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I, Shravana Nakshatra
Jan. 3rd, 2009 08:59 pmI've known for a while now that under Vedic Astrology, I was born under the sign of Shravana. This week, I tried in vain to find an on-line general 2009 horoscope for my sign, but the below I found instead, courtesy of www.indoastro.com
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I don't know how true that last one is but "white noise" used to bother me a great deal in childhood/adolescence and still does to a degree.
I felt very freaked that this matched me so well.
FP
( Look Behind This Cut For The Full Story )
I don't know how true that last one is but "white noise" used to bother me a great deal in childhood/adolescence and still does to a degree.
I felt very freaked that this matched me so well.
FP
More Proof of My Dementia
Sep. 9th, 2005 12:03 amHey.
Anybody know of any scale models of this car on the market?
Yes, that is an Amby, made by Hindustan...which is in the same conglomerate as our (Stateside) General Motors. One of my big pipe dreams is, now that Detroit is in the mood for retro, for GM to buy the body tooling for the Amby and to build a new version here, with all 21st Century mechanics under that charmingly rounded body. Give it some nice nostalgia-inducing chrome and a two-tone paint scheme, and dub it the Bel-Air. (Or course, this would give India an excuse to bring their carmaking tech into the 21st Century as well.)
Think globally, buy locally.
FP
Anybody know of any scale models of this car on the market?
Yes, that is an Amby, made by Hindustan...which is in the same conglomerate as our (Stateside) General Motors. One of my big pipe dreams is, now that Detroit is in the mood for retro, for GM to buy the body tooling for the Amby and to build a new version here, with all 21st Century mechanics under that charmingly rounded body. Give it some nice nostalgia-inducing chrome and a two-tone paint scheme, and dub it the Bel-Air. (Or course, this would give India an excuse to bring their carmaking tech into the 21st Century as well.)
Think globally, buy locally.
FP
The New Arms Race
Jul. 26th, 2005 12:13 amHey.
From the same source of the BA609 story, news that Boeing is lobbying to build a plant in India for the construction of F/A-18 Hornets to sell the Indian Air Force (and maybe other nations). This actually worries me.
Why? This nation is now looking at playing both sides--if not ALL THREE sides--of the struggle to dominate southern Asia. Last time we played both sides of an Asian arms race, it led to the attack at Pearl Harbor. (Boeing, Curtiss, Vultee and Martin planes were sold to the Republic of China while Seversky, Lockheed, Vought and Douglas planes were sold to Imperial Japan.) Now we're looking at a possible war in which F-16s from Pakistan and F/A-18s from India will deliver nuclear bombs to each others' cities. Maybe not tomorrow...but I would bet it will happen this decade or the next.
And the third side? Mainland China. China has been using the export market (with Pakistan as both customer and partner) to get access to American technology...not just for reverse-engineering...but for the purpose of creating countermeasures. After all, China wants Taiwan "back"--and Taiwan uses American military hardware. Their leaders are talking about hurling nukes, our leaders are talking about hurling nukes...
The "war on terror" isn't the only war that should concern us. There WILL be a next war.
FP
From the same source of the BA609 story, news that Boeing is lobbying to build a plant in India for the construction of F/A-18 Hornets to sell the Indian Air Force (and maybe other nations). This actually worries me.
Why? This nation is now looking at playing both sides--if not ALL THREE sides--of the struggle to dominate southern Asia. Last time we played both sides of an Asian arms race, it led to the attack at Pearl Harbor. (Boeing, Curtiss, Vultee and Martin planes were sold to the Republic of China while Seversky, Lockheed, Vought and Douglas planes were sold to Imperial Japan.) Now we're looking at a possible war in which F-16s from Pakistan and F/A-18s from India will deliver nuclear bombs to each others' cities. Maybe not tomorrow...but I would bet it will happen this decade or the next.
And the third side? Mainland China. China has been using the export market (with Pakistan as both customer and partner) to get access to American technology...not just for reverse-engineering...but for the purpose of creating countermeasures. After all, China wants Taiwan "back"--and Taiwan uses American military hardware. Their leaders are talking about hurling nukes, our leaders are talking about hurling nukes...
The "war on terror" isn't the only war that should concern us. There WILL be a next war.
FP
