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Another Afghan School Poisoned — 160 Girls Hospitalized
An anonymous reader writes "Back in April, we discussed news of an anti-education attack on an Afghani school, which poisoned 150 Afghan schoolgirls. Now, a hospital in the same province has admitted 160 more girls who seem to have suffered a similar attack. 'Their classrooms might have been sprayed with a toxic material before the girls entered, police spokesman Khalilullah Aseer said. He blamed the Taliban. The incident, the second in a week's time, was reported at the Aahan Dara Girls School in Taluqan, the provincial capital. The girls, ages 10 to 20, complained of headaches, dizziness and vomiting before being taken to the hospital, said Hafizullah Safi, director of the provincial health department. More than half of them were discharged within a few hours of receiving treatment, Safi said. The health department collected blood samples and sent them to Kabul for testing.'"
Perhaps you've forgotten the old Slashdot slogan: "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters". This kind of stuff was on Slashdot since before I had a Slashdot user ID.
The thing that's changed on Slashdot is that there are now professional Slashdot astroturfers working for big tech companies.
You know what, I wholeheartedly concur. But before I extrapolate on your wisdom, let me first turn your attention to how I managed to successfully evade a viral attack with the help of an incredible product, MyCleanPC...
No, you have your head in the sand. Read the Qu'ran sometime and some of the other Islamic writings. They demand that Muslims emulate Mohammed, and they go into great excited detail about how Mohammed massacred people who mocked him. See for example Sahi Bukhari :Volume 5, Book 59, Number 443 which describes a massacre in great and gory detail.
The Nazis were stopped because they blatantly violated (nearly) everyone's rules of Universal Human Rights -- so much so that many of their own detested it.
I would have to disagree. After Pearl Harbor, U.S. declared war on Japan, Japan declared war on the U.S., Germany declared war on the U.S. Then the war machine started cranking and the Allies took back Europe. Allies stumbled across concentration camps, and the world learned how evil the Nazis really were. We didn't enter WWII because they "violated human rights." We entered because the Axis attacked us.
sudo make me a sandwich
Exactly. I read Slashdot not because I don't care about the non-tech world, but because I don't care about the pointless drivel that fills most "news" sources. I don't care about the some bimbo's annulled wedding, or the color of a pop star's shoes, or the 12 most adorable breeds of puppies. I want to know news about my interests, and things that will have a lasting effect on the world I live in. I want news for nerds and stuff that matters. I read Slashdot.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as menservants do.
Exodus 21:7
And this is hardly the only instance of this sort of sexism in Judaism and Christianity. What's your point?
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And when the priests were finally caught and sent to prison?
Was the reaction the same as when we killed Osama?
Did the Catholics decapitate anyone for saying bad things about the priests?
Did the Christians kill people because they caught the people murdering doctors who perform abortions?
No?
Then there is a fucking difference.
People get murdered for daring to draw a picture of Mohammad.
No one got killed for "Art" that was a crucifix in urine.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
If I had mod points today, I would have modded you up. How does this relate to tech or IT?
Well I have moderator points.. /. is in a word "education".
What this has to do with
The foundations of tech is education and open knowledge.
Those that wage war on education wage war on us all.
In this micro slice of the world that is /. we tolerate a lot. We enjoy rants and debate.
This article shies a light on a part of the world where intolerance is the norm and expected.
Pay attention.... This is important.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. Mark Twain.
Believe it or not, communism does not blatantly violate everyone's rules of Universal Human Rights and so we were kind of lacking on the support and moral high ground for that war.
Not true. To quote from Marx's Communist Manifesto:
[The Communists] openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
In other words, the only way to establish a Communist society is through violent revolution, which inherently infringes on others rights to life and/or freedom. The entire Manifesto is riddled with calls to violent revolution against the existing social order, and every communist society since (that I know of) has begun that way: through violence and bloodshed.
And I'm not even going into the question of whether property is a Universal right (which I believe it is, or at the very least a necessary prerequisite to freedom), which Communism absolutely inherently opposes by its very definition.
"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license." --John Milton
Germany had its economy crushed by the massive reparation payments imposed on it after WWI, primarily at the instigation of the French, as a part of the treaty of Versailles. Inflation and poverty in 20s/30s Germany was horrendous (people wore suits made from re-purposed paper because cloth was too expensive) and the resulting national depression predisposed the German people to radical alternatives. It didn't help that Hitler was a masterful orator with a Reality Distortion Field that would have made Steve Jobs look like Gerald Ford.
Understanding that part of history is why some people worry about increasing wealth separation/concentration within the US and other Western democracies. Some of the 1% appear to think that controlling information media allows them to control the message and direct the building resentment. Others see an increasingly dry plain and fear the spark and the lightning strike will eventually bypass the media firebreak.
Laissez lire, et laissez danser; ces deux amusements ne feront jamais de mal au monde. - Voltaire
Education->Science->Technology
I think it's safe to assume that nerds would support efforts to educate people, and attempts to stop that education.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil