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^^It is disgusting to hear all anti-trump suddenly find Trump presidential because he sent a few cruise missiles. Suddenly all the issues that have bothered them have vanished...total lotas onlee (round bottom lota will roll with the smallest push one way or other; no self-standing). Do they want an...

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Gus wrote:not sure why it had to lead to forcible removal...usually they give good incentives to entire somebody to volunteer - $200+next flight+voucher for hotel stay usually does the trick.

If you have the flexibility...not everyone has that, and there is a chance no one accepts it.

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Some top players imo out of your range - Wawrinka, Nishikori, Goffin and Nishioka (still to establlish, but good game). Like I said, big serves are better countered by standing a bit far. Almost everyone I know does this. Only exception I remember is federer. The same racket tech that allows to ser...

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hanumadu wrote:...but the angles the height allows. ....

This is certainly a major advantage.

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That was fun read. Shared with family to everyone's entertainment.

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So hockey, football and table tennis. I think Badminton is still ok.
I'm leaving out long distance running or weight-lifting or boxing (weight class based) or wrestling.

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Nice.. When I got a chance to go to tokyo (have written this earlier too) went to the restaurant he opened in Nakamuraya. In the lobby are pictures of Bose with his wife and children, and Rabindranath Tagore when he visited him. I could not eat there due to flight conflict so took a couple of snaps.

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supratik saar you unnecessarily brought SI into it when it had nothing to do with it. I just made a comment in passing on all thse sports with advantage to taller folk. Nothing more. we can leave it at that. GShankar - yes, that is valid. And at the level we play height is not too much of an issue. ...

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Which people? People see Sindhu and people have seen Kumble and Srinath (yeah i date myself). So all this about region that you are going off on is neither intended nor included in my generic lament. SDRE is a term generically used on BRF - it could be TDRE or TFRE for all one cares, and such people...

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Check the Davis cup team. All south Indians and 6 plus. What is lacking is serve, power and stamina of the Euros. Skills we have. The Q was wrt 'tall' vs 'short'. Earlier discussion on badminton was tall Sindhu vs short Saina. Tall tennis players. Tall pacers. Heck what will a normal desi do? South...

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Bhurishravas wrote:Imho, we will have to wait another generation for tennis winners. You need to be tall and strong to play this sport. Same for Football.
But, building up an infrastructure for the same is good.

Any sports left for SDREs? Only kirket but not pacers. All seem to be moving to TFTA requirements.

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yep! Gud-bud-shove did more to that than ray-gunn eye in the sky guy

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In earlier times All England was considered equivalent to world championship..

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Saina sometimes speaks about how she's not a natural athlete but wins through her grit. Too lazy to look up the reference, but I believe it was in an interview after her OG bronze. And of course, she speaks of how Chinese pick a physical template in their assembly line - girls have to be over 5'8 t...

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Why do you say Sindhu is the player Saina wanted to be? She can't change the height and though not as athletic has her own resoluteness. She has been world number 1 with her capabilities. She is only 27 and might recover again. Sindhu is playing great and should go far. Height certainly seems to be ...

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thx saar!

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Fantastic run. Hopefully someone uploads the matches.

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Excuse me sir, but why not just call it in the old fashioned way - 'Counter-Terrorist Operation' or 'Anti-Terrorist Operation' It is straight forward plain-speak and IMVHO it is important to have the word 'Terrorist' in it to have no ambiguity or room for any moral questionability/repugnance. Let u...

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Exactly!! Same reason in schools they check for vaccination and nut-cases dont want to take them. It is for the greater good that vaccinations are mandated. Even the republican court - unfortunately another shibboleth of neutral judges fell a long time back - did not find individual mandate unconsti...

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GShankar - thx for the clarification

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Even if you don't have a personal car, if you are using a public transport, those have mandatory insurance and costs are passed on right? Can I demand I want to pay lesser ticket fees? Was going to ask something similar. I can't really understand what the opposition is to universal healthcare. Seem...

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The question I was after is what is it that makes people decry 'must pay fine or buy insurance' part of ACA? Any car driver is required, made to do the same. If caught must pay fine or else show that has insurance. They even check when renewing registration. Can't say it is ok for x but not for y.

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Tulsi Gabbard (on fB): ... just simply deleting the obamacare requirement for everyone to be insured will ultimately kill it. finis, done. in just a matter of a few years. the plan needs healthy people to be insured in order for it to survive. ... Everyone is mandated to have auto-insurance else th...

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bhell bhell - as per CNN - Ryan tells Trump they don't have enough votes (in relation to ACA repeal)

See, no say obamacare - that would be election talk and all that - so saying ACA

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Discrimination based on prejudice has been a long-standing goal of the modern day Republican Party. It is termed freedom of association. Allowing such discrimination is a key goal of the Trump Administration. And it doesn't just apply to Muslims and Hispanics and African Americans. Many restaurant ...

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Karnataka had many a good scheme done up years back. They were kind of "pioneers" in many things. They had developed the Bannerghatta National Park way back in the 1960s, when many cities did not even have a "zoo". They had such beautifully maintained gardens (Lalbagh in Bangalo...

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Aye british officers killed more wildlife in huge scale. In bharatpur one dukes party killed 22000 ducks in one day. They would eat 1 duck each max Just killing for the sake of sport. By middle ages all large mammals in west europe were hunted to death except a few small bears hiding in spain. Ever...

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There is a UK-India 2017 year of culture programme which began with hosting at Buckingham palace etc. What does BBC do? As usual, does the drainage inspection and comes up with this... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-39058436 They recorded this many months ago but was timed to release wi...

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With kids in home stretch and final exam imminent, april and may will be all mine..they will be off to grandparents. Have a good mind to read the emperor of all maladies another shelf showpiece that everyone talks of but few read like brief history of time lol It is a great book with a lot of infor...

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^how much of this is due to collective greed and wanting more for doing nothing? Like some blaming H1s for not earning high themselves. The dot-com bomb was due to the visions of get rich quick on nothing but flashy websites. People and banks pumped in their resources into those stocks. It had to co...

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Can one criticize Kejriwal in BRF - election is over 2 years old? Trump is president and his policies and appointees will get discussed. It doesnt mean it is disputing election results.

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What was the use of doing a desi clone of ms word when piracy is rife? Even expensive stuff like photoshop and cad cam pkgs are widely pirated despite attempts to control. These only make real money in places where piracy is less. Same set of pio crapping on india for not producing sw products woul...

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^^aren't you deliberately doing a conway here - he didnt just say howdie ? The issue is not that he talked but what he talked and his role in the administration. One can disagree on seriousness of the error (or whether it is an error) but it is not a simple Hyawdy Rooskie.

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C-DAC Param provided good work on transputers. Was good fun. The body shoppers like Infosys made money though and it was easier thing to do. To add on. Yes, I agree piracy was rampant for most commonly used softwares (like MS suite of products and even the OS itself). But there were the LIPI and GI...

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^^In the good old days things were attempted. There were completed products : spreadsheets, word processing, compilers etc. There was 'amidha' simputer with hand gestures way before others caught on. People could pirate and didnt buy the s/w - it was easier to get MS word for free than to pay for a ...

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^^hope never matches reality - that goes for those on this forum as well as all those in you-ess heartlands..
India, as has been mentioned many times, needs to be strong enough in herself. So nothing really changes in practical terms.

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KJo wrote:...

H1B visa is actually not much of the problem. It is low quality L1 visas who flood the US and have killed the entry level market which needs to be curbed.

We get it... everyone else is low quality ... Can you explain in off topic or elsewhere how L1 has killed entry level market?

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^^good one.

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