And it's the fact they can that's what's the problem with the walled garden. If i'm a private company selling an app to you directly I can tell Ravensburger to go fuck themselves and if they want their trademark torn up they're welcome to take me to court. If i'm a developer selling through Apple or another walled garden, then who the hell am I supposed to appeal to? I could sue Ravensburger for damages, but in the mean time what do I do?
In many western countries truth is an absolute defense. Where the US is unique is in the public figure doctrine (you need to prove actual malice as well as falsity when you're a public figure plaintiff). Also the onus is reversed in the US. The defendant is not automatically considered to be "guilty". It's up to the plaintiff to prove the defendant made a false statement of fact.
Perhaps because eye tracking could not move a remote camera (or else you could never look at anywhere but the center of the screen without indadvertedly shifting the whole image). It makes a lot of sense if you're building an avatar.
"People of the scripture" refers to Jews and Christians. What did you think that bit meant? So yeah. You proved my point. It does refer to Jews. I would never argue the Qur'an is harsh towards Jews alone, however almost no muslims follow the Qur'an alone. When you read what (Sahih) Bukhari and Muslim have to say about Jews, versus what they have to say about Christians, the vast bulk of the hate is directed towards the Jews. How else do you explain the Arab Muslim obsession with all things antisemitic, from the broadcast of a TV series on the Protocols of Zion to passengers on the Marmara chanting "Remember Khaybar, oh Jews, the Army of Muhammad is returning!" Surely they must be referring to a metaphorical army (as Islam is a religion of peace) and not wanton slaughter of Jews. Surely that mission of peace why Hesbollah names some of it's rockets "Khaibar". How about the Muhammad at Qurayza where he executed between 400 and 900 people who had already surrendered. How about the Jewish "wife" he raped the night he murdered her husband (thankfully she later poisoned the worthless fuck). What a peaceful guy. What a peaceful fucking religion.
?The reason I didn't respond to all three was that I didn't want to do three times the work. Showing you misinformed once was sufficient in my mind and those who want to read the other quotes in context -- great. Jesus was a Jew, after all, so it's hard to say Christianity is anti-Semitic.
As for your accusations about the talmud... I read that often on Islamic and white supremacist sites. The problem is most Islamists and neo-facists get their information about Jews from the Qur'an or equally fallible sources. For example, the Quran says Jews are deceptive and so forth. Here is what the talmud actually says about deceiving gentiles.
As for the hadith I quoted that you think is only quoted by bigots. I'm glad you agree, since it's in Hamas's charter and regularly quoted by Fatah as well as more or less everywhere else in the middle east. I'm glad you think such is bigotry. Why, then, do you expect Israel to negotiate and make concessions to such bigots when they have made no shows of good faith? Stop the settlements? They did that for a year. Didn't help at all. Withdrew from Gaza, they turned it into a base to fire tens of thousands of rockets from. No. Not all Muslims are like this, but the fact remains this is part of their doctrine
Christianity is homophobic and sexist. Those Christians who claim to practice their religion but refuse to condemn homosexuality (and relegate women to second class citizenship in church) are indeed hypocrites, as are the Christians who ignore Jesus's commands to turn the other cheek when confronted with violence. So then are Muslims who remain peaceful despite the very clear calls in their religion to violent Jihad (literally, struggle, but used almost without exception to refer to warfare). Read Sura 9 and tell me the Qur'an is peaceful because clearly it's you who hasn't read one. This doesn't mean all Christians are homophobic or all Muslims are violent but when they behave in such manners I DO indeed blame the religion. They're merely following the immutable commandments set forth by their infallible sky fairy, and because of abrogation in Islam, it will never, ever, mature into something relatively benign like the other religions.
I'm saying it's pointless to create a "Palestine" when the citizens are culturally and ethically Jordanian and Egyptian. They were once Jordanian and Egyptian. Why can't they be again? As for the rest. I got stuff to do now. If you can't figure out for yourself why the Jews need a state of their own...
I'm speaking of religious demographics. There are over 50 Muslim Arab states. Nobody calls this racist or bigoted, despite the fact Islam is often, by law, the only religion and apostates face the death penalty. In Israel, such is not the case and even Scientology opening a new mindfuckery in Tel Aviv barely raised an eyebrow. Yet you call Israel's desire to maintain a Jewish majority so that they can remain the one Jewish state disgusting. Again. Remember what I said about selective criticism.
As far as there never being a Palestine. It's a fact. Tell me who was the first Palestinians president? Ruler? Name a famous Palestinian dish. What was the Palestinians flag? The national anthem? You won't find any of these because Palestine never existed as a country. You have Jordanians, Egyptians, and a smattering of others who like to call themselves "Palestinians" and talk about a "Palestine" because it's politically convenient.
Because Israel is a honeypot -- fundamentalist lunatics focus on Israel rather than on us. It's also our only real all in the region and produces a lot of really cool technology.
I'm not a Christian but I was raised one, so I know when the bible is being misquoted. I'll just take the third quote as one example. It's about an Assyrian king who was assaulting Jerusalem. What happens next? "And the LORD sent an angel, who annihilated all the fighting men and the leaders and officers in the camp of the Assyrian king. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace." (2 Chronicles 32:21) If anybody is interested in the others, you're free to google them and read them in context.
Now try and put this hadith in context for me: ""The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews , when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews." (related by al-Bukhari and Muslim)"
But a one state solution would simply make Israel yet another Arab state, and in 50 years it would be another Lebanon (just take a look at the demographics there over the last century). The solution is to return the West Bank to Jordan and Gaza to Egypt. There never was a "Palestine" anyway. Most in the west bank are culturally and ethnically Jordanians anyway, as those in Gaza are to Egypt. All you have to do to prove that is look at their names. Of course this will never, ever, happen because if Gaza were part of Egypt they couldn't find rockets all day long at Israel without getting their asses kicked all the way back to Cairo. There would also be no more "victims" with which to blame Israel for.
And Iran and North Korea *claim* to be all sorts of things too. So basically what you're saying is the more developed countries are, the more they should be criticized... when it come to the Jews, at least. Funny thing about Prejudice how nobody who is ever guesses or will admit they are.
Yes it fucking is. And the Hadith. The only difference between Islam and NAZIsm is about 1300 years just like the only difference between Mormonism and Scientology is about 150.
Palestinians (Arab Muslims of Egyptian and Jordanian descent) are not fucking ISRAELI citizens. Of course they don't have the same rights. We're not talking about Israeli Arabs, who have and always will have the same rights.
What gives the Israelis the right to dictate what the Arab Muslims of Egyptian descent in Gaza can have? The rockets fired every day do that well enough. Were gaza situated outside... say... Moscow, London, or Paris, they would have long since been invaded, if not outright carpet bombed, but since it's Jews on the receiving end of the rockets the whole world sits by and says "Well. They must have done something to deserve this!" The only thing the Israelis can do to stop the rockets is what they're doing right now, and I guarantee with what they give the Arab Muslims on a daily basis in terms of humanitarian aid, they would much rather the Arab Muslims learn to become self sufficient. And you know what? It works. The rockets, as frequent as they are, are nowhere near as bad as they were before the blockade. Is there the odd restriction? Sure there is. There is with any bureaucracy. Is it a war crime or a humanitarian disaster that the Palestinians don't get a crocodile? Fuck no, but people like you will complain to the UN about pittly shit like that before ever mentioning the rockets on Sderot and Ashdod and pretty much anywhere in the southern part of Israel.
As you point out, there are plenty of other countries that are of British creation. Why, then, are the Arab Muslims always hating on the one state that just happens to be about 80% Jewish. Could it possibly have anything to do with their holy book telling them the Jews are evil?
The criticism of Israel is not in itself antisemitic but when you criticize Israel for minor things while ignoring the atrocities committed everywhere else it can then become antisemitic in that your clear bias speaks to motive.
They were given that land, legally. The bible has nothing to do with it. Nobody would take the Jewish refugees after WWII and they certainly didn't want to go back to live with people who just months previously were sending them off to the gas actively or passively. They were more than happy to live along side the Palestinians (though they weren't called that back then). It was the Arab Muslims who attacked again and again, and in doing so lost more and more of their land. Do some religious Zionists claim the land to be holy. Sure. There are also lots of secular Zionists such as myself who think Israel is just a good idea.
Bomb Iran for fun? Is that what you seriously believe? Israel wants to Iran's hardened bunkers and provoke a response that will likely kill thousands if Israelis (Hezbollah), just for fun? I don't think I need to even justify that with a response.
And an embargo to prevent weapons from being used on civilians is hardly "collective punishment". The Palestinians are not starving. They are not dying like those in Syria or any number of other places, yet where do the Flotillas go? They go to Gaza, with passegers chanting "Remember Kyaybar, oh Jews, the Army of Muhammad is returning". Not through Ashdod, which Israel requested (so they could inspect), but directly, trying to bypass inspections and initiate a confrontation with the military in the hopes of being martyred (hardly the only passenger who said that, there are more videos).
The Palestinians are allowed to have anything they like except those things that could be used to create weapons or otherwise in a conflict with Israel. Why? Go visit southern Israel for a few days and you'll soon find out.
I'm running it right now and i'd have to agree. I tried to convince my partner not to install it on our shared box, but he's a windows developer and a huge fan of all things Microsoft. I have to say there are a few nicer things, mostly under the hood, like the ability to mount ISOs without daemon tools, but other than that the changes are mostly a hindrance to a smooth workflow. I don't like the idea of having a start screen. I can do less with tiles than I could with the start menu where, for example, a given frequently used application would show me a list of recent documents. That functionality is now gone. It wouldn't be so bad if the interface was actually useful but they actually removed functionality to make way for some theoretical "tablet computing" boom, which will probably never come. My guess is either MS is going to fire a whole lot of people and bring back the start menu in windows 9 or customers are going to get frustrated with this assholery and switch to Mac OS. Linux? I wish, but I can't see that happening.
Can we include Canada in that bargain, you antisemitic snow-back fuck. Israel did not ask to be attacked by their neighbors in 48, 68, and 73. The Jews did not ask to be labeled "Apes" and "Pigs" in the 7th century Mein Kampf read every day by Muslims worldwide. Just because two people are fighting and have been at it for a long time does not mean both sides are guilty. Sometimes there is an aggressor and a victim.
So you're basically talking about behavior modification. If you're doing it to yourself, I see nothing wrong with it. Good idea. If it's mandatory on the other hand, or people are in any way coerced into getting such done... Then there would be definite ethical issues.
I'm not sure i'd want something that would make everything else in life pale in comparison. Same reason i'd only do heroin if I was already terminally ill and close to death.
It's not IP an restriction that i'm talking about you fucking mouth breather or I would use a VPN (iTunes is not restricted geographically by IP, unless you make a repeated *purchases* from outside your area). The problem is I need to actually have a CREDIT CARD back in country A. That's considerably harder than simply taking a trip back to country A. Even if that's all it would take, I shouldn't need to do that. It's the principle of the thing. Anyway I had well over a terabyte of purchases. It would have to be a long vacation at your average hotel's connection speed.
What will I end up doing about this? I belong to a very good private tracker. I'll get the data back in a week or so, if not less. I'm not whining. I'm merely pointing out that iCloud has significant drawbacks for international users.
The n900 was a fantastic device. Problem is not many people bought it or were interested in what it could do. It was basically an ultra-compact linux box with a great camera and screen that happened to make phone calls. It was a product for a niche market. MeeGo for the n9 and n950 made up for those shortcomings and was worlds better for a phone and the device got fantastic reviews but by that time it was too late to save Nokia.
You best get used to it: if you want a table that runs linux proper, get yourself a nexus device. Canonical even has a one click installer for nexus 7. Given how good google is with making their devices open, I would expect support on other devices soon.
At 20 dollars a pill and few insurance companies willing to pay for it, few who are proscribed Marinol actually take it (instead they smoke or otherwise consume pot), which is my point. They cannot compete. I knew a guy who had intestinal cancer and was proscribed Marinol. Was he going to pay? Of course not. So he smoked. It was a better experience anyway considering Marinol is pure THC with no other cannabinoids in the mix (which reduce side effects).
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And it's the fact they can that's what's the problem with the walled garden. If i'm a private company selling an app to you directly I can tell Ravensburger to go fuck themselves and if they want their trademark torn up they're welcome to take me to court. If i'm a developer selling through Apple or another walled garden, then who the hell am I supposed to appeal to? I could sue Ravensburger for damages, but in the mean time what do I do?
In many western countries truth is an absolute defense. Where the US is unique is in the public figure doctrine (you need to prove actual malice as well as falsity when you're a public figure plaintiff). Also the onus is reversed in the US. The defendant is not automatically considered to be "guilty". It's up to the plaintiff to prove the defendant made a false statement of fact.
Perhaps because eye tracking could not move a remote camera (or else you could never look at anywhere but the center of the screen without indadvertedly shifting the whole image). It makes a lot of sense if you're building an avatar.
"People of the scripture" refers to Jews and Christians. What did you think that bit meant? So yeah. You proved my point. It does refer to Jews. I would never argue the Qur'an is harsh towards Jews alone, however almost no muslims follow the Qur'an alone. When you read what (Sahih) Bukhari and Muslim have to say about Jews, versus what they have to say about Christians, the vast bulk of the hate is directed towards the Jews. How else do you explain the Arab Muslim obsession with all things antisemitic, from the broadcast of a TV series on the Protocols of Zion to passengers on the Marmara chanting "Remember Khaybar, oh Jews, the Army of Muhammad is returning!" Surely they must be referring to a metaphorical army (as Islam is a religion of peace) and not wanton slaughter of Jews. Surely that mission of peace why Hesbollah names some of it's rockets "Khaibar". How about the Muhammad at Qurayza where he executed between 400 and 900 people who had already surrendered. How about the Jewish "wife" he raped the night he murdered her husband (thankfully she later poisoned the worthless fuck). What a peaceful guy. What a peaceful fucking religion.
i like your sig.
?The reason I didn't respond to all three was that I didn't want to do three times the work. Showing you misinformed once was sufficient in my mind and those who want to read the other quotes in context -- great. Jesus was a Jew, after all, so it's hard to say Christianity is anti-Semitic.
As for your accusations about the talmud... I read that often on Islamic and white supremacist sites. The problem is most Islamists and neo-facists get their information about Jews from the Qur'an or equally fallible sources. For example, the Quran says Jews are deceptive and so forth. Here is what the talmud actually says about deceiving gentiles.
As for the hadith I quoted that you think is only quoted by bigots. I'm glad you agree, since it's in Hamas's charter and regularly quoted by Fatah as well as more or less everywhere else in the middle east. I'm glad you think such is bigotry. Why, then, do you expect Israel to negotiate and make concessions to such bigots when they have made no shows of good faith? Stop the settlements? They did that for a year. Didn't help at all. Withdrew from Gaza, they turned it into a base to fire tens of thousands of rockets from. No. Not all Muslims are like this, but the fact remains this is part of their doctrine
Christianity is homophobic and sexist. Those Christians who claim to practice their religion but refuse to condemn homosexuality (and relegate women to second class citizenship in church) are indeed hypocrites, as are the Christians who ignore Jesus's commands to turn the other cheek when confronted with violence. So then are Muslims who remain peaceful despite the very clear calls in their religion to violent Jihad (literally, struggle, but used almost without exception to refer to warfare). Read Sura 9 and tell me the Qur'an is peaceful because clearly it's you who hasn't read one. This doesn't mean all Christians are homophobic or all Muslims are violent but when they behave in such manners I DO indeed blame the religion. They're merely following the immutable commandments set forth by their infallible sky fairy, and because of abrogation in Islam, it will never, ever, mature into something relatively benign like the other religions.
I'm saying it's pointless to create a "Palestine" when the citizens are culturally and ethically Jordanian and Egyptian. They were once Jordanian and Egyptian. Why can't they be again? As for the rest. I got stuff to do now. If you can't figure out for yourself why the Jews need a state of their own...
I'm speaking of religious demographics. There are over 50 Muslim Arab states. Nobody calls this racist or bigoted, despite the fact Islam is often, by law, the only religion and apostates face the death penalty. In Israel, such is not the case and even Scientology opening a new mindfuckery in Tel Aviv barely raised an eyebrow. Yet you call Israel's desire to maintain a Jewish majority so that they can remain the one Jewish state disgusting. Again. Remember what I said about selective criticism.
As far as there never being a Palestine. It's a fact. Tell me who was the first Palestinians president? Ruler? Name a famous Palestinian dish. What was the Palestinians flag? The national anthem? You won't find any of these because Palestine never existed as a country. You have Jordanians, Egyptians, and a smattering of others who like to call themselves "Palestinians" and talk about a "Palestine" because it's politically convenient.
Because Israel is a honeypot -- fundamentalist lunatics focus on Israel rather than on us. It's also our only real all in the region and produces a lot of really cool technology.
I'm not a Christian but I was raised one, so I know when the bible is being misquoted. I'll just take the third quote as one example. It's about an Assyrian king who was assaulting Jerusalem. What happens next? "And the LORD sent an angel, who annihilated all the fighting men and the leaders and officers in the camp of the Assyrian king. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace." (2 Chronicles 32:21) If anybody is interested in the others, you're free to google them and read them in context.
Now try and put this hadith in context for me: ""The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews , when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews." (related by al-Bukhari and Muslim)"
But a one state solution would simply make Israel yet another Arab state, and in 50 years it would be another Lebanon (just take a look at the demographics there over the last century). The solution is to return the West Bank to Jordan and Gaza to Egypt. There never was a "Palestine" anyway. Most in the west bank are culturally and ethnically Jordanians anyway, as those in Gaza are to Egypt. All you have to do to prove that is look at their names. Of course this will never, ever, happen because if Gaza were part of Egypt they couldn't find rockets all day long at Israel without getting their asses kicked all the way back to Cairo. There would also be no more "victims" with which to blame Israel for.
And Iran and North Korea *claim* to be all sorts of things too. So basically what you're saying is the more developed countries are, the more they should be criticized... when it come to the Jews, at least. Funny thing about Prejudice how nobody who is ever guesses or will admit they are.
Yes it fucking is. And the Hadith. The only difference between Islam and NAZIsm is about 1300 years just like the only difference between Mormonism and Scientology is about 150.
Palestinians (Arab Muslims of Egyptian and Jordanian descent) are not fucking ISRAELI citizens. Of course they don't have the same rights. We're not talking about Israeli Arabs, who have and always will have the same rights.
What gives the Israelis the right to dictate what the Arab Muslims of Egyptian descent in Gaza can have? The rockets fired every day do that well enough. Were gaza situated outside... say... Moscow, London, or Paris, they would have long since been invaded, if not outright carpet bombed, but since it's Jews on the receiving end of the rockets the whole world sits by and says "Well. They must have done something to deserve this!" The only thing the Israelis can do to stop the rockets is what they're doing right now, and I guarantee with what they give the Arab Muslims on a daily basis in terms of humanitarian aid, they would much rather the Arab Muslims learn to become self sufficient. And you know what? It works. The rockets, as frequent as they are, are nowhere near as bad as they were before the blockade. Is there the odd restriction? Sure there is. There is with any bureaucracy. Is it a war crime or a humanitarian disaster that the Palestinians don't get a crocodile? Fuck no, but people like you will complain to the UN about pittly shit like that before ever mentioning the rockets on Sderot and Ashdod and pretty much anywhere in the southern part of Israel.
As you point out, there are plenty of other countries that are of British creation. Why, then, are the Arab Muslims always hating on the one state that just happens to be about 80% Jewish. Could it possibly have anything to do with their holy book telling them the Jews are evil?
The criticism of Israel is not in itself antisemitic but when you criticize Israel for minor things while ignoring the atrocities committed everywhere else it can then become antisemitic in that your clear bias speaks to motive.
They were given that land, legally. The bible has nothing to do with it. Nobody would take the Jewish refugees after WWII and they certainly didn't want to go back to live with people who just months previously were sending them off to the gas actively or passively. They were more than happy to live along side the Palestinians (though they weren't called that back then). It was the Arab Muslims who attacked again and again, and in doing so lost more and more of their land. Do some religious Zionists claim the land to be holy. Sure. There are also lots of secular Zionists such as myself who think Israel is just a good idea.
Bomb Iran for fun? Is that what you seriously believe? Israel wants to Iran's hardened bunkers and provoke a response that will likely kill thousands if Israelis (Hezbollah), just for fun? I don't think I need to even justify that with a response.
And an embargo to prevent weapons from being used on civilians is hardly "collective punishment". The Palestinians are not starving. They are not dying like those in Syria or any number of other places, yet where do the Flotillas go? They go to Gaza, with passegers chanting "Remember Kyaybar, oh Jews, the Army of Muhammad is returning". Not through Ashdod, which Israel requested (so they could inspect), but directly, trying to bypass inspections and initiate a confrontation with the military in the hopes of being martyred (hardly the only passenger who said that, there are more videos).
The Palestinians are allowed to have anything they like except those things that could be used to create weapons or otherwise in a conflict with Israel. Why? Go visit southern Israel for a few days and you'll soon find out.
I'm running it right now and i'd have to agree. I tried to convince my partner not to install it on our shared box, but he's a windows developer and a huge fan of all things Microsoft. I have to say there are a few nicer things, mostly under the hood, like the ability to mount ISOs without daemon tools, but other than that the changes are mostly a hindrance to a smooth workflow. I don't like the idea of having a start screen. I can do less with tiles than I could with the start menu where, for example, a given frequently used application would show me a list of recent documents. That functionality is now gone. It wouldn't be so bad if the interface was actually useful but they actually removed functionality to make way for some theoretical "tablet computing" boom, which will probably never come. My guess is either MS is going to fire a whole lot of people and bring back the start menu in windows 9 or customers are going to get frustrated with this assholery and switch to Mac OS. Linux? I wish, but I can't see that happening.
Can we include Canada in that bargain, you antisemitic snow-back fuck. Israel did not ask to be attacked by their neighbors in 48, 68, and 73. The Jews did not ask to be labeled "Apes" and "Pigs" in the 7th century Mein Kampf read every day by Muslims worldwide. Just because two people are fighting and have been at it for a long time does not mean both sides are guilty. Sometimes there is an aggressor and a victim.
So you're basically talking about behavior modification. If you're doing it to yourself, I see nothing wrong with it. Good idea. If it's mandatory on the other hand, or people are in any way coerced into getting such done... Then there would be definite ethical issues.
I'm not sure i'd want something that would make everything else in life pale in comparison. Same reason i'd only do heroin if I was already terminally ill and close to death.
It's not IP an restriction that i'm talking about you fucking mouth breather or I would use a VPN (iTunes is not restricted geographically by IP, unless you make a repeated *purchases* from outside your area). The problem is I need to actually have a CREDIT CARD back in country A. That's considerably harder than simply taking a trip back to country A. Even if that's all it would take, I shouldn't need to do that. It's the principle of the thing. Anyway I had well over a terabyte of purchases. It would have to be a long vacation at your average hotel's connection speed.
What will I end up doing about this? I belong to a very good private tracker. I'll get the data back in a week or so, if not less. I'm not whining. I'm merely pointing out that iCloud has significant drawbacks for international users.
The n900 was a fantastic device. Problem is not many people bought it or were interested in what it could do. It was basically an ultra-compact linux box with a great camera and screen that happened to make phone calls. It was a product for a niche market. MeeGo for the n9 and n950 made up for those shortcomings and was worlds better for a phone and the device got fantastic reviews but by that time it was too late to save Nokia.
You best get used to it: if you want a table that runs linux proper, get yourself a nexus device. Canonical even has a one click installer for nexus 7. Given how good google is with making their devices open, I would expect support on other devices soon.
At 20 dollars a pill and few insurance companies willing to pay for it, few who are proscribed Marinol actually take it (instead they smoke or otherwise consume pot), which is my point. They cannot compete. I knew a guy who had intestinal cancer and was proscribed Marinol. Was he going to pay? Of course not. So he smoked. It was a better experience anyway considering Marinol is pure THC with no other cannabinoids in the mix (which reduce side effects).