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Whatever it is you are smoking today Bill...probably wouldn't make it through Customs...  
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Are we at Airport? This is CP guys! Everything is allowed in Lounge, unless or untill "wouldn't want your kid sister to" do the same! 
Would that be plagiarized?
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Perhaps you can explain to OriginalGriff (my esteemed colleague, mentor, and friend) the true meaning of "andher nagree chauput raja" ?  I am certain I don't fully understand it, and perhaps us "western barbarian" children of caves and deserts, of Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Aristotle, and Plato, Augustine, Dante, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Goethe, Newton, Leibniz, etc., can never understand it ?
I do have to admit that posting this I worried that someone from India or the sub-continent might be offended ... someone who doesn't know I lived in India for a year (1975), when I was just thirty, perhaps the greatest year of my little life in terms of learning something about myself (and so little about the infinite depths of Mother India) ... on a graduate fellowship in the social sciences, and doesn't know I am a great appreciator (but, not a "groupie") of both India's ancient cultural heritage (no, I'm not a wild-eyed "spiritual seeker"), and the remarkable technical achievements of so many brilliant Indian men and women in the last forty years on the "world stage."
To "Mother India" all I can say forty years later is: I drank a little of the amritsar from your fountain of paradoxes, and still do not understand why the taste lingers on, hinting at a miraculous-in-ordinary it is beyond my power to grasp, and that demands: surrender. Or was that garam chai I drank, and the fever and dysentery that altered my mental state ?
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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First of all with all due respect, and no pun intended, you're also an old guy? Every guy I become a fan of and get as my mentor is 50+, are you people old or am I in programming field too early? 
Secondly, I am also a sub-continental and not an Indian, but I do have some relatives and friends living in India that is why I know about India a lot and I have been to India last year in december, quite a good time it was there. However, when I came back on 2nd january, I started to learn the Hindi transcript and writing and after 5 days I started learning Assembly; because Assembly was wayyy more easy language than Hindi, pun intended  . Somehow, I will try to explain these words and "andher means nightly, nagree means a small town, chaupat means null (I don't know this one) and raja means king". Surely you can understand these words, even the Hulk from Avengers when he lived in Calcutta was able to speak Hindi; you can see the movie. He spoke a few words in Hindi, although he crammed them.
No one would ever jump on you, specially from India or sub-continent, Internationally a Pakistani is more like an Indian. Yeah, that "someone" can be me, because I didn't know you lived here in India and you were this elder than me. Yeah Indian people are talented; I'm not saying I am because I believe I am just a beginner at this stage it will take atleast 30 years age to be an intermediate. But there are many others, who're making a remarkable impact on the society.
Ummm, was there any pun in "amritsar", because there is no other term even near amritsar and well, that is just a Hindu belief for drinking the waters of holy rivers or taking a shower in it and all that... I don't believe in all these, there is only one God and he don't want us to drink the same water in which we took a bath and cleanse ourself. I will now be angry, don't say anything to "chai"; tea for OriginalGriff, I drink 4 mugs of it in a day and it keeps me running throughout the day and night. So, don't be hard on it.
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"Andher nagree chauput raja" is a wonderful Indian parable that some have interpreted to have the sense of referring to the irrationality and random injustice of the world, of "topsy-turvy" ... the world turned upside-down, what is moral/honest/pure inverted ... as well as a sense, perhaps, conveyed in the term "mondo cane," a world "gone to the dogs." The story as told to me involves a party of travelers who come to a land where they go to the market and find that a small amount of grain has the same price as a large amount. They are arrested for theft, and one of them is hanged, while a real thief goes free. The King is killed and the man who kills him is made King. I am sure there are other dimensions of this parable I have never understood.
Amrit in the Sikh faith is, indeed, a holy water used to initiate members into the Khalsa , but Amrit, as found in Hinduisim in the Rig Veda, is the drink of the Gods, and can also mean a state of "immortality" that comes with drinking the Soma, the nectar of enlightenment. In Kundalini Yoga, amrit has another meaning: a supposed secretion of an "organ of the subtle body," during certain meditations. And it goes on ... and on ... into Tibetan Medicine and Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism, etc.
Yes, this bag of bones and meat-package I'm in is old, relative to you, but if you want me to be a mentor, you are going to have shape-up, because I can see you have great potential 
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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hehe yeah I asked my parents about this "andher nagree chaupat raja" and she said, its "raaj" in the phrase, raaj means the government. You're description fullfills the description and explaination By which it means such a government, where there is no such thing as "law and justice" so you're examples work here.
yeah, these people here are a lot of superstitious, they still believe in that "black cat passes infront of you" thing. That is why, once a pundit or mullah says something it is like an apocalypse for them, something big just got revealed and all that things, whereas mostly it is found and shown to the public that these religious scholars the only reason for chaos, we (sub-continental people) believe that religion is the only way of peace and still we're fighting for religion only and as Mark Twain says in his book about humans and the animals, we could die saving our beloved neighbour if he is threatened, but we would cut his throat if his theology doesn't make sense or isn't the same for us. This discussion can continue, and trust me there is no way these people can believe in any thing, its hard to stop an Indian from what he thinks and makes his mind upto; even me... as an Indian.
I would love to have you as a mentor for myself, infact everyone who is elder than me is a mentor for me, they're seen life and world more than me and I get to know much from everyone. I will try my best to keep it up to you,
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Let me share the thought with you that the proverbs, parables, fables, myths, the legends, fairy tales, the great story-cycles of all cultures, often maintained through memorization and oral-transmission from master to disciple for millenia before they were written down, from the Mahabharata and Ramayana to the Jataka Tales to the Gilgamesh epic, to the the Iliad, the Odyssey ... all these constitute an important vehicle for the transmission of "wisdom" about life, and the human condition, about relationships, sickness, health, age, dying, loss, grief, love.
Just as many aspects of life are paradoxical, so the stories often involve paradox: the paradox points awareness to a reality outside the "virus of language" that has enabled our species to become the "top predator" and world-destroyers we are today, as well as artists, scientists, engineers, musicians, and "spiritual leaders."
So, I wouldn't discount, or dismiss, the stories, or equate them with "superstition."
And, I would ask you if perhaps the way you and I might believe in "science," and "physics," doesn't have something in common with believing in mis-fortune from a black-cat Given that what science tells us about the ultimate quantum nature of "reality" is just as "cosmic," as what the Vedas said four to six-thousand years ago, or more (depending on who you read).
«If you search in Google for 'no-one ever got fired for buying IBM:' the top-hit is the Wikipedia article on 'Fear, uncertainty and doubt'» What does that tell you about sanity in these times?
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Wow, you really do have a great knowledge on our culture, are you sure you just lived for a year here? Yes the mythological stories are streamed down to us from our fore-fore grands and even the ones before them said the same or so - but these stories do make sense.
Vedas are also found in many other scientifical approaches, and their study although at that there was no technology like we have but they still had the same equipments, documentaries reveal alot. I like reading from different sources, so they have different numerics written that is why I remain confused all the time, and that black cat thing, I totally don't believe in it - not talking about just science, even art won't allow such thing to be happening 
Vedas and many other Hindu literature has a great set of information in it and they were pretty much modern age of their age atleast - or I believe that every invention was done in that age and we're just innovating, wheel was invented, fire was invented, pulley and other stuff infact as you say the knowledge and science of quantum was a study of that time, so we people, as related to them are doing nothing - other than just a chatter.
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I have now ruined my second electric toothbrush.
I didn't realize what was going on until today.
I was using NiMH (Nickel Metal Hydride) batteries.
The claim: Recharge them 100 times and then continue.
My initial observation: First charge lasted 2 or 3 times as long as the best alkaline I had ever seen.
My resulting thoughts: Woo-Hoo ! I'm covered for the next ten or twenty years !
[[[[ Time goes by; about 18 months; charging and long life continue ]]]]
Toothbrush starts giving me trouble. The cap becomes so tight that I am having physical pain opening and closing it just before and right after I charge the batteries.
I was wrongly blaming Crest for selling a toothbrush which was poorly designed. Changing batteries was so difficult it was almost impossible. I honestly thought (wrongly) that they purposely designed their electric toothbrush this way to induce repeat sales.
Today I figured out a different reason. The toothbrush is fine. The batteries had swollen.
The process was so gradual that I did not detect it.
The company is here in The States. I wrote them an hour ago. I'll see what they say.
I gave various descriptions of this experience to search engines and found a brief reference to the swelling with Radio Controlled Airplanes; but they seem to be using some sort of special battery.
I loved the 2x and 3x charge life. I loved being able to recharge so many times.
If they tear up the toothbrush, then the economy disappears.
Anybody got alms for the clueless ???
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Check the charger: IIRC (and it's been 20 years or more since I dealt with battery charging) heat build up during charging (which normally means over-enthusiastic charge current, or a lack of thermal monitoring) causes the battery to gas-out and if the gasses can't escape then it can distort the battery case. This is not a "recoverable problem" - you will have to chuck the cells.
There is an interesting (ok, probably not unless you want to design chargers) article on how batteries fail here: http://www.mpoweruk.com/failure_modes.htm[^]
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There are some great videos on youtube of LiPo battery explosions and fires...
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Isn't playing with Lithium fun and games? 
<MumMode>Until someone loses an eye!</MumMode>
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I have about 20 larger LiPos as flight batteries for my helicopters. When one starts to bloat, it immediately is turned in and I buy a new one. Here I keep them in fireproof bags and some ammo boxes for machine guns (filled up with sand). In there they can't do much harm.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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Not to mention the availability of tooth brushes, tooth paste, and clean water.
Marc
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What brand of batteries and/or charger are you using?...so I know to avoid?
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It could be that the charger is a poor design, not properly matching the charging current profile to the battery technology. As mentioned elsewhere, this can lead to excessive gas generation during the charging process, and expansion of the case. They may have got the toothbrush design right, but just reused a charger design from a previous generation based on a different chemistry.
Will Rogers never met me.
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As of this weekend (a week later) I have not heard back from them.
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In this context I guess I am Snape.
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I don't think only wizards are allowed to play, you just need to be good at swallowing the flying thing there.
The sh*t I complain about
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I'm a Wardeadlock
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
I'm gonna steal that!!!
I'd rather be phishing!
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Upvote for a TP reference!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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