the stray dog
with half-a-coconut
suppose a stray dog comes across a full coconut what will it do ? nothing.
now present him with half a coconut and see the response.
well; i am talking here of a dehusked coconut with only the shell on. when it is a full coconut nothing attractive is visible to the doggie and he will leave it alone. my cousin the chimp has got the faculties to visualise the kernel inside and that it is edible and he can even fabricate tools to extract it and consume it - i am not very sure whether coconut kernel is such a delicacy for chimpu and whether he will bother to take pains to get at the kernel rather than hunt a monkey or so. all the same he can do it if he feels like.
on the contrary in the case of man's best friend the doggie with all his "intelligence" the faculties are very limited and presented with a dehusked coconut the "intelligent" animal will do nothing for obvious reasons.
the response changes if the goverment of the country presents him with half a coconut with the white edible kernel clearly visible and tempting. the problem here is that though the "intelligent" doggie knows that the thing is edible its limited faculties do not allow it to device a method to crack the shell and get at the kernel - unlike the chimp the intelligence agency has no tool making capacity.
however now that his master has presented him with half a coconut the man's best friend will make a sincere effort to get at it. but all that the poor doggie can do is "katichu uruluka". and that is how the phrase " the stray dog with half a coconut " came into being.
incidentally the more "intelligent" jackal also can face a predicament when he comes across a small land turtle that lives in the freshwaters of this locality. " kurukknu karamaye kittiya pole". but we will stick on to the doggies story.
the blackberry ban ?
the news of the purported ban on RIM was splashed recently over the media. the reason was that the spies were not being allowed access to the server of the blackberry.
now who is this charan ? he is a plain clothes policeman. and what are the credentials of this chap? what are her moral standards? the answers to such questions are very obvious.
i am supposed to be having the facility to dial any telephone number in any country from my home telephone - that was there from the very beginning mid ninetees onwards; but i make such calls only very infrequently. few days back i tried dialing an outside number. here it is done by dialing two zeros initially followed by the country code and the number.
well, the moment i key in two zeros the system will come up with a response that the number is not valid and i am not allowed to proceed further. so even though the telephone company had allowed me the international call facility ( dial 124xxxx0 it is accepted) in practice i was not allowed to do so.
i made a hue and cry about it and ultimately that aspect has taken care of - there is no message on dialing two zeros that it is an invalid number. however i am not very sure that i will be able to make an international call when i need to for i dont think it will be right dialing an outside number and once it starts ringing cutting off the line just to check the funny ernakulam telephones is at their gimmicks some other way.
all the same there is a new development following my above complaint - even when i block the std calls to other cities i am allowed to make a call or "send" a fax to thiruvananthapuram.
these are just a couple of examples of all sorts of gimmicks going on on the phone connection of mine. i feel what is going on on the communication systems is akin to what the proverbial dog does with the half coconut.
now present him with half a coconut and see the response.
well; i am talking here of a dehusked coconut with only the shell on. when it is a full coconut nothing attractive is visible to the doggie and he will leave it alone. my cousin the chimp has got the faculties to visualise the kernel inside and that it is edible and he can even fabricate tools to extract it and consume it - i am not very sure whether coconut kernel is such a delicacy for chimpu and whether he will bother to take pains to get at the kernel rather than hunt a monkey or so. all the same he can do it if he feels like.
on the contrary in the case of man's best friend the doggie with all his "intelligence" the faculties are very limited and presented with a dehusked coconut the "intelligent" animal will do nothing for obvious reasons.
the response changes if the goverment of the country presents him with half a coconut with the white edible kernel clearly visible and tempting. the problem here is that though the "intelligent" doggie knows that the thing is edible its limited faculties do not allow it to device a method to crack the shell and get at the kernel - unlike the chimp the intelligence agency has no tool making capacity.
however now that his master has presented him with half a coconut the man's best friend will make a sincere effort to get at it. but all that the poor doggie can do is "katichu uruluka". and that is how the phrase " the stray dog with half a coconut " came into being.
incidentally the more "intelligent" jackal also can face a predicament when he comes across a small land turtle that lives in the freshwaters of this locality. " kurukknu karamaye kittiya pole". but we will stick on to the doggies story.
the blackberry ban ?
the news of the purported ban on RIM was splashed recently over the media. the reason was that the spies were not being allowed access to the server of the blackberry.
the indirect corollary is that the spies ( a better word is "charan" that is the malayalam for spies) have got complete freedom over the servers of all the telecommunication systems in the country.
now who is this charan ? he is a plain clothes policeman. and what are the credentials of this chap? what are her moral standards? the answers to such questions are very obvious.
the charan with half a coconut
i am supposed to be having the facility to dial any telephone number in any country from my home telephone - that was there from the very beginning mid ninetees onwards; but i make such calls only very infrequently. few days back i tried dialing an outside number. here it is done by dialing two zeros initially followed by the country code and the number.
well, the moment i key in two zeros the system will come up with a response that the number is not valid and i am not allowed to proceed further. so even though the telephone company had allowed me the international call facility ( dial 124xxxx0 it is accepted) in practice i was not allowed to do so.
i made a hue and cry about it and ultimately that aspect has taken care of - there is no message on dialing two zeros that it is an invalid number. however i am not very sure that i will be able to make an international call when i need to for i dont think it will be right dialing an outside number and once it starts ringing cutting off the line just to check the funny ernakulam telephones is at their gimmicks some other way.
all the same there is a new development following my above complaint - even when i block the std calls to other cities i am allowed to make a call or "send" a fax to thiruvananthapuram.
these are just a couple of examples of all sorts of gimmicks going on on the phone connection of mine. i feel what is going on on the communication systems is akin to what the proverbial dog does with the half coconut.
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here is the sent report of a fax that i have sent from my home machine using my home telephone connection. and this fax message was transmitted to the number in thiruvananthapuram when my telephone was allowed only local calls!
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| From jyothi valayil |
it is a machine generated report and there is no way i can fiddle with it; all the same my previous experience is that there is no certainty that the message has reached the addressee - it may or may not have depending on the whims of the pimp who is on "security" duty on my communication system at that moment.
incidentally once the so called "sending" ( it was over in just 32 sec) was finished the machine came out with an error - the print cartridge on the right is not the one meant for the machine - i had set the machine to print a sent report once a message was sent.
i got the point - it was an original hp cartridge, but the pimps do not want the sent report printed, for "security" reasons. ( dont be surprised - the power supply to my residence was cut off from 2100 hrs to 0400 hrs the next morning again for security reasons that was not over here but in this very same "democracy" ).
well i pulled out the telephone cable, opened the cartridge door and removed the black listed cartridge, shut down the machine. restarted the machine and when it asked me to close the cartridge door i inserted the cartridge and closed the door and all went ticky ticky boo boo- the same cartridge was found normal by the machine this time!
it is an hp machine and not a pimp and has got enough memory to remember not only the last transaction but even far more and all i had to do was ask it to print the last transaction and the report is here.
i got the point - it was an original hp cartridge, but the pimps do not want the sent report printed, for "security" reasons. ( dont be surprised - the power supply to my residence was cut off from 2100 hrs to 0400 hrs the next morning again for security reasons that was not over here but in this very same "democracy" ).
well i pulled out the telephone cable, opened the cartridge door and removed the black listed cartridge, shut down the machine. restarted the machine and when it asked me to close the cartridge door i inserted the cartridge and closed the door and all went ticky ticky boo boo- the same cartridge was found normal by the machine this time!
it is an hp machine and not a pimp and has got enough memory to remember not only the last transaction but even far more and all i had to do was ask it to print the last transaction and the report is here.
given below is a copy of the page referred to in the sent ok report shown above and you can access a copy of the same letter in html at the link google doc below. i splash all the documents i have sent all over the web in the hope one of them might be available in the public domain - just in case.
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