Can you prove that, assuming that that is true, that it is indeed a facet of the respective religions, and not the persecution of Muslims (don't tell me there isn't any)? American imperialism exists and is strong, and is not what most of the world wants. To watch Palestine be "settled" with American help doesn't exactly make Arabs in general think that America is a friendly force. And now, because of the actions of a few, the Christian world is bombing the shit out of Iraq and Afghanistan (actually, it was bombing between the Gulf wars, but that is another story). Now tell me about crazies.
I remember, a week or two after september 11th, me and my father were riding our bikes down the road, and a minivan driver asks us for direction. He was dark skinned, and the first thing he said to us was "Please, I am not an Arab." Can you believe that? The area I live in is fairly culturally and racially diverse, and seems in no way discriminatory, yet this man thought he had to say he was not of a certain race to talk to us safely.
Arabs and Islam have been demonized for ages, and more so now in this "post 9/11 world" than ever, it would seem. Now, think about those political cartoons that Islam was so terribly intolerant of. They showed a religious figure as a terrorist, using his "towel" to hold a bomb. This wasn't just against the religion, this was against a whole group of people, painting a whole religion with one brush. Would a Christian be happy to see a cartoon of Jesus dressed as a klansman? Or maybe Jesus stabbing an Arab child through the heart with a cross? Perhaps some, but the majority would see this as an insult and a totally unfair generalization.
I doubt very much that Islam is somehow less tolerant of insults to it than any religion is. I can certainly say that Muslims in general are pretty fucking pissed at being called terrorists, and their religion being constantly demeaned. Of course, if they complain about it, the western world uses their offence as a mark of a religion intolerant of critique. It is a snowball effect that makes the Iraq War just that much easier for Americans to swallow.
Youtube blocking the video is a step in the wrong direction. They are pretending Muslims are children. The effect will just be more people believing it. And on the other side of the world, the hatred will just make Muslims think of Americans less highly in general.
I am going to guess that the new interface doesn't remove any of the spam, which is my main problem with hotmail. I didn't sign up, because the agreement had some sort of NDA or similar in it when I looked.
It seems sort of odd to me that they would drop the uncool MSN name for the even more uncool Windows Live. I suppose they are losing brand identity, which might be a good thing.
whoops, knew that was in preview for a reason... (although anyone who joins the KKK is probably going to be joining based on the group's past actions), how's that?
Although I agree with the majority of your post, that a grouping of people cannot be judged on past actions (although anyone who joins the KKK is probably not in a , I think you should go further. It has been shown, to a large extent, that today or yesterday's anyone could be the one shovelling bodies into graves. Personally, I think the Milgram experiment should be essential material in all high schools. It is so hard to acknowledge that ordinary people could commit such acts, and for comfort we assume we are different. We aren't. Of note in the Milgram experiment is the difference between expectations and reality in terms of those who went to the final shock. The sooner we realise this, the better we will be able to react to politicians and those in any power, and the less racial assumptions will be made (I hope).
Oh yes, frivolous lawsuits are never good. Those with the resources are able to beat those without into submission. I should have paid more attention to the page itself, but still... there needs to be a tort law system of some kind, but perhaps one that is not entirely run by lawyers... good luck on that ever happening without people doing something about it.
I am not going to bother to register to read the article, but I believe the key point is that it does not qualify as defamation, which is a crime, free speech or not. For instance, I could start a website with hello.jpg and the caption "WiiVault did this to me!" However, if it was not an obvious parody, or not true, you could sue me.
Slander and libel are very odd. I forget, but somehow there is a burden on the defendant to prove that the offending statement was true, rather than for the plaintiff to prove that the offending statement was false. Or something like that. My memory of law 12 is not that clear.
Thanks for that. I am tired of all the hype about the Wii, especially since most of the games don't really track the motion that well. If there was a swordfighting game that you could actually have control of the sword's position in, I would be more interested.
Do British government departments release their findings under public domain, like United States departments (all that non-confidential NASA data, mmmmm)? I think, for the sake of culture, the United States should start a Ministry of Funk in charge of keeping the nation under a (state maintained) groove. In Canada, the Department of Defence presently controls such duties, but the NDP have a campaign promise to take such duties out of the navy, and into a new Department of Soul, which would also maintain a music-only CBC radio 4, playing only dance music. Prime Minister Harper is presently planning on allowing public-private partnerships, which the NDP (and myself) are vehemently against.
As Mr. Fingers once said, "I am the creator, and this is my house, and in my house there is only house music, but I am not so selfish, because once you've been to my house, it then becomes our house, and our house music. And you see, no one man owns house, because house music is a universal language spoken and understood by all."
An engagement ring? That's all science can offer me? Maybe I should get into mathematics more and work on game theory applications to anonymous hookups... I could probably get a grant for that.
Me too. I decided to see if it was doing anything or not, so I pop open the sidebar and see it had already blocked about 20 items! I added an exception for the video ads, but I hope I never go to that site again.
I have finally seen the light and installed ad-block. Sometimes I will turn it off for fun (and I might enable Project Wonderful ads because it is a somewhat interesting system) but it is a great firefox extension.
I think they might have used computer animation for backgrounds and unwieldy scenes, but it was mostly clay, as far as I know. However, I think the point was mainly now that we know for a fact that Dreamworks will not be contributing CG animation to Ardman.
Oh yeah, it was just that there are so many of these things now. That is not necessarily a problem with the OS, just it seems like reporting on every traffic accident in the world on Slashdot.
Woah, I meant to make a joke. Bad job on my part. But yes, it is news. I just find Vista more funny than anything else. The increased price of hardware is somewhat troublesome, but I am sure there will be alternatives, such as not playing video games, and pro audio equipment. I'm happy with Ubuntu and Fluxbox and not watching HD-DVDs on my computer. A large percentage of the population probably would be too. Seems a lot of these things are forced down our throats. Urge to critique "free market" rising...
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Well, both are plastic, but the apple babe is more easily scratched.
Meanwhile, at Beowulf Art School, 4 students are working on an animation project, each of them drawing 1/4 of each frame.
If it has been caged, could you tell me why religion is such a strong aspect in American politics?
Can you prove that, assuming that that is true, that it is indeed a facet of the respective religions, and not the persecution of Muslims (don't tell me there isn't any)? American imperialism exists and is strong, and is not what most of the world wants. To watch Palestine be "settled" with American help doesn't exactly make Arabs in general think that America is a friendly force. And now, because of the actions of a few, the Christian world is bombing the shit out of Iraq and Afghanistan (actually, it was bombing between the Gulf wars, but that is another story). Now tell me about crazies.
I remember, a week or two after september 11th, me and my father were riding our bikes down the road, and a minivan driver asks us for direction. He was dark skinned, and the first thing he said to us was "Please, I am not an Arab." Can you believe that? The area I live in is fairly culturally and racially diverse, and seems in no way discriminatory, yet this man thought he had to say he was not of a certain race to talk to us safely.
Arabs and Islam have been demonized for ages, and more so now in this "post 9/11 world" than ever, it would seem. Now, think about those political cartoons that Islam was so terribly intolerant of. They showed a religious figure as a terrorist, using his "towel" to hold a bomb. This wasn't just against the religion, this was against a whole group of people, painting a whole religion with one brush. Would a Christian be happy to see a cartoon of Jesus dressed as a klansman? Or maybe Jesus stabbing an Arab child through the heart with a cross? Perhaps some, but the majority would see this as an insult and a totally unfair generalization.
I doubt very much that Islam is somehow less tolerant of insults to it than any religion is. I can certainly say that Muslims in general are pretty fucking pissed at being called terrorists, and their religion being constantly demeaned. Of course, if they complain about it, the western world uses their offence as a mark of a religion intolerant of critique. It is a snowball effect that makes the Iraq War just that much easier for Americans to swallow.
Youtube blocking the video is a step in the wrong direction. They are pretending Muslims are children. The effect will just be more people believing it. And on the other side of the world, the hatred will just make Muslims think of Americans less highly in general.
I am going to guess that the new interface doesn't remove any of the spam, which is my main problem with hotmail. I didn't sign up, because the agreement had some sort of NDA or similar in it when I looked.
It seems sort of odd to me that they would drop the uncool MSN name for the even more uncool Windows Live. I suppose they are losing brand identity, which might be a good thing.
whoops, knew that was in preview for a reason... (although anyone who joins the KKK is probably going to be joining based on the group's past actions), how's that?
Although I agree with the majority of your post, that a grouping of people cannot be judged on past actions (although anyone who joins the KKK is probably not in a , I think you should go further. It has been shown, to a large extent, that today or yesterday's anyone could be the one shovelling bodies into graves. Personally, I think the Milgram experiment should be essential material in all high schools. It is so hard to acknowledge that ordinary people could commit such acts, and for comfort we assume we are different. We aren't. Of note in the Milgram experiment is the difference between expectations and reality in terms of those who went to the final shock. The sooner we realise this, the better we will be able to react to politicians and those in any power, and the less racial assumptions will be made (I hope).
Oh yes, frivolous lawsuits are never good. Those with the resources are able to beat those without into submission. I should have paid more attention to the page itself, but still... there needs to be a tort law system of some kind, but perhaps one that is not entirely run by lawyers... good luck on that ever happening without people doing something about it.
I am not going to bother to register to read the article, but I believe the key point is that it does not qualify as defamation, which is a crime, free speech or not. For instance, I could start a website with hello.jpg and the caption "WiiVault did this to me!" However, if it was not an obvious parody, or not true, you could sue me.
Slander and libel are very odd. I forget, but somehow there is a burden on the defendant to prove that the offending statement was true, rather than for the plaintiff to prove that the offending statement was false. Or something like that. My memory of law 12 is not that clear.
So rather than just stealing your computer, they beat your kneecaps until you type the right code. Sounds good to me.
Thanks for that. I am tired of all the hype about the Wii, especially since most of the games don't really track the motion that well. If there was a swordfighting game that you could actually have control of the sword's position in, I would be more interested.
Apparently, unreal engine 3 sounded too generic, so the name is being changed to UE:SG, or Unreal Engine: Sour Grapes.
We're talking about the electric slide, not the robot.
Do British government departments release their findings under public domain, like United States departments (all that non-confidential NASA data, mmmmm)? I think, for the sake of culture, the United States should start a Ministry of Funk in charge of keeping the nation under a (state maintained) groove. In Canada, the Department of Defence presently controls such duties, but the NDP have a campaign promise to take such duties out of the navy, and into a new Department of Soul, which would also maintain a music-only CBC radio 4, playing only dance music. Prime Minister Harper is presently planning on allowing public-private partnerships, which the NDP (and myself) are vehemently against.
As Mr. Fingers once said, "I am the creator, and this is my house, and in my house there is only house music, but I am not so selfish, because once you've been to my house, it then becomes our house, and our house music. And you see, no one man owns house, because house music is a universal language spoken and understood by all."
Amen.
I think apostrophe use is covered by the DMCA, and slashdot editors don't want to take the risk of doing it badly.
An engagement ring? That's all science can offer me? Maybe I should get into mathematics more and work on game theory applications to anonymous hookups... I could probably get a grant for that.
Me too. I decided to see if it was doing anything or not, so I pop open the sidebar and see it had already blocked about 20 items! I added an exception for the video ads, but I hope I never go to that site again.
Hey, if they had money, the robot wouldn't have been orange, it would have been hummer yellow.
With a somewhat lower latency, perhaps. Swinging, waiting a second, and then hearing your victim say "AH! You got me!" just isn't very cool.
Obviously, they were really trying hard too. They must be such an important development for this to have happened.
I have finally seen the light and installed ad-block. Sometimes I will turn it off for fun (and I might enable Project Wonderful ads because it is a somewhat interesting system) but it is a great firefox extension.
I think they might have used computer animation for backgrounds and unwieldy scenes, but it was mostly clay, as far as I know. However, I think the point was mainly now that we know for a fact that Dreamworks will not be contributing CG animation to Ardman.
Oh yeah, it was just that there are so many of these things now. That is not necessarily a problem with the OS, just it seems like reporting on every traffic accident in the world on Slashdot.
Woah, I meant to make a joke. Bad job on my part. But yes, it is news. I just find Vista more funny than anything else. The increased price of hardware is somewhat troublesome, but I am sure there will be alternatives, such as not playing video games, and pro audio equipment. I'm happy with Ubuntu and Fluxbox and not watching HD-DVDs on my computer. A large percentage of the population probably would be too. Seems a lot of these things are forced down our throats. Urge to critique "free market" rising...