Individuals in those places may be doing it but its certainly not a requirement nor the law. The Taliban are not considered legitimate by a wide swath of the Muslim world and were overthrown by the Northern Alliance, a group that also calls itself Muslim and doesn't practice that requirement. Is it that hard for people to grasp that the super majority of 1.5 Billion Muslims don't do that sort of stuff? Whenever a country like Algeria comes up, someone always brings up the false stereotypes about Muslims. Do you think Algerians wear burqas? No, so how is this relevant?
Honor killings are not Islamic, they are pre-Islamic and are also practiced among non-Muslims such as the Druze, Maronites, and other religions of the area. Muslim leaders have condemned the practice as explicitly opposite of Islam. If you're going to buy the right-wing lie that honor killings are spreading, Who in America is calling for honor killings? Not a single Muslim leader or scholar. The one time it supposedly happened, the local Muslim community loudly condemned it. And how are you getting so off-topic?
Muslims, just like Christians, are a very diverse bunch of billions of people. They're diverse enough that they speak different languages, dress differently, are multiple races, have different cultures, and have different interpretations of religion. A Saudi woman will probably not shake your hand if you're a man, but a Turkish woman would probably kiss you as a greeting. In Saudi, women are banned from driving, but 4 of the top 5 largest Muslim countries have elected women prime ministers to rule over men (and yes they can drive).
Well you should be optimistic. Mubarak the dictator is out, and democracy looks like it will be slowly coming in. The dictatorship was what was preventing the new churches.
Muslims inside Egypt and out condemned that attack. Fortunately, such attacks are few and far between. Look at the aftermath, when terrorists attacked a church around Christmas, thousands of Muslim Egyptians attended church services in Egyptian churches, in order to serve as human shields in case of another attack. They held candlelight vigils outside and put crosses on their facebook pages as well.
People over and over again seem to fall for this mistake. Saudi Arabia is the only country that requires women to be escorted with a "mahram." No other Muslim country makes this claim that it's a requirement, and Muslims worldwide have condemned Saudi Arabia for being too chauvinist. Muslim scholars and shaykhs far and wide have said that Saudi is taking things way too far and that the Quran doesn't call for such things (and it doesn't if you read the text). The Muslim world at large has no desire to oppress women the way Saudi does; more women than men work in Morocco, for example, and Pakistan and Bangladesh had women Prime Ministers, and even Iran has more women in parliament than the US does in Congress.
If the protestors in Egypt were 100% Muslim only (and they weren't given than Egypt is 10-20% Christian), you'd still see women in the streets walking around uncovered. Cairo is the Hollywood of the middle east, home to a large music and film industry and even scantily dressed women.
"In a Muslim country, you can simply count the number of women in the photos. If its not at least 10 percent, the police will use all force necessary, and will ultimately crush the protest."
Um, have you noticed that these aren't particularly religious people who led the protests in Egypt and Tunisia? They're not even using Islamic words in their protests eg they're talking about the Watan and not the Ummah.
99.4% of all smartphone apps in 2009 were sold for iOS devices. The App Store recently passed its 10 Billionth download. Other competitors have come onto the scene and carved up the pie, but Apple is still in the lead.
Percent of App market (2010): Apple App Store : 25% Blackberry App World : 16% Verizon Application Store : 15% AT&T Application Store : 12% Sprint Application Store : 10% T-Mobile Application Stores : 8% Windows Marketplace : 4% Android Market Store : 2% Palm App Store : 1% Handango : 1%
While PC Magazine predicts that Android apps and downloads will one day surpass iOS, it is not there yet.
That's very arguable. H.264 is said to be patent-free and WebM is likely to have royalties issues, but Google backs WebM and is trying to take the choice out of the browser. MS and Apple back H.264 so they put it back in.
Al Jazeera has been broadcasting online for at least 3 years, when I started watching online. They do podcast some of their shows and have some pretty quality international reporters. Livestation.com is where they mainly stream from
It's not just a matter of selling phones, but to prevent piracy and DRM-circumvention. There are figures that as many as 60% of current iPhone apps are pirated (via jailbreaking of course). Look at how Netflix is dragging their feet on an android client, they have to have a reasonably-secure DRM before the studios will let them stream content.
I disagree. Places like Pakistan are where the Khan academy is targeted. According to Wikipedia's statistics, the majority have finished primary school and thus are receptive enough to understand the material being laid out in the basic Khan academy lectures. I'd hope the academy expands its video base to help the millions who haven't passed the equivalent of 5th grade, but I don't know if distance learning works at such a basic level.
maybe, but then you have trolls, people online who fake having knowledge and credibility, etc. Forums are a terrible place to learn and youtube is definitely not the peer-reviewed science that journals and actual college work can put out.
Places like rural Pakistani schools (where the Khan academy is aiming for etc.) don't really have broadband. If you can torrent it from a cybercafe and then bring it with you to a classroom on a USB stick, that's great.
This is all good, but what about email? Shouldn't we be pushing more for the adoption of PGP and/or S/MIME?
And while we're at it, why does it seem like adoption of those technologies is actually dropping? FireGPG recently lost its GMail support and GMail closed the google labs bit that verified signatures.
It wasn't about a filibuster-proof congress or not, but whether he'd be smeared as too partisan. Blue Dog democrats were afraid of being criticized by republicans and therefore wouldn't do anything without bipartisan support. Look at how Dems failed to pass the public option despite their supermajority, enough of them chickened out in the face of unanimous republican pressure.
The horse-trading deals to pass healthcare weren't done by Obama but by Pelosi and Reid. That doesn't affect my original point that Obama is much less tarnished by lobbyists than others. I'm still annoyed he put Goldman Sachs people in charge of Treasury but it's not like Bush who did that plus oil lobbyists, pharmacy lobbyists, aipac lobbyists, neocons, logging industry lacked etc. in charge of key posts
As much as I'm opposed to the idea, I think we need to put the thing into context. This is being pushed by politicians not in an attempt to block Free Speech (like Egypt did) but because they fear some massive hacking attack.
The iPhone is one product of Apple that's more the exception to the rest of their lineups. They don't label their desktop PCs, laptops, iPods, mice, displays, routers, nor servers in such a fashion.
Personally I favor Instant Runoff Voting, but every time it gets brought up people get into a long debate over it versus Condorcet voting and all its alternatives.
I think the debate is actually hurting the movement because IRV and Condorcet supporters squabble and split the movement. Neither IRV nor Condorcet supporters can get much traction in America with such division; it's almost ironic. Both groups need to get behind one and lobby for it to replace the current "First past the post" system.
Bush fought a timetable every day of his office from the start of the war until Obama got elected. He finally agreed to a timetable when Maliki openly said during the US election he'd press for Obama's roadmap, and in December 2008 when Bush's options were to either sign the SOFA or go back to the UN and ask for an extension. He chose the former days before the deadline.
Just because Obama has convinced you he's not Bush doesn't mean he's really different. I guess I'd rather have a wolf than a wolf in sheep's clothing - at least with the wolf, you know everyone's going to be keeping an eye on it.
Like I said in an earlier thread, Obama is turning into a letdown on lots of issues. Here you have a professor in Constitutional law who is still not closing Guantanamo and continuing illegal warrantless wiretaps. I'd like to think he's doing it because of near-unanimous Republican pressure (this vote was pretty clear on the numbers) but I'm still going to fault him for making the bad call. But back to my original point, Obama is not Bush. Bush had lobbyists all over his cabinet, while Obama has made official rules against it and publishes the White House visitor list. Yes, he's fighting FOIAs and I'm disappointed, but that's one issue among dozens.
I know it will cause a biologist flamewar, but can we describe studying viruses as "studying life" when it's arguable whether viruses are alive or not?
I wish people would stop calling it the iPad 2. Does Apple make a MacBook 2? An iMac 2? iPod touch 2? No, Apple generally doesn't number its products. It will probably be known as the 2011 iPad or informally as the iPad 2G (if you follow the iPod touch examples).
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Individuals in those places may be doing it but its certainly not a requirement nor the law. The Taliban are not considered legitimate by a wide swath of the Muslim world and were overthrown by the Northern Alliance, a group that also calls itself Muslim and doesn't practice that requirement. Is it that hard for people to grasp that the super majority of 1.5 Billion Muslims don't do that sort of stuff? Whenever a country like Algeria comes up, someone always brings up the false stereotypes about Muslims. Do you think Algerians wear burqas? No, so how is this relevant?
Honor killings are not Islamic, they are pre-Islamic and are also practiced among non-Muslims such as the Druze, Maronites, and other religions of the area. Muslim leaders have condemned the practice as explicitly opposite of Islam. If you're going to buy the right-wing lie that honor killings are spreading, Who in America is calling for honor killings? Not a single Muslim leader or scholar. The one time it supposedly happened, the local Muslim community loudly condemned it. And how are you getting so off-topic?
Muslims, just like Christians, are a very diverse bunch of billions of people. They're diverse enough that they speak different languages, dress differently, are multiple races, have different cultures, and have different interpretations of religion. A Saudi woman will probably not shake your hand if you're a man, but a Turkish woman would probably kiss you as a greeting. In Saudi, women are banned from driving, but 4 of the top 5 largest Muslim countries have elected women prime ministers to rule over men (and yes they can drive).
Well you should be optimistic. Mubarak the dictator is out, and democracy looks like it will be slowly coming in. The dictatorship was what was preventing the new churches.
Apple responsible for 99.4% of mobile app sales in 2009
My figures taken from Mobile App Store Market Share Based on Usage
The expectation that Android will overtake Apple is a prediction of future growth to 2015, not existing sales.
Muslims inside Egypt and out condemned that attack. Fortunately, such attacks are few and far between. Look at the aftermath, when terrorists attacked a church around Christmas, thousands of Muslim Egyptians attended church services in Egyptian churches, in order to serve as human shields in case of another attack. They held candlelight vigils outside and put crosses on their facebook pages as well.
Let's look to the last 2 weeks. A photo has been spreading all over Twitter of Egyptian Christians making a human chain to protect Muslims from police attack as they were praying in Tahrir square on Friday. On Sunday, Egyptian Muslims returned the favor, protecting them while they had prayer services. This is a great moment for Muslim-Christian unity in Egypt.
I think it was more the Tunisian ISPs capturing the page and inserting their own javascript code before sending it to the client.
People over and over again seem to fall for this mistake. Saudi Arabia is the only country that requires women to be escorted with a "mahram." No other Muslim country makes this claim that it's a requirement, and Muslims worldwide have condemned Saudi Arabia for being too chauvinist. Muslim scholars and shaykhs far and wide have said that Saudi is taking things way too far and that the Quran doesn't call for such things (and it doesn't if you read the text). The Muslim world at large has no desire to oppress women the way Saudi does; more women than men work in Morocco, for example, and Pakistan and Bangladesh had women Prime Ministers, and even Iran has more women in parliament than the US does in Congress.
If the protestors in Egypt were 100% Muslim only (and they weren't given than Egypt is 10-20% Christian), you'd still see women in the streets walking around uncovered. Cairo is the Hollywood of the middle east, home to a large music and film industry and even scantily dressed women.
"In a Muslim country, you can simply count the number of women in the photos. If its not at least 10 percent, the police will use all force necessary, and will ultimately crush the protest."
Um, have you noticed that these aren't particularly religious people who led the protests in Egypt and Tunisia? They're not even using Islamic words in their protests eg they're talking about the Watan and not the Ummah.
Lingua Franca? Yeah, except when it's not.
99.4% of all smartphone apps in 2009 were sold for iOS devices. The App Store recently passed its 10 Billionth download. Other competitors have come onto the scene and carved up the pie, but Apple is still in the lead.
Percent of App market (2010):
Apple App Store : 25%
Blackberry App World : 16%
Verizon Application Store : 15%
AT&T Application Store : 12%
Sprint Application Store : 10%
T-Mobile Application Stores : 8%
Windows Marketplace : 4%
Android Market Store : 2%
Palm App Store : 1%
Handango : 1%
While PC Magazine predicts that Android apps and downloads will one day surpass iOS, it is not there yet.
That's very arguable. H.264 is said to be patent-free and WebM is likely to have royalties issues, but Google backs WebM and is trying to take the choice out of the browser. MS and Apple back H.264 so they put it back in.
Al Jazeera has been broadcasting online for at least 3 years, when I started watching online. They do podcast some of their shows and have some pretty quality international reporters. Livestation.com is where they mainly stream from
It's not just a matter of selling phones, but to prevent piracy and DRM-circumvention. There are figures that as many as 60% of current iPhone apps are pirated (via jailbreaking of course). Look at how Netflix is dragging their feet on an android client, they have to have a reasonably-secure DRM before the studios will let them stream content.
I disagree. Places like Pakistan are where the Khan academy is targeted. According to Wikipedia's statistics, the majority have finished primary school and thus are receptive enough to understand the material being laid out in the basic Khan academy lectures. I'd hope the academy expands its video base to help the millions who haven't passed the equivalent of 5th grade, but I don't know if distance learning works at such a basic level.
maybe, but then you have trolls, people online who fake having knowledge and credibility, etc. Forums are a terrible place to learn and youtube is definitely not the peer-reviewed science that journals and actual college work can put out.
The book title is "Inside WikiLeaks: My Time With Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website"
Most dangerous? Moreso than 4chan?
Places like rural Pakistani schools (where the Khan academy is aiming for etc.) don't really have broadband. If you can torrent it from a cybercafe and then bring it with you to a classroom on a USB stick, that's great.
Flat out wrong.
Public opinion polling shows the majority of Egyptians want to keep the peace treaty with Israel
Also The New York Times is publishing statistics that Egyptians are liking the US more than before; 45% positive rating vs 29% negative rating.
This is all good, but what about email? Shouldn't we be pushing more for the adoption of PGP and/or S/MIME?
And while we're at it, why does it seem like adoption of those technologies is actually dropping? FireGPG recently lost its GMail support and GMail closed the google labs bit that verified signatures.
It wasn't about a filibuster-proof congress or not, but whether he'd be smeared as too partisan. Blue Dog democrats were afraid of being criticized by republicans and therefore wouldn't do anything without bipartisan support. Look at how Dems failed to pass the public option despite their supermajority, enough of them chickened out in the face of unanimous republican pressure.
The horse-trading deals to pass healthcare weren't done by Obama but by Pelosi and Reid. That doesn't affect my original point that Obama is much less tarnished by lobbyists than others. I'm still annoyed he put Goldman Sachs people in charge of Treasury but it's not like Bush who did that plus oil lobbyists, pharmacy lobbyists, aipac lobbyists, neocons, logging industry lacked etc. in charge of key posts
As much as I'm opposed to the idea, I think we need to put the thing into context. This is being pushed by politicians not in an attempt to block Free Speech (like Egypt did) but because they fear some massive hacking attack.
Given that politicians are openly saying Hackers might try to hack into Hoover Dam and open the floodgates, killing thousands, that's WHY they are claiming they want a kill-switch. Of course, the idea of cutting the internet is actually an unfeasible remedy; we have ISPs already cooperating to help stop DDoS attacks etc.
I didn't miss it, but thought it an interesting point to go over.
The iPhone is one product of Apple that's more the exception to the rest of their lineups. They don't label their desktop PCs, laptops, iPods, mice, displays, routers, nor servers in such a fashion.
Personally I favor Instant Runoff Voting, but every time it gets brought up people get into a long debate over it versus Condorcet voting and all its alternatives.
I think the debate is actually hurting the movement because IRV and Condorcet supporters squabble and split the movement. Neither IRV nor Condorcet supporters can get much traction in America with such division; it's almost ironic. Both groups need to get behind one and lobby for it to replace the current "First past the post" system.
...on the Bush timetable...
Bush fought a timetable every day of his office from the start of the war until Obama got elected. He finally agreed to a timetable when Maliki openly said during the US election he'd press for Obama's roadmap, and in December 2008 when Bush's options were to either sign the SOFA or go back to the UN and ask for an extension. He chose the former days before the deadline.
Except for FOIA I guess?
Just because Obama has convinced you he's not Bush doesn't mean he's really different.
I guess I'd rather have a wolf than a wolf in sheep's clothing - at least with the wolf, you know everyone's going to be keeping an eye on it.
Like I said in an earlier thread, Obama is turning into a letdown on lots of issues. Here you have a professor in Constitutional law who is still not closing Guantanamo and continuing illegal warrantless wiretaps. I'd like to think he's doing it because of near-unanimous Republican pressure (this vote was pretty clear on the numbers) but I'm still going to fault him for making the bad call. But back to my original point, Obama is not Bush. Bush had lobbyists all over his cabinet, while Obama has made official rules against it and publishes the White House visitor list. Yes, he's fighting FOIAs and I'm disappointed, but that's one issue among dozens.
I know it will cause a biologist flamewar, but can we describe studying viruses as "studying life" when it's arguable whether viruses are alive or not?
I wish people would stop calling it the iPad 2. Does Apple make a MacBook 2? An iMac 2? iPod touch 2? No, Apple generally doesn't number its products. It will probably be known as the 2011 iPad or informally as the iPad 2G (if you follow the iPod touch examples).