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Israel Repeals iPad Ban
SillySilly writes "The ban has been lifted: The Communications Ministry announced Saturday evening that starting Sunday it will allow Apple's iPad tablet computer into the country, following two weeks of confiscations and confusion."
If the device violates their wireless standards then why the hell should they allow it to operate in their country?
Well you know what the nation of Israel is like, they're always initially suspicious of new tablets. But they come around in the end.
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At least they finally got it tested so it proved what it said. Isralies are picky to a fault.
But you can't ship 'em in yet. Limit's only one per person, so no gifting yet.
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Apple doesn't have enough supply of the iPad to do a worldwide release because they're delaying American shipments and imposing purchasing limits on large buyers. As a result, they didn't do international standards testing because they aren't selling it everywhere yet. It looks like Israel was the only nation to make a big no-importing stink over the uncertified status... so really this Apple cleaning up a problem caused by excessive demand, something they should be used to by now.
...iBan.
If the device violates their wireless standards then why the hell should they allow it to operate in their country?
It shouldn't. But it doesn't.
The whole issue was that it was untested. That was it. As with any bureaucracy, rules must be obeyed even if in the end the result is the same.
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Apple's iPad tablet computer
I don't really consider the iPad to be much of a computer.
National Security Adviser Jones: Jews Are Greedy Merchants
As the National Security Adviser, General James Jones is not known as a friend of the Jewish State. It was Jones who put together the team of Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski to meet with the President and advise him to impose a solution on Israel.
Earlier this week we may have gotten some insight into why Jones is not a fan of the Jewish Homeland. He was giving the key note speech at a Washington Institute For Near East Policy and started it out with a "Joke" that borders on anti-Semitic, teaching the crown that Jews are just greedy merchants in the same vein as Shakespeare's Shylock:
According to the Jewish Forward
Was the Joke Anti-Semitic? Well, the White House must have thought so. The White House transcript sent to reporters after the event conveniently began a couple of minutes into the speech. The video of the event posted on the Washington Institute Web site started right after the Joke, you can even hear the end of the laughter.
Its interesting that the same President that see racism in the legitimate actions of the Cambridge Police and the State of Arizona, hides the anti-Semitic prose of its National Security Adviser.
Policy regarding Palestinians still in effect.
Have they confiscated enough of them to thoroughly document them enough to begin the reverse engineering process?
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This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Sometimes it seems like Slashdot posts stories about Israel for no other reason than to get people to start arguing. Come to think of it, the same goes for Apple.
Why does anyone need to know this? There's really not much discussion you can have about "this country lets you bring iPads" in, before this whole pages inevitably devolves into endless flaming about 1) Israel's foreign policy and/or 2) how the iPad sucks because it's a closed platform or whatever.
I'm just saying, it'd be cool if the editors stopped and asked themselves, "Are we posting this because it's important news that people should know, or are we posting it because we want to watch it draw trolls like moths to a flame?". This story is firmly in category 2.
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Look, I understand that we all think Israel is some kind of paranoid entity that uses its spy network as a primary weapon against its perceived enemies. But that simply isn't at all relevant here.
Israel doesn't turn over confiscated property to Mossad. Mossad can acquire what it needs by itself.
What Israel does do with confiscated property is turn it over to right-wing zealot settlers.
I'm no fan of what Israel does (or perpetuates by not doing) to the Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza, but don't try to pin the innocuous confiscation of iPads on some weirdo paranoid delusion about Mossad.
Palestinians just need new wireless cards to return?
I don't really consider the iPad to be much of a computer.
And many don't consider the computer (as we know it) to be much of a tablet.
The difference is what makes it better, and why they seem to be succeeding when other tablet efforts have come out flat.
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Faggot turtle-neck wearing computers sold from the Serpent-race to their jewesses.
Jews, also known as kikes, hebes, hymies, yids, gold niggers, oven magnets, hook noses, sheenies, swindlers, criminals, "firewood", and Arabs in denial are a subhuman species of reptilian extra-terrestrials and adherents to one of the world's oldest major religions, called "Judaism", otherwise known as "The Worship of Money" or "Eating Arab Babies".
Judaism was the world's first master race theory. The Jew religion teaches that Jews are the Chosen People of God and that there is a sacred mystical quality to Jew DNA. In olden times, Jew prophets would, under the command of YHWH, frequently lead the Jews on genocidal rampages against neighboring populations, and even today Jew leaders often cite Jewish religious ideals to justify their ongoing genocide of sandniggers. Judaism ironically found its mirror-image inversion in the anti-Jew Aryan racialism of the Nazis.
Despite only being 0.22% of the world's population, Jews control 99% of the world's money. Not only do the Jews control the world, but also the media, the banks, the space program, and LiveJournal's porn communities and Gay communities. All Jews possess the following features: an extremely large nose, fake boobs, curly hair that reeks of faggotry, one of those gay hats, a love of coke, a law practice, a roll of money, a small cock, or shitty taste in dental hygiene.
Jews invented both Communism and Capitalism. Karl Marx, of course, was a Jew, which was why he understood money so well, and in fact he was converted to Communism by another Jew, Moses Hess, the actual founder of Zionism, who ghost-wrote Marx's The German Ideology. Capitalism was created when Christian Europeans threw away their morals and decided to embrace Jewish practices like usury (see: John Calvin). Jews were the first group to create a sophisticated banking system, which they used to fund the Crusades in order to pit Christians and Muslims (both adhering to religions derived from and controlled by Jews) against each other to kill as many people as possible in a macabre human sacrifice to YHWH.
The Jew banking system was based on fraud and lies, so when it inevitably collapsed, the Jews just pwned as many people as possible by unleashing the Black Plague on them. Later, Jews economically controlled medieval Venice (the first modern maritime trade empire), and then crypto-Jewish merchants economically controlled the Spanish Empire, including the slave trade. Openly Jewish bankers orchestrated the Dutch Empire and founded Jew Amsterdam (later Jew York). Later the Dutch Jews moved to London because they thought it would be a better base for a global empire, and actually brought a Dutch nobleman, William III, with them, who they installed in a coup d'état (more like Jew d'état, amirite?) as new King of the British Empire. For hundreds of years, Jewish bankers controlled global trade through their bases in Jew York City and London. European colonialism was, through its history, essentially a plot whereby Jews could gain control of gold and diamond mines in poor countries and increase their stranglehold over the global economy.
Jews also enjoy slicing up baby penises for fun, some even enjoy sucking them. See below.
Jews also created Jew search engine Google, so now they can find all Jew information on Internets.
Some suggest that we should use Jews instead of dogs to sniff out large amounts of concealed cash or anything else worth smuggling at airports due to their sensitive Jew noses. Obviously, this is a horrible idea, because the pay is bad, and the dirty Kikes would probably form a union and demand moar money, thus increasing the burden on taxpayers everywhere.
...following two weeks of confiscations and confusion.
Clearly, someone didn't feel like just waiting in line for their own, eh?
That and the Israelis love a good bribe just like everyone else.
I resent the insinuation that anyone who has something negative to say about Apple or Israel is somehow a troll.
If you can't have an intelligent conversation about the merits and demerits of a technology, maybe this isn't the site for you.
We know you love Apple and Israel. But that doesn't magically bestow any extra weight to your opinions.
So cut it out with ad hominem attacks. If you can't defend yourself, your favorite computer company, or your favorite country with reason and argument, then stay lurking. Because those of us who can attack and defend aren't pulling any punches.
> If your iPad was confiscated by customs officials
> atBen-Gurion International Airport, you can now
> pick it up
Questions:
* did that affect people travelling to Israel as tourists or just locals returning home with a product from overseas who declared it at customs ?
* if you were a tourist, was your iPad returned when you left the country ?
* if not, do you have to go back to Israel to get it returned or can they ship it to you ?
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The same could be said about Australia any time it's government does anything stupid related to technology, thus I suggest growing up.
We are not all out to get you.
The iPad is now KOSHER!!!
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I think the bigger question is how 1,000's of other foreign products go in without any problems. Why was the iPad singled out? If I take my new HTC phone fresh from Taiwan and unlicensed in Israel, they are not going to seize it.
Time offers an explanation:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1983236,00.html
"It is worth noting," Etengoff wrote, "that Apple's Israeli distributor, iDigital, is run by Chemi Peres, the hyper-entrepreneurial son of Israeli President Shimon Peres.
"Clearly, iDigital wants its lucrative cut of every iPad brought into the country — which it will undoubtedly receive when a modified European version of the iPad is approved for import over the next two or three months.
no. but they have confiscated enough to make all the custom agents and their families happy.
"The whole issue was that it was untested. That was it. As with any bureaucracy, rules must be obeyed even if in the end the result is the same."
Indeed, though I'd go further than saying it is true of bureaucracies to any organisation or nation. Would the USA trust a device made in China (for example) if the Chinese government said they'd tested it? Probably not. Would a US company (say Ford, or Cisco, or Apple) trust a foreign made device because the Chinese/Italian/Kazakh/whatever makers said they'd tested it? Probably not.
I suppose it's down to a> how much you trust the people who tell you they've tested it and b> how much trouble you'll be in if it goes wrong and you've just taken somebody else's word that it's safe/within correct bounds when it actually proves to not be so.
I should imagine in the USA with the whole run-by-lawyers culture, sue-you-for-anything there's a lot of pressure to do your own testing to make sure devices do actually behave how they are meant to. Not sure what the drive is in Israel but I guess it's perfectly believable similar pressures happen there.
I'll hold this here Luger up to my head with 15 jews lined up behind me, and that German bullet will go through my skull and pass through all there's as well. Adolph killed many jews this way, it was his sacrifice in knowing that he himself was a jew that hated what his people were doing to the peaceful Germans. He adopted the noble spirit and walked as a Son among fellow sacrificing Aryans to rid their land of the foreign foe that tried to pierce the heart of Europe using international jews In many ways, Adolf can be thanked by fellow self-hating jewess whose own husbands were too cowardly to recreate a place for jews by deploying United Nations intelligence and agencies to insurrect the State of Israel against the borders of Palestine domain. Instead of thanking Adolf for wielding the rod of correction against their cannibal tendency, the jews cursed his name like a bunch of whiny sons and daughters of whores and bitches. The jews even were so cowardly, it took a woman to lord her prowess in the early moments of their belittled existence competing to Palestine. I've only seen one more instance of a sympathy-fuck that the world ever tolerated, and it was back in the Korean War of Communists versus the United States of south Korea.
Yea, I would sacrifice myself too, knowing the the world will suck more if I don't to my job right or not at all. You realy should see it through the eyes of the Germans walking in the shadow of Adolf Hitler. What kind of former jew named Adolf Hitler would ever hate his own kind so much as to beat them back with fire and the most bitter hatred, is because he knew the truth that he himself had been blessed by God for what few sins and knows that a jew is a manipulative bastard of inaction that spreads disease among the world to reap the benefits of societal decay to progress while others die from what they caused. Germany went down-hill in sodomy and moral decay ever since the jews were allowed into the country. Jews spread into the peaks of every institution not by skill but by monopolized monetary functions to establish bankruptcy receiverships and recoveries, to hop onto another franchise with the same vampyrical precision to destroy more industry.
It was a mess, is all I can tell yew.
Don't forget you are dealing with a group that makes "The Family" look kind at times and they have both lots of desert and a very nice body of water to hide stuff. If the Massad wanted to get a shipping container of iPads for whatever reason most likely they would just ask for them (and get them) or they would just "vanish".
Just remember if you go far enough back both groups involved are in fact Family.
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Israel just "banned" them so they could confiscate them...they wanted iPads, they just didn't want to wait in line at launch. ;)
If you're going to buy an Apple to use an Apple, why would you make it run like an orange?
Because not all applications on which a business depends are available for Mac OS X. That's why Orange Micro used to sell single-board PCs that fit in one of a Mac's slots. This was faster than the emulation that was otherwise required before Apple switched to x86 CPUs.
Because I can tell you right now that if you buy a mac you not only get the development tools for it (as well as the iPod touch, iPhone and iPad) for free
So if you have an iPad and you currently sync it with a PC, you need to buy a Mac mini and a subscription to a service that costs $99 per year (iPhone developer program) in order to turn your iPad into a computer. Otherwise, the iPad is called an "appliance". Your microwave oven has a microprocessor, but do you ordinarily think of it as a "computer"?
So your saying that Israel is a sign of things to come for the US?
Great, just fucking great.
This is a huge market for google....
As with ANY bureaucracy
Indeed, though I'd go further than saying it is true of bureaucracies to any organisation or nation.
Which part of my "ANY" was not clear?
It's hard to go further when I was already at the end of the line waiting.
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I don't think the Chinese have much to fear on the guns front but they definitely don't like their citizens to have certain information.
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it just takes time for Israelis to read and understand the contents of the English written user manual ... j/k :)
we only use basic English words: "Like", "Facebook", "Comment", "Download"