Usless to who? Most people, including my mother, don't need those for their iPhone. The average user does not have those complaints. My sister's biggest complaint with the iPhone is that you can't use the keyboard in landscape mode for texting the way other touchscreen phones can (and that's why she eagerly wants the 3.0 update)
Those features would all be nice, and I think 3.0 will fix many of those complaints like tethering and background notifications.
One of the questions about our new terms of use is whether Facebook can use this information forever. When a person shares something like a message with a friend, two copies of that information are createdâ"one in the person's sent messages box and the other in their friend's inbox. Even if the person deactivates their account, their friend still has a copy of that message. We think this is the right way for Facebook to work, and it is consistent with how other services like email work. One of the reasons we updated our terms was to make this more clear.
The internet has worked to accelerate anti-semitism and Islamophobia, I believe. I don't think the internet would have done much, but that's like saying what if there were cell phones during WWII? It's an idle speculation
I'm actually blind in one eye, due to a badly-formed optic nerve before birth. I was hoping to replace it with something like Olhado had in Speaker for the Dead, he had a in-socket camera that would record everything, and he could plug it in and play it back for anyone interested.
Personally I'd get Terminator-style vision instead.
Show me a citation from a Bin Laden speech where he says he killed 5000 Americans because of their culture. His tirade is pretty clear; America props up dictators, backs Israeli atrocities, and causes suffering abroad.
The CDC, and local and state health departments all have a list of "reportable" diseases. (Things from TB to gonnorhea to ebola to SARS) If a doctor encounters them, they are supposed to notify the health authorities. That is for biostatistics and epidemiology purposes.
If they have to look these cases up in the news instead of getting notified by hospitals and clinics, then the system is in a really bad shape.
Maybe not to you and me, but maybe it will make society stupider.
Once the right-wing talk show host Dennis Prager called me a liar on national radio when I told him on his show that I'd witnessed Palestinian marches against suicide bombings. He did so after doing a google search during a commercial break. Unfortunately, the evidence was not googlable because the articles were too old, but was findable on Lexus-Nexus, as I explained to him after the show.
Way to yank something out of context. It was referring to the polytheists and atheists (if you had read the entire thing), because they threw away all the blessings and favors that God gave them.
Quran 5:69 says: "Surely they that believe, and those of Jewry, and the Christians, and those Sabeaans [Zoroastrians], whoso believes in God and the Last Day, and works righteousness--their wage waits them with their Lord, and no fear shall be on them, neither shall they sorrow."
5:82. " . . . and you will find the nearest in love to the believers (Muslims) those who say: 'We are Christians.' That is because amongst them are priests and monks, and they are not proud."
Unfortunately, you are taking this out of context. While those ayat exist, they are referring to the time period when the polytheist Meccans were attacking them and their city. 8:54 is referring to the Pharoah (the one Moses, peace be upon him, dealt with), so that quote you gave of 8:55-8:62 should be interpreted in that manner. Also, you need to weigh it in light of the rest of the >6000 ayat present. Here's another:
25:63: The worshippers of the All-Merciful are they who tread gently upon the earth, and when the ignorant address them, they reply, "Peace!" 64. They pass the night in adoration of their Lord, prostrating themselves and then rising. 65. They say, "Our Lord, avert from us the torment of hell. Its torture is ruinous. 66. It is an evil place and abode." 67. When they spend, they are neither spendthrifts nor miserly, but keep to a golden mean. 68. They do not call on any deity other than the one God. They do not kill a person, the taking of whose blood God has forbidden, except for just cause. They do not commit adultery. Those who commit these acts must pay. Their torment on the Judgment Day will be doubled, and they will be consigned to eternal abasement-- 69. Unless they repent, have faith, and do righteous works. For such as these, God changes their evil deeds into good works. God is forgiving and compassionate.
Surah 9, where you quoted 9:111 from, was revealed in the midst of that same war. It encourages people to fight and save their city from annihilation, and to liberate those who were being tortured by the Meccans. Any scholar will tell you that it must be taken into account with the rest of the Quran, including the ayat that say murder is a sin. The part you cited is telling the believers to not be afraid to fight when it is your duty, and not to fear getting killed in a righteous battle since God will reward you and He created you and has rights over you. It does NOT apply to terrorism, which scholars have condemned to be explicitly against the letter and spirit of Islam. (google it if you want)
Islam is not pacifist, but it's more realistic. Violence happens in the world no matter what, so the religion has specific rules as to when it is permissible and when it is not. Going to war in order to liberate oppressed people is permissible, but making war to oppress is not. (Islam also allows personal religious freedom and a host of things in line with the UN charter on human rights, but I'm not going to get into that here.)
As for the idea of a dhimmi system, it's both misunderstood and outdated. I don't see even the most extreme Muslims calling for that kind of system or using that word, which seems to be exclusively used by critics. That word only had relevance under the time of the caliphate, which does not exist today. Also, under an ideal islamic state, non-muslims would be granted equal rights under the law (with the exception of voting for the caliph, who is akin to a Pope), and the government would spend money on the upkeep of churches and synagogues.
MORPHEUS: It started early in the 20th century, with the birth of what was referred to as the spam epidemic. The arms race led to a singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines.
(In his sunglasses, we see storm clouds gather.)
MORPHEUS: We don't know who struck first, Us or them. But we do know it was us who ruined the freedom. At the time, spammers sent email for free, so it was assumed that charging for every message would cripple them. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony...
a 15-year-old who says she enjoys being around boys and wants to meet new people. The real profile user turned out to be a 31-year-old man convicted of sexually abusing 11 children he met online and sentenced to a 45-year prison term.
If you actually read his blog regularly, he's defended Israel on both academic and political terms. You're citing a right-wing source who disagreed with his Palestinian stance and sought to have him smeared. I find Professor Cole to be a pretty fair guy. I've disagreed with him on things like abortion, but not on the basis you cited.
fair enough. But it IS a Major center for south america's pharmaceuticals and has perhapsspme of the best healthcare provided to the continent (lots of people go to Cuba for medical care)
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Better tell all those Time Machine users
Under the Settings>General>Restrictions, you can disable Safari and Youtube entirely, as well as "explicit" iTunes tracks.
Usless to who? Most people, including my mother, don't need those for their iPhone. The average user does not have those complaints. My sister's biggest complaint with the iPhone is that you can't use the keyboard in landscape mode for texting the way other touchscreen phones can (and that's why she eagerly wants the 3.0 update)
Those features would all be nice, and I think 3.0 will fix many of those complaints like tethering and background notifications.
Rich New Yorkers it seems. I was in line for an Apple Store Grand opening and met two 7-year-olds with iPhones. It's enough to make you jealous.
Am I the only one who read the article?
That makes sense to me.
Yeah, I want a 3G phone with as many cameras as a spider has eyes.
The internet has worked to accelerate anti-semitism and Islamophobia, I believe. I don't think the internet would have done much, but that's like saying what if there were cell phones during WWII? It's an idle speculation
Hey, I had totally thought of that first.
I'm actually blind in one eye, due to a badly-formed optic nerve before birth. I was hoping to replace it with something like Olhado had in Speaker for the Dead, he had a in-socket camera that would record everything, and he could plug it in and play it back for anyone interested.
Personally I'd get Terminator-style vision instead.
Show me a citation from a Bin Laden speech where he says he killed 5000 Americans because of their culture. His tirade is pretty clear; America props up dictators, backs Israeli atrocities, and causes suffering abroad.
The CDC, and local and state health departments all have a list of "reportable" diseases. (Things from TB to gonnorhea to ebola to SARS) If a doctor encounters them, they are supposed to notify the health authorities. That is for biostatistics and epidemiology purposes.
If they have to look these cases up in the news instead of getting notified by hospitals and clinics, then the system is in a really bad shape.
From The Danger of Google History in a Time of War by Mark Levine
I agree with you, but it seems like nobody here has read it, they can't even tell us the origin of the term "worm."
Give me a break. It wasn't Muslims who did the Holocaust nor the Crusades, nor the Spanish inquisition.
Way to yank something out of context. It was referring to the polytheists and atheists (if you had read the entire thing), because they threw away all the blessings and favors that God gave them.
Quran 5:69 says: "Surely they that believe, and those of Jewry, and the Christians, and those Sabeaans [Zoroastrians], whoso believes in God and the Last Day, and works righteousness--their wage waits them with their Lord, and no fear shall be on them, neither shall they sorrow."
5:82. " . . . and you will find the nearest in love to the believers (Muslims) those who say: 'We are Christians.' That is because amongst them are priests and monks, and they are not proud."
8:54 is referring to the Pharoah (the one Moses, peace be upon him, dealt with), so that quote you gave of 8:55-8:62 should be interpreted in that manner. Also, you need to weigh it in light of the rest of the >6000 ayat present. Here's another:
Surah 9, where you quoted 9:111 from, was revealed in the midst of that same war. It encourages people to fight and save their city from annihilation, and to liberate those who were being tortured by the Meccans. Any scholar will tell you that it must be taken into account with the rest of the Quran, including the ayat that say murder is a sin. The part you cited is telling the believers to not be afraid to fight when it is your duty, and not to fear getting killed in a righteous battle since God will reward you and He created you and has rights over you. It does NOT apply to terrorism, which scholars have condemned to be explicitly against the letter and spirit of Islam. (google it if you want)
Islam is not pacifist, but it's more realistic. Violence happens in the world no matter what, so the religion has specific rules as to when it is permissible and when it is not. Going to war in order to liberate oppressed people is permissible, but making war to oppress is not. (Islam also allows personal religious freedom and a host of things in line with the UN charter on human rights, but I'm not going to get into that here.)
As for the idea of a dhimmi system, it's both misunderstood and outdated. I don't see even the most extreme Muslims calling for that kind of system or using that word, which seems to be exclusively used by critics. That word only had relevance under the time of the caliphate, which does not exist today. Also, under an ideal islamic state, non-muslims would be granted equal rights under the law (with the exception of voting for the caliph, who is akin to a Pope), and the government would spend money on the upkeep of churches and synagogues.
NEO: What happened?
MORPHEUS: It started early in the 20th century, with the birth of what was referred to as the spam epidemic. The arms race led to a singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines.
(In his sunglasses, we see storm clouds gather.)
MORPHEUS: We don't know who struck first, Us or them. But we do know it was us who ruined the freedom. At the time, spammers sent email for free, so it was assumed that charging for every message would cripple them. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony...
Confusing, right?
What kind of predator would pretend being a 15-year-old girl? One trying to trap a straight guy?
It sounds like a Craigslist posting.
What's the big deal about an inaccurate movie from a fascist party? Don't geeks have better things to worry about?
Baloney.
If you actually read his blog regularly, he's defended Israel on both academic and political terms. You're citing a right-wing source who disagreed with his Palestinian stance and sought to have him smeared. I find Professor Cole to be a pretty fair guy. I've disagreed with him on things like abortion, but not on the basis you cited.
And this justifies the massacre and rape of women and children how?
Well, it is a 2.1GB download (and despite the dozens of dropped requests, I eventually was able to download it at 500kbps.
"One of the things that really strikes home is the ban on pornographic applications hosted by Apple."
You need something more than a web browser for porn?
fair enough. But it IS a Major center for south america's pharmaceuticals and has perhapsspme of the best healthcare provided to the continent (lots of people go to Cuba for medical care)
Honey, the mac has had double digit adoption rates for like a decade now.