Agni III test fired successfully: India joins the ICBM club!

[aneeshm]

With respect to India, people know the truth. With respect to China, you're totally bull****ting, because they let you know only that they want you to know. The Chinese OFFICIAL figure for their floating population is 110 million.

[Nubclear]

The Chinese economic miracle is well-known and documented, aneeshm. Indian poverty and utter inability to solve this poverty is also well-known and documented.

[Pekka]

And that is because they're going down? No, that's what they have to deal with now from old policies. The support system of that nation went down, but it's actually rising up. Sure, there's lots of floating people, but it's not because of the modern policy.

They're trying to find jobs, because the rural area is screwed. Of course if you can come up with a plan how you could raise the standards like they have all the time plus keep the rural areas with the fast development.. I guess you'd be a billionaire and superstar.

[Asher]

Originally posted by aneeshm


Uhh.....

I was referring to China there.

You were, I wasn't.

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Tacc
The Chinese economic miracle is well-known and documented, aneeshm. Indian poverty and utter inability to solve this poverty is also well-known and documented.

That's because we're a democracy, you dolt!

The poor and illiterate vote for the ones who promise them the most, the most quickly - long term policy be damned. That's why Karunanidhi can offer free sacks of rice and television sets to everyone if he is elected, and he wins.

[Pekka]

So that's why there's not the same kind of investing going on, because of democracy? I guess you can learn something new every day

[Elok]

My heart really does go out to those homeless Chinese folk. Kicked out of their homes, wandering through the countryside eating miserable scraps and taking shelter under bridges...why, they're almost as badly off as the average Indian!

[Zkribbler]

intermediate range ballistic missile Agni-III

That's an IRBM.

In ICBM would be able to take out Washington, D.C. -- not that I'm suggesting anything.

[lord of the mark]

China opened up to world trade and investment about a decade earlier than India. And had a large wealthy overseas Chinese community interested in investing from the beginning, etc. And closer physical proximity to the high wage markets of Japan and the 4 tigers.

I think India's trajectory looks at least as good as China's.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Tacc

To India, this is completely alien. Some areas are doing very well, of course, but for the vast majority of people life hasn't and simply will not change.



China has one advantage going for it - the Chinese government is commited to growth. Thus, you see a lot of investment in things like infrastructure and lifting people out of poverty. You don't get this with India. Why? Indian culture just isn't suited for that sort of thing - politicians in India much prefer to play on Aneeshm-like stupidity ("The muslims are out to get us!!!1") and distract the population with silly issues rather than focus on things that are actually important, like building more power plants (or cleaner power plants), providing clean water to people, a strong police force to keep order....We saw this with the BJP, and hence why they were defeated: "India Shining" is an absolute scam, and the population recognised this.

Thus, it is absolutely no surprise whatsoever that China far surpasses India on almost every indicator of development. Sure, India has "democracy" (though this is highly suspect democracy in many places), but what point is there to vote if you can't eat? Indian culture is simply too corrupt and too chaotic to really start replicating what China is doing right now.

Someday India will get over its issues, become more like the West, and then really take off. But for the moment...India remains among the worst places in the world to live, and my sympathy really must go out to the Indian people that their government has not had the balls to take the steps necessary to ensure proper economic development.

Indian GDP is currently growing at 8.5% per year, the second highest rate in the world for a major economy.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Tacc
One is India. One is China. Guess which one is which!

lol LOL

[Zkribbler]

One is India. One is China. Guess which one is which!

Tacc shoots ... and SCORES!!

[LordShiva]

Re: Re: Agni III test fired successfully: India joins the ICBM club!

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
We can still bomb you and your nukes back into the origins of Hindu civilization, *****.

Of course. This is true for every country on Earth (minus the Hindu civilization bit).

The question, rather, is whether we can give you cause for having second thoughts before doing so.

[Barnabas]

I think China, which has been growing at high rates for more years than india, still grows at a higher rate than india.

isnt india´s growth around 7% per year while China´s almsot 10 %? and probably more the next year due to olympics

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


Well what do you call it when they leave the camera just sitting there exposing for an hour?

Over exposed.

What you're talking about is where you use a really slow shutter speed so that you get blurs from moving things like the lights of cars.