I’ve always eschewed zombie films. The notion of humans turning into feral beasts and attacking other humans has been anathema to my Indian sensibilities. Until recently, zombies were not even part of the Indian movie lexicon. But Brad Pitt admirer that I am, shedding all my zombie reservations, yours truly hotfooted over to the theater […]
Get over it! Not withstanding the anger of millions of Americans over large-scale government spying, there will not be any change. Not one whit. Because the beneficiaries from the spying operations will not allow change. Helpless Americans America’s intelligence operations have been outsourced to private entities like Booz Allen and several hundred other companies. Whether […]
Envy is a dangerous sin, one of the seven deadly sins in the Christian theology. But no one seems to have told Microsoft and Google about the pitfalls of envy. In a span of less than a week, spurred by Apple store envy the two tech giants have laid the groundwork for retail disasters that […]
(For Commenter MadMax673) The government has been in bed with the telecom industry since the 40s. They’ve infected everything. They get into your bank statements, computer files, listen to your phone calls…every wire, every air wave. – Brill in Enemy of the State At the suggestion of one of SI’s many commenters, we watched Enemy […]
Update: Raghu Yandamuri Goes After Police Now There seems to have been an interesting development in Telugu Bidda Raghunandan Yandamuri’s murder and kidnapping case. Based on recent court filings, it appears that Raghunandan Yandamuri may have dismissed his Public Defender Attorney Stephen G. Heckman. The move comes barely three months before the scheduled start of […]
Update: NSA also has direct access via PRISM program to Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, Skype, AOL etc servers. It’s great to be an American in the 21st Century. Hallelujah! While Americans are frolicking at the beach, clicking ‘Like‘ on Facebook, Tweeting what they had for breakfast at McDonald’s and Taco Bell, watching American Idol, […]