You lost that on Godwin rules.

But seriously I was raised in this so called ideology you claim is so dangerous. Am not practicing muslim and I haven't met anyone who cared if I was or not so far, even though they can act all superior if they are themselves but thats besides the point.

My main complaint is that westerners are claiming Islam is so 'dangerous' without really understanding the people and the faith of close to a billion people in the world. The fastest and largest growing faith on the planet.

This 'dangerous' religion only came under the microscope now after 9/11 where a radical terrorist groups and their originating faith became suddenly a singular group. That's bullshit, its like saying Timothy McVeigh represents Christian Terrorists. No one connected Islam the faith and the radical terrorists before 9/11, but they were there in the first Trade center attack, in Israel, in PLO attacks of the 60s, in Egypt and countless other terrorist attacks.

The faith doesn't have anything to do with it, its being used just as fear is being used through films like that to cut down dialog between people, to incite fear and misunderstanding. Are you really surprised that faith based language is being used to incite conflict? What did George Bush say? Its God that told him to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. He used Christian based language countless times. What do you think those terrorists do? Same shit different words and God. They are simply using the faith as a vehicle to further their own ideas and power, the Taliban is a perfect example of this, they claim to be Islamic, but closer inspection shows that they don't know shit about Islam and impose their own hard line interpretation with Pashtun tribal overtones.

How many innocent Muslims were attacked post 9/11 for being simply Muslim? Since when is Osama Bin Laden or any of those crazy imams representative of the Islamic faith?

Its all about power and pushing people into taking complex topics to basic levels. Wilders only wants to incite hatred and division in Netherlands and gain political momentum off peoples fears, its xenophobia parallel to blaming all the problems of Germany circa 1930s and WW1 on the Jews.

Its so much easier to say its the evil Muslims!!!111 then saying perhaps our foreign policy with regards to Saudi Arabia, Israel, Palestine, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq is and was deeply flawed. You look at the middle east with a western slant without thinking about what people in this side of the world have seen and witnessed from the great western powers, arm sales and unconditional support for Israel to kill Palestinians, support of ISI and Mujahedin to attack the USSR in Afghanistan, support for corrupt and oppressive Saudi Royal Family, support for Egypt that is 20 years under emergency dictatorship rule, support for Central Asian despots who now imprison and vilify Islam so they can rule for ever, sale of arms to Iraq and Iran. Tanks and troops spreading freedom across Iraq and Afghanistan. People don't forget.

But you people like it simple and easy to disgust and process back through "Its the faith" I guess. Islam is evil. Bush is right. War for ever against a strategy and a religion.

For people who claim a diversity of opinion you enter intellectual lock down pretty quickly.

hmmmm, my prediction is some false flag op that speeds along further the fear of "terrorists" to the point that martial law is declared and never lifted-perhaps biological this time-
Basically all the worst parts of the Bible, which most will interpret as some divine affirmation, then lock down.
By 2015-19, a good portion of the earths population will be dead, and those left will be conveniently relocated to very nice places called protected cities.

Ohhhh the election!!
It doesn't matter who wins, the machinery is in place to fist fuck the majority, regardless of ideals, morality, principles and sensibilities....
welcome to the New World Order, meatbots!!!

And dag, once again, why do you give a fuck?? Aren't you on prison island?? Besides, you continually buy into the cult-of-personality, anyone-is-better-than-Bush fan club, just like the most idyllic of dreamers here on the sift....

If you consider folks here on the sift, who live in America, as an adequate cross-section of everyone in America, we're fucked.

To Farhad, once you enlist, they do have a say. It's not just for homosexuals either. The military is an entirely different culture with it's own laws and accepted codes of conduct. They want absolutely no sexual interaction between soldiers of any gender, although it still happens all the time. If you're caught, you will get punished. You can get discharged for adultery, taking multiple partners, sodomy, and all kinds of things the military has decided it does not want for various reasons. In the units I served in, heterosexuals caught fraternizing with the soldiers of the opposite sex were disciplined 100% of the time. This is opposed to outed homosexuals being discharged 0% of the time, again, in my experience. So military leadership *usually* exercises discresion when enforcing this whole "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Of course you still will always have your total hard line, by the book, commander somewhere that will discharge a homosexual regardless (see Arabic translator). The military will probably not change this policy anytime soon because it still allows for gays to enter the service, and they don't really have to deal with it. Everything winds up at the discretion of the chain of command. Does this make it right? No. Then again, being in the military is way different than civilian life. They want to lock down certain behavior that is perfectly acceptable in civilian life. They always have, and they always will. Don't hold your breath for them changing policy anytime soon just to allow someone to profess sexual orientation.

We had an open campus for lunch at our high school and only one way back into it. Some friends and I pulled out lawn chairs and sat in front of the entrance to our school and told people they couldn't go in. No one thought to question us about if we were serious or not. So eventually most of the students outside starting saying that the school was in lock down or whatnot.

Well finally after the bell rang about 15 minutes later the principal comes out and tells everyone to get to class. Of course he had to suspend the 5 guys in lawn chairs sitting in front of the doors. My Dad laughed my Mom cried.

i voted wrong too. goddamnit...

oh, and the copycats begin:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/19/vtech.threats/index.html?eref=rss_us - "One student was arrested at Todd Beamer High School in Federal Way, Washington, after a parent phoned in a tip, according to Debra Stenberg, spokeswoman for the Federal Way Public School System.

The parent had received a text message from her daughter that she believed a student was carrying a gun. The school resource officer and the school principal confronted the student in a hallway and found the student was carrying three handguns and extra ammunition.

The school was locked down, and students were held in class for about an hour before they were dismissed.
A second student was searched but not taken into custody, Stenberg said.

It really is amazing and sad that Boston is trying to blame the advertisers. Who chose to lock down the city over miniature billboards. Look at how effective the random subway backpack searches have been. Please choose not to be terrorized.

I second that MLX (NickyP's the last member of the Hud Club!) - was the first user after the Sift registration lock down...Proud of you Mr. P!

I found this hilarious Biff's Question song from new Tom Wilson stuff, but he put it on YouTube, and has locked down the embed video... So I found the same song from a audience member's camera, where he makes a YouTube joke and shoves the camera down his pants.

So sorry there is no video, he shoved it down his pants. Here's the good video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwY5o2fsG7Y

I can tell you exactly how long it would spin if locked down: it would spin exactly long enough for the original energy input to be depleted as heat. Next question?

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

We've also had a call to make a NSFW filter. I like the graduated dump rules JD. I agree that completely locking down new posts if the queue is full is not a good idea. Better to clear out the unpopular stuff.

I think it's real. Of course it makes you wonder, cause cell phones are all locked down, and the companies could totally disable a stolen cell phone (even GSM if they really cared to)

None of them look plugged in, so maybe they are mockups.

Voting for this despite the fact it had to obviously staged - or is there a store you know of that wouldn't chain down a laptop like that which is on display? Not to mention how he's almost hamming it up for the camera....

Or is it? http://www.itatwork.co.nz/

From the Google Video comments:
"James
5 days ago
It's a long shot, but if anyone recognises this guy, grab our contact details off www.itatwork.co.nz and give us a call."

Elaborate prank on itatwork, or real crime?

Despite the incredulous comments ("") I still think it's staged - footage quality is so good, and they went through the trouble of setting it to music. I mean, come on...


More comments from google video - I find the idea that these might be empty plastic display models amusing.

dirtypanda
7 hours ago
Then again....if the store is dumb enough to have an item like that on display without a electronic lock/alarm.....then I re-assign the idiot name to the store.
dirtypanda
7 hours ago
Everyone knows its on display like that with no electronic lock...it was just a mockup. Idiot thief doesn't know the difference and stole a hunk of plastic.
Jokerr
7 hours ago
OK, why were the laptops not locked down???
Anonymous
7 hours ago
Awesome! I used to be a professional thief, and I can tell this dude has been at for years!