@FaheemMitha I guess if it gets politician's attention, and they do something. Does India not have lower courts? Or do things like that just start at the Supreme Court?
You can file in the Supreme Court w/o first having a lower court hear it? That's different than I'm used to with ours, which generally only has appellate jurisdiction.
It depends on the serious and urgency in part, I guess.
But India doesn't have great communication. That holds true generally.
So often it's not clear why people are doing things.
There are other petitions and stuff being filed too. Multiple ones in the Bombay High Court, for example. Which happens to be walking distance from me. Indian courts are really depressing places.
@FaheemMitha Yeah, you have to go to a lower court first here. Then generally you'd go to an appellate court or few before trying for the Supreme Court.
I was just talking to someone who said he knew one of the people. Staying in his building, apparently.
Apparently it was completely out of the blue. He didn't have a heart condition or anything. Neither of those men did, apparently. And the first one was at the same protest on Monday as I was. Did I mention that?
He went home and died, basically.
I only went to it because the court is really close to me. It's like, round the corner. I could walk there, though I didn't.
It's wasn't a fun time. There were several hundred very upset people standing outside in the blazing hot sun. Yelling and screaming.
I did meet a chap who said he works as a web developer. The usual vile PHP/Wordpress crap. Used to live in the US - Silicon Valley, I think. Came back home to Bombay.
I tried to get him to help me with my 2FA phone issue.
LibreOffice puts a big bar up top saying its read-only (no idea if OpenOffice did, or why you'd still be using OpenOffice). It's also Edit -> Edit Mode (checked)
Possibly. Anyway, what I meant was cartoony wasn't literally a cartoon, but unrealistic.
In the case of Indian civics, extremely unrealistic, to the point of almost no resemblance with reality. Like in the US, Indian politicians ignore the law when it suits them, but they carry it to greater extremes.
And the whole checks and balances thing doesn't work terribly well over here.
India has been relatively lucky so far in that they haven't experienced a truly vicious government. It remains to be seen how it survives 5 more years of Modi.
For example, the Central Govt recently forced the Reserve Bank of India to give it much of its capital reserve, despite much protest, and two Governors resigning.
This is unprecedented.
They need that reserve for national emergencies. The Reserve Bank is India's last defense against economic disaster.
I've always found the Economist a reliable judge of economic matters.
(That's satire, in case, that's not obvious.)
I remember back in the day, it was applauding Reaganomics.
Their diagnosis in a nutshell: it's all in your head.
In case it isn't obvious, part of the reason the Center wanted the money was to bail out banks, which were going bust because they were issuing bad loans to rich people. Possibly friends of Modi.
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That's all conjecture, of course. But it seems likely that one of the things (and possibly the only thing) that stops an Indian Pakistan war is the United States. And that's just one example that I happen to be personally familiar with.
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People in the USA are mostly proud of their country and will happily refer to themselves as "we" while still disliking the government. The US is a concept, the government is a temporary group of people we elect to hate.
Most people in the military are legitimately so patriotic they would serve for free. Can't (wont) say whether or not a lot of them seem to be detached from reality though.
If you want become an officer and they will send you to college (I believe only at one of the military colleges) if you sign like a 12 year contract
But that is a hard program to get and also most people that become officers have already graduated college. Almost everyone without college will be enlisted
@FaheemMitha Well everyone that serves in the military and gets an honorable discharge* can get the GI bill so it is definitely true to say that anyone who serves in the military can have free college
@derobert I don't doubt it and couldn't really argue anyway. I only know the size of the Marine Corps when I was in for sure...and even then I didn't personally count them
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