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Clerical Group Defies Leader on Disputed Iran Election CAIRO — The most important group of religious leaders in Iran has called the disputed presidential election and the new government illegitimate, an act of defiance against the country’s supreme leader and the most public sign of a major...

Anyway, what technology are they talking about? I've never heard of creating a plasma on a wingtip to reduce drag.

Tennessee physicist sentenced to 4 years for sharing drone plans with foreign students: Scientific American Blog John Reece Roth, 71, a prominent plasma physicist was sentenced to four years in prison for 18 counts of conspiracy, wire fraud and violations of the Arms Export Control Act, after...

You are right in that there will be displacement of jobs. This is a valid criticism of international trade. But the economists would also say that creating jobs is the easy part, economic development is difficult. A government can cut interest rates and it will cause job creation pretty fast...

BTW, is Chengdu the Xanadu where the "Kublai Khan the pleasure dome decreed" ?

It's the afterlife the next morning that's a disaster.

From what I understand avoiding a stall of the rotors is a very difficult business when the helicopter blades are rotating at low speeds. Similarly the tail rotor often goes off and it becomes very difficult to control the longitudinal orientation since the rotating blades up top produces torque...

Not in India, it isn't. We don't have a common civil code in India. Muslims, Hindus, Parsees and Christians have different laws for marriage, divorce and for some part, inheritance. There is a "special" marriage act that is entirely state business. It is usually used for interfaith...

I'll accept that my knowledge of geography is pretty weak. My knowledge of Durand line is limited to internet and conversations with few Afghan-Americans and Pakistani people.But from actually having visited North-East of India and J&K I also understand that lines drawn on a map (in British...

Hence Pakistani plans to build an indigenous Autogyro. In the event of an engine failure they'll at least fall softly to the ground.

When the X-box was first released, a friend of mine was in the US. He stood in line and bought it on the first day. He flew to India the next week, making it one of the first X-boxes in India. He got home, plugged it in only to see smoke rise out of the machine. He had forgotten that US uses...

Actually this judgment by high court turns the argument on its head. Now it will be up to the elected authorities to change the constitution to say that gay sex does not violate human rights. That has low chances of passing (need 2/3rds majority). India is conservative, but it is not that...

No one has been actually prosecuted for a while. But there have been cases where police were chasing people down and threatening them. The cases were rarely bought to court. Sometimes a kidnapping charge was tacked on, which lasted until the case got to court and the involved denied being...

Maybe it was drunk typing ? (Sorry, this comment was only for the sake of a fun explanation for random keystrokes. No offense meant. I fully understand Islamic prohibition of alcohol. I think that just makes the joke funnier)

Actually it does lend backing to the argument. First a poster said "those who are killed will go to heaven". AN asked, "why, do they not belong to the same god" ? The poster is justified in saying "because I believe in Quran and Quran says so". AN's argument about "same god" is only valid as...

Can someone post a map with possible line for the fence ? What I understand is this. Pakistan - Afghanistan have an international border. But parts along the international border are defined as "areas of influence" and people from both countries move about through this area of influence...

You mean this suggestion ? http://www.defence.pk/forums/members-club/28990-back-karachi-2.html#post411731 I for one, welcome our new Dark haired, killer looking, Punjabi women overlords.

Seems like a bit of exaggeration here. Chendu is about 500 miles into China from Indian border, but the province itself is about 50 km from Arunachal Pradesh. Lanzhou is a good 1000 km away from Arunachal Pradesh. IAF would have to fly clear over Tibet to get here. I can't see how a flight...

BTW, who was the first group to figure out that human beings make good bomb delivery systems ? Who taught Al Qaeda/Taliban that suicide was good ? One I can think of is LTTE and their suicide squads. There is some claim that this idea then spread through Malaysia (the arms market for LTTE)...