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Comment Re:Excuse me but the Blues Brothers were not cr... (Score 1) 197

Not really. Jesus was put up before the Romans by the Pharisees, a Jewish sect. The Romans were the power at that time and place. They ruled the secular society. If someone were to be punished for religious crimes then that religious group would mete out the punishment. But the Pharisees wanted Jesus' followers to know that they were in charge of Judaism. They basically presented Jesus to the Romans with charges of being an anarchist/anti-Roman, rabble rouser type. Governor Pontius Pilate examined Jesus and found him not guilty of organizing against the Romans and "washed his hand of this matter". The Pharisees then wanted him put to death and the Romans executed him.

Comment Re:Too cynical? (Score 1) 537

So what would the US have to do to be thought of as NOT sexphobic by you? Have a picture-in-picture on every channel of hardcore intercourse? People having sex openly in the streets? There is a difference between sexphobic and civilized.

No, it would be enough NOT to consider pornography as something you can use to reduce the credibility of someone. The (in your opinion) extremes that your are citing just show how uncomfortable you are with the idea of making love to someone in a public place you even go so far as making this discomfort a driving force behind your definition of "civilized".

Comment Re:Too cynical? (Score 2, Interesting) 537

I do not get it. How owning some video with pornographic content qualifies as "denigrating"? Are you US people so sexophobic that watching pornos is equavalent to be some kind of sex offender or pedophile? I you discovered that Obame and michelle actually watched porn together would that make him less qualified to run your country?

Comment Re:Democrats loved the Pentagon Papers (Score 0) 833

Fine, if these are the rules of your game then learn to keep your dirty secrets still secrets. What US gov and some citizen are doing right know is crying around because somebody beat them at their own game. Go teach older democracies than your when you truly become a democratic civil nation, start by banning death penalty and helding and torturing people.

Comment Re:Why do I not trust their numbers? (Score 0) 272

Actually with wireless networks, and especially with cellular network,when it comes to power consumption it does not really matter if your are transmitting at full rate or if your are idle. This is because power management is really not that sophisticated, and the reason it is not that sophisticated is that you do not want to lose traffic by powering (and powering down a radio is the only way to save energy there is nothing else you can do from a protocol stack standpoint) down BTS.

Comment Re:What is moral relativism? (Score 0) 840

still, I do not see how this supports the idea that THERE IS right or wrong no matter if this can be universally correct or not. When our sun goes will go nove it will not be neither good nor bad it will just be part of nature, and we as humans do not transcend nature. OTOH there could be actions that are unpractical for a stable society.

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