All religions are intolerant of each other, because each religion defines a mutually-exclusive lock on a God they believe exists (or in atheism's case, doesn't exist).
That is blatantly not true. Some religions do believe that their religion is meant for all of mankind (they are universalists). Those religions are a problem to others. Some religions however, believe that there are multiple ways to get to know God (or similar), and therefor don't see a point in trying to convince other people to believe their way (they are particularists). Some religions even don't care if other people know God as long as they behave well.
In the interest of not clouding the point (by the the smoke of a flame war) I won't name any religions that belong in any of the categories, but I'd like to point out that it is a floating scale. Some universalist religions have moderated their stance in the face of their neighbours not being to happy with their pushy attitude (or by becoming fat and tired, whatever).
This is really about Google's conquest of email and ultimately, IMO, the demise of email. I already do not send mail to gmail accounts, nor do I accept email from gmail users.
Yep. This is the end of email as we know it. No more mail from AC. The End.
Microsoft will not enforce their patents, if they have any that they think undercut Linux, not because there is any real defense (there is not) but because they will wait until Linux is well-enough established that the patent negotations will go smoothly.
Patent licenses are a large planned revenue stream for Microsoft, and they are only possible when there is a large captive public of infringers who keep infringing. Thus, Linux growth is actually good for Microsoft, seen from this point of view.
If you are aware of a patent infringement, and do not act against the infringement in a timely manner, would your complaint be accepted by the courts if you came along years later?
Well, there's an easy final solution, it's just that (almost)nobody wants to nuke the entire region! The whole mess is nothing a little geocide can't fix!
You are absolutely right. A geocide is so much more final than a plain old 20th century genocide.
How will organizing the shelves help when you're in the middle of a bookstore and are wondering if you already own a certain book? I can't remember all several thousand books I own - having a digital reference on my PDA is invaluable.
No, it is not invaluable. It is five or ten bucks, depending on what book you are looking at. If you can't remember having read (or owning) a book, by all means, buy it and read it again. It will be as good as new! Literally!
Japan is a perfect example of the opposite. They have a NEGATIVE birthrate because the affluence of their society has led many to chose not to have children.
Negative birthrate? Like in children crawling up into the womb again, or what?
Remember in the 70's and early 80's when West Germany was fighting the Red Army Fraction and collaborating palestinian terrorists?
Yes, indeed, the mistake the Germans made was to fight the Rote Arme Fraktion and collaborate with the palestinian terrorists. This is one of the reasons we are in the mess we are today. After the massacre in Munich the three surviving terrorists were captured to be brought to trial. To save itself from trouble with the Arab world the Germans agreed with palestian terrorists to feign a hijacking of a Lufthansa aircraft, after which the Munich survivors were released.
The failure to act against emerging international terrorism in the 70's proved that it worked and encouraged more.
Most acts of violence (terrorism is defined by those in power) are driven by fear, anger power and greed. The people at the top are generally driven by power and greed whereas the people at the bottom are generally driven by fear and anger. They are people just like you and me that have been driven into situations where they feel that their acts are their only way out.
The countries producing terrorists currently have perhaps been ill-treated by "the West", but then a lot of other countries have been much worse treated. West Africa lost large parts of its population to Atlantic slave trade, what the Belgians did in Congo is quite unspeakable, the sufferings of the people in Indochina due to colonial wars was pretty bad etc. By these standards, countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Yemen, Egypt etc got away very lightly. It is instructive to compare India and the Middle East/North Africa region. Both old state bearing cultures, similar history of subjugation by Western powers, decolonialized at about the same time. Huge social inequalities and ethnic tensions. Do the Indians set the world ablaze? Wouldn't the Vietnamese have much more reason to want to get back at the US than any Moroccan? And so on.
No, it is a questions what you want to do with your problems. We in the west didn't make these people terrorists. They choose to become terrorists.
We could certainly be a little bit more helpful to the rest of the world, but we are not making it a better place by absolving other people of their personal responsibilities.
Evolution involves the death of weaker individuals before they can breed. With soap (the yardstick of civilisation), surgery, rescue helicopters, dentistry, wheelchairs etc, weaker individuals aren't killed off so easily before they can breed.
The selection criteria change. That's all. People who can't walk aren't disfavoured anymore, instead other traits are disfavoured, such as:
* liking hamburgers * being prone to drinking and driving * fancying some good old rioting
Also, natural selection doesn't stop when you breed. Your genes may still remove themselves from the gene pool after having reproduced since kids are not all that independent.
You could of remove your genes from the pool after having reproduced too. If yoru childrens don't reproduce, your genes don't live on. And your children are highly dependent on you for a long time (regardless of their own genes).
When all other constraints are equal, the ninety second rule is a good test. If I get the general idea how to work with a framework in a minute and a half, it's probably ok. I use this rule mostly for my hobby projects, since the main constraint is time. In professional projects I can usually allocate more time to learn about different frameworks (but the result is often similar to the ninety second rule, so the remaining two days spent on evaluating something is just so that I can say something more intelligent than "Well, I didn't get the other one, from the front page of their web site").
At university there was another post-grad who, at her dissertation, got the question why she used one Monte Carlo (simulation program) over the other. "Well", she said, "the first ones didn't return my mails in a timely manner, and the other ones, well, they are Chinese" (she is Chinese herself). There's a lot to it. Clarity is key.
Sure, people like Bin Laden have money, but he's not the one flying himself into buildings, is he? It's the poor zealots at the bottom doing that. Of course, being poor isn't an excuse for acts of terrorism - but when you live in a little desert shithole you might not have much to live for (and the Bin Ladens can find those that don't easily enough). If you don't appreciate being destitute, the image of an afterlife where everything is provided will seem more, well, heavenly. More to the point you're probably going to be pretty receptive to someone pointing out how rich "those westerners" are compared to you. And of course these same people (the ones that live in the same country as you, ie: the ones that have your ear most of the time) are never ever going to just "point out" how well off they are.
Actually, many of the islamist suicide terrorist we have seen have been fairly well off. Perhaps not billionaires, but definitely well-educated wellfed and decently paid middle class people. That goes for the 9/11 bunch, the London bombers as well as Palestinians.
As for poverty being the root of fundamentalism, I see churches in poor communities all the damn time, and not anywhere near so much as near where I live. Of course, that's anecdotal, so you might not believe me.
Oh, I believe you. But are they fundamentalist? You seem to equate religion with fundamentalism.
What you're (conveniently) missing is that GDP is an average - you only need a few very, very rich people at the top (eg: oil sheiks or what have you) and you can counterbalance the large quantities of very poor people at the bottom.
Even so, I venture to say there are fewer (in relative terms) Saudis below the poverty line than there are Indians (people in India). By far.
Allah can be used as part of ordinary names in arabic, such as in "Abdallah" (Servant of God). I can understand that banning Callahan was an unintended side effect. But is banning the common moslem man's name Abdallah respectful of moslems?
The key difference between Christian fundamentalists and Islamic fundamentalists right now is that Christain fundamentalists typically have a pretty decent quality of life, and Islamic fundamentalists don't.[...]If you took all of the wealth in the US and Europe and handed it over to the Middle East, I have a feeling that you'd soon see an awful lot of poor, desperate, angry Christians burning flags in the street while a bunch of well-fed, well-clothed Muslim families watched from their living rooms and wondered what in the hell could possibly make those Christian lunatics so rabid.
The wealth of the US and Europe is handed over every day to the Middle East. At about $60 a barrel. Many of your top-brand islamic fundamentalists their pockets with your money. In fact, the GDP per capita of Saudi Arabia is $12900, that is 13 times that of Mali ($1000), a peaceful stable secular democracy. The Malinese are (mostly) moslem, but very nonfundamentalist. If you want a poor Christian country, there is Malawi ($700). Comparably quiet.
No, being the haves or have nots doesn't seem to be the explanation. Try again.
I am not a party in this, but are you sure? Are you sure that the christian and moslem gods are one one and the same? The message to the followers seem to be a bit different.
On the contrary, even if Bush were impeached this very moment, based on the results of the first five years he'd still be by far the worst President the United States ever had.
That is of course a matter of opinion and can as such not be falsified. However, James Buchanan, hurling the United States into civil war, ultimately killing some 560 000 of his own people, pretty much tops my list.
I know it's still a limitation, however it's not DRM related. Actually the problem is with the sync algorithm. Consider this: you add "Metallica.mp3" to PC A'a library and another unrelated "Metallica.mp3" to PC B'a library. After that you sync with PC A, then sync with PC B and then delete the mp3 on PC A and then to the both syncs again. What should happen?
This is a very difficult question, because there is not one anwser to it. So they chose the obvious solution: sync works with a single copy iTunes, however you can upload songs from as many PCs as you want if you disable sync.
It is not a difficult question: If PC A:Metallica.mp3 is meant to be different from PC B:Metallica.mp3 they should be treated as if they were different files, that is before you delete PC A:Metallica.mp3 you should have two Metallica.mp3 in all places (.
Actually, synchronizing music collections is somewhat different from rsyncing your home directory: Once ripped, you don't edit your music files (at least not insite in your music collection), so you can assume that two music files that have the same name whose content don't match are different.
If it was actually in the administration plans, the mandate would be such as it was in the 60's, to get far enough into the program that it could NOT be cancelled at the expiry of the 8 year term, to much already invested.
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What I wouldn't give for a Multi-Cultural class that actually studied different cultures instead of how the white Anglo-saxon male has subjugated them.
How about a field trip? I went to West Africa (Senegal and Mali) for four weeks last winter, and while there's a lot to learn, it gave me more understanding -- and more hope -- about Africa than a lifetime of reading news papers and watching the nine o'clock news.
It was not my first trip to the third world, but it gave me a lot of perspective on things like islam, ethnic strife, development, democracy, desert spreading, colonialism, poverty etc etc. It was a lot different from what you see on tv. Perhaps the most encouraging thing was to see that Mali, the fifth poorest country in the world, was a functioning society. They lacked many basic amenities, but it was not like they were laying in the streets dying all covered in flies. And it is a lot different being told this and seeing it, and discovering the differences and similarities between different societies.
It gives hope, before I sort of subscribed to the idea that Africa was doomed and just sinking lower and lower into poverty. The picture you get from Western media. It is not true. There is a lot happening, and I do believe that e.g. Senegal will be a new "African tiger" not too long from now, pulling with it neighbouring countries.
There is a lot to be said to substantiate my beliefs, but the best way is really going there. And, use public transports, you learn a lot by discussing politics with your neighbour in a bush taxi.
The digital cameras they are coming out with cost an arm and a leg, and they only have a one-year warranty. I call them disposable cameras.
Any camera sold in the EU has to have a two-year warranty. I would be surprised if they cherry-pick the camera to sell in the EU and give ROW the tail end of the distribution, but it is possible. Either way, my 10D is three years old and still working. If it breaks, I just assume that I can pay to get it serviced.
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All religions are intolerant of each other, because each religion defines a mutually-exclusive lock on a God they believe exists (or in atheism's case, doesn't exist).
That is blatantly not true. Some religions do believe that their religion is meant for all of mankind (they are universalists). Those religions are a problem to others. Some religions however, believe that there are multiple ways to get to know God (or similar), and therefor don't see a point in trying to convince other people to believe their way (they are particularists). Some religions even don't care if other people know God as long as they behave well.
In the interest of not clouding the point (by the the smoke of a flame war) I won't name any religions that belong in any of the categories, but I'd like to point out that it is a floating scale. Some universalist religions have moderated their stance in the face of their neighbours not being to happy with their pushy attitude (or by becoming fat and tired, whatever).
And exactly what is the connection to the Rothschilds?
This is really about Google's conquest of email and ultimately, IMO, the demise of email. I already do not send mail to gmail accounts, nor do I accept email from gmail users.
Yep. This is the end of email as we know it. No more mail from AC. The End.
Microsoft will not enforce their patents, if they have any that they think undercut Linux, not because there is any real defense (there is not) but because they will wait until Linux is well-enough established that the patent negotations will go smoothly.
Patent licenses are a large planned revenue stream for Microsoft, and they are only possible when there is a large captive public of infringers who keep infringing. Thus, Linux growth is actually good for Microsoft, seen from this point of view.
If you are aware of a patent infringement, and do not act against the infringement in a timely manner, would your complaint be accepted by the courts if you came along years later?
Well, there's an easy final solution, it's just that (almost)nobody wants to nuke the entire region! The whole mess is nothing a little geocide can't fix!
You are absolutely right. A geocide is so much more final than a plain old 20th century genocide.
How will organizing the shelves help when you're in the middle of a bookstore and are wondering if you already own a certain book? I can't remember all several thousand books I own - having a digital reference on my PDA is invaluable.
No, it is not invaluable. It is five or ten bucks, depending on what book you are looking at. If you can't remember having read (or owning) a book, by all means, buy it and read it again. It will be as good as new! Literally!
Japan is a perfect example of the opposite. They have a NEGATIVE birthrate because the affluence of their society has led many to chose not to have children.
Negative birthrate? Like in children crawling up into the womb again, or what?
Remember in the 70's and early 80's when West Germany was fighting the Red Army Fraction and collaborating palestinian terrorists?
Yes, indeed, the mistake the Germans made was to fight the Rote Arme Fraktion and collaborate with the palestinian terrorists. This is one of the reasons we are in the mess we are today. After the massacre in Munich the three surviving terrorists were captured to be brought to trial. To save itself from trouble with the Arab world the Germans agreed with palestian terrorists to feign a hijacking of a Lufthansa aircraft, after which the Munich survivors were released.
The failure to act against emerging international terrorism in the 70's proved that it worked and encouraged more.
Most acts of violence (terrorism is defined by those in power) are driven by fear, anger power and greed. The people at the top are generally driven by power and greed whereas the people at the bottom are generally driven by fear and anger. They are people just like you and me that have been driven into situations where they feel that their acts are their only way out.
The countries producing terrorists currently have perhaps been ill-treated by "the West", but then a lot of other countries have been much worse treated. West Africa lost large parts of its population to Atlantic slave trade, what the Belgians did in Congo is quite unspeakable, the sufferings of the people in Indochina due to colonial wars was pretty bad etc. By these standards, countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Yemen, Egypt etc got away very lightly. It is instructive to compare India and the Middle East/North Africa region. Both old state bearing cultures, similar history of subjugation by Western powers, decolonialized at about the same time. Huge social inequalities and ethnic tensions. Do the Indians set the world ablaze? Wouldn't the Vietnamese have much more reason to want to get back at the US than any Moroccan? And so on.
No, it is a questions what you want to do with your problems. We in the west didn't make these people terrorists. They choose to become terrorists.
We could certainly be a little bit more helpful to the rest of the world, but we are not making it a better place by absolving other people of their personal responsibilities.
"Coffe is a slow poison; it has to be, I have drunk eight cups a day for fifty years, and I'm still not dead." -- Voltaire
Evolution involves the death of weaker individuals before they can breed. With soap (the yardstick of civilisation), surgery, rescue helicopters, dentistry, wheelchairs etc, weaker individuals aren't killed off so easily before they can breed.
The selection criteria change. That's all. People who can't walk aren't disfavoured anymore, instead other traits are disfavoured, such as:
* liking hamburgers
* being prone to drinking and driving
* fancying some good old rioting
Also, natural selection doesn't stop when you breed. Your genes may still remove themselves from the gene pool after having reproduced since kids are not all that independent.
You could of remove your genes from the pool after having reproduced too. If yoru childrens don't reproduce, your genes don't live on. And your children are highly dependent on you for a long time (regardless of their own genes).
and much more to the point getting ordinary spray paint and paint the offending phone. Guaranteed to interrupt that conversation!
It seems it only shows houses that are for sale:
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When all other constraints are equal, the ninety second rule is a good test. If I get the general idea how to work with a framework in a minute and a half, it's probably ok. I use this rule mostly for my hobby projects, since the main constraint is time. In professional projects I can usually allocate more time to learn about different frameworks (but the result is often similar to the ninety second rule, so the remaining two days spent on evaluating something is just so that I can say something more intelligent than "Well, I didn't get the other one, from the front page of their web site").
At university there was another post-grad who, at her dissertation, got the question why she used one Monte Carlo (simulation program) over the other. "Well", she said, "the first ones didn't return my mails in a timely manner, and the other ones, well, they are Chinese" (she is Chinese herself). There's a lot to it. Clarity is key.
For instance, electromagnetic radiation has been known to put funny ideas in peoples' heads.
Sure, people like Bin Laden have money, but he's not the one flying himself into buildings, is he? It's the poor zealots at the bottom doing that. Of course, being poor isn't an excuse for acts of terrorism - but when you live in a little desert shithole you might not have much to live for (and the Bin Ladens can find those that don't easily enough). If you don't appreciate being destitute, the image of an afterlife where everything is provided will seem more, well, heavenly. More to the point you're probably going to be pretty receptive to someone pointing out how rich "those westerners" are compared to you. And of course these same people (the ones that live in the same country as you, ie: the ones that have your ear most of the time) are never ever going to just "point out" how well off they are.
Actually, many of the islamist suicide terrorist we have seen have been fairly well off. Perhaps not billionaires, but definitely well-educated wellfed and decently paid middle class people. That goes for the 9/11 bunch, the London bombers as well as Palestinians.
As for poverty being the root of fundamentalism, I see churches in poor communities all the damn time, and not anywhere near so much as near where I live. Of course, that's anecdotal, so you might not believe me.
Oh, I believe you. But are they fundamentalist? You seem to equate religion with fundamentalism.
What you're (conveniently) missing is that GDP is an average - you only need a few very, very rich people at the top (eg: oil sheiks or what have you) and you can counterbalance the large quantities of very poor people at the bottom.
Even so, I venture to say there are fewer (in relative terms) Saudis below the poverty line than there are Indians (people in India). By far.
Allah can be used as part of ordinary names in arabic, such as in "Abdallah" (Servant of God). I can understand that banning Callahan was an unintended side effect. But is banning the common moslem man's name Abdallah respectful of moslems?
The key difference between Christian fundamentalists and Islamic fundamentalists right now is that Christain fundamentalists typically have a pretty decent quality of life, and Islamic fundamentalists don't.[...]If you took all of the wealth in the US and Europe and handed it over to the Middle East, I have a feeling that you'd soon see an awful lot of poor, desperate, angry Christians burning flags in the street while a bunch of well-fed, well-clothed Muslim families watched from their living rooms and wondered what in the hell could possibly make those Christian lunatics so rabid.
The wealth of the US and Europe is handed over every day to the Middle East. At about $60 a barrel. Many of your top-brand islamic fundamentalists their pockets with your money. In fact, the GDP per capita of Saudi Arabia is $12900, that is 13 times that of Mali ($1000), a peaceful stable secular democracy. The Malinese are (mostly) moslem, but very nonfundamentalist. If you want a poor Christian country, there is Malawi ($700). Comparably quiet.
No, being the haves or have nots doesn't seem to be the explanation. Try again.
can someone please tell him it's the same god
I am not a party in this, but are you sure? Are you sure that the christian and moslem gods are one one and the same? The message to the followers seem to be a bit different.
On the contrary, even if Bush were impeached this very moment, based on the results of the first five years he'd still be by far the worst President the United States ever had.
That is of course a matter of opinion and can as such not be falsified. However, James Buchanan, hurling the United States into civil war, ultimately killing some 560 000 of his own people, pretty much tops my list.
I know it's still a limitation, however it's not DRM related. Actually the problem is with the sync algorithm. Consider this: you add "Metallica.mp3" to PC A'a library and another unrelated "Metallica.mp3" to PC B'a library. After that you sync with PC A, then sync with PC B and then delete the mp3 on PC A and then to the both syncs again. What should happen?
This is a very difficult question, because there is not one anwser to it. So they chose the obvious solution: sync works with a single copy iTunes, however you can upload songs from as many PCs as you want if you disable sync.
It is not a difficult question: If PC A:Metallica.mp3 is meant to be different from PC B:Metallica.mp3 they should be treated as if they were different files, that is before you delete PC A:Metallica.mp3 you should have two Metallica.mp3 in all places (.
Actually, synchronizing music collections is somewhat different from rsyncing your home directory: Once ripped, you don't edit your music files (at least not insite in your music collection), so you can assume that two music files that have the same name whose content don't match are different.
If it was actually in the administration plans, the mandate would be such as it was in the 60's, to get far enough into the program that it could NOT be cancelled at the expiry of the 8 year term, to much already invested.
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The dynamics of sunken costs are interesting, but not fool-proof. Consider the SSC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Sup
What I wouldn't give for a Multi-Cultural class that actually studied different cultures instead of how the white Anglo-saxon male has subjugated them.
How about a field trip? I went to West Africa (Senegal and Mali) for four weeks last winter, and while there's a lot to learn, it gave me more understanding -- and more hope -- about Africa than a lifetime of reading news papers and watching the nine o'clock news.
It was not my first trip to the third world, but it gave me a lot of perspective on things like islam, ethnic strife, development, democracy, desert spreading, colonialism, poverty etc etc. It was a lot different from what you see on tv. Perhaps the most encouraging thing was to see that Mali, the fifth poorest country in the world, was a functioning society. They lacked many basic amenities, but it was not like they were laying in the streets dying all covered in flies. And it is a lot different being told this and seeing it, and discovering the differences and similarities between different societies.
It gives hope, before I sort of subscribed to the idea that Africa was doomed and just sinking lower and lower into poverty. The picture you get from Western media. It is not true. There is a lot happening, and I do believe that e.g. Senegal will be a new "African tiger" not too long from now, pulling with it neighbouring countries.
There is a lot to be said to substantiate my beliefs, but the best way is really going there. And, use public transports, you learn a lot by discussing politics with your neighbour in a bush taxi.
The digital cameras they are coming out with cost an arm and a leg, and they only have a one-year warranty. I call them disposable cameras.
Any camera sold in the EU has to have a two-year warranty. I would be surprised if they cherry-pick the camera to sell in the EU and give ROW the tail end of the distribution, but it is possible. Either way, my 10D is three years old and still working. If it breaks, I just assume that I can pay to get it serviced.