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Murdoch-Microsoft Deal In the Works
Hugh Pickens writes "The Financial Times reports that Microsoft is in discussions to pay Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, owner of newspapers ranging from the Wall Street Journal of the US to The Sun of the UK, to 'de-index' its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry. Microsoft is desperate to catch Google in search, and, after five years and hundreds of millions of dollars of losses, Bing, launched in June, marks its most ambitious attempt yet. Microsoft's interest is being interpreted as a direct assault on Google because it puts pressure on the search engine to start paying for content. 'This is all about Microsoft hurting Google's margins,' said the web publisher who is familiar with the plan. 'It's easy to believe that [Microsoft] may spew senseless riches into publishers' pockets, radically distorting the news market, just to spite Google,' writes Rob Beschizza at BoingBoing. 'Murdoch could be wringing cash out of a market he knows is doomed to implosion or assimilation. And he doesn't even have to be an evil genius, either; he just has to be smarter than Steve Ballmer.'"
> The difference is that the Daily Show and Colbert Report are both more
> entertaining are more accurate...
I.e., more in line with your politics.
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Mod parent up, PLEASE!
I too have taken an interest in Islam. It is the only major religion I know that literally promotes genocide, hatred, subjugation and warfare. There is no talk of peace, only conquer.
I'm not justifying anything. I'm pointing out that history is bloody no matter what part of the world you come from and to blame modern Muslims for the sins of tribal Arabs is to blame modern Hindus the sins of the Vedics (Hanibal didn't invent the war elephant.) And if you think that the Han Chinese came to dominate interior china without ethnic based war and rape, you're mistaken.
I've read a bit of tribal history. The Aja sold war captives to white slave traders. Traditional headhunting and cannibalism in the Guinea highlands. I already touched on the fact that the Jewish holy texts espouse cultural superiority as proven by success in battle. Japan didn't develop a warrior culture because they have always been peaceful rice farmers.
You're clearly delusional about history. Cesar's goal wasn't peace. It was power and tribute. Same for every conqueror. While peace lasted it was great, but no empire was ever built by mutual consent. Various Caesars massacred all manner of slaves, barbarians, dispersed the jews and all other manner of atrocities. Here's one of Charlemagne massacres. I'll call bullshit on Jew's "forgetting" their history. Hanukkah celebrates a military victory, passover the death of all first born Egyptians (which even if they didn't *do* it - they prayed for it and revel in the death of other innocents.)
Jesus didn't build a nation. The popes built the closest thing to a christian nation, and they gave us the crusades. Hare Krishna, isn't a person, it's 45 year old movement (among other things this proves you don't know what you're talking about.) There has never been a Buddhist nation. Bushido venerates combat, and the naturalistic Japanese Shinto have waged war more or less continuously against the Koreans and Manchurians.
Yes there are muslims perpetrating unspeakable horrors in Sudan, but for every Darfur, there's a Rawanda, where the unspeakable horrors are committed on behalf of other nationalized tribal groups. With 1.6 billion Muslims - some conflicts are bound to contain them.
I'm feeding a troll here, but not only are you biased, you use your bias to draw a conclusion before examining the evidence. Not only do you not know your history, you can't tell the difference between arguing in favor of violence and pointing out that violence (and it's glorification) isn't uniquely Muslim. Are you American? How do you defend the genocide of America's native people? How do you defend slavery allowed America to emerge as the industrial power that it is today? If you're not American please, give me your country of origin (and religion if applicable) so I can tailor my questions to your country's history - I guarantee it's not spotless - and venerates some violent individuals.