Apparently you have never called an Iranian "Arab". Iranians take it personally.
Iranian's don't like being called Arabs; A) They are Persians, B) They feel proud being associated with the Persian empire and the culture they inherited.
In fact, during my miss-fortunate discussion calling an Iranian an Arab, I felt the individual almost felt insulted.
Now that my love affair with Netbooks has ended, I have an overwhelming feeling of "what was I thinking".
This Dell toy will probably be just as slow as those X41 from 2005, IMO Intel Atom is a step in the wrong direction, what we need are i7 with great battery life.
At the end of the day, free speech is a pipe dream. On one hand burning of quran is fine and dandy as Mr. XYZ has freedom of expression, on the other hand building a mosque on ground zero hurts the sentiments of those involved in the 9/11 tragedy. I am not talking about the group on Slashdot, they are a little bit more enlightened than the common folks.
However, the same people who want to burn the Quran oppose mosque on ground zero, clearly this has nothing to do with freedom and American values and more to do with animosity towards Islam and Muslims. How come ground zero mosque is a no no as it hurts sentiments whereas sentiments of muslim a non-issue when it comes to burning of Quran!
This is a interesting question I have thought of quite often and I believe I have a reasonable answer.
"Time" is a by product of creation of our universe.
Keeping this in mind, there is no "need" for anyone creating god. Without universe there is no time (or at the very least time as we perceive), yet there is god (for those who believe in god, and I do). Question of creation only arises when asked in reference to "time".
As far as I know, even the Saudi's have access to encrypted data only. Nonetheless, they will now have a way to map social network, e.g. terrorist suspect xyz sends a lots of messages to pqr. This may be enough for them. With no human rights as well as acceptance of torture (I lived there for a while so not making this up) they can pick both xyz and pqr in the middle of the night and drive bamboo's up orifices to get what they want.
I know you were all excited and mentally living in the Star Wars Rebellion, but really, I don't think our ancestors are coming back to life anytime soon.
Since this is the land of the free, here are my 2 cents
Robin Hood is good, Hezbollah is bad. Masses are so lame, they believe what they are fed. There is no room for rebels rising against a corrupt power anymore.
Hamas and Hezbollah are nothing more than modern day Robin Hood.
I am honestly hoping A) Iran is not as stupid as I hear in the media, however they keep their scary/crazy image. B) Iran gets nukes in the next few years
A & B is the only way I see Israel sticking to UN resolution, stop their illegal settlements, stop their abuse and even the end of Hamas.
Israel is not going to comply to UN demands with slap on the wrist it gets. It needs a regional power willing to fight for the other side instead of sticks and stones vs multimillion dollar weaponry.
Having said that, I see balance of power between restored between Israel/Iran, however I can see Saudi's wanting nuke next, as the balance of power is severely lop sided there (except US may assure saudi's they are there for them.
1) Take a cheap camera flash 2) Replace strobe with AWG14 or 15 coiled about (ummmmmm.. say) 10 times around your finger (remove finger) 3) Charge flash (which isn't a flash anymore) and point to your favorite RFID chip, fire. 4) Enjoy your restored privacy
In traditional sense, shares of a company XYZ were meant to buy you, well exactly, "shares" of the company. Company made X amount of dollars, you got to share profits in accordance with what you own in that company. Company grew, the shares were worth more, however the idea was you got to share the profit. Sure you could sell your shares, however the concept got turned head over heals when shares themselves became trading commodities, so unless prices of shares rise, they are not valued, it does not matter if company is making a fixed X amount of profit year over year.
Maybe offtopic to your post, and definately offtopic to UFOs.
I have always wondered if being gay is environmental or genetic (maybe both).
Say its genetic, up until now gays were forced into straight relationships, lest be persecuted. Today, they are getting being accepted, in another 50 years I believe being gay should be accepted worldwide. Will they evolve out 200, say 500 years from now? i.e. assuming science doesn't catch up enough allowing two gay men to procreate, even then only wealthy could afford.
Continuing the thought, will med-care and insurance pay up for letting gay couple procreate. If yes, then its attempting to do something that is not intended by nature, what if I want wings to fly, should med-care pay for that too.
People led government is a huge problem. I lived there while my dad was working there and know a little more than an average person about this country. Majority of oil is in land where Shia muslim's dominate. Saudi Arabia is ruled by Sunni muslims. If you let people form there own goverment, these regions will have a shia sympathetic government. Not only that, these shia's are aligned with Iran. You see the problem, Oil-Iran.
You will not here what I am about to state (unless US of A decides to invade Saudi Arabia). In 70s-80s, Saudi's wiped entire Shia villages indiscriminate, men, women and children, they used poison gas dropped via crop dusters. Region is called Qatif.
Not much different from Saddam Hussain, except Saudi's are allies.
That won't work. In a energy related article, I had read that solar cells occupying area the size of mexico can power the entire world. One of the hurdles besides cost of solar cells was getting that power to the rest of the world. Apparently there is a huge loss in transmitting the power.
In yet another article when I was back in India, I had read, India looses 50% of energy in transmission. Of coarse, in case of India, this also reflects lot of energy stolen.
Not sure about china, however in US, each real dollar (as in someone's savings) can be loaned up to a thousand folds. As in if you save 1$, banks get to loan 1000$ of money out of thin air.
In an effort to one up France, Iran and North Korea, US also started offering this vacation with a twist, not only do you get kidnapped but also tortured.
Slashdot Mirror
Apparently you have never called an Iranian "Arab". Iranians take it personally.
Iranian's don't like being called Arabs; A) They are Persians, B) They feel proud being associated with the Persian empire and the culture they inherited.
In fact, during my miss-fortunate discussion calling an Iranian an Arab, I felt the individual almost felt insulted.
May be I should get a bunch of investors to buy these assets and sue anyone using Linux.
Wonder if there is money to be made there.
Now that my love affair with Netbooks has ended, I have an overwhelming feeling of "what was I thinking".
This Dell toy will probably be just as slow as those X41 from 2005, IMO Intel Atom is a step in the wrong direction, what we need are i7 with great battery life.
At the end of the day, free speech is a pipe dream. On one hand burning of quran is fine and dandy as Mr. XYZ has freedom of expression, on the other hand building a mosque on ground zero hurts the sentiments of those involved in the 9/11 tragedy. I am not talking about the group on Slashdot, they are a little bit more enlightened than the common folks.
However, the same people who want to burn the Quran oppose mosque on ground zero, clearly this has nothing to do with freedom and American values and more to do with animosity towards Islam and Muslims. How come ground zero mosque is a no no as it hurts sentiments whereas sentiments of muslim a non-issue when it comes to burning of Quran!
This is a interesting question I have thought of quite often and I believe I have a reasonable answer.
"Time" is a by product of creation of our universe.
Keeping this in mind, there is no "need" for anyone creating god. Without universe there is no time (or at the very least time as we perceive), yet there is god (for those who believe in god, and I do). Question of creation only arises when asked in reference to "time".
As far as I know, even the Saudi's have access to encrypted data only. Nonetheless, they will now have a way to map social network, e.g. terrorist suspect xyz sends a lots of messages to pqr. This may be enough for them. With no human rights as well as acceptance of torture (I lived there for a while so not making this up) they can pick both xyz and pqr in the middle of the night and drive bamboo's up orifices to get what they want.
"Business here is done differently".
they didn't bribe and/or bribe the right person.
It doesn't even have to be money, a few hot chicks from Montreal would have done the job. Even take pictures to blackmail pricks causing a problem.
when our ancestors are...
I know you were all excited and mentally living in the Star Wars Rebellion, but really, I don't think our ancestors are coming back to life anytime soon.
The unexplored part of the movie timeline is what life is like immediately after he becomes Vader, but before the events of Episode IV.
Ah Crap! I hope George Lucas isn't reading this, I can't stand a Star Wars Episode 3.5
Since this is the land of the free, here are my 2 cents
Robin Hood is good, Hezbollah is bad. Masses are so lame, they believe what they are fed. There is no room for rebels rising against a corrupt power anymore.
Hamas and Hezbollah are nothing more than modern day Robin Hood.
I am honestly hoping
A) Iran is not as stupid as I hear in the media, however they keep their scary/crazy image.
B) Iran gets nukes in the next few years
A & B is the only way I see Israel sticking to UN resolution, stop their illegal settlements, stop their abuse and even the end of Hamas.
Israel is not going to comply to UN demands with slap on the wrist it gets. It needs a regional power willing to fight for the other side instead of sticks and stones vs multimillion dollar weaponry.
Having said that, I see balance of power between restored between Israel/Iran, however I can see Saudi's wanting nuke next, as the balance of power is severely lop sided there (except US may assure saudi's they are there for them.
Nonetheless, IMO its going to be for better.
If a microwave isn't available
1) Take a cheap camera flash
2) Replace strobe with AWG14 or 15 coiled about (ummmmmm.. say) 10 times around your finger (remove finger)
3) Charge flash (which isn't a flash anymore) and point to your favorite RFID chip, fire.
4) Enjoy your restored privacy
Disclaimer: Do not point towards your pace maker.
So what you are saying is that both the possibilities exist but we won't know until the cat is out of the box, where did I hear this before?
In traditional sense, shares of a company XYZ were meant to buy you, well exactly, "shares" of the company. Company made X amount of dollars, you got to share profits in accordance with what you own in that company. Company grew, the shares were worth more, however the idea was you got to share the profit. Sure you could sell your shares, however the concept got turned head over heals when shares themselves became trading commodities, so unless prices of shares rise, they are not valued, it does not matter if company is making a fixed X amount of profit year over year.
3 cheers for greed!
Maybe offtopic to your post, and definately offtopic to UFOs.
I have always wondered if being gay is environmental or genetic (maybe both).
Say its genetic, up until now gays were forced into straight relationships, lest be persecuted. Today, they are getting being accepted, in another 50 years I believe being gay should be accepted worldwide. Will they evolve out 200, say 500 years from now? i.e. assuming science doesn't catch up enough allowing two gay men to procreate, even then only wealthy could afford.
Continuing the thought, will med-care and insurance pay up for letting gay couple procreate. If yes, then its attempting to do something that is not intended by nature, what if I want wings to fly, should med-care pay for that too.
You forgot Atheists.
A fiery religious fundamentalist is only trumped by a fiery atheist when it comes to discussion about existence of God.
People led government is a huge problem. I lived there while my dad was working there and know a little more than an average person about this country. Majority of oil is in land where Shia muslim's dominate. Saudi Arabia is ruled by Sunni muslims. If you let people form there own goverment, these regions will have a shia sympathetic government. Not only that, these shia's are aligned with Iran. You see the problem, Oil-Iran.
You will not here what I am about to state (unless US of A decides to invade Saudi Arabia). In 70s-80s, Saudi's wiped entire Shia villages indiscriminate, men, women and children, they used poison gas dropped via crop dusters. Region is called Qatif.
Not much different from Saddam Hussain, except Saudi's are allies.
One step at a time shall we....
First lets get past end of the world in 2012, then worry about 2182.
They gotta remove the Microsoft Name and productize (if there is such a word) their devices.
May be call it fune... or umm tune...no no, I got it, lets call it zune... That would make it successful.
That won't work. In a energy related article, I had read that solar cells occupying area the size of mexico can power the entire world. One of the hurdles besides cost of solar cells was getting that power to the rest of the world. Apparently there is a huge loss in transmitting the power.
In yet another article when I was back in India, I had read, India looses 50% of energy in transmission. Of coarse, in case of India, this also reflects lot of energy stolen.
you can also line your tea-shirt with aluminum foil. That would also work against Tazers.
So Ironic, right of 73000 blog owners just got trampled and you still think you can say whatever you want.
xkcd got it all wrong, homeopathy says "like cures like when diluted".
So diluted semen will act as a contraceptive instead of impregnating the women
Not sure about china, however in US, each real dollar (as in someone's savings) can be loaned up to a thousand folds. As in if you save 1$, banks get to loan 1000$ of money out of thin air.
There is an interesting documentary on youtube, Money as Debt that explains this in more detail http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVkFb26u9g8
In an effort to one up France, Iran and North Korea, US also started offering this vacation with a twist, not only do you get kidnapped but also tortured.