Re: [silk] Climate Panel Cites Near Certainty on Warming - NYTimes.com

2013-08-24 Thread SS
On Sun, 2013-08-25 at 06:14 +0530, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > > India is a damn good one-trick pony in the survival game. I fear this > time > that trick won't be good enough. There is one problem about throwing such articles at Indians. They will pull philosophy into the argument and wrestle y

Re: [silk] On self-improvement

2013-08-24 Thread SS
On Sat, 2013-08-24 at 12:38 +0530, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > I agree parenting support and the money cushions rich kids from > life's > problems. I used those three as examples of grown up problems that hit > successful people in their thirties these days. > > The college admission, the career,

[silk] Climate Panel Cites Near Certainty on Warming - NYTimes.com

2013-08-24 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
The old saying is you can wake someone who's asleep but not one who pretends to be asleep. Acknowledging climate change means to drill less for oil, and that's a civilizational challenge for the rich people in the here and now rather than fifty years from now. The poor people will die first meanwh

Re: [silk] On self-improvement

2013-08-24 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
I agree parenting support and the money cushions rich kids from life's problems. I used those three as examples of grown up problems that hit successful people in their thirties these days. The college admission, the career, the marriage all happen more or less on auto pilot if you merely turn up