I'm talking about the percentage that actually believe Jihad should be a pillar, or duty, of the religion. That includes some huge populations.
Still only about 10%.
As far as instigation of violence against population, you can't get much more hateful than believing all outsiders to your religion, including OTHER SECTS OF YOUR RELIGION, need to be exterminated.
Islam has become such a violent religion, and the moderates don't seem to be doing anything to stop the 10% who are violent, that it's hard to claim that hate speech against them *can* exist.
Or that a man who was once a casino owner and whose policies were quite racist, would go on to help Israel and sign a bill with a massive amount of government borrowing to provide educational grants to women and other minorities.
I don't see it as any more so than any given Usenet group. What people don't understand is that online communications are autistic in nature- the anger you feel at anything is coming from YOUR side of the piece of glass you're reading the words on.
Emoticons have helped change this in the days since 7-bit ASCII teletypes, but not very much.
Yes, most of the time. A few of the overseas calls have gone bad, and every once in a while I need to reboot, but not too terrible. Oh, and I seem to have bandwidth issues over VPN from home- I can use it for screen sharing, voice calling, and IM- Pick Any TWO. Sometimes pick any ONE.
Of course, Skype for Business requires that you're using a well-maintained Exchange Server forest, on VPN, internal to your company network, which does make a difference. I don't use it for outside the system calls, I go to a phone booth for that or use my cell phone, so I'm not real sure. Dialing in from my cell phone isn't too bad, and Skype for Business also has both call forwarding (always forwarded to my personal cell phone) and dial-in bridge services, so if I really need to, I can always switch to the cell. And when I'm home due to the aforementioned bandwidth issues, I always use the "dial out to cell phone" when joining a meeting.
Yep. At my company, the only place you can find actual phones these days (as opposed to the Skype for Business software phone system) is in such phone booths- which are pretty constantly busy 10am-3pm daily. There are signs that say you're not supposed to use them as offices.
When you acquire a large complex software project, running on a server, with next to no real documentation, mistake after mistake after mistake is to be expected.
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Need to add Pakistan, Iran, and many former USSR Republics that I can't spell off the top of my head to the list.
I believe it. Interesting metaphor.
I'm talking about the percentage that actually believe Jihad should be a pillar, or duty, of the religion. That includes some huge populations.
Still only about 10%.
As far as instigation of violence against population, you can't get much more hateful than believing all outsiders to your religion, including OTHER SECTS OF YOUR RELIGION, need to be exterminated.
I have looked around. I see no major attempt to say, rewrite the Koran to remove verses about Jihad like Thomas Jefferson did to the Bible.
Islam has become such a violent religion, and the moderates don't seem to be doing anything to stop the 10% who are violent, that it's hard to claim that hate speech against them *can* exist.
I contest the idea that Downs Syndrome is a "horrible mental handicap". Sounds like IQ supremacy to me.
Mod parent up! Excellent advice
Exactly. And in certain geek circles- the neckbeard is the guy you go to when Big Bertha's CPU is on the fritz again....
Or that a man who was once a casino owner and whose policies were quite racist, would go on to help Israel and sign a bill with a massive amount of government borrowing to provide educational grants to women and other minorities.
And if you think reality has a strong conservative bias and you get angry, the problem isn't with reality.
I don't see it as any more so than any given Usenet group. What people don't understand is that online communications are autistic in nature- the anger you feel at anything is coming from YOUR side of the piece of glass you're reading the words on.
Emoticons have helped change this in the days since 7-bit ASCII teletypes, but not very much.
Those environments have ALWAYS been toxic.
Yes, most of the time. A few of the overseas calls have gone bad, and every once in a while I need to reboot, but not too terrible. Oh, and I seem to have bandwidth issues over VPN from home- I can use it for screen sharing, voice calling, and IM- Pick Any TWO. Sometimes pick any ONE.
Of course, Skype for Business requires that you're using a well-maintained Exchange Server forest, on VPN, internal to your company network, which does make a difference. I don't use it for outside the system calls, I go to a phone booth for that or use my cell phone, so I'm not real sure. Dialing in from my cell phone isn't too bad, and Skype for Business also has both call forwarding (always forwarded to my personal cell phone) and dial-in bridge services, so if I really need to, I can always switch to the cell. And when I'm home due to the aforementioned bandwidth issues, I always use the "dial out to cell phone" when joining a meeting.
You mean kind of like this?
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html
Just remember, time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Rather racist, I'd think. I'm white and I don't have hair like that.
Actually, they'd be more likely to think our skin is goldish-silver, since the plaque is made of gold anodized aluminium
Yep. At my company, the only place you can find actual phones these days (as opposed to the Skype for Business software phone system) is in such phone booths- which are pretty constantly busy 10am-3pm daily. There are signs that say you're not supposed to use them as offices.
https://xkcd.com/1958/
Yep, XKCD covered this
Social maturity, sadly, is now economic maturity- and I know a lot of people who aren't economically ready for sex before age 40 these days.
I had an English teacher who occasionally would not wear a bra. Under a see-through knit sweater. On a cold day.
I always wondered if she knew why the boys got worse grades than girls in her class.
I did not say it was excusable. I said it was to be expected. Two entirely different things.
I'm Type II, Cluster 3 or 4. A good sized 8 oz BAKED POTATO has a Glycemic Index of 30 for me.
I agree. I'm either cluster 2 or cluster 3 (onset at age 47, overweight, responding well to change in diet and taking my metformin)
This would be true for #3 and #4. Not so much for #1, #2, and #5 above.
When you acquire a large complex software project, running on a server, with next to no real documentation, mistake after mistake after mistake is to be expected.
"Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy."