negative vote will make democracy more meaningful

if the five-judge Bench favours the right to discard every candidate, our democracy will become more meaningful. The present system under Rule 49 (O) is of no help to anyone. In fact, it is contrary to the system of secret ballot as the voter has to identity herself to register unwillingness to vote. Negative votes also must be counted and if the majority prefers none of the candidates, re-election should be conducted barring rejected candidates. It’s the only way to clean our system.

written by
T V Tavindran, VIA EMAIL
(Source: Times of India, 26th feb 2009)

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dialogues

"What do you mean, I'm funny?...You mean the way I talk? What?...Funny how? I mean, what's funny about it?...But I'm funny how? I mean, funny like I'm a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to f--kin' amuse you? What do you mean, funny? Funny how? How'm I funny??...How the f--k am I funny? What the f--k is so funny about me? Tell me? Tell me what's funny!..." Goodfellas

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"Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." Patton

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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie! Scarface

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My name is Dalton Russell. Pay strict attention to what I say because I choose my words carefully and I never repeat myself. I've told you my name: that's the Who. The Where could most readily be described as a prison cell. But there's a vast difference between being stuck in a tiny cell and being in prison. The What is easy: recently I planned and set in motion events to execute the perfect bank robbery. That's also the When. As for the Why: beyond the obvious financial motivation, it's exceedingly simple... because I can. Which leaves us only with the How; and therein, as the Bard would tell us, lies the rub. Inside Man

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People ask the question... what's a RocknRolla? And I tell 'em - it's not about drums, drugs, and hospital drips, oh no. There's more there than that, my friend. We all like a bit of the good life - some the money, some the drugs, other the sex game, the glamour, or the fame. But a RocknRolla, oh, he's different. Why? Because a real RocknRolla wants the f*cking lot. RocknRolla

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“Psychologically, I'm very confused, but personally I feel just wonderful.” In the Good Old Summertime

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Don´t ever let somebody tell you, you can't do something. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you that you can’t do it. You want something? Go get it. Persuit of Happiness

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You Can't Handle The Truth. Son, we live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and curse the Marines; you have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives and that my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use them as the backbone of a life trying to defend something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you," and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest that you pick up a weapon and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to. A Few Good Men

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Wanna know how I got these scars? My father was....a drinker. And a fiend. And one night he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. He doesn't like that. Not. One. Bit. So, me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it. Turns to me and he says "Why so serious?" Comes at me with the knife,"Why so serious?" He sticks the blade in my mouth. "Lets put a smile on that face!" And..... Why so serious? The Dark knight

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Oh, I'm sorry! Did I break your concentration? Pulp Fiction

indian culture ???

some local moral sena decided to teach moral values and indian-ness on mass scale in Bangalore. so, what could be best occasion once a year to start their goondagiri ? Valentine Day!!! specially gals/females were tortured, smacked and humiliated if they were found with their boy friends. each such episode we had live on national television but moral sena had no fear of being thrashed by police lathi. alas!!! a political goonda declared his nation-wide mass-thrashing hate-drive in public, still he is scot-free with no police questioning. no major political party came forward with strong statement to protect the freedom of people. this situation was exactly similar to when north indians were thrown out of mumbai by MNS in recent time. my point is not to teach these goonda a lesson on Indian culture but i want to look at an event in broad perspective to understand ''why does such bullshit happen when we boast of good political leaders, courts and more aware citizens ?''

need for one standard for all SAP projects

currently every individual SAP project in a big IT firm has its own project specific naming convention and code quality standard. if an IT firm has 20 SAP projects running then 20 different project standards are prepared by each manager inspite all 20 projects are involved techanically and functionally in same technology. i explain why we DON'T need different project standards for same technology. how does one common standard applicable across all projects in a big company improve the desired level of code quality, code readability for all SAP developers in a company and easy adaptability of developer across all projects without wasting 2 -3 days reading same documents? i have worked in four SAP projects and observed various contradictory code quality assurance standard.

(1) in my previous project, use of 'field-symbol' is not allowed. although in my present project, use of 'field-symbol' is highly recommended to replace 'work-area' and data manupulation in internal table without 'modify' statement. utility of this tool is immense other than stated two ovious scenarios.

(2) in one project, it is ok to read an internal table using 'Binary Search' always and religiously. but it doesn't make sense to read an internal table using 'Binary Search' for once or twice as 'Binary Search' requires 'Sorting' which itself is very time consuming. in such case, linear search is good performance wise if requirement is not beyound 4 times or read inside loop itself.

(3)another contradictory thing i noticed that one project allows 'modify' satement with 'where' clause for internal table inside loop while other project rates it as bad coding style as modify statement works in linear fashion starting from index 1 to n which unnecessarily increases record (internal table) processing time. so, how do they suggest to modify internal table ? take one scenario: based on outer looped internal table1, if one has to modify the content of internal table2. then sort the internal table2 outside loop based on conditional fields. read this internal table2 inside loop assigning field-symbol based on conditional fields. if it finds a record then simply change the content of field-symbol which gets reflected in internal table2. so, basically one replaces linear processing by sorting+binary search. latter is good performance wise if records are in great number in production system.

(4)one project allows to modify database table in 'user-exit/BAdi' directly where as other project doesn't allow it without 'update perform/update function' module because it violates the concept of 'All or None' database update. as previous approach will lead to inconsistent database if respective standard transaction fails in middle of processing before executing 'commit' statement.

(5)one rediculous thing was-one project didn't prefer 'inner join' because QA guy feared that it might lead to data loss in complex situation. priceless!!!

bottom line is that each has developed one specific standard QA list which reflects limitation of one's knowledge. sad part is this kind of industry practice at project level is common everywhere. one effective solution can be that only few selected efficient techanical experts of company should set the standard of code quality for all projects. It will easy to implement best industry practices in SAP technology as ignorance of latest update in technology as well as lack of wider exposure are reason for this inconsistency.

I am not able to appreciate the benefits of following different naming conventions for different projects in a same company. as far as functionality and performance of codes are concerned, it is not going to alter anything. so, sticking to one standard for naming will enhance more standarisation of code maintenance. when client buys a specific namespace from SAP then accordingily the naming can be changed while maintaining rest things intact. as for example, if a client wants that all custom developments shud start with 'PPP' initial then what one has to do is just add this initail 'PPP' to custom name using already fixed one naming convention.

mumbai attack

a bunch of bastards walk into my country with ease and kill as many innocents they want. they fuck entire security and intelligence systems and succeed in their targets. why does the Indian goverment keep blaming on neighbour for own inefficiency and fuck-my-ass attitude ? it no longer arouses patroism feelings for those families who lost their sons saving people beacuse our government takes their brave sons for granted to sacrifice. what the hell went wrong with our government ? why does Indian government look so fucked up all the time ? if government takes no concrete steps after this bloodiest aftermath, then any terrorist will walk into any public building and shoot all. things need to straighten out if present government doesn't want to look like jerk to whole world.

i salute all brave soldiers who fought for our nation. it's you, guys who keep our spirit and pride high.

bomb blast

terrorists succeed in planting bombs and we keep cleaning bomb sites with tearful eyes. i am fed up with daily news of blasts and its aftermath or any consolatory statement of PM. i am interested in real actions like "how many those bastards have been gunned down by Indian police ". i am interested in whether our national stand on terrorism is as obvious as "if you dare to do it, we have enough bullets waiting for your head". i am interested in our government's attitude and confidence such as "our guns will negotiate with you". it's high time to take inspiration from China, Russia and USA. any threat to security, these countries talk more with their tanks. i don't want to live under the fear of being killed anywhere with no trace of my finding. today a perosn gets more calls from home not to go to malls or open markets. i personally avoid to come out of home if it is 15th august or 26th january or occasion of sensitive religious festivals. Thank God! these are national holidays otherwise casualities would be many fold. as a nation, first act of our boldness should be to make the number of all prison serving terrorists linked with bomb blasts to zero. we should be least interested in keeping 100 terrorists alive in prison rather than determined to bring in 200 more if they spoil our sound night sleep. because "no motherfucker can decide the fate of my life with press of one button."

re-invent post-office.

finally dying post-offices re-inveted themselve to be in biz atleast by providing address verification services to IT industries and mobile service operators!!! why doesn't government sell Indian postal establishment to any private body who can make it one of the largest and finest integrated courier facilities of world ? govenmental postal system can work with city private courier agencies to deliver packages in villages as it will solve my problem to send a courier to my village home as well as government can make some profit if they are so busy to not think of re-energising the dead postal biz. few years ago, Indian railways sytem was on verge of financial bankrupcy but after few strokes of development and good management techniques, it is churning out 10K crores pure profit per year . same positive development can be achieved with postal system if it doesn't loose its focus on its core area of business like postal/package/money delivery rather than doing petty works for other companies.

can we have a postal minister like Lalu Prasad who can make it possible ?