I never agree w/ the Green Party (anywhere), but on this one, finally they've found something I can agree w/ them on. Since Munich has already spent a ton of cash converting to their own Linux distro, it would be a sheer waste of person-hours to go back to Windows. Since they have something that is totally in their control
As far as the documents go, would it be very difficult for Microsoft to do a Linux version of Office 365 (they could monetize it that way) client, given that they already have a version for Android? I know, Android has that UI that almost totally masks the Linux underpinnings, but Microsoft could do a client for Linux (and BSD) that would run Office 365, and run the OS off Azure. That way, they can have a steady stream of cash, instead of being caught up in trying to forcibly upgrade people's OSs.
I myself successfully use this TrueOS computer for most of my computing, which is sending emails & browsing the internet. I do have a separate Windows laptop, which I use if I need to edit any Word documents, or if I need to play my Steam games. Once I can get the latter on this TrueOS box, I'll hardly need even that.
On the first thing, as far as raw texts go, they may not be, but both Judaism & Christianity have taken an approach of those excesses in the Old Testament being descriptive, rather than prescriptive. In other words, it's more history rather than an advocacy of how to live or govern. Whereas in Islam, Mohammed is held up as al insan al kamil (the perfect man), so that everything he did - from marrying a 6 year old to ordering the massacre of Jews at Khaybar Oasis - is held up as a model of how Muslims should act. The fact that he did his thing 1400 years ago is considered irrelevant.
On creationism, I believe that it belongs more in religion class, but I'm fine w/ geography, history or even science classes offering it as a theory, as opposed to fact. In other words, I don't mind a class telling kids that there are 2 schools of thought on how the earth began - one being evolution, and the other being creation (which again would vary according to religion, as Judeo-Christian accounts of how it started wouldn't match that of Maya, Aztec, Norse, Hellenic, Dharmaic or other religions). However, I still disagree that it harms me if someone else believes that God created the world in 6 days. That's an opinion. I'm more likely worse off by someone not knowing that Arab Muslims were the ones who started the slave trade by enslaving Africans and selling them off to Europeans to take to the Americas.
I make sure it's an imap, rather than a pop3 connection, so that I don't lose what's online. Years ago, while on one of my Linux experiments, where I had KDE, I used Kmail once, and it acted only as a pop3 connection, and all my email was sucked up from the server. Later, when that hard disc got somehow corrupted forcing me to re-install, I lost all those emails.
B'cos years ago, Yahoo! was a pretty respectable company, and had loads of good stuff associated, like geocities and yahoo chat! If I recall right, it was even there ahead of Google, and were a pretty good bet when Netscape was floundering. My first webmail account was Netscape.net (under Netscape 4), then yahoo & hotmail.
Things changed, & went downhill once Google pioneered the concept of monetizing everything on the internet - be it email, web pages and so on. The biggest evidence of that is the way MICROSOFT has changed - from a pure software company (plus some hardware) to a Google wannabe.
I too had that, and using Thunderbird, I moved all the folders I wanted into other accounts. One thing I forgot - to move my Financial folder into one of the other accounts, and lost everything there. Fortunately, I was able to retrieve the email of my tax preparer, so the damage was not irreversible. But this is what I'd suggest: use Thunderbird to host your yahoo! as well as your other accounts (you do have >1 email account, don't you?), and then move all the emails that are not worth deleting to that one. If you had a policy of putting them in folders, that's even better.
I have something like 7 email accounts for different things. One thing - I always access the emails via Fossamail in Windows or Thunderbird in TrueOS (since Fossamail doesn't have a FreeBSD port the last I checked). That way, I don't get peppered w/ ads or popups. I do have an incredible amount of spam, which was a leading reason that I closed my yahoo account. Gmail, AOL (I have a netscape.net account from the 90s) and Microsoft (both live.com & hotmail) are nowhere near as bad.
"America's more important than bloody politics from my point of view"
Ironic comment, coming from him. He is the one who has changed Apple from a company purely dedicated to great tech, to SJW issues, particularly LGBTQ rights. If he really thinks that stuff, he can start by not making transgender bathrooms one of his company's pet causes. One ought to remind him that Apple is a publicly held & traded company, not a startup of his in his garage/basement. Jobs or Woz might have had a right to treat it that way. HE doesn't!
Chances are you could download an app from whatever source you trust, be it PBS or Breitbart, and have it on your phone. For you, it would be news. It's a far better solution than the bundled in news packages from Google, Apple or Microsoft, that pre-select their favorite sources, like the Guardian (which hardly makes sense: sitting in the US, why should I look at a British paper for what's going on here, regardless of my political opinions? I don't read the Daily Telegraph, The Times or Daily Mail either).
Ironically, in Microsoft's News app in Windows 8 (on the PC), it was very customizable: one could put in one's preferred news sources, and get just that. Now, while Microsoft in theory still has that, they still forcefeed you stuff like WaPo, Guardian, NYT, et al. I've deleted that app from my phone, and Apple's too. Just get the apps from whoever your preferred news vendor is, and go w/ it. If I'm not a Leftist, I do not want to be force fed MSM excrement by the Gates or Nadellas or Cooks or Schmidts.
Under that brilliant argument, Melania is everybody's wife and so everybody is free to screw her, b'cos what is his is everyone else's! Now I can see why people target you in their subject headers
Nobody has to have 50. They can, if they like, drop the states w/ the most stringent requirements, and build something that meets the law everywhere else. So if Acme determines that it misses the mark in CA, NY & IL, but meets it everwhere else, they manufacture the product along w/ a disclaimer that it's not for sale in those 3 states. Then it's up to the customer to decide whether or not he can live w/ that restriction. If he can, he just happily goes on in Lewisville, KY and not bother what Cuomo or Brown do in Albany or Sacramento. Yeah, they'd have to write off the populations of those 3 states, but that would be the calculations that they'd have to make.
Yeah, but when you have Muslims throughout the Muslim world practising these, it's hard to claim that the practice is alien to Islam. If it really was, you might see that in one or two places. But when you see it everywhere - from Libya to the Philippines, then it's worth examining whether the religion actually endorses that 'extremism' or not. As it so happens, it does!
Also, there is a major qualitative difference b/w 'God created the universe in 7 days' and 'Kill the infidels wherever you find them, unless they submit'. The first one is one's freedom of belief and does not adversely affect me, no matter what Liberals think. The latter does, if I fit their definition of what constitutes a legitimate target.
Not just that, there's nothing stopping these states - NY, CA, IL, et al from introducing their own regulations & banning sales of energy inefficient products in their states. Each state should be allowed to decide for itself how it wants to go. They can easily have regulations that are stricter than what the EPA already has, and then companies can either meet those standards, or miss them and choose to sell outside these states.
Not exactly. #9 said you can either do Agile, or offshore. Not both simultaneously. It didn't say that if you offshore, it'll be an unmitigated disaster, as GP seems to be suggesting
Is there much software that is so well multithreaded & multiprocessed that going from, say, 4 cores to 16 would result in a 4 fold increase in processing power? (Not considering here cloud servers that host a boatload of VMs)
Ironically, all Communist countries - Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, et al persecuted gays just as happily as they persecuted everyone else. Same is true about Islamic countries. Given that fact, it's ironic that gays happily support both Leftist & Islamic movements everywhere. If they had their way, they'd be among the first to be stoned (and I don't mean the narcotic variety)
Now? Islam developed in parallel to Christianity. Muslims can use things like guns, cars, computers every bit as much as the rest of the population. So to say that they should be allowed to have a religion 1000 years backwards doesn't even begin to make sense.
No, GP was right. Fundamentalist Islam! There have been enough revisions of Christian philosophy to totally delegitimize things like fighting wars to convert people: there is no way a Hernando Cortez or a Francisco Pizzaro could get away w/ that they got away w/ in the Middle Ages. Judaism does not allow easy entry: one has to take a test. Fundamentalist Buddhism would be an extreme belief in Buddha's teachings, which have nothing about spreading Buddhism anywhere. Fundamentalist Hinduism at worst tries to claim all Indians, but makes no attempts to convert anybody outside the region. Fundamentalist Shintoism used to be Emperor worship, which ended after WWII. None of the other religions are as venal as Islam
A nuclear war b/w India & Pakistan would be a stalemate. However, if the US took out Paki nukes at Chagai or even threatened it, that would have an effect similar to what you outlined. Also, I doubt that India would have much of an appetite to send troops into Afghanistan, given that they would be looked at there as infidels & foreigners. Putting an OIC force there might be more useful
Politically, it may not have, but culturally, India was one country, and there were several empires that had conquered most of the country before even the Brits. As for Egypt, very specifically, they support, for instance, the persecution of Copts under Sharia law.
Israel does not constantly fight w/ Pakistan (sic). It is Palis who are taught throughout their lives to hate Jews. Also, the people who were displaced in the 1950s are largely dead, and their descendants are either residents of the PA run areas, or residents of other Arab countries.
The concept of refugees only applies to people who have fled an area, not to their descendants. Like if Joe Blow flees Kekistan to go to Utopia, then Joe Blow's kids don't have an automatic right to ever return to Kekistan: they then belong to Utopia. There are thousands of Palis who've lived in other Arab countries, like Saudi Arabia, Emirates, Kuwait et al since the various Arab-Israeli wars: the reason they are not citizens of those new countries is an Arab League law forbidding that, so that they can destroy Israel and resettle those Muslims back in 'Palestine'. That needs to change if they are serious about peace in the Middle East.
If that were the reason, then Afghanistan should either have become an Eastern Orthodox country - courtesy Russia, or a Protestant country, courtesy 19th century Brits or the 21st century US.
People say a lot about how Afghanistan has never been subjugated. That is BS. It was first subjugated when it was first Islamized, both during and after the Islamic conquest of Iran in the 7th century. Then it was invaded by the Mongols and after that, several times by various Turkic dynasties, and then the Iranians. The only time people started to talk about their colonization is when the Brits became involved. What was the difference? Just that the Brits were not Muzzies.
Pakistan is moderate? That's a laugh - if anything, Pakistan is even more Jihadist than Afghanistan, and in fact, Pakistan is where the Taliban and al Qaeda have a safe haven. Even safer than Afghanistan: Afghanistan after all became an open playground after 9/11 due to the Taliban being open about what they were. In contrast, Pakistan played a brilliant game of playing both sides: nothing exposed that more beautifully than the fact that Osama was killed not in their 'wild west' of Waziristan or anywhere in Pashtunistan, but rather, in a military barracks town just outside their capital Islamabad. There is no way he could have been there w/o the acquiescence of the Musharraf, and later the Bhutto governments. Yet, Pakistan's duplicity was left unaddressed.
Since President Trump has joined the Saudis & others in turning on Qatar, he should also seize this opportunity to turn the screws on Pakistan. Granted, they have a hostage in the form of the guy who revealed Osama's whereabouts to the CIA, but the US should play hardball w/ Pakistan and warn them of dire consequences not only if they continue to harbor jihadists, but also if anything happens to him.
That's in other religions. Not in Islam. There, the Quran is sacrosanct, and the other books, like the hadiths & siras, depending on the authors & sources, they are all weighted in terms of credibility. Regardless of their finer differences, they are pretty much unanomous on concepts like Jihad, hatred of infidels and the like.
And every time you defend Islam, you're hurting the chances Ex-Muslims and Progressive Muslims will ever get a chance to reform their religion into something resembling modern society's values.
I agree w/ everything else you wrote, except this one. Ex-Muslims are those who recognize Islam as the problem and have jettisoned it from their belief system b'cos they know that Islam can't be reformed. In numerous places in the Quran, Islam states that to obey allah, one has to obey Mohammed. That then drives them to the hadiths, which are the various preachings of Mohammed, and it's there that much of what we know of Islamic law is derived. The Ex-Muslims (like Ali Sina, most notably) know this, which is why they've flushed out Islam and encourage other Muslims to leave the faith as well.
Progressive Muslims are another thing altogether: they live in a fantasy world where they pretend that the religion they wish Islam was is the true faith, and try to change it to that. Problem is that they are only present in the West, where they do more harm than good by giving non-Muslims the impression that Islam as a whole is good, and it's only a few extremists perverting it. While in Muslim countries, anyone who tries to reform Islam - like say, Mohammed Taha in Sudan in the 80s - is executed or murdered.
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I never agree w/ the Green Party (anywhere), but on this one, finally they've found something I can agree w/ them on. Since Munich has already spent a ton of cash converting to their own Linux distro, it would be a sheer waste of person-hours to go back to Windows. Since they have something that is totally in their control
As far as the documents go, would it be very difficult for Microsoft to do a Linux version of Office 365 (they could monetize it that way) client, given that they already have a version for Android? I know, Android has that UI that almost totally masks the Linux underpinnings, but Microsoft could do a client for Linux (and BSD) that would run Office 365, and run the OS off Azure. That way, they can have a steady stream of cash, instead of being caught up in trying to forcibly upgrade people's OSs.
I myself successfully use this TrueOS computer for most of my computing, which is sending emails & browsing the internet. I do have a separate Windows laptop, which I use if I need to edit any Word documents, or if I need to play my Steam games. Once I can get the latter on this TrueOS box, I'll hardly need even that.
On the first thing, as far as raw texts go, they may not be, but both Judaism & Christianity have taken an approach of those excesses in the Old Testament being descriptive, rather than prescriptive. In other words, it's more history rather than an advocacy of how to live or govern. Whereas in Islam, Mohammed is held up as al insan al kamil (the perfect man), so that everything he did - from marrying a 6 year old to ordering the massacre of Jews at Khaybar Oasis - is held up as a model of how Muslims should act. The fact that he did his thing 1400 years ago is considered irrelevant.
On creationism, I believe that it belongs more in religion class, but I'm fine w/ geography, history or even science classes offering it as a theory, as opposed to fact. In other words, I don't mind a class telling kids that there are 2 schools of thought on how the earth began - one being evolution, and the other being creation (which again would vary according to religion, as Judeo-Christian accounts of how it started wouldn't match that of Maya, Aztec, Norse, Hellenic, Dharmaic or other religions). However, I still disagree that it harms me if someone else believes that God created the world in 6 days. That's an opinion. I'm more likely worse off by someone not knowing that Arab Muslims were the ones who started the slave trade by enslaving Africans and selling them off to Europeans to take to the Americas.
A tree! A forest! Falls! Nobody there to see or hear it fall! Ergo, didn't happen!
I make sure it's an imap, rather than a pop3 connection, so that I don't lose what's online. Years ago, while on one of my Linux experiments, where I had KDE, I used Kmail once, and it acted only as a pop3 connection, and all my email was sucked up from the server. Later, when that hard disc got somehow corrupted forcing me to re-install, I lost all those emails.
B'cos years ago, Yahoo! was a pretty respectable company, and had loads of good stuff associated, like geocities and yahoo chat! If I recall right, it was even there ahead of Google, and were a pretty good bet when Netscape was floundering. My first webmail account was Netscape.net (under Netscape 4), then yahoo & hotmail.
Things changed, & went downhill once Google pioneered the concept of monetizing everything on the internet - be it email, web pages and so on. The biggest evidence of that is the way MICROSOFT has changed - from a pure software company (plus some hardware) to a Google wannabe.
I too had that, and using Thunderbird, I moved all the folders I wanted into other accounts. One thing I forgot - to move my Financial folder into one of the other accounts, and lost everything there. Fortunately, I was able to retrieve the email of my tax preparer, so the damage was not irreversible. But this is what I'd suggest: use Thunderbird to host your yahoo! as well as your other accounts (you do have >1 email account, don't you?), and then move all the emails that are not worth deleting to that one. If you had a policy of putting them in folders, that's even better.
I have something like 7 email accounts for different things. One thing - I always access the emails via Fossamail in Windows or Thunderbird in TrueOS (since Fossamail doesn't have a FreeBSD port the last I checked). That way, I don't get peppered w/ ads or popups. I do have an incredible amount of spam, which was a leading reason that I closed my yahoo account. Gmail, AOL (I have a netscape.net account from the 90s) and Microsoft (both live.com & hotmail) are nowhere near as bad.
Of course. Everybody is a whiz at Sendmail, Dovecot and the like. But it sure beats having your email in 'the cloud'!
"America's more important than bloody politics from my point of view"
Ironic comment, coming from him. He is the one who has changed Apple from a company purely dedicated to great tech, to SJW issues, particularly LGBTQ rights. If he really thinks that stuff, he can start by not making transgender bathrooms one of his company's pet causes. One ought to remind him that Apple is a publicly held & traded company, not a startup of his in his garage/basement. Jobs or Woz might have had a right to treat it that way. HE doesn't!
Chances are you could download an app from whatever source you trust, be it PBS or Breitbart, and have it on your phone. For you, it would be news. It's a far better solution than the bundled in news packages from Google, Apple or Microsoft, that pre-select their favorite sources, like the Guardian (which hardly makes sense: sitting in the US, why should I look at a British paper for what's going on here, regardless of my political opinions? I don't read the Daily Telegraph, The Times or Daily Mail either).
Ironically, in Microsoft's News app in Windows 8 (on the PC), it was very customizable: one could put in one's preferred news sources, and get just that. Now, while Microsoft in theory still has that, they still forcefeed you stuff like WaPo, Guardian, NYT, et al. I've deleted that app from my phone, and Apple's too. Just get the apps from whoever your preferred news vendor is, and go w/ it. If I'm not a Leftist, I do not want to be force fed MSM excrement by the Gates or Nadellas or Cooks or Schmidts.
Comprehension ain't really your strong point, is it?
Under that brilliant argument, Melania is everybody's wife and so everybody is free to screw her, b'cos what is his is everyone else's! Now I can see why people target you in their subject headers
Nobody has to have 50. They can, if they like, drop the states w/ the most stringent requirements, and build something that meets the law everywhere else. So if Acme determines that it misses the mark in CA, NY & IL, but meets it everwhere else, they manufacture the product along w/ a disclaimer that it's not for sale in those 3 states. Then it's up to the customer to decide whether or not he can live w/ that restriction. If he can, he just happily goes on in Lewisville, KY and not bother what Cuomo or Brown do in Albany or Sacramento. Yeah, they'd have to write off the populations of those 3 states, but that would be the calculations that they'd have to make.
Yeah, but when you have Muslims throughout the Muslim world practising these, it's hard to claim that the practice is alien to Islam. If it really was, you might see that in one or two places. But when you see it everywhere - from Libya to the Philippines, then it's worth examining whether the religion actually endorses that 'extremism' or not. As it so happens, it does!
Also, there is a major qualitative difference b/w 'God created the universe in 7 days' and 'Kill the infidels wherever you find them, unless they submit'. The first one is one's freedom of belief and does not adversely affect me, no matter what Liberals think. The latter does, if I fit their definition of what constitutes a legitimate target.
Not just that, there's nothing stopping these states - NY, CA, IL, et al from introducing their own regulations & banning sales of energy inefficient products in their states. Each state should be allowed to decide for itself how it wants to go. They can easily have regulations that are stricter than what the EPA already has, and then companies can either meet those standards, or miss them and choose to sell outside these states.
Not exactly. #9 said you can either do Agile, or offshore. Not both simultaneously. It didn't say that if you offshore, it'll be an unmitigated disaster, as GP seems to be suggesting
Is there much software that is so well multithreaded & multiprocessed that going from, say, 4 cores to 16 would result in a 4 fold increase in processing power? (Not considering here cloud servers that host a boatload of VMs)
Ironically, all Communist countries - Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, et al persecuted gays just as happily as they persecuted everyone else. Same is true about Islamic countries. Given that fact, it's ironic that gays happily support both Leftist & Islamic movements everywhere. If they had their way, they'd be among the first to be stoned (and I don't mean the narcotic variety)
Now? Islam developed in parallel to Christianity. Muslims can use things like guns, cars, computers every bit as much as the rest of the population. So to say that they should be allowed to have a religion 1000 years backwards doesn't even begin to make sense.
No, GP was right. Fundamentalist Islam! There have been enough revisions of Christian philosophy to totally delegitimize things like fighting wars to convert people: there is no way a Hernando Cortez or a Francisco Pizzaro could get away w/ that they got away w/ in the Middle Ages. Judaism does not allow easy entry: one has to take a test. Fundamentalist Buddhism would be an extreme belief in Buddha's teachings, which have nothing about spreading Buddhism anywhere. Fundamentalist Hinduism at worst tries to claim all Indians, but makes no attempts to convert anybody outside the region. Fundamentalist Shintoism used to be Emperor worship, which ended after WWII. None of the other religions are as venal as Islam
A nuclear war b/w India & Pakistan would be a stalemate. However, if the US took out Paki nukes at Chagai or even threatened it, that would have an effect similar to what you outlined. Also, I doubt that India would have much of an appetite to send troops into Afghanistan, given that they would be looked at there as infidels & foreigners. Putting an OIC force there might be more useful
Politically, it may not have, but culturally, India was one country, and there were several empires that had conquered most of the country before even the Brits. As for Egypt, very specifically, they support, for instance, the persecution of Copts under Sharia law.
Israel does not constantly fight w/ Pakistan (sic). It is Palis who are taught throughout their lives to hate Jews. Also, the people who were displaced in the 1950s are largely dead, and their descendants are either residents of the PA run areas, or residents of other Arab countries.
The concept of refugees only applies to people who have fled an area, not to their descendants. Like if Joe Blow flees Kekistan to go to Utopia, then Joe Blow's kids don't have an automatic right to ever return to Kekistan: they then belong to Utopia. There are thousands of Palis who've lived in other Arab countries, like Saudi Arabia, Emirates, Kuwait et al since the various Arab-Israeli wars: the reason they are not citizens of those new countries is an Arab League law forbidding that, so that they can destroy Israel and resettle those Muslims back in 'Palestine'. That needs to change if they are serious about peace in the Middle East.
If that were the reason, then Afghanistan should either have become an Eastern Orthodox country - courtesy Russia, or a Protestant country, courtesy 19th century Brits or the 21st century US.
People say a lot about how Afghanistan has never been subjugated. That is BS. It was first subjugated when it was first Islamized, both during and after the Islamic conquest of Iran in the 7th century. Then it was invaded by the Mongols and after that, several times by various Turkic dynasties, and then the Iranians. The only time people started to talk about their colonization is when the Brits became involved. What was the difference? Just that the Brits were not Muzzies.
Pakistan is moderate? That's a laugh - if anything, Pakistan is even more Jihadist than Afghanistan, and in fact, Pakistan is where the Taliban and al Qaeda have a safe haven. Even safer than Afghanistan: Afghanistan after all became an open playground after 9/11 due to the Taliban being open about what they were. In contrast, Pakistan played a brilliant game of playing both sides: nothing exposed that more beautifully than the fact that Osama was killed not in their 'wild west' of Waziristan or anywhere in Pashtunistan, but rather, in a military barracks town just outside their capital Islamabad. There is no way he could have been there w/o the acquiescence of the Musharraf, and later the Bhutto governments. Yet, Pakistan's duplicity was left unaddressed.
Since President Trump has joined the Saudis & others in turning on Qatar, he should also seize this opportunity to turn the screws on Pakistan. Granted, they have a hostage in the form of the guy who revealed Osama's whereabouts to the CIA, but the US should play hardball w/ Pakistan and warn them of dire consequences not only if they continue to harbor jihadists, but also if anything happens to him.
That's in other religions. Not in Islam. There, the Quran is sacrosanct, and the other books, like the hadiths & siras, depending on the authors & sources, they are all weighted in terms of credibility. Regardless of their finer differences, they are pretty much unanomous on concepts like Jihad, hatred of infidels and the like.
And every time you defend Islam, you're hurting the chances Ex-Muslims and Progressive Muslims will ever get a chance to reform their religion into something resembling modern society's values.
I agree w/ everything else you wrote, except this one. Ex-Muslims are those who recognize Islam as the problem and have jettisoned it from their belief system b'cos they know that Islam can't be reformed. In numerous places in the Quran, Islam states that to obey allah, one has to obey Mohammed. That then drives them to the hadiths, which are the various preachings of Mohammed, and it's there that much of what we know of Islamic law is derived. The Ex-Muslims (like Ali Sina, most notably) know this, which is why they've flushed out Islam and encourage other Muslims to leave the faith as well.
Progressive Muslims are another thing altogether: they live in a fantasy world where they pretend that the religion they wish Islam was is the true faith, and try to change it to that. Problem is that they are only present in the West, where they do more harm than good by giving non-Muslims the impression that Islam as a whole is good, and it's only a few extremists perverting it. While in Muslim countries, anyone who tries to reform Islam - like say, Mohammed Taha in Sudan in the 80s - is executed or murdered.