You think you had a completely free say in your car? Don't you think govt regulations affected the design and cost? You already pay taxes as well, do you as an individual get to pick which ones you like? Society already makes collective decisions, this is about making better ones.
And whatever reasonable points you made are lost in your name calling. Learn some manners and stop generalizing about your opponents.
Ah selective memory, how sweet you are. You have selected not remember the xenophobic uproar over the sale of American ports to the Arab owned Dubai Ports World. Or the similar one over the Chinese bid for Unocal.
Israel focuses on Arab extremists to avoid compromising with Arab moderates. Israel is a regional superpower in no danger of destruction from loud mouth ragtag militias like Hamas.
You wouldn't know it though from they whine - "OMG They don't recognize us, thats like so totally mean".
Its also worth noting that even Hamas has repeatedly offered talks with Israel. But again mischaracterization and exaggeration are part of the strategy to avoid dealing with the more reasonable Arab demands.
It doesn't matter whether those condemnations are considered toothless or not. The fact is that they were and are made and puts to bed the accusation that Muslim leaders are giving tacit approval to terror.
But your essential point is that Muslims aren't trying hard enough to stop terror.
That argument is flawed.
You say that the various dictatorships in power have the power to kill/stop/imprison all the terrorists. But the autocratic leaders do not have the consent of those that they govern. That hamstrings them in fighting radicals. Even with government resources they are the few fighting against a movement. Society can't help them, it is not allowed to help them, because if it was allowed to do anything it would get rid of them first. Because of this oppression the only opposing movements that can exist are necessarily pathological. Given this situation, the effects of condemnations by those leaders and ordinary responsible Muslims are guaranteed to be less than desired.
So even though the issue is draped in religious clothing it is fundamentally a political one.
Dictators like Musharraf are incompetent at fighting determined guerillas but are all too effective at shutting down democracy movements and civil society institutions like the Supreme Court - phoney election theatre aside. Yet it is those movements and institutions that can engage the populace and amplify the will of the majority against the actions and appeal of the violent minority.
Thats how it works in the Western democracies. Italian Americans did not rise up against the Mob. But a law-enforcement apparatus that they and other Americans give legitimacy to has been effective in countering its influence. See where I'm going with this?
The average Muslim thus is not a moral failure. He/she simply lacks the tools that know-it all observers take for granted.
That means to the extent that the West can play a positive role in the Islamic world, it will not be though invasions, sabre-rattling or sneering contempt but through support of countries - not governments, and processes & institutions - not personalities.
Making the people who honestly express disgust at that entire world view sound like the villains is your primary mistake
The offense is in condemning Islam and all Muslims not just the radicals. You're setting up a straw man here. I doubt any normal Muslim has an issue with you condemning the Taliban or similar groups.
If a culture of untold millions of people is unable to regularly figure out that they're not helping themselves by aggessively shouting down and personally doing everything they can to extinguish movements like the Taliban, then I have a hard time feeling sorry for them when they're perceived as being part of the problem.
The condemnations of extremism and terrorism from Muslim leaders are legion - if you haven't been paying attention thats your problem and your error.
Muslims live in different countries, belong to different ethnicities, speak different languages. For the most part they live in countries with dysfunctional goverments which hamper the develoment of effective civil society institutions. They don't all get together in a town hall every Tuesday and decide the future of Islam. Their positive influence extends as far as living their own lives peacefully. Which is exactly what the vast majority does.
The kneejerk responses are primarily on the part of people criticising Islam - the ones whose analysis goes no further than condemning all Muslims because of the actions of the extremists.
Confusing the part for the whole is one of the more elementary fallacies.
One method to accomplish what you are talking about is 360 degree feedback. The basic idea is that you get evaluated by superiors, subordinates, peers, you yourself, and sometimes customers. In other words all the stakeholders in your job performance.
Its very effective, but complicated in a paper based system. A simple web app could handle it quite nicely though.
Go to Tools => Internet Options => Advanced => Disable "Enable third party browser extensions".
I've found it prevents quite a bit of spyware from running even if it has installed itself, and is a quick help for complaining friends & family who want you to do something about their slow computers.
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If you can't search for tutorials on Google, nobody is going to use it. STEP is too generic to be searched for.
Cute, but only a small percentage of Muslims live in jurisdictions that follow Sharia law. So it is possible to be Islamic and not follow Sharia without being beaten, maimed or executed.
Don't you hate when a bit of logic punctures a nice rhetorical flourish?
In addition, popular demand for Sharia is usually driven by frustration at the corruption in current secular regimes rather than religous fanatacism.
Ah, but avoiding tapping the endpoints frees you from needing the co-operation of a hostile country's ISP. Would Iran's ISPs really help the U.S tap its voice & data traffic? What if you want to tap the traffic going from Iran to another non-cooperative country?
In the summer of 2005 the undersea fibre optic cable to Pakistan, a branch of the SEA-ME-WE3 line, was cut, disrupting Internet access to that country for weeks and crippling its nascent high tech sector. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4630457.stm
Now with the cut to this critical Mid-East cable, the possibility comes to mind that the U.S has undertaken a program to tap into all telecom lines running into the Muslim world. An egregious violation of sovereignty if its true. The disruptions could be due to mistakes while installing the taps, or they could be purposeful because the repairs would be an opportunity to slip in monitoring equipment.
In short its not easy, but it can be done, and capabilities can have only improved in the past 7 years. The USS Jimmy Carter is the prime suspect. The cost was estimated at $2 billion a year, an amount which can easily be hidden in the intelligence budget.
It doesn't matter if IBM is the main anti-OOXML force, or if they are, why they are. What matters are the anti-OOXML arguments, and the fact that they make sense. The motivation behind opposing arguments is irrelevant. Only their merits matter.
There is a name for the logical fallacy that this MS exec is commiting. Anyone know the name of it?
supercomputing power of this sort would be vitally important in running nuclear simulations and perfecting a bomb.
Its seems that many people will say anything to keep the idea of Iran as World-Danger #1 alive. Layers of assumptions on top of innuendo on top of what-if scenarios.
Benchmarking the U.S against various nefarious actors doesn't make any sense. Are you going to let the lowest common denominator set your standards? Or does your target standard consist being a few notches better than the worst guy?
Can you tell me what Constitutional right the prisoners at Gitmo have had taken away?
It's not about the Constitution. It's about the Geneva convention, and the lack of due process. Its about the invented designation of 'enemy combatant'. Is that so hard to understand?
The self-congratulation over giving them food and Qurans, it really makes me laugh. "Who cares about the rule of law - we gave them Fruit Loops! We're fucking heroes!"
An attack on Iran for belligerent speech would be an over reaction to trash talking. The war mongerers need to calm down. Israel can handle its own business.
You're right, but historically, the concentration of energy in a source has been more important than the total efficiency of the process involved in making it. Just look at the oil and gas industry. It hardly efficient to wait 70 million years for decomposed plant matter to turn into an acceptable fuel, but that hasn't stopped the world from depending on it.
No one is forcing anyone to do anything. But if this project wants to pitch itself to users as the answer for driver issues, then it deserves to be called out when it starts making excuses.
If you want avoid issues because of reasons the users don't care about, then don't promise the moon to them.
Maybe someone should start a user space focused sub-project called the Free Drivers Project, modelled after freedesktop.org. It could co-ordinate work, conventions/standards, interoperability etc between the driver projects like CUPS and SANE.
freedesktop.org does the same with KDE, GNOME & some other window managers and its done some really good work.
Also what about Roe vs Wade, the 1973 supreme court decision that legalized abortion? Poor women could now easily abort fetuses that would have otherwise grown up to be socio-economically disadvantaged youth in single parent families.
I've also heard that Romania hasn't phased out leaded gasoline. Yet its (violent) crime rate is quite low. Just another data point.
How did this get modded insightful? The colonies in the Western Hemisphere crushed the natives remember? They are arguably as worse off as the Africans. Logic please!
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You think you had a completely free say in your car? Don't you think govt regulations affected the design and cost? You already pay taxes as well, do you as an individual get to pick which ones you like? Society already makes collective decisions, this is about making better ones.
And whatever reasonable points you made are lost in your name calling. Learn some manners and stop generalizing about your opponents.
*You* didn't get enough of a tax cut, while people who are earning way more than you got too much of one.
Ah selective memory, how sweet you are. You have selected not remember the xenophobic uproar over the sale of American ports to the Arab owned Dubai Ports World. Or the similar one over the Chinese bid for Unocal.
Israel focuses on Arab extremists to avoid compromising with Arab moderates. Israel is a regional superpower in no danger of destruction from loud mouth ragtag militias like Hamas.
You wouldn't know it though from they whine - "OMG They don't recognize us, thats like so totally mean".
Its also worth noting that even Hamas has repeatedly offered talks with Israel. But again mischaracterization and exaggeration are part of the strategy to avoid dealing with the more reasonable Arab demands.
>>send mentally disabled women to blow up bombs
Thats Al Qaeda, not Iranian funded Iraqi miltias.
>> their current program of funding all sorts of extremist militants, terrorists
Well, America funds Israel's war machine. Who has killed more civilians, Israel or Iranian funded Hezbollah?
It doesn't matter whether those condemnations are considered toothless or not. The fact is that they were and are made and puts to bed the accusation that Muslim leaders are giving tacit approval to terror.
But your essential point is that Muslims aren't trying hard enough to stop terror.
That argument is flawed.
You say that the various dictatorships in power have the power to kill/stop/imprison all the terrorists.
But the autocratic leaders do not have the consent of those that they govern. That hamstrings them in fighting radicals.
Even with government resources they are the few fighting against a movement. Society can't help them, it is not allowed to help them, because if it was allowed to do anything it would get rid of them first. Because of this oppression the only opposing movements that can exist are necessarily pathological. Given this situation, the effects of condemnations by those leaders and ordinary responsible Muslims are guaranteed to be less than desired.
So even though the issue is draped in religious clothing it is fundamentally a political one.
Dictators like Musharraf are incompetent at fighting determined guerillas but are all too effective at shutting down democracy movements and civil society institutions like the Supreme Court - phoney election theatre aside. Yet it is those movements and institutions that can engage the populace and amplify the will of the majority against the actions and appeal of the violent minority.
Thats how it works in the Western democracies. Italian Americans did not rise up against the Mob. But a law-enforcement apparatus that they and other Americans give legitimacy to has been effective in countering its influence. See where I'm going with this?
The average Muslim thus is not a moral failure. He/she simply lacks the tools that know-it all observers take for granted.
That means to the extent that the West can play a positive role in the Islamic world, it will not be though invasions, sabre-rattling or sneering contempt but through support of countries - not governments, and processes & institutions - not personalities.
Making the people who honestly express disgust at that entire world view sound like the villains is your primary mistake
The offense is in condemning Islam and all Muslims not just the radicals. You're setting up a straw man here. I doubt any normal Muslim has an issue with you condemning the Taliban or similar groups.
If a culture of untold millions of people is unable to regularly figure out that they're not helping themselves by aggessively shouting down and personally doing everything they can to extinguish movements like the Taliban, then I have a hard time feeling sorry for them when they're perceived as being part of the problem.
The condemnations of extremism and terrorism from Muslim leaders are legion - if you haven't been paying attention thats your problem and your error.
Muslims live in different countries, belong to different ethnicities, speak different languages. For the most part they live in countries with dysfunctional goverments which hamper the develoment of effective civil society institutions. They don't all get together in a town hall every Tuesday and decide the future of Islam. Their positive influence extends as far as living their own lives peacefully. Which is exactly what the vast majority does.
The kneejerk responses are primarily on the part of people criticising Islam - the ones whose analysis goes no further than condemning all Muslims because of the actions of the extremists.
Confusing the part for the whole is one of the more elementary fallacies.
One method to accomplish what you are talking about is 360 degree feedback.
The basic idea is that you get evaluated by superiors, subordinates, peers, you yourself, and sometimes customers. In other words all the stakeholders in your job performance.
Its very effective, but complicated in a paper based system. A simple web app could handle it quite nicely though.
Another good idea with Internet Explorer:
Go to Tools => Internet Options => Advanced => Disable "Enable third party browser extensions".
I've found it prevents quite a bit of spyware from running even if it has installed itself, and is a quick help for complaining friends & family who want you to do something about their slow computers.
If you can't search for tutorials on Google, nobody is going to use it. STEP is too generic to be searched for.
It seems like a simple thing but its true.
Cute, but only a small percentage of Muslims live in jurisdictions that follow Sharia law. So it is possible to be Islamic and not follow Sharia without being beaten, maimed or executed.
Don't you hate when a bit of logic punctures a nice rhetorical flourish?
In addition, popular demand for Sharia is usually driven by frustration at the corruption in current secular regimes rather than religous fanatacism.
Ah, but avoiding tapping the endpoints frees you from needing the co-operation of a hostile country's ISP. Would Iran's ISPs really help the U.S tap its voice & data traffic? What if you want to tap the traffic going from Iran to another non-cooperative country?
In the summer of 2005 the undersea fibre optic cable to Pakistan, a branch of the SEA-ME-WE3 line, was cut, disrupting Internet access to that country for weeks and crippling its nascent high tech sector.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4630457.stm
Now with the cut to this critical Mid-East cable, the possibility comes to mind that the U.S has undertaken a program to tap into all telecom lines running into the Muslim world. An egregious violation of sovereignty if its true. The disruptions could be due to mistakes while installing the taps, or they could be purposeful because the repairs would be an opportunity to slip in monitoring equipment.
This 2001 article discussed the NSA tapping fibre optic cables
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-529826.html
In short its not easy, but it can be done, and capabilities can have only improved in the past 7 years. The USS Jimmy Carter is the prime suspect. The cost was estimated at $2 billion a year, an amount which can easily be hidden in the intelligence budget.
It would not be the first time. In the 1970s the Pentagon tapped into Soviet copper cables on the Siberian coast.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9904EED6123EF93BA35752C1A96E958260
It doesn't matter if IBM is the main anti-OOXML force, or if they are, why they are. What matters are the anti-OOXML arguments, and the fact that they make sense. The motivation behind opposing arguments is irrelevant. Only their merits matter.
There is a name for the logical fallacy that this MS exec is commiting. Anyone know the name of it?
Wait, are you calling latte-sipping bookstore browsers masculine?
How is the weather in San Francisco this time of year?
Iran has vowed to annihilate Israel, which is an (undeclared) nuclear power.
Wrong
supercomputing power of this sort would be vitally important in running nuclear simulations and perfecting a bomb.
Its seems that many people will say anything to keep the idea of Iran as World-Danger #1 alive. Layers of assumptions on top of innuendo on top of what-if scenarios.
What would we do without a boogeyman after all?
Benchmarking the U.S against various nefarious actors doesn't make any sense. Are you going to let the lowest common denominator set your standards? Or does your target standard consist being a few notches better than the worst guy?
And they accuse liberals of relativism. Sheesh.
Can you tell me what Constitutional right the prisoners at Gitmo have had taken away?
It's not about the Constitution. It's about the Geneva convention, and the lack of due process. Its about the invented designation of 'enemy combatant'. Is that so hard to understand?
The self-congratulation over giving them food and Qurans, it really makes me laugh. "Who cares about the rule of law - we gave them Fruit Loops! We're fucking heroes!"
An attack on Iran for belligerent speech would be an over reaction to trash talking. The war mongerers need to calm down. Israel can handle its own business.
You're right, but historically, the concentration of energy in a source has been more important than the total efficiency of the process involved in making it. Just look at the oil and gas industry. It hardly efficient to wait 70 million years for decomposed plant matter to turn into an acceptable fuel, but that hasn't stopped the world from depending on it.
Okay enough posting. We get it. You're boring and crazy. Run along now.
No one is forcing anyone to do anything. But if this project wants to pitch itself to users as the answer for driver issues, then it deserves to be called out when it starts making excuses.
If you want avoid issues because of reasons the users don't care about, then don't promise the moon to them.
Maybe someone should start a user space focused sub-project called the Free Drivers Project, modelled after freedesktop.org. It could co-ordinate work, conventions/standards, interoperability etc between the driver projects like CUPS and SANE.
freedesktop.org does the same with KDE, GNOME & some other window managers and its done some really good work.
Also what about Roe vs Wade, the 1973 supreme court decision that legalized abortion? Poor women could now easily abort fetuses that would have otherwise grown up to be socio-economically disadvantaged youth in single parent families.
I've also heard that Romania hasn't phased out leaded gasoline. Yet its (violent) crime rate is quite low. Just another data point.
The study reeks of abused statistics.
How did this get modded insightful? The colonies in the Western Hemisphere crushed the natives remember? They are arguably as worse off as the Africans. Logic please!