When is the last time I've seen the gun-country portrayed in good light (think of all the crime & horror movies), including the so called good guys?! Remember "Training Day"? I've been vocal about this issue* and smelt the stench of bigotry in the rebukes :-(
But I'll maintain my position, that civilized and progressive societies should start with ( Read more... )

So I'm never tired of reading the same topics (such is the business of Science) and was browsing the Discover magazine abt fracking (injecting Sand, Water and various chemicals at high pressure to fracture the natural gas traps) and the contamination of water supply with carcinogens such as benzene & formaldehyde. Now Rick Perry (governer of Texas ( Read more... )

Think of old-man's persistent cough due to mucus, bronchitis, & emphysema. Now some of it is hereditary (familial emphysema - alveoli damage manifested as shortness of breath) and also environmental (bronchitis - inflammation of bronchial passage)!  Imagine someone predisposed to this and meeting smoke (tobacco or coal-fired kilns ( Read more... )

Race based discrimination hurts

Can think of at least one who has nothing to cheer, nothing good to offer, has a dismal existence, and is also pathological bigot!

perhaps being a transplant is what makes me dwell so much on an anthropologists' definition of 'in-groups' and 'out-groups'! apparently this is how societies conduct life & day-to-day business! this is so obvious to me, especially when i'm in a small town, anywhere in the world! can easily tell, how for generations, people must have trusted people ( Read more... )

think Descartes' way is what made math lot more fun (linking algebra & geometry ( Read more... )

used to love playing & watching sports up until my university days! guess i'm not a typical sports fan. having said that, tonight found myself at skywater lounge (hilton) without my phone. stuck having to watch football which is on every television screen! can never understand the craze  cos it doesn't even come anywhere close to the elegance &  ( Read more... )

Tell me it's not about pure excitement and sacred ceremonial aspect of Soccer that FIFA wants to preserve & have World Cup only once every 4yrs.  After all Soccer is the most exciting sporting event in the world! In the global economy, i'm sure there are several billions of dollars to be made out of this sporting event. If NBAs, NFLs & MLBs can ( Read more... )

It is not a trivial matter to facilitate high-availability without the IP-Takeover that is available with PowerHA ( Read more... )

Please be aware that there is a big-difference between the two types of personnel scanners (as opposed to baggage scanners) aka nudeoscopes used at airports. One uses "millimeter wave scattering" technique while the other uses "x-ray back-scattering"! The x-ray transceiver is from American Science & Engineering  and the active millimeter ( Read more... )