Not at all. Surgeon General says that smoking is harmful...
Betacam, Betacam SP, DigiBeta and the newer HD versions are THE standard in the video industry. Even the Betacam SP, now 20 years old at least, is very widly used and still hasn't been fully replaced by the newer digital versions, even in the "Western" video world.
Not to burst your bubble, but Sony has won pretty much every format war: 3.5" Floppy Disc - today's format is based on Sony design Compact Disc - developed by Sony and Philips DVD - developed by Sony and Philips Digital Audio Tape - de-facto standard in the music and professional audio industry Beta - the standard tape format in the video industry for the past 20 years
> Further, I have read the Qur'an in chronological order and understand > what Islam is about by reading the words of your prophet Mohammed.
Had you actually read it, you would have known that Qur'an are the words of God, not of the Prophet. Nice try though.
> I am also witness to the insanity that is Islam over such trifles as > the Mohammad comics.
Way way way over-the-top reaction in some parts. However, it does show that we respect our religion, unlike the west which tollerates such disgusting works as the "Piss Christ" etc.
> I am also witness to the hypocracy that is Islam in the Middle East
The world is full of hyprocracy, none more so than in some parts of the Middle East.
> I like how you indoctrinate your children to hate and murder.
Nice websites - again very scientific, especially the first one. Your post just goes to show that more "Christians" hate (and I use the word in its proper meaning) Muslims, than there Muslims who who hate "Christians".
For example, large number of members of my close family, other relatives and close friends were tortured, raped, murdered (directly and indirectly (ie. suicide after the fact)) by Christians, in the name of Christianity and with the blessing of the Church. Yet, I do not hate Christians, Christianity or the "Christian World".
I can safely bet that neither you (nor your other colleague(s)) have ever been attacked in any way directly by Muslims, yet, you ooze (I love this word) with hatred.
This speaks a lot more to you and your culture and to me and my culture than a thousand PhDs (let alone the non-factual hate posts) on either side of the debate ever could.
Have a nice day (and life) and I'll see you on The Day.
And, let me guess, they are lies because you, in your unreferenced, unscientific (ironic considering the topic, don't you think?) post say so? Nice try though. Hate much?
> One can only imagine what civilizsation would be like today if
> religion (of all stripes, mind you) hadn't stifled scientific
> progress since man first walked upright.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_God_Go
> Work on collecting the verses wasn't even begun until long after Mohammed > was dead, and it was pieced together from people who claimed to have known > him or known people who knew him.
> Thus it's put together out of chronological order (already one alteration) > and to try to claim "Mohammed" wrote it is laughable.
No Muslim ever claimed this. FUD.
> The same is true for the other Muslim "holy books", the various > collections of hadith (sayings of the so-called "prophet") that various > factions believe are more or less authentic (the Sunni and Shi'a have > their own favored set each, same for other sects).
> Islam is not simply a religion; it is a design guidebook for the > creation of a totalitarian state in which the "supreme leader" (Caliph) > and his stooges get to use religion as an excuse to be really crappy to > everyone else.
See first point.
> And it's a lot easier to keep your population under control if they're > too stupid to know better and terrified that a revolt might stop them > from reaching "heaven."
I couldn't agree more with the first part of this point, but it's not specific to Islam, Muslim countries, secular countries, Christian countries etc - for example, I've been arguing the same point about Australia for a while now.
The second part has nothing to do with the first part, but, btw, Islam encourages revolt against unjust rulers. Why is it not happening in certain countries is a different topic.
> And Mohammed, far from being a prophet, was an opportunist who > figured like Akenaten, Joseph Smith and L. Ron Hubbard that he > could use religion as a tool and scam. Look at the various things > he was "exempted" from. He "limited" other men to only 4 wives > (already a mysoginistic bastard but we'll move on), but he himself > got at least an even dozen
> plus he fucked a 5 year old (Aisha) just because he got bored with > adults. He raped a girl who had just seen her entire family slaughtered > (Safiya) and then retroactively declared it a "marriage" the next day > when his troops started complaining.
> Muslims like to try to rewrite history to hide embarassing details - > such as the nature of the Ka'aba, their "holy box", which predates Mohammed.
Why yes, yes it does. The fact that it does is a big part of the Islam.
> Mohammed's grandfather was a pagan priest of a specific deity of the Quraish > tribe. He named his son (Mohammed's dad) "Abd'allah", literally "Slave of Allah." > This was before the monotheistic "Allah" was cooked up by Mohammed. > > Question: Which pagan deity is Allah? Or else who was Abd'allah named for?
Have a look at this series of articles from Extreme Tech.
Basically, the quality of the LCoS is now on-par with CRT - even exceeding it on some points.
Maybe these are too big for your needs, but EcoByte makes very nice black-box storage boxes based around Linux and 3ware controllers. They offer excellent performance, SMB etc file sharing, web configuration etc etc. We use them at work and they are great. I guess initially you could just buy an empty box and populate it with the hard drives you need and then expand it further as you need more storage space.
Gasolene is not explosive - it is flammable. And 62.5 grams of it, or any amount really, would not be sufficient to act as a serious rocket propellant of any sort.
Liquid oxygen on the other hand is very explosive and is not easily used in "amateur-type" rockets.
Just like its predecessor, eDonkey, Overnet for some reason is not very well known. I know eDonkey has issues with connections to servers (which Overnet addresses) etc, but most people I spoke to simply had never heard about it. And for Overnet to be successful with its server-less structure, it has to become very well known and used by a lot of people. And I do hope this becomes the case.
There was a good story on Slashdot a while ago about how GPL is more likely to withstand a court challenge than other software licenses, EULA's etc.
Basically, Eben Moglen, general legal counsel for GNU, was saying that GPL is safe because it does not restrict things that you are entitled to by other laws (ie. fair-use etc). The article is a good read.
Actually, The Qur'an explicitly prohibits it: "And surely [Satan] will lead them astray,..., command them and they will change God's creation." (Q: 4-119).
Other verses can be used to argue for using it to directly cure diseases/benefit the human kind, but it's a thin line.
Creating a "spiderman" or whatever just for the "fun of it" so to speak is out of the question.
All three of the mobile service providers in Australia (Telstra, Optus & Vodafone) use GSM900. There are some 1800 cells in CBD areas in major cities though.
One.Tel, which built its network using GSM1800 only, went out of business few weeks ago and was shut down completely. Telstra ended up taking most of the home and mobile customers.
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Not at all. Surgeon General says that smoking is harmful...
Betacam, Betacam SP, DigiBeta and the newer HD versions are THE standard in the video industry. Even the Betacam SP, now 20 years old at least, is very widly used and still hasn't been fully replaced by the newer digital versions, even in the "Western" video world.
Not to burst your bubble, but Sony has won pretty much every format war:
3.5" Floppy Disc - today's format is based on Sony design
Compact Disc - developed by Sony and Philips
DVD - developed by Sony and Philips
Digital Audio Tape - de-facto standard in the music and professional audio industry
Beta - the standard tape format in the video industry for the past 20 years
Yes, the old chicken and the egg argument which I'm so not getting into...
Again, your reply reflects why hate is so ugly in all its forms and directions.
Good luck with your life(ves).
> Islam is a blight on humanity. And this, children, is why Muslims feel so hated and oppressed.
> Further, I have read the Qur'an in chronological order and understand
> what Islam is about by reading the words of your prophet Mohammed.
Had you actually read it, you would have known that Qur'an are the words of God, not of the Prophet. Nice try though.
> I am also witness to the insanity that is Islam over such trifles as
> the Mohammad comics.
Way way way over-the-top reaction in some parts. However, it does show that we respect our religion, unlike the west which tollerates such disgusting works as the "Piss Christ" etc.
> I am also witness to the hypocracy that is Islam in the Middle East
The world is full of hyprocracy, none more so than in some parts of the Middle East.
> I like how you indoctrinate your children to hate and murder.
Hahaha. http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2455343&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
> I don't believe what you are saying because it is part of Islam to
> lie to infidels if it is for the purpose of furthering the cause of Islam.
And this, children, is what we call a circular argument.
> I am not a Christian.
Good for you.
> I am an infidel by your standards.
Sorry.
> Islam is the religion of hate.
If you say so.
> I won't be seeing you 'on the day'.
Scared?
For example, large number of members of my close family, other relatives and close friends were tortured, raped, murdered (directly and indirectly (ie. suicide after the fact)) by Christians, in the name of Christianity and with the blessing of the Church. Yet, I do not hate Christians, Christianity or the "Christian World".
I can safely bet that neither you (nor your other colleague(s)) have ever been attacked in any way directly by Muslims, yet, you ooze (I love this word) with hatred.
This speaks a lot more to you and your culture and to me and my culture than a thousand PhDs (let alone the non-factual hate posts) on either side of the debate ever could.
Have a nice day (and life) and I'll see you on The Day.
And, let me guess, they are lies because you, in your unreferenced, unscientific (ironic considering the topic, don't you think?) post say so? Nice try though. Hate much?
> One can only imagine what civilizsation would be like today if > religion (of all stripes, mind you) hadn't stifled scientific > progress since man first walked upright. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_God_Go
> The Qu'ran, far from being "the unaltered word of God", is actually
> an horrific and savage compilation of distilled hatred.
http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/orientalism.html
> Work on collecting the verses wasn't even begun until long after Mohammed
> was dead, and it was pieced together from people who claimed to have known
> him or known people who knew him.
http://www.islamic-awareness.org/History/Islam/Dome_Of_The_Rock/Estwitness.html
> Thus it's put together out of chronological order (already one alteration)
> and to try to claim "Mohammed" wrote it is laughable.
No Muslim ever claimed this. FUD.
> The same is true for the other Muslim "holy books", the various
> collections of hadith (sayings of the so-called "prophet") that various
> factions believe are more or less authentic (the Sunni and Shi'a have
> their own favored set each, same for other sects).
http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Hadith/Ulum/
> Islam is not simply a religion; it is a design guidebook for the
> creation of a totalitarian state in which the "supreme leader" (Caliph)
> and his stooges get to use religion as an excuse to be really crappy to
> everyone else.
See first point.
> And it's a lot easier to keep your population under control if they're
> too stupid to know better and terrified that a revolt might stop them
> from reaching "heaven."
I couldn't agree more with the first part of this point, but it's not specific to Islam, Muslim countries, secular countries, Christian countries etc - for example, I've been arguing the same point about Australia for a while now.
The second part has nothing to do with the first part, but, btw, Islam encourages revolt against unjust rulers. Why is it not happening in certain countries is a different topic.
> And Mohammed, far from being a prophet, was an opportunist who
> figured like Akenaten, Joseph Smith and L. Ron Hubbard that he
> could use religion as a tool and scam. Look at the various things
> he was "exempted" from. He "limited" other men to only 4 wives
> (already a mysoginistic bastard but we'll move on), but he himself
> got at least an even dozen
http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Polemics/lie.html
> plus he fucked a 5 year old (Aisha) just because he got bored with
> adults. He raped a girl who had just seen her entire family slaughtered
> (Safiya) and then retroactively declared it a "marriage" the next day
> when his troops started complaining.
http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Polemics/aishah.html
(Note, I don't agree with some of the non factual comments made in the article - I'm linking it only for its factual content)
> Muslims like to try to rewrite history to hide embarassing details -
> such as the nature of the Ka'aba, their "holy box", which predates Mohammed.
Why yes, yes it does. The fact that it does is a big part of the Islam.
> Mohammed's grandfather was a pagan priest of a specific deity of the Quraish
> tribe. He named his son (Mohammed's dad) "Abd'allah", literally "Slave of Allah."
> This was before the monotheistic "Allah" was cooked up by Mohammed.
>
> Question: Which pagan deity is Allah? Or else who was Abd'allah named for?
http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Sources/Allah/moongod.html
> Islam is a joke. The more educated Muslims you get, the more educated
> ex-Muslims you'll have as they wake up
Have a look at this series of articles from Extreme Tech.
Basically, the quality of the LCoS is now on-par with CRT - even exceeding it on some points.
Maybe these are too big for your needs, but EcoByte makes very nice black-box storage boxes based around Linux and 3ware controllers. They offer excellent performance, SMB etc file sharing, web configuration etc etc. We use them at work and they are great. I guess initially you could just buy an empty box and populate it with the hard drives you need and then expand it further as you need more storage space.
There's also a discussion on Whirlpool's and Swiftel/People Telcom's forums.
Liquid oxygen on the other hand is very explosive and is not easily used in "amateur-type" rockets.
Just like its predecessor, eDonkey, Overnet for some reason is not very well known. I know eDonkey has issues with connections to servers (which Overnet addresses) etc, but most people I spoke to simply had never heard about it. And for Overnet to be successful with its server-less structure, it has to become very well known and used by a lot of people. And I do hope this becomes the case.
The author was a member of the church and he recounts his experieneces from the time he joined the church and the events that followed.
Basically, Eben Moglen, general legal counsel for GNU, was saying that GPL is safe because it does not restrict things that you are entitled to by other laws (ie. fair-use etc). The article is a good read.
Yes, but it was Lincoln who said that "those who are prepared to trade their privacy for their safety deserve neither"!
You can read it here.
I for one cannot wait for an application that makes Nokia phones auto-lock the keypad after a certain period of inactivity.
It's a familiar modus operandi (or is it operandus in this case?) for Communist governments.
For Communist governments only? I don't think so... Or are we a bit hypocritical as usual?
Vodafone have been offering free SMS on their plans for over a year now. Not unlimted, but a reasonable amount.
Other verses can be used to argue for using it to directly cure diseases/benefit the human kind, but it's a thin line.
Creating a "spiderman" or whatever just for the "fun of it" so to speak is out of the question.
But, anyway, it's probaby not his fault. Unless a map/atlas is pretty recent, it would not include Slovenia.
Slovenia was a part of the former Yugoslavia and gained it's independence in mid 1991.
It is a small country, bordering with Italy, Austria, Hungry and Croatia, with a small access to the Adriatic Sea.
CIA World Factbook: Slovenia
The theorem was proved a few years later in 1993 by Andrew Wiles.
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One.Tel, which built its network using GSM1800 only, went out of business few weeks ago and was shut down completely. Telstra ended up taking most of the home and mobile customers.
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