>
> > - a lot of things simply got screwed up with no easy solutions.
>
> The core of our current clusterfuck is due to the issues like
> http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2013/09/the-real-population-problem/
> which are definitely not the fault of science and technology.
>
> If we don't manage t
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:56 PM, SS wrote:
> The topic is huge and is partly philosophical.
Anything sufficiently complex is ultimately completely philosophical.
There's a story I was told as a kid, maybe many of you have heard it.
Wikipedia describes it rather blandly like so:
"Once there was a
Alaric Snell-Pym wrote:
On 01/07/14 14:52, SS wrote:
The increase of domestic violence during football seasons has a
serious impact on police forces as it pulls officers off of their
other duties to deal with the domestic violence calls.
Who cares about the damage to abused spouses and
On 01/07/14 14:52, SS wrote:
>> The increase of domestic violence during football seasons has a
>> serious impact on police forces as it pulls officers off of their
>> other duties to deal with the domestic violence calls.
Who cares about the damage to abused spouses and children? This WASTES
POL
On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 06:56:58PM +0530, SS wrote:
> That of course is untrue and scientists everywhere are beginning to
> understand the limitations of science and the difficulties that are yet
> to come to make the slightest progress. But that realization has come at
> a cost - too many mistake
http://www.ukessays.com/essays/criminology/domestic-violence-during-football-season-criminology-essay.php
> Bebber (2008) documents that for centuries, violence against women and
> children has not only been tolerated and accepted as normal practice,
> but it has also been encouraged. In patriarc
Fascinating, and sweet read. I'd be most interested in comments and perhaps
anecdotes from silklisters' experience.
Udhay
http://m.vogue.com/magazine/article/arranged-marriage-that-ended-happily-ever-after-30-years-later/#1&src=longreads
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On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 11:49 +0100, Mahesh Murthy wrote:
> 98% of the statistics quoted online are false
>
> Including this :-)
> On 01-Jul-2014 2:54 pm, "Deepa Mohan" wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:49 PM, SS wrote:
> >
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbISE9IM5Sk
> >
> >
> > There
On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 15:50 +0530, Deepa Agashe wrote:
> I'm a scientist, but I don't think most what I do has any direct
> impact on
> people at all. My work (understanding how evolution works, in a
> nutshell)
> makes some people happy and some angry, but mostly people don't care.
> The
> state o
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
>
> > Who was the first person you ever emailed, Vod ka Raja?
>
> This fellow: https://homes.eff.org/~barlow/
>
> Also see here [1].
Ah. that was nothing but IC...Idle Curiosity!
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> Who was the first person you ever emailed, Vod ka Raja?
This fellow: https://homes.eff.org/~barlow/
Also see here [1].
Udhay
[1] https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/silk-list/conversations/topics/3338
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((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pob
This brings to mind the famous quote:
"The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never be sure
if they're genuine" -- Abraham Lincoln
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Mahesh Murthy wrote:
> 98% of the statistics quoted online are false
>
> Including this :-)
> On 01-Jul-2014 2:54 pm
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
>
> > I am getting warier and warier of internet statistics and datathe net
> > seems to be our modern equivalent of the vedas...ask not any question,
> but
> > accept unhesitatingly..
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On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:49 PM, SS wrote:
98% of the statistics quoted online are false
Including this :-)
On 01-Jul-2014 2:54 pm, "Deepa Mohan" wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:49 PM, SS wrote:
>
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbISE9IM5Sk
>
>
> There is no explanation of how that statistic, 38% rise in domestic
> violence...wome
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> I am getting warier and warier of internet statistics and datathe net
> seems to be our modern equivalent of the vedas...ask not any question, but
> accept unhesitatingly...
You (and others) may find this interesting, from the second perso
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:39 PM, SS wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-06-30 at 09:18 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:05 AM, SS wrote:
> >
> > > Science decreased death rates and increased life-spans, causing a
> > > population explosion like never before. The same science responde
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:49 PM, SS wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbISE9IM5Sk
There is no explanation of how that statistic, 38% rise in domestic
violence...women being knocked about as a direct result of England being
knocked out, was arrived at.
I am getting warier and warier of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbISE9IM5Sk
On Mon, 2014-06-30 at 09:18 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:05 AM, SS wrote:
>
> > Science decreased death rates and increased life-spans, causing a
> > population explosion like never before. The same science responded to
> > that by decreasing birth rate.
>
> The abov
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