Human Rights!

Should Children be allowed to work?

During lunch someone brought up the coming up holidays (Diwali) and crackers. Of course as soon as we think of crackers these days we automatically think of little children working in these factories dying little by little. This has now been fixed by not allowing children to work in such places. Well done!!! or is it?

By stopping the children from working at these places what have we done? Some, notice i use the word some, children, children who were abandoned by their parents and were working to be able to buy themselves one meal a day, not two, not three but one mean a day now are forced onto the roads to beg! Those who wouldn't are now no longer alive. Pains to know this doesn't it? Before we go ahead and make bold decisions like not making children work, we must first provide for them. With a country of over a billion people and a quarter of those being children, there's no way we can provide for their basic needs.

Ideally yes! Every child in the country must go to school, must one day earn a living doing something honorable, but let's face it. We’re not living in a perfect world.

Where are those children today? Where are the children who stopped working in the fire cracker factories?

Europe or Yurrop???

Is it Europe or Yurrop?

The European Commission has just announced an agreement wherebyEnglish will be the official language of the European nation ratherthan German which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded thatEnglish spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a5-year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this willmake the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped infavour of the "k".

This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one lessletter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond yearwhen the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with the "f". This willmake words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expektedto reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which havealways ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that thehoribl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and itshould go away.

By the 4th yer peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th"with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan bedropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav areil sensibl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tuunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Forces of Nature!

Today's discussion at the lunch table was about a number of things actually, one of them being the g-forces people can take.
here are some questions:
1. Who was the first person to experiment with G-Forces?
2. What is the max that we humans can take?
3. What are the g-forces experienced by different people in professions such as formula-1, astronauts, fighter pilots etc?
4. On a roller-coaster?

Foosball Roster!

Yup! its up now. we've got our very own 'Foosball Roster'. Look to the left of the screen and you'll see the names of everyone in the order of their position. So if you guys have a team and want your names up here, register now!
Just drop in a comment and your names will be put up here.

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Someone we know is feeling unusually shy abt this...so I'm posting it on his behalf! Check this out....
www.sid-krish.com

And...some stuff from another friend... http://www.eyespeak.blogspot.com/

TID

Introducing you to the newest word to catch my fancy ... TID ... standing for 'The Idiot Demographic'

They're every marketer's dream, every developing nation's hope, and every slightly sensible person's worst nightmare, but biggest source of entertainment.

Loved this piece on them.


disclosure...I am an iPod owner too! But, in my defense, it's only a mini ;)

cartoons and fiction

I remember while i was growing up, sitting in front of that gripping cartoon or have the latest hardy boy novel in my hand till every page has been Xeroxed into my brain. my favorite cartoons were & still are tom & jerry, tin-tin and book used to be the entire hardy boy series.
anyone else remember what you read or saw?

I love bookstores. A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking. And I like the way it breaks down into fiction and nonfiction.
- Jerry Seinfeld

ps: my fav. characters now have to be calvin & hobbes

Multiple Universes

Here are a few questions:

a) Do multiple universes exist?
b) If they do how did they begin?
c) was there a single "big bang"?
d) how can we detect other universes?

this is not the first posting...!!!!

Still wondering why did I pick this color for the blog....
any clues?