Whenever someone says "4G" half the time all I hear is "orgy".
Look on the bright side, it could have been the other way round. Just imagine you had turned down an invitation to an orgy thinking that the beautiful girl asking was trying to sell a phone contract
i think it is important that we remember that this is what Islam stands for. Not extremist Islam or a fringe, but exactly what the warlord Muhammad taught. read the Qur'an and you will see many explicit instructions to behead "enemies of Islam" and take women as sex slaves. All Muslims are instructed to subdue non muslims, and give them the choice of living as second class citizens and paying a punitive tax, converting to islam, or being killed.
Well there are thought to be Twice as Many' British Muslims Fighting for ISIS Than in UK Armed Forces, and a survey a number of years ago showed that a large percentage of British Muslims thought theat acts of terror against civilians is justified.
If its anything like the UK, the foreign workers won't all be the very best. I've worked with some top rate foreign workers on visas, but most of them are of an "OK" standard. Almost the same with native British workers, I've worked with some who are the very best, but most are "OK". The one difference is I have seen a couple of really bad native British workers who shouldn't be in the job. I've never seen a foreign worker that bad - presumably they fail to get out of their country.
You have thousands of Christians going to African countries to convince them to change the laws in order to make homosexuality a crime punishable by death.
I would have thought that as long as the US has them we don't need them.
I would feel safer knowing that if a nuke were smuggled into a British dockyard we could say "set it off and your country gets the same". The USA might go along with that - but I'm not sure
Please note, it is now 1370-something according to islamic calendar, as it starts from Mohamed's flight.
During the 1370s, christians were very busy beheading, hanging and burning people, just because they had a different opinion on religion or were considered witches and sorcerers or suggested better methods to stop pestilence beyond prayers. Furthermore, in that era entire armies of christians chopped up each other on the battlefields over who was to become the next king or whether the Pope should be above the Emperor or vica versa. By now, most christian nations have grown up and no longer do such things.
Thus, I suggest islamic calendar 2000-something will see a lot of muslim computer chip engineers and software designers, who don't even know how to use a knife or an RPG (the non-dungeon type).
If you go along the lines that we should allow it because Christians did the same thing hundreds of years ago there will never be peace. for one thing it is by no means certain that the same thing will happen in Islam. The Quran has a lot of direct instructions to murder, rape, and subjugate non believers - becoming a peaceful religion would mean seeing a lot of the Qur'an as incorrect, whereas for Christians it largely meant ignoring the Old testament - which the theology itself made easy.
That said Judaism has largely come to terms with the violent passages in the Old testament, so its not impossible. The thing is even if it does happen, and you are content to let the Muslims continue in barbarism until 2700 then what's to say that some other religion won't be violent then? Will your descendants then say "oh well the Christians and Muslims used to be like this so lets give them a few centuries of barbarism?"
You mean that nasty organisation - which though it is thoroughly unpleasant is far better than Islam because it has never even threatened to kill someone, let alone murdering thousands, kidnapping thousands of women as sex slaves and chopping off journalist's heads?
Yeah. No true Christian would do anything like that, except for the Army of God, IRA, the NLFT (who forcibly convert people, as well as using rape as a means of intimidation), Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati (who was gunned down on behalf of Christians using World Vision as cover), NSCN, one of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland factions carried out ethnic cleansing leaving 900 people dead and 100,000 refugees, Maronite Christian militias in Lebanon targeting Muslims and Palestinian refugees ("People who committed the acts of murder that I saw that day were wearing crucifixions and were calling themselves Christians."), the Iron Guard, the Lncieri, National-Christian Defense League, the KKK, the Lord's Resistance Army, and so forth.
No, Christians are the true Religion of Peace.
Except that they are no better.
So are you arguing that we should also hide any videos of Christian atrocities or that the Muslims should be able to commit rapes and murders because some Christians do to?
I should also point out on behalf of Christians that we don't have hundreds of Christians from the West going to join these groups, and that a majority of Christians condemn these atrocities whereas when Muslims commit atrocities we see thousands of them celebrating.
What surprises me is the "the source of the ammonium and methane is most likely from the breakdown of organic matter that was deposited in the area hundreds of thousands of years ago when Antarctica was warmer and the sea inundated West Antarctica." part.
If the methane was already readily available, why didn't the organisms multiply to use up the methane faster?
I guess some organism breaks down the organic matter to methane and thereby limits the availability for the methane eating organism. But over the course of a hundred thousand years I feel that such a limited ecosystem should have exhausted the resources long ago.
What is the limiting factor that prevents this?
I guess everything is really slow because of the cold temperature. It would be nice to have a comment from someone that knows about this type of ecosystem.
You mean that nasty organisation - which though it is thoroughly unpleasant is far better than Islam because it has never even threatened to kill someone, let alone murdering thousands, kidnapping thousands of women as sex slaves and chopping off journalist's heads?
They should show it on TV with an explanation that this is what Islam stands for and believes. Perhaps then the people who say ridiculous things like "all religions are the same" would shut up. Do they really believe that a reporter interviewing the Mormon tabernacle Choir is just as likely to be kidnapped and beheaded?
I have both an iPad and Kindle. A few things with the iPad...I touch a word, the dictionary entry comes up. This is quite helpful. I am used to referring to the progress bar so sequence recall isn't a problem. Some books have x-Ray enabled, and that helps with story cohesion. Basically, after I've spent a lot of time with the iPad reader, I find it as good or better than paper. Except for the beach.
The thing about the kindle is it comes somewhere between a paperback that you would take to the beach and an iPad that you would treat with great care. I bung a kindle in a rucksack if I'm camping, take it around places where I wouldn't bring an iPad - if it did get broken or nicked it would be annoying but not that annoying.
I certainly know that I can often open a physical book to the location of something I remember and come really close, particularly if it's a book I'm studying, but even for novels.
True, but its swings and roundabouts. I can often remember a phrase and search for it in kindle, or leave a bookmark that won't fall out!
Smartphones have actual microphones. Why use the gyro as a crude microphone when you have a perfectly functioning microphone built into the device already?
... seriously I hope that there is some areal indication that this area should be avoided by any parachuters or hang glider pilots who are blown off course
To the Muslims life is cheaper than a robot car. They are always going on about how they love death and killing infidels, so they are just as likely to do it in a normal car just like they do now.
What the computer can do is point out what is similar. Whether the similarity is an example of influence then needs to be established with further evidence.
Of course even if there is influence it may not be direct. Both artists could have been influenced by another earlier artist, or the second one influenced by an intermediate one, or there could be a whole complex tree of influences
Slashdot Mirror
This one is over a year old... and just reposted.
Not just Reposted, reconstructed from the DNA of the old one
Islam: Raping non muslims, killing apostates, forcing captives into sex slavery, and beheading captives - morally good. Using 3G - morally bad.
Whenever someone says "4G" half the time all I hear is "orgy".
Look on the bright side, it could have been the other way round. Just imagine you had turned down an invitation to an orgy thinking that the beautiful girl asking was trying to sell a phone contract
i think it is important that we remember that this is what Islam stands for. Not extremist Islam or a fringe, but exactly what the warlord Muhammad taught. read the Qur'an and you will see many explicit instructions to behead "enemies of Islam" and take women as sex slaves. All Muslims are instructed to subdue non muslims, and give them the choice of living as second class citizens and paying a punitive tax, converting to islam, or being killed.
Well there are thought to be Twice as Many' British Muslims Fighting for ISIS Than in UK Armed Forces, and a survey a number of years ago showed that a large percentage of British Muslims thought theat acts of terror against civilians is justified.
If its anything like the UK, the foreign workers won't all be the very best. I've worked with some top rate foreign workers on visas, but most of them are of an "OK" standard. Almost the same with native British workers, I've worked with some who are the very best, but most are "OK". The one difference is I have seen a couple of really bad native British workers who shouldn't be in the job. I've never seen a foreign worker that bad - presumably they fail to get out of their country.
Oh look, you have never read quran. Have you read the old testament? This is some seriously sick shit there.
I have read both and both are rather nasty.
You have thousands of Christians going to African countries to convince them to change the laws in order to make homosexuality a crime punishable by death.
Do you have a reference for that?
I would have thought that as long as the US has them we don't need them.
I would feel safer knowing that if a nuke were smuggled into a British dockyard we could say "set it off and your country gets the same". The USA might go along with that - but I'm not sure
The whole UK nuclear deterrent is a colossal waste of money anyway. It would be far better to get rid of them (who do they deter? .
With Pakistan having nuclear weapons and Iran working on them I think it would be good to keep them.
Please note, it is now 1370-something according to islamic calendar, as it starts from Mohamed's flight.
During the 1370s, christians were very busy beheading, hanging and burning people, just because they had a different opinion on religion or were considered witches and sorcerers or suggested better methods to stop pestilence beyond prayers. Furthermore, in that era entire armies of christians chopped up each other on the battlefields over who was to become the next king or whether the Pope should be above the Emperor or vica versa. By now, most christian nations have grown up and no longer do such things.
Thus, I suggest islamic calendar 2000-something will see a lot of muslim computer chip engineers and software designers, who don't even know how to use a knife or an RPG (the non-dungeon type).
If you go along the lines that we should allow it because Christians did the same thing hundreds of years ago there will never be peace. for one thing it is by no means certain that the same thing will happen in Islam. The Quran has a lot of direct instructions to murder, rape, and subjugate non believers - becoming a peaceful religion would mean seeing a lot of the Qur'an as incorrect, whereas for Christians it largely meant ignoring the Old testament - which the theology itself made easy.
That said Judaism has largely come to terms with the violent passages in the Old testament, so its not impossible. The thing is even if it does happen, and you are content to let the Muslims continue in barbarism until 2700 then what's to say that some other religion won't be violent then? Will your descendants then say "oh well the Christians and Muslims used to be like this so lets give them a few centuries of barbarism?"
Yeah. No true Christian would do anything like that, except for the Army of God, IRA, the NLFT (who forcibly convert people, as well as using rape as a means of intimidation), Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati (who was gunned down on behalf of Christians using World Vision as cover), NSCN, one of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland factions carried out ethnic cleansing leaving 900 people dead and 100,000 refugees, Maronite Christian militias in Lebanon targeting Muslims and Palestinian refugees ("People who committed the acts of murder that I saw that day were wearing crucifixions and were calling themselves Christians."), the Iron Guard, the Lncieri, National-Christian Defense League, the KKK, the Lord's Resistance Army, and so forth.
No, Christians are the true Religion of Peace.
Except that they are no better.
So are you arguing that we should also hide any videos of Christian atrocities or that the Muslims should be able to commit rapes and murders because some Christians do to?
I should also point out on behalf of Christians that we don't have hundreds of Christians from the West going to join these groups, and that a majority of Christians condemn these atrocities whereas when Muslims commit atrocities we see thousands of them celebrating.
What surprises me is the "the source of the ammonium and methane is most likely from the breakdown of organic matter that was deposited in the area hundreds of thousands of years ago when Antarctica was warmer and the sea inundated West Antarctica." part. If the methane was already readily available, why didn't the organisms multiply to use up the methane faster? I guess some organism breaks down the organic matter to methane and thereby limits the availability for the methane eating organism. But over the course of a hundred thousand years I feel that such a limited ecosystem should have exhausted the resources long ago. What is the limiting factor that prevents this?
I guess everything is really slow because of the cold temperature. It would be nice to have a comment from someone that knows about this type of ecosystem.
I have 3 words for you..
Westboro Baptist Church
Although I do wonder if you will understand.
You mean that nasty organisation - which though it is thoroughly unpleasant is far better than Islam because it has never even threatened to kill someone, let alone murdering thousands, kidnapping thousands of women as sex slaves and chopping off journalist's heads?
A north vietnamese point-blank to the head execution...
A girl running from a napalm attack, her clothes half burned off...
Bodies piled in German concentration camps...
An explosion over Hiroshima...
Are these photos now forbidden as well?
But sharing them wouldn't be islamaphobic and upset the "religion of peace". The government is in full appeasement mode
They should show it on TV with an explanation that this is what Islam stands for and believes. Perhaps then the people who say ridiculous things like "all religions are the same" would shut up. Do they really believe that a reporter interviewing the Mormon tabernacle Choir is just as likely to be kidnapped and beheaded?
I have both an iPad and Kindle. A few things with the iPad...I touch a word, the dictionary entry comes up. This is quite helpful. I am used to referring to the progress bar so sequence recall isn't a problem. Some books have x-Ray enabled, and that helps with story cohesion. Basically, after I've spent a lot of time with the iPad reader, I find it as good or better than paper. Except for the beach.
The thing about the kindle is it comes somewhere between a paperback that you would take to the beach and an iPad that you would treat with great care. I bung a kindle in a rucksack if I'm camping, take it around places where I wouldn't bring an iPad - if it did get broken or nicked it would be annoying but not that annoying.
I certainly know that I can often open a physical book to the location of something I remember and come really close, particularly if it's a book I'm studying, but even for novels.
True, but its swings and roundabouts. I can often remember a phrase and search for it in kindle, or leave a bookmark that won't fall out!
... when I can buy an all-electric car that is just as sexy and just as performant as the Tesla Model S for under about $45k in today's dollars.
By the time they do that driving a car manually will be illegal and you might not even own a car - just call one for each trip.
Smartphones have actual microphones. Why use the gyro as a crude microphone when you have a perfectly functioning microphone built into the device already?
Because its there
... seriously I hope that there is some areal indication that this area should be avoided by any parachuters or hang glider pilots who are blown off course
nuke it from orbit. it's the only way to be sure :)
Stuff it full of Muslims!
Why would I want my porn collection going to my wife? I'd much rather give it to my girlfriend. After all, we bought most of it together.
Starred in it too I hear.
To the Muslims life is cheaper than a robot car. They are always going on about how they love death and killing infidels, so they are just as likely to do it in a normal car just like they do now.
What the computer can do is point out what is similar. Whether the similarity is an example of influence then needs to be established with further evidence.
Of course even if there is influence it may not be direct. Both artists could have been influenced by another earlier artist, or the second one influenced by an intermediate one, or there could be a whole complex tree of influences