What is matter?

"What the Bleep do I know?" seems like a good movie to watch. It follows Amanda as her uninspired life unravels to reveal the uncertain world of quantum mechanics hidden beneath her normal, waking reality. Watch the trailer here.

http://www.whatthebleep.com/trailer/

Downloading music and movies for free

So there are ways to donwload movies & music - Hindi and English - without torrents. I will give a step by step method to do this. It's a little complicated but the download speeds will appease you.

1. Download mIRC (Internet relay chat) client and install it.
2. Go to Packetnews website and search for any movie you want, e.g. click here
3. Click on some number under "pack" coloumn. e.g "#5" or "#21" etc.
4. This will open up mIRC and prompt you "change server and join the channel". Click OK.
5. Couple of windows within the application will open within a few seconds.
6. In the second window that opens within mIRC, do a "Ctrl-V" i.e paste in the chat box and hit enter. You have effectively logged on to a server hosting the movie/music file and sent a request to receive that file.
7. A dialog box will be show a "file warning" saying someone is attempting to send you a file. Just say yes. Select the destination folder and the file is being downloaded!! Check out the speeds - I get about 350kbps!
   Note: First time users should always make sure the following: Go to Tools->Options->DCC->Ignore. Select "Disabled" in the Method menu and click ok.
8. You might also need WinRar and Isobuster to decode your movie/music files.
   To learn to use Isobuster, post your comments, and I will add the details.

The quality of movies/music can be excellent if you choose the files a little carefully! Users can even share large size files (send/receive) between each other.

Funny clip

http://india.makemytrip.com/masti/fungama.html#

Especially check out the "chidiya udi" one... its funny :)

Iran's nuclear power

I came across this article in India Express, it nicely summarizes the current issues related to Iran and US. It very well cover all the topics that we have been arguing about, have a look at it. it was good for me because I did not completely understand this problem, but this article puts things in a better perspective.
http://indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=88307

Hindus cannot be proud of their demonic religion

Carefully read the captions in these picture (click for bigger resolution) and recall how shitty India is. This is how India and Hinduism is portrayed in western textbooks. Whereas, other cultures and countries are the best thing ever happened to humans - is clearly laid in out the same books. Just dis-regard their imperialism, world wars, fundamentalism etc...







Read the article for more details.

Update:
Topic I J C H

Women are shown equal to men? Yes Yes Yes No

Oppression of certain groups is discussed? No No No Yes

Beliefs are considered as historical fact? Yes Yes Yes No

Own leaders’ interpretations are emphasized? Yes Yes Yes No

Treated as a world religion without social
political issues of any foreign country? Yes Yes Yes No

Significance of Valentines Day

It is not known for which of three Saint Valentine's is "Valentines day" celebrated. All of the three were martyrs of Roman empire. The closest possible connection between 'love' and these Saints was in 280A.D.

This Saint Valentine was sent to prison after a debate with Claudius, a roman emporer. Anon the prison provost had a blind daughter and with a little faith asked Valentine

I marvel me that thou sayest that thy God is very light, and nevertheless, if he may make my daughter to hear and see, which long time hath been blind, I shall do all that thou commandest me, and shall believe in thy God. Saint Valentine anon put him in prayers, and by his prayers the daughter of the provost received again her sight, and Anon all they of the the house were converted

The emporer later beheaded the saint. The debate between the two was:

Emporer: Why wilt thou not abide in our amity, and worship the idols and renounce the vain opinion of thy creance?
Saint Valentine answered him: If thou hadst very knowledge of the grace of Jesu Christ thou shouldest not say this that thou sayest, but shouldest reny the idols and worship very God.
A prince from the council of the emperor: What wilt thou say of our gods and of their holy life?
Saint Valentine answered: I say none other thing of them but that they were men mortal and mechant and full of all ordure and evil.
Claudius the emperor: If Jesu Christ be God verily, wherefore sayst thou not the truth?
Saint Valentine: Certainly Jesu Christ is only very God, and if thou believe in him, verily thy soul shall be saved, thy realm shall multiply, and he shall give to thee alway victory of thine enemies.

Umm...so why the hoopla over Valentines day as a day of Love?

Maharashtra's Wineyard

Education, sports and addictive beverages seem a good business to be in. Some 'politicians' are benefiting from all of them. Sharad Power...err Pawar - the Agriculture and Food Minister, BCCI president runs a few high end private technical colleges.

Recently, he has found new ways to make money - subsidising rich wine farmers (including himself) in western Maharashtra while lowering import duty on cotton which is already responsible for nearly 1000 farmer suicides in eastern Maharashtra.

experts contend that even the substantial incentives offered to the wine industry are swallowed up by a handful of big wineries. Pawar—he even has a grape variety, Sharad Seedless, named after him—must explain why the future of a few large wineries is more important than the livelihood of 20 lakh cotton cultivators. Perhaps the state administration will wake up only when it's election time. In Maharashtra, which went to the polls last year, that's four long years away.

But then, to win last elections, they had offered free electricity to all farmers including poor farmers who dont even have electrical connections and infrastructure to make use of the scheme.

India votes against Iran

India votes against Iran on nuclear issue - is a very likely outcome of the ongoing political debate.

My reasons:

• US and UN pressure on India. Now even China and Russia will be voting against Iran.
• American business pressure - its a $100 billion business.
• India gets one more reason to reserve a seat in UN security council.
• Bush's and Sonia's Vatican Mission - now thats a speculation!