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A Cautionary Tale of Open Source Social Technologies
eweekhickins writes "The 'country' drop-down menu on one organization's donations pages omits Israel as a country and includes 'Palestine.' Among other things, this means that Israelis can't donate to the organization from these pages; it also presents the risk of a PR nightmare for the organization. This EWeek story cautions that while basic Web 2.0 technologies combined with open source can be incredibly powerful and productive, they can also lead to disastrous results for an organization that isn't paying close enough attention."
i hear that open source causes aids because it's nothing but a bunch of faggots sucking dicks and fucking each others faggot asses. big dicks, they love the big dicks.
First of all:
This is could not have happened by using closed source software...... mhhh why?
2nd:
Quote frem TFA: "anti-Semitism", "blablabla"
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You all know that israel is a !STATE! with inhabitants of all colours and creeds. Not limited to guys with semitic ancestry, right? Furthermore, what are most of the palestinians (since they speak Arabian) referred to?
I get mad when I here bullshit of this kind.
perfection? man, i've heard some dumb shit around here but that takes the cake. move along fanboi. you're not needed here.
maybe because it's talking about specific open source apis? i know you guys just love to caw on about open versus closed apis so it applies here you fucking fucktard.
I'm calling bullshit. Every e-commerce retailer I've ever gone to that sells outside the US has Israel listed. Every e-commerce retailer I've ever gone to don't have Palestine, which is not a country, on their list.
This is politically motivated; the blame lies primarily upon whatever retard working on RoR put Palestine in the list of countries, but the blame lies as well on the people who didn't proof it.
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."
Here is proof .
I'm not sure you checked, but imagining you're telling the truth, have you checked those operating outside the US? Just from what I've seen Zionism is stronger in the US than most of the rest of the world. Of course, that's just anecdotal, not real evidence (unfortunately I don't have the funds for a worldwide questionnaire on what people feel on the subject).
_really_ Got any proof, or are you like the rude people who wrote that e-mail to the authors wife? Those are strong and damning accusations, before making them some evidence should be obtained.
Well, no. The summary tries to make the inclusion of Palestine out to be extra bad, when in fact it is the opposite. Without the presence of Palestine on the list, Israelis couldn't donate to the organisation. With the presence of Palestine, Israelis can simply use that option. After all, all of the State of Israel is in Palestine, just as the Kingdom of Spain is in Iberia.
Of course, the whining is nothing to do with donations. It's just to do with the chip Israel carries on its shoulder. They have quite some cheek in complaining about a country being denied to them on paper, when they deny a country to its native population in fact.
And how many people called themselves "Israeli" before Israel was declared? Zero.
"Palestinian", before that, was a national (like "British" or "American") rather than an ethnic term. Those Jews living in Palestine were happy to accept the official (from the British Mandate of Palestine) appellation of "Palestinian" for all citizens of that territory. The Jewish newspaper now called the Jerusalem Post was at that time called the Palestine Post.
When Jewish Palestinians (in numbers swelled by massive immigration whose stated aim was to take over the country) started to claim that Palestine was actually a country called "Israel" and that they were citizens of it called "Israelis", that left Arab Palestinians (the vast majority of Palestinians) as the only ones still using the term. That had the consequence of making the term more ethnic than national, as there was now an ethnic group denied a nation, rather than a nation with many ethnic groups.
Not bulldozing such homes would mean the end of the Rule of Law in this country.
Boycott kdawson, boycott zionist Hickins
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
So the multitudes of victims of these suicide bombings - who have either lost their limbs, lost ones, or their own lives - were not innocent people. If they were innocent, why did they deserve this punishment?
If you have any better idea for a response to a suicide bombing, I'd like to hear it.
that listing palestine pissed you off is proof that you are a worthless kike.
get in the oven jew.