Re: [silk] Dying....hopefully, the topic is "dying"-- and not "the topic is dying"

2006-08-08 Thread Aditya Kapil
Most large pharma are working on anti-ageing products. I am not an expert on the area but would like to think they are on to something given the $1 billion or so that it takes to bring a single drug into the market. If something comes out I'd like to live till I am 600 only so that I can buy all th

[silk] Fwd: Rights of Artists to share of resale of Art works

2006-08-08 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
Interesting twist in Indian copyright law. Apparently, since 1994, artists have a right to profit from resales too. ~j Begin forwarded message: From: Lawrence Liang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 7 August 2006 7:42:52 PM GMT+05:30 To: Commons law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Reader List [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [silk] dying... well count me out!

2006-08-08 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 09-Aug-06, at 12:40 AM, Vinayak Hegde wrote: It seems Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Jim Hendrix all believed in that. They all died young and famous at 27. Why stop with just three? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famous_people_who_died_young

Re: [silk] Dying....hopefully, the topic is "dying"-- and not "the topic is dying"

2006-08-08 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deepa Mohan wrote: > fear not...I think there are several people in their 50's or 60's...I > was merely addressing the youngsters, who generally talk of death so > casually ("I'll DIE if I don't buy that lens!") but don't think much > about death...

Re: [silk] Five stages of drunkenness

2006-08-08 Thread Pavithra Sankaran
I remember an older version of the seven stages of drunkenness, which went something like this: verbose, grandiose, amicose, bellicose, morose, stuperose, and comatose.Pavithra- Original Message From: Madhu Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire/student_life/beer_clever.

Re: [silk] dying... well count me out!

2006-08-08 Thread Danese Cooper
Yeah well...turns out only Keith Moon was actually *serious* about that lyric :-)DaneseOn Aug 8, 2006, at 6:24 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:Things they do look awful c-c-cold I hope I die before I get old         -The Who, _My Generation_

Re: [silk] dying... well count me out!

2006-08-08 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Vinayak Hegde wrote: [ on 12:40 AM 8/9/2006 ] It seems Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Jim Hendrix all believed in that. They all died young and famous at 27. Things they do look awful c-c-cold I hope I die before I get old -The Who, _My Generation_ -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ po

Re: [silk] dying... well count me out!

2006-08-08 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On 8/9/06, Devdas Bhagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Live fast, die young has a certain attraction. It seems Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Jim Hendrix all believed in that. They all died young and famous at 27. -- Vinayak

Re: [silk] dying... well count me out!

2006-08-08 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 08/08/06 23:41 +0530, Vinayak Hegde wrote: > On 8/8/06, Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I don't get this bunch of losers... I'm with the Deepa babe who like > >life... > >... well now that I got ur attention. > > > >I don't want to die. I'd like to live forever. > > Yeah right. > Death is

Re: [silk] dying... well count me out!

2006-08-08 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On 8/8/06, Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't get this bunch of losers... I'm with the Deepa babe who like life... ... well now that I got ur attention. I don't want to die. I'd like to live forever. Yeah right. Death is a myth. No one who has experienced it has lived to tell the tale.

[silk] dying... well count me out!

2006-08-08 Thread Deepak
I don't get this bunch of losers... I'm with the Deepa babe who like life...   ... well now that I got ur attention.   I don't want to die. I'd like to live forever.   I'd like to have much more money so I could afford the best tech so I could be kept alive and will way beyond... stem cells,

Re: [silk] Dying....hopefully, the topic is "dying"-- and not "the topic is dying"

2006-08-08 Thread Bernhard Krieger
Vinayak Hegde wrote: I don't think much about death. My only wish is if I am dead, I should be informed about it lest I hang around as a ghost and scare children like Bruce Willis in "The Sixth Sense". That was a great one. The first of its kind - as far as I know. -b

Re: [silk] Dying....hopefully, the topic is "dying"-- and not "the topic is dying"

2006-08-08 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On 8/8/06, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Many of you on Silk are very young...do you think about death? If so, what do you think about your own? Am very interested in your thoughts... I don't think much about death. My only wish is if I am dead, I should be informed about it lest I han

Re: [silk] Toothless goats

2006-08-08 Thread Pavithra Sankaran
--- ashok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The other well known environmental disaster is that > of lake victoria - the nile perch was introduced ... > destroyed other > indigenous flora and fauna The story doesn't stop there. See: http://www.darwinsnightmare.com/darwin/html/startset.htm ___

Re: [silk] Dying....hopefully, the topic is "dying"-- and not "the topic is dying"

2006-08-08 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: [ on 09:53 PM 8/8/2006 ] "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." -- Woody Allen I wonder what Hotblack Desiato would've said. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

Re: [silk] Dying....hopefully, the topic is "dying"-- and not "the topic is dying"

2006-08-08 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2006-08-08 18:04:11 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > WHEN would you (ideally) like to die? At what age? "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." -- Woody Allen -- ams

Re: [silk] Dying....hopefully, the topic is "dying"-- and not "the topic is dying"

2006-08-08 Thread Deepa Mohan
eww !! this is a list of young whippersnappers ?     fear not...I think there are several people in their 50's or 60's...I was merely addressing the youngsters, who generally talk of death so casually ("I'll DIE if I don't buy that lens!") but don't think much about death...  

Re: [silk] Dying....hopefully, the topic is "dying"-- and not "the topic is dying"

2006-08-08 Thread Deepa Mohan
How incredibly morbid.Dying is like defeacating: necessary, happens to everyone and probably not worth spending a lot of time thinking about. Living, on the otherhand, is.Thinking about one's death and it's circumstances when not actuallyfaced with the prospect seems overly self involved.     We

Re: [silk] Dying....hopefully, the topic is "dying"-- and not "the topic is dying"

2006-08-08 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deepa Mohan wrote: > Many of you on Silk are very young...do you think about death? If so, > what do you think about your own? Am very interested in your thoughts... eww !! this is a list of young whippersnappers ? - -- You see things; and you say

Re: [silk] Dying....hopefully, the topic is "dying"-- and not "the topic is dying"

2006-08-08 Thread Biju Chacko
Hi, How incredibly morbid. Dying is like defeacating: necessary, happens to everyone and probably not worth spending a lot of time thinking about. Living, on the other hand, is. Thinking about one's death and it's circumstances when not actually faced with the prospect seems overly self involve

[silk] Dying....hopefully, the topic is "dying"-- and not "the topic is dying"

2006-08-08 Thread Deepa Mohan
There has been a  lot of   mails about where each lives and where one would like to die...but I want to post the question, WHEN would you (ideally) like to die? At what age? At what point would you feel that you had done/achieved enough? Do you believe in euthanasia? How would it be implemented, if

Re: [silk] New member

2006-08-08 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 8 Aug 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I see that you still have your old VSNL address ... :) I wonder how >> many still use them. > Is that some how worse than airtelbroadband.in? No. > ISP provided email addresses are IMO never the best choice for at > least two reasons - one, most ISPs