Well almost all Egyptians consider Israel to be an enemy state.
Egypt has a peace treaty with Israel. It's interesting that the Israeli Knesset recently had a ceremony to celebrate the 25th anniversary of that treaty, but the Egyptian delegation spurned the invitation to participate. Have any idea why?
this is due to our history, Israel twice attacked Egypt,
I'm quite sure Egypt attacked first, so you might say they were justified.
and there is always a feeling that they still have plans for terretorial expansion (check it out they've been expanding since 1948).
If you look at Israel's expansion, notice how Israel has always acquired only the land from which it was attacked. I think they are trying to teach their neighbors a lesson. Unless Egypt has plans to attack Israel, I don't think Egyptians have anything to worry about.
Egyptians typicaly feel solidarity to fellow Arabs, Israel's war with Palestine, Lebanon and Syria never stopped, a nation at war with 3 arab states is almost at war with us.
Why are Arabs not concerned that Syria is occupying Lebanon? Why were the Palestinians not concerned about liberating the West Bank (occupied Palestine) when Jordan was occupying it?
Moreover, can it really be said that areas such as the West Bank and Gaza Strip are occupied since that land has not been offically claimed and annexed by any state? It seems to me that, legally, it's simply disputed territory (as to state sovereignty).
You don't seem impressed. Consider that Israel far outperforms nations that are much bigger, much more populous, much more endowed with natural resources, much older (had a huge head start), have much stabler governments, and have much more security. Israel is completely surrounded by (comparatively) giant Arab states with authoritarian regimes chomping at the bit for the genocide of the Jewish state. No other country has to face anything like this. Israel has been at war since its existence. Yet, person for person, it's the most successful nation in the world.
Did you miss what I said about security? Israel is the buffer zone between us and the terrorists. They are taking the hits for us, so we need to help them. Israel gives us intelligence that saves American lives. They help us in countless ways. No other country compares. Israel is more than an ally; it is a true friend.
I don't think it's any surprise that Israel has more arms and more money then the arabs. We give them those.
The PLO gets millions of dollars from the U.S., millions of dollars from Europe, millions of dollars from Israel itself every month, and receives lots of money from other places. Has Arafat wisely invested that money in starting universities and seeding research institutions and businesses? What stewardship has Yassir Arafat shown over this money? We know that he's a billionaire. Why are the Palestinian Arabs so poor? 1) Arafat uses it to fund terrorist organizations, including his own, the PA/PLO/Fatah. 2) He pays for his blonde wife to live in ultra-luxurious accomodations in Europe. If Arafat would spend his donations more wisely, as Israel does, his subjects would be more prosperous. But he squanders the money on himself and on arms for the war on Israel. Dictator Arafat doesn't want other Arabs to become independent and successful because they would be able to challenge his authority. Also, the squalid "refugee" camps of poor Arabs must be sustained and kept in such condition to keep international pressure on Israel's "oppression and occupation."
Also, it should be noted that a lot of the money the U.S. gives to Israel are loans. Israel has a perfect record of paying back its loans to the U.S. The money that the U.S. gives to the PA are outright gifts. (Ah, there's that American pro-Israel bias again.) Our investment in the PA comes back to us in the form of PA terrorists sent into Iraq to fight American troops trying to win the peace for newly-liberated Arabs. Not to mention their sabotaging of Bush's Road Map to peace by bombing, stabbing, and beating Israeli Jews every day.
Maybe we would have manufactured those things.
You're not understanding the geopolitical ramifications of having a liberal democracy in the heart of the Middle East. The further that liberty and political equality are spread around the globe, the more prosperous and safe the world will be. It is good for America that there is a peaceful democracy way over there.
maybe American companies would be selling s--t to israel providing jobs of Americans.
Maybe Intel chips designed by a few engineers in Israel provide millions of jobs in America in other sectors of the computer industry. It is good for America that our staunchest ally be strong and prosperous.
I am still waiting for israel to spend tens of millions of dollars doing something nice for us. I can't wait.
The next time you want to make a call on your cell phone, see your baby on an ultrasound monitor, or you need an MRI scan to detect the cancer in your body, Israel has done something nice for you.
Israel is not a money pit. It is an investment! It pays back dividends every day. On the battle field, on the farm, in the hospital, in the research lab, in the plane, at the computer, and much more. Every country of the world is being blessed by the things coming out of Israel, from agricultural innovations to medical equipment inventions to biotechnology and pharmaceuticals to telecommunications to intelligence on terrorist plans.
RTFA, for one. Israel benefits us in many ways, mostly with their brain power. We use a lot of their technology for our defense. U.S. troops were trained for urban combat by the IDF. Did you know that Saddam's Iraq used to have a nuclear reactor? It was destroyed by Israel in 1991. Ilan Ramon, the Israeli astronaut who died in the Columbia shuttle disaster, helped to destroy the reactor. The world should profusely thank Israel for sparing the world from having to deal with a North Korea in the Middle East. They did something very "nice for us."
Israel is the West's buffer zone in the war on terror. They were fighting the war for us before the Sleeping Giant realized that IslamoNazis were pulling it into a war. Israel is fighting at the front lines for America and Europe and the civilized world. They live at the front lines. Israel is the beacon of intelligence and enlightenment in a vast Islamic wasteland of medieval warlords and clan feuds. It is very much in our interest, for security reasons if for no other, to help Israel financially and otherwise.
Israel, the 100th smallest country, with less than 1/1000th of the world's population, can make claim to the following:
The cell phone was developed in Israel by Motorola, which has its largest development center in Israel.
Most of the Windows NT operating system was developed by Microsoft-Israel.
The Pentium MMX and Pentium M chip technologies were designed in Israel at Intel.
Voice mail technology was developed in Israel.
Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel.
The technology for AOL Instant Messenger was developed in 1996 by four young Israelis.
An Israeli company was the first to develop and install a large-scale solar-powered and fully functional electricity generating plant, in southern California's Mojave desert.
The first PC anti-virus software was developed in Israel in 1979.
With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and start-ups, Israel has the highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world (apart from the Silicon Valley).
In response to serious water shortages, Israeli engineers and agriculturalists developed a revolutionary drip irrigation system to minimize the amount of water used to grow crops.
Israel has the highest percentage in the world of home computers per capita.
Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the U.S., over 70 in Japan, and less than 60 in Germany. With over 25% of its work force employed in technical professions. Israel places first in this category as well.
Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population in the world.
Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation by a large margin - 109 per 10,000 people - as well as one of the highest per capita rates of patents filed.
In proportion to its population, Israel has the largest number of startup companies in the world. In absolute terms, Israel has the largest number of startup companies than any other country in the world, except the US (3,500 companies mostly in hi-tech).
Go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management.
In the left pane, see System Tools -> Local Users and Groups -> Users, Groups.
Make a user account a member of the Power Users group. This gives you a predefined set of user rights between the Users and Administrators groups.
If you know exactly what restriction is getting in your way, you can enable that right for your account type.
Go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Local Security Settings.
In the left pane, see Local Policies -> User Rights Assignment.
To do this more quickly, if you find what changes are being made in the registry, you could make two.reg files: one to turn it on and the other to turn it off. But you have to run them as an administrator. So, right-click on the.reg file, and Run As... Administrator (or other account with administrative privileges).
I understand that very well, killjoe. My post was tongue-in-cheek. Notice how I started by saying, "To push a little further," yet my questions went in a completely different direction from the predictable anti-American response that the parent comment was begging for.
Informed logic should lead Arabs to have profound gratitude for the Western military actions in the Middle East. Instead, they're foaming at the mouth more than ever. The causes of their insanity run deep (linked JE and article may not apply to Egypt specifically, but they're still brainwashed).
In other words the US is to Iraq what israel is to palestine.
It is obvious that you've never been to a Southern Baptist church or a Southern Baptist home. Since you probably don't live within 300 miles of a community of Southern Baptists, I'll provide you a link.
In the Arab world, is there a sense of obligation to patronize American software companies since the U.S. military has sacrificed hundreds of troops' lives and the government has spent billions of dollars in liberating tens of millions of Muslims enabling two Islamic nations (Afghanistan and Iraq) to progress toward peaceful and productive societies and eventually sprouting software industries of their own?
A little off-topic, but, as Muslims who are no doubt grateful for the potential of a modernized, high-tech Arab world (the elite class in capital cities doesn't qualify IMHO) because of the downfall of backwards-thinking, totalitarian, Medieval-type regimes thanks to the actions of the U.S.-led military coalition, how much money will Linux-Egypt be donating to George W. Bush's presidential campaign?
From the pictures, it looks like it's still hard to see what the keys are. The way it is now, the keyboard as a whole is lit up, but the keys are dark splotches with the characters written in black. What's written on the keys is the most important thing to see!
Companies wanting to make lit keyboards should have the bright light shining through where the characters would normally be printed. The keys themselves should be barely translucent, if at all. There should be a soft glow from underneath to show the separation of the keys. That's my opinion, anyway, as a potential buyer.
I think these keyboards have been made only for the l337 cool factor, not serious usability.
People who use different keyboards at home, work, library, college lab, etc. have a hard time adapting to different key layouts. When I was in college, the computer science labs had Solaris type keyboards. Some engineering labs had the old, 20-lb IBM keyboards. Other labs had Gateway keyboards. Some labs had various keyboards in the same lab. Library terminals had these awful, tiny keyboards with a terribly annoying key layout. My own keyboard was a DEC (I had the last of the DEC PCs.) My Mom's computer at home had a Dell keyboard.
All keyboards (even within QUERTY ones designed for Windows) don't have all keys in the same place, like Ctrl, backspace, Delete, |, Home, End, PageUp, PageDown etc. Shift, Enter, and backspace keys vary in length. Stupid, optional keys like Power, Wake, and Sleep get in the way. Windows keys are littered about in varying lengths depending on the keyboard. And you can't touch type the Function keys when it's too dark to see that back row at all.
I get a new (cheap) keyboard every couple years, and I can never find completely consistent key layouts. I know how to touch type, but it doesn't help much when I'm only using the mouse, and I just have to press F6 or Ctrl+Shift+0. Illuminated keys would help me a lot.
I don't understand your position. Are you saying that the given reasons for severing ties with Britain were not sufficient justification to make it right? Or are you saying that you don't believe in the truthfulness of the written grievances against Britain which would make it right?
I don't think it's right to imply that American revolutionaries were traitors of Britain. It was King George who was a "traitor" to his own colonists in the New World. Read the U.S. Declaration of Independence
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
[long list of grievances; see linked document]
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
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A theory stemming from the fact that the Flood was initiated by the breaking up of the "fountains of the great deep" (Genesis 7:11) indicates that the pre-Flood ocean waters were less salty than they were after the Flood. (see article for explanation)
Many fish species today have the capacity to adapt to both fresh and salt water within their own lifetimes.
Many families of fish contain both fresh and saltwater species.
My own point: Maybe the fish that couldn't survive did die? And since then, some of the surviving kinds of fish have diversified so as to not be as tolerant of salinity changes as they used to be.
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Egypt has a peace treaty with Israel. It's interesting that the Israeli Knesset recently had a ceremony to celebrate the 25th anniversary of that treaty, but the Egyptian delegation spurned the invitation to participate. Have any idea why?
this is due to our history, Israel twice attacked Egypt,
I'm quite sure Egypt attacked first, so you might say they were justified.
and there is always a feeling that they still have plans for terretorial expansion (check it out they've been expanding since 1948).
If you look at Israel's expansion, notice how Israel has always acquired only the land from which it was attacked. I think they are trying to teach their neighbors a lesson. Unless Egypt has plans to attack Israel, I don't think Egyptians have anything to worry about.
Egyptians typicaly feel solidarity to fellow Arabs, Israel's war with Palestine, Lebanon and Syria never stopped, a nation at war with 3 arab states is almost at war with us.
Why are Arabs not concerned that Syria is occupying Lebanon? Why were the Palestinians not concerned about liberating the West Bank (occupied Palestine) when Jordan was occupying it?
Moreover, can it really be said that areas such as the West Bank and Gaza Strip are occupied since that land has not been offically claimed and annexed by any state? It seems to me that, legally, it's simply disputed territory (as to state sovereignty).
Did you miss /. this? Read what a Vatican astronomer has to say about that.
Why does Egypt feel threatened by Israel?
The Judeans are expanding Israel into Judea. Yeah, what chutzpah.
Did you miss what I said about security? Israel is the buffer zone between us and the terrorists. They are taking the hits for us, so we need to help them. Israel gives us intelligence that saves American lives. They help us in countless ways. No other country compares. Israel is more than an ally; it is a true friend.
I don't think it's any surprise that Israel has more arms and more money then the arabs. We give them those.
The PLO gets millions of dollars from the U.S., millions of dollars from Europe, millions of dollars from Israel itself every month, and receives lots of money from other places. Has Arafat wisely invested that money in starting universities and seeding research institutions and businesses? What stewardship has Yassir Arafat shown over this money? We know that he's a billionaire. Why are the Palestinian Arabs so poor? 1) Arafat uses it to fund terrorist organizations, including his own, the PA/PLO/Fatah. 2) He pays for his blonde wife to live in ultra-luxurious accomodations in Europe. If Arafat would spend his donations more wisely, as Israel does, his subjects would be more prosperous. But he squanders the money on himself and on arms for the war on Israel. Dictator Arafat doesn't want other Arabs to become independent and successful because they would be able to challenge his authority. Also, the squalid "refugee" camps of poor Arabs must be sustained and kept in such condition to keep international pressure on Israel's "oppression and occupation."
Also, it should be noted that a lot of the money the U.S. gives to Israel are loans. Israel has a perfect record of paying back its loans to the U.S. The money that the U.S. gives to the PA are outright gifts. (Ah, there's that American pro-Israel bias again.) Our investment in the PA comes back to us in the form of PA terrorists sent into Iraq to fight American troops trying to win the peace for newly-liberated Arabs. Not to mention their sabotaging of Bush's Road Map to peace by bombing, stabbing, and beating Israeli Jews every day.
Maybe we would have manufactured those things.
You're not understanding the geopolitical ramifications of having a liberal democracy in the heart of the Middle East. The further that liberty and political equality are spread around the globe, the more prosperous and safe the world will be. It is good for America that there is a peaceful democracy way over there.
maybe American companies would be selling s--t to israel providing jobs of Americans.
Maybe Intel chips designed by a few engineers in Israel provide millions of jobs in America in other sectors of the computer industry. It is good for America that our staunchest ally be strong and prosperous.
The guy selling the $10 million missiles and lasers wins.
The next time you want to make a call on your cell phone, see your baby on an ultrasound monitor, or you need an MRI scan to detect the cancer in your body, Israel has done something nice for you.
Israel is not a money pit. It is an investment! It pays back dividends every day. On the battle field, on the farm, in the hospital, in the research lab, in the plane, at the computer, and much more. Every country of the world is being blessed by the things coming out of Israel, from agricultural innovations to medical equipment inventions to biotechnology and pharmaceuticals to telecommunications to intelligence on terrorist plans.
RTFA, for one. Israel benefits us in many ways, mostly with their brain power. We use a lot of their technology for our defense. U.S. troops were trained for urban combat by the IDF. Did you know that Saddam's Iraq used to have a nuclear reactor? It was destroyed by Israel in 1991. Ilan Ramon, the Israeli astronaut who died in the Columbia shuttle disaster, helped to destroy the reactor. The world should profusely thank Israel for sparing the world from having to deal with a North Korea in the Middle East. They did something very "nice for us."
Israel is the West's buffer zone in the war on terror. They were fighting the war for us before the Sleeping Giant realized that IslamoNazis were pulling it into a war. Israel is fighting at the front lines for America and Europe and the civilized world. They live at the front lines. Israel is the beacon of intelligence and enlightenment in a vast Islamic wasteland of medieval warlords and clan feuds. It is very much in our interest, for security reasons if for no other, to help Israel financially and otherwise.
Israel, the 100th smallest country, with less than 1/1000th of the world's population, can make claim to the following:
The cell phone was developed in Israel by Motorola, which has its largest development center in Israel.
Most of the Windows NT operating system was developed by Microsoft-Israel.
The Pentium MMX and Pentium M chip technologies were designed in Israel at Intel.
Voice mail technology was developed in Israel.
Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel.
The technology for AOL Instant Messenger was developed in 1996 by four young Israelis.
An Israeli company was the first to develop and install a large-scale solar-powered and fully functional electricity generating plant, in southern California's Mojave desert.
The first PC anti-virus software was developed in Israel in 1979. With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and start-ups, Israel has the highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world (apart from the Silicon Valley).
In response to serious water shortages, Israeli engineers and agriculturalists developed a revolutionary drip irrigation system to minimize the amount of water used to grow crops.
Israel has the highest percentage in the world of home computers per capita.
Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the U.S., over 70 in Japan, and less than 60 in Germany. With over 25% of its work force employed in technical professions. Israel places first in this category as well.
Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population in the world.
Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation by a large margin - 109 per 10,000 people - as well as one of the highest per capita rates of patents filed.
In proportion to its population, Israel has the largest number of startup companies in the world. In absolute terms, Israel has the largest number of startup companies than any other country in the world, except the US (3,500 companies mostly in hi-tech).
Israel is ranked #2 in the wor
Moreover, why don't they use their own browser? Did they forget they had IE?
- Go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management.
- In the left pane, see System Tools -> Local Users and Groups -> Users, Groups.
Make a user account a member of the Power Users group. This gives you a predefined set of user rights between the Users and Administrators groups.If you know exactly what restriction is getting in your way, you can enable that right for your account type.
- Go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Local Security Settings.
- In the left pane, see Local Policies -> User Rights Assignment.
To do this more quickly, if you find what changes are being made in the registry, you could make twoGet SpywareBlaster
I thought it was JonKatz.
Informed logic should lead Arabs to have profound gratitude for the Western military actions in the Middle East. Instead, they're foaming at the mouth more than ever. The causes of their insanity run deep (linked JE and article may not apply to Egypt specifically, but they're still brainwashed).
In other words the US is to Iraq what israel is to palestine.
Iraq doesn't exist?? ;-)
It is obvious that you've never been to a Southern Baptist church or a Southern Baptist home. Since you probably don't live within 300 miles of a community of Southern Baptists, I'll provide you a link.
In the Arab world, is there a sense of obligation to patronize American software companies since the U.S. military has sacrificed hundreds of troops' lives and the government has spent billions of dollars in liberating tens of millions of Muslims enabling two Islamic nations (Afghanistan and Iraq) to progress toward peaceful and productive societies and eventually sprouting software industries of their own?
A little off-topic, but, as Muslims who are no doubt grateful for the potential of a modernized, high-tech Arab world (the elite class in capital cities doesn't qualify IMHO) because of the downfall of backwards-thinking, totalitarian, Medieval-type regimes thanks to the actions of the U.S.-led military coalition, how much money will Linux-Egypt be donating to George W. Bush's presidential campaign?
"In God we trust" was first put on coins in 1864.
Companies wanting to make lit keyboards should have the bright light shining through where the characters would normally be printed. The keys themselves should be barely translucent, if at all. There should be a soft glow from underneath to show the separation of the keys. That's my opinion, anyway, as a potential buyer.
I think these keyboards have been made only for the l337 cool factor, not serious usability.
If you have an optical mouse, you can lift it up and use it as a flashlight to see something. Of course, it's not nearly as nifty as that USB light.
All keyboards (even within QUERTY ones designed for Windows) don't have all keys in the same place, like Ctrl, backspace, Delete, |, Home, End, PageUp, PageDown etc. Shift, Enter, and backspace keys vary in length. Stupid, optional keys like Power, Wake, and Sleep get in the way. Windows keys are littered about in varying lengths depending on the keyboard. And you can't touch type the Function keys when it's too dark to see that back row at all.
I get a new (cheap) keyboard every couple years, and I can never find completely consistent key layouts. I know how to touch type, but it doesn't help much when I'm only using the mouse, and I just have to press F6 or Ctrl+Shift+0. Illuminated keys would help me a lot.
I don't understand your position. Are you saying that the given reasons for severing ties with Britain were not sufficient justification to make it right? Or are you saying that you don't believe in the truthfulness of the written grievances against Britain which would make it right?
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Christ was and is God.
he was enlightened.
He wasn't enlightened; He was the Light!
Yep, read about the various global flood legends here.
Three major points: