This past week, I installed Fedora, CentOS, and RHEL (for a friend). First time I'd used a RH linux in years. I'm taking that machine back to Solaris, Open Solaris, or Debian. I haven't wiped CentOS* yet, but I have to ask - does anyone prefer yum/rpms to apt/deb?
Maybe it is a bit of a flamebait, but I am curious...
*Of the three, CentOS was the best, but when SELinux is on by default and refuses to play nice with FreeNX out of the box - a major package offered by the installer - meh. All this to be a Scratchbox machine and drive a stupid Sun Ray I have lying around.
FWIW, as far as the sterility of Coke, I was at a holiday dinner some years back in Atlanta. One guest held a reasonably high position at the CDC. He related that he had recently attended a conference in China, where he spent some time in rural areas. He not only drank Coke the whole time - he even used Coke to brush his teeth, claiming that the bottling controls were good and fairly standardized across the globe.
It is rare to find someone who knows that the inquisition was officially directed at baptized Christians; it is confusing that your portrayal of the circumstances of your group A is mired in bias, skewed past the point of falsehood. Perhaps it is unintentional; that, I cannot say.
1. You could not declare yourself a Jew of Muslim if you had ever been or suspected to have been baptized. The Inquisition would not kiss your ass, they would get (late) medieval on it.
2. Any rumor or statement by a Catholic that a Jew or Muslim was an apostate would be sufficient to put them under the jurisdiction of the Inquisition. Convenient for eliminating enemies, business competition, or plain old spite. Did I mention that the "convicted" would have their property siezed by the crown?
3. Protestants didn't exist until after the Inquistion started, and in Spain, well after. Perhaps that's why the death toll included a couple of thousand Marranos and perhaps a hundred or so Protestants. Not really "fucked."
4) "Gaming the system... to gain privileges" Sure, if you consider not being expelled and losing all you own a privilege. You neglected to mention that you could not legally *be* a Jew or Muslim past 1492 in Spain (1497 in Portugal).
Wikipedia's article on the subject is ok, give it a read. Better is the reference list.
I was at HOPE; I was at his presentation. He said (to effect, I cannot recall the precise wording) that he still gets chills while talking about this. His account was presented without pause and with detail. He seemed forthcoming and candid.
You can judge for yourself: download it here. (Be nice to the server)
Something you allude to, but is often forgotten: different installations/units/theaters can have DEFCON levels that differ from the general defense posture of the US.
I suppose you are right, but the GP was talking about unlocked phones (by which I assumed he meant SIM network unlocked phones) and also, I know it is not out yet, shows a 3g phone that has a fricken mouse attached to it. Nothing is going to be as open as openmoko, but as long as there is a linux phone with binary drivers for the transceiver chipset(s), it'll work and the rest is hackable.
Alternatively, with the strength of the Canadian dollar, it has become too expensive for American productions to film in Canada, and to get sufficient snow in California to make believe, is remarkably not unlike the chances of a snowball in hell.
Irrespective of whatever model Mohammad's example is supposed to have provided, the jizya (and kharaj for that matter) bit was a specific directive from the Umayyads to a delegate in North Africa, IIRC.* It was specifically mentioned that converts should not be sought as the tax(es) could not be collected.* Islam was spread by force - being the prestige religion of conquerors - but usually not by the sword.
However, your Spain comment is romanticized to the point of whitewashing (but a seductive and common one that I can hardly fault you for) - Andalus at times served as a haven, but other times drove people to find refuge elsewhere to avoid conversion by the sword.
*I must have read this at least 8 years ago, I don't recall the specific source.
And was disappointed. Impossible camera angles with twitchy controls on a platformer != difficulty. That's just annoying. The meat circus (last level) was a joke of level design - blind platform jumping, but the the final battle was over in under two minutes. Throughout the game - which excels in character development, dialogue, and art (though the music and voices would grate at times) - I couldn't help but compare (unfavorably) it to BG&E. Needless to say, I'm looking foward to a sequel - but I hope the combat system is improved - I didn't like the "context" based access to the dai-jo (weapon) or the button mashing based fighting. I loved the non fighting aspects though, such as racing and photography. Hmm. I was about to delete Psychonauts; maybe I should dig but BG&E again. I hope I get more of the same from BG&E2, with a handful of improvements and a strong story. I'll be very happy with that.
That's a very whitewashed account of history, one that seems to go in hand with the whole religion of peace nonsense. I'm not going to try and cover 1300 years of Islamic and/or Arab relations with dar adh-dhimmi, to say the least, it is a markedly varied encounter depending on time and place.* In very broad strokes, for Jews, Islam was a perpetual low to medium grade persecution, with rare massacres. Under Christendom, Jews were ok until a huge spike: someone decided to expel them or massacre them (many have forgotten that Germany killed off ~20% of their Jews in 1096 - I saw this fact reduced to one line on an object label at the Holocaust Musuem in Berlin). Not surprisingly, Christians tended to do worse than Jews under Islam because there was a large competing power base that (in theory) was interested in their continued survival - which had the effect of marking them as a political liability.
It should also be noted that the inclusiveness and application pseudopigraphic pact of Umar even to non-Monotheistic or Revelation based religions was based on self interest, not some anachronistically modern sense of inclusiveness.
Populations that don't expect to be exterminated won't fight as hard for governments that are at best ambivalent to their welfare
No resources need to be expended in either killing or converting native populations, which allowed for the incredible of rate growth of the Caliphate into the 8th century.
Most importantly, converting Jews and Christians to Islam would have exempted them from the jizyareducing the tax revenue brought in by conquest.
*Good example of the diversity of acceptance: 16th century Turkey was a haven for Jews escaping the Reconquista in Spain, even being allowed to publish unedited editions of the Talmud. Late 19th and 20th century Yemen - Western ambassadors report on elderly Jews being compelled to work in sewage cleaning. Christian were exempt of course, because they had all been expelled (or in some cases, killed) by then. Or simply in one point in time: Granada - Joseph ibn Naghrela inherits this father's place as vizier of a major Muslim city-state, oft cited as the paradigm of Convivencia, a role his father held for 20 years as a prolific poet and general. Not as politically astute as his father, he gets killed. Later that night, 4,000 Jews joined him.
It would be better - for obvious reasons: including a third religion (and arguably others) and thus perhaps giving you pause in suggesting the varied and divergent forms of Judaism (which lacks formal dogma in its mainline tradition), Christianity, and Islam share a singular concept of soul.
It does look rather silly when you actually spell it out, doesn't it?
Judeo-Christian is a cheap adjective born of (American) political expediency and promotes ignorance (factual and discriminatory) under the veil of understanding and inclusiveness.
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then don't try to be an analyst-therapist in Mexico.
they don't seem to take to kindly to that.
Admins need alcohol to function.
Glorious Nation of Khazakstan!
This past week, I installed Fedora, CentOS, and RHEL (for a friend). First time I'd used a RH linux in years. I'm taking that machine back to Solaris, Open Solaris, or Debian. I haven't wiped CentOS* yet, but I have to ask - does anyone prefer yum/rpms to apt/deb?
Maybe it is a bit of a flamebait, but I am curious...
*Of the three, CentOS was the best, but when SELinux is on by default and refuses to play nice with FreeNX out of the box - a major package offered by the installer - meh. All this to be a Scratchbox machine and drive a stupid Sun Ray I have lying around.
FWIW, as far as the sterility of Coke, I was at a holiday dinner some years back in Atlanta. One guest held a reasonably high position at the CDC. He related that he had recently attended a conference in China, where he spent some time in rural areas. He not only drank Coke the whole time - he even used Coke to brush his teeth, claiming that the bottling controls were good and fairly standardized across the globe.
Ah, Africa, where the IPs are as plentiful as Zimbabwean dollars.
It is rare to find someone who knows that the inquisition was officially directed at baptized Christians; it is confusing that your portrayal of the circumstances of your group A is mired in bias, skewed past the point of falsehood. Perhaps it is unintentional; that, I cannot say.
1. You could not declare yourself a Jew of Muslim if you had ever been or suspected to have been baptized. The Inquisition would not kiss your ass, they would get (late) medieval on it.
2. Any rumor or statement by a Catholic that a Jew or Muslim was an apostate would be sufficient to put them under the jurisdiction of the Inquisition. Convenient for eliminating enemies, business competition, or plain old spite. Did I mention that the "convicted" would have their property siezed by the crown?
3. Protestants didn't exist until after the Inquistion started, and in Spain, well after. Perhaps that's why the death toll included a couple of thousand Marranos and perhaps a hundred or so Protestants. Not really "fucked."
4) "Gaming the system... to gain privileges" Sure, if you consider not being expelled and losing all you own a privilege. You neglected to mention that you could not legally *be* a Jew or Muslim past 1492 in Spain (1497 in Portugal).
Wikipedia's article on the subject is ok, give it a read. Better is the reference list.
Methinkssotoo.
I was at HOPE; I was at his presentation. He said (to effect, I cannot recall the precise wording) that he still gets chills while talking about this. His account was presented without pause and with detail. He seemed forthcoming and candid.
You can judge for yourself: download it here. (Be nice to the server)
Something you allude to, but is often forgotten: different installations/units/theaters can have DEFCON levels that differ from the general defense posture of the US.
I suppose you are right, but the GP was talking about unlocked phones (by which I assumed he meant SIM network unlocked phones) and also, I know it is not out yet, shows a 3g phone that has a fricken mouse attached to it. Nothing is going to be as open as openmoko, but as long as there is a linux phone with binary drivers for the transceiver chipset(s), it'll work and the rest is hackable.
Huh? Am I missing something here?
More interestingly, in a simple four/five word response, with identical meaning, the only word in common was burn.
Very bright and human robotic overlords, those.
Order '86?
Science.
It works, bitches.
Blame Canada.
Alternatively, with the strength of the Canadian dollar, it has become too expensive for American productions to film in Canada, and to get sufficient snow in California to make believe, is remarkably not unlike the chances of a snowball in hell.
random number generator, an advanced cryptography engine, and RSA algorithm computations
Don't worry, thanks to Debian, Linux doesn't actually need these things; documentation is optional too.
You misspelled rain.
Wow, I'd rather be rickrolled than have this become a new meme.
Maybe they'll tell security?
Irrespective of whatever model Mohammad's example is supposed to have provided, the jizya (and kharaj for that matter) bit was a specific directive from the Umayyads to a delegate in North Africa, IIRC.* It was specifically mentioned that converts should not be sought as the tax(es) could not be collected.* Islam was spread by force - being the prestige religion of conquerors - but usually not by the sword.
However, your Spain comment is romanticized to the point of whitewashing (but a seductive and common one that I can hardly fault you for) - Andalus at times served as a haven, but other times drove people to find refuge elsewhere to avoid conversion by the sword.
*I must have read this at least 8 years ago, I don't recall the specific source.
And was disappointed. Impossible camera angles with twitchy controls on a platformer != difficulty. That's just annoying. The meat circus (last level) was a joke of level design - blind platform jumping, but the the final battle was over in under two minutes. Throughout the game - which excels in character development, dialogue, and art (though the music and voices would grate at times) - I couldn't help but compare (unfavorably) it to BG&E. Needless to say, I'm looking foward to a sequel - but I hope the combat system is improved - I didn't like the "context" based access to the dai-jo (weapon) or the button mashing based fighting. I loved the non fighting aspects though, such as racing and photography. Hmm. I was about to delete Psychonauts; maybe I should dig but BG&E again. I hope I get more of the same from BG&E2, with a handful of improvements and a strong story. I'll be very happy with that.
It should also be noted that the inclusiveness and application pseudopigraphic pact of Umar even to non-Monotheistic or Revelation based religions was based on self interest, not some anachronistically modern sense of inclusiveness.
*Good example of the diversity of acceptance: 16th century Turkey was a haven for Jews escaping the Reconquista in Spain, even being allowed to publish unedited editions of the Talmud. Late 19th and 20th century Yemen - Western ambassadors report on elderly Jews being compelled to work in sewage cleaning. Christian were exempt of course, because they had all been expelled (or in some cases, killed) by then. Or simply in one point in time: Granada - Joseph ibn Naghrela inherits this father's place as vizier of a major Muslim city-state, oft cited as the paradigm of Convivencia, a role his father held for 20 years as a prolific poet and general. Not as politically astute as his father, he gets killed. Later that night, 4,000 Jews joined him.
You know, google does know all. Nothing's so anonymous with a well crafted search.
This wasn't hard to find.
It would be better - for obvious reasons: including a third religion (and arguably others) and thus perhaps giving you pause in suggesting the varied and divergent forms of Judaism (which lacks formal dogma in its mainline tradition), Christianity, and Islam share a singular concept of soul.
It does look rather silly when you actually spell it out, doesn't it?
Judeo-Christian is a cheap adjective born of (American) political expediency and promotes ignorance (factual and discriminatory) under the veil of understanding and inclusiveness.
Hence, X-Wing Alliance. Try this.