Islam was spread through the Middle East by the sword. Spain, India and Indonesia came much later. Besides 85% of India is Hindi. My point about Cathholicism is that the religion of Indonesia doesn't matter.
The current fate of Women in many Islamic countries is deplorable.
Yes, and across Africa and the Middle east, Islam was spread before the sword. The Moors were far closer to proper moslems than those who would become the Turks. The moslem invaders that overan the Byzantine Empire most definately did convert by the sword.
BTW, isn't the Koran the same document that states that women are to be kept illiterate? While we all ignore bits of our holy books, I consider oppression of women far more serious and stated stronger than prohibitions on loans and eating bacon.
And as to your first question, Why is the dominant denomination in the US Catholicism? The US was founded by Protestants. (Yes, the total number of Protestants is greater than the Catholics, but no one group is greater than the Catholics.)
It should also be pointed out that the muslims converted by the sword. Basically a muslim would point a sword and you would need to proclaim your faith in Islam. Fail to do so and have the sword thrust at you. Afterwards, if caught practising another religion, deal with the sword again.
My mother teaches "gifted" middle school. It is hardly fair to even call it even advanced though. The idea of gifted is to have classes that truly challenge the genius and near genius kids. When you take some reverse discrimantion and put average or below average kids in the "gifted class", no longer are you able to chalenge the really intelligent kids or else you will have half the class acting out becuase they are completely in over thier heads.
From what I have seen, most private schools are sub par, as while the students are better, the teachers make a sizable fraction of the salary of a public teacher. If you are going to be a teacher what would you prefer? $35k or $20K.
Our knowledge of antibiotics and thier effects is just theory. Are you not going to take penicillin if catch pneumonia?
Maybe if the US was not a bunch of prudes, things would be better. Rather being ashamed of God's Image, we should be celebrating the glory of the human form.
If you understaood evolution, you would realize that languages and societies evolve. Words change. Words thhat were profane become less so. Words that weren't profane become so. If i were t cal you, special, would you take it as a compliment, or an insult? Things that are acceptabble in society change. Women vote; people cannot be slaves; there are no arranged marriages; swimsuits do not cover the whole body; men no longer have to kill a man to pass a rite of passage. One can rail against change, or one can attempt to guide change. Rail against changes in society and watch it morphh into some random pattern. Guide the change, and watch society move onto something better.
If they had taken that road instead of suing everyone, then yes it would have been decent income. They got greedy and now will not have a businesss in a few years. No one will relicense from them because of thier current actions.
Some of us like having two different copy buffers. Of course, one needs to learn how the X copy and paste works... Astounding how things might be a little different on a different OS.
And if one just wants to use the Ctrl-C/X/V that should work fine irregardless of the X version. I have had no problems copying and pasting between Mozilla, Abiword, and Kword. And that was just using Sawfish as a WM. Copy and paste is no longer an issue on modern X Desktops.
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You haven't spent any amount of time traveling along a highway. I am not talking about that road trip you took in college to the next city that was four hours away. I'm talking about traveling for days.
You need to stop, get out of the car and stretch your legs and do something else other than sit behind the wheel. When I traveled between NY and FL I would stop every couple of hours and sit on a park bench and read for 15 minutes before continuing on. Offering WiFi will be an additional incentive to get people to stop. As a Plus, the States with better rest stops usually pull in more tourists as well.
Lastly, if you RTFA, TX DOT is contracting out the WIFI points as Net Kiosks. There will be a pay subscription for the kiosk or free WIFI. The idea being that the kiosk will be able to pay for the WIFI access.
Actually, what Microsoft has done, has been proven in a court of law to be illegal. While questions of legality and morality are not equal, what Microsoft did was neither.
Actually, what Microsoft has done, has been proven in a court of law to be illegal. While questions of legality and morality are not equal, what Microsoft did was neither.
And that explains why XFree86 has repeatedly spurned code contributions from third parties, such as ATI and the Cygwin team? And I supose that Debian is a secret Illuminati organization? Right.
Most of the distros listed are pretty minor. Connectiva and Lycoris and NetBSD barely are major Distros, buthae about as much impact as say Stampede Linux did in its hey day.
Peanut has been supplanted by Vector Linux years ago. Sorceror was a predecessor to Gentoo, and Sorc was torn apart by internal politics.
The rest are pretty much Joe-Bob linux, that someguy created in his basement. (Not that there is a problem with this, most Linux Distros got thier start this way, but for every Red Hat and Mandrake, there are several more that remain obscure.)
In the US it is a regional dialect thing as to what gets used. "of" "'til" or "to" all get used. "after" and "past" both get used.
Having lived pretty much everywhere in the US and now living in Florida with a mesh of people from all over, I couldn't really say what region uses what. I personally end up mixing and matching.
It is speed at the outer edge of the disk. This is why one gets diminishing returns as one gets faster drives. A 16x CDRW drive is only a little less the twice as fast as a 8x drive. A 32x is not nearly as twice as fast as a 16x drive. And a 48x drive is barely faster than a 24x drive.
I have a 24x drive, but wrote a bunch of discs at 16x because that was what my media was rated for. The difference between 16x and 24x was about a minute.
I remember a PBS special many years back where this guy proved that a papyrus boat could sail from the Nile to South America by doing it. There is evidence that there could have been contact between Egypt and the Americas. It was technologically possible even if we have direct evidence. After all it is not like we are going to find "I saw the Pyramids" T-shirts amongst Incan ruins.
A lot of archealogy is seperating fact from Myth. Read up on how Troy was found. Ever play the game telephone? A group of people sit in a circle. One person whispers a phrase to the person next to him. By the time the phrase gets around the circle, it usually bears little resemblance to the orignal phrase. The myth of the Unicorn seems to have been derived from Aristotle's third hand description of a Rhinoceros.
A lot of archealogical sites have been found in the same manner as these photos. The preliminary evidence suggests that it matches Plato's description. We may never know for sure, unless we find a sign on the city limits: Welcome to Atlantis, Population 3,123.
The Government forces standards all the time. Sure if you are a private enterprise only dealing with private enterprise, then you can do what you want. Once you take on a government contract, you will do what the contract specifies. And even if you remian private, if your competitors take on government contracts, market pressure will work to make you conform.
Then there are accessibility laws. Flash is not acessible to the blind. Properly written html is acessible.
Lastly, if Gecko, KHTML, and Opera support the new standards, then that is about enough market clout to force some change.
You are so right. Look at the current uses of the internet: E-Mail, Instant Messaging, HTML Web, Games (a la Counter-Strike/Q3A), File Transfers (Ala FTP and P2P) and some upcoming technologies like VoIP.
There are a few extras like Internet Radio and Video that typically are hung off one of the previously mentioned technologies, usually the the web. And there is a fair amount of crossover between things. IM has included chat video conferencing, Games have had live chat for a while, Some games even had integrated email like tribes2. Web forums are something like email or IM. One can transfer files via IM. Most web brosers are ftp clients.
The ones that want to provide a rich client experience, are the ones that are trying to setup a rental model for software. If one can only access say thier office suite from a web browser then they get locked in to a rental model. The rental model has been predicted longer than Linux has been around, and if anything, we are moving to FOSS.
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Islam was spread through the Middle East by the sword. Spain, India and Indonesia came much later. Besides 85% of India is Hindi. My point about Cathholicism is that the religion of Indonesia doesn't matter.
The current fate of Women in many Islamic countries is deplorable.
A certain level of violence is a part of the game. Do you never go "ouch" during a tackle? Up to a point violence is expected and celebrated.
If there was no violence then they would be playing flag football or baseball or something.
Yes, and across Africa and the Middle east, Islam was spread before the sword. The Moors were far closer to proper moslems than those who would become the Turks. The moslem invaders that overan the Byzantine Empire most definately did convert by the sword.
BTW, isn't the Koran the same document that states that women are to be kept illiterate? While we all ignore bits of our holy books, I consider oppression of women far more serious and stated stronger than prohibitions on loans and eating bacon.
And as to your first question, Why is the dominant denomination in the US Catholicism? The US was founded by Protestants. (Yes, the total number of Protestants is greater than the Catholics, but no one group is greater than the Catholics.)
It should also be pointed out that the muslims converted by the sword. Basically a muslim would point a sword and you would need to proclaim your faith in Islam. Fail to do so and have the sword thrust at you. Afterwards, if caught practising another religion, deal with the sword again.
Yes.
Though the communist threat was fictional. Most of the terrorism charges seem to befictional.
The hysteria going on during each seems to be the same.
My mother teaches "gifted" middle school. It is hardly fair to even call it even advanced though. The idea of gifted is to have classes that truly challenge the genius and near genius kids. When you take some reverse discrimantion and put average or below average kids in the "gifted class", no longer are you able to chalenge the really intelligent kids or else you will have half the class acting out becuase they are completely in over thier heads.
From what I have seen, most private schools are sub par, as while the students are better, the teachers make a sizable fraction of the salary of a public teacher. If you are going to be a teacher what would you prefer? $35k or $20K.
Our knowledge of antibiotics and thier effects is just theory. Are you not going to take penicillin if catch pneumonia?
Maybe if the US was not a bunch of prudes, things would be better. Rather being ashamed of God's Image, we should be celebrating the glory of the human form.
If you understaood evolution, you would realize that languages and societies evolve. Words change. Words thhat were profane become less so. Words that weren't profane become so. If i were t cal you, special, would you take it as a compliment, or an insult? Things that are acceptabble in society change. Women vote; people cannot be slaves; there are no arranged marriages; swimsuits do not cover the whole body; men no longer have to kill a man to pass a rite of passage. One can rail against change, or one can attempt to guide change. Rail against changes in society and watch it morphh into some random pattern. Guide the change, and watch society move onto something better.
If they had taken that road instead of suing everyone, then yes it would have been decent income. They got greedy and now will not have a businesss in a few years. No one will relicense from them because of thier current actions.
An easy way to funnel funds out of the company?
Maybe people can relate to tangible property, yet people have problems with legal fictions like Copyright and Patents.
:-P
BTW, How is Iraq these days, Frodo? Or are you from Afghanistan?
I take it you haven't tried ATI? :)
Some of us like having two different copy buffers. Of course, one needs to learn how the X copy and paste works... Astounding how things might be a little different on a different OS.
And if one just wants to use the Ctrl-C/X/V that should work fine irregardless of the X version. I have had no problems copying and pasting between Mozilla, Abiword, and Kword. And that was just using Sawfish as a WM. Copy and paste is no longer an issue on modern X Desktops.
You haven't spent any amount of time traveling along a highway. I am not talking about that road trip you took in college to the next city that was four hours away. I'm talking about traveling for days.
You need to stop, get out of the car and stretch your legs and do something else other than sit behind the wheel. When I traveled between NY and FL I would stop every couple of hours and sit on a park bench and read for 15 minutes before continuing on. Offering WiFi will be an additional incentive to get people to stop. As a Plus, the States with better rest stops usually pull in more tourists as well.
Lastly, if you RTFA, TX DOT is contracting out the WIFI points as Net Kiosks. There will be a pay subscription for the kiosk or free WIFI. The idea being that the kiosk will be able to pay for the WIFI access.
Actually, what Microsoft has done, has been proven in a court of law to be illegal. While questions of legality and morality are not equal, what Microsoft did was neither.
Actually, what Microsoft has done, has been proven in a court of law to be illegal. While questions of legality and morality are not equal, what Microsoft did was neither.
There are certain inalienable rights that one cannot waive.
Right to Life and Freedom come to mind. One cannot sell themselves into slavery irregardless what the big corps want.
And that explains why XFree86 has repeatedly spurned code contributions from third parties, such as ATI and the Cygwin team? And I supose that Debian is a secret Illuminati organization? Right.
Most of the distros listed are pretty minor. Connectiva and Lycoris and NetBSD barely are major Distros, buthae about as much impact as say Stampede Linux did in its hey day.
Peanut has been supplanted by Vector Linux years ago. Sorceror was a predecessor to Gentoo, and Sorc was torn apart by internal politics.
The rest are pretty much Joe-Bob linux, that someguy created in his basement. (Not that there is a problem with this, most Linux Distros got thier start this way, but for every Red Hat and Mandrake, there are several more that remain obscure.)
In the US it is a regional dialect thing as to what gets used. "of" "'til" or "to" all get used. "after" and "past" both get used.
Having lived pretty much everywhere in the US and now living in Florida with a mesh of people from all over, I couldn't really say what region uses what. I personally end up mixing and matching.
It is speed at the outer edge of the disk. This is why one gets diminishing returns as one gets faster drives. A 16x CDRW drive is only a little less the twice as fast as a 8x drive. A 32x is not nearly as twice as fast as a 16x drive. And a 48x drive is barely faster than a 24x drive.
I have a 24x drive, but wrote a bunch of discs at 16x because that was what my media was rated for. The difference between 16x and 24x was about a minute.
Occam's Razor- the simplest solution to where on the other side of the Pillars would be the Atlantic.
I remember a PBS special many years back where this guy proved that a papyrus boat could sail from the Nile to South America by doing it. There is evidence that there could have been contact between Egypt and the Americas. It was technologically possible even if we have direct evidence. After all it is not like we are going to find "I saw the Pyramids" T-shirts amongst Incan ruins.
A lot of archealogy is seperating fact from Myth. Read up on how Troy was found. Ever play the game telephone? A group of people sit in a circle. One person whispers a phrase to the person next to him. By the time the phrase gets around the circle, it usually bears little resemblance to the orignal phrase. The myth of the Unicorn seems to have been derived from Aristotle's third hand description of a Rhinoceros.
A lot of archealogical sites have been found in the same manner as these photos. The preliminary evidence suggests that it matches Plato's description. We may never know for sure, unless we find a sign on the city limits: Welcome to Atlantis, Population 3,123.
The Government forces standards all the time. Sure if you are a private enterprise only dealing with private enterprise, then you can do what you want. Once you take on a government contract, you will do what the contract specifies. And even if you remian private, if your competitors take on government contracts, market pressure will work to make you conform.
Then there are accessibility laws. Flash is not acessible to the blind. Properly written html is acessible.
Lastly, if Gecko, KHTML, and Opera support the new standards, then that is about enough market clout to force some change.
You are so right. Look at the current uses of the internet: E-Mail, Instant Messaging, HTML Web, Games (a la Counter-Strike/Q3A), File Transfers (Ala FTP and P2P) and some upcoming technologies like VoIP.
There are a few extras like Internet Radio and Video that typically are hung off one of the previously mentioned technologies, usually the the web. And there is a fair amount of crossover between things. IM has included chat video conferencing, Games have had live chat for a while, Some games even had integrated email like tribes2. Web forums are something like email or IM. One can transfer files via IM. Most web brosers are ftp clients.
The ones that want to provide a rich client experience, are the ones that are trying to setup a rental model for software. If one can only access say thier office suite from a web browser then they get locked in to a rental model. The rental model has been predicted longer than Linux has been around, and if anything, we are moving to FOSS.