Isam Bayazidi is about as far from the current U.S. media stereotype of an Arab as you can get.
The article itself, in this case, is very leading regarding an opinion of treatment of Arabs by the US media.
My question is, what do you feel that the stereotypes reinforced by major media outlets are? Certainly they reported that there were Arabic hijackers on 9/11, that Al Quaida has attacked the US many times, and has reported acts such as beheadings and suicide bombings. Unfortunately, the fact is that these events all happened.
Do you believe that there is an undercurrent of racism and bigotry in the media's portrayal or Arabs? Do you believe that the image of the Arab has been charicatured by the US?
As a follow-up. How do you feel that recent world events, such as the riots in Paris, riots over Danish comics, and even the actions of terrorist organizations or Arabic origin have influenced this view, by relation to media portrayal.
Do you see this adversely affecting your career, or have major business outlets mostly overlooked this?
It's almost amazing to me the level of ignorance about this that pervades even supposed geeks hanging around Slashdot. Just remember the golden rule of everything (television standards, jumper cables, sex, whatever): you have to match the output to the input.
It still amazes you? Technical knowledge at Slashdot has dropped over the years. That's just a fact. People want to post despite their lack of knowledge, another fact. If they really know nothing on the topic, they say something political (and incorrect).
What's really awesome is how we can't talk about technology at Slashdot anymore. All anybody on Slashdot seems to want to do is get on their soapbox about Chinese and American policy, and, insist that Google is evil.
Is there a new site about technology, since we don't talk about that here anymore?
Is this an article about Google complying with the Great Firewall of China
Yes
Did Google comply with China?
Yes
Did Google censor the Iraqi prisoner abuse images
No
Did anybody (outside of the government) censor them?
No
That doesn't even touch on the fact that those images, originally would have been classified and technically should have been seen by censors long before they ever got out. Now, why doesn't it touch on that? Because it's completely nongermane.
I understand that you have a soapbox to stand on (and hey, go for it), but this is a story about a student organization that doesn't care about the issue you've brought up, and a company that didn't censor the images that you brought up.
You just show up, however, the distance was far enough that I'd have had to take a day off of work, and that just driving out there would have cost me more in fuel than the ticket.
Yup, I was contracted to the to develop some software during their name change to NAVAIR. Everything in Lexington Park gets packed with contractors, so, if you're not quick enough on the hotel (or, perhaps the travel agency isn't so hot) you end up stuck in Waldorf. Waldorf isn't bad, but 235 is a nightmare, and the drive is almost an hour.
I had a crack in the engine block of my old 1989 Toyota Celica. The car was beaten up, and wouldn't accelerate quickly. In city traffic, I had a hard time breaking 35 miles an hour. I didn't want to invest any more money in the car, and so let it die peacefully of old age while looking around at Camaros.
I was driving around in Maryland, I forget the name of the town, and there's a stretch of road, that goes something like 35 to 25 to 35 again, in a stretch of only a couple blocks. There's an old, closed gas station, there. I'm driving in to work one morning on a business trip that had me commuting from Waldorf to Lexington Park. Driving... not fast, since my car couldn't, at this time, go fast.
So, a police officer, no lie... walks out in front of my car, holds his hand up, and stops me, waves me in to the gas station, and writes me a speeding ticket, 19 miles per hour over so I don't have to show up in court. I go, "but officer, I can't have been speeding," (and to this day, I know that I can't have been), and he just gives me this sharp tone that says he's going to make it a lot worse on me if I don't just pay the fine. I paid it, driving another 200 miles to fight the ticket didn't sound like it made an ouce of sense.
Essentially, according to him, he walked out in front of a vehicle going 45 miles per hour in order to pull it over. Additionally, my vehicle that was highly unlikely to be going 45 miles per hour at all in stop and go traffic would have had to have been going that fast less than a half-mile or so in front of where he decide to slowly walk out in front of my car in order to bring it to a stop.
My guess is, since there were 3 other police cars pulled in at the same gas station, all writing tickets for other cars, that this is a common offense in that town.
Well, just think of how many deaths there will be from people trying to unplug their garbage disposals quickly when you get a mandatory visit from a plumber if it gets clogged.
Becoming and undertaker in Houston will be almost as profitable as it was during the 1800s!
You know what? When I read a car ad, I could say, "wow, that would be faster with a supercharger," but that doesn't really mean that it was an omission on the part of the advertisement.
Dude. You're reading way too much into this. Seriously.
Nobody reads whatever magazing this is looking for technical details. The details are probably in an academic journal. Since all you have to do is go to a school and check one out, this isn't some form of thought control.
I mean, I'm sure that in the academic paper, you get enough details to essentially replicate the experiment. I'd bet that if I searched for these papers in an appropriate academic resource, that the details would be there. That's the way this stuff works. Still, I would never expect such details in a newspaper article. It's just not important to the point of such articles.
Ahh, yes. That makes sense. It kind of omits the detail of nuclear devices though. Even so, viewed in that light, I imagine their treatment to be quite appropriate. Articles of this nature really aren't intended to be in-depth looks at the applications of techniques behind the technology, but, rather, just an interesting "look what can be done, it has these applications."
Even in academic papers, unless the description is an application, one tends to merely mention a handful of potential applications and then move forward to theory, experiments, and analysis.
Everyone's overloaded on hearing about people blowing up airplanes. Hunting down terrorists is the depressing fact harped at us constantly in all directions. A two sentence mention in the article is about all that is really warranted, don't you think? Perhaps they should have said "nukes," or "fissionable material." Fissionable material doesn't really hit home for most people though. Nukes sounds outlandish. Explosives is a bit too broad.
Not being a scientific paper, the details of the procedure aren't germaine to the article.
Ignoring bad laws like some of the ones they're trying to pass now (and the DMCA already, of course I use DeCSS to play DVDs on my Myth box) is a form of protest.
A better form of protest might be voting people out of office, posting angry websites, and entering into public debate. Nobody is going to know what you do in your own home, so, it doesn't even read on their meter. If you're trying to send a message, you should send something more than noise.
Just to stoke the fire a bit, I'll point out that whales aren't fish.
Also, I'm not sure that either question is interesting. If one is to interpret the Bible literally, and accept that they are subject to the intentions of an omnipotent God, then one can explain the responses to the first two questions as "miracles." Miracles aren't interesting unless they're impossible. If Jesus gave antibiotics to the sick, and resurrected people with the flu, nobody would care 2000 years later.
There are more interesting questions. One could ask about conflicts in the creation stories (since there are more than one), for instance.
Even then, you're only talking to a small, but very vocal, minority of Christianity.
Honestly, though, the issue is interesting neither from a religious nor a scientific viewpoint. It's only interesting in politics, and, really, it's an interesting microcosm to view special interests from, since neither interest is one that the public and politicians seem to have many qualms in attacking, those interests being Science and Christianity.
The other day, I got onto the elevator at one of the research buildings at my university. In walks an undergraduate with a handbag that has "SCO" embroidered on it.
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Isam Bayazidi is about as far from the current U.S. media stereotype of an Arab as you can get.
The article itself, in this case, is very leading regarding an opinion of treatment of Arabs by the US media.
My question is, what do you feel that the stereotypes reinforced by major media outlets are? Certainly they reported that there were Arabic hijackers on 9/11, that Al Quaida has attacked the US many times, and has reported acts such as beheadings and suicide bombings. Unfortunately, the fact is that these events all happened.
Do you believe that there is an undercurrent of racism and bigotry in the media's portrayal or Arabs? Do you believe that the image of the Arab has been charicatured by the US?
As a follow-up. How do you feel that recent world events, such as the riots in Paris, riots over Danish comics, and even the actions of terrorist organizations or Arabic origin have influenced this view, by relation to media portrayal.
Do you see this adversely affecting your career, or have major business outlets mostly overlooked this?
It's almost amazing to me the level of ignorance about this that pervades even supposed geeks hanging around Slashdot. Just remember the golden rule of everything (television standards, jumper cables, sex, whatever): you have to match the output to the input.
It still amazes you? Technical knowledge at Slashdot has dropped over the years. That's just a fact. People want to post despite their lack of knowledge, another fact. If they really know nothing on the topic, they say something political (and incorrect).
What's really awesome is how we can't talk about technology at Slashdot anymore. All anybody on Slashdot seems to want to do is get on their soapbox about Chinese and American policy, and, insist that Google is evil.
Is there a new site about technology, since we don't talk about that here anymore?
Computers run programs?
I know that my comment may sound a bit jaded and sarcastic, but... a laugh at others' expense.
But, well, lets look at this.
Can you find Iraqi prisoner abuse images in Google.
Google Image Search: iraqi prisoner
Yes
Is this an article about Google complying with the Great Firewall of China
Yes
Did Google comply with China?
Yes
Did Google censor the Iraqi prisoner abuse images
No
Did anybody (outside of the government) censor them?
No
That doesn't even touch on the fact that those images, originally would have been classified and technically should have been seen by censors long before they ever got out. Now, why doesn't it touch on that? Because it's completely nongermane.
I understand that you have a soapbox to stand on (and hey, go for it), but this is a story about a student organization that doesn't care about the issue you've brought up, and a company that didn't censor the images that you brought up.
Since the group is Students For A Free Tibet, I don't think so.
Actually, it's not. The other article reported the text file mentioned at the end of this, not the poem.
You just show up, however, the distance was far enough that I'd have had to take a day off of work, and that just driving out there would have cost me more in fuel than the ticket.
Yup, I was contracted to the to develop some software during their name change to NAVAIR. Everything in Lexington Park gets packed with contractors, so, if you're not quick enough on the hotel (or, perhaps the travel agency isn't so hot) you end up stuck in Waldorf. Waldorf isn't bad, but 235 is a nightmare, and the drive is almost an hour.
That's better than one speeding ticket I got.
I had a crack in the engine block of my old 1989 Toyota Celica. The car was beaten up, and wouldn't accelerate quickly. In city traffic, I had a hard time breaking 35 miles an hour. I didn't want to invest any more money in the car, and so let it die peacefully of old age while looking around at Camaros.
I was driving around in Maryland, I forget the name of the town, and there's a stretch of road, that goes something like 35 to 25 to 35 again, in a stretch of only a couple blocks. There's an old, closed gas station, there. I'm driving in to work one morning on a business trip that had me commuting from Waldorf to Lexington Park. Driving... not fast, since my car couldn't, at this time, go fast.
So, a police officer, no lie... walks out in front of my car, holds his hand up, and stops me, waves me in to the gas station, and writes me a speeding ticket, 19 miles per hour over so I don't have to show up in court. I go, "but officer, I can't have been speeding," (and to this day, I know that I can't have been), and he just gives me this sharp tone that says he's going to make it a lot worse on me if I don't just pay the fine. I paid it, driving another 200 miles to fight the ticket didn't sound like it made an ouce of sense.
Essentially, according to him, he walked out in front of a vehicle going 45 miles per hour in order to pull it over. Additionally, my vehicle that was highly unlikely to be going 45 miles per hour at all in stop and go traffic would have had to have been going that fast less than a half-mile or so in front of where he decide to slowly walk out in front of my car in order to bring it to a stop.
My guess is, since there were 3 other police cars pulled in at the same gas station, all writing tickets for other cars, that this is a common offense in that town.
Well, just think of how many deaths there will be from people trying to unplug their garbage disposals quickly when you get a mandatory visit from a plumber if it gets clogged.
Becoming and undertaker in Houston will be almost as profitable as it was during the 1800s!
I know the concept of Olympians being amateurs is outdated, but shouldn't they be barred from competition for this sort of thing?
Amateur atheletes... they don't have to be jobless (even if that job is spamming).
It's a magazine article.
You know what? When I read a car ad, I could say, "wow, that would be faster with a supercharger," but that doesn't really mean that it was an omission on the part of the advertisement.
Dude. You're reading way too much into this. Seriously.
Nobody reads whatever magazing this is looking for technical details. The details are probably in an academic journal. Since all you have to do is go to a school and check one out, this isn't some form of thought control.
Well, I'm not sure about that.
I mean, I'm sure that in the academic paper, you get enough details to essentially replicate the experiment. I'd bet that if I searched for these papers in an appropriate academic resource, that the details would be there. That's the way this stuff works. Still, I would never expect such details in a newspaper article. It's just not important to the point of such articles.
I don't think that it's some kind of censorship.
Oh, sure, but nobody is expecting formulas in a newspaper article, that's what I meant.
Ahh, yes. That makes sense. It kind of omits the detail of nuclear devices though. Even so, viewed in that light, I imagine their treatment to be quite appropriate. Articles of this nature really aren't intended to be in-depth looks at the applications of techniques behind the technology, but, rather, just an interesting "look what can be done, it has these applications."
Even in academic papers, unless the description is an application, one tends to merely mention a handful of potential applications and then move forward to theory, experiments, and analysis.
Everyone's overloaded on hearing about people blowing up airplanes. Hunting down terrorists is the depressing fact harped at us constantly in all directions. A two sentence mention in the article is about all that is really warranted, don't you think? Perhaps they should have said "nukes," or "fissionable material." Fissionable material doesn't really hit home for most people though. Nukes sounds outlandish. Explosives is a bit too broad.
Not being a scientific paper, the details of the procedure aren't germaine to the article.
Eh, it's close enough, right?
I've never really understood why in this day and time it even matters.
It's a point brought out in conversation by Neo-Pagans, but is otherwise non-relevant.
Ahh. I was unaware.
Ignoring bad laws like some of the ones they're trying to pass now (and the DMCA already, of course I use DeCSS to play DVDs on my Myth box) is a form of protest.
A better form of protest might be voting people out of office, posting angry websites, and entering into public debate. Nobody is going to know what you do in your own home, so, it doesn't even read on their meter. If you're trying to send a message, you should send something more than noise.
3. It sprouted from an older, less "open", religion, many of the followers of which are still around today.
Actually, Judaism is constantly under reinterpretation by its practitioners.
Can a man live inside of a fish for three days?
Just to stoke the fire a bit, I'll point out that whales aren't fish.
Also, I'm not sure that either question is interesting. If one is to interpret the Bible literally, and accept that they are subject to the intentions of an omnipotent God, then one can explain the responses to the first two questions as "miracles." Miracles aren't interesting unless they're impossible. If Jesus gave antibiotics to the sick, and resurrected people with the flu, nobody would care 2000 years later.
There are more interesting questions. One could ask about conflicts in the creation stories (since there are more than one), for instance.
Even then, you're only talking to a small, but very vocal, minority of Christianity.
Honestly, though, the issue is interesting neither from a religious nor a scientific viewpoint. It's only interesting in politics, and, really, it's an interesting microcosm to view special interests from, since neither interest is one that the public and politicians seem to have many qualms in attacking, those interests being Science and Christianity.
The other day, I got onto the elevator at one of the research buildings at my university. In walks an undergraduate with a handbag that has "SCO" embroidered on it.
I ask her, "are those really your initials?"
She says, "yes, why?"
At which point, I explain to her who SCO is.
Odd experience.
Have you seen Aero Glass? Obviously you're not going to do these things on a bargain basement graphics board.