I won't insult your political system , because the one I'm in sucks almost as badly. I'm not looking at religion, because I'm sure that its a fire no one can put out and never ends well.
All political systems suck, I agree - basically because there are humans at the controls.
All your television, however, is abominable. Three hundred and nine million people, hundreds of individual channels, and the number of good shows can be counted on the hand of a blind butcher. It's enough to make you buy a cinema pass.
I don't have cable TV - any video entertainment I may watch either comes from DVDs I own, or maybe Hulu or something, and even that is rare. That doesn't mean I don't own a TV; got a 42" LCD hung on the wall, but all its for is DVDs, once again.
I haven't watched real TV since my mom passed away last year (and all she watched was our "custom" 24/7 George Lopez Show channel - DVRs and dementia/alzheimers, what a mix!). Once she passed, we dropped the cable box again (we had dropped it once before) and went back to high speed internet. My wife watches stuff on the various internet TV places scattered across the net, but for me - its a brain drain.
I think that's all you're getting, I'm a bit out of practice at insulting generalized people for virtually no reason (I'm sorry, I'll get better).
As you'll note, I appologized, and deferred to you; I also realize that my viewpoints I stated were generalized, perhaps to a point stereotypical - most of what I know about India has come from reading and media (NPR mainly currently); btw - how did that whole trash collection thing turn out (never heard what happened)?
BTW, You guys seem to forget that the United States till yesterday was one of the most racist nations in the world. A nation which has had segregated schools for blacks till just about three decades ago can hardly be thought of as the best example of freedom. Till yesterday, freedom was only for the whites there.
No - I don't forget it; personally I think humans suck in general. What is really interesting (at least from my American perspective), is how some people in the black community here look upon others with similar bigoted and oppressive views (such as the GLBT community). It seems like everybody has to hate somebody else. There isn't any good reason for any of it (except maybe ignorance, and the inherent sense of literal separateness and aloneness the human animal experiences due to its forebrain).
When you say America is the epitome of freedom, say it to an African American. Chances are that you will have a "jutti" on your face as soon as you say that.
Now try figuring out what that means.Go ask some indians...
I never said America was the epitome of freedom (that's honestly never been true).
America is the same nation which once went to war on black slavery (the American Civil War ). At least India never discriminated between fair skinned and darker skinned people when it came to freedom - social , economic or political.
The Civil War was arguably about individual State's rights, but I forgive you for that error, because most Americans don't really know this and have been educated somewhat differently; I daresay it is almost a "silent reeducation" by our government (by ourselves!) to make the federal government supreme, and ultimately eliminate the concept of an individual sovereign State. In other words, the "united STATES" is supposed to be a union of individual "countries" (the States) bound together under one national flag, but supposedly free to pursue self-interests except where they may interfere or cause problems for others, thus the need and instatement of a federal governmental system to regulate these areas; we have strayed far from this ideal, and one day, it will surely bite us (heck, it already has many times, who am I foolin').
Come to India and you'll know the truth.At least we are dedicated and we care for those who are related to us.
I am certain the same can be said of Americans, just as there are, I am certain, in your country, selfish people who couldn't give a d--m about their relatives and relations. This is another human thing, not tied to any particular nationality, race, or whathaveyou.
You, Americans let off your children into the wild when they are born.You stop supporting them for education when they turn 15.
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And what children you have -- they say they'll call the cops if you even hit them jokingly! They don't care about their parents. Oh parents who have actually never brought them up and never supported them. yeah, i realize why they wanna call the cops 
Not quite sure how to respond to this; child abuse isn't a joking matter. That isn't to say that informed children couldn't make their parents lives a living nightmare with one call to child protective services; all it takes in some cases is a simple accusation (but what the children rarely figure on is that they end up "in the system" - foster care - where sometimes, unfortunately, REAL abuse occurs).
Ugly all around...
Sure, Mr. cr0sh, you got shot for that.Up your a## and out from your mouth, the bullet went.
Maybe, maybe not - depends on how far outside of town you were, if you knew what you were doing, what you were doing, etc; by the time anyone cared or got there, you were probably long gone. I have yet to read anything about such incidents; that doesn't mean they didn't occur. It was an analogy, possibly a poor one at that.
Anyone has something to suggest about that DTMF thing?
I would suggest you contact a local ham operator or group; just about any data transmission on any "free" bands is likely either "illegal" or not advised for one reason or another (and I have heard that the hams will find you - or at least the balloon, I suppose). If you don't care about legalities, then you might as well use a shortwave transmitter/receiver set anyhow; you won't be able to get the distance otherwise.
You're already fighting a near lost cause with your budget limitations anyhow...
Good luck.
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