Only to the extent that the same can be said of Christianity. Even setting aside the Holocaust, there were pogroms in Europe up to and even after WWII. Christian Europe occupied and divided up the Muslim and Hindu parts of the world into the 20th century - with behavior that today we'd only associate with the likes of Nazis. Forced religious conversion of the aboriginal population in North America - seizing their children and taking them away to distant church-run schools - went right into the mid-20th century.
As for your Mark Twain book, in it he's rather critical of Catholics too.
One branch was Marxist, while the Provisional IRA opposed Marxism. But that was a political side-issue. The main issue was nationalistic and religious.
For example, how does a EULA become a valid contract, as some people claim, when it is a given that most all people do not read it?
There's also the issue that many EULAs appear only after purchase and opening the package, no return allowed. It's a done deal, too late to back out, and then they show you all the conditions.
Which in turn raises another issue: If they have that right, then so do you. "By continuing installation in my computer or printer, the vendor agrees to these terms..."
The fact that you felt the need to separate "Muslims" from "Muslim Extremists" is all that is necessary to prove I am not lying.
So you don't separate the IRA bombings from the rest of Christianity? How about the Sabra and Shatila massacre? The Holocaust and various 20th century pogroms even after WWII? KKK lynchings which commonly invoked Christianity as justification?
You just proved something, but it's not what you think.
You seem to be able to place all Christians and their many denominations into a single bag "for political expediency"
YOU insist on doing that with one religion. See above. I am doing no such thing.
My whole point is to differentiate your crowd from, well, those with Christian values. That's what you're upset about.
I am willing to bet that Roger would never had made that post if it disparaged a minority group in the exact same way and I bet TD would not even dream of highlighting that same post either.
I understand that it has always been open season on the Christians...
That's a sleazy lie and you know it.
I have no problem criticizing Muslim extremists for example. While recognizing that their beliefs are at odds with Islam. And that's what I'm doing with "EULA Christians." The whole point is that they - the alt-right, much of the religious right - are AT ODDS with Christianity. It's as though Jesus's teachings are forbidden knowledge.
Which is how you get "Christian" leaders like Prager and the rest of the religious right extolling the "Christian" virtues of... Donald Trump.
The last real Blackberry was the Priv, which ran Android. Since the Blackberry is just licencing the name to Chinese and Indonesian companies. They've shifted to enterprise security software.
Using Blackberries didn't necessarily mean using BB's servers.
Enterprise users could run their own BlackBerry Enterprise Server and use their own keys without Blackberry having access. That includes small business and personal servers.
And of course you could still use your own standard encrypted-connection IMAP/SMTP servers.
Prager's followers are EULA Christians. Folks for whom the Bible is like a software license. Not to be read or understood. Just assume that you know what it means, scroll down to the bottom, and click "I Agree."
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I'm holding out hope that Donald Trump is actually a still-alive Andy Kaufman in his greatest prank yet.
Occam's Razor is on my side.
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As for your Mark Twain book, in it he's rather critical of Catholics too.
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Perhaps he should make a slight pivot to reputation management.
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There's also the issue that many EULAs appear only after purchase and opening the package, no return allowed. It's a done deal, too late to back out, and then they show you all the conditions.
Which in turn raises another issue: If they have that right, then so do you. "By continuing installation in my computer or printer, the vendor agrees to these terms..."
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Dan DaSilva thinks he's saying "Hold my beer and watch this"...
...but his lawyer is hearing the army basic training quote "Okay, I pulled the pin. Now what? Where are you going?"
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So you don't separate the IRA bombings from the rest of Christianity? How about the Sabra and Shatila massacre? The Holocaust and various 20th century pogroms even after WWII? KKK lynchings which commonly invoked Christianity as justification?
You just proved something, but it's not what you think.
YOU insist on doing that with one religion. See above. I am doing no such thing.
My whole point is to differentiate your crowd from, well, those with Christian values. That's what you're upset about.
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Nah. This White House is impossible to embarrass. They simply have an expanded number of meanings for "Get the facts straight."
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That's a sleazy lie and you know it.
I have no problem criticizing Muslim extremists for example. While recognizing that their beliefs are at odds with Islam. And that's what I'm doing with "EULA Christians." The whole point is that they - the alt-right, much of the religious right - are AT ODDS with Christianity. It's as though Jesus's teachings are forbidden knowledge.
Which is how you get "Christian" leaders like Prager and the rest of the religious right extolling the "Christian" virtues of... Donald Trump.
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The last real Blackberry was the Priv, which ran Android. Since the Blackberry is just licencing the name to Chinese and Indonesian companies. They've shifted to enterprise security software.
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Enterprise users could run their own BlackBerry Enterprise Server and use their own keys without Blackberry having access. That includes small business and personal servers.
And of course you could still use your own standard encrypted-connection IMAP/SMTP servers.
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But they *are* focusing on enterprise security software. So same accomplishment, different market.
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(PRZ) "...Practically no one in the commercial world of cryptography qualified under this criterion!"
(BS) "Yes, and that makes our job at the NSA so much easier"
- Conversation between Philip Zimmermann and Brian Snow, a senior cryptographer with the NSA.
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