Cricket world cup is over with the two teams i like the least reaching the final.
Meanwhile in this country one Baburam Bhattarai(the leader of the Maoist ''movement") seems to be the next Prime Minister
No wonder if you have guns/bombs ,you are in a position to "take" control of matters
I wonder if the next Cambodia has started to brew
Maybe in the next 5 years there will be a million more death.
(and people like me have to think where will i go from here ,what options do i have ,do i need to flee the country now or should i wait a little bit longer )
Meanwhile in another part of the world a superpower and its cronies(or "champchas" -nepali for spoon) is bombing children and women
Lucky us -we have no oil
Instead poverty and illetracy and of course the maoists
Great Luck !!!
And till this madman becomes the next prime minister
what have i got to do -of course use Linux
(even though Windows is free here(for the few computers we have) -piracy is rampant and nobody ever pays anything to microsoft)
Maybe some moderator will close this thread
(after all linux,politics ,M$,USA and linuxquestions do not mix together)

God I hope it get closed before it turns ugly. I respect your opinion, and your right to express it, but this is beating a dead horse. We have done this topic to death....

Your eagerness on not seeing the teams in the final is compelling. For me both are the good teams(the winners' my favourite). As for migration you've got lot of options.

Well if I live where maoists,poverty, and illetracy were that prominent, I too would blindly accuse countries of bombing women and children out of pure jealousy. Hell nobody likes to be the low man on the totem pole

Well I know that the best two teams qualified for the final -I only said that i am not very fond of either
Well and how come that you being in India is supporting Australia?
Finally thanks a lot for the "migration" bit
Well maybe i was being too pessimistic about the future of the country
Specially as the maoists are now in the open and are brandishing
their arms in open
There is no law and order situation in the country
Thank god I am in the capital
If you go to the maoist affected areas they are the law
And you have to follow their law
If you go against them you simply get shot
Now in the pretext of talks the king and the maoists are trying to
eat up the cake
Incidentally inspite of all this I still think we have more freedom than that of India - we have terrestrial news channel,news fm stations
(not allowed in india)
and also the papers are better
Finally are you from the south -this is my guess coz not many Indian would come up and say that they support Australia
As for migrating elsewhere computer engineers like me may get a job somewhere else but what about others?
I hope that someone will stop Maoist from taking the government
And do you know that in the past 6 insurgency years he was in India from where he was masterminding his terror regime in his controlled areas
(God knows how many death he is responsible for )
And still even the government forces were responsible for killing upto 4000 'civilians' in those years according to amnesty international
Let us see what happens

In regards to illiteracy... which relates directly to poverty.

We do... or in about 10 more years this is going to be a big problem. Society doesn't care about public education anymore and it is beginning to fail. Students don't care anymore, standards are getting lower and lower.. and who do we blame?? Teachers... The average high school senior barely reads at grade level. We have more important problems to deal with than oil.

So, uh, anyone got a cool pic of a modded PC?



Cool

not everyone in america believes in the war mr. bush has launched

medical insurance is too expensive afford yet the government can hand out our tax money to airlines and 20 billion to turkey (they were) like this money grows on trees. these fucking millionaires just don't understand how hard it is to live and pay taxes and be completely ignored. i will be one of the first people in line to vote them out next election.

Einstein was a genius. One of the brilliant things that he did was move from Germany to the USA immediately when Hitler came to power. The Jews who waited to see how things would work out went to the gas chamber.

If Einstein had waited he would have died. If he had turned out wrong about escaping immediately he would have only looked silly.

If you are educated enough to be playing with Linux then you stand high on a Stalinist or Cambodian style purge list.

Einstein was a genius,I am not.
I do have options to go out now but I would prefer to wait for some time
(Right now the maoist are not in the government )
The king has the authorative(but unconstitutional) power
The present (puppet) government is holding talks with the maoists rebels
But there is widespread speculation(appears more and more likely day by day) that a secret deal has been struck with the king enabling the maoist to take control of the country
In return of this the moist has decided to accept the king
(and probably rob the country and pay him truckloads of money)
It appears more likely day by day that
Baburam Bhattaria will become the next prime minister
Even then he has the political parties to deal with before
he starts his totalitarian regime
Anybody who is interested check the maoist web site
(appears to contain nothing)
http://www.maoist.org/main/
(even the maoist are not far behind in technology)
for the (outdated but good) collection of news of their war
http://www.kazm.net/maoist/
This is another good read
http://www.newslookmag.com/topics/maoistwar/
This is what Baburam Bhattaria says
http://www.nepalnews.com.np/contents...4/index1.htm#1
An old interview given to a american paper
http://www.maoism.org/misc/nepal/interview.htm

Before i go this is what i got from slashdot
http://www.freemikehawash.org/
(not related to maoist)

Oh Ill agree 100% with you, however when somebody accuses your country of killing women and children 10 minutes after you see your countries soldiers medically treat a wound enemy soldier on cnn it kinda rubs ya the wrong way, wouldnt you think?

i agree with you
i think a bit of patriotism is always good
well you talked about cnn
have you ever watched a channel called aljajeera
maybe i got the wrong impressions after seeing a 7 year old child's brain being blowed off by a american bomber in that channel (pretty grostesque )
some claim that aljajeera is anti-american
well for millions of arabs it is the only independent and unbiased channel there is
(and thankfully for that reason they are banned in almost all middle-eastern countries- they were banned in iraq too-it was lifted only yesterday)
the americans went so far as to ban a news channel
(they even throw some reporters of aljajeera out -reason they say that this channel is showing american pows -wow what a reason- incidentally i think i have around 20 reasons why cnn should be banned similarly)
cnn is not unbiased -they are almost the propoganda medium that the brits and the americans have set up in iraq recently
some reasons
1.they call the forces as "coalition forces" - "coalition forces" of 2 countries
2.when powell was making his "Case" -cnn was also making its "case"
3.the anti-french feeling and coverage is apparent -ask any french guy about this (provided s/he watches cnn)
4.the coverage given to anti-war protests was negligible-they make sure that any comment against the war -or the legitimacy of it -will be shown minimum(or last part of the hour)
5.you don't have to listen/watch american propoganda medium like voa -it is right in front of you when you watch cnn-cnn makes sure that they act as the government's spokesman -and makes also sure that all those iraqis who oppose saddam gets interviewed -and also makes certain that minimum or no coverage is provided to the case against war as put forward by many
6.judge a channel -which is unbiased
cnn-"according to unconformed reports iraqis say that they have killed some americans"
they make sure they add unconformed report for everything the iraqis say and omit it for any us government's briefing
cnn-"in today's war there were substancial gain for "coalition forces" they are in the centre of iraq"
cnn-"post war iraq will be governmed by democratic leaders from usa"
cnn-"iraqis are happy to see their liberators"
wow what a world we live in?

ya Im one of the 1 million subscribers in North America to aljazeera also you can go to aljazeera.net or english.aljazeera.net (if those sites are back up now). You can't tell me aljazeera isnt biased, you know biased media isnt limited to america. By the way next time when you're making a point about aljazeera, spell it right

going too far -am i ?
well i wonder why there is a feeling of hate against america in almost all third world countries
incidentallly i do not have aljazeera(hope this time the spelling is correct) i watched the bit on another channel which was carrying footage provided by aljazeera
probably one of the reasons is desperation
i think the war is not justified but i don't like saddam(see my signature)
i think out of $80 billion spend on the war a small propertion if given to those malnutrished children in ethopia would have done a lot of good
one of the reason america is so hated is that it acts as a bully
and it is nice to hear that aljazeera is available in america
i never knew that
as i said it was i who was probably being biased
(incidentally aren't they banned?)
but can't blame me -do you?
and thanks for accepting that cnn is not that "unbiased" channel it claims it is
i think there is a reason for that -they are broadcasting the same thing here as they do in america
maybe in america cnn is not considered as biased
which we certainly do