Would Slumdog have been even noticed had it not been made by a British Director? Thousands of movies have been made about poverty in India. They get as much attention as movies made about drugs in American cities. People deal with this shit in their everyday life and dont want to watch it when they pay to enter a theater for some relaxation. Only people who have never seen poverty get their rocks off by watching something like Slumdog. Then again probably why Rambo and Die Hard were so popular outside the States was that guns are a big deal in countries with gun control.

Did you just say SUB marines stay always at the surface of the ocean:0)???

Nah I think the French tried to communicate their position but unfortunately they spoke in English. However everyone knows only immigrants serve in the British-American forces so they should have tried Urdu or Spanish first.

The wall served its purpose. To Invade France the Germans had to invade Belgium first and that made them the villains as the Belgians had done nothing to them. France on the other hand had taken huge parts of German land and industry after WW1 so if Germany had attacked France and Poland and only those countries as these two had taken German land the rest of the world including Britain would have stayed out of the war. But once the Germans drove around and invaded Belgium the gloves came off and it was total war.

It probably thought BSG=>moral dilemna =>A channel funded by pro western arab government trying to give the non-western point of view=>Al-Jazeera. You do know that Jazeera is just a toned down version of CNN funded by the Emir of one the most pro western states in the gulf. If you really want the other side of the story listen to Hamas TV (the actual moral equivalent of FOX) but then you cant - the Israelis bombed the transmitting station :0)

Thing is when you hear biased coverage from one side you dont know what is fact and what is spin. However when you hear coverage from both sides the parts which are common to both the stories are very probably the facts and you can safely ignore the parts not common in their stories and hence get an unbiased view of events.

Most Israelis have served in the IDF and most of them have as a result commmitted war crimes. That doesn't prevent CNN from giving them media time so why should people on the other side of the struggle not get media time?

You would love working with an Israeli offsite team. Israel has Fri-Sat as the weekend and Sunday is a working day. Now when we worked with them we had Sat-Sun as our weekend so on Fridays we had no teleconferences or simple phone calls interrupting us and we got a lot done and when the Israelis started working on Sunday they would send off a bunch of emails with questions but as we didnt look at them till Monday half of them were already solved(as in on second thought that already makes sense) and did not even need responses to. One Monday morning I actually had more recall requests waiting then actual messages :)

I guess you never had an intro to comp sci class where it was taught that RAM and ROM are primary memory, disks are secondary MEMORY and tape backups are tertiary MEMORY. All RAM is memory but all memory is not RAM.

I guess you couldnt understand my language. I do have a tendency to use long complicated sentences. What I said was govt should not use capital to generate jobs as any way govt gathers capital has a cost in jobs. This does not mean govt should not gather capital to use for basic science as the advancement of the tech base has a much larger multiplier effect than welfare (which has a zero multipler effect) and any jobs lost is worth the cost to advance the tech base. Of course if the USA would sell this tech and train our scientists in these technology it would cost even less but nationalist and chauvenestic lobbies like the guys who made their careers on non proliferation will not let basic science to be shared.

Well having cool things to do for brilliant scientists makes sure the brilliant scientists stay in the country instead of leaving and contributing to the success of NASA and hence opening up the tech gap even more. And if brilliant people stay in the country the second string of people also stay back thinking they might have a shot at doing the cool things and while they wait for their shot they do other things which helps the countries tech base and economy. Just to say if Europe hadnt funded CERN saying basic physics is not worth doing Tim Berners Lee wouldnt have been at the right place and time to invent the WEB. Who knows 5 years from now a brilliant young Indian scientist who stayed back in India inspired by Chandrayaan could invent something equally world changing. For the small amount of money spent on ISRO ( its not even the amount collected as parking tickets in any big Indian city) the potential paybacks are huge. Its like being allowed to play the lottery but with tickets cost .001 cents and jackpots in the billions and with only 5 countries playing the game giving you a 20% chance of hitting the jackpot- you would be a fool to not play and instead donate the .001 cent to charity.

The root cause of poverty in India is a lack of capital for industry as for 300 years all excess capital was sucked out of the country and stored in London. That London is the financial capital of the world has a lot to do with the wealth sucked out of India. Before the arrival of the British India had the highest per capita income in the world and it will have the same status again one day but 60 years of independence are not enough to catchup on the capital deficit of 300 years of colonialism. Nor is India an undeveloped area like the America or Oceania where there are excess resources for the taking (the easily available resources were all extracted in the last 4000 years of civilization and the resultant wealth was looted in 300 years of colonialism) India needs to catchup and doing basic science and technology is what we need to do as we are not sitting on a shitload of oil (the root cause of American prosperity) nor did we have colonies(the root cause of European prosperity). Wasting time on stupid European concepts like socialism and welfare is the last thing we need to do. Thankfully Nehru and his generation of Anglophile Brown sahibs are dead and gone and we can get on with the task of building real wealth through hard work rather than expecting handouts. And if lack of capital is the problem the governemnt can hardly solve the problem of job generation as the government itself has no capital other than what it raises through taxes and pump priming through government bailouts of a particular sector generates fewer jobs than the jobs lost in other sectors of the economy due to the higher taxes which are made necessary to pay for bailouts. In short governments cant do anything about alleviating poverty other than provide a level playing field- anything else is just playing with lies, damn lies and statistics.

The govts job is not to serve individuals , it is to serve society and do not everything which needs to be done but only that which needs to be done AND cannot be done by the private sector. jobs are best generated by the private sector. The govts job is to provide the regulatory framework like enforcement of contracts, environment standards, carrying out of unprofitable basic research which allow the private sector to create the jobs needed without endangering the safety of society just to increase profit margins. Job creation, poverty alleviation, CHARITY are things best left to the private sector(Mind you a properly regulated private sector not the American model where its OK to be unethical and break laws as long as you bribe/lobby the appropiate politicians or were classmates at an IVY league school with the guy supposed to be regulating you. Thats just crony capitalism which privatizes the profits and socializes the risks)
India tried the socialist model but it didnt work. Hopefully India will not do the mistake of following the crony capitalist American model and stick to pure well regulated capitalism like Scandinavia.
So again I say India needs to spend on space till the day it becomes commercially viable and then shift the funds to the next area of basic research. No amount of dole, social security, welfare, disability benefits will solve the problem of poverty. All men are NOT created equal and there will always be more successfull and less successfull people- the govts job is not to pick winners or give consolation prizes to the losers- it is to keep the game fair.