If you even bothered going to any of the links you would have noticed the well presented arguments, not lists of Islamic terrorism victims.
Imams preach hatred and violence, and when their followers take the sword (bomb) and finally join the war against infidels, it's somehow the USA's fault? Doesn't compute. I say again: if you took a little time you might start to see how Islamic terrorism is not the fault of the west, it's the fault of Islam.
Not everyone who kills is a fanatic. The cop who shoots the murder suspect while arresting him is not a fanatic. The soldier who kills an innocent Iraqi during a fire fight with terrorists is not a fanatic. Get it?
A fanatic is someone who is beyond reason. Their cult programming is doing the thinking for them.
Such is the state of affairs with Islamic terrorism. Modern Islamic literalism runs much deeper than its Christian, Jewish, or Hindu analogs. Christianity had 300 years of losing all the arguments before doctrinally approved violence was abolished, and relegated to host states.
There's no mainstream school in Islam today that has denounced violent jihad against non-believers. The hardliners have Mohammed and the Qur'an on their side.
I don't hate Muslims. I hate that in over 1,300 years Muslims have been unable to seperate violence from their doctrine.
The root of all evil is religion itself. People who believe in god are by definition irrational and suggestible.
Yet when do hear about Christian, Hindu, or Jewish fanatics flying planes into buildings? We don't. Because those religions don't have doctrinal mandates to treat non-believers with violence. Read the Qur'an and learn. Saying "all religions are the same" shows your reluctance to find the glaring differences between them.
That is probably one of the bigger reasons Microsoft will stay entrenched
I'd argue that is the reason they are being un-entrenched. They've geared the default setup of windows for the lowest common denominator, and in the process opened it up to security breaches.
Spy- and Mal-ware continues to grow, and when joe-dell-pc hears from enough people that switching to Linux or osX will stop the problems, eventually he's gonna switch.
In other words, I'm supposing that security/spyware/malware is the largest factor for people switching from windows to something else. Your friends aren't in this category because they know how to keep clean: no incentive to switch. Users with very low skills just hear, "Microsoft is to blame for you getting that virus because windows isn't secure. Switch OS dude."
Both saddam and bush killed lots of innocent civillians in order to subjugate a country to their will. They both faced insurgencies and they both reacted with obcene amounts of violence, torture, massacres and mass bombing inside of cities.
The intent of Bush was to stop a murderous dictator from terrorizing his own people and neighboring states, not to subjugate and rule. Saddam had the intent of brutulizing his own citizens and spreading terror. World of difference in intent.
Israels's intent is to live peacefully while surrounded by Arab states bent on its destruction.
The root of most of this evil can be found in the Qur'an, and the violent examples given us by Muhammed. Islam is not a religion of peace, and it's Imams and Mullahs are busy fomenting hatred and violence by citing verses and traditions that doctrinally mandate and approve of violence towards non-believers.
Wars involve shifting borders. The Arabs started the 1967 war, thinking that they would easily defeat Israel. They were smacked down, and lost land. In 1973 Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack against Israel, but failed to regain the territories lost in 1967.
That land was only "seized" in the since that the aggressors lost it. Nice try though, painting the turbulent formation of a nation with such a small brush: the history of Israel goes back further than the word "Palestine" has been around.
Funny how the only countries afraid of Israel are the ones who attacked it multiple times in the past and soundly lost. What you call fear, I call healthy grasp on reality.
Personally, i think your being far too paranoid here -
Spoken like someone who's never had an identity theft problem. You probably don't know anyone either, who's ever had their identity stolen.
Private personal data gets compromised daily. That the gp doesn't want to put private financial data online, due to the risk, doesn't mean he's a tin-foil hat wearing paranoic: it means he is smart and prudent. I think you still have some learning to do about how unfair, evil, and careless people can be who work for the companies/institutions you trust.
Don't bother trying to explain. Mozilla doesn't need obtuse and dishonest marketeers when there are plenty of fanboys willing to shill for free.
FireFox has had memory management issues from version.8. For many people, those problems haven't gone away. Mozilla is trying to fix this, but that doesn't stop fanboys from going around claiming the problem has already been fixed when it hasn't.
Pheonix, I believe you still have memory problems, because I do too. Never can I go more than about 3-4 hours without restarting FF. The new version still has the problems, and now it takes about 3 times longer to load up:(
And of course this is totally irrelevant to the issue of copyright infringement/reform.
If you downloaded the music for free, and never purchased it, then you're breaking the law, pure and simple. Tangential facts like the cost of production, marketing, and profits, have no bearing on copyright infringement.
I download music for free, without paying for it. What I don't do is try and justify my actions by bringing in tangential issues. I justify my actions on the grounds of civil disobedience.
I have no moral qualms about my actions seeing as how corporate inspired legislation has already rendered this sphere of the law morally sterile: the spirit of justice has left the building.
Download free music, but don't think that the current law offers you any justification, it doesn't. Tired excuses like 'CDs cost $20!' and 'the artist isn't even making much of that money' hold no water.
Slashdot Mirror
Imams preach hatred and violence, and when their followers take the sword (bomb) and finally join the war against infidels, it's somehow the USA's fault? Doesn't compute. I say again: if you took a little time you might start to see how Islamic terrorism is not the fault of the west, it's the fault of Islam.
A fanatic is someone who is beyond reason. Their cult programming is doing the thinking for them.
Such is the state of affairs with Islamic terrorism. Modern Islamic literalism runs much deeper than its Christian, Jewish, or Hindu analogs. Christianity had 300 years of losing all the arguments before doctrinally approved violence was abolished, and relegated to host states.
There's no mainstream school in Islam today that has denounced violent jihad against non-believers. The hardliners have Mohammed and the Qur'an on their side.
I don't hate Muslims. I hate that in over 1,300 years Muslims have been unable to seperate violence from their doctrine.
JihadWatch.org
FaithFreedom.org
An thread at ESR's blog
Spy- and Mal-ware continues to grow, and when joe-dell-pc hears from enough people that switching to Linux or osX will stop the problems, eventually he's gonna switch.
In other words, I'm supposing that security/spyware/malware is the largest factor for people switching from windows to something else. Your friends aren't in this category because they know how to keep clean: no incentive to switch. Users with very low skills just hear, "Microsoft is to blame for you getting that virus because windows isn't secure. Switch OS dude."
Israels's intent is to live peacefully while surrounded by Arab states bent on its destruction.
The root of most of this evil can be found in the Qur'an, and the violent examples given us by Muhammed. Islam is not a religion of peace, and it's Imams and Mullahs are busy fomenting hatred and violence by citing verses and traditions that doctrinally mandate and approve of violence towards non-believers.
Israel will see peace when palestinian's lay down their explosives.
That land was only "seized" in the since that the aggressors lost it. Nice try though, painting the turbulent formation of a nation with such a small brush: the history of Israel goes back further than the word "Palestine" has been around.
A glaring design error. Please fix!
They were censoring search results and denying it. Hypocrisy pure and simple.
Funny how the only countries afraid of Israel are the ones who attacked it multiple times in the past and soundly lost. What you call fear, I call healthy grasp on reality.
Osama, Saddam, and Kim jung il are most definitely pathalogical maniacs. To think of them as merely "different" is the height of moral equivalence.
That sort of efficiency also helps when you have to reign in nutjob regimes about to get nukes.
Private personal data gets compromised daily. That the gp doesn't want to put private financial data online, due to the risk, doesn't mean he's a tin-foil hat wearing paranoic: it means he is smart and prudent. I think you still have some learning to do about how unfair, evil, and careless people can be who work for the companies/institutions you trust.
So, print is dying, not dead.
Great, now you can get some decent comments about it.
Use these regular expression filters: '/\(ad)\W/', and '/\(ads)\W/'
FireFox has had memory management issues from version .8. For many people, those problems haven't gone away. Mozilla is trying to fix this, but that doesn't stop fanboys from going around claiming the problem has already been fixed when it hasn't.
Pheonix, I believe you still have memory problems, because I do too. Never can I go more than about 3-4 hours without restarting FF. The new version still has the problems, and now it takes about 3 times longer to load up :(
Still my favorite browser, though.
I like the security fixes, but now FF takes about 3 times longer to load :(
If you downloaded the music for free, and never purchased it, then you're breaking the law, pure and simple. Tangential facts like the cost of production, marketing, and profits, have no bearing on copyright infringement.
I download music for free, without paying for it. What I don't do is try and justify my actions by bringing in tangential issues. I justify my actions on the grounds of civil disobedience.
I have no moral qualms about my actions seeing as how corporate inspired legislation has already rendered this sphere of the law morally sterile: the spirit of justice has left the building.
Download free music, but don't think that the current law offers you any justification, it doesn't. Tired excuses like 'CDs cost $20!' and 'the artist isn't even making much of that money' hold no water.
Civil Disobedience, it's your duty.
What gets me in the inconsistent use of case sensitivity. About 20-30% fail for me because of this.
People come to /. for the bearable...good signal/noise ratio. Not much happening in the comments at Digg.
He did say toxic. Playing word games and being a pretentious ass isn't conducive to dialog.