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by Virupaksha
16 Oct 2015 08:13
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: The Levant crisis.(Israel,SYRIA,Lebanon,etc)
Replies: 4033
Views: 456232

Re: The Levant crisis.(Israel,SYRIA,Lebanon,etc)

Singha wrote:does anyone know how having more ground stations boosts the accuracy as this article claims?
I would guess it reduces error creep.
by Virupaksha
15 Oct 2015 21:37
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: The Levant crisis.(Israel,SYRIA,Lebanon,etc)
Replies: 4033
Views: 456232

Re: The Levant crisis.(Israel,SYRIA,Lebanon,etc)

Wiki entry claims 7 children and 13 wives 6 from khadija - 2 sons 4 daughters, sons died in childhood 1 from slave - ibrahim - died around 20 ish without marriage. There is unanimous agreement on Mohammed's children on only Fatimah. There is atleast one doubt or clarification or something something...
by Virupaksha
15 Oct 2015 20:50
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: The Levant crisis.(Israel,SYRIA,Lebanon,etc)
Replies: 4033
Views: 456232

Re: The Levant crisis.(Israel,SYRIA,Lebanon,etc)

by Ramana Jordan is Sunni. On NPR an expert was saying King is a descendant of prophet ! most of the people who are Descendant of the prophet are Shias (Descendant from Fatima (daughter of Prophet) and Ali (found of Shia Islam Cousin of Prophet). Sunnis start from Ayesha (youngest wife of Prophet) ...
by Virupaksha
13 Oct 2015 00:01
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: States News and Discussions
Replies: 1154
Views: 269064

Re: States News and Discussions

To stop the communists, my amateur analysis says that a local business elite is needed to oppose them. This elite actively try to destroy the us vs them narrative which the communists spin.

What are the business and industrial communities of Kerala in british India?
by Virupaksha
11 Oct 2015 22:23
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: States News and Discussions
Replies: 1154
Views: 269064

Re: States News and Discussions

Infact the lack of Bengali industrialists from my amateur analysis is one of the prime reasons why Bose was defeated in the intra-party tussle with Gandhi/Patel/Nehru. SCB didnt have money bags/industrialists backing him. He could only rise in opposition to the local industrialists (Marwaris) and if...
by Virupaksha
11 Oct 2015 22:10
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: States News and Discussions
Replies: 1154
Views: 269064

Re: States News and Discussions

I cant read that link. So cant read whether it touches the issue. Actually the industrialization in Bengal was different from other areas. Industrialisation in Bengal was inspite of the British and in the face racism. The local Bengalis were also not part of it. They were attempting to come in early...
by Virupaksha
04 Oct 2015 23:18
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: The Levant crisis.(Israel,SYRIA,Lebanon,etc)
Replies: 4033
Views: 456232

Re: The Levant crisis.(Israel,SYRIA,Lebanon,etc)

if turkey attacks, it is under NATO, the question is whether US is ready for WWIII??
by Virupaksha
04 Oct 2015 02:54
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US Relations : News and Discussion- II
Replies: 4037
Views: 498595

Re: India-US Relations : News and Discussion- II

Mort: Thanks. 48 million people on food stamps are the ones who can be truly called at or BPL. That number is the one I remember which works out to ~16% of 310 million total. The rest require only supplemental assistance. In a some sense they are not really BPL. Still 16% is too high for the most a...
by Virupaksha
04 Oct 2015 02:47
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015
Replies: 1351
Views: 358270

Re: PRC Economy - New Reflections : April 20 2015

arent some of the treasuries owned by luxemborg registered apples, microsoft and such co. After we include these kind of private cos, the % held by Govts as a part of their reserves will fall down to a much drastic levels.
by Virupaksha
27 Sep 2015 22:25
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
Replies: 4573
Views: 1086707

Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015

The british raj was one of so called free market and unbridled capitalism with minimal disincentives or atleast no incentives to Indians? There was a reason why the Indian national movement hated capitalism. They saw the worst effects of capitalism when it had no structural support and were asking f...
by Virupaksha
25 Sep 2015 02:33
Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
Topic: Telugu States' News and Discussion
Replies: 2477
Views: 162127

Re: Telugu States' News and Discussion

Certificates - I am worried about long term. Will TTD be the sole authority of these certificates?
by Virupaksha
23 Sep 2015 04:12
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Education System
Replies: 3958
Views: 782495

Re: Indian Education System

Are these all for-profit colleges? Officially no college or educational institution in India can be for-profit. Infact until six months, if you generate surplus(profit), you cant be an educational institution in India :roll: :rotfl: http://www.mondaq.com/india/x/387468/Charities+Non-Profits/Even+If...
by Virupaksha
22 Sep 2015 21:40
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Education System
Replies: 3958
Views: 782495

Re: Indian Education System

the same is also rampant when AICT inspections go on. Get temporary teachers for the inspection , fudge records, show nonexistent facilities and hire temporary equipment during inspection time etc etc.The list is endless. That is what I object to. ..........You can argue that due diligence needs to...
by Virupaksha
22 Sep 2015 16:13
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Education System
Replies: 3958
Views: 782495

Re: Indian Education System

By that logic lets keep IIPM running as well.. IIPM will get better with time.. IIPM is a symbol or symptom of non-availability of quality education options. The problem was simply, he wanted to dupe without having any intention to abide any laws today or in the future. Lakhs of people who joined I...
by Virupaksha
22 Sep 2015 10:37
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: West Asia News and Discussions (YEMEN, gulf)
Replies: 4734
Views: 677594

Re: West Asia News and Discussions

wake me up when europe actually does something - like ooh I dont know, reject it.
by Virupaksha
22 Sep 2015 10:17
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Education System
Replies: 3958
Views: 782495

Re: Indian Education System

The closing down of fraudulent 'engineering colleges' is a good thing. They can be substituted by online degrees for those who really want them. And please we're not talking about places of any standard here. These are tier 4 'fake' colleges where people pass out knowing less than when they entered...
by Virupaksha
20 Sep 2015 22:15
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
Replies: 4573
Views: 1086707

Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.117.9411&rep=rep1&type=pdf It appears that the unequal access to economic and social opportunities that underlies this unequal asset distribution is inimical to sustainable long-term development . Although the data do not contain suffi...
by Virupaksha
20 Sep 2015 21:53
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
Replies: 4573
Views: 1086707

Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015

Wait a minute don't mix things. Word "emotional connect" seemed to have cause distraction . Land acquisition for productive things for country's development overrides emotional connect IF done properly . I am not against it. It was just on a standalone property tax debate. Land acquisitio...
by Virupaksha
20 Sep 2015 21:40
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
Replies: 4573
Views: 1086707

Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015

Why not?? Did he earn the land?? He got it not from his efforts but from some body else's effort. Now he is not utilizing his 2 cr asset productively and is showing a rent seeking behavior. If he doesnt want to use his land productively and is keeping others from using it, that kind of behavior des...
by Virupaksha
20 Sep 2015 21:34
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
Replies: 4573
Views: 1086707

Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015

And the best part of it is we don't need LAB either. Just a Guideline values declared from time to time on which to tax. Right now there is clamour to increase GL values without it being connected to actual market demand and supply. But BJP would surely not come in 2019, that much would be pretty g...
by Virupaksha
20 Sep 2015 21:15
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
Replies: 4573
Views: 1086707

Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015

All immovable properties including land etc shall be taxed at least 1% of their value Just want to understand for the following scenario. X a normal middle class inherits land in a city. Now with city development the cost of land has gone to say 2 crore. He does not want to sell the land due to emo...
by Virupaksha
20 Sep 2015 21:05
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
Replies: 4573
Views: 1086707

Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015

Stock market should not be taxed except for long term capital gains of course. Are there rules to prevent speculation? I.e frequent trading by individuals with the help of brokers? What is the friction in the stock market compared to US where it is quite high. Why shouldnt stock market for short te...
by Virupaksha
20 Sep 2015 21:02
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
Replies: 4573
Views: 1086707

Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015

Typically stock market money has already been taxed once. Only capital gains should be taxed. Property is taxed to pay for the infrastructure behind it, roads, water, police, schools, etc. A 1% tax would unfortunately bankrupt a large portion of Indian land/property owners. short term there will be...
by Virupaksha
20 Sep 2015 20:53
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
Replies: 4573
Views: 1086707

Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015

Wealth tax actually was a retrogressive step wherever it was introduced. There should be low wealth tax (0.5-2% at most) and moderate inheritance tax, with minimal loop holes. A country progresses only if it broadbases wealth. The only countries which have escaped middle income trap are those which...
by Virupaksha
10 Sep 2015 01:19
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-Sept 05, 2015
Replies: 2850
Views: 350456

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-Sept 05,

it is a military base. 7 years and 1 ship went to Gwadar. It doesnt have industries or catchment area - for which karachi is near. Actually Singapore was the earlier port operator, especially because US didnt like having China in its rear for the supplies to afghanistan. The saaga can be read on wik...
by Virupaksha
09 Sep 2015 20:28
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: Artillery: News & Discussion
Replies: 4811
Views: 1340768

Re: Artillery Discussion Thread

Fair point. But do we blow $15bn on 3000 guns when the conflicts the service chiefs see are short and intense ones? The resource constraint is important. Artillery is needed to help win those short intense ones. 1965 and 1971 were classic short intense wars. War is not cheap. Preparation for war sh...
by Virupaksha
09 Sep 2015 16:02
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-Sept 05, 2015
Replies: 2850
Views: 350456

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-Sept 05,

x-post from urdu learning dhaga... Some what related since this is from Lahore.. >>> Some good reading material.. Below is a copy of Ramcharit Manas (Ramayana by Tulsidas) - 105 years old from Lahore.. http://img01.ibnlive.in/ibnlive/uploads/666x444/jpg/2015/08/RTR1BDAB.jpg how many days now before...
by Virupaksha
09 Sep 2015 15:28
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: West Asia News and Discussions (YEMEN, gulf)
Replies: 4734
Views: 677594

Re: West Asia News and Discussions

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/09/middleeast/al-baghdadi-isis-slave/index.html al-baghdadi kept 8 yazidi girls in his house, beat them with a hose and belt, raped the american hostage repeatedly, avoids cellphones... I dont think he has broken any law he believes in. Will Americans let some new rea...
by Virupaksha
09 Sep 2015 12:37
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: West Asia News and Discussions (YEMEN, gulf)
Replies: 4734
Views: 677594

Re: West Asia News and Discussions

Singha wrote:http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/09/middl ... index.html

al-baghdadi kept 8 yazidi girls in his house, beat them with a hose and belt, raped the american hostage repeatedly, avoids cellphones...
all according to shariah and caliphate teachings.
by Virupaksha
09 Sep 2015 01:53
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-Sept 05, 2015
Replies: 2850
Views: 350456

Re: Sunni Terrorist Fragments of Unstable Pakistan-Sept 05,

There was news last year about Indian Gov asking UNMOGIP to vacate official bunglaw, dont know what happened next.
by Virupaksha
01 Sep 2015 22:58
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
Replies: 4573
Views: 1086707

Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015

So it will be mid-October? How contentious is this bill going to be, how likely is it to be passed? We'll have to wait for the bill. It's not as much a money bill as a law bill. Labour laws will be particularly contentious. If it's written such that it's purely a financial restructuring reform meas...
by Virupaksha
01 Sep 2015 15:54
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015
Replies: 4573
Views: 1086707

Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Aug 26 2015

Nice spin, I hereby declare myself as the greatest ekhonomist and declare gross of total domestic value produced + net of national value domestic added as the truest measure of declaring a country's growth. PS: The book which declares it is priced at $ 1 trillion and is available for sale at a disco...
by Virupaksha
10 Aug 2015 16:19
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indo-UK News and Discussion - April 2013
Replies: 3962
Views: 623709

Re: Indo-UK News and Discussion - April 2013

US economy was the most powerful in 1860. Only they did not have open aspirations of world domination until the EUropean war of 1914 started. By some estimates, US was growing at 15% in the 50 years between 1860 - 1900. that was the time of start of monroe doctrine, basically become the sole superp...
by Virupaksha
10 Aug 2015 00:18
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indo-UK News and Discussion - April 2013
Replies: 3962
Views: 623709

Re: Indo-UK News and Discussion - April 2013

The red lotus by Parag Tope mentions during 1857 it was the scottish/irish troops which were the most brutal.
by Virupaksha
28 Jul 2015 18:41
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Economy - News & Discussion Oct 12 2013
Replies: 3978
Views: 458822

Re: Indian Economy - News & Discussion Oct 12 2013

and much of the new irrigation water of MP must have come from the sardar sarovar. that much maligned horse always whipped by the enviro activists. actually, madhya pradesh doesnt get much benefit from the sardar sarovar dam wrt irrigation as the dam is downstream. It gets lion share of electricity...
by Virupaksha
26 Jul 2015 18:17
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Re: Eastern Europe/Ukraine [Feb 6th 2015]
Replies: 229
Views: 27663

Re: EU crisis-Greece

It is when one has to face a crisis, he knows who are his friends.

Greece is getting to who they are. Good in the long run, when they can overthrow these shackles.
by Virupaksha
26 Jul 2015 00:04
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Eastern Europe/Ukraine [Feb 6th 2015]
Replies: 5804
Views: 959037

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

Bhurishrava wrote:
Meanwhile Ukraine has banned communist parties from contesting elections.
http://www.euronews.com/2015/07/24/ukra ... elections/
Democracy by Unkil in its finest form - You should have all the democracy we want, as long as only my puppet can stand in elections.
by Virupaksha
25 Jul 2015 10:19
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Eastern Europe/Ukraine [Feb 6th 2015]
Replies: 5804
Views: 959037

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

Chocolate is a puppet in Nuland's hands. He is only the chief of local skimmers and knows that he is in his role only as long as he kisses Unkil's butt.

The rest is rhetoric is keep ukranians under control.