There's also the fact that audiophiles are almost always old guys. Old guys have bad hearing. As you age, your tympanum membrane hardens, reducing the dynamic range that your ear is sensitive to. So an audiophile 15 years your senior telling you that he can hear a difference where you can't is likely only saying that *because* he's your senior and wants to exert his authority, or because he's going senile, or both.
Copper is a metal. There are no molecules. Your post just gets factually worse from there. Please don't talk like you know what you're talking about, if you have no idea what you are talking about.
I wonder if you're aware that Muslim scientists were not only able to determine the fact that the world was round, but calculate its circumference within an accuracy of 10% fully 600 years before the Christians even knew to start killing people who argued with them about it being flat?
Don't confuse "oppressive religion" with "oppressive puppet regime propped up by foreign powers with an interest in keeping the country externally exploitable". The leaders of Middle East today are *not* Islamic, and if support from abroad were to cease, they'd be overthrown in a heartbeat.
Given the humanitarian crisis in the US (high homelessness, education policy that deliberately places high quality education out of reach of the masses, health policy that deliberately keeps healthcare out of reach of the masses, financial system that fleeces everyone but the super elite, a government that uses the military to prop up an expansionist and harmful foreign policy etc etc) perhaps you'd support China invading the US to liberate the oppressed population there?
I don't support oppression, however it's a little silly for Westerners to point fingers, given that we've essentially given our governmental systems (note, I did not say governments, as governments hide behind partisan shows to give the illusion that the whole thing isn't a total farce) carte blanche to run their lives and take from their pockets at will. Our problems are as big as theirs. Perhaps bigger, as most people over here don't even know it, whereas there, its plain for all to see. A wise man once said that none are so hopelessly enslaved as those who truly believe they are free.
You guys are amateurs. I have installed my solar panels in an underground cave with a sealed access point along with my wind turbines. My solar panels never deteriorate due to solar degradation and my turbines never suffer the terrible wear and tear that is caused by constant motion. I figure that they should last 10x as long as an irresponsibly deployed solar/turbine array, which means I'll get 10x the return on my investment!
I suppose you dont factor into your reverence of the almighty market the proposition that those who are rich and getting richer off traditional polluting energy sources can and do buy out new technologies just to shut them down?
The only way to rid society of an overbearing government is to kill them. History has shown that once people have power, they will hold on to it until you literally pry it from their cold dead fingers.
You really think the media will publish something the government does not allow it to publish? Where do you think they get their broadcasting licenses from, and who do you think can make a excuse to revoke it? Furthermore, are you aware that most of the corporate board members who govern these corporations cross-pollinate with the same people who are in government? Heavy weights from the public and private sector move back and forth so often that there is no real operational division any more.
We aren't talking end of the world but you can kiss your comfortable life good bye.
The downside to your post aside, I don't consider the loss of comfortable life a bad thing. After all, the raping of the natural resources of the world and the people in poor countries happens because us first worlders selfishly hold on to our microwave dinners, game shows and other aspects of first world life.
If SCO can't get out of court with Chapter 11, perhaps they'll try saying "Mr Kimball I have to go to the bathroom" to which the thunderous reply will come "There IS NO BATHROOM!"
This is just fantasy. There were no Muslims in Spain for many centuries. The current Muslim population of Spain is composed of immigrants and the descendants of relatively recent immigrants (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain#Religion).
I believe I did predict, in a previous post, that you'd reject what I have to say, as they do not agree with the syllabus of Western education systems. Most of what I know I had to learn myself from the public library when I decided I wanted to know more about the religion I had been born into, and when I got tired of our religious education teachers telling me that I come from a long line of adulterous, belligerent peasants. I suggest, if you really *do* want to be able to say you've studied the history of Islam, that you do the same. The best primer on Islamic history that I am aware of is this book, which incidentally was written by a Jewish author. I have a copy which I have read twice and thus no longer need. If you want, I'm more than happy to mail it to you for free.
Africa going from among the most advanced part of the world in 500 to 600 AD to among the most backward today.
Actually, the Arab and north African regions were arguably more advanced than us westerners up until the 1800s. But what's a millennium and a half between friends eh?
It couldn't have anything to do with Muslims oppressing other Muslims.
Muslim empires rarely oppressed anyone. In fact, the only time Jews, Christians and Muslims lived peacefully together, all three side by side, was under an Islamic empire, the Ottomans. Arab hospitality towards everyone is famous to this day, and the Caliphate was so well known for its universal tolerance that it was the place of refuge for all persecuted people for the 1,000 years up until the Ottoman Empire came to an end in WW1. It's where the Jews fled to from Europe in the 1600s to 1800s, and by their own accounts, their lives under the Ottoman rule is considered to be their most prosperous Golden Age. Just ask them, if you know any.
Muslims were conducting wars of conquest against Europeans and had conquered as far as southern France in the west and Vienna in the east
I think you're getting "wars of conquest" from some very strange revisionist history books. No such things ever happened. Incidentally, Muslims went farther west than France, going all the way to Southern Spain, where the population is to this day still Muslim. Those places in Europe were not conquered by war, but ceded by treaty and assimilated by choice. Andalucia in Spain is Muslim today because they refused to lose their Muslim identity when the Islamic nation receded to be replaced by Christian governments.
My belief in Muslim extremists who want to kill all non-Muslims who do not submit to their rule is based on a study of the history of Islam.
I highly doubt that.
Can you name a single time in history when a Muslim nation was at peace with its weaker (and not protected by a stronger more distant nation) non-Muslim neighboring nation?
Well yes, just about all of Islamic history bar the 20th century, when Muslim nations were hijacked by puppet regimes backed by western powers. There are no Muslim governments today, and there haven't been since WW1. If you want to really know what Muslims are like, go out and meet some. I think you'll find that there is nothing in Islam that encourages violence of any kind. You may (note, *may*) also realize that the whole Islam vs the West thing is just the next fabricated war to keep government strong and people afraid, just like when the Commies were coming to take all your money away and give it to the poor so you needed to spend all your tax dollars keeping them at bay instead of using it to build a healthy, well-educated society. I hope you do.
Actually its not, as a) atoms other than hydrogen have >1 electron, and the system centger of mass is the average center of all of them, likely to be closer to the nucleus and b) electron orbits are not circular or even elliptical, they are probability clouds that come in s, p, d and f types, all of which have different shapes, and only the "innermost" s type is spherical.
Aah, them pesky terr'rists. Got a link? As in, one that doesn't come trough 10 layers of Reuters journalists and editors? I think you'll find that the threat from them is overhyped to give your government an escuse to take your rights away that you may better serve your wealthy overlords. It's called a Hegelian Dialect, and it's nothing new to history. It's happened in almost every empire or large government the world has ever seen. I am from South Africa, and for most of the 20th century, the government managed to brutalize the black population, claiming they needed to in order to protect the functioning state and the law abiding citizens from, and they used this very word, "terrorists".
If you think that your government is any different from that, and that terrorism today is anything more than a glossy explanation for a group of people who have genuine grievances with the foreign policy of western governments (who are, for all intents and purposes, controlled by the corporate sector), then you are deluding yourself. It's not just Muslims, by the way, it's *all* of the third world that is tired of being crushed under the bootheel of the corporate imperialist wanton greed for cheaper labor, exclusive access to the world's natural resources and higher profit margins. Of course. such a complex view of the world is likely outside of your grasp, you'd find it far more convenient to explain all this away with "those pasky Muslims want to kill me because I'm a free, God-fearing Christian!".
I am already a Muslim. I don't want to kill you because you are non-Muslim, but if Fox News tells you I do, feel free to cross the street if you see me coming. I won't take offense.
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No, they are not molecules, they are ionic salts. Cheers.
There's also the fact that audiophiles are almost always old guys. Old guys have bad hearing. As you age, your tympanum membrane hardens, reducing the dynamic range that your ear is sensitive to. So an audiophile 15 years your senior telling you that he can hear a difference where you can't is likely only saying that *because* he's your senior and wants to exert his authority, or because he's going senile, or both.
Copper is a metal. There are no molecules. Your post just gets factually worse from there. Please don't talk like you know what you're talking about, if you have no idea what you are talking about.
They could call it the BSL!
I wonder if you're aware that Muslim scientists were not only able to determine the fact that the world was round, but calculate its circumference within an accuracy of 10% fully 600 years before the Christians even knew to start killing people who argued with them about it being flat?
Don't confuse "oppressive religion" with "oppressive puppet regime propped up by foreign powers with an interest in keeping the country externally exploitable". The leaders of Middle East today are *not* Islamic, and if support from abroad were to cease, they'd be overthrown in a heartbeat.
Given the humanitarian crisis in the US (high homelessness, education policy that deliberately places high quality education out of reach of the masses, health policy that deliberately keeps healthcare out of reach of the masses, financial system that fleeces everyone but the super elite, a government that uses the military to prop up an expansionist and harmful foreign policy etc etc) perhaps you'd support China invading the US to liberate the oppressed population there?
I don't support oppression, however it's a little silly for Westerners to point fingers, given that we've essentially given our governmental systems (note, I did not say governments, as governments hide behind partisan shows to give the illusion that the whole thing isn't a total farce) carte blanche to run their lives and take from their pockets at will. Our problems are as big as theirs. Perhaps bigger, as most people over here don't even know it, whereas there, its plain for all to see. A wise man once said that none are so hopelessly enslaved as those who truly believe they are free.
Yay somebody finally found out where AC lives and is going to sort out the problem of trolls and frist posters once and for all!
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Slashdot readers have no lives! OMG the world is about to be taken over by brain eating Slashdotters!
You guys are amateurs. I have installed my solar panels in an underground cave with a sealed access point along with my wind turbines. My solar panels never deteriorate due to solar degradation and my turbines never suffer the terrible wear and tear that is caused by constant motion. I figure that they should last 10x as long as an irresponsibly deployed solar/turbine array, which means I'll get 10x the return on my investment!
Fiction eh?
"NNTP protocol and paradigm that predates it."
I suppose you dont factor into your reverence of the almighty market the proposition that those who are rich and getting richer off traditional polluting energy sources can and do buy out new technologies just to shut them down?
The only way to rid society of an overbearing government is to kill them. History has shown that once people have power, they will hold on to it until you literally pry it from their cold dead fingers.
You really think the media will publish something the government does not allow it to publish? Where do you think they get their broadcasting licenses from, and who do you think can make a excuse to revoke it? Furthermore, are you aware that most of the corporate board members who govern these corporations cross-pollinate with the same people who are in government? Heavy weights from the public and private sector move back and forth so often that there is no real operational division any more.
I'm putting it on my MySpace page!
The downside to your post aside, I don't consider the loss of comfortable life a bad thing. After all, the raping of the natural resources of the world and the people in poor countries happens because us first worlders selfishly hold on to our microwave dinners, game shows and other aspects of first world life.
If SCO can't get out of court with Chapter 11, perhaps they'll try saying "Mr Kimball I have to go to the bathroom" to which the thunderous reply will come "There IS NO BATHROOM!"
Is that a fact? Seriously, Google is your friend.
I believe I did predict, in a previous post, that you'd reject what I have to say, as they do not agree with the syllabus of Western education systems. Most of what I know I had to learn myself from the public library when I decided I wanted to know more about the religion I had been born into, and when I got tired of our religious education teachers telling me that I come from a long line of adulterous, belligerent peasants. I suggest, if you really *do* want to be able to say you've studied the history of Islam, that you do the same. The best primer on Islamic history that I am aware of is this book, which incidentally was written by a Jewish author. I have a copy which I have read twice and thus no longer need. If you want, I'm more than happy to mail it to you for free.
Actually, the Arab and north African regions were arguably more advanced than us westerners up until the 1800s. But what's a millennium and a half between friends eh?
Muslim empires rarely oppressed anyone. In fact, the only time Jews, Christians and Muslims lived peacefully together, all three side by side, was under an Islamic empire, the Ottomans. Arab hospitality towards everyone is famous to this day, and the Caliphate was so well known for its universal tolerance that it was the place of refuge for all persecuted people for the 1,000 years up until the Ottoman Empire came to an end in WW1. It's where the Jews fled to from Europe in the 1600s to 1800s, and by their own accounts, their lives under the Ottoman rule is considered to be their most prosperous Golden Age. Just ask them, if you know any.
I think you're getting "wars of conquest" from some very strange revisionist history books. No such things ever happened. Incidentally, Muslims went farther west than France, going all the way to Southern Spain, where the population is to this day still Muslim. Those places in Europe were not conquered by war, but ceded by treaty and assimilated by choice. Andalucia in Spain is Muslim today because they refused to lose their Muslim identity when the Islamic nation receded to be replaced by Christian governments.
I highly doubt that.
Well yes, just about all of Islamic history bar the 20th century, when Muslim nations were hijacked by puppet regimes backed by western powers. There are no Muslim governments today, and there haven't been since WW1. If you want to really know what Muslims are like, go out and meet some. I think you'll find that there is nothing in Islam that encourages violence of any kind. You may (note, *may*) also realize that the whole Islam vs the West thing is just the next fabricated war to keep government strong and people afraid, just like when the Commies were coming to take all your money away and give it to the poor so you needed to spend all your tax dollars keeping them at bay instead of using it to build a healthy, well-educated society. I hope you do.
Survival isn't necessary. Just get your ass to Mars. G-G-Get your ass to Mars.
One time pads cannot be used for internet communications at all in any sensible practical application.
Actually its not, as a) atoms other than hydrogen have >1 electron, and the system centger of mass is the average center of all of them, likely to be closer to the nucleus and b) electron orbits are not circular or even elliptical, they are probability clouds that come in s, p, d and f types, all of which have different shapes, and only the "innermost" s type is spherical.
Aah, them pesky terr'rists. Got a link? As in, one that doesn't come trough 10 layers of Reuters journalists and editors? I think you'll find that the threat from them is overhyped to give your government an escuse to take your rights away that you may better serve your wealthy overlords. It's called a Hegelian Dialect, and it's nothing new to history. It's happened in almost every empire or large government the world has ever seen. I am from South Africa, and for most of the 20th century, the government managed to brutalize the black population, claiming they needed to in order to protect the functioning state and the law abiding citizens from, and they used this very word, "terrorists".
If you think that your government is any different from that, and that terrorism today is anything more than a glossy explanation for a group of people who have genuine grievances with the foreign policy of western governments (who are, for all intents and purposes, controlled by the corporate sector), then you are deluding yourself. It's not just Muslims, by the way, it's *all* of the third world that is tired of being crushed under the bootheel of the corporate imperialist wanton greed for cheaper labor, exclusive access to the world's natural resources and higher profit margins. Of course. such a complex view of the world is likely outside of your grasp, you'd find it far more convenient to explain all this away with "those pasky Muslims want to kill me because I'm a free, God-fearing Christian!".
I am already a Muslim. I don't want to kill you because you are non-Muslim, but if Fox News tells you I do, feel free to cross the street if you see me coming. I won't take offense.