Re: [silk] Back in the saddle...

2006-10-17 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Jeff Bone wrote: [ on 01:10 AM 10/18/2006 ] Hey guys... I'm back on the list after a hiatus to attempt to do some mail setup maintenance. That's a part of a larger attempt over the course of this year ("Project Ergo") to simplify my life on several dimensions, to reduce entropy, and in general

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Gur u's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread sastry
On Tue October 17 2006 10:45 pm, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: > > clones of each other with battering ram rhetoric > > > > Hey, ease up! I've kept out of this so far! > > Ram Just as well you noticed that yourself. I was wondering how I c

[silk] Human species 'may split in two'

2006-10-17 Thread Vinayak Hegde
I am not sure how true this is (I checked it was not published on Apr 1st :-). I googled for Oliver Curry and the guy seems genuine. Human species 'may split in two' BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6057734.stm --- Humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years' time as predicted

Re: [silk] Back in the saddle...

2006-10-17 Thread Christopher M. Kelty
ironically, this message distracted me from what I was doing :) ck On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:40:41PM -0500, Jeff Bone wrote: > > Hey guys... I'm back on the list after a hiatus to attempt to do > some mail setup maintenance. That's a part of a larger attempt over > the course of this yea

[silk] Back in the saddle...

2006-10-17 Thread Jeff Bone
Hey guys... I'm back on the list after a hiatus to attempt to do some mail setup maintenance. That's a part of a larger attempt over the course of this year ("Project Ergo") to simplify my life on several dimensions, to reduce entropy, and in general to make my technology choices work f

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
On 10/17/06, sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: clones of each other with battering ram rhetoric Hey, ease up! I've kept out of this so far! Ram

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal G uru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread sastry
On Tue October 17 2006 3:00 pm, Badri Natarajan wrote: > Why this sudden spate of posts on these topics from you? I've seen it on > and off on BR when I lurk there, but hardly on anything on silk for > years.. Badri - I don't intend to continue posting on the subject - as I have indicated to Kira

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Gur u's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread sastry
On Tue October 17 2006 2:57 pm, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: > How come you're not weeping for the > innocents suffering at the hands of the Indian military in the North > and the East? Kiran I intend to drop the subject. I read too much about it to answer your questions in brief or to explain w

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread ashok _
Well.. bhutan, nepal and various other landlocked countries around the world come to mind.nation states which have problems but are recognizable entitiesi think its worth a try letting kashmir fend for itself as an independent country, it should be upto them to figure out a waynot t

Re: [silk] Linux questions

2006-10-17 Thread ashok _
I will also recommend ubuntu. i have completely switched to ubuntu as the de facto OS on all my personal and official desktop computers (still trying it for laptops:)  )... i ran windows dually for a while, and realized i was never ever booting into it.so i have even gone ahead and eras

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread Deepa Mohan
carnation-behind-ear kumbaya singing spam gurus   talk about striking imagery...trying to stop laughing long enough to type.   Deepa.

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 17/Oct/2006, at 5:19 PM, Badri Natarajan wrote: Just to clarify this - the Supreme Court does not issue "public statements". I haven't read their judgment but I am assuming this was a comment made in passing in the judgment when discussing the powers of the Supreme Court in relation to a

Re: [silk] Linux questions

2006-10-17 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On 10/17/06, sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What Linux should I install (for a user who is more dumb than smart). I would recommend Ubuntu. My parents/siblings have been using it for more than 2 years without any issues. All they do is check mail, chat, write documents, spreadsheets (... the

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread Badri Natarajan
> The SC has also issued a public statement that they have the right to > review a Presidential pardon, should one be forthcoming. Just to clarify this - the Supreme Court does not issue "public statements". I haven't read their judgment but I am assuming this was a comment made in passing in the

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: > Is that the question - or is it about having the death penalty at all? > > There are enough horror stories from the US about people being > executed and proven innocent much later. > > Also, Suresh, is a fair trial at all possible in such cases? Given the long hist

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
On 10/17/06, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: sastry [17/10/06 14:35 +0530]: >Hang the sodden murderer and feed his carcass to the pigs - or set it alight >with a copy of this email. hang him by all means - just see that he gets a fair trial first. Is that the question - or i

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
sastry [17/10/06 14:35 +0530]: Hang the sodden murderer and feed his carcass to the pigs - or set it alight with a copy of this email. hang him by all means - just see that he gets a fair trial first.

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 17/Oct/2006, at 3:54 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: Afzal was a surrendered terrorist from the JKLF. It is alleged that he was made an STF pawn and the real reason for rushing his execution is to cover up Indian military atrocities in Kashmir. This isn't a case of the intelligentsia preen

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 17/Oct/2006, at 3:01 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: Not knowing enough to have an independent opinion on the matter, and not having the copious free time to read your forward, I ask, was he guilty of the bombings? If he was not, or if there is a popular body of opinion that believes he

[silk] String Theory, Summarised

2006-10-17 Thread Udhay Shankar N
http://xkcd.com/c171.html Stick Figure 1: I just had an awesome idea. Suppose all matter and energy is made of tiny, vibraing "strings". Stick Figure 2: OK. What would that imply? Stick Figure 1: I dunno.

Re: [silk] Linux questions

2006-10-17 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 17/10/06 14:26 +0530, sastry wrote: > I am getting the urge to replace my HDD on this machine - which is a dual > boot Fedora Core 1 and Windows XP. > > The last time I did this I merely migrated all the files to the new (current) > HDD using linux commands that I read up on the net and cannot

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: Apropos recent events. It is no wonder that they call it "India Occupied Kashmir". Not knowing enough to have an independent opinion on the matter, and not having the copious free time to read your forward, I ask, was he guilty of the bombings? If he was not, or i

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread Badri Natarajan
> How come these carnation-behind-ear kumbaya singing spam gurus didn't weep > when people were being murdered in Delhi and Mumbai? > Shiv, Why this sudden spate of posts on these topics from you? I've seen it on and off on BR when I lurk there, but hardly on anything on silk for years.. I'm no

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 17/Oct/2006, at 2:35 PM, sastry wrote: Hang the sodden murderer and feed his carcass to the pigs - or set it alight with a copy of this email. How come these carnation-behind-ear kumbaya singing spam gurus didn't weep when people were being murdered in Delhi and Mumbai? Easy on the la

Re: [silk] Fwd: [Reader-list] Mohammad Afzal Guru's Impending Execution

2006-10-17 Thread sastry
Hang the sodden murderer and feed his carcass to the pigs - or set it alight with a copy of this email. How come these carnation-behind-ear kumbaya singing spam gurus didn't weep when people were being murdered in Delhi and Mumbai? shiv On Tue October 17 2006 8:11 am, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote

[silk] Linux questions

2006-10-17 Thread sastry
I am getting the urge to replace my HDD on this machine - which is a dual boot Fedora Core 1 and Windows XP. The last time I did this I merely migrated all the files to the new (current) HDD using linux commands that I read up on the net and cannot recall now. The Windows copy was particularly