News: Orly Airport, in France is embarking on a program to extract geothermal energy from underground to slash it’s heating bills. Two shafts will be drilled on the airports perimeter to access a water table warmed by the earth’s core. The water from these deep shafts will be drawn up by natural pressure; the water will emerge at the surface at 75 degrees C (165 F). The water will then be injected into the airports heating system; once the heat has been extracted the water will then be pumped back underground.
Daily Archives: 27/05/2010
Economic Models Explained by Cow
You have 2 cows. You give one to your neighbor.
COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk.
FASCISM
You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk.
NAZISM
You have 2 cows. The State takes both and shoots you.
BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows. The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk away…
TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.
AN AMERICAN CAPITALISM
You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyze why the cow has dropped dead.
ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM
You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company.
The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public then buys your bull.
THE ANDERSEN MODEL CAPITALISM
You have two cows. You shred them.
A FRENCH CAPITALISM
You have two cows. You go on strike, organize a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows.
JAPANESE CAPITALISM
You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called ‘Cowkimon’ and market it worldwide.
A GERMAN CAPITALISM
You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.
AN ITALIAN CAPITALISM
You have two cows, but you don’t know where they are. You decide to have Lunch.
A RUSSIAN CAPITALISM
You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 2 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.
A SWISS CAPITALISM
You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you. You charge the owners for storing them.
CHINESE CAPITALISM
You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity. You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.
AN INDIAN SYSTEM
You have two cows. You worship them.
A BRITISH SYSTEM
You have two cows. Both are mad.
AN IRAQI CAPITALISM
Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell them that you have none. No-one believes you, so they bomb the shit out of you and invade your country. You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of a Democracy… .
A NEW ZEALAND CAPITALISM
You have two cows. The one on the left looks very attractive.
AN AUSTRALIAN CAPITALISM
You have two cows. Business seems pretty good. You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.
A PAKISTANI SYSTEM
Within us!
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ayaz Latif Palijo, Sindh TV Interview, Part-I, II
Courtesy: Sindh TV
The choices we make are responsible to make us ill. Make good choices.
Researchers fed hamsters (a kind of mice) a high fructose diet (kind of soft drink). The hamsters have gotten a metabolism/ insulin resistance problem, similar to humans. After few weeks of that diet hamsters got high triglyceride. Result: the choices we make are responsible to make us ill most of the times. Take care of general health. Eat green and colorful vegetables and drink crystal clean fresh water and try to do exercise every day.
Washington Kashmir conference Announced
WASHINGTON: May 26, 2010. The Kashmiri-American Council and the Association of Humanitarian Lawyers are to hold their ‘11th Annual International Kashmir Peace Conference’ here on July 29th and July30th, Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai announced here today. Dr. Fai said the principal theme of the conference this year will be ‘”India-Pakistan Relations: Breaking the Deadlock over Kashmir.’
Longevity of life
Hunza people of Pakistan are famous for their long lives. They live in natural and simple environment and meet best health most of their life. Hunza people live in a remote valley of far north-eastern Pakistan. There average age is at least ninety years as compare to developed countries seventy-five with advanced medical system and facilities. High blood pressure, cholesterol or cardio-vascular diseases are not common in Hunza.