In other words, your preferred solution is go the route of Stalinism. No people, no problem.
It's certainly an attractive solution, until you realise that the entire world is against you now and you're the one about to go the way of the dodo as a result and that your own people are rising against you because they view you as a far worse kind of a monster than those you argued such means were necessary to fight against.
You however forget the obvious counterpoint. People use these mediums to vent their natural violent tendencies, leaving them with less active natural violent tendencies in real life.
I always find it interesting that so many people rage about top end models and having them, when steam hardware survey consistently shows that overwhelming majority of people using discreet nvidia graphics are using x50, x60 and x60Ti models, followed by x70 and x80 being a vanishingly small minority. At the same time overwhelming amount of reviews show that x60 and x60Ti models are typically the sweet spot of "performance per money spent", with x60Ti and x70 models being typically sweet spot for "sufficient performance for overwhelming majority of games on the market at maximum settings".
I am "smoking" reality. This is an interconnected world. They are the ones currently being bombed by us - not the other way around. And it's us that reject their culture to the point where their culture had to reject us just to be allowed to exist at this point.
You clearly think that living in a bubble is a correct way to live. That is your choice. I'm merely pointing out that so far, we are the ones who enabled IS to become what they are. Continuing with those policies is highly unlikely to bring anything other than more IS style organisations around the world gaining even more power. In other words, your stated intent and obvious consequence of your suggested actions have been exact opposites throughout recent and less recent history.
And the infamous quote still goes that definition of insanity is to repeat the same action and expect different outcome. As you are apparently doing.
There is no secular law in the region. At all. This is one of the most religious parts of the world in existence.
The only thing you had before in the region was more moderate interpretation of the very same same religious law. Last time you had anything close to secular law in the region was when Assad was in control of it, and even then, religious law basically de facto ruled the land even if it wasn't de jure.
Your entire argument espouses massive ignorance of situation that can only come from living in a completely insulated media bubble which imagines world from Western point of view and assumes that Western style culture is universal. You should really listen to what people who actually live in the region tell about the situation beyond what mass media in the West shows. You'll very quickly realise why IS enjoys so much local support, which is what made so easy for it to conquer and control the huge area they are currently in control of with numbers as small as they have. Because they are quite close to what most locals find not only acceptable, but even desirable - far closer than what Allawite rule of Assad and his quite secular law brought them.
I want to emphasize this point: the concept of secular law is very alien to local culture in the region and is viewed by most locals to be either Assad's a sign of Western corruption and decadence.
And while your angle of "we'll kill if you if you don't accept our style of secular law" points them as acting in self defense to protect their beliefs against you. Which is exactly how our media is currently painting our fight against IS - they are saying that "we must accept their religious law of they will kill us". As a result, your argument is directly comparable to that of IS. Both your angle and your threat of consequences mirror each other.
Quote: "The French charity Fraternity in Iraq says that, since August, 120,000 Christians — but also Muslim Yazidis, Kakaïs and Shabaks — have fled ISIL, among them 18,000 children.
They became refugees when ISIL seized control of the area around Mosul on the 10th of June — helping themselves to everything that was left behind.
ISIL threatened the Christians with death unless they paid a tithe for their religion or embraced Islam within a month."
This is today's news from one of the more reputable sources in mass media. Their report is in direct agreement with my point, as bold line shows.
Of course they were. Because the terms set by IS are awful. They are medieval period lowest caste level of awful. And when people tried to negotiate a better deal, they were told that punishment for such disobedience is death. Which you interpret as "people having being threatened with death". This is completely in line with saying that "US threatens its people with death because it has death penalty".
The fact is that they have a very rigid code of law in IS, which they follow to the letter. Because they are fundamentalists. When you consider that the code was created back in Medieval ages, and that this region is already one of the poorest regions in the world, you begin to understand why it's so hard to live being the lowest social caste in what already is a horrible place to live even as top tier caste. And why tribal leaders generally try to negotiate a better deal, at which point rigid rule of law puts a death sentence for "heresy" on them.
Or alternatively you're whining about people in parts where civil war is still raging being threatened with death. In which case, sit down, as the following statement will shock you to the core. Essentially everyone in the current civil war has been threatened with death by at least two-three factions participating in the conflict. That's how civil wars work. Brother against brother, father against son. Brutality is far more extreme than in nationalist wars because of it, as are "death threats".
Right. So you separate capitalism and it's inevitable consequences, give the inevitable consequences a name that is not "capitalism", and then happily pretend you didn't just whitewash capitalism.
That is exactly what they said in fact. "As long as you accept being oppressed as lowest class citizens and pay us tax, you can stay".
Try to keep up. IS is trying to resurrect the Kalifate/Ottoman style rule. That means all the horrors of that time like slavery, public executions as entertainment and so on, but also many other things like granting actual, very rigid legal rights to all strata of society, including those who are Christians. Specifically they are required to pay tax and have significantly lower social position that muslims, but they do indeed have a right to exist as long as they conform to legally mandated oppression.
And since both government and banks in their current form are the product of unchecked capitalism doing what it does - streamlining its profits to the max while minimizing risks, this has no impact on the argument.
You must be joking. They left just like the current wave of refugees in Syria and Iraq. Running away from the incoming avalanche of the angry armed men. IS does the exact same thing - you can convert, or you can run before they get to you.
So in CAR, muslims who "left" left before Christian mobs got to them. Those who died were the ones who didn't make it out in time.
Yes, let's use a single letter of leader of rebels who know they're outnumbered, outgunned and will be purged to anyone willing to listen to implicate that they are the terrorists. Ignore the rest as irrelevant because, well, it doesn't fit the whole "oo, evil muslim terrorists" narrative.
Also many left over? Really? Because Human Rights Watch disagrees with you there. Pretty much the only reason why they weren't completely cleansed was because French actually got their shit together and started putting themselves in harm's way. For all their craziness, Christian mobs understood that it was best not to attack their former colonial masters. Especially with them having those mining interests in the region.
Chadian peacekeepers weren't so lucky.
Here's a direct quote from UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antoinio Gutierres talking to UN Security Council earlier this year when conflict was on: "Since early December we have effectively witnessed a cleansing of the majority of the Muslim population in western CAR, tens of thousands of them have left the country, the second refugee outflow of the current crisis, and most of those remaining are under permanent threat."
That was before the worst hit. Bangui, the capital city had some 145.000 muslims. Today, it has effectively none. Here's France24, French English language state news site on the topic: http://www.france24.com/en/201...
You're going to have a really hard time explaining how this wasn't a purge in true Stalinist fashion. Unless of course you're psychotic enough to claim that these aren't people, since they are muslims.
Except that, of course, in modern capitalism banks are too big to fail and take these risks because they know it's not their own money that's at stake, but that of tax payers.
Right. As long as you muslims stay oppressed and nomadic, Christians are cool with you. Try to settle down and you'll be run out of town. Try to demand to have the same rights and you'll be called jihadists.
I understand the point. To me, the UI is simply more important in this regard and it didn't break any add-ons that I need. So PM is still far better suited for the task for me.
I completely agree with you on your main point - if add-ons I find necessary were to break in PM, I would switch as well. I just seem to place more priority in UI than you, because to me, browser being a very important tool in both work and leisure, I just find myself too old and my time too precious to be spent fighting UI instead of having it work for me.
Actually, the start was about Christian majority massively oppressing muslim minority, which caused the Seleka uprising. Anti-Balaka were the Christian answer to this uprising which brutally suppressed it in true Stalinist way - "no people, no problem".
Those guys make IS look tame. French peacekeepers were talking about Christian mob going door to door and taking entire families apart with machetes until there were effectively almost no muslims left in the country. They either fled or were killed. They even forced Chad's peacekeepers of muslim faith to flee alongside other muslims.
Hilariously, Anti-Balaka means "no sword" or "no machete".
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In other words, your preferred solution is go the route of Stalinism. No people, no problem.
It's certainly an attractive solution, until you realise that the entire world is against you now and you're the one about to go the way of the dodo as a result and that your own people are rising against you because they view you as a far worse kind of a monster than those you argued such means were necessary to fight against.
You however forget the obvious counterpoint. People use these mediums to vent their natural violent tendencies, leaving them with less active natural violent tendencies in real life.
I always find it interesting that so many people rage about top end models and having them, when steam hardware survey consistently shows that overwhelming majority of people using discreet nvidia graphics are using x50, x60 and x60Ti models, followed by x70 and x80 being a vanishingly small minority. At the same time overwhelming amount of reviews show that x60 and x60Ti models are typically the sweet spot of "performance per money spent", with x60Ti and x70 models being typically sweet spot for "sufficient performance for overwhelming majority of games on the market at maximum settings".
A good example is october's survey, where 900-series isn't yet visibile:
http://store.steampowered.com/...
Seriously, get a 970 if you really need an upgrade. Or if you're an owner of just a 1080p monitor like most of us, wait for 960.
No, because states kill people. Would you stop killing people in far greater numbers, far outside your borders if people started to drop bombs on you?
I am "smoking" reality. This is an interconnected world. They are the ones currently being bombed by us - not the other way around. And it's us that reject their culture to the point where their culture had to reject us just to be allowed to exist at this point.
You clearly think that living in a bubble is a correct way to live. That is your choice. I'm merely pointing out that so far, we are the ones who enabled IS to become what they are. Continuing with those policies is highly unlikely to bring anything other than more IS style organisations around the world gaining even more power. In other words, your stated intent and obvious consequence of your suggested actions have been exact opposites throughout recent and less recent history.
And the infamous quote still goes that definition of insanity is to repeat the same action and expect different outcome. As you are apparently doing.
There is no secular law in the region. At all. This is one of the most religious parts of the world in existence.
The only thing you had before in the region was more moderate interpretation of the very same same religious law. Last time you had anything close to secular law in the region was when Assad was in control of it, and even then, religious law basically de facto ruled the land even if it wasn't de jure.
Your entire argument espouses massive ignorance of situation that can only come from living in a completely insulated media bubble which imagines world from Western point of view and assumes that Western style culture is universal. You should really listen to what people who actually live in the region tell about the situation beyond what mass media in the West shows. You'll very quickly realise why IS enjoys so much local support, which is what made so easy for it to conquer and control the huge area they are currently in control of with numbers as small as they have. Because they are quite close to what most locals find not only acceptable, but even desirable - far closer than what Allawite rule of Assad and his quite secular law brought them.
I want to emphasize this point: the concept of secular law is very alien to local culture in the region and is viewed by most locals to be either Assad's a sign of Western corruption and decadence.
Here, take a look at footage that Vice news outlet shot inside IS itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And while your angle of "we'll kill if you if you don't accept our style of secular law" points them as acting in self defense to protect their beliefs against you. Which is exactly how our media is currently painting our fight against IS - they are saying that "we must accept their religious law of they will kill us". As a result, your argument is directly comparable to that of IS. Both your angle and your threat of consequences mirror each other.
You can just pay them 30 USD to unlock everything. Basically either buy the game or slowly unlock everything for free.
http://www.hirezstudios.com/tr...
Tribes: Ascend is still around.
http://www.hirezstudios.com/tr...
It's no longer in active development, but it's F2P which lets you unlock everything non cosmetic for 30 USD:
http://www.hirezstudios.com/tr...
And shortly after I type out the answer, here's the evidence:
http://www.euronews.com/2014/1...
Quote:
"The French charity Fraternity in Iraq says that, since August, 120,000 Christians — but also Muslim Yazidis, Kakaïs and Shabaks — have fled ISIL, among them 18,000 children.
They became refugees when ISIL seized control of the area around Mosul on the 10th of June — helping themselves to everything that was left behind.
ISIL threatened the Christians with death unless they paid a tithe for their religion or embraced Islam within a month."
This is today's news from one of the more reputable sources in mass media. Their report is in direct agreement with my point, as bold line shows.
Of course they were. Because the terms set by IS are awful. They are medieval period lowest caste level of awful. And when people tried to negotiate a better deal, they were told that punishment for such disobedience is death. Which you interpret as "people having being threatened with death". This is completely in line with saying that "US threatens its people with death because it has death penalty".
The fact is that they have a very rigid code of law in IS, which they follow to the letter. Because they are fundamentalists. When you consider that the code was created back in Medieval ages, and that this region is already one of the poorest regions in the world, you begin to understand why it's so hard to live being the lowest social caste in what already is a horrible place to live even as top tier caste. And why tribal leaders generally try to negotiate a better deal, at which point rigid rule of law puts a death sentence for "heresy" on them.
Or alternatively you're whining about people in parts where civil war is still raging being threatened with death. In which case, sit down, as the following statement will shock you to the core. Essentially everyone in the current civil war has been threatened with death by at least two-three factions participating in the conflict. That's how civil wars work. Brother against brother, father against son. Brutality is far more extreme than in nationalist wars because of it, as are "death threats".
People warning about inevitable tendencies of unchecked capitalism are in fact fascist.
Excellent point.
In other news, people warning about inevitable violent tendencies of certain criminal psychopaths are in fact murderers and so on.
Right. So you separate capitalism and it's inevitable consequences, give the inevitable consequences a name that is not "capitalism", and then happily pretend you didn't just whitewash capitalism.
Gotcha.
That is exactly what they said in fact. "As long as you accept being oppressed as lowest class citizens and pay us tax, you can stay".
Try to keep up. IS is trying to resurrect the Kalifate/Ottoman style rule. That means all the horrors of that time like slavery, public executions as entertainment and so on, but also many other things like granting actual, very rigid legal rights to all strata of society, including those who are Christians. Specifically they are required to pay tax and have significantly lower social position that muslims, but they do indeed have a right to exist as long as they conform to legally mandated oppression.
And since both government and banks in their current form are the product of unchecked capitalism doing what it does - streamlining its profits to the max while minimizing risks, this has no impact on the argument.
You must be joking. They left just like the current wave of refugees in Syria and Iraq. Running away from the incoming avalanche of the angry armed men. IS does the exact same thing - you can convert, or you can run before they get to you.
So in CAR, muslims who "left" left before Christian mobs got to them. Those who died were the ones who didn't make it out in time.
Right. It's capitalism when it's good, it's not capitalism when it inevitably becomes bad doing the exact same things.
Gotcha.
Yes, let's use a single letter of leader of rebels who know they're outnumbered, outgunned and will be purged to anyone willing to listen to implicate that they are the terrorists. Ignore the rest as irrelevant because, well, it doesn't fit the whole "oo, evil muslim terrorists" narrative.
Also many left over? Really? Because Human Rights Watch disagrees with you there. Pretty much the only reason why they weren't completely cleansed was because French actually got their shit together and started putting themselves in harm's way. For all their craziness, Christian mobs understood that it was best not to attack their former colonial masters. Especially with them having those mining interests in the region.
Chadian peacekeepers weren't so lucky.
Here's a direct quote from UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antoinio Gutierres talking to UN Security Council earlier this year when conflict was on:
"Since early December we have effectively witnessed a cleansing of the majority of the Muslim population in western CAR, tens of thousands of them have left the country, the second refugee outflow of the current crisis, and most of those remaining are under permanent threat."
That was before the worst hit. Bangui, the capital city had some 145.000 muslims. Today, it has effectively none. Here's France24, French English language state news site on the topic:
http://www.france24.com/en/201...
You're going to have a really hard time explaining how this wasn't a purge in true Stalinist fashion. Unless of course you're psychotic enough to claim that these aren't people, since they are muslims.
More recommended watching: http://www.vice.com/video/the-...
Except that, of course, in modern capitalism banks are too big to fail and take these risks because they know it's not their own money that's at stake, but that of tax payers.
But well obfuscated.
Right. As long as you muslims stay oppressed and nomadic, Christians are cool with you. Try to settle down and you'll be run out of town. Try to demand to have the same rights and you'll be called jihadists.
Gotta say, you sure sound a lot like IS.
I understand the point. To me, the UI is simply more important in this regard and it didn't break any add-ons that I need. So PM is still far better suited for the task for me.
I completely agree with you on your main point - if add-ons I find necessary were to break in PM, I would switch as well. I just seem to place more priority in UI than you, because to me, browser being a very important tool in both work and leisure, I just find myself too old and my time too precious to be spent fighting UI instead of having it work for me.
Actually, the start was about Christian majority massively oppressing muslim minority, which caused the Seleka uprising. Anti-Balaka were the Christian answer to this uprising which brutally suppressed it in true Stalinist way - "no people, no problem".
Okay. Anti-Balaka Chrstian militias in CAR.
Those guys make IS look tame. French peacekeepers were talking about Christian mob going door to door and taking entire families apart with machetes until there were effectively almost no muslims left in the country. They either fled or were killed. They even forced Chad's peacekeepers of muslim faith to flee alongside other muslims.
Hilariously, Anti-Balaka means "no sword" or "no machete".
Fact is though, that if you don't want to go the way of Australis, some extensions designed for Australis will not work for obvious reasons.
Blaming Pale Moon crew for that feels misdirected, especially when you consider just how often mainline FF breaks add-ons.
Some good news:
Name: Self-Destructing Cookies 0.45
Type: Extension
Issue: Does not function
Cause: Jetpack
Resolution: Fixed in 25.0.1
Firebug is not yet fixed.
Name: Firebug
Type: Extension
Issue: Partly functional
Cause: suspected chrome.manifest
Workaround: TBD
Resolution: TBD
Strange. Nothing but APB broke for me on transition, and even that worked. It just lacked the UI icon.
All sites worked fine as long as I changed user agent to that of firefox.