Prometheus

I'm a left-handed pace bowler, but lol, with a smooth action. I can generate quite a bit of pace but my main weapon is swing. Swinging the ball at brisk pace can be very rewarding I was captain of my school and junior college side. I open the bowling and usually bat at No. 3 or No. 4, I personally like No. 4. I pretty much hated my engineering college days, so I chose not to play for them, even after getting asked to play. Nowadays I primarily play in my colony with my friends and I'm more or less like the coach here. I love coaching too, someday when I'm old I'm sure I'll open up a cricket academy I completely agree with you on Murali, the whole fiasco is disgusting!! My favourite cricketers (past and present) are - Wasim Akram, Brian Lara, Malcolm Marshall, Vivian Richards, Tendulkar, Kapil Dev, Walsh, Murali. Ok, I think I'll stop here, the list is too damn long and I could talk about cricket all day I just love watching Lara play, I'd go miles just to see him. Watch how he gets into position, truly exquisite!!! Man I wish I could bowl to him! Ahh, all this cricket talk has left me longing to play!!!!! Dinesh.

Yipee, a cricket fan. It's good to hear. I thought most here wouldn't know about the game. Do you play often? Man, it must be great to watch those matches at Perth et al. I love watching the game too, but kinda hurts when I do. Keep thinking "I should be playing!!!" First up, let me say I think he's one of the greatest bowlers the game has seen. And it's not just his doosra, he reads the game so damn well. He always has a trick up his sleeve and a smile on his face, I just love that. Now about his arm, it's pretty obvious that he does have a deformity. Check out his site if you need to see pictures. So all in all, I have really no problem with him bowling anything he wishes. It's very absurd for the ICC to tell him what he can and cannot bowl. As a cricketer, I can say that I would absolutely love to play him, just for the enormous challenge it represents. It's just like I'd like to play Wasim Akram (being a left handed pace bowler myself, he's my role model ). What are your views on the whole issue? Dinesh.

Wow Stephen!!! A 1000 posts!! Thats just exquisite. And considering the quality of the posts, I'd just like to thank you once more Keep Posting Hmmm, I'm on 99 now. Stephen, if you'd probably squint your eyes and gaze at the horizon, you'd see me waving Dinesh.

My greatest hobby, actually it's more like my greatest passion, is Cricket. It's a sport played in quite a few countries, India included. It's not that well known in the US. Some of my greatest moments of joy have come on the Cricket field. I used to play the game professionally till I had to give that up for academics (parents weren't too keen about me playing). Engineering just took up an awful lot of time, and I couldn't conjure the time to continue playing. I hope to someday play professionally again. Ayn Rand used the phrase "non-contradictory joy" and thats exactly the kind of feeling I get when I hit the perfect cover drive or when I bowl a ball that whizzes past the batsmen at good speed. Other than cricket, I have felt that kind of joy only with computers, mathematics and objectivism "For the love of the game." Dinesh.

I learnt to play the Tabla when I was in school. Tabla is an Indian Classical instrument and it's totally awesome. But at that time I had to leave the classes cause the times were conflicting with my cricket practice. It was great to learn it though. My skills with it are quite rusty now, as I haven't played in quite some time. Still yearning to learn to play the guitar, hope I get to it sometime soon. Dinesh.

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GC, I just sent a PM to Ziggy, I'll send him a gmail invite once he sends me his email ID. Dinesh.

Barstool, if you are convinced that nothings wrong with gmail's privacy policy then go ahead and use the service, but let other people judge for themselves. Calling them morons for such a thing is really absurd!! I have wholly shifted my mailing needs to gmail too, and I personally have no problems with their privacy policy. Let others here think for themselves, and they will eventually reach the right decision. So next time please refrain from such stupidity. aynfan, again you have posted without stating who it is you are addressing. I think someone warned you about this before too, right? You ought to have enough intelligence to understand why I or the rest have been telling you this, so please don't do it again. Dinesh.

Hey Manav!! I'm from Bombay and an aspiring programmer too!! Which firm do you work for? It's always great to see people from India out here!! Welcome to the forums!! You will have a great time here! Dinesh.

I like the line - "Chance favours the prepared mind." Not in the sense that someone actually picks and chooses who to make lucky, but just another way of putting what Betsy said "The harder I work, the luckier I get." Dinesh.

Perhaps you'll should try out rediff.com too. They just upgraded their free service to 1GB of email space. Gmail has sent all the email service providers on the run and each one is now offering better services. Great, isn't it?? Dinesh.

If I clearly don't understand, then no - I can't assume and go along. I find that I have to identify the definitions to some extent. This is usually done by asking lots and lots of questions, if I'm talking to the person, or if it's a book, simply doing some research on the net or the likes. If I do have some idea about the issue involved, but haven't yet concretely understood it, then my response actually depends on the person I'm dealing with. If it's a good friend of mine or say an Ayn Rand book, I do assume for a short period of time that things will get clearer. Basically, giving them the benefit of the doubt and being certain that they know what they are talking about. If it doesn't get clearer, then I just go back and start all over again. The first tends to be a bit confusing, but not the second. Never had to write anything down. Dinesh.

When I first realised what I was doing, frankly, I was irritated with myself, thinking that I should have known better or atleast found out about this earlier. And then after that, I couldn't help but wonder what other things I had defined in a similar way. That got me a bit worried. But nonetheless, the discovery was a good one for me, I have been very careful thence. If I do come across things that have been stored in my mind the same way, now my reaction is not quite as intense and I just go about correcting it. When I get beyond that which I understand, I try to view it as an oppurtunity to learn new things. I don't really fear that which I don't know, the feeling is closer to curiousity. Ayn Rand once wrote, "The greatest feeling of existence is not to trust but to know" (I think the form in which she presented it was different). That encapsulates exactly what I feel, and thats what I look forward to when I encounter the unknown. I think of what can be found at the other end of that dark tunnel. Thats enough to drive me on! I assume that you asked those questions as to ascertain which of your two theories I came under, hence I replied as much as I could. About the "crow" question: Though my mom does most of the grocery shopping, I am usually called on to run quite a few errands. After hearing my mom out about what she wants me to buy, I just make a mental note about the no. of Items to be bought. Once I go out, I just count down on that number. Incase I forget, I think of the sequence in which my mom rattled out instructions, I don't think of "What all I had to buy?" but I think in terms of "What came after the eggs when mom was talking?". And those two things (a count and the sequence) have helped me through quite a few long lists of items Dinesh.

Betsy, even I am the type that has to understand the base concretely before moving on. And because of this I could be quite a nuisance in school. More often than not I used to see the logic of doing something a particular way, so I didn't trouble my teachers too much. I actually had pretty good maths teachers and they were very helpful!! Around 6-8 months back, I realised that if there's anything I don't fully understand and am slightly moving to a rationalization, I start to define that concept in a very vague usage of the english language and my english isn't all that bad. Hence I was able to stop and say "Something's screwy here!!". This helped me to re-trace the thought process. Atleast for me, this proved to be a very potent discovery, cause thence I have been able to identify the arbitary pretty easily. I just recite in my mind the definition of the concept. If it's very vauge, I know I have made a mistake somewhere. Dinesh.

A quiet evening with the woman I love and some exquisite music playing in the background. Dinesh.

I think if it's such a concern, the time limit for editing after posting can be brought down. Even I have used the EDIT feature, primarily for typo's. But I notice that once I post, I always read what I have written once and then go on to something else. It is in that reading that I and most people, I presume, correct typo's and the likes. So the time can be brought down. You shouldn't be able to change the actual content of your argument, a follow up clarifying your stance would do just fine. So I agree with Stephen. No one is omnipotent, so mistakes will be made, but that mistake should be acknowledged, rather than trying to erase it. Dinesh.

Good to see a fellow Indian out here!! Welcome to the forums! Dinesh.

I add 2 of my Gmail invites to the current offer by GC. So there are 4 of them up for grabs now!! I think gmail is going to be the next big thing when it comes to email, so I'd suggest you "bid" really hard. Dinesh.

I don't like the new Rich Text-Editor. I love simplicity and the previous editor gave me that, without the extra frills which won't add to the content of the message. Many here may prefer the new rich editor, so perhaps you could leave it as an option to the user to make either of the text editors the default for their particular accounts. Is that possible for you? Dinesh.

Just heard Sting's - Englishman in New York! I really liked the song, the music is awesome!! Dinesh.

Maybe you should get hold of a dictionary so that you can know what the words actually mean and not get dis-illussioned by whatever tarnishing you seem to find in their usage. Or perhaps you are suggesting that Dr. Peikoff start distributing dictionaries for those who attend his lectures?!! I just wouldn't have responded to Atlas Shrugged in the way I did, if Ayn Rand hadn't explicitly made clear and labelled say Hank as moral and Taggart as immoral!! What you want is for us not to judge them, but one ought to and should!! Dinesh.

Eran, I agree!!! I personally love rationalmind.net! Dinesh.

lol, I'm sorry RC Dinesh.

Isn't this the same as the link between theory and practice? An action is performed on the basis of a particular thought/idea and hence if you think the action is evil, then doesn't it mean that the idea in the first place was evil? Atleast thats what I think, so yes I think ideas can be evil. Isn't the idea of anti-intellectual property evil? Does it have to be passed as a law for us to recognise that the concept itself is perversed? Dinesh.

If what they mean by open-minded is to accept things which you know to be evil then thats wrong and you shouldn't be open-minded in that sense. But before you dismiss something you have to quantify/understand it first, hence you have to be open-minded so as to atleast judge something objectively before you go about dismissing it. Dinesh.