Actually, all the recent wars the West has been part of were ideologically based according to the governments, including the Kosovo campaign to stop the Serb genocide. The Gulf war, Afghanistan, Iraq.. all of it.
And if you are presumably correct, why should our materialist motives be held in any better light than their ideological ones? A muslim will immediately tell you (as I have been told before) that God states clearly: "Fight those who fight you and do not transgress" and "There is no compulsion in religion, righteousness has been made distinct from evil"
Look it up yourself. I'm playing devil's advocate because you are clearly biased, but for good reasons. I was the same, but I lived with these people and I have known religious ones (with nice long beards) and they are not what you seem to think. Don't watch the news too much.
I know..I'm not even Muslim and look what they have done..from Informative to Flamebait. I don't know why people have to be so stupid. They always get the stories about 17 year old rape victims being convicted due to cultures that lack education(including proper religious education), but they will never get the other side of things until they live here and see for themselves.
Here's another firestarter for the thought police: did you know that the Taliban started off when a school principal and his students revolted against a an Afghan general who was raping schoolgirls? They lynched him and his men, and started a chain reaction. Sorry to ruin your day, but the beginnings of the Taliban were excellent. Arabs/foreigners apparently ruined things later when they took governance into their hands and used people's ignorance of their faith to dictate their own fanatic law.
During the crusades, it was said that the entry of the Christian knights into Jerusalem left so many dead that no Muslim/Jewish man woman or child escaped in some towns, and the bloodflow was so high there was, literally, a small river of it. Beheadings are nothing to what they did. The crimes committed there will never be forgotten.
I'm quoting Bill Clinton on the last line, during a speech he gave after 9/11.
Nonsense, methinks. Why do you link ideology with coexistence/friendship in this way? It's true that the US can't be friends with mideast dictatorships that violate the human rights of their citizens, and that usually have no "ideology" to begin with. The idea of seperation of church and state (i.e human law in charge) being an obstacle in relations with theocratic nations (and Egypt is definitely not one of them, they have French law) does not hold. Having authority in the hands of a religion in accordance with the citizens' demands does not banish religious freedom or prevent "friendship" with the secular world.
The two systems are as you said incompatible, but that does not make any two such countries enemies. It is this mentality that fuels militant activity in the third world.
A good point you raised however is about the difference between people and government. Dictatorships are not supported by any people in any of the countries you mentioned - they are merely tolerated, and in some places the patience is running out. Theocracies (they do not truly exist today)are a completely different story. We can and should oppose the totalitarianism, but can we be enemies to 1.3 billion people because we think we have superior philosophies of state governance?
living here..it's quite common to see Al-Azhar ridiculed, mostly due to the current status of the religious institution in being submissive to governmental pressure. The government is also ridiculed all the time, including in major papers/media. It's just certain people you can't talk about, like the big man at the top. Like any dictatorship, a line is drawn between that which is pretended to be freedom and that which cannot be tolerated by those who engineer the whole thing.
As for Islam: I don't see why he had to bring religion into this. Rape is punishable by death in Islam, and the religion enjoys extreme loyalty from the people even though they may not be religious in practice. I would agree with detaining this man for his own safety.
It is not held perfectly still in both piezoresistive and capacitive accelerometers. You need to have displacements to measure the acceleration, and stiction is the problem solved with feedback/force units.
But what if the "point" conveyed information that can be sold? Can you at least hold the sole right to sell information that is the product of your reflection?
I write a song, I own the song. It is in my name. People can listen to it, people can play it - share it perhaps - but why should they benefit from publishing it without my consent and making money off my hard work?
A song is a piece of musical information. A "point", in other words.
Diana I recall was also an adulteress, which in most cultures happens to be a slight barrier to her becoming a "hero". Something about being a cheap skank who lets another man screw her for his money, then tells the world about it on T.V.
The results show that Vista is extremely RAM hungry, graphical power is less of an issue unless you want eye candy, and hard drive I/O is critical.
I don't know about you, but I feel enlightened. I also found out yesterday the sky was blue , and that was a real killer as well. Submitter must have missed out on all the "yes but can it run vista" jokes.
I live in a Muslim culture right now, and they have a very definitive answer here: something like "2.5 months of pregnancy" or the like. Of course, it means nothing except that it is religiously founded, and the authority of that is undisputed by the general will of the people.
Answers to questions like yours will always need principled answers, and the principle is in many cases theocratic.
a step towards simulating fully fledged organisms in virtual environments..
Yeah but it's like, a really small step isn't it? You couldn't do anything useful with it except maybe simulate Dubya's cerebral activity, and that's not very useful at all.
And besides, didn't you hear: Virtual Environments/Machines are going to be banned on Vista!
All these states are "Arab" due to their having Arabic as the language of the state, not ethnic background. They are all members of the Arab League. Saying that they are "Islamic" is inaccurate, because Islam has varying roles in these governments, ranging from absolute to "legal flavoring" as in Egypt for e.g.
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Actually, all the recent wars the West has been part of were ideologically based according to the governments, including the Kosovo campaign to stop the Serb genocide. The Gulf war, Afghanistan, Iraq.. all of it.
And if you are presumably correct, why should our materialist motives be held in any better light than their ideological ones? A muslim will immediately tell you (as I have been told before) that God states clearly:
"Fight those who fight you and do not transgress"
and
"There is no compulsion in religion, righteousness has been made distinct from evil"
Look it up yourself. I'm playing devil's advocate because you are clearly biased, but for good reasons. I was the same, but I lived with these people and I have known religious ones (with nice long beards) and they are not what you seem to think. Don't watch the news too much.
That is the meaning of Jihad- a war that brings Justice.
Perhaps that is a good thing. Isn't that why we wage war in the secular world?
I know..I'm not even Muslim and look what they have done..from Informative to Flamebait. I don't know why people have to be so stupid. They always get the stories about 17 year old rape victims being convicted due to cultures that lack education(including proper religious education), but they will never get the other side of things until they live here and see for themselves.
Here's another firestarter for the thought police: did you know that the Taliban started off when a school principal and his students revolted against a an Afghan general who was raping schoolgirls? They lynched him and his men, and started a chain reaction. Sorry to ruin your day, but the beginnings of the Taliban were excellent. Arabs/foreigners apparently ruined things later when they took governance into their hands and used people's ignorance of their faith to dictate their own fanatic law.
Is this flamebait too?
During the crusades, it was said that the entry of the Christian knights into Jerusalem left so many dead that no Muslim/Jewish man woman or child escaped in some towns, and the bloodflow was so high there was, literally, a small river of it. Beheadings are nothing to what they did. The crimes committed there will never be forgotten.
I'm quoting Bill Clinton on the last line, during a speech he gave after 9/11.
Nonsense, methinks. Why do you link ideology with coexistence/friendship in this way? It's true that the US can't be friends with mideast dictatorships that violate the human rights of their citizens, and that usually have no "ideology" to begin with. The idea of seperation of church and state (i.e human law in charge) being an obstacle in relations with theocratic nations (and Egypt is definitely not one of them, they have French law) does not hold. Having authority in the hands of a religion in accordance with the citizens' demands does not banish religious freedom or prevent "friendship" with the secular world.
The two systems are as you said incompatible, but that does not make any two such countries enemies. It is this mentality that fuels militant activity in the third world.
A good point you raised however is about the difference between people and government. Dictatorships are not supported by any people in any of the countries you mentioned - they are merely tolerated, and in some places the patience is running out. Theocracies (they do not truly exist today)are a completely different story. We can and should oppose the totalitarianism, but can we be enemies to 1.3 billion people because we think we have superior philosophies of state governance?
living here..it's quite common to see Al-Azhar ridiculed, mostly due to the current status of the religious institution in being submissive to governmental pressure. The government is also ridiculed all the time, including in major papers/media. It's just certain people you can't talk about, like the big man at the top. Like any dictatorship, a line is drawn between that which is pretended to be freedom and that which cannot be tolerated by those who engineer the whole thing.
As for Islam: I don't see why he had to bring religion into this. Rape is punishable by death in Islam, and the religion enjoys extreme loyalty from the people even though they may not be religious in practice. I would agree with detaining this man for his own safety.
It is not held perfectly still in both piezoresistive and capacitive accelerometers. You need to have displacements to measure the acceleration, and stiction is the problem solved with feedback/force units.
Or maybe I just misunderstood you..
We need to concentrate, for the time being, on killing all the people who use words like "blogosphere".
Let's just put it like this:
:)
A girl can't pee while standing up and post with her real nickname
Yes, and I hope we all agree that the word "face" and the phrase "fingers suspects" are uncomfortable in the same sentence.
Any thoughts, or did I miss somebody's comments?
You don't go out very much, do you?
Joking, joking...
From Bill Gates' interview with Time Magazine:
"And the day the PS3 comes out they will run into HALO 3."
There is nothing strange or unusual about this. Free market economy.
I think this kind of connection is too much for the tubes. 100 Gbps is more like a truck, I'd wager. A really big truck.
But what if the "point" conveyed information that can be sold? Can you at least hold the sole right to sell information that is the product of your reflection?
I write a song, I own the song. It is in my name. People can listen to it, people can play it - share it perhaps - but why should they benefit from publishing it without my consent and making money off my hard work?
A song is a piece of musical information. A "point", in other words.
Diana I recall was also an adulteress, which in most cultures happens to be a slight barrier to her becoming a "hero". Something about being a cheap skank who lets another man screw her for his money, then tells the world about it on T.V.
And yes, her ex-husband is not much better.
It is illegal for 10 yo to post on slashdot. Leave quickly!
He obviously wasn't working for MS.
The results show that Vista is extremely RAM hungry, graphical power is less of an issue unless you want eye candy, and hard drive I/O is critical.
I don't know about you, but I feel enlightened. I also found out yesterday the sky was blue , and that was a real killer as well. Submitter must have missed out on all the "yes but can it run vista" jokes.
You are using Windows. We will shed no tears.
I live in a Muslim culture right now, and they have a very definitive answer here: something like "2.5 months of pregnancy" or the like. Of course, it means nothing except that it is religiously founded, and the authority of that is undisputed by the general will of the people.
Answers to questions like yours will always need principled answers, and the principle is in many cases theocratic.
Who on earth needs anonymous proxy chains now? I'm off to Berlin.
* Find your soul mate
I believe many websites have claimed this before, and they were like, not joking. Are you trying to make fun of online hookers?
a step towards simulating fully fledged organisms in virtual environments..
Yeah but it's like, a really small step isn't it? You couldn't do anything useful with it except maybe simulate Dubya's cerebral activity, and that's not very useful at all.
And besides, didn't you hear: Virtual Environments/Machines are going to be banned on Vista!
All these states are "Arab" due to their having Arabic as the language of the state, not ethnic background. They are all members of the Arab League. Saying that they are "Islamic" is inaccurate, because Islam has varying roles in these governments, ranging from absolute to "legal flavoring" as in Egypt for e.g.