Why are European countries like Germany, France, UK are developed well
? Because they were imperialistic or because of good governance after
hitler rule in Germany and imperalistic rules in other places ? What
is causing Bulgaria to develop well ? Poland which was under communist
rule is
Low populations, female equality, courteous driving, and the assult of
science over religion (The so-called Age of Reason when Europe rediscovered
Ancient Greece and Rome) maybe helped.
In fact I think I made the point that the way people drive here is a
metaphor for the problem. No one
I try to wait in a line here, and people try to drift past me like I'm
blind. No one does that in Stockholm -- they would be mortified. Q.E.D.
Keeping in mind that most everyone on this list is enlightened. I'm talking
about the masses.
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Ravi Bellur rav...@gmail.com wrote:
I try to wait in a line here, and people try to drift past me like I'm
blind. No one does that in Stockholm -- they would be mortified. Q.E.D.
Keeping in mind that most everyone on this list is enlightened. I'm talking
When do they shut down the alcohol purveyors? thanks.
Not debating you point, but you should try driving in Boston or NY. Not
that
it comes close to the Bangalore situation, but if the road infrastructure
was as bad as it is here, you would see pretty much the same. Seattle is
over-polite, I feel suffocated there with people being so nice to
WTF?
To be frank: TF. :-)
Like I said, we got 'em too. So concerned with repressive control that they
miss the essential points of their religions.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090508/ap_on_re_us/us_school_dance_flap
Having said that, I wonder if there is any service that allows people
at USA order books from Indian stores with delivery to the US listed
addresses ?
The books I get here are WAY cheaper than the US, but they almost all
say For sale only in India, Pakistan, Bangalesh, Sri Lanka, etc.
Visiting India in 1921, E. M. Forster witnessed the eight-day
celebration of Lord Krishna’s birthday. This first encounter with
devotional ecstasy left the Bloomsbury aesthete baffled. “There is no
dignity, no taste, no form,” he complained in a letter home.
Brits were kinda uptight back
I would recommend Coupling[1] - the original UK version (not the US
remake by NBC which was pretty lame)
-- Vinayak
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling_(UK_TV_series)
You could not be more right. I loved the UK Coupling, own every episode.
Jeff Murdoch is a prophet! :-)
(hidden connections ala Seinfeld)
YES YES YES!! That's what's so brilliant -- how 3 or more seemingly indepent
plot lines end up dovetailing multiplicatively. You have made my day :-) I
wish my DVDs weren't on the other side of the world at the moment.
I'm am Giselle, the French bitch!
There are so many brilliant episodes and scenes. But I think beep
beep inferno is my favourite especially the scene where Steve tries
to explain the plot at the table :)
-- Vinayak
Ah, Lesbian Spank Inferno. Good one. But my favorite has to be the one with
the Israeli girl seen twice,
Anyone up for a drink
with Amit, myself, and whoever else turns up on that evening,
somewhere in the vicinity?
Hmmm spontaneously and with no outside influence, I think either of
these places look good: http://shiokfood.com or http://mosslounge.com. :-)
As to how proximal they are
Thanks for this reply . -- this was the kind of elucidation that helped me
understand things better. One of the many benefits of Silklist.
On the US election stuff, it vetted to the nation a lot of the gender
discrimination that still exists. There's plenty of discrimination that
persist, though
Don't forget the TV channels. All they want is a straw and they will
sensationalize it. Reminds of a recent sighting on News 9, a Bangalore
based local news channel. They were making a big hue and cry about a
program that was going to be aired later that night that was based on
the news that
sic lightening
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Ravi Bellur rav...@gmail.com wrote:
Don't forget the TV channels. All they want is a straw and they will
sensationalize it. Reminds of a recent sighting on News 9, a Bangalore
based local news channel. They were making a big hue and cry about
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.comwrote:
(Bah, gmail on blackberry does not allow bottom posting)
As someone once said, do not attribute to malice that which can be
sufficiently attributed to stupidity.
Napolean Boneparte
Welcome to our western nightmare: men are the eye candy accessories.
http://omg.yahoo.com/news/melissa-rycroft-and-beau-make-red-carpet-debut-at-us-hot-hollywood-party/21664?nc
Sad that the wrong side won (instead of liberating women from superficial
oppression, we just subsumed men to the same
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
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
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
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
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
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, 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
That was supposed to go to the thread that's numbering about 190+ entries.
dunno why it ended up here.
Self-improvement, to some degree, requires self-awareness. Self-help books
try to bake some of this in, but I think ultimately having the ability to
see your automatic thoughts and understand their motivators. I think this
is the realm of cognitive psychology, and I think they use many tools from
great meet up! good times meeting all of you -- thanks!
s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote:
We're in for Friday. Shall we say 11:30 am?
1. Venkat
2. Usha
3. Udhay
4. Kiran
5. Ravi
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123896998996190775.html
For instance, he says some overseas Indians
want a bride who is smart, fluent in English, and simultaneously, docile
in
the house. He says such women are now harder to find, so he bumps up his
fees for some searches.
To be fair,
re: Lunch
Ignorant of proximity issues, may I innocently recommend F B off of St.
Marks? I went there this past weekend with Udhay and it rocked!!
Count me in, please!
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.comwrote:
Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote:
OK. So lets say next Friday for dinner?
I'm game...
Sic transit gloria mundi.
It means so passes the world's glory --
sic = so as in so is it always for tyrants which John Wilkes Booth said
before he shot Abraham Lincoln (Sic semper tyrannus).
transit = passes or goes (obviously they based the Latin word on our English
word, before inventing
Re: various interesting names
It would be hard to beat this one for irony, especially if you're cursed
with puerile sensibilties like me: the director of the WHO's dept on
HIV/AIDS is named Kevin De Cock.
http://www.who.int/hiv/mediacentre/news59/en/index.html
He actually looks like a pretty
Yeah, I've got my problems. I still think the opposite of increment is
excrement... :-)
Oh you poor guy! Getting an increment must have been a very painful part of
your life then.
It's not completely berift of logic. If the opposite of incremental growth
is excremental fall, it could explain the economic shit storm the US is in.
Another time perhaps?
I hear Cloud 9 is supposed to be the most enjoyable...
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote:
Sunday is out. Will be going to CloudCamp.
On 3/26/09, Kiran K Karthikeyan kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
I was heartened to read this piece:
http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20090325/818/tnl-no-votes-for-moral-cops-say-bangalor.html
Even though I do find sleeveless t-shirts a bit lowbrow, with the usual
intent of showing off the guns to the relatively unmuscled public. Unless
it was a Def Leppard
If there's one thing I've learned from Keanu Reeves, it's that there is no
spoon... :-)
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:56 AM, lukhman_khan lukhman_k...@yahoo.comwrote:
Thanks Kiran. Udai is helping me as well -- but the more
help the better,especially at this beginning phase which
is about
Also I think the trance band Enigma named a song Mea Culpa which means,
My fault or My blame (the root of the word culpable) in Latin.
Although it appears the local police may have tried to stop the party where
that music was played., lest there be obscene dancing... :-)
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at
going on
in India than in Denmark. How do you like them butter cookies, Danes?!? :-)
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Ravi Bellur rav...@gmail.com wrote:
I was born in the US to an Indian dad from Bangalore and a Danish mom
Welcome to the asylum, and please wipe the razors clean of blood after use.
Your courtesy will be appreciated by other users.
I have a theory to solve problems that I call Occam's Razor-slashed
wrists, -- it states that whatever the most depressing explanation is,
that's the most likely one.
I think they assume companies will pay it, and, at least in the US, they are
inured to such figures. But yeah, I think it's too much. I think they only
want people who don't think that. Remember: conferences are businesses. They
make money.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Mayank Dhingra
I'm game!
Why don't we have a silk meetup there since there have been some newcomers
to the list (myself included)?
Need the latest food guide for Bangalore.
Kiran
I second that emotion. Thanks for the warm welcome. And the incisive
interchange that I've been a voyeur to in the past few days. I'll tell my
native species, from the planet where the sentient race is logical and fair,
to send back the assult fleet -- there is, indeed, intelligence on this
watery
Hi, all,
Udai and my cousin Bala are long time friends, from childhood. I met Udai
though him and after being subjected to my company on a number of occasions,
he invited me to join silklist. I thought it was a fan club for the soy milk
brand. But it's more likely a place to ask and discuss the
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