On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Bharat Shetty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
For the perusal of silk-listers,
I don't know if this article has been posted earlier on this lists. But, if
the statistics, references in this article are true and accurate, then this
article makes sense, I think.
Well, the original reason for this fixation was justifiable.
It went, ...
If someone's good enough to get shipped all the way
from Europe to India, then he/she must know what they
are talking about and worth the transportation cost!
Unfortunately, today, the idea's gone,
Court overturns father's grounding of 12-year-old
1 day ago
OTTAWA (AFP) — A Canadian court has lifted a 12-year-old girl's
grounding, overturning her father's punishment for disobeying his
orders to stay off the Internet, his lawyer said Wednesday.
The girl had taken her father to Quebec
a silly western reporter discovers that egyptians say inshallah all
the time [1] and thinks, from the literal translation (god willing)
that it represents a new religiosity in egypt.
the writer spends two pages elaborating on this conclusion, and doesn't
himself get distracted by his own
On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 23:24 +0530, Nishant Shah wrote:
marvu che - literally - take a stick and beat you up / beat you to hell. I
am hoping that Rushdie actually knew that what he was reporting was a
corruption and still retained it.
the narrator is a young boy at that time, and is asked by a
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 11:27 +0200, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
been tough. no wonder the translator got a prize for it. my favourite
though is life: a users manual [3].
the absence of the footnote was not an intentional void, a footnote on
absence... sometimes a pipe just _is_ a pipe!
i'd be surprised of the use of this word represents new anything in
egypt; at least in north india enough non-muslims use it and everyone
uses it as the quintessential expression of philosophical uncertainty
about achieving timely outcomes in a chaotic world.
It's not too different from
On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 20:43 -0700, Charles Haynes wrote:
I do not see that happening in Japan. I could see a smaller and
smaller population of citizens eventually ruling a large population of
resident aliens, but not granting them citizenship, nor much political
control.
since japanese
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:00:48PM +0530, Deepak Misra wrote:
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/
A better site is http://theoildrum.com/
Very scary. I did get goose pimples reading it.
Really?
I would normally assume that technology in the form of alternative sources
would come to the
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:34:24AM +0200, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
since japanese old-age-home residents prefer to be served by robots than
japanese-speaking foreigners, maybe they'll just rule a large
population of mechanical beings. the robots would be truly japanese,
too. no wonder the
aaah Perec, the OuLiPo man!!
:)
Perec cannot say the words père [father],
mère [mother], parents [parents], famille [family] in his novel,
nor can he write the name Georges Perec. In short, each void in the
novel is abundantly furnished with meaning, and each points toward the
existential void
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh said the following on 20/06/2008 14:28:
i'd be surprised of the use of this word represents new anything in
egypt; at least in north india enough non-muslims use it and everyone
uses it as the quintessential expression of philosophical uncertainty
about achieving timely
since japanese old-age-home residents prefer to be served by robots
than
japanese-speaking foreigners, maybe they'll just rule a large
population of mechanical beings. the robots would be truly japanese,
too. no wonder the country is a favourite setting for cyberpunk authors!
They already
Perry E. Metzger wrote:
Now, such a creature also has a feature that humans (at least current
ones) don't have, which is that it need not be raised and educated
over a course of decades but can simply be copied. Given a couple of
prototypes, a large group of such beings could be built (or
On Friday 20 Jun 2008 2:28:30 pm Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
the writer spends two pages elaborating on this conclusion, and doesn't
himself get distracted by his own evidence, that he does admit at the
end, It doesn't matter whether you're a Christian or a Muslim, he
said. I'm going to take you
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:38:21PM +0530, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
I'm not certain copying such an entity will be as trivial as it is with
present-day digital data, for, unlike the human brain which is
self-contained, an AI will inevitably be a vast web of connections
distributed across
Is the airport region really boring, like most airport locations?
Amit Varma wrote:
A friend stayed in Orchid Ecotel [1], which is very close to the airport and
in the heart of the suburbs, for a couple of months, and he says he loved
it, and the broadband was very good. Their website says
I'm afraid most Mumbai hotels with decent food/bed/broadband are high-end.
I'd recommend the Grand Hyatt, near the domestic airport (NOT the Hyatt
Regency near the International Airport), and the ITC Grand Central, which is
midtown and traffic-infested, but accessible.
The Leela, Taj Land's End
As others have mentioned, the key question is where in Bombay you'll be
spending the most time. The Pune commute isn't much of an issue, especially
if you leave early enough, so if you're staying townside, I'd say go with
Gordon House. Polly Esther's can be a bit loud, but at least it's good retro
The airport region has industry and some interesting barrios (if
that's what you're writing about). Mumbai is really spread out and
the neighborhoods are all somewhat unique.
D
On Jun 20, 2008, at 8:44 AM, Cory Doctorow wrote:
Is the airport region really boring, like most airport
3 stars to you isn't 3 stars in India. You don't want to go below 4
stars (unless you want to do the ashram thing...which can be cheap
and clean but essentially no stars).
D
On Jun 20, 2008, at 8:02 AM, Cory Doctorow wrote:
I think I could be happy in a 3-star -- the Indian equivalent of
Danese Cooper [20/06/08 18:39 -0700]:
Well the Mark Hopkins (like the Imperial in Delhi or Raffles in
Singapore or the Oriental in Bangkok) is more than a hotel..its a
landmark. Heck, Kim Novak's character *lived* there in Vertigo. :-).
That's one thing that attracts me to it.
Price-wise
kim novak did not stay at the mark hopkins. she stayed at an apartment
building two blocks from the Mark Hopkins. perhaps i am exaggerating the
authority of the person (my husband:-)) who told me this but he did live on
nob hill opposite the apartment building at Mason and Sacramento.
On Fri, Jun
Re: [silk] inshallah
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Fri 6/20/08 6:11 PM
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:02:50AM -0700, Danese Cooper wrote: Then there's
the question of what I say when I stub my toe or miss a nail and pound my
finger with a
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