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Pratikone's SMS---Simple-Mobile-Slave at master - GitHub. Are we taking the Road to Serfdom? - The Economic Times. Nov 6, 2010, 05.05am IST By Prerna Anand The reference, of course, is to the timeless classic by Nobel prize winning economist Fredrich A Hayek, Road to Serfdom, first published in 1944 in the United Kingdom. At first glance it seems like a small book, easy to read and easier to forget. But Hayek's creation serves as a fundamental inspiration for all libertarian movements and gains additional salience in the context of today's Tea Party movement in the US, which articulates an intense revolt against what is seen as the ever-increasing domination of the state over social life, of the kind against which Hayek warned in his classic.

The Tea Party movement does not, of course, reflect any deep intellectual persuasion, but its scepticism of the corporate state derives intellectual support from Hayek. The book continues to be significant for everyone, right from policymakers to someone taking an 'Economics for Dummies' course. Is India really headed towards serfdom? Home. Five tips to make your bash life easier | Five Tips | TechRepublic.com. A number of tricks and shortcuts can save you time and keystrokes when you're using bash to knock out various chores.

Here are five handy tips to get you started. Bash is that tool in *NIX-land that you're really only thankful for when you need it. Of course, most people don't realize it, but that's most of the time. So many things in *NIX-land depend upon bash. The command line is the biggie. But you wouldn't be pulling off fantastic shell scripting if it weren't for bash. 1: Use aliases An alias is a shortcut for a command that's challenging to type (or to remember). 2: Use bash history This one is so fundamental that people often forget it's even there. 3: Pipe output One of the bash tricks I use daily is piping output of one command through another. 4: Join commands Instead of running . . Of course, since running make install most often requires root privileges, you'll have to run all three with sudo or after issuing the su command. 5: Outfox those spaces rm -rf "My Folder" rm -rf My\ Folder.

Wiki Free Projects. Google Translate for Animals. Step 1: How to begin On your Android phone, go to Android Market and search for “Translate for Animals” to download the app. Step 2. Opening the app Once the app is installed, touch the “Translate for Animals” app icon from the handset’s main menu to open it. Step 3: Selecting your animal to translate Once the app has opened touch the ‘translate from’ box. You will see a drop down menu open up. Choose from cat, dog, bird, rabbit, guinea pig, hamster, tortoise, horse, chicken, sheep, donkey, and pig.

Pro Tip: As a general rule the higher up in the food chain an animal is, the better a communicator it will be. (Herbivores and omnivores are not known for their linguistic ability. Aerial Virtual tour of New York. Panorma in flash. Rohit Kulkarni: The Last Question. Guest@xkcd.