Re: [silk] Readings on Indian History

2007-07-19 Thread ashok _
As far as i can see, nobody on this list is denying any of the social ills you speak off. Its not merely hinduness responsible for it, you see similar problems in different parts of the world, social stratification et.al Would similar social stratification in another country make them hindu

Re: [silk] Readings on Indian History

2007-07-19 Thread shiv sastry
On Thursday 19 Jul 2007 1:53 pm, ashok _ wrote: As far as i can see, nobody on this list is denying any of the social ills you speak off. The psychological explanation for this type of paranoia came from you in the first place: I quote: On Wednesday 18 Jul 2007 2:57 pm, ashok _ wrote:

Re: [silk] Readings on Indian History

2007-07-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 02:17:58PM +0530, shiv sastry wrote: By all means criticize the RSS, but unfortunately for the RSS's critics the Why should I want to criticize RSS? Really Simple Syndication rocks my world. Of course, if they did it with SEXPRS instead... -- Eugen* Leitl a

Re: [silk] Readings on Indian History

2007-07-19 Thread shiv sastry
On Thursday 19 Jul 2007 2:32 pm, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 02:17:58PM +0530, shiv sastry wrote: By all means criticize the RSS, but unfortunately for the RSS's critics the Why should I want to criticize RSS? Really Simple Syndication rocks my world. Of course, if they did

Re: [silk] Readings on Indian History

2007-07-19 Thread ashok _
On 7/19/07, shiv sastry wrote: As far as i can see, nobody on this list is denying any of the social ills you speak off. The psychological explanation for this type of paranoia came from you in the getting a bit touchy eh? et.al Would similar social stratification in another country

Re: [silk] Readings on Indian History

2007-07-19 Thread shiv sastry
On Thursday 19 Jul 2007 3:20 pm, ashok _ wrote: getting a bit touchy eh? No. But if it boosts your ego and makes you feel good to see me touchy I will say yes. Please tell me where else it occurs. Such information is available via different search engines, but since you ask I am taking

Re: [silk] Readings on Indian History

2007-07-19 Thread Venkat Mangudi
ashok _ wrote: On 7/18/07, shiv sastry wrote: Let me end this post with a barbed semi insult - even if it is flamebait to jog minds. is it possible at all that my thoughts are more advanced than those of a lot of people on this issue in that I do not seek to dispute or fight, but rather

[silk] French bikes

2007-07-19 Thread Udhay Shankar N
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007033.html Paris Buys Citizens Bikes Erica Barnett July 18, 2007 12:02 PM Article Photo Paris, France has adopted an innovative, yet wonderfully simple, approach to reducing congestion and greenhouse-gas emissions in city limits. It's buying its

Re: [silk] Readings on Indian History

2007-07-19 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 7/19/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] A classical example is the state of Rwanda. Thanks for taking the trouble. I presume you have been to Rwanda - because that is the thing required for credibility isn't it? Ashok seems to travel a lot around those parts, I dare say the

[silk] bacteria-eating synthetic viruses

2007-07-19 Thread Udhay Shankar N
The paper cited below is available here: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/104/27/11197 Udhay http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=628 July 10th, 2007 Bioengineered viruses kill bacteria Synthetic biology is an emerging field which involves the engineering of biological organisms. One

Re: [silk] French bikes

2007-07-19 Thread B. L. Krieger
On Jul 19 2007, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Yellow-bike and similar programs have met with mixed success in the US. Perhaps what the Paris experiment demonstrates is that it takes a massive show of will (and prioritization of dollars) to create the critical mass we need to revolutionize our

Re: [silk] French bikes

2007-07-19 Thread Thaths
On 19 Jul 2007 15:21:48 +0100, B. L. Krieger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after all (european) cities were not designed for cars in the first place. Ha! You are only showing your Hinduness with this statement. Ancient vedic hindu cities were also not designed for cars in the first place. Thaths

Re: [silk] French bikes

2007-07-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 7/19/2007 7:55 PM, Thaths wrote: On 19 Jul 2007 15:21:48 +0100, B. L. Krieger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after all (european) cities were not designed for cars in the first place. Ha! You are only showing your Hinduness with this statement. Ancient vedic hindu cities were also not designed

Re: [silk] French bikes

2007-07-19 Thread B. L. Krieger
On Jul 19 2007, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: On 7/19/2007 7:55 PM, Thaths wrote: On 19 Jul 2007 15:21:48 +0100, B. L. Krieger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after all (european) cities were not designed for cars in the first place. Ha! You are only showing your Hinduness with this statement.

Re: [silk] French bikes

2007-07-19 Thread Udhay Shankar N
B. L. Krieger wrote: [ on 07:51 PM 7/19/2007 ] it has all just to do with really easy political decisions to make cities car free. after all (european) cities were not designed for cars in the first place. It's not European, does it count? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongtan

Re: [silk] French bikes

2007-07-19 Thread B. L. Krieger
On Jul 19 2007, Udhay Shankar N wrote: B. L. Krieger wrote: [ on 07:51 PM 7/19/2007 ] it has all just to do with really easy political decisions to make cities car free. after all (european) cities were not designed for cars in the first place. It's not European, does it count? sure. my

Re: [silk] bacteria-eating synthetic viruses

2007-07-19 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Udhay Shankar N wrote: Bioengineered viruses kill bacteria So who/what will contain these viruses? You cannot, after all, assume that these would be entirely good for us human. With due respect to the scientists, I suspect anything bioengineered, possibly influenced by too many

Re: [silk] bacteria-eating synthetic viruses

2007-07-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:15:48PM +0530, Venkat Mangudi wrote: So who/what will contain these viruses? You cannot, after all, assume So who/what will contain pathogenic biofilms? that these would be entirely good for us human. With due respect to the Why? These just vanilla engineered

[silk] hindu approach to education

2007-07-19 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
below is a letter in the latest Economist. the attitude it criticises is pretty much a hindu approach to education policy, and contrasts with the communist approach to education in china. (the much more egalitarian distribution of education funding, and emphasis on primary education in china, is

[silk] Fwd: Yahoo + iPhone = replay attacks

2007-07-19 Thread Udhay Shankar N
From the cryptography list. Can anyone in the know comment, to the extent you can do so publicly? Udhay To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Yahoo + iPhone = replay attacks From: Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:54:27 -0400 A blog entry which claims that the

[silk] safer at the back of the plane

2007-07-19 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
Popular Mechanics says [1] that A look at real-world crash stats, however, suggests that [...] Passengers near the tail of a plane are about 40 percent more likely to survive a crash than those in the first few rows up front. so i guess there's some compensation for sitting next to the toilet

Re: [silk] Readings on Indian History

2007-07-19 Thread Biju Chacko
On 7/19/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 19 Jul 2007 3:20 pm, ashok _ wrote: Not at all. just pointing out what appears to be a very dangerous habit of classifying people. Your record in this regard speaks for itself Shiv, Do you mind not shaking a virtual fist at

Re: [silk] Fwd: Yahoo + iPhone = replay attacks

2007-07-19 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote [at 08:29 AM 7/20/2007] : From the cryptography list. Can anyone in the know comment, to the extent you can do so publicly? In the know about what, exactly? What is going on with Yahoo mail, in re: proprietary back ends etc. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @