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Rohit Singh
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[Fri, 24 Oct 2003]
Only in America
A gets a restraining order on B. B sues A for distress. As an added irony, notice that the American papers didn't even find this newsworthy.
[Thu, 09 Oct 2003]
Ummm...Can I have a raincheck ?
She proposes, they dispose, sorta. I might have felt bad for the poor babus, except that this is too funny.
[Tue, 23 Sep 2003]
Can't resist
No wonder he'll be
riding a hot air balloon
, he's
full of hot air
himself. [With apologies to SSS]
[Tue, 16 Sep 2003]
- Give laptop to a Bihar MLA: Rs 120,000
- Give assistant to the failed-5th-standard Bihar MLA: Rs 60,000/year
- Probability that the said assisant is not a close relative: 0
- Probability that the said laptop will re-appear in Bangalore in 2 months under new ownership: 0.9
[Mon, 15 Sep 2003]
Pick the lesser evil
Denver Post [via Slashdot]
says
why RIAA is getting it all wrong while MPAA has been getting it right.
They say MPAA has handled the internet thing in a strategically better way
than RIAA. In particular, they talk about how movies are cheap and DVDs
are a better standard (??) and how DVDs work everywhere (unlike poisoned CDs).
Some good points here, but the writer ignored a very basic observation. If
I need to pay $20 for an album's CD and I really only care about 3 songs
in that album, it amounts to about 20MB worth of song downloads. A movie
has to be gotten in its entirety- thats a 200MB download (for a bad divx)
for something worth $20. Clearly, there's much more value-for-money
in "sharing" music than in "sharing" movies.
Heh!
Damned if we claim POK
and
damned if we don't!
[Sat, 13 Sep 2003]
You are all wrong!
Yoohoo! Somebody finally blames
both the extreme lefties and the extreme right-wingers- for the
right reasons.
[Thu, 11 Sep 2003]
Hi, I'm the guy on Floor 79. Could you send over 3000 roses please?
Seriously, the world is a totally unfair place. I live in a 10'x8' room in
an apt which doesn't have a living room, and a kitchen so small that it
becomes a walled city when the fridge door is opened. And
here
you have guys who are forking out a measly $10 million for a 'wow'
apartment and a paltry $20 million for a 'Wow' apartment in Manhattan. And
not only are these apartments totally cool but the amenities include
part-time access to an executive jet, a maid assigned just to you and a
dogwalker who'll be extra nice to your dog.