In fairness, the crusades were fought because Muslim cultures had pushed Christians west out of areas they consider holy.

There was 400 years between Islam taking over the eastern roman emprie and the start of the crusades. To suggest a causal relationship would be live France deciding to nuke the UK tomorrow and claiming it was justified retaliation for the Hundred Years War.

Arguing whether or not tribes are a good thing is like arguing whether or not aerobic respiration is a good thing. Good or bad, humans have a biological imperative to form exclusive social networks and are going to do so.

President Obama hopes that the e-book scheme will support low-income households who significantly trail the national average for computer ownership and digital connectivity.

So exactly what use are low-priced e-books to people who don't own computers?

There's actually only one LISP programmer, but he used (rplacd x x) to make it look like there's a lot more of them.

...has the fact a program simply won't work deterred the Government from attempting it anyways?

Free fuel (solar and charging at work)

Does your employer know you're using the business's electricity for personal use?

The people in the car were acting nervous. Which is apparently an unexpected response to being pulled over by the cops.

That is why he is the prosecutor and not the judge.

Prosectuors are still officers of the court and aren't allowed to make unconstitutional arguments to the jury.

"Four of the five individuals who have access to control the camera's settings will testify they did not change the cameras' recording instructions," prosecutors wrote. "The fifth person is defendant. It is a reasonable deduction to infer that defendant tampered with the camera equipment to have an opportunity to insert a thumbdrive into the RNG tower without detection."

So according to these prosecutors, taking your fifth ammendment right to remain silent == automatically guilty despite lack of evidence.

I'd rather have vacuum.sucks

Yeah, why would a robotics company want to be near Carnegie Mellon University?

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According to the novelization, they just go through a worm hole and come out the other side near habitable planet, and everything between is just them hallucinating because of that gravity messing with their brains.

So is Apple going to close its South Asia headquarters in Singapore, where homosexuality is a felony punishable by 2 years in prison?

Or do they not actually care about civil rights and are just trying to hook onto their customer base's current "cause of the week" in a cynical attempt to get good PR?

A Christian baker should not have to bake a wedding cake for a gay "marriage". Likewise, should a muslim photographer be forced to photograph it?

But an atheist baker has to indulge a Christian cashier who think company policies don't apply to them. Because Evangelicals are fine with forcing involuntary service on everyone else.