Just because they decided to call themselves "Islamic," doesn't mean they deserve that name. There are many Muslim scholars who will not, and do not, accept that such a group be called so.
Besides, avoiding to call them "Islamic," helps to break, or at least, tone down the association between Islam and terrorism.
No offense taken. FWIW, I am South American.
I don't think Microsoft decision was the best, but they are about to lose the name Nokia in 2015 anyway.
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sent from my Nokia 500
I think that what everyone is missing in this discussion is that the complete name of the Lumia phones is four words long. One the first things that was promised when the merge happened was rebranding the name of the products to make them shorter. So change is from Nokia Lumia Windows Phone 930 to
With all this human rights violations by the police, stagnant wages and salaries, and concentration of riches, I daresay that pretty much that US is becoming Brazil.
Brazil is becoming Argentina
Argentina is becoming Venezuela
Venezuela is becoming Cuba
The pogroms were a series of attacks against the Jewish population in Western Europe during the Middle Ages. Can I help you with anything else?
They didn't end in the Middle Ages, although. The last pogroms in Russia happened during the war that followed the October Revolution. Lenin even decommissioned a entire regiment whose officials toke part in a pogrom.
Instead of using men's force, the Egyptians *should* have invented the steam machine, then made railroads, steam powered convoys and steam powered cranes. That would be the way to do it all!
I find it funny how people who defend capitalism in this day and age like to say that what we have is "crony capitalism" and if we'd just give real capitalism a try for once it would be super awesome.
It's the same attitude you may have noticed that come from people who defend socialism but when confronted with the flaws of the Soviet Union, Maoist China, or Cuba will claim that those were, nor are, not under real socialism, but something else (tsarism, in the case of Russia).
Mageia (former Mandriva (former Mandrake)) asks me to reboot my computer every three or four months on average to apply updates.
On my UMPC with Kubuntu, I am asked to reboot about once a month for the same reason. Anyway, it's better than rebooting once a week.
The car is going down a bridge with no railing.
Foot traffic is not permitted on the bridge with signs posted.
The bridge is so narrow that the car takes up 100% of the road.
The bridge is one-way.
The surface is slick and you're unable to break in time.
Some pedestrians are illegally trespassing on the bridge.
Should the vehicle hit the pedestrians, which will no doubt kill them, or should the vehicle go off the edge killing the "driver"?
A bridge so narrow is the result bad engineering, it is the kind of thing we should get rid out before endeavoring further. Moreover, in this kind of situation, the robot car shall pace down because there is no guarantee that the bridge, which is proven to be so wrongly built will not get any narrower. Therefore, is this hypothetical situation there will be enough time and space to brake before hitting any pedestrian.
Even if all of that don't follows, going off the edge is a more stupid option than braking and hitting the people, in which case braking will be the "ethical" programmed solution, and hitting the people will be a consequence of a technical inadequacy.
Is anyone keeping track of Firefox versions as they would be numbered the traditional way ([major].[minor].[release])? Those simple numbers they are using nowadays are meaningless to me.
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Only now they have enough tech to stage a faux moon landing! :-P
... you should be able to paint a horrible picture.
(Sorry, I couldn't help doing that!) :-]
Your concern for micromanagement by your own country's unelected bureaucrats is more important to you than the lives of literally millions of people.
Sierra Leone, Liberia, and some other West African countries have not proved to be reliable to apply aid money where it's intended.
There are, indeed, African countries to be trusted, even in West Africa, but last time I checked Ebola had not spread to Cape Verde.
Besides, avoiding to call them "Islamic," helps to break, or at least, tone down the association between Islam and terrorism.
Finally, calling them Daesh, Un-Islamic State, QSIL, or the like, is a way to stress out that they are being attacked not for being "Islamic," but for being terrorists.
It is not taught in Indian schools.
No offense taken. FWIW, I am South American. I don't think Microsoft decision was the best, but they are about to lose the name Nokia in 2015 anyway. --- sent from my Nokia 500
I think that what everyone is missing in this discussion is that the complete name of the Lumia phones is four words long. One the first things that was promised when the merge happened was rebranding the name of the products to make them shorter. So change is from Nokia Lumia Windows Phone 930 to
I've been wondering, how much of that figure accounts for the cost of the tablets themselves?
... as long as there is no resourceful federal agency trying to get you.
Perhaps
Brazil is becoming Argentina
Argentina is becoming Venezuela
Venezuela is becoming Cuba
D'oh!
and I'm going to mod down everyone of those Climate change-deniers!
Because of the size of the population (which exceeds that of all Europe)
Europe: population is 742 millions
USA: population is 352 millions
It happens that for a lot of people Europe is the same as European Union. Even so, the AC got it wrong, as
the European Union population is 506 million.
The pogroms were a series of attacks against the Jewish population in Western Europe during the Middle Ages. Can I help you with anything else?
They didn't end in the Middle Ages, although. The last pogroms in Russia happened during the war that followed the October Revolution. Lenin even decommissioned a entire regiment whose officials toke part in a pogrom.
Instead of using men's force, the Egyptians *should* have invented the steam machine, then made railroads, steam powered convoys and steam powered cranes. That would be the way to do it all!
I find it funny how people who defend capitalism in this day and age like to say that what we have is "crony capitalism" and if we'd just give real capitalism a try for once it would be super awesome.
It's the same attitude you may have noticed that come from people who defend socialism but when confronted with the flaws of the Soviet Union, Maoist China, or Cuba will claim that those were, nor are, not under real socialism, but something else (tsarism, in the case of Russia).
And about the USA?
You're welcome.
Mageia (former Mandriva (former Mandrake)) asks me to reboot my computer every three or four months on average to apply updates. On my UMPC with Kubuntu, I am asked to reboot about once a month for the same reason. Anyway, it's better than rebooting once a week.
... a dead joke, isn't it?
Without never shutting down or rebooting? O.o
But what can a office do against someone who is obeying the law?
The car is going down a bridge with no railing. Foot traffic is not permitted on the bridge with signs posted. The bridge is so narrow that the car takes up 100% of the road. The bridge is one-way. The surface is slick and you're unable to break in time. Some pedestrians are illegally trespassing on the bridge. Should the vehicle hit the pedestrians, which will no doubt kill them, or should the vehicle go off the edge killing the "driver"?
A bridge so narrow is the result bad engineering, it is the kind of thing we should get rid out before endeavoring further. Moreover, in this kind of situation, the robot car shall pace down because there is no guarantee that the bridge, which is proven to be so wrongly built will not get any narrower. Therefore, is this hypothetical situation there will be enough time and space to brake before hitting any pedestrian.
Even if all of that don't follows, going off the edge is a more stupid option than braking and hitting the people, in which case braking will be the "ethical" programmed solution, and hitting the people will be a consequence of a technical inadequacy.
Thanks.
A n00b