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Whenever I look at the traffic chaos in Pune, the emerging IT hub in Western India, I always think about the possibility of levying a congestion tax, like in case of London and Stockholm. In London, for example, in central area, an entering vehicle is charged a congestion tax of 8 ??, and in case of evasion, a fine of 50 ??. This is true from 7 am to 6 pm, every day except Sundays and excepting
“John might prefer apples to bananas, bananas to cherries, but cherries to apples.”- This tells the irrational nature of human decisions. Human preferences can’t be assigned with ascending/descending values. ‘a>b’ and ‘b>c’ means that ‘a>c’ in mathematics, but not in Human Life. Human choices vary from person to person and for a person, from time to time. I read it on website of American
1. Touchscreen – From video, it looks great, but we will have to wait to see how Apple has tackled issue of scratch resistance, unintended touches etc.2. Internet surfing experience – This will be where iPhone’s success will matter in long term, especially in the non-US markets like Europe and Far East, where use of cell phone for net-surfing is rising with leaps and bounds.
I just finished reading ‘Murder Is Easy‘ by Agatha Christie, the queen of mystery. Here the lead of novel meets an old woman on a London bound train and gets to know about mysterious deaths taking place in a desolate village, not far from London. The old lady mentions to this retired police officer, that she is going to report to the Scotland Yard the murders and the suspect according to her. But, the police officer reads in next day’s newspaper that the old lady has been knocked down by some vehicle in London. Determined to see to this affair, the lead goes to village, falls in love with a lady besides trying to unfold the murder mysteries. Regular stuff.
I actually had zeroed down on 3 persons in novel as possible murderers when I was somewhere in the middle of novel. And bravo! Here are the actual results – First one the pompous Lord is closely related to the murderer; Second, the lady – in whose case I failed – is not the murderer, but in fact becomes muse of the lead; the third one – the old lady once engaged to the Lord is the actual murderer.
Now, here is my formula of how to crack murder mysteries before Agatha Christie does that on
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It is quite simple. Just remember following facts about the murder mystery –
- The murderers appear at the earliest stages of novel.
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I just finished reading ‘Murder Is Easy’ by Agatha Christie, the queen of mystery. Here the lead of novel meets an old woman on a London bound train and gets to know about mysterious deaths taking place in a desolate village, not far from London. The old lady mentions to this retired police officer, that she is going to report to the Scotland Yard the murders and the suspect according to her. But
A federal judge in USA, thrashed down a law??of??1998, which made it a crime for websites to allow children to gain access to explicit material on web. New York Times reports that the judge said that??-??”the law was ineffective, overly broad and at odds with free speech rights. Judge Reed added that there were far less restrictive methods like software filters that parents could use to control their
A federal judge in USA, thrashed down a law of 1998, which made it a crime for websites to allow children to gain access to explicit material on web. New York Times reports that the judge said that –
“the law was ineffective, overly broad and at odds with free speech rights. Judge Reed added that there were far less restrictive methods like software filters that parents could use to control their children’s Internet use.”
The question here is the clash between our desire to protect our children from anything which may destroy the joy of childhood, and freedom of expression, which more or less all constitutions guarantee their citizens.
Let’s have a look at the first of the two contestants of clash here, viz. ‘our’ desire to protect our children from anything that destroys their ‘joy of childhood’. Now the interesting part is who is this ‘our’ here?
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Reality Is A Farce... 