I'm not sure you can lay all the blame for the temperance movement upon christianity, substantial blame also rests with the women's right advocates. Ironically, woman's rights has generally been an astounding atheistic movement throughout the last two centuries, with the temperance movement being uniquely both religious and disastrous.
That said, authoritarian and/or religiously motivated men were the ones who imposed and implemented the poisoning. So yes you may lay these 10,000 deaths at the feet of authoritarianism and christianity.
Don't worry. Nobody will ever force you to use any Apple device becuase Apple designs consumer electronics, not business machines. For example, any business issuing iPhones or iPads to sales people will quickly find those sales people sending terser emails and losing customers.
are they really claiming that people won't pay for a netbook, but they will pay the same price for something with half the functionality and none of the openness, just because it's pretty?
Do you even need to ask? lol Apple sells consumer electronics not business machines. A business tablet would have a keyboard and/or stylus because business people get fired when they send terse emails.
Berlusconi hasn't stolen nearly the quantity that Bush stole, nor murdered nearly so many innocent people. I'm unsure however that Bush was actually quite so blatantly corrupt as Berlusconi.
For example, I would compare the fact that Bush repealed the estate tax for 4 years with the fact that Berlusconi passed a two month tax amnesty for bringing money back into Italy from Swiss bank accounts.
Bush's temporary repeal of the estate tax seems more like grand standing because rich people must actually die within those four years for their children to benefit. Berlusconi used those two months to personally move like 500M euros from his Swiss bank accounts back into Italy.
Are these incidents comparable? I'd say both passed enormous other tax breaks for the rich, although perhaps Bush's were more onerous. We know both threw enormous sums of money towards their powerful corporate friends. Yes, Bush gave away vastly more money, but one should compare these numbers with the GDP, and shadow GDP in Italy's case.
Italy isn't nearly so blatantly or aggressive in foreign affairs of course. In particular, Italy didn't transparently fake the justifications for invading another country while expecting the obviously fake justifications would improve their electoral chances.
If you hire a litigious pricks lawyers, then *you* are a litigious prick too, period. We should avoid buying the products of litigious pricks like MagicJack. So make sure your family knows about other VoIP companies and/or Skype.
You must not pay ANY attention to Italian politics. Italy is the joke of Europe. lol
Spain, Portugal, Croatia, etc. are all more efficient and less corrupt. Turkey very likely matches Italy if your counting raw incidences, but Turkish corruption has a more administrative character, so people lose less money to corruption.
I know numerous real Italian-born highly educated young Italians living in Europe, except for a couple girls who choose to live near their parents, all prefer living abroad in France, Germany, or even miserable Britian over living in Italy.
It's a astonishingly bad time for young Italians living in Italy. Berlusconi's government's employment regulations have ensured most will never have the life their parents lived. I'm seriously not kidding, all the smart ones expatriate.
Berlusconi is apparently trying to gain some control over the web with this move, well he controls most non-web based news already.
I have never encountered an open source desktop linux application that would not run on any desktop linux distribution. Can you name one?
Any given.rpm or.deb might not install upon your particular distribution of course, but that's unavoidable. Also, those difficulties are largely mitigated by each distributions packaging everything under the sun and the Linux standard base.
In any case, I'm happy these incompatibilities will give the Maemo / MeeGo system more play.
Spirituality is about self improvement. Religion is about organization and power. Pretty simple really.
I did not alter Russell by adding [and Islam] or saying Religion, I quoted Russell in context. I read "and Islam" myself today, but quotation is quotation.
I'm confidant that Russell quote is particularly poignant because every so often people like you object, but they never mention Martin Luther King or Jimmy Carter.
Organization can obviously be used for good. Religion succeeds when Religion has been more democratic than government. Religion usually fails the modern word by being less democratic. Oh, Real democracy requires representation as noted during the Boston tea party, btw.
Afaik, Jimmy Cater is the only living man who both has held the reigns of power and is truly an idealized Christian. I'll change my sig when I hear him give a logical defense of religion. I've only ever heard him defend spirituality, not religion. MLK might've given religion an argument, but you know what happened to him, and you know by whom.
Nokia's N900 has supposedly the best skype and sip integration of any phone on the market. It's also the most open sourced mass market phone available. How hard would it be to implement these measures on the N900?
I'd imagine European intelligence agencies have vast access to Skype calls. eBay's ownership might have opened things more for the NSA, but the company remains based in Europe.
I'd expect the NSA has access when they need it, but maybe that requires European cooperation. If so, I'd say this stands as testament to the decline of American soft power, and the damage that monopolies and copyright law are doing the U.S.'s innovative spirit.
I'd imagine that Bush's people would be perfectly happy outsourcing Skype related sigint, just a minor issue while Bush was gutting the U.S. intelligence establishment for disagreeing with his Iraq war.
Blackberry rules the business world because you're most likely to send a meaningful email on a large tactile keyboard. A small touch screen keyboard will likely get you writing shorter emails and cost you sales or get you fired.
Apple does know their market. They've got the teenager market and gamer market who'll buy all the games on their App Store. Apple doesn't care about others whose needs might include tough issues like a bulkier phone, sip integration, etc.
Any device without a keyboard and/or strong stylus support is off limits for most business applications. A terse email could get you fired. Blackberry nailed this market perfectly.
Academic users need a stylus or keyboard for note taking too. A few serious users need obscure syntax handled through ssh or sql clients. Again the on screen keyboard fails it.
A large number of normal users want full skype and sip integration, which Apple cannot provide without pissing off AT&T.. and business users require this feature.
Apple won't distribute pornographic apps either.
What's left? Mostly games, movies, music, and basic info delivery like maps.
Apple sells consumer electronics, ergo they don't care about business needs, nor other serious users. Fair enough, there's a market for that.
Nokia's Maemo and IBM's Moblin projects are merging as MeeGo. I'd hope they'll have all the multitouch stuff despite needing to maintain stylus compatibility for business users. So presumably you'll have a full linux system with your multitouch interface. If so, the people could add the multitouch support to linux based live performance software.
I think the only real obstacles to live performance software on the iPad or Android are Apple's fanatical application control and Java's speed issues. You could imagine aftermarket or jailbroken ipad being used for live performances, or Android tablets that had additional low level libraries installed.
In any case, you could write an interface application that controls the desktop version, provided the desktop version is open enough to allow low level controls, probably again restricting you to open source live performance software.
Apple doesn't mind chasing away all the hard core developers who'll tweak the underlying system. The iPhone, iTouch, iPad are only really useful for video games, music/movies, and basic communications and information services, ala maps, sms, etc. Apple just doesn't need developers. Anyone interested in developing more serious applications should really look into Maemo/MeeGo or Android.
Apple sells consumer oriented electronics. Microsoft sells business software. I don't either has fared very well when entering the other market. Some cross over is perfectly natural when you're talking real computers of course, but this describes their core marketing and product focus.
A business portable needs a keyboard and/or stylus for numerous reasons true, like how you'll be fired if you send important emails using text speak. I'm not so sure however that Bill Gates is correct about the iPad being unimpressive.
iPod Touchs are essentially a combined video game and mp3 player. An iPad no longer functions as an effective mp3 player, but instead provides movies and larger games, and wrongly lays claims to being an ebook reader.
I'm occasionally the guy who gives up his seat on an oversold flight in exchange for a free flight, but I'd support reforming the airline standard ticket policy to say :
If a flight is oversold, the airline will first remove any obese people, thus ensuring that remaining passengers are as comfortable as possible. If the flight is still oversold, the airline must offer their usual compensation scheme.
I think the key word here is obese, usually defined as a BMI over 30 kg/m^2, i.e. weight divided by height squared. You might not enjoy sitting next to a person with a BMI around say 28 kg/m^2, but they'll basically remain inside their seat. Anyone whose BMI exceeds 30 will spill over into your seat, so removing them will make the crowded flight much more pleasant.
If he's still his Silent Bob weight, then Kevin Smith's BMI lies between 25 and 30, classifying him as overweight, but not obese. If he's obese now, then he really need to lose weight immediately, or else face serious health problems.
I'd hope they add features for browsing your flattr history and repeating the best sites. It'd also rock if they set up a system for giving larger sums to non-profits.
Don't forget how Sen. Shelby (R-AL) behaved like a spoiled brat by placing holds on all Obama's appointees trying to extort $40B in pork. Any redirection of resources away from Alabama right now will help reduce pork long term.
No, small businesses are the source of jobs. Big federal contracts are the source of large campaign contributions. So yes we're talking pure pork.
Obama's NASA reorganization backs long term R&D efforts, always a sound investment, while supporting our commercial launch vehicles. We need a successful commercial space program. X Prize, hello?
p.s. I'm now happy any time that Alabama's federal dole gets cut given Sen. Shelby ridiculous behavior, please cut their highway funding too!
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I'm not sure you can lay all the blame for the temperance movement upon christianity, substantial blame also rests with the women's right advocates. Ironically, woman's rights has generally been an astounding atheistic movement throughout the last two centuries, with the temperance movement being uniquely both religious and disastrous.
That said, authoritarian and/or religiously motivated men were the ones who imposed and implemented the poisoning. So yes you may lay these 10,000 deaths at the feet of authoritarianism and christianity.
Ubisoft might take notice if several hundred annoyed slashdot readers posted poor reviews for the Xbox, etc. versions.
Don't worry. Nobody will ever force you to use any Apple device becuase Apple designs consumer electronics, not business machines. For example, any business issuing iPhones or iPads to sales people will quickly find those sales people sending terser emails and losing customers.
are they really claiming that people won't pay for a netbook, but they will pay the same price for something with half the functionality and none of the openness, just because it's pretty?
Do you even need to ask? lol Apple sells consumer electronics not business machines. A business tablet would have a keyboard and/or stylus because business people get fired when they send terse emails.
Berlusconi hasn't stolen nearly the quantity that Bush stole, nor murdered nearly so many innocent people. I'm unsure however that Bush was actually quite so blatantly corrupt as Berlusconi.
For example, I would compare the fact that Bush repealed the estate tax for 4 years with the fact that Berlusconi passed a two month tax amnesty for bringing money back into Italy from Swiss bank accounts.
Bush's temporary repeal of the estate tax seems more like grand standing because rich people must actually die within those four years for their children to benefit. Berlusconi used those two months to personally move like 500M euros from his Swiss bank accounts back into Italy.
Are these incidents comparable? I'd say both passed enormous other tax breaks for the rich, although perhaps Bush's were more onerous. We know both threw enormous sums of money towards their powerful corporate friends. Yes, Bush gave away vastly more money, but one should compare these numbers with the GDP, and shadow GDP in Italy's case.
Italy isn't nearly so blatantly or aggressive in foreign affairs of course. In particular, Italy didn't transparently fake the justifications for invading another country while expecting the obviously fake justifications would improve their electoral chances.
Just make sure your family members never use MagicJack by them about telling them about Skype and other VoIP companies.
If you hire a litigious pricks lawyers, then *you* are a litigious prick too, period. We should avoid buying the products of litigious pricks like MagicJack. So make sure your family knows about other VoIP companies and/or Skype.
You must not pay ANY attention to Italian politics. Italy is the joke of Europe. lol
Spain, Portugal, Croatia, etc. are all more efficient and less corrupt. Turkey very likely matches Italy if your counting raw incidences, but Turkish corruption has a more administrative character, so people lose less money to corruption.
I know numerous real Italian-born highly educated young Italians living in Europe, except for a couple girls who choose to live near their parents, all prefer living abroad in France, Germany, or even miserable Britian over living in Italy.
It's a astonishingly bad time for young Italians living in Italy. Berlusconi's government's employment regulations have ensured most will never have the life their parents lived. I'm seriously not kidding, all the smart ones expatriate.
Berlusconi is apparently trying to gain some control over the web with this move, well he controls most non-web based news already.
I have never encountered an open source desktop linux application that would not run on any desktop linux distribution. Can you name one?
Any given .rpm or .deb might not install upon your particular distribution of course, but that's unavoidable. Also, those difficulties are largely mitigated by each distributions packaging everything under the sun and the Linux standard base.
In any case, I'm happy these incompatibilities will give the Maemo / MeeGo system more play.
Spirituality is about self improvement. Religion is about organization and power. Pretty simple really.
I did not alter Russell by adding [and Islam] or saying Religion, I quoted Russell in context. I read "and Islam" myself today, but quotation is quotation.
I'm confidant that Russell quote is particularly poignant because every so often people like you object, but they never mention Martin Luther King or Jimmy Carter.
Organization can obviously be used for good. Religion succeeds when Religion has been more democratic than government. Religion usually fails the modern word by being less democratic. Oh, Real democracy requires representation as noted during the Boston tea party, btw.
Afaik, Jimmy Cater is the only living man who both has held the reigns of power and is truly an idealized Christian. I'll change my sig when I hear him give a logical defense of religion. I've only ever heard him defend spirituality, not religion. MLK might've given religion an argument, but you know what happened to him, and you know by whom.
Nokia's N900 has supposedly the best skype and sip integration of any phone on the market. It's also the most open sourced mass market phone available. How hard would it be to implement these measures on the N900?
I'd imagine European intelligence agencies have vast access to Skype calls. eBay's ownership might have opened things more for the NSA, but the company remains based in Europe.
I'd expect the NSA has access when they need it, but maybe that requires European cooperation. If so, I'd say this stands as testament to the decline of American soft power, and the damage that monopolies and copyright law are doing the U.S.'s innovative spirit.
I'd imagine that Bush's people would be perfectly happy outsourcing Skype related sigint, just a minor issue while Bush was gutting the U.S. intelligence establishment for disagreeing with his Iraq war.
Blackberry rules the business world because you're most likely to send a meaningful email on a large tactile keyboard. A small touch screen keyboard will likely get you writing shorter emails and cost you sales or get you fired.
Apple does know their market. They've got the teenager market and gamer market who'll buy all the games on their App Store. Apple doesn't care about others whose needs might include tough issues like a bulkier phone, sip integration, etc.
Any device without a keyboard and/or strong stylus support is off limits for most business applications. A terse email could get you fired. Blackberry nailed this market perfectly.
Academic users need a stylus or keyboard for note taking too. A few serious users need obscure syntax handled through ssh or sql clients. Again the on screen keyboard fails it.
A large number of normal users want full skype and sip integration, which Apple cannot provide without pissing off AT&T.. and business users require this feature.
Apple won't distribute pornographic apps either.
What's left? Mostly games, movies, music, and basic info delivery like maps.
Apple sells consumer electronics, ergo they don't care about business needs, nor other serious users. Fair enough, there's a market for that.
Nokia's Maemo and IBM's Moblin projects are merging as MeeGo. I'd hope they'll have all the multitouch stuff despite needing to maintain stylus compatibility for business users. So presumably you'll have a full linux system with your multitouch interface. If so, the people could add the multitouch support to linux based live performance software.
I think the only real obstacles to live performance software on the iPad or Android are Apple's fanatical application control and Java's speed issues. You could imagine aftermarket or jailbroken ipad being used for live performances, or Android tablets that had additional low level libraries installed.
In any case, you could write an interface application that controls the desktop version, provided the desktop version is open enough to allow low level controls, probably again restricting you to open source live performance software.
Apple doesn't mind chasing away all the hard core developers who'll tweak the underlying system. The iPhone, iTouch, iPad are only really useful for video games, music/movies, and basic communications and information services, ala maps, sms, etc. Apple just doesn't need developers. Anyone interested in developing more serious applications should really look into Maemo/MeeGo or Android.
Dude, I've gotta explain why I thought they were talking about subversion, which I'm sure will go over real well.
Apple sells consumer oriented electronics. Microsoft sells business software. I don't either has fared very well when entering the other market. Some cross over is perfectly natural when you're talking real computers of course, but this describes their core marketing and product focus.
A business portable needs a keyboard and/or stylus for numerous reasons true, like how you'll be fired if you send important emails using text speak. I'm not so sure however that Bill Gates is correct about the iPad being unimpressive.
iPod Touchs are essentially a combined video game and mp3 player. An iPad no longer functions as an effective mp3 player, but instead provides movies and larger games, and wrongly lays claims to being an ebook reader.
I gather the iLiad is kinda getting old however. Is there are more updated reader that provides good markup and freehand note taking?
How do the various ebook readers that support markup compare? Only readers with stylus support need apply, obviously.
I'm occasionally the guy who gives up his seat on an oversold flight in exchange for a free flight, but I'd support reforming the airline standard ticket policy to say :
If a flight is oversold, the airline will first remove any obese people, thus ensuring that remaining passengers are as comfortable as possible. If the flight is still oversold, the airline must offer their usual compensation scheme.
I think the key word here is obese, usually defined as a BMI over 30 kg/m^2, i.e. weight divided by height squared. You might not enjoy sitting next to a person with a BMI around say 28 kg/m^2, but they'll basically remain inside their seat. Anyone whose BMI exceeds 30 will spill over into your seat, so removing them will make the crowded flight much more pleasant.
If he's still his Silent Bob weight, then Kevin Smith's BMI lies between 25 and 30, classifying him as overweight, but not obese. If he's obese now, then he really need to lose weight immediately, or else face serious health problems.
You're ignorance is laughable. All red states get way more money back from the federal government than they pay.
You're tanker project would actually have sent an enormous amounts over to Europe, only the final assembly would have taken place in Alabama.
I'd hope they add features for browsing your flattr history and repeating the best sites. It'd also rock if they set up a system for giving larger sums to non-profits.
Don't forget how Sen. Shelby (R-AL) behaved like a spoiled brat by placing holds on all Obama's appointees trying to extort $40B in pork. Any redirection of resources away from Alabama right now will help reduce pork long term.
No, small businesses are the source of jobs. Big federal contracts are the source of large campaign contributions. So yes we're talking pure pork.
Obama's NASA reorganization backs long term R&D efforts, always a sound investment, while supporting our commercial launch vehicles. We need a successful commercial space program. X Prize, hello?
p.s. I'm now happy any time that Alabama's federal dole gets cut given Sen. Shelby ridiculous behavior, please cut their highway funding too!