I'm actually worried about OpenOffice - the one interesting bastion against
MS Office.
What do you think might happen here?
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Ramakrishna Reddy ramkr...@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
I still can't figure out _what_ exactly they were after -- it's
obviously some part of Sun's software business, but which?
The same reason they came up with Unbreakable, may be? The idea of
just one SLA covering the
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Venky TV venky...@gmail.com wrote:
Personally, I am concerned about OpenSolaris. Solaris as an operating
system probably has a brighter future under Oracle than before, but
the OpenSolaris project does not seem to make too much sense for
Oracle. I don't see
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Jai Iyer iyer@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
plug
My cartoon on the Oracle-Sun acquisition :
http://iyermatter.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/oracle-buys-sun/
/plug
Shame on you for making IBM look cuddly. Bonus points to you if you
redraw the cartoon to make Larry
I had a Muslim friend who was a film journalist. He absolutely detested meat
and was an ardent vegetarian - no love for Biryani - would hide even on days
of Eid and festivals, not wanting to eat meat. I eat vegetarian food because
of health reasons and because of the fact that the meat
The other issue is also that I am made to feel apologetic about choosing to
eat meat. That makes me feel worse!
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Zainab Bawa bawazaina...@gmail.com wrote:
It is problematic when vegetarianism is imposed on my by force, in both
subtle and not-so-subtle ways. That
I stayed for a year in Mumbai, and so did a lot of batchmates from MBA and
we never had a problem find a place to stay even though I was a meat eater
(even beef, though we never cooked), smoker, and regularly had people over
drinking alcohol late into the night though we had to watch noise
Not really so. In Bangalore, a Belgian friend of mine was told that she
would be allowed to take up the place only if she promised to stay
vegetarian. Another American friend in Mumbai, married and with kids, was
refused housing on grounds of vegetarianism.
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:04 AM, .
In Free Societies I think we believe there's large social benefit to
fairness and freedom. This includes access to enfranchisement in that
society. And a place to live, a place to work, etc. are elements of that.
Hence, in the US, there are Civil Rights laws that make certain
discrimination
My post was only meant as an example of how the actions of a fringe group
of
a community will nevertheless influence the opinions of others about that
community at large.
And that will also influence your judgements. Clap, clap, clap. Applause,
applause, applause.
--
Zainab Bawa
Ph.D.
But no one's apologizing to me for the fact that steak is so delicious, damn
it! And don't even get me started on the wonder that is bacon...
And no one's apologizing to the person that may worship phallic objects who
is horrified at the treatment of carrots and cucumbers... (although I
suppose
And that will also influence your judgements. Clap, clap, clap. Applause,
applause, applause.
Fine..I'll take the bait...
And how else do you propose I avoid being harassed by the police when it
turns out that the person I rented out the flat to is a suspected terrorist.
I didn't say I
I was born to Hindu parents, am agnostic, but I follow the ancient Hindu
tradition of enjoying beef.
But not as much as I enjoy chicken though.
I find it somewhat immoral to be vegetarian - there must be something
unnatural and wrong if you skip a few obviously pre-ordained steps on the
food
LTTE is a very different form of struggle and organization and it cannot be
compared blanket with terrorism, and other kinds of violence. I have very
close Sri Lankan friends, and educated, whose family members have been
killed in LTTE blasts and violence, and who still support the LTTE. The
What constitutes terrorism is highly subjective. If you think struggles
based on identity, freedom and not wanting to comply with a hegemonic notion
of nation are equal to terrorism, then your understanding of terrorism is
vastly different from mine. Violence is used when other spaces and avenues
What constitutes terrorism is highly subjective. If you think struggles
based on identity, freedom and not wanting to comply with a hegemonic
notion
of nation are equal to terrorism, then your understanding of terrorism is
vastly different from mine. Violence is used when other spaces and
This sounds a little too good to be true. Anybody know more?
Udhay
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/21/722578/-Free,-Renewable-Energy-Available-Everywhere-But-the-U.S.
Free, Renewable Energy Available Everywhere But the U.S.
by Dry Observer
Tue Apr 21, 2009 at 12:22:21 AM PDT
Three
Jai Iyer wrote:
Hmmm. I'd like Solaris to be an open-source, big-iron OS. The concept
of Solaris on the desktop has always disturbed me, it's like err the
Pope featuring in Playboy.
The OpenSolaris features will migrate to the enterprise (Solaris is
already there, of course), but the
On Monday 20 Apr 2009 8:08:06 am Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Forget single. Get the gujjus out of mumbai and you'd probably have a
better Mumbai than most (no wonder a creep like Modi is in power in Gujarat
- they have a CM they deserve)
Ah yes leave Mumbai to the real heroes - Bal Thickray
I didn't say I would pass judgment that he/she is a terrorist just on the
basis of their Muslim name, just that I would be more wary. Since you've
culled out other parts of my post - I'll restate. I didn't say I wouldn't
rent to a Muslim, just not to somebody I didn't know at all or wasn't
During the crusades, I'd have rather taken my chances with Saladadin than
Richard the Lionhearted (the Europeans at that time were notoriously savage)
-- and if I was looking for science and culture, you'd want to head to
Baghdad not Paris.
I meant to spell Salahadin not Saladadin which sounds
I've eaten camel in riyadh and kangaroo in perth. i just dont order meat when
others at the table are vegetarian
--
srs/nokia e71
-original message-
Subject: Re: [silk] Need some help
From: . svaks...@gmail.com
Date: 21-04-2009 20:59
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Zainab Bawa
Oh, and I forgot one important point -- that playing up this Muslim Threat
has been politically expedient for a number of politicians around the world
(and definitely in the US). There's a different between the truth and the
truthiness that gets demagogues what they want.
And as far as whipping
Just off the cuff, this sounds much too good to be true:
With it, you should be able to easily reach single-digits
megawatt/hours of power in windspeeds as low as 10
statute-miles-per-hour, or drive a pump with thousands of
horsepower of
kinetic energy in those same winds.
Power is cubic
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com wrote:
On a slightly different tangent
What I find very interesting is the differentiation in discrimination
of different kinds in the media. For example, I see the reservation
policies followed by the current congress
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:02 PM, sur...@hserus.net sur...@hserus.net wrote:
I've eaten camel in riyadh and kangaroo in perth. i just dont order meat when
others at the table are vegetarian
An appropriate reply would have been sent your way if you took the
trouble to snip out the irrelevant
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:02 PM, sur...@hserus.net sur...@hserus.netwrote:
I've eaten camel in riyadh and kangaroo in perth. i just dont order meat
when others at the table are vegetarian
I do cook special stuff just for them when I invite them over. Even when I
have a barbecue, in California
However, the idea that Muslims should somehow be cleaning their own house
and taking care of these guys is stupid.
Hmm...maybe..but the pressure on some of them who do think differently to
conform is quite great. I felt that from one of the friends I mentioned in
my post.
Somewhere during the
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Ravi Bellur rav...@gmail.com wrote:
veg or non-veg fish bait? :-)
...a veggie fish bait? that reminds me of my Bong friends who still
insist that fish is a vegetarian dish. Serves as a nice conversation
starter over lunch/dinner.
--
.
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 21:20, Kiran K Karthikeyan
kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
Somewhere during the third year, one of them lost his mother. There was so
much guilt drilled into him that after he came back a few weeks later, he
completely quit drinking and smoking. Started doing namaz
--- On Tue, 21/4/09, . svaks...@gmail.com wrote:
From: . svaks...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [silk] Need some help
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Tuesday, 21 April, 2009, 9:31 PM
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Ravi
Bellur rav...@gmail.com
wrote:
veg or non-veg fish bait? :-)
So, basically I don't get it. I don't think we can compare them to the
Vikings. And I don't think this is just history repeating itself. And
forcing change (through military or other means) from the outside might
only
result in making matters worse (as evidenced in recent efforts) and maybe
--- On Tue, 21/4/09, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
From: Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in
Subject: Re: [silk] Need some help
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Tuesday, 21 April, 2009, 9:41 PM
--- On Tue, 21/4/09, . svaks...@gmail.com
wrote:
From: . svaks...@gmail.com
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:59 PM, . svaks...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Zainab Bawa bawazaina...@gmail.com
wrote:
Not really so. In Bangalore, a Belgian friend of mine was told that she
would be allowed to take up the place only if she promised to stay
vegetarian.
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Dave Long dave.l...@bluewin.ch wrote:
(same goes for hydro: we use kilometer drops in the alps for power
arbitrage. low head power generation is theoretically interesting, but if
one has the vertical and the metallurgy it's much easier to just use them
than to
And how else do you propose I avoid being harassed by the police
when it
turns out that the person I rented out the flat to is a suspected
terrorist.
It looks like there are some 140 million muslims in india (of which a
fair number in AP?). Unless there are also close to a million
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Zainab Bawa bawazaina...@gmail.comwrote:
What makes you believe that Muslims
shy away from capitalism?
True, and there's also that matter of the bazzillions we pay to Muslim
businessmen for oil (granted not in India, but remember that 17 of the 19
terrorists
--- On Tue, 21/4/09, Ravi Bellur rav...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Ravi Bellur rav...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [silk] Need some help
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Tuesday, 21 April, 2009, 10:43 PM
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:17 PM,
Zainab Bawa bawazaina...@gmail.comwrote:
What makes
That was supposed to go to the thread that's numbering about 190+ entries.
dunno why it ended up here.
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Zainab Bawa bawazaina...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear .
Discrimination in the rental housing market is not limited to religion. It
extends to caste, sex, nationality (and is there anything else under the
sun?).
Yes, Gender. Would it be wrong to say its the
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Zainab Bawa bawazaina...@gmail.comwrote:
And also, I am not an advocate of regulations to curb discrimination. As
has been pointed out in some of the postings, biases and prejudices are
very
deep seated. Applying regulations can be counter-productive in the
There's the usual spy satellite, but what caught my interest was this -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8007653.stm
[...]
The rocket also contained the Anusat educational satellite, which will
help transfer confidential material such as examination questions as
well as track urban planning
Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote:
LTTE is a very different form of struggle and organization and it cannot be
I realize it is different. And I wanted to understand further and so we
talked. At the end, it turned out his reasons (if you can call it that) was
something similar to identifying with the
. wrote:
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Ravi Bellur [1]rav...@gmail.com wrote:
veg or non-veg fish bait? :-)
...a veggie fish bait? that reminds me of my Bong friends who still
Reminds me of this restaurant in Teaneck, NJ called Veggie Heaven. None
of my friends believed that the
On Tuesday 21 Apr 2009 9:41:22 pm Bonobashi wrote:
Ignorant A-bangali, out to DESTROY Bangla culture!
In other words there are only two types of human you can phind in this world
A bangali and a-bangali
shiv
On Tuesday 21 Apr 2009 9:55:42 pm . wrote:
that Bengali women are more beautiful when they are angry, true.
Here's a bong woman you would not want to see angry..
http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/getimage.dll?path=CAP/2009/04/18/12/Img/Pc0121600.jpg
shiv
On Wednesday 22 Apr 2009 1:46:23 am Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
Ummm... a satellite to transfer examination questions? WTF? Have they
never heard of the internet or encryption?
Not in unwired villages - whih is what this thing is really aimed at. They
will need a satellite dish though.
shiv
Zainab Bawa wrote, [on 4/21/2009 10:17 PM]:
Udhay, can I send an attachment to people on this list? There is a brilliant
article on the historical basis of terrorism and responses to terrorism. It
is very insightful and written beautifully.
The list is set to strip out attachments. I suggest
On Tuesday 21 Apr 2009 10:11:30 pm Zainab Bawa wrote:
Some pretty radical dislocations are required i.e. traditions
and paradigms that challenge the hegemonic beliefs of religion, identity
and property.
An understatement.
I am in the middle of a radical exercise to assess the psyche and
--- On Wed, 22/4/09, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
From: ss cybers...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [silk] Need some help
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Wednesday, 22 April, 2009, 6:19 AM
On Tuesday 21 Apr 2009 9:41:22 pm
Bonobashi wrote:
Ignorant A-bangali, out to DESTROY Bangla
--- On Wed, 22/4/09, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
From: ss cybers...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [silk] Need some help
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Wednesday, 22 April, 2009, 6:48 AM
On Tuesday 21 Apr 2009 10:11:30 pm
Zainab Bawa wrote:
Some pretty radical dislocations are required
On Wednesday 22 Apr 2009 6:56:39 am Bonobashi wrote:
You can't do anything with it, except kill babies and women.
I put it to you that this is the wrong thing to do.
One must always kill adolescent and adult men, and keep the women and children
That is a time tested way of making radical
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:29 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday 22 Apr 2009 1:46:23 am Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
Ummm... a satellite to transfer examination questions? WTF? Have they
never heard of the internet or encryption?
Not in unwired villages - whih is what this thing is
On Wednesday 22 Apr 2009 9:36:24 am gabin kattukaran wrote:
you still don't need a dedicated satellite for that. Just one
transponder on any random communication satellite will do. IIRC all
district head quarters were already connected on a VSAT network.
The question that arises from this is
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