Its funny you mention elections, because the most prosperous Muslim-majority nations are the ones that are democracies (Indonesia) or closer to it on that spectrum (Pakistan).
According to this Wikipedia article, the biggest per-capita GDP, on a PPP basis, is... Qatar (a Muslim country).
Let's see which other Muslim countries have a better rank than your Indonesia and Pakistan: Brunei (#4), Kuwait (#9), United Arab Emirates (#14), Bahrain (#24), Oman (#36), Saudi Arabia (#38), Libya (#58), Malaysia (#59),
The first Muslim country that is a democracy is Turkey, coming at #61.
That's why it's far better to create hidden, encrypted containers, using Truecrypt's plausible deniability
I am really getting tired reading such amateurish argument over and over again...
Take a TrueCrypt volume, open it up with the "safe" password then try stuffing it with files. At some point, the limits of the allowed "safe" files" will show, and the difference between the "safe" files and the overall TrueCrypt volume will mean one and only one thing: that there is something else hidden in there.
As a person who is a citizen of the United States of America I'd like to hope that we, as a nation, are too weak to actually do shit about it at this point.
As a citizen of EU I must say I think you speak like a traitor.
Whatever your reasons are to disagree with your own government, to wish your nation is too weak to act is akin to treason.
There were private business in Soviet Russia *after* the Bolshevik revolution.
Heck, there were private business even after the Bolshevicks managed to defeat the Whites and fully control Russia. Google for +NEP +Russia +Lenin and you'll find the info yourself.
Chavez is strangling the private economy and he's bribing the low-income Venezuelans with his petrodollars, which are hiding his economic disaster.
Chavez doesn't need to brive each and every citizen in Venezuela, just enough to have 51% support when the voting comes. In the mean time, he's changing the Constitution and the laws so that pretty soon no voting will count anymore.
They are doing this for their more distant future.
Yeah, right! The Chinese are pumping tens of billions of dollars into their space program because it's a fantastic propaganda show, for their own citizens and for other third world countries they need to impress nowadays.
Plus it also means their rockets can send huge payloads to literally *any* place on Earth. Example payloads: nukes.
That's nothing bad per se, Americans and Soviets / Russians are doing it for decades already, but let's not kidd ourselves about the forward-looking wise Chinese.
It's just business as usual, nothing more, nothing less.
Their buyer is gonna be either a Chinese company, Nvidia or Nokia.
If only one choice given, I'll pick the Chinese company. Transmeta, beside their spin machine, fits exactly the kind of goals the Chinese have these years regarding their own IT field.
The problem ultimately is that people in the West have become incredibly coddled. It's not that they trust governments more than they did in the past, it's just that they can't get out of their web browser, off the telephone to Aunt Mavis or turn off the TV long enough to give a shit about the nature of liberty and the need of vigilance.
Unlike those freedom-loving, liberty-fired Chinese or Arabs or Thai?
That's one of the most cretin comments I've EVER seen on Slashdot. Countries on the verge of collapseneed more business ties, more NGO assistance, more international assistance, not less. Otherwise the thugs will be left alone to vandalize the country.
One would hope that, 2,000 years from now, our descendants will all look back at Sputnik and see it as a great triumph of all mankind, not just the accomplishment of one tribe trying to best another. I, for one, hope that 2,000 years from now there will be any tribes at all living on Earth.
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"The Muslim men that were asked to leave a flight because they spoke in Arabic".
There was no such incident, sorry to disappoint you. If you have any link to any article describing Muslims being removed from their airplane *just for speaking in Arabic* please do it. Otherwise stop spreading urban legends, especially because you are talking about sensitive issues.
Let's see the reasons why those Muslims were subject to removal from the airplane (which is not really a huge issue, it also happens to drunk passengers):
made prayers right before boarding the plane (suspicious timing)
they participated in the same conference, came together, prayed together but their seats were spread out throughout the plane (suspicious behaviour)
the 6 men made anti-US comments before and during the boarding (suspicious activity when connected with their other activities)
Sounds to me they pretty much fit themselves into the standard profile of a would-be Muslim suicide bomber.
While the removal off their plane may have been right or wrong, it definitely has nothing to do with them talking in Arabic.
If the US economy is falling, and if the France and Norway are doing so well, how come MILLIONS of people, ranging from poor uneducated farmers to university professors are trying EVERY SINGLE DAY to emigrate to the US?
The statistics, even adjusted to take into account the relative size of these three countries' population, are the clearest argument against this incorrect idea that US economy is falling while France and Norway are booming.
The would-be immigrants are placing their own money and their own lives at risk in order to emigrate. Maybe 95 out of 100 choose USA as their destination.
What's the difference between you and those Holocaust deniers who say "But the Jews are lying, they haven't been N million of Jews killed by Hitler, they were only Z millions!"
Palestinians are also denied citizenship by all Arab states, due to an Arab League decision of NOT allowing Palestinians to be absorbed by any Arab country (thus keeping the pressure against Israel).
The guy has to pretend being a wacko in order to get a smaller sentence. Remember he risks up to 60 years in prison, after all.
He can't claim temporary instanity, since he did that for years. So he INDIRECTLY claims perpetuum wackiness (TM), of a kind that will provoque smiles and with the jurors / the judge.
He wasn't looking for UFOs, he isn't into free energy from out there. He is just building the best legal defense he can, given the circumstances.
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Dude, if he is smart enough to write The Cathedral and the Bazaar he must be smart enough to tell us how to bang our girlfriends.
We all know you have no girlfriend, dude. This is Slashdot, after all.
Its funny you mention elections, because the most prosperous Muslim-majority nations are the ones that are democracies (Indonesia) or closer to it on that spectrum (Pakistan).
According to this Wikipedia article, the biggest per-capita GDP, on a PPP basis, is... Qatar (a Muslim country).
Let's see which other Muslim countries have a better rank than your Indonesia and Pakistan: Brunei (#4), Kuwait (#9), United Arab Emirates (#14), Bahrain (#24), Oman (#36), Saudi Arabia (#38), Libya (#58), Malaysia (#59),
The first Muslim country that is a democracy is Turkey, coming at #61.
So whatever your point was... it was dead wrong.
That's why it's far better to create hidden, encrypted containers, using Truecrypt's plausible deniability
I am really getting tired reading such amateurish argument over and over again...
Take a TrueCrypt volume, open it up with the "safe" password then try stuffing it with files. At some point, the limits of the allowed "safe" files" will show, and the difference between the "safe" files and the overall TrueCrypt volume will mean one and only one thing: that there is something else hidden in there.
So much for "plausible deniability"...
How'bout that?
It just means BIGGER payload = more nukes more targets.
One thing is for citizens to revolt against their own government. I think it might be "the ultimate right". I fully agree with you on this one.
On the other hand, what I see as almost betrayal is wishing your one government to be so weak, it is impotent as related to other government.
Big difference.
"Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, better known in the industry as 'Woz'"
The entry part of the article should be:
"Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, better known in the industry as 'The Irrelevant Steve'"
Now the whole story makes much more sense, trust me on that.
As a person who is a citizen of the United States of America I'd like to hope that we, as a nation, are too weak to actually do shit about it at this point.
As a citizen of EU I must say I think you speak like a traitor.
Whatever your reasons are to disagree with your own government, to wish your nation is too weak to act is akin to treason.
There were private business in Soviet Russia *after* the Bolshevik revolution.
Heck, there were private business even after the Bolshevicks managed to defeat the Whites and fully control Russia. Google for +NEP +Russia +Lenin and you'll find the info yourself.
Chavez is strangling the private economy and he's bribing the low-income Venezuelans with his petrodollars, which are hiding his economic disaster.
Chavez doesn't need to brive each and every citizen in Venezuela, just enough to have 51% support when the voting comes. In the mean time, he's changing the Constitution and the laws so that pretty soon no voting will count anymore.
I predict you'll never understand how wrong you are about Chavez and his wrong policies.
They are doing this for their more distant future.
Yeah, right! The Chinese are pumping tens of billions of dollars into their space program because it's a fantastic propaganda show, for their own citizens and for other third world countries they need to impress nowadays.
Plus it also means their rockets can send huge payloads to literally *any* place on Earth. Example payloads: nukes.
That's nothing bad per se, Americans and Soviets / Russians are doing it for decades already, but let's not kidd ourselves about the forward-looking wise Chinese.
It's just business as usual, nothing more, nothing less.
Trust me, you don't wanna know...
Their buyer is gonna be either a Chinese company, Nvidia or Nokia.
If only one choice given, I'll pick the Chinese company. Transmeta, beside their spin machine, fits exactly the kind of goals the Chinese have these years regarding their own IT field.
The problem ultimately is that people in the West have become incredibly coddled. It's not that they trust governments more than they did in the past, it's just that they can't get out of their web browser, off the telephone to Aunt Mavis or turn off the TV long enough to give a shit about the nature of liberty and the need of vigilance.
Unlike those freedom-loving, liberty-fired Chinese or Arabs or Thai?
Give me a break...
If you want to get rid of the companies, why don't you just go live in North Korea?
That's one of the most cretin comments I've EVER seen on Slashdot. Countries on the verge of collapseneed more business ties, more NGO assistance, more international assistance, not less. Otherwise the thugs will be left alone to vandalize the country.
Dr. Mengele, is that you?
There was no such incident, sorry to disappoint you. If you have any link to any article describing Muslims being removed from their airplane *just for speaking in Arabic* please do it. Otherwise stop spreading urban legends, especially because you are talking about sensitive issues.
The incident I believe you are talking about is this: Six Imams removed from US Airways flight (or read alternative article).
Let's see the reasons why those Muslims were subject to removal from the airplane (which is not really a huge issue, it also happens to drunk passengers):
Sounds to me they pretty much fit themselves into the standard profile of a would-be Muslim suicide bomber.
While the removal off their plane may have been right or wrong, it definitely has nothing to do with them talking in Arabic.
If the US economy is falling, and if the France and Norway are doing so well, how come MILLIONS of people, ranging from poor uneducated farmers to university professors are trying EVERY SINGLE DAY to emigrate to the US?
The statistics, even adjusted to take into account the relative size of these three countries' population, are the clearest argument against this incorrect idea that US economy is falling while France and Norway are booming.
The would-be immigrants are placing their own money and their own lives at risk in order to emigrate. Maybe 95 out of 100 choose USA as their destination.
What's the difference between you and those Holocaust deniers who say "But the Jews are lying, they haven't been N million of Jews killed by Hitler, they were only Z millions!"
Palestinians are also denied citizenship by all Arab states, due to an Arab League decision of NOT allowing Palestinians to be absorbed by any Arab country (thus keeping the pressure against Israel).
USA is not and never was a republic. It is a federation of states.
The guy has to pretend being a wacko in order to get a smaller sentence. Remember he risks up to 60 years in prison, after all.
He can't claim temporary instanity, since he did that for years. So he INDIRECTLY claims perpetuum wackiness (TM), of a kind that will provoque smiles and with the jurors / the judge.
He wasn't looking for UFOs, he isn't into free energy from out there. He is just building the best legal defense he can, given the circumstances.