They wanted an Islamic government, and now they have one.
They got what they asked for, but not what they wanted. At that time, they didn't think about any back out or early termination clauses either.
"Every country has the government it deserves (Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite)" -- Joseph de Maistre, Lettres et Opuscules Inédits vol. 1, letter 53, written on 15 August 1811 and published in 1851.
Innocence of Muslims has been on Youtube since JULY.
Why the protests NOW?
From the Wikipedia article:
Videos dubbed in the Arabic language were uploaded during early September 2012,[6] and were promoted by Morris Sadek by email and on the blog of the National American Coptic Assembly.[7] On September 9, 2012, an excerpt of the YouTube video was broadcast on Al-Nas TV, an Egyptian Islamist television station.[8][9] Demonstrations and violent protests against the film broke out on September 11 in Egypt and Libya, and spread to other Arab and Muslim nations and some western countries
Consider carefully the consequences of getting involved with a criminal and nutcase living in a Muslim country who likely has followers in America as well.
In America when someone has a grievance with another party, rich folks sue them or poor folks shoot them. In Muslim countries the preferred method is to accuse the other party of blasphemy, which usually ends up with not so nice consequences for the accused party. The Economist had an interesting article on this: http://www.economist.com/node/21562262
We hear about the Muslim on Non-Muslim blasphemy cases, but there seem to be plenty of Muslim on Muslim cases, as well.
a problem with a religious organization which borrowed my video and redubbed it to promote their religious message
Re-redub their version to make the group's religious message blasphemous to Islamists.
That should eventually take care of your problem, but there may be a wee bit of collateral damage to the rest of the world along the way, like World War III.
No. We are honoring achievements that make people laugh, then think. Good achievements can also be odd, funny, and even absurd; So can bad achievements. A lot of good science gets attacked because of its absurdity. A lot of bad science gets revered despite its absurdity.
On the Earth, no-one can see a "scam" from De Beers.
NASA should hire De Beers as a consultant, and convince the women of the Earth that their men must buy them Moon Rock rings. Tighten demand and fire up demand with rocket engine thrusters.
NASA would have so much money, that we all would be vacationing in their Las Vegas on Mars resort, really soon!
Well, that explains why the rich want to go to Mars . . . it's a tax dodge. Like having an official residence in Monaco, because they have no income tax there. I guess private Cayman Island style asset hiding banks like Julius Baer will be some of the first folks to set up business on tax-free Mars.
It would be good for Amazon, too:
"Pay state sales taxes? No way, dude, we're incorporated on Mars!"
We just need to encourage him to take these folks out on a "hunting" trip.
Actually, I would like to see blatant patent trolling to be treated as a criminal offense. It's a racket, and should be whacked using RICO laws. These folks set up a shell company and sue, sue, sue. One win is enough to keep them going. If these lose big, and the shell company goes bankrupt, they just set up another one and continue.
The problem is differentiating them from legitimate patent suits. Patent lawyers could help to give direction to law makers. But why should they? The make money on both sides of patent troll litigation.
You want to insure that as much as your dollar achieves its intended objective and that you have the ability to (if you choose) to verify the impact. Avoid a national or international blunderbuss -- such an approach scatters your money, creates too much dilution and generally includes excessive overhead.
I'd just like to second that, and stress an important point. Many of these Big Charities spend about half their money on their own administration activities, like expensive lawyer fees. There was an article in The Economist a couple years ago about this. Even reputable charities like the United Way and a Lady Diana Foundation have run afoul of this.
Donating to something where you know the people spending the money personally, will avoid this. And you will have the personal satisfaction of seeing the money put to good use.
Plenty of manpower available for about 5 keyboards. Build a mechanical keyboard with 100 strings attached to students. Each student gets a key. When the learning student is typing on the mechanical keys, the string is pulled, and the key student shouts out his key. Rotate the learning and key students in and out.
No electricity, and it will make learning boring typing a hoot and a half for the students.
Maybe this could be the answer to the Social Security (public pension) funding problem in the US? Hold government IPv4 address auctions? Support those retiring Baby Boomers with IPv4 addresses!
They can "host" a Tea Party on their front lawn, or host a Occupy Lawn! on their front lawn as they damn well please. Around election time, folks in the US put up signs on their front lawns saying "Obama's Cool!" or "Romney Rocks!" No one can force them to put up or take down a sign.
As long as it's not violating any laws, Google can choose to host whatever they want on their YouTube. It's THEIR site and THEIR policy. There is nothing "new" about this. Newspapers have always been free to print or not print what they want.
You want an Islamically Correct video site? Go build one yourself!
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Fractal cows have already been invented: http://mndl.hu/works/fractalcow
Maybe fractal pigs could produce more bacon . . . ?
5) the fact that the universe could smile and say "cheese" so long . . .
They have been doing something similar using the price to Big Macs in various countries to analyze exchange rates: http://www.economist.com/search/apachesolr_search/big%20mac%20index
I guess economists do have a sense of humor . . .
They wanted an Islamic government, and now they have one.
They got what they asked for, but not what they wanted. At that time, they didn't think about any back out or early termination clauses either.
"Every country has the government it deserves (Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite)" -- Joseph de Maistre, Lettres et Opuscules Inédits vol. 1, letter 53, written on 15 August 1811 and published in 1851.
Blasphemy is used to Pakistan to settle scores between feuding parties: http://www.economist.com/node/21562262
He should maybe clean that up first, before trying to impose that on the rest of the world.
Oh, and by the way, being left-handed is also blasphemous in Islam: http://islamqa.info/en/ref/82120
Innocence of Muslims has been on Youtube since JULY.
Why the protests NOW?
From the Wikipedia article:
Videos dubbed in the Arabic language were uploaded during early September 2012,[6] and were promoted by Morris Sadek by email and on the blog of the National American Coptic Assembly.[7] On September 9, 2012, an excerpt of the YouTube video was broadcast on Al-Nas TV, an Egyptian Islamist television station.[8][9] Demonstrations and violent protests against the film broke out on September 11 in Egypt and Libya, and spread to other Arab and Muslim nations and some western countries
Consider carefully the consequences of getting involved with a criminal and nutcase living in a Muslim country who likely has followers in America as well.
In America when someone has a grievance with another party, rich folks sue them or poor folks shoot them. In Muslim countries the preferred method is to accuse the other party of blasphemy, which usually ends up with not so nice consequences for the accused party. The Economist had an interesting article on this: http://www.economist.com/node/21562262
We hear about the Muslim on Non-Muslim blasphemy cases, but there seem to be plenty of Muslim on Muslim cases, as well.
Doesn't mean shit outside the USA.
. . . except in New Zealand. Ask Kim Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel-slash-dot-com.
a problem with a religious organization which borrowed my video and redubbed it to promote their religious message
Re-redub their version to make the group's religious message blasphemous to Islamists.
That should eventually take care of your problem, but there may be a wee bit of collateral damage to the rest of the world along the way, like World War III.
A server is a sort of bulked-up desktop computer, minus a screen and keyboard, that contains chips to process data.
Of course, the balloons do not float like Helium balloons. But if you pop a few of the balloons in a closed room, nobody gives a damn anyway . . .
I didn't hear about his Virgin Fireball project yet.
Was that, by sheer coincidence, around pub closing time . . . ?
but we needed fish or our brains wouldn't develop propery, so we were stuck living near the ocean.
Well, you could need not to live near the ocean, and be stuck without a brain.
Seems to work for me.
From the Ig Nobel FAQ:
Are you ridiculing science?
No. We are honoring achievements that make people laugh, then think. Good achievements can also be odd, funny, and even absurd; So can bad achievements. A lot of good science gets attacked because of its absurdity. A lot of bad science gets revered despite its absurdity.
On the Moon, no-one can hear a "whoosh."
On the Earth, no-one can see a "scam" from De Beers.
NASA should hire De Beers as a consultant, and convince the women of the Earth that their men must buy them Moon Rock rings. Tighten demand and fire up demand with rocket engine thrusters.
NASA would have so much money, that we all would be vacationing in their Las Vegas on Mars resort, really soon!
. . . it's not overeating and lack of exercise. Let's blame the soda can!
It's sure enough easier than convincing people to eat healthy and get more exercise . . .
"It's not my fault that I'm fat . . . I was given too much BPA as a child!"
Well, that explains why the rich want to go to Mars . . . it's a tax dodge. Like having an official residence in Monaco, because they have no income tax there. I guess private Cayman Island style asset hiding banks like Julius Baer will be some of the first folks to set up business on tax-free Mars.
It would be good for Amazon, too:
"Pay state sales taxes? No way, dude, we're incorporated on Mars!"
We just need to encourage him to take these folks out on a "hunting" trip.
Actually, I would like to see blatant patent trolling to be treated as a criminal offense. It's a racket, and should be whacked using RICO laws. These folks set up a shell company and sue, sue, sue. One win is enough to keep them going. If these lose big, and the shell company goes bankrupt, they just set up another one and continue.
The problem is differentiating them from legitimate patent suits. Patent lawyers could help to give direction to law makers. But why should they? The make money on both sides of patent troll litigation.
You want to insure that as much as your dollar achieves its intended objective and that you have the ability to (if you choose) to verify the impact. Avoid a national or international blunderbuss -- such an approach scatters your money, creates too much dilution and generally includes excessive overhead.
I'd just like to second that, and stress an important point. Many of these Big Charities spend about half their money on their own administration activities, like expensive lawyer fees. There was an article in The Economist a couple years ago about this. Even reputable charities like the United Way and a Lady Diana Foundation have run afoul of this.
Donating to something where you know the people spending the money personally, will avoid this. And you will have the personal satisfaction of seeing the money put to good use.
The school has about 500 students
Plenty of manpower available for about 5 keyboards. Build a mechanical keyboard with 100 strings attached to students. Each student gets a key. When the learning student is typing on the mechanical keys, the string is pulled, and the key student shouts out his key. Rotate the learning and key students in and out.
No electricity, and it will make learning boring typing a hoot and a half for the students.
Maybe this could be the answer to the Social Security (public pension) funding problem in the US? Hold government IPv4 address auctions? Support those retiring Baby Boomers with IPv4 addresses!
"Hey, China beat us again!"
"Aw, that ranking doesn't matter anyway . . . who cares . . . ? We're better, like, at, you know, stuff that you can't measure . . . got it . . . ?"
Anyone with an axe to grind and a green screen could have made this.
Yes, but only a real pornographer from the 70's could give it that authentic, sleazy look: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/anti-islam-film-directed-form-hollywood-soft-core-porn-filmmaker-alan-roberts-report-article-1.1160487
It in no way "screams Israel"
Well, in one scene of the film, The Prophet is given a Tabasco enema by "The Satanic Nurses", and he does squeal:
"Oooh! You make me feel so Macho!"
They can "host" a Tea Party on their front lawn, or host a Occupy Lawn! on their front lawn as they damn well please. Around election time, folks in the US put up signs on their front lawns saying "Obama's Cool!" or "Romney Rocks!" No one can force them to put up or take down a sign.
As long as it's not violating any laws, Google can choose to host whatever they want on their YouTube. It's THEIR site and THEIR policy. There is nothing "new" about this. Newspapers have always been free to print or not print what they want.
You want an Islamically Correct video site? Go build one yourself!
. . . left by an Apple employee in a bar in the Pleistocene epoch. The cops and Apple private detectives will come by soon to claim it.
And, yes, it has round corners.
broken in two and missing a chunk
The caveman wasn't holding it right.