Re: [silk] Book recommendations

2011-01-13 Thread Radhika, Y.
> > if you haven't already picked it up, Sankar's Chowringhee is amazing > >

Re: [silk] introduction

2011-01-13 Thread Eva Jansen
thank you all very much. Unfortunately, there is no institutionalized connection between Ayurveda and Naturopathy. In Ayurveda these laws are fixed since quite a while but in Naturopathy they are just being formulated. medindia was quite helpful. Venky, what kind of roots do you have in Kera

Re: [silk] Stochastic Terrorism

2011-01-13 Thread ss
On Thursday 13 Jan 2011 10:47:48 pm Mahesh Murthy wrote: > > If the author of that article had actually said all this he would have > > been accused of bigotry or of being a religious fanatic of a rival > > religion. So he has to tippy toe around the obvious. The only way he can > > escape that acc

Re: [silk] Hacker Anthropologists

2011-01-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
I rather liked your interview. And I need to read a lot more of what you've written. Having been on both sides of the "online activist" scene - that is, been an activist for things, argued and even fought with other activists whose position (or more accurately, whose methods of expressing their p

Re: [silk] Stochastic Terrorism

2011-01-13 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Jon Cox wrote: > > > Pity The Nation > Thanks Jon...we should have more poetry on this list! Cheers, Deepa.

Re: [silk] Hacker Anthropologists

2011-01-13 Thread Gabriella Coleman
Hi Udhay (and everyone), I think Cory was way too generous (so thank you if you are reading this), although I did enjoy this interview more than most, perhaps because he raised questions about the nature of digital activism that really interest me (and get my goat as they are often so misportraye

Re: [silk] Stochastic Terrorism

2011-01-13 Thread Jon Cox
Altering things to improve the chances of an event happening is much better described as a "probabilistic" technique than a "stochastic" one. The word "stochastic" just deals with non-determinism, and fails to capture the notion that odds are being influenced to produce an outcome.

Re: [silk] Stochastic Terrorism

2011-01-13 Thread Heather Madrone
On 1/13/11 8:12 AM January 13, 2011, Deepa Mohan wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian mailto:sur...@hserus.net>> wrote: Oh, but he used a word like "stochastic". That, and "meme" and ... catchalls for "if those words get used, the guy is cool and knowled

Re: [silk] Stochastic Terrorism

2011-01-13 Thread Ingrid
On 13-Jan-2011, at 8:29 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:49 PM, ss wrote: > The religious leader who calls for violence in the name of god in his weekly > sermon is the most obvious and common example of this. So this "stochastic > terrorism" has been discovered and put

Re: [silk] Stochastic Terrorism

2011-01-13 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:49 PM, ss wrote: > The religious leader who calls for violence in the name of god in his > weekly > sermon is the most obvious and common example of this. So this "stochastic > terrorism" has been discovered and put to use millennia ago. > And there are laws against inc

Re: [silk] Stochastic Terrorism

2011-01-13 Thread Mahesh Murthy
> If the author of that article had actually said all this he would have been > accused of bigotry or of being a religious fanatic of a rival religion. So he > has to tippy toe around the obvious. The only way he can escape that > accusation is by being non specific. And that is precisely what

[silk] Hacker Anthropologists

2011-01-13 Thread Udhay Shankar N
One silklister, writing about another. I'm posting this a) posting this in the hope of getting Biella to come out of lurkspace; and b) just for the coolness inherent in the phrase 'hacker anthropologist'. :) Udhay http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/13/interview-with-hacke.html Interview with hac

Re: [silk] Stochastic Terrorism

2011-01-13 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Oh, but he used a word like "stochastic". That, and "meme" and ... > catchalls for "if those words get used, the guy is cool and knowledgeable". > Ooooh, just what I was thinking. Why do we have to use these "open-the-dicitionary" co

Re: [silk] Stochastic Terrorism

2011-01-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ss [13/01/11 21:19 +0530]: If the author of that article had actually said all this he would have been accused of bigotry or of being a religious fanatic of a rival religion. So he has to tippy toe around the obvious. The only way he can escape that accusation is by being non specific. And that i

Re: [silk] introduction

2011-01-13 Thread ss
On Wednesday 12 Jan 2011 9:25:57 am Eva Jansen wrote: > Dear all, > > I am new at silk list, my name is Eva Jansen, I am a German PhD student > writing on Naturopathy in South India. At the moment I am looking for > information about the legal consequences of medical practisioning > basically in K

Re: [silk] Stochastic Terrorism

2011-01-13 Thread ss
On Thursday 13 Jan 2011 8:43:09 am Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Stochastic Terrorism: Triggering the shooters. > by G2geek > Nice. This is how the need for secular debate converts the obvious into bullshit. The religious leader who calls for violence in the name of god in his weekly sermon is the

Re: [silk] The republic of fear

2011-01-13 Thread ss
On Thursday 13 Jan 2011 9:10:27 am Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: > So killing people you dislike is fine by you? > > Are you still practicing, by the way? > I'm perfect now. The practice days are over. shiv

[silk] Introduction [Eva Jansen]

2011-01-13 Thread Sonal Mattoo
Dear Eva, Welcome to India! The Department of Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) is governed by a separate set of laws and regulations. They have a website with laws and enactments. You might find what your looking for there. (Department of AYUSH) With warm regard