economics reinvented

‘Tis immortality to die aspiring,
As if a man were taken quick to heaven...
-GEORGE CHAPMAN
Conspiracy of Charles

Your immortality has a price
-HBK

Mumbai makes you recover from huge shocks like watching people die. Life just goes on... On the way over to college, a bunch of guys hung out precariously again. The crowds are really bad... hope the trains recover soon. People in Thane stopped the trains again and I think someone removed the tracks in Mumbra. Stupid people, how do they expect the trains to work in this condition? Friends in college are collecting foodstuff, clothing and notebooks to hand out in affected areas, so I will have to take a bundle of clothes tommorrow... Today was well spent, hanging out with friends, working on projects, and best of all, getting highly praised by a professor who has the reputation of being unnecessarily harsh on the students. I managed to impress the hell out of him by getting a whole new approach to sociology, and he asked me to write a scientific article about it with refrences and things like that. Will blog about that in detail later, because an entire new theory in sociology deserves a seperate post... However, other small things do not deserve seperate posts, so instead of having like ten posts a day, from now on, I will have one huge mega post a day, divided into parts.

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The threefold part for improving the Indian economic system part.
Total nonsense, but anyway:

The threefold path to economic stability.

I am a responsible citizen of our beloved parentland (remember political correctness), and am deeply concerned for the dire economic situation in the country. Therefore, as a staunch patriot and brilliant (but modest thinker), and (clearly!) amateur armchair economist, I propose Madanapalle's "threefold path to economic stability". The figures are from Mumbai, but the same basic principles can be applied to benefit the entire country, if not all third world nations. Here are, three, simple, practical means in which every citizen can help contribute to the betterment of the Indian economy.

(i) Removal of population control measures
People in India should be encouraged to make more babies. That's what humans are here for, to contribute to the maximum extent possible to the gene pool. In fact, this is above the laws laid down by any constitution, and above the laws of the society. Each individual has the primal right of making as many babies as he or she wishes, and this is given to us by none other than God himself. As most Indians are God-fearing people, you have loads of babies in your hands, and no one has the right to stop this. This is the law of nature, and an intrinsic part of evolution. Overproduction helps the human race in general, and the Indian economy in particular.
What one can do is harness the potential of this manpower, and look at excess population as an untapped resource. To give you some figures, India has the largest manpower export industry in the world. The foreign exchange holdings we get from relatives sending money back to India is the largest in the world, surpassing even the foreign exchange holdings of America. As of the year 2004, the foreign exchange holdings of India stand at a staggering one billion US dollar mark. We make more babies and send them abroad. We harness the manpower of the remaining Indians by urbanizing various tier-II and tier-III cities, and getting an influx into newly created cities, which provides employment and a higher standard of living to all the citizens.

(ii)Throwing trash on the roads.
There are 18000 Conservancy workers (cleaners and sweepers) employed by the BMC. Moreover, an estimated 30000 people earn their living by picking up bottles and papers strewn around and taking them in for recycling. If we, as responsible citizens of Mumbai, Do not throw thrash anywhere we please, at least 36000 individuals will lose their jobs. This will increase the unemployment in Mumbai by 14%, and will create widespread discord and probably violence. Not throwing thrash in public places will increase the rates of theft and robbery with immediate effect. Throwing trash in public places stabilizes the Indian economy by providing steady employment to 48000 people, and that is for Mumbai alone. Imagine how much the Indian economy will benefit if people everywhere started rampantly throwing thrash around?


(iii) Regularize bunking in schools and colleges
1800000 youth do not attend colleges in Mumbai, mostly because the number of seats is limited to a mere - (damn I did not get the figures, so let's just put a very low variable) x. Now, Mumbai University has declared a minimum of 70% attendance across all its courses. Supposing a student does not use the thirty percent to the optimum level, at least no student will be retarded enough to attend more than 80% of all the lectures. Therefore, every day, 20% of the universities seats are laid to waste. Now, if the university increases the number of seats by 30%, and make in mandatory that the students maintain an attendance between 65-70%, and the colleges create a "bunking timetable" which regularizes the trend of bunking, then the number of educated people will increase from x to x+539000 students every year. This improves the educational system, and indirectly improves the Indian economy.


I am waiting for my Nobel Prize in economics.

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The LOTR lightsabre rendering part:

Aragorn, In action, recieved a lightsabre. Rendering the lightsabres onto the video sequences and making a short two minute parody type film on it.



Still working on making lightsabres for as many chars as possible in the film. Have to grab the images directly from the VCD, but the .dat files have something in them that prevents the pic from showing up when print screened. A number of image grabbing tools and video players yielded no results, so I had to convert everything to wmv (takes about an hour per disk), import it into windows movie maker (another half an hour) save it as an unprotected file using windows movie maker, and then printscreen the appropriate frame to get the pic. Pretty laborious process, making the actual lightsabre is easier than finding the correct frame.
I worked on a music video for most of the evening, which lends a LOTR video to the System of a Down song Chop Suey, though I have no idea why it is called that, and prefer to call the song "when angels deserve to die." I intend to finish it by tommorrow and will probably blog a link...

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Throwing stuff at the speaker part:

This one is funny, and will not happen anywhere else. I did not follow the entire story, but Mamata Banerjee found it fit to throw a bunch of papers at the speaker.
And then, resigned.
But the resignation was turned down - the reason being that the lettter was not in a proper format. What a laugh!

There is this guy totally into politics, and on a train journey back home, he once wisely commented that "between electing a bunch of criminals and a bunch of fools, I would go with the fools."

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Making another unicorn part:

This is a unicorn I made with a combination of Poser, Bryce and Photoshop. Yes, I like unicorns.



The trick was to get the correct blue lighting in bryce after adding a silver texture to the entire unicorn. in photoshop, I added and faded smudge paint or whatever, smart blur and a moderate ripple disort. Finished it off by adding the lighting and the lens flare.

Maybe I should try out cute little baby unicorns now - or pegasuses... pegasusi. What is the plural form of pegasus? I guess I will be rendering just one - oh i should try out a herd of running unicorns, one black one, a couple of red ones, loads of silver ones and tiny little golden and blue ones. Would be amazing eh? The running unicorns in front of... lemme see a tranquill lake or... OVER CLOUDS! With mountaintops peeking out in the background! yeah, I am going to do that. Will maybe throw a rainbow in.

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The WWF part.
Yeah, that’s right, the Heart Break Kid said ("your immortality has a price")that to Hulk Hogan, while my comp was processing something, so I had little choice but to watch television. They are bringing back the old legends. There was a time when WWF (it will always remain WWF to me) used to be a full time occupation. I used to watch Tatanka dance around the flames after winning a match, and the Billy and Dart Gunn team used to be my favorites. I have watched the game or rather the show evolve from Yokozuna and Doink right upto Rakishi Fatu and Curt Angol through Mankind, Rock, Kane, Undetraker, Kane and Austin. I lost interest around four years ago, and today, I watched bottomline for the first time, and they are showing a Michaels Vs Hulk Hogan face off which I just have to watch. There was also a Kane Vs Edge mask, and only now realized that Kane was unmasked. I remember all of us kids denying that the show was rigged, and how all of us used to gather on the stairs and discuss the matches, play the trump card game (Hulk Hogan was the super trump) and as a rare treat, play the WWF computer game. There was this entire culture which involved coming home from school and watching wrestling. Pity I stopped, but the entertainment changed on a fundamental level, when they started having bathtub matches and Diva specials. I watched upto the point when the big boss married off his daughter Stefanie to Triple H. I still have the music I recorded when Mankind went off. I am getting nostalgic about the old WWF matches. Infact, the same thing had happened a few days ago, and I had downloaded as many videos I could… but they were of a really low quality. The cable guy puts on old matched sometimes… have to go check them out. They are like a part of me…

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Phew! This entire thing took an hour to blog. the time says 10:19 but it is not 11:25. That after considering the fact that I had already written half of this in word before I actually posted it.