The article states: The directive allows companies to raid homes, seize property and ask courts to freeze bank accounts to protect trademarks or intellectual property they believe are being abused or stolen.
Is this correct? Are companies going to be granted powers that had been restricted to law-enforcement (for good reasons) up until now?
> the bible claims Jesus said "I came not to bring peace, but a sword. " To suggest Jesus is counselling violence is to suggest Jesus tells men to murder their fathers... for the very next verses say:
"For I have come to turn
a man against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law--
a man's enemies will be the members of his own household.' "Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me..."
Jesus is speaking about the high cost of following him - are you willing to pay it? Responding more directly to your allegation - when soldiers came and arrested Jesus for his crucifixion, his disciple Peter drew his sword and injured one of them. Jesus then expressly forbade him saying: "put the sword back in it's place - those who live by the sword shall die by the sword." Jesus later said "my kindgom is not of this world, if it was of this world, then would my followers fight". He also said "when someone slaps you on one cheek, turn the other cheek". Never are we permitted to violence. God has left *ALL* judgement to Jesus at the end of this age.
Don't get me wrong - the punishment for murder is still death and hell, as is the punishment for rejecting God, for adultery, for sexual immorality, for theft and lies, homosexuality... However God in his loving kindness to all allowed his Son to be a sacrifice for all who would repent, even the most wretched of murderers. We are forbidden to inflict God's judegement on them - that is left to Jesus - we are *commanded* (NOT "requested") to forgive those who even kill and persecute us.
> If you are a polytheist or a Hindu or Jew or Christian, > they will allow you to keep your religion and worship whatever you want. > That's mandatory according to what the Muslim leaders say. The level of tolerance varies with the verses as this link points out. However, Islam takes God's commands (remember what Jesus said about turning the other cheek), and takes it and changes it so that it appeals to our earthy nature ("if someone slaps me, I *should* be able to slap them back").
> Islamic states offer a degree of freedom of religion, All Islamic countries offer non-Muslims is a very superficial tolerance as long as they stay "subdued". But God help non-Muslims who preach their faith, or a Muslim who converts away from Islam -- death sanctioned by Islam (i.e. Murder) is what follows quite often. Why do you think so many Muslims avoid even listening to other teachings so much?
> Eh, I'm sick of hearing how one side teaches hatred of the other side in schools. > I want to see proof. I hear Hindus teach hatred of Muslims, > and Muslims teach hatred of Hindus. Well, I have just the proof you need.
I was raised a Hindu in Bombay, India. When I went to school in the 80s, the state syllabus never said one word about religion - neither Hinduism nor Islam - because the state was secular. There are, and have always been violent Hindu fundamentalists, but do you think this man would permit irrational hatred to be taught in Indian schools? (he's Muslim)
However, Pakistan is another story... Let a prominent Pakistani English newspaper describe the problem:...: One should perhaps be 'shocked' to read in Professor A.H. Nayyar and Ahmad Salim's report on the State of Curricula and Textbooks in Pakistan (pub.2003 www.sdpi.org) that the intended perversion of Pakistan's education system and national curricula came about as early as November 1947, even before the death of the country's founder.... It was during [the 80s] that hatred of India, Indians and Hindus, and of all other things not Islamic, was firmly
> Islam doesn't allow people to convert to other religions, > because it views them all as false In other words, Islamic states offer their citizens no freedom of religion.
> I don't *know* that there are lots of evil > and malicious lies in Islamic countries. Well, there are. For instance, several Arabic newspapers tried to attribute 9/11 to the Israelis rather than the Arabs. Pakistani school children are taught irrational hatred of Hindus in neighbouring India. Arabs schoolchildren are taught to hate Jews, and so on.
This sort of thinking is deeply ingrained within Islam itself. Islam teaches there will be a wholesale slaughter of the Jews by Muslims before the resurrection... so does Christianity: in the Bible's Book of Revelation and other books earlier in the Bible, it is prophesised this slaughter will occur before Jesus Christ returns to establish to put an end to it and establish his kingdom on earth. Islam teaches that Imam Medhi and Jesus Christ will appear and lead the world to Islam... but Christianity teaches that a fake (anti-)christ, and a evil false prophet will do miracles in the world to lead it astray and worship Satan (Shaitaan). Islam teaches you to fight: Fight against such of those to whom the Scriptures were given as believe neither in Allah nor the Last Day, who do not forbid what Allah and His apostle have forbidden and do not embrace the true faith until they pay tribute out of hand and are utterly subdued.
But Christianity - in the person of Jesus Christ - says: "But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you?"
In other words, the faiths are diametrically opposed. Both faiths claim to come from God. Both assure us that God will *preserve* His written word. But Christianity was revealed in full 600-700 years BEFORE Islam.
Wonder if this is how the Supermarine company - makers of the Supermarine Spitfire - got their name.
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That quote from Watchmen is self-absorbed nonsense.
There is a God - the one in the Bible - fear and believe Him and you will be saved on Judgement Day.
What a relief it was to accept that there is no good or evil - just us human beings doing fucked up things to each other...
From your statement, your conscience still distingues between good from evil, even though you're doing your best to ignore it. Turn before it is permanently seared.
He has stated his opinion (and apparently yours) of what he considers a fact. But he is wrong.
Come out of anonymity and speak openly - why would you be happy with the letter and the spirit of the law being contradictory? Who defines the spirit? All this "letter and spirit" stuff is hocus-pocus logic.
I agree with the grandparent, and it's upto to you whether to respect me or not... but if the spirit is out of tune with the letter, why not modify the letter of the rules.
> but the ruling was based on the law at the time...
You're possibly right, I am appealing to conscience rather than to imperfect US law.
> The Constitution clearly defines slaves as another class of people, > a group that were not citizens. Hmm. Also see: http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/respub/v6n1/boyd. html
I see inherent contradictions between statements in the declaration of independence ("we hold these truths...") and certain other statements in related documents and in the constitution. It took constitutional amendments and a civil war to resolve several of those contradictions. However, conscience should have resolved it for Taney and for SCOTUS, indeed for all individuals. It is wrong now, and it was wrong then... but people in general do not choose the good.
An OP is "original poster" - the person whose post sparked off this discussion thread.
Now, if the US demands that a government lie, or that it hides the truth, that is wrong - I am opposed to that. I am saying the US is allowed to demand that Islamic countries that take it's money work against *evil* and malicious *lies* that spreads hatred (I am sure you *know* there is a lot of that in Islamic countries). Why would you be opposed to this? It does work - see Pakistan. What exactly would make Pakistan a bad example - it is like most Islamic countries. Most Pakistanis I know admire Musharraf.
If countries still want to spread hatred from Govt. papers, they should have enough self-respect not to take American money.
> There is freedom of religion in Islamic countries. There are Hindus living in Saudi Arabia...
Tolerating foreign expatriate workers is one thing - they will be sent back one day. However, no Saudi citizen can become a Hindu or a Jew. ----- From http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2003/24461.htm
The country is ruled by a monarchy with a legal system based on Islamic law (Shari'a). The Government does not provide legal protection for freedom of religion, and such protection does not exist in practice. Islam is the official religion, and the law requires that all citizens be Muslims. The Government prohibits the public practice of non-Muslim religions. The Government recognizes the right of non-Muslims to worship in private; however, it does not always respect this right in practice, and does not define this right in law.
-----
How can Islam offer one freedom of conscience or religion when the penalty of converting away from Islam is death? Please consider these deaths Islam is responsible for: ----- http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/apostacy.html
* Iran
Ruhollah Rowhani, 52, was executed in 1998 for converting to the Baha'i faith from Islam. The US State Department has called on Iran "to protect the lives of 15 other imprisoned Baha'is. Three of them, Ata'ullah Hamid Nasirizadih, Sirus Dhabih- Magadamme and Hidayad Kashifi, have already been sentenced to death. Moderate President Khatami can do little to help as the courts are controlled by religious hardliners.
* The Reverend Mehdi Dibaj had converted from Islam to Christianity 45 years ago. On 21/12/93 he was sentenced to death on charges of apostasy. Released on appeal his body was found on 5 July 1994. The Reverend Haik Mehr, Superintendent of the Church of the Assemblies of God, who had campaigned against Dibaj's death sentence was found dead on 20/1/94. On 2 July 1994 the body of the Reverend Tatavous Michaelian, Chairman of the Council of Protestant Ministers in Iran was found with several gun shots to the head.
* Egypt
We wish to raise what, at first glance, may appear to be an inconsequential or even humorous matter [at least in Australia where a good proportion of partners are unmarried]. A Cairo court has ordered the divorce of a couple who wish to stay together. Islamists have claimed that Professor Nasser Hamed Abu Zaid is guilty of heresy in writing that "Islam's teachings should evolve with changes in society." However, a Muslim woman cannot be married to a heretic, a non-Muslim. He and his wife, Ibtihal, also an academic have appealed against the ruling and can remain together for the time being. However if the prosecution stands, they could lose their jobs or even be killed.by fanatics as "adulterers ("living in sin") or as apostates ("deserters of Islam") [From "Some Islamic History] ------- From : http://www.j-e-s-u-s.net/Jesus/evangelo/thecost.ht ml
Executed in Iran
In Iran apostasy carries a legal death penalty. In December 1990 Hossein Soodmand, a Christian convert from Islam, was hanged for apostasy in a state execution. His body was buried in a cemetry for outcasts.
> In fact it has been ruled (by SCOTUS) that police have no > responsibility to protect the lives or property of citizens.... > They can stand by idly while you are murdered and do nothing.
I have heard this before elsewhere, but do you have a link handy please?
If this outrage is true, remember that SCOTUS, in a 7/9 decision including Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, was the institution responsible for the wrong Dred Scott decision.
Elect politicians that can appoint you the judiciary you deserve!
> A cop may come to take a report after, but only on TV do they magically show up during a crime. That's because they don't have ESP.
Seriously, why do you think... ? - police escorts are provided for certain demonstrations and sporting events - police are posted to guard some violence affected schools - police protect witnesses and certain people targeted by organized crime - why the concept of "protective custody" exists... why, dear citizen, but to *protect*, and to serve... you, the people!
> Egypt has a right to free speech. Islamic countries are not known for free speech. Try printing a book pointing out the flaws of Islam - it will be received with violence in most Islamic countries.
While there are *always* "limitations to freedom" (for eg, the govt. wont' permit you to manufacture a nuclear bomb) the US gives it's citizens a freedom of conscience and freedom of religion and speech that people living in Islamic countries do not possess.
> What, do you want them to cover stories up? > The people there have a right to know that there are no WMDs. If there are no WMDs, there are no WMDs' - did the OP really want that info suppressed? Or is it just a strawman you setup?
> So you're saying that Egypt should take the bribe money we are giving > it, and shut up? Not all the media is state-controlled. Where the US has leverage, it is permissible to use it to persuade a government to tone down attacks in the media it has control over, and to stop educating it's young with false stereotypes and irrational hatred.
However, the most lasting change comes once rulers discover for *themselves* how much of a cancer blind hatred really is. Look at Pakistan - after the recent attempts on Musharraf's life by the jihadis, he's apparently become more sincere in his efforts to down their terror infrastructure, to reform the madrassas (religious schools), and to try and walk the path of peace.
Acidic Diarrhea: By your... statement, both should change their habits and never sleep.
Both the OP and me said the late-niter person should alter his habits. (I am not the OP BTW.) I also said if the agreement gave you the right to, then stay up. Otherwise: "control yourself and go to sleep at night!"
Acidic Diarrhea: Eat shit. Shame on you man - you can do better.
. i can't see a way in which you can interchange "emotion" and "lung cancer." i used emotion as a specific term, not as some general "bad thing."
Well, emotion/lung cancer don't have to be perfectly interchangeable - that's how analogies work. But see also your earlier statement, where you clearly spoke about emotions in the context of violence.
I won't argue more though - you should understand what I said by yourself.
can video games be the sole reason for making you happy? sad? angry? a killer? i would think there has to be other factors involved.
Yes, there are other factors.
It is not required for GTA to be the *only* cause for a kid to turn into a criminal. It is a significant factor (I have played it for some time) in causing kids to treat crime and evil lightly. I think OP realized this and hence banned that game from his kids.
If you have your own living area, then stay up late. If you live in a dorm, stick to the *agreement* you *signed* with the college when they allocated you dorm quarters.
If that agreement states you can stay up at all hours, keeping your dormmates sleepless, then you have the right to do that. Otherwise, control yourself and go to sleep at night!
Oftentimes people don't pick their study and work habits - it's just who they are.
"...it's just who they are"? I am surprised - just how self-absorbed has society become?
Just "change who you are". Habits *can* be changed. It's not like someone has asked you to grow back a missing leg.
Well, a WM is a piece of software. Even on Linux, you may download and install window managers seperate from the desktop environment.
Recent versions of Windows (at least 2000 and XP) use explorer.exe as the shell, though the progman.exe program is included too.
While it's not perfect, Windows XP's usability is nothing to be sneezed at. The widest used Linux WMs (the ones from KDE and Gnome) emulate it a fair bit. Example: the Alt+Tab , Alt+F4 keystrokes. You'd imagine KDE and Gnome designers would know "know better". Why doesn't the world use focus-follows-mouse: maybe because it's irritating for most people.
There are many "window managers" available for MS - if I understand correctly, these just use the Windows API to do their stuff. Snap-to, focus-follows-mouse, automatic-window-previewing during Alt+Tab switching, multiple desktops -- all these are available for free on the MS platform - mostly, IIRC, by installing the 'TweakUI' Windows software that Microsoft makes available on their website as a free download for power users. MS doesn't make these options available for normal users because of the 80-20 principle -- in their "regular" s/w they implement what is required by most of their users.
Two more examples:
1. I recall seeing a basic multiple-desktop manager on either download.com or the Ziff Davis network (don't recall) that implemented multiple desktops on a Windows system. It was open source. 2. Nvidia has an "Nvidia desktop manager", bundled free with it's Detonator drivers. This one is much easier to use than UNIX WMs and offers some cutting edge functionality: extensive hotkey, transparency, and multimonitor support, as well as two features I haven't seen on Unix WM's yet -- window color keying (useless) and partitioning *visible* screens into multiple areas with grid-lines (potentially very very useful). Here are two links to Nvidia's s/w: Nvidia Link Another link
"The only reason the public has stuck with Windows as long as it has is simply because they are familiar with it." Also because it's simpler to use (compared to Unix/Linux), works well (except for security), and has scads of desktop app. support: "developers, developers, developers..."
"furthermore, though you don't explicitly mention it, i feel it is implied that you do feel games are a considerable factor in encouraging violence in kids. and to that ideal, i simply state that anytime you can attribute something as complicated as emotion to a single cause, something is probbly wrong."
See flaw in logic in modified statement below: "I simply state that anytime you can attribute something as complicated as lung cancer to a single cause like cigarette smoking, something is probably wrong."
OP is not saying GTA is the sole cause of bad behavior.
The problem with MythTV and Freevo is they require you to install LAME (which encodes the audio stream to MP3). There are patent issues with MP3 encoding.
A MythTV developer recently talked about either making the LAME dependency optional by either using Vorbis, or simply not compressing audio. The latter option is quite feasible - sound is much less of a disk hog than video - only about 500 MB/hour.
Slashdot Mirror
The article states:
The directive allows companies to raid homes, seize property and ask courts to freeze bank accounts to protect trademarks or intellectual property they believe are being abused or stolen.
Is this correct? Are companies going to be granted powers that had been restricted to law-enforcement (for good reasons) up until now?
Will Kodak be able to raid Sony to protect it's intellectual property?
There should be one penalty for both the little guy and the big guy - the law should not be a respecter of persons.
> should be calling it GNU/Linux/Rubyx.
:)
Grubyx!
> the bible claims Jesus said "I came not to bring peace, but a sword. "
....
To suggest Jesus is counselling violence is to suggest Jesus tells men to murder their fathers... for the very next verses say:
"For I have come to turn
a man against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law--
a man's enemies will be the members of his own household.'
"Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me..."
Jesus is speaking about the high cost of following him - are you willing to pay it?
Responding more directly to your allegation - when soldiers came and arrested Jesus for his crucifixion, his disciple Peter drew his sword and injured one of them. Jesus then expressly forbade him saying: "put the sword back in it's place - those who live by the sword shall die by the sword." Jesus later said "my kindgom is not of this world, if it was of this world, then would my followers fight". He also said "when someone slaps you on one cheek, turn the other cheek". Never are we permitted to violence. God has left *ALL* judgement to Jesus at the end of this age.
Don't get me wrong - the punishment for murder is still death and hell, as is the punishment for rejecting God, for adultery, for sexual immorality, for theft and lies, homosexuality... However God in his loving kindness to all allowed his Son to be a sacrifice for all who would repent, even the most wretched of murderers. We are forbidden to inflict God's judegement on them - that is left to Jesus - we are *commanded* (NOT "requested") to forgive those who even kill and persecute us.
> If you are a polytheist or a Hindu or Jew or Christian,
> they will allow you to keep your religion and worship whatever you want.
> That's mandatory according to what the Muslim leaders say.
The level of tolerance varies with the verses as this link points out. However, Islam takes God's commands (remember what Jesus said about turning the other cheek), and takes it and changes it so that it appeals to our earthy nature ("if someone slaps me, I *should* be able to slap them back").
> Islamic states offer a degree of freedom of religion,
All Islamic countries offer non-Muslims is a very superficial tolerance as long as they stay "subdued". But God help non-Muslims who preach their faith, or a Muslim who converts away from Islam -- death sanctioned by Islam (i.e. Murder) is what follows quite often. Why do you think so many Muslims avoid even listening to other teachings so much?
> Eh, I'm sick of hearing how one side teaches hatred of the other side in schools.
> I want to see proof. I hear Hindus teach hatred of Muslims,
> and Muslims teach hatred of Hindus.
Well, I have just the proof you need.
I was raised a Hindu in Bombay, India. When I went to school in the 80s, the state syllabus never said one word about religion - neither Hinduism nor Islam - because the state was secular. There are, and have always been violent Hindu fundamentalists, but do you think this man would permit irrational hatred to be taught in Indian schools? (he's Muslim)
However, Pakistan is another story...
Let a prominent Pakistani English newspaper describe the problem:...:
One should perhaps be 'shocked' to read in Professor A.H. Nayyar and Ahmad Salim's report on the State of Curricula and Textbooks in Pakistan (pub.2003 www.sdpi.org) that the intended perversion of Pakistan's education system and national curricula came about as early as November 1947, even before the death of the country's founder
It was during [the 80s] that hatred of India, Indians and Hindus, and of all other things not Islamic, was firmly
> Islam doesn't allow people to convert to other religions,
... so does Christianity: in the Bible's Book of Revelation and other books earlier in the Bible, it is prophesised this slaughter will occur before Jesus Christ returns to establish to put an end to it and establish his kingdom on earth. Islam teaches that Imam Medhi and Jesus Christ will appear and lead the world to Islam ... but Christianity teaches that a fake (anti-)christ, and a evil false prophet will do miracles in the world to lead it astray and worship Satan (Shaitaan). Islam teaches you to fight: Fight against such of those to whom the Scriptures were given as believe neither in Allah nor the Last Day, who do not forbid what Allah and His apostle have forbidden and do not embrace the true faith until they pay tribute out of hand and are utterly subdued.
> because it views them all as false
In other words, Islamic states offer their citizens no freedom of religion.
> I don't *know* that there are lots of evil
> and malicious lies in Islamic countries.
Well, there are. For instance, several Arabic newspapers tried to attribute 9/11 to the Israelis rather than the Arabs. Pakistani school children are taught irrational hatred of Hindus in neighbouring India. Arabs schoolchildren are taught to hate Jews, and so on.
This sort of thinking is deeply ingrained within Islam itself. Islam teaches there will be a wholesale slaughter of the Jews by Muslims before the resurrection
But Christianity - in the person of Jesus Christ - says: "But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you?"
In other words, the faiths are diametrically opposed. Both faiths claim to come from God. Both assure us that God will *preserve* His written word. But Christianity was revealed in full 600-700 years BEFORE Islam.
Wonder if this is how the Supermarine company - makers of the Supermarine Spitfire - got their name.
That quote from Watchmen is self-absorbed nonsense.
There is a God - the one in the Bible - fear and believe Him and you will be saved on Judgement Day.
What a relief it was to accept that there is no good or evil - just us human beings doing fucked up things to each other...
From your statement, your conscience still distingues between good from evil, even though you're doing your best to ignore it. Turn before it is permanently seared.
> Er, that's a fact he's stating, not an opinion.
He has stated his opinion (and apparently yours) of what he considers a fact. But he is wrong.
Come out of anonymity and speak openly - why would you be happy with the letter and the spirit of the law being contradictory? Who defines the spirit? All this "letter and spirit" stuff is hocus-pocus logic.
You got my vote for it being a hack! :-)
Let the security and cleaners reserve the elevators to - it's obvious they have been given the right to do that by the people who own that facility.
You're wrong.
I agree with the grandparent, and it's upto to you whether to respect me or not... but if the spirit is out of tune with the letter, why not modify the letter of the rules.
Would you rather live a lie?
> but the ruling was based on the law at the time...
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You're possibly right, I am appealing to conscience rather than to imperfect US law.
> The Constitution clearly defines slaves as another class of people,
> a group that were not citizens.
Hmm. Also see: http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/respub/v6n1/boyd
I see inherent contradictions between statements in the declaration of independence ("we hold these truths...") and certain other statements in related documents and in the constitution. It took constitutional amendments and a civil war to resolve several of those contradictions. However, conscience should have resolved it for Taney and for SCOTUS, indeed for all individuals. It is wrong now, and it was wrong then... but people in general do not choose the good.
An OP is "original poster" - the person whose post sparked off this discussion thread.
.by fanatics as "adulterers ("living in sin") or as apostates ("deserters of Islam") [From "Some Islamic History]
Now, if the US demands that a government lie, or that it hides the truth, that is wrong - I am opposed to that. I am saying the US is allowed to demand that Islamic countries that take it's money work against *evil* and malicious *lies* that spreads hatred (I am sure you *know* there is a lot of that in Islamic countries). Why would you be opposed to this? It does work - see Pakistan. What exactly would make Pakistan a bad example - it is like most Islamic countries. Most Pakistanis I know admire Musharraf.
If countries still want to spread hatred from Govt. papers, they should have enough self-respect not to take American money.
> There is freedom of religion in Islamic countries. There are Hindus living in Saudi Arabia...
Tolerating foreign expatriate workers is one thing - they will be sent back one day. However, no Saudi citizen can become a Hindu or a Jew.
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From http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2003/24461.htm
The country is ruled by a monarchy with a legal system based on Islamic law (Shari'a). The Government does not provide legal protection for freedom of religion, and such protection does not exist in practice. Islam is the official religion, and the law requires that all citizens be Muslims. The Government prohibits the public practice of non-Muslim religions. The Government recognizes the right of non-Muslims to worship in private; however, it does not always respect this right in practice, and does not define this right in law.
-----
How can Islam offer one freedom of conscience or religion when the penalty of converting away from Islam is death? Please consider these deaths Islam is responsible for:
-----
http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/apostacy.html
* Iran
Ruhollah Rowhani, 52, was executed in 1998 for converting to the Baha'i faith from Islam. The US State Department has called on Iran "to protect the lives of 15 other imprisoned Baha'is. Three of them, Ata'ullah Hamid Nasirizadih, Sirus Dhabih- Magadamme and Hidayad Kashifi, have already been sentenced to death. Moderate President Khatami can do little to help as the courts are controlled by religious hardliners.
* The Reverend Mehdi Dibaj had converted from Islam to Christianity 45 years ago. On 21/12/93 he was sentenced to death on charges of apostasy. Released on appeal his body was found on 5 July 1994. The Reverend Haik Mehr, Superintendent of the Church of the Assemblies of God, who had campaigned against Dibaj's death sentence was found dead on 20/1/94. On 2 July 1994 the body of the Reverend Tatavous Michaelian, Chairman of the Council of Protestant Ministers in Iran was found with several gun shots to the head.
* Egypt
We wish to raise what, at first glance, may appear to be an inconsequential or even humorous matter [at least in Australia where a good proportion of partners are unmarried]. A Cairo court has ordered the divorce of a couple who wish to stay together. Islamists have claimed that Professor Nasser Hamed Abu Zaid is guilty of heresy in writing that "Islam's teachings should evolve with changes in society." However, a Muslim woman cannot be married to a heretic, a non-Muslim. He and his wife, Ibtihal, also an academic have appealed against the ruling and can remain together for the time being. However if the prosecution stands, they could lose their jobs or even be killed
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From : http://www.j-e-s-u-s.net/Jesus/evangelo/thecost.ht ml
Executed in Iran
In Iran apostasy carries a legal death penalty. In December 1990 Hossein Soodmand, a Christian convert from Islam, was hanged for apostasy in a state execution. His body was buried in a cemetry for outcasts.
Killed by her own brother
Even
> In fact it has been ruled (by SCOTUS) that police have no ...
> responsibility to protect the lives or property of citizens.
> They can stand by idly while you are murdered and do nothing.
I have heard this before elsewhere, but do you have a link handy please?
If this outrage is true, remember that SCOTUS, in a 7/9 decision including Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, was the institution responsible for the wrong Dred Scott decision.
Elect politicians that can appoint you the judiciary you deserve!
> A cop may come to take a report after, but only on TV do they magically show up during a crime.
... why, dear citizen, but to *protect*, and to serve... you, the people!
That's because they don't have ESP.
Seriously, why do you think... ?
- police escorts are provided for certain demonstrations and sporting events
- police are posted to guard some violence affected schools
- police protect witnesses and certain people targeted by organized crime
- why the concept of "protective custody" exists
> Egypt has a right to free speech.
Islamic countries are not known for free speech. Try printing a book pointing out the flaws of Islam - it will be received with violence in most Islamic countries.
While there are *always* "limitations to freedom" (for eg, the govt. wont' permit you to manufacture a nuclear bomb) the US gives it's citizens a freedom of conscience and freedom of religion and speech that people living in Islamic countries do not possess.
> What, do you want them to cover stories up?
> The people there have a right to know that there are no WMDs.
If there are no WMDs, there are no WMDs' - did the OP really want that info suppressed? Or is it just a strawman you setup?
> So you're saying that Egypt should take the bribe money we are giving
> it, and shut up? Not all the media is state-controlled.
Where the US has leverage, it is permissible to use it to persuade a government to tone down attacks in the media it has control over, and to stop educating it's young with false stereotypes and irrational hatred.
However, the most lasting change comes once rulers discover for *themselves* how much of a cancer blind hatred really is. Look at Pakistan - after the recent attempts on Musharraf's life by the jihadis, he's apparently become more sincere in his efforts to down their terror infrastructure, to reform the madrassas (religious schools), and to try and walk the path of peace.
Acidic Diarrhea: By your ... statement, both should change their habits and never sleep.
Both the OP and me said the late-niter person should alter his habits. (I am not the OP BTW.) I also said if the agreement gave you the right to, then stay up. Otherwise: "control yourself and go to sleep at night!"
Acidic Diarrhea: Eat shit.
Shame on you man - you can do better.
. i can't see a way in which you can interchange "emotion" and "lung cancer." i used emotion as a specific term, not as some general "bad thing."
Well, emotion/lung cancer don't have to be perfectly interchangeable - that's how analogies work.
But see also your earlier statement, where you clearly spoke about emotions in the context of violence.
I won't argue more though - you should understand what I said by yourself.
can video games be the sole reason for making you happy? sad? angry? a killer? i would think there has to be other factors involved.
Yes, there are other factors.
It is not required for GTA to be the *only* cause for a kid to turn into a criminal. It is a significant factor (I have played it for some time) in causing kids to treat crime and evil lightly. I think OP realized this and hence banned that game from his kids.
If you have your own living area, then stay up late. If you live in a dorm, stick to the *agreement* you *signed* with the college when they allocated you dorm quarters.
If that agreement states you can stay up at all hours, keeping your dormmates sleepless, then you have the right to do that. Otherwise, control yourself and go to sleep at night!
Oftentimes people don't pick their study and work habits - it's just who they are.
"...it's just who they are"? I am surprised - just how self-absorbed has society become?
Just "change who you are". Habits *can* be changed. It's not like someone has asked you to grow back a missing leg.
Well, a WM is a piece of software. Even on Linux, you may download and install window managers seperate from the desktop environment.
Recent versions of Windows (at least 2000 and XP) use explorer.exe as the shell, though the progman.exe program is included too.
While it's not perfect, Windows XP's usability is nothing to be sneezed at. The widest used Linux WMs (the ones from KDE and Gnome) emulate it a fair bit. Example: the Alt+Tab , Alt+F4 keystrokes. You'd imagine KDE and Gnome designers would know "know better". Why doesn't the world use focus-follows-mouse: maybe because it's irritating for most people.
There are many "window managers" available for MS - if I understand correctly, these just use the Windows API to do their stuff. Snap-to, focus-follows-mouse, automatic-window-previewing during Alt+Tab switching, multiple desktops -- all these are available for free on the MS platform - mostly, IIRC, by installing the 'TweakUI' Windows software that Microsoft makes available on their website as a free download for power users. MS doesn't make these options available for normal users because of the 80-20 principle -- in their "regular" s/w they implement what is required by most of their users.
Two more examples:
1. I recall seeing a basic multiple-desktop manager on either download.com or the Ziff Davis network (don't recall) that implemented multiple desktops on a Windows system. It was open source.
2. Nvidia has an "Nvidia desktop manager", bundled free with it's Detonator drivers. This one is much easier to use than UNIX WMs and offers some cutting edge functionality: extensive hotkey, transparency, and multimonitor support, as well as two features I haven't seen on Unix WM's yet -- window color keying (useless) and partitioning *visible* screens into multiple areas with grid-lines (potentially very very useful). Here are two links to Nvidia's s/w:
Nvidia Link
Another link
"The only reason the public has stuck with Windows as long as it has is simply because they are familiar with it."
Also because it's simpler to use (compared to Unix/Linux), works well (except for security), and has scads of desktop app. support: "developers, developers, developers..."
"furthermore, though you don't explicitly mention it,
i feel it is implied that you do feel games are a considerable factor in encouraging violence in kids. and to that ideal,
i simply state that anytime you can attribute something as complicated as emotion to a single cause, something is probbly wrong."
See flaw in logic in modified statement below:
"I simply state that anytime you can attribute something as complicated as lung cancer to a single cause like cigarette smoking, something is probably wrong."
OP is not saying GTA is the sole cause of bad behavior.
OP is doing the right thing.
> Every single business with whom you have *any* association in this precise moment is lying to you.
Well, then name three such businesses I have just given my custom to - tell me how they are currently lying to me.
It's not |don't make business|.
Don't give business to someone who lies to you.
There are still honest people in this world.
The problem with MythTV and Freevo is they require you to install LAME (which encodes the audio stream to MP3). There are patent issues with MP3 encoding.
A MythTV developer recently talked about either making the LAME dependency optional by either using Vorbis, or simply not compressing audio. The latter option is quite feasible - sound is much less of a disk hog than video - only about 500 MB/hour.
OK - My mistake. Thanks for the clarifications guys.
Microsoft generally has easier-to-understand names:
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Visual C++
Visual Basic
Visual Foxpro
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Photo Editor
Internet Explorer
SQL Server (SQL Server)
Outlook (client shows "your personal outlook for today")
Exchange ("information exchange" server)
Microsoft Windows
PocketPC
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In France, Microsoft would just rename it's software with the French translations of the simple names above.