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- 24 Oct 2016 12:43
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-13 June,2016
- Replies: 2846
- Views: 608223
Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-13 June,2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9trLi0XzU4 r9trLi0XzU4 @25:00 to 29:00 Omar Abdullah takes off on a RAPEtte cooing about PoK ('Azad Kashmir') and how pissful things are there. I think more important point is made by Omar from around 19 mins to 23 mins. He explains the plebiscite conundrum to anoth...
- 23 Oct 2016 18:47
- Forum: Military Issues Archive
- Topic: 'Make in India' Single engined fighter
- Replies: 5424
- Views: 1217924
Re: Indian Single Engined Multi Role Fighter with Transfer of Manufacturing Technology
Perhaps one should look at this issue from a slightly different perspective. Whether it is the LCA, LCA MK1, LCA MK2, F16 (whatever batch) or Gripen, these planes shouldn't be looked at in isolation. It's good to remember that these platforms, at the end of the day, are a means to an end not necessa...
- 05 Oct 2016 06:50
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Army strikes terror camps in PoK
- Replies: 2258
- Views: 488400
Re: Army strikes terror camps in PoK
Ok regarding the questioning of the surgical strikes, India Today (surprising huh?) has a good PoV which I think explains it all. The Congress and AAP realise the public euphoria which the surgical strikes have generated. Even opposition leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, have praised Prime Minister N...
- 29 Sep 2016 13:37
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Army strikes terror camps in PoK
- Replies: 2258
- Views: 488400
Re: India's Retaliation Options to significant terrorist strikes
OK, just got a message from family friend who works with a canine unit in the valley. We hit their regulars HARD. Officers included in kill count. I'm happy now. :D TOI and other reports have this: "The strikes targeted the terrorists and those backing them ," the DGMO said. Both your fri...
- 21 Sep 2016 14:09
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Space Program: News & Discussion - Sept 2016
- Replies: 4447
- Views: 1528433
Re: Indian Space Programme Discussion - Sept 2016
For those who lament, ISRO's very SDRE driven cautious approach, here's a perspective of what happens when you suddenly become uber TFTA China's Tiangong-1 space station 'out of control' and will crash to Earth However, speaking at a satellite launch centre in the Gobi Desert last week officials sai...
- 05 Nov 2015 07:25
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-Sept 05, 2015
- Replies: 2850
- Views: 346870
Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-Sept 05,
^^ more weapons to puki land fortifies them as much as it destabilizes them. It'd be a double whammy for us. The best time to dismantle pukistan and take over land that belongs to us was 70 years ago, the next best time is next 10 years. The more we wait, the more intense the blow up is going to be...
- 05 Nov 2015 07:19
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
Did anyone else notice what a poorly photoshopped image this is?
- 05 Nov 2015 07:16
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
The point to note is that China has built up its economy in the same resource intensive mode which the West used in the later part of the last century to develop. There was a time in the 1980s-1990s when the US accounted for more than 60 per cent of the world's energy consumption despite having a sm...
- 05 Nov 2015 07:05
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-Sept 05, 2015
- Replies: 2850
- Views: 346870
Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-Sept 05,
What needs to be done to make Pakistan fail? What will China and possibly the US do to prevent that? How will Pakistan leverage these nations to avoid collapse? Actually Shiv, if you ask me what we need to do is take out Roland Reagan's Star Wars play book and keep at it. Just outspend the Pakis on...
- 04 Nov 2015 14:59
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
Oh Suraj, Ashi is very much around, BRF is his beat after all. It's just he's now going by a new moniker. You should check out the chain of posts in the previous page, where expecting a ban, he said that there would be other Chinese posters around. On cue two posts below poster Zengerl who seems to ...
- 04 Nov 2015 08:46
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-Sept 05, 2015
- Replies: 2850
- Views: 346870
Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-Sept 05,
^^^^^
Shiv,
You should tweet this picture. And fellow Brifites should retweet. That should give it some momentum on Twitter.
Shiv,
You should tweet this picture. And fellow Brifites should retweet. That should give it some momentum on Twitter.
- 02 Nov 2015 12:08
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
- Replies: 4573
- Views: 1079125
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
@ 1.2 lakh shipments per day, it is still around 7 times less than the amzn depot in california. but way I see it, such uber centers will form from these seeds using incremental adds. amzn has more robotics, more belts, and cute lil "kiva" robots. trucking business will have to integrate ...
- 02 Nov 2015 11:59
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
- Replies: 4573
- Views: 1079125
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
Singha, that looks very TFTA indeed! Thanks for sharing.
- 02 Nov 2015 07:29
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
if population is the critical factor, China would have been dominating US and any other country on earth for the last 200 years. And that is why the one child policy was abandoned after so many years I presume? :rotfl: :rotfl: Sorry folks I know this is a serious thread and I shouldn't be using so ...
- 02 Nov 2015 07:26
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
Well, you want to believe this. But the fact is, if that is the case, India would not have allowed china to grow, as terms of GDP per person, from 2/3 to 5 times of India. There got to be something in it, right? The rabbit might not fall asleep ever...... Zengeri, A piece of advice. That kind of on...
- 02 Nov 2015 06:49
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
X-Posting from the Indian Economy Thread: Why India's Tortoise May Beat China's Hare This Forbes article needs to be quoted extensively and I would urge poster, who haven't read it, to go through it in full In part because of China’s faltering, the progress of Indian economic reform is now front an...
- 02 Nov 2015 06:47
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
- Replies: 4573
- Views: 1079125
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
Why India's Tortoise May Beat China's Hare This Forbes article needs to be quoted extensively and I would urge poster, who haven't read it, to go through it in full In part because of China’s faltering, the progress of Indian economic reform is now front and center, with a debate about how in the y...
- 02 Nov 2015 06:23
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
Unlike this gentlemen, we believe debate is debate, we do not do personal attack, such as "50 centers". Sorry in this part of the jungle known as the Internet calling someone a 50 center is not a personal attack. It is the same as someone being called a "software engineer" or a ...
- 02 Nov 2015 06:20
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
Well, the best way to know China and have a central opinion is to actually visit the country, just like what the following guy did: http://www.santaihu.com/2015090101.html http://www.santaihu.com/2015090103.html http://www.santaihu.com/2015090105.html Yeah sure and none of us have ever visited the ...
- 02 Nov 2015 06:16
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
India is proud of her democracy and looks down upon China's "dictatorship". Well, 1. "Democracy" does not do economy much good. China was once lagging behind Indian, In 1950s', China's GDP per person was 2/3 of India's, China's railway system has tracks with a length of 1/5 of I...
- 02 Nov 2015 06:09
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
Me being shot and taken out? Sure, go ahead. Another Chinese poster will come here and replace me? Don't flatter yourself and the importance of this forum. So Suraj, here is my birdie to you! LoL ... As if on cue, poster Zengeri, who seems to have become a member way back in 2009, reactivates his a...
- 31 Oct 2015 00:21
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
^^^^^ This happens when the cultural moorings of a society is destroyed. Everything is decided by a bloody committee and then they make a Tom & Jerry type cartoon about it like the one on the five year plan. China has grown spectacurly buy over the past 30 years but at what cost? Next to this, S...
- 30 Oct 2015 09:19
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
Ashi, Thank you for thinking that I am "probably an intelligent" person. You made my day. :rotfl: :rotfl: I think I'll mention it in my CV! However, I must say I'm getting more and more impressed with your debating and reasoning skills and of course intelligence. You've blown away the prob...
- 29 Oct 2015 23:58
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
I am not so hanging on to something that is so past tense. The world is moving and changing. Pick tradionarl clothes as an example. The style of traditional clothes is not stationary in the last thousands years and itself keeps evolving. And most of the traditional clothes is not even convenient fo...
- 29 Oct 2015 23:51
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
rsingh, i am sure you are a nice gentleman and all, and what you say about Indian people is very true, can you also ask amit not to *started* the conversation by calling me 50center and then went on ridiculing me and how Chinese people were? You are simply exhibiting an anguish Chinese posters here...
- 26 Oct 2015 13:12
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
I honestly don't think we are going anywhere ... I will stop here. Good better sense prevails. Please stick around and post about stuff happening in China. Believe it or not there is genuine interest in that country and a considerable degree of admiration on it's achievements. And all this on a for...
- 26 Oct 2015 13:09
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
Not all the malls are killed by e-commerce, but consumer changing their buying habit sure adds to them. You are twisting yourself into knots. Don't do that my friend. When I point out that Chinese e-commerce accounts for just 8.3 per cent of total retail sales in 2013 and is projected to account fo...
- 26 Oct 2015 13:04
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
Alibaba's 9B sales in one days, does it answer the question of "who" buys clothes online? The video also kinda answers it. Alibaba's $9billion sales is a function of 1.3 billion people. When you have so many people such numbers look massive but they need to be looked in the context. Also ...
- 26 Oct 2015 12:54
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
LoL, people who say things you don't want to hear are 50centers. The chart you provided doing you a dis-service. It shows China has the second highest e-commerce percentage in the world. US is way down in 8th spot. There are no shortages of articles in the internet telling how struggling the malls ...
- 26 Oct 2015 10:24
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
Some reading material for China bulls Link easy answer: Alibaba and Taobao are killing them. Just like in US, most of the malls are struggling or closing. Ashi, I suggest you stop trying to slip in FUD here. As other 50 centers have found out, it doesn't work on BRF. Look at the China numbers in th...
- 26 Oct 2015 04:42
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
- 20 Oct 2015 13:33
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
I remember the constant taunting of Chinese HSR in this forum few years back. Look where China is today! Fair point. This what some folks are saying, not taunting mind you. “China is now pushing high-speed rail into rural areas that doesn’t do much for villagers. They really need a one-lane road,” ...
- 20 Oct 2015 13:24
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
Yes Suraj,amit wrote:{Deleted}
My bad. Unnecessarily got provoked.
Won't happen again, especially since we are having an interesting discussion going on.
- 20 Oct 2015 12:46
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
They will start to put steel in the electronics that they export. Thin sheets of steel. If they can make a version of steel as thin and light or more than aluminium, then they have a winner If they can do that, then more power to them. They would have, as Theo said, created something unique and wor...
- 20 Oct 2015 12:44
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
- 20 Oct 2015 08:35
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
^^^^^ Fully agree with what you wrote. I would just add that they have to figure out how to escape the middle income trap like South Korea and Taiwan did. But as you say they need creative out of the box thinking for that. I don't see any evidence of that yet. The problem is when you over analyze li...
- 20 Oct 2015 07:32
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
It seems steel has a useful life of decades..can be remelted and used numerous times. Even ships sunk decades ago can be used. Singha, You are right but the problem is not the steel itself. It's the steel economy that China has built up. A steel factory has both upstream and downstream supply chain...
- 20 Oct 2015 05:10
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
Amit, Actually the western economic thinking is dominated by the Labour Theory of Value. Its Marxian in origin. The theory goes that anything has a value because someone says it has a value. The problem is Marx or Adam Smith thought from the perspective of an ideal economic man who is self aware an...
- 19 Oct 2015 10:49
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
Western ideology is quite different from economics as a (dismal) science. Ideology infects the economics profession severely, making its scientific content minimal. Per western ideology, state capitalism was not supposed to work; prosperity without a Protestant ethic or lack of individual freedom w...
- 19 Oct 2015 06:23
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
- Replies: 1351
- Views: 355523
Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
^^^ According to Western ideology, China should not have grown the economy they have. It was unprecedented. So I wouldn't take Western scholars as the last word on this. Gupta ji, don't really understand your point here. China's has followed a unique growth pattern. However, having said that, its g...