The first tenet of present jihadist ideology is that early Muslim society, when Islam was dynamic and all-conquering, is the single, perfect model for human existence as represented in the divine revelation of the Koran, the acts and statements of the Prophet, and the conduct of 'al-salaf al-salih', or virtuous ancestors.
The second is that the only way back to this ideal is through jihad, understood as a war fought by any licit means against all enemies, infidel or Muslim, and viewed as the core obligation of all true Muslims at this historical juncture.
The third is that the enemy-world, "kufr" or unbelief, led by the Jews and US and abetted by quisling regimes throughout the Islamic world, is committed to the destruction of Muslim identity and the subjugation of Muslim lands.
The fourth tenet is that history, which began with the Prophet Mohammad's message but stalled when Muslims went astray after his death in 632 AD, stirred anew with the jihad that liberated Afghanistan in 1992.
The fifth is that the forces of jihad now stand arrayed to fight a decisive battle against the US empire, Israel and the quisling regimes of the Islamic world.
The sixth tenet is that the infidel forces, despite their apparent wealth and military might, are weak and vulnerable to blows of the sort Al-Qaeda struck on 11 September 2001. The lesson jihadists take from this last tenet is that faith and a firm hand on the trigger will topple their foes and ensure the global triumph of the true Islam of the Prophet.
I don't know how neutral Jane's is, but their articles are always fun to read.
Well, if it's good enough for a SPS, then I don't see the problem in wireless power transmission at a much smaller scale. I guess the biggest problem would be the big rectenna sitting on the wireless mouse/keyboard/monitor/speaker, and the need to have the rectenna pointing towards the transmitter (though this could easily be made to self-calibrate). One big obstacle would be public perception, microwaves always make people think about some kind of searing beam that makes stuff boil.:P
A simple example would be that an INLA unit instead of shooting a Member of Parliamnet could use a drone to track him and a second drone to dive bomb him with 100kg of C4.
A single bullet costs a lot less than 100 kg of C4 and a drone. Now against a humvee or some other vehicle it would be useful, but it's still cheaper to dig the C-4 under the road and wait for someone to drive over it instead of using expensive drones for the task.
He's an avid movie-goer who also is trying to get over his fear for car crashes by watching images of dead people and accidents. Or maybe he is planning to kill his wife. Or maybe he is doing research for his book. Why do we really need to know about him? If you knew who it was what would you do?
Ah, I guess I was expecting something more grand. But if we are talking about a period of another 40 years before nanotech becomes affordable to ordinary people, then that also means that we have 40 years to develop effective countermeasures. Somehow I think this oil&terrorism fad will have gone away by then, one way or another. So maybe instead of being afraid of nanotech, you could start looking forward to being able to have a swarm of nanobots keeping your body healthy.:)
Huh? Just play a video file or audio file, voilà, passive entertainment. And what does websites and gaming have to do with media PCs (which are PCs that come with Windows Media Center edition, a updated version of WinXP with a UI that has DVD-playerlike simplicity for playing video and audio)?
Oh, you didn't RTFA and didn't even know what a media PC is? Nevermind, carry on.
Some kind of info would be nice. What happened in 1960 that everyone thought to be impossible because the complex process of computer-guided milling of precision components was complex enough for corporations with millions in R&D funds?
I don't know what client you have been using (or how old it was) but all the clients I've tried support the changing of ports, and all of them have also used only one port for incoming traffic. Now outgoing connections are a different matter, as you'll need one port for every peer you connect to, and I don't think you can select those ports on most clients. 4 weeks of incoming connections? That sounds like a bugged or very poorly designed client, that should not happen usually.
As for spreading of data, torrents are easily the second best way of obtaining legal material (and when a HTTP/FTP server is clogged torrents are the best way), and the best way (for us mundane non-sceners) of obtaining illegal stuff. If you download slower than you upload, then the swarm is usually too small and only has that much of capacity to give. Your client will always attempt to upload at maximum speed even if the others are incapable of giving you data at your maximum speeds, as it helps the data propagate faster and lessens the need for others to upload among themselves, enabling them to give you all of their capacity. So I'm guessing you were on a dying or unpopular torrent, that just didn't have enough bandwidth to go around.
The problem is that religion is untestable. Or how would you conduct a scientific experiment to detect the presence of a omnipotent, eternal being that transcends time, and manipulates physical laws at will? As far as science is considered, a God is irrelevant, because it is outside the framework of science i.e. the physical realm.
One would think that the person trying to make a post about a scifi series would have a little more credibility if he didn't confuse two differentcharacters in said series.
But in all seriousness, belief gives one the impression of having a certain view on things, and not changing ones view despite evidence to the contrary.
Because then we would have to wait until 2010 before we get holographic drives, or even longer. Isn't it better to at least get 300 GB now instead of waiting another 4 years for 1+ TB?
Maybe he does it in an alternate reality? That would suck, first you work hard on something, save it on the disc and realise that you saved it in the wrong dimension.
Nuclear weaponry isn't quite enhancing my life, nor are worldwide influenza pandemics, direct meteor hits, global overexposure to radiation as a result of a freakishly excessive sunspot or near-by exploding supernova, or even, in fact, global alien invasion bent on genocide.
And who is trying to develop solutions to those problems, the state or individuals? In fact, isn't some of those problems caused by the state? I haven't seen many individuals building nukes, and if someone needed a nuke, it would be to use it against the state. You really should read his post more closely IMO.
The site says it's a flat $2.00 fee per transactions. Now you're torn between a 1% tax to give the kid a whopping $200 on the card (max) or a 10% tax if you just give them a [20 dollar bill] every few days.
The GP used the word "idea" a bit confusingly. What he meant by it is that software/music/ideas are not property, because you can transfer them from one person to another without one person losing it. Property on the other hand can only be controlled by one person at a time.
Good riddance. If "the larger software publishers and hardware manufacturers" aren't interested in presenting information about new games instead of showing off boobs and hyping their games then this is only a good thing. Maybe they could spend the marketing money on more finished products instead (I'm looking at you EA and BF2). E3 is a good example of everything that's wrong with the industry.
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The first tenet of present jihadist ideology is that early Muslim society, when Islam was dynamic and all-conquering, is the single, perfect model for human existence as represented in the divine revelation of the Koran, the acts and statements of the Prophet, and the conduct of 'al-salaf al-salih', or virtuous ancestors.
The second is that the only way back to this ideal is through jihad, understood as a war fought by any licit means against all enemies, infidel or Muslim, and viewed as the core obligation of all true Muslims at this historical juncture.
The third is that the enemy-world, "kufr" or unbelief, led by the Jews and US and abetted by quisling regimes throughout the Islamic world, is committed to the destruction of Muslim identity and the subjugation of Muslim lands.
The fourth tenet is that history, which began with the Prophet Mohammad's message but stalled when Muslims went astray after his death in 632 AD, stirred anew with the jihad that liberated Afghanistan in 1992.
The fifth is that the forces of jihad now stand arrayed to fight a decisive battle against the US empire, Israel and the quisling regimes of the Islamic world.
The sixth tenet is that the infidel forces, despite their apparent wealth and military might, are weak and vulnerable to blows of the sort Al-Qaeda struck on 11 September 2001. The lesson jihadists take from this last tenet is that faith and a firm hand on the trigger will topple their foes and ensure the global triumph of the true Islam of the Prophet.
I don't know how neutral Jane's is, but their articles are always fun to read.
Well, if it's good enough for a SPS, then I don't see the problem in wireless power transmission at a much smaller scale. I guess the biggest problem would be the big rectenna sitting on the wireless mouse/keyboard/monitor/speaker, and the need to have the rectenna pointing towards the transmitter (though this could easily be made to self-calibrate). One big obstacle would be public perception, microwaves always make people think about some kind of searing beam that makes stuff boil. :P
Maybe the GP is a scientologist. All hail XENU! Or was it Xena? Can't remember.
A simple example would be that an INLA unit instead of shooting a Member of Parliamnet could use a drone to track him and a second drone to dive bomb him with 100kg of C4.
A single bullet costs a lot less than 100 kg of C4 and a drone. Now against a humvee or some other vehicle it would be useful, but it's still cheaper to dig the C-4 under the road and wait for someone to drive over it instead of using expensive drones for the task.
He's an avid movie-goer who also is trying to get over his fear for car crashes by watching images of dead people and accidents. Or maybe he is planning to kill his wife. Or maybe he is doing research for his book. Why do we really need to know about him? If you knew who it was what would you do?
Just have a robot hit two keyboards at a time at equal rates.
Why of course. Just let me jump in my flying car and go to the hypermarket on the moon, I hear robots are on sale there.
Ah, I guess I was expecting something more grand. But if we are talking about a period of another 40 years before nanotech becomes affordable to ordinary people, then that also means that we have 40 years to develop effective countermeasures. Somehow I think this oil&terrorism fad will have gone away by then, one way or another. So maybe instead of being afraid of nanotech, you could start looking forward to being able to have a swarm of nanobots keeping your body healthy. :)
Huh? Just play a video file or audio file, voilà, passive entertainment. And what does websites and gaming have to do with media PCs (which are PCs that come with Windows Media Center edition, a updated version of WinXP with a UI that has DVD-playerlike simplicity for playing video and audio)?
Oh, you didn't RTFA and didn't even know what a media PC is? Nevermind, carry on.
Some kind of info would be nice. What happened in 1960 that everyone thought to be impossible because the complex process of computer-guided milling of precision components was complex enough for corporations with millions in R&D funds?
I don't know what client you have been using (or how old it was) but all the clients I've tried support the changing of ports, and all of them have also used only one port for incoming traffic. Now outgoing connections are a different matter, as you'll need one port for every peer you connect to, and I don't think you can select those ports on most clients. 4 weeks of incoming connections? That sounds like a bugged or very poorly designed client, that should not happen usually.
As for spreading of data, torrents are easily the second best way of obtaining legal material (and when a HTTP/FTP server is clogged torrents are the best way), and the best way (for us mundane non-sceners) of obtaining illegal stuff. If you download slower than you upload, then the swarm is usually too small and only has that much of capacity to give. Your client will always attempt to upload at maximum speed even if the others are incapable of giving you data at your maximum speeds, as it helps the data propagate faster and lessens the need for others to upload among themselves, enabling them to give you all of their capacity. So I'm guessing you were on a dying or unpopular torrent, that just didn't have enough bandwidth to go around.
Your post is confusing, I would not like to subscribe to your newsletter.
The problem is that religion is untestable. Or how would you conduct a scientific experiment to detect the presence of a omnipotent, eternal being that transcends time, and manipulates physical laws at will? As far as science is considered, a God is irrelevant, because it is outside the framework of science i.e. the physical realm.
One would think that the person trying to make a post about a scifi series would have a little more credibility if he didn't confuse two different characters in said series.
"I think."
But in all seriousness, belief gives one the impression of having a certain view on things, and not changing ones view despite evidence to the contrary.
Magic wands are about as likely as alien life, so why not go for broke?
Magic wands require breaking most physical laws, alien life does not. I think you're grossly underestimating the likelihood of alien life!
Because then we would have to wait until 2010 before we get holographic drives, or even longer. Isn't it better to at least get 300 GB now instead of waiting another 4 years for 1+ TB?
Maybe he does it in an alternate reality? That would suck, first you work hard on something, save it on the disc and realise that you saved it in the wrong dimension.
Luckily porn has a lot of built-in redundancy!
That's why she's doing it!
Dude, don't anthromorphize slashdot posters.
I'm sorry but that's just bizarro.
Nuclear weaponry isn't quite enhancing my life, nor are worldwide influenza pandemics, direct meteor hits, global overexposure to radiation as a result of a freakishly excessive sunspot or near-by exploding supernova, or even, in fact, global alien invasion bent on genocide.
And who is trying to develop solutions to those problems, the state or individuals? In fact, isn't some of those problems caused by the state? I haven't seen many individuals building nukes, and if someone needed a nuke, it would be to use it against the state. You really should read his post more closely IMO.
Plus we would loose all the nice scandals - but I'm not too sure if this would be an overall plus or minus.
Yeah, CG actors don't have such lose morals as normal actors.
;)
The site says it's a flat $2.00 fee per transactions. Now you're torn between a 1% tax to give the kid a whopping $200 on the card (max) or a 10% tax if you just give them a [20 dollar bill] every few days.
So poor people end up paying more, as usual?
The GP used the word "idea" a bit confusingly. What he meant by it is that software/music/ideas are not property, because you can transfer them from one person to another without one person losing it. Property on the other hand can only be controlled by one person at a time.
Good riddance. If "the larger software publishers and hardware manufacturers" aren't interested in presenting information about new games instead of showing off boobs and hyping their games then this is only a good thing. Maybe they could spend the marketing money on more finished products instead (I'm looking at you EA and BF2). E3 is a good example of everything that's wrong with the industry.