Sunday, November 30, 2008
Deccan Mujahideen Letter
Translation of Message From 'Deccan Mujahideen'
Hours after terrorists began their attacks in Mumbai Wednesday, the previously unknown group identifying itself as "Mujahideen Hyderabad Deccan" sent an email to few Indian media organizations.The two-page-long letter, written in Hindi peppered with Urdu, is in the form of a notice to the Indian government and a warning to India's Hindus. Its title: "Not the Warning but the Fact."
The following is a partial translation by The Wall Street Journal's Krishna Pokharel:
- We inform and warn India's government to stop the continuing injustice against the Muslims. Return all the states seized from the Muslims. We are that "nation" that never forgets its history and repeats its history again and again. The fresh examples of which are Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Somalia and Kashmir.
- Whatever you had to do you did that and what we had to endure we endured that … This is now our innings and we won't let it go from our hands. We will play our innings with style …
- We know India government won't take this warning seriously…. So we are determined that this warning be made real … You have already seen its vivid example in Mumbai.
- Hindus, don't think India's ATS [anti-terror squad] and army are laced with modern weapons and are also courageous.
- This attack is a reaction to those actions that Hindus have been carrying out since 1947. There would be no actions now, only reactions. … And it will continue till we take revenge for every injustice done to us. … It will continue till we take back all our seized states …
- Hindus now give up thinking that martyring of Muslims' mosques, weakening Muslims' economic condition through riots, and putting educated youths in prison will weaken the confidence. No, not at any cost. …
Mujahideen Hyderabad Deccan
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Saturday, November 8, 2008
Google:An evil company which wants to take over the world??
Google has emerged today as leader in web services and slowly also expanding to offline services. They have been the biggest supporters of free and open source software, sponsoring almost every event that endorses open source, supporting every open source product based company financially as well as technically. Also itself has been conducting a lot of events to bring together developers of the open source community. Most people are now under the impression that Google is the Messiah that has been created to save the world from the "evil" Microsoft. Their premiere argument being that Microsoft does not give enough rights to the user and they're evil and they are hacking into all your data and they're evil and they dont give you code and they're evil, though I appreciate the fact Google has been able to sideline itself from 'directly' making these alligations.
Almost every computer user uses Google's tools for any kind of web service used by him and as an icing on the cake these services are completely free of cost. We love everything that comes to us for free, and why not, we work hard to earn that money. Now Google understands that well, doesn't it? Thank You Google.
Now where my understanding of Google beats me is why doesn't Google release the source code of its own products. To start with, well i'm using the search engine am I not entitled to have the source code for it, if the code for my operating system happens to be my birth right.
Now have we seen an open source version for googletalk with all its features for Unix based systems?Shouldn't they give the code for gmail to its every user.
Web services certainly are different but again they're being used by me, take my private data and run mostly on my PC. Why must I not view what data is being captured from my system or the application I have opened using these services.
Another point I would like to specify on these web services by google, how many of them have been Google's own creations and have made it big except for the search engine.
Orkut, google's socializing site was made by someone else, bought by google.
Blogger, this very site was bought by Google not released by them.
Youtube, again bought by Google.
It certainly is quite honorary to be taken over by google. Every start up dreams of it. Why, because they've done a lot of hard work in creating the start up, and if they're getting a hefty reward for it right at the moment, why reject it.
I would say Google was lucky, it wasn't taken over by any major comapany during its time of creation. They tried but Alta Vista was too snobbish for that. Now Google does not want to see a repetition of 'The Google Story'. They buy every possible company which emerges as a possible competition. It certainly is the Emperor of Internet ruthlessly conquering every small opposition in the most nascent stages.
But the emperor's insatiable thirst for power also has its eyes set on the offline services. Their biggest competition is Microsoft, "Well, they're bigger than us. We can't buy them. Hmm!! so my enemy's enemy is a friend. Hence, it befriended the open source community. All they have to do is pump in some money from time to time and Microsoft is busy parrying off the open source guys. Now they've come up with android(which was not introduced as open source) to enter the phone markets, and another mentionable feat by Google, CHROME. I don't understand what were they thinking, we put together the open source brilliantly built browser in the market, replace it with our label and reintroduce and with a privacy policy that we can use any data that you open with chrome. Wha ha wha!!!
Oh! and another thing I forgot to mention why are none of the open source products by Google(of the very few) that I know of GPL licensed?? Why do they go for something else like Apache Software licenses? Why do Google's products fail to provide the Four Kinds of Freedom?
Now Google I'm sure is just waiting for the right time to release its own OS though not very soon I'm sure. Just as soon as they can get enough from the open source community on Microsoft which could take a while because I think now its time People understood the Evil that is GOOGLE.
I hope the open source community realizes this before its too late.
Almost every computer user uses Google's tools for any kind of web service used by him and as an icing on the cake these services are completely free of cost. We love everything that comes to us for free, and why not, we work hard to earn that money. Now Google understands that well, doesn't it? Thank You Google.
Now where my understanding of Google beats me is why doesn't Google release the source code of its own products. To start with, well i'm using the search engine am I not entitled to have the source code for it, if the code for my operating system happens to be my birth right.
Now have we seen an open source version for googletalk with all its features for Unix based systems?Shouldn't they give the code for gmail to its every user.
Web services certainly are different but again they're being used by me, take my private data and run mostly on my PC. Why must I not view what data is being captured from my system or the application I have opened using these services.
Another point I would like to specify on these web services by google, how many of them have been Google's own creations and have made it big except for the search engine.
Orkut, google's socializing site was made by someone else, bought by google.
Blogger, this very site was bought by Google not released by them.
Youtube, again bought by Google.
It certainly is quite honorary to be taken over by google. Every start up dreams of it. Why, because they've done a lot of hard work in creating the start up, and if they're getting a hefty reward for it right at the moment, why reject it.
I would say Google was lucky, it wasn't taken over by any major comapany during its time of creation. They tried but Alta Vista was too snobbish for that. Now Google does not want to see a repetition of 'The Google Story'. They buy every possible company which emerges as a possible competition. It certainly is the Emperor of Internet ruthlessly conquering every small opposition in the most nascent stages.
But the emperor's insatiable thirst for power also has its eyes set on the offline services. Their biggest competition is Microsoft, "Well, they're bigger than us. We can't buy them. Hmm!! so my enemy's enemy is a friend. Hence, it befriended the open source community. All they have to do is pump in some money from time to time and Microsoft is busy parrying off the open source guys. Now they've come up with android(which was not introduced as open source) to enter the phone markets, and another mentionable feat by Google, CHROME. I don't understand what were they thinking, we put together the open source brilliantly built browser in the market, replace it with our label and reintroduce and with a privacy policy that we can use any data that you open with chrome. Wha ha wha!!!
Oh! and another thing I forgot to mention why are none of the open source products by Google(of the very few) that I know of GPL licensed?? Why do they go for something else like Apache Software licenses? Why do Google's products fail to provide the Four Kinds of Freedom?
Now Google I'm sure is just waiting for the right time to release its own OS though not very soon I'm sure. Just as soon as they can get enough from the open source community on Microsoft which could take a while because I think now its time People understood the Evil that is GOOGLE.
I hope the open source community realizes this before its too late.
Monday, September 29, 2008
My Favourive mail of the week (The Ant and The Grasshopper)
The Ant and The Grasshopper
An Old Story:
The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs dances plays the summer away.
Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The Grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.
New Indian Version:
The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The Grasshopper thinks the Ant's a fool and laughs dances plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the Ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
NDTV, BBC, CNN show up to provide pictures of the shivering Grasshopper next to a video of the Ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor Grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the Ant's house.
Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with other Grasshoppers demanding that Grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter .
Mayawati states this as `injustice' done on Minorities.
Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticize the Indian Government for not upholding the fundamental rights of the Grasshopper.
The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the Grasshopper (many promising Heaven and Everlasting Peace for prompt support as against the wrath of God for non-compliance) .
Opposition MPs stage a walkout. Left parties call for 'Bengal Bandh' in West Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry.
CPM in Kerala immediately passes a law preventing Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among Ants and Grasshoppers.
Lalu Prasad allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers on all Indian Railway Trains, aptly named as the 'Grasshopper Rath'.
Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the ' Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act' [POTAGA], with effect from the beginning of the winter.
Arjun Singh makes 'Special Reservation ' for Grasshoppers in Educational Institutions in Government Services.
The Ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes,it's home is confiscated by the Government and handed over to the Grasshopper in a ceremony covered by NDTV.
Arundhati Roy calls it ' A Triumph of Justice'.
Lalu calls it 'Socialistic Justice '.
CPM calls it the ' Revolutionary Resurgence of the Downtrodden '
Koffi Annan invites the Grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly.
Many years later...
The Ant has since migrated to the US and set up a multi-billion dollar company in Silicon Valley,
100s of Grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere in India ,
..AND
As a result of losing lot of hard working Ants and feeding the grasshoppers, India is still a developing country...!! ! :) :) :)
An Old Story:
The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs dances plays the summer away.
Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The Grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.
New Indian Version:
The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The Grasshopper thinks the Ant's a fool and laughs dances plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the Ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
NDTV, BBC, CNN show up to provide pictures of the shivering Grasshopper next to a video of the Ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor Grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the Ant's house.
Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with other Grasshoppers demanding that Grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter .
Mayawati states this as `injustice' done on Minorities.
Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticize the Indian Government for not upholding the fundamental rights of the Grasshopper.
The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the Grasshopper (many promising Heaven and Everlasting Peace for prompt support as against the wrath of God for non-compliance) .
Opposition MPs stage a walkout. Left parties call for 'Bengal Bandh' in West Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry.
CPM in Kerala immediately passes a law preventing Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among Ants and Grasshoppers.
Lalu Prasad allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers on all Indian Railway Trains, aptly named as the 'Grasshopper Rath'.
Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the ' Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act' [POTAGA], with effect from the beginning of the winter.
Arjun Singh makes 'Special Reservation ' for Grasshoppers in Educational Institutions in Government Services.
The Ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes,it's home is confiscated by the Government and handed over to the Grasshopper in a ceremony covered by NDTV.
Arundhati Roy calls it ' A Triumph of Justice'.
Lalu calls it 'Socialistic Justice '.
CPM calls it the ' Revolutionary Resurgence of the Downtrodden '
Koffi Annan invites the Grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly.
Many years later...
The Ant has since migrated to the US and set up a multi-billion dollar company in Silicon Valley,
100s of Grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere in India ,
..AND
As a result of losing lot of hard working Ants and feeding the grasshoppers, India is still a developing country...!! ! :) :) :)
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