste system at all, since it goes against the Islamic belief that all are equal under Allah), that's less than the 51% in your country that voted for Bush and his theocratic thugs and minions.
You claim to be more educated than us, yet your president is on a campaign for schools to stop teaching the Darwinian theory of evolution (required reading in Indian schools) because it goes against the beliefs of the Christian religion. Your public schools have all but stopped teaching any science other than math since they are anti-christian.
The only differences between our bigotry problems and yours are manifest from the fact that your news media want to detract your countrymen from the flaws of your society, so they focus on the actions of a few uneducated people in the ruaral south of our country so that people like you would develop a false sense of subconscious racial superiority (while consciously believing themselves to be broad-minded and enlightened). It's not that you condemn us for our caste-system, you refuse to acknowledge any steps we have taken to temper it's ill effects (yet do not hesitate to tout your own futile efforts to curb racial hatred in your country). The caste system has virtually been eliminated from my native state of Bengal through education and a form of social and cultural enlightenement that's obviusly lacking in your country, since not a single state in the US lacks racial hatred (the proof lies in the fact that I myself am a hybrid of several castes, being part Brahmin, Dalit, Tili and possessing some Scythian blood as well). In the end our efforts seem to make no difference, as the white man still wants to use our caste system as an excuse to defame us (and, I assume, eventually kill us all like they are doing to Muslims).
I have a news flash for you. We do not care if white (or quasi-white, as you claim to be) people condemn our culture. We know that we are a more enlightened culture than you, because
Yeah, that's the irony of the relationahsip between Great Britain and India. They conquered us in order to "civilize" us, and instead we wound up civilizing them:). In the final analysis, the British, for all their flaws, were a people who were amenable to reason and dialogue, and barring sociopathic extremes like the J.Baugh incident, the worst they ever did was beat people up and throw them in Ahmadnagar prison during the Quit India movement, that can be treated as a misunderstanding. The reason why our freedom struggle was nonviolent was because we did not want to just "throw the poms out", it was because we wanted to educate them as to the meaning of freedom, and ask them to leave of their own free will. This would not have worked against the Americans, for instance, to whom reason and logic are mortal sins in violation of their twisted brand of christian fanaticism. They would simply have massacred us all (as the Portuguese did in GOA, there we HAD to throw them out by military force) like they are doing to Muslims today.
This is all quite fascinating, and I'm reading up more on Unicode/ISCII vis-a-vis the Debnagari-based languages and Dravid-rooted languages, but it doesn't seem that all the languages based on the Debnagari script render perfectly in Linux. Take BengaLinux, for instance. My native tongue is rendered all right, but with the occasional boo-boo here and there. Sometimes, the jugtakshars (partial phenome combinations) are the wrong way round, and the matras suddenly appear at the beginning of the letter, when they should be at the end. Thus, keyboard reads as "kobirod", and so on, and hardcore sanskrit words, such as "prakalpa" become a disaster (something along the lines of 'pa*&ra^kalpa@&#'). The screenshots don't show these problems, so it could be that I misconfigged the unicode installation somehow... Afraid I'm rather new to all this.
It seems to me that one possible solution is to do what the chinese have done, which is create a "simplified" version of the language that renders better on the screen, with jugtakshars replaced by rafalas and raifs and so forth. Can this be done, or are the developers too puristic:) ?
>Excuse me? THAT is outright racism. THAT is exactly what I fought against in Texas >against the white rednecks using terms like "nigger" and "spick" and "wetback".
Yes, it is racism. I freely admit that I am a racist. I cannot bring myself to like Caucasians, who are answerable for the crimes of their forebearers. You, on the other hand, are something far more dangerous and sinister, Sir. You, are a racial supremacist, worse than the rednecks you disown above. At least those rednecks are open about their hatred and so can be monitored and deterred. Your kind cannot be stopped so easily, as you pretend to be enlightened and broad-minded, percolating your subtle brand of hate into civilized society under a veneer of legitimacy. I may not like white people, but I will leave them alone, because I believe that, in the final analysis, you are a dying race. Since the majority of whites choose not to breed outside their race, the process of inbreeding-induced Darwinian selection will render your people extinct in a few thousand years, and the rest of humanity will not have to worry about you.
>That said, the fact that America had slavery 150 years ago is no excuse for the fact >that India follows a caste system in the present.
Tell that to the average African-American or Hispanic person who can't get a well-paying job because your people refuse to enter him/her in the better schools despite his/her merits, then drive him/her into poverty. Ask the average non-white US citizen if he or she has the same opportunities in life as a white man, and he or she will tell you of the crappy jobs they have to do and that they get paid significantly less than their Caucasian counterparts. Combine this with the routine persecution of Arican-Americans by the police, to the point of Gestapo-style torture and I assure you, slavery is alive and well in the United States today. Just that it has taken a more subtle and dastardly form.
>Excuse me? When has America done this? If you recall, it was America who >established a home land in the middle east for the Jews out of compassion and >remorse for a crimes of the Germans during WW2.
That is really the most extraordinary of delusions. America did not establish Israel. It was established by the Jews themselves because they realized that they needed a country to call their own. All the Americans did was nod their heads. When Israel was attacked by Egypt, Jordan, AND Syria simultaneously, the Americans did nothing, and it was the Israelis who defended their country on their own (and succeeded). Israel is the result of the perseverence of the Jews, not of some fictitious American benevolence.
>The idea that you can "scientifically" design a caste system is "pure horseshit". >There was no scientific proof then, just like there's no scientific proof now, that. >one person is born better at a specific job than another.
Your ignorance of Indian history manifests itself by your propaganda-statement above. The caste system, in it's original form, was not meant to force people into jobs they did not want. It was flexible and change was permitted. New castes were added when necessary so as to accomodate for gentiles, and old castes were removed when they got in the way of the rights their members. It was just that statistically, certain demographics were partial to certain kinds of work, so they were assigned certain castes, but individuals were allowed to move up the caste ladder. Witness the Nanda kings, who did not belong to the warrior caste at-all , but nonetheless ruled Magadha for some centuries (they were lousy at it, but that's another matter).
During the reign of the Gupta Empire, India had the highest standard of living on this planet. When your forefathers were shitting in public, burning witches, and murdering Jewish people for "spreading the plague", we wer
You: That is ridiculous. I've read a news reports of the tsunami-sticken area where members of India's Untouchable class are told to "go away" and they "will be fed only if there is extra food". People are literally dying because this bullshit, primitive caste system. I can't believe you would actually defend it. There they said there is "no deliberate caste discrimination". However, to me that sounds just like those white people from Texas who say they aren't racist and then say "nigger" and "wetback".
Me:
This is what I'm talking about. Half-Truths manufactured by White American news media with the sole intention of defaming non white non protestants! Well, not complete lies, but deliberate misinterpretations of events that have too many subtle historical and cultural aspects for the somewhat simplistic mind of the white man, who is used to thinking in terms of a culture steeped in excess linearity, where the color of one's skin automatically makes him "less" or more 'human". The caste system has been perverted and degraded to dogma by many upper-caste fanatics since the collapse of the Gupta Empire and the rise of the Shaivite/Vaishnavite movements in the 7th Century, but in it's purest and most fundamental form, it has been designed scientifically and methodically during the heyday of the Mauryan Emperors in order to keep people civilized and preserve the foundations of society, providing professional niches and a system of assigning a division of labor to negate the effects of class-bias (on the basis of wealth). The system is obviously not foolproof, but only a thick skinned and intransigent westerner would condemn it as ridiculous without studying the facts. Due to this caste system you condemn without thinking, our people have NEVER, in over 6000 years of history, EVER resorted to the utterly barbaric act of mass slavery (unlike the Europeans/Americans, who have been doing so to the African people since the time of the Romans), or herded people into concentration camps and butchered them like cattle, as your kindred folk have done to Jewish people countless times for no sensible reason other than pure unadulterated hatred (and not just during the Third Reich; then your ilk even went so far as to pervert OUR religious symbol and call it your own! What bloody hubris!).
Regarding your claim that you never turn away the needy during times of crisis, that is pure horseshit. When the bubonic plague spread in Europe, your ancestors not only refused to help Jews who were sick from the disease, but even went as far as to accuse them of creating it and slaughtering them en masse! This was done throughout the early 2nd millenium in Spain, Italy, Britain & France. How dare you imply that we are an inferior race by the actions of a few ignorant Tamilites while you have been doing exactly the same things that you condemn in them, only on a staggeringly larger scale (then conveniently forget all of it in your history books). When the Jews were being murdered, it was an INDIAN (Subhash Bose) who first broadcasted a condemnation of the holocaust (over a German radio band I might add), when your "enlightened" westerners turned a blind eye to the plight of the Jews, even going so far as to sign treaties with Hitler, discreetly sanctioning the massacre (it was only when the Reich turned against your country that you chose to fight them). The crimes against humanity perpetrated by white christians are NOT the actions of a few extremists, but a broad social trend seen among millions of your kind that demonstrate the influence of Nordo-Celtic and Odinistic beliefs of master-race style supremacy in White thinking prevalent to this day.
It is true that the caste system, in it's present form, is a bit of an anachronism that occasionally gets in the way of the rights of low-caste people, but in the broader social context, there are checks and balances in our society that statistically cancel out it's ill effects. There are many parts of our country where the lower c
It's "KAMA-SUTRA", not "KARMA-SUTRA". "KAMA", as in the Hindu god of carnal congress, not "KARMA" as in destiny/duty/whatever, and that was intended as fiction (if you try to implement any of those moves, you'll wind up with several broken bones and a bruised ego). The ancient Greeks had worse kinds of Pron.
>The "white news media" that I've seen, namely the US media and the BBC, are mostly liberal. That >is liberal as in anti-racism, particularly since the time of Dr Martin Luther King in the 1960's. The >"white news media" takes great effort to remove all references of race from a report unless it is >integral to the story. Likewise, they are extremely sensitive about removing all bias from reports. >Although, since they are liberal, some of those views including anti-racism do slip through.
Hah! That's a laugh if I've ever heard one! Ever watch Fox news? It might as well be run by the Ku-Klux-Klan!
>Further, when the news media and most people on Slashdot refer to "Indians" in this context, they >are speaking about citizens from the country India. It very seldom has anything to do with race. >This is just like when the media refers to Canadians, Americans, or Mexicans. All three countries >contain mostly white people of European ancestry. (Although Canada and America also have s>ignificant minority populations.) But, when the media calls someone a Canadian, they are >referring to his nationality, not his race. Very often Indians forget or don't realize that in these >discussions and start making calls of racism.
Sure! You expect observant and thinking people (i.e. not white) to buy that nonsense? When rednecks refer to "Indians" with their lips, the inflexions scream the N-Word and various other racial epithets. Outside of polite society (i.e. often) they are more direct with their hate-propaganda. I've seen doctored programs on National Geographic that describe Indians as cannibals, necrophiles, rapists, and generally less than human. Also, witness the now-legendary "Tsunami Song" ("http://www.asianmediawatch.net/missjones/index.h tml") that targets at East-Asians as well as South-Asians , and The 'Rat-Eaters' broadcast ("http://www.asianmediawatch.net/starandbucwild/in dex.html"). The yanks make fun of our caste system, but the truth is that the racial and anti-semetic bigotry and hatred in this country is an order of magnitude more than in any other Asian Country (Surpassed only by Western Europe). I've heard broadcasts from the Aryan Nations that are hijacked from regular network television here in Texas that clarify this point with nauseating accuracy.
Heh!
Actually, white people did wash their asses in the past. It was standard among Romans and Jews during the BC's. The concept of wiping came about during the spread of the bubonic plague in Europe (for some superstitious reason).
While this is true, bear in mind that most African countries were treated a lot worse by their European enslavers than we were by the Firangis, so they have some legitimate excuses (IMHO)...
Also, there is a significant gap in the standard of living between the urban middle class and the rural classes, middle or low. There isn't much in the way of interaction between the two worlds, the latter being a numerically overwhelming majority. Combine that with the white news media, desirous of reaffirming their cultural myths of racial superiority, choosing to focus on the status of the latter as a means of defaming our people, and it is not hard to realize why ignorant low-class westerners, who parochially prefer to view their native sources of information, have such a stereotyped view of our people.
In any case, I find the concept of a honed killing machine like a Gorkha stormtrooper running around a blood-soaked battlefield checking for the possession of his comrades by constantly tapping a PDA with a stylus to be slightly comical:).
I will not have my culture judged by the likes of you, sir! My people were building empires and writing literature when yours were swinging from trees!
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There is a firefox ipkg for openzaurus & familiar for pocketpc's. Just search at http://ipkgfind.handhelds.org/ . There was some talk at the developer forum for building Microsoft pocketpc bins for firefox, but dunno if anything came of it...
Even though Kazaa may have spyware, you don't need to use that particular client to access the network to which kazaa connects (the fasttrack network). You can us eopensourse clients like mldonkey or apollon/giFT to do the same, & not worry abt any spyware or whatever.
And airports named after mass murderers.
Sorry,man :)
I'm a vi guy myself, though...
1.Run a webserver, ssh server, ftp server, vnc server, QTopia server, or any other kind of opensource server for any reason whatsoever
2.Compile C programs 3.Run iptbles firewall for better protection when networked 3.Not worry so much about any important information in your PDA being stolen while networked 4. Familiar & Openzaurus are updated more quickly than pocketpc or whatever. 5. Better package management systems 6. Databases In short, with Linux, your PDA can serve more likea regular personal compu than it could with pocketpc. I mean, all that pocketpc really does is store addresses & phone numbers, and costs $200 to boot! With Linux in my Zaurus I'm getting my money's worth as far as the capabilities of the hardware are concerned.No,no! Look here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16834117051
That's less than half of what you said.
Anyhow, I'm happy with my Zaurus
What's wrong with a Sharp Zaurus? It's cheap,runs embeddix Linux (2.4 as of now) by default, has a keyboard & has a cf slot for wifi cards. Only problem is you don't get too many WAP's in third world countries if you are travelling there. Also, carrying a small 10" laptop is not too much trouble. Sony sells them.
Yes, but the momentum is not increasing monotonically. The radiation pressure is (1/3) the energy density, & as energy density depends on radiation intensity , and intensity falls off as (1/r^2), the radiation pressure will also fall off as you go away from the sun. The ship will escape if (but not iff) this fall off is slower than the inverse-squared fall off of gravity,else gravity will drag it back. Even if the engineers have taken care of that, if you write out the differential equation and plot the 1-d pseudopotential, you will see that the velocity will eventually saturate,just like it would with a rocket when it runs out of fuel. So, it is incorrect to say that it will gain momentum "faster". This is unlike a Bussard Ramjet (in theory,anyway) which has (ideally) a constant density meduim to draw from. So the solar sail offers only some advantages over rockets, but a Bussard ramjet is better and more efficient (provided you can surmount it's other problems).
>>>>Like the caste system, the communist system sounded great in the beginning. Everyone owns everything jointly and we all just get along. But, it turned into an ugly, brutal system that just installed dictators into absolute power.
Hell, If you want to go logic-chopping, I could argue that Democracy sounds great on paper. Everybody is equal and nobody can claim superiority over anybody else. But, it turned into an ugly, brutal system under the Greeks that just installed dictators like Selecus into power, or the French that just installed dictators like Napoleon into absolute power. Both societies were essentially the founders of modern democratic principles.
>>>>>Unless you are harboring terrorists, we have no interest in invading your country.
That's so inherently racist I can almost hear Luftwaffe planes in the background! As it happens, we ARE harboring "terrorists" (though not necessarily by our choice) , in the form of the Lashkar-e-Toiba in Kashmir and the LTTE in the south.
There's the difference between us, we are trying to stop them from killing people, but not from expressing their views, even though they are inherently dangerous (The Lashkar-e Toiba wants to convert all of India into Islam at gunpoint, and the LTTE want a separate country for upper caste Hindu Brahmins, and are willing to kill for it). We fight back only when they take to arms, but not when they express their views, to which they have a right. We do not stop them from doing so because of color. This is in contrast to your country, where even regular non-white muslims are beaten, brutalized and persecuted, but white supremacists like the KKK and the Aryan Nations, who are no different from the IRA or the al-Qaeda are permitted to practice on account of them being white. The Aryan Nations has even gone so far as to publicly declare sympathy for al-Qaeda (check their website), because of common anti-semetic beliefs, but are STILL allowed to practice, despite the efforts of Jewish organizations to declare them illegal and seditious, when muslims that have nothing to do with al-Qaeda are murdered. If, after these atrocities, you have the audacity to claim that you are a superior culture to ours, then all I can say is that, unlike the words of E.R. Braithwaite, you can't educate the uneducable.
If you want to use that as a pretext for murdering us, then bear in mind that WE are not Iraq. In Iraq, a substantial fraction of the population was hostile to the government. Thus, you were able to get intelligence with their help and cooperation from them during the invasion.
There is a reason why we were able to blow our nukes RIGHT under the collective noses of your CIA, and they knew nothing of the matter until they saw the clouds on their sats. This was because no American military or political cabal will ever get any kind of support, intelligence or cooperation from our countrymen, who have elected their government into power. Thus, your bureaus have no intelligence base in our country, nor does the People's Republic. If you invade us, you will have an army of one billion martyrs who will be ready to taste your blood in the battlefield, for we will not repeat the mistakes of the past and divide ourselves under a foreign invasion, like we did under the British.
In a way, it would be a good thing if you invaded, as then we will show the world that , whether Hindu or Muslim, high caste or low caste, we can unite under an alien threat owing to the lessons of history, and kill some white people.That'd be fun.
>>>>We could have ruled Mexico when we took over that country, but we didn't
You might as well have. They are nothing but a vassal state to your country, with no real sovereignty
>>>>>We could have ruled Japan when we took over that country, but we didn't.
You tried, but failed! You had troops in Japan for many years. The Japanese have proven themselves to be smar
No one is born into a large company
Oh, & I suppose the billionaire's rich kid actually "earned" his position as CEO of daddy's company? Please!
And if I don't like my job at a large company, I can always go out, get a advanced degree, and get a better job.
What a joke! Somebody over 40 who just got booted from his company due to "downsizing" & offshoring (that's one point on which I am in partial agreement with the rednecks, that offshoring is ruining both our economies) can actually get an accredited degree that people won't laugh at? Gimme a break. Ever hear of "wage slaving"? Notice the work SLAVE in it?
Eventually, I could even become CEO
Sure, sure! Anybody can get rich! Then why isn't everybody???
There is no working up to be King in a feudal system.
Nonsense! I did mention the Nanda dynasty before, I believe (c 350 bc). They were commoners and low-caste, but by being smart and enterprising, they rose to the title of kings (they were also tyrannical oppressors, but that is not relevant to this discussion), at a time when, by your simplistic view, the caste system would have rendered such things "impossible". The same was true of Iltutmish, who was a bonded soldier under Qutb Ould-Din Aibak , but became an Emperor after rising among the ranks, gaining popularity, and eventually deposing and assassinating Aibak, and forming the first Muslim Imperial dynasty in India. In fact, Iltutmish was originally from nigeria (or thereabouts) and he became a powerful emperor who was quite popular among muslims and hindus of all castes! They didn't even CARE about his color (barring a few rebels and extremistsm who were all eventually beheaded. When have you ever had African emperors in your history)? Ever hear of hostile takeovers? It's basically the same thing (& people even die in those sometimes). The same was true (in varying degrees) of Julius Caesar, Chengiz Khan, Napoleon Bonaparte, and, though I hate to admit it, even Adolf Hitler (he was a cruel subhuman mass-murderer, but he was also very smart and ambitious and achieved a great deal of power, despite humble beginnings).
Understand this. The caste system was SUPPOSED to be LOOSE set of rules. It was not MEANT to be a rigid orthodoxy. The problems we have wrt caste is the result of the DOGMA generated by the RIGIDITY of the caste system by some bad people, not by the SYSTEM itself. Hitler and George Bush were elected into power by the democratic process of election. Just because they are bad does not mean that the democratic process is bad, is it?
To eliminate the PROBLEMS of the caste system, we have to work to simplify it to it's original form. It is too integrated into our way of life to be eliminated altogether. To suggest anything like that is naive and absurdly idealistic.
Uncompromising people are easy to admire, because it looks like they have courage and conviction, but so do dogs! It is the ability to COMPROMISE is what makes a man civilized. Thinking people will realize that a democratic caste system is possible. It will not be fully democratic, nor will it be a rigid caste system. The goal of our politicians, lawyers, and statesmen is to compromise within the caste system and try to minimize it's ill effects, while still preserving the order that it brought to our society. They have been successful in some places (like West Bengal and Western Maharashtra, where the caste system has all but disappeared beyong it's superficial distinctions), and they have yet to succeed in others (like Bihar and coastal Tamil Nadu, where that post-tsunami caste thing that you cited has happened). What is required is TIME. We are a 600 year old civilization. You can't hurry stuff there. You have to wait a few generations.
The frightening thing is that people like you don't even CARE about that. You just want an excuse to invade and murder us, like the British did. They,too, said the caste system was so
Well.... Perhaps so, in order to understand the detailed field theory of their interactions,and the Grassmann algebra of the operators, and to calculate their amplitudes, and diagonalize their hamiltonian. But I don't think that a well-educated and intelligent chap (any of them around in /.?) needs to understand these specialized topics in detail to know what they are, how they behave qualitatively and why they are so important to our understanding of natural phenomena (least that's what I think).
It's called dark matter 'cause those particles have significantly smaller scattering cross-sections with photons than other forms of matter. A related and interesting thing is the idea of "Dark Energy" and it's connection with the cosmological constant problem, in which a lot of data has been gathered by CMBR measurements by KOBE & other such sats.
>No, you can't. You can describe the movement of every electron (or photon or turnwheel or whatever a particular >computer uses), but that is completely irrelevant. What is actually happening, the important part, is that one dataset >is being changed to another. The physical processes involved are just a byproduct. The important thing is >happening in a world of concepts, not in the world of matter.
While you have a point in your argument, remember that "God" (blech!) lies in the details as much as in the process, so we need to give equal importance to both, else we'll wind up like the armchair "scientists".
>I suggest you actually watch it a few times before making statements like that >again.
I don't watch American news for the same reasons that you DO watch it. I don't have to time to factor out all the ignorance and bigotry present in CNN/NBC/FOX/whatever to get the real facts, and, unlike you, I am not obsessed with the problems of another culture unless it affects me. Hence, I have done a detailed study of Caucasian racism, and the logistics of traffic in central Texas, but never bothered to watch the "news" programs about how to make the perfect bowl of chili, or the corruption of country music by the introduction of digital media, or the latest sexual conquest of Britney Spears, or any of that stuff.
>When the caste system is gone, then we will praise you.
And when you stop murdering muslims, then we will listen to you and consider you to be men, instead of killers.
>The caste system does not need tempering. It needs elimination just like America >eliminated the feudal system.
YOU ELIMINATED THE FEUDAL SYSTEM?!?!?!?! This is news to me! What do you call ENRON? The RIAA/MPAA ? Microsoft? The Republican Party in general? They don't seem any better than the Mughal Mansabdars of the 17th century to me!
>America's action in Afganistan were against Al Queda terrorists.
Sure! And if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a bloody wagon! Please, who do you think you're fooling? The fact is that Bush:
1. Is a born-again Christian who thinks that Christ is about to descend from heaven to Jerusalem and so no Muslims should be around, and
2. Big Brother Jeb's prospective oil pipelines have to pass through Afghanistan, a country whose name he probably can't even spell!
Trust an American to hail white terrorist thugs like the IRA as noble freedom fighters, but when other races do the exact same thing, and get in the way of buying gas for their brand new SUV's, they're "evil".
And it's spelled Al-Qaeda, as in "The Stronghold". You do use updated spellcheckers, right?
>History is not a science such as physics or chemisty or biology. You look it up since >you're the one making such a claim.
I have. In fact, unlike you (obviously, from your comments) I am actually a reader of history myself. History is not a hard science like Physics or chemistry is, but it is still a science, in the sense that it still employs the scientific method, where data is collected and analyzed and inferences and conclusions are made.
It is not a hard science because it does not and cannot be based on fundamental laws like physics and chemistry are, since history is a study of human nature by other humans, and Godel's incompleteness theorem shows that you cannot have a complete and exhaustive set of equations to describe a system of which you are a part. I think your comments come from your lack of exposure to real historical study. I've read a representative cross-section of your public school history books, they're pretty sad content-wise (though they have nice pretty covers) in comparison to the history texts of the Central Board of Secondary Education in India, which are written by our most eminent historian, Romila Thapar, who was recently offered the Padmabhushan, which she rejected. I know what I'm talking about w.r.t Indian and 5th cent + European history thanks to her knowledge on the subject.
With that I shall now end this debate, as I have to get back to a real life.
While we're getting offtopic a tad, here is my rebuttal.
News flash: most people do not "breed" outside their "race". This is not limited to white people.
Not true, we have been interbreeding for thousands of years. The 2 races that predominantly comprise the Indian population have intermixed their blood so much that the distinctions are purely academic. We have the blood of Greeks, Scythians, Jews, Yuezhi, Arabs, Afghans, and Turkic-Mongols (we've even humped a few white people during the Raj).
Your overall argument is thus:
Yes, there's "racial hatred" and "religiuos persecution" in the US, but that's perpetrated by a small minority (that just elected the Christian Reich to power and murdered ~100,000 women & childred, btw). The majority of us "Americans" are enlightened people that do not do such things and offer equal opportunities to everybody. No, we don't burn African Americans alive, or treat them as though they were less than human, then try to compensate for that by insulting their culture through "affirmative action" (claiming that they need "special treatment" and implying the same bigotry that they suffered from the slave owners) or have companies like Resistance Records that mass-produce anti-semetic multimedia games.You Indians, on the other hand, are a primitive barbaric "people" (i.e subhuman race, but I don't mean that really) because you have a caste system.
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Man, even the British did not have the effrontery to tell us how to be Hindus!
Hey, aren't you late for your Deepak Chopra seminar?
The interesting logical absurdities in your statements paraphrased above are that you claim that your atrocities are the actions of a minority, but refuse to believe the same for another race. The extreme acts of caste related bigotry, are the actions of about 200-300 million people. In a nation of 1.05 billion people (200 million of whom are Muslims; the same people that your countrymen are butchering in other countries, who don't have a caste system at all, since it goes against the Islamic belief that all are equal under Allah), that's less than the 51% in your country that voted for Bush and his theocratic thugs and minions.
You claim to be more educated than us, yet your president is on a campaign for schools to stop teaching the Darwinian theory of evolution (required reading in Indian schools) because it goes against the beliefs of the Christian religion. Your public schools have all but stopped teaching any science other than math since they are anti-christian.
The only differences between our bigotry problems and yours are manifest from the fact that your news media want to detract your countrymen from the flaws of your society, so they focus on the actions of a few uneducated people in the ruaral south of our country so that people like you would develop a false sense of subconscious racial superiority (while consciously believing themselves to be broad-minded and enlightened). It's not that you condemn us for our caste-system, you refuse to acknowledge any steps we have taken to temper it's ill effects (yet do not hesitate to tout your own futile efforts to curb racial hatred in your country). The caste system has virtually been eliminated from my native state of Bengal through education and a form of social and cultural enlightenement that's obviusly lacking in your country, since not a single state in the US lacks racial hatred (the proof lies in the fact that I myself am a hybrid of several castes, being part Brahmin, Dalit, Tili and possessing some Scythian blood as well). In the end our efforts seem to make no difference, as the white man still wants to use our caste system as an excuse to defame us (and, I assume, eventually kill us all like they are doing to Muslims).
I have a news flash for you. We do not care if white (or quasi-white, as you claim to be) people condemn our culture. We know that we are a more enlightened culture than you, because
Yeah, that's the irony of the relationahsip between Great Britain and India. They conquered us in order to "civilize" us, and instead we wound up civilizing them :). In the final analysis, the British, for all their flaws, were a people who were amenable to reason and dialogue, and barring sociopathic extremes like the J.Baugh incident, the worst they ever did was beat people up and throw them in Ahmadnagar prison during the Quit India movement, that can be treated as a misunderstanding. The reason why our freedom struggle was nonviolent was because we did not want to just "throw the poms out", it was because we wanted to educate them as to the meaning of freedom, and ask them to leave of their own free will. This would not have worked against the Americans, for instance, to whom reason and logic are mortal sins in violation of their twisted brand of christian fanaticism. They would simply have massacred us all (as the Portuguese did in GOA, there we HAD to throw them out by military force) like they are doing to Muslims today.
NOt 100 years ago, but more like 1000+. We did have the highest standrd of living in the world from the 3rd to the seventh centuries.
This is all quite fascinating, and I'm reading up more on Unicode/ISCII vis-a-vis the Debnagari-based languages and Dravid-rooted languages, but it doesn't seem that all the languages based on the Debnagari script render perfectly in Linux. Take BengaLinux, for instance. My native tongue is rendered all right, but with the occasional boo-boo here and there. Sometimes, the jugtakshars (partial phenome combinations) are the wrong way round, and the matras suddenly appear at the beginning of the letter, when they should be at the end. Thus, keyboard reads as "kobirod", and so on, and hardcore sanskrit words, such as "prakalpa" become a disaster (something along the lines of 'pa*&ra^kalpa@&#'). The screenshots don't show these problems, so it could be that I misconfigged the unicode installation somehow... Afraid I'm rather new to all this. It seems to me that one possible solution is to do what the chinese have done, which is create a "simplified" version of the language that renders better on the screen, with jugtakshars replaced by rafalas and raifs and so forth. Can this be done, or are the developers too puristic :) ?
>Excuse me? THAT is outright racism. THAT is exactly what I fought against in Texas >against the white rednecks using terms like "nigger" and "spick" and "wetback".
Yes, it is racism. I freely admit that I am a racist. I cannot bring myself to like Caucasians, who are answerable for the crimes of their forebearers. You, on the other hand, are something far more dangerous and sinister, Sir. You, are a racial supremacist, worse than the rednecks you disown above. At least those rednecks are open about their hatred and so can be monitored and deterred. Your kind cannot be stopped so easily, as you pretend to be enlightened and broad-minded, percolating your subtle brand of hate into civilized society under a veneer of legitimacy. I may not like white people, but I will leave them alone, because I believe that, in the final analysis, you are a dying race. Since the majority of whites choose not to breed outside their race, the process of inbreeding-induced Darwinian selection will render your people extinct in a few thousand years, and the rest of humanity will not have to worry about you.
>That said, the fact that America had slavery 150 years ago is no excuse for the fact >that India follows a caste system in the present.
Tell that to the average African-American or Hispanic person who can't get a
well-paying job because your people refuse to enter him/her in the better schools despite his/her merits, then drive him/her into poverty. Ask the average non-white US citizen if he or she has the same opportunities in life as a white man, and he or she will tell you of the crappy jobs they have to do and that they get paid significantly less than their Caucasian counterparts. Combine this with the routine persecution of Arican-Americans by the police, to the point of Gestapo-style torture and I assure you, slavery is alive and well in the United States today. Just that it has taken a more subtle and dastardly form.
>Excuse me? When has America done this? If you recall, it was America who >established a home land in the middle east for the Jews out of compassion and
>remorse for a crimes of the Germans during WW2.
That is really the most extraordinary of delusions. America did not establish Israel. It was established by the Jews themselves because they realized that they needed a country to call their own. All the Americans did was nod their heads. When Israel was attacked by Egypt, Jordan, AND Syria simultaneously, the Americans did nothing, and it was the Israelis who defended their country on their own (and succeeded). Israel is the result of the perseverence of the Jews, not of some fictitious American benevolence.
>The idea that you can "scientifically" design a caste system is "pure horseshit". >There was no scientific proof then, just like there's no scientific proof now, that
>one person is born better at a specific job than another.
Your ignorance of Indian history manifests itself by your propaganda-statement above. The caste system, in it's original form, was not meant to force people into jobs they did not want. It was flexible and change was permitted. New castes were added when necessary so as to accomodate for gentiles, and old castes were removed when they got in the way of the rights their members. It was just that statistically, certain demographics were partial to certain kinds of work, so they were assigned certain castes, but individuals were allowed to move up the caste ladder. Witness the Nanda kings, who did not belong to the warrior caste at-all , but nonetheless ruled Magadha for some centuries (they were lousy at it, but that's another matter).
During the reign of the Gupta Empire, India had the highest standard of living on this planet. When your forefathers were shitting in public, burning witches, and murdering Jewish people for "spreading the plague", we wer
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That is ridiculous. I've read a news reports of the tsunami-sticken area where members of India's Untouchable class are told to "go away" and they "will be fed only if there is extra food". People are literally dying because this bullshit, primitive caste system. I can't believe you would actually defend it. There they said there is "no deliberate caste discrimination". However, to me that sounds just like those white people from Texas who say they aren't racist and then say "nigger" and "wetback".
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This is what I'm talking about. Half-Truths manufactured by White American news media with the sole intention of defaming non white non protestants!
Well, not complete lies, but deliberate misinterpretations of events that have too many subtle historical and cultural aspects for the somewhat simplistic mind of the white man, who is used to thinking in terms of a culture steeped in excess linearity, where the color of one's skin automatically makes him "less" or more 'human". The caste system has been perverted and degraded to dogma by many upper-caste fanatics since the collapse of the Gupta Empire and the rise of the Shaivite/Vaishnavite movements in the 7th Century, but in it's purest and most fundamental form, it has been designed scientifically and methodically during the heyday of the Mauryan Emperors in order to keep people civilized and preserve the foundations of society, providing professional niches and a system of assigning a division of labor to negate the effects of class-bias (on the basis of wealth). The system is obviously not foolproof, but only a thick skinned and intransigent westerner would condemn it as ridiculous without studying the facts. Due to this caste system you condemn without thinking, our people have NEVER, in over 6000 years of history, EVER resorted to the utterly barbaric act of mass slavery (unlike the Europeans/Americans, who have been doing so to the African people since the time of the Romans), or herded people into concentration camps and butchered them like cattle, as your kindred folk have done to Jewish people countless times for no sensible reason other than pure unadulterated hatred (and not just during the Third Reich; then your ilk even went so far as to pervert OUR religious symbol and call it your own! What bloody hubris!).
Regarding your claim that you never turn away the needy during times of crisis, that is pure horseshit. When the bubonic plague spread in Europe, your ancestors not only refused to help Jews who were sick from the disease, but even went as far as to accuse them of creating it and slaughtering them en masse! This was done throughout the early 2nd millenium in Spain, Italy, Britain & France. How dare you imply that we are an inferior race by the actions of a few ignorant Tamilites while you have been doing exactly the same things that you condemn in them, only on a staggeringly larger scale (then conveniently forget all of it in your history books).
When the Jews were being murdered, it was an INDIAN (Subhash Bose) who first broadcasted a condemnation of the holocaust (over a German radio band I might add), when your "enlightened" westerners turned a blind eye to the plight of the Jews, even going so far as to sign treaties with Hitler, discreetly sanctioning the massacre (it was only when the Reich turned against your country that you chose to fight them). The crimes against humanity perpetrated by white christians are NOT the actions of a few extremists, but a broad social trend seen among millions of your kind that demonstrate the influence of Nordo-Celtic and Odinistic beliefs of master-race style supremacy in White thinking prevalent to this day.
It is true that the caste system, in it's present form, is a bit of an anachronism that occasionally gets in the way of the rights of low-caste people, but in the broader social context, there are checks and balances in our society that statistically cancel out it's ill effects. There are many parts of our country where the lower c
It's "KAMA-SUTRA", not "KARMA-SUTRA". "KAMA", as in the Hindu god of carnal congress, not "KARMA" as in destiny/duty/whatever, and that was intended as fiction (if you try to implement any of those moves, you'll wind up with several broken bones and a bruised ego). The ancient Greeks had worse kinds of Pron.
>The "white news media" that I've seen, namely the US media and the BBC, are mostly liberal. That >is liberal as in anti-racism, particularly since the time of Dr Martin Luther King in the 1960's. The >"white news media" takes great effort to remove all references of race from a report unless it is >integral to the story. Likewise, they are extremely sensitive about removing all bias from reports. >Although, since they are liberal, some of those views including anti-racism do slip through.
h tml") that targets at East-Asians as well as South-Asians , and The 'Rat-Eaters' broadcast ("http://www.asianmediawatch.net/starandbucwild/in dex.html"). The yanks make fun of our caste system, but the truth is that the racial and anti-semetic bigotry and hatred in this country is an order of magnitude more than in any other Asian Country (Surpassed only by Western Europe). I've heard broadcasts from the Aryan Nations that are hijacked from regular network television here in Texas that clarify this point with nauseating accuracy.
Hah! That's a laugh if I've ever heard one! Ever watch Fox news? It might as well be run by the Ku-Klux-Klan!
>Further, when the news media and most people on Slashdot refer to "Indians" in this context, they >are speaking about citizens from the country India. It very seldom has anything to do with race. >This is just like when the media refers to Canadians, Americans, or Mexicans. All three countries >contain mostly white people of European ancestry. (Although Canada and America also have s>ignificant minority populations.) But, when the media calls someone a Canadian, they are >referring to his nationality, not his race. Very often Indians forget or don't realize that in these >discussions and start making calls of racism.
Sure! You expect observant and thinking people (i.e. not white) to buy that nonsense? When rednecks refer to "Indians" with their lips, the inflexions scream the N-Word and various other racial epithets. Outside of polite society (i.e. often) they are more direct with their hate-propaganda. I've seen doctored programs on National Geographic that describe Indians as cannibals, necrophiles, rapists, and generally less than human. Also, witness the now-legendary "Tsunami Song" ("http://www.asianmediawatch.net/missjones/index.
Heh! Actually, white people did wash their asses in the past. It was standard among Romans and Jews during the BC's. The concept of wiping came about during the spread of the bubonic plague in Europe (for some superstitious reason).
While this is true, bear in mind that most African countries were treated a lot worse by their European enslavers than we were by the Firangis, so they have some legitimate excuses (IMHO) ...
:).
Also, there is a significant gap in the standard of living between the urban middle class and the rural classes, middle or low. There isn't much in the way of interaction between the two worlds, the latter being a numerically overwhelming majority. Combine that with the white news media, desirous of reaffirming their cultural myths of racial superiority, choosing to focus on the status of the latter as a means of defaming our people, and it is not hard to realize why ignorant low-class westerners, who parochially prefer to view their native sources of information, have such a stereotyped view of our people.
In any case, I find the concept of a honed killing machine like a Gorkha stormtrooper running around a blood-soaked battlefield checking for the possession of his comrades by constantly tapping a PDA with a stylus to be slightly comical
I will not have my culture judged by the likes of you, sir! My people were building empires and writing literature when yours were swinging from trees!