Bailout bill fails; Dow plunges

DOW down by 500

Nasdaq down by 131

Google down to 355

S&P 500 down by 70


GOD Help US !!!

Just Twin Towers or more ?

Checkout this video :

U.S. President George Bush said Wednesday [September 24th] night the nation's entire economy is in danger.
He urged Congress act immediately on what he called a financial rescue plan for financial markets. Acknowledging that Congress faces a "tough vote" on the $700 billion bailout, Mr. Bush took the extraordinary step of inviting both party's presidential candidates to the White House Thursday. VOA's Jim Fry reports.




President of America is saying this ... Horrible !!! Was he sleeping for last few years ?


Oh correct .. he was busy in fighting war on terror .. finding a man who destroyed his first two towers .. and chemical, nuclear and biological weapons which can harm US. What about other towers on Wall Street Mr Bush ?

बंड्याचे बंड

 Sorry for non-Marathi readers .. can't translate this for you ...

आटपाट नगर होतं. तिथे एक बंड्या जोशी नावाचा मुलगा रहायचा आई-बाबांसोबत. बंड्याचे चिमखडे बोल सगळ्यांना खूप खूप आवडायचे. त्यामुळे झालं काय की बंड्याला वाटायला लागलं आपण लय भारी बोलतो. पण बंड्या ४ वर्षाचा झाला तरी अजून बोबडंच बोलत होता. त्यामुळे आई रागावली. तर बंड्याला वाटलं ती बोलूच नको असं म्हणतेय. त्यामुळे "जा आता मी तुझ्याशी बोलणारच नाही" असं आईला म्हणून तो गप्प बसला.

आणि एके दिवशी त्याच्या लक्षात आलं की आपल्यावर अन्याय होतोय. आणि मग त्याने आई-बाबांच्या विरुद्ध बंड करायचं ठरवलं.

जेवताना त्याने पाहिलं आई आपल्याल दोनच पोळ्या देते पण बाबांना मात्र ४-५ मिळतात. म्हणून त्याने एकदा आईला विचारलं असं का? आई म्हणाली अरे बाबा मोठे आहेत म्हणून त्यांना जास्त पोळ्या. पण ह्या उत्तराने बंड्याचे काही समाधान झाले नाही. "जा आता मी तुझ्याशी बोलणारच नाही" असं आईला म्हणून तो गप्प बसला.

पण दुसर्‍या दिवशी पुन्हा आईच्या मागे लागला "बाबांना फुल पँट नी मला हाफ चड्डी का?" आई नी पुन्हा समजावलं की ते मोठे आहेत म्हणून. पण तरीही बंड्याचे समाधान झाले नाही. आई ने पुन्हा समजावलं "अरे बंड्या तुझ्याच्यानी २ पोळ्याही संपत नाहीत आणि तू अजून शाळेतही जात नाही. मग तुला काय करायच्यात ५ पोळ्या नी फुल पँट?" तरी बंड्याचं समाधान झालं नाही. "जा आता मी तुझ्याशी बोलणारच नाही" असं आईला म्हणून तो गप्प बसला.

तिसर्‍या दिवशी त्याच्या असं लक्षात आलं की बाबांना यायला आज-काल उशीर होतोय. त्याने पुन्हा आईला विचारलं "आई बाबा बॉसला रागावत का नाहीत? संप का करत नाहित?" त्यावर आई म्हणाली अरे काम केलं की प्रमोशन मिळतं, प्रमोशन मिळालं की पगार वाढतो, पगार वाढला तरच आपल्याला सुखा समाधानात जगता येइल.

ह्यावर पुन्हा बंड्याने डोकं चालवलं. म्हणाला "म्हणजे माझ्या मुळे आपल्याला सुखा समाधानात जगता येइल." ह्यावर आई चक्रावून गेली. काम करतात बाबा, घर सांभाळते मी, हा अजून शाळेतही जात नाही नी वर म्हणतो माझ्यामुळे आपल्याला सुखा समाधानात जगता येइल. आईने विचारलं कसं काय?

तर त्यावर बंड्या म्हणाला "अगं, जर मी आक्रस्ताळे पणे वागू लागलो तर बाबांचं कामात लक्ष लागेल का? कामात लक्ष लागलं नाही तर नोकरी जाईल आणि बाबांची नोकरी गेली की आपण सगळे रस्त्यावर येऊ. त्यामुळे मी जरी दिवसभर घरी खेळत असलो नी बाबा काम करत असले तरी मी नी बाबा समानच. उलट मीच जास्त महत्वाचा." आईला हसू आले पण तिने ते कसे बसे थांबवले.

बंड्या पुढे म्हणाला "आता तू घर आवरतेस कबूल. पण मी दिवसभर घरात पसारा करायचे ठरवले तर तू कितीही आवरून काय उपयोग? त्यामुळे तू घर आवरतेस ह्या पेक्षा मी मुद्दामून पसारा करत नाही हे जास्त महत्वाचे." आई ने पुन्हा हसू आवरले.

आई ने मग विचार केला की इतके दिवस तर बंड्या शहाण्या सारखा वागत होता, अचानक काय झाले त्याल. विचार केल्यावर तिच्या लक्षात आलं की आज काल बंड्याचं कुणी कौतूक करेनासं झालंय. जे बोबडे बोल लोकांना आवडायचे ते बंड्या मोठा झाल्याने आवडेनासे झालेत. त्यामुळे बंड्या विचित्र वागून लोकांचं लक्ष वेधून घेण्याचा प्रयत्न करतोय. हे आईला कळल्यावर आई मनातल्या मनात हसली.

संध्याकाळी आईनी बाबांना बंड्याचे उपद्व्याप सांगितले. बाबांनी बंड्याल कोपर्‍यात अंगठे धरून ओणवं उभं केलं. बंड्या आई वर पुन्हा रागावला. "जा आता मी तुझ्याशी बोलणारच नाही" असं आईला पुन्हा एकदा म्हणून तो पुन्हा गप्प बसला. आई मनातल्या मनात पुन्हा हसली.

तात्पर्य - जसं अ ब क ड लिहीता आल्यने कुणी वाल्मीकी होत नाही तसंच बोबडं बोलता आल्याने कुणी तानसेन होत नाही.

And sorry for Marathi readers too .. Neither I have understood anything nor I can help you understand anything from it.

If you have understood something, do let me know. I'll give you party at Hard Rock Cafe .. see the post below ..

Hard Rock Cafe !!



 Howz that ?

:-)

The Future of Physics

Just returned from the heaven ... for last 2 weeks I am spending almost 5-6 hours per day (apart from my office work) studying modern physics :). Physics is my hobby starting from 11th standard. Didn't get much time to read more in last few years, but recent news about The Large Hadron Collider brought me back to the topics which once fascinated me a lot. In last two weeks, I went through lots of material, books, articles, maths etc. whatever I found related to the topic.

Let me just write down what I understood from it. Don't know how many of you are following these news. At least some of you might have heard something happening in Europe which can change future of physics, unveil hidden secrets of Universe, provide unlimited source of energy or possibly destroy earth entirely. This is all about Large Hadron Collider or LHC experiment being carried out at the Swiss and French borders on the outskirts of Geneva. I am not a physics Guru hence do not expect any core technical stuff and my interpretation can be wrong.

What exactly is LHC? It is a long magnetic tunnel (27 km long) built underground to accelerate small subatomic particles (e.g. protons, electrons etc.) to the speed of light and make them collide with each other. It uses magnetic filed to increase their velocity and control their direction. The collision is captured by several 150 MegaPixel cameras which are capable of taking snapshots 600 million times per second - kya solid detailed film hogi yeh :-). These reports will be analyzed by scientists to study the creation, life span, decay of several other subatomic particles produced during the collision.

Now lets talk about why are they doing this and how it is related to future of physics. The history of physics is very old right from ancient indian vedas, greeks, roman structures etc. But it got mathematical foundation in 16th century when Galileo and Newton provided laws of physics. Those laws were perfect to explain day to day situations. But when scientists applied those laws to study events happening at very large scale such as measurements of orbits and galaxies, they found problems. Also, when we try to peep into the atom and try apply these rules at atomic scale, there are lots of inconsistencies. Hence from the beginning of the 20th century physicist developed theories such as relativity, quantum mechanics, string theory etc. Those theories were great at standalone level but when people try to combine them, it resulted into problems. Hence scientists were looking for a unified theory which will answer all their doubts.

Scientists have proposed lot of theories but they are not able to prove them without lack of actual observations. This experiment is going to create a state which was present at the beginning of the universe, probably first few seconds of the universe. Colliding two high speed protons will result in creation of different particles which we have not seen yet. It will also produce black holes for a very small period. No one knows exactly what :-) hence everyone is watching it.


Some .. esp. media is creating hype that this experiment can destroy earth entirely because the black hole created will suck the entire earth in it. Well, as a layman with basic understanding of physics can also tell that this is not going to happen .. even if it is .. the probability is very very low so that it can be neglected.

Some people are raising concerns over the budget spend for the experiment. $8 billion. With no guaranteed success. This money could have been used for humanitarian aid projects, against terrorism etc. But I personally feel development of science is also very important for the development of mankind. Involvement of basic science is going to drive technology which will ultimately make human life better.

This experiment also suggested that there is going to be decentralization of scientific development efforts from US to another parts in the world. This project involves lots of countries including India.

Finally, one more thing comes into mind is, what if this experiment discovers something evil ? say a powerful bomb which is better than H-bomb or FFF bomb which can be built easily such that even terrorists can built it ? No one knows. The development of science is twofold .. its up to us how we use it.

Ending the post with a poem I wrote in my SSC exam essay :

विज्ञानातील असुराला नराधमाची साथ आहे
मानवाच्या विनाशात मानवाचाच हात आहे;
किती गेले किती शिल्लक कशाला ही वाजाबाकी
एक दिवस विश्वाचेही हिरोशिमा नागासाकी.

Comments welcome.

9/11, Terrorism and War

September 11, 2001; the mighty USA was attacked by terrorist Osama Bin Laden. 7 years are gone now. Lots of equations got changed. USA got chance to attack any country in the world at will. They did and we are seeing the results. Countries like Afghanistan, Iraq are destroyed under the name 'War on Terror' and 'War for Freedom' etc.

I am not a sadist, but WAR is one of my favorite topic. Here, I am trying to relate Terrorism and War.

In past, battles were only limited to battlefield, fought between armies. In the ancient times civilians were affected only while looting the enemy cities after victory. But from 19th century war reached to the normal civilians. Starting with bombing enemy cities, industries till Atom bomb explosion. In 20th century we saw the worst form of it - terrorism. War is at our doorsteps now. Terrorism is just another form of war. Countries or group of people who can not fight directly opt this way. Now my question is: Is it ethical to involve civilians in War ?

Why to involve civilians in the war ? They do not fight in the war. Many times they are completely unaware of the situation and don't even know why it is happening. Its a decision of top level politicians, military generals which is forced on normal citizens. Why someone wants to get into war situations by putting their family life in danger ? Aren't there any other problems in day to day life to fight for ? War disturbs everything. First, it affects moral, psychological balance which leads to several complications. Will you be able to work with your full potential if you are unsure of your family wellness at home ? Is it ethical to kill small children, women, old age citizens just because they belong to your enemy country ? After all they are also human beings like you are. How good is winning the territory after destroying everything ?

The other side of the coin says .. why not ? Aren't these people building economy which supports war ? Increasing moral of armies fighting on front ? Any one of them can become suicide bomber and bounce back. So why leave them. its war .. and everything is fair in Love and War. if their country has started the war, they should also suffer. Finally they are also the ones who'll enjoy fruits of victory. Killing civilians brings down moral of the troops which can help in wining the War. Atomic bomb explosion ended WW2 isn't it ?

That is the exact principle behind terrorism. Terrorists are not directly attacking troops. In fact, they are not capable of doing it. hence they are attacking normal people, trying to win the war on moral grounds. It is a new strategy .. but it is very effective. And unfortunately, we all are at the receiving end of it. Who knows, tomorrow, we may need to face a radioactive dirty bomb or a chemical or biological weapon attack. Terrorism can reach to any extremity.

Lets see how mankind survives from this threat. Is there any end or a possible solution ?

A Clock of 9s

Interesting one. A clock where each number of it is made of of three '9' s.



Today is 09-09-08. I should have posted it one year after when the date is 09-09-09; but can't wait for one more year :)

India Under Attack

Checkout this news program on INDIA TV.


Few more ...

   


Our country is under serious attack now. Who is more dangerous ? Aliens or these news channels ?

:)

Krorepati !!!!

Today I went to my landlord to renew my house rent agreement. He agreed for one year extension. I asked whats the cost if I want to buy it. Calmly, he said the current rate has gone to rs. 9,000+ per sq feet. Our area is 1100 sq feet hence the grand total is 1,00,00,000  .. yup .. its complete 1 CRORE ... huh !!!

I smiled and came back, told my parents. We just coudn't stop laughing after that. 1 Crore ??? At Ghatkopar West .. not Pedder road or Band Stand or something ..

It gave me a very positive feeling. If Amitabh Bachhan asks "Kaun Banega Karodpati ?" then I will answer - "I Am ... for next 14 months atleast. Living in 1 crore house" :)

Now I can dream to take house next to Shahrukh Khan's Mannat. I have seen one old building near his house. The building is in very poor condition. I'll buy it and keep it's name 'Marammat' :)

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 /**
*  1st September 1939 - World War 2 started.
*  1st Spetember 1981 - Mandar Deodhar born.
*  1st Spetember 2008 - Started this blog :)
**/


uses brain, homour, poetry, crativity, sarcasm, logic;

import articles;
import books;
import quotes;
import songs;
import videos;
import mails;
import other_blogs;

public static with_lots_of_returns main()
{
    try
    {
        System.out.write("Hello Blogger !!!!!");

        while(true)
        {
main_loop:
                Post();
                Enjoy();
                Take_Feedback_and_Improve();
        }

    }
    catch(Frustration, Anger, Failures)
    {
        never_give_up();
        retry();
        goto main_loop;
    }
    finally
    {
        Be_Happy();
     }

}

Written, Compiled, Executed .. Now calling all testers and debuggers :)