[risk]

Thanks for persisting in correcting my mistaken view of the "table" notion. It looks like... THEY WAFLED!

[RightWingAtheist]

Thanks, and for what it's worth, I am on your side in this thread's main argument :).

I'm surprised no one has yet noted one of the big reasons for the Indian sci-tech boom: a move away from the command economy and a bigger emphasis on free-market policies over the past twenty years. This was also the main reason that Ireland became the "Celtic Tiger" of European R & D.