The Spirit of Bombay(Mumbai)
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For those who haven't heard, there had been a couple of bomb blasts in Bombay a couple of days ago. http://web.mid-day.com/columns/anil_thakraney/parting_shot/2003/august/62148.htm[^] "The mad work ethic of this city never allows any catastrophe to come in its way… it was life as usual in less than 15 minutes" I know this to be true. I've lived in Bombay all my life and I've seen people care more about getting to work on time than losing their lives. "Yes, we have gone immune to RDX." Unfortunately RDX isn't the only thing we're immune to... Somehow the city seems to have become immune to everyone else's sentiments and emotions. "It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something." -Ornette Coleman
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For those who haven't heard, there had been a couple of bomb blasts in Bombay a couple of days ago. http://web.mid-day.com/columns/anil_thakraney/parting_shot/2003/august/62148.htm[^] "The mad work ethic of this city never allows any catastrophe to come in its way… it was life as usual in less than 15 minutes" I know this to be true. I've lived in Bombay all my life and I've seen people care more about getting to work on time than losing their lives. "Yes, we have gone immune to RDX." Unfortunately RDX isn't the only thing we're immune to... Somehow the city seems to have become immune to everyone else's sentiments and emotions. "It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something." -Ornette Coleman
That is one way to leave the terrorists impotent, make it as if they hadn't been there. Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D
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That is one way to leave the terrorists impotent, make it as if they hadn't been there. Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D
This is impossible to do :sigh: :(( You can do it on anything you choose - from .bat to .net - A customer
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This is impossible to do :sigh: :(( You can do it on anything you choose - from .bat to .net - A customer
Daniel Turini wrote: This is impossible to do In the sense of making it as though the people killed hadn't been killed, yes. In the larger sense of showing that acts of terrorism won't make people cower in their bomb shelters, Elaine is right. I proposed to my now wife in January 2002. When I told my family that a consequence of the proposal was that I would be moving to the USA to live my sister said something along the lines of "After all, you're no safer in Australia than in the USA". I was in the USA in December 2001, at Disneyland in California. I'm pretty sure most of the people I was sharing rides with had seen the news footage of the WTC (something I missed for various reasons (I suspect I was the only person in the western world who hadn't seen the footage at the time)). Did they act as though they thought the world was going to crash around them? No they didn't. This is the correct response in my opinion. It has nothing to do with questions about America as such. Basically it boils down to the question, would you rather live in a somewhat unjust world where bad things are done ignorantly, or do you want to live in a world where a few self righteous bigots can force their will upon you using bombs? And now I embark on something that will make me a target. Much of what I've just written could be read as a (valid) criticism of current US policy. If the truth hurts so be it. I live here in the US and don't yet have the vote. That will change (I do intend to become a US citizen). At least then I'll have the feeling that I have a (however minor) say in how my new home conducts itself in the wider world. Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net