Re: [silk] India special economic zone -- travel and reading recco?

Well.. various south Indian dynasties used to colonize most of south east asia (java / Malaysia etc etc.. as well as part of Vietnam - which is where Indochina comes from) You might put it in that we've recolonized the lot :) Of course that depends on whether you're writing in some dystopian futu

Re: [silk] India special economic zone -- travel and reading recco?

On Jan 30, 2008 12:48 PM, Cory Doctorow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm also going to China -- but this is the Indian sequence! Hmmm ... by now you have ensured that everyone on this list is waiting expectantly for the book. Time for me to get on Second Life to gold farm so I can afford to pay fo

Re: [silk] India special economic zone -- travel and reading recco?

I'm also going to China -- but this is the Indian sequence! Cory Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: At this point, I'm really leaning towards Pune. Does anyone have good connections there? Pune still isn't the sort of hellhole you would need .. better off setting it closer to mainland china, in a

Re: [silk] India special economic zone -- travel and reading recco?

> At this point, I'm really leaning towards Pune. Does anyone have good > connections there? Pune still isn't the sort of hellhole you would need .. better off setting it closer to mainland china, in a location that has just as autocratic a government, and a bunch of outsourcing. Vietnam for one.

Re: [silk] High on Oranges

On Jan 30, 2008 12:30 PM, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A Florida Biochemist designs a citrus tree with THC. The South to the Future World Wide Wire Service is a weekly feed of technology and media news commentary and satire published by the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Quotations attri

[silk] High on Oranges

9 November 1998 DATELINE--Tallahassee, Fla. Oranges that get you high A Florida Biochemist designs a citrus tree with THC. In the summer of 1984, 10th-grader Irwin Nanofsky and a friend were driving down the Apalachee Parkway on the way home from baseball practice when they were pulled over by a

Re: [silk] India special economic zone -- travel and reading recco?

I was talking to a friend who I know is big on gaming. He tells me that the IIT Madras is breeding ground for gamers. Additionally, I know that there are gaming parlours here (as I am sure there will be in every major city in the country) that hold contests and events often. One place that I rememb

Re: [silk] India special economic zone -- travel and reading recco?

For complex reasons, I'm assuming for the sake of the book that international norms and treaties on gold farming will not stabilize and so there won't be any actual lawbreaking going on -- at least, not INDIAN lawbreaking. At this point, I'm really leaning towards Pune. Does anyone have good

Re: [silk] India special economic zone -- travel and reading recco?

(Apologies for the top post - gmail for mobile is well - in evolution) I recommend the audio version, it is really well made. Btw, I haven't seen a mention of Mysore - it's a great small town not too far from Bangalore. To echo biju's thoughts - locating the story in an SEZ would cause credibility

Re: [silk] India special economic zone -- travel and reading recco?

Heh: Biju Chacko wrote: You should check out the short story 'Anda's Game' that Cory wrote on That sounds like an egg-citing story. Sounds like a good setup for a hard-boiled detective story. Egging her on, are we? I suspect it may not leave her sunny side up but then again, I don't th

Re: [silk] Fwd: To Restore Democracy: First Abolish Corporate Personhood

On Jan 30, 2008 10:28 AM, J. Andrew Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The officers of a corporation are still personally liable I should have been more specific, I meant personal financial liability.

Re: [silk] India special economic zone -- travel and reading recco?

> You should check out the short story 'Anda's Game' that Cory wrote on That sounds like an egg-citing story. Sounds like a good setup for a hard-boiled detective story. ;-) -- b PS: For the puzzled: Anda == Egg in Hindi.

Re: [silk] Fwd: To Restore Democracy: First Abolish Corporate Personhood

On Jan 29, 2008, at 8:19 PM, Gautam John wrote: On Jan 30, 2008 8:20 AM, Lawnun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not entirely sure about your second statement re: corporate personhood being the basis of business I'd imagined that the separation of individual liability from that of the compan

Re: [silk] Fwd: To Restore Democracy: First Abolish Corporate Personhood

On Jan 30, 2008 8:20 AM, Lawnun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thank you for that! Clarified a lot of confusion. > I'm not entirely sure about your second statement re: corporate personhood > being the basis of business I'd imagined that the separation of individual liability from that of the compan

Re: [silk] India special economic zone -- travel and reading recco?

On Jan 28, 2008 8:14 PM, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have NOTHING to contribute to this gold-farming sci-fi novel thread > but just want to say, Cory, that it's a great idea for a novel and I > do hope it goes well! How lovely to see someone else doing all the > work! I just hav

[silk] Fwd: To Restore Democracy: First Abolish Corporate Personhood

His presentation would be so much more believable if he just chucked a bit of the breathy editorializing and stuck to the facts. That Jefferson wanted an anti-monopoly amendment does not in and of itself, mean that he was anti-corporation. One can exist absent the other -- and at least in the U.S

Re: [silk] Naked Air

Udhay Shankar N wrote: [ on 10:13 PM 12/27/2001 ] If you can bring yourself to take this seriously, it makes a lot of sense. That's a VERY big if for the kind of people who make policy. Udhay December 26, 2001 Naked Air By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Re: [silk] #include

Every now and then, I get an email from someone at a big company saying that they aren't empowered to release me from their EULAs... Alok G. Singh wrote: On 29 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: READ CAREFULLY. Have many people commented on your disclaimer ? Any responses from the composer

[silk] #include (was: India special economic zone -- travel and reading recco?)

On 29 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > READ CAREFULLY. Have many people commented on your disclaimer ? Any responses from the composers of those fine corporate disclaimers which their fine MUAs quote /ad nauseam/ ? -- Alok FORTUNE PROVIDES QUESTIONS FOR THE GREAT ANSWERS: #15 A: The R

[silk] To Restore Democracy: First Abolish Corporate Personhood

Would the fine legal minds on this list please comment? I had assumed that corporate personhood was the basis of business and hence, the economy. Thomas Paine said it best. "It has been thought," he wrote in The Rights of Man in 1791, "…that government is a compact between those who

Re: [silk] India special economic zone -- travel and reading recco?

Heh. Ashok Krish wrote: On Jan 29, 2008 9:41 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Us madras types are pretty eager in doing another silk meet, this time with Cory around .. admit it, Ashok :) Sigh. Ok. I check Boing Boing at least 10 times a day. There, I've confessed. --

Re: [silk] India special economic zone -- travel and reading recco?

On Jan 29, 2008 9:41 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > Us madras types are pretty eager in doing another silk meet, this time > with > Cory around .. admit it, Ashok :) > Sigh. Ok. I check Boing Boing at least 10 times a day. There, I've confessed. -- Krish Ashok Blog: kr