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Israel's Finance Ministry To Distribute OpenOffice

dudeman2 writes "Israel National News reports that The Israel Finance Ministry said Sunday it will begin distributing Open Office for free as of next week. The ministry said that it would begin to distribute thousands of Open Office CD-ROMs at public computer centers and later on at community centers throughout the country, 'in a bid to reduce the technological gap between the rich and poor in Israel'."

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  1. Israel sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mr Rabin tear down that wall!

  2. The Palestinians asked for the wall by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Palestinian government asked for this wall. Their request was in the form of frequent unprovoked attacks by Palestian military operaties crossing the open land into Israel and attacking. If the Palestinian government would learn to stop attacking the Israelis, there would be no wall (and no occupation, something also made necessary by the constant Palestinian aggression).

  3. Time to goto Israel and load up! by WordUpCousin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Free Open Office??
    Im going to Israel and stock up on these puppies and make tons of money selling it on Ebay like these guys.

  4. huh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you know, I'm actually rooting for the GNAA (because their ascii art doesn't suck so bad) but man, you guys are getting rawked pretty hard here.

  5. Yada, yada, yada. by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Name dropper. I just had lunch with Reuven Rivlin...

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  6. Re:Heil Hitler! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    I give your mom free moustache rides.

  7. Re:My experience as a consultant for the Israelis by Distinguished+Hero · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FINAL SOLUTION for Israel

    Hopefully, your "Final Solution" for the Israelites does not borrow heavily from previous such solutions.

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  8. warning: goatse redirect by TheLinuxSRC · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You son (daughter) of a bitch!

    1. Re:warning: goatse redirect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Don't tell me you actually tripped that landmine... I mean comon, it's a tinyurl link for crying out loud!

  9. Re:Installation Costs? by StarTux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Maybe he was fed up with the innane questions from reporters and wanted to get back to playing TuxRacer!

  10. Re:Mirror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A) The website is not down.

    B) The poster is trolling -- the link he gives redirects you to some utter crap.

  11. You are talking ignorant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your claims have nothing to do with the facts. They are often repeated by anti-semitic groups.

    Israel is the sole aggressor

    That is a lie. They have not engaged in aggression against any country. In contrast, several nations on Israel's borders have attacked it for no other reason than "wipe out Jews".

    If they had invaded my country aswell I sure as hell would have used whatever means I could to defend my family."

    If this were an appropriate analogy, your government would have started this by attacking Israel first. Based on your other nazi ravings, you would probably support this in reality.

    like all those countries the US invades on a regulary basis I guess

    Can you come up with one example where the U.S. was not retaliating? Probably not.

    Stupid americans

    What is your excuse for having 0 knowledge of history?

    1. Re:You are talking ignorant by Troed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Yes I can come up with lots of examples. South America. Most countries. Last 50 years. The US has overthrown a lot of democratically elected governments who were a long way from "attacking" anyone.

      Can you tell me, since both Jews and Arabs are semites, why you bring up "anti semitic" when what I wrote has absolutely nothing to do with semites - only with the racist and occupant nation of Israel?

      PS: Please let me know when you find any WMDs in Iraq. We're eagerly awaiting those finds ... in the meantime you might want to read up on all the children killed today by cancer due to the US using depleted uranium weapons (creating a very toxic dust).

    2. Re:You are talking ignorant by lederhosen · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Can you come up with one example where the U.S. was not retaliating? Probably not.


      Iraq
      Vietnam
      Korea
      Afganistan
      Panama
      Peru

      And well, is it not easy to call every one
      arguing about Israel anti-semitic?

      You that have so much knowledge of history
      should know that the palestinians are a semitic
      people.
    3. Re:You are talking ignorant by ajakk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      You need to read up a little more on your history of Israel/Palestine. Check out: http://www.palestinefacts.org/ for a very good history of conflict with footnotes to the sources.

    4. Re: You are talking ignorant by linoleo · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Can you come up with one example where the U.S. was not retaliating? Probably not.

      Given that the U.S. have never been invaded: retaliate for what?? For not conforming to U.S. ideas of how the entire world should do their bidding?
      Never mind history, start with a dictionary and look up "invasion" and "retaliation".

      The U.S. acts internationally with all the aggressive zeal of a Jehovah's Witness at your door, and smarts and subtlety to match (that is, zero). With a vast military arsenal to back them up, and little to no compunctions about using it. "Why do they hate us so", sheesh it's bloody obvious innit?

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  12. Re:The Palestinians invaded by AoT · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In fact they occupied territories essentially since the beginning of Israel. To a large extent Israel is all occupied territory. There were always palestinians that lived there and then the jews show up and say "hey UN, could you make this land ours?" and the UN was like "yeah no prob, don't worry about the people already there though, just treat them like second class citizens." so the israeli jews did. You know the iraeli arabs have special license plates that denote that they are arab? these are people born and raised in israel. that sounds so fair to me.

  13. Re:White Power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am concerned about it if it results in crossbred shitheads such as yourself, sir. But you probably just ate too much mercury as a child (sucking that metallic cock your mom had implanted of course). Try to be reasonable, sir, and pull the uranium rods out of your ass and sit up straight like a good little nazi.

  14. Re:It is not misreading by Troed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm not talking about Jews - I'm talking about the state of Israel and what its doing though. As long as you're unable to separate those two things you're better of keeping silent. At the moment you're just looking stupid.

    Do you know how many UN resolutions Israel is ignoring/has ignored? Compare that to Iraq ...

  15. Re:Stop the PC crap already! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You, sir, are an ignoble boor
    You, sir, are a foppish buffoon.

  16. Re:Just to get back on topic..... by Troed · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I see no anti-jewish trolls. I see a lot of sensible stuff written about the state of Israel, in regards to anti-Palestinian trolls though.

    What's the colour of the sky in your world?

    Only idiots scream "anti semites" and "anti Jews" when people talk about _Israel_. Not the same thing - maybe you should think about that for a while.

  17. Re:Name one by Troed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Others have already posted a list of countries - I don't need to name one (there are lots).

    You cannot find any actual democracy overthrown

    On the contrary, I can find several. Maybe you should learn something about your own history.

    ok up the meaning if antisemite. If it makes you feel any better, you are anti-Jewish.

    No, I'm anti-religion. I couldn't care less about which religion people are practising. I do care about nations committing crimes though - which is what the state of Israel is doing.

    WMD's were only one of many valid reasons for retaliating against Saddam's aggression.

    No, the US promised me lots of WMDs. Now show them.

    Aggression? The only aggressive country I've seen lately is the US. Why should several thousand innocent Afghani peasants have to die because bin Laden _lived_ in the same country as they did?

    What about if he had lived next door to your parents? Would you be ok with the US bombing them then?

  18. Re:The Palestinians keep preventing this by circusnews · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Before we get too far into this Isrial-Palistine debate, let me point out to everyone that neither side has any claim whatsoever to the moral high ground.

    Both sides have comited inhumain acts against the other in the name of their cause ('free palistine' and 'national security'). Both sides have too much blood on their hands, including the blood of more inocents than either side can count, to allow either side to make any claim about having some moral high ground to stand on.

    The tit-for-tat that has gone on longer than any one can remember needs to stop. Both sides need to accept their history, including their collective deeds, and move forward. Until that happens, with both sides accepting responcibility for the the parts they played, I fear we will never see pease in the region.

  19. Re:One question.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I've read a lot of history of the WWII and it is simply heartbreaking to read comments the high-ranking German POWs made: "Why are we (brothers) fighting each others? We should be fighting the Russians and Jews should-to-shoulder!".

    If only... :(

  20. Re:Misleading name? by hendrix69 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've replied on this before
    I really wish /. not bring stories from Aruz7. What's next? Al-Jazeera?

    Slashdot editors, do your site a favor and don't link up to Aruz7 - it just looks rediculous and weird.

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  21. Re:Stop the PC crap already! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Liberating Europe? I would hardly call 45 years of brutal Communist rule "liberation." The citizens of those country were freer under Nazi rule.

  22. the violations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dont talk bullshit the statistics clearly states the israelis are the most vicious in the area when it comes to violations. They deny any kind of basic human rights, not even clean water is given to the palestinians.

    israeli violations

    basic statistics

    wounded statistics

    economic losses statistics

    main site

    Security and economic prosperity is reached throught being fair and not oppressing. The israel state cant even be fair to arabic israeli citizens with israeli passports because they are an appartheid state and doing ethnic cleansing which unfortunatly mainstream media in the west does not wish to take up. The israeli arabs are not allowed to certain parts of israel because they are of arabic heritage and the zones are "arab free". Thats an apartheid state not a democracy. And if they treat their own citizens that badly how do you think they are treating those that they occupy?

  23. Re:Two questions. by cshark · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ariel's got bigger problems then a bunch of russians copying office...

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  24. Re:Fantastic! by fataugie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Still better than the Goat.cx attachments I keep getting...

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  25. Re:We decided we'd save lives by AoT · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Like firebombing entire civilian populations of large cities? Ever heard of Dresden.

    As for the Neo-Nazi comment. FUCK YOU! Disliking the actions of Israel and hating jews is completely different. Nice ad hominem attack though. Should I accuse you of being racist against Arabs and South-east Asians now.