Archives for: February 2008
Runway or Run away?

The pilot is preparing the plane for yet another landing. As usual, clearance comes, the landing gears appear, run way is in sight, the plane climbs down.. everything as usual.. And suddenly the pilot notices something unusual, something moving on the run away. What the hell on earth, as soon as you land on earth?!?! Oops its some animal! Obviously [...]

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The Story of Stuff

What actually is a commercial advertisement? It is an attempt by the commercial corporations to convince us that whatever stuff we already have is crap, outdated, doesnt look good, has drawbacks, is out of fashion, unimpressive, ugly, the other gender hates it etc. And then they go on to tell us how the stuff they have recently manufactured is far [...]

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Outsourcing – You got it wrong Obama!

“The result (of outsourcing) is more American jobs, higher wages and a faster growing economy overall… Global sourcing continues to be a net positive for American workers and the US economy” – so said Harris N. Miller, president of Information Technology Association of America in 2005. Look at the contradiction now. Here is what Mr. Barack Obama, the democratic presidential [...]

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Primitive Waste Management – Nonsense Technology

There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all. Pollution has always been a byproduct of technological advancement of humans. Every new technological innovation of humans has given its own contribution to the pollution of nature on this planet. One of the first pollutants if I [...]

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Infinity in a grain of sand

“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, then we would be so simple that we wouldn’t have been able to understand it ” – Emerson Where do we draw the line about the complexity of an issue and the human ability to understand/resolve it? Are we limited by our thinking ability? What is our thinking [...]

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The Weaker Side of a Stronger Rupee

When I wrote about a Stronger Rupee in mid 2007, some opposed an appreciating rupee – a rupee that was getting stronger against US dollar. Why? Because Stronger Rupee hurts exports. For instance, IT companies which used to get 44 rupees per every dollar they earned, now get only 39 rupees per dollar. This is because Rupee is becoming stronger [...]

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