F-16s to Pakistan—Why Now?

re:#152 by Dalit
Hey, YLH (aka Manto),
How are u man?
Sridhar

#155 by arjun_m

[You`ll have to do better than an article by abdul paki....This isn`t a paki echo-chamber of self-delusion....people here might actually click on the links....]

That is the problem with Pakis. All the reports in the western media about the sorry state of affairs in Pakiland are biased, because the west is prejudiced against Muslims, but articles by the Abdul Pakis critical of India are immediately hailed as the gospel truth, because they fit in with the Paki perception of Indians, honed by years of indoctrination.

re: Kashmir solution?
http://www.satribune.com/archives/200504/P1_arun2.htm
Looks like India and China are seriously considering a solution to their border problem. India would be willing to give up its claim on Aksai Chin (and few in India would shed tears) and China would give up its claim on Arunachal Pradesh. This is what is being explored.
If this comes thr`, this could become a model for Kashmir solution.
A give and take is what is needed in Kashmir.
That is to say: India gives up its claim on POK and Pak takes what is being offered!
Sounds good to me.
What do u think my Pak friends?
Sridhar

re:#142 by CoolAL
Consider the situation from the angle of realpolitik.
Who, in that region, is affected if Iran has nuclear weapons, a delivery system and prospers (through building oil gas pipeline and what not)?
There is only one country that will have problem with Iran forging ahead and that is Israel. Jewish lobby in the Congress (US) is powerful and if u hear US govt not wanting the Iran-India pipeline deal to go through, it means the jewish lobby is working.
Israel and India have forged a strategic relationship. Why would India then want to damage that relationship by having a deal with Israel`s archenemy Iran?
I have come to believe that this was a thought out plan (or all this is just happening serendepitously) to push US to intervene and offer India substantial benefits as compensation for opting out of a deal that India was touting as critical for its energy needs. Surely, US could not have asked India to opt out without in someway ensuring its future energy needs are taken care of. Hence the new offer on nuclear reactors etc etc.
Whatever the case may be, India should try to be self-sufficient in energy. India can utilise its tidal waves (from vast ocean shores), wind waves and nuclear energy to meet its needs and rely on some good friends for assured gas supplies until it becomes self-sufficient.
Sridhar

re:#143 by taqat-e-parvaaz
Get a life man.
Sitting in US, i do not believe in Akhand Bharat anymore than i believe Pak is a progressive, secular state.
Sridhar

Re: # 99 by Romair.

[Canada has a per capita income of $30,000]

It is more like $25,000. That too $ here stands for Candian $. Personal Disposable Income is around CA$20,000. The argument that you are using this figures for is also not correct. Canada and Pakistan are not comparable. Pakistan is hostile country to India, Canada is not hostile to USA. Canada has more or less accepted hegemony of USA. Who is the real boss in North America is an issue more or less settled. Not so in our subcontinent.

rshridhar,
T-e-P need not be a madrassah graduate. Their regular school book seems to a fair bit of indoctrination, as evident from Mahesh`s post on another board. Then he wobbles about akhand-bharat little realizing that most Indians thank their stars that we had partition.

Ref rsridhar #160

[...USA is offering India technology for civilian nuclear power reactors. If that technology can utilise the huge thorium deposits in Kerala, India would not have to depend on outside sources for energy.]

For the last 30 years, India has been claiming that it has achieved success in burning thrioum or MOX (Mixed Oxide, a thorium-uranium mixture) in ints reactors. The US does not sell anything except reactors using enriched uranium. So forget any talk about using thorium. Indians have been busy increasing the population in the last thirty years rather than build a thorium reactor. Pretty much the same goes for the fast-breeder reactor for which they finally laid the foundaion stone a couple of months back. Or is it, drove the first nail through the coffin?

#158 by rsridhar on April 11, 2005 5:42am PT


I will not be surprised if this T-e-P character studied in a madrassa, rocking himself away in front of his holy book.


A good analogy...the students in the madrassahs don`t understand the arabic they are learning...porky t-e-p doesn`t know squat about some of the links he is posting..like the SOC design company he posted as an example of paki technology...i`ll bet he doesn`t know what a SOC is...or what palmchip actually produces....

he doesn`t know squat about muxed buses...his knowledge is limited to blowing up buses...

Palmchip patents the obvious

I was blown away when I read that PalmChip was recently granted a patent on unidirectional muxed buses on systems-on-chip. Engineers have been designing non-tristate buses ever since forever.

``Our first phase is to inform the SoC industry that we have been granted this patent,`` said James Venable, vice president of marketing at PalmChip, in a recent EE Times article. ``We want to give companies that are creating on-chip buses an opportunity to examine their technology to see if there is a conflict and then, if there is, to contact us. We intend to be cooperative about this, not punitive. But of course, we will defend our patent aggressively.``

This means the PalmChip lawyers and engineers will be going door to door to do a shakedown to collect on this absolutely absurd patent they somehow snookered the U.S. Patent Office into granting them.

Don`t get me wrong. I`m not against people who do real innovation being able to benefit from their inventions, but in this case it seems clear that PalmChip just patented the obvious and is trying to claim it`s special and innovative because it`s on an SoC. What`s next? Intel claiming a patent on NAND gates on SoC chips?

re:#166 by einsteinwallah
``Canada has more or less accepted hegemony of USA. Who is the real boss in North America is an issue more or less settled. Not so in our subcontinent.``
Well, the matter is settled as far as rest of the world is concerned but Pakis won`t accept India as the leader in the area because their H and D does not allow it.
Canadians are smart people who have decided to live in prosperity by aligning economically with USA. It would have been futile to compete with US and spend a lot of money on arms.
You failed to mention another important difference. India and Pak are ideological enemies while US and Canada are not.
Sridhar

re:#169 by arjun_m
You had me there buddy.
I went to the link you posted and let me confess, i did not understand a thing. But then, i am not into this IT business, so i am not ashamed.
Sridhar

re:#168 by harimau
It is a pity, if what u say is true. All the more reason India should forge an alliance with US and get the technology (assuming US has it).
A lot of people i have talked to here seem to be wary of China and its intentions. China is unreliable as a friend. India needs to be at peace with that country to prosper but anything more than trade with China would not be in India`s interest. At least that is what i think.
Sridhar

re:#167 by vivek
I can always take some logical criticisms but this guy T-e-P seems like the one who is bigoted. He is crticising Indians for just being Indians!
Sridhar

I see the pandit-hates are in full swing.

As t would say, tea anyone??

I am `sitting` in India, and i see change all around me.People who were lucky enough to afford a two-wheeler are moving around in cars, and folks who pedaled around in cycles are now aspiring to own bikes.I checked the used car ads last weekend, and a Premier 118NE, till 1995 a premium car for the well heeled can be bought now for as low as 35000 rupees, with a/c, power windows and bucket seats, well maintained.If not well maintained, such cars head for the junkyard.Good roads,consumer durables or `fmcg`s` as they are known here, restaurants to suit every budget, happening nightclubs, dance clubs and cafes adorn every street in every major city in India, and Mumbai is the most glaring example of them all.Household help is at a premium as ever more of the poor are moving on to better paying jobs in catering and office maintenance.Call center employees are treated to meals depending on their shifts and this has created a lucrative catering industry in which even the big players are moving in on.Recently a law was passed enabling companies to hire women for night shift in factories creating more capacity in our industries and allowing them to maximise their output.

Every working citizen in india is now being issued a PAN card which looks very much like an US `green` card with security features like holograms,photograph etal and an unique number assigned to each individual.This is to ensure collection of taxes and also works as an official ID card.Very soon all indians will start to receive one.I bought a new mobile phone at a reliance call centre and the attendant with one entry transferred all my telephone nos. in my old phone to my new one.I did not have to sit and input everything again!.And, i didn`t even ask for this!!.I could go on and on, but i won`t.A new resurgent india is on the march, yet i see many indians on `chowk` unable to see the woods for the trees on this matter.I therefore have to assume that they either are refusing to see the writing on the wall, or are just grudgingly accepting of the new india, as it might just be a situation of sour grapes.The west is either dead or dying, everyone is up to their eyeballs in debt and it is just a matter of time before the house of cards come a-crashing.Indians in india are having a better quality-of-life quotient, as they have the benefit of family support, the honor of living in one`s own land and everything that is available in the developed world is also available in india and at quite affordable levels, or at the same price hierarchy.Sad folks, you are.

#175 by cayenne on April 12, 2005 11:30am PT


Every working citizen in india is now being issued a PAN card


A hi-tech PAN card is as useful to you as grandma`s big teeth were to little red riding hood....