Dirty deeds, done right!

2008-05-14 – 7:19 am ::  Comments (0) :: Visited 20 times :: Print This PostPrint This Post :: Email This Post Email This Post ::

I stumbled on this unique web site offering a bouquet of services in a niche and exotic space, which is perhaps only one of its kind!

Yes, you can’t spot any rivals to their range of essential (!) services offered to the society.

Here is what they have to offer:

Reliable contract killings

We’re here to take care of business so you don’t have to. This determines how we’re going to satisfy requirements you’ve given us with least cost. HAA supports its clients with premium threat elimination services at home and overseas in some of the most hostile areas of the world. HAA has its roots in the Special Operations community and continues to sustain the skills acquired over the years. These skills are effective tools that support both national and personal objectives. Our staff of profesionals has a wealth of experience worldwide and is renowned for dealing with high-risk situations and high level marks.

Through the assassination process, we provide a detailed specification that highlights the chosen method to the solution. HAA provides reliable contract killings to many professionals, government officials, corporate executives and their families.

Professional assassination services

Since our incorporation in 1972, we have strived to be the leaders in international elimination and have built a lasting reputation. Whether it takes an accidental fall down the stairs or a burning house, we’ll get the job done and the mark eliminated.

Here is a range of their services:

“You want I should whack him?”

Through the assassination process, we provide a detailed specification that highlights the chosen method to the solution. We provide reliable contract killings to many professionals, government officials, corporate executives and their families. We offer a variety of professional assassination services. We combine an understanding of the threats our clients face in this world with equal comprehension of the needs of eliminating your business competitors, and seek to provide solutions to your domestic disputes that are innovative and flexible, these include:

* Contract Hits in the Private and Public Sectors.
* Corporate Hits
* Political and High Level Assassinations

Professional services

Our team of professionals also provide a diverse portfolio of services after we’ve eliminated the mark, including: Money Laundering, Asset Tracing, Audio Forensics, Corpse removal, Threats to future Competitors, Staged suicides, Eyewitness elimination, Extortion, Kidnap, Apparent accidents, Framing of innocent suspects, Sudden illnesses, and Total disappearances. We are the best and have the solution for you!

And you may prefer to tread carefully on the site, lest you will be in for their free offerings as vividly warned in their footer thus:

All rights reserved. Violators will experience our services for free.

And still curious to visit the web site?

Here it is: Hired Assassin Agency

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What price democracy?

2008-05-13 – 8:10 pm ::  Comments (0) :: Visited 43 times :: Print This PostPrint This Post :: Email This Post Email This Post ::

Almost the whole of India is tottering in electricity crisis. There are reports of “power riots” in and around Delhi, the capital of india, according to Hindustan Times a leading newspaper from the capital:

People have had enough. Tired of long and frequent power cuts and false promises of improvement, people in the Capital and Gurgaon took to the streets attacking offices of power utilities on Tuesday.

After waiting eight hours without electricity early on Tuesday, residents of Mukherjee Nagar in north Delhi gathered in a mob outside the main zonal office of the power utility NDPL and stoned the facility. However, no one was injured.

They were back at the office later in the evening. The National Capital Region’s first power riots have taken place and there is not much the power utilities can do except file police cases or run away. In some cases, there is retaliation, too.

Just outside the city limits, patience snapped in Badshahpur, a Gurgaon village, after 15 hours without electricity. The villagers stormed the local electricity office, beat the staff on duty and damaged equipment in use

But that didn’t prevent the so-called netas (aka politicians) and figureheads flaunting extravagant ans ostentatious consumption of electricity.

Rediff reports:

The Rashtrapati Bhavan has consumed electricity worth more than Rs 16.5 crore in the past five years and the prime minister and his office has consumed power worth Rs 37.26 lakh in the past three years, information gained through the Right to Information Act has shown.

The Rashtrapati Bhavan has consumed a total of close to 3 crore units of electricity in five years. The prime minister has consumed 7 lakh units in the past three years.

Replying to a an RTI query by activist Chetan Kothari, the Central Public Works Department replied that all the bills have been paid by the department.

The department said there is no separate meter for the prime minister’s residence and the consumption is for both his home and office.

‘There is no separate meter for the residence of the prime minister. There is a common meter for the 3, Race Course Road complex comprising of the PM’s house, security gazette, security lights, SPG office, MI room, PMO, horticulture pumps, temporary lighting,’ the CPWD said.

That is democracy in full flow for you!

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Sharp and clear font on your screen

2008-05-02 – 3:41 am ::  Comments (0) :: Visited 56 times :: Print This PostPrint This Post :: Email This Post Email This Post ::

Do you use an LCD monitor and the text looks pixelated and hazy?

You have an in-built help in Windows called “ClearType” which makes the fonts on LCD monitors sharper and clearer. In fact they will become razor-sharp and clearer than ever before on notebooks. No harm in trying it on CRT monitors, but there is no proven word about the performance enhancement on that kind of monitors yet.

ClearType is a feature of XP, which is turned off by default (and the suckers say it is ON in Vista, the fiasco!).

Let us assume you are yet to be sucked in by the Vista bug. Here’s how you get to turn on the ClearType. Right-click on the open desktop, choose Properties -> Appearance -> Effects. Check “Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts,” and select “ClearType” from the drop-down list. Click OK and OK. You are done.

I understand that in Linux, it is called “subpixel smoothing”. FOSS aficionados may bear this out.

ClearType can be further tweaked by any of the following tools:-

  1. Microsofts’ Wizard
  2. Powertoy proggy for ClearType
  3. A free nifty utility called ClearTweak

Make your font easy on your eyes and enjoy!

Source: PCWorld

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Keyboards dirtier than toilets!

2008-05-01 – 7:58 am ::  Comments (0) :: Visited 58 times :: Print This PostPrint This Post :: Email This Post Email This Post ::

Stinking keyboardSome computer keyboards harbour more harmful bacteria than a toilet seat, research has suggested.

BBC reports:

Consumer group “Which?” said tests at its London offices found equipment carrying bugs that could cause food poisoning.

Out of 33 keyboards swabbed, four were regarded as a potential health hazard and one harboured five times more germs than one of the office’s toilet seats.

Microbiologist Dr Peter Wilson said a keyboard was often “a reflection of what is in your nose and in your gut”.

During the Which? tests in January this year, a microbiologist deemed one of the office’s keyboards to be so dirty he ordered it to be removed, quarantined and cleaned.

It had 150 times the recommended limit for bacteria - five times as filthy as a lavatory seat tested at the same time, the research found.

The equipment was swabbed for bugs, such as those that can cause food poisoning like E.coli and staphylococcus aureus.

Dr Wilson, a consultant microbiologist at University College London Hospital, told BBC Radio 5 Live sharing a keyboard could be passing on illnesses among office workers.

“If you look at what grows on computer keyboards, and hospitals are worse, believe it or not, it’s more or less a reflection of what’s in your nose and in your gut,” he said.

“Should somebody have a cold in your office, or even have gastroenteritis, you’re very likely to pick it up from a keyboard.”

Which? said one of the causes of dirty keyboards was users eating lunch at their desk, with crumbs encouraging the growth of bacteria.

Poor personal hygiene, such as not washing hands after going to the toilet, could also be to blame, it said.

Cleaning techniques

Which? computing editor Sarah Kidner advised users to give their computer “a spring clean”.

“It’s quite simple to do and could prevent your computer from becoming a health hazard,” she said.

She said dust and food crumbs should be shaken out of keyboards and they should be wiped with a soft, lightly dampened, lint-free cloth. They should also be disinfected with alcohol wipes.

Research by the University of Arizona last year found the average office desktop harboured 400 times more bacteria than the average office toilet seat.

They also found that on average women have three to four times the amount of germs in, on and around their work area.

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Welling eye and pearly tears!

2008-04-29 – 3:35 am ::  Comments (0) :: Visited 32 times :: Print This PostPrint This Post :: Email This Post Email This Post ::

Welling with tears

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What a cushy life in British jails!

2008-04-26 – 2:06 am ::  Comments (0) :: Visited 60 times :: Print This PostPrint This Post :: Email This Post Email This Post ::

Reuters reports:-

Criminals are enjoying such a life of luxury in British jails that they don’t bother trying to escape, a senior prison union official said on Friday.

Dangerous prisoners enjoy satellite television, free telephone calls and breakfast in bed in the country’s “cushy” jails, Prison Officers’ Association General Secretary Glyn Travis added.

Cheap drugs are readily available, he said, and some prisoners enjoy visits from prostitutes while in other jails inmates had “control” over staff.

Travis said that in some cases, overstretched staff were powerless to impose order because they were frightened of breaching prisoners’ human rights.

In comments published by several newspapers on Friday, Travis gave an example of a breach at Everthorpe Prison in East Yorkshire, where a dealer regularly used a ladder to scale the fence and supply inmates with drugs and mobile phones.

Inmates at an unnamed top security prison recently told Justice Secretary Jack Straw that conditions were like a “holiday camp”, the media reports said.

All such luxuries on the taxpayers’ expense. Pretty good bargain indeed. With such a life in jails, who would want live outside!

But are we really aware of what is happening in various Indian jails, I wonder!

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Image of Tamil Nadu police

2008-04-21 – 2:20 am ::  Comments (3) :: Visited 195 times :: Print This PostPrint This Post :: Email This Post Email This Post ::

Two news items appeared in the Times of India newspaper, Chennai edition on 18th April, 2008. Both are about the image of police in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.

Here is the first one:-

LEGAL NOTICE TO FILM-MAKERS
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai: A senior police officer in the city has slapped a legal notice on the producer and director of the film ‘Nepali’, starring actors Bharath and Meera Jasmine, demanding the removal of certain objectionable portions in the film which portray the police department in bad light.

After watching the flick, Joint Commissioner of Police (North Chennai) M Ravi on Thursday slapped a legal notice on the film’s director V Z Durai and producer Rama Saravanan through his lawyer P Chandrasekharan. The notice alleged that the movie had portrayed the police, prisons and judiciary departments in bad light and warned both the director and producer of appropriate legal action both civil and criminal if they fail to delete the objectionable parts from the film. The notice also asked them to stop screening the movie till deletion. It alleged that in the very beginning of the movie, the National Flag was shown without due respect. The prison jailer was shown walking down the stairs without saluting the Flag, while his subordinates were shown saluting the flag.

The movie also shows a police inspector in uniform attempting to rape the heroine. “The same inspector has been shown stripping his uniform in two scenes. The movie is shot with the intention of creating ill feelings, disharmony and hatred between the police and public which per se is defamatory”, it alleged. The scenes where the hero takes the law into his hand and the comments he makes against the judiciary are also intended to damage the reputation and dignity of the judiciary, the notice said.

In one scene the jailer is shown drinking in jail premises and asking the female jail warden to supply women. “This would create wrong impression in the minds of the public,’’ the notice said.

Ok, according to the police department, certain portions of the film portray the police department in bad light.

Now pray tell me, does the alleged conduct of a member of the police force of the state in real life as reported in the paper of the same day, enhance the image of police in the eyes of public?

Read this and form your own conclusions:-
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