"Women are property with no rights, gays should be stoned to death, people who leave the faith are executed by family members". It is exceedingly easy to find parallels for these in western society.
Where are the parallels for stoning gays and family executions? We have almost universal equal rights for all and it's only getting more so (despite some individuals opposition)
I saw this news earlier on Google News and Yahoo! News and some other places. No offense but, is this really Slashdot relevant? It's interesting news, sure, but what is still separating Slashdot from any other news website anymore?
Not really but it mentions instagram so it's fair game.
If a female goes outside in the USA (and many other places) without a top on, you'll get to see repression of an exactly similar nature.
Probably shouldn't be feeling all that superior to Iran, really.
Just a matter of degree.
It may be frowned upon but in a lot of the US it's not illegal. I read this thing about a woman who goes around topless for the most part and apart from dodgy looks its mostly fine. I'm not going to search for it because I'm at work and my internet history is probably already dodgy enough. They certainly don't go around arresting women who have topless photos online though.
Indeed. Before Iran became an Islamic Republic, it was an enlightened American client state, ruled by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, a really great guy, who provided his people with the most modern instruments of torture, and housed his political prisoners in state of the art facilities. It is surprising how ungrateful the Iranian people are toward America, since we installed and unselfishly supported this wonderful regime for nearly three decades, and we gave them plenty of advice on how to build and run the prisons that kept all the troublemakers locked up. All we asked for in return was plenty of cheap oil.
I fly from Heathrow regularly and security isn't too bad at all. They got rid of most of the nude scanners and you can easily pick a line that avoids them. Wait times are quite low, maybe 5-10 minutes when it's busy. The only major annoyance is having to take your shoes off, but they don't always make you do that any more.
I used to go through Liverpool a fair bit and it was easy. I don't take any thing extra off though unless they specifically ask for it. Bag, coat and belt in the tray. I got asked to take my shoes off maybe 1 time in 20.
If you still fly when you don't absolutely have to - you are okay with all of this.
Please tell me if visiting my relatives who live 6000 miles away is absolutely necessary.
It's easy to say "don't fly" -- for someone who doesn't fly anyway.
Absolutely necessary? No, not even nearly. You probably want to and no doubt they want to see you, but no matter how much you want something doesn't make it necessary. Unless there's something you can't do without that you cant get from anywhere else or maybe they're dieing then no, it's not absolutely necessary.
As a Canadian still unable to afford a house without signing my life away to debt for the next 30 years, I welcome the burst. Housing prices are INSANE and a lot of that is owned by foreigners.
Couldn't agree more. I don't know about Canada but buy to let mortgages are killing it in the UK. Bunch of twats buying up loads of property, taking them off the market then putting them back on at higher cost so they can not only basically get a free house but profit from it too.
I'll bite. Which Jews? Is it like a thing that all Jews are aware of and involved in, like they have a ballot at temple or whatever and 9/11 passed to vote? Or is it maybe a council of secret Jews that have all the Jew power and then dispense their will. Like the Jedi council, or Jewdi if you will.
Yeah, you're right. The us has much better internet service than the third world, kudos. Compared to the rest of the developed nations it's shit. You get ripped off at every turn.
The country with the actual claim to inventing the internet has one of the shittest internets. If any ISP around here even thought of having a cap on anything but the most basic of service they'd be laughed right out of business.
They could build fully automated kiosks where I enter what I want and out comes a packaged burger in the same way I go to an ATM and enter how much money I want.
While that is bad for jobs and the economy, it might be the only way you'll actually get a burger that looks like the picture. Hmmm, conflicted.
My making noise with my car in no way makes them behave other than they would normally behave. I've got rear view mirrors and see how they were already driving. If I were *encouraging* them then I'd be racing with them. It's not encouragement to actually not race at all.
Not being funny, but giving the suggestion that you're going to race and then not race is in every way encouraging them to boot down. I'm guessing you're hoping they'll crash into something or a cop will see it but either way it's a dick move.
Because we all know it's IMPOSSIBLE for software to ever have bugs, or for switches or sensors to malfunction, or for anything to ever happen within a system that doesn't get immediately and correctly logged.
Ignorance is bliss I guess...
And people are infallible and never lie to stop themselves looking stupid, right?
Not really. IF there's a provision he's already signed and agreed saying HE and possibly the other two won't then then they might have a breach of agreement on him if they did that depending on the specifics of the terms. He's no longer under contract with them so it would only be for an x years thing anyway. But on a copyrights naming ground they don't have shit if they left fifth gear alone for so long. So yeah, if it's in a contact then fair enough but otherwise they can't claim the words top or gear.
Regardless, imo, gear knobs is a better name than grand tour and that's what I'm calling it.
I can walk down the street with a friend and have a conversation that is not recorded, is never discoverable in the future. Although millions of us are honest people, terrorists could have these types of conversations as well. I just don't know how we can let that happen. It seems that the government should require us to record conversations so that if there is a warrant in the future we can get that data. Why it is just unfathomable that there could be information that the government cannot discover! How could we have let this happen for so long?! It's just SO GREAT that the FBI is trying to protect us...
Even this is a slippery slope. When all conversations are recorded then the terrorists will simply move to sign language. In this end we must also break everyones fingers to keep freedom safe or whatever.
Yeah but there's another show on channel 5 called fifth gear which is a lot closer and they haven't ever said anything about that. I don't think the beeb would really have a leg to stand on if they tried to go after them for using the word gear.
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"Women are property with no rights, gays should be stoned to death, people who leave the faith are executed by family members". It is exceedingly easy to find parallels for these in western society.
Where are the parallels for stoning gays and family executions? We have almost universal equal rights for all and it's only getting more so (despite some individuals opposition)
I saw this news earlier on Google News and Yahoo! News and some other places. No offense but, is this really Slashdot relevant? It's interesting news, sure, but what is still separating Slashdot from any other news website anymore?
Not really but it mentions instagram so it's fair game.
If a female goes outside in the USA (and many other places) without a top on, you'll get to see repression of an exactly similar nature.
Probably shouldn't be feeling all that superior to Iran, really.
Just a matter of degree.
It may be frowned upon but in a lot of the US it's not illegal. I read this thing about a woman who goes around topless for the most part and apart from dodgy looks its mostly fine. I'm not going to search for it because I'm at work and my internet history is probably already dodgy enough. They certainly don't go around arresting women who have topless photos online though.
Iran wasn't so stuck in the past.
Indeed. Before Iran became an Islamic Republic, it was an enlightened American client state, ruled by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, a really great guy, who provided his people with the most modern instruments of torture, and housed his political prisoners in state of the art facilities. It is surprising how ungrateful the Iranian people are toward America, since we installed and unselfishly supported this wonderful regime for nearly three decades, and we gave them plenty of advice on how to build and run the prisons that kept all the troublemakers locked up. All we asked for in return was plenty of cheap oil.
Seems like what they have now is so much better :|
I fly from Heathrow regularly and security isn't too bad at all. They got rid of most of the nude scanners and you can easily pick a line that avoids them. Wait times are quite low, maybe 5-10 minutes when it's busy. The only major annoyance is having to take your shoes off, but they don't always make you do that any more.
I used to go through Liverpool a fair bit and it was easy. I don't take any thing extra off though unless they specifically ask for it. Bag, coat and belt in the tray. I got asked to take my shoes off maybe 1 time in 20.
Please tell me if visiting my relatives who live 6000 miles away is absolutely necessary.
It's easy to say "don't fly" -- for someone who doesn't fly anyway.
Absolutely necessary? No, not even nearly. You probably want to and no doubt they want to see you, but no matter how much you want something doesn't make it necessary. Unless there's something you can't do without that you cant get from anywhere else or maybe they're dieing then no, it's not absolutely necessary.
Saying grok makes you sound like you want to be in a clockwork orange.
As a Canadian still unable to afford a house without signing my life away to debt for the next 30 years, I welcome the burst. Housing prices are INSANE and a lot of that is owned by foreigners.
Couldn't agree more. I don't know about Canada but buy to let mortgages are killing it in the UK. Bunch of twats buying up loads of property, taking them off the market then putting them back on at higher cost so they can not only basically get a free house but profit from it too.
I'll bite. Which Jews? Is it like a thing that all Jews are aware of and involved in, like they have a ballot at temple or whatever and 9/11 passed to vote? Or is it maybe a council of secret Jews that have all the Jew power and then dispense their will. Like the Jedi council, or Jewdi if you will.
Because there's a new one out obviously. Just talking about a thing that exists doesn't make advertising.
Yeah, you're right. The us has much better internet service than the third world, kudos. Compared to the rest of the developed nations it's shit. You get ripped off at every turn.
The country with the actual claim to inventing the internet has one of the shittest internets. If any ISP around here even thought of having a cap on anything but the most basic of service they'd be laughed right out of business.
Why do you guys say "horror" instead of "horrible"?
We don't and that is a horrid accusation.
They could build fully automated kiosks where I enter what I want and out comes a packaged burger in the same way I go to an ATM and enter how much money I want.
While that is bad for jobs and the economy, it might be the only way you'll actually get a burger that looks like the picture. Hmmm, conflicted.
It is harmful to Google's business reputation.
Google could probably start killing kittens by the dozen and it wouldn't harm their reputation.
I come here for information not pointless mass debating.
All there is here is pointless mass debation.
My making noise with my car in no way makes them behave other than they would normally behave. I've got rear view mirrors and see how they were already driving. If I were *encouraging* them then I'd be racing with them. It's not encouragement to actually not race at all.
Not being funny, but giving the suggestion that you're going to race and then not race is in every way encouraging them to boot down. I'm guessing you're hoping they'll crash into something or a cop will see it but either way it's a dick move.
Because we all know it's IMPOSSIBLE for software to ever have bugs, or for switches or sensors to malfunction, or for anything to ever happen within a system that doesn't get immediately and correctly logged.
Ignorance is bliss I guess...
And people are infallible and never lie to stop themselves looking stupid, right?
Qatar isn't even in Brazil.
So where's Dubai?
Remember when we were young and always wanted to be the oldest? *sighs*
"Man, I can't wait to turn 14 so I can get my permit!" "Man, I can't wait until I'm 18 and can drink!"
Aging, not all it's cracked up to be.
Youth is wasted on the young.
Pft! Hardly, fluoride causes Autism.
What do you think is in the chemtrails?
Not really. IF there's a provision he's already signed and agreed saying HE and possibly the other two won't then then they might have a breach of agreement on him if they did that depending on the specifics of the terms. He's no longer under contract with them so it would only be for an x years thing anyway. But on a copyrights naming ground they don't have shit if they left fifth gear alone for so long. So yeah, if it's in a contact then fair enough but otherwise they can't claim the words top or gear.
Regardless, imo, gear knobs is a better name than grand tour and that's what I'm calling it.
I can walk down the street with a friend and have a conversation that is not recorded, is never discoverable in the future. Although millions of us are honest people, terrorists could have these types of conversations as well. I just don't know how we can let that happen. It seems that the government should require us to record conversations so that if there is a warrant in the future we can get that data. Why it is just unfathomable that there could be information that the government cannot discover! How could we have let this happen for so long?! It's just SO GREAT that the FBI is trying to protect us...
Even this is a slippery slope. When all conversations are recorded then the terrorists will simply move to sign language. In this end we must also break everyones fingers to keep freedom safe or whatever.
Yeah but there's another show on channel 5 called fifth gear which is a lot closer and they haven't ever said anything about that. I don't think the beeb would really have a leg to stand on if they tried to go after them for using the word gear.