Jad's Thoughts

It’s hard to wake up early for vast majority of people and we even hate it since the kindergarten, I hate it too but I can wake up whenever I want and I can give lies to my friends like Mazz and say Of course I can program myself to wakeup early, I can even sleep at 5:00 AM and wake up at 6:00AM sharp without an alarm clock.

Of course I can do that, of course I wasn’t lying nor a bullshitter, in fact I can wake up whenever I want (anyone counting wake up here?), Mazen come on my friend.

I have been begging Mazen to wake up early to do some *HIGHLY CLASSIFIED* and secret work but he’s failing me because he wont wake up early and by early in Mazen’s case we are talking about anything before 3:00 PM go figure.

The coincident is that I just called Bakez because he left me a message yesterday yelling about his blog database being down and the conversation was like

Jad: Bakkouz, Are you awake?
Bakkouz: sorta, what time is it ?
Jad: 7:30, oh no it’s 7:45
Bakkouz: Ok, I say fuck it

Bakkouz, you are mature enough to wake up early, you are getting paid to wake up early and move your ass to work and being in Aqaba isn’t an excuse although it is different.

Ok, The secret recipe to wake up whenever you want is either to follow HowToWakeupEarly.com which wont work at all or to get a Thomson RT552 radio which has an alarm that can be programmed to wake up even if you hate it, just put it to a channel that you hate to listen to at least while booting up (I use play 99.6 Or 104.2 for that purpose).

Anyway, enough talking about Lazy Mazen and Bakkouz.

I’m heading now to duty free to get my new car, it’s KIA Sephia 2001, 1800 cc Manual gear (sefia ), wish me the best today which is in best chances not to have my body split into 100 piece in my way back.

On the other side of news

1. Lee McGrath: asking why men would put a cucumber on their face?

I don’t know

2. Tadata sucks: They cannot manage to run a reliable DNS server, I’ll break up with them and go back to lovely Orange.
3. Omar Al-Zo’bi is calm. 2h ago

Calm and cold? (a77777)

4. Erin Berg is busy like a bee and drinking like a fish.
5. Fatoom Qoughandoqa is makleh hawa, mareeda .

Salamtek

6. Lina Ejeilat is up late… very unusually!

TSK TSK TSK

7. Farah Ghaith is why did the dentist ask me “ay saff enti?” je ne suis pas très petite .

Nothing personal :p

8. Ahmad Humeid is is back in Amman. Back to reality.

Welcome back

9. Dave is …spacing out.

be careful.

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Unfortunately this decision came after deleting all Arabic posts in this blog, anyway my Arabic blog URL is jadmadi.net… and RSS feed jadmadi.net…

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Since some bloggers like Kinzi, Oula and others decided to blog about cooking instead of politics and current events I decided to do the same.

Today’s meal is Political decision
Recipe

1. A problem

or why would we bother?

2. Information from a trusted source

make sure to get your information from a highly trusted and specialized source else you will end up poisoning people just like when Shawerma’s places decided to use untrusted sauce.

3. A Ranking system

You need to a ranking system to prioritize your goals and list your alternative accordingly

4. Options list

You have to have a list of available options usually provided by the trusted source and by options we mean options to tweak same decisions.

5. Archiving of previous decisions

It’s always good to have access to archived decisions in same and/or similar topics especially if you are new to kitchen.

6. A desire to make a difference

If you are not willing to get your hands dirty or not willing to receive some bad reviews from people on the table then please do not go to kitchen, you will just mess things up, a decision making dish can be done by anyone but it’s delicious only if it’s made by people with desire.

7. Emotional package

Pack your emotions and send it to Zimbabwe, even if you need it you should not use it

8. A place to hide

if case the reaction was so harsh you have to find a place to hide, don’t forget DVD player and a set of pirated DVDs, it might be a long stay.

9. Consulting team

I know you are smart enough else you wouldn’t having your position but be smarter and have a consulting team around you. Please avoid taxi drivers and reconsider bloggers.

compute your decision on 20C, put your alternatives in the oven until the neighbours calls you Sorry but we smell something going on, can we help ?, add a boiled effectiveness to the water, liquid expectation, solid hope.

Wait and hope for the best.

Enjoy it.

With all respect to Amer Khaled but this is a funny audio clip mimicking his famous stutter.

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To my million subscriber, I have changed my RSS feed URL, now I’m using Feedburner.

Recent posts

Recent comments.

Hope this will double it into two millions *wink*
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In Islam, the penalty for adultery is one hundred stripes if the person is not married and stoning until death if he or she is married. God says in The Holy Quran Each of the women and the man guilty of adultery or fornication must be flogged with a hundred stripes. Let not compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by God, if ye believe in God and the Last day . And let a party of believers witness their punishment (Al-Noor: 2)

Conditions of Punishment:
Carrying out the punishment of adultery requires the fulfilment of all these conditions together in every individual case:

1. The adulterer or adulteress must be a sane adult Muslim who has committed the act voluntary
2. The crime must be proved through the culprit’s admission or the testimony of four reliable witnesses who saw the process of sexual intercourse itself, i.e, the male organ in the female organ. The crime may also be proved through unjustified pregnancy. Notice that witnesses here must be four, whereas the normal number of witnesses in other cases is two, a differences justified by the special seriousness of the charge.
3. The culprit does not deny or change his admission; nor does any witness deny or change his testimony.

Some Remarks:
Concerning the penalty for adultery we have to notice the following:

1. Islam requires two witnesses for all crimes except the crime of adultery, where four witnesses are required, out of caution and exactness and because in adultery two culprits are always involved in addition to the very serious effect on their families fame and name.
2. It is required that each of the four witnesses should have seen the actual act of sexual intercourse, i.e, male organ in the vagina.
   This implies that the charge must be absolutely verified without any shade of suspicion
3. If the culprit denies or change his previous admission, the penalty will not be inflicted.
4. If one of the four witnesses denies or changes his previous testimony, the other three witnesses will be punished for slander, i.e, false accusation of adultery.
5. What applies to the male culprit applies exactly to the female culprit
6. If four witnesses see the very act of sexual intercourse, this means that adultery was committed almost publicly, in a manner that severely threatens public morality.

Justification::
The penalty for adultery is what it is in Islam for the following reasons:

1. Adultery leads to the spread of venereal diseases, as one can see in some counries nowadays. One of these most horrible diseases of today is AIDS, the latest plague threatening human life.
2. Adultery creates the problem of illegitimate offspring, who grow without father and mother, subjected to all types of delinquency. God says in The Holy Quran Nor come close to adultery, for it is a shameful deed and an evil opening the road to other evils (Al-Isra :32)
3. Adultery usually leads to divorce, which in turn results in the destruction of of marriage and family.
4. Adultery facilitates sexual satisfaction without bearing any responsibility and thus becomes an easy but dangerous outlet preferred by the youth to marriage, a situation which makes a destructive threat to both the marriage institution and family values.
5. The negative effect of adultery goes beyond the adulterer and the adulteress to their families, sons, and daughters, who suffer painful disgrace and severe social embarassment
6. Adultery may lead to other crimes such as murder and slander in defence of honor or revenge
7. Adultery makes the son unsure of his real father and the father unsure of his real son or daughter, a great social chaos, indeed. If adultery prevails in any community, it will be the greatest danger that blows up all the network of social structure.
8. The penalty for adultery, according to Islam is inflicted publicly to deter other persons and to intensify the psychological pain of the culprit.
9. The penalty for adultery carried out by the Islamic court does not cancel the penalty in the other life, which is another reminder and deterrent to the believer.
10. Islam makes the penalty for the married person severer than that for the unmarried person because the former has no excuse whatsoever to commit adultery since he is married and thus sexually satisfied.
11. The underlying Islamic principle is that the only permitted sexual man-women relationship is through marriage: No sex at all is allowed before or outside marriage. If adultery spreads in a community, it will be more destructive to that community than nuclear or atomic bombs. That community will be undermined from within, probably slowly, but eventually surely.
12. Islam rejects the claim that adultery is matter of personal freedom because adultery harms the whole society and is not a matter related to two persons only. In fact, Islam consider fornication or adultery one of the most detestable crimes God says in The Holy Quran Those who invoke not, with God, any other god, nor slay a soul made sacred by God except rightfully, nor commit fornication or adultery; and whoever does this, not only meets punishments but also the penalty on the Day of Judgement will be doubled to him and he will dwell therein in ignominy (Al-Furqan: 25)
13. Some people may consider stoning the married adulterer or adulteress somehow cruel and brutal. Is it not equally cruel to destroy a man’s family and disgrace him and his children forever through his wife’s adultery? Furthermore, stoning occurs when the cluprit admits the crime as a means to purify himself and escape from the sting of his conscience. Besides, although stoning has been legislated for the last fifteen centuries it has not been inflicted expect in very few cases. The deterrent effect of the penalty remains in the function although the penalty itself is rarely carried out.
14. The penalty for adultery can be fairly understood in the light of the Islamic look at marriage, family, and women. Islam aims at protecting marriage from dissolution and protecting the women from becoming an article for sale in the circles of business, intelligence, spying, lusts, prostitution, and night clubs, as it is the case now in some countries. Islam looks at the women literally as a holy being with special sacredness and special status. Islam also looks at marriage as a holy institution that must be thoroughly protected against any thread. The only way to safeguard marriage and family is to prohibit adultery and punish transgressors as strictly as possible.

Source: PENAL CODES IN ISLAM – Dr Muhammad Ali Alkhuli
DAR ALFALAH P.O.BOX 818 – Swaileh 11910 – Jordan
Tel & Fax 009626-5411547
ISBN: 9957 – 401 – 17 – 5 (RDMK)

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A new rumour is being circulated between Jordanian bloggers saying that Jordan’s E-Government is about to release a new WordPress plugin for your self-hosted WordPress blog.

An unofficial spokesman of E-Gov WordPress plugin development department said, The goal is to help Jordanian bloggers not to cross the ambiguous red line , easily and smoothly,, We have been working on the new algorithm for three years now and we are certain of bloggers satisfaction he adds.

The unofficial source also said We are working hard to provide a tool for Jordanian bloggers who uses blogger.com…, WordPress.com… and LiveJournal.com… as they have been asking for it for a while but we can’t promise a deadline now

The core idea of this plugin seems to be helping Jordanian bloggers whenever they ran into mental disorder by criticising their dandy Government, Parliament or the private sector in Jordan as most of bloggers seems to imagine things that doesn’t exists in Jordan’s dictionary like unemployment, bureaucracy, lack of democracy and one of them even though gaze price has increased in the last two years!

The deficiency of B12 Vitamin seems to be the reason of this black and negative imaginations or it could be the exaggeration in our education about platonic city and utopia, Professor of psychology at New Jordan University.

Online and Offline communities had a quick reaction Some Jordanian rebels are planning to release another plugin as a strike back against their E-Government, The rebels plugin code name is FOS and it’s not an Arabish word but stands for Freedom of Speech.

Muslims brotherhood on the other side are arguing and calling for public demonstration because they have been asking for Internal honesty plugin for a while and the E-Government team aren’t being cooperative with them.

The promised plugin has loads of nice features, most bloggers voted for Oula’s restriction list wish list as they are aware of mental disorder, and the funny thing is, I was in a white taxi and the driver said If they are after online publications, websites and blogs then they wouldn’t surprise me if they run after one of my favourite glossy magazine later like NOX

further reading:

bakkouz.net…

www.black-iris.com…

ajloun.blogspot.com…

oeliwat.jeeran.com…

ayaalmusa.blogspot.com…

www.ammonnews.net…

nasimjo.blogspot.com…

american-in-jordan.blogspot.com…

jadmadi.net…

ghasseel.blogspot.com…

hareega.blogspot.com…

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People behind this animated commercial are awesomely smart and creative.

However, I don’t know why it’s important for a man to have a soft skin in real life, do you think women prefer soft skin man or lets say normal manesh skin ?

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JordanTimes.com – AMMAN –
An Amman computer system builder has been sentenced to three months in prison for pirating software, the first time in the Kingdom’s history that the court has imprisoned someone for software piracy.

I wonder how the average Jordanian with the average income be be able to afford such unbalanced software pricing ? I wonder if Jordan Intellectual Property Association (JIPA) take into account that average Jordanians cannot afford $150 for software license because that amount is actually very close to be their monthly income.

Thankfully I’m a free Software user and developer, thankfully I don’t have to pay license to anyone nor I have to hide my laptop if the anti-piracy squad showed up.

That doesn’t mean I don’t encourage people to license their software and operating systems, I have a licensed copy of Microsoft Windows Vista Yes, I paid for it but because I was forced to do so when I bought my laptop, there was no option to buy it without paying extra $150 for Mircosoft Windows license even though I never used it, right after I got the laptop I installed my lovely, solid GNU/Linux flavoured with Ubuntu, unfortunately at that time we didn’t have Ubuntu flavoured dell laptops and desktops for of course my next laptop going to be dell or any brand that has Gnu/Linux pre-installed.

I’m not against such laws in general but it has to be reasonable, First the Municipality have at least 40 DVD shop selling illegal copies of DVDs and they tax them too so basically the Municipality is a partner in the crime if they are aware of the legal side of what they’re selling.

You wont sense how hard and nearly impossible for almost all Jordanians to license their software especially when you know that you have to license every single non-free software on your computer and when you know that most of Jordanians cannot afford to pay that amount of money for software especially when buying a legally up and running computer cost would be very close to buying a used car or a small piece of land praying that their children would benefit from price increase later.

Microsoft Windows Vista license for home user doesn’t go over $300 for home user I guess (Correct me Mr Windows if I’m committing a mistake here.) or check Amazon.com for a very confusing pricing and naming scheme, anyway it’s fine amount of money to be paid to get your computer up and running legally but yet you have to license every single software you are using, no matter what.

If you were unfortunate designer who’s creativity was discovered while playing with illegal copy of Adobe Photoshop or any of their well respected Adobe products now you have to rethink about licensing what you are using of their products and here is a listing of some of their products pricing taken from Adobe.com official online store.

• Photoshop CS3 – FROM $999.00
• Creative Suite 3 Production Premium- FROM $1,699.00
• Creative Suite 3 – Web Premium – FROM $1,599.00
• Creative Suite 3 Design Premium – FROM $1,799.00
• Acrobat 8 – FROM $449.00
• Photoshop CS3 – FROM $649.00

of course story wont end here but there are lots of more software to pay for and get them licensed which means if you want to buy a %100 legally running and usable computer then you have to pay around $2500 dollar and yet it might only be for a single use.

Do we have to talk about licensing your games?

Do you know that using Windows as your primary operating system means you have to buy an anti virus software because even you are paying for the operating system and the vendor is making a quite good money out of that, they didn’t manage to deliver a solid that can be virus free operating system.

which would brought a smart question, If you like the idea of licensing your software then why you don’t go with lovely operating system like Mac? and only then you will have a cool, solid, fun to use and virus free operating system and loads of free software in many online repositories.

If you don’t like the idea of paying money for software or you cannot afford it like me then you should definitely go with a GNU/Linux operating system, maybe a seriously popular distribution like Ubuntu Linux.

Again, Software pricing should be balanced and according to a country income not globalised else someone has to globalise the income which wont happen at least in the next five thousand year or maybe four to sound more accurate and credible.

Finally, I’m all with running a legal computer but I cannot afford to play this game with Microsoft based operating system and I was never properly introduced to Mac so until then I will stick with my lovely, solid and highly customizable ubuntu linux.

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