"Also - this is not open to any student in the countries listed. There is a list of about 42 schools in the US that are plugged into their student verification system. In Belgium it is 2 schools, China 3 schools, etc."
There's so much interest invested in defense industry that you won't have a chance of becoming president by having such a plan.
On the other hand, I suppose DoD funds a lot of scientific research/projects, maybe most of the time not for the purpose of saving lives, but still some good stuff come out of it, eg. the Internet.
Yeah, but if the technology really worked, everyone in New Zealand would already be a billionaire several times over. or with over 40 million sheep if it goes awry...
"This is a customer protection measure to protect customers from frontrunners," said Wade. "After four days, we release the domain." According to Wade, Network Solutions instituted this program as a test over the past few weeks. I asked if Network Solutions is actually acting as a frontrunner by doing this and she said there's a distinction. First, they are not monetizing the domains. Second, they have no intention of keeping the domains. All domains are released after the four day period.
The thing is, where is this alleged research going? We don't see it in MS's products; this was stated in the article summary.
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or those nice mice/keyboard that Microsoft makes, they get a lot of patents for those, or if SQL Server does something better in the next release, well they get patents for the new algorithm/method that helped them achieve better performance.
Of course, if you open your eyes, there's a lot more, and they are affecting millions of people.
"It takes them from a bunch-of-religious-radicals with guns to a bunch-of-religious-radicals with a nuclear bomb."
So sick of this misconception and ignorance, I really want to insult you somehow, but since that probably won't help much, I'll explain:
There are a few religious radicals in Iran in the lower to mid levels of the government, but they are significantly outnumbered by the other group.
Wanna know who this other group is? Please read on, till the end...
I start with someone you are familiar with; do you consider Dick Cheney a radical Christian or a ruthless businessman which uses religion or any other tool as a means to make profit? like when he talks about supporting the troops does he really care about the troops or he has an agenda of his own?
Well, Cheney is one of the members of the "Other Group", the businessmen, except he is American.
In Iran we have our own businessmen. Since the 'Islamic' revolution of 1979, these people have taken over the government in a country where 90%+ of the economy is owned and operated by the government.
A clear example, is the largest of these business entities: Islamic Republic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), most recent bogeyman on CNN/FOX. While the American media focuses on the 'military' part of IRGC's operation, they neglect to mention the much much bigger side of IRGC. Revolutionary Guards is the single biggest business entity in Iran, they build all the dams, bridges, tunnels and roads, railroad, they operate civilian airports all across the country, they do the largest mining operations, they own many of the largest and most profit generating financial institutions in Iran and this list goes on forever.
Almost half of the members of the current parliament are former IRGC members, Ahmadinejad himself made his way to being Tehran's Mayor and later, Iran's president through IRGC.
Another example is Mesbah Yazi, a mid-level clergy, known as the mentor of Ahmadinejad, the biggest fucking piece of shit I know in Iran. Plays the same role to Ahmadi Nejad as Dick plays to Bush. But there's another side to this guy, he is also known as "Sultan of Sugar" in Iran. He controls import, distribution and sale of all Sugar in Iran. Believe me, in a country of 70 million population a monopoly on sugar is better than a monopoly on gold mines. He also says that the 'Zionist regime' of Israel is doomed, however nuking them means end of the sweet sugar business for him.
Former president Rafsanjani, former parliament speaker Nategh Noori and many others are businessmen too. They don't give a fuck about religion unless in public when preaching people.
In conclusion, I just want you to think, what benefit does nuking Israel which guarantees a much much harsher reaction from Israel bring to these ruling businessmen? See, that's why Iran, even with nukes is no threat at all to any other country?
All that matters to these people is survival of their business, they are not religious zealots, they don't believe in the second coming or afterlife or crap like what they preach to people. If a day comes where wiping their asses with pages of Quran helps them keep control of their business, then that's what they WILL HAPPILY DO.
This website was designed for people who are not visually disabled, otherwise how the hell are they gonna see the inkblots?
Save your Microsoft bashing for when they implement it on MSN or sth.
Actually, its state prior to the US invastion was the result of the Taliban, who believed they had created the perfect Muslim state. So now we know what one looks like: Afghanistan, 1999.
You FAIL in history, I said British, Russians and then Americans, try Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan#History
Congratulations! You're Muslim, but not an Islamic Fundamentalist. I never said you were a threat to anyone. Look up Memri TV some time.
FYI, I sorta don't even believe in God, let alone being a Muslim, where did you get that I don't know.
note: if you are not Muslim, Muslim fundamentalists don't consider you "innocent.")
Kinda like Christian fundamentalists then?
and Please DO NOT ADD NOTES TO MY COMMENTS, what kind of quoting is that?!!
Christian Fundamentalists have been here since the 1600s and haven't turned this country into Afghanistan yet.
Afghanistan was not made what it is by Afghans, it was a result of British, Russian and lastly American interference in the country's business. Afghans never got a chance to build their country the way they want. You remember who created Al-Qaeda in the first place, right?
On the other hand you look at sizable immigrant Muslim communities in countries like Canada and the UK, and people are pushing for Sharia courts.
Yes, and Christian immigrants never ever tried to force their religion on other nations during the history? And by the way, right now Christian fundamentalist have taken over your government, see what's happening to dollar? to your education? to your mainstream media?
For that matter, Christianity doesn't even have an equivalent of Jihad in either codification or practice.
I don't know how the world "Jihad" came to be what it means to western world today, but I know some Arabic (being an Iranian, we had to learn the language of Islam in school) 'Jihad' mean 'Effort'. Now 'Jihad fi sabil allah' means 'effort in the way of God'. It is not explicitly about waging war though; building a school, a road, a mosque, etc. is mentioned as an effort in the way of God, helping the needy, teaching someone something useful, not eating too much and doing exercise to keep your body healthy and even brushing your teeth are all known examples of Jihad and of course war is included among them. No mention of killing innocent people though.
Apparently, there are many other concepts in Islam that are only known to Americans, such as the whole 72 virgins case which during 20+ years of living in Iran I never ever heard of or read in any religious text. I guess it's more of a western creation.
And lastly, you do have terrorists, ones that kill millions and not couple of thousands, you just call them politicians to feel good about it.
Well, Shuttleworth warned us about patent trolls long before Ballmer and of course it's not rocket science. Redhat's increasing profit margins and advances that Linux has made into Server AND desktop markets will attract the attention of greedy trolls.
Much has been written about Microsoft's allegation of patent infringements in Linux (by which I'm sure they mean GNU/Linux;-)). I don't think Microsoft is the real threat, and in fact, I think Microsoft and the Linux community will actually end up fighting on the same side of this issue.
But they'll try, and try hard:
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Thank god my machine doesn't boot, otherwise Norton Antivirus would have stopped the worm fix!
Invade?! I suppose the right word would be 'liberate'.
There's so much interest invested in defense industry that you won't have a chance of becoming president by having such a plan.
On the other hand, I suppose DoD funds a lot of scientific research/projects, maybe most of the time not for the purpose of saving lives, but still some good stuff come out of it, eg. the Internet.
BSD is dead, Roy Schestowitz confirms it!
A spokesperson for Iran Air was reported as wondering "Are these rail guns capable of shooting down civilian aircrafts too?"
Last night I discovered a directory named 53 4B 59 4E 45 54 in my home folder.
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IMHO, bullshit.
Does this mean no vintage porn in future?
VC1
XBox Live and XNA
C#
Ribbon
Sharepoint
or those nice mice/keyboard that Microsoft makes, they get a lot of patents for those, or if SQL Server does something better in the next release, well they get patents for the new algorithm/method that helped them achieve better performance.
Of course, if you open your eyes, there's a lot more, and they are affecting millions of people.
So sick of this misconception and ignorance, I really want to insult you somehow, but since that probably won't help much, I'll explain:
There are a few religious radicals in Iran in the lower to mid levels of the government, but they are significantly outnumbered by the other group.
Wanna know who this other group is? Please read on, till the end...
I start with someone you are familiar with; do you consider Dick Cheney a radical Christian or a ruthless businessman which uses religion or any other tool as a means to make profit? like when he talks about supporting the troops does he really care about the troops or he has an agenda of his own?
Well, Cheney is one of the members of the "Other Group", the businessmen, except he is American.
In Iran we have our own businessmen. Since the 'Islamic' revolution of 1979, these people have taken over the government in a country where 90%+ of the economy is owned and operated by the government.
A clear example, is the largest of these business entities: Islamic Republic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), most recent bogeyman on CNN/FOX. While the American media focuses on the 'military' part of IRGC's operation, they neglect to mention the much much bigger side of IRGC.
Revolutionary Guards is the single biggest business entity in Iran, they build all the dams, bridges, tunnels and roads, railroad, they operate civilian airports all across the country, they do the largest mining operations, they own many of the largest and most profit generating financial institutions in Iran and this list goes on forever.
Almost half of the members of the current parliament are former IRGC members, Ahmadinejad himself made his way to being Tehran's Mayor and later, Iran's president through IRGC.
Another example is Mesbah Yazi, a mid-level clergy, known as the mentor of Ahmadinejad, the biggest fucking piece of shit I know in Iran. Plays the same role to Ahmadi Nejad as Dick plays to Bush. But there's another side to this guy, he is also known as "Sultan of Sugar" in Iran. He controls import, distribution and sale of all Sugar in Iran. Believe me, in a country of 70 million population a monopoly on sugar is better than a monopoly on gold mines. He also says that the 'Zionist regime' of Israel is doomed, however nuking them means end of the sweet sugar business for him.
Former president Rafsanjani, former parliament speaker Nategh Noori and many others are businessmen too. They don't give a fuck about religion unless in public when preaching people.
In conclusion, I just want you to think, what benefit does nuking Israel which guarantees a much much harsher reaction from Israel bring to these ruling businessmen? See, that's why Iran, even with nukes is no threat at all to any other country?
All that matters to these people is survival of their business, they are not religious zealots, they don't believe in the second coming or afterlife or crap like what they preach to people. If a day comes where wiping their asses with pages of Quran helps them keep control of their business, then that's what they WILL HAPPILY DO.
Thanks for reading my rant.
This website was designed for people who are not visually disabled, otherwise how the hell are they gonna see the inkblots? Save your Microsoft bashing for when they implement it on MSN or sth.
It's open source and allows:
- Adding and editing notes
- Highlighting important text
- Making "snapshots" for easy reference
- Interaction with LaTeX and PDFSync
- ...
I use it a lot in classes for taking notes.Actually, its state prior to the US invastion was the result of the Taliban, who believed they had created the perfect Muslim state. So now we know what one looks like: Afghanistan, 1999.
You FAIL in history, I said British, Russians and then Americans, try Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan#History
Congratulations! You're Muslim, but not an Islamic Fundamentalist. I never said you were a threat to anyone. Look up Memri TV some time.
FYI, I sorta don't even believe in God, let alone being a Muslim, where did you get that I don't know.
note: if you are not Muslim, Muslim fundamentalists don't consider you "innocent.")
Kinda like Christian fundamentalists then?
and Please DO NOT ADD NOTES TO MY COMMENTS, what kind of quoting is that?!!
Christian Fundamentalists have been here since the 1600s and haven't turned this country into Afghanistan yet.
Afghanistan was not made what it is by Afghans, it was a result of British, Russian and lastly American interference in the country's business. Afghans never got a chance to build their country the way they want. You remember who created Al-Qaeda in the first place, right?
On the other hand you look at sizable immigrant Muslim communities in countries like Canada and the UK, and people are pushing for Sharia courts.
Yes, and Christian immigrants never ever tried to force their religion on other nations during the history? And by the way, right now Christian fundamentalist have taken over your government, see what's happening to dollar? to your education? to your mainstream media?
For that matter, Christianity doesn't even have an equivalent of Jihad in either codification or practice.
I don't know how the world "Jihad" came to be what it means to western world today, but I know some Arabic (being an Iranian, we had to learn the language of Islam in school) 'Jihad' mean 'Effort'. Now 'Jihad fi sabil allah' means 'effort in the way of God'. It is not explicitly about waging war though; building a school, a road, a mosque, etc. is mentioned as an effort in the way of God, helping the needy, teaching someone something useful, not eating too much and doing exercise to keep your body healthy and even brushing your teeth are all known examples of Jihad and of course war is included among them. No mention of killing innocent people though.
Apparently, there are many other concepts in Islam that are only known to Americans, such as the whole 72 virgins case which during 20+ years of living in Iran I never ever heard of or read in any religious text. I guess it's more of a western creation.
And lastly, you do have terrorists, ones that kill millions and not couple of thousands, you just call them politicians to feel good about it.
How about we bet if they are you SUCK MY BALLS?
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