Mohammed (PBUH) did have a 7 year old wife. People who idolize that while threatening violence toward a cartoon are, well, not stable.
Lol, same old bullshit. Gatorboy refers to Aisha whose age at marriage is yet another unknown that anti-islamic extremists like to hang their hats on - there is just as much evidence to suggest that she was 17 as there is to suggest she was 7, for example it was common for arabs to leave the tens digit off of numbers when they thought the magnitude was obvious. There are other contemporaneous references that also suggest Aisha was significantly older than 7, and really only one major reference that she was 7 - except that particular chronicler isn't considered an expert on Aisha and was like 70 himself when he wrote about it long after the fact. In any case, Aisha is probably the most accomplished and revered of his wives, so all the evidence suggests she did not end up damaged so was probably not subjected to the accused immorality in the first place.
It's juvenile behaviour of people who who have not grown up enough (mentally) to be something on their own but get their self esteem by belonging to a group.
I'd say you are half-right. Its not just about being a member of a group, but being part of the hierarchy. The feeling is that as long as they show 'proper deference' to their 'betters' they will receive similar deference from their 'lessers' - and if there are no 'lessers' now surely there will be once they move up the hierarchy. I think 'proto-fascist' is a pretty accurate knee-jerk description for that mindset.
Cartman summed it all up in one short sentence, "Respect my authoritae!"
Side note: For people like me that don't care about "bonus features" like director commentary in movies, streaming video is where it's at.
FWIW: Of all the common "bonus features" additional tracks like commentaries, picture-in-picture video, and "pop-up" trivia (which are just fancy subtitles) are particularly easy to implement for streaming video. That they haven't done so is (hopefully) just an oversight. Those stupid little java games and what-not that you occasionally find on discs generally don't fit the model so well.
Thank God! Mice of the world can now sleep easy at night.
Funny, but definitely true. It's easy to cure cancer in mice. Researchers have come up with hundreds of different ways to do it. But while mice are biologically much more similar to humans when compared to say, koala bears, humans are still significantly more complex than mice.
OBLIGATORY CAR ANALOGY: So when something works in mice, its kind of like using carfax - just because carfax doesn't report a problem doesn't mean the car doesn't have major problems, it just means carfax couldn't find any in the limited set of data available to them. Just because the mice don't have a problem doesn't mean the drugs don't have major problems, it just means there weren't any in the limited data-set of mice physiology.
To continue with my point (I hit submit instead of preview) - I bet the reason the director can't get any royalties is because his contract with the studio doesn't mention youtube clips so the studio gets to keep any money generated all for themselves. That's the kind of bullshit that "hollywood accounting" is famous for.
The article also ends with the director saying "If only I got royalties for it, then I'd be even happier." But removing the videos from youtube wouldn't help him with getting royalties, so yeah. It is rather stupid.
Doesn't youtube have a revenue-sharing system for MAFIAA-sourced content? I know that some stuff they take down saying that the MAFIAA told them to block it and some stuff they tell you (when you post it) that its OK because they have some sort of agreement with the copyright owner of the original materials.
No, I did not. The poster said "for kicking a door". That leaves out a considerable amount of context. She wasn't kicking just ANY door, it was a door into a federal office building.
Wow, you are amazing. What the poster wrote was, "My 18 year old daughter is getting charged with a FELONY for kicking a door. She was trying to get the jammed door open to get back to her work area,"
As in she kicked a jammed door that she had every right to pass through.
Sham debate tactic indeed, in your self-confident arrogance you couldn't have done a better job of demonstrating your point if you had tried.
Why should an employee get to kick in the door to a federal office building? The proper course of action is to call the maintenance people and report the door, not blast through it yourself.
Nobody is permitted to think or act for themselves. Exactly the kind of people we want working for the government. As the man also wrote, and which you also left out of your version of the 'context' was that absolutely no damage was done. Even more context you left out - the law is about damaging federal property not simply applying a bit of percussive maintenance.
Real laws by "requests for comments" (RFC)? That sounds like either despotism (by pimply CS grad students) or anarchy. I don't care for either.
As much as current democracy/Congress is likened to sausage making, I think this sausage is far preferable to that mess
Sucks to be ignorant, doesn't it?
One of the best things about RFCs is that, whenever possible, the final draft is defined by the results obtained from multiple prototype implementations. Versus the current system of law making in Congress which is more about the demagoguery of professional bullshit artists than it is about empirical results.
Isn't it a criminal offence to lie on identification forms?
Maybe in Russia or China. But in the US it is almost always not a crime. They just rely on social conditioning, probably the same social conditioning that makes you think it is a crime.
Sorry, but $2-36 billion in subsidies for the entire oil industry (from both links, the first I'm pretty sure is extremely inflated given the fact that even Greenpeace gives $35 billion as their highest estimate) doesn't seem that significant, considering Exxon alone paid $30 billion in taxes in 2007.
First of all, the vast majority of molestation victims are attacked by family members, who don't exactly need demographic information to find their targets. Second, even in the very rare case of stranger-abduction attacks, do you really think they're going after children at home? Take a walk outside -- there's a good chance there's an elementary school within a few blocks of where you live.
Well yeah, of course that's the way it is now -- but when we all get the iVictimFinder app for our iPhones, just you wait, it's going to revolutionize the pedophile market!
In Firefox, goto tools, options, privacy and select "Automatically start Firefox in a private browsing session", this way your online coupon will not contain any extraneous information.
Just don't use flash or any other plugin with its own storage that firefox doesn't know about.
I use the BetterPrivacy Add-on to automatically wipe all flash cookies every time I start or stop firefox.
I would also include that the stores don't check the validity of the personal information anyone provides them or not upon filling out the form
That's not true in every case, some grocery stores do ask to see a driver's license - some also only mail the card out rather than give it to you in the store, so they at least get an address. Plus even when they don't do any of that, just as soon as you use the card in conjunction with a credit card, they've got your name. Use it conjunction with a check and they've got name and address.
Apple got in trouble for allowing an app like this in their store a few months ago that had a lot of Political satire. No one rushed to their defense then that it was freedom of speech. No, instead they received backlash about how it was offensive app.
Bullshit. You are making that up, either in whole or in part.
Apple is damned if they do and damned if they don't in your colorful little world.
More bullshit. It's YOUR fantasy world. All I did was point out the obvious. You got a problem with my logic about how something obviously changed, then lets hear it, none of this apple-whipped whiny shit.
Apple hasn't changed the rules you agreed to when you bought the product, no mater how much the market has changed.
Of course they have - if they accept Fiore's app today when they turned it down a couple of months ago, then either they have changed the rules or there was a secret rule that "Pulitizer prize winners are exempt from the rest of the rules." Either way, the rules are different than when he bought the product.
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Mohammed (PBUH) did have a 7 year old wife. People who idolize that while threatening violence toward a cartoon are, well, not stable.
Lol, same old bullshit. Gatorboy refers to Aisha whose age at marriage is yet another unknown that anti-islamic extremists like to hang their hats on - there is just as much evidence to suggest that she was 17 as there is to suggest she was 7, for example it was common for arabs to leave the tens digit off of numbers when they thought the magnitude was obvious. There are other contemporaneous references that also suggest Aisha was significantly older than 7, and really only one major reference that she was 7 - except that particular chronicler isn't considered an expert on Aisha and was like 70 himself when he wrote about it long after the fact. In any case, Aisha is probably the most accomplished and revered of his wives, so all the evidence suggests she did not end up damaged so was probably not subjected to the accused immorality in the first place.
Gotta Love... ...those peace loving muslims, eh?
Because a couple of assholes on a website represent the entirety of the Muslim world?
Neither the summary nor the headline suggest this represents the entire Muslim world. Both make it clear this is a select group of extremists.
Why are you inventing fictions?
Woooooooooooosh!
Ugh, what? Do you smoke True? Butts are made out of fiberglass and paper, and thus are totally bio-degradable.
No, I looked it up before posting because I thought they were biodegradeable and I was going to say that until I checked my facts.
They are composed primarily of cellulose acetate a type of plastic that can take up to 15 years to degrade.
Everywhere you turn, there is some shmuck pitching and pushing his stuff onto you, and when you refuse he goes verbal.
I suggest not giving him your phone number and then you won't have to worry if he goes verbal or not.
It's juvenile behaviour of people who who have not grown up enough (mentally) to be something on their own but get their self esteem by belonging to a group.
I'd say you are half-right. Its not just about being a member of a group, but being part of the hierarchy. The feeling is that as long as they show 'proper deference' to their 'betters' they will receive similar deference from their 'lessers' - and if there are no 'lessers' now surely there will be once they move up the hierarchy. I think 'proto-fascist' is a pretty accurate knee-jerk description for that mindset.
Cartman summed it all up in one short sentence, "Respect my authoritae!"
Side note: For people like me that don't care about "bonus features" like director commentary in movies, streaming video is where it's at.
FWIW: Of all the common "bonus features" additional tracks like commentaries, picture-in-picture video, and "pop-up" trivia (which are just fancy subtitles) are particularly easy to implement for streaming video. That they haven't done so is (hopefully) just an oversight. Those stupid little java games and what-not that you occasionally find on discs generally don't fit the model so well.
Thank God! Mice of the world can now sleep easy at night.
Funny, but definitely true. It's easy to cure cancer in mice. Researchers have come up with hundreds of different ways to do it. But while mice are biologically much more similar to humans when compared to say, koala bears, humans are still significantly more complex than mice.
OBLIGATORY CAR ANALOGY: So when something works in mice, its kind of like using carfax - just because carfax doesn't report a problem doesn't mean the car doesn't have major problems, it just means carfax couldn't find any in the limited set of data available to them. Just because the mice don't have a problem doesn't mean the drugs don't have major problems, it just means there weren't any in the limited data-set of mice physiology.
However, directly using the entirety of the video from "The Downfall" is not going to be seen as fair use.
Nobody is using the entirety of the video. They are using a clip that's less than 4 minutes out of a 178 minute film.
That appeared in an earlier article.
Says the man complaining about context.
To continue with my point (I hit submit instead of preview) - I bet the reason the director can't get any royalties is because his contract with the studio doesn't mention youtube clips so the studio gets to keep any money generated all for themselves. That's the kind of bullshit that "hollywood accounting" is famous for.
The article also ends with the director saying "If only I got royalties for it, then I'd be even happier." But removing the videos from youtube wouldn't help him with getting royalties, so yeah. It is rather stupid.
Doesn't youtube have a revenue-sharing system for MAFIAA-sourced content? I know that some stuff they take down saying that the MAFIAA told them to block it and some stuff they tell you (when you post it) that its OK because they have some sort of agreement with the copyright owner of the original materials.
So yeah, cig butts should be considered as littering, same as candy wrappers
More specifically - butts are made of plastic very much like candy wrappers and thus are not bio-degradable.
No, I did not. The poster said "for kicking a door". That leaves out a considerable amount of context. She wasn't kicking just ANY door, it was a door into a federal office building.
Wow, you are amazing. What the poster wrote was, "My 18 year old daughter is getting charged with a FELONY for kicking a door. She was trying to get the jammed door open to get back to her work area,"
As in she kicked a jammed door that she had every right to pass through.
Sham debate tactic indeed, in your self-confident arrogance you couldn't have done a better job of demonstrating your point if you had tried.
Why should an employee get to kick in the door to a federal office building? The proper course of action is to call the maintenance people and report the door, not blast through it yourself.
Nobody is permitted to think or act for themselves. Exactly the kind of people we want working for the government. As the man also wrote, and which you also left out of your version of the 'context' was that absolutely no damage was done. Even more context you left out - the law is about damaging federal property not simply applying a bit of percussive maintenance.
That's not the point... a FELONY for kicking a door?
Trying to kick open a door in a federal office building.
You can't consider just the act and ignore the context.
Are you trolling with that line?
Because you just did EXACTLY that.
"Née" means "born" in French."
Ichi Ni?
Scratch'em den.
Real laws by "requests for comments" (RFC)? That sounds like either despotism (by pimply CS grad students) or anarchy. I don't care for either.
As much as current democracy/Congress is likened to sausage making, I think this sausage is far preferable to that mess
Sucks to be ignorant, doesn't it?
One of the best things about RFCs is that, whenever possible, the final draft is defined by the results obtained from multiple prototype implementations. Versus the current system of law making in Congress which is more about the demagoguery of professional bullshit artists than it is about empirical results.
Isn't it a criminal offence to lie on identification forms?
Maybe in Russia or China. But in the US it is almost always not a crime. They just rely on social conditioning, probably the same social conditioning that makes you think it is a crime.
Sorry, but $2-36 billion in subsidies for the entire oil industry (from both links, the first I'm pretty sure is extremely inflated given the fact that even Greenpeace gives $35 billion as their highest estimate) doesn't seem that significant, considering Exxon alone paid $30 billion in taxes in 2007.
I don't know about that, but in 2009, Exxon paid $0 in US income taxes, and Chevron only paid $200M.
First of all, the vast majority of molestation victims are attacked by family members, who don't exactly need demographic information to find their targets. Second, even in the very rare case of stranger-abduction attacks, do you really think they're going after children at home? Take a walk outside -- there's a good chance there's an elementary school within a few blocks of where you live.
Well yeah, of course that's the way it is now -- but when we all get the iVictimFinder app for our iPhones, just you wait, it's going to revolutionize the pedophile market!
In Firefox, goto tools, options, privacy and select "Automatically start Firefox in a private browsing session", this way your online coupon will not contain any extraneous information.
Just don't use flash or any other plugin with its own storage that firefox doesn't know about.
I use the BetterPrivacy Add-on to automatically wipe all flash cookies every time I start or stop firefox.
I would also include that the stores don't check the validity of the personal information anyone provides them or not upon filling out the form
That's not true in every case, some grocery stores do ask to see a driver's license - some also only mail the card out rather than give it to you in the store, so they at least get an address. Plus even when they don't do any of that, just as soon as you use the card in conjunction with a credit card, they've got your name. Use it conjunction with a check and they've got name and address.
Any ideas on who might want to take over the domains and carry on the work would be appreciated by the Internet community at large.
Sounds like something that the Consumers Union might want to take a look at.
They publish Consumer Reports and recently acquired The Consumerist website.
Apple got in trouble for allowing an app like this in their store a few months ago that had a lot of Political satire. No one rushed to their defense then that it was freedom of speech. No, instead they received backlash about how it was offensive app.
Bullshit. You are making that up, either in whole or in part.
Apple is damned if they do and damned if they don't in your colorful little world.
More bullshit. It's YOUR fantasy world. All I did was point out the obvious. You got a problem with my logic about how something obviously changed, then lets hear it, none of this apple-whipped whiny shit.
Apple hasn't changed the rules you agreed to when you bought the product, no mater how much the market has changed.
Of course they have - if they accept Fiore's app today when they turned it down a couple of months ago, then either they have changed the rules or there was a secret rule that "Pulitizer prize winners are exempt from the rest of the rules." Either way, the rules are different than when he bought the product.
In many other nations, the distinction between the laws on paper and accepted practices is much greater than it is in the United States
Too bad for US corps, we have this law here called The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act that makes it illegal to bribe foreign officials.