The US changed recently from a "first to invent" patent system to a "first to file" system. That was actually part of the patent reform, since the courts were having to decide who invented stuff first and it got contentious.
The US tried. Many of his compounds were bombed, but after Reagan killed his children he was smart enough to invest in multiple bunkers and safehouses.
Actually, saying Gaddafi ordered the destruction of an airliner is probably a false accusation; he never admitted any kind of guilt. He acknowledged a Libyan terrorist did it, but said he did not order it. As part of the settlement, his government admitted responsibilty (but not guilt) in exchange for the lifting of sanctions on the country. Gaddaffi was an evil man, but I don't think the Lockerbie bombing was due to him.
Who's talking about government, we're talking about public opinion. All my data posted is talking about the populations.
You think American Muslims only reject terrorism because of backlash fears? What a cynical view. Look, I live not too far from Ground Zero. I remember smelling it. The Muslims in NYC are not supportive of terrorism. It's not because of a backlash or fear of arrest, but because we are truly horrified by the thought of it. I'm actually offended by that remark.
For some reason you seem to treat the extremist minority as more representative than the vast majority who are fighting it. The Muslims who protect churches, as the Quran commands, are more numerous and more supported than the ones who burn them down. Second, you're going to have to cite your sources on religious freedom; Indonesia has more than 200 religions despite being a Muslim country.
You're drawing false conclusions from incomplete data. The more Sikh a state is, the greater the odds that some will support the terrorist group Babar Khalsa, or the more Christian a state is, the more likely they'll support Christian supremacist groups like the BNP or White Pride. The reason American Muslims reject terrorism more than Muslims in a place like Pakistan could more likely be because American Muslims have nearly 100% literacy rate while Pakistan is around 50%.
Heck, the ADL believes that swastikas and anti-semitism shouldn't fall under free speech either. Rauf didn't call for an abandonment of the first amendment, he said that people shouldn't hide hate speech behind it and pretend its benign.
Sufism is not a sect, you can be Sunni and Sufi, it's a philosophy that's found all over the Muslim world. Arguably, Pakistan is a sufi country.
Like I said, Saudi doesn't represent islam, it represents a dictatorship. The king controls it; he appoints and fires religious scholars who agree with him, despite the fact that nearly zero scholars outside Saudi agree with his warped ideas. The other 95% of the 1.5 Billion Muslims who don't live under his rule are nothing like him, which is why you see Jordanian Muslims planting flowers at churches or Indonesian Muslim leaders protecting churches of minorities. The majority of Muslims support religious freedom, look at places like Senegal for an example of how most get along. Cooperation and tolerance isn't newsworthy despite being the norm, so it's ignored.
I get the distinct impression you're hearing about Rauf from a less-than-objective source. Rauf believes in American freedom of speech and is patriotic, I don't know where you thought otherwise. If you're ever in New York City, I can take you to his mosque downtown at Masjid Farah. His congregation is sufi; very wonderful and loving people.
I've heard of churches using space inside a mosque, both 1400 years ago and more recently when a church burned down in the South. Clearly the Pope doesn't agree with the church letting Muslims use the space, but heck.
The size of a rally is irrelevant when public opinion polling shows that the vast majority of Muslims condemn terrorism and support coexistence. And Feisal Rauf never said he was sympathetic to hizbullah etc. Your quote was in the context of someone asking why religious movements gain popularity, not whether he endorsed it or not. He's been quite a critic of those groups.
If you're going to judge my religion based on whether some arab dictator allows a buddhist temple or not, then we're going to be here a long time. I'm not Arab, and the Saudi king doesn't speak for me. Instead, I go to a mosque in New York that's in the basement of a Catholic church. We have a great relationship with the Christians in our community, please don't try to lump us all together with the extremists you mention.
the number of those who support the violence is much larger, the number who are willing to passively accept the violence is even vastly larger, and those who publicly condemn it are relatively few
What's your basis for this belief? If you watch any Urdu or Arabic TV you'll see that the population is outraged by what's happening, and there are scathing denunciations in the press and large anti-terrorism rallies by the publics. Don't assume that if it's not reported on your English-language website that somehow the people are quietly going along with this. You're falling into the same mistake that middle easterners are when they think Americans are silent at the atrocities committed in their names.
Yes and no. A lot of the crime in the Muslim world is blamed on Islam in places like Fox News, although it has almost no bearing. Plenty of Pakistan's internal turmoil is little different than Mexico's killing sprees, but one is blamed on religion and the other is not.
Furthermore, when Islam is stated as a motive, there's little effort in the media to separate it from the mainstream. Muslims are aghast at the violence committed by extremists and hold press conferences and issue loud denunciations, but for some reason their narrative is ignored. It's like how Terry Jones' or Fred Phelps' religion isn't mentioned, or when it is the media doesn't bother to call him extreme or not.
If you're going to look at it that way, did they state the religious affiliation of the guy who crashed his plane into the IRS building, or the guy who shot up the Holocaust museum in DC, or the guy who shot Congresswoman Giffords, or the guy who threatened to blow up the Bed Bath and Beyond? They were all Christians and these were all recent incidents.
According to T-Mobile, HSPA+ is 4G, so the 4S has 4G. Also, let's not overlook Siri, which looks to be the future of smartphones. IMO, Apple already gave away iOS 5's secrets a few months ago so people are already bored by hearing it repeated at today's conference despite getting a standing ovation last time (and it's not even out yet).
I was going to say how this sounds like a potential invasion of privacy, but then I realized that the police knowing you have a microwave or Xbox controller probably isn't something to worry about.
You have no idea what you're talking about, the Mac is extremely different than the iOS garden. Mac magazines are printing shell scripts and Apple makes a point of supporting X11 and Windows installs on their machines. You can change the OS elements, replace your own kernel, rename menu items, modify the drivers, etc. It's not locked down and Apple has literally gigabytes of free developer documentation and sample code to edit and script your machine.
As part of that documentation, Apple even has manuals on how to start writing in Objective-C. If you have a problem with Apple not teaching how to use Bash, then find me a distro of *nix that teaches it from the ground up as part of it's support.
Apple does try and teach their customers the basics of the OS, with free Apple Store classes, free online classes for new computer buyers, and carrying a variety of Mac, iPod, iPad, OS X, iLife, and Office guide books in their stores. Way better than Dell's strategy of just dumping them with a computer and hoping they'll get the hang of Microsoft and the Microsoft.com help pages.
But how? There's essentially no way for anyone to do this with their existing nervous systems. Any disease must have a physiological explanation for it, and this one doesn't have any.
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All the more reason to use S/MIME or PGP/GPG to encrypt your email, and keep it out of government hands.
because every politician is afraid that once they close it, there will be an attack and they'll get ALL the blame.
Well, NiceGeek, the parent poster, said specifically "note: I'm not referring to the iPod Touch or iPhone"
The US changed recently from a "first to invent" patent system to a "first to file" system. That was actually part of the patent reform, since the courts were having to decide who invented stuff first and it got contentious.
Well there was some reform. The US went from a "first to invent" patent system to a "first to file" system.
The US tried. Many of his compounds were bombed, but after Reagan killed his children he was smart enough to invest in multiple bunkers and safehouses.
Actually, saying Gaddafi ordered the destruction of an airliner is probably a false accusation; he never admitted any kind of guilt. He acknowledged a Libyan terrorist did it, but said he did not order it. As part of the settlement, his government admitted responsibilty (but not guilt) in exchange for the lifting of sanctions on the country. Gaddaffi was an evil man, but I don't think the Lockerbie bombing was due to him.
Who's talking about government, we're talking about public opinion. All my data posted is talking about the populations.
You think American Muslims only reject terrorism because of backlash fears? What a cynical view. Look, I live not too far from Ground Zero. I remember smelling it. The Muslims in NYC are not supportive of terrorism. It's not because of a backlash or fear of arrest, but because we are truly horrified by the thought of it. I'm actually offended by that remark.
For some reason you seem to treat the extremist minority as more representative than the vast majority who are fighting it. The Muslims who protect churches, as the Quran commands, are more numerous and more supported than the ones who burn them down. Second, you're going to have to cite your sources on religious freedom; Indonesia has more than 200 religions despite being a Muslim country.
You're drawing false conclusions from incomplete data. The more Sikh a state is, the greater the odds that some will support the terrorist group Babar Khalsa, or the more Christian a state is, the more likely they'll support Christian supremacist groups like the BNP or White Pride. The reason American Muslims reject terrorism more than Muslims in a place like Pakistan could more likely be because American Muslims have nearly 100% literacy rate while Pakistan is around 50%.
Heck, the ADL believes that swastikas and anti-semitism shouldn't fall under free speech either. Rauf didn't call for an abandonment of the first amendment, he said that people shouldn't hide hate speech behind it and pretend its benign.
Sufism is not a sect, you can be Sunni and Sufi, it's a philosophy that's found all over the Muslim world. Arguably, Pakistan is a sufi country.
Like I said, Saudi doesn't represent islam, it represents a dictatorship. The king controls it; he appoints and fires religious scholars who agree with him, despite the fact that nearly zero scholars outside Saudi agree with his warped ideas. The other 95% of the 1.5 Billion Muslims who don't live under his rule are nothing like him, which is why you see Jordanian Muslims planting flowers at churches or Indonesian Muslim leaders protecting churches of minorities. The majority of Muslims support religious freedom, look at places like Senegal for an example of how most get along. Cooperation and tolerance isn't newsworthy despite being the norm, so it's ignored.
Here's one good link about American Muslims, but you can find similar elsewhere: Pew Research polling on American Muslims
I get the distinct impression you're hearing about Rauf from a less-than-objective source. Rauf believes in American freedom of speech and is patriotic, I don't know where you thought otherwise. If you're ever in New York City, I can take you to his mosque downtown at Masjid Farah. His congregation is sufi; very wonderful and loving people.
I've heard of churches using space inside a mosque, both 1400 years ago and more recently when a church burned down in the South. Clearly the Pope doesn't agree with the church letting Muslims use the space, but heck.
The size of a rally is irrelevant when public opinion polling shows that the vast majority of Muslims condemn terrorism and support coexistence. And Feisal Rauf never said he was sympathetic to hizbullah etc. Your quote was in the context of someone asking why religious movements gain popularity, not whether he endorsed it or not. He's been quite a critic of those groups.
If you're going to judge my religion based on whether some arab dictator allows a buddhist temple or not, then we're going to be here a long time. I'm not Arab, and the Saudi king doesn't speak for me. Instead, I go to a mosque in New York that's in the basement of a Catholic church. We have a great relationship with the Christians in our community, please don't try to lump us all together with the extremists you mention.
the number of those who support the violence is much larger, the number who are willing to passively accept the violence is even vastly larger, and those who publicly condemn it are relatively few
What's your basis for this belief? If you watch any Urdu or Arabic TV you'll see that the population is outraged by what's happening, and there are scathing denunciations in the press and large anti-terrorism rallies by the publics. Don't assume that if it's not reported on your English-language website that somehow the people are quietly going along with this. You're falling into the same mistake that middle easterners are when they think Americans are silent at the atrocities committed in their names.
Yes and no. A lot of the crime in the Muslim world is blamed on Islam in places like Fox News, although it has almost no bearing. Plenty of Pakistan's internal turmoil is little different than Mexico's killing sprees, but one is blamed on religion and the other is not.
Furthermore, when Islam is stated as a motive, there's little effort in the media to separate it from the mainstream. Muslims are aghast at the violence committed by extremists and hold press conferences and issue loud denunciations, but for some reason their narrative is ignored. It's like how Terry Jones' or Fred Phelps' religion isn't mentioned, or when it is the media doesn't bother to call him extreme or not.
I wasn't really pointing out any Christian conspiracy, but rather pointing out how ridiculous bodhammer's above argument about media bias is.
If you're going to look at it that way, did they state the religious affiliation of the guy who crashed his plane into the IRS building, or the guy who shot up the Holocaust museum in DC, or the guy who shot Congresswoman Giffords, or the guy who threatened to blow up the Bed Bath and Beyond? They were all Christians and these were all recent incidents.
According to T-Mobile, HSPA+ is 4G, so the 4S has 4G. Also, let's not overlook Siri, which looks to be the future of smartphones. IMO, Apple already gave away iOS 5's secrets a few months ago so people are already bored by hearing it repeated at today's conference despite getting a standing ovation last time (and it's not even out yet).
Where have you ever heard of an ER going under? Sometimes a hospital goes under, but not really from the ER (which is partly reimbursed by the state)
How the heck did the iPhone version of the app get released over a year before the Android one?
I was going to say how this sounds like a potential invasion of privacy, but then I realized that the police knowing you have a microwave or Xbox controller probably isn't something to worry about.
Ok, Ozone regenerates. Over what time span? Did the giant hole in our atmosphere close yet?
Sounds a lot like Apple's proposed and failed feature called OpenDoc. Or is it more like Metro, and this is like Objective-C?
Why bother with a domain name at all? Just use an IP address. Yes, unglamorous and looks uncredible, but it will stay up, right?
You have no idea what you're talking about, the Mac is extremely different than the iOS garden. Mac magazines are printing shell scripts and Apple makes a point of supporting X11 and Windows installs on their machines. You can change the OS elements, replace your own kernel, rename menu items, modify the drivers, etc. It's not locked down and Apple has literally gigabytes of free developer documentation and sample code to edit and script your machine.
As part of that documentation, Apple even has manuals on how to start writing in Objective-C. If you have a problem with Apple not teaching how to use Bash, then find me a distro of *nix that teaches it from the ground up as part of it's support.
Apple does try and teach their customers the basics of the OS, with free Apple Store classes, free online classes for new computer buyers, and carrying a variety of Mac, iPod, iPad, OS X, iLife, and Office guide books in their stores. Way better than Dell's strategy of just dumping them with a computer and hoping they'll get the hang of Microsoft and the Microsoft.com help pages.
But how? There's essentially no way for anyone to do this with their existing nervous systems. Any disease must have a physiological explanation for it, and this one doesn't have any.