Biological War - More Dangerous Than Nuclear Weapons

After the nuclear warfare, the most powerful warfare is the biological warfare. This type of war fare is used far before the invention of nuclear bombs. Though there was not much technology to invent new type of virus in those times, they still were successful to harm the enemy by using whatever was existing. The major form of biological warfare used to be poisoning the water sources where the enemies have possibilities to use them; and then using microorganisms, toxins or animals in a weapon system and by using biologically inoculated fabrics. It was aid that the enemies who were imprisoned during a war were used to conduct experiments by the prevailing scientists at that time. Imagine throwing 1000 persons in a small dump where there will be hardly any place to stand and then throwing terrific toxins or virus on them.

In the biological warfare they use pathogens like bacterium or virus or any kind of toxins as weapons. The main thing that makes the biological warfare more powerful than nuclear war is that it won’t kill a person at once. It starts eating the inner or the outer matter slowly making the death more devastating.

We had probably heard a disease called Anthrax in recent times. Well even that falls in this category.

The Composition of American Population

The current population of America is 307,159,987. It is growing and growing at a decent pace. You can imagine when I say the birth rate is too high, and there is a birth in every 7 seconds. It would say (despite of my Irish roots) it could be because of immigrants. They come for education, jobs and in search of business opportunities. The population might eventually come close to being under control and more people may get better job opportunities and further education. For example, the students in university from USA, like myself, have better chances for job opportunities and better education.

There is a growing discussion about the immigrants or the foreign born nationals in America after the polls. The Blacks, Hispanics, Caucasians, Asians and people from middle-east, there are many races or sections of people who are in US making it a true modern nation, which give fair chance to everyone irrespective of their nativity and race.

Art Groups Hit Hard By the Economic Downturn

Arts are always secondary for the people and this is the one, which easily gets affected if there are any economic issues.

The economic downturn has affected the Arts group, which made them short in the strength of numbers - forming alliances, pooling resources, networking and accommodating one another’s diminished circumstances.

The economic issues caused artists to work together, which makes them to be supportive to one another. Artists need to put in their efforts to be creative in these tough times. Sometimes bringing together all the arts groups, does not really work out. But this kind of atmosphere causes a kind of motivation, which becomes a kind of cooperation that works for both artists’ benefit and also the public.

Almost all the Arts groups with no profits have become the victims of loss in their endowments and had to start the efforts to cope up with situation.

How effective are free machinery translations?

I believe that there are a very few people in the world who don’t like the word ‘FREE’.

However, free are not effective in all the cases. One of them is translation.

The major barrier for globalization used to be geographical areas, which we were able to conquer with invention of many tools and vessels like ships, airplanes, telephones and the mighty Internet. The next barrier is obviously the language. However, we have English serving as global language, but it cannot be as effective as maternal language, all the times. This constantly gave rise to the concept of translations.

Majority of translation used to be a paid service, in its early days. But after the invention of computers and its applications, we have many tools that could translate automatically. Language is not a straight forward entity and thus it cannot be translated as effectively by machines as it is done by humans. If you can compare a machinery translation with a manual translation, you will be able to notice that some thing is missing in the prior one. It is obviously the life in language.

Planning A Holiday through Internet

We spent a lot of time and money in planning a holiday. Sometimes, we face few problems despite of planning. We forget to pack few pairs of clothes, forget to check the arrangements beforehand and many more. Due to lack of planning and pre-preparation, we make more mistakes in making the trip memorable. It is better to plan the vaccination before three months.

Iraqi Troops Face Rise in Prescription Drug Abuse

The Iraqi troops are now facing the new problem of prescription drug abuse. The present position in Iraq is still worse; and even with the assistance of US army they still sees the position uncontrolled.

They mostly use these to control their fear, stress and tension during duty hours. They find the pills very helpful in their duty and find it hard to sign in without their pill popped.

As we know these people are not allowed to use alcohol or drugs during their duty hours and they will be fired if they were found abused. They find prescription drugs very good alternative for these. These abused prescription drugs mostly involve tranquilizers, painkillers and other drugs, according to the doctors and other health specialists.

The most common drug abused here seems to be the Artane which is used to treat Parkinson’s disease. This drug gives euphoric effects when used in high doses.

Buying a Home in 2009: Good or Bad?

People are in a big dilemma to choose between buying a home or not.

This has started with the recession that broke out, and washed away all the soaring real estate prices. Now whatever prices existing out there in the industry are tempting people to become home owners.

At the same time they have these problems like job security, consumer confidence, plummeting businesses, and many more factors which are threatening from getting into buying a home.

Prices in 20 major cities of US were estimated to have fallen by around 18 percent. What this means is that you can buy a home in these cities to a price which you could have bought in the year 2004. The prices are tempting people towards buying a house.

At the same time there are some analysts who say that prices might still fall to lower number than what it is now. And this means you are draining away your money, into something which is not worth it.

This is a big confusion out here. If any body can help please let me know.

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OLPC: Reducing Size by Half

It is not a tech company or an auto company to have struggled the economy crisis. It was meant to serve a big purpose. An extremely bigger task, as big as building a Pyramid again. But it could not resist the recession taking over it.

The One Laptop Per Child project has announced that it is going to reduce its size by half if the present size.

“It pains me to post this”, their blog says, “we have striven to avoid this over the past few months, but it is unavoidable”.

The situation is similar with many of the charity projects out there. They find it hard to look out for sponsors or donors to help them achieve their targets.

Their targets may look reasonable before the crisis started. These targets were created for those times. But for now, the situation has changed. All those targets seem to be impractical and unachievable.

Beautiful Roses: Let Them Welcome Your Guests

If you have some empty place around your house (around your compound only; nor neighbor’s) and you want to make good use of it, just plan fro some good Home Garden.

Home garden is not just for people with a big lawn in front of their house. If you have space around your house, and a heart kind enough to help existence of plants in this polluted world, then you are eligible enough to be a plant owner.

Since you can’t grow an Apple Orchard within the little place you have, plan for something small but pleasant.

I recommend growing Rose plants; because they grow well even in difficult conditions and blossom almost incessantly from frost to summer. You will have hardly any mess with the plant and what is great is that Rose flowers are most good-looking, pleasant-smelling flora from the entire flower kingdom.

You can have two rose plants on the two sides of your doors (only if the location can provide sufficient air and sunlight), welcoming your guests with their gentle smile.

How Does Information Explosion Impact Us?

We have excess information, these days, available through many resources. As we are in information age, excess of information is always helpful for us to standout in the present day competition.

But we are hearing a lot about Information Explosion these days. If excess of information is so helpful and so useful why use the word Explosion? It shows that there is a negative impact of so much availability of information. And as the people of Information age it is our responsibility to know it.

Excess of information has pushed the evolution of another virtual world called the Electronic World. There are many people in the world who use their physical world just to carry out some routine jobs like eating, sleeping, etc.

There is no regulation of excess of information been produced everyday. If people are not confident of the information source, it is never used. But still adds up to the quantity of the information. It is like dumping your litter in your own house everyday.