So the next time you see an online troll, shake his hand and pat him on the back - he is doing the right thing and fighting the good fight, saying the things you want to say so that you don't have to.
Play the "Drinking Game" with Jewish given and surnames on the "politico" article, and then check into rehab. -- "Have you got a 27B / 6 ?"
I don't get what's so nice about it, the NSA already knows who I am friends with. So no matter how we route traffic in our min-TOR, all exits identify us. The whole point of VPNs, TOR etc. is to hide within massive noise.
I want no part of "Google freedom". Their self driving cars? If these are the norm, they'll know where you are - all the time - and be queriable for your violations of speed limits and other "indiscretions".
If you trust them for VPN? How are keys generated? Who is the root of trust? This is your real question.
This idiom reflects the ever closer union between the State Department and Silicon Valley, as personified by Mr. Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, and Mr. Cohen, a former adviser to Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton who is now director of Google Ideas.
This begs the question, then, of what evidence the government possesses to rationalize that we should be so afraid of non-metallic explosives being brought aboard flights departing from the U.S. that we must sacrifice our civil liberties. The answer: there is none. "As of mid-2011, terrorist threat groups present in the Homeland are not known to be actively plotting against civil aviation targets or airports; instead, their focus is on fundraising, recruiting, and propagandizing."
Why not defund TSA information collection , and the "porno-scanning"?
"Cause of Liberty" my arse! If they don't "shutdown" Government over the introduction of Gestapo-style "internal passports" then you can see what they really are: White Sheets and Brown Shirts.
That's the exact opposite economically to produce affordable healthcare for the whole nation. Sure poor people will have little incentive not to come in for every cough but someone will pay for it. That will tax our whole economy, not including dead weight loss inefficiencies.
Cut the 3 billion sent to Israel's military every year. Why subsidize the Israeli social welfare system, when they have a booming economy and the US has bread lines?
Not to mention the fact that the Westboro Baptists are obviously a troll group and not a sincere church. Fred Phelps used to be a civil rights lawyer for God's sake.
I get what you mean. They are a US domestic CIA PsyOp. It's always been evident.
There probably were a lot more of these travellers than we know of... anyone who didn't keep a journal, or show up in someone else's preserved writings, is lost to history.
I'm sure that these were often lost in the destruction of Baghdad, and other catastrophes to the world's written record. Also, the labouring seamen - who were mostly unlettered. But of accounts, there are still many such, from the Muslim world, between the rise of the Ummayids, and the destruction of that world by the Mongols and the plague.
There was a very high level of literacy in Islam, which had leveled most aristocratic social structures and replaced those with scholastic meritocracy - in general, if not universally. The tales of pilgrimages - especially by Sufi travelers to memorials of saints, etc. - are numerous, and show a diversity that spans individuals from Morocco or Spain, to those in India and areas that are now former Soviet republics, or Western states in today's China. These travelogues are often interspersed with spiritual discourse, lectures on etiquette and chivalry, or histories of Saints.
'Ibn Batutta is still a real prodigy in this company. His travels are unrivaled by those of B'ahauddin Nakhshband or Shah Nimatullah Vali, mostly a centruy later, or of 'Ibn 'Arabi, a century before. He also is one who produces a monograph focused on the travel as central to a history and documentary - instead of a peripheral circumstance, in a treatise on other topics.
They'd NEVER attack Cheney! Keeping him alive at all costs, would be the best thing for "Terrorists", ever. Kill the Cheney's in this world, and these "terrorists" have no cause for which to exist.
Blow your mind, with the journal of the travels of 14th Century adventurer, Ibn Batutta. He makes Marco Polo look like a homebody. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Battuta
Nice, "pro-Nabatean" writeup on the late-antique origin of Arab maritime trade, after the breakup of Alexandrian east. You will have to go farther back, to the Phoenicians of Tyre and Carthage, 'tho! This author begins with Nabatean emergence. There are many links on this site... Quite fascinating. http://nabataea.net/who1.html
Oman and maritime history. Nice to overlay this with the Nabateans. These things met and mingled - especially out in the Indian ocean, away from home: http://www.maritime.om/Oman-Maritime-History
If we get rid of the roads, we might stand a chance at ending the Drug War.
If we get rid of contractors to the Government, that profit from this "war" - and the Pols who maintain the security of their power by perpetrating a "war' against their own people...
Thanks. This whole "clash-of-civilizations" bullshit always pisses me off! It's ahistorical and anachronistic. Maritime Islamic regions arguably had a better understanding and application of Classical Athens and Ionian culture and achievement than "Western" leaders do, today...
The "Arab" traders were really a remarkable multi-ethnic amalgamation of Levantine and peninsular Arabs, Africans from the horn, Persians from the gulf, and Indians from the Arabian sea - Malabar Coast and Gujurat. There were also Genoans, Turks and Georgians from the Caucasus - with plenty of overlap by Chinese through the time of Kublai, under the Mongols.
This was the world of Sinbad, and the true inheritor of the great maritime civilizations in the Mediterranean - Tyre, Mycenae and Athens.
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So the next time you see an online troll, shake his hand and pat him on the back - he is doing the right thing and fighting the good fight, saying the things you want to say so that you don't have to.
Play the "Drinking Game" with Jewish given and surnames on the "politico" article, and then check into rehab.
--
"Have you got a 27B / 6 ?"
This is a nice suggestion and an alternative to the "Shick, Gilette" world of non-commercial SOHO printers.
I don't get what's so nice about it, the NSA already knows who I am friends with. So no matter how we route traffic in our min-TOR, all exits identify us. The whole point of VPNs, TOR etc. is to hide within massive noise.
I want no part of "Google freedom". Their self driving cars? If these are the norm, they'll know where you are - all the time - and be queriable for your violations of speed limits and other "indiscretions".
If you trust them for VPN? How are keys generated? Who is the root of trust? This is your real question.
This idiom reflects the ever closer union between the State Department and Silicon Valley, as personified by Mr. Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, and Mr. Cohen, a former adviser to Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton who is now director of Google Ideas.
-- Julian Assange, The Banality of 'Don't Be Evil"
I'm with Admiral Ackbar, on this one:
"IT'S A TRAP!"
Price of freedom.
It was a human experience.
Now? They ruined the ending of "Casablanca".
There is no "Tea Party" There are Reagan Democrats who used to be Nixon Democrats who used to be Dixiecrats - who used to be the Ku Klux Klan.
No Evidence of Terrorist Plots Against Aviation in US
This begs the question, then, of what evidence the government possesses to rationalize that we should be so afraid of non-metallic explosives being brought aboard flights departing from the U.S. that we must sacrifice our civil liberties. The answer: there is none. "As of mid-2011, terrorist threat groups present in the Homeland are not known to be actively plotting against civil aviation targets or airports; instead, their focus is on fundraising, recruiting, and propagandizing."
Why not? I have his SHA256 hash, right here, on this USB stick.
But wait! Am I sure I spelled "Schneierer" correctly?!?
Has the most depressing, "Good German" comments section I have read by sheeple in a long time...
OBAMACare?
Why not defund TSA information collection , and the "porno-scanning"?
"Cause of Liberty" my arse! If they don't "shutdown" Government over the introduction of Gestapo-style "internal passports" then you can see what they really are:
White Sheets and Brown Shirts.
Money NOT spent on the Military, by their Apartheid government, can then be freed for entitlements.
The pillage economy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM
Pangloss?
Candidly, I think you're on the list for the best of all possible responses...
That's the exact opposite economically to produce affordable healthcare for the whole nation. Sure poor people will have little incentive not to come in for every cough but someone will pay for it. That will tax our whole economy, not including dead weight loss inefficiencies.
Cut the 3 billion sent to Israel's military every year. Why subsidize the Israeli social welfare system, when they have a booming economy and the US has bread lines?
Not to mention the fact that the Westboro Baptists are obviously a troll group and not a sincere church. Fred Phelps used to be a civil rights lawyer for God's sake.
I get what you mean. They are a US domestic CIA PsyOp. It's always been evident.
IE IE OH!
Markdown, Pandoc, and Vim/MacVim are my primary working tools for writing documentation.
I believed "Markdown and Pandoc" to be a work of 16th century French literature. By Alcofribas Nasier, is it not?
He is already dead.
There probably were a lot more of these travellers than we know of... anyone who didn't keep a journal, or show up in someone else's preserved writings, is lost to history.
I'm sure that these were often lost in the destruction of Baghdad, and other catastrophes to the world's written record. Also, the labouring seamen - who were mostly unlettered. But of accounts, there are still many such, from the Muslim world, between the rise of the Ummayids, and the destruction of that world by the Mongols and the plague.
There was a very high level of literacy in Islam, which had leveled most aristocratic social structures and replaced those with scholastic meritocracy - in general, if not universally. The tales of pilgrimages - especially by Sufi travelers to memorials of saints, etc. - are numerous, and show a diversity that spans individuals from Morocco or Spain, to those in India and areas that are now former Soviet republics, or Western states in today's China. These travelogues are often interspersed with spiritual discourse, lectures on etiquette and chivalry, or histories of Saints.
'Ibn Batutta is still a real prodigy in this company. His travels are unrivaled by those of B'ahauddin Nakhshband or Shah Nimatullah Vali, mostly a centruy later, or of 'Ibn 'Arabi, a century before. He also is one who produces a monograph focused on the travel as central to a history and documentary - instead of a peripheral circumstance, in a treatise on other topics.
They'd NEVER attack Cheney!
Keeping him alive at all costs, would be the best thing for "Terrorists", ever. Kill the Cheney's in this world, and these "terrorists" have no cause for which to exist.
Have you got any good readings you can recommend on the subject =)?
Registration and Purchase required? PDFs from the New Cambridge History of Islam. There's an amazing maritime section here:
http://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/histories/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781139056137
Blow your mind, with the journal of the travels of 14th Century adventurer, Ibn Batutta. He makes Marco Polo look like a homebody.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Battuta
1929 abridged translation of Ibn Batutta's journals:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zKqn_CWTxYEC
More books? Warwick Ball is an accessible archaeologist and historian, who effectively destroys the case for "Clash of Civilizations", and the entire dubious taxonomy of "east and west".
http://www.amazon.com/Rome-East-Transformation-Warwick-Ball/dp/0415243572/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382201303&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Out-Arabia-Phoenicians-Discovery-Europe/dp/1566568013/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382201303&sr=1-5
http://www.amazon.com/Towards-One-World-Ancient-Persia/dp/1566568226/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382201303&sr=1-3
Nice, "pro-Nabatean" writeup on the late-antique origin of Arab maritime trade, after the breakup of Alexandrian east. You will have to go farther back, to the Phoenicians of Tyre and Carthage, 'tho! This author begins with Nabatean emergence. There are many links on this site... Quite fascinating.
http://nabataea.net/who1.html
Oman and maritime history. Nice to overlay this with the Nabateans. These things met and mingled - especially out in the Indian ocean, away from home:
http://www.maritime.om/Oman-Maritime-History
The sections on Ancient Indian and Chinese maritime development is slim, but worthwhile:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_maritime_history#Indian_subcontinent
An Indo-centric, but factual and entertaining page:
http://www.aseanindia.com/navy/maritime-history
Summary of "silk-routes":
http://www.silkroutes.net/SilkSpiceIncenseRoutes.htm
Genoa in the Crimea:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoese_colonies
Technology of early Islamic ship-building - mostly focused on Mediterranean, not Indo-Persian
http://www.academia.edu/1596791/Early_Islamic_Maritime_Technology
But I a sure it serves somebody's agenda...
This belongs to the "Malcolm Gladwell and Thomas Friedman school" of Deep Thinkers (TM).
If we get rid of the roads, we might stand a chance at ending the Drug War.
If we get rid of contractors to the Government, that profit from this "war" - and the Pols who maintain the security of their power by perpetrating a "war' against their own people...
"DRUG WAR - HIDDEN HISTORY"
Thanks. This whole "clash-of-civilizations" bullshit always pisses me off! It's ahistorical and anachronistic. Maritime Islamic regions arguably had a better understanding and application of Classical Athens and Ionian culture and achievement than "Western" leaders do, today...
I think you misconstrue my observations and my tentative conclusions.
The "Arab" traders were really a remarkable multi-ethnic amalgamation of Levantine and peninsular Arabs, Africans from the horn, Persians from the gulf, and Indians from the Arabian sea - Malabar Coast and Gujurat. There were also Genoans, Turks and Georgians from the Caucasus - with plenty of overlap by Chinese through the time of Kublai, under the Mongols.
This was the world of Sinbad, and the true inheritor of the great maritime civilizations in the Mediterranean - Tyre, Mycenae and Athens.