Since when was fear rational? Orcas are "almost dolphins".
Seriously, though, I doubt mice fear lions, even though lions are above them in the food chain. Your main worry should be what is one step up from your position in the food chain.
While I agree to your conclusion, that Religious Fundamentalism is a bad thing, I am not convinced that all religions are ultimately the same thing.
IANAT, I am not a Theologist, just had a bit of religion in high-school. I don't believe in a God FWIW.
1. Primitive religions are vastly different from Christianity. This hardly needs to be justified.
2. Judaism is a "law-religion" at it's base, something Jesus expressly underscored that Christianity is not. All ethical guidelines from the Old testament were invalidated, and often replaced by their exact opposite (not "eye for an eye", but "turning the other cheek").
3. Islam has a long list of laws (Sharia(sp?)) of the kind Christianity underscores that they have not ("Give caesar what belongs to caesar"). Muhammed lead several wars, something very contrary to Christianity.
4. Hinduism is polytheistic.
5. Buddism considers God(s) largely irrelevant (but accept Hindi gods). Instead, salvations (termination, rather) is attained by introspection. Rewards in the next life are given because of good Karma. Vastly different from Christianity.
6. Scientology outright rejects the idea of God, but believes that "guided introspection" can lead to superhuman powers.
Of these, Christianity, Islam and Judaism are the most alike, and thus the ones which have had most hatred for eachother. Yet even the "Being good" part vary quite a bit. "Love thy neighbour" is quite different from "Thou shall not...".
I think the most similarities are listed by Nietzcshe(sp?) in his theory about a "slave revolt in morality". Unfortunately, one of these similarities is a lack of tolerance of other religions, which Al-Queda's emails provide quite a rich example of.
Xel'Naga -- I apologize to anyone offended. Feel free to correct me.
If we can effectively deter malicious hackers by cutting off their supply of Twinkies or crippling their EverQuest avatars, then there's no need to fry them.
I swear to god, if they nerf archery, I'll write a worm that'll bring the world to it's knees!
You don't have to get out of the building when you are controlling the RC-helicopter.
Obviously, since it's remote controlled, you don't die if the chopper dies.
Kunstneren Jacob S. Boeskov, redaktør på 'Answering Machine', rejste i sommer til en våbenmesse i Kina under dække af at være våbenhandler. Med sig havde han billeder af det fiktive våben, ID Sniper. Artiklen om Kina-turen i Black Box beskriver, hvordan Jacob S. Boeskovs fiktive våben tiltrak sig så stor interesse på våbenmessen, at Boeskov til sidst var mere eller mindre ødelagt af frygt for at blive opdaget.
The artist Jacob S. Boeskov, editor at "Answering Machine", this summer travelled to a weapon-con (?) in China, pretending to be armsdealer. He brought pictures of a fake weapon, ID Sniper. The artikle about the trip to China in "Black Box" (Magazine, Xel.) tells who Jacob S. Boeskovs fictious weapon attracted great interest at the weapon-con, untill Boeskov was terrified if he was revealed.
I'm 100% certain it's a fake. I remember seeing interviews on the television with the guy behind this, talking about his experiences in China with this completely nonexistant weapon.
I'll try to dig up a link with the real story about this.
"Pretty realistic"...
I take it you've never participated in a real war?
Not that I have, but I'm quite certain medics don't go around killing their own to revive them with full health.
Or make "Airstrike jumps" when Friendly Fire is off...
Un has two main councils: The security council and the general council (or something like this).
The security council is meant to reflect the actual balance of power, while the general council gives each country one vote.
The resolutions Iraq has been violating were those of the Security council. The resolutions Israel is violating are those of the general council. These are vastly different things.
The general council has passed a huge amount of odd resolutions, including making Libya head of the Human rights part of UN and agreeing that racism equals zionism.
Unstable countries more often split into two countries than stable. This means that unstable areas of the world gets too many votes in the general council.
By professional terrorist, I mean someone who is doing it because they get paid, more than because of their personal belief.
11/9 was made by (damn lucky) amateurs. A large group of skilled North Korean computer scientists, with good equipment and vast knowledge/experience bent on destruction could make a worm which would make this one seem like childs play.
IIRC, the boy tried to DDOS www.windowsupdate.com, which is not the URL people usually use for windowsupdate.
Makes you wonder what a professional terrorist could do. The worm could have been far more destructive.
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Free bears? What next, Armed bears?
Since when was fear rational? Orcas are "almost dolphins".
Seriously, though, I doubt mice fear lions, even though lions are above them in the food chain. Your main worry should be what is one step up from your position in the food chain.
The dog surely looks like something which has just come out of a the aforementioned portal.
While I agree to your conclusion, that Religious Fundamentalism is a bad thing, I am not convinced that all religions are ultimately the same thing.
IANAT, I am not a Theologist, just had a bit of religion in high-school. I don't believe in a God FWIW.
1. Primitive religions are vastly different from Christianity. This hardly needs to be justified.
2. Judaism is a "law-religion" at it's base, something Jesus expressly underscored that Christianity is not. All ethical guidelines from the Old testament were invalidated, and often replaced by their exact opposite (not "eye for an eye", but "turning the other cheek").
3. Islam has a long list of laws (Sharia(sp?)) of the kind Christianity underscores that they have not ("Give caesar what belongs to caesar"). Muhammed lead several wars, something very contrary to Christianity.
4. Hinduism is polytheistic.
5. Buddism considers God(s) largely irrelevant (but accept Hindi gods). Instead, salvations (termination, rather) is attained by introspection. Rewards in the next life are given because of good Karma. Vastly different from Christianity.
6. Scientology outright rejects the idea of God, but believes that "guided introspection" can lead to superhuman powers.
Of these, Christianity, Islam and Judaism are the most alike, and thus the ones which have had most hatred for eachother.
Yet even the "Being good" part vary quite a bit. "Love thy neighbour" is quite different from "Thou shall not...".
I think the most similarities are listed by Nietzcshe(sp?) in his theory about a "slave revolt in morality". Unfortunately, one of these similarities is a lack of tolerance of other religions, which Al-Queda's emails provide quite a rich example of.
Xel'Naga
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I apologize to anyone offended. Feel free to correct me.
I swear to god, if they nerf archery, I'll write a worm that'll bring the world to it's knees!
Xel'Naga
You don't have to get out of the building when you are controlling the RC-helicopter. Obviously, since it's remote controlled, you don't die if the chopper dies.
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I couldn't resist clicking on that link. :(
Unfortunately, it was a hoax, and not what I thought
Obviously they failed, and so they created BASIC instead.
You beat me to posting that while I was pondering how to spell "moustachioed".
The artist who pulled this stunt, explaining how he faked this
Click on "My doomsday weapon".
Xel'Naga
Kunstneren Jacob S. Boeskov, redaktør på 'Answering Machine', rejste i sommer til en våbenmesse i Kina under dække af at være våbenhandler. Med sig havde han billeder af det fiktive våben, ID Sniper. Artiklen om Kina-turen i Black Box beskriver, hvordan Jacob S. Boeskovs fiktive våben tiltrak sig så stor interesse på våbenmessen, at Boeskov til sidst var mere eller mindre ødelagt af frygt for at blive opdaget.
The artist Jacob S. Boeskov, editor at "Answering Machine", this summer travelled to a weapon-con (?) in China, pretending to be armsdealer. He brought pictures of a fake weapon, ID Sniper. The artikle about the trip to China in "Black Box" (Magazine, Xel.) tells who Jacob S. Boeskovs fictious weapon attracted great interest at the weapon-con, untill Boeskov was terrified if he was revealed.
Xel'Naga
I'll try to dig up a link with the real story about this.
Xel'Naga
User "Fishstick" beat me to it! He must be using something faster than my 486. Mod him up, not me.
On the album "Running with Scissors".
It's all about the pentiums, baby!
Even the smilies are upside down in Australia
I take it you've never participated in a real war? Not that I have, but I'm quite certain medics don't go around killing their own to revive them with full health.
Or make "Airstrike jumps" when Friendly Fire is off...
That's because you strip sigs.
These are some good ideas, but I doubt it's what Bill Gates is referring to: He said the blocking would obviate patches (to some extent).
The security council is meant to reflect the actual balance of power, while the general council gives each country one vote.
The resolutions Iraq has been violating were those of the Security council. The resolutions Israel is violating are those of the general council. These are vastly different things.
The general council has passed a huge amount of odd resolutions, including making Libya head of the Human rights part of UN and agreeing that racism equals zionism.
Unstable countries more often split into two countries than stable. This means that unstable areas of the world gets too many votes in the general council.
11/9 was made by (damn lucky) amateurs. A large group of skilled North Korean computer scientists, with good equipment and vast knowledge/experience bent on destruction could make a worm which would make this one seem like childs play.
IIRC, the boy tried to DDOS www.windowsupdate.com, which is not the URL people usually use for windowsupdate.
Makes you wonder what a professional terrorist could do. The worm could have been far more destructive.