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It's hard to believe but at one stage in it's history, Islam would have been seen as one of the more progressive major religions.

 

Isn't that because it was designed/manufactured to be a religion that would compete with Christianity which was basically for white people and the central asians wanted their own religion so they would feel lucky like the chosen ones (christians/jews) did.

 

Not even close.  A simple search of even Wiki would help you see what Islam's history is.

 

Spain in c 10th century must've been a very interesting place. Mixtures of religion can be very very productive when (reasonably) peaceful.

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It's hard to believe but at one stage in it's history, Islam would have been seen as one of the more progressive major religions.

 

Isn't that because it was designed/manufactured to be a religion that would compete with Christianity which was basically for white people and the central asians wanted their own religion so they would feel lucky like the chosen ones (christians/jews) did.

 

Not even close.  A simple search of even Wiki would help you see what Islam's history is.

 

Spain in c 10th century must've been a very interesting place. Mixtures of religion can be very very productive when (reasonably) peaceful.

 

Sadly it didn't last long when radicalised groups from North Africa broke down the Caliph's rule in Spain via the Berbers.

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Vin, no chance imo that Ebola was man made and launched on the population, originally.
But no doubt attempts to weaponise it since would have been made.

Read about 6 Tom Clancy novels. He was all over Iran putting it in an aerosol at the Sydney Olympics.
I read that one too.
In the real world, I think Lassa is considered a better chance to weaponise than Ebola. Not quite as lethal but has an inherent ability to spread as an airborne virus. But you can only imagine what horrors biological science could come up with.
The Indian yoghurt drink?
They'd be better off with a dodgy vindaloo.
Or is that lassi?

 

The famous dog?

 

They'd be better off with an evil, malevolent dog. Like the one from The Omen.
Unless you meant the disease.

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Vin, no chance imo that Ebola was man made and launched on the population, originally.
But no doubt attempts to weaponise it since would have been made.

Read about 6 Tom Clancy novels. He was all over Iran putting it in an aerosol at the Sydney Olympics.
I read that one too.
In the real world, I think Lassa is considered a better chance to weaponise than Ebola. Not quite as lethal but has an inherent ability to spread as an airborne virus. But you can only imagine what horrors biological science could come up with.
The Indian yoghurt drink?
They'd be better off with a dodgy vindaloo.
Or is that lassi?
The famous dog?
They'd be better off with an evil, malevolent dog. Like the one from The Omen.
Unless you meant the disease.

Lassie has a disease? Please tell me it's not rabies. I couldn't handle another 'Old Yeller' scenario.
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Vin, no chance imo that Ebola was man made and launched on the population, originally.
But no doubt attempts to weaponise it since would have been made.

Read about 6 Tom Clancy novels. He was all over Iran putting it in an aerosol at the Sydney Olympics.
I read that one too.
In the real world, I think Lassa is considered a better chance to weaponise than Ebola. Not quite as lethal but has an inherent ability to spread as an airborne virus. But you can only imagine what horrors biological science could come up with.
The Indian yoghurt drink?
They'd be better off with a dodgy vindaloo.
Or is that lassi?
The famous dog?
They'd be better off with an evil, malevolent dog. Like the one from The Omen.
Unless you meant the disease.

Lassie has a disease? Please tell me it's not rabies. I couldn't handle another 'Old Yeller' scenario.

 

 

How would you feel about a Cujo scenario?

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Vin, no chance imo that Ebola was man made and launched on the population, originally.
But no doubt attempts to weaponise it since would have been made.

Read about 6 Tom Clancy novels. He was all over Iran putting it in an aerosol at the Sydney Olympics.
I read that one too.
In the real world, I think Lassa is considered a better chance to weaponise than Ebola. Not quite as lethal but has an inherent ability to spread as an airborne virus. But you can only imagine what horrors biological science could come up with.
The Indian yoghurt drink?
They'd be better off with a dodgy vindaloo.
Or is that lassi?
The famous dog?
They'd be better off with an evil, malevolent dog. Like the one from The Omen.
Unless you meant the disease.

Lassie has a disease? Please tell me it's not rabies. I couldn't handle another 'Old Yeller' scenario.
Hey there, champ! How about a spoiler alert?
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Vin, no chance imo that Ebola was man made and launched on the population, originally.
But no doubt attempts to weaponise it since would have been made.

Read about 6 Tom Clancy novels. He was all over Iran putting it in an aerosol at the Sydney Olympics.
I read that one too.
In the real world, I think Lassa is considered a better chance to weaponise than Ebola. Not quite as lethal but has an inherent ability to spread as an airborne virus. But you can only imagine what horrors biological science could come up with.
The Indian yoghurt drink?
They'd be better off with a dodgy vindaloo.
Or is that lassi?
The famous dog?
They'd be better off with an evil, malevolent dog. Like the one from The Omen.
Unless you meant the disease.

Lassie has a disease? Please tell me it's not rabies. I couldn't handle another 'Old Yeller' scenario.
Hey there, champ! How about a spoiler alert?

 

 

It's his sled.

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The bad guy was his father and a chick all along.

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Vin, no chance imo that Ebola was man made and launched on the population, originally.
But no doubt attempts to weaponise it since would have been made.

Read about 6 Tom Clancy novels. He was all over Iran putting it in an aerosol at the Sydney Olympics.
I read that one too.
In the real world, I think Lassa is considered a better chance to weaponise than Ebola. Not quite as lethal but has an inherent ability to spread as an airborne virus. But you can only imagine what horrors biological science could come up with.
The Indian yoghurt drink?
They'd be better off with a dodgy vindaloo.
Or is that lassi?
The famous dog?
They'd be better off with an evil, malevolent dog. Like the one from The Omen.
Unless you meant the disease.

Lassie has a disease? Please tell me it's not rabies. I couldn't handle another 'Old Yeller' scenario.
Hey there, champ! How about a spoiler alert?

 

 

It's his sled.

 

It's really her ■■■■

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Police test mental health of Heather Mack, daughter of American tourist killed in Bali and found in suitcase

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yesterday at 8:17pmThu 14 Aug 2014, 8:17pm

Indonesian police have run psychiatric tests on the teenage daughter of an American woman found dead inside a suitcase in Bali.

Police arrested the daughter, Heather Mack, 19, and her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, 21, on Wednesday (local time) after a taxi driver found a battered body in a suitcase outside the St Regis luxury hotel in Nusa Dua, Bali.

The body was identified by hospital officials as Chicago-based Sheila von Wiese-Mack, 62.

Neither Ms Mack nor Mr Schaefer has been charged but police have detained them as suspects.

"We have done blood and psychiatric tests to try to find out their motive in the case, maybe they are mentally unstable," Djoko Hariutomo, police chief for Bali's provincial capital Denpasar, told reporters.

"So far we haven't gotten any information on what is behind the murder. Is it financial or something else? We don't know."

Television broadcast images of Ms Mack, dressed in a pale grey hoodie and denim shorts, laughing and telling a group of reporters following her, "You are crazy," as she walked between rooms in the police station.

Police said the young couple on Tuesday left a bloodied suitcase and other luggage in the taxi, and went to check out of the five-star hotel, where a single room can cost as much as $1,340 a night.

The couple did not return, so the taxi driver checked the luggage and found the body.

An official at the hospital that conducted the autopsy said Ms von Wiese-Mack had been repeatedly hit in the face and head with a blunt object.

A St Regis hotel official said the incident was believed to have taken place in a room booked by Mr Schaefer.

Couple request US legal representation

Ms Mack and Mr Schaefer were apprehended on Wednesday at a budget hotel about 1.6 kilometres from the St Regis hotel after a day-long search by police.

Staff at the Risata Bali resort said they were immediately suspicious of the couple after they checked in without luggage.

5669026-3x4-340x453.jpgPHOTO: Sheila von Wiese-Mack's body was found in a suitcase by a Bali taxi driver. (AFP: Sonny Tumbelaka)

 

Risata Bali security confirmed their identities after Mr Schaefer asked resort staff for a voucher to use the internet and they alerted authorities, hotel manager Nyoman Wija said.

Police have appointed an Indonesian lawyer to represent the couple, but they have asked for US legal representation.

"She doesn't want to comment on the incident and she declined to give any information," Haposan Sihombing, an Indonesian lawyer appointed by police to represent Ms Mack, told Reuters late on Wednesday.

"She kept asking to be represented by a lawyer from the United States."

The US state department is aware of reports of a US citizen's death in Bali and the arrests of two people in connection with the case, spokeswoman Marie Harf said.

She declined to give details due to privacy considerations.

"Obviously we are monitoring it and will provide any consular access as appropriate," Ms Harf said.

An official with the US consulate general in Bali, who met Ms Mack at the police station on Thursday, declined to comment after the meeting.

The Mack family lived for a number of years in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park.

Oak Park spokesman David Powers said on Wednesday police responded to 86 calls from the Mack household due to incidents between mother and daughter from 2004 through to June 2013.

No arrests were ever made from the calls, which were a combination of reports of domestic violence, theft, missing person and 911 hang-ups, Mr Powers said.

Reuters

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-14/bali-police-test-heather-mack-mental-health-after-mother-killed/5671898

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Neither here nor there, but when I was little I used to think it was 'titbits' and it was a swear word.

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In the UK Mohammed has overtaken George when it comes to naming baby boys.

were they in direct competition? How is Candy faring against Mildred.

 

Don't worry, everyone else understood. 

 

Either Muslims are more respectful of their spiritual leader or lacking in imagination

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Also from the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28799538

 

In previous years, some people have added up the spellings of Muhammad to put it in first place on the list.

There are eight different spellings, and if you add them up you get to 8,380, which would put the name in first place, ahead of Oliver on 6,949.

But you're on a slippery slope once you start combining entries on the list.

If you add the number of babies called Harry to the number called Henry, for example, you get to 9,136. Combining Jack and Jacob gives you a whopping 13,649.

At the other end of the scale, the list goes down as far as names given to three babies, such as Achilles, Cecil, Ming and Rick for boys and Beryl, Darwin, Jo and Tracey for girls.

And among the more unusual, names of Harry Potter characters have started appearing in lists - including Draco, Sirius and Bellatrix.

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Can't believe Biceptimus didn't make the list.

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Or Humungus.

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	‘I‘m sorry,‘ says pop-up ad inventor
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<div>‘I‘m sorry‘ ... Ethan Zuckerman around the time he invented the pop-up ad at Tripod.com.</div>

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AFTER clogging computer screens with webcam girls and male enhancements for two decades, the inventor of the pop-up has finally apologised.

Ethan Zuckerman, the head of the Centre for Civic Media at MIT, developed the code for the first pop-up in the mid-90s while working as a programmer at web hosting service Tripod.com.

But in an apologetic essay at the Atlantic, the computer whiz insists he had no idea of the horrors the function would inflict.

“At the end of the day, the business model that got us funded was advertising,” Zuckerman explained. “The model that got us acquired was analysing users‘ personal homepages so we could better target ads to them. Along the way, we ended up creating one of the most hated tools in the advertiser‘s toolkit: the pop-up ad.

“It was a way to associate an ad with a user‘s page without putting it directly on the page, which advertisers worried would imply an association between their brand and the page‘s content. Specifically, we came up with it when a major car company freaked out that they‘d bought a banner ad on a page that celebrated ■■■■ sex. I wrote the code to launch the window and run an ad in it.”

A few weeks later Geocities used the code to introduce pop-ups, the coder said, and the internet‘s ad-based business model was born.

“I‘m sorry. Our intentions were good.”

 

This guy is to blame...■■■■■■■

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can anyone whose surname has "Zuck" in it just be legally kicked all to ■■■■?

 

can we do that?

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Meanwhile is merica - seriously one day that country is just going to implode. Why is it so hard to differentiate between a movie and reality?

 

 

Teen prankster started 'Louisville Purge' hoax: police

The unnamed teenager thought it would be funny to circulate rumors of a 12-hour crime spree, but as 80,000 people tuned into an online police scanner, nothing happened — not even the alleged giraffe running loose in the Kentucky city.

 

'The Purge: Anarchy' is a film in which emergency services are suspended for 12 hours each year to rid the nation of violent crime.

Despite claims on social media, the “Louisville Purge” scheduled for Friday was a hoax.

The rumor stemmed from a teen prankster who thought it would be funny to tweet about Kentucky authorities allowing crime to run rampant for one night only, according to a Courier Journal report.

A poster that circulated Instagram, Twitter and Facebook in the past week said the alleged Louisville Purge would start at 8 p.m. on Friday and continue until 6:30 a.m. Saturday.

The hoaxed produced nary a violent crime, but Louisville Metro Police had a word with the teen who started the whole debacle anyway.

The teen‘s wannabe purge was inspired by a film titled “The Purge,” where in its fictional world ruled by a totalitarian government, emergency services were suspended for 12 hours each year to rid the nation of violent crime.

“We‘re going to take any threat that we receive seriously, particularly one that encourages and incites violence against our community,” police spokesman Phil Russell told WAVE-TV.

The teen has since apologized for his prank, and said he understands his actions stirred up some panic in his beloved hometown.

“I didn‘t think it would really get that serious,” the unnamed student told the Louisville TV station. “It was wrong for me to do that.”

He started the rumors by tweeting "Whos trying get a Louisville Purge started with me?" on Aug. 10 at 8:30 p.m.,according to his Iroquois High School newspaper.

The teen has not been identified because he will not be charged with a crime, but his hoax turned into a legitimate concern for local schools and authorities.

There was one football scrimmage rescheduled for Saturday morning because of the threats circulating on Twitter, and extra police patrols were ordered in the metro area and neighboring communities, according to Journal and WAVE-TV reports.

As 80,000 people tuned into an online police scanner, several fake reports of a giraffe being freed from the Louisville Zoo made the rounds on Twitter.

[email protected]

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/louisville-purge-hoax-started-teenager-police-article-1.1906062

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According to multiple reports, ISIS claims to have executed American freelance journalist James Wright Foley. Politico‘s Blake Hounshell was one the first to report the news on Twitter, saying the militant Islamic group is threatening to kill another reporter in retaliation for U.S. strikes on their forces in Iraq:


Foley had been missing since November 22, 2012 when he disappeared in Syria.

- See more at: http://americanactionnews.com/articles/isis-reportedly-beheads-u-s-journalist-james-wright-foley-on-camera#sthash.gQCSPkUu.dpuf

 

http://americanactionnews.com/articles/isis-reportedly-beheads-u-s-journalist-james-wright-foley-on-camera

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I assume everyone is up to date with the morgue attendant in the US helping himself to the bodies?