There were plenty of Muslims who were offended but didn't threaten anyone.
Sure, not everyone who's offended by a cartoon is going to throw a tantrum. The US Joint Chiefs of Staff, for example, reacted in an absolutely appropriate way to an exceptionally snotty cartoon in the Washington Post a short while ago. They wrote a letter to the editor, without demanding that Tolles be fired, and certainly never threatened to burn down the Post's Springfield printing plant.
There is a civilized way to react to an insult, and that is to denouce the person who insults you. Committing an act of war by attacking an embassy is beyond the pale, and when a government encourages this behavior, it should be dealt with severely.
Scholars have shown that a lot follows from the assumption of God's existence.
They have shown nothing of the kind. They have claimed various consequences, none of which follow logically from the simple postulation of a god's existence.
What follows is that all scientific knowledge is uncertain.
Not until the proposed deity makes an observed change in the laws of physics, it doesn't. Simply proposing that something could do so has no consequences: it's just another unsupported conjecture.
You can never prove God does not exist - because if he is omnipotent, he's better at hiding than you are at finding:P
I describe the question of a god's existence as an essentially insignificant one, because if a god exsits, nothing at all follows from that premise. It does not follow that any particular scripture is properly attributed to it, nor does it follow that one should behave in any particular way, since if it is omnipotent, then everything's happening the way it wants, anyway.
After all, a true person of faith would encourage science because it will only prove what he/she already believes to be true, right?
Actually, the Catholics are pretty clear on this these days: if you think you see a conflict between the real world and the book, then you're just not understanding the book. RC doctrine doesn't require you to fudge the data.
I'd love to counter that clown with "How do you know that Jesus of Nazareth ever existed? were you there? NO? Ok, then: let's move on to what the evidence shows."
Note that another way of "dealing" with an intolerable life situation, the killing spree or "going postal" kind of shootout, drunken rampages with a vehicle and so on, is very rare to unheard of here.
Actually, it's pretty rare almost everywhere in the world. We lose more people to the flu every year than we do to shooting rampages.
All I wanted you to do was prove your assertion (unfounded, I think) that the Google-in-China crisis is not right-wing hype
Do you often demand that people attempt to prove a negative? And for that matter, who said it was a crisis? Google did the Wrong Thing, and that is still the case whether GWB and Jerry Falwell think so or not.
Suggesting that the hospitals are at fault for failing to secure their networks adequately is assinine
No, it's a well-established legal theory, known as "contributory negligence". The perps are the main culprits, but it's quite likely that the hospital and several of their vendors will end up tapping their liability insurance to the tune of some millions of dollars.
Well, the analogy I like to use is that the perps are the arsonists, but Microsoft is the contractor who keeps building houses out of balsa wood and flash paper.
You need to stop getting your information from Fox News.
How do you walk with your knees jerking like that?
I would be interested to see whatever evidence you have that criticizing Google's China decision is not a partisan practice.
My objections to Google's actions in China have nothing to do with which wing of the Ruling Party in the USA I happen to find less odious on any particular day.
No, I'm an experienced customer who knows better than to believe any MS advocate's claims of performance, securability, etc, etc. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Windows NT's performance scaled decently on an 8-way system back in 1998,
Would this be the microsoftie definition of "decently", as in "windows takes a decently long time between bluescreens these days"?
and the datacenter edition supports 32 processor configurations right now.
Heh. It's a long way from booting on a 32-way machine to "supporting" it. For windows to run on a 32-processor machine, it's rather like a dog walking on his hind legs. You don't even ask if he does it well, it's just impressive that he even attempts it.
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There were plenty of Muslims who were offended but didn't threaten anyone.
Sure, not everyone who's offended by a cartoon is going to throw a tantrum. The US Joint Chiefs of Staff, for example, reacted in an absolutely appropriate way to an exceptionally snotty cartoon in the Washington Post a short while ago. They wrote a letter to the editor, without demanding that Tolles be fired, and certainly never threatened to burn down the Post's Springfield printing plant.
There is a civilized way to react to an insult, and that is to denouce the person who insults you. Committing an act of war by attacking an embassy is beyond the pale, and when a government encourages this behavior, it should be dealt with severely.
-jcr
The U.S. is as concerned about "privacy rights" as casinos are in letting you win.
I believe you're confusing the government with the country.
-jcr
YMMV, but I wouldn't take the risk of letting Windows malware trash my Mac.
-jcr
Wait for VPC or VMWare. Letting Windows boot your hardware is just begging for a world of pain.
-jcr
Scholars have shown that a lot follows from the assumption of God's existence.
They have shown nothing of the kind. They have claimed various consequences, none of which follow logically from the simple postulation of a god's existence.
-jcr
For me, OS X does NOT do it better.
Better than what?
-jcr
Dude.. The general public hates it when you tell them that. ;-)
-jcr
So what? If Apple licensed FairPlay to anyone else that would still be the case.
-jcr
What I find to be the issue is that I cannot get their DRM on any non-Apple product
The Motorola ROKR and SLVR phones are not Apple products.
-jcr
What follows is that all scientific knowledge is uncertain.
Not until the proposed deity makes an observed change in the laws of physics, it doesn't. Simply proposing that something could do so has no consequences: it's just another unsupported conjecture.
-jcr
I believe Catholicism, Islam and Buddhism (ie. the big three) are all OK with evolution.
Catholicism doesn't dispute the facts of evolution, but they do maintain that the emergence of Man from the process was intentional.
-jcr
You can never prove God does not exist - because if he is omnipotent, he's better at hiding than you are at finding :P
I describe the question of a god's existence as an essentially insignificant one, because if a god exsits, nothing at all follows from that premise. It does not follow that any particular scripture is properly attributed to it, nor does it follow that one should behave in any particular way, since if it is omnipotent, then everything's happening the way it wants, anyway.
-jcr
After all, a true person of faith would encourage science because it will only prove what he/she already believes to be true, right?
Actually, the Catholics are pretty clear on this these days: if you think you see a conflict between the real world and the book, then you're just not understanding the book. RC doctrine doesn't require you to fudge the data.
-jcr
Musolini did manage to get the trains to run on time.
No, he didn't. He just made it illegal to say otherwise.
-jcr
I DON'T claim to believe in Scripture. I claim to believe in God.
Oh, let me assure you that scripture exists.. I've seen many instances of it.
-jcr
I'd love to counter that clown with "How do you know that Jesus of Nazareth ever existed? were you there? NO? Ok, then: let's move on to what the evidence shows."
-jcr
The idea that creatures could just suddenly change from one specia to the next is laughable.
Who said it happens suddenly?
-jcr
Note that another way of "dealing" with an intolerable life situation, the killing spree or "going postal" kind of shootout, drunken rampages with a vehicle and so on, is very rare to unheard of here.
Actually, it's pretty rare almost everywhere in the world. We lose more people to the flu every year than we do to shooting rampages.
-jcr
All I wanted you to do was prove your assertion (unfounded, I think) that the Google-in-China crisis is not right-wing hype
Do you often demand that people attempt to prove a negative? And for that matter, who said it was a crisis? Google did the Wrong Thing, and that is still the case whether GWB and Jerry Falwell think so or not.
-jcr
I have to wonder, what is it about Japanese culture that produces these people in such high numbers?
I'm not sure that the numbers are all that high. 26 people out of a population of how many millions?
-jcr
Suggesting that the hospitals are at fault for failing to secure their networks adequately is assinine
No, it's a well-established legal theory, known as "contributory negligence". The perps are the main culprits, but it's quite likely that the hospital and several of their vendors will end up tapping their liability insurance to the tune of some millions of dollars.
-jcr
The students, clearly.
Well, the analogy I like to use is that the perps are the arsonists, but Microsoft is the contractor who keeps building houses out of balsa wood and flash paper.
-jcr
You need to stop getting your information from Fox News.
How do you walk with your knees jerking like that?
I would be interested to see whatever evidence you have that criticizing Google's China decision is not a partisan practice.
My objections to Google's actions in China have nothing to do with which wing of the Ruling Party in the USA I happen to find less odious on any particular day.
-jcr
I'll play some videogames as soon as I find my damn glasses...
-jcr
You are an ignorant idiot.
No, I'm an experienced customer who knows better than to believe any MS advocate's claims of performance, securability, etc, etc. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Windows NT's performance scaled decently on an 8-way system back in 1998,
Would this be the microsoftie definition of "decently", as in "windows takes a decently long time between bluescreens these days"?
and the datacenter edition supports 32 processor configurations right now.
Heh. It's a long way from booting on a 32-way machine to "supporting" it. For windows to run on a 32-processor machine, it's rather like a dog walking on his hind legs. You don't even ask if he does it well, it's just impressive that he even attempts it.
-jcr