It doesn't matter?! Look at the differences between GPL2 and GPL3 and then tell me that license choice doesn't matter.
By copyright/patent/trademark protection, you as a non-creator have NO rights. Only the creator can grant rights. A license is a way to tell the community "You can use this for free if you follow my rules". Fair enough.
Why? So companies dont mind making it themselves. They profit on it. When other companies make it too, they can do so without reprisal on licenses, so the price approaches cost+"token profit".
Also, by having the circuit schematic public, hiding undesirable plans is pretty much impossible.
I'll just slap on boilerplates everywhere disclaiming all my liability, even if it is probably fraud... Something about advertising price cant be raised after point of sale.
I'd say hit them with customer lawsuits suing for advertised price. It's too bad they made an error, but they need to offer at the price they quoted.
Actually, I'd recommend choosing the worst candidate: Hillary. erm, why??
She'd do the absolute worst for this country. Depending how she manages her PR, she'd be here for 8 years. Still, why the hell do we want her?
Simple. If this country goes to hell in a handbasket QUICK, people would be forced to take to the streets and protest. Massive protests would shut down industry and government alike, and would "inspire" change. I'm thinking Carter-like issues here.
The 100$ a year plan is not a VPS. I need shell access (root is helpful:P). The cheapest VPS they offer is 135$, managed. I know how to use and admin a linux/BSD box, so I dont need hand-holding. I also dont need buku resources. 48MB ram, 10 gig disk, 30MHz CPU, 20gig bandwidth symmetric is good enough for me. Storage matters more than everything else (expect for bandwidth).
Most places restrict completely any sort of proxies or iptunnels, even if they are private (security for wifi access points).
---1) the destination address will have very clear patterns (obviously)
As bandwidth in/output rises, CPU time to investigate packets rises rather fast. It's easy with 1 or 10 hosts, but you start playing with N students where N = 50000... And as long as the source and destination know who is who, packets can then be munged heavily to hide the source, along with other TCP/IP tricks.
---2) the bandwidth
That's the reason for encryption. Plausible deniability.
3) put you behind nat
And as SKYPE and others have shown, NAT only makes a problem a bit harder, not impossible. I'm right now behind a NAT using bittorrent. I'm still getting 200 KBps down and 75KBps up (max for this connection is 310KBps down/125KBps up).
---Furthermore... this would require YOU to redesign (and market) a successfull p2p application... every month orso (or every day once symantec starts paying people to update their filters)
As for data inspection, the data would be encrypted within a standard HTML page, with configurable tags to simulate real websites. It would not be hard to have a handshaking that agrees upon say, 10 unique websites and use that schematic for the session (there's plenty of techniques one could agree to share hidden data, I'm just stating a basic one). Really, how much bandwidth would the overhead take to hide what you're doing, along with encryption?
Do you actually think that the tags would be static? Hardly... rotate them as if they were real websites: polymorphic data encoding. Yum;)
I just paid 35$ and 40$ for 2 cd's. Before I hear how stupid I am, listen.
They usually go for 3000 yen.. in Japan. They were on sale for 2700 yen, and shipping ate up the rest. Now, who are these people who I'm willing to spend ~=80$ for? Ali Project. They did the opening for Hack//Sign roots, Noir, and many other anime. They are also incredible (to my standards).
I found the first songs (from aristocracy and noblerot) on WinMX years ago.. and recently found the Ali Project Incomplete torrent pack. After downloading that, I wanted the other new songs that the pack didn't have. Youtube had them in vid format, but I wanted the pretty artwork also, so I ponied up the money. I dont feel ripped off in the least, and I'm happy with the quality.
Because I heard them on a fansubbed anime, I found the torrents. Because of the torrents, I bought, from Japan no less, 2 CD's. That's money they made cause I was exposed to their music (and I didn't have a credit card since I was 25.. dont need the debt cause school has enough).
The higher the quality of what I like, the more chance to get my money. Better work for it;) Bonuses that arent easily reproducible are also good ways to do so. NWN did something like this by including that cloth map in the game.
The more that I think about it, batch processing would be more effective for me. I dont mind waiting for the commands to process, just as long as I have a reasonable access to my data.
SSH would be overkill... batch processing to shove it to a HTTPS session would be more effective.
I understand that you see the many comments on Slashdot that equate Islam with terrorism, and put those who do not explicitly distance themselves from those comments into the same group of Islamophobes.
No, my studies on Islam shows its detriment on the freedom of the peoples under its law. Our country dealt with Islam only a few years after becoming a country. For example, go listen to the first few lines of the Marines Hymn.
"From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli"
Simply put, I have came to the same conclusions as the Islamophobes by simply researching the subject. I can give evidence whereas the ignorants among us cannot.
How is that different from you feeling lumped into the same group as the terrorists, just because you happen to espouse some similar beliefs?
I care not what people think of me on the internet. There's a rather heavy barrier preventing one from knowing another unless one intends to.
I'm always stupefied by the amount of people who consider slashdot a homogeneous group. That's like saying that cats congregating around the food bowl are an organized herd.
They are, somewhat. Most, if not all of us, like to discuss technology.
As for the amount of Islamophobes that creep out of the woodwork.... the crap that goes on in some "enlightened" islamic countries like Saudi Arabia makes even me want to smack a few mullahs around. Fundamental Islam is so antithetical to my core beliefs that I'm indeed worried about a culture war.
If I had the power to do so, I would make Israel and Mecca a no-mans-land if they refused to work together for true peace. That's one of the few things people of Islam do get: extreme violence. Violence is power, and they will follow, begrudgingly, what you say if you have the power. If I did not know they were humans like the rest of us, I'd say they respond to violence like work animals. We have Saddam Hussein to show that violence and an iron fist does indeed work against them.
It is indeed sad to talk about our fellow man as though they were not, but this is the nature of Islam. Religion of death and subjugation it is, peace it is not.
I originally wasn't going to respond to you, but I've decided otherwise.
1: That website is not proof. I heard and saw what he said on the local PBS station. I believe that PBS did not modify the video. I believe in what I saw. If you have videos that prove otherwise, or have scholarly translations, I'll check them out. Otherwise, "fan translations" are entertaining, but worthless.
2: The Jews have been one of the most hated peoples that have ever been on this Earth. I've seen that hate here on/. claiming that we all know why we hate the Jews. The only difference is we hear a lot of hatred coming from the Muslims. Other peoples and cultures who don't like the Jews just shut up (or have solved their problems with them).
I've heard the "People of the Book" before. It also represents the degrading nature that represents something akin to "They got their faith half right. lets burn their holy books when they come to our countries and forcefully convert them". We only have the likes of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and other "Holy and Good Sharia based cities" to place our examples upon.
3: I don't exactly like the way Israel is going about this. Their actions seem reminiscent of apartheid, which I thought was repugnant. However, I also condemn the Muslims going about cowardly actions like strapping bombs to their children. Thats a whole other story if adults wish to end their lives as a military maneuver, but using 5-11 year olds as walking bombs is just disgusting.
4: I'm talking about the present, and comparing about the present. I acknowledge that, at one time, the middle east was the center of academia and the sciences. Also at that time, Europe had a nice Dark Age. Times change, and Europe/USA became enlightened with the sciences after bringing forth old Greek histories. Fast forward to present day... Who are the peoples to busy warring with themselves and their neighbors whilst playing in an oversized sand-box?
Thinking of the oil profits, why aren't you all working together and trying to recreate the academic world again? Is it, perhaps that Sharia prevents peaceful communication between non-muslims? The Middle East was once a powerful, intelligent culture. What's holding you all back?
5: Who exactly is implementing religious laws in government? Dont you people have control over your government? I dont care how much money is being funneled to them. If they are only 1/20 of the people in the country, then take it back over.
---Just as long as you support my right to have pictures of Mohammed having anal sex with Jesus Christ on a website (note, you don't have to like it, you just have to support my right;
I have no issue with that, other than I am not gay, nor have any inclination to view it. Other than that, I really dont care. I also said "I am.. no, was a Catholic,..." The more I study "my" faith, I see things I do not accept, and will not accept. I'm instead studying Buddhism and trying to understand the religion from a Hindu point of view. From what I have studied from it, I tend to agree with it. But that's just me.
---Voltaire and all that, y'know), then we're cool. But if you're among the religious (and this just isn't Muslims, the Catholic League is every bit as hateful of liberty) who thinks you have any right at all to censore my expressions, then you are my enemy.
I never claimed to censor any person's expressions. I just said (in a nutshell, no less) that if you join a group that incites hatred, expect to be bundled with the people who support hatred. Religion or not, I don't care. You are defined by the people you relate to.
---I'm an American Muslim who was born and raised here. While I choose to reserve my opinion over the images of the Prophet I do find a lot of the comments on Slashdot to be disappointing. I've been a part of this community since its very inception and have done my best to contribute my expertise to relevant topics. However, its troubling to see that whenever anything Islam-related is posted, there are endless tirades painting my faith with a broad brush of extremism and ignorance.
Listen to the words of the president of Iran and his position on the Holocaust and his opinion of the Jews. Now, tell me those views aren't shared across most of the Muslims of the world...
I've heard directly from other Muslims, both in real life and over the 'net. Most, if not all of them have a hatred of Jews and a disdain of other religions. I'm not exactly inclined to be around people who hate so much. What makes Islam interesting is that this hatred seems extremely widespread, even including forcing of Sharia law upon countries and general (what I would call) evilness.
And we can also see the "religion of peace" by the way families strap bombs to their children's waist and tell them to kill those infidels. Real peaceful.. Pieceful as in gibs if you ask me.
---As I've seen in the past, this sort of post always garners responses such as: "well if you're so level-headed then why aren't you changing the Muslim world?" Unfortunately, all 1+ billion of us are treated as if we're one big happy family. I have no more power to change the world of Islam than I do my own country's domestic and foreign policy beyond the established routes (i.e. voting, debates, etc). We make small but significant gains in our own ways but none of possess earth shattering abilities to make miracles happen. If we--as westerners--are really bastions of knowledge and free thinking then I'd do far more to educated the masses about my religion instead of having it hijacked by both non-Muslim Islamophobes and international extremists.
I know about your religion. I am.. no, was a Catholic, and was taught about the big 5 religions of the world (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism). I may not know exactly know every detail about your religion, but I also do not know everything about mine.
From what I see, 500 years ago, Christianity was about equal on the violence scale to Islam, if not slightly more so. During these times, the countries representing Islam faith stayed stagnant in terms of technology and rights to the people. Christian nations grew technologically, bypassing the Muslims, and along with that, gained more rights and freedoms not "allowed" by Islam and their holy laws. Our country was founded to keep YOUR holy laws (and everybody elses', for that matter) out of our country.
The countries that represent majority of Islam have not had the sort of epiphany the Christians did in regard to freedom, and have effectively repressed it. I find that disgusting, and suitable for disdain.
---I will say that discussions littered with such ignorance and hate don't help people like me when we try to open up dialog with members of our religion. As much as people here may call the anti-portraitists relics of the past its very difficult to defend enlightenment and modernism when its laced with veiled Islamophobia [1]. Its even more difficult when people outside of the religion have the audacity to tell Muslims what is and isn't antiquated or kosher. Defining our religion for us wreaks of orientalism and causes even the most moderate to stop listening. I certainly hope I don't get modded or flamed into oblivion because this discussion needs to start somewhere.
Since you like in the US, as do I, then perhaps you can appreciate my analogy.
I'm in Indiana, the state with the founding of the group called the KKK (spit). You ever hear of them? They were individually nice people, you know, Christians and whatnot. But, as a group, they'd hold lynchings to scare everybody else that wasn't in their gr
---The Constitution does not give the authority to the U.S. to do things that are in the USA's best interest, but only those things which the Constitution specifically allows the U.S. to do (Tenth Amendment).
Constitutionally, I agree with you. However, our Civil War ended this idea within our federal government. Further change back to the "Strong state, weak federation" will take a rather nasty war: the federal likes its power and will nary give it up. I just try to work with what he have in our current situation. Elsewise, we look like nuts (even if we are right).
---I don't care. The ends do not justify the means.
There is no means for hard science. Hard science may produce fruits of labor within months, or it may be years, or even decades. Also, we may direct our attention towards Article 1 Section 8 Clause 8: The goal is to promote the arts and sciences. What better way to do that than to choose a limited amount of projects and grant monies into them?
It really comes down to this: should the USA be the strongest military technological power? If we should be, then we the people should support governmental research as it applies to military and technological strength.
Well, the companies are not doing the required research, as they have in the past. We see this by lack of a current day Xerox Parc or Bell Labs.
Instead, research has retreated into the universities, in which the government funds. I'd at least argue that public subsidy of higher education is in the USA's best interest.
However, some people have issues in which to put forth grants and such monies, due to ethics/religion/dogma/whatever. Do we cave and make everybody happy, or continue on and give grants to the most interesting?
Or try this: do you think multiple universities without government intervention could create the current-needed particle accelerator labs? The SNL Z-machine is the most interesting this side of the globe, considering the lack of amount of power it uses.. That's government work for you.
Well, what do I buy? I download first and buy cd's to fit the collections I cant easily download. Now, my music selections is eclectic, so I search for a while before I buy.
As of now, I've bought 2 cd's from Japan by the group known as Ali Project. Jinsei bimi raisan (praise of delicacy of human life), seishoujo ryouiki (domain of the holy girl), and sensou to heiwa (war and peace) are my current favorite songs.
There's tons of ali project vids on youtube if one would want to listen to a piece of the quality that I demand. US groups couldn't cut it, so I go elsewhere.
BTW, if anybody has listened to ali project, would anybody recommend a US group that puts out something quite similar?
---You're saying this as if anyone should be happy about the New Deal.
Yes, I am. It is better than what was exhibited in the late 10's and 20's due to laissez faire. The New Deal brought in strict controls in which investors and alike could work with fair comparisons. It also set up an optional social security system in which those wanting to put in, would get out later. A lot of good changes happened due to the then-republicans sitting on their thumbs... But I'd take them back now any day.
---In a communist or socialist society, yes. In a capitalist society, absolutely not. That's why capitalism encourages prosperity, while socialism encourages stagnation.
As per my example, we are in the USA. The worker, in his 30's, still has an estimated 40 years of work in him as per tax revenue.
I asked if the government had a responsibility, not the "people in general". I believe, due to tax earnings potential, that the government has a fiduciary responsibility to maintain some/a lot of his health, so that he will be profitable later on.
A sick man with his family on welfare does not bade well for the state coffers, if that man had shown productive work and tax revenue.
Your post conjures up pictures of eugenics, hatred, and just intolerance.
Hows about you ask someone with downs syndrome if they wish to live, why or why not.
I wouldn't disagree with downs being horrendous, but calling them defective reminds me of that Twilight Zone in which the librarian was obsolete.. That political machine was defective, but the people are never.
All people have a purpose... even if it is to die. Let them be the judge of that, not you.
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It doesn't matter?! Look at the differences between GPL2 and GPL3 and then tell me that license choice doesn't matter.
By copyright/patent/trademark protection, you as a non-creator have NO rights. Only the creator can grant rights. A license is a way to tell the community "You can use this for free if you follow my rules". Fair enough.
Public Domain.
Why? So companies dont mind making it themselves. They profit on it. When other companies make it too, they can do so without reprisal on licenses, so the price approaches cost+"token profit".
Also, by having the circuit schematic public, hiding undesirable plans is pretty much impossible.
Our lawyers have informed yada yada..
Dont look at this if you get offended THANK YOU!
(cant believe this isnt +5 funny)
I'll just slap on boilerplates everywhere disclaiming all my liability, even if it is probably fraud... Something about advertising price cant be raised after point of sale.
I'd say hit them with customer lawsuits suing for advertised price. It's too bad they made an error, but they need to offer at the price they quoted.
Actually, I'd recommend choosing the worst candidate: Hillary. erm, why??
She'd do the absolute worst for this country. Depending how she manages her PR, she'd be here for 8 years. Still, why the hell do we want her?
Simple. If this country goes to hell in a handbasket QUICK, people would be forced to take to the streets and protest. Massive protests would shut down industry and government alike, and would "inspire" change. I'm thinking Carter-like issues here.
Who's the best candidate? Absolutely nobody.
It's called masters.
Who said anything about me not being a college graduate? And I have a full time job, and my works covers the school tab.
You don't know about me. Don't pretend that you do.
Do what any other respectable web provider would do..
Put links to Goatse in the definitions!
The 100$ a year plan is not a VPS. I need shell access (root is helpful :P). The cheapest VPS they offer is 135$, managed. I know how to use and admin a linux/BSD box, so I dont need hand-holding. I also dont need buku resources. 48MB ram, 10 gig disk, 30MHz CPU, 20gig bandwidth symmetric is good enough for me. Storage matters more than everything else (expect for bandwidth).
Most places restrict completely any sort of proxies or iptunnels, even if they are private (security for wifi access points).
---1) the destination address will have very clear patterns (obviously)
... this would require YOU to redesign (and market) a successfull p2p application ... every month orso (or every day once symantec starts paying people to update their filters)
;)
As bandwidth in/output rises, CPU time to investigate packets rises rather fast. It's easy with 1 or 10 hosts, but you start playing with N students where N = 50000... And as long as the source and destination know who is who, packets can then be munged heavily to hide the source, along with other TCP/IP tricks.
---2) the bandwidth
That's the reason for encryption. Plausible deniability.
3) put you behind nat
And as SKYPE and others have shown, NAT only makes a problem a bit harder, not impossible. I'm right now behind a NAT using bittorrent. I'm still getting 200 KBps down and 75KBps up (max for this connection is 310KBps down/125KBps up).
---Furthermore
As for data inspection, the data would be encrypted within a standard HTML page, with configurable tags to simulate real websites. It would not be hard to have a handshaking that agrees upon say, 10 unique websites and use that schematic for the session (there's plenty of techniques one could agree to share hidden data, I'm just stating a basic one). Really, how much bandwidth would the overhead take to hide what you're doing, along with encryption?
Do you actually think that the tags would be static? Hardly... rotate them as if they were real websites: polymorphic data encoding. Yum
Waste already works well.
Growing the network from one person is tough, but it gets rather big when it hits critical with a bunch of friends at college.
The best thing is to share the key liberally so that casual friends can get on. Then go from there.
I'm 26 years old, still at the Uni.
;) Bonuses that arent easily reproducible are also good ways to do so. NWN did something like this by including that cloth map in the game.
I just paid 35$ and 40$ for 2 cd's. Before I hear how stupid I am, listen.
They usually go for 3000 yen.. in Japan. They were on sale for 2700 yen, and shipping ate up the rest. Now, who are these people who I'm willing to spend ~=80$ for? Ali Project. They did the opening for Hack//Sign roots, Noir, and many other anime. They are also incredible (to my standards).
I found the first songs (from aristocracy and noblerot) on WinMX years ago.. and recently found the Ali Project Incomplete torrent pack. After downloading that, I wanted the other new songs that the pack didn't have. Youtube had them in vid format, but I wanted the pretty artwork also, so I ponied up the money. I dont feel ripped off in the least, and I'm happy with the quality.
Because I heard them on a fansubbed anime, I found the torrents. Because of the torrents, I bought, from Japan no less, 2 CD's. That's money they made cause I was exposed to their music (and I didn't have a credit card since I was 25.. dont need the debt cause school has enough).
The higher the quality of what I like, the more chance to get my money. Better work for it
I say run everything over port 80, with everything wrapped around encrypted data you cant see
Then add in open and close brackets every so often to make it look legit, so it bypasses proxies and other munging servers.
When it passes all the layers of detection from ordinary traffic, the shit will hit the fan.
The more that I think about it, batch processing would be more effective for me. I dont mind waiting for the commands to process, just as long as I have a reasonable access to my data.
SSH would be overkill... batch processing to shove it to a HTTPS session would be more effective.
I'm in need of a remote computer.
I need around 10 GB storage, 20 GB bandwidth per month (well, 10 up/10 down).
I dont care about HTTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, game servers, or most anything for that matter.
I need SSH access, and maybe speed equivalent to about 30 MHz at most.
Who has something like that, and how much does it cost?
No, my studies on Islam shows its detriment on the freedom of the peoples under its law. Our country dealt with Islam only a few years after becoming a country. For example, go listen to the first few lines of the Marines Hymn.
"From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli"
Now, I wonder what happened in Tripoli.
Simply put, I have came to the same conclusions as the Islamophobes by simply researching the subject. I can give evidence whereas the ignorants among us cannot.
I care not what people think of me on the internet. There's a rather heavy barrier preventing one from knowing another unless one intends to.
They are, somewhat. Most, if not all of us, like to discuss technology.
If I had the power to do so, I would make Israel and Mecca a no-mans-land if they refused to work together for true peace. That's one of the few things people of Islam do get: extreme violence. Violence is power, and they will follow, begrudgingly, what you say if you have the power. If I did not know they were humans like the rest of us, I'd say they respond to violence like work animals. We have Saddam Hussein to show that violence and an iron fist does indeed work against them.
It is indeed sad to talk about our fellow man as though they were not, but this is the nature of Islam. Religion of death and subjugation it is, peace it is not.
I originally wasn't going to respond to you, but I've decided otherwise.
/. claiming that we all know why we hate the Jews. The only difference is we hear a lot of hatred coming from the Muslims. Other peoples and cultures who don't like the Jews just shut up (or have solved their problems with them).
1: That website is not proof. I heard and saw what he said on the local PBS station. I believe that PBS did not modify the video. I believe in what I saw. If you have videos that prove otherwise, or have scholarly translations, I'll check them out. Otherwise, "fan translations" are entertaining, but worthless.
2: The Jews have been one of the most hated peoples that have ever been on this Earth. I've seen that hate here on
I've heard the "People of the Book" before. It also represents the degrading nature that represents something akin to "They got their faith half right. lets burn their holy books when they come to our countries and forcefully convert them". We only have the likes of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and other "Holy and Good Sharia based cities" to place our examples upon.
3: I don't exactly like the way Israel is going about this. Their actions seem reminiscent of apartheid, which I thought was repugnant. However, I also condemn the Muslims going about cowardly actions like strapping bombs to their children. Thats a whole other story if adults wish to end their lives as a military maneuver, but using 5-11 year olds as walking bombs is just disgusting.
4: I'm talking about the present, and comparing about the present. I acknowledge that, at one time, the middle east was the center of academia and the sciences. Also at that time, Europe had a nice Dark Age. Times change, and Europe/USA became enlightened with the sciences after bringing forth old Greek histories. Fast forward to present day... Who are the peoples to busy warring with themselves and their neighbors whilst playing in an oversized sand-box?
Thinking of the oil profits, why aren't you all working together and trying to recreate the academic world again? Is it, perhaps that Sharia prevents peaceful communication between non-muslims? The Middle East was once a powerful, intelligent culture. What's holding you all back?
5: Who exactly is implementing religious laws in government? Dont you people have control over your government? I dont care how much money is being funneled to them. If they are only 1/20 of the people in the country, then take it back over.
I'm a fan of "Do no harm".
I guess that this saying could be construed to do nasty stuff, but I follow it simply.
Does this action cause suffering to another being? If yes, dont do it.
---Just as long as you support my right to have pictures of Mohammed having anal sex with Jesus Christ on a website (note, you don't have to like it, you just have to support my right;
I have no issue with that, other than I am not gay, nor have any inclination to view it. Other than that, I really dont care.
I also said "I am.. no, was a Catholic,..." The more I study "my" faith, I see things I do not accept, and will not accept. I'm instead studying Buddhism and trying to understand the religion from a Hindu point of view. From what I have studied from it, I tend to agree with it. But that's just me.
---Voltaire and all that, y'know), then we're cool. But if you're among the religious (and this just isn't Muslims, the Catholic League is every bit as hateful of liberty) who thinks you have any right at all to censore my expressions, then you are my enemy.
I never claimed to censor any person's expressions. I just said (in a nutshell, no less) that if you join a group that incites hatred, expect to be bundled with the people who support hatred. Religion or not, I don't care. You are defined by the people you relate to.
---I'm an American Muslim who was born and raised here. While I choose to reserve my opinion over the images of the Prophet I do find a lot of the comments on Slashdot to be disappointing. I've been a part of this community since its very inception and have done my best to contribute my expertise to relevant topics. However, its troubling to see that whenever anything Islam-related is posted, there are endless tirades painting my faith with a broad brush of extremism and ignorance.
Listen to the words of the president of Iran and his position on the Holocaust and his opinion of the Jews. Now, tell me those views aren't shared across most of the Muslims of the world...
I've heard directly from other Muslims, both in real life and over the 'net. Most, if not all of them have a hatred of Jews and a disdain of other religions. I'm not exactly inclined to be around people who hate so much. What makes Islam interesting is that this hatred seems extremely widespread, even including forcing of Sharia law upon countries and general (what I would call) evilness.
And we can also see the "religion of peace" by the way families strap bombs to their children's waist and tell them to kill those infidels. Real peaceful.. Pieceful as in gibs if you ask me.
---As I've seen in the past, this sort of post always garners responses such as: "well if you're so level-headed then why aren't you changing the Muslim world?" Unfortunately, all 1+ billion of us are treated as if we're one big happy family. I have no more power to change the world of Islam than I do my own country's domestic and foreign policy beyond the established routes (i.e. voting, debates, etc). We make small but significant gains in our own ways but none of possess earth shattering abilities to make miracles happen. If we--as westerners--are really bastions of knowledge and free thinking then I'd do far more to educated the masses about my religion instead of having it hijacked by both non-Muslim Islamophobes and international extremists.
I know about your religion. I am.. no, was a Catholic, and was taught about the big 5 religions of the world (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism). I may not know exactly know every detail about your religion, but I also do not know everything about mine.
From what I see, 500 years ago, Christianity was about equal on the violence scale to Islam, if not slightly more so. During these times, the countries representing Islam faith stayed stagnant in terms of technology and rights to the people. Christian nations grew technologically, bypassing the Muslims, and along with that, gained more rights and freedoms not "allowed" by Islam and their holy laws. Our country was founded to keep YOUR holy laws (and everybody elses', for that matter) out of our country.
The countries that represent majority of Islam have not had the sort of epiphany the Christians did in regard to freedom, and have effectively repressed it. I find that disgusting, and suitable for disdain.
---I will say that discussions littered with such ignorance and hate don't help people like me when we try to open up dialog with members of our religion. As much as people here may call the anti-portraitists relics of the past its very difficult to defend enlightenment and modernism when its laced with veiled Islamophobia [1]. Its even more difficult when people outside of the religion have the audacity to tell Muslims what is and isn't antiquated or kosher. Defining our religion for us wreaks of orientalism and causes even the most moderate to stop listening. I certainly hope I don't get modded or flamed into oblivion because this discussion needs to start somewhere.
Since you like in the US, as do I, then perhaps you can appreciate my analogy.
I'm in Indiana, the state with the founding of the group called the KKK (spit). You ever hear of them? They were individually nice people, you know, Christians and whatnot. But, as a group, they'd hold lynchings to scare everybody else that wasn't in their gr
---The Constitution does not give the authority to the U.S. to do things that are in the USA's best interest, but only those things which the Constitution specifically allows the U.S. to do (Tenth Amendment).
Constitutionally, I agree with you. However, our Civil War ended this idea within our federal government. Further change back to the "Strong state, weak federation" will take a rather nasty war: the federal likes its power and will nary give it up. I just try to work with what he have in our current situation. Elsewise, we look like nuts (even if we are right).
---I don't care. The ends do not justify the means.
There is no means for hard science. Hard science may produce fruits of labor within months, or it may be years, or even decades. Also, we may direct our attention towards Article 1 Section 8 Clause 8: The goal is to promote the arts and sciences. What better way to do that than to choose a limited amount of projects and grant monies into them?
It really comes down to this: should the USA be the strongest military technological power? If we should be, then we the people should support governmental research as it applies to military and technological strength.
Well, the companies are not doing the required research, as they have in the past. We see this by lack of a current day Xerox Parc or Bell Labs.
Instead, research has retreated into the universities, in which the government funds. I'd at least argue that public subsidy of higher education is in the USA's best interest.
However, some people have issues in which to put forth grants and such monies, due to ethics/religion/dogma/whatever. Do we cave and make everybody happy, or continue on and give grants to the most interesting?
Or try this: do you think multiple universities without government intervention could create the current-needed particle accelerator labs? The SNL Z-machine is the most interesting this side of the globe, considering the lack of amount of power it uses.. That's government work for you.
I still buy CDs.
Well, not that garbage either.
Well, what do I buy? I download first and buy cd's to fit the collections I cant easily download. Now, my music selections is eclectic, so I search for a while before I buy.
As of now, I've bought 2 cd's from Japan by the group known as Ali Project. Jinsei bimi raisan (praise of delicacy of human life), seishoujo ryouiki (domain of the holy girl), and sensou to heiwa (war and peace) are my current favorite songs.
There's tons of ali project vids on youtube if one would want to listen to a piece of the quality that I demand. US groups couldn't cut it, so I go elsewhere.
BTW, if anybody has listened to ali project, would anybody recommend a US group that puts out something quite similar?
clippy: I see you armed yourself with a straight razor. Would you like to know how to slit your other wrist?
---You're saying this as if anyone should be happy about the New Deal.
Yes, I am. It is better than what was exhibited in the late 10's and 20's due to laissez faire. The New Deal brought in strict controls in which investors and alike could work with fair comparisons. It also set up an optional social security system in which those wanting to put in, would get out later. A lot of good changes happened due to the then-republicans sitting on their thumbs... But I'd take them back now any day.
---In a communist or socialist society, yes. In a capitalist society, absolutely not. That's why capitalism encourages prosperity, while socialism encourages stagnation.
As per my example, we are in the USA. The worker, in his 30's, still has an estimated 40 years of work in him as per tax revenue.
I asked if the government had a responsibility, not the "people in general". I believe, due to tax earnings potential, that the government has a fiduciary responsibility to maintain some/a lot of his health, so that he will be profitable later on.
A sick man with his family on welfare does not bade well for the state coffers, if that man had shown productive work and tax revenue.
Your post conjures up pictures of eugenics, hatred, and just intolerance.
Hows about you ask someone with downs syndrome if they wish to live, why or why not.
I wouldn't disagree with downs being horrendous, but calling them defective reminds me of that Twilight Zone in which the librarian was obsolete.. That political machine was defective, but the people are never.
All people have a purpose... even if it is to die. Let them be the judge of that, not you.