it seems a little overly brazen to claim that "it is clear to someone was only the slightest bit of critical thinking that the classical religions are folk-tales that have gotten out of hand."
Not at all, all you have to do is look at the history and the number of ideas 'borrowed' from other religions. Pretty much every ancient philosophy has a great flood somewhere. The question is, did that flood happen and get interpreted and re-interpreted into the modern texts, or was it simply made up? I don't know that answer, but I'm not going to just blindly believe a book that claims to have all the answers. These books were ultimately penned by man, with his own, local and historical preconceptions tainting his views and translations of the events.
I'd much rather follow no god than to waste my life on a false one. My own turning point was when I asked a devout Christian friend "if you led a good life but did not follow their religion, would you go to heaven?". The answer, no, as you would get from most religions to this question, made me not want to know their god frankly. If god is what you say he is, then worship is unnecessary and to be honest hypocrisy. However, those views don't get people cash onto the collection plate, so the religious that did not enforce worship died out. When I realised that modern religion itself came to be as a result of evolution (the ultimate irony), I lost any faith I had left. The successful religions are successful for good reasons, not because they are accurate. For example, Catholosism promotes having lots of children. Textbook darwinnian evolution!
Interesting reply. I still disagree that driving can be 'evil', at best (or worst) it's inconsiderate and selfish. Most of the time IMHO bad driving is done by people who simply don't know that their actions could harm others, it's not a conscious action that they tailgate & are not aware of other traffic. Evil is a word that is used too much nowadays if you ask me. In my book, to be evil you have to know that what you are doing is wrong. I make for a bad back-seat driver when I see unsafe driving, but I am fully aware that it's not on purpose most of the time. I saw a Carlin quote on a sig that sums it up: consider someone of average intelligence; half the population are more dimwitted than that!
I wouldn't go so far as so say religion is the cause of everything bad. However, you cannot deny that it isn't one of the biggest components. As I said in my other point, the worlds nasties come down to three things ultimately: religion, racism and revenue. The three R's I call them.
"or the totalitarian version of Communism as practiced...": you won me over with that statement there by the way, you actually know what you are talking about, which can be rare around these parts. If you just said 'communism is evil' I would have ignored you. Yup, the absence of religion is religion itself, and surpressing religion is just the same as forcing it on others.
So if you shoot at someone (and miss), that's evil, but cutting someone off at 60mph on a highway (potentially rendering the same effect as shooting at someone with a gun) is not evil?
Are you drunk on the communion wine or something? That is such a weak argument I don't why I'm even responding. To compare inconsiderate driving to shooting someone is insanity. Yes, they may have similar outcomes, but so does old-age. Is old age evil? What about bad diet? Is Justin Timberlake evil because "he's luvin it"? (actually, bad example, I'm sure we both agree he is the spawn of Satan!;-)
Now, you don't have to be more than a half-wit to realize that "showdown" and "getting rid" means killing.
Call me a halfwit if you want, but at least I don't deliberately misquote people to fight a failing argument. From the quote that you oh so convinently truncated:
science to truly triumph is if religion is taken care of once and for all.
Now, when someone says science 'takes care of' something, do you envision a bunch of nerds taking on a priest, or do you see theory and proofs? His language may have been confrontational, but only a madman would take 'a showdown' between science and religion to become anything more than a metaphoric war. Science doesn't have millions of people willing to die in waves for their place in heaven/paradise. In fact, the opposite is true, people like Darwin almost never published their work because of the violent reaction he expected. Burning at the stake, torture, all the other 'treatments' for heresy.
Right. Scientists don't do anything on that front, in fact. It's not the scientists fighting to keep their civilizations alive and intact, it's the grunts of society who would normally be paid minimum wage to clean toilets that are on the front lines. Comparing scientists to soldiers is just laughable:)
Soldiers are NOTHING more than the leaders who lead them. And you know nothing about history (outside of fables) if you think war is about "fighting to keep their civilizations alive and intact". Where do the crusades fit into that? The 9/11 attacks? The Nazi's? You know nothing of war; it always comes down to the three R's:
Religion
Racism
Revenue
So who has all the answers, then? Can I buy the book?
See, that's the ezact kind of thinking that has gotten us into this state! There may be no answers. There may be no reason for us to be here, we could be a moss on the side of the earth. Or we could be some aliens grand plan for something. I don't know, and your minister/priest doesn't 'know' either. I'm assuming that you are of a Christian derived faith...consider this: if you had been born in any other country you would likely have completely different religious views to what you hold now, and you would be equally as convinced that you were correct in those views.
On the otherhand, I have the utmost respect to those who STUDY religion in an attempt to find the answers. It's like getting car insurance coverage, you don't just stop and take the first offer. Most religions know this, which is why they make a point of starting their indoctination on potential subjects as young as possible.
Anyone who simply falls into their parents religion and accepts it blindly as the true path is a moron. At the very least, check out the version history of the book you put so much faith in. Most scholars who have studied how the modern version of the bible came be accept that its a checkered history with a lot of omissions and translation errors, mixed in with a stew of Middle Aged English politics and language. Some scholars argue that the word translated as 'virgin' WRT the birth of christ is correctly translated as 'young girl with no children', but as the old testiment mentions virgin birth for the messia, the Christian dogma changed to make it fit better. Likewise, compare the books of the New Test
So every time you cut off someone on the highway, it's because of organized religion?
Cutting someone up on a road is not 'evil' by any stretch of the imagination. On the other hand, pretty much every war, including the war of drugs and the war on terror have their roots in religion. Why is it religious people are so loose with the word evil? Oh yeah, it works, just ask the current fear mongerers who are extensively using religion for their own objectives (both sides).
Religions only potential saving grace is that it can be argued that it is responsible for the shape of human society.
After all, I'm curious how you plan to get rid of all those "believers" without committing wholesale acts of evil yourself?
See, that's a religious person talking there; you assume that to stop something you must destroy it, with all the killing/crusading that history has shown that mankind is capable of when he believes he is righteous.
Scientists don't do things that way. One day it will be proven beyond all doubt that the classical view of god is a human fabrication, and that my friend will be a great day. It may even bring about peace on earth...
I'm not saying there is no god, that is not for me to say. However, it is clear to someone was only the slightest bit of critical thinking that the classical religions are folk-tales that have gotten out of hand. Man created god in his own image to explain things that were unexplainable at the time; had I been around back then I would likely have believed it myself. Nowadays, we know that the earth is a planet and it was "created" over a much longer period than seven days. Your "lies for children" are no longer required.
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Most people though, just want to listen to music, and the one that gets that (Apple) is making a fortune.
Utter bullshit. The iPod is where it is due to good looks and great marketing. 90% of the people who bought one didn't even look at the alternatives nor did they care about the features. They wanted an iPod, which in their mind IS an mp3 player in the same way MythTV is TIVO.
Fair play, behind the scenes he's done a lot. But as the creative director he hasn't done all that much, that's my point. He's an artist at heart and Star Wars is his best received canvas, but he just can't let go of it. He's gonna keep on doing it, seems to be an outlet of his. Personally, I think he's flogging it a bit too far and he risks ruining it all for everyone.
Because we all should know that your experience in the UK is the same as everyone anywhere in the world will have.
Being a bit provincial, perhaps?
No, just being self-aware and forthright that my knowledge in that area is "provincial". Not something you'd be used to on this site, but there you go...
What in the hell are you all babbling about. There have always been feature bare phones for the ludites, this article is pointless. Your grandma doesn't want a camera and they know this. You see, none of these basic phones usually get mentioned here, so everyone has this inane idea that the latest MS gadget is all that's available. Here in the UK you can by basic phones in shops found on every shopping street/mall, plus in many cornerstores / newsagents.
Nah, the school dinner thing was aired on UK national TV, so there are similar moves in Scotland, in fact you'd likely win a bet that said this initiative is coming off the back of the show. I didn't catch it myself, but the jist was that the pre-processed (cheap) crap currently served is not only bad for you, but it also hurts concentration as well.
I can't imagine the dinners being particularly better here already. Like everything else, it's all lowest-bidder territory. In England it got so bad that school canteen staff don't have the skills or resources to even cook things on the premises. Reheating breaded chicken reformed into animal shapes isn't really 'cooking'. My memories of school canteen food in Scotland, granted 10 years ago, was far from healthy. Hot-dogs, chips, toasties, can't remember ever seeing a salad.
To be honest, I'm not a fan of this recent 'reward' culture, where folk get incentives to do what they should be expected to do. In other news, there was talk of giving vouchers to people who pay their rent on time! Just throw them out if they start to take the piss for fucks sake, when did everyone become a downright pussy? If teachers were allowed to hit back if they are assaulted by a pupil, not only would teacher violence end overnight, the problem kids might learn something about not hitting people. Before they really go to far and put some innocent person in hospital...
Amen brother, thank god someone said it. Next time you're over in Scotland I'll buy ya a beer.
I've been saying this since before the phatom menace was announced, you know, the time when Lucas said he'd NEVER make the prequels. At the risk of sounding flamebait, Star Wars is the only decent thing that Lucas has driven. He's gonna milk it as much as possible!
Expect Internet downloaded versions (slightly 'tweaked' of course) and, as the Penny Arcade strip says, a re-re-mastered version for bluray/hd-dvd within five years.
And anything big enough to have a star wars logo attached will have tie ins. I'm just waiting for the Star Wars Tyre Iron with matching thrush treatments.
But would the time necessary to carry out this process--from cloning the embryo to harvesting stem cells to growing the organ--negate the benefit for many people?
It's still much better than waiting on a suitable donor to die and thne risking rejection after transplant. Rejection of an organ is a huge problem; basically the body does what it is supposed to do, attacking foreign cells. You have to surpress that response which then leads to other problems.
You speak out against Castro and you're apt to get shot or tossed in a prison camp. There's your moral superiority.
I'd rather be shot than be tortured and forced to masterbate other men. Amnesty International has very low opinions wrt to the US treatment of detainees. A very bad example for you to use.
And should you piss of the leadership, you'll find yourself the subject of falsified documents and brought before the senate, while others who you call your friends that are actually guilty of these crimes continue to pay Cheney a salary and get preferential treatment.
The USA is responsible for the death of over 100,000 people in the last two years alone. But you are about to tell me that Castro has done worse than kill over 25,000 innocent people, right?
Moral high ground my ass. You are both led by fuckwads, but yours are worse and that is an undisputed fact. Castro has NEVER replaced a democracy with a dictatorship, while others in this thread have listed numerous instances of the USA doing it. And most of them have done far worse than jail people based on their politics.
Because I don't want to be hassled by flight attendants on airplanes because they think I'm using my cellphone in-flight, and the airline rules don't allow that. (Though, I'd hope that the cellphone maker will think enough to give the user the ability to turn off the antenna in case you are stuck using the MP3 player function in-flight
Most phones that go beyond a phone already do that. Nowadays they are calling it "flight mode" as people have a hard time convincing the flight crew that "radio off" is safe (FM radio maybe?). And that's not the end of the story, they might just say no anyway as seeing you playing with your phone might encourage some braindead nokia user into attempting a game of snake.
Yeah, I really want to pay $0.25 per song to transfer 3,000 songs onto my harddrive-equipped MP3-playing cellphone.
They do that? Man, that's messed up. Any decent phone can interface with a PC to transfer music for free. I believe there a network here in the UK that charges for music downloads, but I think you can still put your own music on it. Draconian devices are in the minority; the most people who spend cash on things like ringtones are people who don't know any better and have no taste, i.e. mostly kids. Just look at the charts for the taste thing, blatant commercialisation but they don't care.
Has he ever really checked out Google Maps, where you can see high-res maps and aerial images side by side? (I'm right now looking at high-res pictures of the building on the army base where I used to work. Score one for freedom of information!) Or gmail, which does webmail far, far better than anything anyone else can come up with?
They've got other services, too: Froogle, image search, usenet, a translator...
Google, as part of their business, has lots of smart people and an enormous amount of computer juice under one roof. Unlike Microsoft, they've shown again and again that they can come up with nifty ways to use those people and computers to get information into the people's hands
To be fair, Google were not the first to do any of the above. However, what they usually do is excell at what they attempt, which is why they are where they are today. Plus the fact that the head-honchos believe in not being "evil" has got to be good.
However, it won't last. One day Google could very well be run for the shareholders, or be operated by different people. Or the market might take a turn that they miss. Nothing is a certanty in business.
If you want to know more about what life is really like in Cuba, check out this web page and read about human rights violations:
http://therealcuba.com/
That site is teh funny! Oh, abandoned buildings looking rundown. Policemen checking a group of kids hanging around. People cleaning up post-huricane damage. You'll not find that in any other nation on the world, no sirreee!
I didn't read about the human rights stuff. There far to many lies and bullshit proganda on the first page for anyone with half a questioning brain-cell to go on without convulsing in laughter.
The cop taking to the kids on the bikes was the best bit. OH THE OPPRESSION!!
You are just showing your stupidity and complete and utter brainwashing on the subject. Cuba begged the Ruskies for the nukes because the USA had invaded Cuba serveral times, and was conducting terrorist campaigns against them Google for "Bay of pigs" and "operation northwoods" to see what they were up against.
And the only reason the Russians agreed? Because the US had nukes in Turkey pointing at Moscow. This is before ICBMs, so nukes had quite short ranges. Putting nukes on Cuba LEVELLED the playing field, as it was the first time Russia had the capability to get a nuke onto US soil without using vunerable (interceptable) bombers.
And when it ended (thank JFK for that, stayed calm while others wanted to start WW3 then and there with a first-strike), the USA agreed to with draw it's missles from Turkey. A very powerful propaganda campaign then kicked into the make sure the US public didn't find out about the Turkey aspect, thus blaming Russia for the whole thing and making themselves look like the victors.
So, in your own words, who's the "fascist foothold". I suggest you look up fascism in the dictionary. It likely says "see current US administration". Here's dictionary.com's take:
1. A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
2. A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.
"Dictator" is a funny one, as it's not one person. The US is ruled by the arms and oil industries, bush is just the public front-end. Take away the "dictator" from the definition and the US is practically the dictionary definion of it. If you speak out against it, you are "with the terrorists" or "un-American". The idea of this itself is so unAmerican it would be laughable if it wasn't for the fact that your nation is willing to kill thousands of people every single year for it's own benefit.
There is no way that the US can EVER claim moral superiourity over Cuba. And keeping this bullshit ongoing for so many years is almost fucking childish!!
All I care about is will they port XBox Media Centre to it, though I might consider Sony's offerings as a media hub if they are decent. Chances are that it'll be DRM laiden and format limited though, and I'll be sticking with some sort of home-rolled solution.
Agreed, you can still get a whole load of worth out of stats. But as I said, without a baseline you'd be as well inventing the numbers.
Example, here in the UK every Xmas they make a big deal about drink-driving numbers. They announce the numbers of people who tested positive at the roadside. However, they NEVER say how many people were tested. So they would say "drink-driving is down this year, with 50 arrests compared to 100 this time last year". However, say this year only 100 were tested and in the previous year there were 400, the numbers have gone from 25% to 50%, yet they still say "numbers are down".
It's not the stats, it's every profession that puts a spin on things to do what ever it is they are after. Modern life forces folks bullshit detectors to a high setting in order to get by.
'Almost all - 96 pecent - of the insiders were men, and 30 percent of them had previously been arrested, including arrests for violent offenses (18 percent), alcohol or drug-related offenses (11 percent), and non-financial-fraud related theft offenses (11 percent).'
Hmm, statistics. I wonder how those numbers compare to people who simply work in IT and don't hack? I'd say 96% being men isn't all that unusual, and I would not be surprised if 11% of the general population has alcohol/drug offences already.
The problem with stats is that they generally never give you a baseline. Without that they are meaningless.
It should be noted that Greasemonkey is not without controversy, but this has done nothing to reduce its popularity among web programmers.
It should also be noted that the person claiming controvesy is also charging $49.00 for the "research" he has written. Do people buy these things?
Any, the summary of it reads as basically "users might install extensions that don't work with your own corporate pages". Personally, if an end user is installing applications without understanding the implications, you should ask whether that user should be allowed to install applications. The "researcher" claims that this risk should delay Firefox roll-outs in the enterprise.
I dunno, a system like that would generate a lot of false positives and would have to rely on grammar to interpolate what word it may be. No one should ever rely on grammar on the net!
It is push, but only while connected. Most imap clients I've seen will go into offline mode if the connection is dropped. So, if you drive through a tunnel or hop on a subway, you won't get mail for the remainder of the day, until you manually reconnect it.
Plus, do you not find that is kills the battery maintaining a connection? Most push-mail works by sending the device a cellular message saying "you've got mail" which then triggers the gprs connection. GPRS is as good as a phonecall for power drain I think.
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I can't describe how little we give a shit about you describing how little you give a shit about watching tv on you cell phone.
If you don't want one, don't buy one. Move along. There's a PC with 640K ram with your name on it over there...
Not at all, all you have to do is look at the history and the number of ideas 'borrowed' from other religions. Pretty much every ancient philosophy has a great flood somewhere. The question is, did that flood happen and get interpreted and re-interpreted into the modern texts, or was it simply made up? I don't know that answer, but I'm not going to just blindly believe a book that claims to have all the answers. These books were ultimately penned by man, with his own, local and historical preconceptions tainting his views and translations of the events.
I'd much rather follow no god than to waste my life on a false one. My own turning point was when I asked a devout Christian friend "if you led a good life but did not follow their religion, would you go to heaven?". The answer, no, as you would get from most religions to this question, made me not want to know their god frankly. If god is what you say he is, then worship is unnecessary and to be honest hypocrisy. However, those views don't get people cash onto the collection plate, so the religious that did not enforce worship died out. When I realised that modern religion itself came to be as a result of evolution (the ultimate irony), I lost any faith I had left. The successful religions are successful for good reasons, not because they are accurate. For example, Catholosism promotes having lots of children. Textbook darwinnian evolution!
I wouldn't go so far as so say religion is the cause of everything bad. However, you cannot deny that it isn't one of the biggest components. As I said in my other point, the worlds nasties come down to three things ultimately: religion, racism and revenue. The three R's I call them.
"or the totalitarian version of Communism as practiced...": you won me over with that statement there by the way, you actually know what you are talking about, which can be rare around these parts. If you just said 'communism is evil' I would have ignored you. Yup, the absence of religion is religion itself, and surpressing religion is just the same as forcing it on others.
Are you drunk on the communion wine or something? That is such a weak argument I don't why I'm even responding. To compare inconsiderate driving to shooting someone is insanity. Yes, they may have similar outcomes, but so does old-age. Is old age evil? What about bad diet? Is Justin Timberlake evil because "he's luvin it"? (actually, bad example, I'm sure we both agree he is the spawn of Satan! ;-)
Now, you don't have to be more than a half-wit to realize that "showdown" and "getting rid" means killing.
Call me a halfwit if you want, but at least I don't deliberately misquote people to fight a failing argument. From the quote that you oh so convinently truncated:
Now, when someone says science 'takes care of' something, do you envision a bunch of nerds taking on a priest, or do you see theory and proofs? His language may have been confrontational, but only a madman would take 'a showdown' between science and religion to become anything more than a metaphoric war. Science doesn't have millions of people willing to die in waves for their place in heaven/paradise. In fact, the opposite is true, people like Darwin almost never published their work because of the violent reaction he expected. Burning at the stake, torture, all the other 'treatments' for heresy.
Right. Scientists don't do anything on that front, in fact. It's not the scientists fighting to keep their civilizations alive and intact, it's the grunts of society who would normally be paid minimum wage to clean toilets that are on the front lines. Comparing scientists to soldiers is just laughable :)
Soldiers are NOTHING more than the leaders who lead them. And you know nothing about history (outside of fables) if you think war is about "fighting to keep their civilizations alive and intact". Where do the crusades fit into that? The 9/11 attacks? The Nazi's? You know nothing of war; it always comes down to the three R's:
So who has all the answers, then? Can I buy the book?
See, that's the ezact kind of thinking that has gotten us into this state! There may be no answers. There may be no reason for us to be here, we could be a moss on the side of the earth. Or we could be some aliens grand plan for something. I don't know, and your minister/priest doesn't 'know' either. I'm assuming that you are of a Christian derived faith...consider this: if you had been born in any other country you would likely have completely different religious views to what you hold now, and you would be equally as convinced that you were correct in those views.
On the otherhand, I have the utmost respect to those who STUDY religion in an attempt to find the answers. It's like getting car insurance coverage, you don't just stop and take the first offer. Most religions know this, which is why they make a point of starting their indoctination on potential subjects as young as possible.
Anyone who simply falls into their parents religion and accepts it blindly as the true path is a moron. At the very least, check out the version history of the book you put so much faith in. Most scholars who have studied how the modern version of the bible came be accept that its a checkered history with a lot of omissions and translation errors, mixed in with a stew of Middle Aged English politics and language. Some scholars argue that the word translated as 'virgin' WRT the birth of christ is correctly translated as 'young girl with no children', but as the old testiment mentions virgin birth for the messia, the Christian dogma changed to make it fit better. Likewise, compare the books of the New Test
Cutting someone up on a road is not 'evil' by any stretch of the imagination. On the other hand, pretty much every war, including the war of drugs and the war on terror have their roots in religion. Why is it religious people are so loose with the word evil? Oh yeah, it works, just ask the current fear mongerers who are extensively using religion for their own objectives (both sides).
Religions only potential saving grace is that it can be argued that it is responsible for the shape of human society.
After all, I'm curious how you plan to get rid of all those "believers" without committing wholesale acts of evil yourself?
See, that's a religious person talking there; you assume that to stop something you must destroy it, with all the killing/crusading that history has shown that mankind is capable of when he believes he is righteous.
Scientists don't do things that way. One day it will be proven beyond all doubt that the classical view of god is a human fabrication, and that my friend will be a great day. It may even bring about peace on earth...
I'm not saying there is no god, that is not for me to say. However, it is clear to someone was only the slightest bit of critical thinking that the classical religions are folk-tales that have gotten out of hand. Man created god in his own image to explain things that were unexplainable at the time; had I been around back then I would likely have believed it myself. Nowadays, we know that the earth is a planet and it was "created" over a much longer period than seven days. Your "lies for children" are no longer required.
Utter bullshit. The iPod is where it is due to good looks and great marketing. 90% of the people who bought one didn't even look at the alternatives nor did they care about the features. They wanted an iPod, which in their mind IS an mp3 player in the same way MythTV is TIVO.
Fair play, behind the scenes he's done a lot. But as the creative director he hasn't done all that much, that's my point. He's an artist at heart and Star Wars is his best received canvas, but he just can't let go of it. He's gonna keep on doing it, seems to be an outlet of his. Personally, I think he's flogging it a bit too far and he risks ruining it all for everyone.
No, just being self-aware and forthright that my knowledge in that area is "provincial". Not something you'd be used to on this site, but there you go...
What in the hell are you all babbling about. There have always been feature bare phones for the ludites, this article is pointless. Your grandma doesn't want a camera and they know this. You see, none of these basic phones usually get mentioned here, so everyone has this inane idea that the latest MS gadget is all that's available. Here in the UK you can by basic phones in shops found on every shopping street/mall, plus in many cornerstores / newsagents.
You missed step three....PROFIT!! :-)
I can't imagine the dinners being particularly better here already. Like everything else, it's all lowest-bidder territory. In England it got so bad that school canteen staff don't have the skills or resources to even cook things on the premises. Reheating breaded chicken reformed into animal shapes isn't really 'cooking'. My memories of school canteen food in Scotland, granted 10 years ago, was far from healthy. Hot-dogs, chips, toasties, can't remember ever seeing a salad.
To be honest, I'm not a fan of this recent 'reward' culture, where folk get incentives to do what they should be expected to do. In other news, there was talk of giving vouchers to people who pay their rent on time! Just throw them out if they start to take the piss for fucks sake, when did everyone become a downright pussy? If teachers were allowed to hit back if they are assaulted by a pupil, not only would teacher violence end overnight, the problem kids might learn something about not hitting people. Before they really go to far and put some innocent person in hospital...
I've been saying this since before the phatom menace was announced, you know, the time when Lucas said he'd NEVER make the prequels. At the risk of sounding flamebait, Star Wars is the only decent thing that Lucas has driven. He's gonna milk it as much as possible!
Expect Internet downloaded versions (slightly 'tweaked' of course) and, as the Penny Arcade strip says, a re-re-mastered version for bluray/hd-dvd within five years.
And anything big enough to have a star wars logo attached will have tie ins. I'm just waiting for the Star Wars Tyre Iron with matching thrush treatments.
It's still much better than waiting on a suitable donor to die and thne risking rejection after transplant. Rejection of an organ is a huge problem; basically the body does what it is supposed to do, attacking foreign cells. You have to surpress that response which then leads to other problems.
I'd rather be shot than be tortured and forced to masterbate other men. Amnesty International has very low opinions wrt to the US treatment of detainees. A very bad example for you to use.
And should you piss of the leadership, you'll find yourself the subject of falsified documents and brought before the senate, while others who you call your friends that are actually guilty of these crimes continue to pay Cheney a salary and get preferential treatment.
The USA is responsible for the death of over 100,000 people in the last two years alone. But you are about to tell me that Castro has done worse than kill over 25,000 innocent people, right?
Moral high ground my ass. You are both led by fuckwads, but yours are worse and that is an undisputed fact. Castro has NEVER replaced a democracy with a dictatorship, while others in this thread have listed numerous instances of the USA doing it. And most of them have done far worse than jail people based on their politics.
Most phones that go beyond a phone already do that. Nowadays they are calling it "flight mode" as people have a hard time convincing the flight crew that "radio off" is safe (FM radio maybe?). And that's not the end of the story, they might just say no anyway as seeing you playing with your phone might encourage some braindead nokia user into attempting a game of snake.
Yeah, I really want to pay $0.25 per song to transfer 3,000 songs onto my harddrive-equipped MP3-playing cellphone.
They do that? Man, that's messed up. Any decent phone can interface with a PC to transfer music for free. I believe there a network here in the UK that charges for music downloads, but I think you can still put your own music on it. Draconian devices are in the minority; the most people who spend cash on things like ringtones are people who don't know any better and have no taste, i.e. mostly kids. Just look at the charts for the taste thing, blatant commercialisation but they don't care.
To be fair, Google were not the first to do any of the above. However, what they usually do is excell at what they attempt, which is why they are where they are today. Plus the fact that the head-honchos believe in not being "evil" has got to be good.
However, it won't last. One day Google could very well be run for the shareholders, or be operated by different people. Or the market might take a turn that they miss. Nothing is a certanty in business.
http://therealcuba.com/
That site is teh funny! Oh, abandoned buildings looking rundown. Policemen checking a group of kids hanging around. People cleaning up post-huricane damage. You'll not find that in any other nation on the world, no sirreee!
I didn't read about the human rights stuff. There far to many lies and bullshit proganda on the first page for anyone with half a questioning brain-cell to go on without convulsing in laughter.
The cop taking to the kids on the bikes was the best bit. OH THE OPPRESSION!!
Actually, they do by proxy. If you deal with Cuba, the USA will sanction against you.
And the only reason the Russians agreed? Because the US had nukes in Turkey pointing at Moscow. This is before ICBMs, so nukes had quite short ranges. Putting nukes on Cuba LEVELLED the playing field, as it was the first time Russia had the capability to get a nuke onto US soil without using vunerable (interceptable) bombers.
And when it ended (thank JFK for that, stayed calm while others wanted to start WW3 then and there with a first-strike), the USA agreed to with draw it's missles from Turkey. A very powerful propaganda campaign then kicked into the make sure the US public didn't find out about the Turkey aspect, thus blaming Russia for the whole thing and making themselves look like the victors.
So, in your own words, who's the "fascist foothold". I suggest you look up fascism in the dictionary. It likely says "see current US administration". Here's dictionary.com's take:
"Dictator" is a funny one, as it's not one person. The US is ruled by the arms and oil industries, bush is just the public front-end. Take away the "dictator" from the definition and the US is practically the dictionary definion of it. If you speak out against it, you are "with the terrorists" or "un-American". The idea of this itself is so unAmerican it would be laughable if it wasn't for the fact that your nation is willing to kill thousands of people every single year for it's own benefit.
There is no way that the US can EVER claim moral superiourity over Cuba. And keeping this bullshit ongoing for so many years is almost fucking childish!!
All I care about is will they port XBox Media Centre to it, though I might consider Sony's offerings as a media hub if they are decent. Chances are that it'll be DRM laiden and format limited though, and I'll be sticking with some sort of home-rolled solution.
Example, here in the UK every Xmas they make a big deal about drink-driving numbers. They announce the numbers of people who tested positive at the roadside. However, they NEVER say how many people were tested. So they would say "drink-driving is down this year, with 50 arrests compared to 100 this time last year". However, say this year only 100 were tested and in the previous year there were 400, the numbers have gone from 25% to 50%, yet they still say "numbers are down".
It's not the stats, it's every profession that puts a spin on things to do what ever it is they are after. Modern life forces folks bullshit detectors to a high setting in order to get by.
Hmm, statistics. I wonder how those numbers compare to people who simply work in IT and don't hack? I'd say 96% being men isn't all that unusual, and I would not be surprised if 11% of the general population has alcohol/drug offences already.
The problem with stats is that they generally never give you a baseline. Without that they are meaningless.
It should also be noted that the person claiming controvesy is also charging $49.00 for the "research" he has written. Do people buy these things?
Any, the summary of it reads as basically "users might install extensions that don't work with your own corporate pages". Personally, if an end user is installing applications without understanding the implications, you should ask whether that user should be allowed to install applications. The "researcher" claims that this risk should delay Firefox roll-outs in the enterprise.
I dunno, a system like that would generate a lot of false positives and would have to rely on grammar to interpolate what word it may be. No one should ever rely on grammar on the net!
Plus, do you not find that is kills the battery maintaining a connection? Most push-mail works by sending the device a cellular message saying "you've got mail" which then triggers the gprs connection. GPRS is as good as a phonecall for power drain I think.