The new Indian Cyber law for Facebook and Twitter

Pune, India: The ministry of communications and information technology has proposed a new bill that would govern the behaviour of Facebook users. With Facebook occupying an increasingly significant role in our everyday lives, cyber regulation is becoming more important than ever.

"Absence of regulation leads to undesirable behaviour" said Kapil Sibal, minister for communications & IT. "Hence it is very important to monitor the online behaviour of Indians, especially of those under 25. The status messages, photos, liking, sharing patterns etc would be closely scrutinised. For instance, under the new bill, using 'ma' instead of 'my' would be a punishable offence. People having status messages like 'am driving ma i10 with ma dog, ma and mama' would attract a penalty of Rs.2000 or a prison sentence of upto 1 month or both. People are under the illusion that using 'ma' instead of 'my' is cool and fashionable. It is just meaningless, absurd and an unhealthy behaviour."he added.

There are many provisions in the new bill which have been described as draconian by Facebook activists. For eg:- According to one of the provisions of the proposed bill, displaying frivolous status messages too often like 'on ma way to the toilet', 'attending nature's call', 'nature gave a missed call' etc can attract a penalty of Rs.1500. Liking one's own status message is also a cognisable offence. So, if you update your status message to 'Bored :( :( :(' and like it, an FIR could be filed against you. Liking a girl's status message without proper justification could lead to a sentence of 1 year as it amounts to 'culpable liking not amounting to voyeur'. Kapil Sibal added: "The Pak foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar had updated her status message, a few hours back, to 'Damn tired', which attracted 174 likes and 100+ comments most of them from Indians like N.D.Tiwari, S.M.Krishna, Virat Kohli, Swami Nithyananda,Yuvraj Singh etc. This is an offence according to the proposed bill."

Discrimination based on gender while liking status messages, photos etc is also a punishable offence. The government has also planned to approach Facebook with a request to cap the number of likes that a girl gets for her status message to 5% of her number of friends. For eg: A girl with 500 friends cannot get more than 25 likes for her status message. Also any girl who gets less than 1% likes would be recognized as socially poor and would be eligible for below poverty line benefits. Another clause in the bill specifies that a boy commenting "awwww choooo cuteeee" when a girl uploads a pic with a puppy or a kitten can lead to 3 months imprisonment while sending a friend request to any female can attract huge fine up to Rs. 1000 or imprisonment up to 1 month.

Pushing aside arguments from critics that these provisions infringe upon the right to freedom of speech and expression, Kapil Sibal said: "What nonsense? You cannot do anything in the name of freedom of speech. Online behaviour has to be regulated. Voyeur is voyeur, regardless of whether you follow a girl physically or on twitter. So even following a girl on twitter is punishable."

The Legen-dary Bazinga!

Never before in the history of television have two such entertaining, yet completely similar, characters been on air at the same time.

I’ve never heard of them. Tell me more.

Set in a predominantly scientific show, Sheldon Cooper - played by Jim Parsons - from The Big Bang Theory is a quirky theoretical physicist with multiple degrees and possibly the highest IQ since Einstein. However, this substantial knowledge leaves him with a complete lack of social skills and failure to comprehend humour. The producers of the show build on this, and his emotional ineptitude is the subject of many jokes and frequently comes to the fore in serious situations. Contrary to his on-screen persona, Jim Parsons is a very amicable person and was even voted as friendliest in his high school.

The exact opposite of Sheldon Cooper - if such a thing were possible - would be Barney Stinson, brought to life by Neil Patrick Harris of Doogie Howser fame. From the globally popular How I Met Your Mother, Stinson is the stereotypical ‘ladies man’ with over 200 (yes, two hundred!) physical encounters to his name. Handsome, confident and always “suited up,” Barney claims to have only one rule to life. Trick is that it changes to accommodate the situation at hand. Neil is an amateur magician in real-life, and lends this skill to Barney Stinson as a way to woo women. But he is gay in real life and is now engaged to his partner David.

What is so interesting about them?

While Barney, unlike Sheldon, is capable of emotions, demonstrated as he admits his feelings for Robin (the sweetheart of the show), he does not seem to feel sorry about one-night stands, which appear to be a daily occurrence. He has a standard printed apology letter with blanks where he writes the name of the female friend of the night, and leaves for her to read when she awakens. Where does he get the energy for all this? Well, Neil drinks so much Red Bull on and off the set, that the company has given him a lifetime supply and a mini-fridge as a token for his free advertisement.

Sheldon, on the other hand, seems to have absolutely no interest in females (or males, for that matter) and does not believe in love. His female counterpart Amy is similar, though she does give in to “biological urges” from time to time. Sheldon and Amy are a perfect match according to the dating website Sheldon’s friends found her on. But their relationship is purely platonic. Between them, they often crack jokes which one  needs a scientific background to grasp. Their sense of humour is very different from normal human beings. Jim, like Neil, also allegedly swings the other way, and is said to be engaged to his long-time partner, Todd. It seems Jim and Neil have more in common than we thought.

Barney is shown to be struggling with father issues, and hence directs all his love towards his mother. He wants her to be happy, and to that end even hires a professional actress and child actor to convince her he has a family. Similarly, Sheldon finds recluse from certain situations in the affection of his doting mother. He respects her wishes and does not go against them. His relationship with his father is never discussed, but it is known that both have a temper.

So why should I watch both shows?

Both Barney and Sheldon have a central group of friends around whom the shows revolve. Neither is considered a protagonist, but they are the central sources of humour. The shows are set in completely different backgrounds, and hence humour in one show does not match the other. But despite this, these two characters have managed to form huge fan bases, even sharing a large number of fans.

Sounds interesting. What should I expect?

Because of the large appeal of these two characters, both have started trends across the world. Sheldon’s own brand of humour is very sadistic, and his punch-line ‘bazinga!’ has achieved a Facebook page of it’s own. On the other hand, Barney’s “true story” line, which immediately succeeds a completely ridiculous and unbelievable story, has also gathered many fans and is now in common use.

Neil Patrick Harris has won a number of awards for his role, including three Emmys and two Golden Globes. Jim Parsons has also won two Emmys and a Golden Globe, among others. Both characters are exceptionally portrayed, and it would be a shame if you aren’t already watching the shows. But regret not, there is time to catch up!


Bazinga, that's How I Met Your Mother.

-Burrp

What is called subconscious mind?

Have you ever felt that this thing which is happening in front of you has happened before?  or I have seen this picture before?

It happens quite a few times you get such an experience. This is because of the data stored in your subconscious mind.
Normally, if you tend to forget something...it isn't permanently deleted from your brain. But in fact it is stored in your subconscious mind! The subconscious mind is like a Recycle Bin which is never emptied. When someone reminds of something that you have forgotten, you try to recollect it from the subconscious mind. Then the transfer of data begins from the subconscious mind to your conscious mind. Interesting? If not then you may stop reading.
For the first time when you tried to learn balancing a bicycle, you may have found it very difficult and you needed full concentration. But once you learn how, can you ever forget it in your lifetime? No. Because it is stored in your subconscious mind. As days progress you may ride a bicycle even when you are talking on a cellphone, even when your concentration is on the caller. Then too you manage to ride the bicycle with least of your efforts. This is because the program to ride the bicycle is stored into you subconscious mind and it is controlled by the subconscious mind. Another interesting fact is that "Subconscious mind gets programmed by repetition and not on logic". You may consider the above example of riding a bicycle.
It wound be very interesting to know that the subconscious mind even controls the most vital functions of our body such as breathing, heart beats, etc. Now when you hear the word breathing you become conscious and the program for breathing gets transferred from your subconscious mind to your conscious mind and it becomes a voluntary action. Even the dreams which you get is controlled by the subconscious mind. Dreams don't come from anywhere they are fragments of your subconscious mind. When you watch a horror movie probably you may get dream that night based on the movie characters, which you weren't getting until that night. The subconscious contains up to 90% of brain's data. Thats the power of subconscious mind!

In this above image you may see the part of the rock that is above the water is our conscious mind while the part that is submerged is the subconscious one! It is up to you how can you use more out of your subconscious mind.

Only this much for now. I will write probably in my next post when I do a little more research on it. Drop your comments below. They will be highly appreciated.

Thanks for reading
Rajesh Krishnan

hot blooms.............................VOLCANOES

Itz really very exciting to share some facts about volcanoes............ we all know the basic birth of
volcanoes,these are vents or pressures in the earth's crust through which magma is forced on to the surface as lava they occur most commonly along the boundaries of crustal plates ; most volcanoes lie in the belt called "the ring of fire",which runs at the end of the pacific ocean.Most volcanoes occur where two plates meet. When two plates move apart causing a gap, hot molten rock - called lava - rises up between them. This type of volcano occurs on the ocean floor and is mostly invisible. If the amount of magma is large enough, it rises above the surface of the ocean and an island is created.If two plates collide and one plate is forced beneath the other plate, the friction makes the first melt and magma rises up. Only a few volcanoes on earth are formed like this, but their eruptions are the most violent and dangerous ones. The reasons why a volcano forms may be:
•due to plumes or hot spots in the lithosphere
•as a result of subduction of the nearby lithosphere
INDONESIA IS A COUNTRY where most of thr volcanoes occur ,the geography of Indonesia is dominated by volcanoes that are formed due to subduction zones between the Eurasian plate and the Indo-Australian plate.
About 95% of active volcanoes occur at the plate subduction zones and at the mid-oceanic ridges ,the other 5% occur in areas associated with lithospheric hot spots.The volcanoes are more dangerous and wildest thing of our nature it may be due to the fact that we are using many of the poisonous gases and polluting into nature which is causing such an big destruction in the form of volcanoes, so i am here just to aware ALL OF U in this world make sure to save our nature by reduction of usage of these harmful gases.............

Hi all

This is my first posting on this blog. I'm very much excited after setting this up. Now I plan to write on some topics which I feel I can literate people with. Awww... its an awesome experience.

Maybe I will fair well and grab a good audience, or maybe not. But I will always be glad that I took this step forward and published this blog up.

What to write on? Is making my mind restless. But don't you worry "All iz well" and I think that I my brain is trained enough to come up with something original that can be inked over here.

Your comments are most appreciated.

Thanks

Rajesh Krishnan