Most of the horrendous violence unleashed by various Christian sects of the centuries occurred before the advent of bombs, but if you want to talk about the cost:benefit ratio, the Christians have caused far more deaths in the name of their religion than the Muslims. Islamic terrorism is largely a result of a particular brand of fundamentalism unleashed in the 20th century. The Christian history of mass atrocity goes back centuries.
If you're asking which is objectively worse, I'd direct your attention to the genocide of every indigenous culture in South America, explicitly in the name of Christianity, as only one example of many that make Christianity objectively worse over the course of the last several hundred years. The Muslims are going to have to step their game up to even be in the same league.
You overlook the single most important difference between Muslim fundamentalists and Christian fundamentalists. The Christians don't feel compelled to conduct bombings etc in order to make political or religious points - they're still largely in charge of the political machinery. There's no point conducting mass action terrorism when you can rely on your political institutions to more or less protect your rights.
The day American Christian fundamentalists start feeling like a true oppressed minority, is the day they stop shooting abortion doctors one by one and instead turn to mass bombings.
Of course, it doesn't help us with the Muslims when they actually participate in the political system fairly and then we all cheer when they get dethroned in a coup that we would condemn in a second if the government were anyone but fundamentalist Muslims. Now that we've proven to them that the democratic system actually doesn't work, I expect them to turn to more direct methods.
Fundies are fundies, and their tactics differ largely only in how much power they have.
I'm very honest and direct with the people who work with and for me. And yet magically I'm not an asshole like Linus. If you're incapable of delivering an honest and direct message without abusing people, then you're a shitty human being.
Honest and direct: "This is not good enough. The logic is flawed and the code is sloppy. Go back and do it again". Asshole: "How fucking stupid do you have to be to write something like this crap".
Sevier claims that his addiction started when he “accidentally” replaced the “a-c-e” in Facebook with a “u-c-k.” Sevier said this F***book site “appealed to his biological sensibilities as a male,” and he started to prefer the images on the screen to his own wife.
Man, that happens to me all the time. One time, I reached for the skim milk and accidentally drank a 40oz bottle of vodka.
Another time, I was making a peanut butter sandwich and accidentally injected heroin into an artery.
Wait, so you think that the details of legal (your presumption in this case) intelligence gathering operations should somehow be "transparent"?
How exactly do you imagine that working?
There of course needs to be government/legislative/judicial oversight, but by definition successful covert intelligence operations can't be transparent to the general public.
If I could, I would repeal the internal combustion engine, for it has lead to the scourge of drunk driving which claims thousands of lives a year. Sure, people claim that the infernal explodo box is valuable because it makes possible the rapid transport of people and goods around the world, but won't someone think of the children?
I always love how people simultaneously believe that the NSA is so technically brilliant that it can collect and analyze every message sent by every random person on earth, but also so stupid that they name their secret backdoor key _NSAKEY.
No, the poster is correct. Obviously, the Brazilian government holds to the same school of thought as the US government. It's not unlawful/un-Constitutional if we do it because of the current scary and propaganda-hyped boogeyman-du-jour.
Civil rights are taking a beating everywhere these days along with those advocating for them, it seems.
Without talking about what the US government is doing, I would just point out that what is nonsensical in the original post is that monitoring what people say on Twitter isn't "wiretapping" any more than reading what you chose to post on this forum is "wiretapping".
Civil rights may well be under attack, but not by people looking at a Twitter or Instagram stream, looking for comments about where protests are being held.
Oh good grief. They didn't declare Iceland to be "terrorist".
They used a law called the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act (note how two of those three things aren't "terrorist") to freeze the assets of an Icelandic bank branch in the UK. They did so under provisions of the law that involve preventing actions harmful to the UK economy.
One can certainly question whether this was warranted or not, but it had nothing to do with terrorism. Nice try though.
I was an immortal for a long time on a MUD and this never happened. We were very careful who became an immortal (i.e. not everyone who reached max level) and none of us except the creators had any kind of filesystem access. I had access to the build system and immortal game mechanics, but you'd have to be an idiot to give everyone who reached max level access to your code base.
While I agree with the sentiment, part of the problem is that it now takes hundreds of people to create the current semi-static MMO environment and keep it running while occasionally adding new content. To create the kind of constant-flux world environment you are talking about would be at least an order of magnitude harder, what with the need to be constantly adjusting everything for the new realities on the ground. It would be astronomically expensive to build and maintain, and I can't begin to imagine the nightmare that would be QA testing.
I can't imagine what you'd have to charge monthly to maintain such a world, while competing with free-to-plays.
Modern MMOs try to sell themselves as "fully immersive", but just try running out of the battlefield area once... flashing red lights and your character either explodes, or magically teleports. Very realistic... I know that when I make a wrong turn in my car, if I don't make a u-turn in the next 60 seconds, my car explodes and the police are sent out to pick up little bits of me splattered all over the roadway and other drivers.
You have to remember that the average MUD usually had a few dozen, or maybe a few hundred, people playing at any one time, and the "world" was very small. If something was happening in Market Square, everyone would pretty much know about it.
However, there are literally millions of people playing the big MMOs, spread across huge game areas. A GM could be taking over a well known MOB 24/7 in Ironforge and most people would never know it.
Besides, the reason the admin taking over a character was amusing was because the non-existent mob AI sucked so much, it was just refreshing to actually interact with a non-player character.
So here we are with the "Mother of all bunnies" kicking it in Market Square. About 30 regulars on the MUD logged in and grouped up with this guy. Market Square is only a couple of spaces from where you come back when you are killed. We attacked. Tanks dropped many times. I died 3 or four times and even lost a full level. At the end we all dropped out of the group and let the guy fight while we kept him healed the last few seconds. Bunny died. He leveled a few times and we all have a story that we can remember for multiple decades.
You wont get that from ANY MMORPG out today.
Except that almost never happened. And anyone who ever saw Stitches trained into Goldshire in early WoW thinks that story sounds kind of lame by comparison.
I was an admin on a MUD for about a year and sure, I could whip something like that up on the fly. You know why? Because there was fuck all AI and nothing meaningful behind a mob other than a couple of stats.
But as far as gamepay went, MUDs were 100% grinding for experience, but where they shined was social and PVP. I've never seen an MMO clan that was as close as my old MUD guild. And the PVP was only really more memorable because in general you knew every single regular on the MUD, so it was more meaningful to defeat them because you knew you'd see them again over and over. PVPing some random dude you'll never see again in WoW is much less satisfying.
But you're deluding yourself if you think the limited gameplay options in MUDs come anything close to what is possible in a modern MMO.
Time for the car analogy, not as reliable as a Porsche or as good looking as a Ferrari nor the space of a Bentley, I need to get my groceries but this must be crap.
And the first time you take it up over 50 the transmission is going to seize up.
In today's life lesson you learn the difference between science which attempts to identify a cause for something and science which attempts to predict a result from something.
This study looked at science about what causes global warming, but what the result of global warming might be.
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Most of the horrendous violence unleashed by various Christian sects of the centuries occurred before the advent of bombs, but if you want to talk about the cost:benefit ratio, the Christians have caused far more deaths in the name of their religion than the Muslims. Islamic terrorism is largely a result of a particular brand of fundamentalism unleashed in the 20th century. The Christian history of mass atrocity goes back centuries.
If you're asking which is objectively worse, I'd direct your attention to the genocide of every indigenous culture in South America, explicitly in the name of Christianity, as only one example of many that make Christianity objectively worse over the course of the last several hundred years. The Muslims are going to have to step their game up to even be in the same league.
You overlook the single most important difference between Muslim fundamentalists and Christian fundamentalists. The Christians don't feel compelled to conduct bombings etc in order to make political or religious points - they're still largely in charge of the political machinery. There's no point conducting mass action terrorism when you can rely on your political institutions to more or less protect your rights.
The day American Christian fundamentalists start feeling like a true oppressed minority, is the day they stop shooting abortion doctors one by one and instead turn to mass bombings.
Of course, it doesn't help us with the Muslims when they actually participate in the political system fairly and then we all cheer when they get dethroned in a coup that we would condemn in a second if the government were anyone but fundamentalist Muslims. Now that we've proven to them that the democratic system actually doesn't work, I expect them to turn to more direct methods.
Fundies are fundies, and their tactics differ largely only in how much power they have.
I'm very honest and direct with the people who work with and for me. And yet magically I'm not an asshole like Linus. If you're incapable of delivering an honest and direct message without abusing people, then you're a shitty human being.
Honest and direct: "This is not good enough. The logic is flawed and the code is sloppy. Go back and do it again".
Asshole: "How fucking stupid do you have to be to write something like this crap".
See the difference?
People talk that way at the office, it's just not openly aired.
If anyone spoke to another person in our office the way Linus does, he'd be taking his teeth home in a paper sack.
Linus has the protection of the intarwebz to prevent him from suffering the natural consequences of treating people the way he does.
Sevier claims that his addiction started when he “accidentally” replaced the “a-c-e” in Facebook with a “u-c-k.” Sevier said this F***book site “appealed to his biological sensibilities as a male,” and he started to prefer the images on the screen to his own wife.
Man, that happens to me all the time. One time, I reached for the skim milk and accidentally drank a 40oz bottle of vodka.
Another time, I was making a peanut butter sandwich and accidentally injected heroin into an artery.
Someone should pay!
Let us know when you figure out a good definition for "non-hostile" and a way to determine which countries are, and will always remain, non-hostile.
Wait, so you think that the details of legal (your presumption in this case) intelligence gathering operations should somehow be "transparent"?
How exactly do you imagine that working?
There of course needs to be government/legislative/judicial oversight, but by definition successful covert intelligence operations can't be transparent to the general public.
If I could, I would repeal the internal combustion engine, for it has lead to the scourge of drunk driving which claims thousands of lives a year. Sure, people claim that the infernal explodo box is valuable because it makes possible the rapid transport of people and goods around the world, but won't someone think of the children?
Life was better back in the day. Bah Humbug.
I always love how people simultaneously believe that the NSA is so technically brilliant that it can collect and analyze every message sent by every random person on earth, but also so stupid that they name their secret backdoor key _NSAKEY.
I'm not sure anyone here can help you with that. Have you considered seeking a sense of humour transplant?
Fork it?
Shame on you for harming future generations of girl coders! I must tweet your picture and publicly shame you!!!!
In this case, they are "wiretapping" in much the same way that I am "wiretapping" the comments on this forum.
No, the poster is correct. Obviously, the Brazilian government holds to the same school of thought as the US government. It's not unlawful/un-Constitutional if we do it because of the current scary and propaganda-hyped boogeyman-du-jour.
Civil rights are taking a beating everywhere these days along with those advocating for them, it seems.
Without talking about what the US government is doing, I would just point out that what is nonsensical in the original post is that monitoring what people say on Twitter isn't "wiretapping" any more than reading what you chose to post on this forum is "wiretapping".
Civil rights may well be under attack, but not by people looking at a Twitter or Instagram stream, looking for comments about where protests are being held.
In this case, the OP if full of shit
Oh good grief. They didn't declare Iceland to be "terrorist".
They used a law called the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act (note how two of those three things aren't "terrorist") to freeze the assets of an Icelandic bank branch in the UK. They did so under provisions of the law that involve preventing actions harmful to the UK economy.
One can certainly question whether this was warranted or not, but it had nothing to do with terrorism. Nice try though.
I was an immortal for a long time on a MUD and this never happened. We were very careful who became an immortal (i.e. not everyone who reached max level) and none of us except the creators had any kind of filesystem access. I had access to the build system and immortal game mechanics, but you'd have to be an idiot to give everyone who reached max level access to your code base.
While I agree with the sentiment, part of the problem is that it now takes hundreds of people to create the current semi-static MMO environment and keep it running while occasionally adding new content. To create the kind of constant-flux world environment you are talking about would be at least an order of magnitude harder, what with the need to be constantly adjusting everything for the new realities on the ground. It would be astronomically expensive to build and maintain, and I can't begin to imagine the nightmare that would be QA testing.
I can't imagine what you'd have to charge monthly to maintain such a world, while competing with free-to-plays.
Modern MMOs try to sell themselves as "fully immersive", but just try running out of the battlefield area once... flashing red lights and your character either explodes, or magically teleports. Very realistic... I know that when I make a wrong turn in my car, if I don't make a u-turn in the next 60 seconds, my car explodes and the police are sent out to pick up little bits of me splattered all over the roadway and other drivers.
You don't play many modern MMOs, do you?
You have to remember that the average MUD usually had a few dozen, or maybe a few hundred, people playing at any one time, and the "world" was very small. If something was happening in Market Square, everyone would pretty much know about it.
However, there are literally millions of people playing the big MMOs, spread across huge game areas. A GM could be taking over a well known MOB 24/7 in Ironforge and most people would never know it.
Besides, the reason the admin taking over a character was amusing was because the non-existent mob AI sucked so much, it was just refreshing to actually interact with a non-player character.
So here we are with the "Mother of all bunnies" kicking it in Market Square.
About 30 regulars on the MUD logged in and grouped up with this guy. Market Square is only a couple of spaces from where you come back when you are killed.
We attacked. Tanks dropped many times. I died 3 or four times and even lost a full level. At the end we all dropped out of the group and let the guy fight while we kept him healed the last few seconds. Bunny died. He leveled a few times and we all have a story that we can remember for multiple decades.
You wont get that from ANY MMORPG out today.
Except that almost never happened. And anyone who ever saw Stitches trained into Goldshire in early WoW thinks that story sounds kind of lame by comparison.
I was an admin on a MUD for about a year and sure, I could whip something like that up on the fly. You know why? Because there was fuck all AI and nothing meaningful behind a mob other than a couple of stats.
But as far as gamepay went, MUDs were 100% grinding for experience, but where they shined was social and PVP. I've never seen an MMO clan that was as close as my old MUD guild. And the PVP was only really more memorable because in general you knew every single regular on the MUD, so it was more meaningful to defeat them because you knew you'd see them again over and over. PVPing some random dude you'll never see again in WoW is much less satisfying.
But you're deluding yourself if you think the limited gameplay options in MUDs come anything close to what is possible in a modern MMO.
Do you hear that sound? It's the sound of everyone, in every government intelligence agency, laughing at you.
Time for the car analogy, not as reliable as a Porsche or as good looking as a Ferrari nor the space of a Bentley, I need to get my groceries but this must be crap.
And the first time you take it up over 50 the transmission is going to seize up.
EA has been putting less than 30 days of work into its titles for years. At least, that's how they feel.
In today's life lesson you learn the difference between science which attempts to identify a cause for something and science which attempts to predict a result from something.
This study looked at science about what causes global warming, but what the result of global warming might be.
Nice strawman there. C02 warming that leads "to the destruction of life on earth' is not exactly the primary concern of most scientists.
There are a hell of a lot of really bad things that can result from C02 warming that don't involve the destruction of life on earth.