I received a forward from my friend Mr.Srinivasan ,Mumbai on the 11 Rules of Life by Bill Gates.
I normally check the information and found that the speech is not his but a pared version “of an op-ed piece by education reformer Charles J. Sykes, best known as the author of Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good about Themselves, but Can’t Read, Write, or Add.
The op-ed was originally published in the San Diego Union-Tribune in September 1996. It began making the email rounds under Bill Gates’ name in February 2000, and has continued to do so ever since.”
But the advice is worth listening to.
I always say what is said is important than who said it.
Profound wisdom is found from the common man.
I read an article in a Tamil weekly where a man who lost his wife to Cancer( he is not rich) cycles around Tamil Nadu( he has already covered 5000 kms) to conduct awareness camps on ‘Breast Cancer’; of a legless-man who heads the Nomadss, Narikuravas, who studied law and spends his time soling their problems with out going to Court as per Law!; of a man who who spends time with children in Tamil Nadu, by playing with them and making them smile.
The last-named says
‘I do Not expect anything.A Smile from the child. I am fulfilled”
The legless-man says
‘I am making my people self-reliant and instill in them, the depressed, downtrodden and neglected” hope of the morrow.
Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this!
To anyone with kids of any age, here's some advice. Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
Rule 1: Life is not fair -- get used to it!
Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping -- they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
Altos de Cazuca, Colombia. A slum outside Bogota with approximately 50,000 people.Comuna 13, Colombia. A slum in the city of Medellin with approximately 135,000 people.
Kamagasaki, Japan. A slum in Nishinari-Ku one of 24 wards in Osaka, with a density of 30,000 people in every 2000 meter radius.Ashaiman, Ghana. A slum outside the city of Tema with approximately 200,000 people.Kibera, Kenya. A slum in the city of Nairobi with approximately 170,000 – 250,000 people
Rocinha, Brazil. A slum in Rio de Janeiro with approximately 250,000 people.
Sultanbeyli, Turkey. A slum in Istanbul with approximately 250,000 people
Dharavi, India. A slum in Mumbai with approximately 1 million people
Sadr City, Iraq. A slum in Baghdad with approximately 2 million people.
Neza-Chalco-Itza barrio, Mexico. A slum in Mexico city with approximately 4 million people.Orangi town, Pakistan. A slum in Karachi with approximately 700,000 – 2.5 million people.Petare, Venezuela. A slum in Caracas with approximately 600,000 – 1 million people.
News has broken that the BSNL Server was hacked according to The Hacker News .
The hacked site had this message. ” Hacked by Anonymous India, support Aseem trivedi (cartoonist) and alok dixit on the hunger strike, remove IT Act 66a, databases of all 250 bsnl site has been deleted………….Do not think of BACKUP” with a images of Mr. Aseem while he was arrested by Police.
IAC is leading towards anarchy, as I have blogged often!
Story:
BSNL Site Hacked.
The Homepage of BSNL ( Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited ) http://www.bsnl.co.in/ was hacked today morning by hacking group Anonymous. BSNL is an Indian state-owned telecommunications company, the largest provider of fixed telephony and fourth largest mobile telephony provider in India, and is also a provider of broadband services.
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What is Section 66A of IT Act ?
According to Indian Laws, Section 66A of IT Act is Punishment for sending offensive messages through communication service —
1.) any person who sends, by means of a computer resource or a communication device.
2.) any information that is grossly offensive or has menacing character or any information which he knows to be false, but for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred or ill will, persistently by making use of such computer resource or a communication device.
3.) any electronic mail or electronic mail message for the purpose of causing annoyance or inconvenience or to deceive or to mislead the addressee or recipient about the origin of such message.
shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and with fine.
Reason 1 : Last Month two girls – Shaheen Dhada and Rinu Shrinivasan – were arrested for posting comments made by them on Facebook against Maharashtra Navnirman ShivSena chief Raj Thackeray. This arrest was under Section 66A of IT Act.
Reason 2 : The Mumbai police arrested Mr Trivedi, a member of the India Against Corruption or IAC, he had put up banners mocking the Indian Constitution during an Anna Hazare rally in Mumbai. The arrest was carried out on the basis of a complaint filed by Amit Katarnayea, a legal advisor for a Mumbai-based NGO. Trivedi has been booked under IPC Section 124 A for sedition, Section 66 A of IT Act and under National Emblem Act, 1971. Here are some of the controversial cartoons posted by Trivedi, followed by a nation-wide protest.
Reason 3 : Its an old reason , Against Censorship ! Few days back The Web site of Communication and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal was also hacked by Anonymous India for same reason.
The attacks on Hinduism will go unnoticed like the instance of The DK garlanding lord Ram’s photo with Chappals,
Karunanidhi, the DMK President called Hindu names, asked whther Lord ram was an Engineer,Draupadi a whore, Krishna a womanizer is the Adviser to the Central Government.
The Government provides security to the Mosque in Kasi Viswanath Temple where the Deity was thrown into a well and the Mosque erected on the spot.
Touch the Muslims and Christians, the Secular Indian Government wakes up’
Long live Secularism and India where people can not even erect a temple for their Deity Lord Ram!
Story:
When water started trickling down a statue of Jesus Christ at a Catholic church in Mumbai earlier this year, locals were quick to declare a miracle. Some began collecting the holy water and the Church of Our Lady of Velankanni began to promote it as a site of pilgrimage.
So when Sanal Edamaruku arrived and established that this was not holy water so much as holey plumbing, the backlash was severe. The renowned rationalist was accused of blasphemy, charged with offences that carry a three-year prison sentence and eventually, after receiving death threats, had to seek exile in Finland.
Now he is calling for European governments to press Delhi into dropping the case. And on the first leg of a tour around EU capitals on Friday, he warned that India was sacrificing freedom of expression for outdated, colonial-era rules about blasphemy.
“There is a huge contradiction in the content of the Indian constitution which guarantees freedom of speech and the blasphemy law from 1860 under then colonial rule,” Edamaruku told the Guardian in an interview in Dublin.
“This blasphemy law can affect anyone in India – even a girl recently who wrote on Facebook against closing down a city because of the death of a famous local politician. She was prosecuted under the blasphemy law and another girl who ‘liked’ her comment on Facebook was also arrested and then charged with blasphemy.”
Edamaruku, who has the support of rationalists and atheists such as Richard Dawkins , is well known in India for debunking religious myths, and was already unpopular among Indian Catholics for publicly criticising Mother Teresa‘s legacy in Kolkata.
When the state “miracle” was pronounced, he went to Mumbai and found that the dripping water was due to clogged drainage pipes behind the wall where it stood. His revelation provoked death threats from religious zealots and ultimately charges of blasphemy under the Indian penal code in the Mumbai high court.
“India cannot criticise Pakistan for arresting young girls for blaspheming against Islam while it arrests and locks up its own citizens for breaking our country’s blasphemy laws,” he said. “It is an absurd law but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they are Hindus, Catholics or Muslims, a licence to be offended. It also allows people who are in dispute with you to make up false accusations of blasphemy.”
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