Consciousness without borders
arya.raychaudhuri
the
economic recession has shrunk our consciousnesses and it is not
expanding as before. Reminds me of Charlie's Gold Rush - towards the
end.
Folks becoming very selfish. Yet, sometimes we need to smile and keep
the positive spirit going. In physics, of course, energy is conserved,
and
you cannot produce more energy from less. But, not so in writing. If
the
writing is popular, many people feel inspired by it and do things
spending
their own energies! So, while the writer spends very little energy, it
generates
lots of work energy in the audience. If we can write about positive
thoughts,
hopefully people do positive things, right things. Recently, I made a
small
donation towards those that suffered in the typhoon in the
philippines, through
the UNICEF. Let's say, that is the last time in recent past that my
consciousness expanded beyond boders, in a positive sense.
Arindam Banerjee
Completely wrong. Energy is always getting created and subsequently
destroyed. This is exactly what the Sun and all the stars do, with
the help of endless Space.
> and
> you cannot produce more energy from less.
Pressure variations create energy, which then gets destroyed.
obMyBook: "The Principles of Motion" where all physical phenomena
relating to motion and energy are explained...
Cheers,
Arindam Banerjee
arya.raychaudhuri
Arindam Banerjee
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Arindam Banerjee
Bloodsuckers, toadies, frauds of all descriptions, interested only in their
salaries and pensions. No abuse is too strong for these cowardly wretches,
huddling under the banners of institutionalisation!
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arya.raychaudhuri
hood based
on educational institutions, cultural/ethnic groups! Even Prof. Bose
got his
work in physics reviewed by Einstein.
On Oct 28, 5:13 am, "Arindam Banerjee" <adda1...@bigpond.com> wrote:
> I was being too kind - the most abominable vermin huddle in Phuddy peerhood.
> Bloodsuckers, toadies, frauds of all descriptions, interested only in their
> salaries and pensions. No abuse is too strong for these cowardly wretches,
> huddling under the banners of institutionalisation!
>
> "arya.raychaudhuri" <arya.raychaudh...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:88ffca9e-19b6-4cf3...@g22g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> No comments on non-peer-reviewed/cited physics!
>
> On Oct 26, 4:08 am, Arindam Banerjee <adda1...@bigpond.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > > the positive spirit going. In physics, of course, energy is conserved,
>
> > Completely wrong. Energy is always getting created and subsequently
> > destroyed. This is exactly what the Sun and all the stars do, with
> > the help of endless Space.
>
> > > and
> > > you cannot produce more energy from less.
>
> > Pressure variations create energy, which then gets destroyed.
>
> > obMyBook: "The Principles of Motion" where all physical phenomena
> > relating to motion and energy are explained...
>
> > Cheers,
>
> > Arindam Banerjee- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -
Arindam Banerjee
I cannot get my works reviewed by Sir Isaac Newton, unfortunately. I do use
his handsome potrait as my desktop background. Very inspiring!
As for acceptance, it was published in the papers in 2003 precisely because
it was vetted by the wife (a PhD in physics) of a leading journalist, who
had known me in my adolescence. My uncle, a retired Major General of the
EME/Indian Army had also given his approval. Both approved on the grounds
of logical consistency of the theory.
Since then, it (mainly my mathematical formula linking mass and energy) has
been the subject of intense scrutiny by very many people. I am very glad to
say that all my wingmates in RP Hall (now they are all very big-wigs, unlike
my truculent self) have nothing negative to say about my radical ideas (the
law of conservation of energy is rubbish, unlimited speed is possible), in
our free-for-all mailing group where we open our hearts. It is now to be
proven, based upon experimentation. As far as I am concerned, that has
already been done, by one Schroeder of the Uni of Texas, who, based upon US
D0D funding, has shown that an electromagnetic rail gun has no recoil. This
of course automatically makes my theories right, and interstellar travel
possible. The links between the former two sentences are elaborated in my
book, "The Principles of Motion".Not that there is anything really new
there, for they all derive from the works I have already published in
Usenet. Which was all I could, for journals would not even acknowledge the
receipt of my papers, and the establishment laughed at me and implied I
should get my head checked.
These days, though, my critics are rather quiet. I suspect they are
plotting how to deprive me of the credit for my discoveries and inventions!
There is truly, no limit for their bastardy. For what good can be expected
from those who willingly collaborated to make weapons of mass destruction,
of unparralled and unprecedented evil in world history?
Well, thanks for replying. My book will be distributed for free only among
my friends, it will never be for sale, so if you are interested let me know.
Still, I hold metaphysics (poetry) to be far more important than physics, so
the world (that cares) will have to wait for the above, until those works
are over, and then they will be published at my expense, together.
Cheers,
Arindam Banerjee.
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journals
through the regular peer review process, and you won't need to write
long
passages in its favor.
> > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -
harmony
acclaim thr' bullying and bad mouthing his intended reviewers, a familiar
commie tactic you might say.
btaim, it is the priorites, dear. first he needs money which he intends to
make in equally non-expertly vetted way that would demolish mahatma gandhi
memorial.
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Uncle Al
[snip crap]
> Since then, it (mainly my mathematical formula linking mass and energy)
[snip rest of crap]
It's been done,
<http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/E_mc2/www/>
<http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/>
<http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/E_mc2/e_mc2.pdf>
\int^c_0{P dv}
where P = mv\gamma
and \gamma = \frac{1}{\sqrt{1 - (\frac{v}{c})^2}}
\int^c_0 {\frac{mv}{\sqrt{1 - (\frac{v}{c})^2}} dv = mc^2
But wait - we haven't sat upon you hard enough. Uncle Al wants to see
juices ooze,
<http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41N%2B16zjrUL._SS400_.jpg>
idiot
> My uncle, a retired Major General of the
> EME/Indian Army had also given his approval.
It's wogeriffic at the highest military levels! How may Pakis did you
kill today?
--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz4.htm
ModerateMallu
> Arindam Banerjee wrote:
> [snip crap]
>
>> Since then, it (mainly my mathematical formula linking mass and energy)
> [snip rest of crap]
>
> It's been done,
>
> <http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/E_mc2/www/>
> <http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/>
> <http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/E_mc2/e_mc2.pdf>
>
>
> \int^c_0{P dv}
>
> where P = mv\gamma
> and \gamma = \frac{1}{\sqrt{1 - (\frac{v}{c})^2}}
>
> \int^c_0 {\frac{mv}{\sqrt{1 - (\frac{v}{c})^2}} dv = mc^2
>
> But wait - we haven't sat upon you hard enough. Uncle Al wants to see
> juices ooze,
>
> <http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41N%2B16zjrUL._SS400_.jpg>
>
> <http://www.amazon.com/ComputerGear-E-mc2-Derivation-T-shirt/dp/images/B001CP41TI/ref=dp_image_text_x_0?ie=UTF8&s=apparel&img=0&color_name=x>
>
> idiot
>
>> My uncle, a retired Major General of the
>> EME/Indian Army had also given his approval.
>
> It's wogeriffic at the highest military levels! How may Pakis did you
> kill today?
>
Your response is "honkyeriffic at the lowest trailer trash levels,"
bloody git. How many first cousins did you breed with today?
PLONK!
Arindam Banerjee
fairness involved in the peer-reviewed journal article process.
Compared to the volume of what is written by the theoretical physicists of
our time, the volume and frequency of my writing is negligible. However,
quality always outweighs gross quantity. One gram of truth is worth more
than tons of bullshit, though not necessarily is the short term.
I value the thinking of free and open-minded people, that is all. I am glad
to have got a positive reception from many fine, brillinat people, who are
all from India though. So India is still the land of freedom and openness
for me, and all the rest are cowed down and deprived of manliness.
Groups that do not even bother to reply to my letters and submissions, or
snub me with no ceremony - the peer groups in the institutions that you talk
about - I cannot do anything about. I can understand that it is very
difficult for them to come around to my new physics, but if they are really
scientific and not career-minded they have no other option. My theories are
sound, and now they also have experimental validity.
Anyway, science is not art - what is correct in science can never be
eliminated. Sooner or later it will have its day! The close-minded
racists/bigots/hypocrites/scum/etc., so dominant today, can delay the
publication of truth for only so long.
Usenet is a great medium, for it lets every person have his or her say. It
did not exist before - thus peer reviews in journals were so important. This
new medium is changing the way the world thinks, for now every person can
think for himself or herself, as an alternative to letting institutions do
all their thinking for them. It is with hope and faith in human nature,
thus, that I post in Usenet.
Arindam Banerjee
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> sci and sci.physics are top rated in arindam's view. he expects to win
> acclaim thr' bullying and bad mouthing his intended reviewers, a familiar
> commie tactic you might say.
> btaim, it is the priorites, dear. first he needs money which he intends to
> make in equally non-expertly vetted way that would demolish mahatma gandhi
> memorial.
Yes, I need money, and who knows, I may even have to start singing my
matchless songs to raise the necessary funds for my new physics; in order to
save the world, by erasing the extraordinary evils that resulted from the
bunglings and treacheries of the MahaBungler Einstein and the MahaBundurr
Great-Unca gandi, respectively. Nah, dear bundree, I hope I'll never be
reduced to that! Mere hard work slaving away as a computer coolie for a
few more years should do the trick. In the meantime, if some open-minded,
warm and hearty souls who are also moderately rich join forces with me, then
we'll be fat-farming on the Moon and going for joyrides to Jupiter within
ten years, and mining asteroids within fifteen, and going to the stars -
breaking the speed of light - within 20 years! Hmm, if it so pleases the
Great Goddess, I should and could be the world's first trillionaire - not
that I particularly want to become one, but one cannot avoid one's destiny,
what? Before we end up being a Star Trek society, where money as we
understand it will have no significance.
We'll buy the gandi memorial and put it in your lap. So, cheer up, dear
bundree. Up your tail, swing in joy, go eat a banana.
Arindam Banerjee.
Arindam Banerjee
to! To think that once I thought these guys to be great - faugh! We were
such brain-washed fools, to be taken in by such remarkable scoundrels.
It is only in India that there are some people who see through the antics
and bastardies of these most evil of creatures in human shape -
Einsteinians! Their whole existence is based upon lies, and they have
corrupted the whole structure of physics and misused mathematics purely for
their own selfish purposes.
Arindam Banerjee.
Arindam Banerjee
> git. How many first cousins did you breed with today?
>
> PLONK!
Huh, great signs of wisdom from you at last! Very glad for this!
Cheers,
Arindam Banerjee.
Arindam Banerjee
have posted to Usenet or Internet, I am perfectly well prepared to talk to,
directly, to ANY well-meaning, purposeful and interested group ANYWHERE.
Time and expenses permitting, of course.
If any organisation worth suing makes such attacks upon me as that worthless
"Uncle Al" creature, I will sue them with the best legal talent available.
It could well be that the worth of my new ideas in physics will depend not
upon the so-called physicists, and their journals, but in the court of law.
Arindam Banerjee.
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arya.raychaudhuri
the most
well-appointed airports in the world - and I have seen quite a few!
One amazing
aspect of this airport is how easily you can connect to the internet.
In fact,
I found the internet connection to be superior to that in the new
Incheon airport
near Seoul, and even our good old SFO. And, it's for free for any
traveller.
The airport hotel was very comfortable, although slightly on the
costly side -
about $55.00 for a 6 hour stay. Unfortunately, the Singapore - Kolkata
connections
are not very frequent, so I have to wait here for a long time before
the next flight.
One of the things that I noticed on the way was how so many folks were
wearing
face masks, possibly due to the swine flu scare. Mostly, people of
oriental origin.
A white co-traveller sitting next to me sneezed three times - I said
to myself,
what about him!
arya.raychaudhuri
thermal
skull scan upon arrival at the Kolkata airport, apparently to detect
the flu carriers!
Since I was born and brought up in the city, and received basic
engineering
education at the JU, I can somewhat (a lot, actually) understand the
spirit
of the city, but for the unaccustomed, it may sound a bit hostile and
inhospitable.
Putting pressure on the traveller. Already, Kolkata appeared to be a
less preferred
destination, judging by the late and infrequent flight times, as well
as the very
far boarding gate allotted at the Changi. Fortunately. I was adjudged
fluless,
and let go! :-)
By now, many people seem to secretly know me in Kolkata and other
places
I flew by, possibly due to my writing. I was flattered when someone
compared
my contributions as among " those that inspired hope among the
deprived/
put a new language of change on the lips of the underdog" (in
bengali, ....jara
jirno jatir buke jagalo aasha/mouno molin mukhe jogalo bhasha....).
arya.raychaudhuri
posh
suburban home near the cul-de-sac. On the opposite side of the street
lives Tom who has his garage made into a little workshop. Suddenly,
Dave's eyes wander away from the tulips in the direction of Tom's
garage!
And, a rather bizarre observation meets his eyes. Tom has stretched
the
elastic of his shorts to the front to make an opening and has been
running
a hacksaw up and down through the opening! Dave is flabbergasted,
runs
quickly in the direction of Tom's garage. Tom, are you crazy? You are
going to cutoff your cock! No, says Tom, I am just cutting off the
state
machinery off my cock. That seems to be the latest mantra of
sportingness.
Lo and behold! Pieces of helicopter fuselage, secret cameras,
listening
devices, computer hacking equipment, telephone wiretaps start
emerging
from the opening of Tom's shorts. Dave is totally flummoxed! What
were
you doing with all these? Dave wonders. I was doing Mohitwatch, says
Tom. Why? Asks Dave. So that he cannot play with our wives! You know
we don't
want a brown guy like Mohit play with our wives. But, we were playing
with
his wife, somewhat disgusted Dave retorts. That's why, it was not
fair, Tom
continues to run the hacksaw!
arya.raychaudhuri
beyond
comprehension. Not an economically rich country, with very little
earthquake
protection for the homes, and most people having no personal vehicles
of
transportation - all factors combined to make this a massive tragedy.
But, then the people of Haiti are very spirited and optimistic, and I
am
sure the rebuilding process will see a safer and better protected
Haiti.
In the meantime, I would like to urge readers from around the globe to
make donations to the cause of those that have suffered in this
calamity..
I made a small donation through the UNICEF.
arya.raychaudhuri
picking up a
cup of "tall" (meaning small in size, that's how Starbucks categorizes
the sizes - "tall" means small!) coffee from the drivethrough, a jazzy
sports
car followed my suv. A big painted writing on the hood of the car
behind me
caught my attention through the rearview mirror - and it read "I am
not Gay"!
My first reaction was, so what, do we have to celebrate the fact! I
turned into
the street, the I_am_not_Gay person also followed behind me, I change
lane,
he also changes lane - amazing, is this guy following on me or what!
Somewhat
more awkward than a police car following you I thought! Probably, the
guy is
pre-empting washington's new push to end the don't_ask_don't_tell
policy,
by declaring his sexual preference even before being asked! Maybe, he
is
a trend-setter, and soon we will see streets filled with cars
declaring the
owners' choices, this way or that! Creating another division among
drivers.
While these thoughts crisscrossed my mind while passing through a
couple
of intersections - suddenly the I_am_not_Gay driver vanished away into
a turn.
Wow, what a guy! :-)
arya.raychaudhuri
northern california has been the
hitech hub of not just america, but the world. Where the cream of
engineers from all over the
world converged and worked. So, naturally, colored folks lived here
with greater dignity than in
many other places in america. That's all due to the brilliant
engineers from diverse segments that
worked here! But, the situation is changing somewhat, due to the
recession triggered ethnic
cleansing of sorts. Now, the situation is getting increasingly
dominated by the middle-man types
that have accumulated a whole lot of money during the stock market
boom time - engineers
are losing respect. Of course, this is a welcome variation for the
semi-fascist politician types
that remain continuously in the business of surreptitiously "watching"
individuals and controlling
there private lives.Something like stalinist russia. Having lived in
the bay area for several years,
I can clearly sense that this type of "fascism" is on the rise! So, it
is important for brilliant
engineers to keep a watch on and raise a voice aginst any signs of
rising "fascism", and demand
the respect they deserve.
arya.raychaudhuri
debilitating earthquake,
colored folks in NewYork City are reeling under rising police fascism,
as indicated
by the NYT columnist Bob Herbert in his recent article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/opinion/02herbert.html?scp=4&sq=herbert&st=cse
It is quite important and relevant to sense the early signs of fascism
before they
reach Hitleric proportions. The article clearly shows how the
administration is instilling
fear in the minds of colored drivers, so they remain permanently
scared, or go away!
Where can they go away, and why should they! Didn't they move to
"free" NewYork
a few decades ago from the southern srates to escape slavery and
racism, or other
colored folks from other places. I am sure many of them did, that's
why I did not use
a question mark after the previous sentence. The scenario in NewYork
seems to be
dangerous - it is like vaccinating certain people with fear to turn
them less competitive.
arya.raychaudhuri
some folks think
I am opening up new vistas of thinking that is inconvenient to them.
And, there seems to
be a tendency to blame me for anything bad happening anywhere. That's
somewhat
preposterous. True, I am a bit of a vector thinker, but, then what is
the point in scalar
thinking! Long time ago, I got admission to the IIT at Kharagpur as an
aeronautical
engineering undergrad, and in fact, started liking the teaching there.
But, then, after
a couple of months, got into the electronics engg department of JU,
and moved there.
JU was not bad, at that time, the second best engineering school in
bengal, after
the IIT. And, being heavily aided by the government, was way cheaper
to study in.
One of the things I was told by some was that if you study aero, you
won't get
too many jobs in India, you will only find jobs in the US, Looking
back, it doesn't
seem to have been a bad idea, after all, to discontinue with aero! For
example,
if I continued with aero, and later landed up to work for the nasa, on
top of everything
else I would probably be blamed for failed nasa missions!
arya.raychaudhuri
deal of perfection,
is treat others like you like to be treated. Through much of my
writing I try to focus
on the "no-fly" zones that colored folks face in today's america,
through the mechanism
of racial profiling and information racism. Like when I go to a store
to buy something,
it is often loudly declared what I am buying, so that the racial
profilers can know.
Or, secretly watched through various hi-tech peepholes. Now, the
question is do
the racial profilers want to be treated that way. That is the
quintessential conundrum!
Since I look back at the "peephole" watchers through my writing -
there is a huge
effort to diminish my voice. Sometimes even from folks that may be
treated in a similar
way in various situations. Probably, they think I am targeting their
"votes"! :-)
arya.raychaudhuri
and parcel
of the new administration is that there is an invisible expectation
imposed upon us!
We have to "change" the way we lead our personal lives. To me,
sometimes it
sounds like a religious doctrine. Sort of like if a religious leader
is a vegetarian,
and you had been a non-vegetarian, you now ought to "change" and be
more
like the religious leader. Otherwise, you are frowned upon as
unchanging, too
non-vegetarian. Micro-management of the extreme kind. To anyone with
reasonable
IQ and free spirit, leading one's life by a doctrine is boring and
unpleasant.
Also, how do you know I am vegetarian or non in my private residence,
for
example. You should not know, otherwise you are impacting my private
pursuit
of happiness - which is unconstitutional, and even counter-competitive.
arya.raychaudhuri
space and the other
in real space. In the information space, a Walmart store in New Jersey
openly declared
over the public address system that 'all black people leave', and in
the real space, here
in Sunnyvale, a scattered power outage this morning raising a major
ruckus all over the
place. Starbucks going out of business for a period of time, traffic
lights going in
flashing red mode, fire trucks running berserk on the streets, the
place I go to work barely
running on a generator! What a commotion, as if a taliban woman has
taken off her
head coverings in a deeply conservative taliban society! Even a
"firm" colored chap like
me felt shaken for a little while. But, then, the two incidents are
most likely totally
unrelated.
arya.raychaudhuri
hungry
lions are let loose on them! Much of the information racism and racial
profiling
that goes on is to find out the reactions of the colored drivers under
stressfull
situations - let's see what happens. Like in the Walmart situation, I
can imagine
someone may be watching through the secret cameras how the colored
customers
are reacting immediately following the announcement, sort of like a
dangerous
spectator sport. That's why, I started this thread couple of years
ago on the
theme of None_of_Your_Fucking_Business_101 - you don't like to be
"watched".
And, I have not "changed" from my stance!
arya.raychaudhuri
fully. And, hopefully
not get dead for it! So, in that spirit, the recent health care reform
is a very positive
development. It may prove to be an enabler for a lot of people -
moving them from
segregation to integration. Maybe, some of them were extremely good
'fliers',
but, they were told, no you can't 'fly' because you don't have health
insurance!
So, they were facing a 'no-fly' situation just because of not being
able to get a
helath insurance. Now, they will be able to 'fly' more freely, and
prove their merit.
In that sense, it is a meritocratic movement, although, apparently, it
may not
seem like that to some. In a sense, ir was a long overdue correction
for a
counter-competitive situation.
arya.raychaudhuri
americans to
buy health insurance. Simply because it turns living as an american
into a
privilege, and not recognize as a right (*life* liberty and private
pursuit of
happiness). Just like driving a motor vehicle is a privilege, and you
are forced
to buy car insurance. So, now, simply walking on the street, you can
get a
ticket. Police can stop you and ask for your health insurance.
Ideally,
free health care, or at least emergency health care is the solution,
in the
spirit of the constitutional provisions. A true enabler of potential
flourishing
of merit. Because, if you cannot flourish your merit in a peaceful
way, you
are not free, and it's not a meritocracy.
arya.raychaudhuri
racism is a
major detriment. It tends to scare the colored folks into a no-
flourish mode!
As noted by the NYT columnist, much of the racial profiling is done by
colored
cops on colored drivers. For example, on a trip to Maui (in Hawaii
islands) last
year, couple of security personnel at the airport started chatting
with me when
I was waiting for the return flight. Of course, it was a friendly
chat, but I could
sense they were trying to find out about my trip. I was thinking to
myself why
are they not trying to find out about the so many white passengers
waiting
for the flight - many of them could even be non-americans! So,
basically, our
system is a non-enabler for colored folks. That's where change is
needed.
arya.raychaudhuri
integrated circuits,
the so-called microchips. I specialize on the final stage of the
design when the physical
design must be checked with respect to the original design intent, and
verified that
the design can be manufactured without any process-related failures or
yield losses.
The designs I handle are often very large and complex, and involve
100s of millions of
devices - transistors, diodes, capacitors, resistors and inductors.
So, naturally, the task
of verifying such a massive design is not trivial, requiring a rather
high level of application
and focus, The idea is to make sure the design is completely correct,
before it is sent
to production. Since the customers of the manufactured microchips
often need them
in a timely manner, so that they can quickly build the systems to beat
the competition,
my work on design completion is extremely time-sensitive. But, it
helps the companies
make millions in profit, that they invest in creating more jobs, pay
taxes so that
the government can spend on various sectors. As an engineer, it is
important to
understand how you are helping the overall economic situation. Is it
good to help the
overall economic situation through your work in the private sector? I
think so, it is,
and that keeps me going!
arya.raychaudhuri
something that
there will be some raid there - some individual in a position of power
is very angry!
Are these rumors really true - where do they get these from? Are these
voices real,
who are they, what is their motive? Kinda interesting! Do they have no
other work
and study the rumors for the day and night - I am somewhat curious!
arya.raychaudhuri
nothing new! But, freedom writing itself should have a very positive
spirit.
Let me give an example. A plant that grows up in a dark chamber
doesn't
know what light is. So, it grows up however is suitable in that dark
environment,
Then, suddenly, you open a slit in the window through which sunlight
pours
forth - the natural instinct of the plant turns its head towards the
light,
and the plant srarts growing in that direction. Now, that is the new
reality
for the plant, it need not think too much about its past and shed
tears.
Just enjoy the sunlit present and grow. Such is expected to be the
nature
of freedom writing, like the sunlight that draws your attention away
towards
freedom, without making you feel too bad about your past situation.
Probably, earlier you collaborated with the freedom suppressors, but
don't
worry, be happy now that you are in the direction of flourishing your
merit
more fully!
arya.raychaudhuri
should
say, secretly popular - I get an understanding smile or two as I drive
around
in my good old suv! Of course, my suv is easily distinguishable due to
the
"USC Dad" sticker on its back - a gift from my wife and daughter as
she was
entering the USC a few years ago. I cherish the sticker which has worn
out
quite a bit due to the years, but it is still there. Even the car is
somewhat old
by now, gone for about 160K miles in the last eight years - being
driven between
north and south california. These days, due to its mild transmission
problems
I don't take it for long drives at all, typically, I would take a
rental car over the
weekend and drive. Speaking of the secret popularity, I sometimes get
exasperated by it, wondering when will I get really popular and
celebrated,
and will not have to do any work any more! :-)
arya.raychaudhuri
participate in it.
It scars and tramples the psychological process unlike anything else,
except for
terrorism. It makes monsters of ordinary people, bright youngsters -
beyond the
high probabilities of death and physical damage associated with it. In
the weekend,
a lady of vietnamese origin told me that in order to marry her cousin
an american
armyman killed the folks of an entire village in vietnamm and also
some fellow
armymen. Just monstrous, to think of the horrendous nature of his
action, if her
story is true. Her story may or may not be true, or it may be
exaggerated - but
it's a pointer to what I was mentioning earlier, how war turns humans
into monsters.
As an engineer that works in the field of microchop designs, I do not
support
that kind of war. After all, a part of the profits that are made out
of my work
goes to the government that then spends it on war, among other
things!
Arindam Banerjee
wrote:
Arjoebabu, there is a novel or rather a short story based on that. It
is a bit different from what you narrate. There was this Vietnamese
chap who had a very beautiful wife who was also very unfaithful. Now
this guy was a traitor, and he would give the co-ords to the American
bombers who would carpet bomb that area. Now, he would give the co-
ords of the place his rival was living, and so, would kill him and
lots of others also. Chap kept on doing that!
arya.raychaudhuri
>
> - Show quoted text -
Interesting story, but these are side effects of war! War opens up a
massive
theatre for death and destruction, and whenever such a thing happens,
there
are always little dramas that go with it - stuff that are often
materials of novels
and short stories. But, there are major financial interests associated
with
wars. The big financial players probably think, let the little people
remain
engaged with the novels and short stories, while we make massive
gains.
Arindam Banerjee
>
> - Show quoted text -
True no doubt. Nothing really changes. In the past kings had war
mainly to solve internal problems, with such diversion. It was a
method of population control. Now as you say the motivation is
financial, for the rich countries who have perfected the art of
killing so well that their soldiers largely die as a result of
friendly fire (as in the invasion of Iraq, but not in Afghanistan
though)! So it not about population control, now, but making more
money for the rich, and keeping the economy going. National unity is
also a by-product.
arya.raychaudhuri
woman
likes it. So, I often encounter detractors that are not accustomed to
this view -
probably coming from rather male-dominated situations, where politics
determines
the personal interactions. Why should you do it this way or that way
with her!
For me, if she likes it this way or that way, I should try to satisfy
her. No, you are
a colored guy, why should you satisfy her?
arya.raychaudhuri
like
dismantling apartheid. Otherwise, it's like a colored soldier in plain
clothes
driving around in NY, getting stopped and frisked for driving while
colored,
facing information racism in businesses, system trying to falsely
implicate
him for someone else's actions, using state power for individual
purposes,
and so on, in general, the features of a "no-fly" zone for him. He
then wonders.
is this the country I am fighting for - getting sent to Iraq and
Afganistan to get
dead! While getting treated with disresoect if and when I return.
arya.raychaudhuri
wrote:
> I work in the field of computer aided design (cad) of very large scale
> integrated circuits,
> the so-called microchips. I specialize on the final stage of the
> design when the physical
> design must be checked with respect to the original design intent, and
> verified that
> yield losses.
> The designs I handle are often very large and complex, and involve
> 100s of millions of
> devices - transistors, diodes, capacitors, resistors and inductors.
> So, naturally, the task
> of verifying such a massive design is not trivial, requiring a rather
> high level of application
> and focus, The idea is to make sure the design is completely correct,
> before it is sent
> to production. Since the customers of the manufactured microchips
> often need them
> in a timely manner, so that they can quickly build the systems to beat
> the competition,
> my work on design completion is extremely time-sensitive. But, it
> helps the companies
> make millions in profit, that they invest in creating more jobs, pay
> taxes so that
> the government can spend on various sectors. As an engineer, it is
> important to
> understand how you are helping the overall economic situation. Is it
> good to help the
> overall economic situation through your work in the private sector? I
> think so, it is,
> and that keeps me going!
Obviously, having worked in this field for many years I have become
very good at it - one of the best in the local industry! But, the job
has not
become any easier for me, still I have to spend long hours solving
difficult
problems. But, some people tend to think otherwise. They think, it's
too
easy for him, give him tough time by switching him to a different
field.
I think there is a double standard here. For example, consider the
situation
with a very good white eye doctor who has been working in the field
for
a long time. Would you tell him, it's too easy for you, go do rocket
science!
He will laugh at you!
Arindam Banerjee
wrote:
>
> - Show quoted text -
Arjoebabu, I deeply sympathise! Engineering is not regulated like
medicine, so engineers suffer a lot because of lack of institutional
protection.
Arindam Banerjee
arya.raychaudhuri
wrote:
Ominous bus sightings! The other day, while I was driving back from
work
I saw this city bus with a chain-saw flashing where the destination
and
the route number are typically displayed. I found it a bit scary. Is
the driver
of the bus trying to terrorize onlookers - or, just alerting them. I
find this sort
of symbolic things somewhat unnerving. But, then one relieving
feature was
that a few days ago I had seen another bus with two flashing chain-
saws!
arya.raychaudhuri
>
> - Show quoted text -
I can imagine, in Australia, colored engineers would face tougher
situation
than in the US. I think, racism will be more intense there.
arya.raychaudhuri
Because, in my long engineering career in the US, I have not seen too
many
bright aussie engineers. Having been an IIT undergrad of good
standing, I am
sure you have been way above average of the general scenario there.
Perennial under-acievement may be ,making them angry - and, who best
to
shower that anger upon, than the colored browns!
Arindam Banerjee
There is more competition, certainly.
Arindam Banerjee
Yes. They always try to pull you down, in various ways, and people
won't like to work for you if you are brown. Glass ceilings are
pretty low, for capable browns, and for unrepentant browns who won't
change their religion (if Hindu) and oh horror if they stand up for
it, there is no scene for them in even the medium levels. However,
token mediocres are given some high-profile but unimportant
positions. Such as, in academia. One gets used to it, and so,
concentrates upon other things. Like, Internal Force Engines,
Literature, Acting, and various other pleasures, for myself. On the
whole, it may work out positively. Everything has its uses, including
racism. The big boys here want only certain types to get the extra
cash, easily. Still, even if you are lower middle class, when you
know the ropes and what is what, and cease to have high expectations,
life can be very pleasant here. For racism does not mean they won't
serve you, or treat you badly in public - they used to be like that,
but this at least has definitely changed. With the newer generation,
things are much better. There definitely has been a great
improvement, so at the low everyday situation, things are fine.
On the other hand, things were even worse for me in India, except for
the few years I spent in IIT KgP. For in Bihar I was a rotten-fish
eating Bengali, and in Bengal I was a sattu-eating Bihari khotta. In
Delhi-UP I was an outsider of course. Life has been good here, after
all that racism. And now, thanks to the Abominable Garg types, reverse-
racism.
> Perennial under-acievement may be ,making them angry - and, who best
> to
> shower that anger upon, than the colored browns
Actually, even if you are white, you are badly screwed here when you
over-achieve in any field other than sports. If you are
intellectually advanced in Australia, you are well and truly damned.
They call it "cutting the tall poppy down" syndrome. You must know
how to dumb-down if you have to exist here, in this society. The pure
hatred they have for research types here, is unbelievable. As soon as
they get the chance, they close down every research place (unless it
is medical research, for they do value their own skins). In my case,
the place I worked in, Telstra Research Labs, was not only closed, but
literally bulldozed to nothingness. They got some clowns from the US
to do this job. All this happened with the Liberal party, under Mr
John Howard, in power. The Liberal Party is anti-engineers, anti-
teachers, anti-workers, and of course, against anything socialistic.
Telstra was their enemy #1, and they definitely cut in down to size!
They also increased the medical bureaucracy enormously, waged wars in
distant lands, sold whatever could be sold, and did whatever they
could to screw up the environment for the good of the economy.
So, there is a sort of equality here in this anti-intellectual
process, and indeed, as a brown I profited from it. For they think a
brown is really inferior, cannot be of any threat, and so, maybe given
some role, some job where intellect is required and the chap given
that role won't ask too much. Of course, when the job is done, they
will pretend it wasn't useful, or not quite well done, and then they
will push you to some other area, and expect a thank you for such a
great, kind effort for you from their part! Such is life, here. With
time, one gets used to it. Human nature is indeed pretty elastic!
Cheers,
Arindam Banerjee
arya.raychaudhuri
Seems like a very gloomy situation for engineers! What can I say,
simply fight on!
Arindam Banerjee
Or give up, and do something else elsewhere.
arya.raychaudhuri
gain
from that! So, if not for anything else, stop the "vultures" from
gaining from
your giving up. :-)
Arindam Banerjee
I very much like vultures. Most useful and kindly birds, they do a
lot of good for the environment. They also very protectively
sheltered the illegitimate baby known to us as Shakuntala, the mother
of those who can call themseles Arya.
arya.raychaudhuri
I think "vultures" have dangerous "nuclear" secrets!
Arindam Banerjee
arya.raychaudhuri
I would avoid leaving my baby for vultures to look after - thinking of
a mythical tale!
Arindam Banerjee
Fact is, they only start to eat you after they are sure you are dead.
arya.raychaudhuri
When they are hungry, very hungry, and nobody is dying - they will
wish
you were dead! That wish is dangerous - you don't want to live with
someone
who wishes you were dead. Just as you mentioned, in the Aussie job
situations
they don't want capaple browns to rise - it's their wish! That doesn't
mean you
give up and go away - you try to create a domain where that wish
doesn't
affect you much...
Arindam Banerjee
Well now I understand. This reminds me of an incident in Ghaziabad.
I saw a number of vultures lying dead, they had been hit by a truck.
Apparently they were all feasting or about to feast, till tragedy
happened. I felt sorry for them, for they were only vultures and not
as you put it "vultures". Then again, I have to tell of what our tour
guide told us over beer in Alice Springs. The highway used to be
dirt, but after they metalled it lots of road kill happened. Now
there are birds called wedge-tailed eagles here, but actually they are
a sort of vulture. They fly very high, have great eyes and are very
good hunters. Been like that for millions of years, maybe. But
within the last ten years their habits totally changed. Now they are
scavengers, feeding upon roadkill. They eat so much, they find it
difficult to fly after that! They have to run, flapping their wings,
in order to get the lift. Now our guide is a brave guy, he sneaked up
and grabbed one of them, managing to pluck the tail feathers. Would
have been impossible, this feat, on any non-scavenging eagle.
I always say, fact is stranger than fiction! I whole-heartedly accept
your advice, and am trying to follow it. Let us see, what the larger
world has to offer.
Arindam Banerjee
Small mistake, that wasn't in Alice Springs, it was in Coober Pedy.
We visited the opal mines there, and the Painted Desert...
arya.raychaudhuri
Well, eagles losing their "elasticity" and becoming "plastic" is
somewhat
pathetic. They are majestic birds flying high in the air, I would not
typically
associate them with vulture-like opportunistic cynicism. Today, I had
a long
day at work - feeling somewhat tired and drained. I am the first in
America
to raise a voice against information racial profiling - so my work is
doubly
interesting, doing the iq intensive work and remaining vigilant about
racial profiling!
Arindam Banerjee
Apart from race, there are other dimensions, such as religion/anti-
religion and nationalistic concerns. Then there are prejudices
related to management or technical, business or profession, degree of
westernisation or not, environmentally friendly or not, informer/
bootlicker or not, etc. Simple grouping under race is valid but not
sufficient, in my opinion. That spectrum is always there, and proper
filtering gotta be done...
arya.raychaudhuri
Yes, it is a complex field of political manipulations, but, it is
mostly
the colored folks that are on the receiving end. As I recently quoted
some
statistical estimate by a NewYork Times reporter.
Arindam Banerjee
Not necessarily. Honest hard-working whites in Zimbabwe have been
very badly treated, and don't seem to be getting much sympathy.
arya.raychaudhuri
Definitely, the idea is to secure the process of merit and hard work
for minorities (in any situation) from the political/fascist clutter!
For example,
in Uganda, in Idi's time, there was anti-indian fascism.
Arindam Banerjee
Of course. Bad as racism is, it is from the Indian context not as
nasty as religion. We in Bengal and Punjab know this only too well.
As for myself, when I was in Bihar I was a rotten-fish eating Bengali,
and in Bengal I was a sattu-eating khotta. But I never ate dried fish
or sattu! There is no logic in nastiness.
arya.raychaudhuri
Unsporting insinuations - some form of psycho-terrorism! Probably
you were very handsome and sexy - they wanted to keep you out of
"competitions"! :-)
arya.raychaudhuri
Roman.
But, then, Rome was a feudal system, a ponzi power structure, if you
will, with the
emperor at the apex of the power pyramid, controlling the thoughts
and actions
of the people. So, the people have to always fearfully conform to the
emperor's wishes.
For example, America is not Rome of the emperors' time - you have to
show and allow
independence of thought and action, and dismantle the fearful
conformity! If you love
the pyramid scheme so much, go live in Saudi Arabia. In that sense,
"Rome" is a
state of mind, held together by psycho-terrorism.
Arindam Banerjee
However the Divine interferes - truth is stranger than fiction.
Certain things cannot be written for the public. Maybe if we ever
meet in person we can talk about the wonder that is life, arjoebabu.
Cheers,
Arindam Banerjee
arya.raychaudhuri
"However the Divine" - you make it sound like the "Alexander the
Great"
or something! :-)
Arindam Banerjee
According to a Bengali-Muslim classmate of mine, I am informed that
the Divine means the sum total of incomprehension, or what we do not
understand. Anthromorphism of this concept, leads to religion.
Arindam Banerjee
Oops, corrected a spelling mistake, above. To elaborate, when we give
human figures to the unknown, we have religion. Depending upon
gender, number, bias, etc. we have different religions, till they are
taken over by celebrated humans. How much interaction there is
between the unknown and the individual, in what form or shape, is very
much a personal, subjective and hence unscientific matter. In short,
science cannot have any say in spiritual matters.
arya.raychaudhuri
When wars go on for a long time, it makes the government too
powerful. And, over-powerful governments are always bad for the
economy. They tend to control individual enterprise and economic
activties with a heavy hand - sort of like, we are the war managers
pushing so many young men and women into harm's way, we know
better! This way, anyone who is connected to the government, even
with very little contribution to the overall economy feels more
worthy than the working folks. Over time, the working folks lose
enthusiasm and tend to depend on goverment bailouts, giving the
"government" more power over their lives. Sort of like the government
taking them into its pyramid dracula cult - okay, from now on you will
work as my local dracula, and keep a watch on the working folks.
This way, the local dracula feels like the boss! More and more working
folks want to be like the local dracula - creating a regenerative
process.
For example, during the Reagan and Clinton administrations, there
were
no wars, and the economy thrived.
arya.raychaudhuri
"change",
but I am not. I am only opposed to unnecessary "change"! In this
context, I was
reading with interest a very nice article by David Brooks of NYT,
called Two Theories
of Change:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/opinion/25brooks.html?scp=1&sq=Two%20theories%20of%20change&st=cse
The author compares the french model of radical and swift political
change with the scottish
model of slow change or incremental movements. In fact, at the end of
the article, he
takes a somewhat conservative approach of the Scots - when he declares
"the Scots were
right and the French were wrong"! I would say, neither the Scots were
totally right, nor
were the French totally wrong. There are political and social
situations where swift and
radical change is justified, and there are others where such change is
counter-productive.
For example, situations like the slave system, or the rampant
corporate theft ridden
systems like the enron would require swift and radical change. While
many other situations
may require slow change or no change at all.
arya.raychaudhuri
the top, with a large hole
in the center of the roof. Around the hole in the center, a deep
circular groove. Now, descend
another similar heavy concrete pipe with its diameter fitting into
the deep circular groove.
And, so on, with a series of pipes with decreasing girths, I can see
how the oil from the
ocean floor can be taken out.
arya.raychaudhuri
that
I am a writer! True, I do not make a living out of writing, but, I do
write here on
various issues - that should count. Writing is all about making an
impact on
the mind of the readers, if the writing of short passages is more
impact-full
and relevant, then it is more important than heavy volumes on the
shelves.
But, someone mentioned to me that my writing is on such controversial
issues like racial profiling and information racism, that I can be
celebrated
only after my death. When I am no longer in the competition. I don't
feel
comfortable with the idea - it's a counter-competitive suggestion,
vulture-like.
Be that as it may, I am thinking of putting my MDX on auction. The
thinking
is like this - if my ealier suspicion that my car could be bugged was
true,
it will be viewed as a tool for racial profiling (derailing) an
important fighter against
information racism. So, it becomes a speculative collector's item -
that may
appreciate a great deal in its value when I am finally celebrated
after my death.
arya.raychaudhuri
vital issue
in much of racial profiling and information racism. You cannot "eat"
what we "eat" -
you will "eat" only the leftovers, or what we don't "eat". For a
colored american,
it is often the wmf (network) that is more worrisome than the wmd's in
Iraq!
In this, you have to often deal with extremely uneducated/uncultured
people -
who happen to be on the wmf network. So, the idea is to seek non-wmf
networked
situations, and let them flourish. It's a pretty challenging
objective.
arya.raychaudhuri
profiling
elements of the Arizona law. The law would have given lot more power
to
"white" folks in Arizona over the colored folks. The power to suspect
colored
folks - possibly they are not legal immigrants. What do you do? I
suspect! :-)
The undue power to suspect is a bad thing - it leads to a lot of undue
and
surreptitious monitoring, observation, and negative speculation. Even
in
California (neighbouring state to Arizona to the west), a lot of undue
suspicion
goes on in everyday life. For example, if I say 'how do you do' out of
courtesy
to a white lady, it will be immediately speculated that there must be
something
going on between this colored guy and the white lady! Why should the
colored
guy ask that question to the white lady! Sort of like distributed gate-
keepering
to the wmf network thing. Speaking of gate-keepering to a food-place
the following
picture in today's nyt website looks symbolic :-)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/29/nyregion/29towns.html?hp
arya.raychaudhuri
sponsored hate crime
scenario in which colored folks are subjected to. "Every breath they
take, every move they
make" is "watched" with a spirit of disapproval, and sometimes undue
control. So we
need to watch out for such legislation that expands the potential for
such scenarios
becoming tougher! Because, in excessive monitoring is inherent the
sense of limiting.
And, that is unsporting. It is equivalent to creating a smoother
surface for some folks to
run on, and a more difficult one for others. While I am writing this,
I am vaguely aware that
some folks are peepholing on what I am writing, and probably trying to
preempt the
message, but I don'r care! It is, however, a relevant point. For
example, if my message
really gets preempted and loses its sting - that would happen because
of the unsporting
monitoring.
arya.raychaudhuri
Whole bunch of folks
running around in half dream half reality, couldn't sit through the
end of the movie. But, the film
has some interesting sci-fi idea of injecting "dreams" or some kind of
illusions into subjects'
minds. Make them see impossible things, like the earth folding up and
so on, and even more
bizarre situations. The idea is to make the subjects do things in
those dream realities that they
normally won't do. So, basically, the idea is to keep away from the
"dream" injectors, sort of like
SH has recently indicated, keep away from the aliens. They want to
invade your conscious natural
thinking. Interestingly, if you go back in time, to the early days of
this thread, you will notice I
was talking about the colonization of the consciousness through media
and other means.
Which I generally called the inforacist methods. The idea is to always
expect colonization and
remain prepared to deflect it. Ideally, we look for situations that
are free from such modifications.
For example, while driving. if you get too close to the line, there is
a negative feedback mechanism
that tells the brain to move the steering in the opposite direction.
Similarly, if you get too close to
the line in getting influenced, you need to steer away!
arya.raychaudhuri
middleman
types! Since folks continuously remain on the verge of losing their
jobs, these
guys find it a bonanza time - let your SO do me or I will throw you
out of job!
I am sure that many people who lost their jobs in the current economic
situation
either didn't have an SO or couldn't get around to ask their SO to do
the "middleman"
in exchange of the continuation of their job! They simply love their
SO too much to
act as the SO's pimp. So, you see many brilliant people losing their
jobs and falling
on hard times, while many not-so-brights holding on to their jobs,
possibly by bribing
their SOs to the "middleman", you may wonder. In a sense, the
"middleman" types
have an interest in sustaining the recession! They can continue to
keep folks on the
verge and extract various benefits! When the recession is over, they
(the "middleman"
types) will have harder time, because many of the folks that have lost
their jobs now
will be required for their actual work, since the volume of the work
would have expanded.
You got to always end a passage with a message of hope and silver
lining for those
that depend strictly on their merit to get ahead!
arya.raychaudhuri
would like to urge readers
to donate to the aid of the flood victims. Some days back, I made a
small donation through
the UNICEF.
arya.raychaudhuri
Birchwood Street. "Who is this?"
A sweet feminine voice from inside asks. "Hi, it's Jeff, Harry's
boss." The 'middleman' is visiting
Harry's home in the quiet afternoon to extract sexual bribery! Mary
opens the door with some anxiety.
She is not very sure what to expect. She loves Harry inseparably, yet
she knows she has to show
some fake enthusiasm towards the bribe-taker. She is wearing a light
green blouse with its top
contours lightly pressing on her soft breasts, yet seductively
revealing Harry's favorite valley in the
middle. A sexy match with the long flowing red skirt almost as long as
an Indian lehenga. From talking
to her friends in similar situations she already knew that the bosses
like the blow job. So she quietly
motioned to Jeff to sit on the sofa. Jeff smiled at Mary and
proceeded in the direction of the sofa. His steps
seemed to be rather confident, and he appeared to be used to
situations like this. Jeff sat on the sofa
without a fuss. "Would you care for a glass of water?" A courteous
Mary asked. "Sure why not!"
Jeff wanted to hydrate his system before the action begins.
[more later ... all characters/locations fictional]
arya.raychaudhuri
Continued state terrorism on gypsies in Europe not a good idea!
arya.raychaudhuri
wrote:
> http://www.anandabazar.com/25edit3.htm
>
> Continued state terrorism on gypsies in Europe not a good idea!
These gypsies, unlike the Jews that were also persecuted in Europe,
have no voice to express
their concerns and even aspirations. They move around from one place
to another like a nomadic
tribe, never setting up home, that's their way of life. A way of life
they have been practising for over
a millenium. Truely libertarian mindset! Since the modern europeans
take pride in the values of their
civilization, it was expected they will have more tolerance and even
respect for the gypsy way of
life. Instead, they are being forced to dwell in a slow gas chamber
scenario - forces of state terror
coming heavily on their TLC (tender-loving care) moments!
arya.raychaudhuri
wrote:
Here in the US, you cannot imagine anybody being treated like that!
It would be an outrage if such a thing happened here. Here, the state
machinery
is very tolerant and well-educated. In keeping with the natural
expectation.
For example, children when they grow up are "policed" by their
teachers
and parents who are typically more educated/experienced. So the
citizens
like to be "policed" by a state machinery that is more educated/
experienced than
themselves. That's why in places like Boston and Berkeley, where we
have a
high concentration of Ph.D.s the state machinery is filled with nobel
winners!
If that is not the case already, we are working towards it. :-)
arya.raychaudhuri
internet access. Also, to avoid additional
data theft associated with the wired connections. It's a new wireless
card recently advertised on yahoo
that provides a mobile hot spot scenario for up to 5 computing
devices, and with unlimited data transfer
volume. The last part is important because so far most data cards had
a 5GB data limit. Unfortunately,
the activation process for the new data card doesn't appear to be
smooth. I got the card from the nearby
Radio Shack in cupertino, and they said the card was properly
activated. But, when I try to set it up with
my computer, it doesn't work properly. I then contacted the virgin
mobile helpline - and they found the
card was not properly activated at their end! I requested the helpline
to activate it over the phone, but
they asked me to go back to the Radio Shack, and get it activated
through them. This is somewhat
curious because the Radio Shack folks would also do it over the
phone! :-)
Something fishy about the activation procedure - let's see how the
process goes through.
arya.raychaudhuri
together for quite
a while now!
Jeff quietly drinks the water, and mildly smiles as he hands the glass
back to Mary.
He is clever, he is not making any moves at all, and has stuck his
hands firmly into
the surface of the sofa. He knows the new "hands free" law, so to
speak. If he makes
a move and the woman shrieks out loud, the fire trucks may come
rushing in! Mary
takes the glass back to where it belongs, while applying slight
undulations to her hips,
somewhat like the escort ladies. She knows men dig that movement! Jeff
is anxious to
see the action begin. Mary briefly visits the restroom mirror to touch
up her face a little
bit, and her eyebrows. She now feels confident of her own looks. She
knows she is
doing it for Harry.
[more later ...]
arya.raychaudhuri
And, my comments to it:
Now, D'Souza's article is really interesting - almost sounds like a
bright technical
paper. Trying to seek the underlying principle in the President's
policies (at least
some). But, in my view, it is oversimplification. No son can be
exactly like his father
- then all overachievers would have overachieving fathers!
There is another very important point. As they say, at some (high)
point, you cannot
distinguish physics from chemistry. They become so mathematical that
you really don't
care whether you are doing physics or chemistry. Similarly, all
businesses are composed
of individuals, and ultimately it is the high merit of a handful of
individuals (at various levels)
that makes the business succeed. Others are just there to fill their
cubes. So, individual
freedom of enterprise is very important - who knows who can succeed!
Recently, I was
reviewing some technical abstracts for a big american conference whose
chair happened
to be an old professor from India. The abstracts came from all over
the world, and focussed
on discussing a device innovation to increase the MOSFET's drive
current. I found that
Intel had already incorporated the innovation and productized the
chips with almost 30-40
times more drive current than what most of the research groups
(abstracts) discussed.
I was wondering was it really worthwhile spending millions of dollars
on that type of R&D
at the various research labs! But, then, you got to fund R&D - who
knows who can
succeed. Unfortunately, in many american businesses, individuals do
not have too much
of individual freedom - what I call information colonization. It is a
micro-colonization aspect
(as I had earlier termed as enronization) as opposed to the macro
aspect of
neo-cololonization discussed by D'Souza. If Mr. Obama inherited anti-
neocolonialism
from his father, it is only to be expected that he will try to exceed
his father's dreams to
look at the more modern form of colonization (the micro type, I just
mentiomned).
Now, this is an optimistic expectation from a thinking voter. If you
think fighting against
colonization is a leftist ideal, taking it further to the point of
fighting information colonization
becomes pro-business and actually capitalist! Sort of like physics and
chemistry merging!
On the other hand, D'Souza tries to limit President Obama to his
father's shoes - in that
sense, he is pessimistic, or even cynical. But, then if the president
does not try to
exceed his father's ideological shoes, and remains content in there,
D'Souza would be
vindicated.
arya.raychaudhuri
this meeting up.
"You know the company is going through a downturn, we may see some
layoffs in the
near future. Jeff would like to personally visit you and discuss
Harry's job situation -
of course, the meeting should be totally private, and Harry shouldn't
know!" Mary had
asked for a couple of hours time to think it over, before calling
Sally back. Of course,
under normal circumstances she would have immediately declined the
suggestion -
she loves Harry. But thinking of how much trouble Harry had to take
after his last layoff
when their HR guy was having a secret affair with the employment
insurance lady using
Harry's severance money, she called Sally back with an "Yes", with
anxiety. Sally took
down the space-time coordinates, and just mentioned, before ending the
short conversation,
"Please try to be helpful!"
[more later ...]
arya.raychaudhuri
the recent reports of racial
profiling in New York, and the controversial laws of Arizona have been
strong indicators. Sort of like,
if you are white, you are straight and american, but if you are
colored, you are an weird alien!
Of course, personally, I have faced racism at various job situations
that I had discussed earlier,
in the form of lack of training, promotions, and even lack of timely
payments for contract projects,
but, more and more the picture is generalizing. Some of it is driven
by the economic recession -
everyone knows that poorer/uneducated folks fight more on the basis of
race/religion and so on.
Hopefully, the situation will improve and we see better days!
arya.raychaudhuri
religious devotion.
He works long hours on his projects, and always tries to make sure the
projects
are not delayed due to his lack of attention. His focus on work is
similar to those
of young american engineering grads of the fifties and the sixties,
when achieving
excellence in engineering work was not considered second best to
getting an MBA degree
and becoming a member of the management staff. He understands today's
america
needs more and more technically focussed engineers like him. But, he
is a shy kinda
guy who tries to keep himself occupied with the technical work,
unless, occasionally
he is going out with his colleagues for lunch. He is not that kind of
a guy who would
flirt around with a lot of women at work, and sometimes get linked
with a few.
He knows that those guys effectively improve upon their stability at
the job situations
by creating bonds at work. But, he simply cannot help it, to deviate
from what he believes
to be sincere attention to focussed technical work while at the
office. Also, he loves
his wife, and would dutifully go back home after work. Mary got this
impression of
Harry while talking to Linda, Harry's colleague Jerry's wife at an
office party.
[more later ...]
arya.raychaudhuri
eyes. When he looks
at women, many feel pleasantly uncomfortable. He can make a woman hot
by simply
looking at her. And, he knows of this talent of his. But, for some
reason, it was not
working on Mary as she was approaching Jeff sitting on the sofa, and
looking at her.
It is not as if Jeff and Mary had met at a club and had decided to
secretly meet later
to make it happen. Nor were they known to each other even before Mary
started
going out with Harry, that they wanted to celebrate their long lost
connection one
more time. It is also not the case that Mary works for an escort
service and she had
her services advertised, and Jeff is visiting here in response to the
ad. This situation
is completely different - it's a situation that is imposed by Harry's
company, citing
that his job situation would be threatened if Mary did not cooperate
with Jeff.
But, if Harry is such a brilliant and hard-working engineer why should
his position
be threatened, and if it is really threatened, why should this session
unthreaten
it! These were the ethical questions that were circling in Mary's
mind, that
kept her from getting hot as she approached Jeff, again with a little
undulation
to her hips.
[more later ...]
arya.raychaudhuri
will say he
has eye problems. I do have a bit of eye problem in the sense that I
find it a
bit difficult to read small types in low light - for which I use
glasses if needed.
But, I am less inclined to go to an eye doctor for checkup for fear of
medical
racism induced harm to the eyes. Speaking of seeing things big, my HP
laptop
has been giving some problems lately - the screen remains dark, it
doesn't
show any pictures. So, I have to hook it up to a projector, and throw
the pictures
at the wall, and it looks brighter and bigger! The arrangement is not
convenient,
but once set up, it works fine. Now, I have gotten so used to it, I
would want all
laptops, particularly the tiny ones to come integrated with a
projector. That will
be nice. Somehow, the idea of projecting remains somewhat sinfully
fanciful
when you are not used to throwing it out to the wall. Interestingly,
in a company
I had earlier worked, a guy in a higher up position used to guard the
wall for projection,
as if to suggest I won't let you project! I used think. this guy is
not exceptionally
bright or anything, why should he come in the way of projection.
Anyway, I now
project regularly and privately, thanks to my dysfunctional laptop.
arya.raychaudhuri
negative situations
that surround you encourage you to come up with forward looking gadget
ideas. For
example, in this case, the low-iq slow-gasser that guarded the wall,
the dysfunctional
laptop screen, my slight far-sightedness, all contributed to the idea
of a projector-integrated
laptop. This is an interesting idea because it frees the computer from
the requirement of
a screen. Instead, you are throwing meaningful and colorful light at
the wall, and using
the natural surroundings for the functionality of a screen. In fact,
if you think a little beyond
that, you see that the shapes of these devices are often dictated by
the requirement of
a screen; now, if there is no screen, you get more freedom to play
with the shape.
You can now think of a little computer in the shape of a hand-held
cylindrical torch-light
- an intelligent torch-light that throws computed light at the wall.
arya.raychaudhuri
gadget
ideas, otherwise go live somewhere else! Now, speaking of projectors,
I think
I discussed earlier the incident of burglery into my car in Pasadena,
when my
earlier projector, among other things, got stolen - I never got those
back.
In fact, I am not particularly worried about the projector getting
stolen - what
was of somewhat bigger concern was that there might have been a
duplicate
key to my car in that bag that was lost. This means what, a second key
to my
vehicle is floating around somewhere. Of course, it was a few years
ago, and
I still drive the same car, not sweating the thought so much. But, in
the last
few years, during my private trips to LA, I felt on a couple of
occasions that
I am getting eeriely reminded - we got another key to your car!
arya.raychaudhuri
cherished Toshiba projector, and more importantly, another key to
your car
may have fallen into wrong hands. Now what? Do you worry yourself into
a pool of sweat? No! Think of new ideas on how to prevent such
burgleries
from happening. In a James Bond movie (probably Live and Let Die) the
bad
guy had set up a sign say saying Trespassers will be eaten
(apparently, by
hungry crocs in a croc farm) - what about borrowing some idea from
there
and put up a sticker on your car saying Burglers will be
octopussed! :-)
What needs to happen is that you equip your car with a mobile internet
device that can communicate with your iphone - whenever a break-in
happens
a sensor will communicate via the mobile internet device to your
iPhone app
(probably called an Octopus). Inside the car, line up the periphery of
the ceiling
with sticky octopus droppers - as soon as someone sticks his hand into
the
car after the sensor is armed, the sticky octopus hands will be
dropped -
and the burgler gets octopussed! If there is also an infrared camera
inside the
car that communicates via the internet device - you can possibly see
the
octopussed burgler, and even talk to him!
arya.raychaudhuri
On
such days, you want to think of a brighter newyear with newer
possibilities.
I am expecting the private sector to recover in the newyear with new
innovations
finding paths to implementation. Since I have been a hands-on
engineer with
the private sector for as long as I can remember, I am somewhat biased
towards
it, compared to towards government jobs. After all, it's the private
sector that
creates the wealth, and the government sector sucks it! So we are
continuously
in a contradiction between wealth makers and wealth suckers. It's also
a matter
of the mindset. For example, all that work in the private sector may
not have
a wealth maker mindset, and the same may be true for the govt sector
folks.
When the world was more war-minded, there was a rule of compulsory
military
service in many countries. Now, what about making all govt jobs part-
time,
and the other part of the time you have to work in the private
secor.
Who knows, maybe in the newyear, this thinking will gain ground!
arya.raychaudhuri
you feel
even if you died now, it would be just fine! That kind of day.
Obviously, all of
the year 2010 has not been the same. There have been bright moments,
and
then again not-so-bright ones. I had felt some pressure from the
fartbag type
info-terrorist taliban mindsets, at times, but kept the promise of
moving along
based on merit and effort! Not that the year was hugely successful,
work-wise,
but it was definitely way better than the previous year (2009).
Anyway, as the
year comes to a close, would like to wish all readers around the globe
a happy
and prosperous newyear 2011!
arya.raychaudhuri
I often let my characters, the old woman and the hindu guy talk about
the
counter-competitive aspects of continued data theft, in my other
thread.
It is rather counter-productive indeed, at an individual level. Due to
my writings,
it is now quite clear as to how the 'juice' is sucked out of your
existence
by brazen data thieves. There is the other interesting aspect of
killing
private enterprise and small business (hi-tech) growth. For example, a
new technical idea comes to your mind, and you quickly type it on
your computer - a data thief appointed by a bigger company (with
better
technolgy for data stealing) steals it, and your dreams of
productizing
it gets shattered. This is one of the reasons we are seeing a major
reduction
in the number of new and emerging small businesses in the hi-tech
sector.
Big pyramid-structured companies are dominating the scene. Ultimately,
there will be just one company, the government! For instance, my
discussing
the technical ideas of info-watch or the otctopus app in the open here
was a symbolic statement against this trend. So, in the next year, I
expect
a major boost in the data security industry. Going beyond producing
the bogus
firewalls and encryptions - actually identifying who is stealing your
data from
where, and for how long, and so on!
arya.raychaudhuri
Drinking and typing, not drinking and driving! So, I think it's ok!
These days, I typically don't drink beyond beer and wine. But, tonite
is special, newyear's eve night - everybody is in a spirited mood!
Just now, visited a nearby donut shop, and looked for a dozen of
donuts - the lady was so warm-hearted with the spirit of the night,
she gave four extra donuts for free! Sixteen donuts for the price
of twelve!
Welcome towoo thauuuusannnd eliiivvan - gettttiiing
thaaa afffexxtt awf wiissskkky :-)