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Clean Alternatives To Oil - Sun, Wind and Ocean Waves

Offshore windmills

The sun, wind and ocean waves represent unlimited sources of energy. There are very few human habitats where one of them does not exist in abundance. You need to keep on building their power stations until all requirements of stationary consumers of electricity are met. For automotive consumers, build additional power stations and use the energy produced by them extract hydrogen from water. When hydrogen burns with oxygen, the output is water vapour. End to end, there is no pollution.

Of course, water is an extremely inert/stable molecule and the energy released from the combustion of hydrogen and oxygen is more explosive than petrol or diesel. So, what? Invest in creating a more sophisticated engine! That would be cheaper than fighting a war.

Other alternatives only cause more harm than good. Biofuels pollute. They will never be available in quantities to replace foreign oil. They will also increase food prices when agricultural land is diverted to produce biofuel crops. (Electric cars are NOT a source of energy. They will use power from conventional energy sources. Their batteries are non-biodegradable and extremely toxic. For disposal, they will most likely be dumped in developing countries.)

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Also note that I am not making this recommendation because we are going to run out of oil or in response to the "climate change" paranoia. No, there is an unlimited supply of petroleum and natural gas. Contrary to what science books teach us, oil does not come from prehistoric dinosaurs or vegetation trapped between layers of earth's crust. The numbers wouldn't add up if that was the case. Oil is just like any another mineral - their origins are abiotic like that of iron ore or limestone. And, climate change has been happening from day one. It is because of climate change that earth turned from a ball of fire to a planet that supports life. Climate change is influenced by the celestial bodies such as sun and moon and more importantly time spanning billions of years. If it is accelerating as some fools claim, then nobody can stop it or slow it down. What threatens life on earth is environmental pollution. Climate change is a natural phenomena that has been hijacked by a global kleptocracy whose eventual goal is to enslave mankind.

Another thing to note is that the initial capital cost of clean-energy generation is artificially marked up by bankers, contractors, equipment suppliers, and in most cases the owners themselves. One reason is that they can charge more while availing subsidies and tax holidays. Another reason is that the owners are from the oil industry. It is they who bring their pedigree PSA cost-inflation shenanigans to the clean-energy business.

Space-Saving, 6-Bed, 640 Sq. Ft., Traditional Kerala-Style House Plan

This plan can be used for a terraced house or a tile-roof house (ohttu veedu). A highlight of this house model is that it is compact yet spacious enough. All areas are easily accessible. Parents can keep a close watch over children and yet have adequate privacy for themselves. It can be easily cleaned and maintained by one person. There is plenty of space for children to play and have fun. Adults and guests need not be confined to the rooms and can relax anywhere in the verandah.

Undead Myths In The Wake Of iDead Steve Jobs

In the age of push-button publishing and social networking, people seem to have become de-humanised, not knowing what their true emotions are. This became very clear recently in the wake of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' demise. Condolence messages ranged from "hagiographic" to "outright lame." Nobody seemed to have put an effort. There was no honesty nor any genuine feeling.

Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of the C language and co-inventor of the Unix operating system, died a few days after Steve Jobs. He was far more influential than Jobs. There was hardly a mention anywhere.

US President Obama led the pack: "Steve was among the greatest of American innovators." Really, what did Steve invent? Steven Spielberg went further: "Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips." That would have set the man who invented light bulb incandescent with rage! Closer home, in India, HCL owner Shiv Nadar said, "He is in the same league as the person who created the wheel."

A Surefire Cure For Common Cold

At the very outset, I would like to state that I am not a doctor. But common cold is not something you need to go to a doctor for. It is just plain common sense that cold infections come and go. You do not have to CURE it!

World Government For Dummies

The Rothschild banking family has been ruling the world for a few centuries now. They have been doing this mostly by proxy so far. In future, they want to do this openly and without any fear of retribution. To meet this end, their lackeys led by the Rockefellers are spearheading a movement for a global government. This movement envisages a smaller world population under an absolute dictatorship of a chosen elite. This world government, when it is established, will have no place for people with brains. So, this book is meant for future slaves, as they will have no history books. If the slaves will be illiterate, then this book will be useful only for the archeologists. They will be wondering why we became extinct. My contemporaries may also use this book as something to chuckle about but nothing more. The information provided here is no great order and is a work in progress. Enjoy it while you can.

Cover photo of World Government For Dummies

DIY Laptop HDD Mounting Kit For Desktop Computers

Do you have a laptop hard disk (2.5-inch HDD) that you want to use from inside your desktop (internally mounted) rather than outside (as a USB drive)? Well, you could use a laptop hard disk mounting bracket. As this product is not really a mass-market one, they go by several other names - 2.5 to 3.5 internal HDD adapter, converter and mounting kit. What they do is hold a 2.5-inch laptop hard disk inside a drive bay that is really meant for a 3.5-inch desktop hard disc. It is no big deal. You could make one yourself at little or low.

How To Send Really Anonymous Email

The method described in this article is how intelligence agencies ask terrorists to send anonymous e-mail. Almost every terrorist organization in the world is supported by the state it operates against. Everything costs money. Terrorism costs a lot. While propaganda works on fools, arms merchants can be moved only by the sight of hard currency. You see, arms and ammunition cannot be made inside a cottage. Every government in the world knows that terrorism is sustained by the international banking system. Terrorists carry cash only as a last resort. 911 is not something you plan from the confines of a cave in Afghanistan. Wide-bodied jets do not get pulverized into powder if they fly into a skycraper. The worldwide banking system sits on a bedrock of ill-gotten money. The American CIA is really a Cocaine Import Agency. They provide cover for Central and South American drug cartels in North American and European markets. The British MI6 controls drugs business in the rest of the world. World peace will not come until you put the Rothschilds behind bars. Over the past three centuries, they have managed to control all the governments, all the central banks, and all the intelligence agencies in the world. They plan terrorist attacks, genocides and wars to serve their interests. They have bankrolled Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, and all the mega bogeymen and massmurders the world has seen so far. China, North Korea, and Iran are their client states, as was the erstwhile Soviet Union. They enrich themselves and their cronies and stooges first by using the threat of war and then by actually conducting the war. The invented Communism, Zionism, Fascism and Islamic fundamentalism/terrorism to achieve their ends. Having got all that out of the way, let's now get down to business.

Silent Ringtone for Mobile Phones

Do you get lots of unnecessary automated phone calls from your phone company? Set this "silent" ringtone to their number and stop them from annoying you.

About No Agenda Show By Adam Curry and John C Dvorak

The only reason I listened to the show was because Dvorak had mentioned the original Moral Volcano on his blog way back in 2005 and I have been following his RSS feed ever since. Even then, I never downloaded a No Agenda Show audio file until recently in 2010! (The show began in October 2007.)

I have been hooked ever since. They cover current affairs on a more regular basis and perform "media assasination" better than I used to do. The show is popular in the US but not so much outside. In one show, the hosts lamented the fact that India, despite having so many people who can speak English. So, I wrote this primer for Indians.

50 Favourite English Nursery Rhymes

In this page, you will find text and videos of English nursery rhymes that kindergarten kids in India learn. Illustrations are from the books Our Old Nursery Rhymes (1911) and Denslow's Mother Goose (1901).

Online മലയാളം Keyboard

കംപ്യൂട്ടറില്‍ മലയാളത്തില്‍ ടൈപ്പ് ചെയ്യുന്നതിന് ഈ പേജ് ഉപയോഗിക്കാം. ടൈപ്പ് ചെയ്തത് ഈ-മെയില്‍ അയക്കാനും കഴിയും.

Tamil text that you type can be automatically embedded in an e-mail.

Hot Pudina Rice Recipe

When I created this dish, I intended it to meet two criteria. It had to be

  1. Very easy to prepare.
  2. Second to none in terms of nutrition, taste and aroma.

Moral Volcano’s VBScript Add-Ons for Microsoft BgInfo

Mark Russinovich's BgInfo is a Microsoft utility that can be set up to display computer configuration details, such as hardware information, on the Windows desktop background (wallpaper). In this page, I am offering you some unofficial add-ons that make BgInfo more useful - particularly in offices where employees are asked to provide their system configuration details to system administrators.

Windows desktop background (wallpaper) updated by BgInfo with computer configuration information

Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor

The Last Emperor was a movie by Italian director Bernado Bertolucci. This costume drama was based on the life and times of the last Chinese emperor Pu Yi. The movie won 9 Oscar awards of 9 nominations. The movie's background score mesmerizing. However, its audio or video discs are no longer in production. I got a used copy of the OST from the U.S. In this page, I have provided a sample.

Pearls of Purandhara

If you are looking for fine rendering of Purandaradasa kritis, then Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna and Kalavathy Avadhooth should definitely be on your list.

Configuring R-Firewall

R-Firewall Prompt

I have seen that a good firewall and a realtime anti-virus program can safeguard a Windows PC more than anything. I have also seen that the Windows Firewall and other commercially available firewalls do well when it comes to protecting the PC. They usually have preconfigured settings allowing Internet access for popular applications. This is their weakness. When a malware attacks these applications, they also gain Internet access.

The manufacturers cannot be strict with permissions because many Windows applications, including built-in ones, are written so poorly that they will crash Windows if the firewall denies an Internet connection. As a result, few firewalls are designed to give complete control to the user in configuring allow, deny, and ask rules for applications requiring Internet access.

R-Firewall is one program that does provide full control. I recommend all Windows XP users try it.

Strange Search Requests

Some years ago, I had a blog called Moral Volcano. No, I was not one of those fools who maintained an online diary. Moral Volcano was a bunch of articles on current affairs - stuff that become stale over time. (I reserved this site at www.vsubhash.com, called at that time as Virtual V. Subhash, for things that had a longer shelf life.)

The Moral Volcano blog was not very popular. However, it attracted a lot of attention in high places, much to my amusement. But, what made it worthwhile was the insight I got by studying visitor behaviour from the visitor logs. It was educational and it was fun.

I picked some odd candidates from the visitor (referrer) logs and published under posts titled Strange Search Requests. In this piece, I have picked some of the strangest of the strange search requests. I hope you will enjoy them as much as I did picking them.

WARNING: Some of the searches are pörn-related. If you are a squemish type, avoid reading any further.

Tame The Chrome

Chrome

Most Internet users are not tech savvy. Google designed Chrome keeping this in mind. The installer and the browser application was meant to be fool proof. However, this greatly annoy you if you are a sophisticated user.

I don't use Chrome as my default browser. (I use Opera instead. For a webmaster, Opera is indispensable. All other browsers are too slow.) I use Chrome occassionally when I need to check out Webkit's non-standardised CSS extensions.

Even then, Chrome's excessive spyware-like behaviour and made-for-dummies attitude got on my nerves. So, I decided take my whip and remove the hide off Chrome's back. Now, Chrome behaves like it should. It does what I tell it to do, not the other way around. Well, almost…

User-Friendly Email Newsletters

Many product and service companies spend a fortune on e-mail newsletters. But, most e-mail newsletters are never read. Some subscribers unsubscribe almost immediately after receiving their first e-mail. Some others would not even try the unsubscribe link. They will simply mark the e-mail as "junk."

What prompts this lost love? Usually, people blame quality of content. Usability is given scant attention. In this article, I will focus solely on e-mail usability.

Online தமிழ் Keyboard

Online tool for typing in both English and Tamizh.

கணிப்பொறியில் தமிழ் வரிகளை எளிதாக அடிக்க இந்த கருவியை நீங்கள் பயன்படுத்தலாம். அடித்த வரிகளை அப்படியே ஒரு ஈ-தகவலாகவும் அனுப்பலாம்.

Tamil text that you type can be automatically embedded in an e-mail.

How To Lose Weight Naturally

The West consumes a lot of oil. In the wide world, this consumption produces a lot air pollution and cancer. At the refinery, it also leaves behind a lot of petrochemicals. Oil companies have found a way to get rid of this - by producing plastics, detergents, and fertilizers as petroleum by-products. Plastics and detergents move fast but not fertilizers. Though not all crops need fertilizers, there are a few that cannot grow without fertilizers. A good example is corn - low in nutrition but requires huge amounts of fertilizers to grow. The demand for corn was low, that is, until fast food came along. Even that did not lift all the fertilizers. (Oil consumption was also increasing.) Then, came the obesity epidemic that (some people think) was triggerred by foods made from GMO (genetically modified organisms). Yummy!

Really Ultimate Client-Sniffer JavaScript

Client sniffing used to be a fine art. It is now taboo. You are not supposed to do it. Feature detection and all that jazz. I use this client-sniffer javascript in add spice to my referrer logs. It detects mobile phones (BlackBerry, T-Mobile Sidekick, HP-iPaQ, HTC, iPhone, Motorola, Nokia, Palm, Sagem, Samsung, Sharp, and Sony-Ericsson), mobile-phone OSes (Symbian OS, Windows CE/Windows Mobile, and Palm OS), mobile-phone browsers (Maemo, Opera Mini, Blazer, NetFront, IE Mobile, Mobile Safari, Plucker and Xiinu), game consoles (Sony PlayStation Portable, Sony Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS), Internet-enabled devices (iPod, iPad and WebTV), Internet-enabled applications (Mozilla Thunderbird, Adobe Acrobat and WebZip), search engine spiders (Baidu, Become, SearchMe, Authoritative Web, LookSmart, Googlebot, Googlebot-Image, Alexa, MSNbot, rambler, Ask Teoma, Yahoo! Slurp, LookSmart Wisenut and other bots) browsers (Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, Opera, Konqueror (KHTML, Apple Safari, Google Chrome), Mozilla (Firefox), Epiphany, OmniWeb, HotJava, and iCab), and operating systems (Amiga, Acorn (RISC OS), BeOS, OS2/Warp, OpenVMS, CygWin, Unix (IBM Aix, BSD, FreeBSD, Open BSD, HP-UX, Irix and Sun Solaris), Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Windows (Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2008, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7) and Linux (SliTaz GNU/Linux, Gentoo Linux, Mandrake Linux or Mandriva Linux, SUSE Linux, Cent OS, Red Hat Linux, PCLinuxOS, Linux Mint, Kubuntu Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Debian Linux and Fedora Linux). Phew!

Top 10 Reasons Why Sonia Gandhi Declined To Become PM

This article is for the skeptics who do not believe in the "inner voice" theory.

Ban The British Language

"The middle-class Indian is travelling to the upper reaches of good life and he is feared today by all in the business of standing with folded palms and salaried smiles. He screams at the hotel staff to secretly ensure good service. He mistakes the waiter for his domestic help back home. He tries to eat everything in the breakfast buffet because it is obviously profitable that way. His wife is in the pool in a saree, mixing water sports with modesty. And his we-two-ours-two kids are all over the place." - From The Economic Times

Save Kashmir

Addressing the British Prime Minister, Ambedkar said, "Prime minister, permit me to make one thing clear. The depressed classes are not anxious, they are not clamorous, they have not started any movement for claiming that there shall be an immediate transfer of power from the British to the Indian people… Their position, to put it plainly, is that we are not anxious for transfer of power from the British to the Indian people."

The Great Dictator

“… the idea of having a ballroom above the glass ceiling of the saloon is indeed very clever. I wonder if it was Hitler’s idea or Chaplin’s”.

How To Spy On Foreign Governments

Propaganda is meant to deceive people. If you think much of the news is thinly disguised propaganda, then you belong to the minority of the population that is endowed with the ability to detect horse manure. Now, why don't you turn that skill in to the fine art of international espionage? No, I do not mean the what-the-butler-saw variety or sift-the-garbage type. This is much more cooler and you can do it from the comfort of your couch.

British special forces caught in Basra, Iraq, in 2005.

Two British servicemen caught planting bombs in crowded areas in Iraq.

India Is A Dumping Ground

Did you know that Swiss chocolate is made from cows, whose dung is exported to India? Did you that all the tonnes of steel from the World Trade Center was sent a scrap dealer in India? Do you know that Pepsi sent their cans to India for dumping?

Crimes Of India

What do you get when you cross Times of India and The Hindu and put our national enemies on it?

Gandhi On Missionaries And Evangelization

The U.S. government's concern for "freedom of religion" is disingenuous at best. Inside America, the U.S. government systematically discourages Christian faith or acts in ways that are detrimental to it. Geniune and even harmless expressions of Christmas faith are suppressed. For example, Americans are expected to say "holiday season" instead of "Christmas season." It is not "Merry Christmas" but "Happy Holidays." In popular media and entertainment, Christian faith is systematically ridiculed and disrepected. Given this state in the U.S, then why does their government encourage Christian faith in other countries?

The Musharraf Tapes

The following transcript was released by Ministry of External Affairs (MoE) on 11 June 11 1999. The speaker from the Pakistani end is Lt. General Mohammed Aziz, then Chief of General Staff. The speaker from Beijing is former military dictator Pervez Musharraf, who was then the Chief of Army Staff.

Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) of the MoE claimed that they clandestinely recorded the conversation on 29 May 1999. (This is of course unlikely. They only think they were able to do this on their own. The decision to short-cirucuit Musharraf was probably made by Musharraf's controllers in London. It is probable that RAW outed this tape on their orders. The hostility between India vs. Pakistan and India vs. China are carefully orchestrated affairs. A tape like this does not fall into public domain without a reason. The transcripts are still interesting. The tapes were broadcast by All India Radio that day after the 9 o' Clock News. I had listened to the broadcast and I do think they authentic recordings.)

United States Is The Problem, Not Muslims

It is United States government that sponsors terrorists, fundamentalists, peddlers of WMD, dictaors, police states, …

Email Signature Generator for Outlook Express, Thunderbird and Opera

Generate an HTML signature on your own and use it in Opera, Outlook, Outlook Express, Seamonkey and Thunderbird. Echelon Salt® is optional.

CIA Chief is happy with Echelon Salt "Thanks to Echelon Salt, at least someone in the government reads our reports now." - Michael Hayden (Director, CIA) in Central Intelligence Agency Magazine.

Dictionary of Indian English

India is a land of great diversity. Kerala is about as different from Tamil Nadu as France is from Britain. Yet, we move on, in part thanks to the English language. Over several decades, the language has acquired a unique flavour of its own in the country. People like to call it "Indian English"; sometimes proudly and sometimes derisively. Indian English is of course not truly a different language. And, surely there is absolutely no need create a separate standard for it. Yet, one often finds that an Oxford or Webster's dictionary is inadequate or incorrect when dealing with certain words or phrases that have changed on the Indian soil. This Dictionary of Indian English (DIE) hopes to provide a ready reference for such words and phrases. However, this dictionary does not contain English words that have Indian origins but are now part of standard English.

Subhash VCDPlayer

Subhash VCDPlayer is a free media player with special support for VCD playback, image capture, and transcription.

American Foreign Policy For Dummies

Here is a survival guide for people living outside the United States.

Cover of the fake book American Foreign Policy For Dummies

CIA Iraqi Rewards Program

In February 2004, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) caused worldwide amusement when they published details of their Iraqi Rewards Program on their website www.cia.gov. Through this program, the top spying outfit of the U.S. government attempted to solicit intelligence information from the public about "recently-made" Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).

The CIA waited for the fuss to die and took down the English version of the page. However, I had a copy of the web page saved in an e-mail. So, I promptly published the copy as an archive of the CIA web page on Moral Volcano.

How To DualBoot or MultiBoot Operating Systems

Learn to load Linux from the Windows boot menu. Also, get familiar with terms such as partitions, boot loader, and MBR.

Ubuntu and Gnome Diary

When you move from Windows to Linux, there will be some transition issues. This article is a compendium of issues that came up when I began using Ubuntu 8.10 a.k.a Intrepid Ibex and later went on to Ubuntu 9.04 a.k.a. Jaunty Jackalope, and how I went on to solve those issues.

Do You Believe That God Exists?

I was asked to write an essay on this topic as part of a written test in a job interview in 2005. This article is what I wrote. If you are curious, rest assured that I did not get the job. A few days later, I called them and asked for my answer sheet. They obliged and gave me a photocopy.

Ram Swarup’s Review of “Seven Hundred Plans To Evangelize The World”

Like George Orwell, Ram Swarup was one of those rare intellectuals who were really opposed to communism - not simply for the sake of opposing it. Communism helped and helps in enslaving whole countries. In communist countries, people go into slavery openly. In non-communist countries, the threat of communism is used to surreptitiosly enslave the people. To protect themselves from this enemy, people are asked to trust an opaque state and provide massive amounts of tax money to an elite who will then arm the country against this supposed danger. It is this elite that has bankrolled communism, caused numerous wars (warm and cold), and destroyed so many lives. Where communism cannot be sustained, it is being replaced by another bogeyman - The Islamic Terrorist. Islamic terrorism is sponsored and controlled from places like London and New York, not from the caves of Afghanistan. Like most communists, Islamic terrorists have no idea who really owns them.

The Rothschilds

"Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." - Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States (1913 - 1921)…

Nuggets from Western Philosophy

CONTENT ADVISORY: Contains verses descriptive or advocating, suicide, incest, bestiality, sadomasochism, sexual activity in a violent context, murder, morbid violence, use of drugs or alcohol, homosexuality, voyeurism, revenge, undermining of authority figures, lawlessness, and human rights violations and atrocities.

EXPOSURE WARNING: Exposure to contents for extended periods of time or during formative years in children may cause delusions, hallucinations, decreased cognitive and objective reasoning abilities, and in extreme cases, pathological disorders, hatred, bigotry, and violence including, but not limited to fanaticism, murder, and genocide.

Humour

Here is a collection of jokes of all types and all colours (as in black humour) from all over the globe. Most of them are what I had heard or improved up on. There is wit and wisdom up here; many humorous anecdotes and quotes; and a whole of bevy of others that simply defy description.

Lose The Dollar

Americans are fond of saying, “If life gives you a lemon, make lemonade.” With Bush in the White House, the United States has become the world's leading producer of lemonade.

Is Google Sexy or Horny?

Google has always given us consistently good results. People trust Google. There is never two arguments about it. Not the one to rest on its laurels, Google goes to great lengths to cultivate a cool hip image. Sometimes, the effort shows.

Google Babe
Stop ogling her

Boycott IE

I am tired of Internet Explorer's (IE's) bad behavior. I will not have any more of its nonsense. My website will boycott IE. If your computer operating system (OS) is Windows, then please use a standards-compliant browser such as Opera, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, or K-Meleon to browse this site.

Origins of Jesus, Christianity and the Bible

6:5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

6:7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

How To Assemble A PC By Hand

As mentioned in my article PC Hardware Explained, anyone with a screwdriver can assemble a personal computer (PC) by hand. The components of a PC are modular in nature. They do not have to be welded or wired or tied together. When a few screws, levers, and plugs are in place, a PC is ready to go.

Moral Volcano’s Universal CSS Font Stack

Moral Volcano's Universal CSS Font Stack is a basic stylesheet for Web designers to provide native font support for their web pages in almost all popular operating systems including Linux, Mac, and Windows.

Moral Volcano’s Amateur Photography

Although I consider myself to be a techie, I never showed any interest in modern digital photography and never bothered to buy a camera. (DISCLOSURE: I know nothing about traditional film-based photography either.) In November 2009, I bought a Sony 10x zoom camera and I have had a good time with it. In this page, you can check the results. I have photos of Diwali fireworks, Indian birds, wild animals from the Bannerghatta National Park (both zoo and safari), our satellite moon, and Bangalore.

Legal Terms and Conditions

The Internet is about freedom and sharing. Greedy corporates have taken the enforcement of intellectual property rights to a ridiculous extent. They pay politicians (legally and illegally) and create laws that leave the citizen little or no rights. It is easy to show them the absurdity of their audacious attempts at infringing our rights. If you are a webmaster, feel free to use these terms and conditions on your website. No attribution is necessary.

Context Menu Extensions For IE

These IE extensions, created in 2004, are testimony to the fact that my objections to IE are based on sound facts. Yep, I was a fan of Internet Explorer (once). I used to hate Firefox because it was very slow while IE was pretty quick. It was only after I became a webmaster on a professional basis that I realized what a poor browser IE was. (Even before that, I had moved to Opera.)

Although I object to the use of IE, I understand that some people will be forced to use IE, say, as part of their work. These IE extensions are for those people.

PC Hardware Explained

This is the oldest article on this website. To find this page easily later, just type the words "pc hardware explained" in any Internet search engine.

Google search for *pc hardware explained*

Punishment For Rape

AK-47 assault rifles are a proven success in protecting buns with guns. Arm all women with assault rifles. Let each woman kill a man a day. Soon, all men will be dead. Will women be safe then? No, they will all be raping each other next. As sanity kicks in, punishment at that time will be considered disproportionate.

“Free World” Prefers Self Denial More Than Free Expression

When totalitarian states such as China tend to look down up on notions such as "free democracy" or "free press," there is a certain amount of pragmatism in their approach. Western countries are not really free. They have the illusion of being free. Nobody is more enslaved than those who falsely believe their free. In America in particular, truth is ignored, hidden, embellished, or whitewashed i.e. given the Hollywood treatment.

101 Tips And Tricks To PC Performance

This article is for users of really old Windows operating systems such as Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000 and maybe even Windows XP. This is the second-oldest article on this website and has been online since year 2000.

P3P Privacy Policy Generator

This web application offers free generation of privacy policy files to make your website P3P compliant.

This is useful only for website owners.

Your Horoscope - For Teenaged Boys and Girls

Written by V. Subhash, a certified astrologer and alumnus of People's School of Self-Criticism, Pessimism and Astrology, People's Republic of China.

Windows XP Tips and Tricks

I don't use Windows XP anymore, as I now have Ubuntu Linux. But, this article is one of my oldest articles. If you are still with XP, then this writeup may be useful for you.

Why Israel Is A Nation Of Squatters

There is a great deal of sympathy for the millions of Jews who died in the Holocaust during the Second World War. Taking of advantage of this, Jewish and Israeli organizations have been flogging the Holocaust theme endlessly. This is ironic because Israel has been conducting a mini Holocaust of its own in Palestine.

Israeli wearing a t-shirt with *Two Kills*

Israel is the only openly colonial power left in the world. Few people are aware that most Israelis are Europeans who migrated to Palestine after the Second World War. The immigrants first came as refugees. They started colonising Palestine by either squatting or by buying land with money provided by rich Jews living abroad. Later, they used war and terrorism to take over lands from Arabs and Christians. They then got the newly-formed United Nations to divide Palestine into two unequal halves with Jews taking the bigger portion.

The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce PDF Ebook

I first read about Ambrose Bierce and his "devil's dictionary" in the Young World Saturday supplement of The Hindu. That was back when I was in school. Several years later, I came across a full-text version of the dictionary on the Internet. So, I created this free PDF version using HTMLDoc.

Search Engine Heaven

Access several search engines from one place. Search from Google, Yahoo, Rediff, eBay, Amazon, Lycos, Excite, Altavista, Rediff, About.com, Dictionary.com, Ask.com, DMOZ, Webopedia...

Search Engine Heaven in FireFox

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

"It is to Mother Teresa of Calcutta's credit that her soup kitchens feed three times as many people in New York as they do in Calcutta."

How To Invest In Stocks PDF Ebook

I wrote this beginner's guide for investing primarily in the Indian stock markets but here is what a reader said:

I recently came across your eBook "How to Invest In Stocks", and just wanted to let you know I think it is a very well written introduction into the markets!

… Although your book obviously in tune with your home market in India, it still works very well for any market around the world (I work in both UK and France). I wish I had come across your paper many years ago! It's a great read..

I have written this book based on my own introduction to the stockmarkets. In this free PDF ebook, you will find information on actual real-world issues related to investing such as starting a demat account, placing orders, and managing a portfolio.

The book does not carry any hype about investing in the stock markets. It merely identifies sharemarkets as one of many possible investment destinations for your investment portfolio. It provides an easy introduction to company laws, primary market (IPOs), secondary markets, securities regulation, and international and Indian finance, commerce and politics. More importantly, it enables you to perform your own research for identifying trends, making forecasts, and selecting good shares to buy and sell.

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