• Home
• Archives
• Tag Cloud
• Wiki
• Reviews
• About
• Members
• Login
• Register

Not that Christianity doesn’t have its share of passages in its holy book with similar punishments for perceived crimes, but it sometimes seems as though a majority of Muslims still cling to such barbaric teachings. I suppose they deserve credit for sticking to what their religion teaches, but somehow I’d prefer they’d take the more hypocritical approach of the majority of Christians and just cherry pick the good parts of their religion.

It is not cherry picking or hypocritical. Christians do not follow Mosaic law. This is spelled out in the book of Acts. Jesus himself made it quite clear that Christians are not to go around stoning people. On the contrary, Christians who were violent in history were often the ones who were cherry picking, ignoring the relevant teachings of their religion.

I do not claim to know enough about Islam to say whether or not this person did something that is permissible in the religion. Hence I cannot claim to know whether the religion is at fault, and I will abstain from criticism. A pity that others cannot hold back from criticizing subjects they are not knowledgeable of.

Apparently it gets quite hot over there.Thats bound to make ya cranky.

That was fun - especially at the end where the spinning bus knocks the pedestrian (aaah, cheap thrills!).

Too bad we PC-people have to wait for another half year/year or however long until we get some love…

I’m not some crazy Nintendo fanboy and I’m not obsessed with SSB.

But he did butcher the game in his review. It’s a great game, lots of fun. His review just screams that he wasn’t able to understand how to play and therefore didn’t enjoy it.

Part of me thinks that this is yet another case of someone who is mentally ill using his religion as justification. It’s a bit like the African guy who tortured his sons because it said so in the bible, who incidentally got sent down for 9 years last week. He’s appealing - apparently it’s a big conspiracy by the ‘agencies’…

Islam is one of those religions that has me in two minds. On the one hand I know plenty of reasonable and moderate Muslims who wouldn’t dream of harming anyone, infidel or otherwise. And then you get nutjob terrorists and idiots like this.

But then you get Christians like Fred Phelps and Pat Robertson. I suppose it’s just a general thing you get with organised religion.

Wait till WBC find out- they will take more than placards to the next funeral…

 Signature 

“Pickles are evil”
- K Patrick Glover, 10 June 2007

What is sad about this whole situation is that that girl will never have any justice. She will rot in a shallow grave while they go about their business, proud of what they did to boot. There is only one happy ending to this story to be had, and it is not the father being arrested. The only way is for his religiously nutty ass to die. I can’t say her brothers and uncles do not deserve that fate as well. It would be icing on the cake if the mother was the one to do it though.

I do not care about being tolerant of other peoples cultures when it comes to things like this. Fuck their culture five ways to Sunday if a thing like this is an acceptable and honorable part of it. Call me a crazy westerner but it seems to me that not killing your daughter (in the name of a magical fairy man living in the sky nonetheless) for talking to a foreigner should be a universal ideal to our species as a whole.

DaBroad, the wife has left and filed for divorce. She is currently in hiding as the husband and sons have made death threats against her as well:

He said his daughter’s ‘bad genes were passed on from her mother’. Rand’s mother, 41, remains in hiding after divorcing her husband in the immediate aftermath of the killing, living in fear of retribution from his family. She also still bears the scars of the severe beating he inflicted on her, breaking her arm in the process, when she told him she was going. ‘They cannot accept me leaving him. When I first left I went to a cousin’s home, but every day they were delivering notes to my door saying I was a prostitute and deserved the same death as Rand,’ she said.

‘She was killed by animals. Every night when go to bed I remember the face of Rand calling for help while her father and brothers ended her life,’ she said, tears streaming down her face.

[...] ‘Even now, I cannot believe my ex-husband was able to kill our daughter. He wasn’t a bad person. During our 24 years of marriage, he was never aggressive. But on that day, he was a different person.’

The mother is now trying to raise enough money to escape abroad. ‘I miss my two boys,’ she said. ‘But they have sent a message saying that I am wrong for defending Rand and that I should go back home and live like a blessed Muslim woman,’ said Leila, who is now volunteering with a local organisation campaigning for better protection for women in Basra.

Sadly this is not an isolated incident.

NeonCat, my initial reaction was the same and I had even typed as much into the original entry, but not every Muslim has allowed their religion to turn them into homicidal maniacs and I thought such a sentiment was unfair to those folks. I still think we should get the hell out, but I feel for some of the people we’d be leaving behind.

 Signature 

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn’t know.
-- Mark Twain

hi, been lurking for a while but had to respond to this story..wow..unreal..don’t forget that Iraq is considered one of the more ‘moderate’ Islamic countries..

There are going to be those who will use this to argue that going into Iraq was the right thing to do and we should stay there until something like this is considered shocking by the people there.

I can’t argue that.  I just don’t think we can convince these people that girls aren’t property, that honor killings are horrific.

No, I read this, and my visceral reaction is that we should get the hell out of Iraq and let all the crazy Muslims kill each other if they want to.  Sooner or later the US will run out of patience, national will or money and leave, and they will do so.  Go ahead, call me defeatist, but Iraq was as secular and lawful as it was going to get when Saddam was in charge.  You can tell me the Iraqis are finally settling in to obeying their government, and I say they are just waiting for us to leave.

The sooner the better.

I always thought of religious moderates as those who ignore the parts of their faiths that are incompatible with modern society.

His wife needs to slip a little rat poison into his breakfast, and then she can say “I have no husband now, and I prefer to say that I never had one.”

 Signature 

You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons. - Blazing Saddles

It’s a good FAIL poster candidate to be sure.

 Signature 

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn’t know.
-- Mark Twain

Um...this was in San Francisco.... And they’ve already been making FAIL educational posters out of it.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/5/9/

I have, although I appreciate that. My thing is, and remains, that I really just “don’t want that”.

I have concerns with how their “unique ID"s are generated that identify which owner is using these activations. If they’re using hardware profiling, I’m done at the door. If they’re not, I can use drive imaging to get around it.

I don’t like having to manually un-install stuff, especially where I might need to revert to a previous state on my PC, or I’m otherwise locked away from my drive.

 Signature 

The Kidney Punch Of Legendary Peace

One sure and primary and fundamental fact is the joint existence of a subject and of its world. The one does not exist without the other. I acquire no understanding of myself except as I take account of objects, of the surroundings. I do not think unless I think of things — and there I find myself. - Bruce Lee

Actually, Patness.  Have you heard of the Bioshock Revoke Tool?  It lets you remove your activation token so you can erase and reload your copy of Bioshock without using up an activation tool.

http://www.2kgames.com/cultofrapture/revoketool.html

I’ve been playing WoW all day so all I can think of us “0wned!” and “EPIC FAIL!!!” to describe that picture.

Speaking of Bioshock - I did a look at the 2K games forums to see if there were any problems with the state of their DRM (I found out about Mass Effect and Spore via Kotaku).

Oh yeah. Tons. Like, a page full of problems just DRM- (and no-cd-crack-) related just today. So, no Bioshock for me*. Maybe I’ll convince my brother to lend me his Xbox in exchange for my PC for a while this summer.

edit: *Unless I can circumvent the DRM myself.

 Signature 

The Kidney Punch Of Legendary Peace

One sure and primary and fundamental fact is the joint existence of a subject and of its world. The one does not exist without the other. I acquire no understanding of myself except as I take account of objects, of the surroundings. I do not think unless I think of things — and there I find myself. - Bruce Lee

59% Combativeness, 53% Sneakiness, 26% Intellect, 69% Spirituality

Combative, stealthy, and spiritual; you are a Ranger!
Rangers are the warriors of the woodlands. Stealthy, skilled in combat, and capable of casting spells, they are fearsome opponents and skilled hunters. Rangers are usually accompanied by an animal companion and have a tendency to either use a bow, or to wield a melee weapon in each hand.
Sneaky, aggressive, and faithful, though not overly inclined towards that “book learning,” you’re probably a pretty dangerous person when you want to be. You may be a staunch defender of the forests, but I don’t trust you.

That was fucking funny!

 Signature 

Brother Spikey Mace of Patience

Unitarian Jihad Name: Get Yours
Unitarian Jihad Background

That was a bit harsh wasn’t it Last_Hussar? I mean, what did black gay Jews ever do to you?

I’m glad you find my hernia funny, Leguru.  If you are not careful I’ll break my rules, and give it to you.

Why can’t Moloch admit to himself he’s a black gay Jew.  Maybe when he is in his later teens he’ll be able to accept the fact.

 Signature 

“Pickles are evil”
- K Patrick Glover, 10 June 2007

We’ll re-authenticate when a player uses online features, downloads new content or a patch for their game.

Which means it’ll definitely be more often than every five or ten days for most people.

You’ll still be able to install and play on multiple computers.

How many (and how many re-installs) is the deal breaker for me.

I agree that education is the answer. I was semi-freetarded myself until I started working at a software company and getting a paycheck for what I did.

 Signature 

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

-Robert G. Ingersoll

I’ve only noticed two things at work:
1) Nothing happens and everything seems fine
2) The computer goes ballistic is IE 6.0 is installed on the computer you are upgrading to SP3. BE SURE you upgrade IE before going to SP3!!

 Signature 

Brother Spikey Mace of Patience

Unitarian Jihad Name: Get Yours
Unitarian Jihad Background

Or the “freetards”, who are convinced all media should be free.

Ah, the good ol’ days. If only the right country had won the wars.

 Signature 

Beware the beast man, for he is the Devil’s pawn. Alone among God’s primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother’s land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home, and yours. Shun him, for he is the harbinger of death.

Hell, in this day and age, you would think someone would google it.

Interestingly enough, there’s all this talk about how the Nazis were being very racist during the games. I’m sure some history teachers (if they ever got around to it) told their students that Hitler refused to shake the hand of Jesse Owens after he won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics because he was black. Perhaps that’s true. But Jesse Owens did say that when he waved to Hitler from across the field, Hitler waved back. He didn’t get that much courtesy from his own white teammates, much less FDR. The President didn’t even send a congratulatory telegram, when at the time Presidents would invite medalists to the White House.

In fact, Owens even had to ride the freight elevator to a reception in his own honor at the Waldorf-Astoria because blacks weren’t allowed in the main elevators. This just after he’d had ordinary Germans asking for his autograph and being able to stay in the same hotel as whites, something that did not happen in this country at the time.

So, as it turns out, we here in the United States behaved in a more racist fashion than the white supremacist Nazis. That makes the guy in the picture a real dumbass, doesn’t it?

@***Dave: If only it had been.

PS: Sorry for the snippy history lesson, but people who don’t even take the time to take advantage of the extremely accessible information unprecedented even ten years ago just piss me the fuck off.

It’s so silly, it almost makes me think it’s Photoshopped.

I read the sign before reading the title and in my mind I was just thinking oh my science that guy is dumb

I remember watching a film on that Olympics and how Hitler wanted them to forever be held in Germany, except he didn’t like that the black athletes were winning…

Next thing you know, they’ll keep doing the Olympic torch relay that the Nazis started.

Oh right.

If it wasnt 4:45 am I’d have fallen off my chair laughing.  Just as well you don’t elect a president whose grandfather has been accused of colluding with the Nazi’s. Oh, hang on…

 Signature 

“Pickles are evil”
- K Patrick Glover, 10 June 2007

Odd. I’ve installed it on a number of PCs running XP here without issue.

 Signature 

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn’t know.
-- Mark Twain

What Elwed said. The best solution is probably education, but there’s always going to be a group of people who will pirate something if they can.

 Signature 

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn’t know.
-- Mark Twain

Has anyone noticed that “truss” was misspelled on the currency? 

 Signature 

“What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher?
What is a bad man but a good man’s job?
If you don’t understand this, you will get lost,
however intelligent you are.
It is the great secret.” LAO-TZU

We should keep our criminals out of the hands of our politicians. 

 Signature 

“What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher?
What is a bad man but a good man’s job?
If you don’t understand this, you will get lost,
however intelligent you are.
It is the great secret.” LAO-TZU

Wrong .True faith is supported by evidence.I am sure any reasonable person will look at the evidence and see if this Jesus guy is the person who he says he was.

Please find me the “evidence” written by Jesus. (pause) OK, please find me the “evidence” written by an eye witness. (pause) OK, please find me a “reasonable person” that would actually accept ANY evidence you can produce! (looong pause) Than you. 

 Signature 

“What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher?
What is a bad man but a good man’s job?
If you don’t understand this, you will get lost,
however intelligent you are.
It is the great secret.” LAO-TZU

True faith, the kind completely unsupported by evidence, is difficult to hold on to

Wrong .True faith is supported by evidence.I am sure any reasonable person will look at the evidence and see if this Jesus guy is the person who he says he was.
And your criteria for establishing the existence of Jesus are so arbitrary that it would be impossible to prove the existence of Rabbi Gamaliel ,John the Baptist or Mohammed using them

@TheJynXeD:

Not to sound like I defend DRM (I don’t), but Maxis did say they only validate on the first play of a game, and then never again if you tell it not to go online. I can only hope they mean that, but they should probably know that a lot of geeks are going to be checking on them. Besides which, it’s not likely that people without internet connections are going to be playing - but I can imagine there would be a phone method for validating, like Micro$haft does.

Really, I don’t mind this form of DRM, as long as it never goes beyond this. Theoretically, it would be possible to deactivate the home-bound activation components with a patch if Maxis has to take down the servers. There are lots of other game companies who have used similar, if less sophisticated, methods that have been able to avoid this backlash. As it stands, it’s essentially a no-key version of what ID did with Quake III Arena.

And this is why I’d go and buy it, and just use the cracked .exe file. No stupid activation crap. Ever.

So, how do they plan on handling people without internet connections?

How do they plan on handling the various activation server downtime?

What do they plan on doing in two years when Mass Effect 2 and Spore 2 are released and the activation servers are changed to ME2 and Spore 2 servers?

They’ll have some very unhappy customers on their hands.

 Signature 

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

-Mahatma Ghandi

Windows XP SP3 sends PCs into endless reboot

 Signature 

Science is answers that must always be questioned.
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered.
Religion is answers that must never be questioned.
Politics is answers that lobbyists pay for.

We should keep our schooners out of the hands of criminals.

Same as getting teens to stop having sex.

 Signature 

Science is answers that must always be questioned.
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered.
Religion is answers that must never be questioned.
Politics is answers that lobbyists pay for.

So whats the answer to stop piracy?

 Signature 

“Pickles are evil”
- K Patrick Glover, 10 June 2007

No they don’t use SecuROM as far as I know (except for Bioshock obviously). I just mean in the realm of DRM they tend to be somewhat less intrusive comparatively. You buy a product from them, go through the motions and for the most part that is that. Not to say I like their setup but I have some acceptance if I want to play certain games. The DRM spore was originally talking about was extremely out of hand. I could not rightly buy it. If it goes to market with that scheme, buying it is essentially giving credence to that sort of thing, and I just can’t no matter how much I would like to play it.

@Some Guy:

Uh, you do know what the purpose of Steam is, don’t you? The whole thing about Steam is that you purchase games online and download them immediately. They don’t want you to have to enter a license key - they just have you sign in to the same account you purchased the game with. They also don’t tie a particular user ID to an installation. You can still have as many installations of a game as you please, but you have to have a Steam ID to play.

The DRM Steam uses isn’t about preventing you from copying your game so much as it is making sure people who own the game are the ones playing it. That, and Steam only releases games that have come out in other media, so Steam is just a network distribution and play system. Steam is not nearly so draconian a system as SecuROM.

Steam, as in Valve?  Is Valve using SecuROM protection too now?

 Signature 

The protein prospector!

the louder the cries of piracy, and the more intrusive DRM will get.
-- elwedriddsche

The faster these clowns go out of business, the better. It would be my ultimate dream if they would lock down their content so tight that only the purchaser could even hear (or see) it.

Then those of us who produce media for the sheer pleasure of it would suddenly find ourselves on a playing field without the several 800-lb gorillas that are the big media companies breathing our air and using our gravity.