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Israeli Gov't Begins Testing Mandrake Linux
DJStealth writes "According to this article on Arutz 7/Israel National News, the Israeli Gov't is beginning to move away from Microsoft and is testing localized versions of Mandrake Linux in the Treasury dept. as the contract with MS expires this month. This all despite a recent defense ministry contact with MS."
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Are you actually referring to Isael as a third-world country? Bad.
why do i always see these kind of comments on slashdot...?
"i like my programming languages low, low and DANGEROUS"
Sorry. I just have problems with the way he manages the country, that's all.
This is not the sig you're looking for.
Palestinians are simply defending themselves, trying to drive away the invaders.
That said, I'd applaud even if it was Darth Vader switching to Linux.
Excellent point.
Of course, you will be modded down for saying so.
If you had instead said something like:
'This software should not be used by White Supremacists'.
You'd be modded up instead.
Which is curious. What is the difference between a Zionist and a White Supremacist? Both believe that God has given them dominion over their land and right to kill anyone who resides on it that they don't like.
Let me correct you:
The entire muslim and arab world don't want the jews.
I find it quite interesting how the US government makes a dedicated effort to importing stuff from Israel - and pouring millions and millions of dollars into the country every day, and it might just be my sick sense of humour, but it seems like a bit of a slap in the face that the Israelis decided to go away from american corporation Microsoft's software.
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..... everyone should blow 'at least' one.
Nothing to do with the fact that there is a massive recesion and 12% unemployment.
It not only blows up and kills your victims, but it also gives your victims the right to also blow up and take some others with them.
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you keep on saying "they" when refering to "Zionists" as if all zionist share there the exact same idiology and thirst for palestinien blood.
thats becose you were probably brain washed to beleave that all zionist are blood sucking vampires. I know the problem all too well.
that is exacly the reason why the left-wing govrement that was in power in israel in the 1990s didn't manage to get a lasting peace accord with the PA - a lot of the plastinian people suffer from the same brain-washed notions of what zionist are.
but, in the name of futility I'll bite:
"Because they stole their land?"
never happened. before 1948 the lands that were used by jews were bought. the UN divided the land, the arabs went to war. since then all the lands that were "stolen" are a result of war. in most cases those wars were initiated by the arab contries.
Or because they destroy their homes?"
you mean like bulldozing the house of suicide bombers?
"Because they murder and torture their citizens?"
thats not true. please provide proof.
"Why on Earth would anyone not want people who do such things?"
The stuff that is done - is done for survival.
felonious corepirate nazi execrable.
.controll just waved their 'magic' WAnD in front of lairIE/robbIE et AL, & 'stuff that matters' turned/weNT right into the nazis' payper liesense windows/gadgets, ala LeRegister.
.continually refresh the suppLIE of wannabe fraudulent phonIE monIE billyonerrors, as the # of those with felony grand larcenIE indictmeNTs pending, or already 'sentenced', & on 'probation', grows daily.
& why not? unprecedented evile has certainly met it's match this time.
robbIE rumoured to be corepirate nazi clone? (Score:mynuts won, pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) devise still not working?)
by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 12, @06:53AM (#7699395)
eXPerimeNT(r)oll, version won, of course.
the process has 'advanced' to transform bodIEs of regular folks into greed/fear/ego based puppets/ediots/droids. those slymebawls over at phonIE monIE
lookout bullow. there's nothing behind the ?pr? ?firm?/stock markup fraud 'curtain'. not even a little 'man'.
eyecon0meter: unprecedented evile hivists (Score:mynuts won, the sound of silence?)
by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 12, @10:45AM (#7701157)
swarming for the ?last? badtoll?
as anticipated.
disbulleave if you want to/must, but do keep your shades handy.
unprecedented evile/corepirate nazis/softwar gangster thugs/hired goons (Score:mynuts won, a snow job is better than no job?)
by Anonymous Coward
on Friday December 12, @06:04AM (#7699252 [slashdot.org]) cloning each other/themselves?
they need to
no matter, as the unprecedented evile execrable's clones are greed/fear/ego based also, they are no match for the creators' newclear power, & planet/population rescue mandates..
actually, this stuff is unbreakable, operates seamlessly on several (more than 3) dimensions, & offers unlimited energy to build on.
a real nightmare for the whoreabull payper liesense corepirate nazi softwar gangster stock markup fraud execrable/walking dead contingent.
for each of the creators' innocents harmed, there is a badtoll that must/will be repaid by you/US, as the greed/fear/ego based perpetraitors of the life0cide against the planet/population, will not be available to make reparations.
felonious softwar gangsters hoping to freeze time? (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward
on Thursday December 11, @06:35AM (#7688518 [slashdot.org]) buy striking DOWn UN motion to promote gnu/free stuff to developing nations.
they seem to have hit the eXPanding georgewellian fuddite corepirate nazi execrable moretoll bullock. it's really just a sintax (t)error, whereas the fuddites' infactdead process, keeps replacing the 'one' in one
wwworld, with won.
lookout bullow. continued pretending does not help/makes things worse?, if that's even possible.
united? nations? just won?
consult with/trust in yOUR creators.... the light itself, is not frozen, but does function just as well in extremely low (or high) temperatures, all the way down to mynuts won? see you there?
Or maybe it's only *recent* genocide that you want to protest?
Close.
It's ongoing genocide that must be protested.
(you see, that way we can save lives.)
So what about the many Israelis who are not Zionists and don't support the actions their government takes?
"'I pass the test,' she said. 'I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel.'"
- JRR Tolkien.
That's because they're semites.
The sad thing is that the real Ariel Sharon does not fight for the Promised Land. He is giving up Gaza to the terrorists and has begun to cleanse Jews from Judea and Samaria.
Note: In the linked articles above, Yesha is an acronym for Yehuda (Judea; southern "West Bank"), Shomron (Samaria; northern "West Bank"), and Azah (Gaza).
Oh, yeah: that well-known source of authority written by a bunch of desert-crazed old loons who spent too much time alone talking to themselves. Not only is there no God, Allah, Yahweh or any other gods, the Bible (both testaments, but especially the Old) is a pretty shoddy excuse for the basis for a religion. Hell, at least Scientology's stuff is funny. It's about as accurate, too.
I think you'll find that land was given to you by the British and the Americans after the war. Even if god did give it to you first time round, you didn't manage to hang on to it too well did you?
God can bite my ass.
You would think so, but Israel is having trouble getting loans from the U.S. government (which it has a perfect record of repaying), much less gifts.
I really need that clippy to entertain me, the way it changes in to different shapes, how it knocks on my screen and looks at me with that round and loving eyes...
ahm..I'm all out of hand lotion..see ya in a bit.
Personally I don't give a shit about the Palestinian/Israeli conflict...
But since every China story has some asshat critisizing China for some human rights shit let me just say:
Oooh, great, now mandrake is going to be used by zionist-fascists who occupy people's homeland for 30 years and practice ethnic cleansing. (sorry, it's the truth, handle it)
Don't take it personal, I'm just sick of seeing China articles singled out for whining and bitching...
* Most Israelies would rather just get on with thier lives. They neither hate nore care what happens to the "Palistinians" any more
This says a lot. Ever heard "The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference"?
No, I haven't lived in Israel. I have, however, lived inside South Africa (but not in South Africa; bonus points for anyone who figures that out), and the similarities to the Apartheid state are illuminating. Maybe that's why Israel and S.A. were such good allies in the pre-Mandela days.
P.S. Setting up straw man arguments on behalf of those opposed to you doesn't advance the debate .
Bullshit. Numerous arab villages have been confiscated post-1948 and not one shekel has been paid to those who were expelled.
This eviction is documented in several different books by different people including David Ben Gurion who personally ordered the expulsion of arabs from places they had lived in for decades, if not longer, immediately after 1948. In fact, he had to convince Shimon Peres, a colonel at the time, that it was acceptable to do so.
Further, simply because you evict someone does not make it eminent domain. By your logic the germans were perfectly within their right to confiscate property owned by jews since the jews had been evicted or run out.
* Arabs can and do, walk in Zionist shopping malls, grocerie stores, parks, and public schools. Jews who walkin Arab neiboorhoods are likley to be shot/stabed/beaten etc..
Double bullshit. You claim to dispel myths about Israelis yet find no problem in perpetuating myths about the Palestinians. The documented cases of an Israeli walking into an Palestinian/arab-owned shop and being attacked are few and far between. In fact, as you are probably aware but don't want to admit, many Israeli shop owners 'sell' their shops to Palestinians on friday night so that come saturday the shop can remain open on the sabbath since they don't 'own' the shop. On saturday night the process is reversed.
Your comment about the gravy train since the Holocaust is, however, fairly close to the truth. Everytime someone brings up something about how Israel is violating international law by confiscating more land for its settlements (which no one, including the United States recognizes as legitimate) the old song about how the jews suffered under Nazi rule is brought out to justify the actions.
Point in fact, those who had property confiscated under Nazi rule have sued various banks and companies claiming they are owed compensation for their loss of property. Fair enough. It's theirs, give it back. However, when Palestinians/arabs talk about going back to their land from which they were expelled, Israel, particularly Sharon, won't even entertain the thought including giving some kind of compensation. Nice double standard.
Guess what folks, just because it happened to you does not justify you doing it to someone else.
Israel And South Africa: Two Forms of Apartheid
From Chapter I in: Israel - An Apartheid State,
by Uri Davis, Zed Books, London and New Jersey, 1987
The Republic of South Africa is not the creation of the United Nations Organization, and it can survive as a 'white' supremacy state for a considerable period of time, though by no means indefinitely, with the aid of its diamond, gold, uranium and other abundant resources, in the face of international isolation, and the moral and material boycott of the international community. Israel is much more vulnerable in this, as in other respects. Whereas the Republic of South Africa does not critically depend on enlightened public opinion in the West, as institutionalized in the United Nations Organization and the UN Charter, Israel does.
Formally speaking, the Israeli procedure of denationalization is far more radical and far-reaching than its South-African equivalent. The Republic of South Africa, in the framework of its apartheid policy, devise a legal mechanism to deprive some 75 percent of its inhabitants - the majority of its black people - of their South African citizenship. Under the Bantu Homeland Citizenship Act (1970) (amended as the Bantu Laws Amendment Act (1974)) every black person with South African citizenship becomes a 'citizen' of one of ten ethnic homelands. Originally constituted as part of the Republic of South Africa, since 1976 four homelands (Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei) have been granted independence, thereby depriving eight out of the twenty million black citizens of the Republic of South Africa of their South African citizenship.
In the Republic of South Africa, the principle of apartheid is applied under the categories of 'white', 'coloured', 'Indian', and 'black'. Under the new 1984 Constitution, a stratified hierarchy was established inside the Republic recognizing the minority of 25 per cent of the 'white', 'coloured' and 'Indian' inhabitants of South Africa as citizens of the Republic (though segregated politically in three separate Houses of Parliament, 'white', 'coloured' and 'Indian', respectively) while denying access to South African citizenship to the majority of 75 per cent of the inhabitants of South Africa, namely, its twenty million black people.
It still remains the case, however, that South African apartheid recognizes the legal personality of its black inhabitants in a way that Zionist apartheid with regard to the Palestinian Arabs does not. While aiming to exclude its black inhabitants from citizenship in the Republic of South Africa, South African apartheid still recognizes them as legal persons (albeit inferior), and thus predicates the legal mechanism of their exclusion on the 'replacement' of their citizenship in the Republic of South Africa with an alternative citizenship, namely, citizenship in one of the ten bogus ethnic 'new independent states'. Through this mechanism the majority of the inhabitants of the Republic of South Africa, its black people, are rendered aliens in their own homeland, but they are not defined out of legal existence.
In the case of Israel, Zionist apartheid is applied under the categories of 'Jew' versus 'non-Jew'. Of the almost three million non-Jewish Palestinian Arabs who are today entitled, under the constitutional stipulations of the 1947 UN Partition Plan, to Israeli citizenship, less than 25 per cent (approximately 700,000 persons) are Israeli citizens. Under the Absentee Property Law (1950), the state of Israel has similarly denationalized 75 per cent of its non-Jewish Palestinian Arab inhabitants (over two million persons classified as 'absentees'). However, having classified them as 'absentees' in the eyes of the law, it has thereby not only defined them as aliens in their own homeland, but has cast them outside legal existence altogether.
(...)
The Absentee Property Law (1950) having defined the mass of the Palestinian Arab refugees from the territories that came under Israeli rule and occupation in 1948-9 out of
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