The most remarkable aspect of Mr Ahmadinejad's piety is his devotion to the Hidden Imam, the Messiah-like figure of Shia Islam, and the president's belief that his government must prepare the country for his return.
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He is said to have gone into "occlusion" in the ninth century, at the age of five. His return will be preceded by cosmic chaos, war and bloodshed. After a cataclysmic confrontation with evil and darkness, the Mahdi will lead the world to an era of universal peace.
This is similar to the Christian vision of the Apocalypse. Indeed, the Hidden Imam is expected to return in the company of Jesus.
That's beacuse the Koran is the word of God, whereas the Bible comes through intermediaries. The result is that Christians can reinterpret all the horrible stuff in the Bible but the Muslims can't - brave Muslims are supposed to kill infidels.:(
I remember a cool game on the Amiga called Flood. The objective of the game was to escape hundreds of levels of flooding underground caverns and get to the surface. The ending saw the player (a little green monster) climp out of a manhole on to a busy street, and as he's jumping for joy he gets run over by a truck.
Actually, compared with other nationalised health systems, the French have a pretty good setup. It's much more sensible than the British NHS (National Health Service) which is a monolith that is the largest employer in Europe.
"What, exactly, is the difference between a nerd and a geek?"
I replied, "It's tougher than it seems. It's subtle. Instinctual. I think geek implies hireability, whereas nerd doesn't necessarily mean your skills are 100 percent sellable."
I didn't see this mentioned on/. at the time and only found out about it myself just recently, but France may be about to get the worst copyright law in Europe and ban Free/Open Source Software - see here...
SNEP and SCPP have told Free Software authors: "You will be required to change your licenses." SACEM add: "You shall stop publishing free software," and warn they are ready "to sue free software authors who will keep on publishing source code" should the "VU/SACEM/BSA/FA Contents Department"[1] bill proposal pass in the Parliament.
I agree. I think the real problem is the Anglo-Saxon tradition of case law (which requires knowledge of pretty much every court case similar to the one being tried). A codified legal system can be perfectly simple, as can be seen in many countries in mainland Europe...
Machines like the Gateway 610 Media Center (Google it) do away with the BIOS in exactly the same way as the new Intel Macs. It's going to be very interesting to compare the new Macintels with Intels latest legacy free reference specs and see exactly how much they differ (if very much at all)...
I have the same problem and think I know the solution. What we need is a loud alarm-clock with no or very limited snooze that cannot be turned off (its alarm would stop after say 5 minutes). The time and alarm settings could only be altered in a fixed window (say between midday and midnight), and the thing would be indestructible. What do you think?
Does anyone have any idea how long it will take before the main Linux distributions extend their x86 offerings to work on the new Macintels? I'm really hoping an official version of Slackware supports these things...
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The messianic nutjob leading Iran won't back down, he's a True Believer!
Unfortunately it's even worse than that:
The most remarkable aspect of Mr Ahmadinejad's piety is his devotion to the Hidden Imam, the Messiah-like figure of Shia Islam, and the president's belief that his government must prepare the country for his return.
[...]
He is said to have gone into "occlusion" in the ninth century, at the age of five. His return will be preceded by cosmic chaos, war and bloodshed. After a cataclysmic confrontation with evil and darkness, the Mahdi will lead the world to an era of universal peace.
This is similar to the Christian vision of the Apocalypse. Indeed, the Hidden Imam is expected to return in the company of Jesus.
Wouldn't that make Moses an intermediary?
I don't know about the Wahabbi, but this is informative.
I think many Muslims believe whatever their imam tells them to beleive...
The point of the cartoons were to anger muslims.
No, the point was to see whether there is a free press in Denmark.
Here's a list of danish brands!
That's beacuse the Koran is the word of God, whereas the Bible comes through intermediaries. The result is that Christians can reinterpret all the horrible stuff in the Bible but the Muslims can't - brave Muslims are supposed to kill infidels. :(
I remember a cool game on the Amiga called Flood. The objective of the game was to escape hundreds of levels of flooding underground caverns and get to the surface. The ending saw the player (a little green monster) climp out of a manhole on to a busy street, and as he's jumping for joy he gets run over by a truck.
Classic.
"broken socialist healthcare system"
Actually, compared with other nationalised health systems, the French have a pretty good setup. It's much more sensible than the British NHS (National Health Service) which is a monolith that is the largest employer in Europe.
I cannot for the life of me understand why you are currently rated +3 interesting.
You must be new here.
Why is this modded as Troll? - it's an important point!
"What, exactly, is the difference between a nerd and a geek?"
I replied, "It's tougher than it seems. It's subtle. Instinctual. I think geek implies hireability, whereas nerd doesn't necessarily mean your skills are 100 percent sellable."
-Douglas Coupland, "Microserfs"
I didn't see this mentioned on /. at the time and only found out about it myself just recently, but France may be about to get the worst copyright law in Europe and ban Free/Open Source Software - see here...
SNEP and SCPP have told Free Software authors: "You will be required to change your licenses." SACEM add: "You shall stop publishing free software," and warn they are ready "to sue free software authors who will keep on publishing source code" should the "VU/SACEM/BSA/FA Contents Department"[1] bill proposal pass in the Parliament.
I agree. I think the real problem is the Anglo-Saxon tradition of case law (which requires knowledge of pretty much every court case similar to the one being tried). A codified legal system can be perfectly simple, as can be seen in many countries in mainland Europe...
Machines like the Gateway 610 Media Center (Google it) do away with the BIOS in exactly the same way as the new Intel Macs. It's going to be very interesting to compare the new Macintels with Intels latest legacy free reference specs and see exactly how much they differ (if very much at all)...
You expect that to work? The damn thing can ring as much as it likes once I've embedded it in concrete and thrown it in the river.
;)
That would require waking up
I've thought of that - it will have a mobile phone style battery that's screwed in or non-removable...
I have the same problem and think I know the solution. What we need is a loud alarm-clock with no or very limited snooze that cannot be turned off (its alarm would stop after say 5 minutes). The time and alarm settings could only be altered in a fixed window (say between midday and midnight), and the thing would be indestructible. What do you think?
Does anyone have any idea how long it will take before the main Linux distributions extend their x86 offerings to work on the new Macintels? I'm really hoping an official version of Slackware supports these things...
Take a look at the some of the posts round here - sadly it looks like the typical Slashdot poster is pretty stupid these days :(
Surely that should be C+=2
Oh yeah. I liked Dictator on the ZX Spectrum too! Here's a PC port I just found!
...everyone knows that Santa comes from Greenland, not Lapland!
The parent's not flamebait! Here's where that was misquoted from.
We didn't have enough money to put a man in a tracksuit up a ladder!
I would've been there - "Go, man!"
"I'm going, I'm going, 'ang on."
"Just hang on to the ladder!"
"Hello, Swindon, I am here."
"Swindon, can you hear me?"
"Swindon here. We're monitoring you on our instruments."
"We've got you on a tuba."
(Quiet laughter)
That should be a bigger laugh for that joke, I think.
Yeah, I can't quite understand it, I thought it was really funny.
Swindon - a knackered, kind of Fresno town...
They don't seem to be going for it.
They're obviously bastards.
"Anyway, Swindon, I'm nearly at the moon."
"Actually, that's an understatement."
"Have you got more ladder? We're not quite at the moon yet."
"But I can see right over the top of the houses. Fantastic!"
"The smart shouldn't have to pay for the stupid to exist."
Did you choose to be smart? If not, don't you think social democracies are fairer?
I'm assuming he means social democrat. Many americans seem to get the terms confused...