I would hope that isn't the case for that system, but I have seen it happen before. In a nuclear plant? No you did not. Goodness me, no! Everyone knows that nuclear plants are immune from generalization.
Well, I wanted to see if I could get your goat, but "obviously everyone is superior to them" is a sentiment used to do much evil.
How do you get 'the majority' of Muslims, anyway? I suppose you heard it from someone who heard it from Fox news. I would assume that the majority *actually* are upset at the US (at least the government), not for religious reasons, but because we treat them like dirt.
The CIA did overturn a democratically elected government in Iran and put the Shah into power. That is what lead to the Iranian revolution and idiots like Ahmadinejad.
They are furious at Isreal, not for being Jewish, but for displacing people through force or the threat of force and taking their land, occupying the land that they fled to, then treating a whole population like filth and keeping them virtually imprisoned and without representation for a large chunk of the 20th century. Isreal punishes the peaceful and the radical Palestinians as one group. Some of the collectively punished are Palestinian Christians. They are angry at us for supporting that.
Don't forget that the US helped train and arm the mujahideen and inadvertently created the Taliban. Don't forget that the Saddam boogeyman was armed and manipulated by Washington before the war.
Religion or not, what happened has made people very very angry.
I'm not sure if you are just playing an idiot for fun, or you really don't know about the Irish blowing up random people.
A good debate technique is to put words in the mouth of your opponent. You claim I am trying to prove all Muslims are peaceful. That is not the case, but it shows how black and white you see the world, filling in all sorts of details in your mind when presented with very little evidence.
You would not think for a moment that those Muslims I spoke to actually spoke to other Muslims or had an informed opinion on their culture. Such a thought is beyond your creativity. Though Christians are taught to have charity, you possess none.
I'm sorry, but I'm going to lump you into the same template of person in my mind that makes up an extremist or a Muslim extremist, or someone who giggles when something big gets blown up or a woman gets raped and the perps get away with it. You just happen to have been born a Christian, but I think you'd make a fine Jihadist.
They are obviously superior to Muslims. Everyone is. It's feelings like this that create the Darfur Conflict, the Rhawandan Genocide, Pol Pot, extermination of Native Americans, slavery and so forth. It's people like you that put on the unofficial uniform and shatter glass in the night.
From your tenor, I suspect you've never talked to any Muslims but have formed your own opinion and feel you can speak with authority over that billion people.
Do I really have to remind you of the Northern Ireland conflict? Have you forgotten the terrorism committed by Christians? I'm sorry. Not superior. Just human. Oh darn.
I love how multiculturalists always go for the moral equivalence angle. Apparently anything Muslims do is a-okay as long as you can establish that theoretically Christians might do the same, at least according to the multiculturalist's own interpretation of things, which tends to be wildly incorrect. You may or may not be aware of this, but Christians tend to follow the New Testament, not the Old Testament.
In any case it doesn't matter, since Christians do not actually follow the passages you're quoting. Are you arguing that they're still morally equal to Islamic extremists? Is this some kind of pre-thought crime nonsense? Christians seem to pick and choose what they want to follow out of the Old Testament. "God Hates Fags" but "Oh, the Slavery stuff is over" comes to mind. Are Christian Extremists morally equivalent to Islamic Extremists? Why not?
You are saying that Christians are superior to others.
Do Muslims tend to be extremist? Having met and had long philosophical discussions with both Christians and Muslims, I honestly don't sense a superiority of one over the other.
It's what you make of it. There are violent and peaceful people. The violent ones will comb through obscura (like my above post) to justify their violence. Christianity is not a monolith and neither is Islam.
Christianity does, at least, give it lip service to forgiveness. This is something lacking in some other religions (though Christianity seems to pale in comparison to Buddhism on the 'be compassionate' score).
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
"Work six days only, but the seventh day must be a day of total rest. I repeat: Because the LORD considers it a holy day, anyone who works on the Sabbath must be put to death.' (Exodus 31:12-15 NLT)"
Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)
If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB)
Suppose a man or woman among you, in one of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, has done evil in the sight of the LORD your God and has violated the covenant by serving other gods or by worshiping the sun, the moon, or any of the forces of heaven, which I have strictly forbidden. When you hear about it, investigate the matter thoroughly. If it is true that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, then that man or woman must be taken to the gates of the town and stoned to death. (Deuteronomy 17:2-5 NLT)
Probably not a whole lot happened to them but they haven't done much in the way of making the news for violence termed "terrorism" in a long time. Wasn't McVeigh a Christian?
I would find it hard to believe that 300 lines could be reduced to 10 in any language.
I doubt the extra memory use will ever be noticed. Sounds like you have never heard of assembly. Also sounds like you've never worked with data amounts in the gigabytes.
I'm sure not even many Python programmers would make sense of that gibberish, but the code should be readable to anyone with a programming background even without knowing the language. The above opinion is the reason why people do goofy godawful slow and icky things rather than use a simple regular expression. Its why, rather than write a complex 10 line SQL statement, people will write a 300 line (or worse) memory hog.
I don't understand the above line of code; I'm not a python programmer, but I'm sure I could spend 5 mins to learn the syntax and understand it perfectly.
I'm sure it would replace boatloads of code that I'd otherwise have to slog through.
Everything from your age, race, language, skin colour, religion, marital status, where you work, what you drive, your education level, your income level, where you went to school, who your friends are, where you vacation, where you shop, your taste in movies, your taste in porn, your taste in books, your politics, whether you have kids... they might even know your face.
Its a surveillance wet dream. It's not that they are specifically tracking *you*, they are tracking your 'type'. Its even more insidious. Ever think about the case where it *is* that true? That you are that predictable and actually do fit pretty close to one of a handful of templates? It's a truism that we are individuals, but what if that is less the case than instinct and pride wants to allow?
It was java, actually, and it was the greater than or equals operator, and I think slashdot ate my less than sign in my post, or I didn't see it missing in the preview.
aka: Get some better hardware - the cost is _irrelevant_ compared to quality programming labor! More hardware is the easy, seductive path to inefficient bloated code.
If there was a dual between a vi (or even emacs) veteran coder and a IDE wiz, I'd put my money on the vi coder.
Why? Because getting close to the code makes you think of the problem at hand, rather than think of the fastest way to get the IDE to tackle the problem.
I once spent 2 hours debugging some code by stepping through it. I put aside the IDE for a moment, _looked_ at the code, saw the >= that should have been an . I've not been back to IDEs and my code has been tighter and much more organized since.
Yahoo is playing hard to get. In the end, Yahoo is going to be bought, and for all intents and purposes, it is the end of Yahoo.
Yahoo's been kind of sucking recently. I can imagine what it will be like when the questionable yahoo toys will be replaced with the even more rediculous Microsoft ones.
There's a *very* good reason we have a two party system each with one chosen candidate..... Otherwise you get to deal with this wonderful issue of bargaining in the House for the presidancy. Maybe a democracy needs the bargaining as long as it is public and open.
What bugs me about liberal ass-hats is they preach "human rights", but when it comes to making changes, they sit on their hands. What are liberals doing about Tibet, Darfur, Burma, or Zimbabwe? About 1/10th the whining they do about how awful the US is. Hypocrites. What is anyone doing about Tibet, Darfur, Burma or Zimbabwe? What are conservatives doing about those places? They've been in control the lion's share of the time the Jangeweed have been sacking Dafur. China is strong and India and Nepal are preventing any anti-China displays. Even the US is treading carefully so as not to offend China.
It's interesting that China touches 3 of the 4 places you've mentioned. They are buddy buggy with Khartum (capitol of Sudan where Darfur is for those without knowlege of geography), Tibet is *in* China, and they are the primary consumer of Burma's natural gas fields and about the only country with influence over Burma (and North Korea).
So what do you *do* with China? They are powerful enough that, other than something catastrophic, the only thing that is going to change China is China itself. Let their middle class grow and eventually they will have 'liberal wankers' who will complain about China, preach about human rights and want Tibet to be free.
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No more hostage flights. If people think they will be killed, they will prevent any sort of crashing into anything.
All the crowd has to do is walk to the front of the airplane. The weight imbalance will make it crash. They don't have to overpower anyone.
Scenario : System comes up. Things don't work quite right. Some configurations are tweaked and system is now working fine.
Reboot. The tweaked configurations happen to go away. No one remembers which ones they were. The system is b0rked for a while.
I would hope that isn't the case for that system, but I have seen it happen before.
For the last bit, it *could* be relevant to explain why so many are upset with the US govt, no?
One version of what happened? What is your take on the formation of Israel. You think they didn't take over people's homes that they had fled from?
I suppose the British Mandate was a big empty bubble before the Jewish war refugees got there.
I think you're just yanking my chain, professor. Do you even know who was the Israeli Prime Minister during the 67 war?
Can you even name 4 subtypes of Islam and what their relevant philosophies are and how they got started?
Are you incapable of understanding that if one side is wrong, it doesn't make the other side right?
By the way, here is info on the coup so you can ignore it and pretend it never occurred http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat
Well, I wanted to see if I could get your goat, but "obviously everyone is superior to them" is a sentiment used to do much evil.
How do you get 'the majority' of Muslims, anyway? I suppose you heard it from someone who heard it from Fox news. I would assume that the majority *actually* are upset at the US (at least the government), not for religious reasons, but because we treat them like dirt.
The CIA did overturn a democratically elected government in Iran and put the Shah into power. That is what lead to the Iranian revolution and idiots like Ahmadinejad.
They are furious at Isreal, not for being Jewish, but for displacing people through force or the threat of force and taking their land, occupying the land that they fled to, then treating a whole population like filth and keeping them virtually imprisoned and without representation for a large chunk of the 20th century. Isreal punishes the peaceful and the radical Palestinians as one group. Some of the collectively punished are Palestinian Christians. They are angry at us for supporting that.
Don't forget that the US helped train and arm the
mujahideen and inadvertently created the Taliban. Don't forget that the Saddam boogeyman was armed and manipulated by Washington before the war.
Religion or not, what happened has made people very very angry.
I'm not sure if you are just playing an idiot for fun, or you really don't know about the Irish blowing up random people.
A good debate technique is to put words in the mouth of your opponent. You claim I am trying to prove all Muslims are peaceful. That is not the case, but it shows how black and white you see the world, filling in all sorts of details in your mind when presented with very little evidence.
You would not think for a moment that those Muslims I spoke to actually spoke to other Muslims or had an informed opinion on their culture. Such a thought is beyond your creativity. Though Christians are taught to have charity, you possess none.
I'm sorry, but I'm going to lump you into the same template of person in my mind that makes up an extremist or a Muslim extremist, or someone who giggles when something big gets blown up or a woman gets raped and the perps get away with it. You just happen to have been born a Christian, but I think you'd make a fine Jihadist.
From your tenor, I suspect you've never talked to any Muslims but have formed your own opinion and feel you can speak with authority over that billion people.
Do I really have to remind you of the Northern Ireland conflict? Have you forgotten the terrorism committed by Christians? I'm sorry. Not superior. Just human. Oh darn.
In any case it doesn't matter, since Christians do not actually follow the passages you're quoting. Are you arguing that they're still morally equal to Islamic extremists? Is this some kind of pre-thought crime nonsense? Christians seem to pick and choose what they want to follow out of the Old Testament. "God Hates Fags" but "Oh, the Slavery stuff is over" comes to mind. Are Christian Extremists morally equivalent to Islamic Extremists? Why not?
You are saying that Christians are superior to others.
Do Muslims tend to be extremist? Having met and had long philosophical discussions with both Christians and Muslims, I honestly don't sense a superiority of one over the other.
It's what you make of it. There are violent and peaceful people. The violent ones will comb through obscura (like my above post) to justify their violence. Christianity is not a monolith and neither is Islam.
Christianity does, at least, give it lip service to forgiveness. This is something lacking in some other religions (though Christianity seems to pale in comparison to Buddhism on the 'be compassionate' score).
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
"Work six days only, but the seventh day must be a day of total rest. I repeat: Because the LORD considers it a holy day, anyone who works on the Sabbath must be put to death.' (Exodus 31:12-15 NLT)"
Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)
If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB)
Suppose a man or woman among you, in one of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, has done evil in the sight of the LORD your God and has violated the covenant by serving other gods or by worshiping the sun, the moon, or any of the forces of heaven, which I have strictly forbidden. When you hear about it, investigate the matter thoroughly. If it is true that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, then that man or woman must be taken to the gates of the town and stoned to death. (Deuteronomy 17:2-5 NLT)
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."
â" Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000
"You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier." - Governing Magazine, July, 1998
"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it." - Business Week, July 30, 2001
I doubt the extra memory use will ever be noticed. Sounds like you have never heard of assembly.
Also sounds like you've never worked with data amounts in the gigabytes.
I don't understand the above line of code; I'm not a python programmer, but I'm sure I could spend 5 mins to learn the syntax and understand it perfectly.
I'm sure it would replace boatloads of code that I'd otherwise have to slog through.
Its a surveillance wet dream. It's not that they are specifically tracking *you*, they are tracking your 'type'. Its even more insidious. Ever think about the case where it *is* that true? That you are that predictable and actually do fit pretty close to one of a handful of templates? It's a truism that we are individuals, but what if that is less the case than instinct and pride wants to allow?
It was java, actually, and it was the greater than or equals operator, and I think slashdot ate my less than sign in my post, or I didn't see it missing in the preview.
If there was a dual between a vi (or even emacs) veteran coder and a IDE wiz, I'd put my money on the vi coder.
Why? Because getting close to the code makes you think of the problem at hand, rather than think of the fastest way to get the IDE to tackle the problem.
I once spent 2 hours debugging some code by stepping through it. I put aside the IDE for a moment, _looked_ at the code, saw the >= that should have been an . I've not been back to IDEs and my code has been tighter and much more organized since.
if( val( True ) = val( False ) )
? "Visual Basic makes perfect sense"
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Plattdot? heheh. Wat O'Clock?
Yahoo is playing hard to get.
In the end, Yahoo is going to be bought, and for all intents and purposes, it is the end of Yahoo.
Yahoo's been kind of sucking recently. I can imagine what it will be like when the questionable yahoo toys will be replaced with the even more rediculous Microsoft ones.
Just imagine a web enabled Clippy.
Otherwise you get to deal with this wonderful issue of bargaining in the House for the presidancy. Maybe a democracy needs the bargaining as long as it is public and open.
Why, a two party system is probably almost *twice* as good as a one party system!
It's interesting that China touches 3 of the 4 places you've mentioned. They are buddy buggy with Khartum (capitol of Sudan where Darfur is for those without knowlege of geography), Tibet is *in* China, and they are the primary consumer of Burma's natural gas fields and about the only country with influence over Burma (and North Korea).
So what do you *do* with China? They are powerful enough that, other than something catastrophic, the only thing that is going to change China is China itself. Let their middle class grow and eventually they will have 'liberal wankers' who will complain about China, preach about human rights and want Tibet to be free.