Oh I totally agree with you. Microsoft will look for any loophole to drive their monopoly through.
But I still wouldn't want to do business with someone who can gore me without the rules being crystal clear. The second fine occasion by the EU had just a bit of "I don't care what we said, this is what we meant" to it. The problem is that under those rules, words can mean anything they want them to mean. And that is why we have laws and why they are so precise.
Some of the stuff with the media player seemed a bit arbitrary to me.
I hate microsoft. I use open office. I try linux now and again but it's still not there for me but most of my tools are now on linux so when I finally make it, the pain will be less.
Still, I think the most effective thing they can do is put the new operating system before the EU and ask them to raise any issues before it goes on sale so microsoft can fix them.
As much as I hate Microsoft, think they are truly evil abusive monopolist scum, and also think part of what you say is probably true...
Do you want to do business with someone who can hit you for billion dollar fines unless the rules are absolutely crystal clear and carved in stone?
To me, as a microsoft basher, EU seemed very aggressive on this (to make a point that they were not kidding). The first fine was probably a "cost of doing business". The second set of fines was pretty harsh and got M$'s attention. So now M$ will want to know *very* clearly where the line is so they do not even get near it.
The box cutters worked because for 40 years, hijackers took the planes, landed them and made demands. So the logical behavior was to wait it out and not provoke them.
At this point, a sub-machinegun wouldn't work. People are going to swarm you because they realize you are taking them for a horrible burning death anyway.
This only works if you follow it through completely.
To follow it through completely would involve killing millions of people in scores of countries.
To follow it through completely would put us into a war to the death with china and russia both of whom still have the power to exterminate us if they are willing to die too.
It does work- and if we lose a city to a nuke, america (and other western countries) have shown we are just a thin line away from incredible barbarity. We would probably tell China and Russia to get the hell out of the way or start firing the nukes now because nothing would stop our insane anger at that point.
We won't be the first to fire but once wounded, we can be inhuman until the other side makes it completely clear that they really do completely surrender.
The problem being that as time goes on, it takes smaller and smaller groups of nutjobs to kill millions.
The cowboys get voted out next election- despite that, I'm pretty bleak about the future. Maybe I'll be lucky and die before it gets nasty.
Given that corporations are essentially immortal sociopaths, I think their structures *select* for sociopaths or people who are comfortable being in a sociopathic structure.
Only "young" corporations do not show these traits.
It is possible to be honest/noble but you won't get campaign contributions from the corporations (so you must be in line with a sociopathic agenda to get funding). The lust for power is very corrupting- even of people who start out good. A lot of idealistic republicans broke their word over term limits because they came to think they were more important than they really were.
Seems like a couple moon size solar reflectors could bring the temperature up. Of course they might be pulled away by solar wind. I guess you would have to turn it perpendicular to the solar wind every once in a while and tow it back into place.
The soldiers in question should have been taken out and shot and so should their CIA backers.
They betrayed america in their actions. They betrayed everything we are taught as children about being the shining light on the hill.
As for the rest, I *can't* believe you. I've seen too much evidence that too many islamics think it is okay to lie to me because I'm not islamic. Everything you say is suspect. Everything you seem to sincerely say may be a very sincere lie.
I can't bloody take your word for anything because large numbers of islamics have established that their word isn't worth anything. They get upset about attacking on holy day- we stupidly respect that custom and then they attack us, and their own people on holy days. Excuse me, but WTF?
Worldwide muslim leaders openly condemning terrorists *isn't good enough*. Don't you get it? It is OKAY for them to lie to us since we are non-believers. Every time they say something like that and then we catch them saying something else in their own language or in the privacy of their mosques or we repeatedly catch them teaching their children this crap, it is just another nail in the coffin of EVER believing any damn thing they say.
When you caught the christian racists in this kind of crap, they were ashamed and embarassed and lost political power because they were caught being hypocrites.
And you can't just *say* you aren't going to lie. This has taken decades to build up to where it is. This is scores of incidents of lies piled on lies. You are going to have to be painfully truthful to a fault- and rip out the wahabi inspired text books and start repeatedly helping turn in anyone that hints that they want to kill non-islamics- and stop stoning women- and stop burning schoolgirls to death- and start forgiving and forgetting and stop killing. Not just for a year- but for at least a couple decades.
Am I perfect? No. Is the west perfect? No. But pointing at our faults to distract people from your problems is not going keep working much longer because people are getting tired of all this crap and 13 year olds being blown into small bloody pieces and isreal giving up land and still getting attacked and the constant lying. Do I really give a crap about isreal- no. Did they kill our people on that ship- sure. Are they nice people- not any nicer than other average people.
I like living in a nice multi-cultural environment where the jew, the hindi, the muslim, and I can all work on a project together, discuss sports, and then go home and worship in our own chosen way. That takes toleration *built in* by a shared common public school system. It doesn't work with 13 year olds born and raised in this country saying they have no loyalty to it- their only loyalty is to islam and allah.
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Just closing- your statements are reasonable. I *wish* I could believe them. Perhaps 10 years ago, I would have just done so and taken them at face value. It is terrible of me to stereotype a group of people based on a subset. But the subset is so big that it is becoming compelling. Islamics have cried wolf so many times, I'd probably be eaten by the wolf rather than check the gate again.
No of course I don't have to convert-- I do have to pay extra taxes, have less rights than islamics, and I'm generally cut off from having a decent life-- I'd rather not be a dhimmi thanks just the same.
And of course this is my likely fate under a "gentle" quran... "Then when the Sacred Months (the 1st, 7th, 11th, and 12th months of the Islamic calendar) have passed, then kill the Mushrikoon (idolaters, polytheists, pagans, the disbelievers in the Oneness of God, etc) wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and lie in wait for them in each and every ambush. But if they repent [by rejecting Shirk (polytheism) and accept Islamic Monotheism] and perform As-Salaah (Iqaamat-as-Salaah), and give Zakaah, then leave their way free. Verily, Allaah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful". (Quran 9:5)
The Bible has a lot to say about bearing false witness: God is against it. False witnesses, the Bible says, will not go unpunished. For those who fear God, the warnings and admonitions about bearing false witness are serious--and they act as a check against the human tendency to lie and spread malicious gossip. That's why we take oaths.
The Quran has a helpful verse on this: "Truly Allah guides not one who transgresses and lies." Surah 40:28
However, unlike most religions, within Islam there are certain provisions under which lying is not simply tolerated, but actually encouraged. The book "The spirit of Islam," by the Muslim scholar, Afif A. Tabbarah was written to promote Islam. On page 247, Tabbarah stated: "Lying is not always bad, to be sure; there are times when telling a lie is more profitable and better for the general welfare, and for the settlement of conciliation among people, than telling the truth. To this effect, the Prophet says: 'He is not a false person who (through lies) settles conciliation among people, supports good or says what is good."
Provisions for lying in Islam
Most Muslims are familiar with the principles of Islam that will justify lying in situations where they sense the need to do so. Among these are:
* War is deception.
* The necessities justify the forbidden.
* If faced by two evils, choose the lesser of the two.
" Allah will not call you to account for what is futile in your oaths, but He will call you to account for your deliberate oaths: for expiation, feed ten indigent persons, on a scale of the average for the food of your families; or clothe them; or give a slave his freedom. If that is beyond your means, fast for three days. That is the expiation for the oaths ye have sworn. But keep to your oaths. Thus doth Allah make clear to you His signs, that ye may be grateful." Surah 5:89
"Allah will not call you to account for thoughtlessness (vain) in your oaths, but for the intention in your hearts; and He is Oft-forgiving, Most Forbearing." Surah 2:225
"Any one who, after accepting faith in Allah, utters Unbelief, except under compulsion, his heart remaining firm in Faith - but such as open their breast to Unbelief, on them is Wrath from Allah, and theirs will be a dreadful Penalty." Surah 16: 106
The noted Islamic commentator, Al-Tabary explained Surah 16:106 as a verse that had been revealed to Mohammed after he learned that Ammar Ibn Yasser was forced to deny his faith in Mohammed when kidnapped by the Banu Moghera tribe. Mohammed consoled Ammar by telling him, "If they turned, you turn." (Meaning: if they again capture you, you are allowed to deny me again.)
They didn't know how to use nuclear bombs, gene engineer plagues, and kill several hundred people with one.
They were a *lot* less efficient back then.
Picture those insane christians-- but with nuclear weapons, sarin gass, bombs, and flu/ebola.
No one is saying that muslims have a monopoly on violence throughout history. Being human is the necessary qualification for being able to kill millions of other humans.
I am saying: NOW- TODAY- the muslim religion, combined with the money and technology that it has poses the greatest threat to human existance that we have ever faced. I do not think they can quite exterminate all life- but they have large numbers who are willing to do it, HUGE numbers who are willing to finance them (even a lot of american islamics funded dubious "charities" until we shut that down (and probably didn't really shut it down- just diverted it), and the kicker is- 90% of islamics seem to condone ANY act of violence by islamics.
SO you have 1% capable of killing men, women, children, old, islamic, jew, christian, hindu- anyliving thing that doesn't follow their version of islam, then you have 20 to 30% who actively support those 1% with funds, and then you have 60 to 70% who wouldn't turn them in and do not oppose them, and who allow toxic "kill non-human non-islamic" text books in their islamic schools.
These are people who would prefer young girls burn to death over being seen out of a burka. They are *insane*. Even the "reasonable" ones show hints of insanity if you know how to fish it out of them.
And then we have the basic tenet of the religion-- It is morally okay with god to lie if the other person is not an islamic.
That's why you could work with christians since at least the 1600's- they had a basic ethical code put in them as children that gave them some sympathy for non-christians. They have a basically "law abiding and be kind to strangers" meme even if they do belive in invisible pink elephants.
And everyone is so blind with PC that they won't confront the islamics on this issue.
ONLY islam can clean islam. If islam doesn't clean islam, then we are inevitably headed to a massive war with huge consequences.
The only way islam is going to clean islam is when we start putting pressure on the moderates to open their damn eyes, start reporting wackos who talk about killing non islamics (as HAPPENED in britain with the planes), and stop teaching the "silent jihad" crap to their kids, and stop teaching their kids that non-islamics are not really human.
WE get it. Even in my dark mood, I recognize that islamics are HUMANS that we COULD get a long with. The problem is that they are raising TOXIC children. What can you do with 7 year olds who are cheering in the streets because complete strangers from many countries are dead? (That's the point the palistenians lost me for life).
Islam is turning into a fascist death cult right before our eyes. We stop it now- or it is going to get bloody messy.
Does anyone doubt that there are large numbers of islamics who would not hesitate to use nukes?
We can all pretend to be nice but once a city goes up in flames, the gloves are going to come off.
How about we get a backbone and STOP THIS SHIT before it destroys everyone?
No. I get cut out of some social circles. I get gentle pressure to convert. I'm still treated civilly and christians don't go around killing non believers like they did during the spanish inquisition.
Yes- christians *were* insane murderers at one point- but the core of their teachings these days is love thy neighbor and they help a lot of people who don't believe like they do.
Most islamic types I've dealt with a) fail to get upset of muslim types killing non-muslims (and blame muslims killing muslims on the west) and b) do believe by hook or crook they are going to impose islam on the world and the islamic code of laws.
I think the problem is allowing home schooling in the US. If you do not get to humans while they are kids, then they can grow up to be monsters. This is a problem with christian home schooling as well. And some of the christian home schoolers raise some barely sane children as well.
The government has to propagandize young citizens into a basic secular society or the sharp knives are going to come out at some point.
There are terrorists in all faiths, including atheist, and pro plant/animal. However, there are just a huge number of islamic terrorists right now. And a lot of non-terrorists who are not condeming the bad guys much yet.
A company with multiple billions of dollars could probably spend a few years installing one of their own as a "king" of threatening projects. Ideally, s/he would be 90% legitimate but make certain critical decisions that crippled the projects.
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Oh I totally agree with you. Microsoft will look for any loophole to drive their monopoly through.
But I still wouldn't want to do business with someone who can gore me without the rules being crystal clear. The second fine occasion by the EU had just a bit of "I don't care what we said, this is what we meant" to it. The problem is that under those rules, words can mean anything they want them to mean. And that is why we have laws and why they are so precise.
Not really.
Some of the stuff with the media player seemed a bit arbitrary to me.
I hate microsoft. I use open office. I try linux now and again but it's still not there for me but most of my tools are now on linux so when I finally make it, the pain will be less.
Still, I think the most effective thing they can do is put the new operating system before the EU and ask them to raise any issues before it goes on sale so microsoft can fix them.
As much as I hate Microsoft, think they are truly evil abusive monopolist scum, and also think part of what you say is probably true...
Do you want to do business with someone who can hit you for billion dollar fines unless the rules are absolutely crystal clear and carved in stone?
To me, as a microsoft basher, EU seemed very aggressive on this (to make a point that they were not kidding). The first fine was probably a "cost of doing business". The second set of fines was pretty harsh and got M$'s attention. So now M$ will want to know *very* clearly where the line is so they do not even get near it.
The box cutters worked because for 40 years, hijackers took the planes, landed them and made demands. So the logical behavior was to wait it out and not provoke them.
At this point, a sub-machinegun wouldn't work. People are going to swarm you because they realize you are taking them for a horrible burning death anyway.
Is why FEDEX or UPS doesn't set up an envelope station RIGHT there.
If an item is going to be confiscated, you fill out the envelope, drop the item in it and then drop that into a fedex pickup box.
Problem solved.
This only works if you follow it through completely.
To follow it through completely would involve killing millions of people in scores of countries.
To follow it through completely would put us into a war to the death with china and russia both of whom still have the power to exterminate us if they are willing to die too.
It does work- and if we lose a city to a nuke, america (and other western countries) have shown we are just a thin line away from incredible barbarity. We would probably tell China and Russia to get the hell out of the way or start firing the nukes now because nothing would stop our insane anger at that point.
We won't be the first to fire but once wounded, we can be inhuman until the other side makes it completely clear that they really do completely surrender.
The problem being that as time goes on, it takes smaller and smaller groups of nutjobs to kill millions.
The cowboys get voted out next election- despite that, I'm pretty bleak about the future. Maybe I'll be lucky and die before it gets nasty.
Mostly agree with you.
Given that corporations are essentially immortal sociopaths, I think their structures *select* for sociopaths or people who are comfortable being in a sociopathic structure.
Only "young" corporations do not show these traits.
It is possible to be honest/noble but you won't get campaign contributions from the corporations (so you must be in line with a sociopathic agenda to get funding). The lust for power is very corrupting- even of people who start out good. A lot of idealistic republicans broke their word over term limits because they came to think they were more important than they really were.
As much as I do think that they really are out to get us...
Everything you say is unfortunately spot on.
Seems like a couple moon size solar reflectors could bring the temperature up. Of course they might be pulled away by solar wind. I guess you would have to turn it perpendicular to the solar wind every once in a while and tow it back into place.
What I want is a web site that will throw off the bridge of death.
It was more than disgust.
The soldiers in question should have been taken out and shot and so should their CIA backers.
They betrayed america in their actions. They betrayed everything we are taught as children about being the shining light on the hill.
As for the rest, I *can't* believe you. I've seen too much evidence that too many islamics think it is okay to lie to me because I'm not islamic. Everything you say is suspect. Everything you seem to sincerely say may be a very sincere lie.
I can't bloody take your word for anything because large numbers of islamics have established that their word isn't worth anything. They get upset about attacking on holy day- we stupidly respect that custom and then they attack us, and their own people on holy days. Excuse me, but WTF?
Worldwide muslim leaders openly condemning terrorists *isn't good enough*. Don't you get it? It is OKAY for them to lie to us since we are non-believers. Every time they say something like that and then we catch them saying something else in their own language or in the privacy of their mosques or we repeatedly catch them teaching their children this crap, it is just another nail in the coffin of EVER believing any damn thing they say.
When you caught the christian racists in this kind of crap, they were ashamed and embarassed and lost political power because they were caught being hypocrites.
And you can't just *say* you aren't going to lie. This has taken decades to build up to where it is. This is scores of incidents of lies piled on lies. You are going to have to be painfully truthful to a fault- and rip out the wahabi inspired text books and start repeatedly helping turn in anyone that hints that they want to kill non-islamics- and stop stoning women- and stop burning schoolgirls to death- and start forgiving and forgetting and stop killing. Not just for a year- but for at least a couple decades.
Am I perfect? No. Is the west perfect? No.
But pointing at our faults to distract people from your problems is not going keep working much longer because people are getting tired of all this crap and 13 year olds being blown into small bloody pieces and isreal giving up land and still getting attacked and the constant lying. Do I really give a crap about isreal- no. Did they kill our people on that ship- sure. Are they nice people- not any nicer than other average people.
I like living in a nice multi-cultural environment where the jew, the hindi, the muslim, and I can all work on a project together, discuss sports, and then go home and worship in our own chosen way. That takes toleration *built in* by a shared common public school system. It doesn't work with 13 year olds born and raised in this country saying they have no loyalty to it- their only loyalty is to islam and allah.
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Just closing- your statements are reasonable. I *wish* I could believe them. Perhaps 10 years ago, I would have just done so and taken them at face value. It is terrible of me to stereotype a group of people based on a subset. But the subset is so big that it is becoming compelling. Islamics have cried wolf so many times, I'd probably be eaten by the wolf rather than check the gate again.
No of course I don't have to convert-- I do have to pay extra taxes, have less rights than islamics, and I'm generally cut off from having a decent life-- I'd rather not be a dhimmi thanks just the same.
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Of course as a non-believer, it would be more like:
http://www.atheistfoundation.org.au/islamwhitewash
At least I'm not a woman.
And of course this is my likely fate under a "gentle" quran...
"Then when the Sacred Months (the 1st, 7th, 11th, and 12th months of the Islamic calendar) have passed, then kill the Mushrikoon (idolaters, polytheists, pagans, the disbelievers in the Oneness of God, etc) wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and lie in wait for them in each and every ambush. But if they repent [by rejecting Shirk (polytheism) and accept Islamic Monotheism] and perform As-Salaah (Iqaamat-as-Salaah), and give Zakaah, then leave their way free. Verily, Allaah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful". (Quran 9:5)
The Bible has a lot to say about bearing false witness: God is against it. False witnesses, the Bible says, will not go unpunished. For those who fear God, the warnings and admonitions about bearing false witness are serious--and they act as a check against the human tendency to lie and spread malicious gossip. That's why we take oaths.
The Quran has a helpful verse on this: "Truly Allah guides not one who transgresses and lies." Surah 40:28
However from here:
http://www.islamreview.com/articles/lyingprint.htm
However, unlike most religions, within Islam there are certain provisions under which lying is not simply tolerated, but actually encouraged. The book "The spirit of Islam," by the Muslim scholar, Afif A. Tabbarah was written to promote Islam. On page 247, Tabbarah stated: "Lying is not always bad, to be sure; there are times when telling a lie is more profitable and better for the general welfare, and for the settlement of conciliation among people, than telling the truth. To this effect, the Prophet says: 'He is not a false person who (through lies) settles conciliation among people, supports good or says what is good."
Provisions for lying in Islam
Most Muslims are familiar with the principles of Islam that will justify lying in situations where they sense the need to do so. Among these are:
* War is deception.
* The necessities justify the forbidden.
* If faced by two evils, choose the lesser of the two.
" Allah will not call you to account for what is futile in your oaths, but He will call you to account for your deliberate oaths: for expiation, feed ten indigent persons, on a scale of the average for the food of your families; or clothe them; or give a slave his freedom. If that is beyond your means, fast for three days. That is the expiation for the oaths ye have sworn. But keep to your oaths. Thus doth Allah make clear to you His signs, that ye may be grateful." Surah 5:89
"Allah will not call you to account for thoughtlessness (vain) in your oaths, but for the intention in your hearts; and He is Oft-forgiving, Most Forbearing." Surah 2:225
"Any one who, after accepting faith in Allah, utters Unbelief, except under compulsion, his heart remaining firm in Faith - but such as open their breast to Unbelief, on them is Wrath from Allah, and theirs will be a dreadful Penalty." Surah 16: 106
The noted Islamic commentator, Al-Tabary explained Surah 16:106 as a verse that had been revealed to Mohammed after he learned that Ammar Ibn Yasser was forced to deny his faith in Mohammed when kidnapped by the Banu Moghera tribe. Mohammed consoled Ammar by telling him, "If they turned, you turn." (Meaning: if they again capture you, you are allowed to deny me again.)
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Hmmm..
"Be a patriot: Murder a Republican."
Not that I vote for republicans, but I think you are so far extreme left that you can't see reality.
They didn't know how to use nuclear bombs, gene engineer plagues, and kill several hundred people with one.
They were a *lot* less efficient back then.
Picture those insane christians-- but with nuclear weapons, sarin gass, bombs, and flu/ebola.
No one is saying that muslims have a monopoly on violence throughout history. Being human is the necessary qualification for being able to kill millions of other humans.
I am saying: NOW- TODAY- the muslim religion, combined with the money and technology that it has poses the greatest threat to human existance that we have ever faced. I do not think they can quite exterminate all life- but they have large numbers who are willing to do it, HUGE numbers who are willing to finance them (even a lot of american islamics funded dubious "charities" until we shut that down (and probably didn't really shut it down- just diverted it), and the kicker is- 90% of islamics seem to condone ANY act of violence by islamics.
SO you have 1% capable of killing men, women, children, old, islamic, jew, christian, hindu- anyliving thing that doesn't follow their version of islam, then you have 20 to 30% who actively support those 1% with funds, and then you have 60 to 70% who wouldn't turn them in and do not oppose them, and who allow toxic "kill non-human non-islamic" text books in their islamic schools.
These are people who would prefer young girls burn to death over being seen out of a burka. They are *insane*. Even the "reasonable" ones show hints of insanity if you know how to fish it out of them.
And then we have the basic tenet of the religion-- It is morally okay with god to lie if the other person is not an islamic.
That's why you could work with christians since at least the 1600's- they had a basic ethical code put in them as children that gave them some sympathy for non-christians. They have a basically "law abiding and be kind to strangers" meme even if they do belive in invisible pink elephants.
And everyone is so blind with PC that they won't confront the islamics on this issue.
ONLY islam can clean islam. If islam doesn't clean islam, then we are inevitably headed to a massive war with huge consequences.
The only way islam is going to clean islam is when we start putting pressure on the moderates to open their damn eyes, start reporting wackos who talk about killing non islamics (as HAPPENED in britain with the planes), and stop teaching the "silent jihad" crap to their kids, and stop teaching their kids that non-islamics are not really human.
WE get it. Even in my dark mood, I recognize that islamics are HUMANS that we COULD get a long with. The problem is that they are raising TOXIC children. What can you do with 7 year olds who are cheering in the streets because complete strangers from many countries are dead? (That's the point the palistenians lost me for life).
Islam is turning into a fascist death cult right before our eyes. We stop it now- or it is going to get bloody messy.
Does anyone doubt that there are large numbers of islamics who would not hesitate to use nukes?
We can all pretend to be nice but once a city goes up in flames, the gloves are going to come off.
How about we get a backbone and STOP THIS SHIT before it destroys everyone?
No.
I get cut out of some social circles.
I get gentle pressure to convert.
I'm still treated civilly and christians don't go around killing non believers like they did during the spanish inquisition.
Yes- christians *were* insane murderers at one point- but the core of their teachings these days is love thy neighbor and they help a lot of people who don't believe like they do.
Most islamic types I've dealt with a) fail to get upset of muslim types killing non-muslims (and blame muslims killing muslims on the west) and b) do believe by hook or crook they are going to impose islam on the world and the islamic code of laws.
I think the problem is allowing home schooling in the US. If you do not get to humans while they are kids, then they can grow up to be monsters. This is a problem with christian home schooling as well. And some of the christian home schoolers raise some barely sane children as well.
The government has to propagandize young citizens into a basic secular society or the sharp knives are going to come out at some point.
Yes there are.
I'm not christian.
Christians are a hell of a lot safer for my existance than most muslim types.
I've both worked directly with "nice" muslims and done a lot of reading about them.
They are some of the most dangerous 1.3billion people in the history of the planet in my opinion as an atheist/agnostic.
The russians and chinese were at least sane.
Of course, this wiki page:g anisations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_or
implies differently in answer to his question of which is more likely.
There are terrorists in all faiths, including atheist, and pro plant/animal.
However, there are just a huge number of islamic terrorists right now. And a lot of non-terrorists who are not condeming the bad guys much yet.
I'm sorry we exist and don't believe in Allah.
Because if we either convert to islam or cease to exist then they won't kill us.
Oh wait, islamic types kill each other over tiny differences- even taking each other out of hospitals and shooting us in the head.
I guess our option is to just cease to exist.
Could there be any other option? I'm thinking hard here...
Okay...
But you can't sell 1 million monopoly money for $221 cash. You can sell mmorg money (EQ) for this.
I'd pay good money for a parakeet that could crochet!
(or a frog that could talk...)
He was just trying to be a bit witty- no way that was a troll.
Hmm.
A company with multiple billions of dollars could probably spend a few years installing one of their own as a "king" of threatening projects. Ideally, s/he would be 90% legitimate but make certain critical decisions that crippled the projects.
Good improvement and I think you are right- we react better to being fooled than to be ing told the truth.
Hmmm.
The irony of a post saying lots of people want something...
in a thread about an article talking about how NO ONE BLOODY WANTS IT.
HD is better- but DVD rocks. When HD is $100, and HD movies are $15-- we'll buy it.