You get what you did not vote for...

Low voter turnout in Bangalore (my home) and even less in Mumbai (I like that city too). I can see that news channels talking about voter disenchantment with the politicians. Really? I doubt that. Half of the disenchantment did not vote the previous time either. Which probably means they never voted in their life. I don't think "disenchanted and indignant" electorate should be questioning what their MPs did for them in the 5 years they were in office. Especially, when they could not get off their ass once in 5 years to vote!!! People in Kashmir, Naxal infested areas with a lot more to complain have braved violence to perform their civic duty.

Bangaloreans should remember this the next time a political party holds rally for the rural voters in the outskirts of the city. After all, rural majority turned out in larger numbers. It would seem that the urban educated electorate cannot to be counted on to do much for their country.

Oh by the way, we are still getting an MP. Yeah, he represents only a minority. If you had something to say you should have said it today. Now, he is your leader. He will decide if it is alright for your daughter or sister to be molested on the streets for her life's choices. If you are thinking about doing away with politicians altogether? Thats cool too. But remember - that means you get to be fucked by every bureaucrat.

There are no free lunches in the world.

Netbeans Vs Eclipse

I am new to both. I started a month or so ago. And no, I have not tried JBoss or other IDEs out there.

My two cents says, Netbeans miles away from Eclipse.I may be wrong. Eclipse may be great. You will find many developers swearing on Eclipse. I was introduced to Eclipse in college. Trouble began with trying to configure eclipse with Tomcat, setting classpath etc. Every forum I visited raised more questions than gave answers. Netbeans 6.5 comes with Tomcat, MySQL JDBC driver, glassfish v2 and v3, facilitates numerous frameworks including JSF, Hibernate etc. It took me 3 weeks to configure eclipse. It took me a day to write my first web application on netbeans.

In netbeans, you can easily navigate your project, add libraries. Netbeans tutorials help you get started with your project quickly. You can access your database, application servers directly on netbeans.

Do I really believe I am wrong about netbeans? I think not!!

RSS, Taliban, Arundhati Roy...!?

So here is SAT Princeton review

RSS is to Hinduism as

Taliban is to Islam as

Evangelists are to Christianity as

Military Industrial complex is to Capitalism as

Maoists are to Communism as

Arundhati Roy, Medha Patkar etc are to Liberalism

Yes she is all that!! She is known to me as one who supported the accused in the parliamentary attack, justified Mumbai carnage, protested the launch of Nano, among other idiotic / "liberal" activities. She and others like her live to protest in the name of liberalism. But they carry no conscience, no sense of reality and no intelligence. She has a Booker prize to her name. Have you tried to read God of Small things? It is as unreadable as Satanic Verses as Jack Straw (British Foreign Secretary) put it.

PS :- Satanic Verses was written by Salman Rushdie, who won Booker prize for Midnight Children. I don't know about Midnight Children. I have not read it. But Satanic Verses was definitely unreadable.