1000 year disruption -- even if it's chiseled into a stone tablet, the language might be extinct
Umm, by conservative estimates, Hebrew and Sanskrit are both more than 5000 years old. If you go by most widely accepted estimates, the oldest work in Sanskrit is more than 7000 years old. Both languages have survived.
The problem isn't one of technology so much as it is of scale. The coastline of India is huge. And it is dotted by small settlements of fishing communities. Mobile tech could be used, as could radios. The problem is, most of these settlements aren't covered by the GSM/CDMA networks. And there's no guarantee that the people in any given settlements will have radios. Furthermore, there is no streamlined pathway within the Indian government for a quick reaction. Even if this monitoring system detects a tsunami headed towards India's coastline, there is no efficient centralised agency within the Indian government that'll take the bull by the horns and get a warning out in time. They'll keep wanking in front of each other hoping for someone to give the final assent.
The biggest problem with my country, India, is that an early warning system won't make much of a difference because there is no way to inform most of the thousands of villages and settlements on the coastlines. In face of this, even a warning hours in advance won't make a significant difference.
At the same time, regardless of these problems, an early warning system like this will save *some* lives, and any life saved is precious!
Thank you for your kind words, Mike.
I haven't had the pleasure of knowing enough Americans, but the ones I met were the same as the Indians you described. And they have a wonderful sense of humour when it comes to cracking jokes about themselves:)
Besides, you guys are forgiven every sin for having invented Jazz!
Yes, because you're evincing pride in achievements you haven't made, by people you had no way of influencing. You've done nothing to deserve the pride you feel. It's this innate and undeserved feeling of superiority that makes you a casteist.
No, it is your rock-solid belief in me having done nothing to deserve the pride I feel that makes me believe you have a serious problem with this whole issue and aren't exactly unbiased.
I don't discriminate on the basis of caste. I don't call for the forcible enslavement of anyone. I have plenty of friends who belong to all sorts of castes. I never asked them their caste and I've never had any issues sharing a meal with them. So please take your accusations elsewhere.
I would urge you to come to India and see a typical Brahmin's education - not the modern secular version but the religious and philosophical education that takes place from the age of 8 to 18.
If you can't build up a blue-collar base, then uneducated non-english speakers end up disproportionately marginalized from the Call Centre economy.
A minor error in your excellent post.
There are call centres geared towards domestic consumers. Any company that wishes to tap the huge rural and semi rural market in India needs to have call centres that operate using the local language. Marathi in Maharashtra, Tamil in Tamil Nadu, Malayalam in Kerela etc. So even if a person can't speak english, he may get a job in one of these domestically oriented call centres if his command over his mother tongue is good enough.
I mean, look at the language you use. "Backward caste" "Lower caste". I'm not saying that India hasn't made great strides; obviously it has. But just looking at your post gives one a sense of how deeply ingrained it is culturally
That is not something I invented. It is how the government and they themselves refer to themselves. What am I supposed to do? Call them the caste-formerly-known-as-the-lower-caste? Sheesh!
If a white person in America is proud of the achievements of all the white men that came before her and if she knows the difference between the races (but doesn't give a flying fuck about the differences), does that make her racist? I am proud of my caste. I am proud of belonging to the oldest surviving line of philosophers, mystics and poets. Does that make me a casteist?
As in the US, there are forces of resistance to such change
You know, the funny part is, I never gave thought to this whole issue of caste until I came up to the undergrad level. Over there, in spite of having really good marks in the entrance test, I didn't get through to the college I wanted. Why? Because I was born in a higher caste. So half the seats went to people from the lower caste who hadn't got two thirds of the marks I had. That was when this whole caste thing cropped up.
And with all due respect, casteism these days is practiced the other way round. My uncle, his father and grandfather before him, had practiced medicine in a village a hundred kilometres from Pune. Whole generations had been treated by them from birth to death. But now, these same people who got excellent medical care at my uncle's hands are contesting that since he's a brahmin, he should leave the place (without being adequately compensated for whatever medical infrastructure he raised almost single handedly) and should hand over his hospital to a young upstart who belongs to the backward caste. THAT IS CASTEISM today.
It was not so long ago that India appeared in the American press as a poor, backward and often violent nation, saddled with an inefficient bureaucracy and, though officially nonaligned, friendly to the Soviet Union. Suddenly the country seems to be not only a "roaring capitalist success story" but also, according to Foreign Affairs, an "emerging strategic partner of the United States."
Has the NY Times been asleep for the last 15 years? Because it's been 15 years since India began reforming its economy. The present Prime Minister was the finance minister at that time and was responsible for opening up India's economy, which, till then, had been a disgusting molasses of socialism (and crawled along at around the same pace). The USSR died many years ago. Since then, India has been realigning itself according to its self interests. The idea of a strategic partnership with the US seems natural to many of us in India because the other option is a totalitarian China right at our doorstep.
But trade and cooperation between India and China is growing; and, though grateful for American generosity on the nuclear issue, India is too dependent on Iran for oil (it is also exploring developing a gas pipeline to Iran) to wholeheartedly support the United States in its efforts to prevent the Islamic Republic from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
WRONG! India has voted against Iran at the IAEA twice and has supported further action against Iran. The Gas pipeline was in the conception stage and has pretty much been put in the background, not only because Iran's developing nukes, but also because they aren't honouring their own commitments.
Nor is India rising very fast on the report's Human Development index, where it ranks 127, just two rungs above Myanmar and more than 70 below Cuba and Mexico. Despite a recent reduction in poverty levels, nearly 380 million Indians still live on less than a dollar a day.
This is true. And we're ashamed of it. But that doesn't imply that nothing's been done to improve their lot. Recent steps include the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme etc.
Only 1.3 million out of a working population of 400 million are employed in the information technology and business processing industries that make up the so-called new economy.
The author has a fetish for these so-called new economy companies. We don't. We have Pharma cos that are setting up plants left right and centre, we have steel companies fighting each other to be allowed to set up plants, we have automobile giants like Scania and Maan coming along, we have huge infrastructure projects being developed, and so on and so forth. The author would do well to remember that while only 1.3 million people may be employed by the sunshine industry (as other cliches go), more than 300 million people form the middle class. Think about that number. That is the population of the US. I come from the middle class myself. And life isn't a daily struggle for survival as most will put it. Life is comfortable. Life is good. You might want to consider why so many young graduates are preferring to stay back in India for work instead of going abroad.
No labor-intensive manufacturing boom of the kind that powered the economic growth of almost every developed and developing country in the world has yet occurred in India. Unlike China, India still imports more than it exports.
We import more than we export because we're an economy fuelled by domestic demand, unlike China which has become the world's supermarket. The middle class is consuming products which are being manufactured here or are being imported. I'm not an economics major, but from whatever I've read, I can tell that this is definitely a good thing.
This means that as 70 million more people enter the work force in the next five years, most of them without the skills required for the new economy, unemployment and inequality could provoke even more social instability than they have already.
I can't believe an obvious troll like this got modded up.
Casteism in India has been abolished. What remains is the memory of what once was. What used to be castes are now communities which tend to restrict marriages to between their own members. This isn't different from any other community in the world. The supposed advantages that the upper caste enjoyed are long gone.
Today, a person from the backward castes gets reservations in the best Indian universities, the IITs etc. At least 22.5 % of the total seats are reserved for candidates from the backward castes. The backward castes do not need to score as much as the upper castes do. They have relaxed criteria. So an upper caste scoring 90% in the entrance exam may not get a chance to study at the best colleges, but a backward caste getting only 60% in the same exam will get through to the best college for the best course. Furthermore, these people get scholarships and fee waivers just because they're from backward castes. These reservations have been in place since the 1950s.
Additionally, it has become nearly impossible for an upper caste person to get a government job, since 50 % of all the jobs are reserved for the lower castes.
Additionally, the private sector (non-government, privately owned industries) has always been a meritocracy. If you apply for a job, you aren't even asked your caste or religion. So a question of casteism does not arise. Nobody knows your caste and nobody cares.
In spite of having these privileges for almost 60 years now, there are people who will shout about how their rights were trampled a thousand years ago and how they need more help to get on their feet. It's been 3 generations since reservations were introduced. And yet there are claims that casteism has prevented the spread of economic well being.
No, by tactical, I meant they can be used to influence combat in realtime, as opposed to strategic, where they just sit there and wait for the enemy to walk into them (which may happen 5 months afterwards or so). It has nothing to do with the volumes.
Indeed. The 'More, Better Landmines' salespitch. How could we forget that?
What the fuck are you talking about? By tactical use, I mean they can be used for a smaller timeframe. If a commander wants a certain area to be denied to the enemy for two days, but plans on using that same area for an attack on the third, he has that option if he uses these self-neutering mines. How does this have anything to do with any sort of salespitch? It is a requirement that is being satisfied.
I'm sure there are business concerns proud to be producing them as a humanitarian gesture.
No, there are business concerns proud about the fact that their products are helping prevent a fanatic Islamic country from attacking a liberal democracy! My country does not have the privilege of a huge body of water seperating it from unsavoury nations. In my country, terrorists don't fly commercial. They hike over mountains and through passes. I see nothing wrong with mining the passes and blowing the fuckers to their Jannat and their Allah!
Get some perspective before you run your mouth off.
They exist. I've worked on the development of the warhead for a tactical anti-personnel landmine for the DRDO, India's DARPA. While I didn't work on the electronics or the fuse, I have sufficient knowledge of the whole system.
Landmines have a stable explosive in the warhead, usually TNT/RDX. Hopping mines like the Bouncing Betty have an extra charge of cordite. The way it functions is once the mine is triggered (by whichever means it is designed for), the trigger delivers an electric charge to the detonator, which is a slightly unstable explosive (easier to detonate than RDX/TNT). This detonates the detonator, which creates a detonation wave which then passes to the main explosive, causing it to detonate.
In case of the hopping mines, the trigger sets of the cordite, which makes the warhead hop up about a metre or so. The warhead is connected to the base with a small cord which, when taut, triggers the main warhead at the appropriate height.
The simplest way to restrict the operational timeframe of a landmine is to determine how long the battery inside the trigger retains its charge. Once the battery is devoid of charge, the landmine is safe for handling by a small child. Such landmines are already in use in most developed countries.
Apart from being able to restrict civilian deaths occuring from landmines being left behind after the war (Africa, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka etc.), it also enables field commanders to use landmines tactically. Additionally, they can be fired behind a retreating enemy using a small rocket-delivery mechanism to slow the enemy down. In such cases, it is critical that the landmines de-activate before your own troops reach the area.
You presume too much.
I see my community's shortcomings quite well and am openly critical of them. However, the fact remains that I can criticise my community or any community / religion EXCEPT Islam. When I begin critically examining any aspect of Islam in a discourse, the muslims I'm talking with become all 'frothing at the mouth' types. I haven't been indoctrinated, buddy, because my religion doesn't believe in doctrines.
No need to get partisan about the Hindu / Muslim thing in this debate.
So we must gloss over the historical deficiencies and wrongs perpetrated by Islam because it is Islam? Why must this one religion be given such royal treatment whenever any critical examination of religions is being made? Why must the glaring shortcomings of Islam be glossed over while every other religion has its innards dissected?
Islam shows more respect for women's equality, right to choose her path in life etc as evidenced by its very progressive views on divorce whereas Hindu doctrine requires women to be burned when their husbands die.
Hindu doctrine doesn't require any such thing. The practice you refer to was a voluntary practice followed mostly by the wives of the Rajput warriors when they died, in order to save themselves from the horrors (rape, slavery etc.) the Muslim invaders would perpetrate on them. To say that it is a part of Hindu doctrine is to make generalisations of the most foolish type.
Secondly, the rights of women under Islam are mostly a myth. Theoretically, women under Islam have a few rights, but when you look at the practical implementation, these are nowhere to be found except in a few communities.
Furthermore, Hinduism is a non-doctrinal religion. Please tell me which doctrine you're talking of when you speak of doctrinal Hinduism. There are so many sects in Hinduism, so many schools of philosophy, spirituality and theology that you'll have your head spinning if you try to identify the one Hindu doctrine.
That said, I agree with the second point you made.
Also bear in mind that China has *never* attacked Western Europe or America. Militarily and economically, China is an allied force and a friend of America and Europe.
Yes. They've only attacked
1. Tibet
2. India
3. Korea
4. Vietnam
Besides, they've only threatened Taiwan so far.
But that's ok. These are all Asian countries, so it's ok to attack them.
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Pick the easiest part of the project, and implement that. Repeat.
It's called Easiest Job First and is widely used for scheduling in a Job Shop!
1000 year disruption -- even if it's chiseled into a stone tablet, the language might be extinct
Umm, by conservative estimates, Hebrew and Sanskrit are both more than 5000 years old. If you go by most widely accepted estimates, the oldest work in Sanskrit is more than 7000 years old. Both languages have survived.
No harm done.
I didn't get the Final fantasy reference. Anyway, forget it!
Now now... if Vishnu wanted them to eat, she would have put them in a better castle.
Our gods aren't gender confused. It would be nice if you weren't either. Vishnu is definitely a male.
Wake me up when someone runs OS X seamlessly on a stock PC!
The problem isn't one of technology so much as it is of scale. The coastline of India is huge. And it is dotted by small settlements of fishing communities. Mobile tech could be used, as could radios. The problem is, most of these settlements aren't covered by the GSM/CDMA networks. And there's no guarantee that the people in any given settlements will have radios. Furthermore, there is no streamlined pathway within the Indian government for a quick reaction. Even if this monitoring system detects a tsunami headed towards India's coastline, there is no efficient centralised agency within the Indian government that'll take the bull by the horns and get a warning out in time. They'll keep wanking in front of each other hoping for someone to give the final assent.
The biggest problem with my country, India, is that an early warning system won't make much of a difference because there is no way to inform most of the thousands of villages and settlements on the coastlines. In face of this, even a warning hours in advance won't make a significant difference.
At the same time, regardless of these problems, an early warning system like this will save *some* lives, and any life saved is precious!
Thank you for your kind words, Mike. :)
I haven't had the pleasure of knowing enough Americans, but the ones I met were the same as the Indians you described. And they have a wonderful sense of humour when it comes to cracking jokes about themselves
Besides, you guys are forgiven every sin for having invented Jazz!
Regards,
Yes, because you're evincing pride in achievements you haven't made, by people you had no way of influencing. You've done nothing to deserve the pride you feel. It's this innate and undeserved feeling of superiority that makes you a casteist.
No, it is your rock-solid belief in me having done nothing to deserve the pride I feel that makes me believe you have a serious problem with this whole issue and aren't exactly unbiased.
I don't discriminate on the basis of caste. I don't call for the forcible enslavement of anyone. I have plenty of friends who belong to all sorts of castes. I never asked them their caste and I've never had any issues sharing a meal with them. So please take your accusations elsewhere.
I would urge you to come to India and see a typical Brahmin's education - not the modern secular version but the religious and philosophical education that takes place from the age of 8 to 18.
If you can't build up a blue-collar base, then uneducated non-english speakers end up disproportionately marginalized from the Call Centre economy.
A minor error in your excellent post.
There are call centres geared towards domestic consumers. Any company that wishes to tap the huge rural and semi rural market in India needs to have call centres that operate using the local language. Marathi in Maharashtra, Tamil in Tamil Nadu, Malayalam in Kerela etc. So even if a person can't speak english, he may get a job in one of these domestically oriented call centres if his command over his mother tongue is good enough.
Then I suggest you come down here and judge for yourself.
I mean, look at the language you use. "Backward caste" "Lower caste". I'm not saying that India hasn't made great strides; obviously it has. But just looking at your post gives one a sense of how deeply ingrained it is culturally
That is not something I invented. It is how the government and they themselves refer to themselves. What am I supposed to do? Call them the caste-formerly-known-as-the-lower-caste? Sheesh!
If a white person in America is proud of the achievements of all the white men that came before her and if she knows the difference between the races (but doesn't give a flying fuck about the differences), does that make her racist? I am proud of my caste. I am proud of belonging to the oldest surviving line of philosophers, mystics and poets. Does that make me a casteist?
As in the US, there are forces of resistance to such change
You know, the funny part is, I never gave thought to this whole issue of caste until I came up to the undergrad level. Over there, in spite of having really good marks in the entrance test, I didn't get through to the college I wanted. Why? Because I was born in a higher caste. So half the seats went to people from the lower caste who hadn't got two thirds of the marks I had. That was when this whole caste thing cropped up.
And with all due respect, casteism these days is practiced the other way round. My uncle, his father and grandfather before him, had practiced medicine in a village a hundred kilometres from Pune. Whole generations had been treated by them from birth to death. But now, these same people who got excellent medical care at my uncle's hands are contesting that since he's a brahmin, he should leave the place (without being adequately compensated for whatever medical infrastructure he raised almost single handedly) and should hand over his hospital to a young upstart who belongs to the backward caste. THAT IS CASTEISM today.
It was not so long ago that India appeared in the American press as a poor, backward and often violent nation, saddled with an inefficient bureaucracy and, though officially nonaligned, friendly to the Soviet Union. Suddenly the country seems to be not only a "roaring capitalist success story" but also, according to Foreign Affairs, an "emerging strategic partner of the United States."
Has the NY Times been asleep for the last 15 years? Because it's been 15 years since India began reforming its economy. The present Prime Minister was the finance minister at that time and was responsible for opening up India's economy, which, till then, had been a disgusting molasses of socialism (and crawled along at around the same pace). The USSR died many years ago. Since then, India has been realigning itself according to its self interests. The idea of a strategic partnership with the US seems natural to many of us in India because the other option is a totalitarian China right at our doorstep.
But trade and cooperation between India and China is growing; and, though grateful for American generosity on the nuclear issue, India is too dependent on Iran for oil (it is also exploring developing a gas pipeline to Iran) to wholeheartedly support the United States in its efforts to prevent the Islamic Republic from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
WRONG! India has voted against Iran at the IAEA twice and has supported further action against Iran. The Gas pipeline was in the conception stage and has pretty much been put in the background, not only because Iran's developing nukes, but also because they aren't honouring their own commitments.
Nor is India rising very fast on the report's Human Development index, where it ranks 127, just two rungs above Myanmar and more than 70 below Cuba and Mexico. Despite a recent reduction in poverty levels, nearly 380 million Indians still live on less than a dollar a day.
This is true. And we're ashamed of it. But that doesn't imply that nothing's been done to improve their lot. Recent steps include the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme etc.
Only 1.3 million out of a working population of 400 million are employed in the information technology and business processing industries that make up the so-called new economy.
The author has a fetish for these so-called new economy companies. We don't. We have Pharma cos that are setting up plants left right and centre, we have steel companies fighting each other to be allowed to set up plants, we have automobile giants like Scania and Maan coming along, we have huge infrastructure projects being developed, and so on and so forth. The author would do well to remember that while only 1.3 million people may be employed by the sunshine industry (as other cliches go), more than 300 million people form the middle class. Think about that number. That is the population of the US. I come from the middle class myself. And life isn't a daily struggle for survival as most will put it. Life is comfortable. Life is good. You might want to consider why so many young graduates are preferring to stay back in India for work instead of going abroad.
No labor-intensive manufacturing boom of the kind that powered the economic growth of almost every developed and developing country in the world has yet occurred in India. Unlike China, India still imports more than it exports.
We import more than we export because we're an economy fuelled by domestic demand, unlike China which has become the world's supermarket. The middle class is consuming products which are being manufactured here or are being imported. I'm not an economics major, but from whatever I've read, I can tell that this is definitely a good thing.
This means that as 70 million more people enter the work force in the next five years, most of them without the skills required for the new economy, unemployment and inequality could provoke even more social instability than they have already.
I can't believe an obvious troll like this got modded up.
Casteism in India has been abolished. What remains is the memory of what once was. What used to be castes are now communities which tend to restrict marriages to between their own members. This isn't different from any other community in the world.
The supposed advantages that the upper caste enjoyed are long gone.
Today, a person from the backward castes gets reservations in the best Indian universities, the IITs etc. At least 22.5 % of the total seats are reserved for candidates from the backward castes. The backward castes do not need to score as much as the upper castes do. They have relaxed criteria. So an upper caste scoring 90% in the entrance exam may not get a chance to study at the best colleges, but a backward caste getting only 60% in the same exam will get through to the best college for the best course. Furthermore, these people get scholarships and fee waivers just because they're from backward castes. These reservations have been in place since the 1950s.
Additionally, it has become nearly impossible for an upper caste person to get a government job, since 50 % of all the jobs are reserved for the lower castes.
Additionally, the private sector (non-government, privately owned industries) has always been a meritocracy. If you apply for a job, you aren't even asked your caste or religion. So a question of casteism does not arise. Nobody knows your caste and nobody cares.
In spite of having these privileges for almost 60 years now, there are people who will shout about how their rights were trampled a thousand years ago and how they need more help to get on their feet. It's been 3 generations since reservations were introduced. And yet there are claims that casteism has prevented the spread of economic well being.
Bullshit!
No, by tactical, I meant they can be used to influence combat in realtime, as opposed to strategic, where they just sit there and wait for the enemy to walk into them (which may happen 5 months afterwards or so). It has nothing to do with the volumes.
Indeed. The 'More, Better Landmines' salespitch. How could we forget that? What the fuck are you talking about? By tactical use, I mean they can be used for a smaller timeframe. If a commander wants a certain area to be denied to the enemy for two days, but plans on using that same area for an attack on the third, he has that option if he uses these self-neutering mines. How does this have anything to do with any sort of salespitch? It is a requirement that is being satisfied.
I'm sure there are business concerns proud to be producing them as a humanitarian gesture.
No, there are business concerns proud about the fact that their products are helping prevent a fanatic Islamic country from attacking a liberal democracy! My country does not have the privilege of a huge body of water seperating it from unsavoury nations. In my country, terrorists don't fly commercial. They hike over mountains and through passes. I see nothing wrong with mining the passes and blowing the fuckers to their Jannat and their Allah!
Get some perspective before you run your mouth off.
Self-deactivating is probably doable
They exist. I've worked on the development of the warhead for a tactical anti-personnel landmine for the DRDO, India's DARPA. While I didn't work on the electronics or the fuse, I have sufficient knowledge of the whole system.
Landmines have a stable explosive in the warhead, usually TNT/RDX. Hopping mines like the Bouncing Betty have an extra charge of cordite. The way it functions is once the mine is triggered (by whichever means it is designed for), the trigger delivers an electric charge to the detonator, which is a slightly unstable explosive (easier to detonate than RDX/TNT). This detonates the detonator, which creates a detonation wave which then passes to the main explosive, causing it to detonate.
In case of the hopping mines, the trigger sets of the cordite, which makes the warhead hop up about a metre or so. The warhead is connected to the base with a small cord which, when taut, triggers the main warhead at the appropriate height.
The simplest way to restrict the operational timeframe of a landmine is to determine how long the battery inside the trigger retains its charge. Once the battery is devoid of charge, the landmine is safe for handling by a small child. Such landmines are already in use in most developed countries.
Apart from being able to restrict civilian deaths occuring from landmines being left behind after the war (Africa, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka etc.), it also enables field commanders to use landmines tactically. Additionally, they can be fired behind a retreating enemy using a small rocket-delivery mechanism to slow the enemy down. In such cases, it is critical that the landmines de-activate before your own troops reach the area.
Thank you sir!
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up! Twice! :)
If I had money, I'd subscribe to your newsletter
You presume too much.
I see my community's shortcomings quite well and am openly critical of them. However, the fact remains that I can criticise my community or any community / religion EXCEPT Islam. When I begin critically examining any aspect of Islam in a discourse, the muslims I'm talking with become all 'frothing at the mouth' types.
I haven't been indoctrinated, buddy, because my religion doesn't believe in doctrines.
No need to get partisan about the Hindu / Muslim thing in this debate.
So we must gloss over the historical deficiencies and wrongs perpetrated by Islam because it is Islam? Why must this one religion be given such royal treatment whenever any critical examination of religions is being made? Why must the glaring shortcomings of Islam be glossed over while every other religion has its innards dissected?
Islam shows more respect for women's equality, right to choose her path in life etc as evidenced by its very progressive views on divorce whereas Hindu doctrine requires women to be burned when their husbands die.
Hindu doctrine doesn't require any such thing. The practice you refer to was a voluntary practice followed mostly by the wives of the Rajput warriors when they died, in order to save themselves from the horrors (rape, slavery etc.) the Muslim invaders would perpetrate on them. To say that it is a part of Hindu doctrine is to make generalisations of the most foolish type.
Secondly, the rights of women under Islam are mostly a myth. Theoretically, women under Islam have a few rights, but when you look at the practical implementation, these are nowhere to be found except in a few communities.
Furthermore, Hinduism is a non-doctrinal religion. Please tell me which doctrine you're talking of when you speak of doctrinal Hinduism. There are so many sects in Hinduism, so many schools of philosophy, spirituality and theology that you'll have your head spinning if you try to identify the one Hindu doctrine.
That said, I agree with the second point you made.
Maradonna's hand has enough space on it to store all your data? Unpossible!
Or you could be logged into Gmail and use Yahoo to do your searching!
Also bear in mind that China has *never* attacked Western Europe or America. Militarily and economically, China is an allied force and a friend of America and Europe.
Yes. They've only attacked
1. Tibet
2. India
3. Korea
4. Vietnam
Besides, they've only threatened Taiwan so far.
But that's ok. These are all Asian countries, so it's ok to attack them.
God, this is Satan. Could you possibly make that blimp live forever? For old time's sake.