Almouftinoun, the movie

In all fairness, a video reaction. Judge for yourself.



I honestly don't know what to think about the above video, so I can't even comment on it.

Fitna the movie

I just watched Fitna the movie (by Geert Wilders) and I'm left with a funny feeling.

I feel... almost empty. I don't know what to think...

From the very beginning, I've been against this movie. I did not find it necessary to provoke.
I've been sceptical aswell, considered it a mediastunt.

But now I've watched it... And although I don't like racism or the attempt at taking away people's freedom of religion, I still feel grateful for this movie, despite how unpleasant it was to watch.

I refuse to generalize and lump all muslims together, I refuse to see Islam as a hateful religion, because I KNOW that Fitna is exclusively showing the dark sides. And every religion or belief has dark sides - christianity too.

Having said all that, I do hope everyone watches this movie. Everyone, muslims too.

I know how it hurts to be shown all of the most frightening and dark sides of your belief and obviously it must hurt evenmore when somebody is trying to set a stop to your belief altogether.
None the less... if one, as a muslim, can't see the constructive part of the movie also, and for that reason damnes Wilders and all from the west, well then that person is part of what the movie is about.

Light has to be shed on the ugly sides aswell, they don't go away because they are made silent. More the opposite.

It is time that everyone, muslims and non muslims, wake up and stops the gruesome things that are going on in God's name (or Allah's name). We're in the year 2008, the Middle Ages are long over.

I really hope there will be muslims outthere, that, like me, can see that this movie isn't simply an insult. I hope there will be rational people outhere that can see beyond Wilders' wish to stop the "Islamination" and instead stop the fanaticism, the Middle Ages methods and instead of that emphasize and share the compassion that Islam also consists of.

A believer (in God aswell as Allah) has to first and foremost show him or herself as such through love and compassion, NOT through hate, torment and murder...


Here's a link to the movie, it may load slow due to heavy load:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7d9_1206624103

Chantal

This nice looking lady is Chantal Sebire from France. In 2002 she was diagnosed with a tumor in her sinus. A very rare one, that only 200 people have been diagnosed with in the past 20 years.
The result of this tumor, in it's tricky location, was this:

Since the tumor can't be removed and it is very aggressive, it would continue to grow and make her face even more deformed.
Chantal couldn't live with the pain and a face that made her look like a monster. So she wrote a plea to the president of France, asking to be helped to die.

But in France, euthanasia isn't legal, so her request was denied.

Only two days after the government denied to help her, she was found dead. The cause is still unknown.

Rest in peace Chantal.

Vista hurdles

When I bought a new PC -a great one in my opinion 4gig of ram, 3ghz core duo 2 and an NVidia Geforce 8800 GTX card - it only seemed natural to get VISTA with it.
Afterall VISTA had been out for a while, most bugs were squashed and I'd be getting vista sooner or later anyway, so why go through reinstalling twice.

So vista 32bit was installed, and it is true. It is a WAUW experience. It's absolutely gorgeous.
Of course there were tweaks to be done to get most out of it...


But on to the not-so-good stuff.
The first annoyance to be found was that it was only recognizing 3 out of the 4gigs of RAM installed.
I put my husband and his friend - they're both IT proffessionals - on a mission to solve this mystery. They couldn't. One of them even insisted the motherboard was faulty...

After alot of reading and testing I found out that apparently the system reserves one gig for hardware whenever you have more than 2gig.
So... I physically have 4gig, but only have 3available, ok well, no biggie.
This by the way can be turned off, but is not reccomended, so... no.


The next major concern came when I was checking out the task manager, 11mb free ram?! WHAT?!!

No way...! I was always running alot more programs on XP without problems than I am now on vista WITH memory problems.

We found the source. A program called Superfetch. Disabling that stopped the memory from appearing to leak...
Problem solved.

Or so I thought.

I've been getting memory errors particularly from heavy graphic games and programs, that's just not right with 3gig of memory. I was pissed.
My pagefile is big enough, so it can't be that.
Put my husband on a mission to solving this mystery too, I was certain there had to be a leak somewhere still. Using between 16-25% of the physical memory before me even starting anything big was just not OK in my mind...

I still can't get it to go lower than 18% before opening things, but I have been doing research on vista and pagefiling and I found out what superfetch is.
It's an all new memory management feature, never seen in Windows before.
It is SUPPOSED to hog all the memory.
What it does is it fills up the cache and over time remembers how you use your PC, which programs you run and when. It'll even remember if you have preferences on what programs you use on certain weekdays, but anyway...
It is not a BAD thing when superfetch is running to only have 10mb free, because the memory that it caches is in theory still available for use, it will just drop some of the cached things when you open up something new.

In the beginning this process will be slow, but overtime as it learns how you use the computer, it will be faster because the PC will have already preloaded the programs it assumes you will use.
How clever is that?

Admittedly it is not very clever of Microsoft to not point this out specifically. Alot of people have been disabling superfetch thinking it was the cause of a memory leak...
But the idea is good though.
I have turned it back on, and will leave it running for a few weeks to see if my memory errors will be cleared up now.

I pray it will, or I'll just have to hope they get done fixing up 64bit soon so I can get that instead, aswell as some more RAM.

Sorry

Freedom of speech is not for everyone

We people from the west, in particular Europe and USA, are very fond of our right to freedom of speech. And we don't hesitate to use this excuse when accused of being racist...

But freedom of speech is not for everyone and it's definitely not for all topics, either.

Marion Cotillard received an oscar about a week ago for her role in La vie en Rose.
A year ago, before she was known in Hollywood, Cotillard said in an interview that she thought 9/11 was a conspiracy. She said that she thought World Trade Center was taken down because it would be cheaper to just do that, than to renovate it and bring it up to date.
She refers to a tower in Spain that was burning for 24 hours without collapsing, and other towers hit by planes that never collapsed, and yet the twin towers collapsed; in her words: "within minutes"

She regrets saying this now. Back then nothing much was thought of it, but now that's she's more known, it has stirred a commotion in USA.

Why does she not have the right to freedom of speech?
I have to say I find it rather childish for people to react this way a year after it's been said. We're in 2008 folks, 9/11 was in 2001, and she said it a year ago!!

If this stirs a commotion, I'm sorry, but then I really think some people need to get a hobby.
We all know that she is not the only one with this opinion. The conspiracy theories are many, and people have a RIGHT to believe in what they want...

I'm not trying to diminish the tragedy of 9/11, yes it was terrible and no it won't be forgotten, and Cotillard didn't try to diminish it either.
What I am saying is, find something else to spend your energy on, than on what someone SAYS.

Brown nosing - a definition

Here's a clear definition of what brown nosing means:

For those that still don't understand...

The picture shows two men. One is, according to polls, the most unpopular president in the history of presidents of United States of America.

The other is the prime minister of Denmark.
According to him, Bush and he are good pals!

Now let me be more clear on the brown nosing part, and let me remind you... The guy on the right is according to polls the most unpopular president in the history of presidents of Unites States...!
The prime minister of Denmark, Fogh, has openly admitted that he not only supports Bush, he praises him!

He praises him for his battle for freedom and democracy all over the world.

Hmmmm...

Do I need to say anymore?