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I don’t have any problem that Pakistan or India wants to buy F-16, but the real question is why the USA is selling it? First, the US sells and arms the Taliban regime to attack the soviets-then Taliban is destroyed, then, Saddam Hussein becomes best friend of the USA, US again sells stuff to Iraq-then Iraq is destroyed, now Pakistan. These double standards and hypocrisy of the USA is well known to everyone in this world. I don’t know who they are trying to fool. They want us to do what they say. They don’t give up their more than 10,000 nuclear warheads and still continues to invest in the uranium enrichment program, and asks everyone in the world to give up their rights to the development of the nuclear weapons. All they think is their security and survival. They say, “We saved a lot of people from the tyranny of Saddam (even if we didn’t find WMDs)”. They spent about $300bn in Iraq war, wow, think what they could have done to make world a better place to live by giving it to Africa. Well, they won’t- because there are no returns, in Iraq they have all the oil wells now. I pity USA’s bureaucracy and foreign policies.

Wonderful article! Nuclear Bomb for Sale: Ideas & Identities of India Pakistan: "Nuclear Bomb for Sale Pervez Hoodbhoy and Shiv Visvanathan"

I watched about this surgery on a TV show American Morning on CNN. Those three sisters lost their weight approx. 100-120 pounds each. So I decided to read how it works and I was surprised by the technology and concept behind it. A surgery is done to put a "pouch" near the stomach, which is smaller than stomach. Food is now bypassed thru this pouch giving that person a "feeling of fullness" with small portions of food. Read more about it here: How does the Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass (Roux-en-Y) work? How is the Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass performed?

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Originally uploaded by a7n9.

Until today I didn't know about Jef Raskin. I surfed thru his site and got to know what a great man he was. He knew about so many things in various fields. This solar system on one page I found amusing so I’m posting it. Hats of to Jef!!

Press Release, February 27, 2005: "Jef created the Macintosh computer as employee number 31 at Apple in the early 1980s, revolutionizing computer interface design. Jef invented 'click and drag' and many other methods now taken for granted by computer users. He named the Macintosh project after his favorite variety of apple, the McIntosh, modifying the spelling for copyright purposes. Jef's article 'Holes in the Histories' addresses some popular misconceptions about the Macintosh Project. Jef strongly believed that computers should make tasks easy for people, not the other way around. For twenty-five more years, his work focused on improving interfaces, culminating in his book, The Humane Interface (Addison-Wesley, 2000). Jef created the Raskin Center for Humane Interfaces (RCHI), , which will soon release a preview of Archy, a culmination and exemplar of his design principles. Archy redesigns the basic building blocks of computing to demonstrate an entirely new paradigm for computer use. RCHI will continue under the technical leadership of Jef's son, Aza Raskin."

# posted by Ashutosh : 3/02/2005 11:27:52 AM