Contra-attack

A book on algorithms described contra-attack as two proof methodologies: proof by contradiction and contrapositive.

It's been long time since i have been scribbling on notebooks, diaries, boards, elsewhere.."What makes a life significant." The phrase comes from an article written in Baalhans magazine some 10-15 years ago. It was about a champion of telepathy and after wonderful examples, article said that the fellow has written a book with that title.

For first few years after that, that phrase meant to me the search of such a book which will make me immensely more powerful...i grew up and learnt that there is no such thing as an "almighty" person. A better thing anyway is a "fearless" person.

Then i went to college and assigned an all-new meaning to this phrase, something which i still believe is far more significant. But despite the interest in exploring the meaning of the queston and its answers, i could never solve it.

Contra-attack gives another important question though, one probably which i can cnswer. What makes a life insignificant - Gossip

Two questions

Most probable question one asks while working on a problem is "how to solve it", and one desperately tries 'fixes' to the problem, but as it goes, quick fixes don't solve big problems. One also needs to identify where should it be fixed. This realization comes after a little experience and carries with itself quite a serendipity , e.g in situations when you find that some one else has got to fix it. :D

Not limited to those situations though, applications are far wider and significant of this question. A story frames a king who has a very large machinery which stops working one fine day without any prior clues. None of his skilled people could solve it. A expert is imported who, as story has it, fixes the machinery with hammering a spot and demands exorbitant fees, say 10000000 rupees ( a rupee is approximately 1/42 dollars at the time of this writing ). I believe in such a situation, a socialist king from CPI(M) or a capitalist king from Congress (I )/BJP would behave the same way and ask the rationale behind such a large amount for one act of masonry. However the expert held that the amount quite matched the efforts. His cash memo was simple and itemized :

Item Quantity Price
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Hammering 1 Rs 1/-
Finding the spot to hammer - Rs 999999

It carries the point : "What is the right place to fix it." Workarounds are not solutions.

Is Mallika's dress too revealing

See article on rediff.com

http://www.rediff.com/movies/2008/may/02look.htm

Of subtle importance are the words "moral policing" and "bore the brunt of". This is definitely not a piece of reporting but an opinion. As such, it is in itself unethical to print it as part of news content. But look, who they raise their fingers on??? "moral police".

Author makes an impression that a mini skirt and a back-revealing dress makes the most fitting attire to such a public function. Not worthy of much attention is the fact that she is to be seated besides the elected representative of the state.


They continue to do that. rediff and TOI seem to have the revolutionaries aginst moral policing. It seems i am too narrow minded to understand how supporting love-making couples in public parks is a revolution and saving Yamuna is not.


I have chosen to speak against it. i cannot keep quiet anymore.