Re: [silk] Engineers are Terrorists!

2008-01-31 Thread Brian McNett
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Umm... in my experience engineers are the opposite - they are left leaning liberals with a mild distaste for government. The argument in this paper appears to be made cum hoc ergo propter hoc (with this, therefore

Re: [silk] Acronym help?

2008-01-31 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Biju Chacko wrote: On Jan 30, 2008 5:07 PM, Cory Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've started reading a couple Indian newspaper RSS feeds and I've hit an acronym I can't seem to find a definition for, though I can winkle out the meaning. The acronym is RI and it appears to refer to prison

Re: [silk] driving from delhi to bangalore

2008-01-31 Thread Chandrashekhar Bhosle
On 1/31/08, gabin kattukaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have never done it but I guess you would go Delhi - Jaipur - Bombay - Pune - Bangalore. Delhi to Bombay is close to 1400 Km and then another approx. 900 Km to Bangalore. I'm told the roads between Belgaum and Bangalore are almost

Re: [silk] driving from delhi to bangalore

2008-01-31 Thread Tim Bray
On Jan 30, 2008 5:32 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone done it? Or does anyone have an idea of how long it will take, and what the roads are like? I've never been to India, but I have some advice: Do it. Long-distance point-to-point driving is an experience unlike any

Re: [silk] driving from delhi to bangalore

2008-01-31 Thread VaibhaV Sharma
On Jan 30, 2008, at 5:32 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: Has anyone done it? Or does anyone have an idea of how long it will take, and what the roads are like? Bunch of people from my bullet-bangalore group (http://rtmc.info) do bangalore-himalayas-bangalore almost every year. I can put you

Re: [silk] driving from delhi to bangalore

2008-01-31 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Speaking of long distance driving, anybody else on this list read the new Dominique Lapierre book Once upon a time in the soviet union? Lapierre, another Paris Match reporter and their wives (all in their mid 20s at the time - 1950s) and a soviet journalist his wife, did a 13000 road trip

Re: [silk] Engineers are Terrorists!

2008-01-31 Thread shiv sastry
On Thursday 31 Jan 2008 9:06 pm, Brian McNett wrote: The argument in this paper appears to be made cum hoc ergo propter hoc (with this, therefore because this). To wit:  There appear to be a large number of engineers among jihadists.  Something about engineering must predispose engineers to be

Re: [silk] driving from delhi to bangalore

2008-01-31 Thread Anil Kumar
I have heard (but do not know anyone personally) that some computer hardware vendors in Bangalore do a road-trip Bangalore-Delhi-Bangalore for shopping. I know of one adventurous soul who bought a car (one of the original Maruti-800 - with kit from Japan) in Delhi and drove it down to Bangalore,

Re: [silk] driving from delhi to bangalore

2008-01-31 Thread gabin kattukaran
On Feb 1, 2008 10:40 AM, Anil Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have heard (but do not know anyone personally) that some computer hardware vendors in Bangalore do a road-trip Bangalore-Delhi-Bangalore for shopping. I know of one adventurous soul who bought a car (one of the original

Re: [silk] driving from delhi to bangalore

2008-01-31 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2008-02-01 11:28:23 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can afford to wait for a few months the situation may change. I can. Although I am planning to visit Bangalore in the near future, I didn't mean to drive this time. I was just curious, because I've never done a really long drive, and

Re: [silk] Acronym help?

2008-01-31 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Jan 31, 2008 11:19 PM, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Very few Indians would have come up with that particular acronym expansion -- the Indian attitude to imprisonment is that it is *punishment* not rehabilitation. In fact, kids don't get detention in schools. They get