And what force ensures that people hold up their end of the judgement? The UN? The UN wasn't set up in a way that instills faith in its abilities to end disputes, or to enforce judgement.
We need to have a world court, staffed with judges representing all countries. The United Nations is not effective enough. And it needs to be implemented soon.
How about not doing things that need to be apologized for, to begin with?
First of all, "we", the U.S., didn't do anything. That low budget movie was done by an individual, a man (an Egyptian emigre) with a personal "ax" to grind. He made his movie fully aware it would be controversial. This great country allows anyone, even bozos, to freedom of expression.
To the indoctrinated Muslim, their religion defines them as a people, so of course the movie fanned the flames of unrest. But as for America, WE did nothing wrong, and have no reason to apologize. The Muslim world needs to examine their own society, and come to a resolution concerning their own behavior.
who ever said it'd be "different" 72 virgins for each martyrs?
The untold secret around the virgins in heaven is, they stay virgin for eternity:P
The word "virgins" may be a mis-translation, I've read. The actual word may actually be "raisens". Blow yourself up in a terror attack, and all you'll get for it in the next life is 72 raisens. That sounds about right.
So now a hacker will get a pop 404 page after 20 successful attempts, according to the updated info. My question: Will Virgin Mobile be sending the intended victim's phone a text alerting them that these attempts were made?
So they monitor the board and report anyone they don't like to the police ? Isn't that the point of moderators ?
What benefit does anyone gain if everyone is running to the police about "threats" ? How does espn benefit from this ? What about the commentators ?
It just seems stupid, where if you disagree with something and start spouting off about it, they can clobber you IRL.
And it seems like ALL companies are doing this, facebook, google, aol, M$, apple. What do these companies actually gain by being government pigeons ?
ESPN is protecting itself from any future negligence lawsuits that might have occured had the guy actually made good on his threats. Reporting his threat to leo's would absolve them from any future liability.
Choose to do the hard thing. For you, that's loving yourself enough to get off that shit any way you can. A lot of good things are in store for you when you decide to to care about yourself. But only you can decide to walk that walk. If you o.d. and die, you will never now what you could have been, what a waste. Happens every day. People get clear of it everyday too. It's totally your choice.
That's a slower death, takes decdes, but it'll still get you there via liver failure. Alcohol IS a drug, the FDA has recognized it as a drug for a couple decades now, I believe. It's legal, and is the worst drug, ravaging to lives and relationships, imho. I finally quit it over 6 years now, beer was my problem, turns out. Gave up pot last year, and it's such a great feeling to have a fully sober and repaired brain again. I take life on life's terms now, and I'm frickin' grateful today. Grateful for the day I wake to, whatever the weather is. For anyone struggling with any alcohol/drug issues, from my 53 year old viewpoint, I would highly reccomend sobriety. If it's for real pain, then use prescribed drugs as suggested, and get off them as soon as you can. There's too many people suffering from drug abuse and alcohol abuse, and if they just stopped banging their head against the proverbial wall, in time, the 'pain' goes away. Have a great day, all.:-)
I once asked a former boss, himself a former hard core heroin addict, "What is so great about heroin?" He was driving us to a job, and I watched his eyes get a 'far off' look as he thought about it. Basically he told me that when on it, everything is wonderful, nothing bothers yo. It's a cheat and a lie, of course, a false reality. I know a guy hooked on pain pills, you'll never convince him he's an addict, after all , he's got a doctor issued prescription. To his mind, having a prescription from a doctor means he doesn't have a drug problem, even though he has no actual physical pain, which is the only good reason for these legal opiates. He takes the pill for the effects, to go back to his "La-La land world". It's sad to see, I'm just SO grateful I don't live in that world, it's not a real life, and nothing ever gets done.
There is no tech/geek angle here. It may be an important news story, but between this and the diamond thing the other day, I'm left wonderng WTF?
Because nerds are humans. Humans use drugs, for pain. This can lead to addiction if not completely understood. There is a lot of excellent information here for all nerds worldwide to learn, info that might keep them from falling into the trap of addiction. It's "news that matters".
Doesn't grinding it up defeat the time release the manufacturer boasts about?
Sure does. Start out just swallowing the pill as it's intended to be used. someone clues the user in on the 'rush' of getting all the effects at once by crushing the pill to powder. Then it's swallowed or snorted, and you've got yourself a full blown addict. The next step would be snorting heroin, when that's not enough, injecting via needle. After some time the veins used collapse, forcing the user to use any 'good' veins left. I worked for a former hard core heroin addict, he told me about when he was in a Harlem shooting gallery, a place where you can go and shoot up. He watched another guy who had his shot ready, but couldn't find a usable vein. The guy got frantic, then smiled, and injected it directly into the large blue vein of his dick! I doubt that guy lived much longer after that vein finally collapsed. Addiction is a terrible thing.
I understand your sentiment, but I reject it. People do things, they should live with the consequences. If you take drugs, you take drugs. Unless someone pinned you down and injected or whatever it into you, then you took the drug. It's a slippery slope, yes it is, so the best thing to do is not start down the path.
I respect and understand your opinion. On Long Island where I live it's an epidemic, opiate abuse. Good kids, they don't all have fully developed maturity, though you'ld think with all the public awareness campaigns that there wouldn't be such a large problem.
That's opiate addiction for you. As a rule, addicts are selfish people, it's what their addiction demands. Take away the addiction, and you might have a normal, selfless person again, though some people will always be jerks, such is people. I've learned kids start out by raiding their parent's pills (medecine chest), when their parents get wise and lock away their medecine, now the kid is cut off from his/her supply and has to go look elsewhere. (And perhaps the kid has learned that if you crush and snort the pills, you get the pills time released dosage all at once, major rush. Now the kid is hooked for sure. "Friends" show them to heroin dealers, and now the kid usually has to steal to get the money for the dealer. Burglarizing homes is the easiest method, stealing cars for the catalytic converters is another. One kid I talked to told me he stole 30 cars a day! I asked him where his morals were, he just said nothing. Unless you can afford the addiction, you have to steal to satisfy it. Addicts are really the hardest working people. They wake up from their last shot with no money on them, but you can bet that by the end of the day they'll have hustled up that money some way or another. People never intend to become addicts. Some wouldn't steal no matter how bad the withdrawl gets. Bottom line, love the addict, but hate addiction. It might be your kid someday.
I own a $99 Arnova (re-branded Archos) tablet that has an A8 1ghz processor, 5 point multi-touch 7"screen, updated it from ics to jelly bean, fast enough to code with it, 1080 hdml, decent battery life, 4gb internal ram with 32 gig sd card capability. I use a usb keyboard and mouse and joystick, port out video to my hdml tv. It runs most all mame/n64/ps1 and below emulated games, and divx files with not a hiccup. Yeah, I.m pretty much done with a regular computer/laptop. There's no longer a need for one any longer.
The iPhone5 has no hdmi out, no usb ($30 adaptor), a battery that won't get through the day, a measly 4" screen, no swype style type keyboard, no sd card, no hd, and that's just off the top of my head. It's untested in regular use category, will it break as easily as the other iPhones? And not only is it and it's cables/adaptors overpriced,h, all my friends with iPhones tell me Siri doesn't work very well. So my question is, why WOULD you want an iPhone5?
And tell me how many "good" , "God fearing Christians" in America belonged to the KKK, all the while believing God was on their side when THEY were lynching dark-skinned and gay people? Where's the difference? We don't have the KKK hardly at all anymore in the U.S. because?... Because they've either died off, are in jail, or have realized they were foolish and hateful people and decided not to hate anymore. Are all christians KKK members? Of course not. Freedom to think for yourself is a new concept to many muslims, and I say again, it will take time for the radical types to wrap their minds around that concept. You're using a broad brush to paint all muslims the same, and that just isn't the reality.
You gotta remember that these holy books, the Bible and Quran, were written long after their subject had died. The people that wrote/compiled them never knew their subjects, mostly relying on passed down spoken word for their 'data'. You ever play "telephone" as a kid? You whisper a phrase into the ear of one kid, he/she whispers it to the next kid, and so on. After ten kids the original phrase is usually completely different. That's how these books got written and highly edited by whoever to reflect their own personal views. That's how people got controlled then, since there was no actual government of laws. And 600 plus kills? Highly unlikely. Let me tell you about when I caught a fish THIS BIG!!! What I'm saying is that humans are famous for exaggeration, and the writers of these books were humans, therefore not the most trustable of sources. All the islamic people I've encountered in my life ARE God loving peaceful people who wouldn't hurt a fly. It just take a few extremists to give bad press to other people. Look, I don't care if someone believes that some guy who died long ago is the son of god, or even IS God, as long as they don't feel they have the right to kill someone because they don't believe as they do. If they try killing people for that, then we do have a problem. Live and let live. The majority of muslims are peaceful and do not subscribe to the more readical beliefs of that religion, just like you have catholics who don't blindly follow every teaching of the church. Look, it's gonna take time. You don't change people's religious time-hardened views overnight.
The only reason Jesus was able to be resurrected is because he was purely God, and sinless. Had he been half human prior to death, he would have been neither sinless, nor purely God, therefore the resurrection could not have happened.
Drugs existed then, and one of those drugs actually simulated death in the user that lasted for just about three days before it wore off. Perhaps, when Mary gave Christ water that drug was 'slipped' to him. When he woke up and realized, "They want to kill me", he got the hell out of town. This is one plausible explanation for the ressurection. I am a former altar boy who believed in religion until I reached the age of reaaon.
Hey, I'm talking about the guy, not the whole perverted religion. Mohammed (however you spell his name) did not write the Quran. Christ did not write the bible. Mohammed was a man of his time, a warrior yeah. His people were starving due to unfair trade practices, and he'd had enough of it and did something about it. Was he a prophet? I think he didn't believe he was. It's not his fault that a perverted religion got started after he died.
Er. From what you know of Muhamammad, you dont' know much. Pick up a Qur'an. Muhammad was a warlord and good luck finding any commands to be peaceful in his holy book (that aren't abrogated).
His people were mistreated and yes, he fought back. A man has the right to survive, and he fought for that right, and for his people. That doesen't make him wrong, or a bad guy.
In essence, it all boils down to a case of the "haves" and the "have nots". Inequity. Now the poorest of people in the world have internet access, and can see how other people in the world have been living lives with a higher standard of living, and they're left out. So, any excuse to vent anger will do. Change is not coming fast enough, their standard of living is the same still. Help is needed, to set the people up with a quality of life more on par with other societies. And angry groups of people will riot over any reason. My sports team won. My sports team lost. Whatever. People with jobs aren't the ones rioting in Libya or N.Y. City. People with jobs and a decnt homelife just want to do their job and go home and relax. The American ambassador is a martyr now, he truly loved the Libyan people and stayed on the job long after he could have gone back to his home in the state. We do need more people like him on this planet. Let's just hope that cooler, saner leaders in these parts of the world will begin to be listened to, and not the agitators. That's how things got of hand, same as with the Wall Street agitators. Give an idiot a bullhorn... There are a thousand different "religions" in just a 10 by 10 block area in Los Angeles alone, it's crazy. A thousand plus religions in the world, but only ONE God. And I pray to that one God that no more people are killed in the name of "religion. There's been too much of that moronic behavior in our history. It's high time the human race grows up a bit more and realize how we're all the same people, forgive the mistakes of the past, and move on towards a better future for everybody. ( Just my 2 cents.)
From what I know of this "prophet" Mohammed, he was a good guy, and just like Jesus Christ, he taught love and respect for fellow human beings. He pulled his group of people together, got them working towards a better standard of living, for that time. He helped to pull his people out of poverty. Taught non-violence. But as he was nearing the end of his life, he realized they were going to create a religion with him as their central "savior", and he didn't want them to do that. Like Jesus, Mohammed told his people, "No! There's nothing special about me. I'm a man just like you!" But they didn't listen, and went ahead and made a religion about him anyway. And the Crusades created a hatred of anyone non-muslim (thanks, Catholic Church!). There will be more time needed for the un-enlightened Moslems in that part of the world to 'assimilate' with the rest of the world's free society. It's going to take a couple generations to get there, but they will. Bigotry in the U.S. still exists, though it's far less than what it was in the 1960's. The older racist generations are dying out, getting replaced with more tolerant and educated people. The same will happen eventually in the Middle East. It'll just take time.
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And what force ensures that people hold up their end of the judgement? The UN? The UN wasn't set up in a way that instills faith in its abilities to end disputes, or to enforce judgement.
Well, I'm sure the U.S. might volunteer to ...
Oh.
You need to get out more...
Whoops, brain-fart. Thought I was still in the 'Anti Islam movie' story.
You know, you do two tabs of acid 30 years ago, you pay for it the rest of your life.
We need to have a world court, staffed with judges representing all countries. The United Nations is not effective enough. And it needs to be implemented soon.
How about not doing things that need to be apologized for, to begin with?
First of all, "we", the U.S., didn't do anything. That low budget movie was done by an individual, a man (an Egyptian emigre) with a personal "ax" to grind. He made his movie fully aware it would be controversial. This great country allows anyone, even bozos, to freedom of expression.
To the indoctrinated Muslim, their religion defines them as a people, so of course the movie fanned the flames of unrest. But as for America, WE did nothing wrong, and have no reason to apologize. The Muslim world needs to examine their own society, and come to a resolution concerning their own behavior.
who ever said it'd be "different" 72 virgins for each martyrs? The untold secret around the virgins in heaven is, they stay virgin for eternity :P
The word "virgins" may be a mis-translation, I've read. The actual word may actually be "raisens". Blow yourself up in a terror attack, and all you'll get for it in the next life is 72 raisens. That sounds about right.
according to Kevin Burke who originally found the issue (scroll down to "Wednesday morning").
So now a hacker will get a pop 404 page after 20 successful attempts, according to the updated info. My question: Will Virgin Mobile be sending the intended victim's phone a text alerting them that these attempts were made?
So they monitor the board and report anyone they don't like to the police ? Isn't that the point of moderators ?
What benefit does anyone gain if everyone is running to the police about "threats" ? How does espn benefit from this ? What about the commentators ?
It just seems stupid, where if you disagree with something and start spouting off about it, they can clobber you IRL.
And it seems like ALL companies are doing this, facebook, google, aol, M$, apple. What do these companies actually gain by being government pigeons ?
ESPN is protecting itself from any future negligence lawsuits that might have occured had the guy actually made good on his threats. Reporting his threat to leo's would absolve them from any future liability.
At the same event, they also hacked iOS6. Just to give an unbiased view...
...and CNET has more details... http://m.cnet.com/news/iphone-4s-samsung-galaxy-s3-hacked-in-contest/57516966
He died from a case of stupid.
To be fair, it's more like ignorance about drugs.
Choose to do the hard thing. For you, that's loving yourself enough to get off that shit any way you can. A lot of good things are in store for you when you decide to to care about yourself. But only you can decide to walk that walk. If you o.d. and die, you will never now what you could have been, what a waste. Happens every day. People get clear of it everyday too. It's totally your choice.
Plenty of folks drink themselves dead, so what?
That's a slower death, takes decdes, but it'll still get you there via liver failure. Alcohol IS a drug, the FDA has recognized it as a drug for a couple decades now, I believe. It's legal, and is the worst drug, ravaging to lives and relationships, imho. I finally quit it over 6 years now, beer was my problem, turns out. Gave up pot last year, and it's such a great feeling to have a fully sober and repaired brain again. I take life on life's terms now, and I'm frickin' grateful today. Grateful for the day I wake to, whatever the weather is. For anyone struggling with any alcohol/drug issues, from my 53 year old viewpoint, I would highly reccomend sobriety. If it's for real pain, then use prescribed drugs as suggested, and get off them as soon as you can. There's too many people suffering from drug abuse and alcohol abuse, and if they just stopped banging their head against the proverbial wall, in time, the 'pain' goes away. Have a great day, all. :-)
I once asked a former boss, himself a former hard core heroin addict, "What is so great about heroin?" He was driving us to a job, and I watched his eyes get a 'far off' look as he thought about it. Basically he told me that when on it, everything is wonderful, nothing bothers yo. It's a cheat and a lie, of course, a false reality. I know a guy hooked on pain pills, you'll never convince him he's an addict, after all , he's got a doctor issued prescription. To his mind, having a prescription from a doctor means he doesn't have a drug problem, even though he has no actual physical pain, which is the only good reason for these legal opiates. He takes the pill for the effects, to go back to his "La-La land world". It's sad to see, I'm just SO grateful I don't live in that world, it's not a real life, and nothing ever gets done.
Was wondering the same.
There is no tech/geek angle here. It may be an important news story, but between this and the diamond thing the other day, I'm left wonderng WTF?
Because nerds are humans. Humans use drugs, for pain. This can lead to addiction if not completely understood. There is a lot of excellent information here for all nerds worldwide to learn, info that might keep them from falling into the trap of addiction. It's "news that matters".
Doesn't grinding it up defeat the time release the manufacturer boasts about?
Sure does. Start out just swallowing the pill as it's intended to be used. someone clues the user in on the 'rush' of getting all the effects at once by crushing the pill to powder. Then it's swallowed or snorted, and you've got yourself a full blown addict. The next step would be snorting heroin, when that's not enough, injecting via needle. After some time the veins used collapse, forcing the user to use any 'good' veins left. I worked for a former hard core heroin addict, he told me about when he was in a Harlem shooting gallery, a place where you can go and shoot up. He watched another guy who had his shot ready, but couldn't find a usable vein. The guy got frantic, then smiled, and injected it directly into the large blue vein of his dick! I doubt that guy lived much longer after that vein finally collapsed. Addiction is a terrible thing.
I understand your sentiment, but I reject it. People do things, they should live with the consequences. If you take drugs, you take drugs. Unless someone pinned you down and injected or whatever it into you, then you took the drug. It's a slippery slope, yes it is, so the best thing to do is not start down the path.
I respect and understand your opinion. On Long Island where I live it's an epidemic, opiate abuse. Good kids, they don't all have fully developed maturity, though you'ld think with all the public awareness campaigns that there wouldn't be such a large problem.
That's opiate addiction for you. As a rule, addicts are selfish people, it's what their addiction demands. Take away the addiction, and you might have a normal, selfless person again, though some people will always be jerks, such is people. I've learned kids start out by raiding their parent's pills (medecine chest), when their parents get wise and lock away their medecine, now the kid is cut off from his/her supply and has to go look elsewhere. (And perhaps the kid has learned that if you crush and snort the pills, you get the pills time released dosage all at once, major rush. Now the kid is hooked for sure. "Friends" show them to heroin dealers, and now the kid usually has to steal to get the money for the dealer. Burglarizing homes is the easiest method, stealing cars for the catalytic converters is another. One kid I talked to told me he stole 30 cars a day! I asked him where his morals were, he just said nothing. Unless you can afford the addiction, you have to steal to satisfy it. Addicts are really the hardest working people. They wake up from their last shot with no money on them, but you can bet that by the end of the day they'll have hustled up that money some way or another. People never intend to become addicts. Some wouldn't steal no matter how bad the withdrawl gets. Bottom line, love the addict, but hate addiction. It might be your kid someday.
I own a $99 Arnova (re-branded Archos) tablet that has an A8 1ghz processor, 5 point multi-touch 7"screen, updated it from ics to jelly bean, fast enough to code with it, 1080 hdml, decent battery life, 4gb internal ram with 32 gig sd card capability. I use a usb keyboard and mouse and joystick, port out video to my hdml tv. It runs most all mame/n64/ps1 and below emulated games, and divx files with not a hiccup. Yeah, I.m pretty much done with a regular computer/laptop. There's no longer a need for one any longer.
The iPhone5 has no hdmi out, no usb ($30 adaptor), a battery that won't get through the day, a measly 4" screen, no swype style type keyboard, no sd card, no hd, and that's just off the top of my head. It's untested in regular use category, will it break as easily as the other iPhones? And not only is it and it's cables/adaptors overpriced,h, all my friends with iPhones tell me Siri doesn't work very well. So my question is, why WOULD you want an iPhone5?
And tell me how many "good" , "God fearing Christians" in America belonged to the KKK, all the while believing God was on their side when THEY were lynching dark-skinned and gay people? Where's the difference? We don't have the KKK hardly at all anymore in the U.S. because?... Because they've either died off, are in jail, or have realized they were foolish and hateful people and decided not to hate anymore. Are all christians KKK members? Of course not. Freedom to think for yourself is a new concept to many muslims, and I say again, it will take time for the radical types to wrap their minds around that concept. You're using a broad brush to paint all muslims the same, and that just isn't the reality.
You gotta remember that these holy books, the Bible and Quran, were written long after their subject had died. The people that wrote/compiled them never knew their subjects, mostly relying on passed down spoken word for their 'data'. You ever play "telephone" as a kid? You whisper a phrase into the ear of one kid, he/she whispers it to the next kid, and so on. After ten kids the original phrase is usually completely different. That's how these books got written and highly edited by whoever to reflect their own personal views. That's how people got controlled then, since there was no actual government of laws. And 600 plus kills? Highly unlikely. Let me tell you about when I caught a fish THIS BIG!!! What I'm saying is that humans are famous for exaggeration, and the writers of these books were humans, therefore not the most trustable of sources. All the islamic people I've encountered in my life ARE God loving peaceful people who wouldn't hurt a fly. It just take a few extremists to give bad press to other people. Look, I don't care if someone believes that some guy who died long ago is the son of god, or even IS God, as long as they don't feel they have the right to kill someone because they don't believe as they do. If they try killing people for that, then we do have a problem. Live and let live. The majority of muslims are peaceful and do not subscribe to the more readical beliefs of that religion, just like you have catholics who don't blindly follow every teaching of the church. Look, it's gonna take time. You don't change people's religious time-hardened views overnight.
The only reason Jesus was able to be resurrected is because he was purely God, and sinless. Had he been half human prior to death, he would have been neither sinless, nor purely God, therefore the resurrection could not have happened.
Drugs existed then, and one of those drugs actually simulated death in the user that lasted for just about three days before it wore off. Perhaps, when Mary gave Christ water that drug was 'slipped' to him. When he woke up and realized, "They want to kill me", he got the hell out of town. This is one plausible explanation for the ressurection. I am a former altar boy who believed in religion until I reached the age of reaaon.
Idiotic nonsense.
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/cruelty/long.html
Hey, I'm talking about the guy, not the whole perverted religion. Mohammed (however you spell his name) did not write the Quran. Christ did not write the bible. Mohammed was a man of his time, a warrior yeah. His people were starving due to unfair trade practices, and he'd had enough of it and did something about it. Was he a prophet? I think he didn't believe he was. It's not his fault that a perverted religion got started after he died.
Er. From what you know of Muhamammad, you dont' know much. Pick up a Qur'an. Muhammad was a warlord and good luck finding any commands to be peaceful in his holy book (that aren't abrogated).
His people were mistreated and yes, he fought back. A man has the right to survive, and he fought for that right, and for his people. That doesen't make him wrong, or a bad guy.
In essence, it all boils down to a case of the "haves" and the "have nots". Inequity. Now the poorest of people in the world have internet access, and can see how other people in the world have been living lives with a higher standard of living, and they're left out. So, any excuse to vent anger will do. Change is not coming fast enough, their standard of living is the same still. Help is needed, to set the people up with a quality of life more on par with other societies. And angry groups of people will riot over any reason. My sports team won. My sports team lost. Whatever. People with jobs aren't the ones rioting in Libya or N.Y. City. People with jobs and a decnt homelife just want to do their job and go home and relax. The American ambassador is a martyr now, he truly loved the Libyan people and stayed on the job long after he could have gone back to his home in the state. We do need more people like him on this planet. Let's just hope that cooler, saner leaders in these parts of the world will begin to be listened to, and not the agitators. That's how things got of hand, same as with the Wall Street agitators. Give an idiot a bullhorn... There are a thousand different "religions" in just a 10 by 10 block area in Los Angeles alone, it's crazy. A thousand plus religions in the world, but only ONE God. And I pray to that one God that no more people are killed in the name of "religion. There's been too much of that moronic behavior in our history. It's high time the human race grows up a bit more and realize how we're all the same people, forgive the mistakes of the past, and move on towards a better future for everybody. ( Just my 2 cents.)
From what I know of this "prophet" Mohammed, he was a good guy, and just like Jesus Christ, he taught love and respect for fellow human beings. He pulled his group of people together, got them working towards a better standard of living, for that time. He helped to pull his people out of poverty. Taught non-violence. But as he was nearing the end of his life, he realized they were going to create a religion with him as their central "savior", and he didn't want them to do that. Like Jesus, Mohammed told his people, "No! There's nothing special about me. I'm a man just like you!" But they didn't listen, and went ahead and made a religion about him anyway. And the Crusades created a hatred of anyone non-muslim (thanks, Catholic Church!). There will be more time needed for the un-enlightened Moslems in that part of the world to 'assimilate' with the rest of the world's free society. It's going to take a couple generations to get there, but they will. Bigotry in the U.S. still exists, though it's far less than what it was in the 1960's. The older racist generations are dying out, getting replaced with more tolerant and educated people. The same will happen eventually in the Middle East. It'll just take time.