Re: [Goanet] Sleeping with windows open/response to Velho

2006-09-18 Thread Sunith Velho
To: "Sunith Velho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 12:04 AM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Sleeping with windows open/response to Velho > Dear Velho, > > Because you have lumped my brilliant idea :)) >

Re: [Goanet] Sleeping with windows open/response to Velho

2006-09-18 Thread Carvalho
Velho, Velho, Velho, Only in cyberspace can my suggestion of a labour supply agency be distorted into a labour control agency. There is a marked difference between a control economy and an organised one. An organised economy needs as its basis efficient dissemination of information and it is to

Re: [Goanet] Sleeping with windows open/response to Velho

2006-09-17 Thread Carvalho
Dear Velho, Because you have lumped my brilliant idea :)) alongwith organ harvesting, I feel duty bound to defend it. First of all, I notice that any post, opinion or advice by expat Goans has an immediate knee-jerk reaction from Goans in Goa. There is no need to carry your bag of chips so tediou

Re: [Goanet] Sleeping with windows open

2006-09-17 Thread Sunith Velho
Dear Frederick, This is the point I have been trying to make. Isolated observations such as the ones mentioned below are no use as indicators in judging the overall health of a society. Hence my use of the world "mindless" to describe any attempts to do so. You will notice how Goa is now being

Re: [Goanet] Sleeping with windows open

2006-09-16 Thread Frederick \"FN\" Noronha
Is "sleeping with windows open" the only basis of judging how peaceful, just, and sustainable a society is? Or, is the cleanliness of the hospitals a better indicator? This is not a defence for post-1961 prone corruption and misrule, but one can't overlook that a semi-Fascist dictatorship has pros

Re: [Goanet] Sleeping with windows open

2006-09-15 Thread Sunith Velho
Hi Richard, Thanks for your reply. As you may/may not be aware the statement "In Portuguese times we used to sleep with windows and doors wide open..." is more often than not used to convey the fact that Goa was much safer before the "Indians" took over. However people seem to ignore that all