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_Maxxx_ wrote: Wow! great research!
Nah just something in passing but looking at somewhere like France and the issues they have there is enough to make me want to discourage it in Oz.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Something like 90+% percent muslim in Indonesia. They are good so far... 
What a mystery! 
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Super Lloyd wrote: They are good so far
Ya think - but yes I know what you mean, I should have said any western culture with more than 7% Muslim population has a problem with them.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I'll see your bigots and raise you our football hooligans.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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At least it's (usually) football hooligan vs football hooligan. Here it's stoopod person against someone who wants to build a church.
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OK, you're forcing me to pull out a trump card[^].
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Maybe it's a reaction to the Australian Police foiling the ISIS plot to behead random Australians on the street[^]?
More here[^].
...feel free to Google "ISIS beheading random Australian' for more.
You're naïve if you think this is about free speech...how many people do they have to behead on video tape before you wake up?
Islam isn't a religion...it's a political movement...they want to replace our Western constitutionalism with Sharia Law...once you start thinking about those Mosques as being Town Halls where justice is dispensed based a medieval rule book, rather than being a church of worship, you'll start figuring it out.
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DaveX86 wrote: how many people do they have to behead on video tape before you wake up?
Who is this "they" to whom you refer? Are the individuals plotting to commit acts of terrorism the same individuals who want to build a church?
DaveX86 wrote: Islam isn't a religion...it's a political movement..
Quote: Islam is a monotheistic and Abrahamic religion articulated by the Qur'an,
No it's not.
There are people who have political motives in any religion. The Catholic church has been responsible for harbouring terrible acts in recent decades - so should one protest if they want to build a church locally? Should we shut down catholic schools?
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To be a Muslim, means you have to abide by Sharia Law[^] ...most of Sharia Law contradicts any Western country's Bill of Rights, Constitution or what have you...
From the Wiki article above:
"The introduction of sharia is a longstanding goal for Islamist movements globally, including in Western countries, but attempts to impose sharia have been accompanied by controversy,[8] violence,[9] and even warfare.[10] Most countries do not recognize sharia; however, some countries in Asia, Africa and Europe recognize sharia and use it as the basis for divorce, inheritance and other personal affairs of their Islamic population.[11] In Britain, the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal makes use of sharia family law to settle disputes, and this limited adoption of sharia is controversial.[12]"
So basically, they are invading our countries and trying to subvert or replace our laws with their own...at the very least, they think that our laws shouldn't apply to them...so it's okay with you that they do honour killings in Australia? You want your sister or your girlfriend to be stoned for not wearing a veil?
Separation of Religion and State is a critical ingredient to Western countries success as democracies in the last couple of centuries...you want to let these medieval people drag us back?
I would actually be for scrapping most bloated education systems in Western countries, Catholic or otherwise...teach kids to read and write in elementary schools...some basic arithmetic then kick them out into the world...how well or poorly they do after that would entirely be up to them...maybe some kind of apprenticeships? We baby our kids in schools far too long...most university educations aren't worth the paper they're printed on and put dumb kids who don't know any better into many thousands of dollars in student loan debt to boot...I consider that a crime, it's exploitation of children at best. Meanwhile, college professors become millionaires off these poor, misguided wretches looking for a better life.
Anyway, I've spent more time thinking and writing this than I cared to spend...you go ahead and think what you want. Brandolini's Law is coming to mind:
"The amount of energy necessary to refute bull&#*% is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." 
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Did you protest this as well?
Wow - way to go entirely off-topic!
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_Maxxx_ wrote:
Wow - way to go entirely off-topic!
I thought you were embarrassed by people being persecuted for their religion. If this isn't true, then clarify your indignation.
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I apologise - I saw the source of your link & thought the incident was in the uk
The two things, still, are entirely different IMO. In one, a small number of people beat one other up, and we don't know the true reasons; they have not come forward and expressed their opinions.
In the other, a large group of bogans openly and publicly ranted their ill-thought-out opinions.
People get beaten up all the time by others for a variety of reasons. I don't condone it, I don't applaud it, but I don't scour the newspapers for examples and post about it either.
Large groups of bogans on the Sunshine coast don't regularly band together and protest opening of a church
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNEeq5qGh8I[^] Especially the bit at 56 seconds.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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hah - the only truly dangerous things here in Aus are
politicians
lawyers
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'g'
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Don't forget the Drop Bears
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Death held out a hand. I WANT, he said, A BOOK ABOUT THE DANGEROUS CREATURES OF FOURECKS
Albert looked up and dived for cover, receiving only mild bruising because he had the foresight to curl into a ball.
After a while Death, his voice a little muffled, said: ALBERT, I WOULD BE SO GRATEFUL IF YOU COULD GIVE ME A HAND HERE.
Albert scrambled up and pulled at some of the huge volumes, finally dislodging enough of them for his master to clamber free.
HMM... Death picked up a book at random and read the cover. "DANGEROUS MAMMALS, REPTILES, AMPHIBIANS, BIRDS, FISH, JELLYFISH, INSECTS, SPIDERS, CRUSTACEANS, GRASSES, TREES, MOSSES, AND LICHENS OF TERROR INCOGNITA, " he read. His gaze moved down the spine. VOLUME 29C, he added. OH. PART THREE, I SEE.
He glanced up at the listening shelves. POSSIBLY IT WOULD BE SIMPLER IF I ASKED FOR A LIST OF THE HARMLESS CREATURES OF THE AFORESAID CONTINENT?
They waited.
IT WOULD APPEAR THAT...
"No, wait master. Here it comes."
Albert pointed to something white zigzagging lazily through the air. Finally Death reached up an caught the single sheet of paper.
He read it carefully and then turned it over briefly just in case anything was written on the other side.
"May I?" said Albert. Death handed him the paper.
"'Some of the sheep'"
Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
The only reason you don't have more lethal snakes in OZ: they have been eaten by the spiders...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Terry nailed it! 
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yep, they're the worst !
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In my opinion the bit at 29-35 s. is the best 
When the song is: "you may... get killed...", the true story "how to become a skeleton" is displayed.
Worth to see!
Very good tourism ad!
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I have a range of values (voltage) over time (thousands of minutes, one value per minute). I am trying to chart these. Determining the length of my Y axis is quite a problem for me. If I take a minimum and maximum, and use that as the axis height, one or two zero values result in all the others being scrunched up at the top of the chart. If I remove zeroes, it looks much better, and for a chart, they aren't very important, I'll give all real values in a tabular report.
What I would like to do is determine the average height of the band of data points, sort of the space between the moving average of the low points and that of the heigh points. I figure to do that, I would need a median series, so I could determine a smoothed series of points above and below median, and make my Y axis 's' higher and 's' lower than those.
How do people normally do this?
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Yeah, a but much for a simple charting app. Why a low pass, by the way?
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