LITERALLY living in the dark ages? Please demonstrate this. Does Egypt have a Flat Earth Society? Do they force creationism in Morocco schools? Is electricity a novelty in Yemen? Are witches burned in Algeria? Is Lebanon a feudal society?
"Well the liberals use stereotypes, so it's therefore OK for me to do the same" Very bad logic. I think Rush Limbaugh termed that 'moral relativism.' Of course, people like him who decried it suddenly practiced it when they decided that being "not as evil as Saddam" was just fine.
150 terrorist attacks, sure. Items like "Terrorists abduct a civilian and murder him in captivity." I only see about 12 suicide attacks, which is what this thread is referring to.
As I said in my earlier post, read my link. There's a huge number of suicide bombings from other non-Muslim groups. I'm not just referring to the Kamikaze pilots or the Salonica dynamiters, but the Tamil Tigers (who invented the suicide belt).
Anyway, how does this matter to Islam? All religions have extremists, it's a constant. The Jewish far right killed Yitzhak Rabin and members opened fire on innocent Arabs, etc. Buddhist monks rioted and killed innocent Muslims because of alleged disrespect to a shrine. The IRA claims to have religious Christian backing. Aum Shinkrikyo is Buddhist/Hindu.
South America leads the world in terrorist attacks, but do you blame Christianity (the dominant religion of the continent)?
First, that site is extremist, and unbalanced and unfair and untrustworthy. They're suggesting, among other things, that Muslims will take over America and make it into a theocracy, despite being only 2% of the population.
Second, their facts are incorrect, and your analysis is incorrect. Of those attacks listed on the site, less than a dozen were suicide attacks, and they fail to say by who. Was it a secular party, like the PKK, which has carried out suicide attacks despite having a secular charter? So your claim of "150 suicide bombings in 12 months" doesn't hold up. Wouldn't you hear about that many on the news?
I thought of more non-Muslim suicide attackers, what about the Salonica dynamiters?
It's not like you eating pork offends people over there, unless you're condoning it.
Well, what if one of the non-role models on the show decided to have a gay marriage? The show writers would be forced to either condone it or ridicule it. It's something that a secular TV show would want to leave out to avoid ticking anyone off. The Simpsons ticked a lot of people off, Brazilians, a child with Tourette's, and other people who sued the show.
Muhammad, peace be upon him, did purchase slaves and freed them. Slavery existed before his time, and he set limits, paving the way for the end of the slave trade in the Muslim world. Of course, slaves in the Muslim world were also treated far better than in the Christian world (the American South didn't give freedom of religion to slaves, forcibly converted them to Christianity, and denied them the right to read the Bible. Oh, and separated families, and Islam forbade that as the parent poster noted.)
Why is it when a nun goes around in public, everyone respects her, but when a Muslim woman wears as much as a headscarf, she's pitied/loathed/"oppressed"?
Female Muslim converts nearly double male converts in America, and a good portion of them cover their hair and dress modestly. Men wear kufis, and women wear hijabs. Some women go beyond that and wear a chador or niqab. I've never seen a burqa in America, and there's a massive difference between a burqa and hijab.
From 1980-2003, the Tamil Tigers committed 76 suicide bombings, while Hamas did only 54. Even among Muslims, secular groups like the Kurdistan Workers' Party, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades account for more than a third of suicide attacks. (NYTimes)Therefore, you can't blame the religion if secular-minded groups do it.
A. It's not "Iman," the correct word is Imam. B. The local "Iman" can't order a flogging. It's not like the local religious leaders have that kind of power instead of a government. C. An ordinary Imam wouldn't order a flogging for swear words or even nudity on TV. Don't confuse what the Wahhabi-led Saudis do with what the rest of the Imams worldwide would do. D. You're only perpetuating ignorant stereotypes, knock it off.
Apple did the same thing, charging $1 royalty to use the Firewire trademark, which they later dropped to around $0.25 per hardware. In the meantime, Sony branded theirs i.Link, and people used "IEEE 1394" instead.
So if I can't get at the hardware inside my Tivo because of its proprietary (or Torx) screws, it's not Mine? I paid for it, and I can generally do what I want with it, so it's mine. Do you say your car engine is not yours because you can't disassemble or remove the engine without an authorized dealer?
Apple will delay releasing new episodes until one week after they're broadcast. Therefore, people will flock to the affiliates to see it a week earlier. Sounds like a win.
No, they are yours. Jobs specifically said so. You own the file, but the Fairplay just won't let you copy it to more than 5 PCs/Macs (you can to a few more iPods), and you can't burn it.
IIRC, in Michael Crichton's book Congo, a rival company managed to put traces of turnip on employee's suitcases, forcing them to be detained as their baggage triggered sensors looking for illegal drug smuggling. Could there be many other false positives in nature concerning such equipment? I don't want to set off the radiation alarms because I had broccoli in my dinner.
These won't replace the metal detectors, so I don't see them speeding up the search process. It's just another way for the screeners to search for another dangerous item (explosives) in addition to their metal detector search for weapons, and maybe even get even laxer in their X-Ray security (they already miss a high proportion of weapons in baggage, even in homeland security tests when they announce they're going to stash weapons)
Why bother with Uncyclopedia, which seems like more silly than opinion, when you can use Everything2? They're the best, better than Wikipedia in many areas.
I feel a great disturbance in the Force (which we all know travels at the speed of light). As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
But go back to 2000 and 2001 newspaper reports. Microsoft was found guilty, and the ruling was that they were to be broken up. They asked Bush and Gore in the elections what each wanted to happen. Gore was rumored to be the Mac user, and Bush Windows. Gore supported the breakup ruling, and Bush seemed to indicate he disliked it. Somehow, Microsoft had a new appeal after Bush got in, and the breakup ruling was overturned.
Remember that, it's why plenty of geeks disliked Bush pre-9/11.
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LITERALLY living in the dark ages? Please demonstrate this. Does Egypt have a Flat Earth Society? Do they force creationism in Morocco schools? Is electricity a novelty in Yemen? Are witches burned in Algeria? Is Lebanon a feudal society?
"Well the liberals use stereotypes, so it's therefore OK for me to do the same"
Very bad logic. I think Rush Limbaugh termed that 'moral relativism.' Of course, people like him who decried it suddenly practiced it when they decided that being "not as evil as Saddam" was just fine.
150 terrorist attacks, sure. Items like "Terrorists abduct a civilian and murder him in captivity." I only see about 12 suicide attacks, which is what this thread is referring to.
As I said in my earlier post, read my link. There's a huge number of suicide bombings from other non-Muslim groups. I'm not just referring to the Kamikaze pilots or the Salonica dynamiters, but the Tamil Tigers (who invented the suicide belt).
Anyway, how does this matter to Islam? All religions have extremists, it's a constant. The Jewish far right killed Yitzhak Rabin and members opened fire on innocent Arabs, etc. Buddhist monks rioted and killed innocent Muslims because of alleged disrespect to a shrine. The IRA claims to have religious Christian backing. Aum Shinkrikyo is Buddhist/Hindu.
South America leads the world in terrorist attacks, but do you blame Christianity (the dominant religion of the continent)?
First, that site is extremist, and unbalanced and unfair and untrustworthy. They're suggesting, among other things, that Muslims will take over America and make it into a theocracy, despite being only 2% of the population.
Second, their facts are incorrect, and your analysis is incorrect. Of those attacks listed on the site, less than a dozen were suicide attacks, and they fail to say by who. Was it a secular party, like the PKK, which has carried out suicide attacks despite having a secular charter? So your claim of "150 suicide bombings in 12 months" doesn't hold up. Wouldn't you hear about that many on the news?
I thought of more non-Muslim suicide attackers, what about the Salonica dynamiters?
The Muslim world isn't as puritanical as you imagine it to be. Go watch a Pakistani or Arab soap opera sometime.
It's not like you eating pork offends people over there, unless you're condoning it.
Well, what if one of the non-role models on the show decided to have a gay marriage? The show writers would be forced to either condone it or ridicule it. It's something that a secular TV show would want to leave out to avoid ticking anyone off. The Simpsons ticked a lot of people off, Brazilians, a child with Tourette's, and other people who sued the show.
Muhammad, peace be upon him, did purchase slaves and freed them. Slavery existed before his time, and he set limits, paving the way for the end of the slave trade in the Muslim world. Of course, slaves in the Muslim world were also treated far better than in the Christian world (the American South didn't give freedom of religion to slaves, forcibly converted them to Christianity, and denied them the right to read the Bible. Oh, and separated families, and Islam forbade that as the parent poster noted.)
Why is it when a nun goes around in public, everyone respects her, but when a Muslim woman wears as much as a headscarf, she's pitied/loathed/"oppressed"?
Female Muslim converts nearly double male converts in America, and a good portion of them cover their hair and dress modestly. Men wear kufis, and women wear hijabs. Some women go beyond that and wear a chador or niqab. I've never seen a burqa in America, and there's a massive difference between a burqa and hijab.
From 1980-2003, the Tamil Tigers committed 76 suicide bombings, while Hamas did only 54. Even among Muslims, secular groups like the Kurdistan Workers' Party, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades account for more than a third of suicide attacks. (NYTimes)Therefore, you can't blame the religion if secular-minded groups do it.
A. It's not "Iman," the correct word is Imam.
B. The local "Iman" can't order a flogging. It's not like the local religious leaders have that kind of power instead of a government.
C. An ordinary Imam wouldn't order a flogging for swear words or even nudity on TV. Don't confuse what the Wahhabi-led Saudis do with what the rest of the Imams worldwide would do.
D. You're only perpetuating ignorant stereotypes, knock it off.
Apple did the same thing, charging $1 royalty to use the Firewire trademark, which they later dropped to around $0.25 per hardware. In the meantime, Sony branded theirs i.Link, and people used "IEEE 1394" instead.
So if I can't get at the hardware inside my Tivo because of its proprietary (or Torx) screws, it's not Mine? I paid for it, and I can generally do what I want with it, so it's mine. Do you say your car engine is not yours because you can't disassemble or remove the engine without an authorized dealer?
Apple will delay releasing new episodes until one week after they're broadcast. Therefore, people will flock to the affiliates to see it a week earlier. Sounds like a win.
No, they are yours. Jobs specifically said so. You own the file, but the Fairplay just won't let you copy it to more than 5 PCs/Macs (you can to a few more iPods), and you can't burn it.
Quite right, what about the Office of Strategic Influence?
Will I have to flip my display to read Leonardo Da Vinci's backwards handwriting?
Tim Berners-Lee invented the WWW part of the internet, writing it in Switzerland on a NeXT workstation
This specific technology won't speed up searches, unless it can get you through a metal detector faster.
IIRC, in Michael Crichton's book Congo, a rival company managed to put traces of turnip on employee's suitcases, forcing them to be detained as their baggage triggered sensors looking for illegal drug smuggling. Could there be many other false positives in nature concerning such equipment? I don't want to set off the radiation alarms because I had broccoli in my dinner.
These won't replace the metal detectors, so I don't see them speeding up the search process. It's just another way for the screeners to search for another dangerous item (explosives) in addition to their metal detector search for weapons, and maybe even get even laxer in their X-Ray security (they already miss a high proportion of weapons in baggage, even in homeland security tests when they announce they're going to stash weapons)
I feel a great disturbance in the Force (which we all know travels at the speed of light). As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
...only if you enable the root account in the NetInfo Manager application. otherwise, it doesn't exist.
Great idea, some script kiddie could be trying to crack the root account, only it doesn't exist so it gets nowhere.
Very funny.
But go back to 2000 and 2001 newspaper reports. Microsoft was found guilty, and the ruling was that they were to be broken up. They asked Bush and Gore in the elections what each wanted to happen. Gore was rumored to be the Mac user, and Bush Windows. Gore supported the breakup ruling, and Bush seemed to indicate he disliked it. Somehow, Microsoft had a new appeal after Bush got in, and the breakup ruling was overturned.
Remember that, it's why plenty of geeks disliked Bush pre-9/11.