Baltimore's population is 650,000 people. The state of Maryland, the richest state in the country (median income $65,000) is home to 5,600,000 people. The state's poverty rate is 7.8%, the lowest in the nation. I think Maryland can survive a "20% increase" in sales tax. It'll be an even better if all the stingy people outraged by this leave. More good stuff for those who stay.
That a Linux machine is sold out at Walmart suggests that plain folks -- not like you and me -- know and respect Linux. The lesson is that there is a ready market, in middle America, for Linux-based applications. Will software developers heed this lesson?
WalMart consumers don't care what the machine runs. They just see a machine than can do email, word processing, and can browse the web. The most important thing about the machine is price. If it ran Windows and cost $200, it would still sell out.
The only good advice I've heard is to choose numbers greater than 31. The reasoning is that many people play dates: birthdays, anniversaries, etc. If you do beat the astromical odds and actaully win, your odds of splitting the pot with someone else is marginally better if you don't choose date-like numbers.
There will be robots coming out of Sun?!?! Holy crap, will they look like Arnold? Will they use us for batteries? Everyone stay away from teh stairs!!! We should nuke Sun from orbit. It's the only way to be, um, pretty sure...
I agree that Fascism has a spefic meaning, esp. with regard to Mussolini's Italy, but I don't see in the Wikipedia articles where it states that the the state would have full audit power over Google's hiring practices. I believe that it is there, but I don't see it. Is it in this quote from the "Doctrine Of Fascism" page?:
The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State
The "corporate" in that paragraph refers to the government corporations, not private ones. In Mussolini's Italy did the government take over corporations? Who would own Google in a fascist America? Wouuld it be private or would the state take it over for "the common good"? If so, that sounds like Communism to me.
What would make fascist governement laws in regard to corporate hiring practices different than regular American federal hiring practices which state you can't descriminate based on race? Isn't that what the original poster was talking about?
I hope I don't come off as snippy, or overly critical. You sound like you have a background in history. I'd like to know more.
And you are living in la la land if you think that Iraq is secular or indeed that the Middle East is secular. It is secular in name only. The emperor has no clothes.
Didn't George Bush hang the emperor? I could've sworn I saw something about that on the TV. But I didn't say that "the Middle East" is totally secular. You said I said that. I wouldn't generalize like that. Just because I'm critical of your willy-nilly generalizations doesn't mean that my view is the opposite willy-nilly generalization. It's your oversimplification of the very complex issue that I'm finding fault with.
And what proof do you offer that religion is not the controlling ideology and the root cause of the problems in Middle East?
I would not, and did not, make such a broad generalization, hence I have no proof.
You may not like a generalization that doesn't fit with your world view, or the way that you think the world should be, but that doesn't invalidate the generalization.
The fact that it is a generalization about an issue as complex as religion, a large swath of humanity, and a huge region of the earth make it invalid, not my "world view".
So then you pull out the ad hominem because you don't like the generalization when the shoe fits.
It does not fit. I pulled out ad hominem, because it did fit. It was a moronic oversimplification.
I suppose that if you had mod points and you hadn't already replied you would have modded the whole thread down simply because you didn't agree with it.
Maybe, maybe not. Depends how I felt that day. If I saw your OP I may've modded it down - but only to spare the others.
And you are completely ignoring my point which is that things are more complicated than saying that "clerics are in control on the middle east" - only a moron, to use my terminology, would make such broad generalizations. Iraq is secular. Turkey is secular. Pointing out that your points are false is not nitpicking. Making up a bunch of crap does not an argument make. Get over it, you're wrong.
God's Warriors does not seem support your argument.I have not seen it, but after reading the Wikipedia page, it appears to be (for the Muslim eipisode) interviews with a few Muslims talking about how they feel being Muslims in today's world. It touches on Muslim violence in one highly publicized case. It does not support your unrealistic and absurd generalizations.
The average level of non-religious education in these countries is now so poor that many muslims call anyone who can read and write Arabic, with knowledge of the Koran and the Hadith, a great scholar even though the poor chap probably never completed the equivalent of Western grade school...
You state that the average, average, person in "these" countries call anyone who can read a great scholar. That's not an honest generalization by any stretch of the imagination. That's just moronic.
Of course, but part of the problem in the Islamic world is that the people equate religious knowledge with all the truth that is worth knowing and are suspicious or even hostile to secular ideas in general and scientific ideas..
You state that in "the Islamic world" that people, unqualified, just "people" equate religious knowledge with all truth. Again, that is simplification and generalization to the point of meaninglessness.
There is a lesson here for the fundamentalists here in the United States. Hopefully we will be wise enough to learn it, but unfortunately it seems that we, as a society, are taking the same long road to stagnation in science that others have in the past
*sigh*. You really love to hear yourself just go on and on, don't you?
Can you cite anything other than your own ass to support your argument here? Have you lived in any middle eastern countries? Any relatives from there? You seem to have a very good grasp of facts that are very hard to come by, so I'm suspicious. Plus all the generalizing that you're doing makes it smell like you're just spouting "truthiness", ya know. I'm genuinely curious.If you have any cites, I'd love to see 'em.
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A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html
Baltimore's population is 650,000 people. The state of Maryland, the richest state in the country (median income $65,000) is home to 5,600,000 people. The state's poverty rate is 7.8%, the lowest in the nation. I think Maryland can survive a "20% increase" in sales tax. It'll be an even better if all the stingy people outraged by this leave. More good stuff for those who stay.
No offense, but I think that phrase does not mean what you think it means. Univerisities are not common carriers.
WalMart consumers don't care what the machine runs. They just see a machine than can do email, word processing, and can browse the web. The most important thing about the machine is price. If it ran Windows and cost $200, it would still sell out.
The only good advice I've heard is to choose numbers greater than 31. The reasoning is that many people play dates: birthdays, anniversaries, etc. If you do beat the astromical odds and actaully win, your odds of splitting the pot with someone else is marginally better if you don't choose date-like numbers.
This may actually be a little better (assumes a modern bash):
while true; do
for i in com net org; do
dig `echo $RANDOM*$RANDOM*$RANDOM|bc`.$i
done
sleep 1
done
for i in {a..z}{a..z}{a..z}{a..z}{a..z}{a..z}{a..z}{a..z}{a..z}.{com,net,org}; do
dig $i
done
He seas an opportunity and he takes it...
Water you expect with this guy?
Let's get this out of the way: flying car.
Yes, they know.
Crap! You're totally right. What about some kinda freeze ray?!?!
There will be robots coming out of Sun?!?! Holy crap, will they look like Arnold? Will they use us for batteries? Everyone stay away from teh stairs!!! We should nuke Sun from orbit. It's the only way to be, um, pretty sure...
The "corporate" in that paragraph refers to the government corporations, not private ones. In Mussolini's Italy did the government take over corporations? Who would own Google in a fascist America? Wouuld it be private or would the state take it over for "the common good"? If so, that sounds like Communism to me.
What would make fascist governement laws in regard to corporate hiring practices different than regular American federal hiring practices which state you can't descriminate based on race? Isn't that what the original poster was talking about?
I hope I don't come off as snippy, or overly critical. You sound like you have a background in history. I'd like to know more.
Thanks.
That's a good idea. There's *always* accidents at that corner.
Didn't George Bush hang the emperor? I could've sworn I saw something about that on the TV. But I didn't say that "the Middle East" is totally secular. You said I said that. I wouldn't generalize like that. Just because I'm critical of your willy-nilly generalizations doesn't mean that my view is the opposite willy-nilly generalization. It's your oversimplification of the very complex issue that I'm finding fault with.
I would not, and did not, make such a broad generalization, hence I have no proof.
The fact that it is a generalization about an issue as complex as religion, a large swath of humanity, and a huge region of the earth make it invalid, not my "world view".
It does not fit. I pulled out ad hominem, because it did fit. It was a moronic oversimplification.
Maybe, maybe not. Depends how I felt that day. If I saw your OP I may've modded it down - but only to spare the others.
Yeah - the Legion of Doom! (buh dum dum)
Thanks, I'll be here all week. Try the waitress.
And you are completely ignoring my point which is that things are more complicated than saying that "clerics are in control on the middle east" - only a moron, to use my terminology, would make such broad generalizations. Iraq is secular. Turkey is secular. Pointing out that your points are false is not nitpicking. Making up a bunch of crap does not an argument make. Get over it, you're wrong.
You state that the average, average, person in "these" countries call anyone who can read a great scholar. That's not an honest generalization by any stretch of the imagination. That's just moronic.
You state that in "the Islamic world" that people, unqualified, just "people" equate religious knowledge with all truth. Again, that is simplification and generalization to the point of meaninglessness.
*sigh*. You really love to hear yourself just go on and on, don't you?
Can you cite anything other than your own ass to support your argument here? Have you lived in any middle eastern countries? Any relatives from there? You seem to have a very good grasp of facts that are very hard to come by, so I'm suspicious. Plus all the generalizing that you're doing makes it smell like you're just spouting "truthiness", ya know. I'm genuinely curious.If you have any cites, I'd love to see 'em.
This'll be so bad that it should be classified as a car-cinogen.
Yeah, it's like the TV execs are on auto-matic pilot.
The students still have a fighting chance though as the Google DeathSquads(tm) are still in beta...
Hmmmmmm....fish and chips....gaaaaghh.