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by bala
04 Aug 2025 10:16
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Challenge of China_ Political, Economic & Military Responses
Replies: 788
Views: 555023

Re: Challenge of China_ Political, Economic & Military Responses

// Looks like a slow salvo of Tibet is being drummed into China, first with Dalai Lama asserting that the next Lama will be chosen by an appointed Trust and not China. Then Modi attending Dalai Lama birthday. Now India's Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister, Pema Khandu claiming border with Tibet and n...
by bala
04 Aug 2025 09:43
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
Replies: 1813
Views: 479391

Re: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis

Somebody (hunt0810) created this YT, recreating Op Sindoor with some great visuals - a decisive and precise Indian military operation in recent years. Launched in retaliation to the Pahalgam tourist attack, the Indian Air Force executed coordinated deep-strike missions on strategic enemy infrastruc...
by bala
04 Aug 2025 02:03
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Small Armaments & Infantry Equipment - News & Discussion
Replies: 2142
Views: 1227342

Re: Small Armaments & Infantry Equipment - News & Discussion

ARDE (Armament Research & Development Establishment) Chief A. Raju talks about many topics - indigenous carbines, the Pinaka rocket system, smart shells, and next-gen artillery. India is transforming from a defence importer to a self-reliant powerhouse. DRDO is driving India's military edge by q...
by bala
04 Aug 2025 00:18
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 10572
Views: 3128405

Re: Understanding the US - Again

So @Bala, if you knew this, you should not be gaslighting us. If you did not know this, you should not be pretending to know what you actually have no clue about. Sorry who is gaslighting whom and what is this "us" you keep talking about. Mods this is uncalled for language by a member. Th...
by bala
03 Aug 2025 23:24
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 10572
Views: 3128405

Re: Understanding the US - Again

One of the reasons for high tech layoffs from Mickeysoft, AWS, Google, Meta, etc is due to R&D writeoff rules. The prev admin reduced the R&D writeoff from 100% to 20% yearly. This has caused hiring freezes and layoffs, and in general tis time to get rid of high paying salaried useless emplo...
by bala
03 Aug 2025 20:45
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 10572
Views: 3128405

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Biden admin cut budget of the BLS. These survey businesses are all BS in today's age. The US Govt can figure out actual numbers of employed, since businesses provide data to EDD and IRS on those who on their payroll. At any given time, there is data on actual employed in the US. Those who are being...
by bala
03 Aug 2025 08:31
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Replies: 5375
Views: 2378408

Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022

Looks like protests are taking hold in PoJK, CPEC, Gilgit Baltistan, Karokorum highway. All kinds of folks are protesting including Cheeni folks infiltrated in those areas. They are asking for tax exemption for the truck movement with goods. These protests started after Ass Iam Munure sat in the lap...
by bala
02 Aug 2025 23:44
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Replies: 6321
Views: 1729777

Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion

Apparently another Boeing 787-8 dreamliner of LATAM airlines made an emergency landing in Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) with its Ram Air Turbine (RAT) visibly deployed, following nearly an hour of circling over the Pacific Ocean. The RAT deployment suggests a significant power system issue...
by bala
02 Aug 2025 22:45
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread - June 2015
Replies: 2153
Views: 1163483

Re: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread - June 2015

The geopolitical, geoeconomic and geostrategic shifts are going to be profound to the US DJT Tariff regime. Such shifts happened to the world after WW-II wherein the US took dominance of all world affairs. Today the world is highly inter-dependent on each other and shifts are going to be extremely d...
by bala
02 Aug 2025 10:39
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 10572
Views: 3128405

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Obama increased the US debt from 10 T to 20 T ; Trump V1.0 added 7.8 T, Biden added 8.4 T; US debt is now 36T only brahman knows how much more in Trump V2.0 or will it decrease.
by bala
02 Aug 2025 10:08
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Challenge of China_ Political, Economic & Military Responses
Replies: 788
Views: 555023

Re: Challenge of China_ Political, Economic & Military Responses

This is in response to Gautam's article: https://www.rediff.com/news/column/the-leverage-trumps-us-has-on-xis-china-has-shrunk/20250731.htm The Leverage Trump's US Has On Xi's China Has Shrunk AAKAR PATEL, July 31, 2025 People keep bringing up the China example for exports and don't have a clue abou...
by bala
02 Aug 2025 09:10
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 10572
Views: 3128405

Re: Understanding the US - Again

https://www.rediff.com/news/column/the-leverage-trumps-us-has-on-xis-china-has-shrunk/20250731.htm The Leverage Trump's US Has On Xi's China Has Shrunk AAKAR PATEL, July 31, 2025 ^^ Gautam ji, I will respond to this article in Challenge of China thread shortly. These articles are too much boiler pl...
by bala
02 Aug 2025 08:40
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 10572
Views: 3128405

Re: Understanding the US - Again

I deal with lots of AI programs. But AI programs are nascent and frankly NOT that good yet. This business of asking AI with prompts is prone to a) bias based on the RAG they use b) halucination - same prompt yields different answers at different time. Tis f?ng annoying to see people quoting AI gener...
by bala
02 Aug 2025 08:10
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 10839
Views: 3961955

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

If you want to pay fair value (I mean value the labor properly) $35 should really be $70. Labor will not get paid even at $70. Take the $5 textile example. Probably BD gets .25c for stitching one shirt/blouse. The other cost is material cloth, buttons and of course rent/electricity/machines etc. Th...
by bala
02 Aug 2025 03:50
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 10839
Views: 3961955

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

Actually the trade tariff picture for India is not all gloom and doom. The rest of the nations in the world face similar obstacles with the US tariffs. Around 40% of India's trade have exemptions, only things like gems/jewellery, textiles, trinkets and simliar low value are attracting 25% tariff. Th...
by bala
02 Aug 2025 03:35
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 10572
Views: 3128405

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Statistics dept can be fired since they are into sampling of small data sets and deducing conclusions on the larger data set. Today there is big data processing which can provide the accurate complete picture. There are things like FINRA (finacial regulation agency) which captures all transactions i...
by bala
02 Aug 2025 02:43
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 10839
Views: 3961955

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

Why regret? Yes, you pick the better of the two devils at hand. No point regretting things, tis democracy. She has an attention span that rivals the attention span of a sparrow. Saar, Sparrows are highly intelligent creatures, I can't say the same for KD(H). (btw KD in tamil means crook! kd yaar ir...
by bala
02 Aug 2025 01:43
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 1404
Views: 749479

Re: Indian IT Industry

This YT by Maj Gen Rajiv Narayanan with Sanjay Dixit talks about BharatOS with the defence forces at 4:10 onwards. India is creating data centers and there are 1 lakh handsets with the fauj and more will be rolled out in coming months, years. ExtMinA, DOD and HomeMinistry will be added soon. Handset...
by bala
02 Aug 2025 00:13
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 10839
Views: 3961955

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

To use a US Baseball analogy: "calling balls and strikes" which means the umpire's judgement of whether the ball was pitched into the strike zone of the batter. In BRF we are going to call balls and strikes, does not matter whether it is Dems/Repubs. The trade tariffs with India are "...
by bala
01 Aug 2025 23:13
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Replies: 5375
Views: 2378408

Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022

chetak saar, I don't know where you get your images but they are invariablely APT and HILARIOUS at the same time. super good!
by bala
01 Aug 2025 21:49
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Replies: 2270
Views: 905291

Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat

Modi Refuses Trump’s Call | Hits Pakistan with a Big Dam on Chenab | Pakistan Runs to Trump Again
Sanjay Dixit reporting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS36G-v9ICU

// tis hilarious. Pukes are hit hard on water and they keep running to papa US/DJT. what will they do with their oil.
by bala
01 Aug 2025 21:00
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Eastern Europe/Ukraine [Feb 6th 2015]
Replies: 5813
Views: 1341682

Re: Eastern Europe/Ukraine [Feb 6th 2015]

The ultimate prize for the Americans is the 50 Trillion worth of natural resources in Russia.. Ukraine is small fry. The Deep State lost this round with Russia, they will try again later. Ukraine is indeed a pawn. They used Dems to instigate the war - maidan, etc - and tried to sneak into Ukraine t...
by bala
01 Aug 2025 10:18
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 30 June 2022
Replies: 1775
Views: 1545021

Re: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 30 June 2022

Indian rocket force is coming up. Missiles Pralay, Brahmos, Agni, Prithvi and more

Aadi Achint explains

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xen73urPuRY
by bala
01 Aug 2025 08:16
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 10572
Views: 3128405

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Here are some hilarious YT clippets: DJT's take on Kamala Harris (not running for GovernorShip of Kalifornia) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VMBYDGhgOw White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt reveals Nancy Pelosi net worth due to insider trading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lA1q361318 $4...
by bala
01 Aug 2025 07:57
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 10839
Views: 3961955

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

Just some numbers from US Tariffs on South Asia that are going live Midnight Today Pakistan 19 % Bangaldesh 20% India 25 % Srilanka 20 % Vietnam and Cambodia : 20 %and 19 % https://twitter.com/user/status/1951068125144998337 Looks like Deep State and one faction (the faction of anti-India SoreAss&am...
by bala
01 Aug 2025 06:16
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 1404
Views: 749479

Re: Indian IT Industry

Kerala seems to be one of the more forward looking states Here is another Kerala Genius, Madhava who invented Calculus 250 years before Newton. The credit goes to both these Euros - Gottfied Leibniz published 1684 and Isaac Newton in mid 1660 to late 1660s did some work. Madhava of Sangamagrama — t...
by bala
01 Aug 2025 05:58
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 1404
Views: 749479

Re: Indian IT Industry

but for heavy 3D CAD modeling/CAE post-processing visualization CAD/CAM: I once created a 3D display system building things from scratch, including all the trignometry transformations (see the book: Procedural Elements of Computer Graphics by David F. Rogers ) and rendering using painter's algorith...
by bala
01 Aug 2025 04:35
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 1404
Views: 749479

Re: Indian IT Industry

One of the things that some bania company can engage is in creating an AI Small/Medium scale language model customized to specific domains. RAG (retrieval augmented generation) is a data set that assists AI LLMs. Instead of trying to solve generic questions like Gemini or Grok or some programs curre...
by bala
01 Aug 2025 03:59
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian IT Industry
Replies: 1404
Views: 749479

Re: Indian IT Industry

Unix versions can be supported in backoffice servers. That market place is the current domain of Redhat. We have openshift virtualization and containers and load mgmt by Kubernetes too. Once BharatOS (i am using it as placeholder for India's verison of OS) is established, then things like virtualiza...
by bala
01 Aug 2025 02:38
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 10839
Views: 3961955

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

(Added later) Kerberos protocol is from MIT. It is there for all to see. There maybe even a FLOSS implementation. If it from MIT, it could even be am MIT licensed, not GNU licensed. Vayu ji that is all well known. The fact is Mickeysoft took two products created by others - Kerberos MIT and LDAP li...
by bala
01 Aug 2025 00:00
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 10572
Views: 3128405

Re: Understanding the US - Again

BTW I am hearing that DJT is pausing tariffs on Mexico for 90 days. Maybe all the cheap china maal needs to be brought into the US since the deep state is involved and their profits could be at stake.
by bala
31 Jul 2025 23:54
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 10839
Views: 3961955

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

This is interesting. Mickeysoft is backing of on Nayara Energy. The high-stakes confrontation between Microsoft and Rosneft-backed Nayara Energy has taken a dramatic turn. After Microsoft suspended services citing compliance with EU sanctions, Nayara Energy went to court—and just before the Delhi Hi...
by bala
31 Jul 2025 23:51
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Replies: 2270
Views: 905291

Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat

India has achieved its target of 20 per cent ethanol blending with petrol five years ahead of schedule, the Indian Sugar & Bio-energy Manufacturers Association (ISMA) said. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT_Jnc-QSus // currently India imports ~85% of crude oil. We have 15%+20% covered. There is...
by bala
31 Jul 2025 20:58
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 10839
Views: 3961955

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

India has developed several operating systems, Operating systems (OS) for computers are aplenty and India can adopt one as a national standard. Windoze as an Operating system is built on very shaky foundation. Gary Kildall of Monterrey, CA at Post graduate Naval College taught a course on Operating...
by bala
31 Jul 2025 20:17
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 10839
Views: 3961955

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

On India liquid milk capacity: we have to understand that the native Indian Cow produces A2 protein milk compared to the Jersey cow/or western fat cow produces A1 milk. A2 milk is better for lactose intolerant people and there are many in the world. Buffalo milk is A2 protein. Many western nations a...
by bala
31 Jul 2025 09:49
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 10839
Views: 3961955

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

Maj Gen Rajiv Narayanan discusses 25% tariff war unleashed by the US on India. Maj Gen questions the whole suck up by the US towards Pak, when BLA and Taliban are hammering Pak. Who are the US going to negotiate and cut a deal on Oil etc when the countryside is burning down. China is already pissed ...
by bala
31 Jul 2025 09:14
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 10572
Views: 3128405

Re: Understanding the US - Again

All kinds of numbers are being touted by US El Presidente DJT, don't know if they are truly correct/accurate. One thing DJT mentioned is that medical records will become digital and portable. Patients can also access their own records digitally. Many in the US know how archaic medical records are an...
by bala
31 Jul 2025 07:57
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Pahalgam Terror Attack: News & Discussion
Replies: 1191
Views: 246838

Re: Pahalgam Terror Attack: News & Discussion

Huawei phones were used by these spec ops of Pak Army. The signature of these phone signals were well known since LeT uses them for communication. After spotting such signals 200 km east of Srinagar and also cross verifying by some shepherds in the area who spotted them, Indian forces were sent to c...
by bala
31 Jul 2025 04:29
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis
Replies: 1813
Views: 479391

Re: Operation Sindoor - Post Conflict Analysis

stay grounded in what’s actually known WRT Pak since they cheat you cannot learn much from the known. There are no prizes for this endeavor being grounded. Cheaters hide things so that it is never known but sometimes they are caught like Nur Khan and it turns out tis Falcon 9 from another accomplic...
by bala
30 Jul 2025 19:07
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Space Program: News & Discussion
Replies: 1335
Views: 1306476

Re: Indian Space Program: News & Discussion

For those wanting to see the launch, watch the historic launch of GSLV-F16 carrying the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite, a joint Earth observation mission by ISRO and NASA. GSLV-F16 Launch with NASA-ISRO NISAR Earth Observation Satellite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgC1MxtCwq4