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If you RTFA, Khosla is against grain-based ethananol, he's pushing cellulosic ethanol - and I agree with him. Cellulosic ethanol means any type of biomass will do.
Vespa has recently started making a gas-electric scooter. Why pay attention to this Dutch guy's pipe dream when there is a real production (sortof) model.
The longer the chain of side-effects, the more complicated the feedback-loops or the less self-explanatory/measurable the tradeoffs, side-effects or feedback-loops are, the more likelly they will be ignored or not understood.
A brilliant way to put it!
It applies to politics as well. Witness the Iraq invasion, the idea fits perfectly.
I made this point in an essay during a scientific history class. If these theories can't be proven right or wrong, then they are speculation not science.
The prof didn't like that and graded me accordingly. No bitterness here though.
1) How many times is this old bit about Prophet Muhammed marrying a 9 year old girl going to be passed around? He wasn't married to her, he was *betrothed*. The early marriage tradition is based on a unverified hadith by an author with little credibility. Other traditions says she was 14 to 19. Who knows when consumation was, but its worth pointing out that he wasn't doing anything strange by marrying a young girl, thats just the way was in Middle East at that time. Betrothal and consumation were typically seperated by several years until the girl reached puberty at least.
But I'm going to disagree that Tolkien's paradigm was entirely based on England though. The races of evil men that ally with Sauron for the final battle represent non-whites - the elephant riders are obviously meant to be Indian.
Hey, just because many Muslim countries aren't tolerant it doesn't mean that Islam is intrinically intolerant. You have to separate religion and the practice of it. The problem isn't with Islam, it is with intolerant Muslims. The irony is that they are violating the Quran while claiming to uphold it. As it states: "There must be no compulsion in religion"
The article you so sarcastically linked to is a great argument for pluralism within Islamic societies.
Islam can be sightly polytheistic, and "Allah" came from the name of the "moon god".
No Allah is just the word for God - Islam is a very monotheistic religion. You could say extremely monotheistic.
That bit about the moon god is something Evangelical missionaries have been peddling for years - hence your link leading to a biblebelievers website.Fitting it into the Satanic Verses is what got Salman Rushdie into trouble. So polytheistic? Just plain wrong.
As a child when the door-to-door Evangelicals would hear that our family was Muslim, they would bust out an offensive Jack Chick-style cartoon book that accused the Prophet of being a moon goddess idol worshipper. We would politely tell them to get lost.
The central theological incompatability of Islam and Christianity according to standard Islamic thought is that *Christianity* is slightly polytheistic through its deification of Jesus. In fact the effort to avoid this with Prophet Muhummad, to prevent him from being regarded as anything other than a great man with human frailties, is behind the taboo on his depiction.
Thats because they are getting a bunch "IHateAllah" and "AllahSucksShit" type of anti-Muslim screen name signups. I doubt there are very many "JesusWasAPussy" screen names - the majority of Yahoo users are in the West and being anti-Muslim is in vogue in certain circles these days.
Here, try this Step 1: Look up an Islam related Yahoo News story listed under Most Popular News.
Step 2: Click the "Discuss This" link.
Step 3: Bask in the unfiltered unmoderated hatred. It's like browsing at -1 on Slashdot.
So this filtering was just a ham-handed attempt by Yahoo to control the trolls.
Your problem is that you are regarding Islam as a monolith. Its composed of individual human beings. Many of those human beings live in societies in a state of upheavel - a state similar to the 19th century West when industrialization undermined old ways about brought about the rise of utopian extremist ideologies like Communism and Anarchism.
By supporting that view you support the extremists vision of Islam. There are other peaceful visions of Islam and they are followed by a lot more Muslims. Trust me, if even 20% of the world's 1 billion Muslims were radical, World War 3 would have already erupted.
And please don't play the nasty scripture quote card. You can find some backward bits in the Bible and the Torah too.
As a wise person once said, there is enough ambiguity in every religious text to allow people to make the kind of society they want.
Many Muslims were offended but are not reacting with hatred. By only caring about the extremists reaction you help them in their quest to own Islam.
No one is mad at America for just existing. If you think that Americans weren't interfering in the countries where terrorists come from you need to pay closer attention.
But as to the main point of the article, a missile defense shield is a white elephant that drains resources from more useful areas of the defense budget.
The British empire abolished slavery well before the Americans did. 1834 I believe.
And black activists calling for reparations are concerned with America precisely because they are American. They are dealing with the local issue. Its pointless to attack them just because they aren't railing about Europeans in North Africa.
A lot of the "yeah but look at what the other people did" arguments about slavery seem to have the intent of diluting any white American guilt to the point where they don't have to do anything about todays racial inequities.
MP3Bookhelper (mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net) is great for mass tagging files. It won't lookup information for you, but it makes batch tag editing a breeze.
CDex is another fantastic piece of software. It's an open source CD ripper that can automatically check the FreeDB.org database to add tags to your ripped music. http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos
Album Cover Art Downloader will, surprise!, download and insert album cover art from Amazon,Walmart, and Yahoo into your mp3s. Did you know you could insert a jpeg into the id3v2 tags? A little rough around the edges but still recommended. http://louhi.kempele.fi/~skyostil/projects/albumar t/
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Who wouldn't want to buy YouTube and get the chance to monetize the hosting of content like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx-NLPH8JeM
The term geotagging is being slightly misused by Flickr in my opinion.
For some real geomapping (and a great way to waste time), see Wikimapia which lets you tag Google Maps.
www.wikimapia.org
They should host the site overseas. Malaysia is a good bet.
Obviously a little conflicted young fundamentalist is:
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If you RTFA, Khosla is against grain-based ethananol, he's pushing cellulosic ethanol - and I agree with him. Cellulosic ethanol means any type of biomass will do.
Vespa has recently started making a gas-electric scooter. Why pay attention to this Dutch guy's pipe dream when there is a real production (sortof) model.
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The longer the chain of side-effects, the more complicated the feedback-loops or the less self-explanatory/measurable the tradeoffs, side-effects or feedback-loops are, the more likelly they will be ignored or not understood.
A brilliant way to put it!
It applies to politics as well. Witness the Iraq invasion, the idea fits perfectly.
I made this point in an essay during a scientific history class. If these theories can't be proven right or wrong, then they are speculation not science.
The prof didn't like that and graded me accordingly. No bitterness here though.
The fact you used the term "Mohammedism" shows how much *you* know.
People, mostly those people of the fringe left, are calling anything that disturbs them as "hate speech".
And people on the right label anything they don't agree with as "biased"
1) How many times is this old bit about Prophet Muhammed marrying a 9 year old girl going to be passed around? He wasn't married to her, he was *betrothed*. The early marriage tradition is based on a unverified hadith by an author with little credibility. Other traditions says she was 14 to 19. Who knows when consumation was, but its worth pointing out that he wasn't doing anything strange by marrying a young girl, thats just the way was in Middle East at that time. Betrothal and consumation were typically seperated by several years until the girl reached puberty at least.
For a good read on this and other Islamic issues please read "No God But God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam" by Reza Aslan
2) Expressing opinions and criticizing Islam is one thing, hysterical bigoted ranting is another - it has no place in Google news.
Very interesting and well argued.
But I'm going to disagree that Tolkien's paradigm was entirely based on England though. The races of evil men that ally with Sauron for the final battle represent non-whites - the elephant riders are obviously meant to be Indian.
Sounds like suburbia
You know I never figured out why Pico and its open source cousin nano weren't more popular. Maybe they are to easy to use.
Hey, just because many Muslim countries aren't tolerant it doesn't mean that Islam is intrinically intolerant. You have to separate religion and the practice of it. The problem isn't with Islam, it is with intolerant Muslims. The irony is that they are violating the Quran while claiming to uphold it. As it states: "There must be no compulsion in religion"
The article you so sarcastically linked to is a great argument for pluralism within Islamic societies.
Islam can be sightly polytheistic, and "Allah" came from the name of the "moon god".
No Allah is just the word for God - Islam is a very monotheistic religion. You could say extremely monotheistic.
That bit about the moon god is something Evangelical missionaries have been peddling for years - hence your link leading to a biblebelievers website.Fitting it into the Satanic Verses is what got Salman Rushdie into trouble.
So polytheistic? Just plain wrong.
As a child when the door-to-door Evangelicals would hear that our family was Muslim, they would bust out an offensive Jack Chick-style cartoon book that accused the Prophet of being a moon goddess idol worshipper. We would politely tell them to get lost.
The central theological incompatability of Islam and Christianity according to standard Islamic thought is that *Christianity* is slightly polytheistic through its deification of Jesus. In fact the effort to avoid this with Prophet Muhummad, to prevent him from being regarded as anything other than a great man with human frailties, is behind the taboo on his depiction.
That concludes todays lesson.
Thats because they are getting a bunch "IHateAllah" and "AllahSucksShit" type of anti-Muslim screen name signups. I doubt there are very many "JesusWasAPussy" screen names - the majority of Yahoo users are in the West and being anti-Muslim is in vogue in certain circles these days.
Here, try this
Step 1: Look up an Islam related Yahoo News story listed under Most Popular News.
Step 2: Click the "Discuss This" link.
Step 3: Bask in the unfiltered unmoderated hatred. It's like browsing at -1 on Slashdot.
So this filtering was just a ham-handed attempt by Yahoo to control the trolls.
Your problem is that you are regarding Islam as a monolith. Its composed of individual human beings.
Many of those human beings live in societies in a state of upheavel - a state similar to the 19th century West when industrialization undermined old ways about brought about the rise of utopian extremist ideologies like Communism and Anarchism.
There were plenty of Muslims who were offended but didn't threaten anyone.
Our opinions count too you know.
Plus some of those cartoons arguably count as hate speech.
That argument was flawed from the start because it looked at a group of 1 billion people as a monolithic bloc.
Spoken like a man with a bigoted agenda
By supporting that view you support the extremists vision of Islam. There are other peaceful visions of Islam and they are followed by a lot more Muslims. Trust me, if even 20% of the world's 1 billion Muslims were radical, World War 3 would have already erupted.
And please don't play the nasty scripture quote card. You can find some backward bits in the Bible and the Torah too.
As a wise person once said, there is enough ambiguity in every religious text to allow people to make the kind of society they want.
Many Muslims were offended but are not reacting with hatred. By only caring about the extremists reaction you help them in their quest to own Islam.
No one is mad at America for just existing. If you think that Americans weren't interfering in the countries where terrorists come from you need to pay closer attention.
But as to the main point of the article, a missile defense shield is a white elephant that drains resources from more useful areas of the defense budget.
The British empire abolished slavery well before the Americans did. 1834 I believe.
And black activists calling for reparations are concerned with America precisely because they are American. They are dealing with the local issue.
Its pointless to attack them just because they aren't railing about Europeans in North Africa.
A lot of the "yeah but look at what the other people did" arguments about slavery seem to have the intent of diluting any white American guilt to the point where they don't have to do anything about todays racial inequities.
Funny how this virus is so widespread in the United States.
I'm sure it has nothing to do with the availability of junk food and the national automobile culture.
MP3Bookhelper (mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net) is great for mass tagging files. It won't lookup information for you, but it makes batch tag editing a breeze.
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CDex is another fantastic piece of software. It's an open source CD ripper that can automatically check the FreeDB.org database to add tags to your ripped music. http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos
Album Cover Art Downloader will, surprise!, download and insert album cover art from Amazon,Walmart, and Yahoo into your mp3s. Did you know you could insert a jpeg into the id3v2 tags? A little rough around the edges but still recommended. http://louhi.kempele.fi/~skyostil/projects/albuma