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January 29, 2007

Nuclear deal

Filed under: News — Ankur Aggarwal @ 10:15 am

continued from prev post

From day one I was a strong proponent of the deal and always believed that this deal will open more gates than we can imagine. Recently Russia sold 4 nuclear power stations to India. So even though USA did not gain a single penny directly or indirectly from this purchase (and the Uranium purchase from Russia a few months ago) the US deal was an enabler. This purchase would never had been possible if we did not have the US nuclear pact with us.

I will again emphasize that India has 50 nuclear bombs already and this number is more than sufficient for any nuclear deterrence we hope to achieve. What India needs is Electricity and Infrastructure to fuel the GDP growth rate. For this India should summon any help it requires and any source of capital/technology will not be expensive.

I Thank Manmohan Singh once again for battling against all odds and making it possible.

0 to 200 in 6 seconds

Filed under: Humor — Ankur Aggarwal @ 7:50 am

Loving husband Jeff was in trouble. He forgot his wedding
anniversary and his wife was really ticked off at him. She told
him “Tomorrow morning, I expect to find a gift in the driveway
that goes from 0 to 200 in 6 seconds flat, AND IT BETTER BE THERE.”

The next morning, Jeff got up really early before work. When his
wife woke up a couple of hours later, she looked out the window,
and sure enough, there was a small gift-wrapped box sitting in the
middle of the driveway.

Confused, the wife put on her robe, ran out to the driveway, and
took the box into the house. She opened it, and found a brand new
bathroom scale.

Jeff is not yet able to have visitors.
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now some unanswered questions

1. Isn’t making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?

2. If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

3. If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, then doesn’t it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?

4. What hair color do they put on the driver’s licenses of bald men?

5. I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks, so I wondered what do Chinese mothers use. Toothpicks?

6. If it’s true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?
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One man solved his problem of too many visiting relatives by borrowing money from the rich ones and loaning it to the poor ones. Now none of them visit!

January 24, 2007

ban on Horse slaughter

Filed under: News — Ankur Aggarwal @ 4:29 pm

Appeals court rules against horse slaughtering in Texas
The arguments that a cowboy is always pictured as one riding a horse and not eating one looks a bit funny. I think no court case was won over a more frivolous argument.

If you compare with cow slaughter ban in India, you feel world over a common man is the same.

January 23, 2007

night out

Filed under: Humor — Ankur Aggarwal @ 12:57 pm

The older, wiser man was giving advice to a younger bridegroom. “Well, friend, from now on you’re going to have to think twice before you leave your wife alone at night,”
he said. “I guess so,” replied the bridegroom.
His buddy continued, “First, you’ll have to think up a reason for going out and, second, you’ll have to think up a reason why she can’t go along!”
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Fence

One day a farmer called up an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician and asked them to fence of the largest possible area with the least amount of fence.
The engineer made the fence in a circle and proclaimed that he had the most efficient design.
The physicist made a long, straight line and proclaimed “We can assume the length is infinite…” and pointed out that fencing off half of the Earth was certainly a more efficient way to do it.
The Mathematician just laughed at them. He built a tiny fence around himself and said “I define myself to be on the
outside.”

Wage Disclosure

Filed under: Cartoons, salary, Thoughts — Ankur Aggarwal @ 11:13 am

In government sector wages are easy to determine. Your seniority and experience determines your basic salary. Then based on the nature of the work, posting etc. your final pay package is determined. So effectively whenever a government servant states his designation, you can exactly know how much wages he draws.

In private sector, it is a bit awkward. The worker salaries are more or less standardized and everybody knows how much the other knows. The compensation package of the CEO and other top executives has to be disclosed to the shareholder (and hence public). Everybody knows Robert Nardelli received a $210m pay-off when Home Depot fired him for incompetence.
highest salary

However what surprises me is that wages of the peers are rarely disclosed. What is so special about the white collar employees that their wages are never revealed? We all demand RTI (right to information act) in government departments when our workplace themselves lack it. I am a rational man, so I think there should be a sound logic behind all this.

Either the workers like you and me have a vested interest in not disclosing their salary. I am ashamed of the fat salary I draw and I do not deserve the bonus which the company gave me. Hence it is in my best interest to cover it up as much as possible.

Or the HR and management are screwing me. They pay me a quarter of what I deserve and hence they do not want me to be in the position to compare my salary with the others.

Since I cannot think of a third reason… lets analyze the 2 premises.

Worker: The Company would be a fool to overpay me. Even if due to a temporary market conditions I am getting more than what I deserve, the company will adjust it in the next pay review/hike or they might even fire me. Other reason could be that I live in denial and believe that I do not care about the wages.

Since both are weak arguments, I think it is the HR and management that want to deny me of this information. The management thinks that I do not know that my company pays that fresh graduate/new guy much more than what it pays me…

Government employees do not switch jobs that often because they know that they are getting a fair pay. Most job switches in private sector happen when the new company corrects the distortion and offers to give the employees what they rightfully deserve.

The constitution guarantees us “Equal pay for equal work”, almost all companies advertise “Equal opportunity employer”. Yet you give no evidence to prove/disprove this theory. Companies demand loyalty from the employees, but they spare no opportunity to con them.

Also do read this wonderful article. compensation and this

January 22, 2007

Bangalore is a happening place.

Filed under: News — Ankur Aggarwal @ 2:27 pm

I spend most of my day in a fabric coated container; hence I am often ignorant of what happens outside my workplace. So today, Monday Morning, my friends updated me with what happened over the weekend.

It is hard to believe that so many riots due to so many reasons can happen in a single small city. I challenge the readers to find any other city in the world which has a more happening then NAMMA BENGALURU.

1) There were riots and police intervention when mobs tried to burn Bush’s effigies. For those who do not know more people in Bangalore celebrate 4th of July then 15th of Aug. So Anti-US march was definitely a bad move.
2) Then a BMTC bus overran over a commuter. That public bus was burnt, stones were pelted, roads were blocked.. but nothing serious… most of us are used to it.
3) Finally the Classic Hindu Muslim Riots: In spite of the precarious situation in the town, administration allowed Hindus to take a religious procession through the heart of the Muslim dominated centers of the town. This sparked communal tensions, ransacking of shops and police firings.

Now the problem is that there is curfew in most of the town, but most people are clueless of the exact nature of the tension. I won’t be surprised if few of the mob inciters were carrying multiple sets of banners as they roam across the streets.

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