Aadisht Khanna [31/03/12 09:54 +0530]:
On 29-03-2012 20:44, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
Cheeni, do you have a citation for this, please? I was under the
impression that income tax (and therefore any benefits or exemptions to
it) was a twentieth century invention.
1799 in england to be specific. b
On 29-03-2012 20:44, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
>
> Affluence is definitely a prime culprit - during the zenith of the
> Imperium Romanum there was a similar crisis when free Romans didn't
> want to marry, because it was a drag, orgies were much fun. Roman
> society had to introduce a variety of inc
I use FB to read about friends' activities, rather than narrating my own. So, I
did check out the Silk FB page and a profile or two. I would think that there
is too much distracting stuff there and would rather stick to the text
conversations.
Cheers,
Nandkumar
On 31-Mar-2012, at 1:51 AM, A
me too
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> > Is there something significant in the fact that there has been no
> response
> > to this email in the past four hours?
>
> I wouldn't know, I don't use Facebook, so th
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> Is there something significant in the fact that there has been no response
> to this email in the past four hours?
I wouldn't know, I don't use Facebook, so this email was of no relevance to me.
Yes.
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On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Udhay S
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> As an experiment, I decided to revive the moribund facebook group for
> silklist.
Is there something significant in the fact that there has been no response
to this email in the past four hours?
Deepa.
On Mar 30, 2012, at 7:51 AM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote:
> Udhay has a pet phrase, "throwing Shuriken in all directions", that
> reflects both his conversational gambit and his love of cheesy Hong
> Kong flicks.
>
I'm almost tempted to write something about the differing cultures of the
Ameri
Ramakrishnan Sundaram [30/03/12 17:21 +0530]:
Nothing exemplies this better than Aakar Patel's latest column in
livemint,
http://www.livemint.com/Articles/2012/03/29200444/Why-it-is-better-to-live-in-th.html
He doesn't like gujjus of the modi loving racist variety too much, does he?
:) Well at
Srini RamaKrishnan [30/03/12 14:13 +0200]:
I had a boss once who got away with the oddest behavior. He had a
habit of getting impossibly drunk and then singing Britney Spears hits
at the top of his voice while shirtless while standing on the dinner
table every time there was a company dinner. It
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram
wrote:
> Udhay has a pet phrase, "throwing Shuriken in all directions", that
> reflects both his conversational gambit and his love of cheesy Hong
> Kong flicks.
>
> Nothing exemplies this better than Aakar Patel's latest column in
> livemint,
As an experiment, I decided to revive the moribund facebook group for
silklist. The intent was to see if
* one could have a somewhat backchannel method of organising meetups etc
* let some of the members get to know who the others are
* Provide an subsidiary mode of interaction for those who don't
Udhay has a pet phrase, "throwing Shuriken in all directions", that
reflects both his conversational gambit and his love of cheesy Hong
Kong flicks.
Nothing exemplies this better than Aakar Patel's latest column in
livemint,
http://www.livemint.com/Articles/2012/03/29200444/Why-it-is-better-to-li
On Thursday 29 Mar 2012 8:44:13 pm Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
> The new way of the individual is new to humanity - it's never been
> attempted at this scale heretofore. Barring the mendicants and
> eccentrics, the way of society has almost always revolved around the
> family and the tribe.
Speaking
Thejaswi Udupa [30/03/12 09:45 +0530]:
Here's hundred rupees that says Priest hates the Baen school of SF. Have we
lived and fought in vain, and so on. Most Baen books are ordinary hackneyed
pulp fiction cliches, but SET IN SPACE!![more exclamation marks]
Eh dude, that's way too much of a gener
ss [30/03/12 09:07 +0530]:
Srini there are thousands upon thousands of records. The internet is nowadays
bursting with them. Many are oral but an increasing number are documented.
Many are now being documented as family narratives, and some of those are
I will agree with Shiv on this.
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> On 30-Mar-12 7:37 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Really? De gustibus and so on, because I don't feel that way.
>
> And on the topic of Priest, I thought _The Affirmation_ was
> awe-inspiringly good, but haven't been able to finish anyt
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