When Pakistan Blocks Youtube, Islam is the enemy on Shashdot, along with calls for genocide of Muslims. Users like phoenix321 ask why the masses of Muslims do not rise up and protest. So here is a little test: what happens when our own country starts blocking blogs, or bombs the free press like Al-Jazeera? Nothing but silence from phoenix321 and other bigots, who favour freedom when it involves killing minorities, but not when it involves improving their own country. No condemnations of Christianity or Judiasm.
Also see history of phoenix321, notice this individual never condemns this incident either!
A co-workers once made the same statement to me regarding warrantless wiretapping -- why hide anything if you are not guilty. The response is simple:
- Do you have a daughter?
- Would you mind preparing a binder with photos of her, along with all her diary entries, emails and phone conversations and sending a copy to every police officer in the city?
This will shut up most people.
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+1 Insightful for encouraging killing of Muslims
-1 Troll for Muslims responding to such messages
Pick up a copy of the Wall St Journal and you'll find weekly editorial support of mass-murder policies, be it Abu Gharaib or collective punishment in Gaza. I have yet to see a single Christian or Jewish person speak up against the WSJ campaign. Could you please provide evidence?
Then there is Michael Savage supporting genocide of Muslims http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4yVeEawi-A
Finally, please show some evidence that 9-11 was actively celebrated in the Muslim world. Also show evidence that people were silent, as I saw plenty of letters condemning the incident, including one I wrote myself. Then there was one of the most famous scholars in the US Hamza Yusif, who denounced 9-11 quite openly. That you didnt hear this suggests you get your "news" from either Fox or some KKK website. So get real.
You should know that prosecuting an individual in this country of often little about guilt and more about convictability. Meaning, the yield DAs are measured on is how many people they can convict, not whether these people are guilty or innocent. While I hope and think many DAs feel that guilt=convictability, we have seen from other fields how incentives skew decisions. Note how CEOs think short term to get their options to vest deep in the money, damn the long term implications. So to answer your post -- yes, there is little evidence, but the guy is a nerd and can probably be convicted, and it will make some people in the government look very good, so damn his innocence. Unfortunate, but it seems to happen all the time. On the flip side, if you are rich, good looking, and a socialite, you can get away with drugs, guns, etc. Just check out a typical college campus -- if prep schools were busted the way inner cities are busted, half the school would be in jail on possession charges.
Those peaceful Muslims are probably hiding in the same place where......where Jews are hiding while hundreds of thousands were massacred in Sabra, Shatilla, Gaza...where Christians are hiding while over a million are killed in Iraq
Generally the response to this is some variant of "Well,..those people in Sabra/Shatilla/Jenin/Iraq/Vietnam/etc deserved to die because they were evil..." Well...then, i'd say you arent worthy to speak of peace.
Either speak out against all hate or shut your mouth. You can support Genocide of one people and oppose it when your friends are doing it.
"(God help them if they try to hold me to my contract, since they'll clearly be breaking it by not providing the service they promised)"
Actually, not much will happen to them. Keep in mind, this is the company which calls me, and many other people I know, EVERY SINGLE EVENING. They get around the Federal Do Not Call lists by making the calls from India. They also insist that these callers arent employees, but rather random people who just decided to sell dish network service. Oh, btw, its also the company which telemarkets on mobile phones, which is *highly* illegal, since mobile phone calls cost money.
Then, they electrocute you until you provide the password (at least for Arabs.) Define torture.
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OK, so now that doctors are operating at near-zero profits, malpractice lawyers need a new profession to plunder. Wonderful. Luckily, its much easier to switch out of software than out of medicine (given that one has invested 8+yrs to a career in medicine.) So the smart folks switch out, leaving the weaker folks to create more buggy programs. A race to the bottom!
Well, unlike 1980 or 1990, these days you can have an engineering MS or BS from a top university and STILL end up screwed, because all the entry-level positions have been handed out to HCL, Tata, Infosys, and the like.
in a fair society, venues would be able to set prices at market prices, thus eliminating the need for entities such as stub-hub. However, setting prices at market would likely cause an uproar, so why should anyone have sympathy for organizations/individuals trying to profit from charity to society?
How timely! I am planning to take a trip into Arizona or Colorado this winter *just* to see the unadultered night sky. I'm not entirely sure where to begin -- just drive randomly until i'm in complete darkness? Word of mouth? Any suggestions on how I can finally see the stars for once in my life?!
Yes, Promontory is run by a bunch of ex Administration heads (OCC, FDIC, Fed, etc.) There are about a thousand banks that participate. The place I was working at was the back-end, they do all the logistics for the participant banks.
Shameless plug, as I built most of their tech architecture:-) -- check out Promontory Interfinancial Group's CDARS program. These guys take a regular bank's CD program and extend the FDIC coverage to $50M or more. The rates are basically the same and often higher.
Depends on the market and whether local salaries can support local housing prices. Take NYC -- housing prices continue to rise significantly despire all the market troubles? Why?
- Because the average banker (there are thousands of them) can make $350k these days, at that point, an $850k studio makes perfect sense.
- Because when two bankers, each making even a modest $120k get married, their combined buying power easily affords them a $1M 1B apartment
- Because the worthless dollar allows Brits and Europeans to easily purchase real estate as vacation homes
But overall, yes, I agree, home purchasers will have to whether the storm depending on when they purchased their home and for how much. Otherwise they risk being underwater.
>> Its because making it big is 99% luck and less than 1% hard work.
>> That may be true in Hollywood, but it's not the case in the business world. Every rich person I know worked like crazy for years before they made it, and most of them still work sixty hours or more a week because they got rich doing something they love to do.
This is a logical fallacy. Just because all rich people worked like crazy to make it, doesnt mean that all people who worked like crazy become rich.
There are tens of thousands of people who work very very hard, try to make money, but never become rich.
Seeing the unadultered night sky has been a long time dream of mine. Is there any easy way (other than word-of-mouth knowledge) to find dark places in the US (or elsewhere) where one can go skygazing?
I have unsuccessfully posted this question in the Ask Slashdot section before, but figured this would be a good venue -- I still cannot understand how Sun makes money from Java? It doesn't seem to be a side project, rather quite a large effort on their part...so what's in it for them?
Perhaps once i quit the firm. Anonymous is not really anonymous, as the circle of people who understand processes is quite small. It would be obvious I ratted him out if I did.
"If you work for a publicly traded company or a business that's healthcare related then it is REQUIRED by law that there be a paper trail. There must be documentation of any and all system changes along with authorization from designated personnel. Next time your boss bitches about the paper trail just blame it on SOX/HIPPA and the auditors."
There is the law, and then there is corporate practice. Tell my boss about SOX and he is likely to have you fired before he starts documenting some of what they do.
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When Pakistan Blocks Youtube, Islam is the enemy on Shashdot, along with calls for genocide of Muslims. Users like phoenix321 ask why the masses of Muslims do not rise up and protest.
So here is a little test: what happens when our own country starts blocking blogs, or bombs the free press like Al-Jazeera? Nothing but silence from phoenix321 and other bigots, who favour freedom when it involves killing minorities, but not when it involves improving their own country. No condemnations of Christianity or Judiasm.
Also see history of phoenix321, notice this individual never condemns this incident either!
A co-workers once made the same statement to me regarding warrantless wiretapping -- why hide anything if you are not guilty. The response is simple:
- Do you have a daughter?
- Would you mind preparing a binder with photos of her, along with all her diary entries, emails and phone conversations and sending a copy to every police officer in the city?
This will shut up most people. -----------
/. Mathematics:
+1 Insightful for encouraging killing of Muslims
-1 Troll for Muslims responding to such messages
Pick up a copy of the Wall St Journal and you'll find weekly editorial support of mass-murder policies, be it Abu Gharaib or collective punishment in Gaza. I have yet to see a single Christian or Jewish person speak up against the WSJ campaign. Could you please provide evidence?
Then there is Michael Savage supporting genocide of Muslims http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4yVeEawi-A
Finally, please show some evidence that 9-11 was actively celebrated in the Muslim world. Also show evidence that people were silent, as I saw plenty of letters condemning the incident, including one I wrote myself. Then there was one of the most famous scholars in the US Hamza Yusif, who denounced 9-11 quite openly. That you didnt hear this suggests you get your "news" from either Fox or some KKK website. So get real.
You should know that prosecuting an individual in this country of often little about guilt and more about convictability. Meaning, the yield DAs are measured on is how many people they can convict, not whether these people are guilty or innocent. While I hope and think many DAs feel that guilt=convictability, we have seen from other fields how incentives skew decisions. Note how CEOs think short term to get their options to vest deep in the money, damn the long term implications. So to answer your post -- yes, there is little evidence, but the guy is a nerd and can probably be convicted, and it will make some people in the government look very good, so damn his innocence. Unfortunate, but it seems to happen all the time. On the flip side, if you are rich, good looking, and a socialite, you can get away with drugs, guns, etc. Just check out a typical college campus -- if prep schools were busted the way inner cities are busted, half the school would be in jail on possession charges.
Those peaceful Muslims are probably hiding in the same place where... ...where Jews are hiding while hundreds of thousands were massacred in Sabra, Shatilla, Gaza ...where Christians are hiding while over a million are killed in Iraq
Generally the response to this is some variant of "Well,..those people in Sabra/Shatilla/Jenin/Iraq/Vietnam/etc deserved to die because they were evil..." Well...then, i'd say you arent worthy to speak of peace.
Either speak out against all hate or shut your mouth. You can support Genocide of one people and oppose it when your friends are doing it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust
QED
"(God help them if they try to hold me to my contract, since they'll clearly be breaking it by not providing the service they promised)" Actually, not much will happen to them. Keep in mind, this is the company which calls me, and many other people I know, EVERY SINGLE EVENING. They get around the Federal Do Not Call lists by making the calls from India. They also insist that these callers arent employees, but rather random people who just decided to sell dish network service. Oh, btw, its also the company which telemarkets on mobile phones, which is *highly* illegal, since mobile phone calls cost money.
Big difference. 10 years ago, democrats were in office.
Then, they electrocute you until you provide the password (at least for Arabs.) Define torture.
OK, so now that doctors are operating at near-zero profits, malpractice lawyers need a new profession to plunder. Wonderful.
Luckily, its much easier to switch out of software than out of medicine (given that one has invested 8+yrs to a career in medicine.) So the smart folks switch out, leaving the weaker folks to create more buggy programs. A race to the bottom!
Well, unlike 1980 or 1990, these days you can have an engineering MS or BS from a top university and STILL end up screwed, because all the entry-level positions have been handed out to HCL, Tata, Infosys, and the like.
in a fair society, venues would be able to set prices at market prices, thus eliminating the need for entities such as stub-hub. However, setting prices at market would likely cause an uproar, so why should anyone have sympathy for organizations/individuals trying to profit from charity to society?
How timely! I am planning to take a trip into Arizona or Colorado this winter *just* to see the unadultered night sky. I'm not entirely sure where to begin -- just drive randomly until i'm in complete darkness? Word of mouth? Any suggestions on how I can finally see the stars for once in my life?!
Yes, Promontory is run by a bunch of ex Administration heads (OCC, FDIC, Fed, etc.) There are about a thousand banks that participate. The place I was working at was the back-end, they do all the logistics for the participant banks.
Shameless plug, as I built most of their tech architecture :-) -- check out Promontory Interfinancial Group's CDARS program. These guys take a regular bank's CD program and extend the FDIC coverage to $50M or more. The rates are basically the same and often higher.
Depends on the market and whether local salaries can support local housing prices. Take NYC -- housing prices continue to rise significantly despire all the market troubles? Why? - Because the average banker (there are thousands of them) can make $350k these days, at that point, an $850k studio makes perfect sense. - Because when two bankers, each making even a modest $120k get married, their combined buying power easily affords them a $1M 1B apartment - Because the worthless dollar allows Brits and Europeans to easily purchase real estate as vacation homes But overall, yes, I agree, home purchasers will have to whether the storm depending on when they purchased their home and for how much. Otherwise they risk being underwater.
>> Its because making it big is 99% luck and less than 1% hard work.
>> That may be true in Hollywood, but it's not the case in the business world. Every rich person I know worked like crazy for years before they made it, and most of them still work sixty hours or more a week because they got rich doing something they love to do.
This is a logical fallacy. Just because all rich people worked like crazy to make it, doesnt mean that all people who worked like crazy become rich.
There are tens of thousands of people who work very very hard, try to make money, but never become rich.
Bigger bonus if the lights can spell out the name of the perpetrator!
Seeing the unadultered night sky has been a long time dream of mine. Is there any easy way (other than word-of-mouth knowledge) to find dark places in the US (or elsewhere) where one can go skygazing?
Unless you are the cab driver who has to front 2-5% in credit card merchant charges...
I have unsuccessfully posted this question in the Ask Slashdot section before, but figured this would be a good venue -- I still cannot understand how Sun makes money from Java? It doesn't seem to be a side project, rather quite a large effort on their part...so what's in it for them?
Perhaps once i quit the firm. Anonymous is not really anonymous, as the circle of people who understand processes is quite small. It would be obvious I ratted him out if I did.
"If you work for a publicly traded company or a business that's healthcare related then it is REQUIRED by law that there be a paper trail. There must be documentation of any and all system changes along with authorization from designated personnel. Next time your boss bitches about the paper trail just blame it on SOX/HIPPA and the auditors."
There is the law, and then there is corporate practice. Tell my boss about SOX and he is likely to have you fired before he starts documenting some of what they do.
What is the current equivalent of having to show passports to enter a park?
Ah...no wonder these .info domains sell so cheap...!