DISQUS

Vivek:
The Internet was the creation of DARPA, the famous US agency for Defence research (as you probably know).
Shefaly:
I have no idea, though, what TCP/IP does, except that I have seen the option in 'Internet Connect' on my Mac. You might be surprised, but there are people that know more about fool parts than tool parts.

Interesting.
A couple of factoids about robots:
S. Korea is the world's largest robot user. The policy of the State is to have robots in 80% of households by 2013. Mostly for menial jobs, and for company, too, I guess. Microsoft is looking at robotics for the next big leap from jadedness.

Congrats! I haven't been around here for a while, have I now? :-)
Tough life, day laborer that I am! And no MBA to boot!
Anyways, I haven't yet read the original post, but I say screw all rules. It's blogging. It's your time and effort. You make your own rules. If they are rational and valid, the world will find your blog. Or else, you are not noticed. But who can't live without that, I wonder?

Thanks for the BTB Scan, Vijay!
:-)

Have developed a healthy distaste for Blogger now, especially because of this irritating deal. On top of that, I have had some incredible experiences with commenting (almost worth a blog post). Okay, will do that....
:-)

Very interesting!

Lakshmi,
Good idea!
Except that private hospitals and their students are not, constitutionally speaking, the property of the Government, so that can push them anywhere they want.....

Very good post, really!
You have given quite a comprehensive depiction of the issues involved.
It is a no-brainer to say that the politician behind this has no idea of morality or right or the knoledge that the Government cannot have ownership of one year of a student's life.
There is no need for this idiocy. Identify the posts in district hospitals (PHCs are not for Indians or dogs),
and declare vacancies for them. If a graduate is allowed free hand in doing surgeries or whatever else, he or she will willingly go. Perhaps this is too shallow a solution, but at least this recognises that the students should be the masters of their lives, not some fucking politician!

Vijay,
Happy low-cal Diwali!
The last week, I have consumed a total of 35,000 calories. Today's lunch was 3000. For dinner, I am compensating by going low-cal. Only three (or was it four?) Lindt truffles!
:-)

Uh-oh! There goes my next blog post!

The problem with the prop-lever thing that would push up the seat up or down is that the men would invariably squirt a bit on it, the younger ones for target practice, and the older ones because of their off-target practice.

Very intelligent post, Shefaly, though I must confess to not clicking on the links to most of the posts, comments or the philosopher's absurd-sounding assertion (viz, no right to bear kids, etc.).
I have to repeat what I said in Nita's blog that if a 100% of the women of a society (reductio ad absurdum) choose to be surrogate mothers, so effing what? Why should this be anyone's business? This call to legislate human behavior is another example of social engineering, another feature of a control State, acting holier than ever before.

Vijay,
US healthcare economics are part of another planet. A few years ago, a friend told me a radiologist who puts in a catheter into the middle cerebral artery for infusing TPA for acute strokes gets paid $10,000!
I couldn't believe it! Similarly, surgeries also cost more there than in India. However, their good days are also over, with major cuts in pay for procedures, and insurance hassles reducing take home checks.
Very good post, thanks!

Now that was an interesting post!
Just need to get one every other day, is all!
:-)

"A Need arises.
Tension results.
Activity ensues to resolve Tension.
Satisfactory Resolution is made.
A Habit is formed.
Habit becomes Drive."

And I thought you were talking of sex.
Wonder why.

Was that a long answer..... or a Short Textbook...... of Cambridge History?

When will they open source the iPhone itself?That would be the day I could get one, it seems. For those of you who are seriously rich, like the stockbrokers of the drivers of the relatives of the Ambanis, I recommend that one buy the damn thing, if it is one thing in one's sorry life one does. (Now, I am posting this sodden comment one time only.)
Once Apple brings on an update, sell off the iPhone to your sabzi-wallah, and buy a new one.

Relax, Mahendra!
Think like me: the more things you don't know, the more reliable, famous, and accomplished you are in what you do know. Now concentrate on exposing that, what you do know!
:-)
Disclaimer: I don't share Mahendra's qualms about using humor in anyone's blogs.

Very interesting read!
A couple of lines surprised me in that you would normally have chosen more readable sentences.
Ex: "But it is a fundamental and complex trait, that requires and signals many other characteristics in a person that human beings in social and business interactions prize - empathy, a genuine interest in people, the ability to make connections and an ability to remember their name and address them by it."
:-)

Are you shooting blanks, mate, after all these years of xrays??
:-)

Like I said, I am blogging from out of home for the last week, and so IE it is. Right now I am graffiti-ing one Dr. Laughlin, and a Luis Tata.... sorry, folks!

No, actually, I sent in two precious comments which would have qualified nomally for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but your blog ate it up as Spam (Is your blog name Spam Man's Notes?)...
And, though I use a Mac, I am blogging out of home for the past week.
Yeah, I have Firefox as well, but am not fully into it yet....

Navin,
Normal men who watch porn, have other things of interest to see, rather than count the number of testicles hanging down a man's body.
It seems you could do with watching a bit of porn yourself: how on earth can you count a man's testicles when he is at it?
You HAVE to tell me this!
:-D

Trying to post a comment here is like applying to the Chief Minister for a free piece of land, where one could build a hospital for poor patients and become malodorously rich.

Hi. It looks like a comment of mine is crawling in your spam net.