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- 17 May 2015 12:07
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
- Replies: 10352
- Views: 2310543
Re: Managing Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
Diligence typically beats Intelligence. I have read or observed first hand in Massa is that the East Asian Ethos (Chinese, Koreans and Japanese) engenders extreme diligence as well as rewards/channelizes intelligence. Germany also has the same ethos. There is an admirable nimbleness of thought in Ch...
- 07 May 2015 02:15
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: China Watch Thread-I
- Replies: 815
- Views: 185175
Re: China Watch Thread-I
An interesting take on "fearlessness/recklessness" of Chinese Login is required to view the link below Quora Post on Chinese Recklessness Excerpts: Many years ago when I first visited China I saw a woman with two bags full of groceries absent mindedly about to cross the road while a gigant...
- 26 Apr 2015 17:36
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Nepal and Bhutan News and discussion
- Replies: 1747
- Views: 438743
Re: Nepal and Bhutan News and discussion
That is a IL 76 not a C17
- 14 Apr 2015 08:08
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - 1 Feb 2015
- Replies: 2849
- Views: 358946
Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - 1 Feb 2
The ME great game will be played by 3 entities: Anglo-Saxon Christians (USA,UK, parts of NATO) etc, Han Chinese, Islamic Turko-Persians (loosely Pakistan, Turkey, Iran). Russia could be a referee mediating all players and sometimes playing in parts or providing equipment. Historically India has not ...
- 14 Apr 2015 07:50
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - 1 Feb 2015
- Replies: 2849
- Views: 358946
Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - 1 Feb 2
KLNMurthy nothing prevents this eventuality. It will happen when Chinese influence in world affairs starts eclipsing US power. My estimate about 5 years or so.
- 14 Apr 2015 07:22
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - 1 Feb 2015
- Replies: 2849
- Views: 358946
Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan - 1 Feb 2
China, Pakistan and Turkey will be net winners in the conflict in the M.E. I am willing to bet that a Pakistani actor : Hafeez or even Parvez Musharraf type will soon be the joint custodian of the two mosques within the next decade. I will not be surprised if after entering Yemen (does not matter wh...
- 13 Apr 2015 21:26
- Forum: BR Nostalgia Archive
- Topic: BRF 15 years. let us look back.
- Replies: 194
- Views: 86469
Re: BRF 15 years. let us look back.
My first post from 2003 on the LCA while I was a talib in madrassa. Wasted a lot of time at BR, and it is probably one of the reasons for R2I. Was a poster/lurker before in 1998 but lost those in forum resets. Remember NSN network reportage quite vividly. http://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewtopic.p...
- 13 Apr 2015 07:22
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Nations and Empires that Grew on Genocide and Slavery
- Replies: 204
- Views: 34632
Re: Nations and Empires that Grew on Genocide and Slavery
Apparently in the history of China genocide was common as the dynasties changed. Records mentions that when the Ming dynasty overthrew the predominantly Mongol Yuan dynasty all male mongols taller than a wagon wheel where executed and all male mongols shorter than the wagon wheel were castrated (Min...
- 08 Apr 2015 10:24
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Railways Thread
- Replies: 3937
- Views: 741024
Re: Indian Railways Thread
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/DU-students-harness-wind-energy-produced-by-Metro-trains/articleshow/46811637.cms?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=toimobile&utm_medium=referral I thought a similar concept was investigated by Indian Railways(someone sent a letter to PMO) and fou...
- 28 Mar 2015 07:31
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
- Replies: 10352
- Views: 2310543
Re: Managing Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
Visa on arrival for Chinese Citizens coming to India.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/in ... rival.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/in ... rival.html
- 28 Mar 2015 07:27
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : Dec 15 2011
- Replies: 3942
- Views: 581633
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : Dec 15 2011
Visa on arrival facility to Chinese citizens for entry into India. Nothing on Indian MSM yet
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/in ... rival.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/in ... rival.html
- 21 Mar 2015 18:13
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : Dec 15 2011
- Replies: 3942
- Views: 581633
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : Dec 15 2011
how many years of average local income for an average local house in 1st/2nd/3rd tier city in China.
- 20 Mar 2015 17:36
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Health Care Sector
- Replies: 1211
- Views: 238527
Re: Indian Health Care Sector
Recently I have been working on applications development for a solid phase non toxic, reusable (but expensive) industrial absorbent that is extremely good at picking up hydrophobic/ non polar / oleophillic molecules as compared to polar, hydrophillic compounds. It can potentially absorb molecules li...
- 15 Mar 2015 21:47
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian investments thread
- Replies: 441
- Views: 87614
Re: Indian investments thread
Yallah Kenop-uddin I thought this was Burkha forum. BTW have we interacted somewhere before? Interesting reading that Yahoo group.
- 15 Mar 2015 12:33
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian investments thread
- Replies: 441
- Views: 87614
Re: Indian investments thread
kenop, what you say is very interesting. Can you point out why such concepts will not be successful. I find that in the 2000m+ Altitude the winds are fairly constant in direction and velocity. The technical problem of being able to pipe down the power is to be solved. My Basic reading into the philo...
- 14 Mar 2015 12:21
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : Dec 15 2011
- Replies: 3942
- Views: 581633
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : Dec 15 2011
Consider his highness Liu == online PRC ambassador/embassy/PR firm posted to republic of BR (RBR)
- 14 Mar 2015 11:05
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian investments thread
- Replies: 441
- Views: 87614
- 24 Feb 2015 10:13
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Economy - News & Discussion Oct 12 2013
- Replies: 3978
- Views: 473597
Re: Indian Economy - News & Discussion Oct 12 2013
That Mckinsey Link is eye opening. http://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/dotcom/Insights/Financial%20Services/Private%20equity%20in%20India/SVGZIPMoVestPrivate%20equity%20in%20Indiaex2.ashx?mw=510 In every segment Chinese private sector appears larger than Indian Private sector in numbers by a sc...
- 21 Feb 2015 11:30
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Urban Development and Public Policy Discussion
- Replies: 523
- Views: 160269
Re: Indian Urban Development and Public Policy Discussion
Real estate is ridiculously expensive (due to poor land laws, opaque property rights and slow legal system). In India it takes 8 years average household salary to buy a house, compare this with approximately 2-3 years of average household salary for a market like USA. Most people spend far too much ...
- 12 Feb 2015 20:57
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Solar energy in India
- Replies: 1113
- Views: 238012
Re: Solar energy in India
Is it more cost effective to create a high temperature solar salt melt system @800C and produce electricity using the temperature differential and associated thermodynamic efficiency than high efficiency solar cells?
- 27 Jan 2015 10:18
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Manufacturing Sector
- Replies: 681
- Views: 577812
Re: Indian Manufacturing Sector
I am looking for someone with expertise in setting up a hardware startup. We have a technology that creates better thin film/touch screen displays among other things. Essentially it is an engineered replacement for ITO.
- 23 Jan 2015 20:42
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Economy - News & Discussion Oct 12 2013
- Replies: 3978
- Views: 473597
Re: Indian Economy - News & Discussion Oct 12 2013
Anyone with interests in waste plastic to fuel technologies? Vriksh, Look up Thermal Depolymerization. Quite depressing outlook judging from the wikipedia entries. Looks like many technology companies have become bankrupt. Are there any success stories in area of waste plastics to fuel in terms of ...
- 23 Jan 2015 08:30
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Economy - News & Discussion Oct 12 2013
- Replies: 3978
- Views: 473597
Re: Indian Economy - News & Discussion Oct 12 2013
Anyone with interests in waste plastic to fuel technologies?
- 01 Dec 2014 09:17
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: China Military Watch - August 9, 2014
- Replies: 1128
- Views: 222698
Re: China Military Watch - August 9, 2014
Is that easy to swap engines from WS10 to WS15 or even AL 31 to WS 10 or does that involve a very large amount of reintegration work. What are the technical difficulties expected? Given the fact that the J20 is bigger as compared to Su-30 and is powered by the same engines, does that not put the J20...
- 26 Nov 2014 07:47
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Re: US strike options on TSP
- Replies: 2412
- Views: 254991
Re: Understanding the US-2
9 whites and 3 blacks on Grand Jury. Any reason why it was not more equitable. I thought the 2 sides had vetoes on jury selection and it would be more like 50-50 given the fact that the incident took place in an area which was majority black.
- 24 Nov 2014 10:30
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Economy - News & Discussion Oct 12 2013
- Replies: 3978
- Views: 473597
Re: Indian Economy - News & Discussion Oct 12 2013
My understanding is that in Chit funds you have to bid for the pot. If you are a debtor to the chit fund then you cannot bid. Typically the bid means you pay the rest of the guys "the interest" when you take the money upfront. Example there are 12 ppl (12 month chits) in a given chit fund ...
- 18 Nov 2014 22:55
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Technolgies useful for Indian problems
- Replies: 748
- Views: 256942
Re: Technologies useful for Indian problems
Your email address Vivek? I will email you offline
- 16 Nov 2014 07:13
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Technolgies useful for Indian problems
- Replies: 748
- Views: 256942
Re: Technologies useful for Indian problems
I have been working on an Idea for Urban transit system that allows personal (podded) rapid transport. Key features are that the system is vertically stackable, low footprint and promises to be cheaper than existing urban transit solutions. Need collaborators to flesh it out and get an alpha prototy...
- 16 Nov 2014 06:57
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Technolgies useful for Indian problems
- Replies: 748
- Views: 256942
Re: Technologies useful for Indian problems
x-posted from Vivek Rao Modi thread I think BTW, I had a chat with Survey General of GSI. He has a budget for 2000 crores to build a sensor network to achieve some of the goals such as smarty city or water system. I will make a post in Technologies Useful for India thread. Please make contributions ...
- 11 Nov 2014 09:26
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
- Replies: 10352
- Views: 2310543
Re: Managing Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
Is it possible for the Average Zhou to invest in India directly rather than through Chinese government banking system and vice versa? How can we make this possible?
- 10 Nov 2014 06:55
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Perspectives on the global economic changes
- Replies: 4318
- Views: 669907
Re: Perspectives on the global economic changes
Actually the only real currency is human effort. Everything else is measuring this even Gold. Question is how can we objectively measure and allocate value or human/other effort which can then be traded across borders and time. For eg An Einstein/Ramanujam's human effort for discovering relativity/...
- 09 Nov 2014 14:35
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Perspectives on the global economic changes
- Replies: 4318
- Views: 669907
Re: Perspectives on the global economic changes
Actually the only real currency is human effort. Everything else is measuring this even Gold. Question is how can we objectively measure and allocate value or human/other effort which can then be traded across borders and time. For eg An Einstein/Ramanujam's human effort for discovering relativity/n...
- 09 Nov 2014 13:59
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Technolgies useful for Indian problems
- Replies: 748
- Views: 256942
Re: Technologies useful for Indian problems
So essentially Libelium allows deployment of solutions quickly and reduces time to market and understandably there is a premium. BTW has anyone used Libelium solutions anywhere and how easy or difficult is it to develop similar solutions using Arduino/Raspberry assuming we get some very good say 10 ...
- 08 Nov 2014 09:14
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: The Bharatiya - Identity, Vision, Agenda, Proposition
- Replies: 2738
- Views: 376121
Re: The Bharatiya - Identity, Vision, Agenda, Proposition
x-posted from Western Universalism Thread. I have met Dharampal as a boy in 1993. Good to know that his ideas have started coming out in the mainstream. Dharampal along with other like minded people had started a foundation called Patriotic People Oriented Science and Technology (PPST) based out of ...
- 07 Nov 2014 09:43
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
- Replies: 2995
- Views: 403009
Re: Western Universalism - what's the big deal?
I have met Dharampal as a boy in 1993. Good to know that his ideas have started coming out in the mainstream. Dharampal along with other like minded people had started a foundation called Patriotic People Oriented Science and Technology (PPST) based out of Chennai. PPST then organized 3 massive Cong...
- 07 Nov 2014 07:28
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Technolgies useful for Indian problems
- Replies: 748
- Views: 256942
Re: Technologies useful for Indian problems
Vivek are you saying that libelium is better than implementations in arduino or raspberry pi. If so why? I see libelous has many case studies for smart cities. However the impression I got by talking to people was that it is possible to make similar or better using cots arduino.
- 04 Nov 2014 04:47
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Technolgies useful for Indian problems
- Replies: 748
- Views: 256942
Re: Technologies useful for Indian problems
http://www.libelium.com/top_50_iot_sensor_applications_ranking/ .... snipped ... Anyone who has used Libelium stuff here. I have started some hobby projects using Arduino and Raspberry Pi to understand a few things however after checking out Libelium I am wondering if it worth the time and effort. ...
- 29 Oct 2014 16:17
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Health Care Sector
- Replies: 1211
- Views: 238527
Re: Indian Health Care Sector
Seeing chatter on my whatsapp regards Ebola in Delhi Area. Some cases found in Apollo Hospital, Delhi Metro Hospital and Faridabad as per some unverified source. Any confirmation from official sources??
- 24 Oct 2014 15:26
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Internal Security Watch
- Replies: 6214
- Views: 1900497
Re: Internal Security Watch
Any links for Bengali Muzzafarnagar mosque AK47 firing?
- 14 Oct 2014 10:13
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
- Replies: 10352
- Views: 2310543
Re: Managing Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
I have the opposite conclusion. I think that India is being setup for a beating in the near future by a combination of acts of omission and commission orchestrated by PRC, USA, OIC with Pakistan, ISIS, Terror etc being the visible part of the game of poker. Fundamentally India civilization is the on...