To be fair, it was "normal" back then for them to have sex that young. I'm sure 1300 years from now, certain "normal" things that we do today will be looked at as barbaric.
Yeah, it's not like anyone's saying that Mohammad had morality all figured out and we should take him seriously today. Oh, wait...
Islam is an ideology. It is not defined by what any Muslim wants it to be, but rather by what it is. No ideology is above critique, particularly one that explicitly seeks political and social dominance over every person on the planet.
Muslims are individuals. We passionately believe that no Muslim should be harmed, harassed, stereotyped or treated any differently anywhere in the world solely on account of their status as a Muslim.
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Fortunately, most Jews and Christians have learned to disregard a very large part of their own scripture. Stoning a woman to death for adultery is not a Muslim innovation.
The point isn't who invented it, the point is who's still doing it. Jews and Christians don't stone women to death for adultery now.
The fact that this still goes on in non-secular Islamic countries in full compliance with Islamic scripture does make Islam "one really messed up religion".
I've just had a read through http://thereligionofpeace.com/ and I see no justification for calling it "an anti-Muslim hate site". It doesn't advocate hatred of anyone and explicitly makes a distinction between Muslims and Islamic ideology.
Pointing out that the Koran is largely a hateful diatribe targeted at non-believers and women and is the probable source of much suffering is not an act of hatred. It seems more like an act of social responsibility.
Microsoft licensed Java from Sun but then violated the terms of the licence agreement by not implementing Sun's Java Native Interface (JNI) and instead providing a bridge to COM. For that and (I think) the right to borrow lots of ideas from Java for
This is different because Google didn't licence Java. They just built something very similar to it.
did you know that murder is actually illegal in many states (particularly in the Bible Belt).
Really, murder is less illegal in states outside the bible belt?
I realise that Christians like to claim that a lot of worthwhile laws are based on their religion but I'm fairly sure you'll find that theft and murder are (at least ostensibly) illegal everywhere whether Christians had any say in it or not.
It may have something to do that people are universally opposed to being murdered and having their stuff nicked.
I'm also fairly sure that God ordered up a fair bit of genocide, rape and pillage in the old testament so I really doubt the religious basis for those particular laws.
One solution would be to use Appcelerator Titanium: http://appcelerator.com./
I've used this and it's a doddle to create a standalone webkit browser running your app. You can also embed Ruby or Python or (I think) PHP in your app if you want and there's an online packaging service that packages up your app to install as an
It may also be helpful to know that if you drag a Google Chrome App (which is basically a web page zipped up with some metadata) from the browser to the desktop and then launch it from the desktop, it comes up without any chrome. Well, yes it's still Chrome but there's no... oh stop it, you know what I mean.
You can do something similar with Amazon Web Services and/or Eucalyptus [eucalyptus.com].
No you can't. This is a layer of the stack above AWS or Eucalyptus. In fact those are two of the target platforms for this.
Those two give you an API for creating and destroying Virtual Machine instances. This leverages that ability to provide a scalable deployment stack for your applications. If you want to understand what it's about watch the videos on the site. Alternatively, have a look at http://heroku.com./ It's the same as that but it supports more languages/frameworks and it's open-source.
How did you measure those numbers? It would be tremendously useful to me to be able do the same.
On my Android phone it's Settings | About Phone | Battery Use
I read it and got prematurely excited because I thought someone finally had the balls to ignore the anti-nuclear-as-a-religion crowd, and started building a Molten Salt Reactor. Then I read the article and found out it's just a new take on boring old solar. Oh well.... one day...
I realise that their are people who would reject nuclear even if it were proven safer than the alternatives but you hardly sound any more rational. Are you only interested in sources of energy if they are nuclear?
The real question is how do we use this green renewable source of energy to create petrochemicals so that we don't have to change our current habits in any way.
Do you want petrochemicals or do you want something to power your car? For the latter, hydrogen seems to be a popular choice.
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
