It seems very few people realize that the cartoons are offensive to Muslims for at least these two reasons: 1) that any sort of image of Mohammed is forbidden in Islam, and 2) not only are these images of him, but they depict him in such a negative fashion. An equivalent sort of offense for Christians might be having Jesus as a character who engages in casual sex on a mainstream sitcom - that is, linking a major figure in the religion to a caricature of the culture.
Additionally, people forget that in many Muslim and Arab countries, speech and the press are severely restricted by the government - thus why the population thinks it's reasonable to ask the Danish government to apologize. Literacy rates are also a lot lower that in the West, and street demonstrations are a very common medium of expression. That they turn violent is not suprising, and probably has a lot less to do with Islam than it does with political figures taking advantage of the angry crowds to promote their own anti-Western agenda.
Nor can I spell worth a flip - in a written media it can really hamper me (to get the grammar and spelling correct for this post would take me several hours of work going from a browser to a word processor).
The gramar and speling on your post is beter then most on Slahsdot.
Sorry, I missed the rule that says only Linux is capable of "breathing life into older computers." Just because the article is about Linux doesn't mean FreeDOS is OT. No one jumped on the NetBSD guy. The whole point is that there are many operating system options that can make obsolete hardware somewhat useful again.
I don't know, I've got you beat in some respects... I've got a Compaq SLT/386-20 (20 MHz 386 Laptop) with 7 MB RAM and a 100 MB Hard drive... 19.2 kbps modem and a parallel to ethernet adaptor. It's running FreeDOS right now, and coming in quite handy, especially with the bsflite (AIM for DOS) program.
I sure hope it's better than the Roomba at its job... a friend of mine had one of those a year or two ago. It always managed to get itself stuck behind shoes, and didn't even do that good of a job vacuuming the floor.
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1551 TURNER Herbal I. Kv, We haue no herbe in Englande that I knowe to whome all thes hole descriptions do agre."
From the same page:
"The objective case of WHO: no longer current in natural colloquial speech."
So while he might've been able to get away with 'to whome' 450 years ago, I don't ever recall 'worth' being a verb (at least not with his intended meaning). As a whole, the grammar (or lack thereof) of that post is fascinating. I hope he is not a native speaker.
I'm not being weird here, but if you're in public you don't have a right to privacy. That's why it's called public and not private.
I'm familiar with the 'no expectation of privacy in a public place' concept, but just as some disagree that the police ought to be able to place a GPS tracking device on your vehicle with a warrant, there comes a point where the tracking becomes too intrusive. Also, residence halls are limited to residents, much like an apartment building. I'm not sure how the law works regarding this, but we pay room and board on campus and have certain rights - for example, while we have to answer our door if a resident assistant comes knocking, we are not required to let them into our room.
A big issue is the fact that in responding to our public information requests, they claimed they had no information on policies regarding access to the log data - basically, this means they have no (legal) record of who can see where we go and when. I find that a bit odd. I'm sure a health insurance company would like to get a look at how often students visit the dining hall versus the gym...
I'm an undergrad student in the University of Maryland system. I managed to write some simple C and Perl programs a while back for a reader I obtained, and ran quite a few cards through them. I found that our university issued ID cards have our social security numbers stored on them, unencrypted. A friend filed some public information request acts requesting to know if the university stored data such as the time and locations of card swipes, and if that data was attached to the student in any way. After initially denying this, the university eventually admitted that they do store data, and sent the guy a copy of his records, which indicate to the second when and where he swiped his card, in addition to when he went to the gym, how much he bought at the dining halls, etc. So much for privacy. I'm no engineer or programmer, and I was able to do this fairly easily; it can't be that hard to build an intercept and install it within a reader that's attached to a door, and voila - hundreds of SSNs. We're trying to contact some people in the school media and administration and have something done.
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It seems very few people realize that the cartoons are offensive to Muslims for at least these two reasons: 1) that any sort of image of Mohammed is forbidden in Islam, and 2) not only are these images of him, but they depict him in such a negative fashion. An equivalent sort of offense for Christians might be having Jesus as a character who engages in casual sex on a mainstream sitcom - that is, linking a major figure in the religion to a caricature of the culture.
Additionally, people forget that in many Muslim and Arab countries, speech and the press are severely restricted by the government - thus why the population thinks it's reasonable to ask the Danish government to apologize. Literacy rates are also a lot lower that in the West, and street demonstrations are a very common medium of expression. That they turn violent is not suprising, and probably has a lot less to do with Islam than it does with political figures taking advantage of the angry crowds to promote their own anti-Western agenda.
In my dictionary, fatalism is the inability to cope with change.
In my dictionary (the OED), fatalism is the doctrine that all things are determined by fate.
Nor can I spell worth a flip - in a written media it can really hamper me (to get the grammar and spelling correct for this post would take me several hours of work going from a browser to a word processor).
The gramar and speling on your post is beter then most on Slahsdot.
Sorry, I missed the rule that says only Linux is capable of "breathing life into older computers." Just because the article is about Linux doesn't mean FreeDOS is OT. No one jumped on the NetBSD guy. The whole point is that there are many operating system options that can make obsolete hardware somewhat useful again.
I don't know, I've got you beat in some respects... I've got a Compaq SLT/386-20 (20 MHz 386 Laptop) with 7 MB RAM and a 100 MB Hard drive... 19.2 kbps modem and a parallel to ethernet adaptor. It's running FreeDOS right now, and coming in quite handy, especially with the bsflite (AIM for DOS) program.
In the Latin I've read, the ablative absolute isn't able to be used as a replacement for the gerund.
Insightful?! WTF!
I sure hope it's better than the Roomba at its job... a friend of mine had one of those a year or two ago. It always managed to get itself stuck behind shoes, and didn't even do that good of a job vacuuming the floor.
So how come originis isn't in the ablative (origine) as the object of the preposition ab?
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"whom, pron.
Forms: [snip] 4-7 whome [snip]
1551 TURNER Herbal I. Kv, We haue no herbe in Englande that I knowe to whome all thes hole descriptions do agre."
From the same page:
"The objective case of WHO: no longer current in natural colloquial speech."
So while he might've been able to get away with 'to whome' 450 years ago, I don't ever recall 'worth' being a verb (at least not with his intended meaning). As a whole, the grammar (or lack thereof) of that post is fascinating. I hope he is not a native speaker.
I'm not being weird here, but if you're in public you don't have a right to privacy. That's why it's called public and not private.
I'm familiar with the 'no expectation of privacy in a public place' concept, but just as some disagree that the police ought to be able to place a GPS tracking device on your vehicle with a warrant, there comes a point where the tracking becomes too intrusive. Also, residence halls are limited to residents, much like an apartment building. I'm not sure how the law works regarding this, but we pay room and board on campus and have certain rights - for example, while we have to answer our door if a resident assistant comes knocking, we are not required to let them into our room.
A big issue is the fact that in responding to our public information requests, they claimed they had no information on policies regarding access to the log data - basically, this means they have no (legal) record of who can see where we go and when. I find that a bit odd. I'm sure a health insurance company would like to get a look at how often students visit the dining hall versus the gym...
I'm an undergrad student in the University of Maryland system. I managed to write some simple C and Perl programs a while back for a reader I obtained, and ran quite a few cards through them. I found that our university issued ID cards have our social security numbers stored on them, unencrypted. A friend filed some public information request acts requesting to know if the university stored data such as the time and locations of card swipes, and if that data was attached to the student in any way. After initially denying this, the university eventually admitted that they do store data, and sent the guy a copy of his records, which indicate to the second when and where he swiped his card, in addition to when he went to the gym, how much he bought at the dining halls, etc. So much for privacy. I'm no engineer or programmer, and I was able to do this fairly easily; it can't be that hard to build an intercept and install it within a reader that's attached to a door, and voila - hundreds of SSNs. We're trying to contact some people in the school media and administration and have something done.