Obama is Hitler and no not because of Health Care and all the sillyness the right claims. People voted for Obama mostly because he was not the other guy. Anything but Bush. "Democracy" is at its most dangerous NOT when an obviously dangerous madman runs for power but when the voting public is willing to accept ANYONE but the regular guys.
In France, Hollande has been in power for 4 months and people are already dissatisfied because he hasn't turned the economy around. And the reason he was elected? Because he was not the other guy.
In Holland, the SP let the polls until it came to vote for rent-subsidie and mortage-tax-deduction and the PvDA and VVD became the big winners but a lot of people already protesting that the policies these two will enact will cause the 4th year of less spendable income for everyone but the very rich. People who barely understand politics think that it was good the PVV lost a lot of seats but forget that the only reason he did loose votes was because Geert Wilders totally failed to deliver on his anti-islam retoric.
In Greece, extreme right is gaining which might make you think that an economic downturn leads to rightwing, but PvDA is socialist and so is Hollande, so explain that?
The fact is that when it comes to crunch time, people will vote for safety if they still have a tiny amount of faith in the system and there is no charismatic alternative but when they lost faith in all the existing parties, there is room for a new star to rise. Even if that turns out to be a super-nova that will burn everything.
Microsoft is Hitler. MS didn't win dominance on the desktop because it was the best option but because all the other options failed (Apple, IBM, Amiga etc etc). Then an outsider can have a shot.
It is only so long before the musical chairs of western politics or the mid-eastern same guys in charge for decades with only the head changing can continue before people are willing to try any alternative no matter how crazy their policies might seem. It doesn't help if people start believing that a president can turn the world economie around in just 4 months (France) or even 4 years (America).
The fact that Romney even has a chance with his insane policies and total lack of any humanity whatsoever says enough.
Part of the problem in democracy is that it has no accountability. How many in Dresden voted for Hitler? Will America stop all government handouts to all Romney voters?
No? Then people will continue to vote for whoever they bloody well feel like it at the moment and damn the consequences.
Since it has been widely recognized that Steve Jobs was an absolute asshole, how exactly is him killing himself through his asshole attitudes a bad thing?
At least he finally did something good with his dead. Homeopathy does not work. If it doesn't work for the rich and evil, it won't work for you. Get real medicine from real doctors.
A phenomenon previously only shown when people signed up as a Republican.
Do you support baby eating?
Human being: NO!
Republican: Only if they are babies who totally depend on other people to sustain them!
Mind you, a republican could never have his moral compass reversed. You cannot reverse that which does not exist. Republican Schwarzenegger attempted to show that Republican do however have a heart after he needed a pacemaker. Indeed, it showed that Republican do have a heart. A diseased organ that can only be kept functioning through the repeated application of electric shocks. Not sure what he tried to proof? That cattle prods should be used on Republicans?
I just wanted to see what an icon of American Culture really tasted like. I mean, American has shared some great tastes with the world like... eh... oooh Coca Cola... oh wait, Coca Cola in the rest of the world actually tastes very different from American Coca Cola thanks to the use of real sugar vs corn syrup. But there is...
What have the yanks ever done for us anyway?
I also bought some Mountain Dew from the same candy importer... US crimes against dumb gullible dutch people just keeps piling up.
Only a single male would say that. Just you forgot to switch the bypass mode off in the 10 seconds or so BEFORE your opinion is asked for. Your actual opinion of course won't matter, it never does, but you BETTER be reflect a complete and total comphression and capacity to recall in minute detail ALL information EVER given to you during your entire time AND any information she ever thought off which you should be able to get from her and everyone else she has known by mind reading IF you value your life.
Or you can go fishing. That works too. I hate fish, I hate the outdoors but I love fishing. Every second a blissful second without mental torture!
Nothing works as well at convincing the general public of the evil of BIG BROTHER then showcasing a scenario were a criminal defrauding not just the system but the general paying public (who are subsidizing the fair dodgers) with no hassle to them.
Please, next give me a tale of how the evils of drinking will cause me to life longer, score with women and advance my career!
I ordered a box of Twinkies at an insane price from the US, just to finally taste this product of American culture so often mentioned in movies. It says on the box that they can only be kept for a short time, so I decided to taste this over a long period. 1 year and still going. Taste? Still the same. GODDAMN AWFUL! Next month I will try another one. I am thinking of turning myself in for unethical testing on a dumb animal.
They tested the effects off the nuclear holocaust on women by exposing girlintrainings mom. The result is girlintraining. They call it a the nuclear holocaust for a reason. That which has been seen cannot be unseen. Man was not meant to tamper with the forces of nature.
It was a very touchy subject when Israel was created and many considerd it a bad sign for a free state that pork is indeed banned (Israel was supposed to be secular according to some founders, freedom for all, not just Jews). But an exception was made to allow Christian to raise pigs. Historically they are in the north and the farming has grown very intense creating a burden on the environment and creating unsanitary conditions. But any attempt to bring in normal farming regulations that are common in the rest of the world, any such law is seen as a religious attack on a minority group.
So... funny as it may sound, it is right now the Christians in Israel that have the greatest issue with pork... weird eh?
I play MMO's with comedy playing on my G19 keyboards little screen. I can follow both really well. But if the MMO has a talking section that gets busy (must have information, interesting story) I need to pause the TV. Not so in combat unless I have to use voice chat. Typed chat is no problem.
For the person below, I listen to Japanese music for that reason, it is wonderfully old fashioned, contains little anger and it is like a Sim singing, it has rythm, is nice to listen to but I don't have to process what is being said.
Samething with Alizee (french singer who inspired the night elf dance in WoW). That particular song has the most inane lyrics but it sounds wonderful. The words chosen for their sound, rather then any meaning.
I think people underestimate how many tasks we can combine NOT because we can do seperate tasks at the same time by thinking about it, but by how automated it has become. Take for instance me typing this. My fingers move on autopilot, if I start thinking about it, I start making lots of mistakes. I couldn't tell your were the s key is but I can hit it nonetheless. Who is typing? Me? Or another bit of my brain I am not even aware of in my consciousness? While typing this, I can even think more the one thought at the same time. Not very complex ones, but still, while my brain is waiting for my fingers to finish typing, I can think ahead to the next line.
Your body seems more capable then you by the a longshot.
What is multi-tasking. Doing several tasks, each individual task segmented into short activities, combined together to a larger activity for several hours OR trying to pat your head and rub your stomach while performing open heart surgery, piloting a jet in combat and making love... okay, this is slashdot... jerking off.
Women often claim they multi-task better then men but this is usually the first type. Putting the laundry in, making a shopping list, dropping the kids off, go to work, run an errand, make a call, do the shopping, put laundry in dryer, prepare the long cooking part of dinner, pick kids up, listen to their stories, finish cooking etc etc.
This is multi-tasking, computer style. A computer (single CPU at least) does NOT do multipletasks... AT THE SAME TIME. Rather it switches between them and being a computer, it does this really fast. For humans, the switching can only be done so fast but sometimes it is necessary.
But it has been shown beyond a doubt that doing two tasks at the same time is something we are very bad at. All humans. Driving and doing ANYTHING else at the same time, massively increases the chance of an accident. Yes you to, wonder driver.
This test was not about doing several tasks that people had to switch between, but doing several things at once.
Useful multi-tasking still allows you to concentrate on each individual task fully OR trade-off accuracy (listening to kids while doing housework, watching TV while going, "your right" to the wive... okay... your mom. But as any husband knows, this is highly dangerous because you might miss something essential. And then their is hell to pay.
I can read a document and talk on the phone at the same time but I also find I make far more reading mistakes, missing entire lines or reading a word completely wrong causing me to mis-interpret the text.
MindlessAutomata (on-topic nick if ever there was one) makes however one mistake. The human brain isn't massively parallel, our entire body is. You! do not exist. Rather there is a collection of individual cells, tiny lifeforms many of which don't have any of "your" DNA (bacteria) which have formed a "colony" not unlike a coral where multiple animals work together to survive and reproduce. Your gut for instance can be severed from your brain and continue to function. Few other parts can do that as paraplegics demonstrate by being unable to move below the waste but still have their gut work just fine.
You don't even have think about most massive processing your brain does. You can "think" about what you are seeing without even knowing or controlling HOW you see. How all that light is processed into a picture. We don't even think about, for the longest time we didn't even understand. Or language. How come you understand these strange symbols?
But this again, is not multi-tasking. It is closer to a computer having seperate processors for discrete tasks.
Truly doing several things at once, is hard.
Just pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time. And no, it doesn't count if you learned yourself how to do that. Then you are just doing ONE thing that just involves two hands. That is easy, any mechanic can do that. The trick about the patting and rubbing is doing two things you normally never do together, at once. And then your massive brain has serious problems.
Jews are famous for their self-deprecating humor but Catholics too have mercilessly made fun of their own faith. It was a great liberator because it was not always thus. Once, religion was deadly serious and to question let alone make fun off, that is heresy and that gets you killed.
A joke might not seem like much but it forces you to not take things to serious, it was essential in tearing down the ivory towers of religion and force it to become accountable. And this was not something that has stopped. The chaos in the Catholic church now people are talking about its abuses is just part of process. For decade, no, centuries, people knew and did not nothing.
For evil to triumph all that is needed is for good men to do nothing.
The so called moderate muslim, does nothing. This leaves a tiny handful of reformers who are often prosecuted or killed (Pakistan can't even protect its ministers, what hope does a normal civilian have) fighting the extreme elements who have the backing of countless hangers on, protected behind the veil of silence. Moderates might not agree with all the extremists do but you stick up for your own, regardless what.
A very recent case in Holland has a man under arrest for having had sexual encounters with over 200 boys. How did he manage to go undetected with so many victims? Well, people knew, but didn't speak out. The community is a closed one and they keep their troubles to themselves...
There are countless such cases in history and far bigger ones, hidden behind walls of silence and false respect. But humor has created cracks in this facade. In holland, the catholics created the 8 may movement, which basically told the pope to mind his own business. It allowed people to ignore the church doctrine and make up their own minds on birth-control, on politics, on marriage. On everything.
For modern free youth, it is hard to realize just how controlled religious communities are. In certain place, if a young couple is married and has not produced a kid after the first your, the pastor comes by to have a talk.
This control is not nice control, it is to make sure everyone walks the line, no dissenters, no free-thinkers. It is very effective. If you don't question, you don't challenge to status quo and those in charge like that.
Read up on some of the practices of popes, these weren't devout people, they were depraved men who craved power above all else. And they got away with it, because they were beyond question.
But humor, that challenges everything, breaks down the most powerful with a simple line or drawing. Don't believe me?
How tall was Napoleon? He was in reality above average height for french men of that age. It was a cartoon drawing that started the idea that he was a small power crazed war monger. A British cartoon made at a time Napoleon was kicking limey ass.
Spitting Image, a British satire puppet show, ripped politicians and others in power to shreds, and changed politics forever. People remembered the caricature better then the real person.
In my life time, the same joke has been done twice. The pope speaking and having underwear thrown at him as if he was a popstar. Caused mild affront but was considered part of a free society. The same joke was done off the Ayatollah (the previous one) in Germany. It caused a crisis, the comedian had to be protected and politicians fell over themselves to try to a peace Muslims.
It wasn't always allowed to joke about the pope, the christian faith. And the Muslim leaders KNOW what humor lead to and they don't want the same to happen. So anyone who dares to question, make humor, challenge, is silenced. Silenced most of all by moderates who do nothing but silently support the extremists by their inactivity. If you donate to your mosque even when you know the money goes to extremist, turning a blind eye to does, still makes you a supported of these extremists.
Western leaders are at a loss about how to deal with it. In the west, the crumbling of organized religion just seem
Jews didn't control much of the world oil, making them filthy rich with little to do to keep their exploding population happy. (The arab "spring" was just a lot of young people with an education and no jobs getting fed up with doing nothing. Even in Libia which could afford to have an enormous essentially un-employed population)
Jews are one of smallest groups in the world, Muslims one of the biggest.
Jews don't hijack aircraft.
There is no mass immigration of jews into atheist countries from Jewish countries and then trying to turn their new homeland into a muslim state. Muslims are fleeing muslim controlled countries, then trying to convert their new country to be run the same way. See Sharia4Beglim and Sharia4Holland. England already has Sharia courts.
Need I go on? Stop comparing the conflict with Islam with nazi germany, the differences are gigantic and the parallells are at right angles to each other.
You can get nuclear powerplant, a solar array, a coal burner, a gas burner, a wind farm. But something is going to have to generate that electricity you keep on consuming.
Make a choice. Oh wait, I forgot. Democracy, power without accountability. You can vote to have your cake and eat it to.
Samsung wanted to submit evidence they had ripped off Sony instead who had done the shape before. For that matter, the XDA (MS Phone years ago) seemed to me to be the grand daddy device that looked very much the same.
Oh well, doubt the appeal court will have such an obviously Apple fangirl for a judge. So Apple will loose and all will be well again. But it would be nice if the asian tech giants told apple for its next device. Nope, sorry, we don't have any items in stock at the moment. Go shop somewhere else. Oh there isn't? Well, go complain to the US tech companies that outsources all tech then.
8gb of memory would put consoles finally on par with PC's. Old PC's but PC's. The Wii U either has 1.5gb or 2gb of memory. Shared of course. So, less then a high end video card, slower and shared.
The internal memory isn't also a speedy SSD but a flash drive. Holy load time batman! This thing will be SLOOOOOOOOW. And don't count on it caching from DVD to make up for DVD slow load times either, not with 8GB of storage.
The more damning thing? Tablets and phones now already come with 2gb of working memory. The Wii U ain't out yet and is supposed to last for years while the average phone/tablet will be obsolete in a year or two.
The games better be amazing... I have a Wii. It had a few amazing games...:Last Story and... oh there was 1 or 2 others but I leave it up to you to list them. If you need to think for longer then 2 seconds, I made my point.
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Funny, so you mention the crusades but not the Otoman empire? Wonder why you tell only one side of a story.
That statement is only used by abusers of the system and their fanboys.
Don't hate the rapist, hate rape. Only a rapist would say that. The rest of the world hates both.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 - 1797)
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the population just sighs, shake their heads, and go on living
Mr2cents
Twit (1998-2012)
Obama is Hitler and no not because of Health Care and all the sillyness the right claims. People voted for Obama mostly because he was not the other guy. Anything but Bush. "Democracy" is at its most dangerous NOT when an obviously dangerous madman runs for power but when the voting public is willing to accept ANYONE but the regular guys.
In France, Hollande has been in power for 4 months and people are already dissatisfied because he hasn't turned the economy around. And the reason he was elected? Because he was not the other guy.
In Holland, the SP let the polls until it came to vote for rent-subsidie and mortage-tax-deduction and the PvDA and VVD became the big winners but a lot of people already protesting that the policies these two will enact will cause the 4th year of less spendable income for everyone but the very rich. People who barely understand politics think that it was good the PVV lost a lot of seats but forget that the only reason he did loose votes was because Geert Wilders totally failed to deliver on his anti-islam retoric.
In Greece, extreme right is gaining which might make you think that an economic downturn leads to rightwing, but PvDA is socialist and so is Hollande, so explain that?
The fact is that when it comes to crunch time, people will vote for safety if they still have a tiny amount of faith in the system and there is no charismatic alternative but when they lost faith in all the existing parties, there is room for a new star to rise. Even if that turns out to be a super-nova that will burn everything.
Microsoft is Hitler. MS didn't win dominance on the desktop because it was the best option but because all the other options failed (Apple, IBM, Amiga etc etc). Then an outsider can have a shot.
It is only so long before the musical chairs of western politics or the mid-eastern same guys in charge for decades with only the head changing can continue before people are willing to try any alternative no matter how crazy their policies might seem. It doesn't help if people start believing that a president can turn the world economie around in just 4 months (France) or even 4 years (America).
The fact that Romney even has a chance with his insane policies and total lack of any humanity whatsoever says enough.
Part of the problem in democracy is that it has no accountability. How many in Dresden voted for Hitler? Will America stop all government handouts to all Romney voters?
No? Then people will continue to vote for whoever they bloody well feel like it at the moment and damn the consequences.
Samsung can answer the question: You and what army of killer robots.
Since it has been widely recognized that Steve Jobs was an absolute asshole, how exactly is him killing himself through his asshole attitudes a bad thing?
At least he finally did something good with his dead. Homeopathy does not work. If it doesn't work for the rich and evil, it won't work for you. Get real medicine from real doctors.
Mint? Which rapes Googles search on all browsers so they can get money from it?
Voted republican? Never been a member of a trade union?
Well, what do you expect then? You have your masters total power over you and now they are using it. The slave who brings his own whip deserves it.
A phenomenon previously only shown when people signed up as a Republican.
Do you support baby eating?
Human being: NO!
Republican: Only if they are babies who totally depend on other people to sustain them!
Mind you, a republican could never have his moral compass reversed. You cannot reverse that which does not exist. Republican Schwarzenegger attempted to show that Republican do however have a heart after he needed a pacemaker. Indeed, it showed that Republican do have a heart. A diseased organ that can only be kept functioning through the repeated application of electric shocks. Not sure what he tried to proof? That cattle prods should be used on Republicans?
I just wanted to see what an icon of American Culture really tasted like. I mean, American has shared some great tastes with the world like... eh... oooh Coca Cola... oh wait, Coca Cola in the rest of the world actually tastes very different from American Coca Cola thanks to the use of real sugar vs corn syrup. But there is ...
What have the yanks ever done for us anyway?
I also bought some Mountain Dew from the same candy importer... US crimes against dumb gullible dutch people just keeps piling up.
Yeah, I am waiting for that event.
SmallFurryCreature, winner of the 2016 Nobel prize physics for his working time travel device.
At TWO angles, it leans either forward or backwards but not sideways.
Only a single male would say that. Just you forgot to switch the bypass mode off in the 10 seconds or so BEFORE your opinion is asked for. Your actual opinion of course won't matter, it never does, but you BETTER be reflect a complete and total comphression and capacity to recall in minute detail ALL information EVER given to you during your entire time AND any information she ever thought off which you should be able to get from her and everyone else she has known by mind reading IF you value your life.
Or you can go fishing. That works too. I hate fish, I hate the outdoors but I love fishing. Every second a blissful second without mental torture!
Nothing works as well at convincing the general public of the evil of BIG BROTHER then showcasing a scenario were a criminal defrauding not just the system but the general paying public (who are subsidizing the fair dodgers) with no hassle to them.
Please, next give me a tale of how the evils of drinking will cause me to life longer, score with women and advance my career!
I ordered a box of Twinkies at an insane price from the US, just to finally taste this product of American culture so often mentioned in movies. It says on the box that they can only be kept for a short time, so I decided to taste this over a long period. 1 year and still going. Taste? Still the same. GODDAMN AWFUL! Next month I will try another one. I am thinking of turning myself in for unethical testing on a dumb animal.
They tested the effects off the nuclear holocaust on women by exposing girlintrainings mom. The result is girlintraining. They call it a the nuclear holocaust for a reason. That which has been seen cannot be unseen. Man was not meant to tamper with the forces of nature.
It was a very touchy subject when Israel was created and many considerd it a bad sign for a free state that pork is indeed banned (Israel was supposed to be secular according to some founders, freedom for all, not just Jews). But an exception was made to allow Christian to raise pigs. Historically they are in the north and the farming has grown very intense creating a burden on the environment and creating unsanitary conditions. But any attempt to bring in normal farming regulations that are common in the rest of the world, any such law is seen as a religious attack on a minority group.
So... funny as it may sound, it is right now the Christians in Israel that have the greatest issue with pork... weird eh?
I play MMO's with comedy playing on my G19 keyboards little screen. I can follow both really well. But if the MMO has a talking section that gets busy (must have information, interesting story) I need to pause the TV. Not so in combat unless I have to use voice chat. Typed chat is no problem.
For the person below, I listen to Japanese music for that reason, it is wonderfully old fashioned, contains little anger and it is like a Sim singing, it has rythm, is nice to listen to but I don't have to process what is being said.
Samething with Alizee (french singer who inspired the night elf dance in WoW). That particular song has the most inane lyrics but it sounds wonderful. The words chosen for their sound, rather then any meaning.
I think people underestimate how many tasks we can combine NOT because we can do seperate tasks at the same time by thinking about it, but by how automated it has become. Take for instance me typing this. My fingers move on autopilot, if I start thinking about it, I start making lots of mistakes. I couldn't tell your were the s key is but I can hit it nonetheless. Who is typing? Me? Or another bit of my brain I am not even aware of in my consciousness? While typing this, I can even think more the one thought at the same time. Not very complex ones, but still, while my brain is waiting for my fingers to finish typing, I can think ahead to the next line.
Your body seems more capable then you by the a longshot.
Sex is the one area where more = more. Bring in the donkey!
What is multi-tasking. Doing several tasks, each individual task segmented into short activities, combined together to a larger activity for several hours OR trying to pat your head and rub your stomach while performing open heart surgery, piloting a jet in combat and making love... okay, this is slashdot... jerking off.
Women often claim they multi-task better then men but this is usually the first type. Putting the laundry in, making a shopping list, dropping the kids off, go to work, run an errand, make a call, do the shopping, put laundry in dryer, prepare the long cooking part of dinner, pick kids up, listen to their stories, finish cooking etc etc.
This is multi-tasking, computer style. A computer (single CPU at least) does NOT do multipletasks... AT THE SAME TIME. Rather it switches between them and being a computer, it does this really fast. For humans, the switching can only be done so fast but sometimes it is necessary.
But it has been shown beyond a doubt that doing two tasks at the same time is something we are very bad at. All humans. Driving and doing ANYTHING else at the same time, massively increases the chance of an accident. Yes you to, wonder driver.
This test was not about doing several tasks that people had to switch between, but doing several things at once.
Useful multi-tasking still allows you to concentrate on each individual task fully OR trade-off accuracy (listening to kids while doing housework, watching TV while going, "your right" to the wive... okay... your mom. But as any husband knows, this is highly dangerous because you might miss something essential. And then their is hell to pay.
I can read a document and talk on the phone at the same time but I also find I make far more reading mistakes, missing entire lines or reading a word completely wrong causing me to mis-interpret the text.
MindlessAutomata (on-topic nick if ever there was one) makes however one mistake. The human brain isn't massively parallel, our entire body is. You! do not exist. Rather there is a collection of individual cells, tiny lifeforms many of which don't have any of "your" DNA (bacteria) which have formed a "colony" not unlike a coral where multiple animals work together to survive and reproduce. Your gut for instance can be severed from your brain and continue to function. Few other parts can do that as paraplegics demonstrate by being unable to move below the waste but still have their gut work just fine.
You don't even have think about most massive processing your brain does. You can "think" about what you are seeing without even knowing or controlling HOW you see. How all that light is processed into a picture. We don't even think about, for the longest time we didn't even understand. Or language. How come you understand these strange symbols?
But this again, is not multi-tasking. It is closer to a computer having seperate processors for discrete tasks.
Truly doing several things at once, is hard.
Just pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time. And no, it doesn't count if you learned yourself how to do that. Then you are just doing ONE thing that just involves two hands. That is easy, any mechanic can do that. The trick about the patting and rubbing is doing two things you normally never do together, at once. And then your massive brain has serious problems.
Jews are famous for their self-deprecating humor but Catholics too have mercilessly made fun of their own faith. It was a great liberator because it was not always thus. Once, religion was deadly serious and to question let alone make fun off, that is heresy and that gets you killed.
A joke might not seem like much but it forces you to not take things to serious, it was essential in tearing down the ivory towers of religion and force it to become accountable. And this was not something that has stopped. The chaos in the Catholic church now people are talking about its abuses is just part of process. For decade, no, centuries, people knew and did not nothing.
For evil to triumph all that is needed is for good men to do nothing.
The so called moderate muslim, does nothing. This leaves a tiny handful of reformers who are often prosecuted or killed (Pakistan can't even protect its ministers, what hope does a normal civilian have) fighting the extreme elements who have the backing of countless hangers on, protected behind the veil of silence. Moderates might not agree with all the extremists do but you stick up for your own, regardless what.
A very recent case in Holland has a man under arrest for having had sexual encounters with over 200 boys. How did he manage to go undetected with so many victims? Well, people knew, but didn't speak out. The community is a closed one and they keep their troubles to themselves...
There are countless such cases in history and far bigger ones, hidden behind walls of silence and false respect. But humor has created cracks in this facade. In holland, the catholics created the 8 may movement, which basically told the pope to mind his own business. It allowed people to ignore the church doctrine and make up their own minds on birth-control, on politics, on marriage. On everything.
For modern free youth, it is hard to realize just how controlled religious communities are. In certain place, if a young couple is married and has not produced a kid after the first your, the pastor comes by to have a talk.
This control is not nice control, it is to make sure everyone walks the line, no dissenters, no free-thinkers. It is very effective. If you don't question, you don't challenge to status quo and those in charge like that.
Read up on some of the practices of popes, these weren't devout people, they were depraved men who craved power above all else. And they got away with it, because they were beyond question.
But humor, that challenges everything, breaks down the most powerful with a simple line or drawing. Don't believe me?
How tall was Napoleon? He was in reality above average height for french men of that age. It was a cartoon drawing that started the idea that he was a small power crazed war monger. A British cartoon made at a time Napoleon was kicking limey ass.
Spitting Image, a British satire puppet show, ripped politicians and others in power to shreds, and changed politics forever. People remembered the caricature better then the real person.
In my life time, the same joke has been done twice. The pope speaking and having underwear thrown at him as if he was a popstar. Caused mild affront but was considered part of a free society. The same joke was done off the Ayatollah (the previous one) in Germany. It caused a crisis, the comedian had to be protected and politicians fell over themselves to try to a peace Muslims.
It wasn't always allowed to joke about the pope, the christian faith. And the Muslim leaders KNOW what humor lead to and they don't want the same to happen. So anyone who dares to question, make humor, challenge, is silenced. Silenced most of all by moderates who do nothing but silently support the extremists by their inactivity. If you donate to your mosque even when you know the money goes to extremist, turning a blind eye to does, still makes you a supported of these extremists.
Western leaders are at a loss about how to deal with it. In the west, the crumbling of organized religion just seem
Jews didn't control much of the world oil, making them filthy rich with little to do to keep their exploding population happy. (The arab "spring" was just a lot of young people with an education and no jobs getting fed up with doing nothing. Even in Libia which could afford to have an enormous essentially un-employed population)
Jews are one of smallest groups in the world, Muslims one of the biggest.
Jews don't hijack aircraft.
There is no mass immigration of jews into atheist countries from Jewish countries and then trying to turn their new homeland into a muslim state. Muslims are fleeing muslim controlled countries, then trying to convert their new country to be run the same way. See Sharia4Beglim and Sharia4Holland. England already has Sharia courts.
Need I go on? Stop comparing the conflict with Islam with nazi germany, the differences are gigantic and the parallells are at right angles to each other.
You can get nuclear powerplant, a solar array, a coal burner, a gas burner, a wind farm. But something is going to have to generate that electricity you keep on consuming.
Make a choice. Oh wait, I forgot. Democracy, power without accountability. You can vote to have your cake and eat it to.
Samsung wanted to submit evidence they had ripped off Sony instead who had done the shape before. For that matter, the XDA (MS Phone years ago) seemed to me to be the grand daddy device that looked very much the same.
Oh well, doubt the appeal court will have such an obviously Apple fangirl for a judge. So Apple will loose and all will be well again. But it would be nice if the asian tech giants told apple for its next device. Nope, sorry, we don't have any items in stock at the moment. Go shop somewhere else. Oh there isn't? Well, go complain to the US tech companies that outsources all tech then.
Would be nice. Won't happen but it would be nice.
8GB of internal STORAGE. NOT MEMORY.
8gb of memory would put consoles finally on par with PC's. Old PC's but PC's. The Wii U either has 1.5gb or 2gb of memory. Shared of course. So, less then a high end video card, slower and shared.
The internal memory isn't also a speedy SSD but a flash drive. Holy load time batman! This thing will be SLOOOOOOOOW. And don't count on it caching from DVD to make up for DVD slow load times either, not with 8GB of storage.
The more damning thing? Tablets and phones now already come with 2gb of working memory. The Wii U ain't out yet and is supposed to last for years while the average phone/tablet will be obsolete in a year or two.
The games better be amazing... I have a Wii. It had a few amazing games... :Last Story and... oh there was 1 or 2 others but I leave it up to you to list them. If you need to think for longer then 2 seconds, I made my point.