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Besides, I could add +4GB RAM and replace sata HDD with SSD.
But of course then we will have stool-privacy defenders that will combat authorities so we can keep our intestinal activity private and un-spied at.
Imagine the owner/worker of a hotel where {insert famous person name} stays, (s)he could potentially sell that person's sewage-test (directly from the bathroom pipes), to journalists or someone else. Haha.
Inspecting the code a bit I'd say regarding the viz it's based on leaflet.js+canvas(custom overlays)? No trace of d3js, threejs,etc.
I'm happy to see riotjs so nicely used as well.
Now think about Lybia getting worse(it actually is) -> Lybian refugees.
Wars in Eritrea, Iraq, Nigeria, Yemen! -> Other refugees ...
There are also refugees from not-at-war countries whose life is at high risk (Pakistan, Iran, Somalia).
At the same time consider that Greece can't pay its pensioners, Italy, Spain, Portugal are not that crazily better. High unemployment.
Other European countries such as Romania, Hungary, Poland, Croatia,etc are just starting to grow and match EU standards.
There's also a risk of importing their conflicts to EU streets - e.g. Kurds+Turks in Germany/Austria/Switzerland. There's been fights already in the last days in Switzerland and Stockholm.
I believe refugees should be given help and a safe shelter by sponsoring and building communities in borrowed land from Turkey/Lebannon/Jordan. However I'm of the opinion that inviting them to stay in the EU makes everything more complicated and expensive(which doesn't maximize the number of refugees you can help per euro) AND encourages the ones who can afford to pay human smugglers to risk their lives by crossing the sea.
For instance, given Varoufakis's resignation, we could interpret the man in different ways:
1) As a person who chose not to be in the arena(in TR's words).
2) A man who was already in the arena but already failed while daring greatly.
3) A man who was already in the arena and arrived at triumph of high achievement, by allowing the Greek people to challenge the Troika with a referendum. And his resignation is just another triumphal move.
I do agree tho that filling comment threads with open-to-interpretation quotes is not very constructuve. Still one here one there can make the issue less black and white - which is good IMHO.
Also, I do not estimate any trend, so technically I can't overestimate...
Again, I'm not particularly talking about Muslim population, but since you continue with them, I will do the same :) (I guess it's an easy example since they are really a big community all around EU)
Now take any East London borough with a high % of Muslim. If you compare it with how it was let's say in the 80's you will probably see several differences in: the language most people talk to each other in, the way kids are educated at home, the way people interact with their local store owners, the food people eat, dress codes, etc.
If a person from a distant remote place visits that same borough in the 80's and today he will see two culturally different places. That's because the inhabitants of the place, make the culture. That's my view!
This reply is just intended to challenge your view that big numbers of immigrants has no influence on the culture of a country/city/place/population. I'm not implying that borough was better in the 80's than now!
>>Mosques are very underrepresented, considering the number of muslim, and they have to fight for every single one.
I really don't know where you draw the "fair representation" line. E.g. Greater London has 650k Muslims, and around 411 mosques. That's roughly 1400 Muslims/mosque. What would be a fair representation in your opinion? In contrast there are 450k Hindus in Greater London, and I couldn't find the number of temples in any source, but I'd guess it's around a few tens. Maybe this is an unfair comparison since a temple is much more of a requirement for Muslims than for Hindus, I really don't know that.
>> They don't make anyone else follow their rules, in any case.
They raise their kids with "their" rules, which is not even theirs, it's basically dictated by some kind of dogma. These kids will be the future generation of that place.
I picked Jordan because it's just a neighbouring Arab country, plus mostly Sunni Muslim, just like Syria, and unlike Lebanon. And of course the Palestinian refugee issue is another topic entirely.
[0]: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/03/lebanon-formal-refugee...
That's exactly one of my concerns here. Why doesn't for example Jordan just let them assimilate in their society, as fellow Arabs, and instead it just keeps them in camps? Of course not just Jordan, but also other more resourceful Arab/Muslim (mostly Sunni Muslim) countries such as UAE, Qatar, etc.
Wouldn't it be easier for these already traumatized refugees to integrate in Moroccan, Tunisian, Egyptian, Jordanian, Saudi Arabian, UAE-ian(?)...societies? Isn't there a "brotherhood" thing between Arabs (maybe even between Muslims? or just Sunni Muslims?)?
However, my impression is that they mostly request asylum in Western countries (EU, Australia, USA, UK, Canada...). Assuming my impression is right (correct me otherwise!). Why is it like that?
In the case of Muslim refugees, why don't they apply for asylum to Muslim countries, particularly those unbelievably oil-rich countries ( or even some more stable ones like Morocco for example), instead of some poor countries in the West such as Greece/Italy/Spain?
Define "no influence". If you walk around many European cities you see areas where the stores are 90% Döner/Kebab/Pakistani. I mean, that seems to me like some influence. The fact that such a huge number of people with Muslim background relocate to an area, is clearly a cause for the rise in Muslim-owned Muslim-oriented businesses. But hey! I'm not saying that's necessarily a good or bad thing, I just disagree with what you said. And the way streets look/feel when you walk down them is a great example of how Muslim(and other immigrants also ofc!) do have an influence on the culture and lifestyle in Europe.
>> But we can't do anything about it without violating what we believe is a just society
I agree with that, refugees must be granted asylum in countries at peace. However, we must be aware that this is NOT addressing the problem itself, but its consequences; and hence the problem can only grow bigger.
This.
Joking, if it's like this and is not terribly linked to a religious dogma( which doesn't seem to be, more like a cultural thing), I'm sure there's a 'raison d'être'(I believe natural selection applies to not-directly-biology-linked entities such as societies). Maybe violent fights/discussions are more prevented thanks to Taroof? That's a wild guess ofc.
>> There is no room for criticism, so things are not talked about and never sorted out
This resonates with traditional Catholic families too, where "elephants in the room" are not really addressed/dealt with many times. E.g. a daughter/granddaugter having a kid out of marriage etc.
That's a great point
Interesting, could you elaborate on that pls? Just curiosity :)
1. His lack of [...] is really high. ( Does this make sense?)
2. His understanding of[...] is really low/poor.
Cheers :p
Any recommendations for yoga/meditation resources to learn the techniques/methodologies? I've been thinking about trying that for a long time now.