Re: [silk] It's the demography, stupid

2006-02-15 Thread Ravi Rao
* Suresh Ramasubramanian [Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:18:55AM +0530]: > Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > > > > From personal observation, I fear the same is happening to the TamBram > > Iyer crowd. > > > > You observing the sample of tambram iyers on silklist? You, me, Udhay > etc? :) Huh? Are you sayin

Re: [silk] It's the demography, stupid

2006-02-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > > From personal observation, I fear the same is happening to the TamBram > Iyer crowd. > You observing the sample of tambram iyers on silklist? You, me, Udhay etc? :) suresh

Re: [silk] It's the demography, stupid

2006-02-15 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
Vinayak Hegde wrote: On 2/15/06, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Economic well being and upward socio-economic mobility tends to lead to better education, fewer children and generally a shift slightly towards more liberal attitudes. This has happened in several countries That is true. This w

[silk] bruces on the future of money

2006-02-15 Thread Udhay Shankar N
http://www.forbes.com/2006/02/11/sterling-money-future_cz_bs_money06_0214sterling.html?boxes=custom Money The Futures Of Money Bruce Sterling, 02.14.06, 12:00 PM ET NEW YORK - Money is a widely distributed machine whose purpose is to compute the value of goods and services. In order to fu

Re: [silk] It's the demography, stupid

2006-02-15 Thread Madhu M Kurup
Hmm: > On 2/15/06, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Economic well being and upward socio-economic mobility tends to lead > > to better education, fewer children and generally a shift slightly > > towards more liberal attitudes. This has happened in several countries > > That is true. This wer

Re: [silk] It's the demography, stupid

2006-02-15 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On 2/15/06, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Economic well being and upward socio-economic mobility tends to lead > to better education, fewer children and generally a shift slightly > towards more liberal attitudes. This has happened in several countries That is true. This were also the observ

Re: [silk] It's the demography, stupid

2006-02-15 Thread Thaths
On 2/15/06, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's still so that Blue States are below replenishment threshold, > and Red States breed like the rabbits. Children raised by white > trash teenager moms do not tend to turn out cosmopolites, unfortunately. Economic well being and upward socio-e

Re: [silk] It's the demography, stupid

2006-02-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 04:49:41PM +0100, Dave Long wrote: > Unless fundamentalists are able to successfully position repression as > a natural response to some sort of collective threat, I would predict > that many of them are doomed to disappointment, when their children > grow up to be more

Re: [silk] It's the demography, stupid

2006-02-15 Thread Dave Long
I tend to agree with the starting point of many of this guy's theories, but have serious disagreements with the eventual conclusions - which is informed by my opinion that there is a lot that is carefully left out of the analysis. The big hidden assumption seems to be that having large

[silk] Civil rights as antiterrorism tool

2006-02-15 Thread Udhay Shankar N
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=0006A854-E67F-13A1-A67F83414B7F0104&pageNumber=2&catID=2 SKEPTIC January 2006 issue Murdercide Science unravels the myth of suicide bombers By Michael Shermer "You should be very proud of me. It's an honor, and you will see t