Those are just 8 floppy drives playing music. This is a 49-floppy musical instrument which can be played in real-time by a pianist. That's quite the difference, and something you entirely failed to mention. I guess that would get in the way of Grumpy Old Man time, and take the wind out of you bitching about buzzwords and 3D-printing:)
For most people those points simply don't matter. For them, this phone is crap, as it costs a lot and isn't as capable in various aspects as cheaper, more popular phones. I appreciate that some users will find this phone appealing, but we shouldn't assume they represent anything more than statistical noise when it comes to phone users.
I understand if you are emotionally attached to Linux to the point where someone accidentally criticising it makes you feel uncomfortable, but you really should be able to figure out that "but... but... they're worse!" is no rational response:)
I've read neither in about 20 years since taking a comparative religion class at school.
It's the same God in both the OT and the NT. I wonder why, when Christianity's holy book's text is looked at, people leap through hoops to try to break apart the trinity or add all sorts of explanations for the hideous, God-sanctioned behaviour, with the Qu'ran it's apparently a factual guide book and evidence that all Muslims are violent psychopaths. It's all bullshit. Most Christians don't live by the Bible just as most Muslims don't live by the Qu'ran.
But whatever. This discussion is pointless. Neither book is at all suitable for teaching how to behave to your fellow man.
Thanks for proving my point. You are scared, ignorant, and seemingly very happy with that arrangement. Your ancient Greek forbears would be *oh so thrilled* that you've thrown your cognitive ability down the drain and settled for knee-jerk reaction instead.
Anyone who extrapolates their own experiences to judge the entire world is a demonstrable idiot.
This is all entirely irrelevant. If what you are saying is true, every Muslim on the planet must be frothing-at-the-mouth eager to kill everyone. Seeing as there are ~1.6 billion Muslims, even if 1% couldn't hold back and give in to their alleged intentions, there would be 16,000,000 million Muslims running around straight-up murdering people. Until that happens your argument holds no water. It's like standing outside in the middle of the day trying to argue that the sun exploded years ago. The evidence for you being wrong is all around us and staggeringly obvious.
And the Bible instructs people to take slaves, rape people, etc. etc. The only point one can make by comparing these books as some sort of reflection on their respective religions is how futile it is. You are better than this, operagost.
No, he merely pointed out that if a religious book's violence is directly linked the adherents' violence, then all Christians would be out there murdering everyone just as bad as ISIS. As they are not, that is very strong evidence that the original claim is incorrect. That one point has nothing to do with religions, but is a simple logical explanation of why the original point was bogus.
But you are right - "racist" is not the correct term. I would choose "xenophobe", "bigot", or "scared little child lashing out at the world they are too ignorant of to understand".
Yes, all Islamists are Muslim, but to turn against all Muslims because of the Islamists will cause even more Muslims to become fundamentalist, and deny you the one tool you should be clamouring to use to fight Muslim extremism - moderate Muslims. Your claims of the destruction caused by Islam also apply to Christianity, so you not mentioning that seems to cast doubt on the rational nature of your approach.
So you think those people represent the entire religion. No wonder you are so confused.
The only agenda in the media over that video is the desire to not show a brutal, graphic murder to people who might be flipping through channels. If you hadn't thought of that, I guess that says more about you than it does anything else.
Just like fundamentalists of every religion. Islam is not special in this regard. Read the Bible and see just how fucked up that book is, and try to understand how that appears from an outsider's perspective. Your nonsensical, generalisation-laden rant towards the end isn't helping you look rational.
So you are engaging in the exact lazy xenophobia the parent is. I've seen some of your more racist posts in the past, so it's no surprise you've chimed in here offering support for a serial bigot.
You go be scared of your own shadow, and the rest of the world will try to tidy up the mess caused by equally scared people as yourself.
My experience is rather large, and entirely inconsequential, as is yours. One is a bloody fool if they think they can extrapolate the workings of the world and the opinions of over a billion people from the handful of people he has chosen to be representatives of the group in question.
If Muslims are as scary as you say, there are two possibilities here: Either you are small minded or dead. As you are not dead, that is pretty good evidence that the 1.6+ billion Muslims haven't given in to their (according to you) innate desire to slay non-Muslims. That means you are, by your own argument, either a zombie or small minded. A small minded person would know enough about Islam, religion, and human tendency towards fanaticism to know that the highly-vocal Muslims you see on TV do not represent the much greater population of moderate Muslims, many of whom you wouldn't even recognise as being Muslim in the first place.
But whatever. Trying to talk to a small-minded person is never going to end well, as you clearly lack the capability of figuring this schoolkid-level stuff out. The fact you are harassing a bunch of people because you think they harass a bunch of people should make you think twice about your chosen approach to learning.
You are confusing fundamentalism with all followers of a particular religion, fundamentalists and moderates alike. That never ends well, as it is intellectually lazy and ensures you will reach the wrong conclusion.
I take it you weren't actually there. Most of the Y2K problems I (and the company I worked for) was involved in fixing were in UNIX systems and aged, still-working mainframes.
With every one of your anti-Islam posts you are just showing the world how small-minded, ignorant and scared you are, just like the fanatics you probably intend to rail against (but due to your ignorance you get them confused with people who identify with the same religion, but who are not fanatical). You have more in common with the fanatics than you think.
It's hilarious you posted this same inane argument a few times, apparently without thinking about it much before doing so. Were you feeling accomplished when you concocted it? Did you think it would cause people to stop reading, scratch their heads and proclaim "this guy understands! Amazing!". You benefit from everyone you interact with, and everyone they interact with, and everyone they interact with, and so on. Your world view must be absolutely screwed if you think everyone's reliance on other people only extends to the boundaries of their vehicle.
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Those are just 8 floppy drives playing music. This is a 49-floppy musical instrument which can be played in real-time by a pianist. That's quite the difference, and something you entirely failed to mention. I guess that would get in the way of Grumpy Old Man time, and take the wind out of you bitching about buzzwords and 3D-printing :)
I take it you know that "abstraction" and "over-abstraction" are not the same..?
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That's all you have? Are you 9 years old perchance?
For most people those points simply don't matter. For them, this phone is crap, as it costs a lot and isn't as capable in various aspects as cheaper, more popular phones. I appreciate that some users will find this phone appealing, but we shouldn't assume they represent anything more than statistical noise when it comes to phone users.
Paranoid, much?
Did you get a bowl of soup with that opinion?
I understand if you are emotionally attached to Linux to the point where someone accidentally criticising it makes you feel uncomfortable, but you really should be able to figure out that "but... but... they're worse!" is no rational response :)
I've read neither in about 20 years since taking a comparative religion class at school.
It's the same God in both the OT and the NT. I wonder why, when Christianity's holy book's text is looked at, people leap through hoops to try to break apart the trinity or add all sorts of explanations for the hideous, God-sanctioned behaviour, with the Qu'ran it's apparently a factual guide book and evidence that all Muslims are violent psychopaths. It's all bullshit. Most Christians don't live by the Bible just as most Muslims don't live by the Qu'ran.
But whatever. This discussion is pointless. Neither book is at all suitable for teaching how to behave to your fellow man.
Thanks for proving my point. You are scared, ignorant, and seemingly very happy with that arrangement. Your ancient Greek forbears would be *oh so thrilled* that you've thrown your cognitive ability down the drain and settled for knee-jerk reaction instead.
Anyone who extrapolates their own experiences to judge the entire world is a demonstrable idiot.
This is all entirely irrelevant. If what you are saying is true, every Muslim on the planet must be frothing-at-the-mouth eager to kill everyone. Seeing as there are ~1.6 billion Muslims, even if 1% couldn't hold back and give in to their alleged intentions, there would be 16,000,000 million Muslims running around straight-up murdering people. Until that happens your argument holds no water. It's like standing outside in the middle of the day trying to argue that the sun exploded years ago. The evidence for you being wrong is all around us and staggeringly obvious.
And the Bible instructs people to take slaves, rape people, etc. etc. The only point one can make by comparing these books as some sort of reflection on their respective religions is how futile it is. You are better than this, operagost.
It works really well with Chromecasts so far, so I guess they have thought this through quite a bit.
No, he merely pointed out that if a religious book's violence is directly linked the adherents' violence, then all Christians would be out there murdering everyone just as bad as ISIS. As they are not, that is very strong evidence that the original claim is incorrect. That one point has nothing to do with religions, but is a simple logical explanation of why the original point was bogus.
But you are right - "racist" is not the correct term. I would choose "xenophobe", "bigot", or "scared little child lashing out at the world they are too ignorant of to understand".
Yes, all Islamists are Muslim, but to turn against all Muslims because of the Islamists will cause even more Muslims to become fundamentalist, and deny you the one tool you should be clamouring to use to fight Muslim extremism - moderate Muslims. Your claims of the destruction caused by Islam also apply to Christianity, so you not mentioning that seems to cast doubt on the rational nature of your approach.
So you think those people represent the entire religion. No wonder you are so confused.
The only agenda in the media over that video is the desire to not show a brutal, graphic murder to people who might be flipping through channels. If you hadn't thought of that, I guess that says more about you than it does anything else.
Way to dodge the question, bigot.
The Qu'ran is no more violent than the Bible, so you complaining about one and not the other is the very definition of bigotry.
Just like fundamentalists of every religion. Islam is not special in this regard. Read the Bible and see just how fucked up that book is, and try to understand how that appears from an outsider's perspective. Your nonsensical, generalisation-laden rant towards the end isn't helping you look rational.
So you are engaging in the exact lazy xenophobia the parent is. I've seen some of your more racist posts in the past, so it's no surprise you've chimed in here offering support for a serial bigot.
You go be scared of your own shadow, and the rest of the world will try to tidy up the mess caused by equally scared people as yourself.
My experience is rather large, and entirely inconsequential, as is yours. One is a bloody fool if they think they can extrapolate the workings of the world and the opinions of over a billion people from the handful of people he has chosen to be representatives of the group in question.
If Muslims are as scary as you say, there are two possibilities here: Either you are small minded or dead. As you are not dead, that is pretty good evidence that the 1.6+ billion Muslims haven't given in to their (according to you) innate desire to slay non-Muslims. That means you are, by your own argument, either a zombie or small minded. A small minded person would know enough about Islam, religion, and human tendency towards fanaticism to know that the highly-vocal Muslims you see on TV do not represent the much greater population of moderate Muslims, many of whom you wouldn't even recognise as being Muslim in the first place.
But whatever. Trying to talk to a small-minded person is never going to end well, as you clearly lack the capability of figuring this schoolkid-level stuff out. The fact you are harassing a bunch of people because you think they harass a bunch of people should make you think twice about your chosen approach to learning.
You are confusing fundamentalism with all followers of a particular religion, fundamentalists and moderates alike. That never ends well, as it is intellectually lazy and ensures you will reach the wrong conclusion.
I take it you weren't actually there. Most of the Y2K problems I (and the company I worked for) was involved in fixing were in UNIX systems and aged, still-working mainframes.
With every one of your anti-Islam posts you are just showing the world how small-minded, ignorant and scared you are, just like the fanatics you probably intend to rail against (but due to your ignorance you get them confused with people who identify with the same religion, but who are not fanatical). You have more in common with the fanatics than you think.
It's hilarious you posted this same inane argument a few times, apparently without thinking about it much before doing so. Were you feeling accomplished when you concocted it? Did you think it would cause people to stop reading, scratch their heads and proclaim "this guy understands! Amazing!". You benefit from everyone you interact with, and everyone they interact with, and everyone they interact with, and so on. Your world view must be absolutely screwed if you think everyone's reliance on other people only extends to the boundaries of their vehicle.
Paranoid much?
No, you just have the same taste in cars as a 9 year old. Congratulations! :)