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How Voice Enhances Life Online

Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "A Wall Street Journal article looks at the myriad ways, some surprising, that voice is being integrated into websites and other online tools. Usages range from the familiar--multiplayer gaming--to conducting business transactions and long-distance relationships. 'Ten years ago, the first Web sites were like company brochures, says Jeff Pulver, the VoIP pioneer. 'No one ever expected to have the ability to engage a community virtually. But now a lot of services are becoming a part of the Internet experience, including video, email and voice.'" Update: 08/27 00:12 GMT by Z : Corrected the attempt to 'enchant' and 'enhance' in the same word.

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  1. Fur's Poach by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. YALS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Jesus. Yet another lame story from Zonk. Dude, you really need to pull the huge vegetable out of your ass, get some sun, and stop blowing Timmy.

  3. HOW JEWS ARE BRAINWASHED AND MANIPULATED by Fecal+Troll+Matter · · Score: -1, Troll

    By Henry Makow

    http://www.savethemales.ca/ , Jan 18, 2004

    Jan 24, 2004

    Jewish children are taught that Jews are disliked or hated due to no wrong-doing or fault of their own. Jews have been persecuted because of an irrational gentile trait, anti-Semitism. Explanations for this weird behavior include envy or scapegoating, or the Crucifixion of Christ.

    The Jewish child naturally grows up feeling that he is an outsider and society is flawed. An idealist, he wants to "change the world" so this type of injustice cannot occur. Thus unwittingly he becomes a pliant instrument of the Jewish power elite's "revolutionary" or globalist agenda.

    Apologists serving this elite continue to mislead Jews. Take this recent article by Dennis Prager for example. Entitled "Blame the Jews?" it begins "No group in the world has been the target of nearly as many twisted and ludicrous accusations."

    A Jewish reader sent it to me. See, we really are persecuted, she wanted to say.

    Prager, co-author of Why the Jews? The Reason for Anti Semitism (2003) addresses the notion, advanced by Pat Buchanan and others, that Jews are responsible for the Iraq War. He compares this to other fantastic libels like the Jews started the Great Plague or made blood sacrifices of gentile children.

    "Many groups have been hated in history, but their haters never made up as many lies, let alone such grandiose lies, as have Jews' enemies," Prager writes.

    "It is worth analyzing this latest libel, if only to understand anti-Semitism and the enormous role it plays in the world."

    Prager points to the fact that there is "not a single Jew" in the Bush cabinet. He asks why do "some people see Jews behind a war initiated by non-Jews?"

    Disingenuously he neglects to mention ex Defence Policy Board Chairman Richard Perle and Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz.

    Wolfowitz was featured Dec. 21 in TIME magazine in a story entitled "Godfather of the Iraq War."

    An article entitled "White Man's Burden" in the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz states:

    "In the course of the past year, a new belief has emerged in [Washington]: the belief in war against Iraq. That ardent faith was disseminated by a small group of 25 or 30 neoconservatives, almost all of them Jewish, almost all of them intellectuals (a partial list: Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, William Kristol, Eliot Abrams, Charles Krauthammer), people who are mutual friends and cultivate one another and are convinced that political ideas are a major driving force of history."

    William Kristol has said this group is largely responsible for the war.

    My point here is that Jewish propagandists like Dennis Prager mislead Jews. As long as they think they are disliked for no reason, Jews can be manipulated. Their actions create more anti-Semitism, and the vicious cycle continues.

    ANOTHER LIE

    Some "anti-Semitic" accusations indeed reflect the secret activities of Jewish power brokers. A glaring example came to my attention this week.

    I used to be a Zionist. (I still believe Israel should keep its 1967 boundaries and the Palestinians compensated generously.)

    I always believed the Jewish version of events in 1948. The story goes like this. After the UN partitioned the Holy Land, Arabs nations ganged up to drive the Jews into the sea. In advance of this murderous assault, the Arabs asked their compatriots to leave for their safety. Seven hundred thousand Palestinians left of their own free will. Yes there was an isolated massacre, Dier Yassin but this was the rogue action of the Irgun terrorists.

    I considered immigrating to Israel in 1971 and it never occurred to me to question the ownership of this land. I would sit in former Arab homes and think, "Gee, this is so quaint."

    Now after 56 years the truth emerges. The Israelis were waiting for an opportunity to expand beyond the partition borders. The Palestinians did not flee but were driven out. There