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[Dutchling]

Giuse

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Islam is a religion, not a culture

[miauw62]

A lot of cultures blow shit up :v

[GiglameshDespair]

 I would argue that religion is an integral part of culture.

[Dutchling]

I would argue religion and culture are two different words with different meanings and that there's no need to mix them up.

Soon we'd call people who bash Muslims racists or something silly like that o.o

[GiglameshDespair]

This cyanide and happiness strip came to mind.

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Because everything is racist now if done by white people

[LordSlowpoke]

well yeah, shit happens. people've done their darnedest to abolish the concept of white pride but stopped there instead of dumping race pride into the ocean completely

thanks, hitler

[nenjin]

I would argue religion and culture are two different words with different meanings and that there's no need to mix them up.

Soon we'd call people who bash Muslims racists or something silly like that o.o

On paper, maybe. In practice? Religion and culture are inexorably intertwined. When parents raise their kids in a religious household and their moral and social views flow from them, who is to say what is actually foremost? Religious values get passed as cultural values all the time. Just take a look at Americans. I can imagine many who do not make the distinction from what they believe as an American to what they believe as a religious person. Which is perhaps why we have so much intolerance in this country, because they don't make that distinction. (The "God is American" folks.)

I'm not saying we'd not be better off if people drew a distinction between the two. But it feels like an intellectual stance on something that is distinctly non-intellectual.

[Skyrunner]

By all information I have, it looks like my laptop server's hard disk has bad sectors and is going to fail soon.

I really liked having a linux server to play with, but now that it's dying I don't know what to do. It's either rent a server, which means I have to pay every month and I can't do everything I want on it; get a desktop computer specifically for running a linux server, which is probably going to be expensive and I don't know what kind of options and specifications I want/need for one; or just give up on having a linux server at all, which is the worst choice for me :x

Any advice, oh mighty Linux people of bay12?

(I backed up most of the data I need, though, thanks to my habit of dropping every single file I used on ~/Desktop. Other than that I backed up a few config files for programs I use.)

[GiglameshDespair]

How powerful a computer would you need for a dedicated server?

[Flying Dice]

I would argue that religion is an integral part of culture.

"The 'Enter' key is an integral part of a keyboard. Therefore the 'Enter' key is a keyboard."

 

[nenjin]

Yeah, knowing what you need it for would help.

I would argue that religion is an integral part of culture.

"The 'Enter' key is an integral part of a keyboard. Therefore the 'Enter' key is a keyboard."

 

That's pedantic. Your body wouldn't run without your heart. It'd be foolish to say your heart is your body though. No where did he make your false equivalency.

[GiglameshDespair]

something is part of something =/= something is the entirety of something

Don't misrepresent me, thanks.

[MagmaMcFry]

Depends on what you're using your server for. If you only plan on using your server to host multiplayer games, then you could go with the rent-a-server (it's usually much less expensive than buying an own server computer). If you want to host a web server or other inexpensive application, a tiny computer such as a Raspberry Pi should do the trick (and $35 is quite affordable). If you want to do both those things, you could either go with both those options, or you could buy a more powerful desktop computer.

[GiglameshDespair]

I've hosted a quake 3 server on a raspberry pi and it seemed to work fine.

[Skyrunner]

Depends on what you're using your server for. If you only plan on using your server to host multiplayer games, then you could go with the rent-a-server (it's usually much less expensive than buying an own server computer). If you want to host a web server or other inexpensive application, a tiny computer such as a Raspberry Pi should do the trick (and $35 is quite affordable). If you want to do both those things, you could either go with both those options, or you could buy a more powerful desktop computer.

The laptop I was using for a server only hosted a few light-weight applications like ZNC, a CherryPy webserver, the occasional Reddit comment scrape, a few loggers. I wanted to host games but my netbook is too slow to do that.
Oh, I also use it to ssh into sometimes.