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Slashback: Heat, Thought, Time
It's the incredible edible, heavy-investment waffle double gainer! steevo.com writes: "Intel has decided to stay with Rambus. Say it ain't so! Details are at C-NET.
Time was when ... wilkinsm writes: "When I tuned my shortwave to 5 Mhz today, I learned that NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) is currently doing a open survey on the time and frequency user community. I encourage all of you unix admins that use the network time protocol to show your support and fill the online survey out."
Has the code been tossed out with the bathwater? nonAI writes: "The Israeli company, which promoted a competition against an AI, closed its gates, as reported by an Israeli economic magazine (sorry, babelfish doesn't help). That's the end for the Child Machine HAL."
Now imagine you know of a freewheeling, opinionated discussion board ... Wael Islam, a member and volunteer with IslamWay.com, writes with some words on the objections B'nai Brith Canada raised to postings on IslamWay's message boards.
"In IslamWay.com discussion board we've more than 4000 Member and at the time of the media attack there was more than 28,000 posts!! Bnai Brith didn't only take one of the posts, but even took a statement out of context to prove that IslamWay.com is a terrorist website! ...
... The discussion post was between two people who were fighting each others by words, one called the other one that you are a hypocrite, so the other one was very angry so he told him - I'm just giving the meaning- : Let's see who is the hypocrite, Come with me to Afghanistan and let's train ourselves there .. so the person meant that army exercises will be a way to prove who is the coward and who is the brave!"
The people who attacked IslamWay.com based on the Discussion Board post didn't clarify that it was mentioned in the discussion board, and they just said a post on IslamWay.com."
Of course, we could require that all public communications be approved in advance, licensed, and inoffensive.
Please resume watching your educational audio-visual materials. echoSpades writes: "I guess I wasn't the only one to be annoyed with Apple's DVD playback. Apple's website has a small text link to info about a class action suit against them: 'There is a proposed settlement of a class action lawsuit against Apple Computer, Inc. involving issues with DVD playback in earlier models of the Apple iMac DV, iMac DV SE and Power Mac G4 computers."
Like anything the whole has to be judged as a whole. But non-violence and no peace with non-muslim's is very superficially evident. From the Koran:
Al-Maidah 5:33*The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger,
and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: *execution,
or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides*,
or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy
punishment is theirs in the Hereafter;*
Al-Maidah 5:51 O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends
and protectors: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he
amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah
guideth not a people unjust.
(be tolerant?)
Sura At-Tawba 9:29 Fight those who believe not in God nor the Last Day, nor hold that
forbidden which hath been forbidden by God and His Apostle, nor acknowledge
the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until
they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
(People of the Book refers to the Jews, the forbidden includes alcohol)
Sura At-Tawba 9:30 The Jews call 'Uzair a son of God, and the Christians call Christ the
son of God. That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate
what the unbelievers of old used to say. God's curse be on them: how they
are deluded away from the Truth!
(curse upon Jews & Christians who won't covert)
Sura At-Tawba 9:38 O ye who believe! what is the matter with you, that, when ye are asked
to go forth in the cause of God, ye cling heavily to the earth? Do ye prefer
the life of this world to the Hereafter? But little is the comfort of this
life, as compared with the Hereafter.
(suicide or extreme risk of death in the name God)
Sura At-Tawba 9:39 Unless ye go forth, He will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put
others in your place; but Him ye would not harm in the least. For God hath
power over all things.
Those who wish to research further can do so at http://www.al-quran.org.uk