1. Egyption, Greek, and Roman religions also had people believing in them for long periods of time. There have been many religions (and still are) that have lasted for long periods time. The length of time a religion has been around is not a real good metric.

2. Also not a good metric, especially since it's only been around for a relatively short period of. Religions don't appear with people already divided.

3. And that's different from other religions because...?

The simple fact is a religion is whatever you believe it to be. One person's pink unicorn worship is no sillier than a million people worshiping invisible sky fairies. Religion is in the eye of the beholder.

All religions are abusive and used like any tool for power, wealth, etc. . The only real difference is that Scientology is basically coming right out and screaming it's scam unlike most other main stream religions who do it far more subtly.

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Not so funny to those of us who have endured a DVD-resolution feature-length film on the big screen.

The first mistake most people make when talking about SSDs vs HDDs is comparing cost/GB. SSDs are not for storing data. They're for installing your OS and programs, while your data goes to the fileserver or the secondary drive in the workstation. Almost every system builder I've talked to fails to recognize that for your typical home or office user, spending an extra $100-200 on a solid-state system drive, even if it means reducing your CPU budget correspondingly, will show huge gains in system usability and responsiveness. I've built several systems on this philosophy and my customers couldn't be happier.

It might be beside your point, but it's my point precisely.

To paraphrase myself, replacing "datacentre" with your phrase "other people's servers":

"Other peoples servers" is not always a cloud, because a cloud has properties that "other people's servers" don't always have.

My web site runs on my ISP's server: OPS. But my ISP's hosting is not in a cloud.

Saying "Cloud is just a fancy way of saying OPS" is along the lines of saying "Oak is just a fancy way of saying tree".

excuse me while I do some cartwheels down the hall...

You can trade while playing WoW. I can't see why you couldn't fly a plane.

Or all this has been possible for quite some.
Evolution has been able to load pst files 6 months ago, as well as mapi support with the openchange plugin.

All this really means to us users is they are probably not going to sue us over it.

numerous more researches were done and it was found out that it ended a few years earlier than 2012.

Our GPS tracking systems use cell signals and they will usually track from inside the trunk of a car. I doubt the glass would prevent the signal from transmitting.