Well obviously there are atheists in Pakistan (I know some myself)... but I am not sure if there is a punishment per se. I mean, if I understand our convoluted law correctly, there is no punishment of being of a different religion outright, but conversion is... forbidden.
Also, I don't think most people here get what atheism is in the first place, I mean, I have heard such things as "... we must protect Pakistan from the atheist jewish conspiracy!!!111"
I would love to see meet this "conspiring atheist jew", sounds like an interesting combo.
But doesn't fish carry it's own headaches? I am referring not only to mercury related problems that eating fish might cause, but also the other pollutants that we dump and get in to the fish's diet.
Frankly, to take a cynical view, nothing in is unaffected. I believe even those organic/farm-range/fishries stuff is also, possibly unintentionally, polluted.
Secondly Mr. Bilour is trying to distract people from the fact that he has nearly ruined Pakistan Railways (deliberately, I might add, since it competed with his family transport business of buses and trucks, of which he himself owns around 500)
So if I were you, I would ignore his ramblings, he has no credibility left.
As the Resident Pakistani Slashdotteur (lol a la francaise), allow me to elucidate.
Frankly, our dear PM is pulling a Kirchner. You might be wondering, what the hell does the Argentine President have to do with this? The answer is: both pull-out totally unrelated issues to hide the real deal. For Kirchner it's the Falklands, for our dear prime-minister, its the religion card.
The economy is in the shitter, our PM raison d'etre is to prevent our president from being jailed (no really, that is why he was appointed, to continue the job when the court dismissed the other one for doing the same), people are jobless, we have rolling blackouts, and the government is doing literally nothing except scheme to extend their reign.
So when your popularity is below that of a rabid dog, you will clutch at straws. And how nice of the US to provide some.
Fear not, this is just hot air, our PM will just bark out popular sentiments, and ride out the wave. And when his popularity graph is high, and people have been sufficiently distracted from the fact that people are summarily shipping their entire frikin' factories en masse to such *backward* locations as Bangladesh and Kenya, they will go back to saving the President from the Swiss courts.
(I have lived in Kenya ['94-'99], best fucking place in the universe, everything I have ever learnt, I owe it to my black, christian, teachers there. They knocked into me my habit of reading, and I can't thank them enough)
Look, we know the real deal, we know that the Friday holiday (with conveniently down cellphone networks) was not about protesting, it was for their thugs to have a grand loot.
Our *democracy* is a farce, our people are intentionally being kept illiterate by feudal lords (best thing India ever did was to eliminate the landlord system).We have no fucking clue what the hell is going on.
Like my MNA (representative), he has never shown his bloody face in my area (he is being implicated in a drug scandal, btw), but was here on friday to hold up the road (he held a rally in the friggin' crossroads! which I don't blame him, since we don't actually have open spaces or parks...) To remind us he was a full blooded Muslim, and thus we should vote for him, er.. DOWN WITH THE INFIDELS!
So please, please, don't associate us with our damn politicians. We didn't elect them, we can't control them, we don't even know them.
As the joke goes, we have three type of people in Pakistan: Those who are too poor to move abroad, those who who are tying to move abroad, and those who have come back from abroad to rule the roost.
By the way, I suggest y'all hop by/r/pakistan (and/r/islam for that matter) sometimes. Come to the dark side, we have nihari:P
(Oh, and dear slashdot, please support character accents, or my french teacher will hang me from the university lamppost:P)
You Yanks fear the word "socialist" so much you spend far more to get rid of it!
You're parroting a commonly held misconception about how politics in the United States works. Firstly, your elected representatives come from more than two parties; Your voters have a wider diversity of candidates to choose from, and are less apt to vote along party lines. This also spreads out the concentration of money paid to your elected representatives by private interests. Put more simply, it's harder to buy legislation in your country. As well, the disparity between the rich and poor is far less pronounced. This results in your legislators being more likely to represent the actual will of the people, rather than the apparent or manufactured will.
WOW! I didn't know Pakistan was *this* awesome! YAY! I fucking love my country! Let's burn some embassies in pride:p
Ah, Sorry for the snark, it just that your first paragraph made me chock on my tea (oh, and you owe me a keyboard )
BTW, if you assumed me to be a Britisher due to my qualification, (a fair mistake) allow to inform you that that shit is everywhere. Heck I made a map of all the countries with an ACCA exam centre (I am a bored, bored soul) : http://i45.tinypic.com/1zd8c5k.jpg
I agree with your points, and I think a clarification is in order on my part.
Look, as an objective outsider, I was merely looking at merits of this problem, I do not have any affiliation with either side of the debate.
I understand the merits of this case: the US values *time* factor in the health equation far more than the *cost* factor; American would rather pay A LOT(even take out a loan) to get *prompt* healthcare, rather than pay nothing , or a little...and die in the queue.
But that doesn't mean that a certain mid point *can't* be reached. A lot of the so called socialist countries aren't all that socialised when it comes to medicine (not every country is a Nordic, after all).
Look at the *socialised* medicine in, say, Netherlands and Germany, for example. To sum it up *broadly*, you still pay, just that the state helps out a bit, either subsidising the amount, or spreading it over time, mandatory insurance, or some other trick. All it does it is help you when you are down, so you can worry about payment at a more opportune time, when you are healthy.
However, basically, the problem is that that mid-point comes under the definition of "socialism" and since socialism is evil... you do everything in your power to stay away from that balance point.
Basically, Americans are paying for the *privilege* of *not* having socialised medicine, and paying for it through the nose. Take *Obamacare* for example; the name itself is a reminder of the fact, that, never mind the merits of this act, Americans were actually *insulted* by the idea!
Hence my recommendation; if you *are* going to provide a social service, don't do a half-arsed job of it. Just do the damn thing already, and and do it good. Once you get over the phobia of socialism, then you can get to providing a service that's both competitive *and* cost-effective.
(And you are socialist anyway, from my POV, after all, you provide unemployment benefits of some sort, that's already a *evil* socialist aspect!)
You know, I was reading an article where it stated that socialised medicine would cost *less* than what what it costs to run Medicaid and Medicare (on a per person basis)
You Yanks fear the word "socialist" so much you spend far more to get rid of it!
Spoiler: The short answer: The U.S. mostly lets in family members of people who are already in this country. Other developed countries focus much more on letting in workers.
Get the faulty keyboards that are thrown away by offices in Dhaka etc from the local recycler (or offices themselves). Give them to kids to manual practice the first couple of training sets (asdf jkl; etc). When ever slots have opened up on functional machines, and the kids have done their manual tests, promote them to those empty slots for practical training and testing.
The benefit of the faulty keyboards will be that by the time kids move up to the functional slots, they will have gained some muscle memory advantage. Plus the fact that the keys will be faded will be an extra advantage, it will eliminate the crutch of hunt-and-peck;P
People from the 3rd world, who are still stuck on 2G-2.5G networks and want a nice device that does smart without the resource hungry part that comes with it.
For example, I bought a Samsung Galaxy Mini[1] because that was what I could afford. I bought it so I could use it as an occasional camera, surf the college Wifi if need be, use it as an ebook reader on the go, have a handy dictionary, and use it as a GPS tracker (these are my most often used apps on it; and I don't even use the WiFi and GPS so much, mostly a bookworm, so FBreader it is)
Point being, my needs are simple, yet need a smart phone for it (feature phone don't do it all). Yet despite having only a few apps, I am constantly running out of battery and worse, memory! Not the SD Card, the inbuilt memory, somehow google keeps using it up. And it's slow. Android is awesome on GB/GHZ plus hardware, but doesn't do modest hardware well.
Now say Firefox comes with OS that provides an upgrade from feature phones so that I can use the occasional Smart app, but over all runs resources like a feature phone, I think it will have a market. Oh sure it won't run HD videos or play high end games, but that's not what people like me are looking for either.
Which is why Jolla is starting with China for it's Meego phones, and Mozilla is looking at Brazil for Firefox OS. It's stupid to start with modest specs in the US, where the demand is for high-end, but it is equally stupid to push stuff that runs on high end on modest spec (and price!) phones that are in demand in other markets.
(Warning, long ass post, I will try to put a tl;dr if I can)
I face the same bullshit in my country's politics, oh it's not us, it's the foreign secret agencies, our unfriendly neighbour countries that want to occupy us, the evil western countries whose aid we will still take, the global jewish conspiracy, it's everything else EXCEPT us that's wrong...yeah right.
Seriously, the day we admit this is the day we can start fixing it. (Admitting is the first step to recovery....)
First of all, my background. As my sig says, I am a student of accountancy, so as far away from the typical linux and computer sciences/programming as you can get. When I was in highschool, I was browsing the interwebz randomly one day, and came across this product called "Ubuntu" that was all in rage over the forums for some reason.
I googled for their website, and came across this product called "Hoary Hedgehog" (5.04, incase you are wondering). I said weird name, never mind I have windows, these crazy computer geeks and their crazy Finnish OS. I would have ignored it except for a link that said they would send linux CDs, for *free!*, to me. ( I am in a 3rd world country, and dialup was what I had back then, so the concept of downloading and testing couldn't possibly have crossed my mind) I said, what the heck, wouldn't hurt, and applied. Surprise Surprise, when Canonical actually send me five of those things! (and for which I am deeply grateful to Canonical)
Actually ten CDs, five installers and five "live-cds", I kept one setand passed the rest to my friends and the computer science teacher in my school. I don't know about the teacher, but I know none of my friends actually ever used them.
But I did. You see, I was insanely curious. I tried this "live CD" thingie, and despite the fact that the modem didn't work, the sound didn't work, a zillion things didn't work, I was still impressed by it to actually go ahead and install it! I didn't for the life of me know how drives worked in linux, and had never partitioned a drive in my life, but googling around, I understood how the SDA system works, and actually installed the damn thing! (oh and this was in the days before the graphical installer, I had to face this crazy command prompt interface, but damn it, come hell or high water, I was going to install the darn thing, and I did!)
That day and this day, I have never had a computer in which there wasn't a linux dual-boot of some kind.
But I have never kept any *one* linux install for more than an year either. And neither have I have I moved to linux completely even for my casual work.
Clearly something must be wrong. It's not like I don't like linux, or I wouldn't be installing it to every computer my family has, nor I would always be keeping a live-usb by me at all times.
I never blamed linux when I couldn't play mp3, or the sound didn't work for some weird reason, or the modems didn't work, or flash didn't work... I never blamed for problems that were caused by others not sharing code, drivers whatever.
I also never blamed linux for *not* having a feature in the first place, after all, you are giving me this gift free of charge, it's not my place to look a gift horse in the mouth.
I don't mind it asking to use the console, I understand that command prompt is a good way to effortless get data or implement instructions *exactly* as they should happen, and that GUIs can become cumbersome whilst troubleshooting. I perfectly understand, and this has made me learn quite a few commands and appreciate a lot of console-only programs, some of which have become my favourite (htop and bmon come to mind as my install-first-before-anything-else tools)
I don't mind linux is not flashy, given that I purposely go to "windows classic" mode on any windows I use, I prefer function over form anyways. I am also forgiving of the hodgepodge of GTK and QT based GUIs, if it can give me the certain functionality, I couldn't give a damn whether it looks like a duck or a swan.
My point was these "Cutting Sword of Justice" felt like one of those "Distribute the oil wealth"! sort of groups, and I was telling *them* that there is only one country who has successfully managed to attain equality despite having oil, and that's Norway. *ALL* others have failed by one degree or another (so don't expect Saudi to act as norway blah blah)
And then I went on to a ramble about how Norway attained this.
Funnily it has modded (Score:2, Troll) I could understand Offtopic, but troll? weird... (maybe I should have written my comment better...)
Oh and to answer your specific point, I wasn't implying a govt was behind this, It's clear from the weird name that a vague group is behind it.
No wonder Doctors are so much in demand in the gulf; they are getting so fat that they are getting diabetic!
I have seen kids who were wider than they were tall. And this is not one or two kids, this was a surprising high number (though thankfully not the majority...yet).
I know people say Americans are fat, and they might be, but you need to go to the gulf to see it it's full awful glory. Qatar is especially hit bad (I think in a recent ranking it came number one)
I know people say ""just you wait when the oil runs out" but they mean more towards the terror financing and what not; I genuinely fear for their lives, they are amorphous blob of flesh with NO skills. Things will be bad for them when oil money is not their to grease their slide.
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Well obviously there are atheists in Pakistan (I know some myself) ... but I am not sure if there is a punishment per se. I mean, if I understand our convoluted law correctly, there is no punishment of being of a different religion outright, but conversion is... forbidden.
Also, I don't think most people here get what atheism is in the first place, I mean, I have heard such things as "... we must protect Pakistan from the atheist jewish conspiracy!!!111"
I would love to see meet this "conspiring atheist jew", sounds like an interesting combo.
But doesn't fish carry it's own headaches? I am referring not only to mercury related problems that eating fish might cause, but also the other pollutants that we dump and get in to the fish's diet.
Frankly, to take a cynical view, nothing in is unaffected. I believe even those organic/farm-range/fishries stuff is also, possibly unintentionally, polluted.
First of all:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/24/pakistan-disowns-minister-100000-bounty-on-anti-islam-film-maker/
Secondly Mr. Bilour is trying to distract people from the fact that he has nearly ruined Pakistan Railways (deliberately, I might add, since it competed with his family transport business of buses and trucks, of which he himself owns around 500)
So if I were you, I would ignore his ramblings, he has no credibility left.
As the Resident Pakistani Slashdotteur (lol a la francaise), allow me to elucidate.
Frankly, our dear PM is pulling a Kirchner. You might be wondering, what the hell does the Argentine President have to do with this? The answer is: both pull-out totally unrelated issues to hide the real deal. For Kirchner it's the Falklands, for our dear prime-minister, its the religion card.
The economy is in the shitter, our PM raison d'etre is to prevent our president from being jailed (no really, that is why he was appointed, to continue the job when the court dismissed the other one for doing the same), people are jobless, we have rolling blackouts, and the government is doing literally nothing except scheme to extend their reign.
So when your popularity is below that of a rabid dog, you will clutch at straws. And how nice of the US to provide some.
And then our leaders will conveniently realise they are Muslims, and suddenly act all pious. The bastards, even the president of Uruguay is more muslim than you!
Fear not, this is just hot air, our PM will just bark out popular sentiments, and ride out the wave. And when his popularity graph is high, and people have been sufficiently distracted from the fact that people are summarily shipping their entire frikin' factories en masse to such *backward* locations as Bangladesh and Kenya, they will go back to saving the President from the Swiss courts.
(I have lived in Kenya ['94-'99], best fucking place in the universe, everything I have ever learnt, I owe it to my black, christian, teachers there. They knocked into me my habit of reading, and I can't thank them enough)
Look, we know the real deal, we know that the Friday holiday (with conveniently down cellphone networks) was not about protesting, it was for their thugs to have a grand loot.
And our dear blasphemy law, you think non-muslims are the only target? It's a very convenient law to eliminate people you don't like, muslim or non-muslim (like the poor building owner, who was *turned* in by his non paying tenant...)
Our *democracy* is a farce, our people are intentionally being kept illiterate by feudal lords (best thing India ever did was to eliminate the landlord system).We have no fucking clue what the hell is going on.
Like my MNA (representative), he has never shown his bloody face in my area (he is being implicated in a drug scandal, btw), but was here on friday to hold up the road (he held a rally in the friggin' crossroads! which I don't blame him, since we don't actually have open spaces or parks...) To remind us he was a full blooded Muslim, and thus we should vote for him, er.. DOWN WITH THE INFIDELS!
So please, please, don't associate us with our damn politicians. We didn't elect them, we can't control them, we don't even know them.
As the joke goes, we have three type of people in Pakistan: Those who are too poor to move abroad, those who who are tying to move abroad, and those who have come back from abroad to rule the roost.
By the way, I suggest y'all hop by /r/pakistan (and /r/islam for that matter) sometimes. Come to the dark side, we have nihari :P
(Oh, and dear slashdot, please support character accents, or my french teacher will hang me from the university lamppost :P)
After all, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
They are Swiss, I am sure their watches are both ever running and ever correct :p
How do I become a member? Do they offer newsletters I could subscribe to?
You Yanks fear the word "socialist" so much you spend far more to get rid of it!
You're parroting a commonly held misconception about how politics in the United States works. Firstly, your elected representatives come from more than two parties; Your voters have a wider diversity of candidates to choose from, and are less apt to vote along party lines. This also spreads out the concentration of money paid to your elected representatives by private interests. Put more simply, it's harder to buy legislation in your country. As well, the disparity between the rich and poor is far less pronounced. This results in your legislators being more likely to represent the actual will of the people, rather than the apparent or manufactured will.
WOW! I didn't know Pakistan was *this* awesome! YAY! I fucking love my country! Let's burn some embassies in pride :p
Ah, Sorry for the snark, it just that your first paragraph made me chock on my tea (oh, and you owe me a keyboard )
BTW, if you assumed me to be a Britisher due to my qualification, (a fair mistake) allow to inform you that that shit is everywhere. Heck I made a map of all the countries with an ACCA exam centre (I am a bored, bored soul) : http://i45.tinypic.com/1zd8c5k.jpg
I agree with your points, and I think a clarification is in order on my part.
Look, as an objective outsider, I was merely looking at merits of this problem, I do not have any affiliation with either side of the debate.
I understand the merits of this case: the US values *time* factor in the health equation far more than the *cost* factor; American would rather pay A LOT(even take out a loan) to get *prompt* healthcare, rather than pay nothing , or a little...and die in the queue.
But that doesn't mean that a certain mid point *can't* be reached. A lot of the so called socialist countries aren't all that socialised when it comes to medicine (not every country is a Nordic, after all).
Look at the *socialised* medicine in, say, Netherlands and Germany, for example. To sum it up *broadly*, you still pay, just that the state helps out a bit, either subsidising the amount, or spreading it over time, mandatory insurance, or some other trick. All it does it is help you when you are down, so you can worry about payment at a more opportune time, when you are healthy.
However, basically, the problem is that that mid-point comes under the definition of "socialism" and since socialism is evil... you do everything in your power to stay away from that balance point.
Basically, Americans are paying for the *privilege* of *not* having socialised medicine, and paying for it through the nose. Take *Obamacare* for example; the name itself is a reminder of the fact, that, never mind the merits of this act, Americans were actually *insulted* by the idea!
I feel this comic might sum it up: http://satwcomic.com/the-end-of-america
Hence my recommendation; if you *are* going to provide a social service, don't do a half-arsed job of it. Just do the damn thing already, and and do it good. Once you get over the phobia of socialism, then you can get to providing a service that's both competitive *and* cost-effective.
(And you are socialist anyway, from my POV, after all, you provide unemployment benefits of some sort, that's already a *evil* socialist aspect!)
You know, I was reading an article where it stated that socialised medicine would cost *less* than what what it costs to run Medicaid and Medicare (on a per person basis)
You Yanks fear the word "socialist" so much you spend far more to get rid of it!
Ask Ben Heck to make you one :P
http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/09/ben-heck-splits-and-condenses-a-pair-of-xbox-360-controllers-for/
Stop with the lumping, dammit.
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/righteous/stories/hardaga.asp
http://www.chron.com/life/houston-belief/article/Exhibit-honors-Muslims-who-saved-Jews-1610225.php
An analysis of whom the US lets in, versus other countries (Short article, has two infographics):
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/08/27/160110929/immigration-who-the-u-s-lets-in-and-why
Spoiler:
The short answer: The U.S. mostly lets in family members of people who are already in this country. Other developed countries focus much more on letting in workers.
I was just reading this article:
http://numbermonger.com/2010/12/07/should-accountants-be-required-to-code/
SQL, here I come! (or not, still have my homework to do... :P)
Get the faulty keyboards that are thrown away by offices in Dhaka etc from the local recycler (or offices themselves). Give them to kids to manual practice the first couple of training sets (asdf jkl; etc). When ever slots have opened up on functional machines, and the kids have done their manual tests, promote them to those empty slots for practical training and testing.
The benefit of the faulty keyboards will be that by the time kids move up to the functional slots, they will have gained some muscle memory advantage. Plus the fact that the keys will be faded will be an extra advantage, it will eliminate the crutch of hunt-and-peck ;P
Actually It's blocked:
http://i46.tinypic.com/byhx.jpg
You are looking for the Pixelated Mask/Balaclava
http://www.martinbackes.com/new-artwork-pixelhead/
One with a person actually wearing it:
http://www.thelocal.de/society/20120823-44537.html
People from the 3rd world, who are still stuck on 2G-2.5G networks and want a nice device that does smart without the resource hungry part that comes with it.
For example, I bought a Samsung Galaxy Mini[1] because that was what I could afford. I bought it so I could use it as an occasional camera, surf the college Wifi if need be, use it as an ebook reader on the go, have a handy dictionary, and use it as a GPS tracker (these are my most often used apps on it; and I don't even use the WiFi and GPS so much, mostly a bookworm, so FBreader it is)
Point being, my needs are simple, yet need a smart phone for it (feature phone don't do it all). Yet despite having only a few apps, I am constantly running out of battery and worse, memory! Not the SD Card, the inbuilt memory, somehow google keeps using it up. And it's slow. Android is awesome on GB/GHZ plus hardware, but doesn't do modest hardware well.
Now say Firefox comes with OS that provides an upgrade from feature phones so that I can use the occasional Smart app, but over all runs resources like a feature phone, I think it will have a market. Oh sure it won't run HD videos or play high end games, but that's not what people like me are looking for either.
Which is why Jolla is starting with China for it's Meego phones, and Mozilla is looking at Brazil for Firefox OS. It's stupid to start with modest specs in the US, where the demand is for high-end, but it is equally stupid to push stuff that runs on high end on modest spec (and price!) phones that are in demand in other markets.
[1]: http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_mini_s5570-3725.php
Indeed.
Here is a youtube video that explains this in simple terms:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PifL8bAybyc
(Warning, long ass post, I will try to put a tl;dr if I can)
I face the same bullshit in my country's politics, oh it's not us, it's the foreign secret agencies, our unfriendly neighbour countries that want to occupy us, the evil western countries whose aid we will still take, the global jewish conspiracy, it's everything else EXCEPT us that's wrong...yeah right.
Seriously, the day we admit this is the day we can start fixing it. (Admitting is the first step to recovery....)
First of all, my background. As my sig says, I am a student of accountancy, so as far away from the typical linux and computer sciences/programming as you can get. When I was in highschool, I was browsing the interwebz randomly one day, and came across this product called "Ubuntu" that was all in rage over the forums for some reason.
I googled for their website, and came across this product called "Hoary Hedgehog" (5.04, incase you are wondering). I said weird name, never mind I have windows, these crazy computer geeks and their crazy Finnish OS. I would have ignored it except for a link that said they would send linux CDs, for *free!*, to me. ( I am in a 3rd world country, and dialup was what I had back then, so the concept of downloading and testing couldn't possibly have crossed my mind) I said, what the heck, wouldn't hurt, and applied. Surprise Surprise, when Canonical actually send me five of those things! (and for which I am deeply grateful to Canonical)
Actually ten CDs, five installers and five "live-cds", I kept one setand passed the rest to my friends and the computer science teacher in my school. I don't know about the teacher, but I know none of my friends actually ever used them.
But I did. You see, I was insanely curious. I tried this "live CD" thingie, and despite the fact that the modem didn't work, the sound didn't work, a zillion things didn't work, I was still impressed by it to actually go ahead and install it! I didn't for the life of me know how drives worked in linux, and had never partitioned a drive in my life, but googling around, I understood how the SDA system works, and actually installed the damn thing! (oh and this was in the days before the graphical installer, I had to face this crazy command prompt interface, but damn it, come hell or high water, I was going to install the darn thing, and I did!)
That day and this day, I have never had a computer in which there wasn't a linux dual-boot of some kind.
But I have never kept any *one* linux install for more than an year either. And neither have I have I moved to linux completely even for my casual work.
Clearly something must be wrong. It's not like I don't like linux, or I wouldn't be installing it to every computer my family has, nor I would always be keeping a live-usb by me at all times.
I never blamed linux when I couldn't play mp3, or the sound didn't work for some weird reason, or the modems didn't work, or flash didn't work... I never blamed for problems that were caused by others not sharing code, drivers whatever.
I also never blamed linux for *not* having a feature in the first place, after all, you are giving me this gift free of charge, it's not my place to look a gift horse in the mouth.
I don't mind it asking to use the console, I understand that command prompt is a good way to effortless get data or implement instructions *exactly* as they should happen, and that GUIs can become cumbersome whilst troubleshooting. I perfectly understand, and this has made me learn quite a few commands and appreciate a lot of console-only programs, some of which have become my favourite (htop and bmon come to mind as my install-first-before-anything-else tools)
I don't mind linux is not flashy, given that I purposely go to "windows classic" mode on any windows I use, I prefer function over form anyways. I am also forgiving of the hodgepodge of GTK and QT based GUIs, if it can give me the certain functionality, I couldn't give a damn whether it looks like a duck or a swan.
And I realise t
Yeah, well...
Iceland ain't right :P
http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_lumia_920_with_pureview_and_820_wp8_devices_leak-news-4729.php
http://xkcd.com/932/
I’ve come to the conclusion, that CmdrTaco just doesn't give a shit. (Guess even he considers the site not worth the effort anymore. :/)
Yeah... I heard he hasn't even come to office for the past year....
au fromage :P
(But yes, I remember the Dexter's lab episode, and Parent is *ON*topic)
My point was these "Cutting Sword of Justice" felt like one of those "Distribute the oil wealth"! sort of groups, and I was telling *them* that there is only one country who has successfully managed to attain equality despite having oil, and that's Norway. *ALL* others have failed by one degree or another (so don't expect Saudi to act as norway blah blah)
And then I went on to a ramble about how Norway attained this.
Funnily it has modded (Score:2, Troll) I could understand Offtopic, but troll? weird... (maybe I should have written my comment better...)
Oh and to answer your specific point, I wasn't implying a govt was behind this, It's clear from the weird name that a vague group is behind it.
No wonder Doctors are so much in demand in the gulf; they are getting so fat that they are getting diabetic!
I have seen kids who were wider than they were tall. And this is not one or two kids, this was a surprising high number (though thankfully not the majority...yet).
I know people say Americans are fat, and they might be, but you need to go to the gulf to see it it's full awful glory. Qatar is especially hit bad (I think in a recent ranking it came number one)
I know people say ""just you wait when the oil runs out" but they mean more towards the terror financing and what not; I genuinely fear for their lives, they are amorphous blob of flesh with NO skills. Things will be bad for them when oil money is not their to grease their slide.