There is no comparison between the two in terms of violence. The Qu'ran is in part a history of the early conquests and has over a hundred verses about smiting the unbelievers.
While there is some "smite the unbelievers" in the Bible, it is limited to the Old Testament... which was not written by Christians, but is there to support the claim of Christ being the one prophesied in the Old Testament.
The new Testament, contains no such verses justifying the killing of unbelievers by Christians.
Smiting by the hand of God? Sure, but not by members of the religion.
My "writing" skills were derived from traditional methods, i.e. prose, storytelling, etc. (a lot from playing MMORPGS =) ).
Most people comment on how easy my writing is to follow, how I tell a story about the technology and not just the details, that it is even occasionally entertaining.
A Distinguished Engineer here at IBM that I do some work for called my writing style as "Very personable"
Considering most of my work for him is when things have gone all pear shaped and I am reporting on what we did to fix it, it is probably a good thing. =)
If you write up the solution, process, procedure, results, etc, when people want to know what happened, they will come to you first, even though the whole team is credited.
Talk up the teammates, make sure they get credit too, don't be a dick. But I assure you that you will be noticed and it will be your name attached to the project.
Same with meetings. Set them up, chair them if necessary, or turn it over to someone who will. Either way, you are seen as "owning" the meeting. Extra credit: write up the minutes and publish them.
Again, you are not taking credit, just taking the initiative and being helpful. That goes a long way in any situation.
The number includes those killed in the years between the Revolution and Stalin coming to power, and deaths after he left, which is why it says Stalin/Russia. But he owns the lion's share for the starvation and deaths cause by deportations, gulag, systematic political purges. etc.
I did not include deaths by war, soldiers take that risk.
And yes, the numbers swing wildly. The holocaust is estimated at 6 to 12 million. That is a lot of margin, and it exists for other events as well. The starvation events in China are estimated from 40 to 100 million, that is a big margin of error.
Then again, the Nazi's have killed anyone lately, but North Korea and China are still killing people today.
BTW, if the Nazi's were the National Socialist Party, are they communists?
But the hard facts are Communists make the Nazi's look like punters.
Mao: 70 Million Pol Pot: 3 Million North Korea: 1.5 Million Stalin/Russia: 61 Million
Nazi's? 20 million in the various Concentration Camps and starvation campaigns. They do get "points" for being so efficient and doing it in such a short time I guess.
That is why we have Amendments and the Supreme Court.
The other side of the coin is "living document" where we change the meaning of the words to fit the current times.
I am much more in favor of using the tools given to us to change the Constitution vrs changing it's meaning based on current interpretation.
That "precedence" concept of common law should not apply to the Constitution, which is not "written in stone" but should be difficult to change to avoid repeats of Prohibition. The fact that Prohibition is one of the few "flip flops" in the Constitution shows that it works pretty well.
More than likely, such trucks won't be used to local addresses, but to those huge distribution points along the freeway and possibly shipping ports if they are not in the middle of an urban area.
Having a limited number of well known spots and routes will likely be the first step, buy a company like Walmart that has the infrastructure and the need to move that much stuff.
And they will get robot guards, what could possibly go wrong?
You aren't old enough to remember Tipper Gore getting warning labels on music in 1985, apparently.
In August 1985, 19 record companies agreed to put "Parental Guidance: Explicit Lyrics" labels on albums to warn of explicit lyrical content. Before the labels could be put into place, the Senate agreed to hold a hearing on so-called "porn rock".
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Then you have read neither.
There is no comparison between the two in terms of violence. The Qu'ran is in part a history of the early conquests and has over a hundred verses about smiting the unbelievers.
While there is some "smite the unbelievers" in the Bible, it is limited to the Old Testament... which was not written by Christians, but is there to support the claim of Christ being the one prophesied in the Old Testament.
The new Testament, contains no such verses justifying the killing of unbelievers by Christians.
Smiting by the hand of God? Sure, but not by members of the religion.
What makes you believe use more iterations?
(gotcha)
Never had a public sector employee.
Government employee the headcount==empire statement is true.
Can you elaborate on that?
Not exactly true.
My "writing" skills were derived from traditional methods, i.e. prose, storytelling, etc. (a lot from playing MMORPGS =) ).
Most people comment on how easy my writing is to follow, how I tell a story about the technology and not just the details, that it is even occasionally entertaining.
A Distinguished Engineer here at IBM that I do some work for called my writing style as "Very personable"
Considering most of my work for him is when things have gone all pear shaped and I am reporting on what we did to fix it, it is probably a good thing. =)
As my mentor at IBM points out:
He who writes the paper gets the credit.
If you write up the solution, process, procedure, results, etc, when people want to know what happened, they will come to you first, even though the whole team is credited.
Talk up the teammates, make sure they get credit too, don't be a dick.
But I assure you that you will be noticed and it will be your name attached to the project.
Same with meetings. Set them up, chair them if necessary, or turn it over to someone who will. Either way, you are seen as "owning" the meeting.
Extra credit: write up the minutes and publish them.
Again, you are not taking credit, just taking the initiative and being helpful. That goes a long way in any situation.
How to select and apply an algorithm to a problem
If men really do think of sex every 7 seconds, the pop up ads are going to be a bitch.
I can also think a lot faster than I can talk.
OTOH, my fingers can usually keep up.
Back in the late 80's I went to a presentation by Douglas Englebart.
Being a 16 year old smartass whippersnapper I asked him a question: "What will replace the mouse and the keyboard?"
He was stumped. I thought I was hot shit for stumping him...
but here I am 30 years later and I am still using a mouse and a keyboard to interact with a computer, and it is still the most efficient way to do so.
Do you know the key strategic weakness of the human race?
The dead outnumber the living.
Nice attempt to move the goalposts.
The number includes those killed in the years between the Revolution and Stalin coming to power, and deaths after he left, which is why it says Stalin/Russia. But he owns the lion's share for the starvation and deaths cause by deportations, gulag, systematic political purges. etc.
I did not include deaths by war, soldiers take that risk.
And yes, the numbers swing wildly. The holocaust is estimated at 6 to 12 million. That is a lot of margin, and it exists for other events as well. The starvation events in China are estimated from 40 to 100 million, that is a big margin of error.
Then again, the Nazi's have killed anyone lately, but North Korea and China are still killing people today.
BTW, if the Nazi's were the National Socialist Party, are they communists?
Villainized, sure.
But the hard facts are Communists make the Nazi's look like punters.
Mao: 70 Million
Pol Pot: 3 Million
North Korea: 1.5 Million
Stalin/Russia: 61 Million
Nazi's? 20 million in the various Concentration Camps and starvation campaigns. They do get "points" for being so efficient and doing it in such a short time I guess.
Oh come on, it is easy:
The number of slaves need to row the ship becomes too great.
Cover everything with mirrors?
Liberace called, he wants his mirror encrusted missile cruiser back.
I call it the Humpty Dumpty argument:
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
Of course it is not all thought out!
That is why we have Amendments and the Supreme Court.
The other side of the coin is "living document" where we change the meaning of the words to fit the current times.
I am much more in favor of using the tools given to us to change the Constitution vrs changing it's meaning based on current interpretation.
That "precedence" concept of common law should not apply to the Constitution, which is not "written in stone" but should be difficult to change to avoid repeats of Prohibition. The fact that Prohibition is one of the few "flip flops" in the Constitution shows that it works pretty well.
"Ceci n'est pas une joint"
Most bearings in your car are just solid metal.
E.g. Plain bearings, journal bearings, and bushings.
Kaiju!
More than likely, such trucks won't be used to local addresses, but to those huge distribution points along the freeway and possibly shipping ports if they are not in the middle of an urban area.
Having a limited number of well known spots and routes will likely be the first step, buy a company like Walmart that has the infrastructure and the need to move that much stuff.
And they will get robot guards, what could possibly go wrong?
Sensors and computers will provide evidence it was the texting fucker in the car that caused accident.
What could possibly go wrong?
You aren't old enough to remember Tipper Gore getting warning labels on music in 1985, apparently.
In August 1985, 19 record companies agreed to put "Parental Guidance: Explicit Lyrics" labels on albums to warn of explicit lyrical content. Before the labels could be put into place, the Senate agreed to hold a hearing on so-called "porn rock".
More like Gore 3.0.
Politicians have been peddling this crap forever, even Socrates complained about "Kids these days!"