What about the editorials in America that said to kill Muslims in revenge for 9/11, or that editorial in Las Vegas that caused a big stir in the Muslim community when it openly advocated killing American Muslims in revenge for every beheading in Iraq. Have you been to any right-wing websites like freep or little green footballs? Some of their bloggers have said that America won't be safe until Muslim countries are nuked. And they're serious, going into long waxing detail over it.
How about when Ann Coulter wrote"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
It's not falsified, but they are selectively choosing what they are covering. Saudi papers have been shut down and imams in numerous countries have been fired for trying to incite violence. MEMRI does not show that. Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeera air lots of pro-American news. (Jihadis despise Al Jazeera for being too pro-American, mockingly calling it Al-Khinzeera, the pig). MEMRI, despite its name, usually only translates the pieces it finds salacious, and ignoring the moderate pieces. If you read MEMRI by itself, you will think that every reporter there is anti-Semitic, anti-American, and anti-Jewish, which is not the case. There are plenty of Arab newspapers online, go read them and compare them to MEMRI, and you find a much more moderate tone, and a diversity of opinion, as is taking place in the middle east today.
MEMRI is selective and biased against the Arab press, and that it highlights pieces that cast Arabs, especially committed Muslims, in a negative light. Juan Cole, who speaks Arabic fluently, compared a bigotted Arabic article translated by MEMRI and when he went to the source on the Web, found that it was on the same op-ed page with other, moderate articles arguing for tolerance. These latter were not translated.
It would be just as easy to set up a translation service that zeroed in on racist and "Greater Israel" statements in the Hebrew Israeli press and made the articles available in English, while ignoring more liberal newspapers like Haaretz. If most educated Americans heard the raving against "ha-aravim" (the Arabs) that goes on among West Bank settlers, they'd be completely taken aback by the bigotted terms of reference. Some of such Likudnik discourse is not different in kind from what one hears from the Ku Klux Klan about minorities in America.
You could make a similiar argument by reading a left-wing or right-wing site, it ignores all except that which reinforces their argument. Daily Kos makes Bush out to be evil, FreeP makes Democrats out to be evil, MEMRI makes Arabs/Muslims out to be evil, etc.
Have you seen the H.264 conferencing in iChat? The H.264 supports HD, 1920x1080, 24fps but at a datarate of 7-8 Mbps.
Hospitals already have high-def monitors, just email the X-Ray and use the videoconferenceing for a lower quality. I can't imagine a doctor holding up an X-Ray to the videocamera, you need more detail.
iPods account for over 60% of the mp3 player market. The statistics for the iPod shuffle aren't out yet, but they are expected to compete well in the flash player market as well, grabbing even more for Apple.
I liked some of the quirky little gags they added in, which seem to match the spirit of the previous incarnations.
In the Airlock: Arthur: So this is it. We're gonna die. Ford: Yeah. We're gonna die. [pauses] Ford: No... no! What's this? [goes over to control panel] Arthur: What's that? Ford: What's this...? What's this...? [flips switch] Ford: This... is... nothing. Yeah, we're gonna die.
Arthur: So this is it. Were going to die Ford: Yes. Would you like a hug? Arthur:...no...
Arthur: Normality? We can talk about normality until the cows come home. Trillian: What is normality? Ford: What is home? Zaphod: What're cows?
Ford: I checked The Guide for the best way to rescue a prisoner from Vogsphere, it said "don't".
Vogon: Oh no, he's closed the gate from the inside, we'll have to go round.
Vogon: [Being chased by Ford Prefect with a towel] He's got a TOWEL!
I don't care, as long as the bestsellers I care about are there. For example, I don't care if none of The Babysitters Club books are out in audiobook form, but if they have America:The Book, then I'm happy to pay to listen to it on my iPod.
Halo, Quake3, Alice, the Unreal series, Elite Force 1 and 2, Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic, SpiderMan 2, James Bond: Nightfire, and Myst IV aren't "about zero." (Note I'm only going with the 3D games the Apple Store has, there's plenty more)
The Weekly Standard is a highly partisan magazine that leans towards the right-wing. Didn't they accuse Clinton of assassinating his political opponents? Sorry for the digression. Neither article mentions any sanctuary or asylum offered by Iraq (though Sudan could be implicated). The closest the second article goes is some alleged "non-aggression" deal, but I wouldn't trust it nor the source. Now that you showed your source, I'd like to recommend Juan Cole.
You still haven't explained to me how two people from completely opposing ideals would want to or try to team up. Why would a paranoid secular dictator team up with an "Islamist"? They both tried to kill each other's people.
Bin Laden denied any connection with Saddam Hussein, and Saddam Hussein denied any connection with Bin Laden.
If Saddam Hussein offered his enemy sanctuary, I'd like to see some proof of it. He 'got religion' only in his speeches, from what I heard. Appealing to Pan-Arabism failed, so he tried appealing to his neighbors on the basis of religion, and on an unrelated note tried to get support by making aggressive gestures towards Israel. CNN reported on someone who claimed to be his mistress, claiming that he took Viagra and had lots of alcohol (the latter of which is forbidden in Islam). I don't think those Fallujah mosques were a new development. If you tried to call Saddam Hussein religious, the Iraqis would laugh at you. This was a man who ordered Iraqi Ayatollahs brutally murdered, someone who had his family tree redrawn to claim descent from Imam Ali, who the Shia revere. Nobody ever proved any Saddam-Al Qaeda connection, because it just goes against common logic of the two parties.
Officially, Bremer worked under the US Department of Defense, and reported directly to the US Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld. I don't see him as a State Department pick, though they probably preferred him over Garner.
Germany declared war on America, and you're somehow saying Hitler wasn't serious. Careful saying that around the VA.
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in Lebanon has no bearing on Iraq whatsoever. They've been having Parliamentary elections for decades, before Iraq even had their dictatorship. Bush's Iraq war has no bearing whatsoever on Lebanese elections taking place. Palestine also had democratic elections in the early 90's, Arafat won, so Bush can't take credit for that recent election either. I should also point out that soon after that demonstration, an even bigger Hizbullah demonstration took place for the opposition.
Saddam Hussein, a secular dictator who is said to have executed people who went to the mosque too frequently, would never ally himself with Al Qaeda, an organization with an agenda to topple all secular governments and replace them with religious ones. They wanted each other dead. Osama Bin Laden's tape before the Iraq war called Saddam Hussein an "infidel". Now, what evidence is there that Ramzi Yousef had any Iraq connection? Show me. 2) Ansar Al-Islam, the organization where Zarqawi was said to be Bin Laden's rival? The claim alleged by Colin Powell at the UN, which was subsqeuently disproven? Mullah Krekar himself denied any such connection. The link fizzled out, next. 3) Zawahiri? Dream on, the guy was with Bin Laden in hating Saddam's regime and the others. Show me some proof that Saddam would fund a group that would assasinate him, given the chance. Where's your proof of a Saddam-Al Qaeda connection? 2 years and it's all been disproven.
Thucydides? Yeah, I read his stuff, I don't see how it has anything to do with Iraq. Do you think that the US is Athens and Iraq was some super-Sparta? That doesn't fit, but I'm not sure what connection you're trying to make.
"...all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land [emphasis mine]; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby..."
What? FDR went to war against Japan, a country that Attacked America. He also went to war against Germany, a country that declared war on America first and allied with Japan.
Bush, on the other hand, went to war against Afghanistan, a country that harbored Al Qaeda. He also went to war against Iraq, a country that did not declare war on America and had nothing at all to do with Al Qaeda.
I fail to see how you can connect the two. We're not safer, go ask anyone living in the Middle East if they love America more now because of the Iraq war. Check the blogs if you're lazy.
One thing I can't figure out is how Skype got so popular, when AIM Talk, Paltalk, Yahoo, and MSN all had voice chat features. Yahoo even had Karaoke rooms. Apple's iChat touted voice and video chat as one of its selling points for the OS.
So why did Skype do so well? Was it the marketing, or the catchy name? Or simple cross-platform compatibility? Or was it just a new brand?
I disagree with you on Mail.app. It's not unlike the earlier Finder iterations or Apple apps, and which a lot of developers copied. Customizable toolbars? A sliding side drawer? Lots of cocoa apps have both.
Interesting! One exception they forgot to add into the bill, some TV censors cover over the mouth when they remove the audio cursing, this bill specifically forbids any video or audio introduced over the original. So they can remove the offending clip, but they can't black out any of the video or add anything in place, like a non-curse word (like some TV stations do when they replace a cuss word with a non-cuss word).
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How about when Ann Coulter wrote"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
It's not falsified, but they are selectively choosing what they are covering. Saudi papers have been shut down and imams in numerous countries have been fired for trying to incite violence. MEMRI does not show that. Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeera air lots of pro-American news. (Jihadis despise Al Jazeera for being too pro-American, mockingly calling it Al-Khinzeera, the pig). MEMRI, despite its name, usually only translates the pieces it finds salacious, and ignoring the moderate pieces. If you read MEMRI by itself, you will think that every reporter there is anti-Semitic, anti-American, and anti-Jewish, which is not the case. There are plenty of Arab newspapers online, go read them and compare them to MEMRI, and you find a much more moderate tone, and a diversity of opinion, as is taking place in the middle east today.
MEMRI is selective and biased against the Arab press, and that it highlights pieces that cast Arabs, especially committed Muslims, in a negative light. Juan Cole, who speaks Arabic fluently, compared a bigotted Arabic article translated by MEMRI and when he went to the source on the Web, found that it was on the same op-ed page with other, moderate articles arguing for tolerance. These latter were not translated.
It would be just as easy to set up a translation service that zeroed in on racist and "Greater Israel" statements in the Hebrew Israeli press and made the articles available in English, while ignoring more liberal newspapers like Haaretz. If most educated Americans heard the raving against "ha-aravim" (the Arabs) that goes on among West Bank settlers, they'd be completely taken aback by the bigotted terms of reference. Some of such Likudnik discourse is not different in kind from what one hears from the Ku Klux Klan about minorities in America.
You could make a similiar argument by reading a left-wing or right-wing site, it ignores all except that which reinforces their argument. Daily Kos makes Bush out to be evil, FreeP makes Democrats out to be evil, MEMRI makes Arabs/Muslims out to be evil, etc.
Have you seen the H.264 conferencing in iChat? The H.264 supports HD, 1920x1080, 24fps but at a datarate of 7-8 Mbps.
Hospitals already have high-def monitors, just email the X-Ray and use the videoconferenceing for a lower quality. I can't imagine a doctor holding up an X-Ray to the videocamera, you need more detail.
Maybe, but how easy is it to setup and partition and repair? The Mac has it easier.
iPods account for over 60% of the mp3 player market. The statistics for the iPod shuffle aren't out yet, but they are expected to compete well in the flash player market as well, grabbing even more for Apple.
I liked some of the quirky little gags they added in, which seem to match the spirit of the previous incarnations.
...no...
In the Airlock:
Arthur: So this is it. We're gonna die.
Ford: Yeah. We're gonna die.
[pauses]
Ford: No... no! What's this?
[goes over to control panel]
Arthur: What's that?
Ford: What's this...? What's this...?
[flips switch]
Ford: This... is... nothing. Yeah, we're gonna die.
Arthur: So this is it. Were going to die
Ford: Yes. Would you like a hug?
Arthur:
Arthur: Normality? We can talk about normality until the cows come home.
Trillian: What is normality?
Ford: What is home?
Zaphod: What're cows?
Ford: I checked The Guide for the best way to rescue a prisoner from Vogsphere, it said "don't".
Vogon: Oh no, he's closed the gate from the inside, we'll have to go round.
Vogon: [Being chased by Ford Prefect with a towel] He's got a TOWEL!
I don't care, as long as the bestsellers I care about are there. For example, I don't care if none of The Babysitters Club books are out in audiobook form, but if they have America:The Book, then I'm happy to pay to listen to it on my iPod.
Halo, Quake3, Alice, the Unreal series, Elite Force 1 and 2, Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic, SpiderMan 2, James Bond: Nightfire, and Myst IV aren't "about zero." (Note I'm only going with the 3D games the Apple Store has, there's plenty more)
You still haven't explained to me how two people from completely opposing ideals would want to or try to team up. Why would a paranoid secular dictator team up with an "Islamist"? They both tried to kill each other's people. Bin Laden denied any connection with Saddam Hussein, and Saddam Hussein denied any connection with Bin Laden.
If Saddam Hussein offered his enemy sanctuary, I'd like to see some proof of it. He 'got religion' only in his speeches, from what I heard. Appealing to Pan-Arabism failed, so he tried appealing to his neighbors on the basis of religion, and on an unrelated note tried to get support by making aggressive gestures towards Israel. CNN reported on someone who claimed to be his mistress, claiming that he took Viagra and had lots of alcohol (the latter of which is forbidden in Islam). I don't think those Fallujah mosques were a new development. If you tried to call Saddam Hussein religious, the Iraqis would laugh at you. This was a man who ordered Iraqi Ayatollahs brutally murdered, someone who had his family tree redrawn to claim descent from Imam Ali, who the Shia revere. Nobody ever proved any Saddam-Al Qaeda connection, because it just goes against common logic of the two parties.
That would be awesome, especially if it had the voice of Soundwave, one of the Transformers
Officially, Bremer worked under the US Department of Defense, and reported directly to the US Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld. I don't see him as a State Department pick, though they probably preferred him over Garner.
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in Lebanon has no bearing on Iraq whatsoever. They've been having Parliamentary elections for decades, before Iraq even had their dictatorship. Bush's Iraq war has no bearing whatsoever on Lebanese elections taking place. Palestine also had democratic elections in the early 90's, Arafat won, so Bush can't take credit for that recent election either. I should also point out that soon after that demonstration, an even bigger Hizbullah demonstration took place for the opposition.
Saddam Hussein, a secular dictator who is said to have executed people who went to the mosque too frequently, would never ally himself with Al Qaeda, an organization with an agenda to topple all secular governments and replace them with religious ones. They wanted each other dead. Osama Bin Laden's tape before the Iraq war called Saddam Hussein an "infidel". Now, what evidence is there that Ramzi Yousef had any Iraq connection? Show me. 2) Ansar Al-Islam, the organization where Zarqawi was said to be Bin Laden's rival? The claim alleged by Colin Powell at the UN, which was subsqeuently disproven? Mullah Krekar himself denied any such connection. The link fizzled out, next. 3) Zawahiri? Dream on, the guy was with Bin Laden in hating Saddam's regime and the others. Show me some proof that Saddam would fund a group that would assasinate him, given the chance. Where's your proof of a Saddam-Al Qaeda connection? 2 years and it's all been disproven.
Thucydides? Yeah, I read his stuff, I don't see how it has anything to do with Iraq. Do you think that the US is Athens and Iraq was some super-Sparta? That doesn't fit, but I'm not sure what connection you're trying to make.
OR that some Past Noninterference law was passed in the future.
What? FDR went to war against Japan, a country that Attacked America. He also went to war against Germany, a country that declared war on America first and allied with Japan.
Bush, on the other hand, went to war against Afghanistan, a country that harbored Al Qaeda. He also went to war against Iraq, a country that did not declare war on America and had nothing at all to do with Al Qaeda.
I fail to see how you can connect the two. We're not safer, go ask anyone living in the Middle East if they love America more now because of the Iraq war. Check the blogs if you're lazy.
But it allows you to watch Fullscreen without shelling out $30US for Quicktime Pro.
I think Dialpad.com had a decent app similiar to Skype in 1999.
One thing I can't figure out is how Skype got so popular, when AIM Talk, Paltalk, Yahoo, and MSN all had voice chat features. Yahoo even had Karaoke rooms. Apple's iChat touted voice and video chat as one of its selling points for the OS.
So why did Skype do so well? Was it the marketing, or the catchy name? Or simple cross-platform compatibility? Or was it just a new brand?
Have you seen someone actually format their own hard drives instead of complaining that their site was down? I found this funny. Laugh.
We need Runoff voting then, or one of its similar alternatives.
Doesn't the GOP support Free market and privatization? Isn't "running the government like a business" supposed to be a part of their platform?
I disagree with you on Mail.app. It's not unlike the earlier Finder iterations or Apple apps, and which a lot of developers copied. Customizable toolbars? A sliding side drawer? Lots of cocoa apps have both.
Interesting! One exception they forgot to add into the bill, some TV censors cover over the mouth when they remove the audio cursing, this bill specifically forbids any video or audio introduced over the original. So they can remove the offending clip, but they can't black out any of the video or add anything in place, like a non-curse word (like some TV stations do when they replace a cuss word with a non-cuss word).