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An Anonymous Coward submitted the news that a Court ruled Church of Scientology Moscow branch should be 'dissolved':
A Russian court has ruled that the Moscow branch of the Church of Scientology should be dissolved.
The Moscow city court accepted the arguments of Russia's justice ministry that as the term "Scientology" is a registered US trademark, the Church cannot be considered a religious organisation.
The organisation plans to appeal, reports said.
The controversial church is based in Los Angeles, California and was found in 1954 by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard.
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A stitch in time saves nine.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday November 26 2015, @06:24PM
When comparing objects rather than integers there are often several different things that can be compared. Many times two distinct objects will compare equal WRT some characteristics and different WRT others. This is especially true if they are instances of two different descendant classes.
Well, object-oriented programming doesn't map exactly onto reality, but I feel that there is an ancestral "class" of Religion that includes everything from tribal religions through Buddhism. Then there are descendant classes, often called things like "monotheistic", etc. Each major brand of religion is essentially a new descendant class. So when you compare instances of two distinct religious classes you will not find identity, but you may find them equal in certain characteristics shared by their common ancestor.
Actually purely objective languages, like Io, are a better map of how things change and evolve, but few people would understand the argument if I used that framework. And they are uncommon because the approach is inefficient. But that is common with evolved rather than designed systems. (Even purely objective languages that I'm aware of don't include featrue deletion, so the map could be improved...at the cost of even more inefficiency.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.